in the bronx failed overnight. joining us is nancy hay agains president of the new york state nurses association. good to see you this morning. mount sinai is i saying that union leadership walked out of the negotiations. they proposed a 19.1% wage increase with other hospitals agreed to. what more do you need this morning to end this strike? good morning. thank you for having me. from the beginning of our negotiation it was never about wages, it was always about safe patient care and mount sinai know that what we need from them is proper nurse to patient ratios, is proper enforcement for staffing. it s you know, it s really something to hear that all they focus on is wages. as nurses, when we go to work, we want to provide safe, quality care to our patients. at this stage we do not have that commitment from mount sinai
rejecting the financial packet of the 19.1% over the life of the contract, and also rejected the governor s call to lift this strike notice so that we could work with arbitrators, and we received the strike notice ten days ago, and at that point we started to look at all of our specialties across all of aur patient populations so that we could plan appropriately. so today we have nurses. we have agency nurses as well as other clinical staff that are working to support our nurses to practice at full scope as well as nonclinical staff. so we are providing safe care to our patients. we are keeping our e.d. open for emergency and emergency cases, and those that come into our e.d. will be the vulnerable, the sickest of the sick and we have the staffing to take care of
disappointments of the past that england fans carry with them, they will draw upon their run to the quarter finals and the semi finals of previous world cup and the final appearance at the european championships. they know they re knocking on the door in the biggest matches of all. they re yet to take that next step, but i think the confidence will be high and they leave here with their heads held high after another impressive showing, albeitjust falling short against france yesterday.- showing, albeitjust falling short against france yesterday. in the last few minutes we ve had news of the audience figures for last night s match and an average audience of 19.1; million tv viewers watched england s 1 2 defeat to france on itv.
or going via the bbc app. in the last few moments a japanese company has launched a spacecraft destined for the moon. the i space m1 has taken off from cape canaveral in florida, aboard a space x rocket. the japanese start up are hoping to become the first private company to land on the moon. if the mission is successful then the space craft will deploy two robotic rovers on the lunar surface, as well as a nasa satellite into lunar orbit. a reminder of our top story england s footballers are expected to arrive back in the country later today, after their 2 1 world cup quarter final defeat against france in qatar. we ve heard an average audience of 19.1; million tv viewers in the uk watched the match. the game is the most watched single
be the lasting memory perhaps from the string that, yes, england have gone out of the quarterfinals, it is not a semifinal or a world cup win but it is that unity still between the players and fans just as there was back in 2018 and i think that will surely inspire these fires and gareth southgate and leave them on into the next major tournament. thank you. meanwhile, the viewing figures for last night s match have been published showing an average audience of 19.1; million tv viewers watched england s defeat to france. the five minute peak was 21 million for the end of the match it s the most watched single channel tv moment of 2022 so far. france won the game but there was trouble on the streets of paris after the match. 0ur correspondent hugh schofield told me more. there was riot police on the champs elysees quite regularly, because they re always