for months, rail workers have been striking over pay and plans 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 have 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 idea of setting precedents for public sector. we ve seen the nurses, ambulance drivers, many civil servants in dispute along similar lines. people aren t being paid enough in this society at the moment and many public sector workers have had long term pay cuts measured against any measure of inflation, so there s some catch up to be done, and that makes it harder because the government wants to be
To climate hell with no sign of slowing down and that humanity needed to co operate or perish. Now on bbc news. America, faith on the frontline. This country belongs to god almighty a powerful minority is on the rise with a particular vision of america. You cannot separate god from politics. You cannot take him out of our government. It is one of the oldest and most influential currents in us politics but in a country deeply divided, the Christian Right has found a new voice. We desire to live in a Judaeo Christian nation with Judaeo Christian values. It claims christianity is under attack and that god belongs in government. With pastors preaching its message in churches and its beliefs Guiding Ultraconservative candidates in the mid term elections. Im a christian, i say we should be the movement is 90 minutes Christian Nationalism and the far right is taking it to the extreme. We are the christian taliban. Some warn this is fundamentally undemocratic. It was amplified by donald trump.
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