london's newly expanded ultra low emission zone becomes the largest scheme of its type in the world. hello, i'm maryam moshiri, welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast—moving news, interviews and reaction. we start with the thousands of travellers facing days of disruption after a technical fault hit the uk's air traffic control system. this was the scene yesterday. there was chaos in airports across the uk — with flights grounded, leaving huge crowds gathering in departure areas. by one estimate — more than 25% of planned flights — that's over 1500 journeys in and out of the uk, were cancelled on monday. that includes 790 departures,

and 785 arrivals. heathrow saw the highest number of cancellations, followed by gatwick and manchester. there were also reports of thousands of passengers stranded in airports overseas. the technical fault was repaired within hours — but the impacts continue today, with an estimated 281 flights affected so far. this is liverpool airport, where there's been confusion and some stress over cancelled departures. we've been speaking to some of the travellers there. let's listen. i checked last night on the flight was still scheduled to go ahead. we got to the gate this morning and we were turned back. we woke up at 5am, received a notification from google, not even the airline itself, that it was cancelled. and i figured i had to get down here as well to figure out what to do. i did not receive any notification.

it was a shock to me. i came to the airport and saw my flight had been cancelled. - turned up here and no e—mail saying the flight was cancelled. i have got to wait until 11.35 tonight. let's go to manchester airport. colletta smith is there for us. tell us what the situation at manchester airport is this morning, this afternoon, sorry.— manchester airport is this morning, this afternoon, sorry. well, we have had some cancellations, _ this afternoon, sorry. well, we have had some cancellations, there - this afternoon, sorry. well, we have had some cancellations, there are l had some cancellations, there are still some delays, lots of planes are still taking off and landing as normal, so it is worth bearing in mind that if your phone today, check in advance, but it seems to be that most passengers are coming down here and there fights are ticking off as normal. we are seeing at the moment around half an hour delays for quite around half an hour delays for quite a few of the flights that are due to

take off within the next half an hour, 44 minutes, so definitely come prepared if you are heading to the airport this morning for potentially extra delays, bring extra food or anything else you need with you, but the likelihood is that your plane if it is scheduled for today is likely to still take off today for the we are still seeing cancellations across the uk but the knock—on impact from yesterday, that was because the air traffic control system failed yesterday for around three hours, a glitch within their systems are what we are seeing now is crewmembers on the wrong place, planes of the wrong place and that having a knock—on effect. but as i say, plenty of fight still landing and we are still seeing lots of passengers were stranded abroad now here in the uk. we arejust passengers were stranded abroad now here in the uk. we are just seeing an easyjet plane land, lots of people coming back from holidays, may be a bit later than planned and certainly frustrated and happy to have spent more of course if they were overseas and ended up being in an airport or even having an extra night away. it should be that your

airline refund is used for any extra reasonable cost that you have incurred because of your flight was delayed or cancelled, so the important thing for all passengers is to hang onto those receipts, to try if you can to get in touch with yourairline, but try if you can to get in touch with your airline, but that's very difficult, we know, for a lot of passengers at the moment, there is a very big queue perhaps try to see one or two members of staff. find i one or two members of staff. and i think the one or two members of staff. and i thinkthe point— one or two members of staff. and i think the point to _ one or two members of staff. and i think the point to make _ one or two members of staff. and i think the point to make here - one or two members of staff. and i think the point to make here is that this couldn't have happened at a worse time, it happened on a bank holiday here in the uk but also the tail end of the summer holidays, school holidays for many people not only in the uk but around the world. exactly. and that actually makes it crucial for a lot of people to get home, so often if there is a delay and people say, well, you will have to spend an extra night, you need to wait until the next available flight, that's not necessarily a huge problem, peoplejust an inconvenience but it is not the end of the world whereas if people are

coming back from school starting or because they have to be in work the next day, it is not like they can wait until friday or saturday to get on the next available flight, so people having to make a lot of alternative arrangements. we are hearing from a lot of passengers but across the world trying to get to the uk saying they have had to travel to a different airport, hire a car in order to make that happen so they can get back home from the summer holidays in time to start school again. summer holidays in time to start school again-— summer holidays in time to start schoolauain. , ., ~' school again. absolutely. thank you ve much school again. absolutely. thank you very much indeed. _ let's talk to michele robson, editor of the travel website turning left for less. michele used to be an air traffic contoller herself. before we start talking about the travel indications of this, wanted to ask you about the actual incident itself. we getting few bits of information, a bit difficult to understand if you don't actually work within nats, so can you explain more about what went wrong and why

it? ~ , ,., , more about what went wrong and why it? ~ y ., ~ it? absolutely, i can talk it throu~h it? absolutely, i can talk it through that. _ it? absolutely, i can talk it through that. it _ it? absolutely, i can talk it through that. it actually i it? absolutely, i can talk it - through that. it actually happened quite early yesterday morning, around 8:30, and it was completely invisible at that time because what happened is, the flight planning system failed, this is the information that controllers need to be able to do theirjob, they have a radar screen in front of them and they need to know what the aircraft type is, what the flight number is, where it is going, what route it has come and it was that information, the system that provides it, that failed. they have four hours a back up failed. they have four hours a back up because normally we would expect it to come back during that time, the engineers are there 2a hours a day so normally they would fix the problem quite quickly but it didn't happen this time. so after the four hours they ran out of flight data and at that point they had to start inputting it or manually. you can imagine there is quite a number of bits of information on each individualflight bits of information on each individual flight they have to input, so this slows the whole system down, so around 12:30 we started to see the effect of that when they effectively said they were

going to stop most aircraft taking off and just concentrate on the ones in the air. i myself was atjersey airport and was therefore about four hours waiting to take off. we know that they have now ruled out sabotage, they have officially said that was not the case, there were some rumours that started down to the timings, so they ruled that out but what we don't know is what actually caused this flight planning outage. actually caused this flight planning outaue. ., ., ., , ~ ., outage. how often do these kind of thins outage. how often do these kind of things happen? _ outage. how often do these kind of things happen? very _ outage. how often do these kind of things happen? very rarely. - outage. how often do these kind of things happen? very rarely. i - outage. how often do these kind of| things happen? very rarely. i would say probably — things happen? very rarely. i would say probably once — things happen? very rarely. i would say probably once every _ things happen? very rarely. i would say probably once every couple - things happen? very rarely. i would say probably once every couple of i say probably once every couple of years but i would say this is probably the worst one we've had for at least a decade if not longer. as i said, there would normally anticipate there will be back up and running within four hours so it wouldn't normally impact the public in the way it's done.— in the way it's done. good to talk to ou, in the way it's done. good to talk to you. very _ in the way it's done. good to talk to you, very grateful— in the way it's done. good to talk to you, very grateful for- in the way it's done. good to talk to you, very grateful for your - in the way it's done. good to talk| to you, very grateful for your time and very glad he got back from jersey. and very glad he got back from jerse . ~ ., ., in pakistan, the high court has granted former prime minister imran khan bail.

mr khan has been in prison since he was sentenced to three years on august 5th — on charges of not declaring money gained from selling state gifts during his tenure as prime minister. as a result of the conviction, he was also barred for five years from contesting elections. the bail does not necessarily mean that khan will be free to walk out ofjail. here's mr khan's lawyer gauhar khan, speaking a short while ago. very hopefully he will released so far he has not been arrested in any of the cases. we are now being informed if he is under arrest in any other case, if they going to arrest him in other case, we have five cases in the high court and supreme court and we are seeking the court to restrain the prosecution from arresting him from any other case. hopefully should be out. to restrain the prosecution from arresting him from any other case. 0ur pakistan correspondent caroline davies sent this update from islamabad. islamabad high courtjust behind me has given imran khan bail in the case that he was found guilty of at the start of the month. this is the case where he was found

guilty of not declaring money that he earned from selling state gifts. imran khan has been imprisoned since the 5th of august. this doesn't necessarily mean that he will be taken out ofjail at this moment. that is because there are multiple other cases out against imran khan. many of them have arrest warrants for him too. his lawyers have said that they are going to the supreme court and here to the high court to try and get in bail across these other cases. but even they have said that they think it is going to be quite difficult to be able to secure that. one of them gave odds of about 30% chance that he will actually be released. so it looks like at the moment continued legal battles for imran khan and no certainty at all that he will be out ofjail any time soon. here, a coroner has opened an inquest into the death of 10—year—old sara sharif and adjourned it for six months while the police investigate. the precise cause of her death has still not been confirmed. sara was found dead at her home in woking, surrey earlier this month, sparking a murder inquiry. police in pakistan are looking

for three family members in relation to sara's death. they say the search continues and they are acting daily on new information. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford explained this morning's court proceedings. when there's an unexplained death, a coroner needs to open an inquest. and then if the police are already investigating that death, typically they would then suspend that inquest for a short period to allow the police to conduct their inquiries, in this case, a suspected murder investigation. what happened this morning was that simon wickens, the coroner for surrey, said that he would suspend the inquest for an unusually long length of time, for six months because of the relative complexity of the police case and also because of the international element of the investigation. we also heard more details about the postmortem examination carried out by the home office pathologist, nathaniel carey. the police had already told us that initially the cause of her death

was not yet established. and it was confirmed this morning that still the cause of her death is unexplained. but the coroner said that the pathologist had concluded that it was likely to be unnatural causes. police have told us that sara sharif has suffered from multiple and extensive injuries and that they seem to have been injuries that she sustained over an extended period of time. people may remember that sara sharif was found dead in her home here in woking in the early hours of thursday, the 10th of august. but the inquest heard this morning that was unlikely to be the time of her death. that was just when her death was verified. herfather, herfather�*s partner and her father's brother all left the uk the day before her body was found, and it was fact her father that called the police and told the police to go round to the house in the early hours of that thursday morning. police in pakistan are helping police here in surrey,

trying to find sara's father, father's partner and father's brother. that has not yet been successful. but police injelen in pakistan have told us they're now widening the search to four different areas following information that they've received. so there's still a hunt going on for those members of sara's family and of course, for the her five brothers and sisters who also all left the country on the day before she was found. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making the news. nhs england has announced there will be a significant increase in the number of blood pressure checks carried out in the community. the health service says it plans to extend tests in pharmacies as well as offering them in places such as barbers shops and mosques. it's hoped the scheme will help to reduce deaths from heart attacks and strokes. the number of alcohol—related deaths in scotland has risen again

to the highest level in 1a years. the latest figures from national records of scotland show 1,276 people died from conditions caused by alcohol in 2022. scotland's drugs and alcohol policy minister, elena whitham, said more work is needed to bring down alcohol—related harm. the government has announced plans to change water pollution rules — to allow more houses to be built. current rules mean councils covering protected areas of england can't allow the building of new houses unless it can be proven that the work won't add polluting phosphates and nitrates to local rivers. critics say the changes won't solve the root causes of england's housing problems. you're live with bbc news. every regional leader in the spanish football federation has called on its president, luis rubiales, to step down. he's been heavily criticised for kissing a female player, jenni hermoso, on the lips at the women's world cup final

in sydney. it comes after spanish prosecutors opened an investigation into whether the kiss amounted to a sexual assault onjenni hermoso. mr rubiales has resisted calls to quit. straight to madrid. 0ur correspondent guy hedgecoe is there for us now. any sign that mr rubiales may take the hint that's now coming from all quarters and step—down? the hint that's now coming from all quarters and step-down?— the hint that's now coming from all quarters and step-down? well, there really isn't- — quarters and step-down? well, there really isn't- we _ quarters and step-down? well, there really isn't. we haven't _ quarters and step-down? well, there really isn't. we haven't heard - quarters and step-down? well, there really isn't. we haven't heard from i really isn't. we haven't heard from mr rubiales this last friday when he gave a very defiant speech before his own football federation said he was not going to resign, insisting he had done nothing wrong and that that kiss was consensual. that was the last we heard from him. since then, of course, you mentioned the fact is own federation has turned has called on him to resign. fifa, the world's football governing body has suspended him provisionally while it opens disciplinary

proceedings against him as well so the pressure is increasing on him. there is enormous pressure from various causes but what we don't know is his own mindset, whether he intends to bow to this pressure and go quietly, or if he will continue to cling on to power, even though it appears that he really doesn't have any support left the football world here in spain. find any support left the football world here in spain-— any support left the football world here in sain. �* ., ., g , here in spain. and what ofjenny her moser, here in spain. and what ofjenny her moser. have — here in spain. and what ofjenny her moser, have we _ here in spain. and what ofjenny her moser, have we heard _ here in spain. and what ofjenny her moser, have we heard anything - here in spain. and what ofjenny her| moser, have we heard anything more from her or those representing her? ——jenny her moser. from her or those representing her? —— jenny her moser. not from her or those representing her? ——jenny her moser. not in from her or those representing her? —— jenny her moser. not in the last years. we have heard from one or two of the spanish players, spanish female players from the winning team and they say they want more respect in general, they want to be treated better, that there should be more equality and women's sports, and we have heard some comments from a spanish player giving comes along those lines. jenni hermoso has

really been right at the centre of this storm for the last week and i think it's been rather unwelcome attention for her because she, like all her team—mates, wanted to celebrate this world cup victory and instead that has been over overshadowed.

there is a feeling that this has become a tipping point and at the rubiales case feeds into something broader when it comes to gender equality in spain.— equality in spain. guy, thank you very much _ equality in spain. guy, thank you very much indeed. _ if you're in the uk you're probably familiar with the term ulez — it stands for ultra low emission zone — and london's scheme has just been expanded from an area covering the city centre, to the whole of the capital. owners of the most polluting vehicles will have to pay £12.50 a day if they drive in the area. london now has the world's largest ultra low emission zone, but other countries have their own zones and they vary by vehicle type and emissions. italy has the most zones in europe — some of them permanent, many seasonal. in france, drivers have to display a clean air sticker in their car to enter several cities. in paris they're planning a zero emission zone for 2030. in london, around 90% of cars are compliant and won't be affected by the charge.

but the measure is highly controversial, with some londoners saying they haven't been given enough time — or support — to change their vehicles. the uk conservative government firmly believes that expanding the low emissions zone is the wrong thing to do. the expansion of the ulez zone to cover the whole of greater london is a decision by the labour mayor of london, sadiq khan, supported by the labour leader. and if you look at the mayor's impact assessment, it will have a minor to negligible effect on air quality, so it is very clear that despite what he says, this is not about improving our in greater london, it is about raising money from londoners for him, and this is something, given the challenges people are facing with the cost of living, it is not absolutely the right thing to do. so that's the government's perspective — which is totally at odds with the view

of london's mayor, sadiq khan. if it was a cash grab, as the government's saying, just to raise money, i'd have acceded to their demand to expand the ulez without proper consultation and a proper scrappage scheme. this is about helping our air be cleaner and in a couple of years' time, tfl have predicted there will be no additional money made because of the number of noncompliant vehicles, but every penny net made is used to reinvest in public transport. improving buses in outer london, improving public transport in our city. and here's the irony of ironies — it was this government that published air—quality directives. the right thing to do, requiring cities to clean up their air, it was this government that have supported clean—air zones around the country — the right thing to do in bristol, in birmingham, in bath, but for some reason, they refuse to support london. let's speak now to anthony laverty. he's a senior lecturer in public

health at imperial college london, and he did a review of the global evidence on health impacts of low emission and congestion charging zones. good to talk to you, thanks to speaking to us. let me ask first, how does one go about analysing the health impacts of these kinds of the emission zones in cities? it’s a emission zones in cities? it's a aood emission zones in cities? it's a good question- _ emission zones in cities? it's a good question. there - emission zones in cities? it's a good question. there are - emission zones in cities? it�*s —. good question. there are different ways you can do it, but what we did is we searched through all of the published evidence on globally, if you look at schemes that have measured health impacts before, after similar schemes have been implemented, so we really read all that evidence, to get the combined picture, up to date, what the global evidence says and really, what we find is, we find pretty consistent evidence that cardiovascular disease come down when these schemes are in fermented and pretty consistent evidence that road traffic injuries go down. so i think putting that together with what we know from

other places, i would say that the expectation is we are going to see positive health impacts. talk expectation is we are going to see positive health impacts.— expectation is we are going to see positive health impacts. talk to me about the cities, _ positive health impacts. talk to me about the cities, but _ positive health impacts. talk to me about the cities, but only _ positive health impacts. talk to me about the cities, but only in - positive health impacts. talk to mej about the cities, but only in london but other countries as well. - looked globally so it wasn't just but other countries as well. - looked globally so it wasn'tjust in england and i can say, we said earlier, italy has lots of schemes, germany has lots of schemes, included some schemes from tokyo in japan, to relay all of the evidence base we can find from everywhere where similar schemes have been in fermented. to where similar schemes have been in fermented. ., ., , ., fermented. to me a bit about the health implications _ fermented. to me a bit about the health implications because - fermented. to me a bit about the j health implications because there are other studies that perhaps show, and this is what people who are against it come outwith, they say that actually, there isn't enough evidence to suggest that this type of scheme works as effectively as some people may say.— of scheme works as effectively as some people may say. yeah, i mean, riuhtl some people may say. yeah, i mean, rightly there — some people may say. yeah, i mean, rightly there is _ some people may say. yeah, i mean, rightly there is always _

some people may say. yeah, i mean, rightly there is always debate - rightly there is always debate about, scientific debate about, are at their impacts, and what direction, what size our day, but i would say the vast majority of scientists looking at the area would say they expect to see health benefits from these schemes, and certainly if you think about our review, we looked for all of the published evidence where people have relied on measuring before and after the schemes are implemented, and that found consistent picture that cardiovascular disease goes down and we think that goes down because air pollution goes down but we didn't focus on that, but lots of other research has focused on that, and road traffic injuries go down. so i think in terms of, are the health impacts going to be large enough to justify such a scheme, is enough evidence, i would say we know there are big negative health impacts from high amounts of motorised traffic and really, we have to do something

for that, and the available evidence says schemes like ulez will make a difference, they're not a magic bullet, we will have to do other things as well, invest money in public transport, encourage walking and cycling, but certainly this is one important part of the picture in terms of improving air quality and improving quality—of—life for people in london. improving quality-of-life for people in london. ,., ., improving quality-of-life for people in london. ., ., ~ ., in london. good to talk to you, thank you _ in london. good to talk to you, thank you for— in london. good to talk to you, thank you forjoining _ in london. good to talk to you, thank you forjoining us. - in london. good to talk to you, | thank you forjoining us. thanks. preparation are under way in the us state of florida as it braces for a major storm. storm idalia is forecast to reach hurricane strength in the coming hours, and to be classified as a major hurricane by the time it makes landfull in florida on wednesday. the national hurricane center warned that it could bring "life—threatening" conditions to parts of florida as soon as tuesday. and in anticipation of the storm tampa international airport will be closed starting midday tuesday. the airport plans to shut down until at least early thursday to secure its planes and prepare equipment on the ground. presidentjoe biden spoke with florida governor ron destanis

and approved an emergency declaration for the state in preparation for the storm. it is either a map showing exactly how the storm is heading there. mr desantis declared a state of emergency in 46 florida counties. and warned residents to seek safer ground. evacuation orders for many of these areas have already been issued. more may be coming throughout throughout the balance of tonight. clearly you have time today and for, probably the better part of tomorrow. but you are going to start to see some impacts with wins and nasty weather tuesday night and of course, we are expecting a land fall to happen sometime on wednesday. the august bank holiday often conjures up images of idyllic village fetes, garden parties and family fun days — but that's not quite what you get in the village of stacksteads in lancashire. for the last 15 years, it's been the venue for the world gravy wrestling championships — which is exactly

what it sounds like. these aerial pictures show bbc radio lancashire presenter graham liver — who took part under the nickname penwortham porker — fighting the contestant "elviz" in a swimming pool full of gravy. graham was knocked out of the contest. more than 20 men and women took part in this year's competition, which is held to raise money for charity. there are many uses for gravy and they don't always involve potatoes! backin they don't always involve potatoes! back in a few minutes. hello again. for the next couple of days, we're looking at a mixture of bright spells, sunny spells and some showers. worth pointing out, though, today, pollen levels across much of england are going to be high. so we're talking weeds at this time of year. now, what we have today is low pressure in charge of our weather. this front wrapped all the way

around it is producing some showers, heaviest across the north of scotland, closest to the centre of the low pressure and it's all slowly slipping southwards as we go through the course of today. so our first weather front continuing to slip south, rejuvenating, producing some heavier rain in the afternoon across parts of wales, the midlands, the home counties and east anglia and the weather front across scotland also slipping south. now, in between for northern england, northern ireland, there'll be some sunny spells and fewer showers and in light winds, our temperatures 1a in the north to 21 as we push down towards the south. now through this evening and overnight, ourfirst front continues to head south eastwards before clearing. our second one pushes into northern england, north wales, northern ireland, bringing some showers, but follow the curl round, we're going to see some more showers across the north of scotland. but there will also be a fair bit of clear sky tonight, so it's going to be a cooler night than last night, particularly so in the countryside. so tomorrow, a ridge of high pressure builds across us, so things are quite quiet in terms of the weather.

there will be areas of cloud bubbling up through the day, producing some showers. you might hear the odd rumble of thunder, for example, in the afternoon in east anglia and the odd sharp shower here. temperatures, 15 to about 20 degrees north to south. so just down a degree or so. then into thursday, we've got this area of low pressure with its fronts coming in from the atlantic. now, the northern extent of this is still open to a bit of question, but this is what we think at the moment. so across scotland and eastern england, it will start off dry with some sunny spells, but our fronts coming in from the west, will push northwards and eastwards introducing thicker cloud and some rain. the heaviest rain will be across southern england. and you could hear the odd rumble of thunder in southern coastal counties. temperatures 1a to 19 degrees, so, again, slipping just that little bit more. and then as we move on into friday, there'll be low cloud, mist and fog to clear from the south and also the far north of scotland. in between, there'll be sunshine and showers and temperatures climbing a little bit at the weekend.

this is bbc news, the headlines. pakistan's former prime minister imran khan is granted bail by the country's high court. japan urges china to protect japanese residents —

after a wave of harassment linked to the release of water from the fukushima nuclear plant. a trial date is set for donald trump — one day before the crucial "super tuesday" presidential primary polls. to the war in ukraine now. estimates by us officials suggest a sharp rise in the number of kyiv�*s troops who have been killed and injured. 0ur correspondent quentin sommerville has been on the front line in eastern ukraine, where the grim task of counting the dead has become a daily reality. and he's been talking to two ukrainian women, who, despite suffering their own losses, have vowed to keep serving the war effort. for 0ksana, it is her husband she mourns. for five years they were together, and the grief is still raw. pavlo was a fitness champion who volunteered to fight.