Friday. There have been a desperate rescue efforts throughout the weekend. The latest number sadly is that more than 2000 people have been killed, 2100. Internationalaid that more than 2000 people have been killed, 2100. International aid is on its way, for countries so far, qatar can make the uae, spain and britain. Lets take a look at the map of where this hit. This is zooming in on morocco, Luis Rubiales rabat is up there, but if you look there, the high Atlas Mountains has borne the brunt of it. Theyre our correspondents is. We are in the village in the high Atlas Mountains, near to where the epicentre was. It is hard to access, but the bigger problem is once you actually here, moving around is a very rugged terrain, it is very difficult. To try to get heavy lifting equipment, operated by rescue teams here, it has proved its really challenging. We have seen no signs so far since we have been there, of any official or formal response. Just look at the sense of damage and destruction
had it been, i am that being brought to my attention. had it been, lam highly that being brought to my attention. had it been, i am highly confident that i would have said that we should put in place such a provision because the impact on the overall virus would have been relatively low because, although the numbers are far too big, they are as part of the population relatively low. and in the same way that we realise that our initial regulations, in terms of how they impacted funerals, for example, were much firmer in their interpretation on the ground than we had intended so we therefore changed them, that is the sort of thing that i certainly would have been open to considering and i am pretty sure i would have been in favour of it had it been brought to my attention, but i haven t seen any paperwork on this question. i haven t seen any paperwork on this cuestion. , ., , , , question. open to considering it is helful, question. open to considering it is helpful. thank qu
happen. we havejust heard question about how that could happen. we have just heard from frances o grady and the rmt union have been saying that too. they feel the train operators have not been able to make offers to them because the government hasn t given them the flexibility to do so. do you dispute that? i flexibility to do so. do you dispute that? ., , ., ., , that? i haven t blogged anything. did our that? i haven t blogged anything. did your predecessor that? i haven t blogged anything. did your predecessor block - that? i haven t blogged anything. - did your predecessor block anything? you need the reforms agreed because it is the reforms being agreed that free up the savings that can then be used to make a pay offer. both of those things have to happen in parallel. there has been quite a lot of progress made, to be fair. the trade unions have negotiated with the train operating companies and network rail. a lot of work has been done. i want to work with both sides to get th
get the train strikes result? let s ask frances o grady who threw the gauntlet down to the transport secretary and to me to try to get a straight answer. any clearer about who is in the driving street? brute straight answer. any clearer about who is in the driving street? we are seeinu this who is in the driving street? we are seeing this across who is in the driving street? we are seeing this across the who is in the driving street? we are seeing this across the piece - who is in the driving street? we are seeing this across the piece with i seeing this across the piece with the government pointing the finger, at independent review bodies, train operating bodies, but it feels like the government is pulling the strings and that is what the rail industry tells us. there was some reassurance there, but we will see what happens on monday and whether or not the rail unions get the letter and what is in the letter. but there has to be some recognition that, as mark harper said himself,
strings and for setting the parameters for the negotiations. the mandate that frances o grady was talking about. mandate that frances o grady was talking about- talking about. there is a lot of taxoayers talking about. there is a lot of taxpayers money talking about. there is a lot of taxpayers money that - talking about. there is a lot of taxpayers money that goes i talking about. there is a lot of. taxpayers money that goes into talking about. there is a lot of- taxpayers money that goes into the taxpayers money that goes into the rail network, clearly. but this dispute is different from some of the other ones you mentioned. and these talks have been going on for some time. we are trying to modernise how the workforce operates and the detail of how those rail companies operate. if we can get that agreement between the trade unions and the companies, the detailed negotiations hammered out, that frees up financial savings and then that money can be shared between the taxpaye