justine greening and former us government advisor hagar chemali who now hosts the political satire series oh my world. across england, scotland and wales the biggest rail strikes in 30 years will go ahead this week after last ditch talks failed. services will run on a severely reduced timetable from this evening ahead of the national strike tomorrow. the three day walkout on tuesday, thursday and saturday will cause disruption for the whole week. the rmt union says some 50,000 railway workers are striking over pay, jobs and conditions. the secretary general of the rmt, mick lynch, warned there could be a series of strikes over the next few months. faced with such an aggressive agenda of cuts to jobs, conditions, pay and pensions, the rmt has no choice but to defend our members industrially. my message, mr speaker, to the workforce is straightforward, your union bosses have got you striking under false pretenses. both sides are miles apart on pay discussions with the union
the economy while denying his reckless spendingg led tori record prices. quote the idea t that it caused inflation is bizarre. if it s my fault, why is itwh the other major industrial? why is it the case that in every other major industrial country in the world that inflation is higher? you asked yourself i m not being a wise guy at the end of the quote peter doocy pressing the white house on that whopperm of a claim. he says that inflation is worse everywhere but here that s, not true . u.s. says worse inflation in germany, france, japan, canada, india, italy, saudisa arabia, which i think what we are saying is that when we talk about inflation, it is a global thing and it is not just about the united states. this is something that everyone is feeling becauseth of comingts out of once 1% once in a lifetime pandemic because of the war that russia has started in ukraine. th and after blabbinge away to the ap, it seems like those close to the president didn tan want him to do
Hello, im christian fraser. Youre watching the context on bbc news. Are the context on bbc news. Re up or are we down . The Us Central Bank the Federal Reserve reviews Interest Rates as investors cast doubt over an imminent rate cut. There are two women in iran whose names became synonymous with the fight for womens freedom. One of them is mahsa amini who died from her injuries sustained in police custody. The other is nika shakarami. A 16 Year Old Girl who disappeared just days after mahsa aminis death became public. Shortly after leaving a protest on the 20th September she called a friend to say she was being chased by security forces. Nine days later her body was dumped in a quiet tehran street. The authorities denied involvement in her death, claiming she took her own life. But a classified report seen by the bbc reveals the teenager was beaten to death by the agents who detained her. Reha kansara from bbc Eye Investigations has this report. And a warning, you may find the details
way. happy memorial day now. tonight for the hour, we will highlight of ouriews a big interviews from the past few months. imrst up, immigrationdn is, one of the biggest issues for voters ahead of the 2024 election. iswell, i recently traveled to shelby park in eagle pass, texad tos, for an exclusived interview with former president donald trump aboutanle the border crisis. take a look. he came downook. the escalator> this was a big issue. big you were attacke issd right out of the box. yeah. you know, that day when you came down that dayx th on issue, when i was hearing peeut it from a lot of peopl and it was one of the primaryn reasons in 2016 that i ran and i raon then on the border ai ran on other things, but i ran d on the border largely and wee bo fix the problem. and in 2020, it wasn t even lare a subjecly t. i go out and say, i want to talk about the border. they say, sir, you fix the borderout . nobody cares about the border anymore. now, what s happened is, since