Ambulance
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| First episode | 2016-09-27 00:00:00 |
| Networks | BBC One |
| No of seri | 8 |
| Narrat by | Kris Marshall |
| Compos | Matthew Cracknell |
| Episodes | EpisodesS06 E08 · Episode 8Nov 4, 2020 S06 E07 · Episode 7Oct 28, 2020 S06 E06 · Episode 6Oct 21, 2020 View 35+ more |
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| ID | 1279488 |
About Ambulance
Following the work of ambulance services around the UK, `Ambulance' is an unprecedented documentary series that delves into the dilemmas and pressures that British ambulance services face on a daily basis. Narrated by Christopher Eccleston, viewers are shown what day-to-day operations are like from the point of views of the people in the control rooms and the crews on the streets. With around 3,000 people calling for paramedics every day, the cameras capture the cases from the initial first call to the arrival of the ambulance to what happens after. … MORE
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Upcoming strike action TUE 31 JAN Teachers in Scotland Teachers in Highlands and West Lothian are on strike Members of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) are taking action as part of an ongoing dispute over pay Read more: WED 1 FEB Civil servants About 100,000 civil servants in 124 government departments and other bodies are on strike in a dispute over pay and conditions Employees at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) are among those taking part Teachers In England and Wales, teachers who are members of the National Education Union (NEU) are on strike over pay The NEU is the largest education union in the UK and the disruption to schools is expected to be widespread In Scotland, teachers who are members of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) in Clackmannanshire and Aberdeen are on strike as part of an ongoing dispute which is also over pay Read more: | Train drivers Train drivers who are members of the Aslef union are on strike Most train companies across England are affected Disruption is also expected on some services between England and Scotland, and between England and Wales Customers are encouraged to check their route before travelling Read more: University staff Thousands of staff at 150 universities across the UK are taking industrial action Academic staff and those in other professional roles including administrators, librarians and technicians are involved Read more: Bus drivers on strike Bus drivers employed by Abellio in London are taking industrial action The routes affected are mostly in south and west London THU 2 FEB Teachers in Scotland Teachers in Dundee and Argyll and Bute are on strike Members of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) are taking action as part of an ongoing dispute over pay Read more: Bus drivers on strike Bus drivers employed by Abellio in London are taking industrial action The routes affected are mostly in south and west London FRI 3 FEB Train drivers Train drivers who are members of the Aslef union are on strike Most train companies across England are affected Disruption is also expected on some services between England and Scotland, and between England and Wales Customers are encouraged to check their route before travelling Read more: Teachers in Scotland Teachers in South Lanarkshire and Western Isles are on strike Members of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) are taking action as part of an ongoing dispute over pay Read more: Bus drivers on strike Bus drivers employed by Abellio in London are taking industrial action The routes affected are mostly in south and west London SAT 4 FEB There are currently no national strikes planned for this date SUN 5 FEB There are currently no national strikes planned for this date MON 6 FEB Nurses in England Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) are taking industrial action over pay Life-preserving treatment must be provided, and all nurses in intensive and emergency care are expected to work Read more: Ambulance staff Ambulance staff in the GMB union are on strike in seven of the 10 English services and the national Welsh service, while Unite staff strike in four English services and Wales The strike affects non-life threatening calls only and people are advised to use the 999 service in an emergency Read more: TUE 7 FEB Nurses in England on strike Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) are taking industrial action over pay Life-preserving treatment must be provided, and all nurses in intensive and emergency care are expected to work Read more: Physiotherapists in Wales NHS physiotherapy staff in all Welsh Health Boards are on strike It is the first time physiotherapy staff in Wales have walked out over pay Midwives in Wales Members of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) in Wales are on strike from 0800 to 1600 GMT Services for women in labour or needing emergency care are not affected, according to the RCM Read more: WED 8 FEB There are currently no national strikes planned for this date THU 9 FEB Physiotherapists take action NHS physiotherapy staff across England are striking over pay and staffing The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy says 4,200 members are involved University staff Thousands of staff at 150 universities across the UK are taking industrial action Academic staff and those in other professional roles including administrators, librarians and technicians are involved Read more: FRI 10 FEB Ambulance staff Thousands of Ambulance staff across five services in England - London, Yorkshire, the South West, North East and North West - are striking The strike affects non-life threatening calls only and people are advised to use the 999 service in an emergency Read more: University staff Thousands of staff at 150 universities across the UK are taking industrial action Academic staff and those in other professional roles including administrators, librarians and technicians are involved Read more: SAT 11 FEB There are currently no national strikes planned for this date SUN 12 FEB There are currently no national strikes planned for this date MON 13 FEB There are currently no national strikes planned for this date TUE 14 FEB University staff Thousands of staff at 150 universities across the UK are taking industrial action Academic staff and those in other professional roles including administrators, librarians and technicians are involved Read more: Teachers in Wales Members of the National Education Union are on strike across the whole of Wales Many schools will close altogether and classes in some others will not run Read more: WED 15 FEB University staff Thousands of staff at 150 universities across the UK are taking industrial action Academic staff and those in other professional roles including administrators, librarians and technicians are involved Read more: THU 16 FEB Ambulance staff Ambulance staff in the Unite union in Northern Ireland are on strike The strike affects non-life threatening calls only and people are advised to use the 999 service in an emergency Read more: University staff Thousands of staff at 150 universities across the UK are taking industrial action Academic staff and those in other professional roles including administrators, librarians and technicians are involved Read more: FRI 17 FEB Ambulance staff Ambulance staff in the Unite union in the West Midlands and in Northern Ireland are on strike The strike affects non-life threatening calls only and people are advised to use the 999 service in an emergency Read more: SAT 18 FEB There are currently no national strikes planned for this date SUN 19 FEB There are currently no national strikes planned for this date Train strikesA number of rail firms have advised passengers not to use them to travel on Friday 3 February because no services will be running...
No tents, no aid, nothing: Why some Syrians feel forgotten
By Quentin SommervilleMiddle East correspondent, northern Syria
The tents are So Close to The Border wall between Syria and Turkey, they are almost touching it.
Those living Here on The Syrian side may have been displaced by The country's More Than decade-old Civil War . But they could also be survivors of The earthquake. Catastrophes overlap In Syria .
The earthquake, untroubled by international borders, has brought havoc to both countries. But The International relief effort has been thwarted by checkpoints. In southern Turkey, thousands of rescue workers with heavy lifting gear, paramedics and sniffer dogs have jammed The Streets , and are still working to find survivors. In this part of opposition-held north-west Syria, none of this is going on.
I had just crossed The Border from four days in The City of Antakya, Turkey, where The aid response is a Cacophony - Ambulance sirens blare All Night long, dozens of earth movers roar and rip apart concrete 24 hours A Day . Among The olive groves in The Village of Bsania, In Syria 's Idlib province, there's mostly silence.
The homes in this border area were newly built. Now More Than 100 have gone, turned to aggregate and a Ghostly White dust which gusts across The farmland. As I climb over The chalky remains of The Village , I spot a gap in The Ruin . Inside, a pink-tiled bathroom sits perfectly preserved.
The earthquake swallowed Abu Ala's home, and claimed The lives two of his children.
" The Bedroom is there, that's My House , " he says, pointing to pile of rubble. " My Wife , daughter and I were sleeping Here - Wala ', The 15-year-old girl, was at The Edge of The Room towards The Balcony . A bulldozer was able to Find Her , [so] I took her and buried her. "
In The Dark , he and his wife clung to olive trees as aftershocks rocked The hillside.
The Syrian Civil Defence Force - also known as The White Helmets - which operates in opposition-held areas, did what they could with pickaxes and crowbars. The Rescuers , who receive funding from The British government, lack modern rescue equipment.
Abu Ala' breaks down when he describes The Search for his missing 13-year-old son, Ala'. " We kept digging until evening The Next day. May God give strength to those men. They Went through hell to dig my boy up. "
He buried The Boy next to his sister.
Bsania wasn't much, but it was home. Rows of modern apartment buildings, with balconies facing out across The Syrian countryside into Turkey. Abu Ala' describes it as a thriving community. " We had nice neighbours, Nice People . [They] are dead now. "
A deeply religious man, he is now bereft. " What am I going to do? " he asks. " There are no tents, no aid, nothing. We've received nothing but God's mercy Until Now . And I'm Here left to roam The Streets . "
As we leave, he asks me if I have a tent. But we have nothing to give him.
I meet up with The White Helmets , expecting to find them looking for survivors. But it is Too Late . Ismail al Abdullah, is weary from effort, and what he describes as The World 's disregard for The Syrian people. He says The International community has blood on its hands.
" We stopped looking for survivors after More Than 120 hours passed, " he says. " We tried our best to save our people, but we couldn't. No-one listened to us.
" From The First hour we called for urgent action, for urgent help. No-one responded. They were Just Saying , 'We Are With You ', Nothing Else . We said, we need equipment. No-one responded. "
Apart from a few Spanish doctors, no international aid teams have reached this part of Syria. It is an enclave of resistance from Bashar al-Assad's rule. Under Turkish protection, it is controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an Islamist group that was once affiliated to al-Qaeda. The Group has cut those links, but almost all governments have no relations with them. For our entire time In Syria , armed men, who didn't want to be filmed, accompanied us and stood at a distance.
More Than a decade into Syria's stalled Civil War , The 1. 7m people who live in this area continue to oppose President Assad's rule. They Live in makeshift camps and newly built shelters. Most have been displaced More Than once, so life Here was already very hard before The earthquake.
The International help that reaches this part of Syria is tiny. Many of The earthquake victims were taken to The Bab al-Hawa hospital, which is supported by The Syrian American Medical Society. They treated 350 patients in The Immediate aftermath, general surgeon Dr Farouk al Omar tells me, all with only one ultrasound.
When I ask him about international aid, he shakes his head, and laughs. " We cannot talk more about this topic. We spoke About That a lot. And nothing happened. Even in a normal situation, we don't have enough medical staff. And just imagine what it's like in this catastrophe after earthquake, " he says.
At The End of The Corridor , a tiny baby lies in an incubator. Mohammad Ghayyath Rajab's skull is bruised and bandaged, and his small chest rises and falls thanks to a respirator. Doctors can't be sure, but they think he's around three months old. Both of his parents were killed in The earthquake, and a neighbour found him crying alone in The Dark in The rubble of his home.
The Syrian people have been forsaken many times, and tell me they have grown used to being disregarded. But Still There is anger that more help is not forthcoming.
In The Town of Harem, Fadel Ghadab lost his aunt and cousin.
" How is it possible that The UN has sent a mere 14 trucks worth of aid? " he asks. " We've received nothing Here . People are in The Streets . "
More aid has made it into Syria, but not much and it is too little, Too Late .
In The Absence of international rescue teams in Harem, children remove rubble. A Man and two boys use a car-jack to prize apart The collapsed remains of a building, carefully salvaging Animal Feed onto a blanket. Life isn't cheaper In Syria , but it is more precarious.
The Day is ending and I have to leave. I cross The Border back into Turkey and soon get stuck in a Traffic Jam or ambulances, construction equipment - The gridlock of a national and international aid response.
My phone pings with a message from a Turkish rescuer telling me his team found A Woman alive after 132 hours buried under her home. Behind me In Syria , as Darkness Falls , there is only silence.
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