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Hello, I'm Mandy Baker, and this is the Today in Parliament podcast from BBC Radio 4 for Monday the 31st of March.

As a major incident is declared in Birmingham over bin strikes, MPs say enough is enough.

This week, my constituent wrote to me to say that they had been bitten by a rat.

There's condemnation of the military regime in Myanmar.

It's a mark of the barbarity of this illegal and corrupt junta

that they have conducted 11 air strikes after the earthquake took place.

Also tonight calls for a crackdown on donations to political parties.

Standing for this place is both an honour and a privilege,

but it's not an honour and a privilege only for those that can afford it or have rich friends.

It's nearly three weeks since bins in Birmingham were last collected,

and now there are 17 tonnes of rubbish on the city streets.

There are reports of rats as big as cats.

Members of Unite have been on an all-out strike since the 11th of March in a row over pay,

which the union claims will leave some workers

£8,000 a year worse off. Today, the council declared a major incident in the city, and the local

government minister Jim McMahon addressed MPs. For Mena, the most visible and universal service

is the collection and the disposal of household waste. Members across the

House will know that the current industrial action in the city is causing misery and destruction

to local people. Jim McMahon said ministers legally weren't allowed to intervene in industrial action.

This is a local issue and it's right that it's led by key public sector partners

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