and there are more strikes to come. the next one is scheduled to start at 6pm on christmas eve, the 24th of december, until 6am on the 27th of december. so let s find out how it is affecting bus operators like prospect. let s hear from is affecting bus operators like prospect. let s hearfrom stephen, in a moment, but firstjohn from national express. is there any hope of getting a place on a bus to travel at christmas? absolutely, we are very busy travel at christmas? absolutely, we are very busy as travel at christmas? absolutely, we are very busy as you travel at christmas? absolutely, we are very busy as you might - travel at christmas? absolutely, we are very busy as you might expect l are very busy as you might expect because the christmas period especially as there is an expectation of rail disruption on christmas eve. we have seen double the number of passengers on any of those strike days. but we do still have tickets available, we are able to put extra capacity which we d
0ur employment correspondent zoe conway is at one of the busiest sorting offices in the country. i m at mount pleasant in north london, the biggest sorting office in the uk. workers here who are members of the cwu union are staging their 13th day of strike action. there will also be another five days of strike action between now and christmas, on the 11th, 14th, 15th, 23rd and 24th of december. 115,000 workers will be walking out and because of this disruption royal mail has brought forward final christmas posting dates to the 12th of december for second class, christmas posting dates to the 12th of decemberfor second class, and the 16th of december for first class. i have been spending the morning talking to people out on the picket line and also here in the sorting office about how they are trying to cope with all this christmas post.
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others. i have a diesel generator. it s been running for 27 hours nonstop now. and that s a gallon of diesel fuel an hour. so 27 gallons of diesel. and i m the lucky one. people don t have running water, people don t have electricity. but to be honest, the scariest is the lack of cell connection, lack of telephones, basically. so if there is an emergency, you can t even call an ambulance. you won t know if more strikes are coming. it is petrifying. although slowly but surely the energy supply is being restored. 30% of kyiv has electricity now and almost everyone has running water. there s good news there. and i m just wondering about, you know, not the 24th of november but the 24th of december and the 24th of january. it seems as though there are difficult times ahead. times will be incredible
services company menzies, and the action will impact flights in terminals 2, 3 and 4. heathrow says it shouldn t lead to flights being cancelled. six more days of strike action by royal mail workers have been announced. the cwu says its members will walk out on the ninth, 11th, 14th, 15th, 23rd and 24th of december, as part of a dispute over pay and conditions. england and wales play their first world cup matches in qatar on monday. they have been trying acclimatise to the heat in doha, where it is unseasonably hot, as hywel griffith has been finding out. this may be a winter world cup, but in the desert city of doha, temperatures are unseasonably hot. so sweltering, wales delayed their first training session by two and a half hours. as tournament newbies, there s a lot of acclimatising to be done. i m not used to weather like this, being obviously from wales. we went for a walk about 11 o clock and just walking round the streets i was just sweating,