Strike across lufthansa through till saturday morning. 0n strike across lufthansa through till saturday morning. On top of that there is Security Staff at cologne and dusseldorf and frankfurt airports are causing wild widespread cancellations. Anybody trying to travel to, from, or within germany at the moment is looking pretty shaky. Let pretty sha ky. Let us pretty shaky. Let us Focus On Cliff why are they such trouble with the unions . Partly because the entire aviation world suffered very much during the covid pandemic. Things are bouncing back. There is remarkable profits numbers at lufthansa, i billion euros, around 3 billion in profits, very similar to what the company which owns iberia of spain and British Airways did. They have earned that because there is huge demand for travel, but in europe in particular, capacity is still way down on pre pandemic times. Very simply, supply and demand kicks in. The unions are seeing the profits that are being made and they are very simply sa
From the uk to provide 10,000 military drones. Now the vast majority will be first person view drones, fpv drones, which can loiter over the battle space and drop their munitions on russian tanks and artillery. But it will also provide a thousand new one way attack drones in addition to that, more maritime attack drones. Attack drones. Post office boss nick read has denied supplying misleading evidence to mps relating to the companys use of non disclosure agreements. He was accused of providing false information on at least two occasions with the Commons Committee concluding the post offices leadership is, they say , in disarray. It they say, in disarray. It follows warnings that follows warnings from mps that the post office is not fit to run any compensation schemes for victims of the horizon scandal, describing efforts so far as an abject failure. Downing street abject failure. Downing street has today declined to comment on whether investigating complaints of misgendering is a good
Put on the back of a shrunken postage i think its postage stamp. But i think its an important story because a Football Club important Football Club is an important part the local community. Part of the local community. Maybe George Galloway could buy hes local mp. Yeah. Let hes the local mp. Yeah. Let us know your thoughts on on our talking today. Email talking points today. Email us at gbviews gbnews. Uk. But first, heres with heres your News Headlines with tatiana sanchez. Andrew, thank you and good morning. The top stories from the gb newsroom jeremy hunt says the gb newsroom jeremy hunt says the conservatives ambition to end National Insurance wont happen any time soon. Around £10 billion has been spent on a £0. 02 cut to the insurance rate, butits £0. 02 cut to the insurance rate, but its benefits are likely to be cancelled out by an expected rise in council tax. The non dom tax status has also been scrapped, meaning that wealthy Foreign Residents will no longer get a tax break
Known as Super Tuesday as millions of People Choose who they want as their preferred president ial candidate. Will vernon reports. Another triumph for trump. The former president cruised to victory on Super Tuesday, securing his position as the unassailable frontrunner in this race. They call it Super Tuesday for a reason. This is a big one. And they tell me, the pundits and otherwise, that theres never been one like this, theres never been anything so conclusive. Officially he hasnt won the nomination yet. But with results like these, total victory seems certain. As expected, President Joe Biden also swept the board in the democrat primaries. Nikki haley was trounced by donald trump. Its not clear whether she will continue her campaign. President ial election day is still eight months away. But Many Americans already seem wary of the campaign, and of an increasingly polarised political climate. We cant hear any other voices but those two now. I mean, nikki haley is still out there and
Anywhere thats seen a cloudier and gloomier start the and gloomier start to the day, well start slowly but well start to get slowly but surely brighter. This occluded front coast, front across eastern coast, though, that cloud though, has brought that cloud some rain as well to some drizzly rain as well to some drizzly rain as well to some eastern coasts, as well as some eastern coasts, as well as some through the next some early fog through the next few hours. That should slowly continue and clear, continue to lift and clear, though it will probably stay quite across eastern quite gloomy across eastern coasts of scotland through much of day. But some sunny of the day. But some sunny spells particularly spells to come, particularly across through across Western Areas through the rest day its been rest of the day where its been a very sunny start to the day and in the sunshine it will feel fairly highs at fairly pleasant. Highs of at 1112, possibly 13 degrees, but in where weve got an i