Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.

Ritchie to see that here us say. We need you to raise our pay.

Dark skies over the British economy,

after the biggest day of strikes and the worst cost of living crisis in a decade.

We look at what's going on in the world's sixth largest economy then.

You are asking me to take them to war.

Some things are worth fighting for.

The Woman King, how an elite team of African female fighters fought back European invaders.

I speak to Director Gina Prince Bightwood about her new film,

Violet Davis and what some say is a snub by the Academy Awards. Plus, when you

actually look at how difficult an undertaking this is and how much

progress we've made over the course of the last 200, 250 years, we should be a lot more

optimistic. The Great Experiment, political scientist Yashamunk tells Walter Isakson why some democracies fall apart and how they could endure. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpur in London.

The European Central Bank and the Bank of England raise interest rates again just a day after a similar move

by the US Federal Reserve. The end game, reducing inflation. But amid those big

players, Britain seems in particular trouble, as the International Monetary Fund warns

it will be the only major economy to shrink this year.

Even Russia, crippled by Western sanctions, is expected to see more growth. It poses an extraordinary

challenge for Prime Minister Rishi Sunag, a hundred days since he took office.

Indeed, here in Britain the pain and anger has poured into the streets with the country seeing its biggest strike in a decade

as many as half a million workers walking out from transport to teachers unions and little light at the end of the tunnel with a cost of

living crisis that's forcing about 4 million children into poverty.

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