'Hanging by a thread'
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Last week Fergus described the "positive" mood in a Newcastle Covid ward. Now, one week on, it’s a very different story in Liverpool as the intensive care units struggle to cope. And Johnny Depp has lost his libel case against the Sun newspaper over an article that called him a "wife beater". The BBC’s Helena Wilkinson talks Adam through the ruling.
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Frankie Tobi, Jo Deahl Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.1 | When I go through the newscast inbox, there are so many moments where I realize this isn't |
| 0:09.9 | about me telling you what's going on. |
| 0:11.9 | It's about you telling me what is going on. |
| 0:15.3 | And Sarah did that today about quarter past four with her email titled Sick with Worry. |
| 0:22.2 | She says, |
| 0:23.2 | My son is 25 and has very mild learning difficulties. |
| 0:26.8 | He had a lovely job in a cafe in a local leisure centre, a job he could walk to, which |
| 0:31.4 | is really important because he won't ever be able to drive. |
| 0:35.2 | He was furloughed in March, made redundant in August, and he's been turned down for local |
| 0:40.1 | jobs in Tesco and Waitrose. |
| 0:42.9 | Both jobs he could walk to, but of course now he's up against people with masters levels |
| 0:47.3 | of education for those jobs. |
| 0:49.5 | He's walked around where he lives and handed out his CV to 12 cafes to no avail of course. |
| 0:56.3 | I'm sick with worry. |
| 0:58.1 | What on earth is his future going to be? |
| 1:00.9 | Well Sarah, I'm afraid I don't have the answer to that. |
| 1:06.0 | And we've had a lot of emails asking questions about what's going to happen in the English |
| 1:10.3 | lockdown that we're still waiting for answers to. |
| 1:14.6 | But we'll still do our best today to just try and explain what's happened and what's |
| 1:18.6 | going to happen and what it all means on this edition of newscast. |
| 1:24.7 | Newscast from the BBC. |
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