labour say it's an "appalling" waste of money. the times leads with news of a summer of potential misery for travellers. british airways passengers are facing travel chaos at the height of the summer holidays after a legal bid to halt a hugely damaging pilots‘ strike was rejected. the daily telegraph reports that the british army is launching a new division dedicated to fighting cyber crime the papers says it will specialise in information warfare and will react to "fake news" attacks on britain. and staying with the telegraph, the paper claims that shoppers are facing an array of 58 baffling recycling symbols, leading to widespread confusion. there is a test coming up so pay attention. with me is lawrence gosling editor—in—chief of what investment. we editor—in—chief of what investment. have a straigh

got we have a straight situation we've got this official is being quoted, the pentagon not confirming but it -- all the pentagon not confirming but it —— all indications are that the son of osama bin laden is now dead despite the us recently putting a reward out for his capture. to add to the error of mystery around this whole story, it appears that he was killed sometime in the first two yea rs killed sometime in the first two years present chimes administration. we are in an area here, we think it's true, we're not entirely sure, and was about to part of a piece of fa ke and was about to part of a piece of fake news that the drop administration might put out to show itself in good light? what is significant about this was not so much that the leading of al qaeda, it was more than name. everyone remembers the bin laden name. he was said to be almost holding out on the ranch to is a mixed date which was originally an offshoot of al qaeda, to bring the two terrorist groups back together again. abscess a

longer term significance of him being killed, if in he actually is dead. let's turn to the next one, bloomberg, it's covering something we've been talking about, the fed cutting interest rates. for the first time in a decade, more than a decade, actually, it is interesting. an interest rate normally stimulus the market but clearly they were satisfied because wall street closed lower after that rate cut. i'm tempted to say that the markets are being almost as irrational about this is the president is on sale. the market has been asking for a rate card, and it's probably the right thing to do, although there we re right thing to do, although there were two dissenters against the rate cut and of course the president said, we want more so he would have liked half a percent. by the said -- why do you say it's a rational question mark consumers are still spending very healthily in the us in

this moderate signs of inflation, nothing excessive so the basic economics would suggest leave it as it is full of the fed said, it's up there worried that we are partway through the economic cycle, things might be slow down. it's a tiny priest. quarter of a percent is a tiny bit was not the stage you create a bubble in certain other assets which leave longer term economic of occasions. but of course, it's acetone for the rest of the world was not if the fed in the us does cutting rates, others inevitably then tend to follow. they do address or overnight the brazilian federal reserve cutting its rates within the uk ‘s decision j. its rates within the uk ‘s decision j, which had don't tend to think they will cut rates because they are to different sort of scenario but you're we may be at the beginning of a broader interest rate cutting cycle to revive the slowing global economy. the bank of england will be announcing within the next half day,

within the coming hours, its decision and the guardian, highlights one of the challenges facing the bank. it's a cost of a new deal brexit and the impact that could have on the economy. and now we're hearing that the government is going to up the amount that it's putting into no deal contingency planning. this £2 billion of the guardian is talking about here, which the other papers in the uk do as well, is on top of the 4 billion oi’ as well, is on top of the 4 billion or $0 as well, is on top of the 4 billion or so already allocated towards the brexit scenarios are £6 billion is a considerable amount of money. it's interesting the amounts that are going to be spent, nearly £140 million on advertising campaign. adoption of what they are advertising —— for the advertising campaign is going to tell us. a lot of people are realising that brexit is coming and currently it's the sist is coming and currently it's the 31st of october, i'm not sure this passage else, there's pretty tell us how deal with brexit, i talked to a

lot of smes on the website that i work on, they have no idea what the government might be able to tell them to run the business. believers a lot of money been put aside, the border control, post africa to five yea rs border control, post africa to five years ago in the previous round of spending cuts. it is interesting, as with the talk about more police officers, some of this money has been spent to bring back things that have been spent in the previous runs of cuts. and odessa and wonder whether we were —— whether we will see. let's turn to the times. the show is, they say to our passengers, keep calm and carry on. it's not certain that the pilots will go on strike by the legal attempt to stop the strike has failed. there is a looming possibility at the height of the summer season. the something like 150,000 people a day flying out of heathrow which is one of the mania for supper be affected by the

strike if it goes ahead. again this feels a bit like go back to previous generations in the uk we get to the summerand generations in the uk we get to the summer and there is a series of strikes. anybody who reads the times and read some of the grumbles from the pilots may not have a lot of sympathy, many of them to well—paid, albeit it is a highly importantjob, but the dog but the perks of the jobs. the hotels they can stay in on sleepovers, been cut from firestarter.. some people might say, top five. that said, you want a pilot you have had a good nights sleep. don't you? exactly, what about the time said earnestly, you can't argue with that. you would like the palace to stay awake and be the sharpest. it is serious. so this feels like one of those that might go right up to the wire to when the structure might happen. let's move on to the telegraph. this is interesting. the army training

almost like a cyber battalion. and what is fascinating about this, we are all very used now to cyber attacks, while the telegraph is saying is that there was a series of fa ke saying is that there was a series of fake news put out by what they think is the russian army, against some uk military exercises information recently. putting out pieces of social media suggesting one of the uk divisions was all over the place, going awry, its classic fact news in the way that we've heard in other areas. uk army, british army, setting up six divisions to combat that with its own form of fake news or at least counteracting some of these bits of disinformation been put up by the russians. as another story of the telegraph which i'm very keen to get to. shoppers

baffled by the various recycling symbols was stop to think they could appoint? they've got a huge point. the telegraph is found 58 different ones and were going to have a test, and even though i been trying to honour practice —— practice before the test, i'm still struggling was to use at 58 also? let's pick out the first one. i think we can call this... what is it been? absolutely no idea. that's capable of being recycled but not in all systems. can we see the next one? that one. but when i should know because i've been looking at it quite a lot. it means that the manufacturer of the product does contribute towards recycling but it doesn't necessarily mean a product can be recycled. correct. 0ne product can be recycled. correct. one point for lawrence. the third one. . . one point for lawrence. the third one... that means you gotta take a best guess because we're not sure. i don't think we've got the rest... we haven't got the rest. you got one

wrong one right. the thing is that the point is being made, there are so many that there are ‘s simple disposable cups, that might be too difficult to recycle, but the simple looks like recycling symbols of people might wrongly put it into a bin and contaminate the of the recycling. complete and the u.k.'s recycling. complete and the u.k.'s recycling has stalled. it's dropping below the government ‘s 50% target and you can see exactly why. a lot recycling and i'm confused. lawrence, thanks very much indeed for being with us or stop well don't 50% on the test. i think were going to recycle the graphic system. to stay with us here on bbc news, plenty more to come. hello.

in the last couple of days, some of the showers that we've seen breaking out across the uk have been nothing short of vicious, leading to disruption to transport and localised flooding. in the next few days, not an entirely dry story, but far fewer showers, and they should also be less aggressive. the reason being the culprit for all of the showers in the last few days, this area of low pressure, pulling out into the north sea. still close enough by, though, on thursday to exert some influence. quite gusty winds along the north sea coasts, thicker cloud piling in here at times too. and there will be some showers on the outer periphery of the low, if you like, stretching probably in a line, most likely from the north—west of scotland down into east anglia. plenty of sunny spells, however. the sunshine itself, though, could produce a few homegrown showers, for example across the north—east of scotland. one or two of the showers, again, could be heavier. i can't rule out thunder and lightning entirely, but it should be nowhere near as extensive as it has been in the last couple of days. just a chance of a few showers developing across dorset, devon and cornwall

come the afternoon. up to 25 in what should be a sunny london. there's a slim chance of one or two showers breaking out across the midlands through the afternoon. we may see some evidence of those for day one of the ashes at edgbaston, but i think hopefully we're going to get away with it here, with some sunny spells and highs about 20—21 degrees. through the evening and overnight, many of the showers clear as the low pressure centre whirls across towards the netherlands. we're left with quite a bit of cloud, though, and in some spots, with just light winds, it could turn misty and murky. 0vernight lows in the mid—teens. as for friday, well, the lows away to the east. not a bad day, i think, in the making, again with a little bit of help from the sun, though we could see one or two showers just brewing up, probably somewhere across northern england through into the midlands. but for the majority of the uk, light winds, sunny spells, and temperatures in the low to mid—20s. for the weekend, that little bit

of ridging that calms things down for friday hangs on in there on saturday. but by sunday, it looks like we'll see a weather front starting to approach, so that will bring an increasing chance of rain into western areas through the course of the day on sunday. just how far east that rain makes it is somewhat uncertain at the moment, but it does look like once those fronts start to push in on sunday, they will really work their way through across the uk as we go into the following week. plenty more showers, unfortunately, in our longer—term forecast.

good morning. welcome to breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. 0ur headlines today: flood warnings are still in place across yorkshire and the north west of england after heavy rain caused damage to buildings, roads and rail lines. an extra £2 billion is earmarked for a possible no—deal brexit, something labour calls an appalling waste of taxpayers' money. fewer people in england are using single—use plastic bags. some of the biggest retailers say sales are down 90% in four years. we import more than half of all the food we eat in the uk, so why is the country not more self—sufficient? this morning i'm just outside hull for the annual pea harvest to find out