on twitter @annitabbc. a decision is expected today over whether hundreds of gmb union members working as check in and ground staff at heathrow airport will take strike action. the taliban appeals for international help in afghanistan after a powerful earthquake kills more than 1,000 people. we are desperately trying to work with local partners to get through that rubble and see if there are any survivors that we can administer first aid to get to local hospitals. borisjohnson arrives in rwanda for a meeting of the commonwealth s heads of government with food security, climate change and the government s migrants policy expected to be on the agenda. polls have opened in two parliamentary by elections which are taking place today in wakefield, and tiverton and honiton. eight medical staff who treated the football legend diego maradona in the days before he died are to stand trial for alleged criminal negligence. dat two of glastonbury gets underway. more than 200 thousand fest
conditions. loyal members of staff that have been with the business for years, that know the job, are that have been with the business for years, that know thejob, are no longer with the company and now they can t recruit the staff to get back in and do the job that needs to be done. that is why we are seeing the chaos in the airport is that we are currently seeing. even iag s chief executive acknowledges this and says the prices we are seeing in aviation is caused by staff shortages. there is caused by staff shortages. there is only one answer to that and there is only one answer to that and there is only one way that ba can get its operation back to where it was, back to pre pandemic levels, and that is it needs to pay its staff properly, it needs to pay its staff properly, it needs to pay its staff properly, it needs to pay back the rummy money it robbed from them during the pandemic, and it needs to rebuild the trust and confidence that it has absolutely decimated as a result of