set to bring the rail network to a grinding halt from tuesday they are the biggest strikes in decades. instead of 20,000 trains on a normal day, just one in five services may run. government says children heading to take exams or patients to medical appointments will face disruption. but under pressure to take part in talks with the unions it says it won t. train operating companies have to settle this. i don t think there is any need for the strikes at all and i appeal directly to people working for the railways, you are being led down a cul de sac by the union leadership telling you there is no pay rise when there is, trying to create some kind of class war when there is none to be had. we want people to be paid more, we want to sensible reforms and modernisation of our railways so we can run it for the passengers. the government says it has spent billions propping up the railways in the pandemic and it now wants to see them modernised. the union which was part of the cost
good afternoon. the transport secretary says it s not for the government to intervene to try to prevent three days of strikes on the railways this week. grant shapps dismissed calls from the rmt union to get involved in the dispute as a stunt saying it s for the employers and unions to reach an agreement. mr shapps says the strikes would be an act of self harm. the labour leader, sir keir starmer, says the government wants the strikes to go ahead to sow division in society. here s our political correspondent, damian grammaticas. set to bring the rail network to a grinding halt from tuesday, they are the biggest strikes in decades. instead of 20,000 trains on a normal day, just one in five services may run. awful for people if they need to get to jobs and to work and to places. like, i ve come to visit my son here and if i needed to come back again then, no trains we re just going to have to put everything behind. i m going to test cricket next week and to my grandpa
are travelling by rail at all next week. three 24 hour strikes planned across the week on tuesday, thursday, and saturday with strikes on the london underground going ahead on tuesday, as well. for those who have plans strikes are notjust disruptive, they are costly. i strikes are notjust disruptive, they are costly. strikes are notjust disruptive, they are costly. ijust don t agree. | the government put in, what is it, £16 billion of our money to keep the railways are running during the pandemic? and now they are moaning because they are not getting a big enough pay increase. my sister is havin: enough pay increase. my sister is having cancer enough pay increase. my sister is having cancer treatment - enough pay increase. my sister is having cancer treatment in - enough pay increase. my sister is l having cancer treatment in london. that is having cancer treatment in london. that is affecting her treatment next week due that is affecting her treatment next week due to
translation: ifeel ashamed in front of my family i m so poor, i can t afford to buy good food. my sons are really thin because they re not eating. and spain, southern france, and parts of italy swelter through an extreme heatwave authorities are warning of water shortages. hello and welcome. president biden has announced an extra $1 billion in military support for ukraine, the largest single military aid package since the war began. the us defence secretary said at a nato meeting on wednesday that he will move heaven and earth to ensure ukraine gets the weapons it needs to combat russia s invasion. in the next half hour, nato defence ministers are set to start reconvening in brussels for the final day of their summit. this is the kind of military aid ukraine says it desperately needs. a billion dollar package including longer range rockets and missile systems. the goal, to help target russian troops and location farther away and bolster ukraine s embattled defence forces, i
it is going to get even hotter? it is going to be very uncomfortable and by night as well especially on friday. we are tapping into some of the heat across france which is said to have his earliest heatwave on record with temperatures into the high 30s. and we will tap into some of that heat across england and wales. temperatures already 25 today and friday looks like the peak but not for all parts of the uk. scotland and northern ireland will stay close to average with outbreaks of rain at times particularly in the north and west. that is because of low pressure and weather fronts close by some of those pretty active thursday night into friday. but the high pressure king stings dry and sunny across many parts of england and wales. keeps things dry. most of the rain is further north and west and picking up across northern ireland, that rain. we already had 25 degrees today and we could get higher. quite widely in the mid 20s. so once again we do have some very high levels