Now on Bbc News political thinking with nick robinson. Hello, And welcome to political thinking a conversation with, rather than a newsy interrogation, of someone who shapes our political thinking about what a shape theirs. My guest this week has just celebrated ending the longest Train Drivers strike in history a strike that was blamed for crippling the railways And angered many, many travellers. His members haVe Got a 15 Pay Rise over three years. He is Mick Whelan, The General secretary of aslef. He said that his members strength, resilience, And determination was what had won that Pay Rise others say it was down to his crafty negotiation style. Mick whelan, welcome to political thinking. Thank you, nick. You finally got a deal after all that time how did you celebrate . Erm, by talking to the press. As soon as it becomes public knowledge, you And your colleagues obviously, so sky, bbc, the guardian, the usual outlets, And press will be Here Today With You And once you ve done that,
It s nice to be here. It s great to have you on the programme. For the past 1a years, your boss, prime minister viktor orban, has been waging a political war against what he calls the liberal elite in brussels. Do you think he s winning that war? no, it s a. . . It s a long war. We still have time, but we have to take the war because. . . . . Because it s about our freedom, and, you know, ithink in european culture, we respect freedom. The hungarian people are very much freedom loving people. They want to decide how to live their own life, what to do what is their purpose, what are the rules they want to follow? and from a historical point of view, also, we hungarians don t like to be dictated from outside. It doesn t matter from which direction it comes. Unfortunately, the current progressive liberal elite likes to dictate to the others how to live their life and what to do, what to think about the world order or anything else, so it s a. . . It s a long battle. Thing is. . . But we
Translation: as soon as i heard about the start of the polio vaccination campaign, i came. My son was the first child to get the vaccine. Today, there was one shot and another in four weeks. By that time, he will have another full dosage which will prevent him from getting the infection and any disease in the coming years. This is how the polio vaccine will be distributed throughout gaza: the world health organization campaign will be split across the territory s five governates, from north gaza through to rafah in the south. Deir al balah and khan younis have the greatest number of children under 10 more than 200,000 in each region. The who plans on having more than 200 vaccination sites in each of those regions. With more from jerusalem here s our correspondent, jon donnison. The official polio vaccination campaign doesn t start until sunday morning. It is being coordinated by the united nations but we do understand that the first babies have been vaccinated today in khan younis
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