Summary
The UK regulator has just approved the use of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine in children aged 12 to 15. Fergus Walsh tells us how the news could lead to a vaccination drive for schoolchildren, just as cases of the new variant rise in the school playgrounds.
Travel guru Simon Calder has just arrived back from a trip to Gibraltar so he can explain what's happening to our holidays. And we’re joined by BBC business correspondent Katie Prescott, and tax economist and author Nick Shaxson to help us get our heads around the talk of big changes to global corporation tax policy.
Today’s Newscast was made by Maz Ebtehaj with Georgia Coan and Ben Cooper. Emma Close is the assistant editor. The studio director was Emma Crowe. The editor is Dino Sofos.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, now you may have noticed I love looking at travel news stories. |
| 0:09.9 | There's a bit of policy in there, there's some business in there, there's people's stories, |
| 0:15.1 | there's hopes, there's dreams, there's frustrations, there's breaking news. |
| 0:19.6 | So because I love travel news, I'm very excited to say we're now joined on newscast by the |
| 0:25.6 | Woodward and Bernstein, all rolled into one of Travel News. |
| 0:28.9 | Simon Calder from the Independent. |
| 0:30.8 | Hi Simon. |
| 0:32.1 | Yeah, not for today from the independent from terminal five. I'm in the queue for passports and look, I was at the back of a kind of long long line, but they've just opened a new bit so if we have to break away while I try to |
| 0:46.0 | persuade them to let me into the UK please forgive me. |
| 0:49.4 | So as if having Simon Calder wasn't exciting enough. He's actually at the airport. |
| 0:53.5 | Where have you just come back from, Simon? |
| 0:55.2 | I just come back from the last country standing. |
| 0:58.1 | Adam, that of course is beautiful Gibraltar. |
| 1:02.1 | The only game in town if you want a |
| 1:05.4 | European holiday. Now the good news is that Iceland is still open is open for |
| 1:10.8 | vaccines and in time from next month it may be possible to go direct |
| 1:17.3 | from Edinburgh a couple of times a week to the Ferros. Well we will come back to you it's |
| 1:22.0 | great to have a captive interviewee because you're stuck in the queue. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm going to have a quick chat with Fergus about the latest on COVID and then Simon, we'll see how you're getting on in the queue. |
| 1:31.0 | Okay, thank you. |
| 1:32.0 | All that on this edition of Newscast. No one in the queue. Okay, thank you. |
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