:00:00. > 3:59:59straight sets defeat to Grigor Dimitrov in the quarterfinals. ``
:00:00. > :00:15.there are no excuses. Hello, and welcome to
:00:16. > :00:18.our look ahead to what the papers With me are broadcaster Penny Smith,
:00:19. > :00:23.and Sarah O'Connor, economics correspondent
:00:24. > :00:34.of the Financial Times. It feels weird introducing new as a
:00:35. > :00:45.broadcaster because you are my colleague as well. The Independent
:00:46. > :00:48.says the BBC has lost highly sensitive information about a
:00:49. > :00:55.military unit. The BBC says it would be inappropriate to comment while an
:00:56. > :01:00.investigation is underway. Pensions are rising to meet salaries. People
:01:01. > :01:10.are denied life`saving operations because of age discrimination within
:01:11. > :01:16.the NHS. The Marrero `` Mira reports that a UK citizen in Syria has
:01:17. > :01:21.tweeted a picture of himself with bombs. And the pool of international
:01:22. > :01:28.talent available to British business has been shrunk by curbs on
:01:29. > :01:33.immigration. There have been a lot of stories on the NHS in the last
:01:34. > :01:39.few days. NHS defies law to deny pensioners vital surgery. Shocking.
:01:40. > :01:46.They are saying that the law is supposed to state that as a doctor,
:01:47. > :01:49.you were supposed to look at how fit somebody is for surgery and whether
:01:50. > :01:55.this will improve their life. There is supposed to be no age barrier.
:01:56. > :02:00.There is no `` that is the law. The writing is so small. Because of age
:02:01. > :02:03.discrimination, the Royal College of surgeons has warned that elderly
:02:04. > :02:08.people have been denied life`saving operations. Almost no ages ``
:02:09. > :02:14.patients over the age of 75 are getting surgery for breast cancer or
:02:15. > :02:20.call bladder surgery. It is alarming inexcusable. The point is, why
:02:21. > :02:24.should they be denied? 75 is the new 65, and people are keeping fit
:02:25. > :02:27.longer. Why should people who are possibly going to live into their
:02:28. > :02:31.80s and 90s going to be denied treatment when somebody who is
:02:32. > :02:37.younger but it was a smoker, heavy drinker, over eight, never does any
:02:38. > :02:42.exercise, as the operations? That seems to me to be wrong. We are
:02:43. > :02:48.living so much longer. Why should we spend the last decades of our lives
:02:49. > :02:56.in abject pain? Sarah, he comes your department. A lot of it is economics
:02:57. > :03:00.as well. A huge strain on the NHS. Won the NHS has been protected from
:03:01. > :03:06.the west of austerity. He has been in the right thirds. We are seeing
:03:07. > :03:11.all kinds of strain. This is just the latest story. When you have a
:03:12. > :03:14.population growing older that needs more health care, keeping the NHS
:03:15. > :03:18.budget in line with inflation is not enough. I would imagine we would
:03:19. > :03:23.need to start to see more of these problems. This is actually illegal
:03:24. > :03:27.if this is happening. You wonder if they will have to change the tax
:03:28. > :03:34.rolls, because the whole thing about National Insurance was that we all
:03:35. > :03:38.fall `` thought National Insurance was about paying for the NHS. People
:03:39. > :03:44.did not mind that. There is this feeling that we all love the NHS. It
:03:45. > :03:53.is a lovely, cuddly element. It is like an unwieldy cuddly animal. It
:03:54. > :03:59.is an expensive cuddly animal. I do wonder if we are going to have to,
:04:00. > :04:05.if we care about the NHS, to stump up more money, because that is what
:04:06. > :04:10.will need to happen. People have horrific NHS experiences, and those
:04:11. > :04:14.are the ones you read about. People also have fantastic NHS experiences.
:04:15. > :04:18.My parents could not present hard enough. They do not make the
:04:19. > :04:26.headlines. And to the Guardian. Another NHS story. NHS Cancer care
:04:27. > :04:31.faces privatisation. Firms are to tender for 1.2 billion contracts
:04:32. > :04:37.according to the Guardian. End of life services are open for bids.
:04:38. > :04:40.Some private Cancer care will take you to an NHS hospital. They do
:04:41. > :04:45.already if you are praying for private care, the NHS provides good
:04:46. > :04:51.enough care for it to be deemed needing to pay extra premium. ``
:04:52. > :04:55.paying for private care. It is not all kids are cared there is
:04:56. > :05:01.potentially going to be privatised. `` Cancer care. It is commissioning
:05:02. > :05:07.group areas in Staffordshire. People could say it is the thin end of the
:05:08. > :05:13.wedge. ?1.2 billion worth of money, and there are various camp ``
:05:14. > :05:16.companies such as Richard Branson's company who are interested in
:05:17. > :05:20.bidding. There will not just provide the services, but make decisions
:05:21. > :05:24.about treatment and who gets them. This will be Cancer care open to
:05:25. > :05:29.non`private patients, right? Or is it only private patients? This will
:05:30. > :05:40.be open to everybody. It would just be run by the rabid sector. So this
:05:41. > :05:46.is it the NHS. Unison as saying they have grave concerns that potentially
:05:47. > :05:49.this is handing over all decision`making on cancer and end of
:05:50. > :05:55.life care to private companies. In other words. People worry because
:05:56. > :05:58.anything that is done for profit, you feel, will not be done for the
:05:59. > :06:03.benefit of patients. It may be a wrong thought, and there are
:06:04. > :06:09.examples of profitable companies which actually do look after
:06:10. > :06:19.people. But there is this worry that in the NHS, you come in and you are
:06:20. > :06:22.not seen as a person, you are seen as a statistic. You are seen as a
:06:23. > :06:27.statistic. You are seen as somebody who may reel in the budget. As I was
:06:28. > :06:30.saying earlier, some NHS cancer hospitals are as good as private
:06:31. > :06:35.Cancer care as well, but clearly, the feeling goes back to what we
:06:36. > :06:41.were saying before. It is about economics. Andy Burnham says the
:06:42. > :06:47.public had not given the government permission to put the NHS up for
:06:48. > :06:53.sale. Probably a national mood. Onto the express. Their lead story is
:06:54. > :07:01.about pensions. Pension pay`outs are up each year. Over 65 is now earn
:07:02. > :07:05.close to the average salary. We have to read into this a lot. We issue in
:07:06. > :07:11.their getting good pensions, but this is presumably be in come of
:07:12. > :07:18.pensions. So they are working. Increasingly, pensioners are also
:07:19. > :07:22.working. So there is a couple of reasons for that. Because interest
:07:23. > :07:28.rates have fallen so low, which is something we will talk about later,
:07:29. > :07:33.when you buy an annuity it doesn't go far, so people are having to work
:07:34. > :07:36.longer to keep standards of living going. Pensions themselves, state
:07:37. > :07:41.pensions, have had a triple Bock from the government. It means they
:07:42. > :07:47.have been protected in a way that no other welfare spending has been
:07:48. > :07:50.protected. `` triple lock. There is a really important theme over the
:07:51. > :07:55.past few years, which is that everyone talks about inequality
:07:56. > :07:59.getting worse or better. Inequality is actually stable. What is really
:08:00. > :08:02.changed is that all people are getting richer. Young people are
:08:03. > :08:09.getting poorer, a lot poorer. The big divide is a general way she won,
:08:10. > :08:13.not a country one. `` a generation one. We're talking about a huge
:08:14. > :08:18.population. It is getting bigger, and we are counting on not having to
:08:19. > :08:24.work. That is what they had a penchant for. The other thing is
:08:25. > :08:29.that the retirement age has gone up. When you consider how the retirement
:08:30. > :08:33.age was and how will you were expected to live, there are actually
:08:34. > :08:40.now retirement is where you have a long time to go into your bucket
:08:41. > :08:47.list. Throw yourself out of your plane at 16,000 feet. It may be on
:08:48. > :08:53.your bucket list. None of those were. I can feel my eyeballs
:08:54. > :08:58.reverberating. You'd ever say heads up on this. The Financial Times, one
:08:59. > :09:03.of its front`page stories is referring to what Janet Yellen in
:09:04. > :09:09.Washington has been saying. No need to lift interest rates. Explain this
:09:10. > :09:12.story. This is a really big and important story. Janet Yellen,
:09:13. > :09:18.chairman of the US Federal reserve, the biggest central bank and the
:09:19. > :09:20.biggest economy in the world, like the Bank of England would is
:09:21. > :09:24.starting to think about raising rates, it is still pumping more
:09:25. > :09:32.stimulus into the economy. It is having weird side`effects. They are
:09:33. > :09:38.buying assets. This is pushing up the price of share prices. Risky
:09:39. > :09:44.bonds, house prices. We had dated today about London house prices
:09:45. > :09:48.going through the roof. `` data. People are saying, can you stop
:09:49. > :09:53.doing this? We're getting weird bubbles in property markets. You
:09:54. > :09:59.need to start raising rates. Janet Yellen is saying they don't agree.
:10:00. > :10:02.Yes, as prices are rising, but increasing interest rates would not
:10:03. > :10:07.be the thing to do. It would send the global economy backwards. When
:10:08. > :10:14.you raise interest rates, you suck to mind out of the economy. It is a
:10:15. > :10:21.way of dampening economic activity. It encourages people to save. All
:10:22. > :10:24.government wants to do is spend. A lot of people are now saving rather
:10:25. > :10:29.than spending. They want to get out of debt and put money away. They are
:10:30. > :10:33.not doing much for the economy. You lack if you have money in a bank,
:10:34. > :10:37.you are actually losing money, because you are getting no interest
:10:38. > :10:43.and it is not working for you and not doing anything. In real terms,
:10:44. > :10:51.you are boozing, as I understand, with her economics A`level. `` you
:10:52. > :10:57.are saying. We will get the decision on is just rates. The US is so much
:10:58. > :10:59.weaker than the UK. They are not even thinking about raising rates
:11:00. > :11:07.over there. They are thinking maybe they should start doing that. The
:11:08. > :11:11.markets were quite jumpy. Onto the Independent. Dedicating most of its
:11:12. > :11:17.front`page to a photograph their of very similar images to what we have
:11:18. > :11:21.seen on BBC News today of repression, despair, and flames of
:11:22. > :11:27.revenge, as calls it. These are the scenes East Jerusalem today.
:11:28. > :11:32.Palestinians setting ablaze tyres there. This is in reaction to the
:11:33. > :11:38.death of a Palestinian teenager. Following the deaths of the three
:11:39. > :11:45.Israeli teenagers as well. That actually is the words you would use,
:11:46. > :11:49.revenge. Repression. Despair. Also, just the thought of so many people
:11:50. > :11:52.who are caught up in this, and we saw it in Northern Ireland. That
:11:53. > :11:58.awful spiral of tit`for`tat killings and all the rest of it. People
:11:59. > :12:04.having to live, and I say leave, but actually, for many people, this is
:12:05. > :12:13.just an existence. It is so difficult to see where it goes from
:12:14. > :12:15.here. I remember reporting in Israel and in the Palestinian territory
:12:16. > :12:20.myself, and these images really much happen every week. There would be
:12:21. > :12:25.children as young as eight or nine setting fire to tyres, and throwing
:12:26. > :12:29.rocks. Usually the response from the defence Force will be rubber bullets
:12:30. > :12:33.against rocks. What we're seeing here is an increase in anger, and
:12:34. > :12:47.more people coming out, and there are huge ramifications.
:12:48. > :12:54.compared with the kind of things you saw? These scenes will be very
:12:55. > :12:59.familiar to any journalist who works in that part of the world. What we
:13:00. > :13:07.are seeing is a new scale and this is about where do we go from here?
:13:08. > :13:14.We have sent in some pretty big guns, I did not mean to say that,
:13:15. > :13:19.but we have sent in the best brains, people who are used to dealing with
:13:20. > :13:25.diplomacy, people who are used to sorting out things that are a bit of
:13:26. > :13:29.a mess, and yet still it carries on. The trouble is it is understandable.
:13:30. > :13:38.It is understandable why people get so angry and they throw tires and
:13:39. > :13:43.set fire to things and do these things. If you have got somebody who
:13:44. > :13:47.knows somebody who knows the person who was killed or tortured, or
:13:48. > :13:53.whatever, there is that feeling of getting back. You see it even in
:13:54. > :14:00.small places, you can see this escalation from something. If
:14:01. > :14:07.everybody said, let's keep calm and stop doing this... There is fear and
:14:08. > :14:11.anxiety on the other side of the war of separating. I am saying that is
:14:12. > :14:21.what is so awful about this. It is terrible, there is no area where you
:14:22. > :14:27.think is anybody looking at this? Let's finish on Andy Murray. We have
:14:28. > :14:31.actually got a cartoon on the front page of the Daily Telegraph. This is
:14:32. > :14:39.presumably in reference to the antibiotics story. Yes, we are
:14:40. > :14:44.becoming immune to antibiotics and the cartoon has got the usual people
:14:45. > :14:49.looking at the television screen. One day soon we will develop a
:14:50. > :14:55.resistance to sporting disasters and become immune. I think we are
:14:56. > :15:03.immune. We were very relaxed about going into the World Cup. We waited
:15:04. > :15:11.77 years for a winner and I was so overwhelmed. That sets us up very
:15:12. > :15:19.nicely for the sport. Stay with us on BBC News. MPs have described the
:15:20. > :15:23.failure to stop the practice of female genital mutilation as a
:15:24. > :15:34.national scandal. We will have a special report.
:15:35. > :15:37.Hello and welcome to Sportsday, I'm John Acres.