after the floods the struggle to reach millions of people affected by the rising waters in bangladesh and northeast india. and after meeting president zelensky on a brief trip to ukraine, the hollywood actor ben stiller praises the spirit of the ukrainian people. these does people like you and i who have been caught and ate circumstance totally beyond their control. and nobody wants to flee their home. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. three us republican state officials have been describing the direct pressure they were put under by donald trump and his team to overturn the 2020 presidential election result. in an at times emotional testimony to the congressional committee, they described threats of violence directed at them from trump supporters when they refused to bow to the pressure. we have various groups come by, and they have had video panel trucks with videos of me, proclaiming me to be a paedoph
by rmt union. it has meant trains going out of service and millions of passengers going nowhere. my daughter s doing her gcses. i ve got to get her to and from school, so it s a right pain in the neck. i understand they want a pay rise and things change, i get that, but it s not fair for all the commuters. we are going to primarily focus on the two stories this hour, the rail strike in the uk and the hearing in washington, which is where we are going to begin. we start in washington, where the committee investigating the storming of the capitol onjanuary 6 is holding another public hearing. today s focus is on pressure by former president donald trump and his team for individual us states to overturn the election results. central to this are two battleground states arizona and georgia. joe biden won both by a razor thin margin and president trump has kept pushing false claims of electoral fraud. in opening statements, we heard from the republican vice chair liz cheney.
a industry are outrageous. fourth hearing into the ja| attack a fourth hearing into the january 6 attack on the us capitol is under way in washington as we speak. prince william, the duke of cambridge, is celebrating his 40th birthday. good evening. millions of passengers have faced disruption today after the biggest strike on britain s railways for 30 years got under way. the rmt union and rail bosses say they will resume talks tomorrow but even if there s any progress, it will come too late to avoid disruption on thursday, the next planned day of the walk out. what s the dispute about? as ever, it depends on who you ask. for the union, pay and job security are key. rail bosses says it s also about modernisation. they intend to start the process next month. borisjohnson had his say this morning, urging commuters to stay the course because as he said modernisation would be in their interest. our first report is from bournemouth and our transport correspondent, katy austin.
set to bring the rail network to a grinding halt from tuesday they are the biggest strikes in decades. instead of 20,000 trains on a normal day, just one in five services may run. government says children heading to take exams or patients to medical appointments will face disruption. but under pressure to take part in talks with the unions it says it won t. train operating companies have to settle this. i don t think there is any need for the strikes at all and i appeal directly to people working for the railways, you are being led down a cul de sac by the union leadership telling you there is no pay rise when there is, trying to create some kind of class war when there is none to be had. we want people to be paid more, we want to sensible reforms and modernisation of our railways so we can run it for the passengers. the government says it has spent billions propping up the railways in the pandemic and it now wants to see them modernised. the union which was part of the cost
a photo of the duke of cambridge with his children is released to celebrate father s day. good afternoon. the transport secretary says it s not for the government to intervene to try to prevent three days of strikes on the railways this week. grant shapps dismissed calls from the rmt union to get involved in the dispute as a stunt saying it s for the employers and unions to reach an agreement. mr shapps says the strikes would be an act of self harm. the labour leader, sir keir starmer, says the government wants the strikes to go ahead to sow division in society. here s our political correspondent, damian grammaticas. set to bring the rail network to a grinding halt from tuesday, they are the biggest strikes in decades. instead of 20,000 trains on a normal day, just one in five services may run. government says children heading to take exams or patients to medical appointments will face disruption. but, under pressure to take part in talks with the unions, it says it w