Independent TV
Showing now | News
![Mick Lynch accuses government of 'torpedoing' rail strike talks before Christmas](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/kJ2XSjo6/poster.jpg?width=720)
01:16
Mick Lynch accuses government of ‘torpedoing’ rail strike talks before Christmas
Mick Lynch has accused the government of trying to “torpedo” pre-Christmas train strike talks.
“We were making progress with the train operating companies, and on one Sunday afternoon before strike action, they decided to torpedo those talks by putting conditions on the negotiations that they knew we could never accept,” the RMT boss told Sky News.
Mark Harper, the transport secretary, denied Mr Lynch’s claim on Tuesday, insisting it “absolutely isn’t true”.
However, Mr Lynch later hit back, saying: “He can deny it all he likes - it doesn’t mean it’s not true.”
Click here to sign up for our newsletters.
Up next
![Gérard Mestrallet on the challenges of bringing infrastructure to the region of AlUla](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/EWX1dt85/poster.jpg?width=320)
01:51
Gérard Mestrallet on the challenges of bringing infrastructure to the region of AlUla
![Sir George Iacobescu, chairman of the Canary Wharf Group on the investment into the historic region of AlUla](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/LSvQ5SQ1/poster.jpg?width=320)
02:07
Sir George Iacobescu, chairman of the Canary Wharf Group on the investment into the historic region of AlUla
![Oliver Ripley of sustainable hotel group Habitas talks about how AlUla challenged his preconceptions of Saudi Arabia](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/ADCX8FkA/poster.jpg?width=320)
02:00
Oliver Ripley of sustainable hotel group Habitas talks about how AlUla challenged his preconceptions of Saudi Arabia
![Thomas Kaplan of wild cat conservation charity Panthera on the mission to save the Arabian Leopard](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/mJh5g24R/poster.jpg?width=320)
02:09