Summary
Adam is joined by the BBC's Sarah Smith and Vicki Young to discuss the upcoming closure of all pubs and restaurants in central Scotland. And the BBC's Marianna Spring explains why Facebook are taking tougher action against QAnon conspiracy theory accounts.
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Ben Weisz, Frankie Tobi Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the official opening ceremony of the newscast email address. cast change its name to newscast we have now managed to organize an official inbox |
| 0:26.0 | for your questions, your observations, even your complaints. |
| 0:31.3 | It is newscast at BBC. |
| 0:33.7 | UK. |
| 0:35.0 | UK. |
| 0:36.0 | And it turns out some people had already emailed us on it before it even existed and we had access to it. |
| 0:44.0 | In September, Philip Duffy said, |
| 0:46.0 | Does the Chancellor have anything to say today about singers, |
| 0:49.0 | instrumentalists, dancers and actors? |
| 0:51.0 | Well, Philip, you're on to something because Rishi Sunak has |
| 0:54.0 | tweeted twice in consecutive days to say he was being misinterpreted when he |
| 0:59.2 | did an interview with I TV which they phrased as him saying that singers, dancers and actors needed to retrain. |
| 1:06.3 | He says he doesn't think that. |
| 1:08.1 | Ted Ling message to say, it's driving me mad that I don't know who the American woman is at the start of every |
| 1:13.3 | podcast what is this virus how does it spread I tried searching online but I couldn't |
| 1:18.6 | find anything please can you help the answer Ted is, is its Maria Van Kirkova from the World Health |
| 1:25.4 | Organization. I hereby declare the email address newscast at BBC.co. |
| 1:32.1 | UK Open for Business. |
| 1:36.6 | That was the ribbon being cut by the way and this is the start of Newscast. |
| 1:40.9 | Newscast. |
| 1:41.8 | Newsscast from the BBC. |
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