Summary
‘I have to focus on my mental health’
Simone Biles, dubbed the greatest gymnast of all time, has withdrawn from two events at the Olympics. We speak to top gymnasts past and present – Team GB legend Beth Tweddle and British-Jamaican gymnast Danusia Francis – about the pressures of performing in front of billions of eyeballs.
And a change to quarantine rules for double-jabbed people from the EU or US could finally reunite family and friends in England and Scotland. The BBC’s Transport Correspondent, Caroline Davies, has the details.
Today’s Newscast was made by Maz Ebtehaj with Daniel Wittenberg, Ben Cooper and Rick Kelsey. The Studio Director was Emma Crowe. The Assistant Editor is Sam Bonham. The Editor is Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, I'm just thinking it's such a shame those daily Downing Street TV briefings |
| 0:09.3 | never happened because they were supposed to be done by Allegra Stratton who was hired to be the |
| 0:13.7 | Prime Minister's spokesperson. But then when they got canned she went to go and be the |
| 0:18.4 | spokesperson for the Climate Conference in Glasgow COP26 and she'd be doing a few interviews, and there'd |
| 0:24.1 | been some real jams, like the advice she's been given people if they want to help the environment. |
| 0:29.7 | Freeze bread. |
| 0:31.2 | Don't rinse plates before you put them in the dishwasher. |
| 0:34.4 | Maybe think about joining the Green Party, |
| 0:37.6 | which is interesting from a spokesperson for a conservative government. |
| 0:40.8 | So those TV briefings would have been great. |
| 0:44.0 | It would be as good as this episode of Newscast. |
| 0:47.0 | Newscast. |
| 0:48.0 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:50.0 | It will take some time before we figure out what our new normal is. |
| 0:53.8 | Now if that is the argument, then we are going into unprecedented telemetry. |
| 0:58.1 | Combined with contact tasting, testing, tracing, from tasting, tracing, food. |
| 1:03.8 | Yes, yes, yes. |
| 1:05.4 | I'm a vegan, so of course I don't like meatballs. |
| 1:08.4 | Next slide please. |
| 1:09.4 | Blair, Blair, Blair, Blair, lose, lose, lose. |
| 1:15.0 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio, and I'd just like to thank Dan Walker from Olympic Breakfast for alerting me to the Simone |
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