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. >> thank you for having us, tuc. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: as we said, the peops particularlymean mo, they all went to college, they'. dillon's -- so they know enought worried about covid. why are the have science that bears on thath korea rrhea people who are physp wearing masks. here is the audis studio the other night. >> the white house has finally d the public covid health emergen, we beat you. shut that up your e times. this has been a long timd see the smiles on the faces of , too, because they are still wea. >> tucker: imagine laughing at n america, you have to be a seal,f bottom line on fox business nete you tonight. member this answert these people were neurotic, may. >> possibly. but see i think th, and are a healthy person, it spg with you on the inside. >> tucker: right. >> than what's wrong with you o. >> tucker: well, that's right. >> it says that you are an in st says i am an ardent stephen cole you to go into that theater, ato be fully vaccinated and wear a r because -- and it's on the guide community risk level is medium , you also have to wear a mask. ae are

tuc general secretary public. tuc general secretary nowak says he hopes the ongoing strikes will send a strong message to the government. the that the public is feeling you know on a push through what a particularly spiteful piece of legislation. now we've had hundreds of thousands of public sector workers take strike quite often for the first time ever and instead of listening to the concerns of those workers or responding concerns the responding to the concerns the government just tried to government has just tried to introduce legislation, make it more them to take more difficult for them to take that action. so think that strike action. so i think government be more responsible should their workforce should talk their workforce should talk their workforce should talk their workforce should talk to unions and to the table. public sector pay . well, table. public sector pay. well, in news , the prime in other news, the prime minister has denied being too weak to root out sleaze from the government. it's a case t

and what i tell the tuc and anyone else that will listen, and when we go out on the road and do roadrk?" and we've got to find a way, as trade unionists, and old geezers like me have got to change the means and the ways through which we organise. i recognise that, and i know that boring branch meetings and boring structures that we've had are not the way forward, reading out the minutes and all the rest... speaking as an old geezer, i sympathise with the difficulties. but also, speaking as somebody who looks at britain today, i see that the clear majority of young people, for example, voted remain and still wish britain was inside the european union. they may look at you, one of the most influential prominent union leaders in the country, who still today says, "i have no regrets about supporting brexit. "i do not want to see britain ever talk about returning to the eu," and young people think you're out of touch with the way they feel. well, i may be out of touch with their views to some extent, they may be out of touch of why some people on the left oppose the european union... sorr

the tuc union has called.r it looking optimistic while daily mail leads with the disappearance of nicola bailey in lancashire . one week on. okay in lancashire. one week on. okay let's see what journalist and playwright emma burnell and comedian leo have found for us this morning. and she start with you, leo, because nicholas sturgeon win is in real criticism and the telegraph , criticism and the telegraph, isn't she? yes. her views on gendeh isn't she? yes. her views on gender. those. was the snp who run the parliament in scotland. they brought through a law, the gender reform bill that basically makes it much easier to transition. you see, you know, women and then you magically you're a woman and then this has come that came in for some criticism. they said it could be exploited by predatory men who might see that they're women to get access to women's spaces such prisons. spaces such as female prisons. and obviously , we're told, no, and obviously, we're told, no, you're being transphobic. well, this never

the tuc says that the gender pay gap for all employees is 14.9.t and writer jean hatchett , me now . good morning, hatchett, me now. good morning, jean. good see you. the figures in this off are quite depressing. we haven't really come a long way, have we? why is that. come a long way, have we? why is that . good come a long way, have we? why is that. good morning. well is the thing is it's the same year on yean thing is it's the same year on year, it's the same discussion we have and the same the same things have said about what the figures are. but we really have to look at the reasons behind those statistics . and, you know, those statistics. and, you know, let me face a huge number of different disadvantages to the ones men face throughout their lifetime. so you know, you've got thing is more financially detrimental to a woman than childbirth and that's assuming that she has supporting her once she's had a child. but you know there is a gap to be taken from there is a gap to be taken from the workforce. there are different penalties that are s

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the tuc has said this morning this will make hard pressed families feel like cash machines, leprosy properat the bbc to families who are literally having to families who are literally having to sit this winter out in the dark, in the cold, because they cannot afford to pay their energy bills, and there are these caveats that global companies pay global taxes instead of in the uk, but still, it does not sit easily with those at home watching this morning and thinking they are doubling their profits as i am doubling my energy bills. and stay with us on the energy story because the bbc has new figures that suggest some of the uk's most vulnerable households have failed to claim up to 50 million pounds of government money to help with their energy bills. we'll have more on that after 9.30. let mejust read let me just read you a tweet... chris dickson says i was turned down for the warmer homes scheme for the first time in years the share because when the government took over, i presume he means the latest team at number ten, they added an energy efficiency rating criteria too and it stopped me

. >> tuc two days ago, one of the most famous reporters in american r history, a registered democratwinner. >> the pulitzer prize wrote a piece proving, we believe, proving that the bidenn administration blew up the nordn stream. two pipelineord s, the largesteg energy pipelines in europe, thereby tanking the europeaneure economy and lied about it.an he should exactly how it happened. probably the biggest story ofyer the year. what's bigger than that?. twe checked today and no one hs covered it. cnn msnbc devoted precisely. zero words to it. "new york times"ork time, washit post ignored it.. really? why we're not going to ignore work days later. >> so you've heard a lot upd aba attacks on democracy, but you haven't heard a lot about twoy new jersey republican officeholders who've been assassinated in just one week. assass >> foxes trace gallagher has a story for us . hey, tucker. . interesting that new jerseys police appear to have very thttle information about the shootings themselves, and yet they have still come to a number of conclusions stil so here's what we know. on wednesday

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. >> tuc >>ke freedom, freedom from want prayer. >> how stupid is prayer?n says gavin newsom, people who prayer idiots. >> i'm the only god here. bow down before me. you can no longeronly i defend yourselves. only i have the righe t to defet your life.e. >> i think about that from an it's not a reassuring message, really. >> anyone who stripse you oft to your basic god-given right to self defense is probably not your friend and anyone who does it. in a moment of cha chaos, the op who are living through chaos that people like gavin newsomy r caused on purpose. >> anyone who does that is probably your blood enemy . >> but gavin newsom is not alone. gretchen wittmer of michigan has the very same message.. >> stop praying and obey. watch. s too, >> firearms are getting more dangerous, too. 3-d printed technology calle thanks to 3d printed technology called glock switches. that turn semiautomatic weapons fully automatic. >> that's why we launched operation safe neighborhoods, taking hundreds of illegal firearms off the street before they could be used in the com

francis o'grady when i was at transport ports the general secretary ports and the general secretary tuc checks, we went to the looking at the work we could do together getting more do together on getting more women into transport, sort . you women into transport, sort. you know, my dad works in british steel. he was on strike, you know, in the 1980s. i don't think he wanted to be on strike, but he was. and so i grew up in a community where i really understood and saw the role that unions played. i didn't always agree with how they use that power but i and power in a sense, but i and i also understood the bad reasons and how my dad was treated often at work. why those sorts of conditions for people really, really matter. so now i'd always enjoyed seeing the unions and particularly the teaching unions and my pitch to them was there's bound to be areas where we disagree , but actually less . disagree, but actually less. never let that stop us from working on the stuff that we all passionately do agree on. and we can make some progress on and actually , you know, we're grown actually, you k

francis o'grady when i was at transport ports the general secretary ports and the general secretary tuc checks, we went to the looking at the work we could do together getting more do together on getting more women into transport, sort . you women into transport, sort. you know, my dad works in british steel. he was on strike, you know, in the 1980s. i don't think he wanted to be on strike, but he was. and so i grew up in a community where i really understood and saw the role that unions played. i didn't always agree with how they use that power but i and power in a sense, but i and i also understood the bad reasons and how my dad was treated often at work. why those sorts of conditions for people really, really matter. so now i'd always enjoyed seeing the unions and particularly the teaching unions and my pitch to them was there's bound to be areas where we disagree , but actually less . disagree, but actually less. never let that stop us from working on the stuff that we all passionately do agree on. and we can make some progress on and actually , you know, we're grown actually, you k

the tuc have said this morning it will make hard pressed families feel like cash machines.hose at home watching this morning and thinking that they are doubling their profits, as i am doubling my energy bills. the final sentencing hearing for david carrick, the serial rapist who was a metropolitan police officer for 20 years, is under way at southwark crown court. carrick has pleaded guilty to 85 offences against 12 women, including 48 rapes, as well as charges of sexual assault and false imprisonment. there has been some distressing details in thejudge's there has been some distressing details in the judge's summing up and we understand that some of you have been upset by what you have heard. we are now going to cross back to the court to hear the final part of sentencing. again, there may be some details that you may find distressing. thejudge is... the distressing. the 'udge is... the nature distressing. the 'udge is... the nartue and — distressing. thejudge is... tue: nature and circumstances of any other offence of which the offender has been convicted, it may take int

education union, representing teachers, the head of the civil service union, the pcs, the head of the tucear, there doesn't seem to be a lot comes to raising public sector pay. yes, and the tone from the government seems to be, we can't give inflation—busting pay rises or even big pay rises, because that itself would be inflationary. we're trying to tackle inflation. if that continues to be the government line, would the people who were with you today plan to continue striking, is that their mood? what is hard to ignore is the relentlessness of this industrial action. today was a big day, half a million workers. to put that into context, the last really big strike was just over ten years ago, when up to 2 million workers walked out over public sector pensions. so it wasn't as big as that strike ten years ago. but we are facing a relentless wave of action. next week, it will be the turn of health workers. on monday, we have synchronised action between ambulance workers and nurses. we have the fire brigades union who could be striking in just over three weeks' time. what was interesting was

let's now speak to the tuc�*s general secretary, paul nowak. good morning.million people to walk out? good morning. i think how do we get here? simply, people are saying we cannot have another year of real terms pay cut. you referred to figures that have shown we have had a decade of loss pay across public services and many private sector workers in that position as well. when you see rent and mortgages going up and the cost of filling the car, the only thing people cannot see going up his wages. i have spoken to union members on strike. most of them for the first time ever they have been on strike. they are saying we cannot afford another real terms pay cut. there is responsibility on the government to solve the disputes and put money back into the pockets of public servants. it back into the pockets of public servants. . ~ back into the pockets of public servants. , ~ ., , . servants. it is like a perfect storm. servants. it is like a perfect stem 50 _ servants. it is like a perfect storm. so many— servants. it is like a perfect storm. so many different .

but looking at what the tuc has said on today , what the tuc has said on today, sunak and his cabinetll not fully appreciate the cost of living squeeze on public sector workers . it's a cabinet full of workers. it's a cabinet full of millionaires . workers. it's a cabinet full of millionaires. i mean workers. it's a cabinet full of millionaires . i mean are we millionaires. i mean are we getting towards good old fashioned class warfare now as a result of this? well, this is class warfare because of people who have to work for a living on getting what they need. they can't the children. they can't feed the children. they can't feed the children. they can't do the normal can't do this, do the normal feed shopping that they used be able to do. and that's why is coming out of people striking not want to because not because they want to because they ends meet. that's they want make ends meet. that's what the problem is and that's what the problem is and that's what government going what the government are going deal you look at the deal with. but you look at the hard and you know, let's ha

the tuc says workers put in about seven and a half hours of unpaid overtime a week in 2020 to the union'sg everyone to work their schedules hours only . everyone to work their schedules hours only. this everyone to work their schedules hours only . this is gb everyone to work their schedules hours only. this is gb news. we'll bring you more as it happens. now, though, it's theatre. esther and philip . theatre. esther and philip. thank you very much. rhiannon we're joined throughout the show this morning by former ukip deputy chairman susanna evans as well as the director general of the institute of economic affairs, mark littlewood. so both welcome. hi. obviously we're a year on from the war and ukraine. what were your thoughts today , suzanne? i think first today, suzanne? i think first and foremost, it's got to be what a shame. it's a year. i think when this war started, we all thought and hope that it would be over much, much quicker . and here are looking, . and here we are looking, having been at war with having not just been at war with ukraine and russia for one year, but like goin

the tuc general said people know back saying the energy market in britain is broken.would say is that actually the energy market pnces that actually the energy market prices have come down a lot in recent months showing that possibly the worst of the energy is over and is partly reflecting the energy market functioning. so know really high gas prices last year while very painful for households they ensured that supply to europe gas supply was strong enough and lng liquefied natural gas deliveries to europe climbed and that meant that storage sites could be filled which really allowed europe to balance its gas market over the past winter . the problem for past winter. the problem for these companies, when they're trying to explain away if that's the right phrase , these profits, the right phrase, these profits, because wherever are however they operate the price is actually set , if you like, by actually set, if you like, by the international market. and therefore, you know, if everyone's making the money. so do you . well, i'm afraid we lost do you. well, i'm afraid w

the tuc have said this morning they think it will make hard pressed families feel like cash machines. the river here to see if nicolette is indeed in the water. the police very much working on the theory at the moment that she slipped into the water for some reason or another and didn�*t resurface. the family saying, please keep an open mind, so other avenues are still being investigated by detectives. but for now, the searches are resuming. they will be going back into the water shortly. a little earlier they had of the private company which is now doing some of the underwater searching, said he was completely baffled. it�*s the most mysterious kc has come across in nearly 25 years in the business. he told us what his priorities would be this morning. today we are focusing on the area upstream — today we are focusing on the area upstream from the wear, which is nontidal. — upstream from the wear, which is nontidal, and going about a mile upstream — nontidal, and going about a mile upstream. this includes the area where _ upstream. this includes the area where the — upstream. this inc