political opinions," tories last welby for parroting labour view" and he went to talk to the trade union congressunions, the first time and archbishop has done that in over 100 years i think. lord carey did it once. two before him. two in 100 yea rs. once. two before him. two in 100 years. so it is a rarity. he is not being criticised for that. he says it is important to build bridges and speak to all parts of the community. some of the things he was saying by his standards, quite a political archbishop, looks really political, attacking the lack of tax paid by amazon, attacking the gig economy and how it works, saying that is leaving workers high and dry, even at hacking the government universal credit policy, specifically peaking ata credit policy, specifically peaking at a flagship government project, and saying if they can't get it right, they have to stop that, and whether or not you agree with that there is a legitimate conversation to have about whether that's what you expect from a religious figure. it depends on your political stance because the times says tories blast welc for parroting

hostile foreign policy and hostile environment from libya and yemen egypt all grieve and as the trades union congress celebrates its one hundred fiftieth anniversary today we go to the site of the battle of all green where ten thousand of office goggles and u.n. miners were attacked by thousands of police following the lord mayor's appeal to home secretary sajid javid we speak to the general secretary of the new m. and a minor arrested on that day. that's all coming up in ten days edition of going underground well i mean the lord mayor of sheffield's office and with me is the lord mayor of sheffield will bet thanks so much for letting you know i'm going to start asking you how come you're here there are pictures of the first lord mayor sheffield william jeff gold. run a mining company you. know why is honestly me being lowered my is such a celebration are so many other people about now with be a mother who made sacrifices.

the trades union congress has said it will back the campaign for a referendum on the final brexit dealthe government fails to secure an agreement that protects jobs and the economy. our political correspondent iain watson reports from manchester where the unions are holding their annual conference. time is running out for a brexit deal. that is the warning from the tuc as their annual gathering gets under way and the leader of britain's leading trade unionists said she could now put the full weight of the tuc behind a new referendum on a final brexit deal. just 200 days to go, before potentially we crash out of the eu, all we have got left is that campaign and call for a popular vote, and if the prime minister will not come back with a deal that working people deserve, then we will be throwing our weight behind that campaign. you have made it very clear what you want the prime minister to do, what do you want the leader of the opposition to do? different organisations will make their own democratic decisions, and it is about time, i think, that politicians focused on what people are te

that is the claim of the british trades union congress.pace to small businesses. marry and russell still get a full paycheque. sometimes you can use the day to get the vacuum cleaning done and you have the weekend wide open and you are not weighing catch up. have the weekend wide open and you are not weighing catch upm have the weekend wide open and you are not weighing catch up. it could be just working shorter days across the week. i write short stories and various different things which are probably wouldn't have the time of the energy to do otherwise. managing family commitments, being death of those. who doesn't want to work less hours if they can? —— being banner for those. —— being banner. my father would be away for long hours. he he was gone before i was up hours. he he was gone before i was up and home after i was in bed. it is important to be there. this studio is one of the spaces the cube rents out. we felt we had an opportunity to prove something that i thought was true. people can be as productive in four days as five. if yo

the trades union congress has said it will back the campaign for a referendum on the final brexit deal government fails to secure an agreement that protects jobs and the economy. our political correspondent iain watson is in manchester, where the unions are holding their annual conference. theresa may is under pressure now from the trade unions on bringing back the final brexit deal because the leader of britain's 6 million trade unionists says she will put herfull weight behind trade unionists says she will put her full weight behind a trade unionists says she will put herfull weight behind a new referendum campaign, on the final deal, if she doesn't like what the prime minister brings back from brussels. the tuc is also putting pressure on the labour leadership. jeremy corbyn was to keep the option of another referendum on the back burner but frances o'grady of the tuc was sounding far more positive about the prospect of a new vote. all we're all we‘ re left all we're left with, with 200 days to go before potentially we crashed out of the the eu, all we got left is that campaign and

and as the trades union congress celebrates its one hundred fiftieth anniversary today we go to the site of the battle of all greed where ten thousand of office goggles and u.n. miners were attacked by thousands of police following the lord mayor's appeal to home secretary sajid javid we speak to the general secretary of your new m. and a minor arrested on that day. that's all coming up in today's edition of going underground well i mean the lord mayor of sheffield's office and with me is the lord mayor of sheffield will bet thanks so much for letting all you know i'm going to. ask you how come you're here there are pictures of the first lord mayor sheffield william jeff gold a rather mining company. you. and you know why it's honestly me being lowered my is such a celebration of so many other people about me with be a mother who made sacrifices will be friends who grabbed me and so the people of sheffield who really put their faith in me and chose me to be the lord mayor so it's it's just amazing i kind of feel as if like i am just merely a reflection of sheffield at the moment and it's

in a speech to the trades union congress in manchester, the shadow chancellor, john mcdonnell, said casualo all workers, so that includes so—called lyn b workers, entitling everyone in insecure work to sick pay, maternity rights and the right against unfair dismissal. and that again will be from day one. and third... applause will properly resource hmrc. and yes, we will fine employers who break the rules so that people get the rights they are entitled to. and i say employers and they will, you know this, when they continue to employee legal loopholes or weak enforcement to duck their responsibility, we will close those legal loopholes and we will strengthen enforcement and we will work alongside the tuc to do that. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is... italy's right wing interior minister tells the bbc most migrants who arrive in the country will be deported. matteo salvini said italy's door is closed — except to refugees from war. let's pick up some of the main stories from bbc world service. a bus has fallen into a valley, in southern india, killing at

the trade union congress has said the wider workforce needs to see the benefits of developments in technologyfferent view of the working week. staff get a full pay cheque, but only work for four days. we felt that we had an opportunity to prove something that i felt was true, that people could be as productive in four days as five. if it does nothing more than has people who work for you who are less stressed, that'll benefit us in productivity at the end of the day anyway because, you know, happier people work better. here you are. thank you. those researching what work will look like in the future think that whatever size and type of company, technology could give us all more time to relax. left to themselves, many employers will continue exploitative working practices, making their employees work for longer and meanwhile, commuting prices are going up. in fact, it will be down to the state ultimately to give workers more voice and to regulate around working time. when a company buys a new piece of technology and makes more money from it, rather than the bosses and the shareholders keeping

congress house as a researcher. i have always been immensely proud of my trade union origins and! ple of years ago, she reminded everyone that when i was at congress house i setup a reading group and it met once a week in the at congress house. she only had one complaint and that the only book we ever read was das kapital. it is the anniversary of the colla pse it is the anniversary of the collapse of the financial crisis. someone recently dug out a film of speeches i gave in the commons at the time. as banks teetered on the edge, i called on the then chancellor to nationalise the banks to stabilise them. he initially day —— delayed but eventually it was implemented. i always remember alistair had a dry sense of humour so when i got up in the commons to... let‘s biglia, the financial crash was caused by the deregulation of the banking system and the finance sector and greed. —— let‘s be clear. it turned the city into a giant casino. here is the irony for me, the money we pumped into save the system through quantitative easing inflated asset prices and many of the very speculators w

interesting whether labour decides to change its position in light of gmb and next week there is the trade union congressof the hurricane and the best way to describe a hurricane is almost like a doughnut. in the middle it is hollow. it isjust thunder storms spinning into the centre of the storm and the closer to the centre, they're faster and faster, until they fuse and create something like a bagel. is that how you painted it? i don't think the camera's picking up that it is a sculpture here. but yes, there is a lot of work involved here. how long did that take you? about three days. the thing is i had to layer it with different things. you can see, there isa different things. you can see, there is a firm texture here. the camera, probably, no... you can see it there. a bit. what scale are we talking of, what is the distance from there to there. we talk about physically the distance between one side of the storm and the other. from here, where i'm pointing to about here, that could be from the south coast of england to scotland. but the central area is very small. the eye can be 20 to 30 miles across a

hawks as the parliamentary coordinator a negotiator for the congress of south african trade unions and he joins us now from johannesburg do you support the strike. no risk to read don't support it we feel it's as an undertone of racism behind it and seeking to mobilize workers and divide them on a basis basically to protect white privileges. to we are part of the struggle against apartheid we support measures to address the legacies of racism colonialism they were supported the schemes which are helped to reduce income inequality wants different racial groups it's unfortunate. has undertaken this strike which are in it for it's going to exasperate racial tensions and also that they're not being completely honest in the public there are two phases for this scheme the first phase is open to all social workers including white workers. the second phase will be in more persons who benefit from the front of action in other words africans colors indians women persons with disabilities but for us we support this could be schemes we need to address the legacy of apartheid we have made progress

washington is seeking fast track congress approval for a trade deal with the european union it falls trade promotion port authority, a legislative tool that allows the president to seek a simple yes or no vote. the talks between the u.s. and e. rumplet going well less than two months after they threatened to slap tariffs on each other. australia cut its forecast for this season's wheat production by 13%. due to a drought in parts of the country's east. the government expects production of 19 ppt 1 million metric ton next fiscal year, the smallest crop since 2008. however it's shaping up as a tale of two coasts with storms setting western australia up for a butcher harvest. the latest news on bloomberg on air, and on tibblinging to be on twitter. i'm jessica summers thises blotberg. >> thank you. let's go to sophie in hong kong to see how the markets are shaping up. sophie? sophie: after the s&p 500 managed to break a four-day slide, asian stocks could face a mixed session, albeit lackluster. techs could remain the achilles heel which could make stocks more vulnerable to selling as th

there's enough meat in here which has been given to the trade unions however that they will be supportive of this particular deal when it goes before congress and what about. the negotiating tactics of president trump and particularly the pressure that he's been putting on on canada this week to to reach a deal this week what if what do you make of that what effect is it having so they're negotiating to. activists of the trumpet ministrations a classic power play they've essentially divided canada and mexico mexico needed to have a deal quickly before their current president leaves office and that required a signature by the end of this week and then this deal was done with the canadians outside of the room and of course once the deal was done with mexico canada desperately wants to retain its membership of nafta and so will come under enormous pressure this week to make concessions to the americans probably in the areas of dairy products and and investment disputes and president trump there generally prefers bilateral deals rather multilateral deals and he's certainly likes to tweet about it publicly what what can we learn from all of that

there's enough meat in here which has been given to the trade unions however that they will be supportive of this particular deal when it goes before congress and what about. the negotiating tactics of president trump and particularly the pressure that he's been putting on on canada this week to to reach a deal this week what if what do you make of that what effect is it having so they're negotiating to. of the trumpet ministrations a classic power play they've essentially divided canada and mexico mexico needed to have a deal quickly before their current president leaves office and that required a signature by the end of this week and then this deal was done with the canadians outside of the room and of course once the deal was done with mexico canada desperately wants to retain its membership of nafta and so will come under enormous pressure this week to make concessions to the americans probably in the areas of dairy products and and investment disputes and president trump there generally prefers bilateral deals rather than multilateral deals and he's certainly likes to tweet about it publicly what what can we learn from all of that i th

unions and for. public a fair trade advocates in the united states as well. as i think for many democrats in congress i think it's important to keep in mind that it will take probably at least fifteen to. twenty months to have this agreement reviewed and approved by the congress and by that time it could well be in control of the democrats in the united states it's russia has accused ukraine of assassinating prominent separatist leader alexander in eastern ukraine the russian backed leader of rebels in donetsk was killed in a blast at a cafe in the city center really challenge reports from moscow. this is the aftermath of the blast that killed alexander as a car chink or a blackened body can be seen lying on a stretcher outside the cafe don't yet squints into lockdown after the killing with moscow and the russian backed breakaway republic itself calling this an act of international terrorism the last pictures of her alive were from thursday laying flowers for the donbass born singer years of cubs one who died earlier in the day so had been the prime minister of done yet since november two thousand an

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jessica: washington is seeking fast-track congress approval for a trade deal with the european union. that falls under trade promotion authority, a legislative tool that allows the president to seek a yes or no vote. the move signals talks between the u.s. and eu are going well, less than two months after they were threatening tariffs in what would appear to be the prelude to a damaging trade war. japan and russia say they want to strengthen economic ties after talks between shinzo abe and president putin in vladivostok ahead of the economic forum, which will attract regional leaders. is a long-running dispute over four northern pacific islands called the northern territories in japan and another set in russia. the rupee sank to a new low after india's current account deficit widened to the most in five years amid the emerging-market selloff. it led losses among asian em currencies, but the government said to ask the r.b.i. to step in with support. indian stocks also fell, extending losses after the worst week since june. the rupee has been asia's worst-performing currency for the pas

congress not to interfere. he says nafta was one of the worst trade deals and it hurt american workers. the president of the nation's largest federation of unions. trump, at least in part. but he says the nafta deal needs to include canada. >> the three countries in north america, the economy's pretty inintegrated. it's pretty hard to see how that would work without having canada in the deal. there's a lot of work to be done, even on the mexican deal, because the language isn't drafted. we haven't seen whole chapters of the thing. we're anxious to move forward with it and anxious to have all three countries involved because nafta has had a devastating effect on the working people of this country for the last 25 years. arthel.>> our starting point waa place where canada and the u.s. were quite far apart in their proposal but what we found is negotiation on is canada and the united states shared a concern for our workers in the car sector. >> reporter: the u.s. and canada missed the deadline for a deal on friday. as you just heard from canada's trade representative, she did seem to suggest that the u.s. trade representative and their team were wo

unions and for. the public a fair trade advocates in the united states as well. i think for many democrats in congress it was important to keep in mind that it will take probably at least fifteen to. twenty months to have this agreement reviewed and approved by the congress and by that time it could well be in control of the democrats in the united states relations between canada and the u.s. not exactly at that best at the moment. no i think that's certainly true and and i think that reflects. trump's preference to. negotiate as the ball in a china shop as it were to attempt to bully history being partners and in this case you know he had he does have leverage the u.s. is a much bigger economy trade is much more important to canada than it is to the united states having said so it having said that the point is there is danger that canada could be bullied into some sort of agreement well i think at the end of the day they will settle i think that they will work out their differences. that actually if you look at the number of issues that are on the table where there are differences as you mentioned in

trade with the enemy during the war. but it's happening a lot. lincoln gave permits for it, the treasury department gave permits, union military commanders, congress didn't really like it. grant and the senior generals didn't like it. but to lincoln, he kind of -- lincoln was kind of modern in his thinking in the sense that he believed in the patriotic value of self-interest. he believed that southerners were being inherently loyal to the union if you brought them back through trading with them and getting money for them, that essentially this would hasten reunification. which, in a way, was a very optimistic vision, you know? possibly he was totally wrong about that, certainly many republicans in congress thought so. but there was this kind of fundamental disconnect. and i think, again, between lincoln and other republicans. and it -- that and the lack of precedent for how you would deal with this kind of scale, the scale of in this issue during the civil whatever, again, which nobody -- even when the war started, nobody anticipated the kind of scale that it would arrive out there. the fear of corruption does not go away at the end of the civil w

we are talking about responsible trade unionism, responsible working practices and contracts of implement in the future. what is the mood like in this congresswe seen that if brexit goes through under the chequers plan then it could literally mean that next day deliveries would be a thing of the past. i‘m not sure that‘s what people voted for when they voted to come out of the european union. that‘s why the gmb is insistent it should be the people who decide the terms we come out, just as it was the people who decided whether we should come out in the first place. a coroner has told the inquests into the deaths of five people killed in the westminster bridge attack that lives were torn apart in "82 seconds of terrible drama". conservative opponents of the prime minister‘s chequers plan for brexit have confirmed they won‘t be publishing a formal alternative. europe‘s chief negotiator says if negotiations are realistic the first stage of the divorce deal could be agreed in six to eight weeks. and alastair cook has had a fairy tale ending to his final test match. the former england captain hit a century against india before going for 147. joe r

trade union movement, born in manchester, backed him every step of the way. this seems to be the year of anniversaries because of course 30 years ago schachter lord gave his famous address to our congressi should be so lucky. funnily enough, we we re should be so lucky. funnily enough, we were not feeling it. then, as now, we were under a tory government and the prime minister was rolling out the red carpet for another american president, you remember him well, ronald reagan. the original warmongering, anti—trade union, b list celebrity president. but the other man offered something different. he spoke about peace in europe and plans to boost trade. that mattered forjobs. he encouraged us to become architects ina new encouraged us to become architects in a new plan for better working lives. so over time, alongside our friends in europe, we weren‘t paid leave for working parents, stronger equal pay rights for women, pensions for part—timers and at long last one of the first ever goals of our movement, paid holidays for everyone. now, countries don‘t have to belong to the european union to be in the single market. but if they wa nt to be in the single market. but if they want to trade in