Summary
On this week's bumper Newscast, Adam asks Jeremy Bowen why the tragic explosion in Beirut could have bigger consequences closer to home. With climate change, coronavirus, and China "feeling its oats", we draw up the Newscast Risk Register of national security concerns - with help from former MI6 chief Sir John Sawers, former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and BBC Security Correspondent Gordon Corera.
Plus - BBC reporters round up the best of the rest of the week's news, and Jamie Bartlett teases us with the return of The Missing Cryptoqueen.
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Ben Weisz, Natalie Ktena and Harriet Noble Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, Newscast is back. |
| 0:06.7 | We're doing weekly episodes during August. |
| 0:09.6 | Coming up, we're going to pick the brains of Jeremy Bowen, |
| 0:11.7 | who's been speaking to loads of people about that terrible explosion in Beirut that happened on Tuesday. |
| 0:17.0 | And we're going to hear from a form ahead of MI6, who's going to take us through some of the global risks to security at the moment. |
| 0:25.0 | Also back is the hit BBC Sounds Podcast, The Missing Krypto Queen. |
| 0:31.0 | They have got a new episode that has dropped today quite unexpectedly. |
| 0:36.3 | Remember it was massive last year. It was that week by week live investigation into |
| 0:40.9 | the controversial cryptocurrency one coin and its controversial founder Dr. |
| 0:46.1 | Ruja and we're joined now by Jamie Bartlett who's been on the trail of Dr. |
| 0:51.0 | Ruja for years it seems now Jamie. It does seem like 18 months I think yeah |
| 0:56.3 | feels like longer a very it was been very intense for you because you've been jetting |
| 0:59.9 | across the world and getting leaked spreadsheets and stuff it's amazing. |
| 1:03.2 | Yeah that's right although obviously during the lot I mean the last episode was |
| 1:07.4 | out I don't know it was nine or ten months ago and we just went completely quiet so |
| 1:11.8 | we're be sort bevering away for nine or ten months ever since the last |
| 1:15.4 | one went out and we're very frustrating because we couldn't say anything at all |
| 1:19.6 | about it. So this is a bit of a bit of an update really on what we found where we're up to |
| 1:24.1 | where the story's got to and it's just as crazy as ever. Now this is going to be a |
| 1:28.8 | tricky bit of this conversation because of spoilers and so I don't want to spoil the original series for people who haven't |
| 1:35.3 | listened to it yet and I don't want to spoil the new episode for people who haven't |
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