Lockdown! Part Deux
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
France and Germany have announced today they will both reintroduce national restrictions to curb the spread of Covid-19. Katya joins Adam to talk through the situation on the continent. And, will a second wave in the UK be worse than the first? James Gallagher explains the concerns of some senior scientific advisers.
And as the five migrants who drowned trying to cross the Channel are all named as members of the same family, BBC Persia’s Jiyar Gol tells us what we know about them, and others trying to make the same journey.
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Frankie Tobi, Ben Weisz Assistant Editor: Emma Close Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. After two weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, |
| 0:17.5 | I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island, |
| 0:21.5 | where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time. |
| 0:25.6 | And of course, one of the closest people in my inner circle is James Gallagher, |
| 0:29.8 | who's there with some lovely linen trousers. Welcome to the private island, James. |
| 0:34.8 | Hi Adam, I'm really struggling not to laugh right now. I wasn't laughing when |
| 0:40.4 | Kim Kardashian tweets about our 40th birthday because my 40th birthday was in April |
| 0:44.2 | height of lockdown I had a cold pizza delivered and went to bed early because it was so |
| 0:49.4 | miserable oh but you know what's going to cheer us up? Cat's turning up in her gold dress any minute now. |
| 0:55.0 | Kim Kardashian, eh? What a tweet. |
| 1:00.0 | I wouldn't get two down. Cold Pizza is a delicious thing. |
| 1:05.0 | It should be celebrated. There's something really good about cold pizza. |
| 1:08.0 | This just was not good cold pizza, but I will always remember my 40th birthday, just like we'll always remember |
| 1:14.5 | Kim Kardashian's 40th birthday for the tweet where she said all that. |
| 1:19.4 | Right, we're going to ship out of this private island and ship back into the newscast studio and bring you all the actual proper news coming up in this edition of newscast. |
| 1:28.0 | Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. What is this virus? How does it spread? How do we protect ourselves and our |
| 1:35.0 | loved ones? The people who went to Eden can't run this country, okay? |
| 1:40.0 | There have been 300,000, 974,000 tests carried out across the UK. |
| 1:47.0 | The reason we could never be who we wanted is you kept your knee on our neck. |
| 1:53.6 | We're not out of the woods yet. |
| 1:56.8 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio. |
| 1:58.3 | It's Katia, a bit further away in Brussels. |
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