and around the world. i m samantha simmonds. we begin here in england, where thousands ofjunior doctors 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. 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. a four day strike from this morning through to saturday morning. rbma is being accused of picking dates to ma
truth and provide care and also to tell the truth and stand up for the system and the truth and stand up for the system and the nhs is broken right now. what and the nhs is broken right now. what is and the nhs is broken right now. what is yourjob like on a daily level? i what is your ob like on a daily level? ., ~ what is your ob like on a daily level? ., ~ ., ,, . , ., level? i work in obstetrics and gynaecology. level? i work in obstetrics and gynaecology, looking - level? i work in obstetrics and gynaecology, looking after- level? i work in obstetrics and - gynaecology, looking after people who have your choices, women s health who have your choices, women s health and who have your choices, women s health and delivering babies. at the moment health and delivering babies. at the moment pretty much every single shift we moment pretty much every single shift we don t have enough midwives, don t have shift we don t have enough midwives, don t have enough doctors,
example a party official might have been attacked by colleagues or perhaps his career was on the brink of just been reelected so he makes a scandalous statement to appeal to the grassroots supporters and if they re hardcore they love it they see such remarks as displays of courage and standing up to the establishment. at this moment in the f d a it s quite common for people to make radical comments to prove to their supporters that they haven t gone soft ones on her shift supervisor. list these are what s behind this strategy don t they want the state structure to stay like it is through. line of work and no absolutely not. the state structures make sure that the a.f.p. remains a minority movement particularly in day to day politics the a.f.d. believe that the media should be purged that s the way they put it they say that
on the brink of just been reelected so he makes the scandalous statement to appeal to the grassroots supporters and if they re hardcore they love it they see such remarks as displays of courage and standing up to the establishment. at this moment in the f d it s quite common for people to make radical comments to prove to their supporters that they haven t gone soft or supervising the list these are what s behind this strategy don t they want the state structure to stay like it is through. nine o clock and no absolutely not. the state structures make sure that the a.f.p. remains a minority movement particularly in day to day politics the a.f.d. believe that the media should be purged that s the way they put it they say that all these grubby leftist green and social democrat media people should be tossed
yeah. the twin traumas of those two crises is part of what i think forms the legacy of the breakdown in kind of institutional norms. bruce, the other way that people talk about this is the way that a combination of the big one in 2010 and the way to shape the way districts are controlled at the state level, gerrymandering and democratic divide between the house of caucus and the rest of american where the house of caucus that want the strategy don t look like the constituents that went to the poll to elect barack obama. they re right. one thing i want to add to what mike said is there are deeply historical forces at work here. we talk about republicans taking over the south but actually it s the other way around and the politics of the republican party today can best be understood as the politics of the southern