stories and we started in the us. congressional leaders are due to meet with president biden for emergency talks on how to deal with the debt ceiling. reports are coming in the treasury secretary janet yellen has been personally calling chief executives to warn them of the dire consequences a default could have on the us and the global economy. so how did washington get here? samira hussain has been investigating. first of all, this debt ceiling crisis is actually a political crisis, itjust happens to hinge on a must pass piece of legislation to save the country from economic catastrophe, so what is happening here? major consequences for the economy. the us could default on the economy. the us could default on the dead in a metabolic. weeks on the dead in a metabolic. weeks to on the dead in a metabolic. weeks to go before the federal government weeks to go before the federal government is weeks to go before the federal government is unable - weeks to go before the fed
this is the impact that we will see as a result of those strikes. at least a quarter of a million appointments and operations affected, but that number could be higher. it could be as high as 350,000 appointments affected. 250,000 appointments. let s look at the uk in terms of doctors and nurses compared to other 0ecd nations. so you have austria at the top and the uk at the bottom. when we look at the number of doctors and nurses, compared to western europe. of course, this is the uk as a of course, this is the uk as a whole, notjust england. but it paints the picture with the uk is the bottom here, also with nurses as the bottom here, also with nurses as the bottom. we can see no way very high at the top of both lists there. so the uk is already dealing with a shortage when compared to western european nations. we can see norway. we have also had this morning, from 2022, the who said it described the situation as a ticking time bomb, saying that without immediate acti
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there is a big fuss, storm, the enemy finally agreed and it will finally be fine but this time it is different, why? not just the sheer size, that $1 trillion, that is an awful lot of dollars! trying to work that out, but also added to the nervousness going around the markets at the moment about global finance. globalfinance. in terms of the value of the dollar, in terms of interest rates and of course the global banking system. a combination of all those things together means that actually the politicians could easilyjust politicians could easily just sort politicians could easilyjust sort of sit there and say, i m sorry, i m not going to vote on this unless they get. whatever particular angle they are on about so we need to be very careful because if they decide to be silly unlock along with this then we could could find ourselves in a very difficult global financial situation, not just difficult global financial situation, notjust in america, notjust situation, notjust in america
time bomb, saying that without immediate action, the workforce gaps in the european region could spell disaster. we also know this. this is from the european federation of public service unions, and it says that there is a 1 million shortage of health care workers. so, the situation is not all rosy across europe too. and they have also been strikes there. so this is a situation that we could see merit, notjust situation that we could see merit, not just an situation that we could see merit, notjust an element, but situation that we could see merit, not just an element, but across situation that we could see merit, notjust an element, but across the uk and across the continent. that we could see it merited. lets uk and across the continent. that we could see it merited. we could see it merited. lets go back to trafalgar we could see it merited. lets go back to trafalgar square, - we could see it merited. lets go back to trafalgar square, where | we could see it merited. lets go