a full 1a day weather forecast on our website. in. ba could face a fine of hundreds of millions of pounds — for the huge data breach affecting thousands of customers. the airline has apologised for the hack of personal and financial details, and says customers will be compensated — but some say they struggled to get information: it was really annoying trying to find a way of contacting british airways to see if all of my clients had been compromised. we'll find out what the breach means for the airline and its customers. also tonight. no—fault divorces could be introduced in england and wales — ministers say they want to reduce the animosity when married couples want to separate. a special report from libya — where a fragile ceasefire in tripoli appears to be holding. clearing our seas of plastic — we hear about the first attempt to get into the pacific ocean to dredge for rubbish. and a half century for

alastair cook, as he shines with the bat against india in his last ever test match. and coming up on bbc news... the new restructured women's super league season gets underway this weekend with champions chelsea against manchester city the pick of the round. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. british airways could be fined as much as £500 million for a huge data breach which has affected tens of thousands of people. hackers managed to access details of 380,000 bookings made with the airline over a two—week period.

ba say personal and financial details have been compromised, although passport information hasn't. it says any customer who's been affected financially will be compensated. many have been forced to cancel their credit and debit cards. here's our business correspondent emma simpson. in this and beat a website i've got six cards lodged, so it was really annoying —— in the ba website, it was really annoying contacting them to see if my cards had been compromised. like many other thousands of ba customers george's bank details have been hacked. he has had a confusing day working out what to do. i don't think i have to cancel all my credit cards but i don't know. so i'm in the process of doing that. it's going to take a long time because each card takes at least 25 minutes to get through the system. so, what do we know about

this data breach? it affected customers who made a booking or changed one through the british airways website or ba app from august 21 until 9a5 on wednesday evening. 380,000 cards were affected. ba says hackers stole names, addresses, e—mail addresses and payment information. that included the card number, the expiry date, and critically, the three digit security code on the back.” am not letting you see my three digit number because it is like giving you the keys to my safe. with an online transaction this number should not be stored. ba says they weren't. so how did hackers get hold of them? emily is a cyber security expert. what could have happened? well, one theory is that a supplier to ba got compromised in the first place. so when you are booking a

flight place. so when you are booking a flight on the website you may not realise that there is a lot of third—party software used within those pages to do things like process ca rd those pages to do things like process card information. it could be that they were targeted because they were weaker and security and used to extract the data. ba says it is sorry, promising compensation for any customers who may end up out of pocket. this was a very sophisticated criminal attack on ba .com. 0ver more than 20 years that ba .com has operated we've never had a breach. this doesn't surprise me, we see attacks like this targeting payment and card details all the time. it is a big industry and criminals do this on a daily basis. but it is unusual for hackers to land so much sensitive payment card details at once. it is the first major incident since new data protection rules came into effect which means that ba could face a

fine of around half £1 billion. but given the speed of their response, regulators may not impose such as sky high penalty. emma simpson, ba names. bbc news. and emma simpson's here now. do we know if any customers have had data stolen? temperament told me to they are not aware of any customers losing out financially. the boss says, no verified accounts of fraud. they are still advising affected customers to get in touch with their banks or advice on what to do. a frustrating day for many of them. some have told us they only found out about the hack through social media and the news. so there's a lot of anger, as you can well imagine. ba said that all 380,000 customers have not been contacted and they are working with the national crime agency to try to get to the bottom of what's happened. but it will clearly ta ke of what's happened. but it will clearly take time. thank you, emma

simpson. the government is considering allowing no—fault divorces in england and wales. thejustice secretary david gauke has said he's increasingly convinced of the need to remove animosity, and the administrative barriers to married couples who want to separate. 0ur legal affairs correspondent clive coleman is at the ministry ofjustice. so what is driving this, why is this happening now, clive? there has been pressure for decades for a no—fault divorce system. the law commission recommended it in 1990, many senior judges favour it. why? because when you get divorced you get ripped apart financially and emotionally and many people think if you throw blame and filed into the mix you are making a bad situation a lot worse. we almost got it in 1996 when it was an act of parliament, but the government pulled back. what lies at the heart of any new system, we'll have to wait to see the detail but my guess is that we will be moving

away from a system based around fault and blame to a system that is essentially a notification system. so ifa essentially a notification system. so if a spouse says that the manager has broken down irretrievably and after a defined period of time, it could be six months, it could be a year, they are still saying that, then they could be entitled to a divorce. some people might say that undermines the institution of marriage but many will say it takes a layer of stress and anxiety away from what can be one of the most traumatic experiences that any of us could ever go through. thank you clive coleman. the labour leaderjeremy corbyn has said his party speaks for the mainstream in the uk — he hit back, after the former prime minister tony blair told the bbc he's not sure it's possible for moderates in the party to retake it from the left. his comments came as the leader of the liberal democrats, sir vince cable, said he wants to transform his party into a movement for moderates. vicki young's report contains some flash photography. is british politics in need of a

face—lift or even a tour to rebuild? you photo or thinks the politicians in here are failing to represent your opinions? —— are you a voter who thinks the politicians in here are failing to represent your opinions? tony blair was the last party leader to win a decisive election victory. he says party leader to win a decisive election victory. he sasteremy corbyn doesn't have broad enough appeal to this kind of win and moderate centre ground mps have lost control of the labour party. i'm not sure that it is possible to take it back. there are a lot of people associated with me who feel that the labour party has lost. but the game is over. visiting the museum in leicester today the labour leader insisted he is the one in tune with voters and his campaign for a more equal society was a mainstream message. tony should recognise that party membership is now much bigger than it's ever been. it is the biggest it has been in my lifetime, while over half a million members.

and in the general election last year we set out what our aspirations of the people of this country. the liberal democrat leader thinks millions of voters feel homeless. today he offered them a roof over their heads, saying he would open up their heads, saying he would open up the party to outsiders who shared his liberal values. it's notjust a protest group on the outside banging at the door. it is a mass movement with a voice on the inside, in our parliamentary party. even suggested that the next lib dem leader would not need to be an mp. why are you confident that millions of people would flock to you in this new system ? would flock to you in this new system? there is clearly a demand out there for a rallying point. for large numbers of people who are fed up large numbers of people who are fed up with the drift of the country, and the fact that the two established parties have been taken over by extremists. some conservative and many labour mps are

increasingly uncomfortable with the direction that their parties are going on. there have been conversations about setting up any party or breaking away from the old ones but without an obvious figurehead from inside or outside the political system, it is hard to see how any of these ideas would get off the ground. and there is certainly no agreement about what might happen next. vicki young, bbc news, westminster. the conservative mp and former foreign secretary, borisjohnson, and his wife, marina wheeler, are divorcing. the couple are believed to have separated some months ago. they've been married since 1993 and have four children together. after more than a week of fierce fighting between rival factions in libya, a fragile ceasefire brokered by the un appears to be holding. seven years ago, rebel groups, backed by a military coalition which included britain, toppled the dictator muammar gaddafi. since then, there's been political and military chaos. one result has been a huge surge in african migrants using the country as a route to europe. the latest violence between rival militias erupted

around the capital, tripoli. the bbc has the only international news team there and we can speak to clive myrie. clive? jane, i have been in libya 110w clive? jane, i have been in libya now for close to a week. and i tell you, i have lost count of the number of people i've spoken to who have asked a simple question, why, why is this country still at war? why is the fighting continuing? why our lives still being lost? because it wasn't supposed to be like this, after the overthrow of colonel gaddafi in 2011 with nato forces including the americans, the french and the british being involved. today we arrived in the capital, tripoli, the scene of fierce clashes in recent days to try to find an a nswer in recent days to try to find an answer as to why this country is still at war. we are entering a nervous city. 0nly

110w we are entering a nervous city. 0nly now after a week of ceasefires to it's safe to enter tripoli on this same road seven days ago fighters from armed groups based outside the capital breached city walls. but rival factions capital breached city walls. but rivalfactions inside capital breached city walls. but rival factions inside tripoli were ready for the fight. the battle has left scores dead including civilians, and forced thousands to flee their homes. darkness provided no respite. the battles are over for now but the scars linger. at his family compound ali doted on two grandchildren who are now dead. translation: the rocket or missile landed right there were playing. there was blood everywhere, on the

ground, over the trees. when you see the body of your grandchild in pieces, . .. the body of your grandchild in pieces,... my daughter had to see it too. why are we still fighting? why? this point was 1a and his friend 15. they we re point was 1a and his friend 15. they were buried one week ago today. libya's problems, the death and destruction of the result of the messy end of gaddafi's rule. the armed groups who helped topple him covered up the country, leaving no one in overall control and and

persisted in the capital are being accused of siphoning off funds and ruining the economy. those groups outside the capital now say that they had to intervene. there is the united nations backed government in tripoli but and is accused of allowing the armed factions in the capital to act with impunity. with so many malicious and fighting groups seemingly running the country, libya is a failed state. and seizing on that failure have been the people smugglers. the fighting of recent days has ensnared many of the thousands of migrants trying to use libya as a gateway to europe across the mediterranean. these people had to break out of detention centre and the fighting too close. this man says there was gunfire at night and five people we re gunfire at night and five people were hit, that's why we escaped users, but even as we ran another man was shot. libyans are tired of the men with guns having all the

influence. and hopes for nationwide elections by the end of the year are now in ruins. once again an attempt to stitch together this fractured nation has come to nothing. clive mhairi, bbc news, tripoli. our top story this evening: ba could face a fine of hundreds of millions of pounds after a huge data breach affects thousands of customers. still to come: we speak to the queen's granddaughter zara tindall about the highs and lows of family life. coming up on sportsday on bbc news: we know serena williams has made the women's final at the us open but who will make the men's at flushing meadows? we'll be looking ahead in new york. every year millions of tonnes of plastic waste flow into the sea around the world. now, for the first time, there's going to be an attempt

to get into the middle of the pacific ocean to try to clean it. in the biggest operation of its kind, a huge plastic collection system will be towed out from california tomorrow. in san francisco, final construction of a massive project with an incredibly bold ambition. to try to clear the oceans of plastic waste. this animation shows how the huge structure is meant to collect millions of pieces of plastic to make them easier to get rid of. sights like this have shocked people around the world. images of the damage to wildlife have inspired this effort to clean up. if we don't do it now all this plastic will start breaking down into smaller and smaller pieces, and the smaller the pieces are the more harmful and harder to extract from the marine environment. so we feel there is a sense of urgency. there is plastic waste in every ocean around the world but this

is the first attempt to clean it up. it will take place in the eastern pacific in a retreating current that traps plastic, what's called the great garbage patch. it's bigger than britain and france combined. how is the project meant to work? a giant tube 600 metres long will float on the surface and bend into a shape like a horseshoe, drifting naturally with the current and the winds. because it will move faster than all the bits of plastic in the water it should slowly gather them together into a small area. underwater a kind of barrier will hang three metres down to trap plastic below the surface and the design should mean that any fish will pass under it. once the plastic has been drawn into a dense mass it will then be collected by ship, taken away to be recycled. no one can be sure if the huge system will work. some experts worry it could harm marine life. the major problem is those creatures

that passively float in the ocean and cannot actually move out of the way. once they are in, they are going to be trapped there unable to move. for example plankton is the bottom of the food chain, so we really do not want to be taking that out of our oceans. that is clearly from the teeth of a fish. yes. there is no other explanation. one of the scientists on the clean—up project says because the plastic is being eaten by fish it is entering the food chain so should be removed. it's been there for years. we find plastic from the 70s, from the 80s, from the 90s. and then we also find languages on those bits of plastic so we will find in the north pacific chinese, japanese, english, so we will try to define where the things may have come from. the plan is to start with one collection device and eventually deploy 60 of them. but all the time plastic is pouring

down rivers into the oceans. so on its own the clean—up operation will never be enough. there's been an assassination attempt on the frontrunner in brazil's presidential election. jair bolsonaro was stabbed in the chest during a campaign rally. he's a controversial figure, his far right speeches have outraged many people in brazil, but he's been performing strongly in recent opinion polls. president putin has opposed the idea of a ceasefire in the rebel held syrian province of idlib — where an assault by the syrian government is thought to be imminent. at a joint summit with the presidents of iran and turkey, he said a ceasefire was meaningless unless all armed groups agreed to it. both he and iran's president rohani said the syrian government — who they support — has the right to regain all of its territory. she's an olympic silver medallist and accomplished equestrian

and also a granddaughter of the queen. zara tindall is now back in the saddle four months after the birth of her second child. she's been speaking exclusively to our correspondent sally nugent, about her very public highs and lows, and about how two miscarriages have helped make her family stronger. so we're back to the serious business of the dayjob now. yeah, both. both? i've got twojobs. step up the daily routine. i'll leave you to it. nice to see you. take care. this is my nice nine—year—old that hopefully will be my next good one, or that's the plan anyway. horses are very much in my life, in my family. being able to kind of have them still in my life and part of my career is great. it really hasn't been an easy couple of years for you privately, has it? you announced your pregnancy in 2016 and then very sadly went

on to lose the baby. we also heard later on that you had lost another child as well in between your two girls. i think that's the hardest thing in our situation, is that everyone knew. i have a very supportive family. mike is incredible. it is hard for guys too. it is very different for us because we are carrying the child. for guys i suppose it is that helpless feeling, hopefully it makes you a stronger family. you are the daughter and granddaughter of two of possibly the most hard—working women in the public eye. do you think that that work ethic is something you have inherited? probably. it's something i have been around all my life so you would hope that some of it would rub off

in a good way. cricket: on the first day of the fifth test against india at the oval, alastair cook, who's playing his last ever test, hit a half century but england were less impressive after he was out for 71. a short while ago they were 196/7. joe wilson is at the oval. what polls would you choose to ca ptu re what polls would you choose to capture the man that is alastair cook? resolute. no fuss was his wish in his final match. a show of respect from the indian team and captain was appropriate. they could try to get him out. after 12 years in thejob, he knew try to get him out. after 12 years in the job, he knew where try to get him out. after 12 years in thejob, he knew where he try to get him out. after 12 years in the job, he knew where he was trying to guide the cricket ball. they call him shift, obviously. opening the batting is a serious

business. england need someone to continue once he is gone. dropped on 37. a little good fortune never hurt. he cleared his mind and went again. the captain told me he thought it was written in the stars that cook would make 100 in his final test match. he came close. he had to take the work. and the applause. he may get a second innings in this match. today once he was removed the wickets flawed. ali may be painstaking 50 before england unravelled. gareth southgate says not enough young english players are playing

football in the premier league, which has come bottom of the top five european leagues for homegrown young players, according to figures out today. the england manager was speaking before his team's match against spain at wembley tomorrow, their first since the world cup. our sports correspondent natalie pirks reports. it was a summer to remember. fans we re it was a summer to remember. fans were rewarded for decades of patients with england's best finish at the world cup for 28 years. all good things come to an end. england are still a work in progress. the semifinal was great for us and the country but we want to get to a final. and experience lifting one of those trophies. our aim has to be to keep improving. it is going to be easy. gareth southgate needs young

players to be competing for trophies at the highest level yet statistics show a worrying trend. last season the premier league came bottom of the premier league came bottom of the top five european leagues for playing home—grown young talent. with 43 english players aged 21 and under getting game time and abroad. france saw 88 home—grown youngsters and their national league with a tea m and their national league with a team playing across europe. this season the trend looks to be continuing. with a correlation between game time and glory, southgate is concerned. the big worry is for whoever the manager is in six or eight or ten years' time. at the moment it is not working and it isa at the moment it is not working and it is a concern. somebody has to start talking about it. the moral's

nights opponents failed to fulfil their world cup ambitions. eating spain would show that russia was the start of something meaningful and not a summer romance. you can see only satellite image a bit of cloud. elsewhere the cloud has been reasonably well bred considering they have three sons go to progress both of sunshine. once these sunsets, the show was clear away from the east. the rain continues tonight for the north of scotla nd continues tonight for the north of scotland and then more rain piles in

from the west. a soggy start was saturday, into wales in the western fringes of england as well. elsewhere, clear skies and a chilly start to saturday morning. through the day the weather will be dominated by this front, a bit of uncertainty about how far north madryn will get. either side of the rainbow and some temperatures in high teens and a little bit cooler. heading into the second half of the weekend, we still have that low pressure with us, moving eastwards across the country. it will be an improving picture on sunday. a bit of rain across northern england and scotland, we could catch a shower. they will move on fairly quickly. much of the country skiing not a bad day, some sunshine, particularly in the south, 22 degrees or so. a

little bit cooler further north. it looks like high pressure starts to build into the south next week, so temperatures will be on the rise. we could see highs of around 2a at 25. i'll hold you to that! just a reminder of our top story. british airways could face a fine of hundreds of millions of pounds after a major data breach involving financial details of thousands of its customers. that is all from the news at six. it's goodbye from all of us here. good night. hello this is bbc news. the headlines: ba says sorry after a mass hack of data from its customers — nearly 400,000 payment cards have been compromised. no—fault divorces are being considered by the government in what would be the biggest change to the law in this area for almost 50 years.

the labour leaderjeremy corbyn has rejected an attack on him by former prime minister tony blair. mr blair said labour has become a ‘different party‘ and he's not sure it can ever be ‘taken back‘ by moderates. in the biggest operation of its kind, a huge plastic—collection system will be towed out from california tomorrow to try and clean up the pacific ocean in a moment it will be time for sportsday but first a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news.