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Exclusive: NHS in England ‘needs £12 billion a year boost’ to recover from Covid
Millions of GP appointments missed, record waiting lists for mental health treatment, and cancer deaths predicted to rise – the true price of the pandemic, according to a new report by a leading think tank, given exclusively to Channel 4 News. The IPPR says NHS England will need £12 billion a year extra for both…
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NHS Confederation Chief Executive says long-term funding increase for NHS needed
Danny Mortimer, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, has written to the Chancellor warning him that a failure to confirm the NHS budget this week will have an impact on services and communities around the country.
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European regulator says benefits of AstraZeneca jab outweigh risks
The EU’s medicines regulator has said that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine should continue to be used because its benefits far outweigh its risks. A final ruling is expected on Thursday, but the European Medicines Agency has been alarmed that at least 12 European nations have suspended the use of the vaccine after a small number of…
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Ministers pledge new measures on women’s safety as MPs vote on policing bill
Sarah Everard’s death has highlighted issues around safety for women and sparked a debate about the right to protest after trouble flared at a vigil in her honour.
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UK nuclear arsenal to increase as part of post-Brexit review
The Prime Minister has laid out Britain’s foreign and defence priorities in what he described as the most comprehensive policy review since the Cold War. China and Russia were listed as the biggest state threats. And there are plans to increase the UK’s number of nuclear warheads.
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Dreaming of a better Syria after being forced to flee
Waad Al-Kateab filmed the brutal siege and destruction of Aleppo for Channel 4 News and her footage became the Oscar nominated film ‘For Sama’. She was forced to flee Syria and she’s been speaking to some of the other 12 million who were also forced from their homes, who hoped for regime change and who…
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UN adviser says decade-long Syrian conflict is failure of international community
We spoke to Jan Egeland, who is chair of the UN senior advisory panel on Syria, and began by asking if he thought after ten years, the situation was now worse than ever.
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Britain will be driven by ‘our values’ when dealing with China says Foreign Office Minister
We spoke to the Foreign Office Minister responsible for the Middle East and North Africa, Conservative MP James Cleverly. We started by asking whether the reported foreign aid cuts to Syria would be reconsidered.
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Denmark offers Syrian refugees money to return home or be put in a deportation centre
Denmark was the first country to sign the UN Refugee Convention in 1951, but it has now become the first European nation to tell Syrian refugees that they must return home. The Scandinavian country has declared Damascus and its surrounding areas safe, stripping nearly 100 Syrian refugees of their residencies and putting hundreds more in…
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The murder of Jamal Khashoggi: will justice ever be served?
Our foreign correspondent Jonathan Rugman is the author of “The Killing in the Consulate”.
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FactCheck: England will still unlock slowly despite vaccinating faster than government assumed
It looks like we’re weeks ahead of schedule, but government says it won’t change course.
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‘Time for men to listen to the women in your lives’, says campaigner David Challen
We speak to David Challen, who’s mother Sally was jailed for killing her husband, but was released two and a half years ago in a landmark case which recognised that she had been the victim of “coercive control”.
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Myanmar doctors call for UN intervention after protesters killed
Protests are continuing in Myanmar after the authorities imposed martial law in large parts of Yangon and Mandalay.
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Mounting Unionist anger over GB-NI border checks
The European Union has begun legal action against the UK for unilaterally delaying the next phase of customs checks on the Irish Sea border.
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Germany, France and Italy temporarily suspend use of AstraZeneca vaccine
France and Germany have joined Italy in the growing list of countries to suspend their rollouts of the AstraZeneca vaccine, amid fears over blood clots.
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Protest legislation ‘expanding police powers’, says lawyer and climate activist, Farhana Yamin
We speak to Sir Peter Fahy, the former chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, and the lawyer and climate activist, Farhana Yamin.
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Protester’s ‘very scary’ experience at Sarah Everard vigil
Images of the police dragging away protesters, especially one photograph of student Patsy Stevenson being pinned down by two officers, have been shared around the world, encapsulating the widespread anger over the police response.
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‘Culture that would put statue above woman clearly wrong’, says Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy
We talk to Bell Ribeiro-Addy, the Labour MP for the area in London where Sarah Everard was last seen, and Andrea Simon, director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition.
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Government has ‘real opportunity’ to target violence against women, says Tory MP Maria Miller
We spoke to the Conservative MP Maria Miller, former chair of the Women and Equalities Committee
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Court rejects legal challenge on rape prosecutions guidance change
In another setback for the way women are treated in the criminal justice system, the court of appeal has thrown out a legal challenge against prosecutions of alleged sexual offences.
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Vigil held for Sarah Everard outside parliament
Hundreds of women have been gathering this evening at a peaceful vigil in Parliament Square to pay tribute to Sarah Everard.
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Patel says she understands public anger of Sarah Everard death
The Home Secretary insisted tonight that she understands public anger over the death of Sarah Everard and the policing of a vigil in London on Saturday, and said women and girls must feel safe while walking the streets.
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FactCheck: why are countries suspending the AstraZeneca vaccine?
AstraZeneca said the numbers of people reporting serious blood clotting disorders after receiving its Covid vaccine were “much lower than would be expected to occur naturally in a general population of this size”.
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Gay conversion therapy: when will the UK ban the practice?
Minnie Stephenson talks about the distressing and painful practices LGBT people are being put through, and how, at its heart, this so-called “therapy” exploits the emotions of many LGBT people.
