Summary
McDonald’s joins the growing list of companies halting business in Russia, as Boris Johnson announces that the UK will phase out Russian oil imports. Adam discusses the ramifications with Bloomberg’s Stephanie Flanders and the BBC’s James Landale.
And on the day that Ukrainian President Zelensky gives an historic address to the House of Commons, a report brands former speaker John Bercow “a serial bully.” Chris Cook of the Financial Times gives his assessment.
This edition of Newscast was made by Tim Walklate with John Murphy and Alix Pickles. The studio manager was Gareth Jones. The Assistant Editor was Alison Gee.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, so every morning when I've been doing my day job |
| 0:08.4 | as Chief Political Correspondent, |
| 0:09.8 | I've been really intrigued to see what my colleague, |
| 0:11.8 | Mark Easton, the home editor, has been doing |
| 0:14.0 | because he is on the ground in Calais, |
| 0:16.0 | just seeing what it is like for people who've fled from Ukraine, |
| 0:19.6 | crossed all across Europe, |
| 0:21.4 | and then got very, very close to the UK, |
| 0:23.8 | so close they can almost see the white cliffs of Dover. |
| 0:26.3 | But actually, all that some of them have ended up with |
| 0:29.0 | is a packet of crisps and to explain why. |
| 0:31.8 | Mark is here. Hi, Mark. |
| 0:33.4 | Yes, it is a sad tale, I'm afraid. |
| 0:35.6 | The home office has been saying how we are a world-leading country |
| 0:40.2 | in terms of the support we're giving Ukrainian refugees, |
| 0:42.6 | and that may be true, perhaps closer to the Ukrainian border. |
| 0:45.8 | But I can tell you here in Calais, |
| 0:47.3 | there is a lot of frustration bordering on desperation |
| 0:50.3 | from the several hundred, six hundred at the moment, |
| 0:53.0 | Ukrainian refugees in this city, |
| 0:55.8 | because despite the home secretary talking about a surge team |
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