coming up, after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. across the world, workers are finding their living standards squeezed by rising inflation. for some, it s not so much a squeeze as decapitation. technological change is driving job cuts in a host of industries. do workers have the means to fight back? well, the uk rail industry is something of a test case. for months, rail workers have been striking over pay and plans to change working conditions. my guest is mick lynch, leader of the biggest rail union, the rmt. the stakes in this fight are high. can the workers win? mick lynch, welcome to hardtalk. you are the leader of a union that s been in a long running dispute now. it goes back to last summer, there had been rolling sporadic strikes. as it goes on, does it feel harder to find your way to a compromise? well, there s no easy way out for either side. the government has boxed themselves into a corner to a large extent, and i think that s predicated on the
for use in a contraceptive pill for men. they say it works by temporarily stopping sperm from propelling itself. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. across the world, workers are finding their living standards squeezed by rising inflation. for some, it s not so much a squeeze as decapitation. technological change is driving job cuts in a host of industries. do workers have the means to fight back? well, the uk rail industry is something of a test case. for months, rail workers have been striking over pay and plans to change working conditions. my guest is mick lynch, leader of the biggest rail union, the rmt. the stakes in this fight are high. can the workers win? mick lynch, welcome to hardtalk. you are the leader of a union that s been in a long running dispute now. it goes back to last summer, there had been rolling sporadic strikes. as it goes on, does it feel harder to find your way to a compromise? well, there s n
for months, rail workers have been striking over pay and plans my guest is mick lynch, leader of the biggest rail union, the rmt. the stakes in this fight are high. can the workers win? mick lynch, welcome to hardtalk. you are the leader of a union that s been in a long running dispute now. it goes back to last summer. there have been rolling, sporadic strikes. as it goes on, does it feel harder to find your way to a compromise? well, there s no easy way out for either side. the government has boxed themselves into a corner, to a large extent. and i think that s predicated on the idea of setting precedents for public sector. we ve seen the nurses, ambulance drivers, many civil servants in dispute along similar lines. people aren t being paid enough in this society at the moment and many public sector workers have had long term pay cuts measured against any measure of inflation, so there s some catch up to be done, and that makes it harder because the government wants to be
a margin of air ahead of a much anticipated debate there tuesday night. so is a gop weight on november 8 possible after all? was asked republican pollster strategist ed is a partner at the tarrance group. nice to see you again. so, first of all i want to ask you about the public mood. the right track numbers, the polling 25%. can you recall a time especially for an election when the public was in such a sour mood? there was a period in the spring we saw the numbers move slightly worse. in fact wrong track when over 70% for the first time in the 40 years i ve been doing polling and watching it. it was basically because the progressives of the democratic party had become disenchanted with the president on not moving their agenda. but when the supreme court case came out they kind of moved back in that direction. and that now seems to be hovering in this over two one margin wrong track belief by the there. which is one of the worst if not the worst i ve seen in off year electi
they say there is no case here. but we have a corrupt attorney general that tried to make a case. thank you very much. [indiscernible] mr. president, do you believe in karma? john: the president walks away after speaking to cameras outside the courtroom there in manhattan, the former president insisting it s a witch hunt, he did nothing wrong, that mar-a-lago was undervalued by the judge, which a lot of people would say at $18 million he s got a case to say that it was undervalued. this is going to go on for a long time. we may be hearing from the former president a lot in the days and weeks ahead. gillian: you heard him sort of tripling down, same talking points over the same strategy, messaging over the last two days as well, reiterating his claim mar-a-lago should be valued at closer to $1.5 billion. john: and adding the new wrinkle some republicans are floating his name for speaker of the house. something we ll get into a little later on. gillian: i would not