coming up, after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. across the world, workers are finding their living standards squeezed by rising inflation. for some, it s not so much a squeeze as decapitation. technological change is driving job cuts in a host of industries. do workers have the means to fight back? well, the uk rail industry is something of a test case. for months, rail workers have been striking over pay and plans to change working conditions. my guest is mick lynch, leader of the biggest rail union, the rmt. the stakes in this fight are high. can the workers win? mick lynch, welcome to hardtalk. you are the leader of a union that s been in a long running dispute now. it goes back to last summer, there had been rolling sporadic strikes. as it goes on, does it feel harder to find your way to a compromise? well, there s no easy way out for either side. the government has boxed themselves into a corner to a large extent, and i think that s predicated on the
for use in a contraceptive pill for men. they say it works by temporarily stopping sperm from propelling itself. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. across the world, workers are finding their living standards squeezed by rising inflation. for some, it s not so much a squeeze as decapitation. technological change is driving job cuts in a host of industries. do workers have the means to fight back? well, the uk rail industry is something of a test case. for months, rail workers have been striking over pay and plans to change working conditions. my guest is mick lynch, leader of the biggest rail union, the rmt. the stakes in this fight are high. can the workers win? mick lynch, welcome to hardtalk. you are the leader of a union that s been in a long running dispute now. it goes back to last summer, there had been rolling sporadic strikes. as it goes on, does it feel harder to find your way to a compromise? well, there s n
are bullying and harassing people still allowed on the platform? i would like him to read some of the messages that i have been sent. prince harry and meghan s team say they have been invited to the king s coronation, but won t confirm whether the royal couple will attend. this year s oscars feature a record number of nominees of asian heritage. we ve been speaking to one hopeful about their special recognition. i was just hoping that the movie gets finished and that people watch it and so the fact that we have come all the way this far has been so exciting. hello there and welcome to the programme. we begin today s show in bangladesh, where a huge fire has destroyed about 2,000 shelters at a rohingya refugee camp in the south east of the country. officials say the blaze has been brought under control but around 12,000 people have been left homeless at the camp in cox s bazar and have nowhere to go. 0ur correspondent anbarasan ethirajan reports. the bamboo shelters of rohingy
people still allowed on the platform? i would like him to read some of the messages that i have been sent. prince harry and meghan s team say they have been invited to the king s coronation but won t confirm whether the royal couple will attend. this year s oscars feature a record number of nominees of asian heritage, we ve been speaking to one hopeful about their special recognition. i was just hoping that the movie gets finished and that people watch it and so the fact that we have come all the way this far has been so exciting. we begin today s programme in bangladesh, where a huge fire has destroyed about 2,000 shelters at a rohingya refugee camp in the south east of the country. officials say the blaze has been brought under control but around 12,000 people have been left homeless at the camp in cox s bazar and have nowhere to go. 0ur correspondent anbarasan ethirajan reports. the bamboo shelters of rohingya refugees in cox s bazar district are no match for the ragin
welcome to world news america, in the uk, on pbs, and around the globe. we begin here in washington, where the us defense secretary had a rare phone call with his russian counterpart in the aftermath of a collision between a russian warplane and an american surveillance drone. russia s security council says it will try and retrieve the wreckage of the us drone that crashed into the black sea on tuesday. moscow has told washington to keep well away from its air space, as the two sides blamed each other for the incident, which took place in international air space near territory russia claims to have annexed from ukraine. the us says russian fighterjets intercepted the drone, causing it to crash, but moscow denies this. a senior official in washington says the us is also assessing whether it can retrieve the drone, which is in very deep waters. the us defense secretary said today the episode was part of a pattern of aggressive, risky and unsafe actions by russian pilots in in