The Treasury is reportedly mulling pay rises of just 2% across the public sector next year. So it does seem that on pay the government's really pretty unlikely to say anything that nurses, teachers or others in the public sector want to hear. Polls suggest a majority of Brits support nurses desire at least to strike - but they're less supportive of other workers including teachers striking.
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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