Summary
The biggest international news stories with the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen.
Our International Editor discusses the life and death of last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, floods in Pakistan and deadly violence in Iraq.
And, our sister pod, Americast, is back! The team are in the studio to give Adam the lowdown.
Today’s Newscast was made by Tim Walklate with Miranda Slade, Danny Wittenberg and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Jeremy Bowen, BBC International Editor. |
| 0:10.8 | It's a promotion. |
| 0:13.0 | Re-batched. |
| 0:14.0 | I like to think of it as a rebranding. |
| 0:17.4 | As a rebranding, but also, yeah, promotion, I hope. |
| 0:20.2 | And, you know, I don't understand my Middle East reservation forever. |
| 0:23.7 | It's good to push out a bit, push out the frontiers. |
| 0:25.9 | So it's like in the computer game, you've completed the Middle East. |
| 0:28.6 | Next level. |
| 0:29.6 | You're onto the next level now. |
| 0:30.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:31.6 | But I suppose, I mean, you love the Middle East. |
| 0:33.3 | You've got a book out about it. |
| 0:34.3 | You did an amazing podcast series a few years ago. |
| 0:36.7 | I suppose you'll still be covering that part of the world quite a lot. |
| 0:39.1 | Well, I'm taking it with me. |
| 0:40.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:41.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:42.6 | So anybody hoping to slide in to my old job, I've forgot it. |
| 0:47.7 | I've just got this other stuff on top of it as well, which is, you know, global issues. |
| 0:52.3 | No, of course, not everything that happens in the world, that'd be impossible. |
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