The Ukraine foreign fighters come home, and pressure on BBC presenter

This Is Why

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4.0 • 552 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

More allegations about the unnamed BBC presenter have been published by The Sun, claiming that the star broke COVID rules to meet a 23-year-old. Now that the Metropolitan Police have asked the BBC to pause internal inquiries into suspended presenter, we ask if there has been a mood shift in the way this story should have been reported.

On the Sky News Daily with Kimberley Leonard, from outside the BBC’s New Broadcasting House, arts and entertainment correspondent Katy Spencer explains the latest allegations and how the story could progress.

Plus, in Ukraine, our international correspondent John Sparks has interviewed two foreign volunteers who have been fighting in the army as foreign fighters for the past 17 months, including Rhys Byrne, codename 'Rambo', a spirited 28-year-old from Dublin.

Producers: Emma Rae Woodhouse and Soila Apparicio
Interviews producer: Alex Edden
Editor: Paul Stanworth

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1:00.5	Hi, it's Kimberly Leonard on this Sky News Daily. We're going to talk about Ukraine on this episode.
1:07.2	President Zelensky has been at the NATO summit after saying he wasn't happy about
1:11.4	the timeline for Ukrainian membership. And our correspondent, John Sparks, is in Denepro. He's been
1:17.3	meeting an Irish guy who went to Ukraine to fight. He's called Reese, also known as Rambo. He's been
1:24.1	there for 17 months, and along with others, John has been hearing first-hand accounts of the Ukrainian offensive.
1:30.8	Why foreign volunteers went there and why some are leaving.
1:34.3	It's really fascinating.
1:36.7	We don't really get a lot of information about what it's like on the front line.
1:40.4	And John's account of what he's been hearing from these people is absolutely harrowing.
1:46.9	Our arts and entertainment correspondent, Katie Spencer, on the Daily First,
1:50.8	because she's been reporting for Sky today on those new claims against the BBC presenter
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