for energy because of the rise of renewable energy. hello and welcome to the programme. it s eight o clock in the morning here in singapore and 5pm in san francisco where the bbc s technology correspondence sat down in an unexpected interview with elon musk. the billionaire, tesla car boss and new owner of twitters in running the social media site has been painful and a rollercoaster. it s one of his first interviews since he ought twitter. it s not every day you get invited by one of the world s richest and most influential people to a sit down interview. earlier on tuesday, i d received a response to an e mailfrom mr musk let s do an interview tonight, it read. just a few short hours later, we were setting up in twitter s headquarters in san francisco. hello, how you doing? we re about to go live, very surprisingly, we onlyjust found this out, on twitter. but that is elon musk. we didn t know about that. but you never know with elon musk. when he sat down, he was in the
the military takeover there. we start in the uk, which has seen the biggest day of strike action in more than a decade, according to the unions, with up to half a million people walking out in disputes over pay, jobs and conditions. among those striking are train drivers from the aslef union impacting most train companies across england. bus drivers in london about 100,000 civil servants from over a hundred government departments. thousands of university staff from 150 universities across the uk. and teachers from the national education union. these aerial images show demonstrators marching past the bbc s headquarters in london. 0ur employment correspondent was with them nearby at whitehall. the scale of this. this is the biggest straight for more than a decade. there has been some sort of talk about, could this be the general strike? it is not that. there are unions who have decided not to strike today. it certainly could be a lot bigger. what s interesting is there are un
close it s 6am in singapore and midnight in germany where leaders from the g7 group of nations are meeting. it was the first day of talks in what will be a key week of diplomacy over the war in ukraine. britain s prime minister says ukraine should not be forced into a peace settlement with russia. if that means losing territory. and president biden has been calling for western unity to hold, to defeat russia. our political editor chris mason reports from bavaria in germany. the leaders of the world s richest countries gather to work out what to do next about ukraine. they begin by mocking president putin. bare chested horseback! the canadian prime minister suggests they should mimic the russian leader by riding bareback on a horse, as he has done. beyond the jokes, though, there are real differences of emphasis and approach here about how much and for how long ukraine should be helped. the uk insists it must be for the long haul. the prime minister, though, acknowledges some
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drivers. i think the broader point is the real dangerfor the is the real danger for the government is the real dangerfor the government is coming in that even though most people don t let their lives being disrupted by strikes, the danger for the government is that many people won t buy into the narrative of the unions. it s not just about pay but a sense that britain s vital public services are understaffed, under resourced and overstretched. that feeds into the general picture that you can pick up in pubs are talking to your friends. the sense that nothing is working properly in this country. that is the real dangerfor the properly in this country. that is the real danger for the government. that the industrial unrest feeds into wider unrest and gloom about britain s economic prospects. yesterday, for example, you had the forecast from the imf. i think the danger is everything coming together. danger is everything coming to . ether. danger is everything coming touether. ~ , .,