this is bbc news i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 11:00... security alert at seattle airport after an airline employee steals an empty plane and crashes on a nearby island. chemical giant monsanto is ordered to pay nearly $300 million in damages to an american man who said its weedkiller made him terminally ill with cancer. i am glad to be here to help with this situation after i learned about roundup and glyphusate and everything. i am glad to be here to be able to help, but the cause is way bigger than me. mission to the sun on hold — nasa is forced to postpone its historic space probe launch until tomorrow. officials in new south wales in australia say the army could be deployed to help farmers as the worst drought in living memory continues. also coming up this hour. a man appears in court in charged with starting the california wild —fires. the holy fire, as it has become known, led to 21,000 people being evacauted from their homes. and in dateline london later, we'll be discussing washington's imposition of sanctions on russia and the row between

donald trump and turkey. hello, very good morning to you. a passenger plane has crashed after being stolen from seattle airport in the united states. the aircraft was operated by horizon air — a sister company of alaska air. the airline said a mechanic had taken the plane. n0 passengers or crew were on board at the time. andy moore reports. what the hell? the stolen plane was filmed by shocked witnesses flying low over the islands of puget sound. what is happening right now? 0k, why does it havejets? it was pursued by two f—15 military jets, the planes escorted the plane out of harm's way but were not instrumental in bringing it down. whilst he was performing acrobatic manoeuvres the 29—year—old man at the controls was talking to air traffic control.

we are trying to find a place for you to land safety. i'm not quite ready to bring it down just yet, but holy smokes, i've got to look out for the fuel because it is going down quick. 0k, rich if you could just do a left—hand turn it will take you down to the south—east, please. this is probablyjail time for life? i hope it is, for a guy like me. we're not going to think about that, rich, just do a left turn please. the man piloting the plane said he would do one last barrel roll and then call it a night. he crashed into a sparsely populated island, causing there's fire. apparently the plane was taken from seattle airport. 0ur information was that there was only one person on the plane, the person flying it. we understand the person may have been doing some

air stunt manoeuvres, i know that some personnel were scrambled from the air force base. there was no indication that this person flying the plane was trying to damage or attack anything. the full circumstances are still being investigated. police said it involved only one local man who wanted to take his own life. that man said himself said he was not a qualified pilot, but he had enough knowledge to take a plane and fly it for some time before bringing hisjourney an end. andy moore, bbc news. an explosion at a military factory in wiltshire has killed one person and left another in a critical condition. chemring countermeasures, which is based near salisbury, makes products to protect military ships and aircraft from attack. the police said the incident was under control and there was no risk to the public. the maker of roundup weedkiller is insisting british consumers are safe to use the product, after a court in the united states ordered them to pay the equivalent of £196 million to a man who became terminally ill after using the firm's weedkillers.

in a landmark case, a californian jury found that monsanto knew its weedkillers were dangerous and failed to warn consumers. james cook reports. dwayne johnson applied monsanto's roundup and ranger pro herbicides up to 30 times a year. now 46 years old, and dying of non—hodgkin's lymphoma, he held his head in his hands after the judge related the jury's verdict. glyphosate did present a substantial danger. monsanto had been negligent in failing to warn users and had acted with malice or oppression. mrjohnson said he hoped the verdict would bolster thousands of similar cases. since beginning this case i have received a lot of support, a lot of thank yous and and a lot of fear, a lot of everything. just getting energy from a lot of people that i don't even know, you know. and i'm glad to be here to help with this situation after i learned about roundup and glyphosate

and everything, i'm glad to be here to be able to help. the cause is way bigger than me so hopefully this thing will start to get the attention that it needs, so folks can make a good choice. and finally i just want to thank my wife, my three sons, and my entire family and friends that have been here for me. thank you. his lawyer said the company had acted with reckless disregard for human life. but monsanto, owned by the german conglomerate bayer, says it will appeal and insists its products are vital, effective and safe tools forfarmers worldwide. the science is not certain. in 2015 world health organization classified glyphosate is probably carcinogenic but both the us and the eu, supported by the uk, have since approved its usage. it's a mission 60 years in the making — but nasa's solar probe launch will have to wait one more day, after its scheduled ta ke—off was cancelled. we have expired our time window for

today's launch. we will begin to recycle a nd today's launch. we will begin to recycle and go for a 24—hour turnaround time. it's one of the space agency's most ambitious missions and will send a probe into the sun's atmosphere for the first time. the rocket carrying the parker solar probe was scheduled to blast off from cape canaveral, in florida, around 8.30am this morning — but after an hour of delays the launch was rescheduled for tomorrow. scientists hope the seven—year mission will gather data to help understand the solar storms which can disrupt satellite communications. earlier i spoke to professor tim horbury, professor of physics at imperial college london and a member of the science team working on the parker solar probe, and asked him about how the mission is expected to progress when it does take—off. it is disappointing this morning but it is always better to be on the

ground and fixing a problem than flying with a problem. they make the right decision and we are happy to wait. when the mission goes the spacecraft will go quickly from the beginning. we will launch an fly— past beginning. we will launch an fly—past venus in september and then we'll get our first close pass to sun in november and get the first data back in december. although spaceis data back in december. although space is big, it takes a long time to get to the places, we will get some of the first data very rapidly. iam very some of the first data very rapidly. i am very excited. it sounds flippant, but i am very excited. it sounds flippa nt, but it i am very excited. it sounds flippant, but it almost sounds like a pr, press release saying it has beenin a pr, press release saying it has been in the planning for 60 years, but in this case, it's not an exaggeration? from the beginning of the space age, one of the clear things that need to be done was go and explore the sun. it drives all of our life on earth, its heat and its life lets us live on the planet. we are dependent on it and it is important we understand what it

does. there are lots of things we don't understand because we haven't been able to get close enough to measure it in detail. 0ne been able to get close enough to measure it in detail. one of the conundrums of the sun, is its atmosphere is hotter than its surface. 0n the other, on the top of a mountain it is colder than it is at the surface. the opposite is true of the sun. in atmosphere is 1 million degrees and we don't understand why. without understanding back, we cannot understanding back, we cannot understand how it generates the phenomena it does. it fills interplanetary space with the solar wind. when it interacts with the's daily—macro earth's magnetic field. it can knock out satellites and harm astronauts and do damage on the earth's surface as well. we need to understand the sun if we are to depend upon it and make predictions

when it will do stuff to affect us. you are putting your faith in a piece of equipment that is just 11.5 inches thick, yet somehow it will protect this probe from the power of the sun, it sounds unimaginable?m does and the reason we waited so long for this mission, we didn't have the technology. it is a very high technology mission. the heat shield on the front is high technology and the front a it will get to about 1300 celsius, which is unimaginable. the spacecraft that hides behind the heat shield and the spacecraft is only about the height ofan spacecraft is only about the height of an adult and weighs about 600 kilograms. it is a tiny little space cla p we kilograms. it is a tiny little space clap we are sending and plunging it into the sun's atmosphere. the technology is important and they have spent a lot of time getting it right. a man's appeared in court in calfornia charged with starting

a wild—fire that led to more than 20,000 people having to leave their homes. the holy fire, as it has become known, burned nearly 10,000 acres through the mountains of southern california. prosecutors say forrest clark had a grudge against a neighbour. he could face life in prison if convicted. officials in new south wales in australia say the army could be deployed to help farmers as the worst drought in living memory continues to take its toll the state government says the miltary could be called in to help transport animal feed and water to badly hit communities in the outback. a warm, dry winter has left many farmers struggling to survive and little rain is expected in the months ahead. more on this now with our sydney correspondent phil mercer, who has spent time in the drought zone this week, near the city in tamworth in new south wales. it was extraordinary to see prime agricultural land that has been laid to waste. many farmers haven't seen

decent rain for the best part of the ball—macro years. we went to a small community and met kate ‘s james. she isa community and met kate ‘s james. she is a beef farmer, struggling to stay on the land, determined to beat the drop but she says the daily grind of life on the farm is a challenge. you wa ke life on the farm is a challenge. you wake up and you think, 0k, we've got to do this all again. there's no i’ooiti to do this all again. there's no room for a break, no room to be sick, there's no room to not feel like doing it today. the cows need to be fed. it is a gorgeous day, it isa to be fed. it is a gorgeous day, it is a sunny, winter's day but we are having quite warm days in the middle of winter and this is not normal. this is quite exceptional. the land is brown, a land is cracked, it is barren in that part of new south wales. it's not just barren in that part of new south wales. it's notjust farmers being affected, their families and

children are also being psychologically, as well as financially affected by the big dry. we went to manila in new south wales and the deputy principal is a woman called rachel ferguson. she said the drought is likely to four students from farming families off the land. if you are born on the land, it is a very ha rd if you are born on the land, it is a very hard thing to walk away from. but i think increasingly, when you look at what fodder costs have been, the costs of carting water, the time in psychological and emotional cost, it is tempting for those students to go away. i can understand why, because i think for most of them, the idea of secure employment, secure financial stability is obviously very appealing against sort of playing the numbers on the farm. we have had one of the driest

ever autumns here in southern australia, a very dry winter has followed. and the forecast is good. the outlook the new south wales over the next three months is for more drier than normal conditions. it is clear in this part of australia the big dry will continue to tighten its grip. the headlines on bbc news... a passenger plane has crashed after an employee carried out "an unauthorised take off" from the seattle tacoma international airport. chemical giant monsanto is ordered to pay nearly $300 million in damages to an american man who said its weedkiller made him terminally ill with cancer. the us space agency,nasa is forced to delay the launch of a space probe to study the sun's outer atmosphere. calls to allow boxing and martial arts lessons in prisons and young offenders institutions have been rejected by the government.

the proposal was part of a review into how sport and a healthy diet could be used to help rehabilitate inmates and reduce re—offending. but the ministry ofjustice said it was concerned the classes would amount to combat training for inmates. the author of the report is professor rosie meek. a little earlier i spoke to professor meek and also a former inmate, john mcavoy, who turned his life around through exercise and sport in prison. my my suggestion is that governors and pe staff in our prisons should be given the autonomy to make their own decisions when boxing related activities are appropriate. we do know from community findings that boxing and boxing related educational programmes can be an incredible powerful way of engaging with some of our most difficult to reached, disengaged particularly young men but also women and young adults in our communities. it is a

shame if we are missing out on the opportunity to deliver some of these programmes in our prisons, where we could argue we need them most where we have very violent prisoners and we have very violent prisoners and we need some innovation in terms of trying to deal with some of the issues we face in our prisons today and ultimately reduce reoffending. let me bring injohn, you were a life prisoner? yes. exercise became your way out? explain how?|j life prisoner? yes. exercise became your way out? explain how? i went to prison when i was 18, got sentenced to five years in prison. it didn't change me, i didn't want to be rehabilitated. i came out of prison worse than when i went in and carried on committing offences. i we nt carried on committing offences. i went back in when i was 22, two life sentences. conspiracy to commit robbery. whilst i was serving a prison sentence a friend of mine passed away and i had a moment of realisation in prison as to how short my life was and i haven't

achieved anything with my life. i had access to the prison gym and there was an amazing prison officer there, darren davis. he spotted i was better than average on an indoor rowing machine. he came back to me a couple of days later and gave me these pieces of paper and have these records. the prison facilitated me to try and break some of these british and world records on a rowing machine. it wasn'tjust you having the desire, you needed it to be facilitated by somebody else? 100%. it wouldn't have mattered how much physical prowess i have, i was in an environment where somebody had to help me. the prison governor reached out and facilitated me to break those records. that opened up my eyes to my potential and i could use my body as a vehicle to get me out of the life of crime. that is exactly what you have done? out of the life of crime. that is exactly what you have done ?|j out of the life of crime. that is exactly what you have done? i had a dream in prison to become an athlete. lotsa people laughed at me

because i was serving a life sentence, but i believed could do it. there is 85,000 men, women and children in prison in this country. ifi children in prison in this country. if i have managed to turn my life around, iwas if i have managed to turn my life around, i was one of the most hard—core criminals, it was about money. if i have managed to do what i have with my luck, anybody can do it with their lives. prisoners throw themselves into education, drugs or themselves into education, drugs or the gym. your emphasis is on healthy eating and awareness of body and all the rest of it, but do you think this exercise aspect of prison life has a wider use beyond just getting the prisoners fitter? absolutely, it's not just the prisoners fitter? absolutely, it's notjust a public—health al on, which of course is critical. but we have evidence we can use port to promote learning, education and revived ex—prisoners with the route into meaningful employment in the sports and fitness sectors. you talk

about drug use and we have evidence of sports being used as a way of working with people who are dealing with substance misuse issues. as well as a whole range of other psychological and physical health issues. how patchy is provision at the moment? patchy is the right word. i include in my review, a set of good practice examples from across the estate of england and wales. i use these examples to demonstrate they are possible but they are few and far between. 0ne demonstrate they are possible but they are few and far between. one of they are few and far between. one of the purposes of this review is to highlight how sport is being used and to demonstrate to the rest of the prison system that we should be making better use of the sporting programmes. but it is patchy and that depends on the senior management, the governor of a prison, how much they support a sporting programme. but often, it comes down to resources where we are

facing staff shortage in our prisons and prisoners are kept locked in their cells. it is difficult to engage them in any meaningful activity, whether it is physical education or otherforms activity, whether it is physical education or other forms of education or other forms of education or other forms of education or therapy. seven marks and spencer stores will shut today as part of a major restructuring plan. it comes a day after house of fraser was bought out of administration, and as more and more high street stores face pressure from rising costs and online retailers. our business correspondent joe lynam has more. this store in northampton will close its doors for the last time today. it's been trading for almost a century. yet another victim of intense competition from web retailers. in 2006, m&s announced a restructuring plan to cut costs to include the closure, shrinking or relocation of more than 100 stores by 2022. by the end of today, they will have closed down 28 stores. today, its shops in these areas

will trade for the last time. these closures join an ever growing list of retailers facing existential threats from the internet, including mothercare, toys ‘r' us, carpetright and most recently, house of fraser. 2018 has been a tough year for retailers. we have seen quite a few retailers go into administration or announce they are closing a significant number of stores. this is in reaction to consumer spends both shifting online and being held back where consumer confidence is low. house of fraser was bought out of administration yesterday by mike ashley, the owner of sports direct, but it is unlikely he will keep all of the 59 stores open. so the attrition on the high street is set to continue. joe lynam, bbc news. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here'sjohn acres. good morning.

england have begun theirfirst innings on day three of the lord's test against india. james anderson took 5—20 as india were bowled out for 107 on a rain affected day two. in reply in bright sunshine england are 20—0. it's the first saturday of the new premier league season, after manchester united got off to a winning start beating leicester 2—1 at old trafford last night. united took the lead afterjust three minutes — paul pogba converting the penalty after a handvall in the box. after a handball in the box. luke shaw added the second — his first goal in senior football. jamie vardy added a late consolation for leicester. here are today's premier league fixtures. new boys fulham have a london derby as they host crystal palace. and another side returning to the top flight — wolves, play everton in the late kick off. spurs play newcastle

in the early kick off, two of the lowest spenders in this summer's transfer window. i see no reason to not trust the squad. there is no reason not to believe in our club. there is no reason to not believe in what we can do. i think the most important thing, we are still positive and of course we are going to challenge for big things in this season. to say i want to finish in this position will be fine for the fans, but it's not realistic. the reality is if we do exactly what we did last yearin is if we do exactly what we did last year in terms of attitude and commitment, we can be higher than 17th position. how high? a bit tense, could be eight, could be 15th, i don't know. it is a question of seeing how the team is

progressing during the season and it is one game at a time. to the european championships in berlin, and great britain's matt hudson—smith lived up to his billing as the favourite in the men's 400m, as he held on to a massive lead coming into the home straight to win great britain's third athletics gold of the championships. he'll go for gold again this evening as part of the lixlioom relay team. katerina johnson—thompson meanwhile says she's proved to herself that she can compete at the highest level after her silver medal in the heptathalon. she's been speaking to ade adedoyin. coming back into the stadium and seeing it empty, it is a wild moment. i absolutely adore this place and i am pleased with my performances. with time, i willjust be more happy. to do what you did, you were there or thereabouts?m was a world—class field. such long

days and a tough time schedule is impressive and i was glad i was able to show i do want a better personal best and push until i reach my potential. when you compete in events like this do you learn something about yourself, in terms of the challenges you face and the way you overcome them? definitely learned a lot and i feel all the m ista kes learned a lot and i feel all the mistakes i made in the past, i am eliminating them with each heptathlon idea. i am excited to just that now. in the last golf major of the year — gary woodland set a new lowest 36—hole score at the us pga championship to lead before a thunderstorm postponed friday's play. the american shot a four—under 66 with shots like this with a fairway wood, and at ten under par he's one shot clear of kevin kisner, who had a six—under 64. england'sjustin rose is six shots off the lead with tiger woods a shot further back. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those

stories on the bbc sport website. now it's time for the weather with chris fawkes. it has been a sunny but chilly start to the day and the weather going downhill. there will be rain across western areas later on but nothing on the scale of the rain we had yesterday, which across eastern england brought 49 millimetres. 0ver three quarters of the month's worth of rain here. in contrast to that, many have had skies like that this morning. as we go to the rest of the day, we will see cloud continuing to work in and from the south—west we have seen the cloud arrive across parts of wales and the south—west of england. 0utbreaks parts of wales and the south—west of england. outbreaks of rain here

turning heavy and steady as we head into the afternoon as well. by the time we get to 4pm the rain will be in across south—west england and wales, turning heavy in places and strengthening south—westerly winds as well. some of the damp weather will arrive across central and southern england, the midlands and eventually greater manchester and merseyside late evening. scotland, largely dry day but a few showers for the northern isles. eastern scotla nd for the northern isles. eastern scotland is where the best of the afternoon sunshine will be. 0vernight the rain becomes more extensive 0vernight the rain becomes more exte ns ive a cross 0vernight the rain becomes more extensive across england and wales before spreading to northern ireland and a good part of scotland. the far north of scotland keeping slightly clearer weather but here it will turn chilly in rural areas. a mild night with temperatures 13 to 17 degrees with fog patches developing over the hills as well. as far as the weekend goes, sunday is the worst of the two days. cold front that will have pulses of energy

running along it and it will bring bursts of heavy rain. the wettest weather probably across south—west england, central and southern england, central and southern england and wales. the front could be very slow to push its wake eastwards, perhaps even slower than we are showing on the chart. it will be followed by another band of rain now working to wales on south—west england. eastern areas will be cool with onshore winds and highs of 1a degrees in aberdeen. next week stays quite unsettled across the north—west. no return of the heatwave of boat temperatures will lift a bit early in the week across parts of the south. that is your latest weather. hello and welcome to dateline, the programme where some of the most prominentjournalists in the uk debate the week's events with foreign correspondents whose dateline is london. this week: donald trump chooses to put tariffs on turkey and sanctions on iran and is obliged to act against russia, but who loses? borisjohnson, britain's recently

ex—foreign minister supports the freedom to cover your face but manages to insult the muslim women who do it. and how to make 0scar popular again. with me to discuss those stories — abdel barry atwan, who writes on events in the arab world; portuguese journalist and academic eunice goes; henry chu, international editor with the us magazine, variety; polly toynbee, columnist with the guardian newspaper. now, the ‘special relationship' is one of those phrases used so often by british ministers in governments of left and right that it must have its own short cut on press officers keyboards. so it was on wednesday when the us state department announced fresh sanctions against russia for the nerve agent attack in the english cathedral town of salisbury five months ago. the uk government duly lauded this as evidence of the strength of the special relationship. 0nly it wasn't. it was actually the consequence of a law passed by congress when george bush senior was president more than a quarter of a century ago. no wonder moscow, currently being courted by president trump, complained about mixed signals.

economic weapons are being wielded with increasing frequency by the trump administration — sanctions on iran at the start of the week and tariffs on turkey at the end.