Russian spooks target vaccine

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Why are Russian spies targeting covid-19 research?

Author of McMafia and organised crime expert, Misha Glenny and former chair of the British Joint Intelligence Committee, Baroness Neville-Jones explain why Russian spies are targeting covid-19 vaccine research. Leicester MP Liz Kendall tells us how the second lockdown is affecting the city. And Shed Seven’s Rick Witter, gives us a guide to his city, York, in case Parliament moves up there while the Palace is renovated.

Studio Manager: William Allot Producers: Seren Jones and Nathalie Ktena Assistant Editor: Emma Close Editor: Dino Sofos

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0:09.4	Every hour there was another massive story and I was like, oh, we'll talk about that for a long time in the
0:13.1	tonight's episode and then along came another news story.
0:16.0	Waves and waves and waves and waves of important news crashing down all around us but
0:21.6	one story jumps out above all else and we've got
0:24.7	amazing people to talk about that with tonight. Yeah we're going to talk about
0:27.5	Russia and what Russia has Mibee been doing in the UK in this edition of
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0:35.0	what is this virus how does it spread
0:37.0	how do we protect ourselves and our loved ones
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0:41.0	clue what Brexit is
0:42.0	there have been 300,000 and 34, 974,000 tests
0:48.1	carried out across the UK.
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