Summary
Fergus takes us inside the intensive care unit at University College Hospital in London for the third time since the pandemic started. With three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal, how much longer can staff keep going like this? And the BBC's Branwen Jeffreys explains why teacher grades are going to be used to replace cancelled GCSEs and A-levels in England this summer.
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producer: Georgia Coan Episode Editor: Rick Kelsey 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 just recording this little note at home at 5 past 8, |
| 0:09.1 | and I just wanted to explain what happened tonight. |
| 0:10.9 | So we'd finished recording tonight's episode of |
| 0:13.4 | newscast and as I was leaving a studio at the BBC there are TV screens with the |
| 0:18.4 | news on everywhere and I looked up and I saw a rally outside the Capitol building in Washington where the Senate and the House of Representatives are |
| 0:27.6 | and it was being led by Donald Trump who was angry because they just gone through the formal process of recognizing Joe Biden as the next president because he won the election. |
| 0:37.0 | Then I made my way home and by the time I got home about 25 minutes later, the rally had turned into a full-on protest. |
| 0:46.8 | And I don't just mean shouting and waving flags and stuff, but the rallyers were actually smashing windows and barging their way into the building |
| 0:56.4 | and congressmen and women and senators were basically fleeing and the situation has really escalated even just in the last few minutes |
| 1:06.1 | and so John and Emily and Anthony from the Americast team are going to record an episode |
| 1:12.4 | and it should appear in your feeds very soon. |
| 1:15.4 | They will give you all the up-to-date information and about just what this means and |
| 1:20.1 | what it means for democracy in America. It really is that dramatic a moment. But I can also promise you some pretty |
| 1:27.8 | dramatic moments on this episode of newscast as well because Fergus has been back to the intensive care unit he filmed in at the first |
| 1:36.5 | peak of coronavirus last year and it's very intense. |
| 1:40.4 | Newscast. |
| 1:41.4 | Newscast from the BBC. What the BBC what is this virus how does it spread how do we protect ourselves and our loved ones no one's got to have |
| 1:48.7 | clue what Brexit is there have been three hundred,000 and 34, 974,000 tests carried out across the UK. |
| 1:58.0 | The reason we could never be who we wanted is you kept your knee on our neck. |
| 2:04.6 | We're not out of the woods yet. |
| 2:08.4 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio. |
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