shut down or shrinkage of grain exports from the war. what kind of impact has it had on your organization? it is a great question, mike. well, we know a couple of things are true. first it is a huge impact on the global refugee crisis and we launched a campaign in combination of the refugee crisis and it is effected the issue of global food security. that is why as part of the this campaign, we re seeking to tackle the issue of global food security head on and there is would ways to address it. first you need to address the urgent issue of getting grain out of ukraine and accessible to those across sub saharan africa. and because russia has been such a huge provider of fertilizer, you re missing out of hundreds of millions of tons of fertilizer at the very moment here in ghana where the planting season it about to begin and that is why we need to make sure that we support, the international federation for development and economic development, to make sure they could provide
anyway, so just before we dive into this episode of newscast, just a little moment to explain what we actually do. so, we and some of our other kind of bestjournalistic pals in the bbc get together every night, chew over what s happened in the election that day, and then publish it as a podcast, which is newscast. and you can get that every night wherever you get your podcasts. and it sjust, for me, as a journalist, it s really kind of fun, but also kind of in depth way ofjust processing what s happened in this big, crazy news event, which is the general election of 202a. that s right. and i think what we also try to do is open up our notebooks and give people more of the kind of conversations that you have with politicians, advisers, staffers, privately and some of the things, frankly, that you can t necessarily fit into a news bulletin when you ve got 60 seconds or two and a half minutes to explain a story. and we also want to hear from you and you in the next half hour c
raised rishi sunak s absence from part of thursday s d day celebrations. respect our veterans, including those with an average age of 100, who were deserted by the prime minister in normandy yesterday, which i think was a complete and utter disgrace and shows us we actually have a very unpatriotic prime minister. it was dreadful. it was cabinet minister and naval reservist penny mordaunt who had to answer for her leader. what happened was completely wrong and the prime minister has rightly apologised for that, apologised to veterans but also to all of us because he was representing all of us. penny mordaunt was keen to take the fight to labour s angela rayner on tax. they are going to put up your taxes by £2000. that s a lie! by £2000 per working household. crosstalk. your government have raised taxes i to the record level in 17 years. i yeah, we have, and we hated putting the taxes up. angela rayner had earlier talked about labour s plan to boost the economy with green i