travel in future after video appeared to show a man racially abusing a black woman on a flight to stanstedrt. and click meets the man who launched the level landed a space probe on an asteroid. good afternoon. the brexit secretary dominic raab has said that any agreement to allow an extended brexit transition should be instead of, not as well as, a "backstop" to avoid the return to border checks in ireland. the 2i—month transition is currently expected to end on 31 december 2020. mr raab says an extension would only be for around three months. 0ur political correspondent tom barton reports. what we want? people's vote, when to be wanted, now! people's vote, when to be wanted, now! a day after hundreds of thousands of anti—brexit campaigners took to the streets to call for another referendum, today, the focus is back on theresa may. suggestions that a leadership challenge could be imminent, backbenchers warning that her administration cannot function. but as brexit negotiations intensified, a warning from the man in charge of speaking to the eu that the conservative party needs to pull toge

the incident, on a flight from barcelona to stansted on friday, was recorded by a fellow passenger andhared on social media. many people said ryanair should have removed the man from the flight and have threatened to boycott the airline. ryanair said it "will not tolerate unruly behaviour like this". let's talk to david lawrence, who was on the flight returning from a business trip and filmed what happened... thank you very much for your time

flights to washington and new york due to leave stansted on monday night were grounded and passengersport on tuesday. the new owners of house of fraser has sacked its senior management just weeks after it bought the uk department store chain. sports direct paid $117 millon for house of fraser's 58 uk stores in august. the move followed "calls for an investigation" into the retailer's collapse, a statement added. those departing the chain will include chief executive alex williamson. over to india, where the government has stepped in to rescue an infrastructure development and finance firm, which started to default on a $13 billion debt pile. our india business reporter devina gupta joins us now from delhi. just tell us more about the situation, who has been bailed out by the indian government? so it is a 30—year—old company which has been known for lending to projects of highways, roadways, waterways, and had shareholding from a japanese investment firm and also from abu dhabi investment firm, and tens of thousands of indian investors have been putting money through mutual funds, and

it was running flights primarily for the uk, from stansted, birmingham, until august, and primarily forthe airline busy when announced it was good to start running transatlantic routes. it is a budget airline, running transatlantic routes. it is a budgetairline, a running transatlantic routes. it is a budget airline, a small airline, it had roughly ten aircraft, it isn't about reiner, it has around the 400 mark of aircraft. easyjet close to 300. so it was small, and ran about 90 routes, but it basically went for a very ambitious business plan, which was to take on the likes of norwegian, which is now running cheap flights across a budget, but ultimately it failed. so this ambitious business plan is what has gone wrong? essentially, yeah. the airline has blend tonight, firstly that it cannot finance its long—term plans, —— the airline has blamed. so it was ticking on the likes of norwegian, but it could not secure long—term financing, and on top of that, it blames the fact that a fleet of new aircraft from airbus arrived late, which caused the airline to basically have two release of air

it shows an argument between two passengers on a ryanair flight from barcelona to stansted last fridayd for that at all. just stop. this man then becomes racially abusive to 77—year—old mrs gale, who sat next to him. david lawrence filmed it on his phone. i was expecting to see the cavalry turn up, the police, for them to escort him off the flight, for him to be arrested, charged, locked up, everything, like i often see happen to other passengers who do this. none of that was done. he was allowed to travel to his destination. rya nair's chief executive, michael o'leary, has been doing interviews this morning on the company's falling profits but the company has refused to comment further on friday's incident because they've handled the matter over to essex police. transport secretary chris grayling said authorities should be involved. what we saw was totally u na cce pta ble. the fact is, abuse, racist abuse of that kind is a crime. if a crime is committed, it should be dealt with appropriately and therefore i would hope, notwithstanding what took place on that day, that the police woul

basically started running flights primarily from the uk, from stansted, birmingham until august.hester to destinations around europe but in may the airline basically announced it was going to start running transatlantic routes. it's a budget airline, a smallairline, transatlantic routes. it's a budget airline, a small airline, it had roughly ten aircraft if you think about ryanair, it has around 400. easyj et close about ryanair, it has around 400. easyjet close to 300. it was small, it ran about 90 routes but one for a very ambitious business plan which was to take on the likes of norwegian which are running cheap flights across the atlantic now. ultimately failed. this ambitious business plan is what has gone wrong. essentially, yes. the airline has blamed tonight firstly that it cannot finance is long—term plan so basically it was taken on the lights of norwegian but it could not basically secure long—term financing and on top of that explains blames the fact that a fleet of new airbus arrived late in that cause the airline to basically have to lease other aircraft or cancelle

involved after an elderly black woman was racially abused on a ryanair flight from barcelona to stanstedirline has been criticised for failing to remove the passenger from a flight, after the abuse of the woman. here's an edited version of what happened. i'll tell you that if you don't go to another seat i will push you. sta rt, to another seat i will push you. start, there is no need for that. just stop. while the incident was reported to police, the airline has faced calls for a boycott, after footage of the incident was uploaded to social media and viewed almost two million times. the video was filmed by a fellow passenger, david lawrence. he explained what happened shortly after he boarded the aircraft. i heard a loud shout behind me, "get out of my way, you are in my way". i turned around, as you would. i saw this man standing over this woman basically shouting abuse at her, saying that she is in his way. i then looked around to see if there was going to be any response from anyone. her daughter, who was sitting a bit further behind, came down to defend her mother. as you can see in

this passenger — who wishes to remain anonymous — was on the same flight from barcelona to stansted,ng out. it was wrong on social media when somebody commented that nobody else did anything, everyone just sat there. that wasn't the case. there were a lot of people who were intervening and who were supporting the lady and requesting that the racist gentleman stop using such appalling language. that lady should not have been addressed in the way that she was by a rather sad, rather angry, rather threatened elderly gentleman who was sat, hoping that the world would just leave him alone in his window seat. i'm not sure that ryanair could have done anything more at the time. the flight attendants did everything that they could. had they called the spanish police, i was told by another flight attendant it would have meant the flight, which had already been delayed by about an hour, the off—boarding of the gentleman and all the paperwork would have taken a couple of hours and i cannot believe that the hundred plus passengers would have been any happier with that outcome. that was one passe

flights to washington and new york due to leave stansted on monday night were grounded and passengers. here is our transport correspondent tom burridge. maras started in 2003, probably a scandinavian version of thomas cook chartered flights. —— primera started in 2003. it changed its business plan, which ultimately went wrong. it was running flights primarily from the uk, for example from sta nsted and primarily from the uk, for example from stansted and birmingham until august, and from manchester, to destinations around europe. but in mavi outline basically announced it would start running a transatlantic routes. it is a small outline which had roughly ten aircraft. ryanair has around the 400 mark, easyjet close to 300. it was small, it ran about 90 routes and went for a very ambitious business plan which was to ta ke ambitious business plan which was to take on the likes of norwegian, which are running cheap flights across the atlantic, but ultimately it failed. mike ashley's firm has sacked the senior management at house of fraserjust weeks after it bought the department store cha

it shows an argument between two passengers on a ryanair flight from barcelona to stansted last friday this man then becomes racially abusive to 77—year—old mrs gale, who sat next to him. david lawrence filmed it on his phone. i was expecting to see the cavalry turn up, the police, for them to escort him off the flight, for him to be arrested, charged, locked up, everything, like i often see happen to other passengers who do this. none of that was done. he was allowed to travel to his destination. rya nair's chief executive, michael o'leary, has been doing interviews this morning on the company's falling profits but the company has refused to comment further on friday's incident because they've handled the matter over to essex police. transport secretary chris grayling said authorities should be involved. what we saw was totally u na cce pta ble. the fact is, abuse, racist abuse of that kind is a crime. if a crime is committed, it should be dealt with appropriately and therefore i would hope, notwithstanding what took place on that day, that the police would want to take action in such

flights to washington and new york due to leave stansted on monday night were grounded and passengerspavithra priyadarshini arrived at washington's dulles airport hoping to get a flight back to stansted last night. earlier she told victoria derbyshire she's now stranded. icame to i came to check in my luggage, and there was a signboard saying that flights had been cancelled. how did you react? i was completely broken. ididn't you react? i was completely broken. i didn't know what to do. until now, i don't know what i'm going to do. i'm just sitting in the airport. i've tried to contact other airlines, i thought, first, at first i tried to contact them, and the network was completely down, all sulawesi's support is not an action now. i do not know what to do. i've tried united, british airways, everyone. they are demanding a huge amount of money. two or $3000. let's speak to our transport correspondent who is with me now. is it clear how many people are affected? it's not, but at least hundreds, we have spoken to people stuck in places like washington, paris, malaga, trying to get back

police which shows one of its passengers being racially abusive to a black woman on board a flight to stansted the travel show. coming up this week: free entry into london's best buildings. some are a little unusual. the vanishing language on the faroe islands. seeing the deep south by car and the black forest by train. and the scottish porridge wars. it's purists versus hipsters in the land of milk and honey. no prizes for guessing where i am this week. london has some of europe's most recognisable architecture, even when it's covered in scaffolding. each year, many of the capital's most magnificent buildings open their doors to the public for the annual open house. 2018 is their biggest event yet, with over 800 venues to explore, and i've come to fitzrovia to visit one of this year's most striking openings. from the top of this tower of technology, you get the best view of london there has ever been. the bt tower was opened in 1965, and for over a decade it was london's tallest building. standing at more than 600 feet, it was built to carry telecommunications all across the uk, and in true ‘

police which shows one of its passengers being racially abusive to a black woman on board a flight to stanstedirport. the click team meet the japan scientists who landed moving rovers on to the surface of a 1km—wide asteroid. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me arejoe twyman, director of deltapoll, and henry zeffman, political correspondent for the times. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the financial leads on president trump's decision to withdraw from the intermediate nuclear forces treaty, with moscow warning that the move is "dangerous" for global security. the independent‘s front page is an exclusive, that claims more than 40,000 flats across the uk have a systemic structural flaw that puts them at risk of collapse. it comes from research done in the wake of the grenfell tower disaster. the metro reports on the attacks made by conservative mps on theresa may, after she conceded the uk's transition period out of the eu could be extended "by a matter of months". the times says things could get even worse for the pri

shows one of its passengers allegedly being racially abusive to a black woman on board a flight to stanstedd forfailing to remove the man from the plane on friday. the actress selma blair has revealed that she has multiple sclerosis. the 46—year—old star of cruel intentions and legally blonde said she had probably been experiencing symptoms for 15 years but was only formally diagnosed in august. hundreds of central american migrants have managed to enter mexico, despite efforts by the authorities there to prevent them from continuing theirjourney towards the united states. mexican police are transporting hundreds mostly women and children, back to honduras after they managed to block the caravan of migrants — but many more crossed the river which marks the border with guatemala using makeshift rafts, after police stopped them from crossing the frontier bridge. the bbc‘s ana gabriela rojas is travelling with the group who have now made it into mexico, shejoins us now live. wellcome. just explain the background to this. why these migrants have left their home country and what they're hoping a

airport, could be fog around luton, sta nsted, heathrow, bear that airport, could be fog around luton, stanstedext few days, we have had a lot worse. enjoy it while it lasts. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. could it take even longer for the uk to completely leave the european union? the eu says it is ready to extend the length of the post—brexit transition period if the uk wants to. but theresa may has come under pressure from across her party after suggesting she's prepared to consider delaying the uk's departure from the eu. what i have heard from leaders around the table over the last since i arrived here in brussels yesterday is a very real sense that people want the deal to be done. the us treasury secretary pulls out of an investment conference in saudi arabia, but the white house is giving riyadh more time to investigate what happened to a saudi journalist. and we'll hear from lyse doucet in kabul, where violence has escalated ahead of the crucial parliamentary elections on saturday.

the incident, on a flight from barcelona to stansted on friday, was recorded by a fellow passenger andd ryanair should have removed the man from the flight and have threatened to boycott the airline. ryanair said it "will not tolerate unruly behaviour like this". earlier i spoke to david lawrence who filmed the footage on the flight from barcelona on friday — some of the audio is poor quality. i was with a friend on a business trip from barcelona flying with ryanair, and it was friday the 19th of october. it was around three o'clock in the afternoon. i arrived on the flight, i arrived at my seat, the lady and her daughter were behind me. she needed special assistance because she was in a wheelchair. she took a seat, two rows behind me and her daughter was further behind. i made myself comfortable, and then passengers were still coming on the flight. i heard a man's voice behind me shout at the woman, "move right now or else i'll move you." i turned around, i turned around, and the man was standing over the elderly woman shouting and telling her to get out of the way because he wanted t

police which shows one of its passengers being racially abusive to a black woman on board a flight to stansted. now, joe crowley reveals how the salmon—farming industry's demand for live wrasse has made it the most valuable fish in europe in inside out: south. hello, it is the fish causing a south—west coast gold rush but is everybody taking —— playing fair. never give up, the egyptologist determined to continue and lifetime‘s work. determined to continue and lifetime's work. i thought i would never be here again for couldn't see it could be possible. she really defied the gods. how stonehenge nearly came a cropper. it could be a private monument. they could have demolished it, who knows. first, start with a question. what is the uk's most expensive fish now? salmon, cod? chances are you'll have never heard of it and i bet you have never heard of it and i bet you have never tasted one. as we have been finding out, there is massive demand for it right now. perfect habitat for it right now. perfect habitat for them. in recent years, new fishery has opened up on the south coast. the target specie

the man wasn't removed from the flight as it prepared to leave barcelona to return to stansted airporte. chichi izundu reports. i will tell you this, if you don't go to another seat, i will push you to another seat. this video has now been viewed more than 4.5 million times on facebook and more than 3 million on twitter. it shows an argument between two passengers on a ryanair flight from barcelona to stansted last friday. stop. there's no need for that at all. just stop. this man then becomes racially abusive to 77—year—old mrs gale, who sat next to him. david lawrence filmed it on his phone. i was expecting to see the cavalry turn up, the police, for them to escort him off the flight, for him to be arrested, charged, locked up, everything, like i often see happen to other passengers who do this. none of that was done. he was allowed to travel to his destination. rya nair‘s chief executive, michael 0'leary, has been doing interviews this morning on the company's falling profits but the company has refused to comment further on friday's incident because they've handled the matter over

two flights to washington and new york due to leave stansted have been grounded.covered on a beach near portsmouth. it isn't clear where the microplastics have come from, but experts warn they can release toxins with potentially devastating effects for marine life or indeed any creatures on land which consume them. a team of local volunteers has taken matters into its own hands, as our correspondent duncan kennedy reports from hayling island beach. they're called nurdles — tiny plastic pellets that are washed up in their thousands on hayling island. so many, in fact, that volunteers here collected more than 20 sacks full of them. ..millions of them, and we couldn't physically sit here and pick them all up... despite that, one volunteer, bianca carr, says the nurdles keep appearing. and to give you an idea ofjust how bad the problem is here, take a look at this jar. in one small section of beach, two meters by two meters, one volunteer spent two hours collecting all these and found a total of about 1,000 of these nurdles. no one knows where these tiny white beads h

flights to washington and new york due to leave stansted on monday night were grounded and passengersirm sports direct has sacked the senior management at house of fraserjust weeks after it bought the chain. in a one—sentence statement, sports direct said it had "dismissed the former directors and senior management of house of fraser". those departing the chain will include chief executive alex williamson. it is not clear who will replace the management team at house of fraser. toyota motor europe chiefjohan van zyl has said a brexit without a deal would affect the firm's investment decisions. the uk is on course to leave the european union in march next year, but the two sides have yet to strike a deal. mr van zyl told the bbc if the firm is unable to sell into the eu market duty free, it will harm its uk operations. it's all change at the top of house of fraser. mike ashley's sports direct has announced it's sacking house of fraser's management team. mr ashley has vowed to turn the department store chain into the "harrods of the high street" and to keep most of its stores open. so i

the incident, on a flight from barcelona to stansted on friday, was recorded by a fellow passenger and the flight and have threatened to boycott the airline. ryanair said it "will not tolerate unruly behaviour like this". david lawrence who filmed the footage on the flight from barcelona on friday — spoke to us about what he witnessed. i tell you this. i will push you... everybody was calm. we were getting ready to take off and then a man came on board and arrived at his seat and then spoke very harshly to eat women who were sitting in the aisle seat. that is what got my attention because it was very loud and aggressive. i turned round and he started used shout at the women, seeing move out of the way, move your feet, you should not be sitting here. next thing i knew, a lady came from the back who was the woman's daughter and from the back who was the woman's daughterand an argument from the back who was the woman's daughter and an argument started. she was telling this man, do not speak to my mother like that. and what use are on the video took place. it was disgusting exchange of rac

the incident, on a flight from barcelona to stansted on friday, was recorded by a fellow passenger andpeople said ryanair should have removed the man from the flight and have threatened to boycott the airline. ryanair said it "will not tolerate unruly behaviour like this". david lawrence who filmed the footage on the flight from barcelona on friday — spoke to us about what he witnessed. we were getting ready to take off and then a man came on a man came on board and arrived at his seat, and spoken very harshly to a woman that was sitting in the aisle seat. that's what caught my attention. very loud and very aggressive, and i turned around and even started to shout at the woman saying get out of the way, you move your feet you should not be sitting here, that sort of thing. next thing i knew, a lady came from the back who was the woman paused my daughter and an argument started. she was telling this man, don't speak my mother like that, and then what you saw on the video took place. just a disgusting exchange of racial slurs. the young man who actually intervened, he was sitting directl

cobalt flew to 23 destinations and operated flights to and from heathrow, stansted, gatwick and manchesterion site says amazon employees opened ebay accounts to use the internal mailing system to contact sellers and tempt them into swapping platforms. we've had some retail figures out this morning and they show a drop — this follows a surge over the summer. 0verall sales dropped by 0.8% in september, a fall fed in large part by food. it was a freak summer but now that the good weather has gone and we're no longer having as many barbecues, food sales saw their steepest drop in three years in september, dropping 1.5%. the retail expert catherine shuttleworth gave us her forecast for what these figures mean for embattled high street retailers. the figures show there has been a drop since august but it was a huge august. we were buying an awful lot of food. actually year—on—year the figures are up 3.8% and what the figures are up 3.8% and what the figures do tell us today is that a massive increase in that is online. i think that's a story we will see continued through the christmas but we wil

the stansted 15 are not criminals.he cps to see sense and drop the charges against them. conference, the hypocrisy that those who celebrate suffer just conference, the hypocrisy that those who celebrate sufferjust an anti—apartheid activist in one breath could then turn their backs on those who fight for human rights todayis on those who fight for human rights today is breathtaking. we should be under no illusions. no illusions that our civil liberties and our freedom to protest are under threat. from those who oppose the environmental vandalism of high—speed rail to those fighting against new open cast mines. today we stand on the shoulders of so many giants and we stand today on the shoulders of the three men who last week were jailed for their opposition to fracking. richard roberts, simon berghan 's, richard rees you are on the right side of history. you are on the right side of history, and you have our deepest thanks and gratitude. you are environmental rights defenders and today we say that fracking must be bann

two flights to washington and new york due to leave stansted have been grounded.men" has been suspended with immediate effect from working with the scientific research centre, cern. professor alessandro strumia, a theoretical physicist from pisa university, was speaking at a workshop on sexism in science. he also said that male scientists produce better research than females. the organisers have described the comments as highly offensive. dr sheila kanani is a planetary scientist and education outreach and diversity officer at the royal astronomical society. i asked her what she made of professor strumia's comments. it is quite mind blowing that he could come across saying things like that. we've got so much evidence of women being integral to physics over the years, the many, many years it has sort of been around, you know, from women astronomers thousands of yea rs from women astronomers thousands of years ago to all the amazing women that it so much work hundreds of yea rs that it so much work hundreds of years ago when they still had to pretend that maybe thei

anglia services between broxbourne and stansted airport because of a faulty train. hello, good morning. a rather blustery day of weather today. storm callu m blustery day of weather today. storm callum is affecting mostly the western pa rt of callum is affecting mostly the western part of the country but still strong gusts around at times. we're staying in the warm air, pleasa ntly warm we're staying in the warm air, pleasantly warm for this time of year, some afternoon brightness but also early rain around mostly affecting western home counties through the morning but we could still see showery outbreaks creeping into central and eastern areas for a time before clearing north to leave us time before clearing north to leave us with a dry afternoon, and probably brightening up as well. the brightness best to the gusts of wind, 40—45 mph in the afternoon, and up to bring down branches of trees and possibly cause further disruption but top temperatures in the best of the brightness, 20 or 21. through this evening and overnight, it is going to stay windy but it will be

flights to washington and new york due to leave stansted on monday night were grounded and passengerstuesday. adam mosseri has been named the new head of photo—sharing giant instagram. it comes a week after the firm's cofounders resigned, offering little explanation for their exit. mr mosseri began his career as a designer and joined facebook — which purchased instagram in 2012 — a decade ago. over to india, where the government has stepped in to rescue an infrastructure development and finance firm, which started to default on a $13 billion debt pile. it would seem it is too big to fail. 0ur india business reporter devina gupta joins us now from delhi. devina, can you describe how big a story this is in india, because it has been described as india's lehman? it has made it to the front page of the newspapers because this is the second time the indian government has had to step in to rescue a private firm, il&fs, infrastructure leasing & financial services, which has been funding infrastructure projects, railways and so on in the country, for the past 30 years, and is now looking at a

the carrier, which flies to cyprus from heathrow, gatwick, stansted and manchester, has suspended operationsd to reach a deal with a potential new investor. the duke and duchess of sussex are continuing their 16—day tour of australia with a trip to melbourne today. during their first official trip, the couple are focusing their attention on youth projects and environmental issues. sydney correspondent hywel griffith is in melbourne. they are focusing on worthy issues, but lots of people will notice they're getting a lot of baby gifts as well from the people they're seeing? absolutely. at the start of the week we talked about a few extra cases of presents, maybe a second plane when they eventually leave australia in a couple of weeks. the first people came here at 5am to get the best spot and in the botanical gardens. by the time they got there, there were hundreds if not over 1000 people. many of them well—wishers to bring those gifts. the walkabout took some time, many handshakes, a few coaches, no five—year—old boys today my guest today but the world tour went through the city and after me

flights to washington and new york due to leave stansted on monday night were grounded and passengersne is that pleased, a few people are carping. the gmb, the union do well commit obviously but they say given their owner is the richest man in the world you would think he could see fit to dig a little deeper. and also, they say it isa a little deeper. and also, they say it is a start. now they are paying the living wage, maybe amazon could pay their taxes to and do something to improve the horrendous working conditions in their warehouses. it seems there's more they would require. the interesting thing is what it's going to do to amazon as a country. joining us now is samira hussain, our north america business correspondent. what is it going to do to amazon as far as investors are concerned? clearly a lot of efforts were made by groups in the united states, by the fight for 15 movement something we've covered on this programme a lot. if you look at the overall us economy, we are seeing lot. if you look at the overall us economy, we are seeing that the unemployment rate is below 4%. th

so i got up to stansted airport.late, at which point i burst into tears and said, told the lady i had to get on that fight because my daughter was really ill. she went away, said i was on the flight, it is ok. i waited at the gate and we we re is ok. i waited at the gate and we were told there was a six hour delay. the plane actually left at midnight rather than at six o'clock as was originally scheduled. and venue had to take a call from now deem while you are in the airport is telling you that you were not going to make it in time. yes. so, he called me and said, she is going to go completely in the next minute, maybe two. you have to say goodbye to her right now, right now, quickly. iam putting the say goodbye to her right now, right now, quickly. i am putting the phone by her ears so she can hear you. if she can hear you, she will hear you. that is when i said goodbye to her. asi that is when i said goodbye to her. as i finished, hejust said thank you, hope up to then call up and speak to her brother who would al

primera launched budget transatlantic flights from stansted in may of this year, despite encouragingust ceased contact, ceased operation. not let anyone know, not refunding anyone by the looks of it and i'm just going to have to find a new flight, | just going to have to find a new flight, i guess. primera said it had been unable to secure long—term funding. it also blamed the late arrival of aircraft from airbus. this is a tragedy of course. for thousands of passengers who were stranded and wondering how to get home, and tens of thousands who are wondering how they are going to get their money back from advanced bookings. but it's also i'm afraid bad news first instead as once again another attempt to operate transatlantic flights has failed spectacularly. passengers who travel out will have to make their own arrangements to return to the uk. those with travel insurance may get some cash assistance, but replacement flights are likely to be expensive. the 2018 paris motor show is underway where car industry executives are gathering at a critical time. those potential us tariffs threat

cobalt flew to 23 destinations and operated flights at heathrow, stansted, gatwick and manchester. accounts to use the internal mailing system to contact sellers to tempt them into swapping platforms. unilever‘s sales are picking up, thanks, in part, to a warm summer across europe which boosted sales of food and ben and jerry's ice cream in particular. but could retail be about to freeze over? we've just had some figures in for retail in the uk in september. they show a drop, this follows a surge over the summer. catherine shuttleworth, retail expert and ceo at savvy, joins me from our studio in leeds. let's start with these figures from unilever. it is a global company but it seems to be following the trends we are seeing more generally. absolutely. they are benefited from that warm summer. their ice cream sales have rocketed. they also have their brazilian business back on track. they are also seeing this slowdown in spending and lack of confidence with consumers. reading across from that, what would —— what should we be looking at whether comes to resale in the uk? the headlines

the carrier, which flies to cyprus from heathrow, gatwick, stansted and manchester, has suspended operationseeted by thousands of well—wishers on the third day of their official 16—day tour of australia. the couple met members of the public during a visit to melbourne before going on to meet youngsters involved in sporting and environmental projects. the couple then headed down to melbourne beach where they learnt about efforts to minimise threats to wildlife. that's a summary of the latest bbc news. thank you very much. here is the sport now with chris. ben morgan is in the training squad for eddie jones. lots of injuries. danny cipriani does not make the squad. more news on that later. the sale of wembley is off. shahid khan withdraws his £600 million offer to buy the london stadium. england beat sri lanka in yet another rain—delayed one dayer in kandy. ben stokes smashing the winning runs. england two up with two to play. and how about this from wayne rooney? a 35—yard free kick for dc united against toronto. they are now six in the eastern conference in the mls. his tenth goal in the mls

travel calls for contactless travel on jukes, trains and buses to be extended to include luton, stanstedly care crisis. they help each other to live independently and avoid expensive care home fees. it's housing with built—in social connections. it's about a way of group living where you choose to live with others around a certain set of core values. and you can see more on that on inside out london tonight at 7:30pm here on bbc 1. let's take a look at the travel situation now. on the tube, not bad. on the roads, there are lots of patches of flooding. this is the a40 at the medway underpass in perivale, it's now re—opened after being closed off earlier. there is no access to the m25 clockwise at junction 10 from the a3, that's because the slip road is flooded. on south western railway, there's no service between shepperton and fulwell because of flooding. there is a limited replacement bus service running. now the weather with kate kinsella. good morning. it's quite a damp start out there this morning, we had some heavy rain overnight. it's clearing away, though, and later should turn a

on the trains, greater anglia and stansted express services via roydon are disrupted following an earlieround about freezing. you could be waking up to a touch of frost, but it will be a bright start with plenty of sunny spells to come through the day. there is the small chance of the odd isolated shower creeping up from the south through the morning, but as we move into the afternoon, a good deal of dry weather, plenty of spells of sunshine. temperatures a little milder than they have been so far this week, a maximum of 13 degrees celsius with a south—easterly breeze. as we move through this evening, however, we will see the cloud increasing from the south, outbreaks of rain spreading in. through the night, heavy bursts with the rain becoming more persistent. temperatures overnight not falling far at all, overnight lows of 7—9 degrees celsius. tomorrow we're looking at a fairly cloudy day, outbreaks of rain will spread east. could be a bit of mist and murk around first thing as well. temperatures still in double figures, a maximum of around 12. friday, however, brings us some dry, bright

flights to washington and new york due to leave stansted on monday night were grounded, and passengerser, just weeks after it bought the department store chain. sports direct paid £90 million for the uk's 58 branches back in august. the company said the dismissals followed calls for an investigation into the circumstances of the retailer's collapse. serious stomach upsets may be one of the greatest obstacles to deep—space travel, according to nasa scientists. new research suggests radiation exposure on a trip to mars or beyond could significantly damage astronauts' internal organs, permanently, and may even lead to cancer. scientists hope medicines which counteract the effects will be developed in the future. all in all that is not a very nice thought for 6:36 all in all that is not a very nice thoughtfor6:36 a.m.. all in all that is not a very nice thought for 6:36 a. m.. who all in all that is not a very nice thought for 6:36 a.m.. who knew that our stomachs could be letting us down? you wouldn't go into space, would you? no, buti down? you wouldn't go into space, would you? no, but

cobalt flew to 23 destinations and operated flights to and from heathrow, stansted, gatwick and manchesterill hit you, like a bolt out of the blue.” street store today it will hit you, like a bolt out of the blue. i knew that. yes, you're not sporting any? but i knew it was trendy. well that has helped asos, boosted their sales by about £500 million, adding 1.3% to its share price today, so it has done very well. lots of other retailers are hoping it will go that way for them as well, it will help their sales. we can find out about asos their sales. we can find out about a505 and other market stories today. laura foll, fund manager for global equity income at janus henderson investors, is here. see my guess, especially considering they are a large retailer in the uk, market cap bigger than marks & spencer '5 —— market cap bigger than marks & spencer 's -- yes, especially considering. really quite impressive. they have a decent chunk of that online clothing market as well now? exactly. the uk has been one of the fastest growing online markets, really well developed in terms of online sales