Summary
The BBC’s Justin Rowlatt explains why China’s announcement at the UN General Assembly could be a significant step in the fight against climate change. And Laura, Fergus and Adam discuss why Boris Johnson says the UK is at a “critical moment” in the coronavirus pandemic.
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Ben Weisz, Frankie Tobi Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | So the fiasco around this octopus pub quiz question |
| 0:09.2 | is following me everywhere. |
| 0:11.6 | Have a listen to this morning's today program where Martha Carney was speaking |
| 0:16.8 | to Alok Sharma the business secretary and asking him whether government ministers should |
| 0:21.8 | know the guidance in different parts of the country |
| 0:24.2 | a bit better. |
| 0:25.2 | There is an element of sort of slightly gotcha about this in terms of some of this line of questioning |
| 0:29.2 | and I mean you know you are a flagship program when it comes to serious news and it's not a quiz show |
| 0:34.3 | and so all I'm saying to you is that what's important... |
| 0:37.0 | asking ministers about what the rules are for governing coronavirus |
| 0:42.0 | you're not saying it's as trivial as a quiz question |
| 0:44.4 | are you? No absolutely not but what I'm saying to you is that what is important is |
| 0:48.6 | people want to understand the precise... People have got quizzes on the brain so we're not going to have a quiz on this episode of newscast, |
| 0:55.0 | but we will get you the answer to lots of questions, |
| 0:58.0 | especially about the latest situation with coronavirus, |
| 1:01.0 | all in this edition of newscast newscast from the BBC what is this |
| 1:06.4 | virus how does it spread how do we protect ourselves and our loved ones no one's got |
| 1:11.5 | to have fucking clue what Brexit is. |
| 1:13.6 | There have been 300,000 and 34, 974,000 tests carried out across the UK. |
| 1:20.9 | The reason we could never be who we wanted is you kept your knee on our neck. |
| 1:27.0 | We're not out of the woods yet. |
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