Summary
The prime minister has been in Northern Ireland to try to resolve the power-sharing crisis.
Adam is joined by Chris Mason in Belfast, and Prof Katy Hayward from the think tank UK in a Changing Europe, to discuss the crisis over the Brexit deal.
Also, Professor Hazel Smith from SOAS tells us what the North Korean health system is like after more than a million people there are believed to have caught Covid-19.
Today’s Newscast was made by Tim Walklate, with Miranda Slade and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Alison Gee.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's exam time again in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. |
| 0:09.6 | We haven't had proper exams because of Covid for a while. |
| 0:12.4 | It was all teacher assessed grades and all that stuff. |
| 0:16.3 | Of course exams have been happening in Scotland for a while already. |
| 0:19.7 | But today in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, you had GCSE RE in Sociology, A-level |
| 0:25.0 | Economics, English Language, Further Maths and Psychology. |
| 0:28.8 | Rather than us give you patronising advice about how to do exams, we thought we'd do something |
| 0:33.5 | a bit different. |
| 0:34.8 | We want you to send in the most interesting questions you've come across this exam season, |
| 0:40.9 | and then we will see if BBC correspondence in that field can answer the question. |
| 0:47.1 | Get it? |
| 0:48.1 | They're going to love it. |
| 0:49.6 | So if you come across an interesting exam brain teaser, email us newscast at bbc.co.uk, |
| 0:56.9 | and we'll put it to some of my colleagues. |
| 1:01.1 | And presumably if they all say no, they'll make me do it instead. |
| 1:04.6 | But that's fine. |
| 1:05.6 | Anyway, let's see how I got on in this episode of newscast. |
| 1:08.0 | Newscast. |
| 1:09.0 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:10.6 | It will take some time before we figure out what our new normal is. |
| 1:14.8 | Now if that is the argument, then we are going into unprecedented territory. |
| 1:19.1 | Combined with contract tasting, contact tasting, testing, tracing food. |
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