in order to save some twenty billion pounds but twenty fifty one a former paramedic told auntie sarah firth and have not studied she is putting lives at risk. a movie on video weeks he's fine with the daycare story about the impacts government cuts have been on the nhs now if paramedics he was speaking adults. we think that the wind cold that the seventy five year old man he guides the philly team to rally for the new name is joe examination of the current precious anything and get himself up to the car and in the case called the dead. if the consequences cuts. on tuesday she ended up reading in a sea of folding and police take explains that the upbeat about his experiences in the arguments that the ice. the film sound patients would have ensued in a great job. the demand. i was one of the nine local anesthetic for now. this use to think of it all on a new town center. prints. i wanted to speak out. wanted to speak i think it's just a day with government funding outside and says in the amazon is having to do. i'm normal let's money in its funding some at the top condition itself. the thing

sarah firth how that strategy is putting lives at risk. sounding the alarm barely a week goes by when we don't hear a story about the impacts government cuts having on the n.h.s. now it's paramedics who are speaking out the recent death the william gold burn the seventy five year old man who died after waiting two hours for an ambulance is to an examination of the current pressures facing ambulance staff after the coroner in the case called the death a sad consequence of cuts. on condition of anonymity a former employee spoke exclusively to see about his own experiences in the ambulance service i felt sad for patients that were going to me you're doing a great job after picking their. husband or wife up to be lying on the floor having a stroke for an hour i just think i'm not letting you down so hence. why i need to speak up why i need to speak i think it's just to do with government funding cuts bosses in the un and so he's having to. more and more with less money and less funding. we're told about some of the tough conditions now facing

credentials you can get all the details as well as more updates on the mine tragedy backlash on sarah firth's twitter feed. this week so ukraine's ongoing crisis echoing in the heart of europe stronghold out of germany it's where chancellor angela merkel received a rather unexpected welcome at her party's campaign event. this is the sound that greeted the chancellor of the crowds apparently vented their frustration over germany's role in ukraine's crisis some waved the banners saying stop the nazis in ukraine involved germany's foreign minister also called for caution over slapping moscow with any further restrictions over its involvement in the situation however experts say any voices of discontent are so far unlikely to stop brussels sanctions rhetoric. the west has engaged in an all out ideological and jew political struggle with russia which it intends to whip through all sorts of things that europe can do it can ratchet up what it's already done it can put publish longer lists of people who are subject to personal sanctions it will definitely abandon the cesar liberalization program whic

sarah firth looks at where the freedom of speech is being eroded by an obsession with political correctness. this. latest claim with a fake then a fade because landis a victim and peace to journalists to just your average guy on twitter we're getting good at slapping a label on the more than fifteen. he was told to shut up when a constituent a key senate being racist prompting a police investigation the case with later dropped a lot of police time a lot of taxpayers' money wasted it's not just put in that six period thing this about his former speechwriter jon lovett branded this the culture of shut up web use that don't conform to the mainstream a shutdown with often phone moral outrage. i in hershey alley got told to shut up for her fears the critical the. film director theo van gogh was shot dead in the street after he made a film based on one of her scripts in america the c.e.o. of mozilla got told to shut up having to resign over his support for the anti-gay marriage law passed in california before being revoked by the courts every example was a challenge to perceived political correct

troops are accused of unlawfully killing more than sixty men and torturing dozens more in custody sarah firth reports. the preliminary investigation is into allegations of prisoner abuse by u.k. personnel in iraq between two thousand and three and two thousand and eight now we've seen videos in the past that have documented instances of abuse of detainees but the ministry of defense has always maintained that the vast majority of soldiers serving in iraq acted professionally now campaigners have alleged that the abuse with far more widespread in these allegations have never really gone away that was two thousand and six when the international criminal court was first asked to look into allegations of war crimes there at the time they determined that threshold had not been met now as this year at the beginning of the year that we saw this new file two hundred fifty pages of what lawyers say is more than four hundred cases of allegations of mistreatment or unlawful killing was passed to the i.c.c. and it's on the back of that that we've seen this initial investigation taking place now the i.c.c

showed nearly fifteen hundred soldiers failed drug test between twenty ten and twenty twelve archie sarah firth matt a u.k. veteran to ask him about the problems plaguing him since returning to civilian life . i served in the british army from to follow one thousand nine hundred forty to two thousand and one. and even with creatures things very difficult. plays traumatic stress disorder is not a new problem but until fairly recently it's one that received faulty little attention the latest figures from the charity combat stress showed that those a significant increase in the numbers of veterans seeking mental health treatment for me it was flushed out. and then the not necessarily was a real issue back then tends to bring you into a situation where you want to survive yourself but the problems often start long before soldiers discharged recent figures published that have been obtained from the. record levels of alcohol abuse in britain's armed forces the army had a point of it's always had a stigma of go out get drunk have a good time and head down and get on with it it doesn't take away societ

biggest concern is the potential use of killer machines in the hands of the military so already sarah firth went to find out whether robots are a threat to humanity or just handy. well they say the truth is stranger than fiction and when it comes to robots they could well be right take a look at this little guy he's been designed to mimic people's movements their way here at the imperial college robot say and it's a case in some of the cutting edge technology and there's lots of interactive areas that people can join in i'm just going to come over here to. take a page thank you very much for joining us now this is this is really cutting edges and this is the three d. printing drawing can you explain a bit about what this does commonly flying robots they can fly that they can take pictures but the research we do is to take the next that have robots that can fly and interact with the environment and you know as the creator of this i can see you got an interactive area where people are joining in and playing a bit actually trains have become very accessible to a lot of people who own and they'