Summary
Government launches its nuclear and wind energy plans... Secunder Kermani hosts today's Newscast. He's joined by the BBC's Alex Forsyth and Emma Pinchbeck, boss of the energy industry’s trade body, to pore over the details. Meanwhile, there's political chaos in Pakistan (where Secunder is based right now). The Wall Street Journal’s Saeed Shah explains what's been going on.
Today’s Newscast was made by Cordelia Hemming, Ben Cooper and Miranda Slade. The studio director was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.5 | Hi, what a day I've been having. I'm just walking through the newsroom of the BBC |
| 0:11.7 | Pakistan bureau. You can probably hear news channels blaring in the background. That's |
| 0:15.4 | because we're in the middle of a political crisis here. In fact, we haven't had a government |
| 0:20.2 | for the last week or so. I've spent the day trying to explain a Pakistani political |
| 0:25.2 | crisis across the BBC on world news and well TV news and trying to explain where things |
| 0:33.3 | went wrong for cricket or turn politician Imran Khan. But I'll tell you all about that |
| 0:38.9 | in a bit. First, let me tell you about the comedian Joe Lysett. He was giving evidence |
| 0:44.3 | at the Lords Fraud Act Committee on Thursday. |
| 0:47.5 | Why would somebody pretend to be the head of a bank for that long? I mean, and then |
| 0:54.3 | I think I tweeted, I've got a smelly bum bum, which was the time. That point that was |
| 0:58.6 | when they started to get red flagged. |
| 1:02.3 | Joe, as well as being quite a funny man, of course, has also become a bit of an anti-fraud |
| 1:07.4 | campaigner, fighting for people who've been wronged by big corporations on his channel |
| 1:11.9 | foreshow Joe Lysett's got your back. And as he said, he's been impersonating the head |
| 1:17.0 | of a bank, apparently with a smelly bum bum, in order to prove how easy it is to scam people |
| 1:23.0 | out of money in their accounts. And he thinks online platforms need to do more. |
| 1:27.3 | Yeah, improved checks on those platforms seems to me to be a relatively simple thing to |
| 1:35.4 | do, a reasonable request of these platforms and not something that is without beyond their |
| 1:41.5 | resources, these platforms often are making. |
| 1:44.0 | Now Joe, being Joe, he made this point about fraud amongst various other things. Here's |
| 1:48.4 | another highlight from the House of Lords Committee on Digital Flood. This is Nikki Morgan, |
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