now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. doctors take an oath to do no harm . we trust them we have to to do all in their power to diagnose and treat us, and, if they possibly can, make us better. but sometimes they can t. what should doctors do when confronted with terminal illness that brings with it great suffering? well, my guest today is a doctor who believes in assisted dying, and it is personal for henry marsh, a leading brain surgeon who has an advanced form of cancer. should death ever be the desired outcome for a doctor? henry marsh, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you received a cancer diagnosis last year so i think i have to begin by asking, how are you? well, i m pretty well, all things considered. and as a doctor, of course, i know how bad things can be. i was diagnosed a year ago now with what s called advanced prostate cancer not necessarily terminal, but it s spread beyond the prostate. and my psa, which is a
well, my guest today is a doctor who believes in assisted dying, and it is personalfor henry marsh, a leading brain surgeon who has an advanced form of cancer. should death ever be the desired outcome for a doctor? henry marsh, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you received a cancer diagnosis last year so i think i have to begin by asking, how are you? well, i m pretty well, all things considered. and as a doctor, of course, i know how bad things can be. i was diagnosed a year ago now with what s called advanced prostate cancer not necessarily terminal, but it s spread beyond the prostate. and my psa, which is a marker of the severity of a disease, and the probability of recurrence and ultimate death was very high 130. only 5% of men have a psa as high as that. so, obviously, this was deeply upsetting and shocking at the time. and i ve been having to come to terms with it since then. it s quite a long and complicated story. as a doctor, of course, i spend all my life livi
emergency use authorization of a moderna booster. that one would be for people over 65 and others at greater risk and like pfizer, the moderna booster can be given six months after someone s last shot. the moves come as new data from the cdc has a dire warning for unvaccinated adults. the risk of dying from covid-19 is eleven times higher than those who are fully vaccinated. let s bring in dr. ra sheena ba set, an emergency medical room physician at the baylor college. good to see you. good morning. is it your feeling that those who got the johnson & johnson one shot, should they all get that booster as soon as possible? absolutely. there s no doubt in my mind that anyone who is eligible for a booster should go ahead and get it as soon as they re able to. so the johnson & johnson vaccine had a lower efficacy rate, about 72% versus moderna or pfizer, which are around 94, 95%. and with a booster shot, now, the johnson & johnson efficacy is now 100% reportedly, so then w
president biden returning to washington moments ago after spending the day in connecticut trying to sell his massive spending bill. that bill, along with much of the president s agenda, stalled tonight. yet, biden says he s still optimistic. i told you before what my neurosurgeon years ago said when i had that an eurysm. he said your problem, senator, is you re a congenital optimist. but i m convinced we re going to get this done. i m convinced we re going to get it done. we re not going to get $3.5 trillion. we ll get less than that. but we re going to get it. and we re going to come back and get the rest. well, the problem right now for the president is that these negotiations over a $3.5 trillion spending bill aren t just holding up that bill. they re actually holding up the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. a bill that passed the senate with 19 republican senators onboard. that s epic. it s amazing. and yet, they can t get the thing passed. it s a bill pro
check but it is for your children. to raise your kids. that monthly tax cut will end in just a couple of months. and it going to impact families of 61 million kids right at the holidays when the winter heating costs are going up. when we need to keep the taxes for families going down. the bottom line is this, when you give working families a break, we don t we re not just raising their quality of life, we re positioning our country to compete in the future. when i talk to all of your folks out in the playground and as i joked and everybody knows i like kids better than people. fortunately they like me and that is why maybe i like them. but all kidding aside, you all talked about it. you all talked about what it means to families of these children. and granted had to cut way back and things aren t the same as they were. but these bills are about strengthening the economy for decades to come. both of these bills spend out over 10 years, take the infrastructure bill, all of th