welcome to bbc news. i'm reged ahmad. our top stories: one of the world's oldest travel firms, thomas cook, has ceased trading. britain launches its largest—ever peacetime repatriation operation to bring home more than 150,000 stranded customers. as world leaders gather for another climate summit, we ask — can china kick its coal habit? getting electricity from these things is now cheaper per unit than generating it from coal. and a surprise at the emmy‘s as phoebe waller—bridge beats off stiff competion to win for fleabag

hello, and welcome. in the last hour, the uk's oldest travel firm, thomas cook, has announced it ceased trading after talks with creditors and shareholders to raise the $250 million to avoid collapse failed. ministers say plans to fly holidaymakers back to the uk are in place. it was one of the world's largest travel firms and employed 22,000 staff, 9,000 of whom are in the uk, and serves 19 million customers a year in 16 different countries. simon calder is the travel editorfor the independent and he joins us from manchester airport in the north of england. it meant that nobody will be flying

out of here in the morning. flights we re out of here in the morning. flights were due to start in three hours time heading off from here to greece and that is not going to happen. thomas cook has stopped trading and this is it really the mightiest brand in travel. it has been going for 178 years. the numbers are awful. 21,000 people i'm afraid i going to be looking for newjobs. there is around 1 million people with advance bookings for holidays and actually 600,000 or so people stranded abroad, and that is holidaymakers from germany, scandinavia and from here in the uk, they are going to find that they will be flown back. indeed, the rescue operation is already under way. slides leaving from here in manchester and airports around the uk going mainly to mediterranean

destinations to bring people back. meanwhile, the scene here is pretty awful, as you would imagine, given the collapse of a much loved holiday company and, unfortunately, planes have really started being impounded. we sought shortly after midnight, two hours ago, the airport putting a notice of detention on some thomas cook aircraft and that is because of unpaid airport bills. this is terrible for staff and holidaymakers. people that have flights and holidays with thomas cook. but can you briefly explain how we got here. what has failed that has made this company has gone into administration? thomas cook was a great pioneering company, it began the mass travel industry but u nfortu nately the mass travel industry but unfortunately around the last decade of the 1990s... unfortunately around the last decade of the 1990s. .. the unfortunately around the last decade of the 1990s... the 20th century,

they lost their way, they did not pick up the rise in cost in europe and they have been trying to catch up and they have been trying to catch up ever since with a strong presence of traditional travel agents where you go and buy your holidays and that has meant that costs have been very high and unfortunately they like and if their money both ran out at about 2am local time tuesday the 22nd of step above. that was simon calder talking to us about an hour agojust as the calder talking to us about an hour ago just as the news broke. calder talking to us about an hour agojust as the news broke. a calder talking to us about an hour ago just as the news broke. a few things have developed since then, the chief executive of thomas cooper has called the collapse a matter of profound regret. we have been hearing from the government as well, their plans to try and repatriate british citizens who were travelling under thomas cook holidays or thomas cook flights. many different moves

taking place to try and make that happen. let's get an update on what has been taking place in the last hour. we go back to simon calder, live. what can you tell us a sense this has happened? live. what can you tell us a sense this has happened ?|j live. what can you tell us a sense this has happened? i am afraid things have been moving pretty fast. a great deal of upset here. i am at the arrivals at manchester airport, the arrivals at manchester airport, the busiest airport in the uk. we have had planes arriving, from turkey, from greece, cyprus is due very shortly and then within transatlantic flights from cuba, jamaica, mexico and the us will touch down but once they arrive, i am afraid the group will learn that they have lost theirjob. —— the crew, and the aircraft will be

impounded by airport authorities until the airport charges have been paid at which stage the leasing companies that owned them will fly them off somewhere else but if you can imagine the scene, it is right 110w can imagine the scene, it is right now that people would have been checking in for flights that were due to be leaving to bulgaria, to corfu, in two hours time. some heard the news as they were approaching the news as they were approaching the airport and have turned around and gone home. 0thers reach the airport without knowing anything and arejust airport without knowing anything and are just learning that flights are not going ahead. many airlines flying out from here but going out emptied to repatriate holidaymakers. you will see similar scenes in germany and scandinavian countries are as of the hundreds of thousands of people who are abroad are gradually repatriated over the next couple of weeks. simon calder giving

us couple of weeks. simon calder giving us updates at events at the airport. some very upsetting scenes as people get to the airport and staff find out what has been happening. live now to tim johnson, policy director of the civil aviation authority, at their headquarters in london. thank you so much for your time. first of all, i am sure many people, british people to begin with, who we re british people to begin with, who were on holiday with thomas cook are wondering what should be their next step. good morning. first and foremost, this is a very sad day for the employees and customers of thomas cook, which has been trading for 178 years. what is really important this morning is if customers have a flight out from the uk today, unfortunately your flight has been cancelled so please do not go to the airport. if you are

overseas on a thomas cook holiday, then you can continue to enjoy your holiday. the cia is launching a repatriation, the largest since the second world war, and we will be bringing everybody back to the uk as close as possible to their return dates. we have lodged a website with those details of return flights and at the address is thomas cook. cia. uk. for people who are not british, who are watching, from different countries who are on holiday, should they be turning to the british government or their own governments? civil aviation authority is a focusing on bringing back people to the uk. that is what our role is. in other countries in europe, the

regulator and governments will be responsible for arrangements in their areas. for viewers elsewhere in europe, we would ask them to talk to or get in touch with relevant aviation regulators or governments. this must be a huge operation for the civil aviation authority. our flights being charted? how is the authority going about getting planes to get people home? this is a huge operation, 150,000 people currently abroad. we have charted over a0 aircraft and those aircraft are already in position and in the next few hours we will start bringing passengers home. it is a big operation, we're talking about 55 destinations, a thousand flights over the next two weeks. part of our

job is to have this contingency plans in place and in the last few hours we have been implementing those. the scale of the operation is really important. 150,000 is like the population of oxford. we are doing our absolute best but we ask passengers to bear with us if there isa passengers to bear with us if there is a bit of disruption. the most important thing for everybody is to go to the website — thomas cook. cia. this is for passengers and what they should do both overseas and in they should do both overseas and in the year, especially if you're expected to go out on a flight to the uk, please, do not go to the apple because very sadly your flight has been cancelled. even before the news came out, that thomas cook had gone into liquidation, the aviation authority was actually sending aircraft. how early did you start

those preparations before news of what happened even broke? we have contingency plans in place for all sorts of different outcomes. we have been prepositioning aircraft in the last few hours but it is really when the directors of the companies who are responsible for running the company made that decision to put the company into administration got the company into administration got the necessary legal agreements, that is the point at which we put the operation into a live status that has been running for the last hour or so. how did you get the news the company had faulted? we got the news through the court proceedings. court proceedings which is the official step to put into administration and as soon as that happened, we were

given notice the company had gone into administration and that is the point we officially and formally launched our plans. that website is now offered thomascook.caa.co.uk. what i would ask if you have friends and family, either who were due to go on holiday today or are overseas ona go on holiday today or are overseas on a thomas cook holiday, we asked them to get in contact and make sure they are aware of this news and draw their attention we have talked about their attention we have talked about the difficulty. and you said this is a very sad day for those who work, for those pilots arriving in those planes and the staff landing at airports, how would they find out the news? how will they know they essentially no longer have jobs?”

essentially no longer have jobs?|j think you are right, this is incredibly sad news for all the employees of thomas cook. there will be representatives at the airport who will talk to those staff and what i would like to say is a number of thomas cook staff will stay on in helping us with the repatriation effort and we are incredibly grateful to them and other members of the aviation community who are helping us organise this repatriation, particularly for those thomas cook employees helping us at this difficult time we are hugely appreciative of their efforts. we have talked a lot about people who are already on holidays. people who have flights but obviously cannot now take them, how will they be reimbursed? for customers who have not yet started as a holiday, we will shortly be publishing details of how they can claim a refund.

again, details of that will be on the website, thomascook.caa.co.uk. if customers are protected they will get their money ‘s refunded. we will have details of that on the site no later than monday. tim jones policy director of civil aviation authority, thank you for giving us that update and telling us what british nationals can expect as thomas cook, one of the worlds of this travel company goes into liquidation. the oldest. we will keep you up—to—date as that use continue to develop. let's get some of the day's other news: israel's president has called on the two main rivals in last week's election to come together to form what he called a "stable coalition". president reuven rivlin held talks on sunday with representatives from prime minister benjamin netanyahu's likud party and benny gantz‘s blue and white.

the arab list meanwhile, which came third, has thrown its support behind blue and white. the chairman of the us house intelligence committee says the contents of a telephone conversation between donald trump and his ukrainian counterpart could be grounds for the president's impeachment. adam schiff said if it was proven that mr trump pressured volodomyr zelensky to investigate the democratic presidential frontrunner, joe biden, impeachment would be the only option. the rugby world cup injapan saw three games on sunday — england beating tonga 35—3 in their opening match. ireland beat scotland 27—3, while italy hammered namibia a7—22. wales will face georgia later on monday. china is expected to face further pressure

—— stay with us. still to come... we'll have more on our breaking news this hour. the british travel firm thomas cook has collapsed, stranding hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers around the world and triggering a huge repatriation effort. ben johnson, the fastest man on earth is flying home to canada in disgrace. all the athletes should be clean going into the games. i'm just happy that justice is served. it is a simple fact that this morning these people were in their homes. tonight, those homes have been burned down by serbian soldiers and police. all the taliban positions along here have been strengthened, presumably in case the americans invade. it's no use having a secret service which cannot preserve its own secrets against the world and so the british government has no option but to continue this action even

this is bbc world news. the latest headlines: britain's oldest travel company, the partly chinese—owned firm thomas cook, has ceased trading. officials are now organising the uk's largest ever peace time repatriation for tens of thousands of tourists. with me is our reporter simonjones. we will get the very latest. what

has been happening in the last hour? this is huge news for the travel industry. thomas cook, one of the biggest and best—known firms that has been trading for 178 years, last year dealt with around 19 million customers and the news came in the early hours and it was from the civil aviation authority here in the uk, and it was fairly brutal and to the point. it basically said thomas cook had ceased trading with immediate effect and that means all flights of thomas cook and all future holidays are cancelled with immediate effect. that has left hundreds of thousands of people stranded abroad, 150,000 uk holidaymakers and lots of other people from countries across europe and around the world, particularly a lot of german holidaymakers and people from scandinavian countries as well, 600 thousand people currently affected abroad. there we re currently affected abroad. there were bookings for another million or so people for travel dates in the future. we have heard from the civil aviation authority in the last few minutes saying international customers are going to have to talk

to their governments to get home. what is the british government doing about british customers? they are launching what they are calling a huge enormous operation to bring british holidaymakers back home. it is going to be the biggest repatriation of uk citizens since the second world war. when monica airline went bust a few years ago, they brought back almost 100,000 passengers. here we are talking about an extra 50,000 on top of that. the uk authorities have charted more than a0 planes over the next two weeks, this operation will ta ke next two weeks, this operation will take a couple of weeks to sort out, they will run something like 1000 flights to return people home. they are warning that inevitably when you are warning that inevitably when you are dealing with that number of people in a complex situation, there are likely to be some disruption and delays along the way, but it is expected that people can continue on their holidays at the hotel they are currently at, if they are abroad at the moment, and theirflights should

in theory operate on the same day they were due to return to the uk. there may be a case where some people might have to fly to different airports or the flight might be changed by a day or two, but they are trying to stick to a timetable as much as possible. it is not a case of britain will try and get all 150,000 people out today or tomorrow or the next few days. it is going to take a couple of weeks. holidaymakers are told although it is fairly uncertain times, not to panic, continue to enjoy the holiday, but we are talking about people who are on holiday at the moment. people have bookings in the future, it is a different situation. we talked a lot about people currently on holiday, but the staff are going to be finding out, perhaps some of them don't know, perhaps the pilots don't know. you would have had pilots and staff and cabin crew who would be in the air as this news was breaking who are going to find out about it. we are told 22,000 employees work for thomas cook,

around 9000 in the uk, others across the world. so it is a big loss in terms ofjobs. now, here in the uk, the government says it will set up a task force to try and help people have been affected and recognises that this a very difficult and uncertain time for them, as well as a holidaymakers caught up in all of this. so much more to come on this story as it continues to unfold. simonjones there, our news reporter giving us up—to—date information on that breaking news that thomas cook, the holiday company, one of the world's oldest, has now folded, it has ceased to trade in britain has undertaken its largest ever peacetime repatriation for the tens of thousands of tourists who are trapped. we will keep you up—to—date as that news continues to come in. let's get some other news now. china is expected to face further pressure to reduce its carbon emissions when global leaders meet at the un on monday for a special summit on climate change. renewable energy sources have increased in china,

but coal is still the largest source of electricity generation. with the un pushing for a commitment to end the use of coal by 2030, our correspondentjohn sudworth asks whether china can deliver. on average, china has built a solar farm as big as this one every day for the past three years. a rush to renewables personified by cai xiaohu. he used to work in a coal mine. translation: our solar farm can save 50,000 or 60,000 tons of coal each year. i'm proud doing thisjob and working in this industry. but there is a long way to go. with its massive coal reserves still used for 60% of its energy, china produces more than a quarter of the world's carbon emissions. and it may bear more than its

fair share of the consequences too. asia's high mountain glaciers, a vital source of water for millions, are under serious threat. they are retreating very fast, it's about one metre per year by thickness, as much as 50 metres a year by mass. 50 metres a year? the largest, yes. so, that's why some glaciers in the south—eastern tibetan plateau will be disappearing very soon. the country's communist rulers do have what might be called an authoritarian advantage — huge powers to support and promote new technologies. china is now producing and installing these panels in such a volume that the economies of scale means something extraordinary and very important is happening. the industry is reaching

what it calls grid parity, the point at which getting electricity from these things is now cheaper per unit than generating it from coal. but china's authoritarian system also protects vested interests. there are troubling signs that its recently resumed building work on new coal power stations. to tell whether china is a real climate leader or not, this is really the moment. china, on one hand, is indeed now the largest investor of some of the most advanced renewable energy technologies in the world. but on the other hand, china also has its darker side. china's stance at the new york conference will be watched closely. despite big positive steps, its coal habit will be a hard one to break. awards season in the us has just kicked off with the emmy television awards. the show celebrating all things silver screen has just begun.

so far, brit phoebe waller bridge has taken gongs for best writing and best actress in a comedy series a short while later, both for her hit show fleabag. bill hader also took the nod for best actor in a comedy series for barry. meanwhile, game of thrones, which ended this year, is still expecting to win big — it's nominated in a record 32 categories. and sandra oh and jodie comer from the bbc‘s killing eve are up against each other for lead actress. just before we go, let's remind you of our top story. thomas cook has ceased trading, stranding more than 150,000 customers overseas. the civil aviation authority has launched its biggest ever repatriation operation for british people. passengers in the uk are expecting to travel with thomas cook have been told not to go to the

airport stop we will keep you across all of the latest on that. all of the latest as well on our website and on twitter. hello. it was a weekend of two halves. we had plenty of sunshine for most places on saturday followed by more showers on sunday. but on both days, it was warm, with temperatures above 27 celsius. this was the scene as the sun went down sunday night in cornwall, some clear skies, but some shower clouds still around too, and really, through the week ahead, we're looking at a pretty unsettled autumnal feel to the weather, wet and windy at times and it'll feel quite a bit cooler than it has done. monday is, of course, the autumn equinox and right on cue, we are welcoming this area of low pressure from the atlantic. now, some of this rain is much—needed rainfall, particularly across parts of the south—east of england, where we've had less than 20% of the expected rainfall so farfor september. now, during monday morning, most places starting dry.

bit cloudy and damp for the north of scotland. this area of rain will work in to the south—west of wales —— of england, wales and northern ireland, winds picking up through the day, central and eastern parts of england, up to southern scotland, you should stay dry all day. and in the sunshine, temperatures reaching 21 degrees, certainly fresher than it has been. typically, the high teens when you are under the cloud and the rain in the west. now, moving through into monday night and overnight into tuesday, we see that rain becoming quite heavy for a time, especially across parts of south wales, southern england as well, the winds also picking up with that heavy rainfall. it will be a mild night, certainly frost—free, as it will be really for much of the week ahead. we're not expecting to see any frost this week, but what we are going to see is some strong winds and heavy rain on tuesday morning, courtesy of a bit of a wave developing on this weather front here moving in from the atlantic. so, with all that rain and also the strong winds to contend with too, we may well have a bit of disruption to travel tuesday morning, especially for parts

of southern england, into south wales as well. there'll be a lot of standing water, i think, on the roads. this area of heavy rain works its way gradually eastwards across england and wales. that will be followed by more heavy showers and thunderstorms packing in from the south—west. i think northern ireland and the north—west of scotland should stay predominantly dry through the day. temperatures only around about 15—19 degrees. much cooler than it has been and plenty of really quite heavy showers around. not only the showers, but let's look at the wind gusts. 30mph gusts inland, a0 or even a5mph gusts along the south coast and through the english channel too. all that wet and windy weather moves eastwards, but we'll still see some rain in the south—east i think for wednesday morning. it will be a less windy day by the time we get to wednesday with a mix of sunny spells, a few scattered showers but not a particularly wet day on wednesday. temperatures around 16—20 degrees and it stays unsettled through the rest of the week. bye— bye.

this is bbc news, the headlines: the british travel company thomas cook has ceased trading, stranding more than 150,000 customers overseas. the uk's civil aviation authority has launched its biggest—ever repatriation operation. passengers in the uk expecting to travel with thomas cook have been told not to go to the airport. a new un report says the last five years are set to be the hottest on record and the impacts of global warming, such as extreme weather, are increasing. a report says levels of carbon dioxide are nearly 20% higher than in the previous five years. the bbc‘s dark comedy series, fleabag, has won three awards at the emmys — two of them for its creator and lead actress, phoebe waller—bridge. the disaster drama chernobyl also took three awards. the fantasy epic, game of thrones, leads the nominations, with fourteen in seven different categories.