UNGA-standing what’s going on

Newscast

BBC

News, Daily News, Politics

4.3 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

World leaders look at their climate commitments at the UN General Assembly.

As President Xi Jinping announces that China will stop building overseas coal-fired power plants during his address, Nick Mabey, Chief Executive of climate change think-tank E3G, explains how it feeds into the upcoming COP26 conference in Glasgow.

With households facing a perfect storm of higher bills at home and at the checkout, Adam speaks to Richard Walker, the MD of supermarket chain Iceland, about what’s being done to tackle the rising cost of living.

And as the royal family reflect on the life of Prince Philip in a new BBC documentary, Newscasters share their own memories of the late Duke of Edinburgh.

Today’s Newscast was made by Rick Kelsey, with producers Ben Cooper and Georgia Coan. The studio director was Emma Crowe. Emma Close was the Assistant Editor.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, we're having a very self-indulgent beginning to this episode of newscast.
0:11.0	We're joined by Nina Morris Evans, who's a maths and politics teacher from Haverstock School in Camden.
0:17.3	Hello, Nina.
0:18.2	Hi, Adam.
0:19.2	And you've got a student there as well, Oketa? Yeah. Hiya.
0:22.7	Hello, Oketa. Now, I'm far too modest to reveal why we've got you on. So, Nina, why don't you
0:29.3	explain? So at Haverstock, we are such big newscast fans that we set listening to it every
0:36.9	single day to all of our politics students
0:39.6	and news of that got back to newscast so here we are well what excellent choice in
0:47.3	teaching materials you have so oketa I mean what do you think of us I think it's great
0:53.4	you know when you get assigned something to do as homework, it's not exactly the most enticing thing, but after sort of listening to loads of episodes, I'm actually a very avid fan of newscast.
1:07.0	And I don't think I could do my morning routine without it. This is subscribe and leave a
1:12.1	review to the max. Nina, as a politics teacher, I've always wondered, because I didn't study
1:17.4	politics at school, which is a bit weird considering my entire job, but I always wondered how
1:22.0	you actually go around teaching it because a lot of teaching is kind of textbooks and writing
1:27.3	essays about things.
1:28.5	But politics is just happening all the time really quickly in the real world.
1:32.3	And you can't really have a textbook about what they were talking about at Prime Minister's
1:35.2	questions today.
1:36.9	Right, exactly.
1:37.9	It's funny you said that.
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