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a contract nearly three million pounds has been handed over to the u.k. arm of a major us health insurance seventeen u.k. and to capita to bring about this transition towards accountable care which is a u.s. health care concept used in medicaid which is that kind of threadbare safety net for the poorest people who can afford insurance that's certainly not a model that we want to bring over here and they'll be usable going hey thank you after the break we speak to n.h.s. intensive care in this jackie berry an award winning activist dan glass about the headlines and the flatlines of the n.h.s. at seventy. became his national camera. roughly once they showed some will pay you for them. uncool videos during the world cup and someone with the broccoli string i am. going
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good for the global economy. welcome back on saturday tens of thousands of people marched to protest to raise amazing handling of the ukase universal health care system on the eve of the n.h.s. in seventieth birthday i'm joined now by intensive canas jackie berry who was on that march jackie welcome back to going underground any chance that services at westminster abbey for the seventieth anniversary of the n.h.s. chalmers on this day by day to b.b.c. their mosque being something else. crisis is in me as it reaches it would look that way i think there are a lot of people at the moment politicians who want to make a big thing about their program h s credentials but actually let's have a look at their record you'll see the images where everyone wants to be seen as being probably n.h.s. in fact so much so that even trees may have been compelled to come out and make this announcement she's putting in billions of pounds of extra cash into the n.h.s.
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jeremy haun has been forced into a situation where he's having to spin a pay cut for n.h.s. workers as a pay rise people want to be seeing this problem and i was a peon with religious logo all again people want to be seen as probably in excess politicians understand that there is a bond between ordinary working class people in britain and their national health service so to come out and openly say actually we're privatizing it for months you're very nice we're politically very unpopular thing to do however is the reality which is why i think it's so important that while we celebrate seventy is of the n.h.s. it isn't just given over to the tories so what washed it into what they wanted to be and the truth is told about national health service which is there is power for pound the most efficient model for delivering care however that has been fundamentally undermined by a series of problem market privatization measures. do it because.
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i think one. other day for the religious when everyone seems to support it anyway because the narrative needs to be shifted it's great that people want to celebrate their health service but they need to be presented with an alternative to the one that we currently have one of people waiting for treatment in corporate office because there aren't any beds for them to go to one where you've got people have a mental health crises who can't get even the appropriate psychiatric care that they need because mental health want to fund it. important that we that we might those points and that we make it clear to both the tories and the like what exactly we expect from our government and that is a publicly owned publicly provided free at the point of national health service with integration from social care. on a shift do you and your coworkers see in the n.h.s. when you're working there well i'm compelled by for my terms of employer and my
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professional code of ethics to stop me from giving concrete examples but what i can say to you is that we are one hundred thousand staff shore in n.h.s. england alone and that is inevitably going to have an impact on the standard and the safety of patient care at frontline the how free is the public health care system because people have to pray prescription charges for meds. unless they're in poverty or they're out of work or in some kind of real welfare benefit their own doctors can sometimes be can they be missing in action because they've gone to work privately they're consultants and so on is it a public health care. what it is to an extent and i think you raise a good point about prescription charges what do we have to pay for prescription charges it's because pharmaceutical companies are private enterprises and if we did a why profit pharmacy then we could have nationalized pharmaceutical industry and we could provide drugs on the basis of need not on the basis of people's ability to
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pay. nothing's free and we have already paid for the n.h.s. nothing this is kind of the point actually we've already paid for it for our taxation so i've really rejects the idea that flow him out in some circles at the moment that we should increase taxes on working people in order to subsidize the national health service because we've already paid for it but successive governments have made a choice since the creation of the n.h.s. to fund it as a percentage of g.d.p. is much lower than many other o.e.c.d. countries maybe half as much as they don't trump is funding a private system in the united states from the taxpayer. what do you think of the fact that many are now saying you know the n.h.s. is too expensive and actually it's not a good model anyway well i think the evidence says that actually is a good model health outcomes are comparable if not better than those in the united
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states and we do it on a fraction of the cost the problems that we have in delivering a service based on the current set up is that we've got this sort of part public part private situation where resources are leeched out of public services out of delivering care at the front line and into into the into the pockets of private shareholders it was only a couple of years ago under this conservative government the junior doctors went on strike in britain which is pretty unheard of do you think there is talk amongst the rank and file of n.h.s. workers right now if possible strike action if policy is as we've seen continue regarding the health care system in britain well there's a lot of debate about that certainly we're currently in a situation where his workers have accepted a pio order which has been branded as a paying crease because actually the introduction of performance related pay and that is potentially going to see our wages driven down and held back even further
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so i think there's definitely potential. for industrial action in the future on issues about pathway what we're also seeing is local action where trusts are effectively attempting to privatized that workforce and take them out of the n.h.s. and we seeing more and more industrialists particularly in the north to say the employee is off on that issue and i just like any other workers we have absolutely the right to withdraw. if tensing conditions are intolerable and at the moment we have a situation where at times and conditions are becoming increasingly intolerable under those circumstances unfortunately many workers will feel they have no choice but to withdraw their labor well obviously we're going to invite jeremy hunt the health secretary here in britain on the show to try and refute what you've just been saying thank you very thank you for. joining me now to go through some of the week's headlines is award winning activist dan glass as well as gluing him self to a british prime minister and creating
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a flash mob to protest british backed israeli attacks on gaza you can also see him in the new red fish production death by a thousand cuts the n.h.s. selloff has released on the internet tomorrow thanks so much dan for coming on ahead of and the results that lifesaving multinational company results at the end of the month this murdoch story from the times. drug companies win test case on overcharging they wanted legal victory against price rises and so drug companies pharmaceutical companies are not known to be bastions of human rights and equality they call west human rights track record that all of the other save lives surely they save lives i mean it sounds so lovely providing medication but actually we know that the prices they rice have a zero on the drugs have a direct consequence on people who can't get access to them millions of people of course well don't have access to medication simply because they were raise the price on the drugs which the drug companies say they need to burn d.v.d. on this specific case and this is jerry hundreds of millions government that are
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attacking pfizer the basically have a deacon full epilepsy and they rule the did a deal with lymphoma raising the drug pricing to pounds eighty three to sixty seven pounds fifty costing the n.h.s. up to fifty million extra year i'm sure the drug companies have a reason for the pharmaceutical companies are based on a profit raising model rather than providing universal health care for all and luckily across the world there's been incredible tradition of resistance to pharmaceutical greed and government inaction and i'm really inspired i'm only here alive because of the previous generation of social movements who challenge these pharmaceutical companies to lower the price of drugs and we've got to do the same for the next generation ironically in germany and the british health sector comes under some criticism of your film i think the they may appeal legal victory for the two drug companies but obviously we invited pfizer and flynn pharma to come on the program generally the murdoch and other murdoch paper the sun what did you make of
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this with his fury as u.n. expert on extreme poverty problems britain over claims its territory has ravaged the country will it stand it he has and is continuing to ravage the country it's been eight years of hard core and people are dying and i know that sounds. of blowing things out of proportion but people are dying because of the governments is there. policies which is directly related to providing health care for all and as we're seeing with the n.h.s. the seventieth birthday in two days' time people who are the sharp end of the knife who don't have as access to health care are dying because of their being left in lines in hospital the other hand we're not as bad as germs americans are breeding children from the parents so we got this story from the good you got in u.k. immigration authorities separating children from parents there's been a no of outrage quite rightly because of the children being locked in his in america and being separated from their families from britain but we've got to stop wagging fingers and looking what's going on on our own doorstep why do you think it
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took so long for us to realise for the guardian to say hundreds possibly hundreds of separated from a parent every year going to a charity that challenges immigration because it's easier to blame others than blame ourselves i think the other reason why it took so long is a character true of injustice people expect that but because there's such a again face put on by to reason made of course in britain this would never happen but it is happening we have to look at is the detention centers like yarl's wood and homes where we illegally detain migrants people would stay to separate them from their children to see the realities live lou deported without the children according to this church but at least they'll be a happy day on saturday with a big. demonstration of pride and. why representation in advertising isn't just about pink washing it's true it's about a lot more it's about human rights it's about dignity in is about integrity and it's about really showing their equality isn't done it's we've not achieved that
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unfortunately we've been through a lot but there's still a long way to go well relating to that in terms of in terms of the one of the most powerful stories being shown up right on the floats by migrants is by migrants and relating to that story before we see the migrants going through the system being illegally to tang left right and center across britain. and the fact that they're marching and quite shiloh's that the reality is the same here and their pride their pride in london a lot of it situations and corporations like to buy off people's imaginations here but i mean obviously there was huge criticism because be a systems which is involved in the jets currently bombing yemen the world's worst humanitarian crisis this time bartley's a good sponsor. sponsored partly starbucks basis and unfortunately people probably think that pride was started in tesco they don't know this because of the sponsorship of coles wasn't it yet tesco they're all there they're all there they're all cashing in the hardest community to challenge is your arm and and you
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know i people said that's me dan you're protesting that this this this place just leave quite alone and i totally agree it's a very special space for people to come out but we got to live with integrity and having institutions that be a systems which have not got people including the l.g.b. to the community's interests at heart because they profit from killing people including where people they have no place on pride it is evil some people no tesco and these people the national news more than all of you will can be deterred will still course cause they to this is the fiftieth anniversary of the year after the fiftieth anniversary of the gay liberation front who started pride because of stanmore majority of people and for a few like that old man is like you need to know your history but it's true most people probably think because of the corporate involvement in what they got started by a corporation has the goodness of their hell but it didn't thank you we contacted pfizer about the allegations made in this segment and they replied we are pleased that the
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competition of people tribunals overturned the competition in markets all for it is finding that pfizer abuse its dominant position along with the associated fine you see eighty has invited submissions on where the parts of the decision should be remitted back to see any further consideration and we can confirm that we have responded according. priority has always been to ensure a sustainable supply of our medicines to u.k. patients and this was at the heart of our decision to divest finitary in capsules and i should add the company which manages the detention center in the u.k. assured us that no children are in detention and all decisions on who they detain them made by the home office that's if the show will be back on saturday to celebrate london pride the u.k.'s largest pride event till then keep in touch by social media will see on saturday sixty five years of the day that dr. embarked on his trip across latin america with his wife would say convinced of the necessity struggle of the taking the initiative against imperialism.
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about in our program and our gas. good luck to. donald trump will soon visit europe is a very busy agenda and it's unclear what kind of reception people get topping his i can arrest he will be trade relations nato and russia never before has an american president been expected with so much apprehension. you. know that right now when i got out how i found out that i'm. not going to get out that i'm not out of the money out of the money the day of the night actually. this was a good time to. try to move. was
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that i was definitely not lucky enough or not there again to our son or all the people we believe of the over here. bottom of my case i don't want them up a side john of a lot of other moment of father mother having a little accuser is a little odd i'm a little boy came out of the older look a lot of the people i don't want to put out a lot in my work party without all the mother brother there.
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on. the headlines an artsy a major incident involving an unknown substance british counter-terror police are investigating how two people became critically ill several kilometers from where a former russian double agent and his daughter were poisoned or so to come the first night. the stage is over at the feed for world cup for the quarter finals now set to kick off on friday and it's us independence day but just how proud are americans to be american a new survey suggests for many patriotism could be losing its sparkle is still separated now instead of being united i'm in the other category i'm extremely proud .
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hello good evening welcome you watching our international is just gone ten pm here in the russian capital. now british counter-terror police are investigating what's been declared a major incident after two people were rushed to hospital following possible exposure to an unknown substance the pair who are in a critical condition to kill ten kilometers from where former russian double agents . and his daughter were poisoned exactly four months ago. as more details. there is an intense amount of public interest in this developing story and i think will to police have come out and just try to allay the concerns of locals in the area and to kind of just clarify a bit more information they've said that the individuals that were taken ill on saturday are four year old woman and a forty four year old man they also mentioned that they cordoned off parts of the town of souls pray and amesbury as well that village where the couple were
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initially taken ill and it's not clear just yet they say if it's a criminal investigation in fact there are more questions than answers for the moment really we also heard a little bit earlier on from sky sources saying that blood samples from the past have been sent off to porton down now you would have heard of porton down in relation to this script poisoning because that is the lab the government lab that's just ten miles away from amesbury that identified the substance used against the script files as military grade of agent and in another sign that this could be a very serious incident we've also heard from london's metropolitan police that counter-terror unit is now helping police with the investigation given the recent events and sold three officers from the counterterrorism network are working jointly with colleagues from police regarding the incident. as police have stated
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they are keeping an open mind as to the circumstances surrounding the incident and we'll update the public as soon as regularly as possible. just like you heard in that police statement that there are real similarities between these two cases at least from where where. this involves two individuals they've become critically ill not far from seoul's very they've been taken to souls brave district hospital that's the same place where so gay and you a script. we're treated and also for a suspected exposure to an unknown substance and just like in the case of the script powers you've got bits of the town and the village where they were found being cordoned off in order to potentially protect the public from some sort of potentially hazardous material offices obviously trying to be as safe as possible perhaps being overcautious but understandably all of this is a source of alarm for the locals and i think that's why we've had the police come
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out and give this statement they said that public health england have said that they don't believe that to be a significant risk to anyone on the and these two individuals who are in hospital in a critical condition at the moment but that assessment is constantly being reviewed so the story is gathering pace and the mystery is intensifying as the similarities between this new case in amesbury and the script poisoning become more apparent. now the fifa world cup is down to the last eight countries colombia and swiss hearts were broken yesterday but it was jubilation if you're watching for england and sweden has all the angles covered for us in some pittsburgh. thanks to.
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wherever you're watching us today welcome to russia's historic north of the capital and thank you all can feel what beside they have which is museum square dripping in the streets. today it's all of course about the football the nerve jangling knockout stage has now wrapped up we know the eight teams now set to play in the world cup quarterfinals go head to head with france brazil face belgium on friday that should be a goal fest on saturday all eyes here of course are going to host russia and their clash with getting to of course sweden england also the same day now the england colombia encounter in moscow wrapped up the knockout stage last night it really did have everyone has their seat so myself who did four three two or three lives in a dramatic penalty shoot out. be with you when i be
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i. i. i will be when i. i i am. i emotional game we played well i'm lucky to see the welshman. we carried on you know we stuck together and as a motion for feeling so petty issue else was always difficult emotions are high as in the oh so proud of the team proud of each other and proud for the fans here and
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back over the course of his email we made a great effort well now it's time to raise our heads and prepare for what's next but you know it's painful we did all we could for columbia as the thing and perhaps an advocate was saying a whole range of emotions jubilation for the england fans figured violently a man using to break that penalty cursed.
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