Are Russian Ships Threatening The UK?

俄罗斯船只是否威胁到英国?

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2025-11-20

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Today, John Healey joins the podcast after a Russian ship suspected of mapping undersea cables pointed lasers at RAF pilots tracking its activity near UK waters. The Defence Secretary gave a speech at Downing Street that morning describing the move as “deeply dangerous.” It comes on the same day that a report from MPs says that the UK lacks a plan to defend itself from a military attack. Adam and Chris speak to John Healey about the escalating threat to the UK, lifting the lid on what conflict looks like in a world of undersea drones and cables, and what is being done to shore up UK military defences in what Healey calls a “new era of threat.” You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://bbc.in/newscastdiscord Get in touch with Newscast by emailing newscast@bbc.co.uk or send us a WhatsApp on +44 0330 123 9480. New episodes released every day. If you're in the UK, for more News and Current Affairs podcasts from the BBC, listen on BBC Sounds: https://bbc.in/4guXgXd Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. The presenter was Adam Fleming. It was made by Rufus Gray with Shiler Mahmoudi and Kris Jalowiecki. The social producer was Beth Pritchard. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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  • Hello on Newscast.

  • We've got very used to hearing members of the Newscast family speaking to us from odd places like a bus on the way to the Prime Minister's plane or a train with the Prime Minister on it.

  • Today, we're going to hear from the back of his ministerial car from John Healy,

  • the Defence Secretary,

  • who's going to update us on that situation he revealed earlier on Wednesday with a Russian spy ship on the edge of British waters and the fact that he is getting ready for a military response to that.

  • If needed,

  • so we'll get a lot more detail on that from the Defence Secretary on this episode of Newscast.

  • Hello, it's Adam in the Newscast Studio.

  • And it is Chris at Westminster.

  • And first of all, we are going to focus on defence because John Healy,

  • the defence secretary, did a speech in Downing Street this morning,

  • which we all thought was going to be him unveiling sort of the next stage of the government's investment in the defence industrial base,

  • specifically...

  • the sites where these new munitions factories are going to be built.

  • Because Chris, one of the government's pledges is to have a couple of munitions factories,

  • so building bombs and bullets up and running by the time of the next election.

  • But it ended up being much sort of more newsworthy than that,

  • because he lifted the lid on the actual real time defense picture in the UK right now.

  • Exactly.

  • So there was John Healy, 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning,