
Uber drivers strike over pay and conditions
Drivers working for digital taxi app Uber have gone on strike in cities around the world.
Drivers working for digital taxi app Uber have gone on strike in cities around the world. Driver Muhumed Ali tells us why he's joining the protest, and we hear more from James Farrar, general secretary of the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain, which is organising it. And with Uber's New York stock market flotation due on Friday, Shira Ovide of Bloomberg discusses whether the company is ever likely to make a profit. As President Trump orders new sanctions on Iran's industrial metals industry, we speak to Dr Sanam Vakil, senior research fellow at policy institute Chatham House. And Scotland proposes a new 20p deposit scheme on bottles to try and cut waste.
(Picture: An Uber app on a smartphone. Picture credit: Getty Images.)
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- Wed 8 May 201921:32GMTBBC World Service Europe and the Middle East