NHS could be hit by more strikes this winter. NHS has a nursing shortage of nearly 47,000 workers which is around 12,000 jobs unfilled. There's potential strikes ahead for teachers and university staff. Royal Mail workers have strikes planned for days that end big sales. And there's more action yet promised on the railways. At the root of the demands from all unions is an inflation-busting pay rise.
Russia says it will withdraw from the only captured Ukrainian provincial capital. We ask how the drawdown might go and what it means for the wider war. Britain is set for the largest wave of industrial action in decades; the strikes could throw the country into chaos. And the long life of Shyam Saran Negi, India’s first-ever voter.
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