vote to go on strike. in afghanistan, the taliban say the search for survivors has been called off, just a day after a devastating earthquake which is thought to have killed more than a thousand people. the earthquake struck early on wednesday about 44 kilometres from the city of khost. heavy rain and the destruction of road and communication network have hampered relief efforts in paktika province the worst hit area. our kabul correspondent secunder kirmani is there, and sent this report. homes reduced to rubble, lives reduced to memories. these were my son s shoes, says agha jan. his three young children were killed in the earthquake as they slept, as well as his two wives. when the roof fell down, what did you do? translation: i ran toward my family, but everything was under the rubble, even my shovel, so i couldn t do anything. i shouted to my cousins, but when we took my family out, they were already dead. it s a three hour drive to the nearest big city from the wor
and said, all of those people will get that 10% back, would that be it? you would call off and say, there would be no strikes? hate you would call off and say, there would be no strikes? would be no strikes? we are a democratic would be no strikes? we are a democratic organisation, i would be no strikes? we are a democratic organisation, so i would be no strikes? we are a democratic organisation, so if| would be no strikes? we are a i democratic organisation, so if ba want to come back to us and make an offer, that offer then goes back to our members, who get a full vote on whether or not what is on the table is adequate, because we need to be absolutely certain that if there is an offer on the table and there was no talk of an offer necessarily at the moment, that there is no strings attached to that. what ba have tried to do is, they have tried to say, we offered this group of workers a 10% bonus and they rejected it. they offered these workers a 10% one off payment, so once it is
ba off of the 10% bonus to our members, one of the key reasons they rejected it is because one of the strings that was attached to it was that our members would waive their rights to campaign to improve their pay and conditions, and we don t think that is a bribe with taking. british airways says it has lost £4 billion injust british airways says it has lost £4 billion in just two years because of covid. billion in ust two years because of covid. ~ , , ., ., covid. well, ust under 2 billion of that is debt covid. well, just under 2 billion of that is debt that covid. well, just under 2 billion of that is debt that has covid. well, just under 2 billion of that is debt that has been - covid. well, just under 2 billion ofj that is debt that has been saddled onto it by its parent company iag, and ba was very profitable pre pandemic. it made £4.5 billion in profit and £1.6 billion of that was siphoned off to private shareholders in dividends, so we want ba to be back in that pla
management are facing. it will be very, very frustrating for them. for all of us travelling, this will add to the uncertainty that everybody is seeing at the moment. they re seen cancellations every day for many airlines, notjust ba. as heathrow, gatwick and other airports capping the number of flights that are taking off the summer, it is an extraordinary situation. the demand is there. people want to fly. people are happy to pay to pay to fly. they re paying flight prices which are much more than they were pre pandemic. but the airlines and airports are really struggling to deliver the quality of service needed to make these flights get away on time. they can deliver on that service because they are not paying enough and therefore attracting and that is at the heart of this dispute. joining us is the travel correspond from the independent newspaper in the uk. welcome to the programme. is there a