facing life in jailfor plots to kill 100 people in a terror attack outside a department store on oxford street also this hour, 1600 people have been evacuated from campsites in southern france to front —— flash floods hit the region. a 70—year—old german man is missing after his caravan was swept away. and at 11:30pm i will be taking another look at the papers with our reviewers. hello, if you havejustjoined us, good evening to you. the struggling department store house of fraser has been bought just hours department store house of fraser has been boughtjust hours after it went into administration. the new owner is sports direct, led by mike ashley. he says he wants to turn the chain into the harrods of the high street. sports direct is paying £90 million for the business, which is 169 years old. at the moment, house of fraser has 59 stores across the country. of those, 31 had been earmarked for closure. in a statement, mr ashley said he would do his best to keep as many open as he possibly can. so this evening 17,500 employees of house of fraser wait to find out exactly what mike ashley's pla

facing life injailfor a plot to kill 100 people in a terror attack outside the disney store on oxford streetore turbulence for ryanair as pilots strike in five european countries, bringing travel chaos for thousands at the height of the holiday season. 1600 people have been evacuated from camp sites after flash floods hit the south of france. and on this week's film review, jason statham stars as a rescue diver who must save his crew from a 75—foot prehistoric shark in the meg. we'll hear what jason solomons thought of that and the rest of this week's releases at 5:45pm. it's 5pm. our top story: the owner of sports direct, mike ashley, has said he aims to transform house of fraser into the "harrods of the high street", after agreeing to pay £90 million to rescue the department store chain from administration. mr ashley described the deal as a "massive step forward" and pledged to do his best to "keep as many stores open as possible". here's our business correspondent rob young. house of fraser has a long, proud history. it started in glasgow in 18119 and has been on the high street ever sinc

and madame which he said toa oxford street and madame which he said to a is contact.le could be killed. he'd earlier admitted to his contact that he couldn't drive because he was afraid of crashing. more than three months after being charged, he today pleaded guilty by video link today pleaded guilty by video link to preparing an act of terrorism in london and, when he is sentenced in november, the sentence is likely to be life. thank you, daniel sandford. china is continuing its contentious expansion in the south china sea, despite fervent opposition from its neighbours and their allies. the chinese government claims the entire area, within these lines, belongs to them. it's dredged areas of the sea in the spratly island chain to create military bases, to defend what it views as its territory. but the phillippines, vietnam, ?malaysia and brunei also lay claim to the resource—rich waters, while america says it won't sit back and allow china to dominate the area unchallenged. 0ur correspondent rupert wingfield—hayesjoined a us plane on a reconnaissance flight to chart

there was a mail order strike for six weeks, so we went looking for a very cheap music store on oxford streetdavid: then you started filling virgin megastores. you have a lot of stores in the u.k. and other places. how many did you have at one point? richard: we had about 300 megastores around the world in all the main places, like in times square, oxford street, in the heyday when music was all that young people did, before games, mobile phones, and the other things young people do. david: was the virgin name your self-promotion of it, or were you selling things cheaper than other people? richard: virgin was synonymous with music credibility, so frank zappa, the rolling stones, so we had a very credible brand. one day, there was a young artist that came to me with this fantastic tape. i took it to a number of record companies, and none of them would put it out. i thought, screw that, we will start our own record company, and we put it out on our own record company. and it became a great success. david: so you have a record retailing company and a record production company, both called virgin

facing life injailfor a plot to kill 1000 people in a terror attack outside the disney store on oxford street 1600 people have been evacuated from camp sites after flash floods hit the south of france. a 70—year—old german man is missing after his caravan was swept away. a nine—year—old chess prodigy and his family have been allowed to stay in the uk. his father's work visa was due to expire next month. and despite billions invested into new tv programmes, a 24—year—old sitcom is the most popular show across streaming services. we'll be discussing the timeless appeal of friends. the struggling department store house of fraser has been bought, just hours after going into administration, by sports direct. its owner mike ashley says he wants to turn the chain into the "harrods of the high street". sports direct is paying £90 million for the business, which is 169 years old. house of fraser has 59 stores across the country. 31 of them had been earmarked for closure, but mike ashley said in a statement he'll be doing his best to keep as many open as possible. so this evening, the 17,500 strong sta

life injailfor a plot to kill a hundred people in a terror attack outside the disney store on oxford streetlso this hour, 1600 people have been evacuated from camp sites after flash floods hit the south of france. a 70—year—old german man is missing after his caravan was swept away. 0h oh my god. it is a medical at don. he is getting right? and on the film review... jason statham battles a 75 foot prehistoric shark in "the meg". we'll hear what jason solomons thought of that and the rest of this week's releases at 8:45. hello and very good evening to you. welcome to bbc news. the struggling department store house of fraser has been bought, just hours after going into administration by sports direct. its owner mike ashley says he wants to turn the chain into the harrods of the high street. sports direct is paying £90 million for the business, which is 169 years old. house of fraser has 59 stores across the country, 31 of them had been earmarked for closure, but mike ashley said in a statement he'll be doing his best to keep as many open as possible. so this evening, the 17 and a half thousan

, when he decided there wasn't he came to oxford street, took a picture of oxford circus londont is not clear what his target was but he had written notes and when police searched his home they found torn up notes which suggested the extent of his planning so the first note listed the targets but also said crowded london areas long road with no bollards or barriers preventing a van mounting the pavement busiest time between 11 and midday, saturdays the busiest, he talks about how that would be ripe for an attack, he said it is expected nearly 100 could be killed. he mentioned staying the night before in the area, and van rental. he tried to cover his tracks by throwing his phone away but police managed to recover that and recover the data off it. they found a lot his planning hidden in an app, and critically they found a slightly bizarre video where he is hooded and making an oath of allegiance to the is group in syria, that was part of the key evidence against him. he was also accused of plotting to alternatively go to philippines to joinjihadist alternatively go to philippines

facing life in prison for a plot to kill 100 people in a care attack outside a disney store on oxford streetimbabwe presidential inauguration, which had to do to ta ke inauguration, which had to do to take place on sunday has been deferred after the opposition leader. as the waters rose alarmingly. and later this evening we will be reviewing the mornings papers with henry, a political correspondent. it will be with me at 10:45pm and 11:30pm. that is all i had. now it is time for sportsday. the premier league kicks off in under two hours. hello and welcome to sportsday with me chris mitchell. and me david ornstein. i'm live at olf trafford where manchester united open the new season at home to leicester city. united are contenders but who can stop this happening again? who can stop city defending the title? katerina johnson thompson throws down her challenge at the european championships but has she left herself too much to do. and rain ruins much the day's play at lords again but england take wickets and bag at the biggest it's upon us. it's friday night and the new premier league season is

he then made a list of potential attack targets in london, including oxford street and madame tussaudshe suggested a possible van attack in which 100 people could be killed, though he had earlier admitted to his contacts that he couldn't drive because he had always been afraid of crashing. today, more than three months after being charged, he pleaded guilty by video link to preparing an act of terrorism in london, and when he is sentenced in november his sentence is quite likely to be life. the england cricketer, ben stokes, has denied being very drunk and enraged when he got into a fight outside a nightclub in bristol last september. ben stokes has been giving evidence for a second day at his trial. the 27 year—old admitted throwing several punches, but said he didn't remember knocking a man unconscious. he denies affray. the man he's accused of hitting is on trial alongside him. phil mackie reports from bristol crown court. ben stokes arrived at court for the fifth day of his trial and his second in the witness box. he was shown cctv footage filmed outside the club on the night of th

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there was a mail order strike for six weeks, so we went looking for a very cheap music store on oxford street. david: then you started filling virgin megastore's. you have a lot of stores in the u.k. and other places. how many did you have at one point? richard: we had 300 mega stores around the world at all the major places, new york times square. at the heyday of when music was trendy, before mobile games and phones. david: was virgin mobile your self-promotion of it, or were you selling things cheaper than other people? richard: virgin was associated with music credibility, so frank zappa, the rolling stones, so we had a credible brand. one day a young artist came to me with a fantastic tape. i took it to a number of record companies, and no one would put it out. i thought, screw that, we will have our own record company, and we put it out on our own record company. he became a great success. david: so you have a record retail company and production company, both called virgin. someone drew a v for your logo? richard: we decided we needed a hipper logo, and someone came up with this signat

i tell you, the views from the top ofjohn lewis here in oxford street are pretty spectacular, but they'rel is taking grand vistas to an entirely new height, literally. nick kwek went to marseille to meet him. that's right, i have popped down to france to poke about a frenchman's garage. we're in our workshop. it's where we do all our research and development. a formerjet ski world champion, frankky zapata has been at the forefront of water—powered vehicles for decades. he has been beavering away for years on several airborne inventions. i started with this prototype in 2011. two years after, i got the idea of the hoverboard. and then we got the idea to create the flyboard. this is self balancing. you just press the trigger and you fly. but recently he has developed a penchant for rocket fuel. this bad boy has five jet engines packed tightly together to blast franky into the stratosphere. well, maybe not that high, but it can reach a top speed of 110mph. we have a plan b for everything. plan a, plan b, plan c for electronics. and you can lose an engine. so if one of these five engines blow

house of fraser on oxford street will be staying open, it has been saved from closure.u're watching business live. our top story: the world's biggest mining company posts a net profit drop of 37%. bhp billiton, mainly due to various one of items like payments related to the mining disaster in brazil, among other matters, and shares are down around 2% today in london. the tradition of having a good dinner set at home for serving meals is helping the global ceramics market go from strength to strength. around the world, ceramic tableware is valued at almost $60 billion a year and is expected to reach $75 billion over the next four years. here in the uk, some of of the most famous brands include spode and royal worcester, both of which have been around since the 1700s and are made by the firm portmeirion. it employs more than 750 staff here in the uk and has recently seen its sales jump up more than 21% in the past six months. dick steele is the chairman of portmeirion group. welcome. we also have some crockery. welcome. we also have some crockery. we are surrounded by ver

to carry out a terrorist attack to cause maximum damage to me to do more damage is driving down oxford street i guess what do you. mean yeah actually she's one of the most protected places in the in the country probably and so you're not going to get traffic areas or anyone that's still in the slightest bit of reconnaissance or even on google maps and having a look at street view i would know that they're not going to get very far beyond that but of course terrorists are weis want to cause maximum damage sometimes it's just a mike a statement and if you want to make a statement and parliament is about as good a price as any yeah. if challenge you found guilty i suppose this is going to be. thus far thank heavens in britain things were reasonably quiet. but what you said just just now the police are holding a hold back but very little was perpetrated on the streets about nothing really of the u.k. so far this year so really could say that the security forces the scenes done a pretty good job. of the security services in the place fantastic job in terms of disrupting and intercepting planned at

house of fraser's flagship store on oxford street in london will now stay open.d been due to close under a restructuring plan that house of fraser announced injune. but the department store group fell into administration earlier this month. it was then bought by mike ashley's sports direct, who says he plans to keep eight out of ten of its shops open. it's always a good place to be when you have more money coming in than the amount you're spending. and it's no different for the government. the figures from the office for national statistics show that the government's finances were in surplus by £2bn last month — that's the biggest surplus forjuly in 18 years. it means in that month the government's income was £2bn higher than its spending. and that surplus is double what it was a year ago. now that is just looking atjuly. if you look at the financial year so far — that's from april to july the government did borrow £12.8billion. it sounds a lot, but that's actually the lowest level for that period since 2002. it is £8.5billion less than in the same period last ye

terrorism. 26—year—old lewis ludlow from kent had planned to hire a van and target pedestrians on oxford streethe'd hoped to kill up to 100 people. he'll be sentenced in november. bowel cancer screening in england is to be offered to men and women earlier, from the age of 50, rather than the current 60. the move brings england into line with scotland. public health england says screening people younger allows the disease to be detected earlier. business leaders have called on the government to scrap its targets for net migration after britain leaves the european union. the confederation of british industry said the targets should be replaced with a new system that ensures people coming to the uk make a positive contribution to the economy. the home office said it's committed to reducing net migration to tens of thousands. warmer weather, the football world cup and the royal wedding — all helped lift economic growth in the three months tojune. the office for national statistics says britan's economy grew by 0.4% in that period, compared with a rate of 0.2% in the first quarter of the year. but,

business correspondent emma simpsonjoins me now from outside house of fraser's flagship store in oxford street, things really have taken a turn for the worse for house of fraser tonight. as you say, c.banner, the fraser tonight. as you say, c. banner, the chinese fraser tonight. as you say, c.banner, the chinese owner of hamleys, was supposedly coming to the rescue, taking a 51% majority sta ke, the rescue, taking a 51% majority stake, but crucially injecting £70 million of much—needed cash. now, that was on condition of house of fraser doing a restructuring deal which we all know about the cut 31 of its 59 shops, with thousands of job losses. it had to do a deal with its creditors. now, they approved it, i have to say, through gritted teeth, but landlords, recently, a group of them ended a legal challenge. but all this has now been overta ken challenge. but all this has now been ove rta ke n by challenge. but all this has now been overtaken by events because c.banner made an announcement at the hong kong stock exchange today saying essentially "because of a big fall in share price," they were

in the west end, oxford street is closed between duke street and davies street following an accidentre are good spells of sunshine, variable amounts of cloud, it should stay mostly dry and it will start to feel warmer too. perhaps the last blast of summer for the first weekend in september. this morning, bit of a chilly start. we've got plenty of high cloud around already. it won't all be blue skies through the day, good spells of sunshine around but some of that high cloud turning the sunshine hazy at times. the small chance of one or two showers over kent and essex, but otherwise dry or light winds, it will feel pleasantly warm in the sunshine. temperatures between 19, maybe as high as 21 celcius. through this evening and overnight we will keep clear spells, high cloud, the chance of one of two showers but mostly dry and temperatures rurally will drop back into single figures, perhaps holding at double figures in many of the towns. tomorrow it is more or less the same. there will be some cloud around but also spells of sunshine. look at those temperatures rise over the weekend all

the flagship house of fraser store on 0xford from here, the flagship house of fraser store on oxford streeten 20 renegotiate them. they have settled on that. that is not too much of a concern. —— there have been trying to renegotiate them. should those internet companies have to pay higher tax? lots of them have questionable tax regimes. we have talked a lot about that a lot. the likes of amazon. concerned there. house of fraser is stuck with big stores like this one on 0xford street, the one earmarked for closure, one of 31 set to close under the old arrangement. no details yet is but what happens now given that it is currently in administration. briefly, on a related story, the latest gdp figures, which show the total value of everything produced by all of us, they have just come out. what do they have just come out. what do they show? an increase of 0.4%. pretty much in line with what was expected. the economy is growing slowly. we have seen the economy shrink, of course. it is growing slowly. it is not a huge number. we should not get too excited. a lot of economists will point to it as

house of fraser's flagship oxford street store will now stay open after the chain's new owner agreed the department store group fell into administration earlier this month, and was bought by mike ashley's sports direct, who says he plans to keep 80% of the stores open. let's return now to those public finance figures published today by the office for national statistics. the government's finances were in surplus by £2 billion last month — that's the biggest surplus forjuly in 18 years. the figure was up from a surplus of £1 billion a year ago. at the same time, borrowing in the april—to—july period — fell to its lowest level since 2002. so far, borrowing for the financial year has reached £12.8 billion, that's £8.5 billion less than in the same period in 2017... and analysts said the reduction in borrowing should give chancellor philip hammond extra money to play with in the budget this autumn. yael selfin, chief economist, at kpmg ukjoins us now good what do you make of the latest figures? absolutely. it is very good news. i think some of it is early days. it is only a third of the

keep the majority of the stores open and we have found out in the last ten minutes the flagship oxford streetto the administrators by house of fraser and this is money they are probably not going to get back and now the unions say, what about the 600 people working there? huge amount of money for them. other companies as well, well brands like mulberry, posh designer handbags, and they say they have lost about £3 million because of this and they have filed a profit warning yesterday causing the share price to fall. it is the ripple effect of the fact they do not have to pay the debt, mike ashley. the money he paid to buy the company has contributed to some of the debt but that has gone to other banks and the bondholders, not the suppliers. that is where the story continues, and i will follow it. the serious impact on so many different people. thank you, steph. the bbc proms has gained a reputation for showcasing new and unique talent, and in another first, next week, it'll host one of the only disability—led orchestras in the uk. the bournemouth symphony orchestra resound ensemble was formed

house of fraser's flagship store on oxford street in london will now stay open.re group fell into administration earlier this month. it was then bought by mike ashley's sports direct, who says he plans to keep eight out of ten of its shops open. donald trump has again accused china of manipulating its currency to combat us tariffs. he made the accusation in an interview with reuters. it echoes claims the us president made during his 2016 campaign and repeated last month. mr trump also criticised the head of the us federal reserve for raising interest rates, prompting the dollar to fall. the us and china will hold talks in washington this week on trade. president trump has accused china — and the eu — of currency maniuplation. what exactly does he mean by that? yes, a country can intentionally undervalue its currency by selling its own currency to drive down its value. that makes its exports cheaper and more attractive to foreign buyers. currency manipulation is difficult to prove though. 0ne one way is by selling a lot of currency so there is a lot of availabilit

i was in oxford street!alth problems. they also found one in three people tackling the issue have travelled with no insurance to cover their mental health. as a result of rising premiums, 45% of people with mental health problems "never" disclose their illness to their travel insurer. helen undy, who‘s a director at the money and mental health policy institute, feels the premiums are not justified. there are some circumstances in which your mental health might cause you to incur hospital bills on holiday, if you are particularly unwell, for example. and it is reasonable that your premiums might cost more if you have an acute problem such as a mental health problem such as a mental health problem that is likely to affect you in that way. so when you go through your application for travel insurance, they will ask you about your diagnosis and whether you are taking medication. so we would expect some premium increases when you disclose that kind of information. we are seeing increases across the board, even whe

our panel of experts and we're going to hear from our audience here in the oxford union that's after the break. on the streets of greece anti immigrant violence is on the rise there or you have to go. and increasingly migrant farm workers are victims of vicious beatings. is helping the pakistani community to find a voice the stories we don't often hear told by the people who. live them undocumented and under attack this is zero on al jazeera. al jazeera is a very important source of information for many people around the world when all the cameras have gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. of struggles. between police look at it is pretty much what it's pretty much full of pleasure. out of the goodness of the with the only possible but i mean the right of what used to be an intimate look at life in cuba today is what. your people think but the government that you pay your money cuba on al-jazeera. hello i'm david gopal and then these are top stories and al-jazeera another of donald trump's allies h

oxford. was exhausted also the united states would like to weaken russia. physicians by weakening the state by cutting its own schools or energy but as the wall street resident from development said the great problem is that only you can only be volatile and the prices so high that actually because you go long term contracts with russia to receive you get the gas well below the price which is one of them so you have this. it's almost impossible to have a two contradiction in order to make what you have to create a new streak russia which makes russia stronger. but if you try to which also relations with iran get out of the room do you push your prices or shoot the position of the countries that you are well sold to a special strong and well so you make their booty. to customs. more attractive so it actually is not a very clear since you can not go. to. look in or tell me go back to change gears and i talk a little bit about nato you know ever since the end although the advent of the cold war in the warsaw pact we have had nato when the soviet union came to an end nato decided to stick around and look for a new mission for itself unfortunately in two thousand

a scheme in oxford is trying to revolutionise how we think about donating to homeless people. greater change says streete defibrillators have been put in train stations, public buildings, offices and shops but often even 999 operators don't know where they are. the british heart foundation is attempting to set up a database of the location of every public defibrilator in england and scotland so people have a greater chance of surviving a heart attack. with me is paul daniels, whose 15—year—old sun ben collapsed and died ofa 15—year—old sun ben collapsed and died of a cardiac arrest on a football pitch. ashley doggett is from british heart foundation, allan wier is a paramedic with stjohn's ambulance servers. and in derbyshire is alan thompson, whose life was saved by a defibrillator just six weeks ago. thank you all very much forjoining us. paul, a map is going to be coming out which will tell everybody where david czar, i know you are passionate about so porting that because of your own experience. —— where defibrillators are. ben went to football, he was very fit, very gregarious young man, he went to