he felt about the killing. we discussed human rights and the need for political reform. as alwasy i always do, i made clear the topic is vitally important to me and to the united states. with respect of the murder ofjamal khashoggi, i raised it at the top of the meeting, making it clear what i thought of it at the time and what i think of it now. and i was exactly. i was straightforward and direct in discussing it. i made my view crystal clear. i said very straightforwardly, for an american president to be silent on human rights is not consistent with who we are and who i am. i will always stand up for our values. let s get some more from our middle east correspondent, anna foster in jeddah. there are many people who will see that striking image of the fist bump betweenjoe biden and the man he called essentially a pariah just a few years ago, and they will believe the very fact that this meeting happened, and the very fact that those images are being beamed around the world
that strategy to change soon. james landale, bbc news, at the foreign office. the leader of britain s biggest private sector trade union is warning of a summer of discontent with widespread strike action. sharon graham of the union unite says that workers, and particularly those who got us through the pandemic, should not now be paying the price of inflation. the government says action like strikes on the railways are only creating misery for passengers across the uk. our economics editor faisal islam reports. injune, in june, thousands injune, thousands of rail workers walked out in a national strike, workers walked out in a nationalstrike, now workers walked out in a national strike, now more announced forjuly and august. and rail isn t the only industry affected by strike action. workers are increasingly willing to walk out to help push up pay in tough times. as the chief of the biggest private sector union, unite. the biggest private sector union, unite. ., ~ , , union, unite.