The DUP, IPCC, RMT and Xi

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

A legion of experts join Adam to make sense of a busy news day. Chris Mason outlines the DUP’s decision to vote against the government’s Brexit plans and the move by RMT members at Network Rail to accept a pay deal. World affairs editor John Simpson dials in with leading Russia expert Angela Stent to chew over Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow to meet Vladimir Putin. And, can we avert a climate disaster? Tom Rivett-Carnac, a former UN adviser who worked on the 2015 Paris climate agreement, gives his assessment on the latest IPCC report on climate change. Today’s Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming and made by Tim Walklate with Rufus Gray, Miranda Slade and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. The senior news editor was Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	Hello, Chris Mason's back in the house. Hello, Chris.
0:07.6	Hi. I don't know if you saw Challenge Anikas,
0:10.0	Triumphant Returning on Channel 5 on Saturday,
0:12.0	a big staple of our childhood.
0:13.3	It was a massive staple of our childhood, wasn't it?
0:15.6	And no, I didn't.
0:16.6	Dammit, I need to catch up on that.
0:17.8	Well, that's interesting, because Anika Rice herself
0:20.3	was a staple of Friday's newscast.
0:22.6	And I don't know if you know this, but she's quite a big fan
0:24.8	of the podcast.
0:25.6	You know what, one of our newscaster, uh, uh,
0:28.5	supremos texted me on Friday, and I was trying to take
0:31.7	a bit of time off news and all the rest of it.
0:33.5	And up top the text that said,
0:36.0	Anika Rice is a bit of a fan of yours.
0:38.0	And I just, I just roared with appreciative laughter.
0:40.4	Well, be intrigued to hear how you're at when you actually
0:42.4	hear this piece of evidence that proves it.
0:44.5	I think people will find it weirdly similar,
0:46.9	because people, you know, and decorators still have to wash
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