Northern Ireland Deal, Musk’s Brain Chip + Madeleine McCann Disinformation
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Today, we look at the agreement to return to power sharing in Northern Ireland, Elon Musk’s claim that his company have implanted a brain chip into a human + why a woman claimed to be Madeleine McCann on social media.
After almost 2 years without a government, the DUP have backed a deal to restore power sharing in Northern Ireland. They had previously blocked a government being formed over post-Brexit trade agreements, fearing that customs checks in the Irish Sea could weaken their place in the union. Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill, who is set to be the first nationalist first minister, said it was a “day of optimism”.
And Elon Musk says his company Neuralink has successfully implanted a computer chip inside a human brain. Why? James is joined by Neuroscientist, Professor Anil Seth.
Plus we hear from the BBC’s disinformation and social media correspondent, Marianna Spring, who has been speaking to a woman who claimed to be Madeline McCann. You can hear more on her new podcast series - Why Do You Hate Me? 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 Jonny Hall. The assistant editor was Chris Gray. The senior news editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:04.8 | So Tom has been in touch on the discord server saying this. |
| 0:08.6 | On Sunday he says Laura asked if you could pick anybody politician or not to run the country, who would you choose? |
| 0:15.1 | There was a lot of praise for Martin Lewis, as you may remember if you heard it, the money saving |
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| 0:19.8 | I've often wondered, says Tomop, whether political journalists would make good |
| 0:23.4 | politicians they seem to have a much better understanding of a broad range of |
| 0:27.6 | subjects votes for the newscast party asked Tomop I'd be very careful what you wish for there Tom and I'm not sure how it would sit with the |
| 0:36.0 | 220 pages of our editorial guidelines but never mind that. What would our slogan be? What would the |
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| 0:43.2 | Let us know on our discord server details of which are in the episode description. |
| 0:48.1 | But back to today and we have three big questions for you. |
| 0:51.8 | Number one, is the Northern Ireland Assembly about to return for the first time in nearly two years? Number two, why is there so much hate on social media? And number three, would you let a company run by Elon Musk put a |
| 1:05.2 | wireless chip in your brain? We're going to start in Belfast though on this episode |
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| 1:13.0 | Why can't people buy a house? |
| 1:15.0 | Look at their wages. |
| 1:16.0 | Do you know any questions on things that are not related to math? |
| 1:18.0 | People who say that we were partying simply do not know what they are talking about. |
| 1:22.0 | The idea of global warming has ended. simply do not know what they are talking about. |
| 1:22.6 | The era of global warming has ended, |
| 1:25.1 | the era of global boiling has arrived. |
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