offices and pushed the protesters behind a barricade. on thursday, ranil wickremesinghe was sworn in as president. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. around the world, there are signs of deepening worker discontent. inflation is outstripping wages, global corporations stand accused of putting profits before people, while many governments see organised labour as a threat. why, then, is the union movement seemingly in retreat? have workers lost their faith in collective action? well, my guest is long time boss of the international trade union confederation, sharan burrow. do workers have problems that unions cannot fix? sharan burrow in brussels. welcome to hardtalk. good evening. good to have you on the show. let s look at what is happening in the world right now. we have a spike in energy costs right around the world, we have rising inflation in many countries and a squeeze on the cost of living. how grim do you think the prospec
and britain s nhs is stepping up its vaccination programme against monkeypox as more supplies of a jab come on the market. against monkeypox as more supplies of the jab come on the market. hello and welcome. the congressional committee in the us investigating last year s attack on the capitol by donald trump s supporters have shown evidence that the then president made no calls from the white house while the violence was unfolding. the latest hearing was told that instead of intervening to calm the situation, mr trump sat in the dining room, where the television was tuned to fox news. the committee presented several witnesses who said they repeatedly called on donald trump to say something. this is former white house counsel pat cipollone, one of the people closest to mr trump. i think ithinki i think i was pretty clear there needed to be an immediate and forceful response statement, public statement, that people need to leave the capitol. mi; that people need to leave the
hello there. we start here in the uk, where the two rivals vying to become the next prime minister have been setting out their contrasting economic plans and attacking each others . foreign secretary liz truss, currently the favourite to win, has suggested her party s economic policy has been wrong notjust under her rival, former chancellor rishi sunak, but for its entire period in power. ms truss said the past two decades had failed to deliver growth and promised billions of pounds in immediate tax cuts. we ve got the highest taxes for 70 years. we ve got lower debt than the united states, than japan, than canada. no other countries are raising taxes and the oecd countries are raising taxes and the 0ecd has described our current policy as contractionary and contractionary, it essentially means policies that lead to a recession. so what i want to do is increase tax revenues by growing the economy, not choke off growth by raising taxes. mr sunak has been restating his plan to
even during the 705, and i remember the 705 being very tumultuous and divided, but this kind of profiteering, which it is, i m sorry, it makes me sick! we ve got children in our country, all the countries, the poorer countries who can t eat, and these guys are raking it in, and you know what? they will go and support an museum, they will be very philanthropic, they will have the name everywhere, and it is totally unacceptable. the have the name everywhere, and it is totally unacceptable. totally unacceptable. the guardian . uotes totally unacceptable. the guardian uuotes the totally unacceptable. the guardian quotes the professor, totally unacceptable. the guardian quotes the professor, the - totally unacceptable. the guardian quotes the professor, the author l totally unacceptable. the guardian | quotes the professor, the author of this analysis saying the wealth captured by states and fossil fuel companies since 1978 is 52 trillion provided the power to buy every politic
life from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. it s six in the morning here in singapore and 6pm in washington, where president biden is in isolation after testing positive for covid. the confirmation came hours ago first in a statement from the white house, then in a tweet by by the president then in a tweet by the president and finally in this video message, released on social media. so, that s president biden suffering from covid, and these are the last moving pictures of him before he tested positive. they were filmed as he flew back to the white house on wednesday evening, by way of comparison to how he looked a few hours ago. dr ashistha is the white house covid 19 response coordinator. he says the president is only experiencing mild symptoms, and he s started a course of pfizer s antiviral pill called paxlovid which reduces the severity of covid 19. because the pres