Summary
The Russian Olympic Committee is facing a backlash from fellow competitors who think they shouldn't be at the Games. We hear from the BBC's Sarah Rainsford about what's going on.
And, on the day that a Hollywood studio says it's going to invest £700m into a film studio in Hertfordshire, we chat about the future of the UK film industry with the boss of the British Film Commission.
This episode of Newscast was made by Ben Cooper and Alix Pickles. Emma Crowe was the studio director. Sam Bonham is the assistant editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:10.6 | Whenever I get gloomy, I think of the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. |
| 0:16.2 | Fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, boyfriends, girlfriends, cousins, uncles, aunts. |
| 0:22.7 | All arriving on Monday from 4 a.m. from the United States and most of Europe where they've |
| 0:27.0 | been double jabbed, coming to the UK and not having to quarantine. |
| 0:33.2 | Love actually is, all right. |
| 0:40.6 | Yes, apologies to Hugh Grant and Richard Curtis and Emma Freud, but seeing those new tourists |
| 0:47.6 | arriving in the UK today with the change to the Covid quarantine rules really did make |
| 0:52.3 | me think of love actually, and we'll have a little bit more film content on this edition |
| 0:56.8 | of newscast too. |
| 1:25.2 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio, first newscast of August, that well-known, very news-filled |
| 1:32.0 | season of the year, and the first podcast without editor Dino, but we're going to push on, |
| 1:37.7 | and we're pushing on to Tokyo via Belarus, because the latest Olympic drama is the Biela |
| 1:44.8 | Russian sprinter, Christina Timonovskaya, who basically has sought refuge in the Polish |
| 1:51.2 | Embassy in Tokyo, because she doesn't want to go back to Belarus. |
| 1:56.0 | The Biela Russian Olympic Committee say that they decided to withdraw her from the games |
| 2:00.0 | on doctor's advice, because of her emotional and psychological state. |
| 2:04.8 | She said she was being sent back to Belarus against her will. |
| 2:08.6 | So what is going on? |
| 2:10.3 | Somebody who might know what is going on is our Moscow correspondent, Sarah Reinsford. |
| 2:14.7 | Hello, Sarah. |
| 2:15.7 | Hi, Adam. |
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