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straight sets defeat to Grigor Dimitrov in the quarterfinals. `` | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
there are no excuses. Hello, and welcome to | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
our look ahead to what the papers With me are broadcaster Penny Smith, | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
and Sarah O'Connor, economics correspondent | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
of the Financial Times. It feels weird introducing new as a | :00:24. | :00:34. | |
broadcaster because you are my colleague as well. The Independent | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
says the BBC has lost highly sensitive information about a | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
military unit. The BBC says it would be inappropriate to comment while an | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
investigation is underway. Pensions are rising to meet salaries. People | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
are denied life`saving operations because of age discrimination within | :01:01. | :01:10. | |
the NHS. The Marrero `` Mira reports that a UK citizen in Syria has | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
tweeted a picture of himself with bombs. And the pool of international | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
talent available to British business has been shrunk by curbs on | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
immigration. There have been a lot of stories on the NHS in the last | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
few days. NHS defies law to deny pensioners vital surgery. Shocking. | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
They are saying that the law is supposed to state that as a doctor, | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
you were supposed to look at how fit somebody is for surgery and whether | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
this will improve their life. There is supposed to be no age barrier. | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
There is no `` that is the law. The writing is so small. Because of age | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
discrimination, the Royal College of surgeons has warned that elderly | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
people have been denied life`saving operations. Almost no ages `` | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
patients over the age of 75 are getting surgery for breast cancer or | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
call bladder surgery. It is alarming inexcusable. The point is, why | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
should they be denied? 75 is the new 65, and people are keeping fit | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
longer. Why should people who are possibly going to live into their | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
80s and 90s going to be denied treatment when somebody who is | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
younger but it was a smoker, heavy drinker, over eight, never does any | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
exercise, as the operations? That seems to me to be wrong. We are | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
living so much longer. Why should we spend the last decades of our lives | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
in abject pain? Sarah, he comes your department. A lot of it is economics | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
as well. A huge strain on the NHS. Won the NHS has been protected from | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
the west of austerity. He has been in the right thirds. We are seeing | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
all kinds of strain. This is just the latest story. When you have a | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
population growing older that needs more health care, keeping the NHS | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
budget in line with inflation is not enough. I would imagine we would | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
need to start to see more of these problems. This is actually illegal | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
if this is happening. You wonder if they will have to change the tax | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
rolls, because the whole thing about National Insurance was that we all | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
fall `` thought National Insurance was about paying for the NHS. People | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
did not mind that. There is this feeling that we all love the NHS. It | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
is a lovely, cuddly element. It is like an unwieldy cuddly animal. It | :03:45. | :03:53. | |
is an expensive cuddly animal. I do wonder if we are going to have to, | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
if we care about the NHS, to stump up more money, because that is what | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
will need to happen. People have horrific NHS experiences, and those | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
are the ones you read about. People also have fantastic NHS experiences. | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
My parents could not present hard enough. They do not make the | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
headlines. And to the Guardian. Another NHS story. NHS Cancer care | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
faces privatisation. Firms are to tender for 1.2 billion contracts | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
according to the Guardian. End of life services are open for bids. | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
Some private Cancer care will take you to an NHS hospital. They do | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
already if you are praying for private care, the NHS provides good | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
enough care for it to be deemed needing to pay extra premium. `` | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
paying for private care. It is not all kids are cared there is | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
potentially going to be privatised. `` Cancer care. It is commissioning | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
group areas in Staffordshire. People could say it is the thin end of the | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
wedge. ?1.2 billion worth of money, and there are various camp `` | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
companies such as Richard Branson's company who are interested in | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
bidding. There will not just provide the services, but make decisions | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
about treatment and who gets them. This will be Cancer care open to | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
non`private patients, right? Or is it only private patients? This will | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
be open to everybody. It would just be run by the rabid sector. So this | :05:30. | :05:40. | |
is it the NHS. Unison as saying they have grave concerns that potentially | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
this is handing over all decision`making on cancer and end of | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
life care to private companies. In other words. People worry because | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
anything that is done for profit, you feel, will not be done for the | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
benefit of patients. It may be a wrong thought, and there are | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
examples of profitable companies which actually do look after | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
people. But there is this worry that in the NHS, you come in and you are | :06:10. | :06:19. | |
not seen as a person, you are seen as a statistic. You are seen as a | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
statistic. You are seen as somebody who may reel in the budget. As I was | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
saying earlier, some NHS cancer hospitals are as good as private | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
Cancer care as well, but clearly, the feeling goes back to what we | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
were saying before. It is about economics. Andy Burnham says the | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
public had not given the government permission to put the NHS up for | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
sale. Probably a national mood. Onto the express. Their lead story is | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
about pensions. Pension pay`outs are up each year. Over 65 is now earn | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
close to the average salary. We have to read into this a lot. We issue in | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
their getting good pensions, but this is presumably be in come of | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
pensions. So they are working. Increasingly, pensioners are also | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
working. So there is a couple of reasons for that. Because interest | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
rates have fallen so low, which is something we will talk about later, | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
when you buy an annuity it doesn't go far, so people are having to work | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
longer to keep standards of living going. Pensions themselves, state | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
pensions, have had a triple Bock from the government. It means they | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
have been protected in a way that no other welfare spending has been | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
protected. `` triple lock. There is a really important theme over the | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
past few years, which is that everyone talks about inequality | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
getting worse or better. Inequality is actually stable. What is really | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
changed is that all people are getting richer. Young people are | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
getting poorer, a lot poorer. The big divide is a general way she won, | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
not a country one. `` a generation one. We're talking about a huge | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
population. It is getting bigger, and we are counting on not having to | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
work. That is what they had a penchant for. The other thing is | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
that the retirement age has gone up. When you consider how the retirement | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
age was and how will you were expected to live, there are actually | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
now retirement is where you have a long time to go into your bucket | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
list. Throw yourself out of your plane at 16,000 feet. It may be on | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
your bucket list. None of those were. I can feel my eyeballs | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
reverberating. You'd ever say heads up on this. The Financial Times, one | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
of its front`page stories is referring to what Janet Yellen in | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
Washington has been saying. No need to lift interest rates. Explain this | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
story. This is a really big and important story. Janet Yellen, | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
chairman of the US Federal reserve, the biggest central bank and the | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
biggest economy in the world, like the Bank of England would is | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
starting to think about raising rates, it is still pumping more | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
stimulus into the economy. It is having weird side`effects. They are | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
buying assets. This is pushing up the price of share prices. Risky | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
bonds, house prices. We had dated today about London house prices | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
going through the roof. `` data. People are saying, can you stop | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
doing this? We're getting weird bubbles in property markets. You | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
need to start raising rates. Janet Yellen is saying they don't agree. | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
Yes, as prices are rising, but increasing interest rates would not | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
be the thing to do. It would send the global economy backwards. When | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
you raise interest rates, you suck to mind out of the economy. It is a | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
way of dampening economic activity. It encourages people to save. All | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
government wants to do is spend. A lot of people are now saving rather | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
than spending. They want to get out of debt and put money away. They are | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
not doing much for the economy. You lack if you have money in a bank, | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
you are actually losing money, because you are getting no interest | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
and it is not working for you and not doing anything. In real terms, | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
you are boozing, as I understand, with her economics A`level. `` you | :10:44. | :10:51. | |
are saying. We will get the decision on is just rates. The US is so much | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
weaker than the UK. They are not even thinking about raising rates | :10:58. | :10:59. | |
over there. They are thinking maybe they should start doing that. The | :11:00. | :11:07. | |
markets were quite jumpy. Onto the Independent. Dedicating most of its | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
front`page to a photograph their of very similar images to what we have | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
seen on BBC News today of repression, despair, and flames of | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
revenge, as calls it. These are the scenes East Jerusalem today. | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
Palestinians setting ablaze tyres there. This is in reaction to the | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
death of a Palestinian teenager. Following the deaths of the three | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
Israeli teenagers as well. That actually is the words you would use, | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
revenge. Repression. Despair. Also, just the thought of so many people | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
who are caught up in this, and we saw it in Northern Ireland. That | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
awful spiral of tit`for`tat killings and all the rest of it. People | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
having to live, and I say leave, but actually, for many people, this is | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
just an existence. It is so difficult to see where it goes from | :12:05. | :12:13. | |
here. I remember reporting in Israel and in the Palestinian territory | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
myself, and these images really much happen every week. There would be | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
children as young as eight or nine setting fire to tyres, and throwing | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
rocks. Usually the response from the defence Force will be rubber bullets | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
against rocks. What we're seeing here is an increase in anger, and | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
more people coming out, and there are huge ramifications. | :12:34. | :12:47. | |
compared with the kind of things you saw? These scenes will be very | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
familiar to any journalist who works in that part of the world. What we | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
are seeing is a new scale and this is about where do we go from here? | :13:00. | :13:07. | |
We have sent in some pretty big guns, I did not mean to say that, | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
but we have sent in the best brains, people who are used to dealing with | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
diplomacy, people who are used to sorting out things that are a bit of | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
a mess, and yet still it carries on. The trouble is it is understandable. | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
It is understandable why people get so angry and they throw tires and | :13:30. | :13:38. | |
set fire to things and do these things. If you have got somebody who | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
knows somebody who knows the person who was killed or tortured, or | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
whatever, there is that feeling of getting back. You see it even in | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
small places, you can see this escalation from something. If | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
everybody said, let's keep calm and stop doing this... There is fear and | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
anxiety on the other side of the war of separating. I am saying that is | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
what is so awful about this. It is terrible, there is no area where you | :14:12. | :14:21. | |
think is anybody looking at this? Let's finish on Andy Murray. We have | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
actually got a cartoon on the front page of the Daily Telegraph. This is | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
presumably in reference to the antibiotics story. Yes, we are | :14:32. | :14:39. | |
becoming immune to antibiotics and the cartoon has got the usual people | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
looking at the television screen. One day soon we will develop a | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
resistance to sporting disasters and become immune. I think we are | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
immune. We were very relaxed about going into the World Cup. We waited | :14:56. | :15:03. | |
77 years for a winner and I was so overwhelmed. That sets us up very | :15:04. | :15:11. | |
nicely for the sport. Stay with us on BBC News. MPs have described the | :15:12. | :15:19. | |
failure to stop the practice of female genital mutilation as a | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
national scandal. We will have a special report. | :15:24. | :15:34. | |
Hello and welcome to Sportsday, I'm John Acres. | :15:35. | :15:37. |