Summary
The UK government has been criticised over plans to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda…
Adam is joined by the BBC’s Mark Easton who’s in the capital Kigali, and Camille Le Coz from the Migration Policy Institute to chew over the plans and explore whether they’ll ever take off.
Also… as trains, planes, cars and boats look set to be hit by travel disruption over the Easter weekend, we speak to John Irving, CEO of Liverpool John Lennon Airport, to see how he’s preparing for one of the busiest bank holidays since the start of the pandemic.
Today’s Newscast was made by Tim Walklate with Cordelia Hemming and Miranda Slade. The technical producer was Emma Crowe and the assistant editor was Alison Gee.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, thank you to Marianna so much for presenting the last episode of newscast. |
| 0:09.3 | And this is my first chance to say, in public, well done to Chris Mason. |
| 0:14.5 | For being appointed BBC political editor, I'm very proud of him. |
| 0:18.4 | We basically started as student journalists at exactly the same time and have moved through |
| 0:24.3 | the ranks together. |
| 0:25.3 | Oh, those he's moved much higher in the ranks now. |
| 0:30.8 | Anyway, but in true Chris Mason style, he has sent a very candid tweet in his first day |
| 0:35.4 | as political editor, Designet. |
| 0:37.3 | And it's so hard to not say this in Chris Mason's voice because you can totally hear it in |
| 0:41.3 | his voice when you read it. |
| 0:42.5 | It says, |
| 0:43.0 | It says, |
| 0:44.0 | Thank you for the lovely messages. |
| 0:45.7 | The news popped out while I was in a pub in Halifax with no signal. |
| 0:49.2 | My phone did the can-can in the car park when I came out and hasn't stopped dancing since. |
| 0:54.0 | The new job is an immense privilege and responsibility and I'll give it everything. |
| 0:59.6 | Probably the most Chris Mason tweet ever on appointment as political editor. |
| 1:03.8 | Well done Chris. |
| 1:05.0 | And lots of newscasts have messaged their congratulations to Peter Minette says, |
| 1:10.0 | Well done BBC for choosing a great man from the North. |
| 1:13.4 | Diane Hill says, |
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