0ur Correspondent Michelle Fleury is at the Port Of Newark in newjersey. Tell us what s going on there and all along the coast. We know the strike is about wages and automation, what s going on with the talks . Right now theres not much going on on on the docks, normally you might see some of the grains over their moving, containers being loaded, and off loaded from giant containerships, but all of that stopped at midnight last night. That is when the Master Contract between the union workers and the us Maritime Alliance expired, and the fight over wages and automation continues to rage and there is little agreement between them on this issue. So right now we are one of the Picket Lines here in newjersey, where workers have gathered short while ago, they stood in a long line singing, no automation, no automation. And we ve heard from the White House in the last few hours 7 what are they saying . How does this get solved . When it comes to critical infrastructure which ports are, and as
United states where ports all across the East And Gulf coasts including here in baltimore have virtually ground to a halt. It means goods ranging from cars to machinery and fresh fruit and vegtables are going to find a lot tougher to get into or out of the worlds biggest economy. An estimated 16,000 workers have stopped working over demands for more pay and less automation. The stoppages could cost the us economy as much as 5bn a day according to the Investment Bankjp Morgan but other experts say it will be less than that. One knock on could be as many as 100,000 people finding themselves temporarily out of work as the impact of the stoppage spreads. 0ur Correspondent Michelle fleury is at the Port Of Newark in newjersey. What other people telling you about how angry they are but also how long this might last . This is one of three dozen ports that are on strike as of midnight last night, and work is basically raring to go, blasting music this morning, i saw some children walking aroun
Says it is looking at 721 patients, all children who had come into contact with yasserjabber while he worked there as a surgeon. Now he is reported to be an expert in limb reconstruction. Now, so far, of the 39 cases reviewed, more than half were found to have been harmed. 13 of those patients severely. Now, lawyers representing some of the families treated by Yasserjabber Say that children as young as four months old were subjected to unnecessary surgery and suffered life changing injuries, with one child having to undergo an amputation that could possibly have been avoided if different treatment had been followed. Now the solicitors representing seven of the children says the claims are shocking. Have a listen to what shes had to say. Clients that we have been instructed to represent in claims against Mrjabber Have suffered a variety of orthopaedic injuries. Some of them have nerve damage, some of them have muscle damage. We have a client that has undergone an amputation of his lower
Fawzia koofi, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. It s a great pleasure to have you in the hardtalk studio. It is now three years since taliban rule was restored in afghanistan. They have just passed a raft of new socalled vice and virtue measures in kabul. Tell me about the impact of those measures, as you see it. You have put it very rightly after the, you know, three years since the taliban regime was restored. This is the right way to put it, because many people think, say, um, three years since the taliban victory, since they have taken power. Ijust believe it s three years since afghanistan was handed over to taliban because of the moral defeat by all of us, especially international community. Now, the new law. . . You re talking about the decision led by the united states of the western nations who d been backing the afghan government to withdraw their troops, which, of course, then led to the collapse of the afghan national army and the taliban moving back in to kabul
We change the wind direction, We bring the winds down from the northWest, and so things are going to feel very different. Temperatures, if anything, looks set to drop back to values below the average for the time of year, and it will still be quite unsettled. ShoWers or longer spells of rain and often breezy. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. To be female in afghanistan is to be condemned to a life without visibility, agency or rights. The Taliban Regime requires women to conceal their faces, bodies, even their voices in public. They must never look at a man outside theirfamily, nor ever sing or read aloud. The Un Secretary general calls it systemic gender apartheid. But still it continues. And still, taliban officials conduct a dialogue with international counterparts. My guest is fawzia koofi, former Deputy Speaker of the Afghan Parliament. What is the right international approach to afghanistan . Fawzia koofi, Welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. Its a great pleasure