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You are watching Beyond 100 Days.
The epidemic killing more than 100 | 0:00:13 | 0:00:17 | |
people a day | 0:00:17 | 0:00:18 | |
The epidemic killing more than 100
people a day in the United States. | 0:00:18 | 0:00:19 | |
This is our president Trump outlines
what the government will do to | 0:00:19 | 0:00:22 | |
address America's OPI crisis.
It doesn't discriminate by race or | 0:00:22 | 0:00:29 | |
class, millions are addicted. Brooke
Symonds was just 19 when she | 0:00:29 | 0:00:32 | |
overdosed, now her father is
reaching out to others. -- America's | 0:00:32 | 0:00:38 | |
opiate crisis. Nobody wanted to say
that they had an addiction in the | 0:00:38 | 0:00:41 | |
family. But now people are talking
because it can happen to anybody. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:46 | |
President Trump is due to speak any
moment from the White House on the | 0:00:46 | 0:00:49 | |
subject, we will take you there when
he does. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:52 | |
A defiant Catalan leadership
continues the bid for leadership. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:57 | |
The central government prepares to
take back power from the region. | 0:00:57 | 0:01:00 | |
The final batch of documents linked
to the assassination of John F. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:04 | |
Kennedy will be released today. Will
they once and for all solve the | 0:01:04 | 0:01:09 | |
mystery of Dallas?
Also on the programme: In Kenya only | 0:01:09 | 0:01:12 | |
one side is voting in today's rerun
of the presidential election. Police | 0:01:12 | 0:01:17 | |
have fought running battles with
opposition protesters. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:21 | |
And now we live in Flanders
Fields... | 0:01:21 | 0:01:25 | |
Poetry and poppies, the words
recording the horrors of World War | 0:01:25 | 0:01:29 | |
I, laid out line by line in Britain
and in France. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:31 | |
To get in touch... -- do get in
touch... | 0:01:31 | 0:01:38 | |
Welcome. President Trump is about to
announce his plan for tackling the | 0:01:43 | 0:01:51 | |
opioid addiction crisis which is
ravaging much of America. The rate | 0:01:51 | 0:01:56 | |
of overdoses is climbing. Last year
it exceeded the number of Americans | 0:01:56 | 0:02:00 | |
killed during the entire Vietnam
War. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:03 | |
The epidemic affects everybody,
black, white, poor, rich, urban and | 0:02:03 | 0:02:07 | |
rural. From communities across the
US we are getting heart rendering | 0:02:07 | 0:02:10 | |
stories of patients and parents who
have buried their addicted children | 0:02:10 | 0:02:15 | |
far too young. We can now see the
impact in Marilyn and -- Maryland. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:24 | |
She was an exceptional athlete. All
of that was dropped from her when | 0:02:25 | 0:02:30 | |
she was introduced to opiates and
eventually Herrerin. It's been two | 0:02:30 | 0:02:37 | |
years since Ken lost his daughter to
an overdose. A drugs force police | 0:02:37 | 0:02:46 | |
officer for many years, used to look
up addicts, now he has lost his | 0:02:46 | 0:02:50 | |
daughter to drugs. This has never
happened. This has reached epidemic | 0:02:50 | 0:02:54 | |
proportions and something has got to
be done. For Kevin that something | 0:02:54 | 0:02:58 | |
means building a women's only
treatment centre in Brook's memory. | 0:02:58 | 0:03:01 | |
He says the way to deal with this
problem is through more investment | 0:03:01 | 0:03:06 | |
in recovery and education. We are
doing it all wrong. For every | 0:03:06 | 0:03:11 | |
illness we are prescribed a pill.
There is no education. Kids are more | 0:03:11 | 0:03:17 | |
afraid to smoke a cigarette than
they are to take a pill. Kevin | 0:03:17 | 0:03:22 | |
Phillips in Hagerstown, which sits
on what has become known as the | 0:03:22 | 0:03:27 | |
heroine highway. With opioid related
deaths on the rise this sleepy part | 0:03:27 | 0:03:31 | |
of America is now plagued by the
crisis. Hagerstown could be any town | 0:03:31 | 0:03:38 | |
in America. The scale of the opioid
crisis here and elsewhere is huge. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:43 | |
In this state, Maryland alone, more
than 1100 people died from opioid | 0:03:43 | 0:03:48 | |
related illnesses in the first six
months of this year. The challenge | 0:03:48 | 0:03:52 | |
for President Trump is to come up
with workable solutions to contain | 0:03:52 | 0:03:55 | |
this epidemic. For some that means
more vocational programmes like | 0:03:55 | 0:04:05 | |
Ladders To Leaders, which encourages
addicts to work and earn as part of | 0:04:05 | 0:04:08 | |
their recovery. Take this to people
not doing anything. There are people | 0:04:08 | 0:04:14 | |
out there getting high and they are
working the system. For other | 0:04:14 | 0:04:18 | |
addicts like Jamal this means
changing a system where drugs are | 0:04:18 | 0:04:21 | |
often readily available. The doctors
are the biggest drug dealers. You | 0:04:21 | 0:04:28 | |
get a prescription from a doctor,
you have a doctor selling drugs | 0:04:28 | 0:04:32 | |
under the table. The conversation
has come to the dinner table. Now | 0:04:32 | 0:04:36 | |
everybody is discussing it with
their family and kids. It had to get | 0:04:36 | 0:04:40 | |
personal for Kevin to face the
issue. He hopes his experience will | 0:04:40 | 0:04:44 | |
help Americans opened up about a
crisis which is claiming thousands | 0:04:44 | 0:04:47 | |
of lives. Before you never wanted to
say your daughter is a heroin | 0:04:47 | 0:04:51 | |
addict. Nobody wanted to say that.
Nobody wants to say they had a | 0:04:51 | 0:05:02 | |
problem with addiction in their
family. Now people are talking to | 0:05:02 | 0:05:04 | |
their kit and saying to them that it
could happen to anybody because I am | 0:05:04 | 0:05:07 | |
telling you it can happen to
anybody. Accidental drug overdose is | 0:05:07 | 0:05:09 | |
the leading cause in America. Every
19 minutes somebody dies from taking | 0:05:09 | 0:05:12 | |
opioids. The number of deaths has
exceeded 64,020 16, which is more | 0:05:12 | 0:05:18 | |
than car crashes and gun deaths
combined. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:20 | |
That is a rate of 175 deaths every
day. -- exceeded 64,000 in 2016. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:32 | |
Last year Tennessee saw a 12%
increase in the number of people who | 0:05:32 | 0:05:37 | |
died in drug overdoses. The Mayor of
Nashville has spoken out publicly | 0:05:37 | 0:05:40 | |
after her own son died in July,
another victim of the epidemic. | 0:05:40 | 0:05:44 | |
Doctor Tracey Jackson joins us from
Nashville. Thank you for joining us. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:53 | |
You saw the heartbreak that opioid
addiction and death from it in | 0:05:53 | 0:06:01 | |
America. We are very interested in
the idea of a quick fix. Even though | 0:06:01 | 0:06:10 | |
it's a chronic problem. Most
physicians and patients are aware | 0:06:10 | 0:06:13 | |
that opioid issues are a problem. It
is a little bit in humane to just | 0:06:13 | 0:06:22 | |
take people's opioids away without
providing them with other viable | 0:06:22 | 0:06:27 | |
alternative methods to manage their
chronic illness. We've just had the | 0:06:27 | 0:06:32 | |
Attorney General Jeff Sessions
saying two things, one that | 0:06:32 | 0:06:36 | |
marijuana is the gateway drug to
opioid addiction, and second, people | 0:06:36 | 0:06:40 | |
should just say no to drugs and that
would solve this problem. What do | 0:06:40 | 0:06:44 | |
you make of both of those points?
One of your native sons, Russell | 0:06:44 | 0:06:50 | |
Brand, has been on about this for
quite some time. Saying that it does | 0:06:50 | 0:06:55 | |
no good to criminalise addiction.
But this is a... This is your | 0:06:55 | 0:06:59 | |
central nervous system processing
disorder. It has biological and | 0:06:59 | 0:07:06 | |
psychological factors and social
factors which buy into that. It has | 0:07:06 | 0:07:09 | |
to be addressed as fact and treated
long-term. In order to make any | 0:07:09 | 0:07:16 | |
impact on its management. Anything
that continues to shame and isolate | 0:07:16 | 0:07:22 | |
people or stigmatise or persecute
people who are seeking help, that | 0:07:22 | 0:07:26 | |
only serves to worsen that brain
processing disorder and make people | 0:07:26 | 0:07:29 | |
more likely to stay addicted or in
some cases in chronic pain for much | 0:07:29 | 0:07:36 | |
longer than is necessary.
I was taken by what you were saying | 0:07:36 | 0:07:40 | |
about the culture of drugs in
America. I was told today by one of | 0:07:40 | 0:07:49 | |
my colleagues that when he was in
America and he had a bit of the flu, | 0:07:49 | 0:07:53 | |
a doctor prescribed him something,
and the bill for the drugs was over | 0:07:53 | 0:07:57 | |
$900. That's extraordinary. It makes
you think that this could be a | 0:07:57 | 0:08:05 | |
collaborative effort between
doctors, pharmacists, and government | 0:08:05 | 0:08:07 | |
to try and stop it. It is absolutely
critical that that happens. You can | 0:08:07 | 0:08:15 | |
take some clues from the AIDS
epidemic at its height. It's not | 0:08:15 | 0:08:18 | |
just enough to educate doctors or
reduce the number of pills | 0:08:18 | 0:08:22 | |
prescribed. We've done that in
Tennessee. We have reduced | 0:08:22 | 0:08:29 | |
prescriptions. But the number of
deaths are not going down because we | 0:08:29 | 0:08:34 | |
are not offering people viable
alternatives that would manage their | 0:08:34 | 0:08:37 | |
chronic illness. The cycle will
continue until we are able to get | 0:08:37 | 0:08:40 | |
our head around that. The other big
issue is that these pharmaceutical | 0:08:40 | 0:08:44 | |
companies have a lot of money to pay
the lobbies in Washington. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:51 | |
That's certainly an argument that
has been put about. I always say if | 0:08:51 | 0:08:58 | |
there were a magic bullet we would
have all been shot by an now in | 0:08:58 | 0:09:06 | |
America. Sometimes it's not that
straightforward. Pharmaceutical | 0:09:06 | 0:09:11 | |
companies have a significant role to
play. Especially with interaction | 0:09:11 | 0:09:14 | |
with insurance companies. Sometimes
it is not dictated by what the | 0:09:14 | 0:09:19 | |
science shows and what's the best
for the patient, but what insurance | 0:09:19 | 0:09:23 | |
companies will reimburse. We need to
match need with what is out there. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:29 | |
Thank you very much for joining us
from Nashville, Tennessee. For more | 0:09:29 | 0:09:33 | |
on this we will go when the
president speaks to the White House. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:38 | |
You can see the shot from the White
House. We're waiting for him to | 0:09:38 | 0:09:44 | |
announce his plan to deal with this
crisis. We are joined by our | 0:09:44 | 0:09:50 | |
political analyst Ron Christie. He
has served as an adviser to | 0:09:50 | 0:09:55 | |
President George W. Before we get
into the politics, the devastation | 0:09:55 | 0:09:58 | |
this is causing, we saw it in that
piece, it is heartbreaking. -- | 0:09:58 | 0:10:05 | |
President George W Bush. But it is
moving so fast. When President Trump | 0:10:05 | 0:10:09 | |
was a campaign candidate, he said he
would address this, it is part of | 0:10:09 | 0:10:14 | |
the reason he won in New Hampshire
during the primaries. Is he doing | 0:10:14 | 0:10:18 | |
enough? I think so. It's a good
first step. The Vietnam War is still | 0:10:18 | 0:10:24 | |
one of the biggest scars we have an
America. We lost 58,000 soldiers | 0:10:24 | 0:10:27 | |
over several years. You are talking
about an epidemic where we lost | 0:10:27 | 0:10:33 | |
66,000 in the space of a year.
Doesn't matter what your background | 0:10:33 | 0:10:36 | |
is. I believe what trumpeted on the
trail, when you go to the small | 0:10:36 | 0:10:44 | |
towns and big cities, you see folks
who are addicted and afflicted with | 0:10:44 | 0:10:48 | |
this. That is something which
affected him on the campaign trail. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:51 | |
He has tried to do it. He wants to
focus on health care and tax reform. | 0:10:51 | 0:10:56 | |
From the political sense he realised
this was something he needed to do | 0:10:56 | 0:10:59 | |
as the American president, rather
than deliver something from the | 0:10:59 | 0:11:02 | |
base. You can only deal with this if
you deal with the pharmaceutical | 0:11:02 | 0:11:08 | |
industry and the power of the
pharmaceutical companies. I have a | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
friend writing a book on this. A
Republican politician said that we | 0:11:11 | 0:11:18 | |
cannot deal with these problems
until we deal with that. Yes. The | 0:11:18 | 0:11:24 | |
power and the sweet pharmaceutical
companies have over Congress is not | 0:11:24 | 0:11:29 | |
to be overlooked. -- the power that
pharmaceutical companies have. If | 0:11:29 | 0:11:36 | |
they want something done or they do
not want Congress to do something, | 0:11:36 | 0:11:42 | |
they will step out of the way and do
it. I was thinking about the general | 0:11:42 | 0:11:49 | |
culture of it and the number of
pills people take in America. It's | 0:11:49 | 0:11:52 | |
astonishing. The one thing I'm
wondering is, when he makes this | 0:11:52 | 0:11:57 | |
announcement today, Ron, who is
going to push the policy forward? He | 0:11:57 | 0:12:02 | |
doesn't have a drugs 's | 0:12:02 | 0:12:07 | |
You will have existing grants that
can be redirected to help fight this | 0:12:14 | 0:12:17 | |
opioids crisis. | 0:12:17 | 0:12:18 | |
In the short time you will have a
offices in the executive branch with | 0:12:20 | 0:12:24 | |
more money at their disposal. They
will work with governors. Governors | 0:12:24 | 0:12:29 | |
are familiar with this in their
local areas. They will have to think | 0:12:29 | 0:12:34 | |
how can we redirect these grants to
where they are specifically needed | 0:12:34 | 0:12:37 | |
so we can get money out the door and
help into the hands of people that | 0:12:37 | 0:12:40 | |
need it. I am for once not worried
about the lack of senior officials | 0:12:40 | 0:12:45 | |
in place, I am encouraged that
governors, Mayors, and officials are | 0:12:45 | 0:12:50 | |
working on this issue to try and
find sense out of this really | 0:12:50 | 0:12:54 | |
horrific problem we have here in
America. We will have more on this | 0:12:54 | 0:12:59 | |
from the White House. As soon as the
president makes that announcement we | 0:12:59 | 0:13:03 | |
will bring it to you.
Let's talk about Catalonia. If you | 0:13:03 | 0:13:09 | |
are confused about events there,
join the club. We thought we might | 0:13:09 | 0:13:12 | |
be bringing you news that the
Catalan government had declared | 0:13:12 | 0:13:16 | |
unilateral independence from the
rest of Spain, but that hasn't | 0:13:16 | 0:13:19 | |
happened. Carles Puigdemont has
pulled back yet again. | 0:13:19 | 0:13:25 | |
He was considering calling a snap
election in December if Madrid agree | 0:13:25 | 0:13:28 | |
to suspend its plan to take back
control of the region. The Spanish | 0:13:28 | 0:13:32 | |
government has appeared to renege on
that. Therefore Carles Puigdemont | 0:13:32 | 0:13:36 | |
has decided against the election.
This is what he has to say... | 0:13:36 | 0:13:42 | |
TRANSLATION: I was prepared to call
these elections on the sole | 0:13:42 | 0:13:46 | |
condition we were given guarantees
they would be held in an absolutely | 0:13:46 | 0:13:48 | |
normal manner. But there are no such
guarantees that would justify | 0:13:48 | 0:13:55 | |
calling these regional elections
today. | 0:13:55 | 0:13:59 | |
They are still speaking in the
Catalan parliament in Barcelona. I | 0:13:59 | 0:14:03 | |
think we can show you those
pictures. You wait to see Carles | 0:14:03 | 0:14:06 | |
Puigdemont. But he is in the
audience. They are talking one by | 0:14:06 | 0:14:13 | |
one at the rostrum. Our
correspondent is in Barcelona... | 0:14:13 | 0:14:17 | |
What's the outcome of today's
indecision? He was going to call | 0:14:17 | 0:14:21 | |
this election. Then he didn't. His
coalition partners starting to drift | 0:14:21 | 0:14:26 | |
away from him? They are. It has been
a day of rumours. And frankly chaos. | 0:14:26 | 0:14:36 | |
We were expecting Carles Puigdemont
to make an address at one o'clock | 0:14:36 | 0:14:42 | |
local time. That was then delayed,
then eventually suspended. We heard | 0:14:42 | 0:14:48 | |
it was because so much of his
support in his coalition was | 0:14:48 | 0:14:50 | |
draining away because he was going
to call a snap election. He wanted | 0:14:50 | 0:14:54 | |
to do that in the hope Madrid would
not invoke Article one 55. When that | 0:14:54 | 0:15:00 | |
happened students took to the
streets. -- Article 150 five. | 0:15:00 | 0:15:04 | |
Carles Puigdemont was effectively
dead politically. Then we heard he | 0:15:06 | 0:15:12 | |
would be making a statement at five
o'clock local time. Several of the | 0:15:12 | 0:15:17 | |
coalition members said I think we
will get the result we want. In | 0:15:17 | 0:15:21 | |
other words unilateral declaration
of independence. He spoke for about | 0:15:21 | 0:15:25 | |
ten minutes. Then he didn't say that
either. He is now at the Catalan | 0:15:25 | 0:15:30 | |
parliament behind me. He isn't going
to speak. But there is some | 0:15:30 | 0:15:34 | |
suggestion that that illegal
referendum, according to Madrid, | 0:15:34 | 0:15:37 | |
which they won with a 90% vote on a
40% turnout, would be put away vote | 0:15:37 | 0:15:43 | |
sometime tomorrow before the
dissolution of the Catalan | 0:15:43 | 0:15:46 | |
parliament, so they would have
declared independence. Cue 155. We | 0:15:46 | 0:15:57 | |
can talk about this now. You are a
pro-separatist university lecturer. | 0:15:57 | 0:16:02 | |
Will it go to a vote? Some of the
supporters of Carles Puigdemont well | 0:16:02 | 0:16:08 | |
calling him a traitor and calling
for him to go. You have put it well. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:13 | |
It has been a day of chaos and
confusion. We are where we work 24 | 0:16:13 | 0:16:19 | |
hours ago. Three weeks ago. True.
Isn't that irresponsible? Some of | 0:16:19 | 0:16:28 | |
your critics would say that is
irresponsible politics. You have | 0:16:28 | 0:16:32 | |
people out on the streets furious
with him. And he has upset Madrid. | 0:16:32 | 0:16:37 | |
Where is the leadership here? We
need to stick to the facts. | 0:16:37 | 0:16:46 | |
Officially he never said he would
call a snap election. There were | 0:16:46 | 0:16:52 | |
talks behind the walls but
officially there was never any | 0:16:52 | 0:16:57 | |
indication from Carles Puigdemont he
was going to call for an election. | 0:16:57 | 0:17:02 | |
We must understand, we have some
people calling it history in the | 0:17:02 | 0:17:05 | |
making here. There is lots of
pressure, tensions, lots of | 0:17:05 | 0:17:11 | |
international and national
pressures. It puts the party under | 0:17:11 | 0:17:15 | |
enormous pressure here and Carles
Puigdemont. It is only logic that | 0:17:15 | 0:17:20 | |
there might have been some panic
attacks, you might call it. For him | 0:17:20 | 0:17:27 | |
or supporters? Many have resigned on
Twitter. It has been farcical | 0:17:27 | 0:17:30 | |
because some have said that doesn't
count. I know. I believe that some | 0:17:30 | 0:17:35 | |
people both in parliament and
outside of Parliament might have | 0:17:35 | 0:17:39 | |
gone through this... Except it isn't
farcical when you think that direct | 0:17:39 | 0:17:44 | |
rule probably will be imposed in
Madrid tomorrow. And it moves into a | 0:17:44 | 0:17:48 | |
different phase. That will upset
many of separatist -- many | 0:17:48 | 0:17:51 | |
separatist supporters. But may
reassure those who want to stay part | 0:17:51 | 0:17:57 | |
of a united Madrid. Indeed. We
expect tomorrow, at some point, that | 0:17:57 | 0:18:08 | |
155 would be upheld. After a
declaration of Independence? I would | 0:18:08 | 0:18:14 | |
say before. I think they want to
teach pro-independence Catalan is a | 0:18:14 | 0:18:19 | |
lesson. They've made it clear that
they are not waiting for | 0:18:19 | 0:18:24 | |
negotiations, they are not waiting
for moves by Carles Puigdemont any | 0:18:24 | 0:18:28 | |
more. They are going to apply it. I
expect that after that there will | 0:18:28 | 0:18:34 | |
probably be a vote on a declaration
of Independence here in parliament. | 0:18:34 | 0:18:37 | |
Thanks very much. By which time the
Catalan parliament will have been | 0:18:37 | 0:18:41 | |
dissolved, according to Madrid,
well, that is what we think. If | 0:18:41 | 0:18:46 | |
Carles Puigdemont was CEO of a
company the board would have fired | 0:18:46 | 0:18:49 | |
him now just for the model he's put
people in. It is a lesson. If you | 0:18:49 | 0:18:54 | |
are going to hold a referendum you
best have stepped two, three, and | 0:18:54 | 0:18:59 | |
four worked out beforehand, and he
didn't. He didn't. It's interesting. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:06 | |
Because this is a man who from the
1970s and 1980s has been committed | 0:19:06 | 0:19:11 | |
to independence. He said he didn't
want to be a political leader but he | 0:19:11 | 0:19:14 | |
wanted to bring this region to
independence. Talking to his | 0:19:14 | 0:19:20 | |
supporters and unionists, as well,
they have been spooked by the fact | 0:19:20 | 0:19:23 | |
the rest of the EU hasn't come out
or even countries like Norway or | 0:19:23 | 0:19:28 | |
other countries outside the EU to
say that they support them in this | 0:19:28 | 0:19:32 | |
referendum. And I think the flight
of -- and many businesses have moved | 0:19:32 | 0:19:40 | |
their headquarters out of the area,
and I think they have been spooked | 0:19:40 | 0:19:46 | |
by that.
Thanks very much. Tim has been | 0:19:46 | 0:19:49 | |
covering that story throughout and
he will keep us up-to-date with | 0:19:49 | 0:19:52 | |
hopefully some sort of clarity. We
are still waiting for the president. | 0:19:52 | 0:19:55 | |
He will be talking about his plan
for opioid addiction. It is | 0:19:55 | 0:20:00 | |
something he spoke about during the
election campaign. It is a huge | 0:20:00 | 0:20:06 | |
issue in America. I have a couple of
stories, a friend of mine is writing | 0:20:06 | 0:20:12 | |
a book on the subject. One thing I
thought he said which was telling, | 0:20:12 | 0:20:17 | |
as he went to West Virginia and he
spoke to officials there, they said | 0:20:17 | 0:20:21 | |
they realised they had a problem
with opioid addiction. When they | 0:20:21 | 0:20:25 | |
opened up a whole new slew of state
prisons and they could not find | 0:20:25 | 0:20:29 | |
enough drugs to guard the and
prisoners who were not addicted. | 0:20:29 | 0:20:41 | |
President Trump is now entering the
room. He will be announcing his | 0:20:41 | 0:20:44 | |
plan. Let's take a listen now to the
president and the first Lady. | 0:20:44 | 0:20:52 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:20:55 | 0:20:57 | |
Thank you. | 0:21:00 | 0:21:02 | |
Thank you. The set. Thank you. --
please set. Thank you all for being | 0:21:06 | 0:21:18 | |
here today. It touches my heart to
see many familiar faces of the | 0:21:18 | 0:21:22 | |
people I have been lucky to get to
know over the last few months. Thank | 0:21:22 | 0:21:28 | |
you for the time and strength it
takes for each of you to tell your | 0:21:28 | 0:21:31 | |
stories. We are here today because
of your courage. The opioid epidemic | 0:21:31 | 0:21:39 | |
has affected more than 2 million
Americans nationwide and sadly the | 0:21:39 | 0:21:42 | |
number continues to rise. We lost
more than 175 Americans to overdoses | 0:21:42 | 0:21:50 | |
every day. And millions more are
struggling with addiction. As many | 0:21:50 | 0:21:57 | |
of you know, addiction affects
children in many different ways. I | 0:21:57 | 0:22:02 | |
have recently taken a larger
interest in what I can do to help | 0:22:02 | 0:22:07 | |
fight this epidemic.
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I have been participating in
meetings and listening sessions and | 0:22:19 | 0:22:22 | |
I have been visiting with people who
have been affected by this disease. | 0:22:22 | 0:22:27 | |
I want to take a moment now to tell
you what I've learned from the men | 0:22:27 | 0:22:31 | |
and women on the front lines this
epidemic. Don home and talked to me | 0:22:31 | 0:22:37 | |
about his son Garrett, who took
medication for ADHD, and suffered | 0:22:37 | 0:22:42 | |
from depression and anxiety. He
explained that social media played a | 0:22:42 | 0:22:48 | |
part in his son's erratic mood and
behaviours. Garrett started to buy | 0:22:48 | 0:22:54 | |
synthetic opioid online and self
medicated for his depression. | 0:22:54 | 0:22:59 | |
Passing away from a overdose just
eight days before his 21st birthday. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:07 | |
Don taught me that the stigma of
drug addiction must be normalised | 0:23:07 | 0:23:13 | |
and talking about it is the only way
to do that. Coach David Magee talked | 0:23:13 | 0:23:18 | |
about his friend who became addicted
after and his pain medication was | 0:23:18 | 0:23:25 | |
prescribed for a sports injury. His
friend died from an overdose and | 0:23:25 | 0:23:29 | |
through his tragic loss coach Mickey
told me how important it is to | 0:23:29 | 0:23:37 | |
educate kids, athletes, and parents,
because his friend was not weak | 0:23:37 | 0:23:41 | |
minded. In fact, like so many of our
kids today, he was competitive and | 0:23:41 | 0:23:46 | |
strong willed. Another lady who is
now on the tenth year of recovery | 0:23:46 | 0:23:55 | |
helped me learn that drug addiction
is an effective disease. But with | 0:23:55 | 0:24:00 | |
the proper support and medical
attention a person can move on to | 0:24:00 | 0:24:04 | |
live a healthy and happy life. We
are so proud of you for all you have | 0:24:04 | 0:24:10 | |
overcome. We pray for you as you
continue on this journey. Where are | 0:24:10 | 0:24:15 | |
you? Hello. Thank you.
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When I had the honour of visiting a
recovery Centre for infants born | 0:24:30 | 0:24:38 | |
addicted to drugs, I learned that
help baby succeed we must have their | 0:24:38 | 0:24:43 | |
parents succeed. By placing a
priority the whole family Lily's | 0:24:43 | 0:24:49 | |
Place is giving infants the best
opportunity because their parents | 0:24:49 | 0:24:55 | |
are being given the support and
tools they need to succeed. I want | 0:24:55 | 0:24:58 | |
to thank Rebecca crowd and the staff
at lily's Place for their heroic | 0:24:58 | 0:25:04 | |
efforts.
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I have learnt so much from those
brave enough to talk about this | 0:25:13 | 0:25:17 | |
epidemic. And I know there are many
more stories to tell. But what I | 0:25:17 | 0:25:22 | |
found to be the common theme with
all of these stories is that this | 0:25:22 | 0:25:26 | |
can happen to any of us. Drug
addiction can take your friends, | 0:25:26 | 0:25:32 | |
neighbours, or your family. No state
has been spared. And no demographic | 0:25:32 | 0:25:37 | |
has been untouched. Which is why my
husband and his administration has | 0:25:37 | 0:25:43 | |
dedicated itself to combating this
health crisis by using every | 0:25:43 | 0:25:47 | |
resource available. I'm so proud to
support him today as he sees this | 0:25:47 | 0:25:55 | |
commitment through. I look forward
to continuing my work on the half of | 0:25:55 | 0:26:00 | |
children across the country and I
hope that citizens everywhere will | 0:26:00 | 0:26:05 | |
join forces with this administration
to help... | 0:26:05 | 0:26:07 | |
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God bless the United States of | 0:26:07 | 0:26:16 | |
America. Thank you for being here
today. | 0:26:16 | 0:26:19 | |
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Thank you for your moving words. And
thank you for your deep devotion. To | 0:26:39 | 0:26:48 | |
our nation and its children. Thank
you also to members of Congress, my | 0:26:48 | 0:26:53 | |
Cabinet, governors, members of
Congress, state, local leaders, | 0:26:53 | 0:26:58 | |
first responders, and health care
professionals gathered here today. | 0:26:58 | 0:27:02 | |
We have some truly incredible people
in this room, that I can tell you. | 0:27:02 | 0:27:05 | |
Most importantly we acknowledge the
families present who have lost a | 0:27:05 | 0:27:10 | |
cherished loved one. As you all know
from personal experience, families, | 0:27:10 | 0:27:16 | |
communities, and citizens across our
country are currently dealing with | 0:27:16 | 0:27:20 | |
the worst job crisis in American
history. And even, if you really | 0:27:20 | 0:27:24 | |
think about it, world history. This
is all throughout the world. Fact | 0:27:24 | 0:27:29 | |
is, this is a worldwide problem.
This crisis of drug use, addiction, | 0:27:29 | 0:27:35 | |
and overdose deaths in many years it
has just been so long in the making. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:42 | |
Addressing it will require all of
our effort. And it will require us | 0:27:42 | 0:27:46 | |
to confront the crisis in all of its
very real complexity. Last year we | 0:27:46 | 0:27:55 | |
lost at least 64,000 Americans to
overdoses. That's 175 lost American | 0:27:55 | 0:28:01 | |
lives per day. That's seven lost
lives per hour. In our country. Drug | 0:28:01 | 0:28:09 | |
overdoses are now the leading cause
of unintentional death in the United | 0:28:09 | 0:28:13 | |
States by far. More people are dying
from drug overdoses today than from | 0:28:13 | 0:28:20 | |
gun homicide and motor vehicles
combined. Think of it. Motor vehicle | 0:28:20 | 0:28:26 | |
crashes, gun homicides, more people,
by far, from drug overdoses. These | 0:28:26 | 0:28:34 | |
overdoses are driven by a massive
increase in addiction. To | 0:28:34 | 0:28:40 | |
prescription painkillers. Heroin and
other opioids. Last year almost 1 | 0:28:40 | 0:28:45 | |
million Americans used heroin. And
more than 11 million abused | 0:28:45 | 0:28:52 | |
prescription opioids. The United
States is by far the largest | 0:28:52 | 0:28:58 | |
consumer of these drugs. Using more
opioid per person than any other | 0:28:58 | 0:29:03 | |
country in the world. Opioid
overdose deaths have quadrupled | 0:29:03 | 0:29:08 | |
since 1999. And now I can't for the
majority of fatal drug overdoses. | 0:29:08 | 0:29:12 | |
Who would have thought? No part of
our society, not young or old, rich | 0:29:12 | 0:29:21 | |
or poor, urban or Rouble, has been
spared this plague of drug | 0:29:21 | 0:29:26 | |
addiction. -- urban or rural. And
this horrible situation that's | 0:29:26 | 0:29:31 | |
taking place with opioids. In West
Virginia, a truly great state, great | 0:29:31 | 0:29:40 | |
people, there is a hospital nursery
where one in every five babies | 0:29:40 | 0:29:45 | |
spends its first days in agony.
Because these precious babies were | 0:29:45 | 0:29:52 | |
exposed to opioid or other drugs in
the womb. They endure nausea, pain, | 0:29:52 | 0:29:57 | |
anxiety, sleeplessness, and trouble
eating. Just the same as adults | 0:29:57 | 0:30:03 | |
undergoing detox. Some of these
children will likely lose one or | 0:30:03 | 0:30:08 | |
both of their parents to drug
addiction and overdose. They will | 0:30:08 | 0:30:12 | |
join the growing ranks of America's
opioid orphans. Such beautiful, | 0:30:12 | 0:30:19 | |
beautiful babies. Beyond the
shocking death toll, the terrible | 0:30:19 | 0:30:26 | |
measure of the opioid crisis
includes the families ripped apart | 0:30:26 | 0:30:30 | |
and for many communities a
generation of lost potential and | 0:30:30 | 0:30:35 | |
opportunity. This epidemic is a
national health emergency. Unlike | 0:30:35 | 0:30:40 | |
many of us we have seen and what we
have seen in our lifetimes nobody | 0:30:40 | 0:30:47 | |
has seen anything like what's going
on now. As Americans we cannot allow | 0:30:47 | 0:30:53 | |
this to continue. It's time to
liberate our communities from this | 0:30:53 | 0:31:01 | |
scorch of -- scourge of drug
addiction which has never been this | 0:31:01 | 0:31:06 | |
way. We can be the generation that
ends the opioid epidemic. We can do | 0:31:06 | 0:31:10 | |
it.
APPLAUSE | 0:31:10 | 0:31:19 | |
We can do it. | 0:31:19 | 0:31:21 | |
That is quite effective today, my
administration is effectively | 0:31:39 | 0:31:46 | |
declaring the opiate crisis and
national public health or urgency | 0:31:46 | 0:31:50 | |
under federal law and while I am
directing all federal agencies to | 0:31:50 | 0:31:56 | |
use every appropriate emergency
authority to fight the opioid | 0:31:56 | 0:31:59 | |
crisis. This marks a critical step
in confronting the extraordinary | 0:31:59 | 0:32:07 | |
challenge we face. As part of this
we will announce a new policy to | 0:32:07 | 0:32:11 | |
overcome a restrictive 1970s Euro
rule that prevents states from | 0:32:11 | 0:32:19 | |
providing care at certain treatment
facilities with more than 16 beds | 0:32:19 | 0:32:23 | |
for those suffering from drug
addiction. | 0:32:23 | 0:32:34 | |
APPLAUSE. | 0:32:36 | 0:32:42 | |
A number of states have reached out
to us asking for relief and you | 0:32:42 | 0:32:47 | |
should expect to see approvals that
will unlock help for people in need | 0:32:47 | 0:32:51 | |
and those will come very fast, not
like in the past, very quickly. | 0:32:51 | 0:32:59 | |
Ending the epidemic will require
mobilisation of government, local | 0:32:59 | 0:33:04 | |
communities and private
organisations. It will require the | 0:33:04 | 0:33:07 | |
resolve of our entire country. The
scale of this crisis of the diction | 0:33:07 | 0:33:13 | |
is why soon after coming into
office, I convened a presidential | 0:33:13 | 0:33:17 | |
commission headed by Governor Chris
Christie that has consulted with | 0:33:17 | 0:33:23 | |
experts across America to listen and
learn and report back on potential | 0:33:23 | 0:33:27 | |
solutions. We await the final report
which will come in next week and I | 0:33:27 | 0:33:34 | |
know some of the report has already
been seen because I want to see it | 0:33:34 | 0:33:39 | |
as quickly as possible and some of
the things they are recommending our | 0:33:39 | 0:33:45 | |
common-sense but very important and
they will have a tremendous impact. | 0:33:45 | 0:33:51 | |
Today I will detail many of these
aggressive steps with my | 0:33:51 | 0:33:56 | |
administration, we have already
taken. After we have evaluated the | 0:33:56 | 0:34:01 | |
findings I will implement
recommendations that I want the | 0:34:01 | 0:34:07 | |
American people to know that the
federal government is aggressively | 0:34:07 | 0:34:11 | |
fighting the opioid epidemic on all
fronts. We are working with doctors | 0:34:11 | 0:34:18 | |
and medical professionals to
complement best practices for safe | 0:34:18 | 0:34:23 | |
opioid prescribing and we will do
something very special. We are | 0:34:23 | 0:34:30 | |
requiring federally employed
prescribers to receive special | 0:34:30 | 0:34:32 | |
training. The centres for disease
control and prevention has launched | 0:34:32 | 0:34:41 | |
a prescription awareness campaign to
put faces on the danger of opioid | 0:34:41 | 0:34:46 | |
abuse. I want to acknowledge an
acknowledgement last month that | 0:34:46 | 0:34:56 | |
first-time opioid prescriptions will
be limited to seven day supplies and | 0:34:56 | 0:35:00 | |
encourage other companies to do
their part to help to stop this | 0:35:00 | 0:35:04 | |
epidemic. | 0:35:04 | 0:35:14 | |
The FDA is now requiring drug
companies that manufacture | 0:35:18 | 0:35:22 | |
prescription opioids to provide more
training to prescribers and to help | 0:35:22 | 0:35:28 | |
prevent abuse and addiction and has
requested that one especially high | 0:35:28 | 0:35:33 | |
risk opioid be withdrawn from the
market immediately. We are requiring | 0:35:33 | 0:35:40 | |
that a specific opioid, which is
truly evil, be taken off the market | 0:35:40 | 0:35:47 | |
immediately. | 0:35:47 | 0:35:57 | |
The US Postal Service and the
Department of Homeland Security are | 0:35:59 | 0:36:04 | |
strengthening the inspection of
packages coming into our country to | 0:36:04 | 0:36:08 | |
hold back the flood of cheap and
deadly sentinel, a synthetic opioid | 0:36:08 | 0:36:13 | |
manufactured in China and 50 times
stronger than heroin, and in two | 0:36:13 | 0:36:20 | |
weeks I will be in China with
President Xi and I will mention this | 0:36:20 | 0:36:25 | |
as a top priority. And he will do
something about it. I am also | 0:36:25 | 0:36:39 | |
pleased to report that for the first
time, the Department of Justice has | 0:36:39 | 0:36:45 | |
indicated major Chinese drug
traffickers and they have really put | 0:36:45 | 0:36:50 | |
very strong clamps on them, they
have indicted them. They distributed | 0:36:50 | 0:37:00 | |
sentinel into the US, so Jeff, thank
you, good job. And they have been | 0:37:00 | 0:37:10 | |
indicted and we will not forget
about it, they are doing tremendous | 0:37:10 | 0:37:14 | |
harm to our country. The Justice
Department is aggressively and | 0:37:14 | 0:37:21 | |
valiantly pursuing those who
illegally prescribed and traffic in | 0:37:21 | 0:37:26 | |
opioids, both in our communities and
on the internet and I will be | 0:37:26 | 0:37:30 | |
looking at the potential of the
federal government bringing major | 0:37:30 | 0:37:35 | |
lawsuits against bad actors, what
they have and are doing to our | 0:37:35 | 0:37:41 | |
people is unheard-of and we will
bring some major lawsuits against | 0:37:41 | 0:37:45 | |
people and companies that are
hurting our people and that will | 0:37:45 | 0:37:49 | |
start taking place soon. Donald
Trump speaking at the White House on | 0:37:49 | 0:37:57 | |
his plan for dealing with opioids,
some of the highlights, cracking | 0:37:57 | 0:38:03 | |
down on the trafficking of sentinel,
a synthetic opioid sent in from | 0:38:03 | 0:38:11 | |
China, going after Chinese
traffickers and withdrawing one | 0:38:11 | 0:38:14 | |
opioid from the market, he didn't
say which one, and perhaps | 0:38:14 | 0:38:19 | |
critically requiring more training
for people who are prescribing these | 0:38:19 | 0:38:26 | |
addictive drugs, and then also
trying to limit prescriptions to | 0:38:26 | 0:38:30 | |
seven day prescriptions for
first-time users. Laura Bicker is at | 0:38:30 | 0:38:34 | |
the White House, you have been
listening to the president. Is the | 0:38:34 | 0:38:39 | |
plan he has announced the type of
plan that will make an impact on | 0:38:39 | 0:38:43 | |
opioid addiction? A lot of this has
been about policy, a lot of what you | 0:38:43 | 0:38:50 | |
heard is about procedure but the
overriding message from the White | 0:38:50 | 0:38:55 | |
House is that President Trump wants
to do something about a problem that | 0:38:55 | 0:39:00 | |
is an epidemic in this country. He
talked about approvals for | 0:39:00 | 0:39:04 | |
treatments to aggressively fight
this on all levels but by declaring | 0:39:04 | 0:39:09 | |
a public health or urgency he is
creating another problem because | 0:39:09 | 0:39:14 | |
many critics said we need a state of
emergency, federal funds to flow | 0:39:14 | 0:39:19 | |
into states so we can give people
the treatment they need, but he | 0:39:19 | 0:39:23 | |
stops short of that, he has given a
more measured response and declared | 0:39:23 | 0:39:30 | |
there is public health emergency
which redistributes funds and | 0:39:30 | 0:39:34 | |
resources, you can get more doctors
into rural areas, but people say it | 0:39:34 | 0:39:40 | |
doesn't create extra funds. There is
talk of going to Congress to get | 0:39:40 | 0:39:45 | |
more approval for funding but right
now critics say they need the money | 0:39:45 | 0:39:50 | |
to get these drug treatments
available to those who need it. | 0:39:50 | 0:39:54 | |
Laura, thank you. We will see if
that funding becomes available. We | 0:39:54 | 0:40:01 | |
still have run Christie in the
studio. Ron, I don't know enough | 0:40:01 | 0:40:08 | |
about the opioid addiction process
and what is needed in terms of | 0:40:08 | 0:40:12 | |
treatment because it is complex and
there are so many parts but what do | 0:40:12 | 0:40:16 | |
you make of the steps he is laying
out? So far so good, I think he is | 0:40:16 | 0:40:24 | |
using the power of the presidency to
elevate an issue that many Americans | 0:40:24 | 0:40:29 | |
have organised as a problem that he
is saying he has declared an | 0:40:29 | 0:40:35 | |
emergency and put the re-sources of
the government behind it, so that is | 0:40:35 | 0:40:39 | |
a positive step that I believe will
be nonpartisan, we heard Laura talk | 0:40:39 | 0:40:45 | |
about some of the frustrations about
funding but I think there will be a | 0:40:45 | 0:40:50 | |
bipartisan effort to give the
president the tools and money to | 0:40:50 | 0:40:54 | |
fight this. Christian, you heard the
president talking about fentanyl, it | 0:40:54 | 0:41:00 | |
is not a prescription drug in
America, it is bought on the black | 0:41:00 | 0:41:05 | |
market but unbelievably powerful. I
brought a prop in to show people the | 0:41:05 | 0:41:12 | |
scale of the problem. Here is a one
kilogram bag of sugar. If this was | 0:41:12 | 0:41:18 | |
heroin, this would sail on the US
market for about $60,000 as is that | 0:41:18 | 0:41:24 | |
when it is let down into one gram
wraps, that would bring several | 0:41:24 | 0:41:29 | |
hundred thousand dollars. If this
was fentanyl, and you heard the | 0:41:29 | 0:41:35 | |
president say it was 50 times
stronger, you would cut this down to | 0:41:35 | 0:41:39 | |
50 mg pills, and each one of those
is sold for $20 or $30. You can make | 0:41:39 | 0:41:48 | |
around a million pills from a bag as
big as this, so this bag would be | 0:41:48 | 0:41:53 | |
worth around 20 or $30 million.
Christian comic you heard the | 0:41:53 | 0:42:01 | |
president talk about getting the
postal service to track down on | 0:42:01 | 0:42:04 | |
people sending fentanyl into the
country but that sounds impossible. | 0:42:04 | 0:42:12 | |
You don't have to send a bag as big
as that, you consent some in an | 0:42:12 | 0:42:18 | |
envelope, and it is difficult to
stop people buying it on the black | 0:42:18 | 0:42:22 | |
market or over the internet and
bringing it in and the battle | 0:42:22 | 0:42:26 | |
against trafficking, heroin and
cocaine coming through the border, | 0:42:26 | 0:42:34 | |
that is the old work, this is the
new war and is much more difficult | 0:42:34 | 0:42:39 | |
to tackle. Let's hope for all the
family suffering from this, | 0:42:39 | 0:42:44 | |
something gets done. Let's return to
the independence process in | 0:42:44 | 0:42:50 | |
Catalonia. Carles Puigdemont has
ruled out at referendum for | 0:42:50 | 0:42:58 | |
independence today. As the day wore
on, he decided against calling one | 0:42:58 | 0:43:03 | |
for December. Tomorrow lawmakers in
Madrid will try to push through a | 0:43:03 | 0:43:12 | |
bid to claw back power, this is
creating huge divisions among | 0:43:12 | 0:43:17 | |
friends and families in Catalonia.
So let's speak to two ordinary | 0:43:17 | 0:43:23 | |
people with different views, a
businessman who was against | 0:43:23 | 0:43:29 | |
independence and Maria, who says she
becomes more in favour of | 0:43:29 | 0:43:34 | |
independence in reaction to the
Spanish government's behaviour. | 0:43:34 | 0:43:38 | |
Carlos, what is it you do like about
independence? I think it's a | 0:43:38 | 0:43:47 | |
nationalist, populist movement based
on selfishness and I will be for | 0:43:47 | 0:43:52 | |
unity and solidarity. That does not
justify exclusion of others. Tell us | 0:43:52 | 0:44:06 | |
how divisive this has been in
Catalonia. I don't think this has | 0:44:06 | 0:44:12 | |
been divisive only over the last few
weeks, this has created division in | 0:44:12 | 0:44:18 | |
the last years and not only
Catalonia, I have friends who are | 0:44:18 | 0:44:23 | |
against independence and I have
friends who work hard-core | 0:44:23 | 0:44:28 | |
pro-independence and we talked to
each other. I don't think there is | 0:44:28 | 0:44:32 | |
such a big social division, now of
course we have different standpoints | 0:44:32 | 0:44:38 | |
and some of us want to have a better
life and we think independence is | 0:44:38 | 0:44:44 | |
part of that. Carlos, a lot of
people would argue that Carles | 0:44:44 | 0:44:50 | |
Puigdemont has not handled this very
well since the referendum but the | 0:44:50 | 0:44:56 | |
sentiment that Marina expressed is
not going away. Whatever happens, | 0:44:56 | 0:45:01 | |
there will be a big chunk of people
in Catalonia who want independence. | 0:45:01 | 0:45:07 | |
Of course, and I respect any
political option but I am for unity | 0:45:07 | 0:45:14 | |
and fraternity and with time and
understanding and with the | 0:45:14 | 0:45:19 | |
propaganda and fake news, we have
seen this populism before in Europe, | 0:45:19 | 0:45:25 | |
this is what is happening here. Once
we stop the new wheeze and fake news | 0:45:25 | 0:45:31 | |
and post-truth, we will have a
better picture of what is going on | 0:45:31 | 0:45:35 | |
in Catalonia and can't think about
how we reached this point. Marina, | 0:45:35 | 0:45:42 | |
has the exit from Catalonia of a
slew of Spanish companies made you | 0:45:42 | 0:45:47 | |
think twice? Has it made you think
that independence is something the | 0:45:47 | 0:45:51 | |
region cannot afford? No, it hasn't.
Some of us think that is part of the | 0:45:51 | 0:45:59 | |
game, part of what was planned. It
is incredible to think that some of | 0:45:59 | 0:46:06 | |
these companies decided two days
later that they were moving their | 0:46:06 | 0:46:09 | |
headquarters. Moving their
headquarters has not meant moving | 0:46:09 | 0:46:14 | |
any of the jobs that are here, so it
makes you think, and then when you | 0:46:14 | 0:46:20 | |
hear something from the car company
saying they have been receiving | 0:46:20 | 0:46:27 | |
pressure from big government, from
the monarchy, to move away from | 0:46:27 | 0:46:33 | |
Catalonia, to bring their
headquarters outside Catalonia, you | 0:46:33 | 0:46:37 | |
start understanding there is more
happening behind-the-scenes. Carlos, | 0:46:37 | 0:46:43 | |
a lot of frustration in Catalonia is
about the money they send to Madrid, | 0:46:43 | 0:46:47 | |
far more in taxes than they get
back, it pays around ten million | 0:46:47 | 0:46:51 | |
yours to Madrid. This is something
you have to understand, this is a | 0:46:51 | 0:47:01 | |
rich people revolution, a rich
region that doesn't want to share | 0:47:01 | 0:47:06 | |
with the rest of Spain, it is like
London or New York not wanting to | 0:47:06 | 0:47:11 | |
contribute to pure parts of the
countries. Catalonia has a fiscal | 0:47:11 | 0:47:17 | |
deficit because it is a rich region
then Andalusia, that the fiscal | 0:47:17 | 0:47:22 | |
deficit is normal than any other
country, there are many studies, but | 0:47:22 | 0:47:30 | |
the pro-independence from they could
have spent a reasonable reliable 's | 0:47:30 | 0:47:38 | |
report on that by international
economists to show we are suffering | 0:47:38 | 0:47:44 | |
as fiscal deficit which we don't. We
will have to leave it there. Thank | 0:47:44 | 0:47:51 | |
you both for joining us. Votes in
Kenya's rerun election are being | 0:47:51 | 0:47:59 | |
counted in many parts of the country
but the vote was suspended until | 0:47:59 | 0:48:03 | |
Saturday. The opposition leader,
Raila Odinga, had called on | 0:48:03 | 0:48:15 | |
supporters to boycott the poll. The
assassination of President John F. | 0:48:15 | 0:48:25 | |
Kennedy in 1963 has spawned
countless books and websites. Today, | 0:48:25 | 0:48:31 | |
documents relating to the killing
had been made public for the first | 0:48:31 | 0:48:34 | |
time. | 0:48:34 | 0:48:38 | |
November the 22nd, 1963. | 0:48:38 | 0:48:39 | |
It appears as though
something has happened in | 0:48:39 | 0:48:41 | |
the motorcade. | 0:48:41 | 0:48:42 | |
Something has happened
in the motorcade route. | 0:48:42 | 0:48:44 | |
Not just one of the
most shocking days | 0:48:44 | 0:48:46 | |
in American history,
but also one of the most disputed. | 0:48:46 | 0:48:48 | |
President Kennedy has
been assassinated. | 0:48:48 | 0:48:49 | |
It's official now,
the president is dead. | 0:48:49 | 0:48:52 | |
The official explanation is that
John F Kennedy was assassinated | 0:48:52 | 0:48:55 | |
in Dallas by unknown
gunman, Lee Harvey | 0:48:55 | 0:48:58 | |
Oswald, but the case has never been
closed in the American mind. | 0:48:58 | 0:49:02 | |
Were there Soviets involved?
The Cubans? | 0:49:02 | 0:49:04 | |
The Mafia? | 0:49:04 | 0:49:05 | |
Renegade elements within
the government he led? | 0:49:05 | 0:49:10 | |
The National Archives holds
5 million documents | 0:49:10 | 0:49:12 | |
on the assassination. | 0:49:12 | 0:49:13 | |
99% have already been
opened in some form. | 0:49:13 | 0:49:17 | |
But it's that final 1%
of mainly CIA and FBI files | 0:49:17 | 0:49:20 | |
that's so intriguing. | 0:49:20 | 0:49:21 | |
I would welcome a eureka moment. | 0:49:21 | 0:49:24 | |
I doubt that we'd
get a eureka moment. | 0:49:24 | 0:49:26 | |
Most of what we're
going to see is going | 0:49:26 | 0:49:28 | |
to be about details and incremental
advances in our knowledge | 0:49:28 | 0:49:33 | |
about the assassination. | 0:49:33 | 0:49:35 | |
But again, I hope I'm surprised,
I hope there is something | 0:49:35 | 0:49:38 | |
there that'll help us to solve
the enduring mysteries | 0:49:38 | 0:49:41 | |
of the Kennedy assassination. | 0:49:41 | 0:49:44 | |
What's fuelled the conspiracy
theories is that Lee Harvey Oswald | 0:49:44 | 0:49:46 | |
was himself murdered just days later
by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby. | 0:49:46 | 0:49:54 | |
The documents may reveal more
about a trip that Oswald made | 0:49:54 | 0:49:58 | |
to Mexico just weeks before
where he met Soviet and Cuban spies. | 0:49:58 | 0:50:01 | |
It's more than 50 years
since America mourned the loss | 0:50:01 | 0:50:05 | |
of its young leader. | 0:50:05 | 0:50:08 | |
A national wound that
has never truly healed, | 0:50:08 | 0:50:11 | |
and a chapter in the national
story that has never had | 0:50:11 | 0:50:14 | |
a satisfactory ending. | 0:50:14 | 0:50:16 | |
The assassination of John F
Kennedy was a turning point not just | 0:50:16 | 0:50:19 | |
because a 46-year-old president had
been cut down in his prime, | 0:50:19 | 0:50:24 | |
but because many Americans came to
believe that their government simply | 0:50:24 | 0:50:28 | |
wasn't telling them the truth. | 0:50:28 | 0:50:31 | |
Part of the reason why
Congress ordered this | 0:50:31 | 0:50:34 | |
document dump was to
regain that lost trust. | 0:50:34 | 0:50:40 | |
The historical irony
is that the decision to release | 0:50:40 | 0:50:43 | |
the files rests with the modern-day
president, Donald Trump, | 0:50:43 | 0:50:45 | |
who has promoted JFK conspiracy
theories himself. | 0:50:45 | 0:50:49 | |
But will they bring
a sense of closure? | 0:50:49 | 0:50:59 | |
I know Nick has been waiting for
those documents all day. He wrote a | 0:51:01 | 0:51:08 | |
book about Kennedy, so he is anxious
to see what they say. Let's talk | 0:51:08 | 0:51:14 | |
about a supercar. What do you get
when you mix a fighter jet, a | 0:51:14 | 0:51:19 | |
Formula 1 racing car and a
spaceship? The answer is a card | 0:51:19 | 0:51:25 | |
designed to reach speeds of up to
100 kilometres per art, and the | 0:51:25 | 0:51:30 | |
brains behind that hope it will set
a new lands speed record next year. | 0:51:30 | 0:51:36 | |
To date during testing in Cornwall,
Bloodhound barely broke us sweat. It | 0:51:36 | 0:51:45 | |
was tested on the runway at Newquay
Airport. | 0:51:45 | 0:51:52 | |
On the taxiway at Newquay airport,
a five tonne vehicle that can | 0:51:52 | 0:51:55 | |
generate six times more power
than an entire Formula 1 grid | 0:51:55 | 0:51:57 | |
and accelerate to 130
mph in eight seconds. | 0:51:57 | 0:51:59 | |
You are clear to roll. | 0:51:59 | 0:52:01 | |
The wind is 2 o'clock,
and five knots. | 0:52:01 | 0:52:03 | |
This is a really important day
for Bloodhound and her team. | 0:52:03 | 0:52:06 | |
If they can get the engines
and the systems working | 0:52:06 | 0:52:09 | |
together at 200 mph,
then the car is well on its way | 0:52:09 | 0:52:13 | |
to its eventual target. | 0:52:13 | 0:52:16 | |
Hurtling down the 1.5 mile
runway, driver Andy Green, | 0:52:16 | 0:52:19 | |
a former fighter pilot,
had no room for error. | 0:52:19 | 0:52:26 | |
Switching from throttle
to brakes, just in time | 0:52:26 | 0:52:28 | |
to halt Bloodhound safely. | 0:52:28 | 0:52:31 | |
How did it go, Andy? | 0:52:31 | 0:52:33 | |
That was surprisingly hard work. | 0:52:33 | 0:52:36 | |
It's the longest runs we've
done so far, the fastest | 0:52:36 | 0:52:39 | |
runs we've done so far. | 0:52:39 | 0:52:40 | |
This is massive for us. | 0:52:40 | 0:52:41 | |
Bloodhound is go. | 0:52:41 | 0:52:42 | |
This car is now operational
and is demonstrating something | 0:52:42 | 0:52:44 | |
it was never designed to do. | 0:52:44 | 0:52:46 | |
Short distance runs to a very high
speed with high acceleration | 0:52:46 | 0:52:48 | |
and it's making it look easy. | 0:52:48 | 0:52:50 | |
This project has cost £30 million
to date and captured the imagination | 0:52:50 | 0:52:54 | |
of a worldwide audience. | 0:52:54 | 0:52:56 | |
Over 4000 watched today's run,
and thousands more will be | 0:52:56 | 0:52:59 | |
here over the weekend. | 0:52:59 | 0:53:01 | |
Among them, the 85-year-old
engineer who came up | 0:53:01 | 0:53:04 | |
with the original blueprint. | 0:53:04 | 0:53:07 | |
I'm proud that we've got this far. | 0:53:07 | 0:53:12 | |
What I really want to do is make
nice loud supersonic bangs that | 0:53:12 | 0:53:15 | |
will reverberate around the world. | 0:53:15 | 0:53:17 | |
In the coming months,
rocket systems will be added | 0:53:17 | 0:53:20 | |
to Bloodhound as its speeds
are gradually increased ahead | 0:53:20 | 0:53:23 | |
of that record attempt on the sandy
plains of South Africa. | 0:53:23 | 0:53:33 | |
Do you want my start of the day?
When they go to the Kalahari Desert | 0:53:36 | 0:53:42 | |
next year, it has to be really
smooth. No chips and stones on the | 0:53:42 | 0:53:48 | |
desert. Some 300 people have spent
the last four years clearing an area | 0:53:48 | 0:53:55 | |
of 20 million square metres in the
Kalahari Desert to make sure it gets | 0:53:55 | 0:53:59 | |
the perfect bride. I guess that's an
employment programme. You might | 0:53:59 | 0:54:07 | |
notice that every year we were a
poppy to remember those killed in | 0:54:07 | 0:54:11 | |
World War I and this year as
Remembrance Day approaches, the | 0:54:11 | 0:54:16 | |
words of one of the most famous
poets to emerge from the horrors of | 0:54:16 | 0:54:21 | |
the First World War have been
written in poppies across locations | 0:54:21 | 0:54:24 | |
in England and France. It is the
work of the Royal British Legion to | 0:54:24 | 0:54:30 | |
launch this year's Poppy Appeal. In
Flanders Fields was written by the | 0:54:30 | 0:54:38 | |
Canadian War poet John McCrae. | 0:54:38 | 0:54:41 | |
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row... | 0:54:55 | 0:55:00 | |
That mark our place and in the sky,
the larks still singing, scarcely | 0:55:00 | 0:55:10 | |
heard by guns below. | 0:55:10 | 0:55:18 | |
We are the dead, short
days ago we lived, felt | 0:55:18 | 0:55:21 | |
dawn, saw sunset glow. | 0:55:21 | 0:55:28 | |
Felt love and were loved and now lie
in Flanders Fields. | 0:55:28 | 0:55:40 | |
Take up our quarrel with the foe,
to you from failing | 0:55:42 | 0:55:45 | |
hands we throw the torch | 0:55:45 | 0:55:49 | |
If you break faith with us to die,
we shall not sleep, though poppies | 0:55:49 | 0:55:53 | |
grow in Flanders Fields. | 0:55:53 | 0:56:03 | |
They hope to raise £45 million for
fallen soldiers and veterans so do | 0:56:03 | 0:56:08 | |
give generously. Goodbye for now. | 0:56:08 | 0:56:11 |