The Newscast Security Briefing
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Three people have been arrested and are suspected of spying for Russia in the UK. It’s BBC correspondent Daniel De Simone’s exclusive, and he’s in the studio to give the background. And, information from 10,000 employees at the Police Service of Northern Ireland has been mistakenly released. An ex PSNI officer is on to discuss why many are feeling unsafe as a result, as well as Jordan Dunbar, presenter of BBC podcast series Blood On The Dance Floor, which is about the killing of a Northern Irish police officer. BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner describes what the intelligence services are focussing on, and is on throughout. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Today's Newscast was presented by James Cook. It was made by Chris Flynn with Clare Williamson and Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The editor is Damon Rose.
This podcast has been edited since it was first published to delete a section in which a contributor said police suspect the Real Ira of the shooting of an officer and the killing of journalist Lyra McKee. In fact police believe the New Ira are responsible.
01:04 - PSNI data leaks 14:32 - Three are suspected of spying for Russia 20:38 - The focus of British intelligence services
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hi, it's James Cook here again, and with me is the BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner. |
| 0:09.2 | Hi Frank. |
| 0:09.8 | Hello. |
| 0:10.3 | And Frank is here because it's one of those days when national security is top of the agenda with stories about a data leak putting police officers at risk in Northern Ireland and in England the arrests of three people suspected of spying for Russia. |
| 0:26.0 | So we're going to talk about what's going on in both cases and we'll ask what other threats |
| 0:31.6 | the UK might be facing in this security briefing edition of |
| 0:35.8 | Newscast. |
| 0:36.8 | Newscast. |
| 0:37.8 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:38.8 | He got trounce by the former Prime Minister who herself got beaten by a lettuce. |
| 0:43.4 | At least I didn't slap anybody which is good. |
| 0:45.4 | Green economy. |
| 0:46.4 | Blah blah blah blah. |
| 0:47.4 | It's the guardian reading, tofu eating, |
| 0:51.0 | Wokarate. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm actually very right wing. |
| 0:53.0 | You do come up with the most remarkable twaddle. |
| 0:55.0 | Today I feel gay. |
| 0:57.0 | The Prime Minister is not under a desk. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm here because I'm alive carrying Megan. |
| 1:01.0 | And I don't care what anybody says about me. |
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