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hello, and a warm welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. i m azadeh moshiri. we begin here in the uk where the new year starts with renewed strikes. only 20% of train services are expected to run this week because of walk outs by rmt and aslef union members. that means many areas won t be seeing any trains at all. this is the latest in a series of strikes across the rail network, which have caused major disruptions. and that s on top of ambulance drivers, nurses, driving examiners, highway workers and postal workers all going on strike in recent weeks. so, how does this affect the uk economy? let s ask susannah streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at hargreaves lansdown. so, susanna, of course this affects people s day to day lives, but how does it affect the uk economy as a whole? essentially what will happen this week is there will be a delay to the return to work for millions of people who will be forced to try and work from home if they can, ....
Had a really detrimental effect. footfall in many key city centre areas has been down, particularly in the evening, and actually the hospitality sector has said that the strikes of cause and even worse impact than they had even worse impact than they had even forecast because it is very tough for hospitality, of course, because we have the cost of living crisis as well because people have been reining in their budgets but even those people who did want to spend delay their trips into town because of worries they would not be able to return in the evening and now even though january is expected anyway to be quieter for hospitality it seems as though that adverse effect will continue right into the new year, because we have walkouts of those rail workers, notjust walkouts of those rail workers, not just today, rest of the week as well as well as highway workers and also next week and number of health workers and ambulance workers go on strike again. does the fact that some people ....