a scientist who has cooked up the elixir of eternal life. it's in grainy black and white, and yes, there are aliens, so much creativity packed into such a small space. some of these films will go on to become commercially successful or win awards some wall. but all of them are intriguing and well worth watching. rob reynolds alger 0 park city, utah. ah, you're watching out a 0. these are the headlines this hour to israeli. settlers have been injured in an attack, unoccupied. east jerusalem. these alive pitches are the same. the alleged shooter has been killed by israeli forces. meanwhile, 14 to palestinians had been arrested and israel's military says it will increase its presence in the occupied west bank after a palestinian gum and killed 7 people outside a synagogue. on friday night, our diplomatic editor james pays for ports from occupied east jerusalem. we understand that israeli police officers and all being told now they're working a 12 hour shift. what we don't know is what more these ready government going to do? we know that in the mount of olives at the place where the man, these ready police say was responsible for the attack on the synagogue. he was shot dead at the scene in his car. the parents had been questioned by israeli police, but also all the neighboring palestinians had come to the house. they were arrested $42.00 in total arrested. their protest have been held across the us to police in memphis release video, showing office is waiting, unarmed black men high re nichols you like to dive in hospitals. several protesters were arrested after confrontation with police. the us president has called the peaceful protest, wants to speak to the victims mother and your crimes president says its army needs up to 500 tanks to carry off a counter offensive against russian troops. but let me zalinski says the situation is critical in easton don yet as moscow steps up attacks. alright, those are the headlines i'm emily, angling counting. the cost is next. the american people is spoken. but what exactly did they say? is the world looking for a whole new order with less america in it? is the woke agenda on the decline in america. how much his social media companies know about you, and how easy is it to manipulate the quizzical look us politics? the bottom line with an 11 o'clock this is counting the cost on al jazeera. if you look at the, well, the business and economics this week, the u. s. is facing a fiscal standoff that could put the nation at risk of defaulting on a debt for the 1st time ever. so what's behind america's debt ceiling crisis and should the rest of the well be wearing? also this week, it seen as britain's national treasure about the country's health service system is falling apart. so how did the anon chess reach this point and is there a way out of the crisis? plus the travel and tourism industry is picking up speed this year. the travelers taste that changing and they're increasingly going green. ah, so the u. s. debts is now 6 times what it was at the start of the century, despite its growing liabilities, the country has never defaulted on its payments. now the u. s. has crashed through . it's $31.00 trillion dollar borrowing limit, and that means the government could run out of cash to pay its bills in less than 5 months and puts congress on the clock to raise or suspend the debt ceiling. but getting law makers to agree on lance is expected to be a tough political battle on capital hill. the republican controlled house of representatives refuses to raise a debt limit unless president joe biden agrees to state spending cuts. democrats want it to be raised without any conditions. the treasury department has started taking so called extraordinary measures, including suspending investments for retirees to avoid missing financial obligations to bondholders. but that would give congress and biden until early june to resolve the issue. while the united states is among a few countries to set a legal limit on bar, right. so what exactly is the debt ceiling? it's the maximum amount. the government can borrow to pay bills already approved by lawmakers. it doesn't include new spending commitments. the measure was 1st introduced back in 1917 to make it easier for the government to finance its participation in the 1st world war. it has been periodically res, because the u. s. runs large annual deficits and the revenue collects isn't sufficient. the nation's debt is currently at more than a 120 percent of g d p. but that's still lower than more than a dozen countries, including japan, greece and italy. in recent years with the u. s becoming more partisan. lawmakers have used the debt ceiling votes as leverage against other issues. indeed, a stand off over the debt. salient 2011 lead standard and poors to cut the u. s. as a credit rating for the 1st time ever. well, to discuss all of that on join down from london by richard siegel. richard the research analyst that i'm brazier capital, welcome to the program. so. so 1st off, i think it's worth repeating in the u. s. that 6 times what it was at the start of the century. how come? well, there are number different reasons. there's natural growth in debt anyway, with the economy growing and spending growing and with inflation and the like. but i think the problems really go to the early part of 2000 when fiscal discipline was last after the end of the dot bar dot com crisis. and then things really got bad in the last republican administration when there are some major tax cuts and things got even worse at the beginning of the last ministration. but because the panoramic related spending and also because of tax cuts, the difference between the republican tax cuts and then the credit tax cost is at the 1st corporate oriented. and the 2nd were individual oriented. all right, and there was no relates. so we all where we are now, and if the limit is not res, basically the federal government just runs out of cash, right? yes, that's correct. there is a very arcane calculation which determines the depth and that you really do have to be a specialist in order to understand it. but at a certain point the u. s. government can no longer borrow in, therefore technically it would go into default because the consequences would be so devastating. it's pretty likely that an agreement will be reached even if it's very painful, even if it's at the very last minute. why does it have to be painful? why does it have to be the last minute? why not just raise the debt ceiling? its politics, it is happen many times over the past. 1520 years. in fact, the debt limit law itself dates to 1917. it doesn't really make any economic sense, maybe make some economic sense, but it's just something that there's never been enough political will to do away with the treasury secretary john ellen has as introduce. so called to extra ordinary measures, i think by time how costly are these to ordinary americans and what kind of things are we talking about? they're called extraordinary, but in fact, they're really just accounting techniques. the u. s. government issues, a lot of debt to social security funds, the like which are are effectively non marketable and they're off balance sheet. it can effectively borrow from them for 6 to 8 months. it's a very serious situation by wouldn't say that any kind of default would we, imminent. we have plenty of time in order to solve this. so we brace ourselves at the end of the world of partisan wrangler. what are the republicans want and, and how compromise be reached? it will have to be reached eventually. the difficulty right now is that this is not just a battle between republicans and democrats, but it's also a battle within the democratic, excuse me, within the republican party. largely because of the long battle in order for kevin mccarthy to be nominated as how speaker he was required to give some concessions to some of the independent mining congressmen and they are the ones that are holding out against the republican party. so it's not just the typical republican versus democratic struggle bill, but what is it on the whole that the republicans want? well, what they want is some concessions in terms of lower spending, which would, as one would expect lower spending on districts. that would be a benefit to the democratic voters or perhaps in some of the swing states as we call them. what the independent minded republicans would like is lower spending as a whole, which wouldn't be realistic. it wouldn't be a good idea. perhaps the pe suspending increase should be lower, but you wouldn't want to spend too much. last when the economy is already very weak . you say there's no appetite for abolishing the debt limit, but it sounds like that's exactly what should be done given the, the rang being that seems to happen all the time over this. why is a political appetite? it's difficult to tell. it's just one of these things that always falls by the wayside. other priorities tend to become more important and because it's been its place or such a long time, more than a century, it just fills its own inertia. it has actually been beneficial sometimes in the past, for example, the mid ninety's when it encouraged fiscal discipline in a bipartisan matter. but that didn't last very long. a crisis happens. busy or something else becomes for per t, and they lose that discipline. tell us more about the u. s. is debt to g d p ratio just just how does americans that compare say to other countries? it is very high. it's approaching 140 percent of g d p. it will decline. actually, as some pandemic related spending declines and because of what we call the inflation tax, but historically had been on the order of 70 to 80 percent. the european limit is 60 percent. both countries are above that, germany's about 70 percent germany was on the wrong path, but it managed to reduce its debt load even with low growth and low inflation. so it can be done with a political well, it's much higher in countries. such is italy and japan. wherever the distinction there is that there's less private debt and savings rates in both of those countries are very high. and also they have tre surpluses, so they can sustain much higher debt levels. but in the u. s, it's very high. so at some point, something has to be done is a default on that inevitable. if there is no agreement if there is, it would be inevitable. our, i think the silver lining is said it would be so devastating that within a day or 2 they wouldn't. it would be an emergency agreement, even if it's on a bipartisan matter in order to resolve it just because not the, it would be a great impact on the u. s. coverage, but there would be a great impact on us economy in the rest of the world versus appreciate that. thank you. thank you for nearly 3 quarters of a century, the british government is provided mostly free health care for all britons and the national health services won't be in the country's most revered institution. in fact, ranking 1st and a 2016 survey, but the n h s is now at breaking point. hospitals are running beyond that capacity . ambulance weights are at record highs and stress staff are striking over pay and working conditions. nutty baba looks at the debates on the future of the system. i will strike spreading and talk of a system on its knees is britain's reverence for its national health service blocking much needed reform such a job? it certainly think so. the conservative form a health secretary and finance minister wrote recent levy 75 year old model of the n a chest is unsustainable. jeff, it's suggested people could pay for consulting, a family doctor and praise island system where patients must pay around $81.00 to access the equivalence of the case accident and emergency departments and eat unless referred by the doctor. now that's the sort of idea. most british politicians run away from because it means scrapping the doctrine that health care should be free at the point of need. the prime minister has distance himself from the comments which you do not did before taking office. talk about issuing fighting for any patients who missed appointments. he then backtracked, the opposition labor parties also stepped into the debate shadow health secretary. what streaming has suggested, the growing waiting lists could be tackled by the n, a chest sending more patients to private hospitals. louisa in a retired family doctor, an anti privatization campaign. i think that's a bad idea. listen, an infinite pool of doctors, nurses, and a lot of doctors, nurses go to the private sector because they get paid more. and furthermore, when something goes wrong in the private sector, the patient is then, you know, red light, it straight into a and then it us, andy. now, if we what we need is we need to build up around it. jessica and louis says she did the really improvements in patient experience in the 2 thousands on the labor when annual increases in n. h s funding well higher than they are now. since it was created spending on the n h. s is increased by an average 3.7 percent per year in real terms, but from 2010 to 2018. when the conservatives governing coalition and then on their own annual n h s funding growth slow to 1.4 percent. it's writing more quickly now, but an aging population and increasing the bond for expensive treatments means nobody's noticing. if we look at the chess compared to other o e c d countries, we have fewer doctors and nurses, but had a population. we have few, a hospital beds per header population. we have low levels of investment in things like diagnostic equipment and all those things are not about the way in which this is the, the, the trust is organized and funded about the, the fundamental decisions we made about the level that we will spend on health in this country so the challenge to the politicians, is this dealing with the crises hitting the health service right now, planning for the long term and avoiding a 2 tier system. nadine bob counting the cost in london? well, let's take this on. joining me now also from london is sam. tim's is an economist at the new economics foundation. i think type sometimes welcome to the program. so the chest is in crisis. even the former health factory job, it says the system is unsustainable to agree with that. oh no, i think funding 3 and a chest is on sustainable. the model is kind of free of the point of view funded by general taxation that we're kind of over the last 13 years under the authority policy that we've had. actually we haven't been investing enough in the us compared to the need. other country has going to the need for the night just as grown. the competitor international is all funding in the household and fall below the average travellers. if you put more money into the n h s and other services suffer. no, that's not necessarily true to actually because if you have a healthy work or you can go into work and therefore. ready they on necessarily in as much need of social security and they're able to pay more. so at the moment we've got about half 1000000 people that are economically inactive. so kind of not looking for work. half a 1000000 more compared to before the con, demik. and we go about how many people are just waiting lists 1000000 more than before, pandemic, the last one for one. but actually that will be a large amount of both. and by having a show elation to have, i hope you're me. so why, why we reached this point, was he and it just in such a state? well, there are a few different reason. the funding i just mentioned is, is the, is a big issue of the needs of our country have grown. we have an aging population. and actually the funding in the chest has been kept up. there's also a major issue of staffing. we've got some like 160000 vacancies in the chest. it's about one in 10 positions. part of that is because of hey. ringback for and it just stuff. there's a reason why nested around striking inexperienced actually was all that have and they were about 1015 years ago. and you have mess is going to be balance. dots does know system that is working in school and a huge amount of that comes down to the lack of pay and public sector pay freezes that we've had over the last 15 years. there's also a major issue to do with social care, which is then having an impact on the chest as well. right. let's look at funding. there are various ideas floating about out there, including java to himself. we propose making us patients pay their doctors for doctors appointments and even any emergency departments using a kind of means tested system nothing. i'm right. saying that that works in to a degree certainly in sweden, an island realistically, that's not going to work in in the u. k, 1st of all, let's not forget that we do pay for the chest and pay for free lunch and income tax and other forms of transportation. so we are paying for the service that we get. but when you arrive at your g p, a, it's free of the point of views. if you charge on that, well, it's going to turn people going to the services. that means when you start to get it, they're not going to go to the g p. instead, they're going to wait several weeks longer, possibly most seriously ill. and then they require more time from the n a chest and they would have it kind of, it's just that they will to be that right of the day on this. there's something here kind of you mentioned model a moment ago. the definitely more you can do around preventative care about care in the community. if you impose the charge, the people going and trying to ensure that their health stays as good as it can be . we're never going to get close to that preventative care or it's been how do you reform the funding process? well, we have to have a frank discussion here in the u. k. right now we have american style is a with trying to get towards that box with european style welfare state. so actually we need to have an honest discussion of how we're paying for the chest re taxation, who's paying for it. it's, it's well known the non dollars, for example, on paying the share of tax landlords as well on paying their fair share of national insurance or capital gains. there are lots of holes in the tax system which are quite easy when the government of any color to come in and fix and. ringback immediately you could, you could put that money back into the n h s. what about this idea? finally, if rely on the private sector and, and hospitals to help rescue the energy put forward by the labor party. so maybe as a very short term plan, this could work, but anything longer than, than short term doesn't quite make sense. we've. we have a staffing issue both in indiana and social cat where we've also got about 130000 of. ready agencies, if i, if we can rely too much on our private model staffing within the checking is going to get even worse. and that means kind of a greater reliance on private health. all right, well it's a battle ahead sometimes appreciate that. thanks very much. thank you. after 2 years of pandemic disruptions, the travel industry is roaring back this year. great use for countries to rely on tourism to revenue. but bad news over consensus, rising c o 2 emissions on international flights. however, a new report shows there's a shift in travelers mindset and many a now more encouraged to decrease that carbon footprint. more than 60 percent of travelers surveyed in the report have chosen sustainable options in the last couple of years and 3 quarters of travelers planned to do so in the future. it also found the majority of high end travelers, a willing to pay more money to make their trips more environmentally friendly. the survey was part of a report conducted by the world travel and tourism sector trip dot com and the global consultancy firm delight. so let's dig more into this report with julia simpson, the president, an executive officer at the world travel and tourism council joining us from london . julia, welcome. so 69 percent of travelers actively seeking more sustainable travel options. what's driving this rise in demand for sustainable travel? yes, it's really just interesting and thank you. next for inviting me on from a very chilly lungs. and i have to say, i think off to the pandemic, we saw a very big pent up demand. the travelling tourism and people were looking to get back to nature looking to get to the great outdoors. busy and i think it was inevitable really off the being top. but i think that also made people have a great, a great appreciation of nature and the value in the preciousness of travel. so apart from that, the thing to be lety has been going up. everybody's list of what they need to achieve this year. you know, how can i be more favorable in every aspect of my life. but certainly we publish to try to report the very top item with people saying that they will travel more responsibly. so the demand is there is the supply as the travel and tourism industry adapting to this, are we seeing a rise in eco friendly hotels and travel destinations? absolutely. you know, you'll thing all over the world. i was talking to a new member of them. well traveling, tourism kept the best western and they said, you know, that when they make hotels they'll often have solar panels as associated at the back of the hotel. and that will be powering the hotel. you'll seeing hotels around the world wanting to sort their food more locally from local suppliers that help build a strong local economy and give seasonal food. rather the may be a great big food fest where there's a lot of food wise people in hotels now are avoiding the use of plastics. watering countries where water is very, very scarce. very incredible examples of how people are recycling using water in places like africa. so yes, very, very much, all the top of the agenda for hotel is globally as well, isn't sustainable. travel a lot more expensive and you know, times a hard yes i, it's really interesting because the trends report that we, we acknowledge the fact that people are for paying, you know, higher inflation. they've got their living cost going up. and yet really interestingly, when it looks that, you know, spend that you wouldn't necessarily have to make people are saying that they want to keep travel top of their list. and again, i think that is very much and reaction of the beings that have locked up to 2 to 3 years. you know, china just read reopened and we're seeing the booking that going off the scale. so yes, all in a way, i'm not surprised that people are privatizing travel and you took it back to the effect call. interestingly, the hotel you, for example, to become more efficient in terms of energy use. yes, it does sometimes costs an initial outlay, an initial investment, but once the hotel is set up, it will actually make the hotel cheaper to run. there is one catch here, isn't that you have to fly to get to many of these destinations and flying currently is not sustainable travel. well, you know, it was so interesting because i was looking at the other day that when we use the internet now the use of the internet is now out stripping in terms of the carbon that it produces. because every time we do a search it 5 big data centers around the world, and that search now actually means that the carbon produce and that it more than it is in any trouble. but having said a lot, that's really just to put it into context is not about shaming one against another sector. we're all in this together and every human activity from the moment we wake up, or indeed, you know, even if we're lying asleep in bed with the heating all every human activity has an impact and flying. and i come from a navy, a background. we have been working at the 1970s. i'm trying to find a cleanup ways to fly as you know, jet fuel is the very particular elite type of fuel that the why so important is it so pure it says it doesn't freeze 30000 feet. so we'd been trying desperately to find will tend to, to this. and now the really great news is there is a little tentative. it's called sustainable aviation fuel. and the technology exists. and what we need now is the big oil produces when they're pumping out so much power to reserve a part of their business to produce sustainable aviation few. because the money is that the technology is that the government could do it. because if you think about governments, they put a lot of regulation in to help people move from petrol and diesel call to electric cars. so they've done it the ground transportation. so all that sort of regulation is readily available to be able to use for a v ation as well. the question of scaling the issues, scanning it up to the degree that it's needed, that i just want to move on find it is want to ask you, given this issue about flu or more sustainable type holidays being offered that you could take without having to board and aircraft. yes, you know, domestic travel aground, the world really benefited. we all know that, you know, people in the middle east, they stayed locally. they discovered park middle east that never been before in the u. k. people were, you know, traveling about the cities and towns and the great outdoors that they had never possibly seen before. so i think that desire for domestic travel and understanding your own culture will continue and. ringback people are using the tray, but actually if you look at the numbers that we're looking at, people are booking now when evolves and they're booking long, who and their booking to go and holidays. actually, the absence of cities and beach holidays are coming back, often wanting to be in the great outdoors and not having to be too because they're not the human being. now people actually want to get back to see the culture in the cities and relax on the coast. all fascinating stuff. appreciate that. said julia simpson, thank you. i q and that is all show you 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