The Swinney takes it all?
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BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at who could be the next first minister of Scotland. And an exclusive report from the West Bank.
Right now, John Swinney looks set to become Scotland’s next first minister, as Kate Forbes confirms she will not challenge him. Swinney says he wants to "unite the SNP and Scotland for independence", but will he be able to? Adam speaks Scotland Editor James Cook.
And, as violence in the West Bank escalates, the BBC have found evidence of potential breaches of international law by the Israeli military, including the death of an eight-year-old boy. The IDF say the circumstances of the death are “under review”. Adam is joined by the team who led the investigation, Isobel Yeung and Josh Baker, to hear about their new film ‘The Other War’.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Name that tune. Basically, because James Cook has been on newscast so often and is going to be on it again because there's yet more news about the |
| 0:23.4 | SMP and their leadership contest we've decided to create a new feature called |
| 0:27.8 | ready steady James Cook get it because that was the theme tune from Ready Steady Cook. |
| 0:34.0 | Anyway, more high quality content like that on this episode of Newscast. |
| 0:38.0 | Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:40.0 | Hundreds of bald men scrapping over a single broken cone. |
| 0:44.6 | He's not a leader, he is a human weather vein. |
| 0:47.4 | Two cheeks of the same backside. |
| 0:50.1 | No politicians are listening to what's happening. |
| 0:53.0 | We essentially need a bigger bazooka. |
| 0:56.0 | Why do you always think that the way you'll live is better than the way we'll live? |
| 1:00.0 | The AI will be able to do everything. |
| 1:01.0 | The appalling, Willie Wanker experience experience get a life. |
| 1:05.0 | Hello it's Adam in the studio and we're going to return again to events in |
| 1:10.7 | Scottish politics because John Swinney, former leader of the SMP a few years ago, |
| 1:17.6 | has officially announced that he's going to stand in the contest to replace Hamza Yousif, |
| 1:22.2 | who announced he was standing down at the start of the week and which we've discussed a lot on the podcast. |
| 1:27.0 | And Kate Forbes, the former Scottish Finance Minister, who ran Hamza Yussif for very close second in the last leadership contest |
| 1:35.3 | has announced that she's not going to stand which clears the way for John Swinney |
| 1:40.5 | to be well basically crowned as the next first minister of Scotland without an |
| 1:44.6 | internal leadership contest in the SMP. |
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