Is Ukraine's Advance Damaging Putin?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at the latest inflation figures and how Russian state media are covering Ukraine’s continuing advance into Russia.

James Cook is in for Adam, and he’s joined by political correspondent Alex Forsyth and chief economic correspondent Dharshini David to discuss the rise in the rate of UK inflation. They also talk about the Scottish government’s spending cuts, which include no longer providing winter fuel payments to all pensioners.

And Russia editor Steve Rosenberg speaks to James from Moscow about Ukraine’s advancements into Russia.

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by James Cook. It was made by Chris Flynn with Miranda Slade, Gemma Roper and Kris Jalowiecki. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, James.
0:06.5	You all right?
0:07.5	I'm good, how are you?
0:08.5	Very well, thank you, very well.
0:09.5	And like the six-ton altar stone at the heart of Stonehenge.
0:13.7	This episode of newscast is coming to you from Scotland.
0:16.4	Did you know it was from Scotland,
0:18.3	the big giant stone in the middle of Stonehenge kit.
0:20.4	They thought, they used to think it came from Wales. I was going to say I thought it came from Wales because I was actually there at the end of last year and I thought it came from Wales. You thought that looks like a Welshstone. Well no, somebody told me I couldn't just identify it by the formation of the rock or anything.
0:33.2	But also wrong because it's from Scotland as it turns out according to experts but
0:38.8	not only is it from Scotland they reckon that it came from the very far north of
0:42.2	Scotland six tons of sandstone.
0:44.3	How was it transported?
0:45.3	I mean, yeah, the $64,000 qua, and also why?
0:49.9	I mean...
0:50.9	But it's unbelievable and they're trying now to figure out exactly where it came from and as you say how an earth at that time what are we talking two and a half thousand years
1:00.5	BC or something how anyone could possibly have got a huge six ton stone.
1:05.7	That's incredible.
1:06.7	It is amazing, isn't it?
1:07.7	It's amazing, but it's also useful for a newscast of thousands, the number six?
1:13.3	Yeah, so basically this was Adam's brainchild
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