Keir Starmer, JD Vance and Hulk Hogan… What a week!
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at what Labour’s Kings Speech says about the way they’re going to govern.
Laura and Paddy also talk about the good, and less good, sides of diplomacy as Keir Starmer hosts European colleagues, but critical comments from Trump’s new VP pick emerge.
Plus, Hulk Hogan gets involved in politics.
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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn with Hanna Ward. The technical producer was Ben Andrews. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Yesterday, newscaster, a comprehensive look at what has gone on with the crowd strike |
| 0:09.6 | mass IT outage. |
| 0:11.2 | Yes, I mean every time this is explained to me it sounds like a script from the |
| 0:15.0 | Star Trek, we've had the crowd strike security, I on it and you just think well it doesn't help me explain it at all. |
| 0:24.0 | Just keep repeating the names of why it's out. |
| 0:26.8 | It doesn't help me understand. |
| 0:28.0 | Crowd strike. |
| 0:29.0 | Yeah. I do want to point out to people just before we pressed record also, you said said I'm not just going to sit here and |
| 0:34.0 | perform for you and within 30 seconds you're doing an accent and pretending to be in some kind of episode of |
| 0:39.8 | Star Trek I am calling you out now Sally is a newscaster who emailed |
| 0:44.9 | newscaster at BBC.co. UK with the subject, |
| 0:48.7 | outta outest. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm potentially hit by the global outage. I'm traveling from France after 22 years to |
| 0:57.4 | rejoin the other two generations of my family in Scotland. In Abilaire. |
| 1:01.6 | My nine-year-old granddaughter doesn't know I'll be there. |
| 1:04.8 | Oh! If my middle flight, Paris time to sum works out, which I'm already warned it may not. |
| 1:10.2 | My daughter and granddaughter and in an Aberdeen hotel tonight with a connecting door to another room where I was to be unveiled like a rabbit out of a hat. |
| 1:18.0 | Admittedly, a plump 76 year old grandmother bears little resemblance to a rabbit but you get the idea. |
| 1:24.4 | We're not quite sure what's going to happen but keep your fingers cross for the family reunion. |
| 1:28.3 | It is 2 a.m. in Central Brittany and I'm shortly getting up for my first flight breast to Paris. |
| 1:34.0 | Sally let us know what happens. |
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