offices and pushed the protesters behind a barricade. on thursday, ranil wickremesinghe was sworn in as president. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. around the world, there are signs of deepening worker discontent. inflation is outstripping wages, global corporations stand accused of putting profits before people, while many governments see organised labour as a threat. why, then, is the union movement seemingly in retreat? have workers lost their faith in collective action? well, my guest is long time boss of the international trade union confederation, sharan burrow. do workers have problems that unions cannot fix? sharan burrow in brussels. welcome to hardtalk. good evening. good to have you on the show. let s look at what is happening in the world right now. we have a spike in energy costs right around the world, we have rising inflation in many countries and a squeeze on the cost of living. how grim do you think the prospec
and britain s nhs is stepping up its vaccination programme against monkeypox as more supplies of a jab come on the market. against monkeypox as more supplies of the jab come on the market. hello and welcome. the congressional committee in the us investigating last year s attack on the capitol by donald trump s supporters have shown evidence that the then president made no calls from the white house while the violence was unfolding. the latest hearing was told that instead of intervening to calm the situation, mr trump sat in the dining room, where the television was tuned to fox news. the committee presented several witnesses who said they repeatedly called on donald trump to say something. this is former white house counsel pat cipollone, one of the people closest to mr trump. i think ithinki i think i was pretty clear there needed to be an immediate and forceful response statement, public statement, that people need to leave the capitol. mi; that people need to leave the
ukraine, russia and turkey to allow rain exports through the black sea to resume. hundreds of police in riot gear begin to dismantle anti government protest camps in the sri lankan capital, colombo. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. he did not fail to act, he chose not to act , that s what one republican member of the commitee investigating the us capitol riot on six january last year said about donald trump. the panel has been setting out in minute by minute detail how the former president ate lunch and watched tv, doing nothing to rein in the mob of his supporters over 187 perilous minutes. during this last hearing of the summer, dramatic footage from several witnesses was shown. they each corroborate that donald trump s daughter ivanka was among several key figures close to the president who tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade him into making a statement condemning the violence. sarah matthews, one of today s live witnesses, was deputy press se
live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in washington in the united states where it s a crucial night for the committee investigating the january sixth capitol riot, when supporters of former president donald trump stormed congress, while lawmakers met to certinyoe biden s election victory last year. this will be the committee s eighth hearing, and maybe the final televised hearing before the report is published in the autumn. let s hearfrom two insiders who were in the trump white house onjanuary 6th. matthew pottinger, the deputy national security adviser. he s one of the few senior officials to have been there, throughout the trump administration. as countless others left, he stayed. until the afternoon of jan 6. at 2:24, the president sent this tweet attacking mike pence at the very moment his supporters were in the capitol search for the vice president. at tha
sea. it s expected to be signed on friday. food prices have been soaring since russia invaded ukraine in february. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are yasmin alibhai brown, the author and journalist, and sian griffiths, who s the education editor at the sunday times. hello there. once again, let s have a look through what some of the front page are saying. the mirror leads on the bbc s shameful 1995 princess diana interview which panorama journalist martin bashir secured by making false claims about the ex nanny to princes william and harry. the front pages says cops should charge the culprits . the mail reports on migrant channel crossings, claiming some of those who arrived here came with guns. the times leads with the tory leadership race, as the two remaining candidates trade blows over their differing plans to manage the economy. the guardian reports on the same story, and says mr sunak s opponent liz