What’s Boris Johnson going to say at the Covid inquiry?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Former PM Boris Johnson will appear at the Covid inquiry next week, and journalists are being told what to expect. Laura and Paddy talk about his media management.
They also look back at a week in which Rishi Sunak cancelled a meeting with the Greek PM. We hear from Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis on the issue at the heart of it - the Pantheon Sculptures.
And former Australian PM Julia Gillard is on from COP28 in Dubai to talk about what’s happening there, and her climate legacy in Australia.
You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Today's Newscast was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn with Clare Williamson and Gemma Roper. The technical producer was Matt Dean. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | We start today's weekend, Saturday newscast with a correction. |
| 0:07.4 | Not another correction. |
| 0:08.8 | What do you mean not another? |
| 0:09.5 | I don't think we've had to do it so far? |
| 0:10.9 | We did. We had the prediction gate. |
| 0:12.4 | We had that, who would be the home? Yeah, well, let's not add more |
| 0:17.1 | misery to young Zefman's entry. A correction from newscaster Philippa, who've been in touch after you hadi said that cats did not |
| 0:26.5 | know their own names I want to take paddy to task about what he said last |
| 0:30.9 | week about cats not learning their names or being too disdainful to learn their names and say that he's wrong. |
| 0:37.9 | I've got nine cats and they all know their own names. I live in Spain and I miss some English treats and things so they're |
| 0:47.2 | called variously things like Twiglet, Jaffa Cake, cookies and cream, and then I picked up one off the streets this summer in |
| 0:56.8 | 44 degrees of heat and he's called Mr Kipling and he was so he was Spanish he'd |
| 1:02.3 | been talked to only in Spanish. |
| 1:04.0 | He didn't have a name, he wasn't terribly young, |
| 1:07.0 | and he learned his name within a week, I should think. |
| 1:10.0 | So the short answer is never underestimate animals. They're very much more intelligent than sometimes we give them credit for. |
| 1:18.0 | Love newscasts, keep up the good work and maybe we could do pet costs as dog cast seems to be taken. |
| 1:24.0 | Bye! |
| 1:25.0 | Oh, Philippa! |
| 1:26.0 | Splendid. |
| 1:27.0 | Well, what do you say to Philippa, Paddy? |
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