The 'Nu' Variant
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
'Nu' variant, new concern. Scientists are closely watching a new variant of coronavirus circulating in southern Africa, nicknamed the 'nu' variant. The BBC’s Health and Science Correspondent, James Gallagher, tells Adam what the experts are telling him. So how worried should we be?
France has uninvited the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, from a meeting set up to deal with the recent surge in dangerous crossings of the Channel. The Economist’s Paris Bureau Chief, Sophie Pedder, explains why relations are so tense.
And appendicitis can be extremely painful – and a real pain to diagnose. BBC News Presenter Reeta Chakrabarti shares her experience with appendicitis and tells us why it’s so important that it’s spotted early.
Today's Newscast was made by Daniel Wittenberg with producers Rosie Blunt, Georgia Coan and Ben Cooper. The studio manager was Frank McWeeny. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, I take one night off and the newscast TV studio descends into Total Chaos. |
| 0:13.6 | Oh, no, Boris. I knew you'd do this, you know I've gone about, come on. |
| 0:19.6 | Good boy. Yes, Lindsay Oil and his parrot. Actually, you know what, that sounded a bit slightly scary, |
| 0:27.4 | maybe I'm glad I wasn't there. Also in news terms, you could see he was trying to lure the |
| 0:32.2 | temperature on that controversy at Westminster about where their MPs are allowed to have their |
| 0:37.1 | young children with them. After the Labour MP Stella Creece was told she couldn't have her |
| 0:41.5 | three-month-old in Westminster Hall, which is one of the other chambers in the houses of Parliament. |
| 0:48.4 | Instead, he actually increased the temperature on that story. And we're going to be talking more |
| 0:53.3 | about what MPs can and can't do on Monday, because there's going to be a report from the House |
| 0:58.4 | of Common Standards Committee on a new code of conduct for how they do stuff. Not necessarily |
| 1:03.5 | how they behave in the chamber, but how they just behave generally as MPs. Anyway, I'm back in |
| 1:08.9 | a studio, which means order will be restored on this edition of newscast. |
| 1:13.4 | Newscast. Newscast from the BBC will take some time before we figure out what our new normal is. |
| 1:20.3 | Now, if that is the argument, then we are going into unprecedented territory. Combined with contract |
| 1:26.4 | tasting, contact tasting, testing, tracing the feeling, yes, yes, yes. I'm vegan, so of course, |
| 1:34.0 | I don't like meatball. Next slide please. Blair Blair Blair, |
| 1:38.0 | loose, loose, loose. Hello, it's Adam in the studio with James. Love |
| 1:43.6 | they to have you back. Except you only invite me back for Doomsday stories. |
| 1:46.8 | Yes, and in this case, it's a new variant of COVID, which is actually called new, based on the |
| 1:53.4 | Greek match that we're now using instead of countries, although it emerged from the Botswana, |
| 1:58.6 | so people were kind of calling it the Botswana variant a bit, aren't they? |
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