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
rights whose intervention prevented the fight from taking off at all. at a later he became the second independent ethics adviser to resign. the government was considering paying subsidies to steer manufacturers in the uk in breach of the rules. the code says ministers should not operate the law. downing street is considering suspending it. for lord geidt this was the last straw. on friday boris johnson escape these distractions to spend the day in two years and even among the allies championing international law as a tool to bring to account russians for action taken during the invasion. they week investigators said they may have had evidence of serious breaches of international law which perhaps amount to war crimes. we will discuss those three aspects in is still here with me is ian who writes for the on sunday and let return for the on sunday and let return for from for the on sunday and let return forfrom a for the on sunday and let return for from a lengthy s
since winning a confidence vote, insisting nothing will stop his government from delivering. one person is killed and many are injured as a car careers into a crowd in berlin police say they don t yet know if it was deliberate. the former hollywood producer harvey weinstein is to be charged with two counts of indecent assault against a woman in london in 1996. and plans to send asylum seekers to rwanda as soon as next week face a legal challenge under emergency proceedings launched in the high court. the government has called the rmt union selfish and thoroughly irresponsible after it announced action that will shut down large parts of the rail network later this month. thousands of railway workers are due to walk out onjune 21st, 23rd and 25th in a row aboutjobs and pensions. the rmt says its members have waited patiently for two or three years for a real pay offer. members of the unite union on the london underground will also strike on the 21st. it s all happening during
minister. he wasn t there saying this shouldn t be happening, he| this shouldn t be happening, he wasn t saying can everyone break up and go home because my cable and socially distance? and everyone put masks on? no, he wasn t telling anybody that. he was grabbing a glass for himself. pressure coming on the uk government from a number of fronts more detail has emerged about the lockdown parties in number 10. there s confirmation energy prices will rise sharply later year as the cost of living crisis deepens. and an inquiry by mps has concluded that that the uk s withdrawal from afghanistan last year was a disaster . we re going to look at all three across this first half an hour. let s begin with the parties because, for the first time, insiders who were at some of the events have talked in detail about what they saw. they ve been talking to the bbc s laura kuennsberg and in this clip a staffer described the culture in noio during at the time. they were every week. the event