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it is world book day when we are recording this episode. i hope you had some good costumes to hand. first of all, though, it is day two of what the daily telegraph is calling the lockdown files all those whatsapp messages between matt hancock, the health secretary during the early stages of the covid pandemic, and borisjohnson and rishi sunak and all their advisers and their pollsters and dominic cummings and patrick vallance and chris whitty and basically everyone who had anything to do with covid. where do you think that the story has kind of got to? well, it carries bubbling along, doesn t it? so, it s not quite, i don t think, necessarily yet at the kind of, the obvious comparisons for the daily telegraph is expenses, mps expenses the best part of 15 years ago. it is generating a lot of news, loads and loads of pick up in lots of different news organisations but it isn t necessarily the top story everywhere, every day for days and days on end but they have got sh ....
yes. so, in summary, what is it? so, what happened was, last month, the scottish parliament, by a pretty big majority, passed this legislation and the legislation, this gender bill, seeks to remove administrative and medical barriers to changing the sex on your birth certificate. that s basically what it does. it s passed the scottish parliament and it was waiting to be given the rubber stamp by the king, royal assent. but, crucially, while the issue of trans rights is devolved to the scottish parliament, the issue of equalities is something that s decided at westminster on behalf of england, scotland and wales and the uk government says, hang on a minute, we think those two clash. and there s a line in the rule book that set up devolution a quarter of a century ago that allows us, they say, to pull this trigger and stop that proposed law becoming law and getting royal assent. that s what they ve done and it s caused one heck of a row. right, well, let s chat a bit ....
a political clip for instagram. and a senior un official visiting kabul says progress is being made to ensure that afghan women continue work with aid agencies, despite the taliban ban. you are watching bbc news. now newscast. hello, it is chris, back in the studio in westminster and no longer in edinburgh. here in the studio. we have got this week, we ve had to guess in recent weeks in the first edition of newscast in this, we have three. forthe edition of newscast in this, we have three. for the price of one. we have brigid phillipson, labour, shuttle education, we have grand, the business secretary and we have the deputy leader in the house of competence. and we ll talk about that in the second and an issue that has dominated our lives down the last couple of days which is the coming together of two very naughty and complex and controversial issues and complex and controversial issues and what is the uk constitution and the other one is this planned lot of the other ....
where, in the bbc radio theatre in central london, we are going to bring together newscast, for, like, a massive, mammoth, it s going to be amazing and hopefully, you re going to be there! i did know about this, ijust didn t know when it was. i think it was probably in this thing somewhere, but it wasn t impressed upon my mind that it was the 18th of. was it the 18th?! 18th of.? this is good marketing, though, over and over again, which is what you re meant to do in an advert, which is good. alex, i don t know if you have the same issue as i ve had a few times and actually, she keeps reading it as catsfest . it does look like catsfest! is that like a really bad happening? interesting you went for the musical i went for the animal! i went for a giant, i mean, that could be a spin off pets podcast. what could you call it? catsfest? no, catscast! newscats! oh, no, we had anyway, the basic is on the 18th of october, of our social medias or go you will find the details ....
italy s political parties have been holding their final campaign rallies ahead of sunday s parliamentary election. giorgia meloni s right wing brothers of italy party now on bbc news, it s newscast. chris, what are you doing on the 18th of october? the 18th of october? what day of the week is that? i know they say a week is a long time in politics a month must be a lot for you. exactly! i can t even think about the labour conference, which starts this weekend. it seems an eternity away, so the 18th of october, i have no idea. you tell me what am i doing, adam? you have got a diary invite on your phone calendar for castfest the first inaugural castfest where in the bbc radio theatre in central london we are going to bring together newscast, ukrainecast and americast fora massive, mammoth, live podcasting recording. it s going to be amazing, and hopefully you re going to be there. i did know about this, i just didn t know when it was. i think it was probably in ....