Nicola Sturgeon at the Covid Inquiry: Tears and deleted WhatsApps
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Today we look at the Covid Inquiry, where former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon gave evidence, and we bring you the detail on Northern Ireland’s new Brexit deal. An emotional Nicola Sturgeon also defended deleting all her WhatsApp messages during the period saying that all “relevant” information was provided to the inquiry. BBC Scotland‘s Lorna Gordon and David Wallace Lockhart update James on a busy day at the inquiry. On Wednesday afternoon we got the details of the deal that’s set to send a power sharing government back to Northern Ireland. Chris takes us through them.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | I've just left the Edinburgh International Conference Center in the pouring, pouring rain. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm driving back now to the BBC studios in Edinburgh. |
| 0:15.0 | After listening to Nicholas Sturgeon in what was really quite remarkable testimony |
| 0:20.0 | this morning to the UK COVID inquiry. She was very emotional. I was |
| 0:25.6 | at the first minister when the pandemic struck. There's a large power of me |
| 0:31.8 | wishes I hadn't been, but I was and I wanted to be the best |
| 0:37.4 | first minister I could be during that period is for others to judge the extent to which |
| 0:42.0 | I succeeded. |
| 0:44.8 | I was in the room and she was wiping away tears as she recalled what it was like in those |
| 0:49.8 | early stages of the pandemic and that's what we're going to be talking about on |
| 0:54.4 | this edition of newscast. Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:59.2 | Why can't people buy a house? Look at their wages. |
| 1:02.0 | Do you have any questions on things that are not related to math? |
| 1:04.0 | People who say that we were partying simply do not know what they are talking about. |
| 1:08.0 | The era of global warming has ended the era of global boiling has arrived. |
| 1:13.4 | It's the first time ever, I've been able to say, well done, Kia. |
| 1:17.2 | I'll end by tempting her to update newscast and update this house. |
| 1:21.2 | The Prime Minister is not under a desk. |
| 1:24.0 | Hello it's James in the studio in Edinburgh and later Chris Mason will be here to help us with the |
| 1:28.5 | detail in the deal that looks set to see power sharing return to Northern Ireland. |
| 1:34.3 | But first with me to talk about Nicholas Sturgeon's testimony at the COVID inquiry here in Edinburgh |
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