was a contender, adverts were saying, gatwick, obviously. been contentious and emotional and the finances are incredibly, the gated and the hope is that mps will focus on how this third runway could potentially be financed as opposed to injecting brexit into it and bringing all the emotional baggage of that. i think the first heathrow three runway plan for heathrow was in something like 9016, it has taken time. when chris grayling is complaining about prevarication, the camera government in 2010 drops the third runway in heathrow and specifically was against the third runway. —— the cameroon government. so it is another problem for the conservatives. —— the cameron government. this supermarket chain is saying they're not going to use plastic bags for certain products, and several loose paperbacks, you will still be able to see the fruit and vegetables in your paperback they will have a strip, you will be able to see it. i think this is a hopeful story. little things can be done to wean us off of the plastic. casing the prefect of the live in

modern gatwick in the south terminal was built on the old gatwick racecourse.ol tower, the runway, the reception area and the many departments in the name of the father, the sun and the holy ghost, are men. a blessing the gatwick. extraordinary to see some of the archive footage. how have things changed over the 60 years? in six decades, it has turned dramatically. you got the north and south terminals now, just years ago we had some of the airline is changing from the north to the south and the south to the north. this phenomenal air bridge was built. if you have been to gatwick, you will know that the planes go underneath it. so as passengers you are walking across the top of it. it's quite mind blowing to see even today it's quite extraordinary. i suppose the biggest, latest thing happening now is of course the introduction of the biometric technology. this is the whole idea of cameras recognising faces and irises which then open up boarding gates, the idea is to speed up boarding gates, the idea is to speed up that long track from baggage drop to boarding.

does my right honourable friend accept that just as with gatwick.el they are unable to vote for this government motion. and mightfind vote for this government motion. and might find themselves called away. vote for this government motion. and might find themselves called awaylj would never criticise any member of this house for representing the views of their constituents. whatever position we may hold in this house, in government, in opposition, we are all ultimately constituency mps and it is absolutely right we share the issues our constituents face. i would also like to thank those outside the house. it‘s unusual i find myself campaigning on the same side of the argument as len mccluskey of unite. but the trade unions have been strong supporters, as have business leaders up and down the country in all corners of the uk. i'm grateful to the secretary of state and i shalljoin him in the lobbies tonight because i think the third ru nway tonight because i think the third runway is a piece of infrastructure of national importance that will benefit th

by every metric, gatwick and heathrow deliver the same.hat of all big advanced economies in the world, britain should we spend so much time and effort debating building notan much time and effort debating building not an airport were not too are building an airport — but we are talking about building a single ru nway talking about building a single runway at that has had no increase in capacity for 50 years. and i think it is a shame and i am embarrassed that it has taken us this long. and at the end of the debate, mps voted for the motion backing expansion. now, its supporters that would provide enough energy for more than 150,000 homes, but the government has pulled the plug on a proposed tidal lagoon in swa nsea plug on a proposed tidal lagoon in swansea bay. a private company, it titled lagoon power, wanted the government to offer subsidies for the energy produced at swansea bay and at five other lagoons. but the business secretary said the government's analysis showed the scheme was too expensive. there were cries of shame from opposi

capacity across the south—east and two of the east airports are working somewhat underca pacity, gatwick at maximum capacity, so look at it in that context. but the tests put forward by the select committee are very important and they should be the main consideration. that was jeremy corbyn. well, we've been hearing from voices for and against the proposals to expand the airport. andrew teacher is the former head of media for heathrow and is in favour of the plans despite the impact it may have on local residents. ultimately, there will be a lot of people— and that is a matter of fa ct, people— and that is a matter of fact, a lot of people, not anything else, that a large part of the community is employed by it. i would also wager that the airport was there before many of the people who live there. that is not meant to undermine the arguments. of course, there is a major concern around climate risk and nobody would wish to lessen that argument, but ultimately technology is improving, and people are still going to fly, whether we build the airport at heathrow or somewhere else. people are

we are not talking about a battle between the likes of heathrow and gatwick, we are talking about a battlede gaulle in paris for example. they are talking about other nations taking trade away and when you are looking at china for example, a big trading partnerfor the uk, they are currently building about 50 new airports which will come online many years before a new ru nway come online many years before a new runway could ever be built here. thank you very much. and we'll find out how the debate about the expansion of heathrow airport and other stories , are covered in tomorrow's front pages at the later time of 10:50 and 11:30 tonight, because of world cup coverage, in the papers. our guestsjoining me this evening are caroline wheeler, who's deputy political editor at the sunday times, and jessica elgot, political correspondent for the guardian. the government has refused to back a £1.3 billion tidal lagoon project in swansea bay on cost grounds. the company behind the scheme wanted subsidies similar to those for new nuclear power to build the lagoon. announcement in the commons. the cos

should be a new airport entirely, perhaps somewhere towards the south coast, or maybe an expansion of gatwickrs, it has proved a very divisive solution. in the end, mps have voted to approve a third runway at heathrow. they have also tried to ensure mps who were concerned about the environmental impact, but that could be diminished by the use of new technology coming into aircraft but also changing the way the flight patterns workm and that could diminish the impact this will have on residents in that part of london, but this is controversial, even though mps have approved it, because there are fewer major capital cities in the world with its main hub airport so close to the centre of the city, in such a populated area, and i think the concerns about the impact this is going to have on residents in that bit of london, on the environment, they are going to continue even once the bulldozers have moved in. rescue divers in thailand are searching for a group of children believed to have been trapped in a flooded cave in the north of the country since saturday. twelve children aged between 11 and

but they are trying to do is embed an airport the size of gatwick and to put it into effectively thehetically quieter planes, there are still projecting a vast number of people will be impacted, not shown clearly in the mps, but in the information request, and will be 400,000 people who are already significantly impacted by noise and with double the number of flights within two years. the environmental concerns are enormous as well. we talk about them a lot. on that point, i asked the chief executive about air pollution and he said he was 100% confident that air pollution targets would all be met, that they would not be an issue and when it came to noise, he did talk about a lot of projects and schemes that would be put in place to minimise noise disruption including soundproofing homes and schools and all those issues and he said it would be restrictions on night flights. very strict timings. do you not have confidence? the night flight not have confidence? the night flight ban is six and a half hours. the world health organisation recommends eight hours and the select committee says

should be a new airport entirely, perhaps somewhere towards the south coast, or maybe the expansion of gatwicka solution. this has been talked about for years, it has proved a very divisive solution. but finally, mps have voted, in the end, overwhelmingly, to give the approval for a third runway at heathrow. they've also tried to ensure mps who were concerned about the environmental impact, that that could be diminished by the use of new technology coming into aircraft but also changing the way that flight patterns work, and that could diminish the impact this will have on residents in that part of london, but this is very controversial, even though mps have approved it, because there are few major capital cities in the world with its main hub airport so close to the centre of the city, in such a populated area, and i think the concerns about the impact this is going to have on residents in that bit of london, on the environment, they're going to continue even once the bulldozers have moved in. also making news today: thousands of iranians have taken to the streets of tehran in the biggest ant

. —— gatwick. in the end, mps have voted to approve a third runway at heathrow.o tried to ensure mps who were concerned about the environmental impact, but that could be diminished by the use of new technology coming into aircraft but also changing the way the flight patterns work and that could diminish the impact this will have on residents in that part of london, but this is a controversial, even though mps have approved it, because there are fewer major capital cities in the world with its main hub airport so close to the centre of the city, in such a populated area, andi the city, in such a populated area, and i think the concerns about the impact this is going to have on residents in that bit of london, on the environment, they are going to continue even once the bulldozers have moved in. also making news today: thousands of iranians have taken to the streets of tehran in the biggest anti—government protests since 2012. protesters are calling for iran to end its foreign interventions in syria and elsewhere, to concentrate on the economic crisis at home. rio

having said that, why not expand elsewhere like at gatwick?xpanding international conductivity wherever there is a need to do that, given where the uk is at the moment. the important thing to realise about heathrow is, it is a global hub, so releasing capacity then not only releases capacity out of heathrow, but it frees up domestic conductivity as well. with heathrow for nearly a decade now we have seen an intuition of domestic conductivity from heathrow to areas like scotland and northern ireland. investing in capacity there will have impacts all over the country. mike spicer, thank you for your time. you're watching business live, our top story: the turkish president erdogan has secured another term in office and assumes sweeping new powers. a quick look at how markets are faring. the trading session in europe has been under way for 45 minutes. germany down almost 1%. london and france also down. this follows a day of losses in asia, a concern of rhetoric of firing from the us to china and back. and now let's get the inside track on the way

i would support a fourth and fifth runway, actually, at heathrow, and at gatwick. 8,000 to 10,000 peoplecibly removed from their community. also on this programme: as the scottish parliament breaks for its summer recess, our scotland political editor gives us his end of term report. and at prime minister's questions jeremy corbyn taunts theresa may over her cabinet brexit splits which he reckons are giving big business the collywobbles. the real risk to jobs in our country is a prime minister who is having to negotiate round—the—clock with her own cabinet to stop it falling apart. he's got a decision to make. he can either back business or he can try to overthrow capitalism, he can't do both. and i'll be reporting from the new exhibition telling the story of women in parliament. but first, mps have backed the government's decision to press ahead with the expansion of heathrow airport. the move was approved by big government majority of 296. since a third runway was first mooted, more than 15 years ago, the plans have been mired in controversy. with campaigns from local residents over the

a noose i don't think it's very well the government's position is they should remain illegal and gatwick up north and. thank you and now we're going to go straight to yemen where the government arms sales we just mentioned according to u.n. report are having a catastrophic effect joining me now from the country's capital sanaa is journalist hussain of the country saying welcome back to going underground we just talked to the british foreign office they've told us that britain is indeed involved in the targeting of aerial bombardment of yemen what's your understanding of the latest fighting in yemen's main port city of today are the saudis the coalition the united arab emirate we believe that they have got a green light from. the united states and from the u.k. to advance toward the day and if you see them up of human cost to the advanced they just advanced in there in the coast. of yemen they only control about five to ten kilometers of the coast because they just want to reach a day that they want to put her data port back on the map and i think they know that her data is so vital for t

the company runs services on the thameslink, great northern and southern routes , as well as the gatwickd his resignationm was a shame when someone loses their job isn‘t it? at the same time i used to be able to get the strain to and from my two destinations and now i have to take about two different trains. the changes they've made are not working. so i think yes, it would be good, it's good news today actually. group chief executive david brown said he would like to thank charles for his hard work for the past 15 years. under often challenging conditions. charles burton said that like —— right times to have leadership to a new pair of hands. i read his resignation letter and the one word i did not see was sorry. sorry to all the passengers and commuters and businesses in our towns. charles presided over last month botched timetable and that chaos came on the bobby to your industrial dispute. the rmt union says they should lose their franchise. i think it's grossly unfair that they get to continue making money out of this after being responsible for that debacle that has led people to e

there have been so many short—term disruptions that thameslink, including southern, gatwick, great northernme through this station. because of that, they say they will withdraw 165 services from the timetable in the short—term. they say this will avoid the last minute cancellations which are proving so difficult and disruptive to people when they turn up disruptive to people when they turn up at the station and find their train is cancelled. they say they can train is cancelled. they say they ca n allow train is cancelled. they say they can allow a service that is easier to plan around. we will talk to them later to see whether that plan has actually worked. disruption in the north of england as well. yes. services affecting parts of manchester, liverpool, blackpool. more than 2000 services in the last fortnight have been cancelled via northern rail. and today, another emergency timetable. 116 services also being removed from the timetable. it has been a very, very disruptive period of time for travellers in that part of the country as well. and the labour mp for wigan has been telling us a

if you look at the latest october 2017 report that the government published, it shows gatwick as a highertry. it is time to move from a hub strategy to point regional strategy, we need a 215t—century strategy, we need a 215t—century strategy for the whole country. do you want to be the next conservative mayor of london? i am happy representing my constituents at the moment. would you like to be? i am not particularly thinking about it, at the at the moment the main thing i have in my mind is by stopping the uk from pursuing a highly competitive aviation strategy. it worries me that we are an island without an airport strategy, we need one but it needs to be the right one, not on harking back to the 215t—century. one, not on harking back to the 21st-century. denise richards in wiltshire has got in touch, she is for a third runway, and john elkin lives under the flight path in chiswick in west london and is against. john, what impact would it have on you? a group it already has a fantastic impact. —— have on you? a group it already has a fantastic impact. -- it already has a fantastic impac

are more services running on a day—to—day basis than before the timetable change and southern and gatwickices are performing well on some routes but not all. gtr are not currently able to deliver all planned services on thameslink and great northern roots. in order to give passengers more confidence, gtr are moving services in advance from their timetable rather than on the day and reducing we can services to pre—may level. this will take place until a full replanning of driver resorting has been completed. while i expect to see stable timetables restored on both networks in the coming days, i expect the full may timetable and all those extra trains to be introduced in stages over the coming months to ensure that it can this time be delivered properly. once the full service is operating on gtr, 2a thameslink trains will run through central london every hour. 80 more stations will have access to central london stations such as faringdon and blackfriars by next year. there will be 150 new trains, more than 1000 new carriages providing faster, more frequent and reliable journeys for passenge

gatwick and heathrow are working at the moment at pretty well maximum capacity.able limits. thank you forjoining us. i guess you will pick on whatjeremy corbyn said sailor is a way to go yet.” would say we have not seen any evidence, either in the government's state m e nts evidence, either in the government's statements today or in the mountain of documentation that has been produced on this issue in recent yea rs produced on this issue in recent years that this expansion would be compatible with what we are trying to do on climate change. heathrow is already the uk's biggest single source of carbon emissions. it is sitting right in an area that regularly preaches legal air pollution limits and we don't think it's possible to be confident that thoseissues it's possible to be confident that those issues can be addressed going forward. how much of that air pollution is down to the plains and how much is down to the cars queueing to get to the airport? do we have a figure? no but possibly heathrow does, as i understand. the particular breakdown is difficult to iden

thinking, this isn't really the right place to expand another major international airport the size of gatwick? no, let's not forget that we got to the stage that we were at in 2009 the stage that we were at in 2009 the new labour government then supporting expansion of heathrow and parliament gave a general expression of support to heathrow then as well. that was in january 2009. of support to heathrow then as well. that was injanuary 2009. so we are only back to that stage. and about 12 months after the previous parliamentary vote in support of heathrow expansion plans were thrown out at the high court. and we will certainly be expecting that to happen again. i know that some local authorities and greenpeace have already got their legal papers ready to serve on this proposal, should that be necessary. so, actually, it is going to be quite frankly a very long time, if ever, that there will be any spades in the ground on this issue. robert barnstone, thank you very much. and just to remind you that we are expecting to hear from the transport secretary, if chris grayling, at half past 12. john