exotic plants growing in the uk. and the notting hill carnival is back returning to the streets of west london for the first time since 2019. hello and welcome to bbc news. the leader of britain s biggest trade union says the labour party needs to get a spine and do more to stand up for working people struggling with the cost of living crisis. the unite union s general secretary sharon graham has told the bbc unions are emerging as the only people standing up for workers, accusing labour of moving the goalposts in terms of what it s prepared to do to support them. labour has not backed inflation matching pay rises, but has said if they were in power the party would join negotiations between employers and unions. our business correspondent marc ashdown has more. what do we want? 10%! when do we want it? now! could the summer of strikes turn into a winter of discontent? at felixstowe port, 1,900 dock workers are finishing an eight day walk out, impacting uk supply chains
the russian armed forces are now intensifying attacks in the eastern dom bess region of ukraine. they ve made advances after heavy bombardment of ukrainian positions at donbas region. there are now concerns they could turn their attentions to another country, moldova, which used to be part of the soviet union. it is not a member of nato so it is not protected from russian aggression. it lies between romania and ukraine and within it is the russian backed separatist region of transnistria. one month ago there was a series of explosions in the area raising concerns the war could widen. today the british foreign secretary liz truss made clear there is a serious threat which she says russia trying to restore what is described as greater russia. in another move indicating how far russia will go in destabilising countries, it has now been revealed that moscow has cut gas supplies to finland, the country at one of several now hoping to join nato. meanwhile president biden current
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