Rwanda Plan Takes Flight?
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BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The home secretary, James Cleverly has signed a new asylum treaty with the Rwandan government in an attempt to address the concerns of the Supreme Court.
Adam is joined by former home office advisor Claire Pearsall and the BBC’s West Africa correspondent Mayeni Jones to unpack what’s in the treaty and why it matters.
And what’s happening at COP28? The BBC’s climate editor Justin Rowlatt and former political strategist to the UNFCC Tom Rivett-Carnac explain what has been going on at the climate conference. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Gray with Sam McLaren, Gemma Roper and Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, thanks to everyone for keeping the studio warm while I was away, but I'm fully back now |
| 0:09.9 | after, oh, so much travel chaos, but that's for another day. |
| 0:14.2 | Also, thank you to Bryony, who emailed us from Norfolk, |
| 0:16.8 | saying, I'm lying in my bed and listening to yesterday's |
| 0:19.8 | podcast at 454. |
| 0:21.9 | Oh, you're an early riser, Briani. Just wanted to say to Chris, you are a brilliant |
| 0:26.2 | broadcaster and how do you keep up reporting so clearly and fluently without drawing breath. Well done and good luck in Rwanda today. |
| 0:35.6 | Well, Chris did make it to Rwanda and in typical newscast Stiley he sent us this voice note |
| 0:41.8 | just as he was boarding the Home Secretary's plane to come back to the UK. |
| 0:46.0 | Hello, Newscasters, Croaky, Chris Mason here at Kigali Airport. |
| 0:52.0 | We're just waiting for the Home Secretary and then we're going to fly back to the UK. A day trip to Rwanda is quite a thing. Flea |
| 1:00.5 | Flea overnight and we're flying back overnight. |
| 1:03.0 | Oh, we've got Boris Johnson at the COVID inquiry tomorrow, plenty of news around. |
| 1:07.0 | Justin was re-arrived here, the treaty itself signed between Rwanda and the UK has been published. |
| 1:14.0 | You might have to hear a bit of security going on in the background of the airport. |
| 1:18.0 | So we're just working our way through that. |
| 1:21.0 | Couple of thoughts to take away from my trip here today as I |
| 1:25.0 | wandered to the Jen's toilets maybe a bit quieter in here if I yeah there's nobody in |
| 1:29.5 | here so I wonder around in here instead I I spoke to James Clevely a couple of times on behalf of the pool |
| 1:37.1 | for broadcasters Sky ITN and the BBC and he couldn't commit, he couldn't be certain that even this treaty would make |
| 1:46.6 | the difference that is needed to get migrants on planes out here. Now his |
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