Measles cases on the rise + Trump's big week
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at rising cases of measles in the UK, and a huge boost to Trump’s presidential campaign.
As the government launches a catch up campaign for missed MMR Vaccines - we ask why are so many children not being vaccinated? It comes as the West Midlands has seen more than 200 cases of measles since 1st of October. James talks to Preet Kaur Gill, Labour MP for Birmingham Edgbaston, and Helen Bedford, Professor of Children’s Health at UCL Institute of Child Health.
And in the US, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has dropped out the race to become the Republican presidential nominee, endorsing Mr Trump. Is the race to challenge Joe Biden effectively over? BBC US Special Correspondent, Katty Kay, brings us the latest from the campaign trail. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by James Cook. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Sam McLaren and Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Gareth Jones. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | If you were listening to Newscast on Saturday, |
| 0:07.5 | which you should have been, |
| 0:08.6 | you would have heard Paddy and Laura talking about door-stepping |
| 0:12.3 | politicians, that such a journalist were door stepping |
| 0:15.0 | that is to say just running up to them and shoving a microphone in their face and |
| 0:19.1 | this is one of my doorsteps. |
| 0:21.8 | People keep trying to hit you in this campaign. |
| 0:24.0 | Are you reeling from any of those blows? |
| 0:26.0 | No, I look I'm number one by far and you know I just a new poll just came out 42 |
| 0:31.0 | I'm 42 other people at two and three and one. |
| 0:33.6 | Donald Trump, who else? |
| 0:35.6 | That was in Las Vegas when I door stepped him on the campaign trail |
| 0:39.5 | with what at the time, almost immediately I thought |
| 0:42.4 | was a really not very good question if I'm |
| 0:44.6 | honest and I think it's worse listening to it now but never mind that was the former |
| 0:49.1 | president whose path to becoming president again might have got a little clearer in the past 24 hours |
| 0:55.4 | because his big rival for the Republican nomination, Ron DeSantis, has dropped out and not only that |
| 1:02.2 | he has endorsed Mr Mr Trump and we're |
| 1:04.2 | going to be talking about that and also we'll be discussing the rise here in the |
| 1:09.7 | UK of measles cases on this episode of Newscast. |
| 1:13.2 | Newscast. |
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