One million refugees
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
At least a million people have fled Ukraine in the space of a week, according to the UN. Adam is joined by David Miliband from the International Rescue Committee to examine the humanitarian crisis unfolding in eastern Europe.
The BBC’s Jessica Parker tells us what it’s like on board a NATO surveillance plane monitoring activity around Ukraine.
And sports broadcaster Isabelle Westbury reflects on the life of Australian cricketing superstar Shane Warne, following his death at the age of 52.
Today’s Newscast was made by Danny Wittenberg with Tim Walklate, Ben Cooper and Alix Pickles. The studio director was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor was Alison Gee.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, we're going to talk about Ukraine, obviously, and we're going to get an insight into what they |
| 0:10.3 | mean when they say bolstering NATO's eastern flank. So basically putting more resources into |
| 0:16.8 | Eastern Europe's borders with Russia because our Europe correspondent, my colleague, |
| 0:21.6 | Jess Parker, has been in a surveillance plane. All that coming up on this episode of newscast. |
| 0:26.8 | Newscast, newscast from the BBC, that will take some time before we figure out what our new normal is. |
| 0:33.6 | Now if that is the argument, then we are going into unprecedented territory. |
| 0:38.0 | Combined with contract-tasting, contact-tasting, tracing food. Yes, yes, yes. |
| 0:45.2 | I'm a vegan, so of course I don't like meatball. |
| 0:48.3 | Next slide please. Blair, Blair, Blair, Lewis, Lewis, Lewis. |
| 0:53.4 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio. And in a couple of minutes time, I'm going to be chatting to the former foreign secretary, David Miliband, |
| 0:59.4 | who now is bigger than humanitarian world, and he can tell us what's going on with all those refugees who are pouring out of Ukraine. |
| 1:07.0 | But also the people who find themselves displaced within the country as well. |
| 1:11.6 | And just a quick update on what's been happening in the conflict as we record this episode of newscast on Friday afternoon. |
| 1:17.2 | There's been a lot of military activity around this big nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe in fact, it's called Zapparizia. |
| 1:24.6 | It's been attacked by the Russians, a few people have died, but it does look like the power plant hasn't been damaged, |
| 1:30.8 | and that's kind of under control. |
| 1:33.1 | There's also discussions about humanitarian corridors to get AIDS, to refugees, and to help people to leave. |
| 1:39.1 | And in Russia, there's been a big crackdown on foreign media and how much they can operate, which includes the BBC. |
| 1:46.5 | The powerlampics are getting underway in Beijing today, but there are no Russian or Belarusian powerlampians. |
| 1:55.2 | Initially, the International Power Olympic Committee said that they could compete as neutral competitors, |
| 2:00.0 | and they wouldn't appear on the medall table, but following international pressure from the UK and others, |
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