Summary
No return for Harry and Meghan... The BBC's royal correspondent, Jonny Dymond, explains what's going on with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. We also try to figure out how poorer countries are going to get their vaccines, with Dr Robin Nandy, chief of immunisation at UNICEF. And astrophysicist, Dr Maggie Lieu, tells us exactly why landing on Mars is such a big deal.
Studio manager: Ashley Taylor Producers: Rick Kelsey, Georgia Coan, Kameron Virk, Jack Suddaby Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm treating myself to an Uber to the newscast studio today because Uber is in |
| 0:10.0 | the news after they lost a very long running court case today with judges at the |
| 0:17.0 | Supreme Court ruling that their drivers are actually more like employees than |
| 0:21.7 | freelancers which opens up some potential new employment rights for them. |
| 0:27.8 | And the company says that this actually only affects a small group of drivers from a few years |
| 0:31.9 | ago because this has been on the go for about six years and that they're talking to their drivers anyway about what new stuff they can offer them. |
| 0:39.7 | But it will be interesting to see what this means for the company, for their employees and |
| 0:46.1 | other bits of the gig economy. Is it a big deal for you? |
| 0:50.8 | Yeah, I will see. We will see. Yeah, wait and see. Yeah, good. That's good advice. Yeah, so let's see what's on the |
| 0:58.3 | rest of today's episode of Newscast. Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:02.5 | What is this virus? How does it spread? How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones? |
| 1:07.4 | No one's got to have a fucking clue what Brexit is. |
| 1:10.1 | There have been 300,000 and 34, 974,000 tests carried out across the UK. |
| 1:17.5 | The reason we could never be who we wanted is you kept your knee on our neck. |
| 1:24.0 | We're not out of the woods yet. |
| 1:27.0 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio now. |
| 1:30.0 | And this is Vicky in southwest London. |
| 1:33.0 | Well, and now we're going to be joined by our Royal Correspondent, |
| 1:35.4 | Johnny Diamond, because there's some big royal news today. |
| 1:38.2 | Hello, Johnny. |
| 1:39.2 | Hello, Adam. |
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