we ve got a nine year old girl who won t celebrate her 18th birthday. do not protect the killers. an online video appeal from merseyside police after three fatal shootings within a week, including that of nine year old olivia pratt korbel. as the death toll from floods in pakistan exceeds 1,000 a call for more international aid. and ready for lift off a return to the moon for america for the first time in 50 years. this is our generation, we get to say that we did it, if we do this successfully on monday, we have sent a human rated spacecraft to the moon. good evening. the leader of britain s biggest trade union, unite, says the labour party needs to get a spine and do more to stand up for working people struggling with the cost of living. sharon graham told the bbc that there is currently no strong voice for workers in parliament and she said people wanted a strong message from labour. the party leadership hasn t backed industrial action in support of pay rises,
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
fires are continuing to burn out of control, as parts of europe endure record breaking temperatures. in france, thousands of people remain evacuated from their homes, almost a week after the first blazes broke out. in portugal the entire country has been put on alert. 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, thousands of rail workers walked out in a national strike now more announced for july and august. and rail isn t the only industry affected by strike action. workers are increasingly willing to walk out to help push up they pay in tough times, says the chief of the bigge
how is the strike affecting you? are you working from home? did you have a trickyjourney to work? do you support the strikes? we d like to hear your thoughts. get in touch with me on twitter @annitabbc and use the hashtag #bbcyourquestions. in other news, a senior ukrainian official says russian forces have almost captured the strategic city of severodonetsk, with ukrainian forces holding on to just one factory. a russian nobel peace laureate auctions his medal for £81; million to raise funds for children displaced by the war in ukraine. and to mark his 40th birthday, new photos are released of prince william selling the big issue we look back at his four decades in the spotlight. good morning. the biggest rail strike in 30 years is under way, with an almost total shutdown of the network in england, scotland and wales. members of the rail, maritime and transport workers union are staging the first of this week s three 24 hour walk outs due to an ongoing dispute over pay, p
hello there. we start with the cost of living crisis because the uk is facing a summer of discontent over pay, according to the head of the biggest private sector union. sharon graham, who runs the unite union, has told the bbc it s not militant to ask for pay rises in line with inflation, currently running at over 9%. she says tens of thousands of her members, from bus drivers to refuse collectors to factory workers, are involved in pay disputes around the country. this warning comes as railway workers announce more strike days over the summer. here s what she had to say to our economics editor faisal islam. before people turned around to workers and say to workers, not only have you got out and defended the pandemic, because it was key workers and ordinary people that did that, now it is over, we want you to pay for it. now that is actually abhorent to me. the idea that we set out you go, you defend what is going on out there and by the way, now you are back and everyon