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Refusing to do overtime, and have been carrying out two hour stoppages every day which rose to three hours today. The dispute is about planned changes to working practices. Our correspondent sima kotecha reports. It looks bad and smells even worse. Piles and piles of rubbish strewn across birmingham streets. On this road, it has been a week since the rubbish was collected. We saw a rat over there yesterday. Absolutely disgraceful. Forfour weeks, its been here. Absolutely terrible. So we pay all ...

Refusing to do overtime, and have been carrying out two hour stoppages every day which rose to three hours today. The dispute is about planned changes to working practices. Our correspondent sima kotecha reports. It looks bad and smells even worse. Piles and piles of rubbish strewn across birmingham streets. On this road, it has been a week since the rubbish was collected. We saw a rat over there yesterday. Absolutely disgraceful. Forfour weeks, its been here. Absolutely terrible. So we pay all ...

For them to be reviewed. Now on bbc news, its time for click. This week, the team are in vegas, making faces for cash. Hacking for cash. And free cash vegas, home to casinos. Elvis sort of. Uhhuh superfast knot tying. Wide open spaces. Limos. The strip. And, this week, the largest hack fest on the planet. If theres one week of stuff in vegas that isnt staying in vegas, its this weeks bsides, black hat and notorious defcon gatherings. This is the week where hackers rub up against Law Enforcers an...

For them to be reviewed. Now on bbc news, its time for click. This week, the team are in vegas, making faces for cash. Hacking for cash. And free cash vegas, home to casinos. Elvis sort of. Uhhuh superfast knot tying. Wide open spaces. Limos. The strip. And, this week, the largest hack fest on the planet. If theres one week of stuff in vegas that isnt staying in vegas, its this weeks bsides, black hat and notorious defcon gatherings. This is the week where hackers rub up against Law Enforcers an...

The nypd has stressed video surveillance here but its also put counterterrorism resources into things you cant see. 1,000 officers working counterterrorism. the unit actively monitoring for potential terrorists. >> the lead may come in from another law enforcement or intelligence agency so it might come from some other part of the country or somewhere around the world. >> reporter: mitch silver is the former head of the nypds counterterrorism intelligence unit. in 2007, he wrote a report about t...

High-powered water that would disrupt a bomb. >> reporter: times square is of particular concern because millions of people come here every year, and in 2010, it was the target of a failed car bomb attempt. the nypd has stressed video surveillance here but its also put counterterrorism resources into things you cant see. 1,000 officers working counterterrorism. the unit actively monitoring for potential terrorists. >> the lead may come in from another law enforcement or intelligence agency so it...

Would come in. they would try to x-ray it and if there was still no final determination, they may use a disrupter to -- you know, high-powered water that would disrupt a bomb. >> reporter: times square is of particular concern because millions of people come here every year, and in 2010, it was the target of a failed car bomb attempt. the nypd has stressed video surveillance here but its also put counterterrorism resources into things you cant see. 1,000 officers working counterterrorism. the un...

>> the lead may come in from another law enforcement or intelligence agency so it might come from some other part of the country or somewhere around the world. >> reporter: mitch silver is the former head of the nypds counterterrorism intelligence unit. in 2007, he wrote a report about the threat of home-grown terrorists, citing the biggest threat coming from ordinary citizens who become radicalized in the west, specifically muslims. it generated controversy. the nypd has also come under critici...