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workers and the railway industry are outrageous. london euston station is eerily quiet this morning. some passengers are hoping to make a journey but there is widespread disruption across the rail network. how is the strike affecting you? are you working from home or did you have a trickyjounrey to work? do you support the strikes or not? wed like to hear your thoughts. get in touch with me on twitter @annitabbc and use the #bbcyourquestions. in other news — a senior ukrainian offici...

In driver only operated trains. Its southern today, but this issue threatens to spread across britain. Richard westcott, bbc news, croydon. Now its time for newsnight with kirsty wark. Now, newsnight. I would like there to be some kind of high earnings cap, quite honestly. You could set a limit on top pay. I think it is probably better to look at the ratio issue. Jeremy corbyn started the day with a Surprising New policy, and this afternoon, it was dead in the water. This was not even the topic ...

The average American receives just $1,835 in Social Security benefits monthly, according to the Social Security Administration (SSA). At roughly $22,020 per year, that's only $7,440 above the poverty...

Three tax increases that would harm the economy and subjectmillions of taxpayers to significantly higher marginal tax rates.

The Coalition has capitalised on a scathing independent review of Labor’s election promises which found the opposition would struggle to pay for its signature policy to scrap the public sector wage cap.

Opportunities that she would have otherwise had. name image and likeness, how fair is that? its not fair at all, but thats the system were living with right now. >> let me ask you one question, patrick. for schools is there a reason colleges and universities would have a preference for being in a marketplace that is open versus having the ncaa cartel control. in other words, is it good for them to have to compete for the best athletes in a way, if there is no sort of wage cap for them? >> right....

The governor went to, it was his goal to make sure every child had those facilities those great teachers, those really safe places where they could play and learn and books and computers. thats what no one wants to talk about. you have to have the resources in that school to make that school system work for those kids. they keep wanting these little silver bullet gimmicks, win more test, pay by test scores, labeling kids by test scores, stack them deep, teach them cheap. none of that is going to...

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Jump. that could cause a lot more headaches on capitol hill. >> i also want to join us with the responses of the talk back question. several republicans proposing raising the social security retirement age to help the country save money. carol, give us a sense, what have folks been telling you about this? >> a lot of controversial issues today. they are all flying around on capitol hill. our talk back question is should the social security age be raised to 70? not just no, but no, no, a thousand...

You personally. i mean, everybody agrees we must do something about entitlements. social security, medicare, medicaid, and also a lot of economists say you also have to raise taxes. so what are you willing to commit to in terms of entitlement cuts? >> well, ive already committed to it. i voted on the commission for $4 trillion of savings. i voted for reforming social security. not to reduce the deficit. every penning of savings in the commission plan of social security went to secure 75-year sol...