workers and the railway industry are outrageous. london euston station is eerily quiet this morning. some passengers are hoping to make a journey but there is widespread disruption across the rail network. how is the strike affecting you? are you working from home or did you have a trickyjounrey to work? do you support the strikes or not? we d like to hear your thoughts. get in touch with me on twitter @annitabbc and use the #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 medalfor £81i million, to raise funds for children displaced by the war in ukraine. a former senior united nations official calls for an independent panel to investigate allegations of sexual abuse and corruption in the organisation. he attacks me in the elevator, he comes at me all of a sudden. i pleaded with him to sto
if we can negotiate a deal this week, it can be, but otherwise we ll have to look at what campaigns we are going to put on going forward, and we think that other unions are going tojoin us in this dispute on the railway, and more broadly in society. it wasn t the employers that called the strike action. we wanted rmt. .. we wanted to do reform earlier. they have been discussing it with us, but they have not came forward with meaningful reform. in other news ukraine is on verge of losing control of the key city of severodonetsk, its troops have been pushed back to just one factory there. allegations of corruption and sexual abuse at the united nations whistleblowers call for an independent panel to investigate. one, two, three, four. dance music plays. star dj fatboy slim holds a music workshop to help people with mental health problems. and prince william. the duke of cambridge turns a0 today. hello, good afternoon. deserted stations, empty tracks, and millions of frustra
aimed at countering china s growing influence in the region. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. the united nations world food programme has described russia s blockade of ukrainian ports as a declaration of war on global food security that could push tens of millions of people into severe food shortages. it echoes concerns raised by the ukrainian government and wider accusations that the kremlin is deliberately targeting food supplies. our economics editor faisal islam reports. across the world, food and energy crisis are hitting households, increasing social instability and hunger and leading to whole country is going bust. sri lanka at first, but more are feared to be heading in the same direction. from southeast asia to the middle east, and it s also affecting the uk, too. with russia s war in ukraine making the supply shocks much worse, the economic stakes are very high here and across the world, accor
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america, and around the globe. ukraine produces enough grain every year to feed 400 million people. along with russia, it exports one third of the world s entire wheat harvest or, at least, it should. but russia s blockade of ukrainian ports means millions of tonnes of grain are going nowhere, prompting the head of the un s world food programme to call it a declaration of war on global food security that could push tens of millions of people into severe food shortages. it echoes concerns raised by the ukrainian government, and wider accusations that the kremlin is deliberately targeting food supplies. our economics editor faisal islam reports. across the world, food and energy crises are hitting households, increasing social instability and hunger, and leading to whole country is going bust. sri lanka at first, but more are feared to be heading in the same direction. from southeast asia to the middle east, and it s also affecting the uk, t
ukraine produces enough grain every year to feed 400 million people. along with russia, it exports one third of the world s entire wheat harvest. or, at least, it should. but russia s blockade of ukrainian ports means millions of tonnes of grain are going nowhere, prompting the head of the un s world food programme to call it a declaration of war on global food security that could push tens of millions of people into severe food shortages. our economics editor faisal islam reports. across the world, food and energy crises are hitting households, increasing social instability and hunger, and leading to whole countries going bust. sri lanka at first, but more are feared to be heading in the same direction. from southeast asia to the middle east, and it s also affecting the uk, too. with russia s war in ukraine making these supply shocks much worse, the economic stakes are very high here, and across the world, according to one of britain s top bankers. many of the conversation