here's our business correspondent, noor nanji.d collapsed. she was due to fly from belfast to newcastle tomorrow to get home in time for her mother's funeral. i went on to an alternative airline, and they still had flights for tomorrow, so i was able to book straight on to an alternate flight back to newcastle tomorrow. in the back of my mind, it's kind of like, what if i hadn't been able to get a flight back? i have my mum's funeral next week and it's like, how would i ever got back? it would've been a little extra stress to fly to a different location and make my way back up to newcastle to get home. in total, around 75,000 people will have flights cancelled. some say they didn't even find out until they turned up at the airport. we don't even know. we didn't receive any notification, so, yeah. we checked in already, so it's really sad. this is the second time flybe has gone into administration. it first collapsed in march 2020. air travel has rebounded since the height of the pandemic, but the airline faced specific problems —

noor nanji, bbc news. vote, defeating the former prime minister and billionaire businessman, andrej babis. the new president is a firm supporter of nato, which he served as a general, and the european union. the two men have spoken in the last few hours — first, petr pavel. translation: | would - like to thank not only those who voted for me, but those who did not vote for me as well, because they made it clear that they respect democracy and they care about what this country would look like. i see values winning this election — values like truth, dignity, respect and humility — and i am convinced, as these values are shared by the vast majority of us and that they are certainly worth the effort, they they will be part of our lives and will return to our politics. translation: i i congratulate mr petr pavel on his| victory and acknowledge my defeat. i congratulate him on becoming the next president— of the czech republic. i would like to wish him to be i the president of all the citizens of the czech repub

noor nanji, bbc news.ons. at least three people have died and more than 100 have been rescued from flooded cars and homes in auckland. friday's downpour damaged houses, stalled traffic and cut power to homes and businesses. naomi choi smith reports. roads turned to rivers and homes submerged as rising floodwaters left entire communities in auckland under water. the water was up to my neck when i went out of the house. i've been in this community my whole life, 45 years. i've never seen it like this. new zealand's prime minister viewed the damage from above. plunged straight into his first major crisis just a few days into his new role, chris hipkins called the flooding unprecedented. the met service has confirmed that yesterday was auckland's wettest day on record, and having just surveyed some of the extensive damage both on the ground and in the air, it's clear it's going to be a big clean—up job. meteorologists say roughly an entire summer's worth of rain fell in just a few hours. cutting off power and

let's get more on this with our business reporter noor nanji. how have we got to this point?time _ how have we got to this point? ti 3 isn't the first time we've been here, you may remember in march 2020, right at the height of the pandemic, flybe announced it would cease trading, that was a difficult time for airlines. it was then rescued after being bought out by a firm linked to a us hedge fund i don't relaunch in april last year. now, around thorium this morning, we heard it was ceasing trading, and this time might seem more surprising because there's more demand for air travel. one possibility is that flybe was possibly facing teva competition because other airlines had muscled in on its regional routes. , , ., had muscled in on its regional routes. , , routes. lets focus on passengers. the advice — routes. lets focus on passengers. the advice for _ routes. lets focus on passengers. the advice for them, _ routes. lets focus on passengers. the advice for them, what - the advice for them, what compensation they may be due, and of course flybe staff. it is compensation they

earlier, i spoke to our business reporter noor nanji about what had gone wrong for the airline.may remember back in march 2020, at the height of the pandemic, flybe announced it would cease trading. that was a difficult time for airlines, trading. that was a difficult time forairlines, most trading. that was a difficult time for airlines, most flights of grant holt. it was bought out by a firm linked to a us hedge fund and re—in april last year. this morning, run aam, we had to cease trading again. this may be more surprising, because has been a rebound in demand for air travel. one possibility we're hearing is that flybe was facing tougher competition after returning, because some other airlines may have muscled in on some of its regional routes while it had been out of action. �* , routes while it had been out of action. 3 , routes while it had been out of action. �*, , ., ., action. let's focus now on passengers. _ action. let's focus now on passengers, the - action. let's focus now on passengers, the advice i action. let's focus now on | passengers, the advice for action. le

joining me now is our business correspondent, noor nanji. is that it then for flybe?se - is that it then for flybe? it's a good question because we . is that it then for flybe? it's a l good question because we have is that it then for flybe? it�*s —. good question because we have been here before. the last time flybe collapsed was in march 2020, in part due to the pandemic bar, but since thenit due to the pandemic bar, but since then it has been rescued and flights resumed last year but this morning we have heard it has ceased trading. this might seem more surprising given the air travel demand has rebounded since the height of the pandemic flybe faced very specific problems including the fact it had a late delivery of 17 aircraft that it was relying on and as well as that it was facing more competition because other airlines had moved into some of its regional routes. clearly, all of this is unwelcome news for passengers who were planning to travel with plan b in the coming days and even today 2500 passengers were expected to fly with the airline and many woke up to

let's get more on this with our business reporter noor nanji. is it now for flybe? — is it now for flybe? that's good question, we have _ is it now for flybe? that's good question, we have been - is it now for flybe? that's good question, we have been here i is it now for flybe? that's good - question, we have been here before. before, it was bought out by a firm linked to us hedge funds, now we hear it has again ceased trading. it says its attempts to find new investors or new buyer had been unsuccessful and all flights had been cancelled with immediate effect. what's gone wrong? the administrator said flybe had suffered a series of shocks, including the late delivery of 17 aircraft that it needed. is one such, it was facing stiffer competition after other airlines moved into its patch, into those regional airlines, when it was out of action. all of that has had an impact. this is unwelcome news if you are planning to travel with flybe. we understand that 2500 passengers were due to travel with flybe just today and in total, around 25,000 passengers will have their

our business correspondent noor nanji is with me now. it all happened in a bit of a rush, it seems.it seems. it did, and it is a very tou:h it seems. it did, and it is a very tough time _ it seems. it did, and it is a very tough time for _ it seems. it did, and it is a very tough time for flybe _ it seems. it did, and it is a very tough time for flybe staff, - it seems. it did, and it is a very tough time for flybe staff, the | tough time for flybe staff, the majority of whom lost their jobs yesterday. flybe employed 321 people at various sites of at belfast airport, birmingham airport and other sites around the country, the majority of those lost their jobs yesterday morning, when the airline collapsed. of course many of those will now be looking for newjobs and easyjet and ryanair, two other airlines, have been encouraging workers to apply forjobs with them. ryanair posted a notice under subsite saying it had a range of positions across all areas of business, including flight crew, cabin crew, engineers, ground staff and office staff. easyjet said it was not currently advertising

earlier, i wasjoined by our business correspondent, noor nanji, and i began by asking her where flybert due to the pandemic, but it has since then been rescued and flights resumed last year. but this morning, we heard that it's once again ceased trading. this might seem more surprising given that air travel demand has rebounded since the height of the pandemic, but flybe also faced some very specific problems, including the fact it had a late delivery of 17 aircraft that it was relying on, and as well as that, it was facing more competition because other airlines had moved into some of its regional routes. while it was out of action. clearly, all of this is very unwelcome news for passengers who were planning to travel with flybe in the coming days, and even today, 2,500 passengers were expected to fly with the airline. many woke up to e—mails and notifications saying that their flights were off. in total, we're expecting 75,000 passengers to have had their flights in total, we're expecting 75,000 passengers will have had their flights cancelled as a result of all of this. now, the ci

our business reporter noor nanji is here. that is extraordinary, isn't it? price of prettyj much everything is going up, we feeling that and experiencing that all around us. but food prices are rising particularly fast, as these new figures from the british retail consortium shows. they found that overall food price inflation hit 13.3% in december. remember inflation is the rate at which prices are rising. so to put that into real life terms, that means if you brought a drink a year ago for £1, that same could now cost you £1 30 p. within that, fresh food prices are rising even faster so inflation there hit 15% in december. don't forget, this will be at a time when many of us stocking up on groceries and other items heading into the big christmas day celebrations. so why are prices rising are so fast? well, experts say the war in ukraine has pushed up the price of things like energy, animalfeed and pushed up the price of things like energy, animal feed and fertiliser and that is making the cost of producing the food increasingly more expensive. of course the