on talking business. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the rmt union has confirmed that next week s rail strikes will go ahead. they say talks have failed to resolve a dispute about pay, jobs and working conditions. the strikes will affect railway lines across the country. our business correspondent vishala sri pathma reports. it s set to be a chaotic time if you re travelling by rail at all next week. three 24 hour strikes planned across the week on tuesday, thursday, and saturday, with strikes on the london underground to go ahead on tuesday, as well. for those who have plans to go on holiday by rail, or, indeed, go to work, the strikes are notjust disruptive they re costly. i think it s just down to greed, isn t it? i mean, government put in, is it £16 billion of our money, to keep the railways running during the pandemic? and now they re moaning because they re not getting a big enough pay increase. my sister is having cancer treatment, and in london, and that s
good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the rmt union has confirmed that next week s rail strikes will go ahead. they say talks have failed to resolve a dispute about pay, jobs and working conditions. the strikes will affect railway lines across the country. our business correspondent vishala sri pathma reports. it s set to be a chaotic time if you re travelling by rail at all next week. three 24 hour strikes planned across the week on tuesday, thursday, and saturday, with strikes on the london underground to go ahead on tuesday, as well. for those who have plans to go on holiday by rail, or, indeed, go to work, the strikes are notjust disruptive they re costly. i think it s just down to greed, isn t it? i mean, government put in, is it £16 billion of our money, to keep the railways running during the pandemic? and now they re moaning because they re not getting a big enough pay increase. my sister is having cancer treatment, and in london, and that s affecting her treatme
for s but he was still clapping. it was really, really amazing atmosphere down there and we also saw prince charles and camilla afterwards. they did a bit of a walkabout much to the visualise of the crowds who were there and went and spoke to them and i think that was a nice touch for thousands of people who came out today to see what s going on. i people who came out today to see what s going on- people who came out today to see what s going on. i wonder how many eole what s going on. i wonder how many eo - ie the what s going on. i wonder how many people the police what s going on. i wonder how many people the police think what s going on. i wonder how many people the police think they - what s going on. i wonder how many people the police think they were i people the police think they were out because we know green park on the other side, people turned up i guess quite natural to think i will have a lovely walk through green park and see what is going on. they litera
louis down there. you can see crowds lining the mall, as you can see, plenty more pictures from today s celebrations of the platinum jubilee and more to come, plenty more on the lighting of the beacons, which should be quite a spectacular thing to see was to plenty more of that to come. but first, i think we should go and get the sports round up, as we need, from isaac here. have you got sports for us? ido i do indeed. it s been a fantastic start for england in the first test against new zealand at lords. they ve bowled new zealand out for 132 runs. a day illuminated by excellent fielding, ben stokes took the final wicket in his opening innings as england captain. matthew potts had a debut to remember. he took four wickets in his first test match. james anderson got four wickets, too, making a statement in his return to the squad after being omitted from the west indies tour alongside stuart broad, who got the other wicket. england currently 80 2. zak za k crawley zak crawley