but hospitality businesses say they re still feeling the impact. every time there is a strike day, we do see trade fall off a cliff in certain parts of the country, certainly towns and city centres. you know, the last week we ve had sort of three strike days that affect the rail. we ve had an overtime ban during the course of that week. we know that we ve lost around £340 million worth of sales across the uk. now it s getting better. we are seeing more trade coming through and being sustained, but it s still down at least 30 to 40% each time we have a strike day and cumulatively over the course of the year, that s more than 5.5 billion of sales that the industry has lost. right now, there aren t any more full strikes in the diary, and unions have to give two weeks notice of action. but further walkouts are very possible. and after today s strike by rail workers in the rmt, the train drivers union aslef has two more overtime bans coming up at 15 operators from this monday unt
a difficult but necessary decision as ukraine s stockpiles of weapons run low. earlier today ukraine s defense minister thanked the u.s. for supplying the munitions. the bombs are canisters that carry dozens of mini bombs and this is video of a cluster bomb dropped on ukraine last year. sometimes these bomblets don t explode on impact, like in this attack, and that can pose a threat to civilians. cnn s pricilla alvarez is at rehoboth beach, delaware. some democrats aren t necessarily behind biden s decision. what s the white house s response to that? reporter: well, it s a significant development, but as you mentioned, fred, one that hasn t sat well with members of president biden s own party. in a washington post op-ed, senators markley and former senator leahy put it bluntly and said it s a serious mistake with devastating impact, and they went on to say the last thing we need is to risk a rupture with key allies over a weapon that the united states should be leading th
u.s. president joe biden heading to europe later today. a big item on the agenda, when and how ukraine could join nato. tensions between the u.s. and china may finally be easing as u.s. treasury secretary janet yellen wraps up her trip to beijing. we ll have a live report from taipei. mark your political calendars. we now know the date for the 2024 republican iowa caucuses. the important tradition, tures in the nation nominating contest for president of the united states. nato leaders meeting this week in lith wane that will try to cover a lot of ground in just a few days with ukraine topping their agenda. u.s. president joe biden is set to leave in the coming hours, stopping first in london before going on to vilnius. at the summit he ll press allies to continue their support for ukraine and discuss kyiv s longstanding request to join the military alliance. the summit will take place against the backdrop of the u.s. finally agreeing to supply ukraine with cluster bombs
the weapons he had and who else he stalked. also tonight, the latest in the string of holiday mass shootings, including philadelphia s five dead and what prosecutors say was deliberate. the bag of cocaine in the white house. where it was found and what that could mean about who left it there. we begin with a picture federal prosecutors are painting of the man arrested are firearms and ammunition in the washington neighborhood home to many dignitaries, including president obama and mrs. obama. it comes from a court filing urging the man be kept in custody. alleged threats against kevin mccarthy and jamie raskin. that he allegedly live streamed a claim he had a debt nature a explosives and the got the address for the obamas from a post from donald trump. walk us through what exactly the former president posted and when this guy showed up in the obama neighborhood. there wasn t a long time between the two events happening. donald trump posts a newsletter that purportedly h
to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. there is quite a lot of us! look who was passing and dropped in! with me arejohn rentoul, the chief political columnist at the independent, ruth lea, economic adviser for arbuthnot banking group and the broadcaster charlie wolf. you are here to talk three 100 days of the donald trump administration. we are discombobulated by this new format! tomorrow s front pages.. the observer reports on today s summit of eu leaders saying they want the uk to provide guarantees to eu citizens living in britain before any trade talks can begin. the sunday times also leads on the summit, reporting that the other eu member states have rejected theresa may s negotiating position and accused her of living in a parallel reality . the sunday telegraph says the prime minister has rejected the demands coming from brussels as politicians on both sides of the channel warned that the talks could turn nasty. the mail on sunday reports that theresa ma