disbanding two of the white house business advisory councils after ten members quit. it follows the president's comments blaming both sides at the rally in virginia. in the times, an analysis of hate group numbers in the us, which have hit a near historic high. there are more than 900 active hate groups across the us, and there's been a surge in ku klux klan membership, according to the southern poverty law centre. also noted was a spike in anti—muslim hate crimes following mr trump's election win. in the uk, thousands of students will today learn their exam results to enter university. on the guardian front page, there's high praise from one headteacher to 56 children who were affected by the grenfell tower tragedy. many of them fled the inferno, and hours later had to sit a maths exam, some of them wearing borrowed clothes. "further turbulence ahead for cathay pacific airways" says the south china morning post.

the airline carrier posted a first—half loss of $hk2.05 billion, more than $us 260 million, and is on track to its first back—to—back annual loss in its 70—year history. it blames stiff competition and weak revenue from ticket sales. and we're all familiar with a selfie. well, how about a bothie? it's a function of the new nokia handset, seen here in the guardian. it has a camera that takes a photograph in both directions at the same time. the launch of the nokia 8 from the once—dominant finnish brand comes a week before samsung unveil their new phone following the disastrous note 7, which was recalled after several batteries caught fire. so let's begin. with us isjustin urquhart stewart, who is director at seven investment management. i

, the ,the main , the main story, a bailout of anything connected with trump. frankly if you are in business now, your pr adviser would be saying, ta ke your pr adviser would be saying, take one step backwards, you don't wa nt take one step backwards, you don't want anything to do with this at all, and why do most business people get drawn into this? because it's the president. you've got to get some reflection of the position, but once that reflection starts to look dark, you don't want to be near that. i was watching it last night on twitter, and again and again, another person was going, and it was another person was going, and it was a race to see whether he would close the whole thing down or they would all be gone, which would happen first. i saw this suggestion that these councils, as one new york professor was saying, increasingly meaningless, but you get a photo with the president. it's almost the other way now. could i lose that

photograph please? these are lovely photos, ego trips, aren't they? but as soon as it turns the other way round, everyone rushes in the opposite direction. he can't claim to bea opposite direction. he can't claim to be a friend to business now. not really. what did he promised? reform? we really. what did he promised? reform ? we haven't really. what did he promised? reform? we haven't seen any. tax changes? infrastructure changes? he's achieved so little so far. i know he will say he has signed all sorts of bills but they are very minor things. fundamentally the business changes he was talking about have not occurred. hate groups. i wonder how they compiled this stuff? the number is on the rise, and an interesting graft also, how it dips at 2010 and comes back up how it dips at 2010 and comes back up again, and does that coincide with the 0bama administration?m looks like it does. it's bikes back at last year. it's rather strange.

people don't sit there and say, yes, sign me up, please. it seems rather strange. but overall, it's fascinating how this has happened as a result of notjust trump but also over here, the reflection you are seeing after brexit as well, the fa ct seeing after brexit as well, the fact there's almost been a release, not saying you are allowed to be pa rt not saying you are allowed to be part of a hate group, but it being almost acceptable in some way. it's been a kind of legitimisation. and i find that very nasty indeed. on that graft, we've got to be careful because it is beginning to level off a bit as trump comes in, so the suggestion for the travel bans, et isn't necessarily reflected. that's a long—standing friend. do you think the legitimisation allows people to admit more that they are members? no one puts their hand up and says, i'm a member of a hate group — perhaps they do now.

0nce hate group — perhaps they do now. once it is seen to be acceptable, more people will come along and say, ido more people will come along and say, i do participate, or this is my view, and we've seen attitudes in britain with regard to some of the minorities, where there was a very nasty reaction indeed. it was always there, but it's now almost allowed, andi there, but it's now almost allowed, and ifind there, but it's now almost allowed, and i find that very unpleasant indeed, and nasty. let's move on to afar indeed, and nasty. let's move on to a farfrom indeed, and nasty. let's move on to a far from nasty story, a very uplifting one. as ever, the a—levels are out and we are very excited about what that means, and we can chew over the figures and everything, but this is a lovely story the guardian reflects on the desire of sixth formers, despite the g re nfell tower desire of sixth formers, despite the grenfell tower disaster, to get in and sit their exams. i suppose they might have been shellshocked. within hours after that fire, 56 students go in and ta ke that fire, 56 students go in and take an as exams are maths. that's astonishing. as you were saying

earlier, they had to borrow clothes, because they had literally run off with the clothes they had on, if any at all, because it was at night, and 56 out of 60 children coming through on this. it's really quite astonishing that people are able to do this and go through it all. the headis do this and go through it all. the head is hailing students who take these exams — quite right, too. head is hailing students who take these exams - quite right, too. the school's first year of sixth form stu d e nts school's first year of sixth form students as well. in so many ways, it's so seminalfor the students as well. in so many ways, it's so seminal for the school, isn't it? i hope that gets properly highlighted because all too often people are sitting there, saying, eve ryo ne passes people are sitting there, saying, everyone passes these... passing these exams under that personal pressure is amazing. tell us about cathay pacific. is this a problem with its legacy? yes, it's a flag carrier. it doesn't actually carry a flag that it is hong kong's airline but it is part of the blood of hong kong. all these airlines are suffering because the models they've had changed, but also because it

does international routes but regional routes as well, and the local, regional discounters have had to change as in europe. you've seen the big flag carriers in europe, air france, british airways changing radically because if they didn't they would be out of business. we are seeing the same here. it's not just cafe, it's also singapore and the likes of etihad as well. —— cathay pacific. now it's changed. they almost blame competition. they say it's very steep and we will struggle, which is not great, but they are saying 85% capacity on theirflights, which they are saying 85% capacity on their flights, which is they are saying 85% capacity on theirflights, which is pretty good. what do they do? cut costs. it's the only thing they can do. that's what is happening. we seen that with the likes of british airways and we known that we may have to pay for those extra things and those benefits we used to get don't exist any more, but this is why unless you are willing to pay more for your

tickets, unless they pushed prices up. it's a tickets, unless they pushed prices pity tickets, unless they pushed prices up. it's a pity because these are very good airlines indeed compared with some of the once i go on, which are not! we will carry on... when i first saw this, i thought it was some kind of — bothie rather than a selfie. taking a picture of ourselves together? that's just a selfie, actually. but it's both ways at once?” that's just a selfie, actually. but it's both ways at once? i wonder on how many occasions you will really wa nt on how many occasions you will really want to do this? if this is the level on which you are now selling your telephone, that it ta kes a selling your telephone, that it takes a 2—way photograph, i have to say... takes a 2—way photograph, i have to say. . . what takes a 2—way photograph, i have to say... what else is there to do? they must have thought of everything. they talk to you. the only thing they don't do is wander off yet. they'll be driving a car soon. that classic cartoon of someone saying, excuse me, i think i've taken a picture of my ear... absolutely

astonishing. i'm getting a sense you think that's a bit of a clunker and it's not going to work, but, for nokia, i don't know how any times we said this, this is a big deal. well, it is. it's not the business it was when you look back 20 years ago. this business was an old logging company in finland, to be the largest com pa ny company in finland, to be the largest company in finland — mind you, that's not very difficult — but thenit you, that's not very difficult — but then it shrank all the way back. this is the big opportunity, but is this the best you can come up with? 0h, this the best you can come up with? oh, dear... they started the mobile phone, didn't they? how little did they appreciate what they were getting into... a bit of earth thumbs down from you. ijust a bit of earth thumbs down from you. i just need a a bit of earth thumbs down from you. ijust need a telephone! old fangled things... thanks for watching. let's see if the weather is going to be behaving itself on thursday.

looking a little mixed. there's some rain out there right now, but thursday itself is looking not too bad across the uk. there will be some sunshine around and a few showers as well, so you mightjust about need your brolly. but early in the morning, still raining across many parts of england, particularly eastern areas — that's where there could be some heavy rain still, anywhere from newcastle, just about into the midlands, east anglia and the south—east, but mild in the morning. 16 in london. 15 for leeds, and around about 13—14 in scotland and northern ireland. the cloud and the rain — the overnight cloud and the rain — might drag its heels a little bit across the south—east but eventually it should be out of the way in the north sea, and then we've got that mixture of sunshine and showers. and the showers might happen across the south—west, through the midlands, wales, scotland and northern ireland too, but not too many of them across northern england, we don't think. could be a beautiful day in cumbria and the north—east of england, for example. how about the cricket? just the chance of a shower, probably not too many of them around, so the risk of any disruption i don't think is particularly high. now, the forecast into friday —

so, thursday night into friday — a low pressure is barrelling across the uk, and one thing that we will all notice on friday is the strength of the wind. it's going to be a very blustery day across the uk, all parts of the country. there will be some very blustery showers around, as well, across many northern and western areas of the uk. some of those showers will be heavy. so temperatures might be, say, 15—21 degrees, but it might feel cooler than that because of the strength of the wind. saturday, maybe not quite so windy but still pretty breezy. there will be some showers around but not as many. i think, overall, a slightly better day i think on saturday for most of us. now, i'm going to go back to what is happening right now, just off the eastern coast of the us, we have hurricane gert here, and that is going to be influencing our weather to an extent come sunday. this is what's going to be happening, so gert is going to start dying away, fizzling out, over the next two or three days and then it gets mixed up with the weather systems that usually come our way anyway. and basically what's going to happen

is the leftovers of gert — so the clouds, some of the wind and rain — will be crossing our country during the course of sunday. so you could call it "ex—gert" if you like, but it's certainly not going to be a hurricane. that means rain in some parts of the country but some uncertainty exactly how much rain, how much wind. but it will be an unsettled sunday for sure. so here's the weekend summary — there will be some blustery showers and wind around for sure. hello, this is breakfast, with charlie stayt and tina daheley. the long wait is over for hundreds of thousands of teenagers across england, wales and northern ireland who get their a—level results this morning. for the first time students in england have been sitting a new style of exams, putting more emphasis on the final test. there's been a drop in university applications meaning more options are available. we'll be live in one clearing centre. good morning.

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