Across these northwestern areas of sumatra we could pick up as much as 300 millimeters of rain over the next 2 or 3 days the same rain in the forecast as well into southern areas of australia and also well see a real cooldown eventually across into the southeast attempt has been way above average but not quite the case just yet 7 around sydney we have got a lot of fires burning 50 a bushfire currently being forced this one is very close to port mcquery and this is one also which is a prime breeding ground for koalas so they fit about 300. 00 products could actually be dead but at the same time the winds as strong so pushing the smoke right there down across into sydneys there are actually some Health Warnings in place because of that smoke 27. 00 in sydney on friday if we drive it be dust in smokey with those fires so very close by and that is saturday will see these temperatures finally begin to come down to more normal levels in the southeast some rain showers a mild them with a high of 24 and the same in high about 25. This just makes the heroes who you. Are for the middle east are shown. To a stage played for. A comment should still make some mistakes its a deep because it splits. Its sort of short so i want to. Put this fee for. The top youll call. Hello down the top stories on aljazeera a gas stove has exploded on a train in pakistan sparking a huge fire and killing within 17 people the train was on its way from karachi to open do just outside islam about. Iraqs military says one person has been killed after 2 walkouts were fired into baghdads heavily fortified green zone it happened shortly after a separate incident at the cinema bridge witnesses say Security Forces shot at least one protester dead and injured dozens more. Syrian state media reporting heavy fighting between Government Troops on Turkish Forces near the border town of. Syrian Government Forces have taken up positions there after the recent kurdish withdrawal. At least 10 people were killed when a powerful earthquake hit the island of mindanao in the southern philippines the magnitude 6. 5 tremor sent panicked residents running from homes Shopping Centers and a hospital several buildings also collapsed this is the 3rd earthquake to strike the same area in the past 2 weeks jamila dogon has more from manila Emergency Operations are well on their way and both national and regional resources are being put together to ensure that those who are believed to be trapped in many devastated structures across mindanao in many parts of mindanao are rescued immediately now the information is slow to come in that is because these areas who have experienced devastation from the earthquake early thursday morning are the same areas that have been devastated by the last 2 earthquakes this month an earthquake 2 days ago left at least 8 people dead 16000 people displaced and according to the Philippine Government that number is expected to rise in many areas of the southern philippines city. Or province and north of about the province a lot of the areas remain cut off the power lines are down and it is believed also that communication lines are inconsistent but the Philippine Government assures that all resources are being put together to ensure that that basic needs are given immediately the israeli army has arrested a prominent palestinian politician during a raid on her home in the occupied west bank city of Ramallah Hama does not as a former member of the Palestinian Legislative Council shes also a leading figure in the popular front for the liberation of palestine thats a party that has been banned by israel is daughter posted on social media saying more than 70 soldiers and at least 12 military vehicles were involved in the raid. Just as her previous detentions by the Israeli Forces the 1st one being on april 25th teen where she was held for 15 months and the 2nd one odd july 2 in july 2nd 2017 where she was held for 18 months and this time as well my mom was detained under. The socalled administrate of detention which allows israel to hold palestinians without any evidence based on something that they Call Security reasons and based on secret evidence so my mother has never been charged with any crimes we have never been informed for the reason of her of harassed and shes never been given the right to a proper trial. Brahim has more from it on the law. This is not cited the 1st this is the 4th time the israeli army trades her house and takes her to prison in what is known here as administrative detention which is Holding Palestinians without charges this issue has been back at the forefront of events in the palestinian territory with many palestinians hunger striking that issue we have known for palestinians undergoing 102100 strike to protest their detention without charges including jordanian palestinian him back 11 now in the raid that happened in the early hours of the morning in. The israeli army has also went to the house of another palestinian prisoner samet allowed to be whom lawyers accuse the Israeli Security agency the shin bet of using severe torture against him now the Israeli Security agency says that hes been accused of killing or being the mastermind behind an attack that killed a 17 year old israeli woman near an illegal israeli settlement in august in the read the israeli army has taken measurements of the house which could be seen as a prelude for potential house demolitions. Its a crucial day for the impeachment inquiry into us President Donald Trump the house of representatives is expected to vote on authorizing the hearing on how to make it public meanwhile the former u. S. National security adviser john bolton has refused an invitation to testify. Reports. Impeachment investigators are eager to question john bolton the former National Security adviser to President Trump was a central figure in the administrations policy toward ukraine and one who said to have used colorful language to describe efforts to compel ukraine to investigate trumps political opponents a drug deal is what boltons assistant said her boss called a july 10th meeting between ukrainian and u. S. Officials at the white house the assistant testified bolton walked out of the meeting after sensing other u. S. Officials had an agenda apart from solidifying the relationship between the 2 nations to get ukraine to investigate trumps domestic rivals i think that weve heard over the last several weeks a lot of lower level people and now the house is going to start moving up the food chain but boltons attorney said Late Wednesday his client will not accept the invitation to testify democrats will likely issue a subpoena but whether or not bolton complies is an open question hes been quiet since being forced out of the white house in september due to policy disputes with the president but 2 weeks before he left his position bolton visited kiev on official business and delivered this message to the ukrainian people people of the United States fought for their independence their sovereignty we understand what that kind of struggle means and the people of the United States are with the people of ukraine at the time ukraine was expecting the delivery of u. S. Military aid to help fight russia but trump was temporarily withholding the aid as his surrogates continue to pressure ukraine. To investigate democrats on capitol hill wednesday nominee to become u. S. Ambassador to russia was asked to comment do you think its ever appropriate for the president to use his office to solicit investigations into a domestic political opponent soliciting investigations into a domestic political opponent i dont think that would be in accord with our values and nother assistant to john bolton is expected to testify on thursday to morrison is the director of european and Russian Affairs on the National Security council and named by previous witnesses as having Key Information into the president s decision to withhold aid from ukraine and drumming up expectations further is morrisons announcement on the eve of his expected testimony that he is resigning from the white house heidi joe castro aljazeera washington twitter is banning political ads saying they may be misleading the new policy goes into effect next month the companys c. E. O. Jack dorsey says political messages should be earned and not boughts he also says internet advertising is powerful and effective but it brings risks to politics where it can be used to influence votes that affect the lives of millions of people well Donald Trumps 2020 Election Campaign manager says twitter has made a very dumb decision brad also says twitter has walked away from hundreds of millions of dollars of potential revenue he asked of the platform will also stop buying ads from biased liberal Media Outlets which will now run unchecked eric come as a us political analyst and the author of the g. O. P. Civil war he says Campaign Teams on both sides will be scrambling to change their online strategies. This is huge not only for the business and social Media Community but more importantly for the Political Landscape not just in the United States but across the globe were talking about a major vehicle major lane for giving out ones message is now being closed off completely and so what this does is this in campaigns its in messaging. People from various campaigns scrambling trying to find a way to reach their audience and as we know twitter has a large audience and able to reach many millions of people and so now that lane is completely cut off leaving people trying to figure out how in fact they reached their audience but of course many are looking and wondering what in fact will Mark Zuckerberg of facebook do now that twitter has made this momentous decision this move is i think it will be much welcomed by at least in the United States by the democratic liberal community we do know that in 2016 the election President Donald Trump his primary vehicle for reaching his audience was through twitter and now the president has to find another way to reach that audience on a daily basis without the benefit of using political ads firefighters in the u. S. State of california are trying to save hundreds of homes threatened by wildfires on the outskirts of los angeles the flames are being whipped up by strong winds the states Utilities Company is cutting power to various areas of california to help prevent electricity cables from sparking more fires lets get an update j. Grays joining us from los angeles and california hi jay how dangerous at widespread do these 5 fires remain. Hey daryn were actually in simi valley now at the reagan president ial library the winds continue to be very intense here feeling almost like a Tropical Storm and there are burn scar surrounding the buildings here evidence of the frantic fight by firefighters more than 800 working to save this facility many still stationed here waiting watching for any new flare ups and there have been flare ups through the day and overnight at least 9 new fires and were learning of new evacuations going on right now as well so it is still a very tenuous situation and still hundreds of thousands in the potential area that could be affected by these flames so how much progress are the firefighters actually able to make in the situation well in areas like this where the wind is so intense theyre just looking to hold their own looking not to lose any ground to the fires to the north where they have been battling fires for several days theyre actually getting a bit of a break from the conditions and able to gain some ground on these fires and thats good news still by no means do they have the fires contained and thats going to take some time but at least they are making progress there in fact some people getting to go back to areas that have been evacuated and those places where conditions have called down the rides and grow thank you for that update from los angeles. Well fire has devastated an ancient castle on the japanese island of okinawa its one of the regions most popular unesco World Heritage sites of mcbride reports. Surely castle is one of arkan hours best known tall response and had earned World Heritage status in 2000. The fire broke out in the main buildings before dawn the flames spreading quickly through the ancient timbers more than 10 fire engines were sent to tackle the blaze but there was little they could do local people looking on helplessly the full extent of the damage was revealed at 1st light many of the buildings reduced to smoking ruins the castle dates from the rio q kingdom which spanned 450 years until lock in our was an expired japan in the 19th century as a symbol of the islands heritage it had in recent days been holding an annual festival recreating rituals from the past. Ok now as loss will be felt by japan as a whole. I understand sure a castle a World Heritage site is an extremely important symbol of okinawa i feel my heart ache a stand my heartfelt sympathy to the people of iraq now or the castle had been wrecked and restored before from fierce fighting between u. S. And Japanese Forces at the end of world war 2 the government has promised to rebuild it one small problem bride aljazeera. And hundreds of animals are believed to have been killed by bushfires in the eastern australian state of New South Wales the largest of the fire spans areas about the size of 2000 football fields about 45 homes have been destroyed but there are no reports of injuries the fires are causing problems for australias largest city sydney as Andrew Thomas explains. Its sunny it should be a perfectly Clear Blue Sky spring day in sydney but you can see the city shrouded in this smoke e haze at times on the opera house on the bridge were barely visible through the smoke now this is a smoke that comes from bush fires which are burning quite a few hours north of sydney ordinarily the smoke from the wouldnt reach the city here but the been quite strong winds from the north to the pushed back smoke down and in the city itself its been very still a lack of wind has kept the smoke here its from the air that you really get an idea of how hazy this city has been now the State Government in all this has said that to most people the smoke doesnt pose any kind of health risk but those with acid ive been told to stay indoors and dont do any sport this is unusual but sydney its normally a city with very clear but all. Things are very different. Donald trumps federal judge nominee has broken down in tears during a grilling by the Us Senate Judiciary committee lawrence van dyke has been nominated by trying to fill a seat on the 9th Circuit Court of appeals and he was asked about a letter from the Bar Association with said hes not qualified due to his alleged stance against l g b people. Sorry. Sorry go i did not say that i did not believe. It is a fundamental belief mind that all people are created in the image of god. They should all be treated with dignity. And respect. Hello again the headlines on aljazeera iraqs military says one person has been killed after 2 rockets were fired into baghdads heavily fortified green zone it happened shortly after a separate incident at the cinema bridge witnesses say Security Forces shot at least one protester dead and injured dozens more a gas stove has exploded on a train in pakistan sparking a huge fire that killed at least 70 people survivors recorded what happened as the flames tore through several carriages the train was on its way from karate to open d. Which is just outside islamabad plans to reopen schools and universities in lebanon have been canceled as antigovernment demonstrations continue across the capital which asters have continued to block roads in and around beiruts theyre calling for political leaders to go the Prime Minister quit on tuesday but hes been asked by the president to stay on as a temporary caretaker until a new government is formed south koreas military says north korea has fired 2 unidentified projectiles towards the sea of japan its believed the objects were launched from a central area of north korea japans coast guard says the objects landed in the sea more than 370 kilometers from the coastline syrian state media an s. D. F. Fighters are reporting heavy fighting between Government Troops and Turkish Forces near the border it happened around the town of. Syrian Government Forces have taken up positions in the north east after the recent kurdish withdrawal its part of a deal between russia and turkey to start joint security patrols. Local media in syria are reporting at least 9 people have died in a car bomb in the countrys west it happens in a free unity aleppo countryside there have been several bombings in the region since turkey began its offensive in Northern Syria earlier this month. At least 10 people were killed when a powerful earthquake hit the island of mindanao in the southern philippines the magnitude 6. 5 tremors sent panicked residents running from homes Shopping Centers and a hospital several buildings also collapsed this is the 3rd earthquake to strike the same area in the past 2 weeks those are the headlines on al jazeera faultlines is coming up next then its the news hour thanks for watching by. New yorkers are very receptive to al jazeera because it is such an International City theyre very interested and that global perspective that al jazeera provides. And going to. Millions of americans have trouble paying for their Prescription Medication and. That includes type one diabetics. For them in store and its a life saving drug for somebody like me its like the oxygen that you breathe. It is like oxygen you know i breathe except for mean i have to pay 340. 00 a mile for that oxygen and. These diabetics are making the 12 hour journey to canada to buy cheaper and sort which just over the border is about 110th of the cost and in the United States. Youll hear all these u. S. Pharmaceutical companies they will tell you they have coupons they will tell you they have discount cards they are patient programs they have at all if i could go out to a shrink oh bonnie to think would be driving 870 miles. In the u. S. The cost of nearly every major brand name drug is on the rise. And for many people that means being forced to choose between Financial Insecurity or saving their lives. And what this bill means to me is her a for stable cancer it means im going to live longer but what is a pill costs this particular pill is going to be anywhere from 800 to 1100 dollars at any given time the way we pay for medical innovation today has nothing to do with rationality thats the most expensive thing in europe also quite a curse oh its worth more than our car so. It has everything to do with profit maximizing in an environment where we require nothing of the companies in this episode of faultline. We investigate whats behind the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs and how the hefty price tag is costing lives. There at least 1200000 americans would type one diabetes an auto immune disease that has no cure. And once a person has it theyre often required to take insulin multiple times a day for the rest of their lives. In slums and old truck. It was discovered almost a 100 years ago. But in the u. S. He keeps getting more expensive. You have to leave the country to buy something that you need to live the rights are being held hostage by these companies and by the u. S. Governments in our elected officials to pay a ransom for the president s line. Between 20122016 alone the price nearly double forcing Many Americans to search for other routes to access if. You have an entire bus load of americans coming to walmart in canada to buy insulin because just where they can afford it. Would be funny if it werent so sad and serious. I came from new jersey to minneapolis to ride a bus to canada to buy it for 30. 00 and i still think im going to save a life but after doing all that its totally impractical and sort of sad that at all its just something that required to live so i know its not last or. Is this different than the one you would get in the us it seems like the same exact year so yeah. We stuck through we got inflation i got nothing by nothing but cloud over 3000. 00 for no. File the United States. To stop me 243. 00 inside i think its showing exactly why we have people dying in america on a weekly monthly basis we need legislation passed in america so that no longer people are going to be dying of a type one diabetes. And for many people going across the border to buy cheaper insulin is not a long Term Solution. Studies have shown that one in 4 americans with diabetes have ration their insulin because they couldnt afford it and this can be a deadly gamble. No one knows this better than the coal smith hope whose son alex died in 2017. So were here today remembering alec and all the others that have lost their life from insulin rationing its its amazing to know that its you know he would still be alive today if i had known at that time 2 years ago that i had the option to cross the border to purchase completely affordable and so on. Its not just a bunch of people whining and crying about the price of insulin theres a true impact. My family was destroyed by this. I lost a child. And ill never have my ask my son back. In 2015 alec was diagnosed with type one diabetes when he was 23 years old. At the time while still in the course insurance alex insulin cost between 2. 00 and 300. 00 a month. But when he turned 26 years old under Americas Health care law he was no longer able to remain on her insurance. And without it the cost of his insulin shot up over 4 times i went to the pharmacy the 1st time without my insurance card and hand his 2 types of insulin his diabetic supplies anything that he needed to take care of himself cost of 1300. 00 a month. He wasnt planning on it being that expensive. So what do you do he went home with nothing. Because halliburton 40000. 00 a year as a restaurant manager he didnt qualify for government assistance. Nicole believes alex started rationing his insulin because he couldnt pay for it were this made him susceptible to d. K. A. Or diabetic ketoacidosis a dangerous side effect the type one diabetes when the body doesnt get enough insulin. It starts shutting down your bowels which would why has stomach was hurting so bad and then itll work your way up your intestinal system and your intestines start shutting down. And your kidneys start shutting down and and then youre along start shutting down. And then your heart starts to go. And as the heart starts to go. You typically go into cardiac arrest. Or you go into a coma. Use or having seizures. And its an extremely painful way to. Elevate him off of my insurance on june 1st of 2017. And was found out engine 27th of 2017. He lasted 26 days im sure. Hes handsome could. Turn smiled. Like a user. Hydrophones for guns. In the corner family learned that alec had been stretching out what little insulin he had left until his next paycheck. He was found 3 days short of his payday. What do you miss most. Is have you. On the big brother around you. Who do you hold accountable. I will the Pharmaceutical Company is partially or accountable i hold our our government partially accountable. Well myself partially accountable. Have found i should have seen that. I said and there to protect. I should have been. But ultimately the system felt like. Insulin is kind of a perfect storm of all the problems with our drug industry and all the public failure to regulate and meaningfully. Its a century Old Technology that was gifted to humanity by the University Researchers who came up with it and since that time prices have only increased for something that by now should really be essentially free. The reasons behind the high cost of Prescription Medication in the us are complicated. But one main factor is that the government doesnt regulate or negotiate the prices of drugs directly with Companies Instead it lets them set their own prices which puts the burden of ever increasing costs on patients. Our government has taken less seriously than some others our responsibility to provide affordable medicine for our people in canada and many countries around the World Governments are active purchasers and they say how do i get a good deal how do i negotiate for the best deal and the United States we simply say pharma tell us what you want and well give it to you. They can charge essential as much as any of us would pay to care for our 2nd our loved ones no constraints. No constraints on drug pricing means that for Many Americans no amount of planning can prepare them for the cost of an illness. Stay in the r. V. We are done. In 2015 and just 50 years old jackie trapp was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called multiple myeloma keep it pay it. A tricky Little Cancer and because its a blood borne cancer surgery is not an option radiation is only palliative its really just to make you feel better drugs are all we have her doctor prescribed revlimid an oral chemotherapy drug manufactured by the u. S. Biotechnology Company Celgene and thats just and it has no generic in the United States. Revel may quite simply is the only form of treatment available for me for my cancer. Revlimid has kept jackie cancer stable for the last 4 years. But the bills to pay for it and her Overall Health care have shattered her Financial Stability the 1st 1. 00 i got was january 6th and 2017 and the total member responsibility right here is 11100 48. 14 and then i got the 2nd bill january 30th and that one was 412039 dollars and 89 cents total memory responsibility and heres a real weeks later 3 weeks later here we are on their bill for 12. 00 ours is your responsibility yeah this must been terrifying though while youre fighting. Cancer in a period of 6 weeks you get 3 bills for the one drug that may extend your life and its looking like its going to be you know over 12000. 00 a month. I can honestly tell you that when i was diagnosed you know there are some tears there but i cried hard more when these bills came along ive spent so much more Emotional Energy on finding ways to fund my treatment then i ever have my cancer. At 1st jackies insurance didnt cover revlimid has been saying we can do this ill sell my truck you know what that old bell give us the money but im going to be on this indefinitely this is not a solution we need a longer Term Solution and were not going to be paying this out of pocket it will be bankrupt before you know it and then what. So jackie spent up to 50 hours a week at times cobbling together a plan to bring down her cost this is my part d. This is my supplemental policy these are different and you know when i was involved in marketplace insurance if you want to live in this is the amount of paperwork required oh yeah its pretty complicated ive been lucky ive been ahead of the game ive been able to navigate pretty effectively through the system others are not. Just trying to wrap my head around how you can afford this drug you have multiple insurance plans youre on medicare you have found a loophole in the new state law thats helped you youre in disability and you wanted to Scale Program with all of that what do you how much that cost you or youre still in any given year its anywhere from 15. 00 to 22000. 00 for me out of pocket 15 to 22000 a year thats after insurance and thats out of your thats out of your pocket out of my pocket. One of the most effective ways to bring down the cost of medicine for people like jackie is to have more fordable generic options on the market. But experts say that Major Pharmaceutical Companies use a complex web of strategies to block generic competition. So they can maintain control of the trucks price and protect a monopoly. A company that has a monopoly goes to its potential competition and says hey weve got a better deal for both of us well give you x. Dollars to just keep your product off the market. So the Patent Holder benefits from getting preserve their monopoly in their monopoly pricing. The generic firm benefits by getting an insured payday and the public loses because we dont get more affordable medicine through competition this strategy the drug Companies Use to keep competitors out of the market is legal. And its not the only one. The way the farms and companies today use the patent system they stack of hundreds of patents on a particular drug so they basically get as low as they can out of that protective protection in order to prevent competition coming in and we all know what is competition comes in prices drop how does the patent process affect a drug like rabbit i think there are some 107. 00 patents on this drug for passing up occasions in the 1st 70 of the granted and that prevents anybody from coming in if im a generic competitor i have to mitigate my way through all these to get into the marketplace and so delays so instead of coming to market maybe you know next year i have to wait 23 is because of the way the regulatory system works in terms of you have to end the litigation for you can get approval for your genetic. Industry experts told us that strategies like these have stepped back to her competition on prescription drugs by years. Celgene which make it back should revlimid did not respond to a list of questions we sent them. Imo for making a healthy profit and protecting intellectual property for a period of time but theyve abused that it doesnt matter how many great new innovations there are a great new drugs there are that are going to keep people alive he can afford them drugs dont work if if we cant afford to take and. This is a total rip off. And we are ending. And we will work every day to insure all americans have access to the quality affordable medication. They need and they deserve and we will not rest until this. Of unfair pricing is a total victory for the us a. President promised to make the high cost of prescription drugs a top policy priority. Hes talked about bringing down the cost of some drugs in line with their prices in other countries. But experts we spoke to say his proposals dont address the root of the problem. The Drug Companies monopoly power which according to a survey more than 70 percent of americans want to rein it. In you look at the polling with the people you say theres political will at the electorate level for radical change on this issue. But theres a disconnect between the political will of the people and that actual political will and congress. Lies or disconnect their money. The industry has extreme lobbying power about 3 lobbyists for every member of congress and spends a great deal on elections on supporting candidates in the United States. When the pharmaceutical industry says we need more incentives to conduct a certain line of research and no one wants to stand in the way of that so the legal climate continues to favor the industry more and more which means they can abuse all of us in the form of price with unchecked power. Federal filings show that pharma the group that represents most of the us is largest drug manufacturers spend about 27. 00 and a half 1000000. 00 on lobbying in 2018. When theyre asked about the high cost of prescription drugs the pharmaceutical industry often makes this argument. Lowering drug prices which type of research and development that impact the creation of new lifesaving drugs this is obviously extremely important to sustain a wave of innovation that hattrick who works for a probusiness lobbying group is sympathetic to this few patients on this is in new ways ive talked to so many people in this industry that says theres an entire set of strategies for extending patents that Drug Companies are using well this is all there you see this is all part of a. Process of attempting to stigmatize an industry that. Has delivered tremendous value to people everywhere and i think is unfortunate is part of a bigger at those the state can hold that big business is bad but you have americans flooding over the border to buy prescription drugs in canada but how do you explain that or wrap your head around that say yep this is this is the system that we want well you could say that other countries are getting away with murder and i wouldnt disagree they are not paying their fair share for the overall system the political situation in those countries has created a situation where the manufacturers have no Pricing Power this is them that we have works pretty well to create the right incentive for investment and also to allow follow on innovation and if you know high prices on the front under part of that well thats part of the process in a free market a producer has the right to set their price. Buyers can take it or leave it but if theres only one drug that treats her illness and that company is the only one that makes itself that drug there is no market of choice and you have to take that drugs or die i dont think its any given companys fault that theres a lack of competition you know the fact is that if someone else can figure out a better way to do that they could knock. Medicine off the market and notes im wrong fact we see that all the time. The only counterargument you can make is that prices should be high in order to Fund Innovation but theres no limit to that argument i mean under under that logic companies can literally charge anything they want and it would always be a good deal for the public which is whats happening and its not a good deal for the public. Medical innovation is expensive and we need to pay for it that doesnt mean prices should be whatever the Companies Want them to be which is the current regime. We made multiple interview requests to the top 3 insulin manufacturers see if we get a referee literally on the phone. But none of them agreed to an interview. To get someone from to go door to speak on camera. All right so i would. Say in a fee responded with a statement explaining the various discount programs they offer to patients and encourage them to call the companys hotline for information. We decided to approach someone else who might know more. Secretary aleksei czar has been the face of the trump administrations truck price policy. But he has another connection to the us. Americans one in the survey says all of the home here say he was a Top Executive at insulin manufacturer eli lilly and during this time there the price of the companys best selling insulin more than doubled. We wanted to ask him why secretaries are. Which tells us one question about description prices insulin doubled when you were president that he will usa. Why did you do something about it been. One of the. Sectors i know you can hear me i know that you when youre president it will usa insulin prices double why didnt you do something about it that. The president from said Pharmacy Companies are getting away with murder was he referring to Companies Like you would present itself. Its corruption and its Legal Companies are free to do most of what were talking about here today they can pay to delay their competition they can extend monopolies for years or even decades they can spike prices by 5000 percent if they want to making medicines affordable is not a question of cracking down on illegal behavior its a question of cracking down on legalized corruption in the system that we have created. Alice death is not an isolated situation since alec has passed away i have been in contact with at least 10 other families who had recently lost one of their loved ones from the same thing and ironically half of them are 26 year old. Firm is it a company is need to lower the list prices people are dying and the only way to stop that from happening is to make the products affordable. So our reach makes sense just like jackie is now 4 years into a 5 year prognosis with the help of revlimid. But to make it this far she and her husband had to train their savings and some of the money that set aside for retirement. Theyre now selling pieces of their life on line like furniture and dishes they were given for their wedding. My husband and i both have been incredibly careful people. Very conservative with our money. We were the kind of people that whatever the maximum was that we could put away for retirement we did all that interest posed to do we did all the things were supposed to do absolutely you know we generally had anywhere from 40. 00 to 50000. 00 in the bank just as a safety net thats gone. Thats long gone. Were not going to be that 75 year old couple with the 50 Year Anniversary parties its not really in the cards for us and weve dealt with that but i dont want to leave him completely broken and completely bankrupt at the same time and. Unless something changes. Thats likely to be the case. Unless i decide. To no longer seek treatment youre literally saying that you have to make a financial trail i will on how long to live i will there will be a Tipping Point and i will have to make a decision as to when to stop treatment and choose to die. So that i can leave my husband with enough so that he can he can make it through the next you know 30 years of his life thats whats at stake for me. Jail youre at the mercy of the state but in the land of the free shareholders have a stake it is this profit motive that continues to interfere with Adequate Health care being provided to people who are detained and incarcerated across the country salt lines investigates how the outsourcing of health care in american jails is impacting the lives and deaths of those behind bars sick inside. Business updates rolled to you by Qatar Airways going places together. Business updates rolled to you by Qatar Airways going places together. A story 1400 years in the making. A story of succession and leadership. Tells the story the foundation and the emergence of an empire. The caliph episode one. Al jazeera. Hello and welcome to the aljazeera news our life for my headquarters in doha. And coming up in the next 60 minutes a gas cooker explodes on a train in pakistan setting carriages alight and killing at least 70 people. Security forces in lebanon struggle to open roads as protesters continue their call for the removal of the entire ruling class. And the administer formally divided into 2 regions directly controlled by new delhi. And a crucial day in the democrats push to impeach donald trump the u. S. House of representatives is braced for its 1st showdown over the inquiry im joining with the sport washington d. C. Is united under a baseball. As the Washington Nationals win the world series breaking. The gas stove has exploded on a train in pakistan sparking a huge fire that killed at least 70 people will survive is recorded what happened as the flames tore through several carriages the train was on its way from karachi to which is just outside islamabad. Where there are more casualties due to the speed of the train. Fire thats why dozens of people are dead and. Well moving on to other news now in plans to reopen schools and universities in the lead. I mean canceled as antigovernment demonstrations continue across the country a promise to be resigned on tuesday bob hes been asked by the president to stay on as temporary can take on to new government is formed as the talk last fondant saying whether shes joining us live from the capital beirut and say youve been talking to protest as all morning about why theyre back out on the streets even trying to put up some roadblocks so what have they been telling. Wont they feel that they need to continue to pile pressure on the ruling elite in order for them to make concessions what happened yesterday was that the daily life really was returning to normal schools universities were supposed to open today protesters left the streets after the Prime Minister sato heidi announced his resignation but the protest movement was hoping that his resignation will be followed by a decision to create a new government a new government made up of technocrats people who are not affiliated with any Political Party in order to carry out much needed reforms and instead the Ruling Coalition remains stubborn they continue to cling on to power so that is one of the reasons why they returned to the streets but as you can see behind us a security presence across the country there theyre opening roads or simply opening roads not allowing the protesters to continue to paralyze this country or to cripple the movement they dont want the public life to be disrupted even the Lebanese Army in a statement was very very clear we are going to continue to allow you to peacefully protest that is your right but you have to protest in. Confined yourselves lets say in the Public Square so the army Security Forces out in force opening roads but protesters remain just as determined to topple what they say is a ruling class which has been in power for decades a ruling class which has been corrupt and mismanaging the. Country. For many of us down here. Its a do or die situation im not going to stay in this country any longer if the air i breathe of the water i drink are polluted if the politicians are robbing my government if 40 percent of our annual budget goes to paying of Loan Interest 40 percent of the entire money the country makes in the year goes to paying off the interests i cannot live in a country like this so for us its were ready to face the fear were ready to face the responsibility that comes with facing a sectarian ruling class that has been in trance for 30 years because we want a better country. The president michelle on who is part of the ruling class is going to address the nation later today its not clear if hes going to announce the date when he is supposed to start consultations with the various parliamentary blocs to choose the next Prime Minister this is not going to be easy replacing the Prime Minister saddam. Its not going to be an easy task because if you are going to appoint a Prime Minister who is more allied with the Ruling Coalition definitely the street will not be happy its not going to calm the anger and even if you decide to read nominates the Prime Minister saad of a people here are not going to accept that so its a dangerous stalemate it is now a political crisis this is no longer a protest which began just for demands for Better Living conditions at the streets as the fighting the lebanese street this divided weve already seen violence so. Uncertainty really lies ahead zain i thank you for that finale that is saying a father with the latest live from beirut now theres growing concern over whether the already fragile Economic Situation in lebanon mike it was lebanon has one of the worlds highest public debt burden standing at around 86000000000. 00 thats more than 150 percent of its g. D. P. Most of the National Budget has been spent on services. Of the Public Sector wage bill but thats often exceeded revenues resulting in deficits that averaged 11 percent of g. D. P. In recent years theyve been in depends on deposits from Foreign Investors to pay off those debts but billions of dollars havent been handed over because of a lack of economic reform will back banks remain closed because of the ongoing protests and foreign currency reserves have for than about 17 percent well lets get more on the Economic Situation were joined now by daniel as ian advance leadership fellow at Harvard University where his research focuses on designing a political and Economic Reform Program for lebanon and hes joining us live from boston and the United States very good to have you with us on aljazeera so banks are set to open tomorrow on friday after being close for nearly 2 weeks now i mean theyre going to be bracing for a busy day to say the least. Yeah absolutely i mean even even if theres not any excess of. Emotional panics in the people that are going to go to banks i think that its safe to assume that the 1st thing that anyones going to do is is going to go to his or her bank and at the very least to replenish their cash or there are monetary needs that theyre going to think ok d one of the samples again so d theyll probably you know want to take out a bit more cash and then theres the 3rd element of the man who just people that are going to panic i want to get d the money out of the lot so even if theres a small uptick when you when you multiply that by hundreds of thousands of people. And thats a huge amount of the man on the existing liquidity in the country which was already under pressure before so i think that as you mentioned theyre going to have a very very have a very bad d and this as you know you specialize on looking at you know Political Economic reforms for lebanon and what does the country need to do now the protesters have been out on the streets for weeks because theyre sick of servicing a Government Debt when billions of dollars has gone you know missing from from the government so what do they need to do obviously Prime Minister hettys reforms have been rejected. Former Prime Minister. Ok the problem lebanon is is that there are 2 aspects to this thing youve got the the very legitimate concerns and demands of the protesters of the fact of them and the fact that the government has not provided the services d that are expected in any respectable countries you know basic stuff like 24 hour electricity which has not been provided by the by this government that successive governments as you know for the last 30 years part of the water you know good roads things like this so these guys have very very legitimate demands on the other hand we have a impending monetary crisis in the country ok and its almost like trying to execute a d heart surgery when youre in an a. T. V. On the you know driving on a bunch of rocks its a very very sensitive and delicate delicate situation so the protesters have achieved some very positive. Objectives already for example d they sped up the d because they dont get up and presenting their socalled economic paper i mean it did in one year and i have that introduced one and then suddenly with the 72 hours they produced that record of protest so on the one hand the protestors are causing some positive shock in the country. But on the other hand also you know there are some norms here of the monetary situation so there is some a little bit of i guess divergence here. And again what with this caretaker government now in place what sort of economic and political reforms do they need to look at that were lacking in Prime Minister had e. D. S. Proposal they have so many challenges up ahead you know not the least of which is their dependence on imports which they could really be running out of out of money to keep bringing into the country theres the lack of foreign currency the fall in foreign currency reserves i mean where do they begin here. Well i think theres again theres 2 stages then youve got the emergency procedures that they need to take immediately now and then theres the long Term Solutions things like you know terrorism on luxury imports d etc theres a lot of solutions and reforms that need to happen on the on the 1st measure i mean theyve clearly stated that theyre not going to execute got the controls i think thats a mistake because at the very least its going to end up happening because of the corruption in the system is going to be privatization of certain clients over the average person and the problem in a situation like this where everything in the end is going to searches whats going to happen is that you know the big guys are going to be able to get their money out of the country which means that any future measures that theyre going to take is going to affect the middle class and the poor much more than they should they should have had they done it now so one of the one of the issues that they i think they really think about is and this is not just an economic thing its also political when youve got hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating the streets and true today there is some back of the division among among 2 parts of the country however one when people realize that their moneys in danger and that theres an effect both sides are human is that having 2000000 side you might have 4000000 of these poor you know look d at what did people do people in authority do at the stile when they couldve when they could have stopped the capital flight by the by the big guys. Right to get your expertise on this we do appreciate your time now that daniel as i live in boston thank you. Thank you. But plenty more ahead on the news hour including an earthquake killed several people in the philippines bringing down buildings damaged by quakes earlier in the week strong winds. Outside los angeles threatening hundreds of homes and. A bad night. Would have the
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