The Week: Middle East, Tory Conference + Assisted Dying
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BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Adam, Alex, and Chris discuss how the UK has reacted to crisis in the Middle East as Israel launches a ground invasion in Lebanon targeting Iranian backed military group Hezbollah, how a new vote on assisted dying has come about in parliament, and the Tory leadership candidates’ pitches to conference.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, as is becoming traditional on a Friday, you are now going to hear the TV show that |
| 0:10.0 | we recorded on Thursday night, which is worth listening to today at the end of the |
| 0:14.1 | week because it's a review of all the news that has happened this week in the |
| 0:19.1 | newscast style. |
| 0:20.1 | Newscast. |
| 0:21.1 | Newscast from the BBC. I like landscapes landscapes you have a bright future behind you you think you just fell out of a coconut tree we're effectively run in this country by a bunch of childless cat ladies |
| 0:31.1 | you don't understand the essence of Brad. |
| 0:32.8 | It's just getting silly now. |
| 0:36.6 | Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. |
| 0:40.1 | Blimey. |
| 0:41.1 | Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm Chris in the newscust studio. |
| 0:44.6 | And Alex also in the newscast studio. |
| 0:46.5 | And we're sort of going to bring the world to the newscast studio and talk about it from a |
| 0:51.0 | kind of British political perspective. And I just wonder like you and Kirst Armour have been doing a lot of travel and in his first hundred days as Prime Minister and every day that he's abroad is a day he's not dealing with something at home. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah, so I mean in the last month he's been across the Atlantic and back twice. |
| 1:08.0 | So I went to see President Baden in Washington, then went to the UN General Assembly in New York. |
| 1:12.0 | Obviously he's had the Labour conference. |
| 1:14.7 | I've also done the TUC, the Lib Dems, |
| 1:16.4 | and the Conservatives. |
| 1:17.7 | And then he has done trips to Rome with Alex and Toh. |
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