this is alexandra and this is calder.who are 19 months old but they have two different biological dads. their dads are simon and graeme berney—edwards and they are one of very few british couples who have chosen to fertilise one embryo each during the ivf process, and then have the embryos implanted into a surrogate at the same time. graeme and simon chose to use a surrogate in canada. here she is — 32—year—old meg stone, with simon and graeme and the twins not long after they were born, because the rules in britain are outdated and don t offer many rights to the biological parents. the dads are here to tell us their story in their first ever tv interview and why they think the laws around surrogacy in the uk need to be changed. good morning. we all cool with children. talk us through your family because i had to read this a few times before i got my head around it. they are twins but graham, you are the biological father of calder and simon, you are the biological father of alexandra 7 explain. we went with a couple of d

it is —— calder arctic air. the start of the new week sees things are settling down.blast of arctic air. we are picking up frost and not too much fog. it isn't to be ruled out across southern areas. the breeze comes down will accentuate the cheal. temperatures are lower again on monday because it is cold air we start the day with frost. —— the chill. tuesday, a similar setup. more south—westerly. light winds and a bit of fog. a bit milder. we started the chilly weather and the frost. by wednesday, we are picking up frost. by wednesday, we are picking up the south—westerly as the high becomes established a bit further east. we will start to see temperatures lifting a little bit by day. strengthening sunshine. double figures for many of us. the reason for these changes is thejetstream, is plunging the cold air further south. as it moves towards the north, it allows the ridge of high—pressure pulling in warmer air. hence it started to be less cold. not at night. the nights are still long enough for some frost. it does look drier next week with some sunshine although at t

simon calder, travel editor at the independentjoins me now. so, do we know what the latest is on the stranded passengers across europe? well, when an airline cancels your flight, in europe? well, when an airline cancels yourflight, in europe europe? well, when an airline cancels your flight, in europe you have lots of very good rights. you are entitled to accommodation, meals, and for the airline to buy you a ticket on another carrier if need be. but if your airline has disappeared, as flybmi sadly has, you are on your own. a combination of people who have maybe been away for the weekend and of course i would estimate about 1000, maybe 1500 business travellers, booked to travel on important work missions this morning. they will be scrambling around for alternative flights. so far only one airline has come in with what is called rescue fa res. come in with what is called rescue fares. that is ryanair, the biggest low—cost airline in europe. and that is only on a few routes. so it is going to be tough, it is going to be expensive, and it is goin

joining us now is travel expert simon calder.d by british airways? that is correct. they wa nted airways? that is correct. they wanted their slots at heathrow and staff and aircraft. they weren't interested in the regional subsidiary server company called airline investments took it over hoping to turn it into a flourishing airline that as we have seen, we —— they pump tens of millions of pounds into it and last night, threw in the towel. they have always subsidised, well, the one from derry was always heavily subsidised from the government. to make they were trying to get it done until 2021. they are 110w to get it done until 2021. they are now trying to get someone to operate that important route between the link between northwest and ireland and london. i understand there could be developments in the coming week. meanwhile, people booked on that service and other wines could get rescue fa res. service and other wines could get rescue fares. —— other ones. service and other wines could get rescue fares. -- other ones. ryanair s

simon calder. stay with us, headlines coming up.ir philip green are published in the telegraph — he denies any crime or misconduct. no ships and now no contract — the government cancels a controversial agreement to provide extra ferries in case of a no—deal brexit. counting the cost of knife crime — the number of young victims admitted to hospitals in england has risen by more than 50% in the past five years. it's a big six nations weekend — scotland are top of the table at the moment but can they stay there? we'll have the latest live from murrayfield ahead of the match against ireland. fresh from victory in last night's competition — the uk's new eurovsion entry, michael rice, will be here.

simon calder is travel editor of the independent. good to see you, simon. write the memoirs of the shot, will it go down as a success or failure, do you think? financially, afailure, in failure, do you think? financially, a failure, in terms of passenger preference, absolutely a runaway success preference, absolutely a runaway success but unfortunately the fact that all kinds of passengers, weather business or pleasure, prefer the roomy, comfortable airbus your shot, the economics simply don't stack up and once emirates ridges by far the biggest customer for the jet, buying about half of them, says, we are going to downsize to the airbus a330s and a3, then the game was up. the airbus a330s and a3, then the game was up. we are being told that airlines are preferring smaller and smallerjets, does airlines are preferring smaller and smaller jets, does that airlines are preferring smaller and smallerjets, does that mean the whole, within the aviation industry is now busted 7 whole, within the aviation industry is now busted? no. most certainly they will continu

one orange why do these garments always block because the most ubiquitous color the most popular calder's for garments a black or white why are people offended well actually in truth i think you've offered no evidence to suggest that most people are fed i think very few people are offended but i think the racism industry of course are going to say that if i did it in reality it's a church will make you pull over your face there happens to come in black goodness me it's a ghetto elias turtleneck so black face. france and germany have reached a compromise on the joint russian german gas pipeline project nor trying to solve the reports that paris was ready to derail it well let's go more details now from our reporter shot into penske in paris to charlotte does this mean the project is back on course to meet its late twenty nine team deadline. where there is a suggestion the project could be slightly delayed as a result of this agreement but it does mean that it will still go ahead that soft france it said on thursday that it was actually going to back an e.u. directive that could have comple

i can now talk to travel expert, simon calder.n decision or what people predicted over the last few weeks? as you are hearing, there has been plenty of talks of casualties among the airlines and an extremely difficult winter. basically, there is huge amounts of capacity and passengers are not paying the amounts of cash that airlines need to survive and effectively, they have thrown in the towel. i need to make it absolutely clear because i've had a couple of calls and be boring about this, we are not talking about a significantly bigger airline about 12 times in size which has been having financial problems of its own but it has been rescued bya of its own but it has been rescued by a consortium. but the recognisable name, a last surviving date of bmi, british midland which was bought by british airways about seven was bought by british airways about seve n yea rs was bought by british airways about seven years ago, by the time, british airways said that actually we do not want the regional part, so bmi regional was sold off of th

a short while ago, i spoke to travel expert, simon calder and asked him whether this was a sudden decisionn predicted: there has been plenty of talk of other casualties amongst the airlines in what has been an extremely difficult winter. basically, huge amounts of capacity, as passengers are not paying the amounts of cash that airlines like flybmi need to survive and so effectively they have thrown in the tile. i need to make it absolutely clear, because i have had a couple of calls with people worrying about this, we are not talking about flybe, a significantly larger airline which has been having financial problems of its own but has been rescued effectively by a consortium including virgin atlantique and an american hedge fund, but flybmi, you will recognise the name. it is the last surviving bit of bmi from british midland which was brought by british airways about seven years ago, but at the time they said, we don't want the original part, so bmi regional was sold off, but clearly over those past six years they had not been making anything like the money that is needed, and just from

not orange why do these garments always block because the most ubiquitous color the most popular calder's for garments a block of whites why are people offended well actually in truth i think you've offered no evidence to suggest that most people are fed that i think very few people are offended but i think the racism industry of course they're going to say they're afraid they in reality it's a turtleneck you pull over your face there happens to come in block goodness me you get to get elias turtleneck it's a black face and i think that's how it looks so far this friday for a marquee in moscow where are you off thanks for watching that there are tutors got your next world updated half a. off the old new boom bust. later on. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance and the impact upon all of us i am part film and we're so glad you're on board with those welcome coming up tensions continue to simmer between european neighbors as they as france and italy have a public diplomatic spat arche correspondent charlotte dubinsky brings us up to

not going in why do these garments always block because the most ubiquitous color the most popular calder's for garments a block or white why are people offended well actually in truth i think you've offered no evidence to suggest that most people are fed that i think very few people are offended but i think the racism industry of course they're going to say they're fed they in reality it's a turtleneck you pull over your face there happens to come in block goodness me you get to get elias turtleneck it's a black face. iran's got a plan to secure its trade with europe in the face of punishing american sanctions the foreign minister talks exclusively to r.t. after the break. kind of financial survival job today was all about money laundering first to visit this cash industry different. oh good it's a good start well we have our three banks all set up here maybe something in europe something in america something overseas in the cayman islands it will pull these banks are complicit in their tough talk received a softer did mccoll and say hey i'm ready to do some serious money laundering ok let

the team of thinkers shisha at weren't able to to to or to put on the table we had to change the calders we have to do that afterwards so the e.u. has an influence over the deal even though the trade agreement is just between you and the post bricks of britain yeah it is it is like that that it is just a copy more or less what we are going to do with the u. as i told you the important thing for us was if it was an article or soft correction that we had enough we didn't have an agreement and the export will stop that was the most. thing we were nervous about we have an open market for them but they you have nothing open market for us but you did make a good deal over any dispute mechanism britain has to pay the cash if there is any dispute over a trade off to break that with the faroe islands yacking you can look at that but of course to our export into the two to u.k. are about eight hundred million. and of course of the other way around and there's a living a lot of millions of people there and the market in the first fifty thousand people and it's difficult for us to have a balance but

discussion will be limited to determining whether to calder the issues raised for a future commission meeting. the november and december 2019 and january statistical reports. >> good evening. i have the facts for this week's meeting. we are at 69 open cases this year versus this time last year 57 cases in terms of cases closed. i keep track of the closures to keep track of the time to report back. 68 this year versus 51 last year. cases pending open i have 282 pending versus 248 last year. sustained rate this year 10 so far this year versus one at this point last year. cases that i have opened of 282 still open and pending, past 270 day point are at 27. this time last year we were at 39. the final status for our cases are mediated. we have had three cases mediated this year versus one last year. for the past few weeks we had a number of activities. last week we participated in the dpa was selected to participate in the civic privilege presentation and our project which was jointly tied to the local slam organization presented for the city presentation. that was last week with th the m

we'll be joined by travel expert, simon calder with more on that story in a few minutes.g animal cruelty and illegal bloodsports are being shared on social media, according to a bbc countryfile investigation. in response, facebook and youtube have taken down some of the content, but material celebrating illegal hunting and cockfighting is still accessible, as tom heap reports. from head coursing to cockfighting, these are the coolest of so—called sports with gambling at their heart. you may have thought these bloodsports lived only in the past but today the power of the web have given them a new audience. we found evidence that some of the world's most popular internet sites like facebook and youtube are being used by illicit gambling rings to organise animal fights and also share disturbing and cool images online with huge numbers of followers. it is significant amounts of money made in this. we have intelligence suggesting that dogs can be what for 25—30 pounds for head coursing. they are making six figures annually. we have infiltrated a number of close groups on faceb

meet calder and alexandra — twins but with two different biological dads.ave two babies at the same time, who are only half siblings. rules which ban using young celebrities and cartoon characters in gambling ads are to be made stricter in an effort to stop the ads appealing to children. the law has been in place for quite a considerable length of time and the industry is well used to the fact there is a cut—off point. they shouldn't be using individuals who may be have that youth appeal. we're talking to an addiction specialist about what you can do to reduce the risk of your children getting into gambling.

i spoke to simon calder who explained it earlier.k with 300 seats, the airline knows that maybe 200 seats will be taken by knows that maybe 200 seats will be ta ken by people knows that maybe 200 seats will be taken by people who want to go from london to new york. to fill the rest it has to add extra legs and it can only do that that if it cut the fear below those prices offered by aer lingus and klm. so it does make sense to the airlines that some passengers realise what's going on and try to explain the differences and try to explain the differences and fears. in the airlines are getting fed up with it. it is there costing. but people who do tight can get caught out by only taking the second leg and then the entire ticket is vital because it did not turn up for the first leg, so you can get caught out. but it goes for the economy where bleaker than expected. they had seen a slowdown in growth in the global economy but let's have a look at an a nalyst economy but let's have a look at an analyst at hargreaves lansdown. is this going

let's talk to travel editor of the independent, simon calder. simon, you are on a station platform.your kind consideration. when you see it arrive i have to leave. we will let you know! anyway, for the half minutes is plenty of time to put the world to rights. what is going to happen with these websites? for the last 14 months the competition and markets authority has been looking into the practices of these big giant companies, expedia, hotels.com, bookings.com and so on, they have concluded that this is not doing anybody any favours. they are using high—pressure sales tactics, typically when you go online and you look for a hotel, as i was doing just on sunday night, it is a sending item i was in new york from early february, they were a million empty rooms but you wouldn't have told that from the message i was getting. they have been doing lots of that. the competition and markets authority isn't convinced they have been behaving particularly well on that. they have been putting on pressure. 0n pricing, ijust type this morning, looking for a place to stay, they said $55, great. b