of a shock to find out that our trains were cancelled. no, i understand why they re striking, but from a selfish point of view, it is kind of difficult. i think they ve gone on too long and i do think it s time - that they started to sit around a table and sort it out. - today, the rmt union wrote to the rail delivery group, which represents 14 train operators, setting out what it calls a roadmap to end the current deadlock, as well as a backdated pay offer and a guarantee of no compulsory redundancies. the letter calls for each train company to set out full details of the changes it is planning to working practices. the industry argues those reforms are needed to fund pay rises. we want a decent pay rise. we re not greedy. we haven t had an offer that s a clean pay rise without strings attached. and we re not prepared to fund these very modest pay rises through job cuts and cuts to the services that will affect our members but will also affect the travelling public. the rail delivery
it s on the same day as events, including the notting hill carnival, and the reading and leeds festivals. vivienne nunis reports. it s the first day of the bank holiday weekend, but it s misery for many hoping to get away. 20,000 train workers are on strike. there s also planned engineering works. the end result? reduced services across the three days. meant to be going to manchester to an art exhibition and we bought tickets a long time ago. so yeah, it was a little bit of a shock to find out that our trains were cancelled. no, i understand why they re striking, but from a selfish point of view, it is kind of difficult. i think they ve gone on too long and i do think it s time - that they started to sit around a table and sort it out. - today, the rmt union wrote to the rail delivery group, which represents 1a train operators, setting out what it calls a roadmap to end the current deadlock, as well as a backdated pay offer and a guarantee of no compulsory redundancies. the letter call
that s what our letter calls for is an expedited all of government, all of alliance effort to train the pilots, find the f-16s, and transfer them either directly from the united states or a transfer from one of our allies, as there s f-16ings throughout the nato alliance in several countries might be able to transfer them much quicker than we could. but also train the maintainers. these are sophisticated aircraft. that s why they re so good. they require a tremendous amount of back-end support and sustainment. so we re going to train the mechanics, get the fuel supplies going. there s a lot of things that have to happen now so that six months, nine months from now these aircraft can be flying over ukrainian skies. that s what we re pushing the administration to do. the russian foreign minister said f-16s could accommodate nuclear weapons. he s clearly sending a message here. what is he really saying? as you see it, and does that dissuade you from pushing for this? fwirst of all,
on your desk, most recently from senator padilla and congressman mike levin from california california raising the case of ridge elconas a navy lieutenant sentenced to three years in prison in japan where you are right now after a horrible tragedy, a car crash that killed two japanese citizens. he said he had mountain sickness. everyone agrees he wasn t under the influence of alcohol or drugs. the letter calls on president biden to raise the case of his three years in prison. the family feels very strongly he wasn t treated fairly, to raise that case with the prime minister of japan, and to officially request he be transferred to the u.s. justice system. has president biden raised that case with the prime minister? first, jake, i personally met with brittany elconas and i personally take these cases of wrongfully detained or detained americans for any particular reason, and you noted the circumstances of this case, extremely seriously.
you re more skilled at reading tea leafs, where do you think jack smith s document investigation stands today well, before i opine on that, i just want to make two points for viewers out there that may not be entirely clear on this. the office of the director of national intelligence who this letter calls on to conduct the investigation has no authority to conduct a criminal investigation. so even if you were inclined to think that there was something, you know, some what ligit about asking for intelligence community to investigate, what they have the authority to do is what they ve done which is examine the danger to national security from all of these documents having been improperly handled. they have no authority to investigate a crime. in terms of jack smith, you know, this is this is a case where i have actually felt, you know, some months ago was further along than the january 6th investigation. i think jack smith saw the value in talking to evan corchran.