Summary
Macron and Le Pen set to face-off again...
Following Sunday’s results from the first-round of the French presidential elections, incumbent Emmanuel Macron will take on challenger Marine Le Pen in a repeat of the 2017 contest. Philippe Marlière, Professor of French and European Politics at University College London, runs us through the possible outcomes.
And on another busy day in Westminster, Adam is joined by the BBC’s Vicki Young and Dominic Casciani to discuss the guilty verdict in the murder of Sir David Amess MP, the conviction of Wakefield MP, Imran Ahmad Khan, for sexual assault, and the ongoing row over the Chancellor’s tax affairs.
Today’s Newscast was made by Tim Walklate, with Cordelia Hemming and Ben Cooper. The studio director was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, it's so nice to be back. |
| 0:07.1 | And as usual, thank you so much for giving such a warm welcome to the people that were keeping my seat warm while I was away. |
| 0:13.4 | And thank you to them for letting me have, yes, I know yet another holiday. |
| 0:18.4 | I tell you what, though, I have come back with a serious case of journalism |
| 0:22.4 | guilt, though, because I spent the weekend in quite a big French city on the day the French |
| 0:28.5 | people were going to the polls for the first round of the presidential election, and I did zero |
| 0:33.9 | voxpops. But I'm going to make amends by having a proper data dump later on in this |
| 0:39.8 | episode of Newscast about the results. And yeah, it's great to be back doing another newscast. |
| 0:45.3 | Newscast from the BBC. It will take some time before we figure out what our new normal is. |
| 0:52.0 | Now if that is the argument argument then we are going into unprecedented |
| 0:55.7 | territory. Combined with contact tasting, contact tasting, tracing for you. Yes, yes, yes. |
| 1:03.6 | I'm a vegan, so of course I don't like meatballs. Next slide, please. Blair, Blair, |
| 1:09.6 | lose, lose, lose. |
| 1:12.4 | Hello, it's Adam, back in the studio, and it's always so good to be back. |
| 1:17.5 | Now, I remember very clearly what was happening on Friday the 15th of October 2021, |
| 1:23.8 | because I just recorded a chat with Greg James from Radio One Breakfast about what it was like interviewing Adele that morning, |
| 1:31.7 | because she'd done a sort of typical Adele interview. |
| 1:35.7 | And then we actually did an unpopular opinion, where I shared an unpopular opinion about the new James Bond film. |
| 1:43.4 | Now, none of that ever ended up on newscast because just a few minutes after we'd recorded it, |
| 1:49.8 | news alert came through that the Conservative MP David Amos had been stabbed while he was doing a constituency surgery in Leon C in Essex, the area he represented. |
| 2:00.9 | And we all thought, oh, that sounds awful. |
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