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and the been in east anglia and the south—east. more rain will push in here during the afternoon. i brits are praying for northern ireland, scotla nd are praying for northern ireland, scotland and northern england. try in the north—east of scotland. we could see done to be showers in south—west england, wales, the midlands and north west england. very cool in the north—west, but humid in the south—east. it stays cloudy and damp, further outbreaks of rain across the country this evening for the first part of the night. it will turn a bit dry in the site. mild once again, fresher in the north—west corner. into tuesday, the north—west corner. into tuesday, the next band of rain will spread into western areas, it will weaken as it reaches england and wales. the hand that we should see spells of sunshine developing, but it will be breezy. ahead of it, bit of warmth, 22 degrees, feeling fresher in the north and the west. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines: the british airways chief executive, alex cruz has told the bbc he is profusely sorry for the disruption called
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by a worldwide crash of their computer systems. week and profusely, profusely apologetic about what has happened. we are very conscious of the hardship that many of our customers have had to go through. officers investigating the attack at manchester arena last week arrested 23—year—old man at shoreham by sea near brighton. police are also searching addresses in manchester and chester. the latest arrest brings the total number of people in custody to 14. the former blue peter hostjohn noakes, who hosted the show in the 19605 and ho5tjohn noakes, who hosted the show in the 19605 and 705, has died at the age of 83. time for the sport. england's bat5men are fighting to post a respectable total, after a morning to forget at lord5 against south africa. england were put into bat,
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and lost their first six wicket5 for just 20 runs, in the first half hour of this third one—day international. roy, root, morgan, hales, buttler and rashid all fell cheaply. jonny bairstow and david willey started to steady things with a partnership of 62. bairstow has hit a half century in 63 balls. and england are currently 143—9. britain's aliash bedene has won his first round match of the french open, beating american ryan harrison by three sets to one. bedene eased into a two set lead, winning the second by six games to love injust 18 minutes, the american winning only seven points. harrison pulled a set back but the british number three, who's ranked ten places below harrison in the world rankings at 52, had no problems with the fourth to progress to the second round. world number two novak djokovic has just got his tournament under way. the reigning champion is up
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against marcel granollers of spain. it's djokovic‘s first match since taking on new coach andre agassi. he won the first set 6—3 and it is currently 5—3 in the second set so he is doing well there. meanwhile women's champion garbine muguruza got her defence off to a winning start. she eased past the 2010 winner francesca schiavone in straight sets. northern ireland have called up southend's adam thompson and accrington‘s shay mccartan for the coming international fixtures against new zealand and azerbaijan. here's the squad in full. mcca rta n mccartan netted 18 goals in his last games and he could make his international debut with fellow strikers conor washington and jamie ward unavailable. burton defender tom flanagan is
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another potential debutante. they play new zealand on friday in a friendly and take on azerbaijan in a world cup group c qualifier on the 10th ofjune. now, it's billed as the most lucrative match in world football, and it's estimated at least £170 million awaits the winner of today's championship play—off final between huddersfield town and reading. one of those two clubs willjoin newcastle and brighton in promotion to the premier league. coverage starts at 2pm on bbc radio five live. sometimes the feeling if you're not a reading supporter then nearly everybody in england, in britain, and maybe in europe supports huddersfield town and likes to bring this fairytale to a happy end. so this looks like the second fairytale in british football in a row after leicester last season and this is what we are feeling and we are feeling that we getting backed from a lot of people all over britain. we need to think about what we need
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to do now to see to win that game so that's what we're going to be facing. we're not going to be thinking about what it does to the clu b thinking about what it does to the club or to the city if we win. there's also a chance to lose. and after a spectacular crash in the annual indy 500 race, driver scott dixon says he plans to return to racing this week dixon collided with british driverjay howard during the race at 178mph. the crash caused the red flag to come out, which stopped the race. both had a lucky escape and were able to walk away afterwards. that's all sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport and i'll have more in the next hour. just going to bring you up—to—date
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with donald trump's comments on the ballistic missile firing by north korea. he has said that north korea is shoving disrespects to its major ally, china, afterfiring that short—range missile on monday. it landed in the sea off its east coast. the japanese are very upset about it as well. that's what donald trump has said on twitter, of course. there has been much discussion between washington and beijing about how to tackle this issue with north korea to let chimes with those discussions as well. british airways ceo alex cruz has said he's profusely sorry but will not resign over the failure of the company's computer system. the airline announced it's making "good progress" in returning flights to normal after what it described as a "power supply issue" to its it system. experts say compensation claims, from thousands of passengers left stranded, could run into many millions of pounds.
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our transport correspondent spoke to mr cruz earlier today. the actual problem only lasted a few minutes. there was a power surge and a back—up system did not work at that point in time. it was restored after a few hours in terms of hardware changes but eventually, it took a long time for messaging and systems to come up again as the operation was picking up again. we are and we welcome this investigation, exhaustive to the very end. we will find out why those back—up systems did not trigger the right type and we will make sure that it doesn't happen again. one thing i'm also been told, again by people who have worked here in the past, is that there has been a brain drain. youtube or the experienced it people and make them redundant, the outsourced that work to india, to another company, and they are saying asa another company, and they are saying as a result you do not have the people here to fix the problem. the
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problems will always be here but when things go wrong, there is not the experience to fix those problems. how do you respond to that? it is absolutely not the case. this was a fault in a local centre which has been addressed by local staff and managed by local resources throughout this whole period before, during and after. so in this particular case, those particular accusations do not apply. where was this? in the heathrow area. but heathrow does not have the experienced staff on hand any more because you have made them redundant. there are no redundancies 01’ redundant. there are no redundancies or outsourcing around this particular hardware. it is all locally hired resources that have been attending to the maintenance and running of this particular infrastructure. i have been to terminal five infrastructure. i have been to terminalfive and infrastructure. i have been to terminal five and terminal three between... pick a time, i have been answering personal e—mails that have been written to me. i set up a
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special group of people to help me a nswer very special group of people to help me answer very expediently some of those e—mails. so, yes, iam not out of touch in terms of the personal drama that many of our passengers have had to go through in this particular instance. all our efforts at the moment are aimed at making sure that we address those needs of those passengers. we are trying our very best. we know we found solutions over two thirds of those passengers. again, by the end of today, they will either be at their final destination and we are trying to address the needs of the remainder of the passengers. the number one thing people are asking me to ask you, a complaint you get all the time, there is no information. no tannoy announcements. the staff don't know what's going on. i don't meanjust the first hours, but days later. what do you say to those people? they are not being told anything and they're tearing their hair out wondering if they can wander holiday. there was an absolute problem on saturday. the extent of the effect of the actual disruption
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affected some of our communication systems. we were unable to send the standard messages that we sent to customers whenever there is destruction, delay or in particular a cancellation so right there on saturday, there was a big problem. from saturday night, late, many of those messages were certain to come through. we began to be able to reach out to places and yesterday, sunday, we were able to reach out to most of the customers in an eloquent way. at the airport we have been handing out letters with specific instructions on how to deal with specific problems. we will continue to do so. we have a backlog right 110w to do so. we have a backlog right now on social media but we will continue to attend it. we will not stop until we have at the answer to each and every message. we have attended to the needs of each and every customer. we are fully aware that communications have to get better particularly as social media continues to expand. we have great expectations from people to communicate with them alive on facebook and twitter, live on snap
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chat if you believe that people are reaching out to me through also from media, soi reaching out to me through also from media, so i agree with you, we will continue to invest in resources in ways that we can directly reach out to people. we lost the sound at the end of that interview. that was the chief executive of british airways and work travel correspondent. but the latter heathrow and bring you up to date. what's the situation with the destruction nick? things have eased today after what has gone on the last couple of days. we know that 13 flights were cancelled between the hours of nine this morning and 1pm this afternoon, short—haul flights. heathrow and ba itself in the morning has said it aims to put on a fool long haul schedule and while it is termed a high proportion of short—haulflights, is termed a high proportion of short—haul flights, there are is termed a high proportion of short—haulflights, there are many passengers angry of what has happened. i think the lesson to
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learn is that this is obviously going to cost british airways a lot. some estimates suggest 150 million... you have to remember that there is harm that could be quite immense. 300,000 passengers, it is estimated to have been inconvenienced over the weekend, not just here but globally in what has been regarded previously as the world's fearless airline. —— the world's fearless airline. —— the world's favourite airline. thank you for bringing this up today. mis is m15 is to review the way it looks that information from the public in response to the manchester arena. it will particularly look at reports that the bomber was a threat. police are searching properties in chester, greater manchester and have arrested a man in west sussex. we can get more now from frankie mccamley who is at saint anne's square in manchester. bring us up to date on
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the day's developed. yes, this isn't the day's developed. yes, this isn't the first time the security services have been reviewed and had questions asked about them. back when the seven slash seven bombings took place, m15 did face questions back then but what will happen now is an inquiry is going to take place into how that information about salman abedi was dealt with. we are hearing the security services were told three times about his extremist views so now the questions and they are going to face is what happened with that information. were any errors made? have is that information passed on? who excel you dealt with it and could any more have been done? we heard from the home secretary yesterday who said that it's very important not to jump to conclusions, not instantly think that mis to conclusions, not instantly think that m15 agents did miss anything. what we know is salman abedi was on a list of 20,000 people that posed a
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threat in the past. he wasn't on the smaller list that they have of 3000 people that pose an imminent threat, so questions are going to be asked surrounding security services as the police investigation of course is continuing. thank you very much indeed. sad news that we brought to you earlier that the former blue peter presenterjohn noakes has died at the age of 83. earlier we spoke to peter purves, who presented blue peter alongside john noakes. he was unique. i remember our editor on blue peter... i think she reckoned he was the best presenter ever. he had qualities that no one else had and he'll be remembered very fondly by a lot of people and none more so than me. what made him, what gave him that star appeal? he... he was a happy—go—lucky guy in many ways and
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actually quite serious as well. very, very shy. that's what you really wouldn't realise about him, i suppose. he performed asjohn noakes, he didn'tjust bejohn noakes. when he was off—screen, he wasn't quite as scatty or as free or as loose and sometimes quite odd. you felt you were protecting him sometimes when you were working with him on television because you didn't know quite what he was going to do next, but we had so many laughs and so much fun together over the years. i mean, hundreds and hundreds of happy memories. i'll neverforget him. he was a good friend. for many of us, of a certain age, we will remember him from our childhood days of watching him on blue peter. he's been described as being so brave. i mean, wejust saw a shot of him there carrying out a parachute jump. i always said that he didn't have the brains to be scared. i mean, i mean that in the kindest sense. he just...
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hejust went for things. he didn't really seem to assess the danger of things, hejust went for them and he was very, very brave. i mean, he held the world record for the highest civilian freefall parachute drop for many years. he was a extraordinary man. i used to go rock climbing, i loved all that stuff, but i'll tell you something, i could not have climbed nelson's column the way he did. it was a remarkable thing he did and hejust virtually no protection. it was an extraordinary thing. after he left the show, he had several television appearances, he wrote a children's book, sometime also in majorca. what would he like to be remembered for? i think he would be extraordinarily embarrassed we remembered him at all. it's hard to say. he would like to be remembered as the daredevil on blue peter. i know that he had a lot of gripes
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about it, but there were two sides tojohn. the open, happy, cheerful chappie who who nothing bothered and the serious side who worried about all sorts of things. 995g elderly. it is not for the elderly. it is not right free political party to call a snap election and then have a snap solution to social care which is pulled out of a hat by theresa may and a couple of her advisers in number ten. those who supported her plan said lbc was trying to come up
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with something sustainable instead as getting money from the magic money tree. i was shadow social care minister andl i was shadow social care minister and i went and i rememberafterthe election in 2010 going into number ten and we were supposed to be doing cross—party talks ten and we were supposed to be doing cross— party talks and ten and we were supposed to be doing cross—party talks and we were serious about trying to come together as two political parties to find a solution to long—term care and we got nothing but the runaround from the tories and in the end, they pulled out of those to go see asians. the important thing that we recognise is that for every pound spent on social care, you save ten in terms of the nhs. we cannot have elderly people going into a and e in crisis because they have fallen over and there is not someone looking after them and then for them not be able to go home because there is no support them in their homes. klaus newby, when you were in government in 2010, you cut £4.6 billion from social care. how much has that contributed to the crisis we see today? i think the question today...
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no, the question i havejust asked you. well, this is the second time you. well, this is the second time you have asked me about my time in coalition, to which the answer is the same... how much has contributed to the today? it has undoubtedly, the cuts in social care which was ordered a number of years ago, have contributed to the problems we have today. the question is, what we do about it? we have said that we need to put a very specific tax proposal that funds social care and health before people and that's why we are saying it should be a penny on income tax so that you ring fenced money going into health and social ca re money going into health and social care that is sustainable in the short—term, i.e., the next parliament but thereafter you have a dedicated health and social care tax based on national insurers. everybody pays in, everybody benefits. yes or no, loudly, yes or no, the lib dems are proposing 1p on income tax. would you support that?
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there were worried yeses than a note for money to go to the. dominic. you can't have a solution without money. there are other things you need to do but you need the money as well. what to do think of theresa may's capitulation on the social care plan which was published in the manifesto and then she changed a few days later? i wouldn't have characterised it as capitulation but i take the point... what would you call it? i ta ke point... what would you call it? i take the point that the gentleman made about alzheimer's and dementia. there will be 2 million more over 75 in ten years' time, this is a massive, burning social issue and we have tried to, and grapple with this issue on three issues. if you can afford to contribute your care, you should that is important thing. but you will never have your income come down to a level we cannot give £100,000 to your family and we would also have a cap on costs. but that
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is what i am asking you...|j also have a cap on costs. but that is what i am asking you... i know, i'm trying to do it in and around up the book as a whole package. we are going to consult on that and the reason being someone always pays for this. and when people say be state should pick the reed step in, it will be taxpayers. i don't think the lib dem tax plan is credible but i respect they are trying to do it. we are the only ones who have set out a credible, financially solvent way of dealing with this issue. hang on! emily has spent her whole response to this question not setting out what labour's position is. this is why. .. what labour's position is. this is why... we actually costed our manifesto, how many numbers did you put in yours? there were no costings in your manifesto at all. where is the £8 billion? where is the £8 billion you are claiming you're going to britain's national health service going to come from? you haven't even tried. let's deal with
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what they said, where war that £8 billion, from? we will have real—time increases each year rising to release a billion last year. we have said things like means testing winter fuel payment... but we don't take... let dominic finish. i will come back soon emerge. we have set out a whole range of tough decisions. that is why we are getting the sick about this. so the winter fuel allowance will pay freight billion? you don't hypothesise each saving biggles income you look at the packers at a whole. which you expect the other parties to do that. i expect that overall you should have an sensible package of trying to ease the burden on law and middle income families. source on savings from winter fuel allowa nce. source on savings from winter fuel allowance. pay and giving you an illustration of the difficult decisions like saying we would not subsidise free school lunches for
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well off parents. we do not think thatis well off parents. we do not think that is the right thing to do. we would rather it went into teaching and the nhs. but we have made the difficult decision... does that all add up to 8 billion? you have to look at the savings in the round. we are taking difficult decisions. hang on, because we mentioned the iss. they are the independent institute for fiscal studies. they have suggested that your plans to raise £49 billion in taxes you have miscalculated and they think having worked it all out, it'll be about 41 billion so there is a big shortfall there. when you promise people billions and tens of billions for the nhs and social care, actually you will be able to raise that money. what we have said to ifs is that they are being very pessimistic about this and actually we think our measures will work and we are quite happy to talk to them about it. there is within our manifesto room for us having underestimated the amount that we might raising
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taxation so we are quite happy to engage with them, quite happy to talk and we would also like to have the office for budget responsibility, a government body, and we said that about our previous manifesto as well as this one, there will always be fights about this so the obe are should look at our manifesto... he ifs have done that but you don't like what they have said to you dismiss it. but the office of a budget responsibility has this as theirjob. we are happy to engage with either of them but let them look at both manifestos and see the mac they have. this is in scotla nd see the mac they have. this is in scotland have had a cap on their paces as an eight. hell has evolved, why haven't you remove that cap and given them a pay rise? what the scottish government has done is meet the pay review bodies' recommendations on every single occasion... they don't deserve a pay rise? they absolutely deserve a pay rise. it would be a good thing to
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do, actually. will that be in your ma nifesto ? do, actually. will that be in your manifesto? let's wait and see. parties and mp5 get into trouble if they leaked bits of their manifesto in advance. but it is important to say that nurses in scotland get paid more than nurses in england and we have... a nurse in scotland said last week she had to use food banks. is that acceptable? well... you know, of course nurses shouldn't go to food banks. that goes without saying. and i don't know the details of that nurse's case, so it's difficult for me to comment on her particular circumstances. pa rt part of a lively debate hosted by victoria derbyshire earlier today. time for a look at the weather. looking pretty cloudy for a bank holiday monday. sunshine will be limited in the best of it so far has been a crusty seve and the
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south—east but we will see more rain pushing in here through the afternoon and some of it could be quite heavy. fabrics of rain for northern ireland at a central and southern scotland and northern england but dry across the north—east of scotland. there could be heavy showers across parts of south west england, wales, the midlands and into north—west england. very cool across the north—west but still quite warm and humid and south—east. states cloudy, quite damp, further outbreaks of rain across the country this evening and for the first part of the night. dreyer across the south and fairly mild once again. a little fresher across this north—west corner. into tuesday, the next band of rain spreads into and western areas, initially northern ireland and in parts of scotland before weakening as it reaches england and wales but behind it wishes to dispose of sunshine developing. it will be quite breezy though and ahead of it, again, a little warmth. 21 or 22 degrees, feeling a bit fresher in the north and west. this is bbc news. your headlines at tpm. your headlines at 2pm.
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a5 british airways continues to deal with the disruption caused by computerfailings, the chief executive says sorry. we will make a full investigation, exhaustive. we will find out exactly what happened and we will make sure that this will never happen again. m15 says it will investigate its handling of information from the public about the manchester bomber, salman abedi. that is as another arrest is made. meanwhile, nick clegg and the liberal democrats warn national security could be at risk if theresa may negotiates a hard brexit deal. france's new president welcomes his counterpart from russia today after accusing vladimir putin of meddling.
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