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This is BBC World News Today with me, Kasia Madera. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
A 72-hour truce in Gaza seems to be holding, but what now for the | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
residents returning home to bury their dead and rebuild their lives? | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
The international community continues its calls | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
The senseless cycle of suffering in Gaza and the West Bank as well | :00:18. | :00:27. | |
More gains in Iraq for the Islamic State - oilfields and a dam. | :00:28. | :00:39. | |
Are the fighters formerly known as ISIS, | :00:40. | :00:40. | |
fast becoming the best-resourced militant group in history? | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
We'll be talking live to UNICEF in Iraq. | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
Close encounters with a comet far, far away... | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
After a 6 billion kilometre journey, a European space probe sends back | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
its first close-up pictures from somewhere between the orbits | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
An aspirin a day keeps the doctor away, and, it seems, reduces | :00:52. | :01:00. | |
The 72-hour ceasefire in Gaza is in its second day - | :01:01. | :01:25. | |
the longest lull in fighting since the conflict began four weeks ago. | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
More than 1,900 people have died and hundreds of thousands have been | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
displaced, and many of them no longer have a home to return to. | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
The United Nations has been sheltering tens of thousands | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
of people in school buildings, but as our Middle East | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
correspondent Orla Guerin reports from Jabalia, some families are | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
facing fresh uncertainty about where they can find refuge. | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
Her report contains images you may find distressing. | :01:50. | :02:01. | |
Families who fled Israeli shelling now having to leave | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
a UN school where they thought they had found refuge. | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
At Jabalia Elementary Boys School, they told us UN staff said they | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
Today they announced on the school microphone there will | :02:15. | :02:28. | |
be no services, no food or water, said Mr Yousef. | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
Those who want to leave can leave, we are not responsible | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
Do any of you have homes left standing to go back to? | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
Well, these families say they are in effect being given no choice | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
They tell us they have been told there is accommodation available | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
in government schools, but they say these schools are close | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
to the Israeli border and to Palestinian training camps. | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
They say it is a front-line area and no place for children. | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
UN schools have sheltered almost 300,000 people during this conflict. | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
It is unclear why desperate families at the school were threatened with | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
That is not our policy, that is not what will happen. | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
Food for that area simply has not been | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
Similarly, I am checking on water but it should | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
But generations of this family were terrified of losing the roof | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
72 relatives now call this classroom home. | :03:32. | :03:40. | |
They are kicking us out of here, said Zainab. | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
Where should the women and children go? | :03:44. | :03:51. | |
They started packing hoping to join relatives at another UN school. | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
Two family members died there in shelling, but they said it was | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
Then they got word it was already full. | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
Nearby, we found five-year-old Mohammed who is paralysed. | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
His devoted mother Sara was trying to keep the flies off of his face. | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
She told us she is worried that he may not survive. | :04:16. | :04:29. | |
Indirect talks between Israeli and Palestinian representatives, | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
to negotiate an extension to the current ceasefire, | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
The Israeli government say its objectives in Gaza | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
and its aim to "return quiet and security" to the people | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
Our correspondent Wyre Davies reports from the Israel-Gaza border | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
on how locals feel about the chance of lasting peace. | :04:44. | :05:03. | |
In an era. An older daughter will never see her father again and her | :05:04. | :05:12. | |
two sons fantasise about becoming super egos so that they can bring | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
back their father. 36-year-old man, he was an Army reservist and killed | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
during a battle with militants inside Gaza. I had mixed feelings. I | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
did not want him to go down there but I understood there was no other | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
option for the sake of our country, because if we do not protect | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
ourselves, we are doomed. The sense of vulnerability is felt most | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
acutely in these areas near Gaza weather has been both a human and | :05:49. | :05:58. | |
economic cost. Here, crops have been lost and residents have fled. We | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
cannot let them win. We will remain here in the fields and with the | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
children that know how to go to a shelter when they are three years | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
old. This is the fourth war Israel has fought with Gaza in the space of | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
less than ten years. Whilst these Israeli communities right up against | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
the Gaza border support the actions of the government, they expect | :06:28. | :06:28. | |
another the Gaza border support the actions | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
of the government, they expect war in two or three years time because | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
the problems behind the crisis are not being addressed. Toksvig Egypt | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
in to extend the three-day cease-fire and the firepower of | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
Israel has been pulled back from Gaza but it is not in any position | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
to claim a victory says one of the biggest critics of the government. | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
As long as this siege on Gaza continues and as long as life in | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
Gaza will be like life in a cage, the life of Israel will not be | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
secure, this is a basic understanding. Benjamin Netanyahu | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
this evening spoke for the first time since the cease-fire was | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
announced. As you'll be played regrets every civilian casualty. | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
Every single one. We do not target them or seek them. The people of | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
Gaza are not our enemy. This woman has no desire for her children to | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
follow the path of their father and fight in Gaza but it is something | :07:34. | :07:34. | |
she knows might be inevitable. As those diplomatic efforts to find | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
a solution to a more permanent ceasefire continue in Cairo, there | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
have also been efforts elsewhere. In New York, the | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon addressed the UN's General | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
Assembly at a special meeting He called for an end to the cycle | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
of violence. Do we have to continue like this? | :07:51. | :08:07. | |
Build and destroy continually. We can build again but this must be the | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
last team to rebuild. This must end now. They must come back to the | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
negotiating table. John Kerry too has been speaking | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
of the efforts by the United States In an exclusive interview with | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
the BBC, he said the US should be a major | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
player in the process of any Gaza peace deal and clarified that the US | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
does not speak directly to Hamas. In what was his first international | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
interview since the ceasefire, the US Secretary of State was asked | :08:33. | :08:34. | |
if he supported the Israeli We fully support Israel right to | :08:35. | :08:48. | |
defend itself and the fact that it was under attack by rockets and | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
tunnels and it had to take out Hamas. Hamas has behaved | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
unbelievably, shockingly in engaging in this activity and, yes, there has | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
been horrible collateral damage as a result and that is why the United | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
States are working hard with our partners in the region, with | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
visual, the Palestinian Authority, the Egyptians, to try to move | :09:16. | :09:24. | |
towards a cease-fire. Finally, that cease-fire is hopefully in place | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
that can allow all parties to common to the table and be able to not only | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
deal with the question of how you sustain a cease-fire but the more | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
critical underlying long-term issues as to how we are going to make | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
peace, how we are going to eliminate these rockets, how we are going to | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
demilitarise and move towards a different future and that is our | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
goal, this is an important beginning with the cease-fire and hopefully | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
the tops to get there. John Kerry speaking exclusively to the BBC. | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
He's the President of the Arab American Institute in Washington. | :10:00. | :10:09. | |
How can you bring both these sides together? There must be a role for a | :10:10. | :10:18. | |
third party and unfortunately the United States has not been able to | :10:19. | :10:26. | |
play that role because they often buckle under political pressure. | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
Several presidents have buckled. President Obama tried in 2011 and | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
then with pressure from Congress he folded and I believe that this | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
initiative from John Kerry, as tirelessly as he works in trying to | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
bridge the gap between the parties, at the end of the day, John Kerry's | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
proposals are too close to that of a shield for the Palestinians to exit | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
and so they broke down. Even though the US blamed additional in some | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
ways, the proposals were weak, so I think that you can only bridge gaps | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
decline a powerful country and a very poor and powerless country if | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
there is a third party that can balance the scales, the problem with | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
the US as they do not do that. They end up holding the courts for the | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
most powerful side. Now that leave the ship in Egypt has changed, their | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
relationship with Hamas has changed and so has their attitude to this | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
region. There is no love lost between myself and Hamas, I find | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
their ideology respectable and their tactics deplorable, the sabotage | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
peace in the 1990s with bombings and since they have entered government | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
their priority has been to be devastating to the Palestinian | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
people. As you'll's behaviour has been even more deplorable and what | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
we are witnessing right now from the Israelis as a clean-up operation, | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
you Queen of public opinion, so they will go on duty full offence to see | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
do not believe us, do not believe the lies and the media, it is all of | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
the fault of Hamas and so on. The problem is that extremist groups | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
like Hamas are born out of the spear and hopelessness and joblessness and | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
anger and occupation and what Israel is doing to Gaza only reinforces | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
those conditions and breeds more extremism. It is a huge problem but | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
the US by seeing it supports the rights of visual and giving them | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
more weapons in the wake of this assault does not provide the correct | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
it necessary to restrain Israel and said to the people in Gaza, you have | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
a friend outside who will stand with you, not with Hamas, but with the | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
people of Gaza. John Kerry said the civilians of Gaza were not the enemy | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
and Benjamin Netanyahu said they were not the enemy of Israel, it is | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
Hamas. When Hamas says that it will not demilitarise when someone tries | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
to take their weapons but instead take away their lives, what hope is | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
there for any kind of initiation? Very little and that is the great | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
tragedy. The statements from Hamas have been deplorable, but understand | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
that if Israel says that the people of Gaza are not our enemies but they | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
killed 1800 of them, but they left a couple of hundred thousand homeless | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
then Pat -- bombed the power plants and there was no power or clean | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
water, and for visual to come back and say that they were so good to | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
the people of Gaza by providing them with electricity and water, they | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
only had to do that because they would have been masses starvation | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
and dehydration. This is a country that has used its overwhelming power | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
indiscriminately and disproportionately and I believe has | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
committed war crimes but that does not dissolve Hamas. They have | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
committed crimes that have been wrong and they must be called to | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
account on that. But you cannot only coal one side to account as the | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
United States does, you have to call Israel to account as well. You have | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
to be fair to both sides and we have not been. Thank you for your | :14:32. | :14:32. | |
thoughts. Scientists | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
in Europe have been celebrating after an unmanned spacecraft | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
successfully caught up with a comet after travelling through the Solar | :14:39. | :14:40. | |
System for more than a decade. The Rosetta probe will orbit the | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
comet for at least a year and try to The probe at the moment is | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
at a distance of 550 million A little earlier I spoke with senior | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
scientific consultant Mark McCaughrean from the European Space | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
Agency's mission control in Germany. It has been a fantastic day here | :14:58. | :15:17. | |
today. The mission has been going on for ten years and ten years before | :15:18. | :15:27. | |
that to even build it. It is like we have been in the car for ten years, | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
people saying, are we there yet, and today we are there. We now see a | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
Comet that no one has ever seen in this detail before. We have now got | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
an intense period because we have to characterise and learn about this | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
Comet, what it is made of, what the surface structure is, before it gets | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
active. It is starting to get active as we speak, as it gets closer to | :15:52. | :16:00. | |
the sun it will get active. We have got to pick a landing site and then | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
drop a lander onto the surface, without hitting any boulders or | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
crevasse is. It is an incredibly structured comet, a lot going on | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
there, a lot of work still to do. Is it true that this could provide the | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
origins of our existence, this comet? They are treasure chest of | :16:19. | :16:27. | |
ice, locked up and left over from the birth of the solar system 4.6 | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
billion years ago. By digging into one in more detail than has been | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
possible before, we can indeed go into answering these questions, | :16:36. | :16:37. | |
where did the solar system and planets come from, how where they | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
build up, and where did water on the earth, from? It was probably not on | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
the planet when it was very young, so it could have come from comets | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
later on. And complex molecules, the building blocks of life, they were | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
also on comets. This really is a Rosetta Stone, hence the name of the | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
mission. We think about dinosaurs when we think about the aqua one, | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
but this is something that could have brought life onto Earth? It is | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
one of the great contradictions, the solar system is an amazingly chaotic | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
and crazy place, things go on, planets move around and get hit by | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
things, which can be bad for you and in this case very good for you. We | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
congratulate you very much on your mission. We wish you all the best | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
for November. Thank you very much, we hope everybody follows along. It | :17:35. | :17:44. | |
is a great adventure for everybody. 50 people have been killed in the | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
rebel held city of Mo all in a rock. -- Mosul. A missile hit a | :17:49. | :18:02. | |
prison holding fighters from the jihadist group previously known as | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
ISIS. Thousands have fled into the mountains in the north-west of the | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
country after Islamic state jihadist overran a town. We can now speak to | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
a spokesperson from Unicef who is where many Iraqis fled after the | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
city of Mosul fell to the Islamic state. I know you are concerned in | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
particular about the children, but just describe what the situation is | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
on the ground. The situation is pretty grim. There is continuous | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
displacement of children and families, there is a mass exodus | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
that happened on Sunday where we estimate that at least 150,000 | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
people were forced to flee overnight when the district was taken over. We | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
are very concerned about 25,000 children who are currently reported | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
stranded in the mountains in the area. These are children in dire | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
situations, they need everything, basically, food, water, shelter. | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
They are in desperate need and we cannot access them. Talk us through | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
the reports that 40 children have potentially died? That's right, | :19:17. | :19:24. | |
Unicef received reports officially that 40 children have died on their | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
way out of the area while they were leaving. They could have died for a | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
number of reasons, including severe dehydration and also health reasons. | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
It's very hot here. It could go up to 50 degrees. It's very difficult | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
for an adult, let alone a child who has been uprooted and forced to walk | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
for sometimes long hours in the sun. It is a pretty grim situation here. | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
In terms of the work of Unicef, how are you getting provisions through? | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
How you making contact and looking after these people? We have been | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
working around the clock with teams on the ground. Since the outbreak of | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
the crisis in June, we have had teams providing people with drinking | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
water and medicine for the children, shelter, tents and | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
blankets, with whatever is needed and whatever we can do, we are doing | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
it. But the needs are huge and they continue to increase every single | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
day. The crisis broke out in mid-June, and got stabilised for a | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
couple of weeks, and then on Sunday, we were into another crisis. It is | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
an emergency on top of another emergency. It is increasing the need | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
for children and their family every single day. We wish you the best of | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
luck, thank you for speaking to us. The Ebola outbreak has been declared | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
a national emergency in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
after a nurse became the second person to die | :20:58. | :20:59. | |
from the disease there. The World Health Organisation says | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
the death toll from the Ebola outbreak | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
in West Africa has risen to 932. It's convening a panel of experts | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
to examine the use of experimental Russian President Vladimir Putin has | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
banned or curbed agricultural imports | :21:14. | :21:22. | |
from countries imposing sanctions on The decree did not specify | :21:23. | :21:24. | |
which countries or which goods would be affected | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
but did say that the measures will Russia buys fruit | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
and vegetables from the EU worth A man arrested on suspicion | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
of leaking Michael Schumacher's medical files has been found hanged | :21:36. | :21:45. | |
in his cell. Swiss police say the man, | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
an who has not been named, was Ex-Formula One Champion Michael | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
Schumacher suffered a head injury in a skiing accident | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
in France last December and was An aspirin a day could keep some | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
cancers and heart diseases at bay. That is the message for people | :21:59. | :22:07. | |
in their 50s and 60s, from a group of researchers looking at | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
the drug's ability to stem disease. Scientists found that one low dose | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
tablet, 75mg, every day, taken for five to 10 years could | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
prevent 122,000 deaths from some cancers in the UK, | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
particularly bowel and stomach It's also well known for reducing | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
the chance of heart attacks. But aspirin does have side effects | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
and can cause internal bleeding so doctors say people should check | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
with their GP before they decide to It is a cheap, everyday medicine, | :22:42. | :22:58. | |
which can be bought over the counter. Many people already take | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
daily aspirin to avoid heart problems. Now there is further | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
evidence that the drug might help prevent cancer. The researchers | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
looked at a wide range of studies about aspirin. They found the drug | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
helped prevent cases and deaths from stomach, bowel and oesophageal | :23:15. | :23:16. | |
cancer. helped prevent cases and deaths from | :23:17. | :23:18. | |
stomach, bowel The risks included having stomach bleeds or stroke, but | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
the researchers believe on balance, many people aged between 50 and 65 | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
would benefit from taking a low dose of aspirin every day for at least | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
five years. We think that individuals of this age should | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
consider seriously taking aspirin, they should consult their GP to get | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
advice about potential side effects, but overall, the benefits for most | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
individuals seem to far outweigh the risks. Official NHS advice does not | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
yet recommend taking aspirin to prevent cancer. Cancer Research UK | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
said aspirin is showing promise but it believes in port and answers are | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
still needed from other ongoing trials -- important answers are | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
still needed soap Doctors could have that information on who might suffer | :24:04. | :24:05. | |
side-effects. With me now is Dr David Wald, | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
he's a consultant cardiologist based here in London at | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
St Bartholomew's Hospital. He's also Chair of the Guidelines | :24:11. | :24:11. | |
and Practice Committee of Thank you for coming in to speak to | :24:12. | :24:23. | |
us. We have heard so much about aspirin but there are caveats in | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
this? Yes, like many preventative treatments, there is a trade-off | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
between the benefit and the hazard. For aspirin, the biggest problem is | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
bleeding. That's always been the case. And I been prescribing aspirin | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
for many years to prevent heart attacks and strokes, particularly in | :24:42. | :24:43. | |
people who have already had such an event, and there has always been a | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
risk of being those people. The issue is that the risk of aspirin | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
was clearly outweighed by the benefit in people who had had a | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
previous heart attack or stroke. In the general population, we have | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
known about the benefits but the risks and the hazards really made | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
the benefits marginal. Now what has changed with this new evidence is | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
that aspirin appears to have rather remarkable effects in preventing | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
certain cancers, in particular cancers of the gut. If you add the | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
information on cancer to what we already know on cardiovascular | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
disease, the evidence swing is clearly in favour of using aspirin | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer. So the number of | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
people who would benefit compared to the number of people who could | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
suffer internal bleeding is outweighed? Pretty much. If 1000 | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
people for example over the age of 50 took aspirin, you would prevent | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
about 50 cardiovascular disease events and cancer deaths combined, | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
for every eight serious bleeds coursed. And most of those bleeds | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
would not be fatal. And that is an important distinction. I understand | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
heart attack is thinning of the blood, but what it is with aspirin | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
and cancer? Perhaps surprisingly, the mechanism by which aspirin | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
prevents cancer is not known. That might mean to pricing because it is | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
such a well-known drug and it has been used for many years. There are | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
two theories. We know that aspirin reduces the effectiveness of | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
platelets in the blood to stick together. That is the mechanism of | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
the benefit in preventing heart attacks, it reduces the clock which | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
forms in the coronary artery. The cancer, it is possible that these | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
platelets also can carry cancer cells around, and if you block the | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
platelet, you could reduce the cancer. The caveat is always talked | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
your GP. Lots more on the website. Check out our details there. | :26:49. | :26:49. | |
Goodbye. Hello. Still some room for a time | :26:50. | :26:59. | |
overnight in the far north of Scotland, moving across the Northern | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
Isles. Elsewhere, it becomes dry, clear and that will lead to a sunny | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
start in the morning. Not quite as warm tomorrow but still warm, when | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
the sun makes an appearance. High pressure coming in overnight. It | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
will last into Thursday, of a fine day with that sunshine to begin. | :27:17. | :27:18. | |
Cooler | :27:19. | :27:19. |