Summary
Boris Johnson accuses Rishi Sunak of “talking rubbish” as row erupts over honours.
Chris Mason explains what it’s all about.
And there are more former leaders in the news…
Europe editor Katya Adler reflects on the colourful political life of Silvio Berlusconi following his death at 86. Scotland editor James Cook explains how the arrest of Nicola Sturgeon has been playing out politically. Disinformation and social media correspondent Marianna Spring talks about her new podcast Marianna in Conspiracyland. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Today’s Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Flynn, George Dabby and Alex Collins. The technical producer was Gareth Jones. The senior news editor is Damon Rose.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, Jack summed it all up on the Discord server where people can talk about newscast |
| 0:10.0 | when he said yesterday, this hasn't been a particularly good week for former national |
| 0:14.4 | leaders. |
| 0:15.4 | And we will talk about that on this episode of newscast. |
| 0:17.7 | Jack also sent that message before the death of the former Italian Prime Minister Silvio |
| 0:22.1 | Berlusconi, which puts a sort of different complexion on it. |
| 0:25.4 | I've been catching up with my old colleague from the Brussels Bureau, Sophia Batitza, |
| 0:30.3 | who is currently filling in as the Rome correspondent, so he's covering this story a lot. |
| 0:34.5 | And she was reminding me about the quite amazing thing Silvio Berlusconi said to her when |
| 0:41.2 | she interviewed him at an event a few years ago. |
| 0:43.7 | And at the end of our interview, which was about him making yet another comeback in Italian |
| 0:50.2 | politics, which he did, by the way, he never underestimated Silvio Berlusconi. |
| 0:55.0 | He shook my hands as you would at the end of our interview. |
| 0:58.6 | And he basically told me off because he thought that my handshake was way too strong. |
| 1:03.9 | He went on to say to me, look, I'm going to teach you how to shake hands properly, do |
| 1:15.5 | it this way, do it this way, and then I did it again and he said, look, this is really bad. |
| 1:20.5 | Any man who's going to take you is going to think that you want to beat them up. |
| 1:24.0 | So you'll end up single. |
| 1:26.2 | And what's interesting about Batitza and the reason why we decided to include that exchange |
| 1:31.0 | in our BBC reports was that there were about six or seven cameras rolling. |
| 1:36.3 | He knew exactly what he was doing. |
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