Summary
Controversy at the Oscars as Will Smith hits Chris Rock… Adam is joined by the BBC’s Culture Editor Katie Razzall and LA-based entertainment reporter KJ Matthews to discuss the background to the slap - and the possible repercussions.
Also… the UK ambassador to Ukraine Melinda Simmons – currently in Warsaw - talks Biden, getting out of Kyiv and her own Ukrainian background.
This edition of Newscast was made by Tim Walklate, John Murphy and Chris Flynn. Emma Crowe was the technical producer. Sam Bonham is the assistant editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, no, we actually didn't have a chance to talk about this last week when we were |
| 0:08.1 | talking about the spring statement when I was in the cupboard. |
| 0:11.9 | And it was the photo op, Rishi Sunak, the chancellor did afterwards to publicize the cut |
| 0:17.2 | in fuel duty. |
| 0:18.5 | He went to a St. Breese petrol station and filled up someone else's car. |
| 0:25.2 | And so the photos looked quite cool. There he was, just as average dad filling up the |
| 0:30.4 | car. |
| 0:31.7 | But the circumstances and the kind of borrowing someone else's car took a bit of the |
| 0:36.0 | shine off the photo op. |
| 0:37.3 | And it's now entered kind of Westminster lower because it came up today when Rishi |
| 0:41.8 | Sunak was being quizzed at the Treasury Select Committee by the Labour MP Shavon Macdonough. |
| 0:47.4 | I just wanted to let the chancellor know that the cost in filling up my clear picanto has |
| 0:53.9 | gone up from 30 to 54 pounds in the time I've owned it. |
| 0:58.2 | Mr Sunak, did you face a similar fuel hike in the time you've owned your Rio? |
| 1:03.8 | How long have you owned your car? |
| 1:05.5 | About three years. |
| 1:06.5 | Oh, mine I think is probably older than that. |
| 1:09.0 | Is it a Rio? |
| 1:10.5 | No, actually we have a golf. |
| 1:13.2 | Okay. |
| 1:14.2 | But you fill up other people's cars now. |
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