Summary
Conservative leadership hopeful Liz Truss has scrapped a plan to link public sector pay to local living costs, within hours of announcing it. The BBC’s Nick Eardley runs us through the latest.
Also, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who plotted the 9/11 terror attacks with Osama Bin Laden, has been killed in a US drone strike. Adam is joined by the BBC’s Lyse Doucet in Kabul and BBC Security Correspondent Gordon Corera to discuss what happened.
And George the Poet stops by to discuss his new book, his podcast and his PhD.
Today’s Newscast was made by Tim Walklate, with Alix Pickles, Danny Wittenberg and Keiligh Baker. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, another day, another set of blockbuster profits for an energy company. |
| 0:08.7 | This time, it's BP, who reported their biggest quarterly profit for 14 years of the soaring |
| 0:14.6 | oil and gas prices. |
| 0:16.0 | They say their profits, for April to June this year, hit $8.45 billion. |
| 0:22.0 | That's $6.9 billion. |
| 0:24.7 | But what actually is $6.9 billion, I hear you ask. |
| 0:29.2 | Well, it is the annual GDP of Kyrgyzstan, according to the World Bank. |
| 0:35.4 | It's the price Amazon paid last year when they bought MGM Studios, makers of James Bond |
| 0:40.1 | Rocky and of course, Legally Blonde. |
| 0:43.0 | It's also the price of Chelsea and Real Madrid, if you bought them in a sort of football club |
| 0:47.9 | meal deal. |
| 0:49.2 | And talking to your meal deals, it could buy you $3.45 billion cheese and pickle sandwiches |
| 0:53.7 | from Morrison's, because one of those costs two pounds each. |
| 0:56.6 | But I suppose you could probably could have worked that out yourself on the back of an |
| 0:59.4 | Appkin, because that's just dividing $6.9 billion by two, isn't it? |
| 1:02.9 | And the calculations BP are doing on their own Appkin is that they're having to pay lots |
| 1:07.4 | extra for this windfall tax that was introduced by Rishi Sunak when he was chancellor a couple |
| 1:12.1 | of months ago. |
| 1:13.1 | And they pay more corporation tax than other companies just because they're an energy |
| 1:17.6 | company. |
| 1:18.6 | And that's how it works in the UK. |
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