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>> coming up on c-span two, this week's prime minister question from the british house of commons. then a discussion on closing that guantanamo bay does tension center. after that, another another chance to see the hearing on the federal response to the zika virus. >> c-span's "washington journal", live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up tomorrow morning, republican presented it from ohio and democratic representative from. they are both part of the working group to discuss efforts to bring unity back to congress. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" beginning at seven am eastern. join the discussion.
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>> secretary of state john kerry is on capitol hill thursday to testify about his department's 202017 budget. you can see him before the the committee live on 930 eastern eastern on our companion network c-span three. >> i am supporting hillary clinton because i think she is a fighter in the record shows she has been fighting for children and minorities and women her entire life. she has never been -- he always works hard and get stuff done. >> i'm supporting bernie sanders for president. we have some insurmountable changes that we need to have happen. incrementalism will not work. hillary wants to start a wall and bernie wants to bring down that wall.
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hillary is a war hog. she will drag us into more wars. >> during this week's question time in the british house of commons, prime minister debated a u.k. universal universal healthcare system with opposition leader and responded to questions on the future of britain's membership in the european union. this is 35 minutes.ts >> questions for the primei minister. michelle donovan. m. >> thank you mr. speaker. the house will be aware of theho dreadful accident that occurred yesterday afternoon in which one missing.three areone please join me in sending our condolences to the family and.
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friends of the victims. best wishes to those who are still missing or injured. i also want to pay tribute toy w the quick action of our emergency services who dealt withpi incident with fin out professionalism. they are trying to find out what led to this tragedy. mr. speaker is, in addition to my duties in this house i willvn have more meetings later this pd afternoon. >> thank you mr. speaker. i would just like to addresspim myself and the people they have successfully integrated a number of syrian refugees are ready including babies and children.r there has been claims to havethe tried to introduce more into the area. it i would like the prime minister to tell us what more he can do on this matter. can he also outline what can we
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do to fulfill our moral duty to these successful people. >> first of all, let me pay tribute to the many councils up and down our country who haveil, done a magnificent job in findi integration and taking in syrian refugees and their families and finding them homes and schools. even finding them jobs. if you look at what has happened across europe in terms of the to relocation and resettlement program, actually britain has done far better than any other country in terms of this sort of resettlement program. we've delivered a thousand by christmas. we ask what more we can do.o.tao first of all i will make sureu she can meet with the home office to talk about how we can make sure the system works wellt we will continue to invest in the syrian refugee in camps.0, including the $11 billion we wee
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have raised and will continue to do what we can to deliver the 20,000 syrian refugees that we our we would take into question. >> here here. >> thank you mr. speaker. i want to address the prime minister's tribute. also to the families of the d person who died and those to the families who are missing or injured.seices we will lie on our emergency services and we should make sure they are always there for allllf us. published yesterday shows that nine out >> here here. >> the survey published yesterday shows that nine out of ten doctors already work extra hours beyond their normal contract. the survey also showed following morale among this group of staff. what does the primera ministerra think of thissp deal and what wl a contract due to their morale? >> first of all they did not veto a deal. what we've had is for four yearr discussion about how important
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po it is to have an nhs that works on a more seven-day basis. bet me pay tribute to the fact that so many in the nhs work sor hard already on the weekend, but what matters is making sure we can have a genuine seven-day work. what i say is no junior dr. will we are not seeking to save money from th receive a pay cut. this contract will not impose longer hours. in fact it has tougher safeguards to make sure it reduces the hours that are worked when not seeking to save money from the new contract. saturday evening and sunday can continue toeht attract. this is a good deal from adeal a government that is putting morei into our nhs. >> mr. speaker, this dispute ofu the duty of doctors has beenni r the basis of misrepresenteda research.
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>> all read the prime minister what the researchers themselves say. i quote. it is not possible to ascertain the extent to which these may be preventable. to assume they are avoidable would be rash and misleading. is the prime minister being rash and misleading with these figures?ge >> let mia gray about something. this dispute had been played by inaccurate --dash britishoung] medical association in their first intervention said this waa a 30% pay d cut. a that was completely untrue. in fact it was so untrue thatt, they had to take their pay calculator off their website anr exey never put it back up websit to answer very directly, theth 6000 figure of excess debts was based on a question asked by ac
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male secretary in the medical director of the nhs. now we have had time to go into these figures in more detail. i can tell the house this, thath secretary was indeed guilty.w he was guilty of an understatement. the true figures for access100, debts of the weekend are 11000 plus 6000.ra so this is totally unjustified attack on the health secretary. now they know the figures. >> mr. speaker it's just worth t reflecting for one moment that there is no dispute with the junior doctors in scotland or wales because theirad governmet has had the sense to reachac an agreement with their doctors. >> we must also be aware thatrea
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the vast majority of the public of england are on the side of the junior doctors, not theyf secretary.wo the situation actually gets worse. our freedom of information request by the bbc today reveals that when asked for the source n of the statistics, severalnts ah decided and i quote, offer up the most bland statementeithernf possible that would either conform nor contradict the health statements. >> is it time that the prime minister and the health secretary actually apologize for what they've done and correct these statements. >> i think the best thing today he wrote that question before he heard my answer. i've given a description and noh
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the true figure is 11000. there is absolutely no withdraw in the accusation even after he gets the figure. now he said there's no dispute in scotland and wales with the junior doctors. the reason for that is because in scotlandescotland and w andae not trying to create more of a seven day nhs. that seven-day nhs was not onlyy in our manifesto because i want th to make sure hard-working people can access health services at an equal rate right through the week because you don't justnd gs ill in the weekday, but also if. he reads his own party's report, into their election defeat, they admit that the concept of a seven day nhs was a very popular concept, a very popular concept, and it is. what i would say to him is you can see in england we areint putting
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