set to bring the rail network to a grinding halt from tuesday they are the biggest strikes in decades. instead of 20,000 trains on a normal day, just one in five services may run. government says children heading to take exams or patients to medical appointments will face disruption. but under pressure to take part in talks with the unions it says it won t. train operating companies have to settle this. i don t think there is any need for the strikes at all and i appeal directly to people working for the railways, you are being led down a cul de sac by the union leadership telling you there is no pay rise when there is, trying to create some kind of class war when there is none to be had. we want people to be paid more, we want to sensible reforms and modernisation of our railways so we can run it for the passengers. the government says it has spent billions propping up the railways in the pandemic and it now wants to see them modernised. the union which was part of the cost
Limiting his ability to enact his polices. limiting his ability to enact his policies. he faces a broad left wing alliance of parties backing jean luc melenchon. let s cross to hugh schofield who s in paris for us. hugh. you join me outside a polling station in the comfortable 17th arrondissement of paris, and as you can see it isn t exactly humming with activity. in fact they have only been dribs and drabs of people coming here this morning. across the country everything suggests this is going to be an election with a very low turnout. that is a shame because this is an election in which there is a lot at stake. it s the fourth time in two months that the french have been called out to vote. two rounds of presidentials that returned emmanuel macron for a second term, and now this, a chance at the parliamentary elections where his opponents, especially those on the left, to get their revenge. one of the hour isjean luc melenchon, the 70 year old veteran
The us amateur tournament there in 2013 which he says will give him an edge today as he chases his first major. he has a one shot lead alongside american will zalatoris on four under. joe lynskey has been watching the action. in the trees of massachusetts, they are rarely far from the trapdoor. brookline is a golf course thick with hazards. it can bring out new approaches. but one man from sheffield has tamed the conditions. this is matt fitzpatrick, who takes aim here at first win at a major, in the form of his life. this is the course where fitzpatrick won amateur golf s biggest prize. now, nine years on, he holds thejoint lead on the last day at one of the great senior titles. rory mcilroy has gone eight
Man of the hour isjean luc melenchon, the 70 year old veteran of the far left who s forged a new alliance out of four separate parties, including the socialists and the greens. un, deux, trois. cheering his tactical flair and savage and sarcastic attacks on macron have, in a few short weeks, transformed the left s chances. now it s an invigorated left and far left rather than marine le pen s far right that s become the main opposition. applause for emmanuel macron, this week playing up his presidential role in ukraine, today s vote is crucial. his centre right coalition should still beat melenchon s left into second place, but will he get an outright majority? with turn out once again set to be extremely low, president macron risks losing a lot of his seats in the parliament to the point of having to make deals with other parties like the conservatives, if he wants any of his reform programme to get through.
Rodolfo hernandez is a businessman, an outsider, a man who s been called colombia s trump, and a man whose tik tok videos and womanising have become more famous than his politics. his supporters, though, aren t fazed. translation: |f| had money, i d - do my own thing if it made me happy. he s a good thing because he s a businessman. he s a self made man. he s a little confusing. the truth is that a vote for adolfo is against pedro. because we don t want socialism, we don t want these politics that are against the freedom, the economy, we are afraid about petro. for communtiies used to being cast aside, petro s politics are a welcome change. petro s running mate, is a black woman,