in england have started a four day strike that threatens to bring the worst disruption in the history of the health service. it runs all the way through to saturday morning, and could mean the cancellation of 350,000 appointments and operations. the doctors union is in a row with the government over pay forjunior doctors, with the british medical association sticking to its demand of a 35% pay rise and the government refusing to negotiate until what it sees as a more reasonable pay demand is met. catherine burns reports. what do we want? pay rise! how do we get it? strike! this winter, we ve got used to seeing nhs staff waving banners on picket lines. we re now into the fifth month of industrial action, but this walk out byjunior doctors in england is bigger in scale than anything that s come before. the bma is being accused of picking dates to maximise disruption. their view is industrial action is meant to cause some disturbance. we ve been open and honest and transparent
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peat ear doocy, thank you. dana: politics is always a part of the bigger picture. president biden s visit to you a crane coming against the back drop of the 2024 election and his bid for a second term. good morning, jacque. president biden has said many times a key achievement of his time in office has been keeping nato aligned not just in the face of putin s threat and war on ukraine but also the threat to broader democratic norms. as opposed to his handling of the afghanistan withdrawal, that posture has won him respect on this issue from even some people on the other side of the aisle. the president needs to understand he is a wartime president. we are know a proxy war with russia if we like it or not. a i m an america first guy. defeating the adversaries of the united states is an america first interest. those are growing fatigued with endless support with a war with no end in sight while problems at home persist. one critic has been doling out a lot of that cr
others were concerned about the practicalities, with terry pearson e mailing: and someone tweeting as patrickphotos posted this: well, let s put those concerns to the man in charge, interim executive news editor of bbc news channel, paul royall. thank you for coming on newswatch. now, we ve already seen some of the changes, like the loss of the paper review, the film review, dateline london. what differences will there be from next week? we re entering, i think, a really exciting phase for bbc news with the news with the new channel. we re gradually bringing in the changes during april and early may. as you ve said at the beginning there, some of the output will be combined. and so, the way to sort of understand the channel is there are two main feeds. there s a global feed and there is a uk feed and at some points, they re combined, but at other times, they re separate. so, for example, just to give you a sense of things, between 6am and ”am every day every weekday u