the manning and ainge to fossil fuels. . many led by schoolchildren voicing their concerns about the planet. in new york, where the un will meet next week to discuss the climate crisis, hundreds of thousands of young people say world leaders are failing them. we are young, and we are the ones who are going to have to live with this in the future, and we are not the ones who caused this crisis. so what should governments and business be doing to tackle climate change? we'll analyse the options. also tonight: thomas cook asks the government for a multimillion—pound bailout, as the travel firm scrambles

to avoid collpase. the woman who claims she was abused by prince andrew speaks out. buckingham palace emphatically denies the duke of york had any sexual contact with her. confronting the past — calls for the body of spain's former dictator, general franco, to be removed from an official mausoleum. and a glittering opening ceremony in tokyo heralds the start of the first ever rugby union world cup in asia. and coming up on sportsday on bbc news, one game in the premier league tonight — find out if bournemouth held onto their early lead.

good evening. millions of people, including children and young teenagers, have taken part in demonstrations around the world, demanding tougher action on climate change. huge crowds gathered in cities in more than 150 countries, calling for governments and businesses to do more to save the planet. the teenage activist greta thunberg, who protested alone outside the swedish parliament last year to draw attention to climate change, is tonight leading a march in new york, from where nick bryant reports. don't let our people die! climate change is not a lie! the protests followed the sun. from the low—lying pacific islands to drought—ridden australia, from the streets of south africa to the brandenburg gate in berlin. the children of the world, the inheritors of our climate change crisis. what do we want? climate justice! when do we want it? now! young voices speaking with passion and urgency, because theirs is the future

that's at stake. considering that's at stake. we have such a short amount considering we have such a short amount of time to turn this issue around, it's vital that young people at the forefront of this conversation because they will be impacted more than anyone else. what are the youth can do is talk about the problem and make noise about it and demanded from the people who can make change. there is no time, time is up, time is running, this is our last chance to do something. in westminster, a place more commonly filled with brexit protesters, a throng of people united in concern for the planet stop and similar scenes across britain — belfast, bristol, birmingham, smaller towns and rural communities. yet another demonstration took shape in new york, and we spoke to the 16—year—old activist greta thunberg who has become the insistent voice of this restless generation. did you ever think it could end up with something like this? my dad woke me

up something like this? my dad woke me up today, and he said, it is massive, you need to see these pictures, and then i went up, and i just saw these pictures, and i couldn't stop looking, because it was just so overwhelming. and you cannot believe it is real. this is not only my voice, this is the voice of millions of people around the world. but i think it is because we are young, and we are the ones who are young, and we are the ones who are going to have to live with this in the future. then she saw for himself on the streets in manhattan a multiplier effect of this movement. in this most global of cities, more than a million kids had been given permission to skip class, to make their voices heard. what do we want? climate justice! this extraordinary mobilisation feels like a milestone moment, may be a day we will talk about for decades to come. the question is, whether there is climate change activism

will translate into climate change action. you are marching today, what are you planning to do for the rest of the year? eat less meat, recycle as much as i can, make people aware, do what is best for me and is best for the earth. it felt like the white house was in a different century today. donald trump, the president he was taking the united states out of the paris climate change record, welcoming the australian prime minister, scott morrison, a leader who once proudly brandished a piece of coal in his parliament to emphasise the centrality of fossil fuels to his country's economy. the children are demanding that it is time to put the environment first. to some, this will be a confronting reminder of how successive generations of adults have let down the young. but in this planetary day of action, these children can tell their children that they marched. nick bryant, bbc news, new york.

today's protests come ahead of next week's un climate change summit in new york, where world leaders will discuss how best to address global warming. with his analysis of their options, here's our science editor, david shukman. a stark reminder of what the protests are all about. for these people on a pacific island, it's a matter of life and death — of whether their country can actually survive in future. as the planet heats up, the seas rise. and for millions of people in low—lying communities, the threats are already extreme, and they're set to become much worse. i saw for myself two weeks ago how the ice of greenland is melting, adding to the level of the oceans. and scientists fear that more melting will follow. all the time, human activities keep adding to the problem. this is indonesia right now. the fires are immense, like in the amazon, and they release carbon dioxide into the air, and that makes the rise

in temperatures even faster. the challenge is that the world is on a course towards dangerous levels of warming. the global average temperature has already risen by one degree celsius over the last 150 years or so. and scientists say 1.5 degrees is the maximum safe level. anything more risks a range of damaging impacts. but we're currently heading towards a three—degree rise by the end of the century, and that's even if all the climate promises made by governments are kept. if nothing's done, some fear an increase of four degrees, with potentially catastrophic results. so what can be done? well, the un wants more renewable energy like wind turbines. today, the british government approved hundreds more — and they'll cost far less than expected. in the same way, the price of solar power has fallen. and the un is hoping the summit next week will see new promises to build more installations like this. but hard facts remain.

much of the world depends on coal, the dirtiest of the fossil fuels, and moving away from it is difficult. and leaders including president trump support it. there will be a struggle ahead. david shukman, bbc news. the struggling travel firm thomas cook has approached the government for a bailout. an extra £200 million of funding is needed to prevent the company falling into administration, with 9000 jobs on the line. a collapse could leave 150,000 british holiday—makers stranded abroad. here's our north of england correspondent, judith moritz. thomas cook is one of the best—known names in travel. at any time, there are up to 100 of its planes in the air, and it has 19 million customers a year, but the operator's financial problems have mounted, and news that it faces administration is a real headache for holiday—makers. jacqui cunningham has already

cancelled her dream holiday once, after being diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago. now the trip, which she rebooked to celebrate her recovery, is in doubt again. we have booked a holiday to the maldives, and we are due to pay our final balance, which is £8,000, but we don't know, because of the predicament thomas cook are in, whether we do pay the last part or whether we do pay the last part or whether we do pay the last part or whether we just lose the deposit we have already paid. thomas cook has been struggling for several years, blaming issues including last summer's heatwave and customers' uncertainty over brexit. it still has more than 500 shops and employs 9000 uk staff. but it's found it hard to stay in profit. there are 49 thomas cook flights coming and going from here at manchester airport alone today, but with the next 2a hours critical to the company's survival, holiday—makers are travelling in the knowledge that, if it goes into administration

while they are away, they could become stranded and need the government's help to get home. it would be the biggest ever such emergency repatriation effort. package holidays will also be protected under the atol scheme, and many flights through credit cards or travel insurance. currently, there are 600,000 thomas cook customers on holiday, of which up to 160,000 are from the uk. the civil aviation authority is understood to be on standby to repatriate tourists at a potential cost of £600 million. the british government said today it stood ready to do everything possible. tonight it's understood that thomas cook has asked for a bailout. judith moritz, bbc news. an american woman who says she had sex with prince andrew as a teenager has spoken in detail about the allegations for the first time. virginia roberts guiffre told nbc news in america that she was "trafficked"

to prince andrew, whom she described as "an abuser". her allegations first came to light in court papers lodged against the billionaire businessman jeffrey epstein, who'd been accused of trafficking underage girls. buckingham palace has empathically denied that the duke of york had any form of sexual contact or relationship with ms roberts. 0ur royal correspondent jonny dymond has more. the prince, the teenager and the socialite. now an adult, for the first time outside a court, virginia roberts alleges she was trafficked to prince andrew. the link is this man — jeffrey epstein, a convicted sex offender, now dead. the hugely rich businessman became a friend of prince andrew's. the prince stayed at his houses, flew on hisjet. virginia roberts says she was introduced aged 17 by ghislaine maxwell to prince andrew.

i was so young. ghislaine woke me up in the morning and said, "you're going to meet a prince today." i didn't know at that point that i was going to be trafficked to that prince. she says they went to a nightclub and that she danced with prince andrew. then she left. we'd leave club tramp, and i'd hop in the car with ghislaine and jeffrey, and ghislaine said, "he is coming back to the house, and i want you to do for him what you do for epstein." buckingham palace says, "it is emphatically denied that the duke of york had any form of sexual contact or relationship with virginia roberts." "any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation. " ghislaine maxwell also denies any wrongdoing. these allegations have been made before, but this is the first time they've been made without the legal protection of the court.

virginia roberts is challenging those she accuses to sue. prince andrew continues to carry out royal duties. he has personally denied any wrongdoing, but the pressure on him remains. jonny dymond, bbc news. a court has heard how a teenager who was fatally stabbed in a park in east london collapsed into her boyfriend's arms. jodie chesney, who was 17, was stabbed in the back while she sat on a park bench. her boyfriend, eddie coyle, told the old bailey how he tried to help her. two men and two youths deny murder. the parents of a student who took her own life while at university have called on colleges to help stop others from "falling through the cracks". ceara thacker was found dead in her room in may 2018, three months after an earlier suicide attempt which her parents were never told about. from the inquest in liverpool,

here's our education editor, bra nwen jeffreys. at liverpool university, new students are starting. two years ago, ceara thacker was among them. the 19—year—old struggled with anxiety, depression and self—harm. she asked for help many times. today, her parents called for change. she approached every service available to her. every one of those services let her down. at every turn, she was failed. i can't imagine how frightening that must have been for her. this is absolutely essential, that all universities have proper systems for identifying students at risk, and communicating effectively with health care services and, where appropriate, with families, to ensure they are kept safe. 0n the 21st of february 2018, ceara takes an overdose. her gp wasn't told by the hospital, the warden at the halls didn't

tell the university. 0n the 22nd of february, ceara contacts university counselling service. she wasn't seen for two months. 0n the 23rd of march, ceara asks for help from the nhs, the talk liverpool service — she's passed on as a non—urgent case. 0n the 24th of april, ceara tells the university counselling service she's thinking of suicide. 0n the 11th of may, ceara is found dead in her room. the coroner said it wasn't certain what difference all of this made. when students arrive, their parents now get information about support. there are more counsellors on campus too. we really do pass on our heartfelt sympathy to the family. 0ne lesson — to work closer with the nhs. to share information much more effectively and in real time.

the hope — to prevent another student falling through the gaps. branwen jeffreys, bbc news, liverpool. labour's ruling national executive committee is to hold a vote on whether to abolish the post of deputy leader, currently held by tom watson. he's publicly disagreed with labour's position on brexit, saying the party should back a second referendum on eu membership and campaign to remain. the vote will be held in the morning and comes ahead of the labour party conference beginning this weekend. 0ur political correspondent jessica parker is at westminster. this is a dramatic move, just as the labour party conference is about to begin? it is. what we understand happened tonight is there was already an effort to look at whether the post of deputy leader should be abolished. that moved failed tonight, but it is back on the agenda tomorrow morning. sources even close to the deputy leader not over optimistic they might win that vote and the idea of abolishing the

post of deputy leader would go before the conference floor. tom watson has been seen to stray on the brexit policy and as well somebody who has been seen as a thorn in the side ofjeremy corbyn, not being a close ally of the labour leader. it seems efforts are under way and effo rts seems efforts are under way and efforts that could succeed by the end of the conference to remove tom watson from his position. thank you for that. a number of conservative party members have been suspended, for posting or endorsing islamophobic material on social media. the action was taken following a bbc investigation. there have been repeated calls for the conservatives, to hold an independent inquiry, into allegations of islamophobia within the party. here's our political correspondent, alex forsyth. just three months ago, during the race to be tory leader, this happened. shall we have an external investigation in the conservative party into islamophobia? absolutely. where we all agree? boris.

excellent they agree. they certainly seemed to agree, including the man who is now the party's leader, but so far there's not been much movement. when is your independent inquiry into islamophobia in your party starting? i think that is under way, we have had very summary action against people who associate... is it under way, who is leading it? we are trying to get to grips with this problem. the problem is another tranche of people who say they're tory members and who posted or endorsed islamophobic consent for facebook and twitter. comments including, "islam is the religion of hate." "i don't want muslims in this country." and, "muslims are savages." details were passed to the bbc by a twitter user, who has been campaigning for this issue for more than a year. we verified more than 20 cases, ranging from individuals liking or sharing one or two comments or pictures, to others regularly posting offensive material. we gave details to the conservative party, which said it immediately suspended anyone who was a member,

but didn't say exactly when there might be a full independent inquiry. a spokesman said the conservative party will never stand by when it comes to prejudice and discrimination of any kind and that's why it's already establishing the terms of an investigation to make sure such instances are isolated and robust processes are in place to stamp them out as and when they occur. but for some that's not enough. sajjad karim was a member of the european parliament for 15 years and is still a conservative, he fears the party may row back on a specific inquiry into islamophobia. is there a need for it? yes, there is. i've been extremely lucky that i haven't directly suffered the consequences of these attitudes. what i have had however is direct experience of fellow parliamentarians, where they conducted... islamophobic conversations directly about me, one of whom actually is a serving minister at this

moment in time. he hasn't named the minister. the party said if there was an allegation it would investigate, but some want much firmer action on the wider issue — an inquiry and soon. painful divisions have resurfaced in spain, in a debate over whether or not the body of the former dictator general franco should be exhumed and removed from his burial site in an official state mausoleum. franco led spain's facists in a brutal civil war in the 1930s which claimed the lives of around half a million people. many spaniards believe his official grave site is a monument to his fascist government, with democracy only being restored in the late 1970s. our special correspondent alan little reports. 0n the baked plains of extremadura, one little town casts a shadow over all of spain. it was built in 19119 to repopulate a countryside devastated by civil war.

but its name betrays its origins, because el caudillo was the fascist dictator francisco franco. many here want the town to rid itself of that legacy, by changing its name. but the plaque on the town hall remains — protected by bullet—proof glass. a security camera keeps watch of this lingering little piece of the fascist legacy. nearby there's more evidence of spain's battle between memory and forgetting. this farm building used to be a forced labour camp. some want it to become a memorial site, but the farm owner doesn't want to remember. she told me she once found a bag of old prison name tags. she threw them into a disused tunnel. much better to bury all that. why were the prisoners here?

it has been a feature of democratic spain for decades, this tension between the desire to know and the impulse to bury the past. juan carlos balarno, a former communist mayor, is on the side of knowing. he keeps a private little archive of what happened here, the camp design, photographs of those interned. but it's here that the tension between memory and forgetting finds its most graphic symbolic expression. franco is buried beneath this vast cross at the valley of the fallen. tens of thousands of civil war dead from both sides lie here too. those who want franco's

remains removed see this as triumphalist, a monument to the dictatorship. his supporters say it is a place of national healing. are you wearing a cross now? that is important to you? these are two brothers... sylvia is campaigning to recover the bodies of nine men, killed by franco's troops, including her great uncle. they were buried against the wishes of their families at the valley of the fallen.

i think franco's body must be removed, the only idea that people who were killed by franco or by franco's troops, or whatever, are buried together with franco, it's like very absurd, very horrible and they're still glorifying him as if he was the saviour of spain. and he was not the saviour. at least not for more than half of spain. for that spain, this is not a place of reconciliation, but of an injustice ignored for too long in a country still torn between the struggle to remember and to forget the past. alan little, bbc news, madrid. alan little, bbc news, madrid. after a glittering opening ceremony, the hosts japan kicked off the rugby union world cup,

with what turned out to be a comfortable win over russia. it's the first time the tournament has been held in asia, with a crowd of 50,000 watching the match at the tokyo stadium. england, scotland and ireland are due to play their first games on sunday. katie gornall, has more from tokyo. welcome, said japan, to the world. arigato! thank you so much! for rugby, this is new territory — a voyage into the unknown. never before has the world cup come to asia but, judging from the fans, it felt right at home. i think everyone is revved up for it. you can see banners everywhere and the prime minister got in on the excitement today. we are looking for good communication with guests from around the world. very excited! after a unique welcome that showcased the old and new of japanese culture, it was time for the rugby to take centre stage.

four years ago, japan stunned the world, beating south africa in their opening game. this time, they were the ones left shocked, as kirill golosnitskiy gave russia an unexpected lead. urged on by a sell—out crowd, they hit back almost immediately, as quick feet and quicker hands brilliantly set up kotaro matsushima for the score. 12—7 up at half—time, japan had found their stride. having scored again, matsushima rounded off a bonus point win with a hat—trick of tries — a win to unite the nation. they say there is no pressure like the pressure to enjoy your own party, and these japanese fans will go home relieved and very happy, and that can only be good news for the tournament, ahead of a blockbuster weekend for the home nations. according to the rankings, ireland are the best team in the world, but they have never made it past the quarterfinals of the world cup. now could be their time to deliver. they face scotland, full of attacking flair but craving consistency. expectations in the camp are high. i believe in this team,

and as individuals i believe we will create opportunities. on sunday, it is about taking them. four years on from a disastrous world cup, england start their 2019 journey in sapporo, against tonga on sunday. eddie jones has named a strong side for a match they will be expected to win — but, with this said to be the most open world cup yet, nothing is certain. katie gornall, bbc news, tokyo. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night. hello, and welcome to sportsday, i'm connie mclaughlin. a hat trick hero for the hosts — japan come from behind to win their world cup opener. in the premier league, bourenmouth claim their first ever win at st mary's.

and hamilton cuts through the singapore smog — the championship leader is quickest in practice ahead this weekend's grand prix. good evening. rugby is going to dominate the sports agenda over the next six weeks. 20 teams, 48 matches across japan, the first world cup to be staged in asia. in a moment, we'll weigh up the chances of england, wales, scotland and ireland. they all play over the next few days. but we've had our first game. the opening ceremony, followed by an opening win for the hosts, 30 points to ten against russia. from the tokyo stadium, ben croucher reports.

the rugby world and union united for the first time in asia after a colourful car will showcase the in japanese culture it was time for another of their main love. no one expects japan to win the country —— trophy but the blossoms are aiming to surprise again. 0nly they were the ones being shocked. russia scored the first try of the tournament. it would be their only one of the night. they actually lost to jersey one of the night. they actually lost tojersey in the build up and japan could take them on even without looking. this bulling the hosts into it. he thought he had put them ahead only for replays to show a knock on. four minutes later, he removes all doubt. a trial in every language. this japanese team is a multicultural one. peter was born in south africa and his brotherjust helped australia retain the ashes but he breached the russian defence for the third of the night. he grabbed three to himself and help

japan toa grabbed three to himself and help japan to a vital bonus point. a row beat mad nation, a nation in ireland and scotland will new alt —— sue all about. so, we are up and running. japan are in the same group as scotland and ireland, who face each other on sunday. that's when england play tonga and wales take on georgia on monday. the first target is to finish in the top two in their repective groups to reach the quarterfinals. joe lynskey reports. they play each other at least once a year, some have even played together with the lions, but for four nations, this is the climax of the four—year cycle and in all four corners, there is optimism. this could be the most open world cup. the rankings say ireland lead the way, but right now the balance of power is turbulent. last month, their side chipped 50 points to england