taliban officials in the afghan province was hit by an earthquake, thought to have killed over 1000 people, said the search for survivors in many areas has ended. borisjohnson is in rwanda for a meeting of the commonwealth heads of government. downing street said it is unlikely the uk s policy will come when he meets the prince of wales. the american artistic swimmer has been rescued from the bottom of the pool by her coach after fainting following her routine at the world aquatics championships. hello. good afternoon. british airways staff at london s heathrow airport have voted to strike in a dispute about pay. members of the gmb union employed as ground staff and check in workers voted overwhelmingly for the industrial action. the move threatens to disrupt britain s busiest airport in the well, we can cross straight to heathrow and to our correspondent who is therefore eyes. first of all, what is this strike about? be enou~h, what is this strike about? ee: enough, it is no
vote to go on strike. in afghanistan, the taliban say the search for survivors has been called off, just a day after a devastating earthquake which is thought to have killed more than a thousand people. the earthquake struck early on wednesday about 44 kilometres from the city of khost. heavy rain and the destruction of road and communication network have hampered relief efforts in paktika province the worst hit area. our kabul correspondent secunder kirmani is there, and sent this report. homes reduced to rubble, lives reduced to memories. these were my son s shoes, says agha jan. his three young children were killed in the earthquake as they slept, as well as his two wives. when the roof fell down, what did you do? translation: i ran toward my family, but everything was under the rubble, even my shovel, so i couldn t do anything. i shouted to my cousins, but when we took my family out, they were already dead. it s a three hour drive to the nearest big city from the wor
gmb union employed as ground staff and check in workers voted overwhelmingly for the industrial action. the move threatens to disrupt britain s busiest airport in the well, we can cross straight to heathrow and to our correspondent who is therefore eyes. first of all, what is this strike about? be enou~h, what is this strike about? ee: enough, it is not about people demanding an increase in their pay. you re hearing a lot of that with inflation rising very rapidly. a lot of workers are many companies demanding pay increases. what these workers want as their pay put back to levels was before the pandemics are a couple of years ago when the aviation industry was in crisis british airways demanded they accept pay cuts. this was so it could keep on operating at a time and it could not fly aircraft. at the time, it was accused of a certain heavy
hundreds of british airways workers, at heathrow airport, have voted to go on strike over pay. members of the gmb union employed as ba ground staff, and check in workers, voted overwhelmingly for the industrial action. the move threatens to disrupt britain s busiest airport this summer with 700 workers set to strike during the school holidays. paul charles, is the ceo of the pc agency a travel and tourism consultancy company. it is the last thing ba managers need at the moment very minded passions thereunder from staff shortages, flight cancellations, queues at airports which are sometimes out of their control. on top of the fact they are being asked top of the fact they are being asked to cap the number of lights that are running each day during peak summer period so the fact that the main union here, the gmb, so frustrated, will add employment issues to the list of customer issues that ba