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this is bbc news. the headlines at 1pm: more cancellations and delays for british airways passengers, following the global computer system failure yesterday. its been a disaster. there are shots behind me of people in the first 0, which goes over into a second 0 and then a third before they can even get the registration desk. the conservatives and labour promise to do more to tackle the threat of terrorism, if they win the election. the 22 victims have been remembered in church services across the city this morning. tributes to two passengers killed on an american train, trying to defend two women from anti—muslim abuse. also: the american rock musician gregg allman has died. # back home you'll always run #. the 69—year—old became a star in the late 60s as part of the allman brothers band. he had struggled with
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several health issues. henry golding explores the secret london tube network that even locals don't know about, in the travel show in halfan don't know about, in the travel show in half an hour on bbc news. good morning and welcome to bbc news. british airways has warned of further delays and cancellations today, as it resumes flights following the major it failure that saw most services cancelled yesterday. ba is telling people whose flights we re ba is telling people whose flights were affected yesterday only to turn up were affected yesterday only to turn up at airports if they know they are booked on another flight. for some ba customers it's been a
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long uncomfortable night, bleary passengers still hoping to catch their playing, refreshment was being handed out by the airline in a heavily congested terminal five. some customers were not in the holiday mood. it's a lot of moving around, standing in lines, the lack of information. i think it is too big that they do not know what to do about it. it seems like there is not enough people. we have been on the line for about five hours now. we have no idea how much longer we will be here. there is no communication from staff. as thousands of people weight in pax terminals many will not get to fly today at all. dozens of flights have already been cancelled, and many more will not depart as the airline struggles to reset its global network after a major powerfailure. for reset its global network after a major power failure. for aviation insiders, this will be a lot more than just an operational headaches
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for ba. if passengers don't fly, the airline loses revenue and indeed may have to refund or rebook on another airline. at the same time the error incurring additional costs in compensation in some cases. not least from a regulatory point of view, and a lot of hidden costs, repatriating baggage for example. some passengers have been told their flights are cancelled online to be told the exact opposite when they cold to confirm. this issue for ba looks as if it is said to persist forfar more looks as if it is said to persist for far more than a few hours. earlier i spoke to a passenger at heathrow who was trying to get to a conference in prague. it's been a disaster. there are shots behind me of people in the first 0. that goes over to a second 0 and a third, before they can even get to registration desks. i have been here since 9:30am. i am going to make my
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way home now. i stayed in a hotel overnight, could not get through on the app, on the phone cool or the website. nothing at all. i am not prepared to spend another night in a hotel. i should have been in prague at atm. you have given up on your conference? maybe not. iwas at atm. you have given up on your conference? maybe not. i was due to speak tomorrow morning so i have had to cancel that but if i can rebook and go out tomorrow for the end of the conference, that would be great. it only happens every two years and it isa it only happens every two years and it is a disaster to miss it. what is your view of the way all of this has been handled by ba? absolutely abysmal. the announcement thatjust came out telling us to go, telling us came out telling us to go, telling us to vacate the premises, is the first official announcement in three hours. nobody is coming around with water or anything. we are standing in queues where we are nervous to leave our bags because we are told not to. it means we cannot go for a drink or to. it means we cannot go for a drink or to. it means we cannot go fora drink or drink or to. it means we cannot go for a drink or two that one. nothing at all, it's terrible. and you have
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run upa at all, it's terrible. and you have run up a bill presumably to stay in that hotel overnight?” run up a bill presumably to stay in that hotel overnight? i did. it was aat that hotel overnight? i did. it was a at premier inn, and £50 in a taxi to ta ke a at premier inn, and £50 in a taxi to take me to the hotel. £200 already. david evans there with his experience at heathrow airport. the victims at the terra attack in manchester have been remembered in church services today. armed police have been overseeing proceedings at the great manchester run which is taking place this afternoon. let's go live to our correspondent who was there. that's right. a number of different runs taking place in the city this morning. we have a half marathon this morning, various kids runs, and then the ten kilometre run. you can see behind me a number of people getting in position ready for the start. thousands of people throughout the day, about 35,000 is the estimated total people taking
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part. 0ne the estimated total people taking part. one of those who will be starting very soon asjohn bishop, the comedian. how hard a decision was it for you to come today? the comedian. how hard a decision was it for you to come today7m wasn't. i wasn't entered in the race, ijust decided after the events of this week it would be nice to be part of something in the middle of the city. the scale like this. it wasn't a difficult decision to do it. to be honest i've not done any running, and i'vejust to do it. to be honest i've not done any running, and i've just had stitches out of my legs and i don't know how far i will get what i'm looking forward to it. what about the atmosphere around here? the warmth of the greeting evening getting today? absolutely. i lived in manchester but over 20 years, we nt in manchester but over 20 years, went to college here, met my wife here, got married there. as andy will know, andy burnham. he knows it's a wonderful city to be part. people will commune in. that's kind of warmth of personality is what makes days like this so special.
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thanks forjoining us. will you involved in the decision to have to run taking place? how hard is that? we did think very carefully about it. but, always, we wanted to do it. we wanted to send the message out that you are not going to beat us. you are not going to change us. you will not stop us doing what we want to do, living the life we want to live. that was what we were trying to do all week. that's the message that spin coming out loud and clear from the people of greater manchester today. how much tighter is security today? the book and cd extra police presence, i'm grateful for them. will move to the side because someone is coming past. don't want to get knocked over. one of the races are starting behind us and we will have to move to the side. thank you, andy forjoining us. we will move before i get knocked over by someone as! we don't wa nt knocked over by someone as! we don't want that to happen. james pearce there in manchester. back to the situation with ba. the
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continuing delays the passengers at heathrow and also of course around the world. joining me by a webcam the world. joining me by a webcam the bbc‘s philip norton who have to stay in rome last night after his flight stay in rome last night after his flight back to london was cancelled. that was yesterday, but the picture now? there is a remarkable amount of calm here. the british airways check—in desks here in the rome airport, a lot of these passengers here who are checking in, i have spoken to a few, they are actually booked onto flights today. the advice from ba was to only turn up if you had a confirmed reservation. speaking to a few of these passengers, they were booked onto flights that were due to fly out today. a lot of other people are checking the status of their flights later on. i know for a fact that some people i spoke to on the flight i was due to get back to heathrow
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have already booked into a hotel for a second night, resigning themselves toa a second night, resigning themselves to a second night here. simply because they cannot rebook. as per ba advice. i know that is the same for myself as well. i can quickly show you the problem that we are having. ba are saying to rebook through the website, where you will be automatically rebooked or to go through the app. but these are the m essa g es through the app. but these are the messages that when you try to rebook. people simply cannot get through. 0n the website, or on the phone. in order to rebook their flights. with time ticking, people are starting to resign themselves to being stranded overseas for another night. which is frustrating. but also expensive. and at some point, ba will have to foot a lot of that bill, won't it? absolutely. i have been thinking about the cost of this to ba. it is going to be staggering. we were given a letter detailing reasonable expenses, and they have
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allowed £200 per passengerfor overnight hotel, £50 for transport. myself i found a hotel that was a that cost me another 28 to get there and back on the train. this is money that a lot of people can't afford. a lot of people are at the end of their holidays or trips abroad, which are costing a lot of money. therefore this extra money, once you have spent up at the end of your holiday, will be hard to find. we have talked about it being a worldwide problem, there you are in rome, one of the major capitals of europe. the situation you face and the scenes behind you will be replicated in countless other capitals around the continent. indeed. the numbers involved here are absolutely staggering. to look at how many flights were cancelled yesterday, the backlog involved, you do not have to be an expert in aviation to realise that there are thousands and thousands of people who are misplaced as a result. as
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phy and fly there are aircraft back out. they have a duty to look after the passengers that are already booked onto their flights for today. i know when i came into the airport you could see a number of the aircraft, i was due one boeing, still appeared to be parked on the tarmac. there is also a logistical problem for ba to try and get all the aircraft back to where they should be. thank you philip. amber rudd says the conservatives would set up a commission to protect a bishop british values if they win the election. labour saving would put 10,000 police on the street, a match of 1000 extra security experts. but following the release of new cctv pictures of the manchester bomb salman abedi, the home secretary claims she was unaware that several people had contacted police with concerns about
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his behaviour. here's our political correspondent. salman abedi, the man who massacred children in manchester pictured on the might of the attack. but where had he been and who knew his plans? what happens when his friends, his mosque, alerted services about his extremism? i don't know those details. the intelligence services are still collecting information about him, and about the people around him, but i would not rush to conclusions as you seem to be that they have somehow missed something. i'm just saying that people had bones —— had phoned the terror hotline as they should do. the reason the phone line is in place is because we recognise the scale of the problem. that commission will include promoting british values. it will have a legal duty to identify extremism in all its forms and there
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will be a specific focus on attitudes affecting women, such as female genital mutilation. but there are unanswered questions. how is the commission to identify extremism, where and in what way? what is the cost and how will it be funded? how will it fit in with existing counterterror work such as the prevent strategy? labour pledges 10,000 new police officers to replace half the 20,000 lost on the recent government cuts. today they have also committed to 1000 extra security officers for m15 and gchq. they admit this is only committing to the numbers already promised under david cameron. that thousand hasn't been recruited. what we are saying... they say, but they have not recruited them yet. we are saying we want to recruit 10,000 extra police officers, community officers, because we think community policing is key. we want to recruit 3000 extra firefighters, 3000 extra prison officers, 1000, as you say, people in the security field and 500 more border guards. but setting out her plans to keep
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britain safe, diane abbott today declined to regret her previous reports of claiming to support the ira. 0ne saying the defeat of the british state was a victory for all. it was many years ago. i had a rather splendid afro at the same time, i don't have the same hairstyle and i don't have the same views. protecting the public is considered the first duty of government. with over ten days left to see if this remains a key strand of the election campaign. the family of the late mp claim he has been exhilarated after alleged abuse victims dropped their claims. the men say they have abandoned their actions against mrjana after receiving assurances that the allegations would be examined as pa rt allegations would be examined as part of a government ordered enquiry. more cancellations and delays
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for british airways passengers, following the global computer system failure yesterday. the conservatives and labour promise to do more to tackle the threat of terrorism, if they win the election. tributes to two passengers killed on an american train, trying to defend two women from anti—muslim abuse. tampa sport now. a big upset on the first day of the american open. angelique kerber going out in the first round. losing 6-2. going out in the first round. losing 6—2. 0ne did not get any better for the german in the second set, she lost that, 6—2 as well. cover is the
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first top—seeded woman to go out in the first round of the french open since the sport when professional in 1968. petra kvitova has made a winning return to tennis, five months after she was stabbed in an attack at her home. the czech player suffered a career—threatening hand injury, but made her comeback in the first round of the french open this morning. she was up against world number 85julia boserup. kvitova broke the american's serve early on, and showed little signs of letting up, taking the first set 6—3. a short rain delay didn't interupt her rhythm as she went on to take the second set 6—2, cheered on by her parents and brothers in the crowd. great britain have won three medals at the european rowing championships in the czech republic. karen bennett & holly norton, who took gold in belgrade earlier this month, had to settle for bronze today in the women's pair. they got off to a good start and so will be a little disapointed to finished third, behind denmark and romania. 2012 olympic gold medallist katherine copeland also won bronze with her partner emily craig in the lightweight womens double
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sculls and there was another bronze for great britain in the womens quadruple sculls. ben ainslie's great britain team are joint leaders after the first day of their america's cup qualification campaign in bermuda. despite mixed results in practice, they won their opening race against sweden, but in their second race were penalised for this crash against japan. it's still enough to see them equal with usa in the standings. no one was looking for a collision there. sometimes it happens. again i thought we did a greatjob to get round the course considering the damage we had. we were hanging in there, most of the race despite that. yeah. today bodes well for the team and we have got to go and fix the damage. 0ur shore team are the best in the game, and they'll do everything they can to get us out there racing tomorrow.
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monaco grand prix is underway. lewis hamilton is expecting to lose ground championship leader sebastian vettel. before the start, formula 1 pay tribute to the victims of the manchester concert attack with the grid holding a minutes silence. kimi reich in and started from pole with his team—mate vettel second. hamilton was back on but overtook snaffle hamilton was back on but overtook s naffle vo n hamilton was back on but overtook snaffle von braun and on the first lap to move up a place i can and is currently leading after 11 laps. we're reaching the later stages of the wsl spring series. today, the top—four teams in wsl one face each other. chelsea are leading liverpool 1—0. chelsea are leading liverpool 4—0. gilly flaherty putting the blues ahead within three minutes. fran kirby and ji so yung added another goal each before half time. a fourth added just after the break.
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man city up against arsenal, currently goalless. reading against birmingham city and yeovil versus sunderland kick off at tpm. kell brook's trainer says the boxer will need an operation to fix the broken left eye socket he sustained in his ibf welterweight loss to errol spence junior last night. coach dominic ingle says he will discuss brook's boxing future, including any changes in weight division. brook took a knee in the 11th round when he was under no real pressure, before the referee stopped the fight. it's the identical injury brook suffered in his fight against golovkin eight months ago, but in the opposite eye. that's over now. security has dominated the issue of the election campaign since the
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attack in manchester. leanne wood has argued whether her party would back further security measures to combat extremism. we are in favour of more targeted surveillance, we are against mass surveillance. if people are under suspicion the police need to keep a close eye on them. we support resources for that. the idea of watching everyone and being able to access everyone's e—mails communications, that's where we have a problem. that's where our mps have voted consistently against the sleepers charter, for example. the co—leader of the green party criticised the prevent programme for combating extremism, saying it was alienating the muslim community. many in the muslim community believe it has been an attack on their group in particular. we want there to be a mechanism whereby people can come to the state with concerns. but when it is perceived by the muslim community
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itself as being a toxic big brother brand, then we need to look at it again. that's what the mayor of manchester is saying and what many have said. we need to review prevents to make sure it is seen as something that is broad and inclusive and absolutely bottom—up, top—down big brother. inclusive and absolutely bottom—up, top-down big brother. nicola sturgeon said she thought it was right to have an open debate about the implications of foreign policy on extremism in the uk. it's not an excuse it's not a justification, but when the former head of m15 herself said that the war in iraq had led to greater radicalisation in the uk and had raised different issues about different threats and issues in terms of keeping the country safe, i think in any healthy democracy, and remember, terrorists are trying to undermine our democracy. we have to protect our ability in a healthy democracy to have these debates. scotland's first minister will be the latest leader in the hot seat talking to andrew neil. you can see
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that at six o'clock this evening on bbc one. it will be repeated here on bbc one. it will be repeated here on bbc news at 1230. a vigil has been held in the us city of portland for two men who were killed when they tried to stop a man from racially abusing two teenage girls. it's thought the girls were muslim. jeremyjoseph christian, a convicted criminal, will appear in court on tuesday. caroline davies reports. panic and fear on a normal commuter train. i was so scared. they were stabbing inside the train. there were people running around and crying. this was the scene in portland. two men were stabbed to death here. other passengers said they were trying to stop a man abusing two teenage girls who appeared to be muslim. this is the suspect, jeremyjoseph christian. while travelling on a train on friday afternoon, police say that he became aggressive. he was yelling, ranting, raving a lot of things which would be characterised as hate speech. some people approached him, appeared to try to intervene
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with his behaviour, and some of the people he was yelling at, they were attacked viciously by the suspect. he left the station but was arrested by police. this phone footage shows the moment he was cornered. two men lost their lives. in portland, the deaths were met with upset and anger. there is too much hatred in the world right now. and far too much violence. our current political climate allows far too much room for those whose spread bigotry. violent words can lead to violent acts. 0n social media there were strong feelings, with many pointing to the suspect‘s apparent extreme right wing views. former presidential candidate hillary clinton tweeted that no one should have to endure this racist abuse. and no one should have to give their lives to stop it.
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after the attack, the council on american—islamic relations urged president trump to speak out against increasing islamophobia in the us. chants: not in our town! the groupjoined a vigil to remember the two men who lost their lives. rickyjohn best and this man, taliesin myrddin namkai meche. his mother posted this picture calling her son a hero. both men will be remembered for standing up to hatred. local dentist andrew wilson has made a series of videos to help teachers educate pupils on the importance of
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good dental hygiene. it is important to brush your teeth because... they get too sticky. and you will get holes in your teeth. you will not be able to eat anymore. you will have to speak like this. a class of excited four to five—year—olds are discovering more about teeth, things like how to clean them and keep them safe from decay. andrew wilson is the dentist behind this project. he has come to salford, one of the worst places for tooth decay in england. he says it is never too early to learn about teeth. if you are making it fun, children will lap up information, and they will hopefully go home and talk to mum and dad, and hopefully they will think about what they are doing with brushing their teeth. as part of his mission, he has developed a series of films
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to help teachers in the classroom. given the consequences for children if tooth decay goes unchecked, these are lessons that need to be learned. classes like this one matter because tooth decay is by far the biggest reason children are admitted to hospital. many dentists say that educating children and families is important because the dangers of tooth decay are being overlooked. children are going into accident and emergency for a variety of dental problems. they first come to the department with a variety of bad diseases, with things like abscesses. the second type come in because of pain caused by quite bad decay and tooth pain. they need treatment but don't need it in a hospital, they need to see a dentist.
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tooth decay is completely preventable but is completely linked to a sugary diet. if left unaffected, it could affect sleeping, eating and even growth and self—esteem. after the lesson today, these children from salford will go home knowing how to take care of their teeth, and what happens if they don't. people who see me smile will think i did not take care of my teeth when i was younger. that i ate too many sweets and did not brush my teeth. when you smile, your teeth will be all black, and people will think you have not taken care of them. if you break them, you will not have any, because after your grown—up teeth, you will not get any more. dominic hughes, bbc news, salford. one of the founding members of the rock group,
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the allman brothers band, gregg allman, has died. he was 69. a statement on his website says he had struggled with many health issues. gregg allman and his older brother duane started the band in the southern american state of georgia in the 1960s. # the only woman i've ever seen #. gregg allman doing what he did best. long—haired psychedelia, mixed with the blues, country and jazz. what came to be known as southern rock. as part of the allman brothers band, one of the biggest acts of the 1970s. which made what happened next all the more unusual. his marriage to cher, a romantic and professional relationship that caused a little controversy. she had the big idea to go on stage together. then we got to europe, and half the audience over here was in tuxedos and the other half in backpacks.
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these were yelling, "boo!" these were yelling "get the bleep off the stage!" she led the morning on social media, saying... she led the mourning on social media, saying... songwriter melissa etheridge posted... and john mayer tweeted... # i was born a ramblin' man #. gregg allman was born in nashville, tennessee, in 19117. together with his brother, duane, he formed the allman brothers band in 1969. they enjoyed huge success, but duane would die in a motorbike accident at the age of 24. guitar.
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gregg continued performing, but would suffer from health problems and an addiction to drugs and alcohol. he passed away peacefully at his home in savannah, georgia. described as a kind and gentle soul, a brilliant pioneer in music. gregg allman — who's died at the age of sixty—nine. time to check on the weather prospects for the rest of the afternoon. not looking too bad out there. northern scotland saw some of the highest temperatures across the uk in the last few days. some sunshine around, warming up across the south i had of this thundery period. some rain in south—western areas. some
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