mark samuels, the chief executive of british generic manufacturers association explained the impact these have on the global heathcare system. type two diabetes and obesity which are the conditions treated by these medicines are some of the most financially burdensome on health systems across the world. in the uk for example, the cost of alone is around £65 billion annually, and around the third of those costs are borne directly by the national health service. so these are crippling costs for any health service around the world. i read in a recent article you described the generate wave of weight loss medicines a transformative opportunity for public health, how so? they've been limited in prescribing these medicines because they are not practical and too expensive for health services are around the world to afford in large numbers, but their patents expired on last week we saw the first generic versions of them which are more affordable equivalents launched. it's usually between 70-90% launched. it's usually between 70—90% cheaper than the original although the medicines are identical in

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so we had people, for example, like samuel clemens, mark twain, right. who had more of an internationalist anti-imperial perspective. he had traveled through the world and he had considered the theme of imperial power very deeply. it's very interesting that initially when the us declared war against spain to liberate the cubans, he was in favor of the war. but once the treaty of paris that ended the war was signed, he saw that the united states intended to keep the philippines puerto rico. and so he said, he said, this is not what we signed up for and we should not follow this back. this will turn us into an imperial nation and the united states is, by definition, through its own history and anti-imperial and anti-colonial country. and did he write about this? he did write about it. he's very acerbic, biting, acid style. he wrote that the flag that the united states should be raising over the philippines should have the stars replaced with skulls and bones and the stripes, the red and white stripes replaced, replaced with black and white to symbolize the

could you discuss connection with grant and samuel clemens? that'd be mark twain. for those of us who remember our english lit. also, thanks for placing the grant presidential library mississippi, which says frank do you want to touch on that briefly? yes. so mark twain arrives pretty late in grant's life as a major player during the dramatic story that concludes really the last year of his life grant in the 1880s finds himself in ruin. he had invested money and basically all the family's money went into a wall street banking firm known as grant ward. mr. the partner in this firm was employing what we would today call ponzi schemes, backing multiple loans with the same collateral and engaging in fraud. and well, when this blew up, the family went under and grant to undertake the writing of his memoirs. well, he did not previously entertain idea of writing a full length book, but now really had to provide for his family. he had other another option on the table which mark twain, who had his own publishing house. well, this is not nearly as good a deal as i can get y

thank you. samuel and protesters in the canyon and capital have marked a month since the worst day of a crack down by security forces on people rallying against a controversial finance built. more than 50 people have been killed in the weeks of process. on thursday, police arrest of high profile rights activists, as well as family members of some of the victims of the june crack down there. such a body. what has more now from my will be the message for president william retail as people gathered. and i wrote these financial center to remember those tales in protest during the past month. families of the victims care to make sure coffin trying to make their way to the office of the president to deliver petition demanding justice the security forces moving quickly to arrest. one of the organizers, boniface, milwaukee, who remain defiant. the what is the, the, the, the a few minutes later he was taken away. this is david, take his mother. her son was shot and killed outside parliament on june 25th. he was 32 years old. no one has been charged in connection with his dad, nor any of the ot

and samuel alito allegedly on the dime of benefactors with interests before the court, along with the political activity of their wives, ginni thomas and martha-ann alito. the president was here to markyears since passage of the civil rights act, important to point out republicans like house speaker mike johnson today panned the president's proposals as "dangerous" and said they have no hope in a g.o.p. controlled congress. norah. >> norah: ed o'keefe in austin for us tonight. thank you very much. there are fewer than 100 days until the 2024 election and both campaigns are heating up and getting personal. vice president kamala harris is off to a fast start as the likely democratic nominee, raking in campaign cash and rising in the polls. cbs's weijia jiang reports from the white house. >> reporter: just 99 days before the election. >> she will be worse than crooked joe biden. >> reporter: the race is tightening, and vice president harris is trying to sustain her strong start. >> people have been flooding our offices around the country to volunteer. [applause] we've got momentum. it's on our side. >> reporter: harris raised more than $200 million in her first full week on the trail, t

mark. the first impeachment, if i'm not mistaken, was a supreme court justice he was impeached and failed to be convicted, samuel chase in 1805. but there have been impeachment. in fact, the most common officer to be impeached, my understanding, have been judges through the years. and actually is there for the using by congress and has been used relatively frequently. >> yeah, i think that history reflects the fact that the constitution does does give congress the power to decide what qualifies as good behavior. a lot of legal experts have said , and i think you're right, doesn't have to be a high crimes and misdemeanors as we traditionally think. it can be whatever the congress determines. once congress, specifically the house, opened an investigation, it is given a whole new set of tools it can use to probe the truth of these allegations. tools that democrat don't have at their disposal in the senate that is currently facing an endless republican obstruction through the filibuster. so i think if there is a path forward it moves through the house, it moves through an easement inquiry. it moves through a real in

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