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What Happened In The Dubai-Tel Aviv Flight Attack?
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Today, after Wednesday’s dramatic event in which a pilot stabbed another pilot and tried to take over a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, we look at what happened in the moments and hours after. Adam is joined by BBC Verify’s Thomas Copeland to help piece together the details of the story, and Jane Corbin who assesses the political reaction and how it’s going down in Israel. Faisal has been speaking to the governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, about the good and bad sides of the AI boom. He warns...
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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. the Hello! When we were recording Wednesday's episode of NewsCast, news was emerging about the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv in Israel where it appeared that one of the pilots
had attacked the other pilot and control of the plane was only rested back after some of the passengers intervened in the cockpit. The plane was then able to land safely in Saudi Arabia. Now, as we record this episode of NewsCast on Thursday, there is still quite a lot we don't know, but we have been able to put together a lot more details around
the story. So that is what you will hear on this episode of Newscast. Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. Humanity's next great voyage begins.
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