ukraine has suggested it used special forces to carry out an attack on an ammunition depot in russian occupied crimea on tuesday. moscow has blamed the explosion on sabotage . an emergency has been declared in the north of the peninsula. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me again, the author and journalist rachel shabi. and we are hoping to bejoined shortly annabel denham, who s the director of communications from the free market think tank the institute of economic affairs. we arejust we are just having a few technical problems bring back the connection. let me update you on the front pages, starting with the ft. it leads on today s wage figures deepening the cost of living pain for households across the uk. ryanair to the rescue is the metro s splash, after the airline promised hundreds of extra half term flights in october. the telegraph has comments from a former immigration minister who says the modern slavery la
down. good morning from southampton, where northern ireland and england face each other in their final group game at the euros. england look to continue their winning form as they head to the quarterfinals, while northern ireland want to finish their first major women s tournament on a high. sunny in the southern half of the country at the moment but a cloudy and damp start in the north. it will brighten up. news of exceptional heat coming our way into next week. it s friday, 15thjuly. our main story. thousands of rail workers are to go on strike again as the leader of one of britain s biggest union warns of a summer of discontent . the rmt union has announced its members will strike on thursday the 18th and saturday the 20th august in their ongoing row over pay, jobs and conditions. the union had already announced a day of action on the 27thjuly. yesterday, the aslef union also said train drivers at eight rail companies would stage a walk out on saturday 30th july. sharon g
but let s begin in saudi arabia where the president is set to land. nic robertson is joining us there from jeddah. so they are waiting obviously highly an takes pay thing this arrival. what is the sense there ahead of this meeting, one that clearly the saudis wanted not only to have but to have images for the world to see, really legitimizing the regime? reporter: yeah, there is a real sense here that this is a moment for the saudis to have to get through because they know the focus and international attention that will be on president biden casting them as a pariah for the murder of jamal khashoggi. they recognize that. but they really feel that this is a moment to sort of punch through that situation. they are very keen to have face-to-face with president biden. they believe the very fact that president biden is coming here kind of resets the relationship so that they can get to the things that they want to get to which are all the sort of economic development investmen
and nearly a million people have been affected. water levels in rivers are also running high in bangladesh where about two million people have been hit by the floods. coming up at six o clock, breakfast with ben thompson and sima kotecha. but first on bbc news, the media show. hello. on the show today we have gotjohn micklethwait, editor in chief at bloomberg. we are taking a look at a new podcast that charts the rise of reality tv with one of the co hosts, pandora sykes. and, wagatha christie how can we not talk about it? and we have got one of the key players here in the whole drama, simon boyle, who is the executive editor of the sun and their bizarre column, which is a0 this weekend. he faced significant pressure to stand as a witness. simon, i have got to ask, who would play you in the movie? it s funny, we actually had this conversation in the office. what is the answer? well, my hairline is going rather quickly, probably from the stress of this job, so ross kemp was