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dominic sibley of warwickshire is just below him in the batting averages and lots of people have called for him to have a chance. and kent's zak crawley is thought of as one for the future. he could be an option to open the batting. the world atheltic‘s governing body have confirmed that russia will be banned from the world championships which start at the end of the week. russian atheletes were suspended in 2015 after a report found evidence of widespread doping in the sport. our sports editor dan roan explains why this came about and whether russia could be banned from next year's olympics. they have been looking at a database that was blown by a whistle—blower. both should marry up and there are some discrepancies. other that is because the whistle—blower fabricated some of this informational because certain files
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have been deleted by the russian authorities before they were handed over. that is bad news for russia. then they could declare russia noncompliant again and it could carry with it an olympic ban and it will go to the court of for sport. we have seen big cases in recent yea rs, we have seen big cases in recent years, anti—doping bans and they can find in favour of the defendant and sometimes the establishment so who knows where that will lie question that there is no hope there is a huge amount at stake and we are talking just days at the start of the athletics in less than a year to the athletics in less than a year to the tokyo olympics this long—running saga. the biggest doping scandal sport has ever seen has been reignited because of this news. we have two great stories to bring you from cycling's road world championships in harrogate. russia's aigul gareeva won the junior
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women's time trial — but only after she'd gone off course in the final kilometre, taking the route for race vehicles instead of the finishing straight! despite losing momentum, she beat the netherlands' shirin van anrooij to the rainbowjersey by three seconds. britain's elynor backstedt took the bronze. and antonio tiberi of italy had trouble of his own before winning the men's junior time trial — he was forced to change bikes. then he got stuck behind a car. but he kept on going, and went on to record the fastest time and win the gold medal. that's all from sportsday. coming up in a moment, the papers.
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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the journalist and author, yasmin alibhai—brown, and the comment and features editor at cityam, rachel cunliffe. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. ‘the great british take off‘ — that's on the front of the metro as the uk sees its largest ever peacetime repatriation after the collapse of thomas cook. the times leads with the prime minister's criticism of thomas cook bosses who received multi—million—pound pay—outs before the oldest travel company in the world went into administration. the daily mail has a similar story, reporting that thomas cook bosses pocketed 47 million pounds
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as the firm headed for the rocks. a change of course for the telegraph , the paper leads with claims from labour mps that one of jeremy corbyn‘s lieutenants changed the course of a key brexit vote to prevent a damaging defeat for the party leader. it also features an image of the duchess of sussex on her south african tour. the guardian reports thatjeremy corbyn has seen often attempt by gartner grassroots activist to force labour to adopt an out and not remain position before a general election. that is amid what they call chaotic scenes at the party's annual conference. we have to start with the story of thomas cook and the picture on the front of the metro, rachel, passengers on the very last flight
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home with a headline, the great british take off. there are so many people to feel sorry for here, i would do? the passengers and employees. and both of those combined in the story and that picture they have got the passengers sort of smile and, with their thumbs passengers sort of smile and, with theirthumbs up at passengers sort of smile and, with their thumbs up at what they really out there celebrating the crew. this is the last of a thomas cook flight which went from cyprus to manchester. and there was one passage on that flight saying that the captain gave an announcement and his voice is breaking at the end. he sobbed. he was reduced to tears. they applauded the crew, they did a whip round for they found out they we re whip round for they found out they were not sure they were going to be paid or not and so very, very emotional scenes. that the last thomas cook flight and now the repatriation begins wishes for the thousands and thousands of holiday—makers stranded in various places across the world and that is the largest repatriation since the second world war.
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other people actually are affected in different countries as well. what needs to be done? well, i don't know how... how these things happen in the way they do. we have a very good regulation system in this country. we still have eu regulation. they must have known for a file that it was sinking, the ship was sinking. but the let it sink. and ijust don't understand, you know. the top bosses were paying themselves as the mirror says. yes, exactly. thomas cook fat cats £50 million bonus. and presumably there were shareholders, they got money. so the poor people who work for this company, 21,000, money. so the poor people who work forthis company, 21,000, and money. so the poor people who work for this company, 21,000, and all the people, you know comeau saved up the people, you know comeau saved up the whole year to go on holiday and ijust don't the whole year to go on holiday and i just don't understand the whole year to go on holiday and ijust don't understand how a company like this which has been in existence for so long, was itjust
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cynically done? did they think the government would bail them out? did they think the government would bailthem out? how did they think the government would bail them out? how does it happen? there are a couple of reasons by their collapse. we know thomas cook had a lot of dead. the times goes into some of the people that have owed money to including some hotels which is really sad we think about individual hotels in various countries that were owed money so it had sets. we know that brexit has been cited as a reason, not the reason but a reason. volatility of the pound are people not necessarily wanting to go abroad when the uncertainty in stirling is like that. and know that people are changing how they book their holidays. did thomas could not change quickly enough for the times? people book their holidays online now, don't they? and a question that has me going for 150 is that if people are changing, there is not a place for that type of business any more. but they could have adapted. that no way and excuses how this club so suddenly how it came out of nowhere.
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someone knew it was going down. someone knew it was going down. someone must have known. the times article has more detail about the bosses pay but it also says here, there is an interesting man that thomas cook executives paid a combined total of more than 20 million over the past five years but last of the company was urged by as auditor, to stop using an accounting method that could have been used to flatter its financial performance and improve the pay of bosses so there a hint that that's the way that they were accounting and registering profit and turnover perhaps was misleading and that was why they were able to get those pay—outs when in fact the company was not doing so well. as rachel says, he rates as the hotels in tunisia were owed £53 million. 44 million in cyprus. these are not rich countries. these accomplishments depend on tourism. it is their main economic sustenance. reading that reminded me of the fire
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festival documentary. have you seen it? that festival that never happened and you start off feeling very, very sorry for the people paid to go and there was a disaster and obviously you do feel sorry for them are the people you really feel sorry for are the ordinary people on the caribbean island who are... of last hundreds of thousands of pounds for this event they thought was happening. in hotels here, too? who is going to bail out the hotels? in the times the spanish and turkish governments had backed an 11th hour attempt to rescue the company. thomas cook management tried to cobble together the entire 200 million it needed to survive. it failed with the british government refused to act as a guarantor. that, i don't understand. if all they needed was a kind of guarantee from the government... a guarantee of what, though? i am dubious about that because while it is terrible it is not the role of
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the british government to be bailing out a travel company put up is not the banks. it is not an issue of national... the money was coming from these other two nations then they can deal, basic guarantee. it all happened so quickly, it was like an earthquake, really. but it does feel a bit like there is a private company is making big decisions but at the end of the up paying the bill. and it is the worst side of capitalism to be so utterly careless about peoples lives, so utterly careless. ifind careless. i find that appalling. there is a new angle as well because the passengers are getting repatriated and anyone who has holidays booked, there are certain protections because you can get reimbursed. many of them are in fact eu protection so this is people who are stranded and who are going to be reimbursed for the holidays, that is partly because of eu regulations. if we leave the european union...
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it depends if we choose to carry on those protections which we can do as a nation but if it happened to us company you can guarantee that passengers would not be getting the same compensation so it depends whether we carry forward those regulations actually leave the eu. that is really interesting. it is. let's turn to a different story now. the guardian. corbyn sees off grass roots remain demand amid conference chaos. he was cheered as he won the right to delay the decision on the brexit stance but of course it does mean that labour goes into the next general election without saying whether it backs leave of remain. he hasjust burnt down his own party, is in position and his so—called kind of, whatever they are, officials. the historian
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tweeted, stalin lives. ok, it was a tweet. but i think there was something so utterly wrong about the way this thing was done. you had hands instead of people writing on paper. explain what they were voting for? they were voting for or against the proposal that brexit, the remaining position... that labour would campaign for remain ina that labour would campaign for remain in a second referendum. and sort of the people around him, his inner circle, turned it into a votive really a kind of suppose and vote confidence in jeremy votive really a kind of suppose and vote confidence injeremy corbyn but most of the members are for remain. and there is a suggestion here, more thana and there is a suggestion here, more than a suggestion in all the papers, the telegraph as well, that accounting happened, the women doing the counting thought the remain side had sort of been carried then she
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looks at the power behind the throne, one of them and she changes her mind. and this is what it means quite rachel, by conference chaos? many things were chaotic about this. it was tendered to a vote of confidence when it really wasn't meant to be. one was that it was by show of hands and that which meant that there were allegations that some people voted who are not eligible to vote. and one of course is her seeming to say the remain side has won, no, actually, it is the other side and on the delegate said could be have a proper boat with ballots? and she said no, no, it has happened now it is finished. so it is being held as a victory for corbyn and that he got to see off an attempt to change policy and obviously he wants to stay neutral. he does not want labour to pick a side until after it has won an election negotiated its own deal and then it will decide by the fact is this is going to hurt
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labour in an election because we know the brexit sentiment is getting more polarised and we know people are going towards no deal or a second referendum. the lib dems came up second referendum. the lib dems came up very strong at their conference saying they will revoke article 50. that is their choice. and labour's policy now looks very weak. we will negotiate a new deal and then have a referendum. he thinks there is going to be an election before we exit, if we exit. you will have a selection and he will win. really? really? none of the polls are showing anything... the lib dems are showing anything... the lib dems are up there with them at the moment. neck and neck. it is a scandal. this whole conference, from the very beginning, to dislodge tom watson, i am just so glad i have boycotted the conferences this year. can almost see the steam coming out of your ears. just a quick touch base on the telegraph. this is
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slightly odd french phrasing from borisjohnson but basically it is ahead of the supreme court ruling which comes at 10:30am in the morning which will decide whether he suspended parliament unlawfully. any inside intel? they are prepared for it going out in their favour. borisjohnson is for it going out in their favour. boris johnson is in for it going out in their favour. borisjohnson is in new york at the moment. great news for labour but a bit dodgy when the one good piece of news to come out during your conference is the other side having a crisis. so it is expected to go against the government. boris johnson was asked was he going to resign? he said no. he said he had very good reasons for probing parliament. he did not say what they wear and then he said, am i going to resign? now i don't really know french but i don't think that is a common french phase and, where is the latin, where is the greek? not what we have come to expect from this prime minister. ijust want to quickly move on to the picture. this is the duchess of sussex in
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south africa. you know, i south africa. you know, lam not south africa. you know, i am not a royalist at all and, you know, ithink, i mean, i thought she should never have married into this country and into this family but she looks so happy. and she has had such a hard time. people going for her for no good reason. well, we know some of the reasons. they don't like her because she is a woman of colour, and in my view and the view of several others. but she just looks genuinely free and happy hair in a way that i haven't seen. she has been smiling all the pictures of the african trip so far. and on that note, leaving you both smiling, we will leave it there because that is it for the papers this hour. yasmin and rachel will be back at 11:30 for another look at the papers. i'll be back at 11 with another look at today's top stories — next it's the weather with phil avery.
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i will put a stop this jollity. good evening to stop not before we have taken on the full glory of this guy ca ptu red taken on the full glory of this guy captured by one of our weather watchers across argyle bute and i'm glad he did it today because tomorrow it is one of those days. probably the wettest day many of us we re probably the wettest day many of us were seen for quite some time that a warning that from the met office. particularly across england and wales for the intensity of the rainfall. quite a breezy start to the day for some as well put up the way to lift and rain as there from the word go as well. middens, southern counties and swinging further north. 30—40 millimetres while they so a good inch plus. some spots, 70 millimetres perhaps across the higher does move a little bit further north and then there was a low and then, don't discount what is going to go on here. when ramping up to finish off the day. it's really quite windy across that weather front and scotland. on that which
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could be disruptive. but it is this little feature running its way across the southern counties. with some pretty strong winds to the channel in coastal areas, it will not be a cold night which could be a real nuisance again to start your day on wednesday. it is all tied in with a little area of low pressure just squeezing those highs are of us together. hence the gusts of wind. 40-45 together. hence the gusts of wind. 40—45 mph. so we have got to get rid of that festival to then reveal the full glory which, in the context of a pretty shabby week of weather, is actually not a bad day was of sunshine around, quite a bit of dry weather, and a little bit of rain other side of the central belt and cloud in the south—east —— north—east of scotland. later in the day and into thursday morning we have got to where the funds to push through from the atlantic right across the british isles again. lingering with intent across the east but they are a little bit quicker than a couple of days ago when looking at thursday. so that gives us hope that the first part of
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friday could be a little bit drier and brighter across the eastern side of the british isles but with that low pressure close by, no signs of a big area of high pressure. we finished the week in a very u nsettled finished the week in a very unsettled note. showers at times banging together to give little mini fronts, a few like. maybe a rumble of thunder or so. some eastern spots half decent sort of day. the fog of the showers running in. my word, what a lot of weather. it is all there on the bbc weather website on your speed and you have got all the warnings there as well.
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this is bbc news, i'm rebecca jones. the headlines at 11:00pm. the biggest repatriation in peace—time is under way after travel giant thomas cook collapsed, leaving hundreds of thousands stranded, and trips ruined. we look forward to this for a long time, had the wedding injuly, so it has been another couple of months waiting for this, absolutelyjust totally gutted. after a brexit showdown at the labour party conference, jeremy corbyn's policy on staying neutral triumphs over those who wanted to back remain. teenage climate campaigner greta thunberg delivers an angry address at the un climate summit in new york. jodie comer, for killing eve.
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