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thousands greet the world cup winners in buenos aires. # do you remember the good old days before the ghost town?# the voice of a generation. tributes to terry hall of the specials, who s died at the age of 63. and coming up on the bbc news channel, england cruise to an eight wicket victory in karachi to become the first visiting side to clean sweep pakistan with a comfortable 3 0 series win. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. members of the royal college of nursing in many parts of england, wales and northern ireland are on strike. it s their second day of industrial action, in a dispute over pay and conditions. urgent care isn t affected.
for us this lunchtime, and chris page in belfast. but first to howard johnson, outside st mary s hospital in west london. the overriding message here is that nurses are at breaking point. they say they have nothing to lose because of inadequate conditions and poor pay. we have heard from staff members today who said there simply is not a sense of teamwork in the nhs any more because of their staffing shortages. i curse the day, we have seen people come and support the star pier, one came off his bike and gave a reverential salute to the 50 or so nurses here causing hoops and cheering but we met another man who had broken his hand and he was told his operation would take a week, because the operation had been delayed due to strike action. the
the strikers say urgent care isn t affected, and call on the prime minister to sit down to talks. he can bring this strike to a conclusion before the end of this week. he owes it to this profession. every member of the public in the country so let s do it right now. we are keen to talk, we are engaging with the trade unions. on pay, we have an independent process and we have accepted that in full and, of course, that comes on top of the extra prioritisation of the nhs last year. the nhs confederation says its leaders cannot guarantee patients safety as the current strikes unfold. we ll have more on that. in our other main news today. a 97 year old former secretary at a nazi concentration camp, has been sentenced for complicity, in the killing ofjewish prisoners. surgeons perform ground breaking surgery on a two year old boy, using stem cells to correct a heart defect. it s come home to argentina.
into it. i am looking for that room every single hour of the day. the nurses asked every single hour of the day. the nurses asked for a pay rise of 19%, the higher measure of inflation plus 5% but the government says that is not affordable and in any case, they should not be negotiated directly with them. and as the deadlock continues the nhs faces worse disruption tomorrow. paramedics are holding a national strike. ambulances will still respond to calls known as category one calls, where there is an immediate threat to life, for instance when someone has stopped breathing but chest pain, for instance, might be category two and what happens depends on where you are. in parliament this morning the gmb union says its members had agreed with most trusts what they recover. life and limb cover will be provided. the last thing our members want to do is put patients in harms way but the reason we have ended up