Unpack Your Bags
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Christmas rules are tightened in England, Scotland and Wales - and a new tier four will be introduced in areas including London, Kent, Essex and Bedfordshire. Boris Johnson announced the changes for England at a Downing Street briefing as scientists warn that a new coronavirus variant is spreading more rapidly. Chris, Laura and Fergus get together for this emergency episode.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, newscasters, we're gathering to record this at what, half past six on Saturday night, |
| 0:11.0 | and, well, Laura, Fergus, quite some news today given where we were just well at the |
| 0:16.5 | beginning of the day or even a week ago huge moment for so many people with Christmas plans getting shredded. |
| 0:25.0 | Yeah absolutely and not just a huge moment because disruption is going to be happening again. |
| 0:32.0 | People are looking forward to that kind of glimpse of maybe not more |
| 0:34.4 | normality but glimpse of their relatives, you know, for the first time for such a long time after this terrible |
| 0:38.5 | year. But a huge moment also politically because Boris Johnson just a couple of days ago said |
| 0:43.9 | it would be inhuman to do what he's ended up doing today. And you know what Laura I |
| 0:48.3 | thought what kind of sums up really the kind of bleak reality for so many people this weekend was your question |
| 0:55.9 | to Chris Whitti the chief medical advisor to the to the government about what |
| 1:00.9 | someone should do if they're in the southeast of England right now |
| 1:04.8 | packing their bags for Christmas. Here's what he said. My short answer would be |
| 1:09.6 | please unpack it at this stage. |
| 1:12.6 | And I guess that is the blunt reality for so so many people tonight. |
| 1:17.0 | Not just in the south east of England, but we'll come on to talking about the situation |
| 1:20.4 | in Wales and in Scotland as well and the changes in the rules in the |
| 1:23.7 | other tears in England on this edition of Newscast. |
| 1:27.8 | Newscast. |
| 1:28.8 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:30.3 | What is this virus? How does it spread? How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones? |
| 1:35.0 | No one's got to have a fucking clue what Brexit is. |
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