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and foreign minister agree to dissolve parliament, triggering new elections — the fifth election there in three—and—a—half years. the european union says russias blockade of ukraines ports — which prevents millions of tonnes of grain from being distributed across the world — is a "real war crime". this is a desperate attempt to use the foot to make to create hunger. welcome to the programme. we start here in the uk — which is gearing up for the biggest set of rail strikes...

# eastenders theme and there is a new couple in albert square, as the duke and duchess of cornwall star in a specialjubilee episode of eastenders. good morning. ithink good morning. i think many parts of the uk will see the sun at some stage today, particularly the further south and east you are, but will that sunshine sparked off some thundery showers for you this afternoon? more details on what is happening where coming up. it is sunday 22 may. our main story: the long—awaited r...

ECOWAS Road Information Technical Experts have concluded a validation workshop in Accra to put in place measures in improving and digitalizing a one-stop shop source of information on road transport among member states to serve as a catalyst for economic development for the ECOWAS community. The ECOWAS Commission believes transportation…

Since the pandemic, fewer of us are travelling and commuting, and that means ticket revenues and income is down. therefore network rail wants to modernise certain areas of the railway and ultimately reduce its costs. but the rmt union believes job cuts are coming, including the closure of booking offices, cuts in services and degrading the maintenance regime on the tracks, which they say compromises safety. the rmt�*s tallat of its 40,000 staff on whether they should strike closes on whether t...

Reduce its costs. but the rmt union believe5 job cuts are coming, including the closure of booking offices, cuts in services and degrading the maintenance regime on the tracks, which they say compromises 5afety. the rmt�*5 ballot of its 40,000 staff on whether they should strike closes on tuesday. the decision could follow soon after. this dispute is aboutjobs, pay and our conditions. we want the guarantee of no compulsory redundancies, no job losses on the railways. we want a pay rise for our...

Recovered. we expect to get answers soon. what would is suggest, that it was a gradual descent? to some degree you would argue that the plane was in some kind of control as it descended. >> beginning to second guess what going on the flight deck at an incredibly busy time without access to data is nearly impossible. why this happened could it have been a fall within the aircraft itself which i consider unlikely begin that the maintenance regime for the airplanes keeps them in as near to perfect ...

Takes time. its going to take a lot more time. >> the other disturbing information were getting involves an emergency locator transmitter, peter, as you well know, there are four of these aboard a boeing 777. theyre suppose to send a message tl been a problem. if it hits water or theres a crash. four of them if nour different parts of the plane and none of them sent any message or at least nothing was connected. that raises a lot of questions. >> it does. these things are not armored like the bl...

They are supposed to be activated if there is a crash. as far as we know, there was no activation and no one picked up any signals from these elts, as they are called. what does that say? >> we dont know yet. but these are not crash resistant. you can lose the antenna and they wont signal. for instance, when the ron brown accident occurred, the elt -- >> former secretary of commerce? >> thats right. when that happened, the elt did not activate and it took them nine hours to find the wreckage. so...