won a decisive victory. they faced a substantial, quick, typical anti union campaign, where they were really facing an onslaught of anti union rhetoric from their employer, so much so thtat one of the most senior apple executives came to the workplace to talk them out of organising a union and they won the election despite of that. i think apple have a serious decision to make. they can continue to be on the anti union path they have been on or look at the example of microsoft, which just this week announced it will not oppose unionisation by workers. but this vote was just in one store out of more than 270 across the us. now their vote is over, the biggest challenge is probably still ahead, negotiating terms with the world s largest technology company. gail maclellan, bbc news.
at the united nations tomorrow. can some real concrete diplomatic progress come from it? it could theoretically in the sense that the two sides have positions that are not unbridgeable. there are a few things the russians are asking for that the united states and nato will not offer, you know, a blanket guarantee that ukraine will never be a member of nato. that s not going to happen. but there s a lot of other stuff with regard to troop deployments, nuclear weapons, things like that, where you could imagine compromises. the problem is there s very little for us on either side. there s a great deal of distrust, in fact, and one way of keeping the alliance together is the united states has staked out a very strong position trying to make sure that there is no division within the alliance. so in negotiating terms, it will take it will take real skill