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🗓️ 30 January 2017
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. |
0:20.0 | Do you hear that? |
0:27.0 | It might sound like nothing to you, but it's actually the sound of nuclear, wind and solar energy. |
0:31.0 | At EDF, we're busy generating more British zero carbon |
0:34.9 | electricity than anyone to help keep future energy costs down for |
0:38.3 | everyone and help cut UK carbon emissions to nothing. Sound good to you? Find out more about our |
0:44.8 | zero carbon generation at edf energy. I'm Helen Lewis. I'm Stephen Bush. And yeah as we said this is a special |
1:07.9 | extra shot of and maybe a chaser of the podcast because I think it has been a fairly extraordinary weekend |
1:13.6 | so Donald Trump, mere moments after ushering Theresa May out of the Oval Office, signed an executive |
1:19.4 | order which, well let's be honest, no one seem to know what exactly what it had said |
1:24.5 | it certainly banned citizens of seven Muslim majority countries from the US for a |
1:29.0 | period of months Syrian refugees banned indefinitely and then there was a lot of confusion about people who held dual citizenship with approved countries and actually whether or not some of these would have just |
1:40.4 | restrictions just apply to people who happen to be, say in Iraq or Yemen or Somalia. |
1:44.0 | It all unraveled horribly over the weekend as people kind of ended up being stuck at airports, |
1:48.5 | being told at the airport as they were getting on to a plane to the US that actually they wouldn't be able to get on. |
1:52.4 | Stephen it looks like a lot of it's going to be unpicked. I mean we've already found out that there will be |
1:57.2 | exemptions for British nationals with jaws citizenship, right? If you're a Samoa Farra, we think. So this is the, one of the |
2:05.1 | interesting things, as I said in my rather good email, is that Washington has |
2:09.7 | said to Britain and to Canada and presumably to every nation who's phoned up going I'm sorry what |
2:15.2 | Then their people are exempt however in practice that does not seem to be what is happening on the ground at airports not least because airports in |
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