Military spending, Labour rules out SNP deal
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Today we look at what the UK is doing in response to increasing global threats.
Laura’s been speaking to the defence secretary, as well as SNP leader Humza Yousef, who’s asked Sir Keir Starmer for a meeting.
And as The Traitors enters its final week, Paddy has been speaking to this season’s standout star Diane.
Chief political correspondent Henry Zeffman is also on as we talk about it all.
Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn with Josh Jenkins. The technical producer was Ricardo McCarthy. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Here we go, it's the weekend newscast. |
| 0:06.7 | Laura, will you can't you pay attention please? |
| 0:08.6 | Sorry, I am listening. |
| 0:10.0 | You may be listening. |
| 0:11.6 | Henry, good morning Henry, you Henry be paying attention to |
| 0:14.0 | the BBC's chief political correspondent hello |
| 0:16.1 | good morning good morning i am not paying attention |
| 0:18.3 | i was paying attention before i was just doing something else at the same time |
| 0:21.2 | it's called multitasking. |
| 0:27.1 | Um, quick trivia, Laura's wearing Theresa May's shoes, Henry, just so you know. |
| 0:34.4 | Gural is suggestion whenever anyone wears leopard print that somehow is either a tribute to or they've nicked them off Theresa May. I would like to point out that I wore leopard print before Theresa May, became known for that, |
| 0:40.0 | and leopard's in neutral these days anyway. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm looking like a geography teacher so I'm not |
| 0:44.3 | casting any aspersions. So we're going to talk about the scoops on your show we're going to talk |
| 0:48.5 | about some interviews on Broadcasting House on Radio 4 and Henry we also talk briefly about the traitors. |
| 0:54.3 | Are you a fan? |
| 0:55.3 | I am. |
| 0:55.8 | I've been watching it avidly. |
| 0:57.1 | Okay, so there's a spoiler alert in this episode of Newscast |
| 1:00.3 | because we will hear a bit from Diane Diane the breakout star from the series. |
| 1:04.6 | They got rid of me of course because I'm fairly opinionated quite goby, quite direct |
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