1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: Doctors in the UK going on a five day strike 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 1: that we thought that, No, the twenty four hour strike 3 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 1: or even the two seven hour strike that we had 4 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 1: in New Zealand's bed not although Gevin Gray is our 5 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 1: UK Correspondentvin, which doctors in particular are going on strike 6 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 1: or is it all of them? 7 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 2: Note these are what are called resident doctors that used 8 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 2: to be called junior doctors, Ryan, but they represent about 9 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:26,439 Speaker 2: sixty percent of all the doctors that you see in 10 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 2: a hospital, not the consultants or the surgeons here, but 11 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:33,560 Speaker 2: the doctors, you know, the straightforward one. So a large 12 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 2: proportion of the doctors are going out on strike. 13 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 3: It's a long running dispute over yes, you guessed it. Pay. 14 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:42,839 Speaker 3: The government's pointing out that they've. 15 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 2: Actually given the doctor's resident doctors a thirty three zero 16 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:52,159 Speaker 2: percent increase in salary over the last couple of years. 17 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 3: But the junior doctors are not happy. 18 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:59,279 Speaker 2: They say, no, that's still not enough, and also there 19 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 2: are some other things they want over, basically career progression training, 20 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera. Now, the government held an emergency 21 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:10,320 Speaker 2: meeting a couple of days at the end of last week, 22 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 2: effectively trying to stop this strike, and the junior doctors 23 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 2: held another voter and effectively decided to go ahead. It 24 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:22,680 Speaker 2: was a real snub to the government's attempts, with more 25 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 2: than eighty percent voting for this strike. The reason it's 26 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 2: particularly in the headlines at the moment, Ryan is because 27 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 2: we have got a real wave of bad flu strains 28 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 2: going around and that has meant that many beds are 29 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 2: now occupied in hospital by flu patients. So people are 30 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 2: beginning to think that actually, this five day strike may 31 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:47,039 Speaker 2: well knock out non emergency services for a while, and 32 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 2: that's going to push up waiting lists and do a 33 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 2: lot of dent to the government's plans to get those 34 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 2: waiting lists down. 35 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, we have a similar thing going on here because 36 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 1: during COVID, I'm sure you did the same thing, the 37 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 1: waving lists blow out, Government comes up, tries to fix it, 38 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: people go on strike and then it makes it very difficult. Now, 39 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 1: the climate, We've spoken about this a couple of times, 40 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:09,200 Speaker 1: but the climate, the sort of rolling back of the 41 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 1: climate initiatives, the European Commissions watering down its petrol diesel 42 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: vehicle ben. 43 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:17,959 Speaker 3: Yes, so the. 44 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:20,920 Speaker 2: EU said that they were going to have zero emission 45 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 2: new cars sold from twenty thirty five. In other words, 46 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 2: every single car being sold off the fore court that 47 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:32,239 Speaker 2: was new was going to have to be electric or 48 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 2: some kind of other zero emission vehicle. Well they've watered 49 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 2: that down now to ninety percent, so it's still pretty tight, 50 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:41,919 Speaker 2: but I think it's a sign of perhaps what's more 51 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 2: to come. Car makers, particularly those in Germany, have lobbied 52 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 2: very heavily for concessions. They are pleased it's come down, 53 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:52,080 Speaker 2: but I think some of them are really thinking, actually, 54 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 2: this needs to come down even more, and they are 55 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 2: just saying quite simply that we are just not going 56 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 2: to get there because the interest and the sales in 57 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 2: electric cars has not been strong. And also the change 58 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 2: to production lines whilst it's been happening to go from 59 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 2: internal combustion through until electric, well those changes have started 60 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 2: to be made, but we think twenty thirty five is 61 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 2: way too ambitious to ban new petrol and diesel vehicles. 62 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 2: So in a sense, Germany, well, of course, one of 63 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 2: the big big players in the EU, has got its 64 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:31,119 Speaker 2: way here, and it's not the only group that's pleased 65 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 2: with this. It would appear as well, this is the 66 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 2: way the UK is going as well, with the UK 67 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 2: previously being hammered for the requirement for having better incentives 68 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 2: to encourage drivers to buy electric Those incentives are there, 69 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 2: but they're not very significant, and again electric car interest 70 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 2: and electric car sales not great. Opponents of what's happening 71 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 2: in the EU say they really risk undermining the transition 72 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 2: towards electric vehicles and leaving the EU exposed in the 73 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 2: face of foreign competition. 74 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 1: And finally, given doesn't matter what kind of care you're driving. 75 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: If you're going to first you get a speeding fine, 76 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 1: but some drivers that might get an early Christmas prison. 77 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, this is an almighty cock up here by various 78 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:20,160 Speaker 2: authorities because it's been discovered that these roadside cameras, the 79 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:23,919 Speaker 2: fixed cameras that we see above gantries across major roads 80 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,679 Speaker 2: are on the side of the road, have been actually 81 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 2: giving the wrongful speed and activated when people were driving 82 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 2: to the limit and not speeding. So in total, two thousand, 83 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 2: six hundred and fifty wrongful speed camera activations, as they 84 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 2: call it, in other words, wrongful prosecutions have happened since 85 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:47,599 Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, and that's due to a delay between 86 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 2: the cameras and the variable speed signs. Now, the effected 87 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 2: drivers are being contacted by a police and will be 88 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:55,159 Speaker 2: reimbursed for any fines. 89 00:04:55,600 --> 00:05:00,720 Speaker 3: Points that they had removed from their license will be replaced. 90 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 3: But the problem here, Ryan is some people might have lost. 91 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 2: Their licenses altogether because of numerous driving offenses, and of 92 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 2: course if you lose your license, for some people, it's 93 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 2: also the loss of their job. So it's a very 94 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 2: real issue that among these twenty six hundred and fifty 95 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:20,840 Speaker 2: wrongful convictions or wrongful prosecutions, there might be some people 96 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 2: who have actually had their lives completely upended by excuse me, 97 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 2: a fake camera. 98 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:29,160 Speaker 1: Reading, Gevin, Thank you for that update. Devin Gray are 99 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:30,280 Speaker 1: UK correspondent. 100 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,160 Speaker 2: For more from Hither Duplessy, Allen Drive, listen live to 101 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:37,279 Speaker 2: news talks it'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow 102 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:39,119 Speaker 2: the podcast on iHeartRadio.