it is arriving in portsmouth.named by some as big lizzie. but i am going to refer do —— refer to her by herfull i am going to refer do —— refer to her by her full name. there were concerns because some of the planes which should be used an odd ready. we will talk about that and of course the impact on portsmouth and what it means for the navy as well throughout the programme. we will watch her progress closely. we are expecting a fly past at either 7:09 or 7:14. you know everything about this! we will be speaking to some of the people who will be living and working on there. there will be some american planes next year. it's a shared platform. and thejets being made for it will be ready by about 2020- 2021. plenty made for it will be ready by about 2020— 2021. plenty more detail on that later in the programme. it does look pretty impressive. all this week some of you will remember we've been looking at family businesses. thank you so much for all of your examples and photographs of yourfamily all of your examples

including portsmouth harbour, now her new home.n. and even a touch of nostalgia for when britain ruled the waves. it is absolutely thrilling. i was so proud with it going by. it is absolutely amazing. i think it makes the country feel a lot safer. it puts you, you know, above everybody else really, doesn't it? for the past seven weeks the 700 crew have been testing her systems. it is the most complex warship ever built in uk. a symbol of power and pride for the navy. but they believe, for the whole nation too. it puts us, the royal navy and the british armed forces, right back in the premier league. i think for a global, outward facing country like the united kingdom, as an island nation, completely dependent on sea trade, why wouldn't you want a strong royal navy? this is a big moment for the royal navy. its largest warship entering portsmouth for the very first time. it is also its most expensive warship. and it still needs jets, and other warships to protect her. at a time when the ministry of defence is having to save billions

it all that little bit tumbled that portsmouth, let's to portsmouth to join darren for the forecast.in coming in from the west right now. it will turn up at what expense of, and a bit heavier overnight as it pushes its way eastwards. cleaning away from scotla nd way eastwards. cleaning away from scotland and northern ireland are perhaps wales in the north—west of england by the end of the night so it is here we will see the lowest temperatures are around 30 degrees or so. we will get a spread of rain overnight for awhile. across southern and eastern england reign peters out, the cloud takes longer to break up and when it does we get some sunshine will trigger some showers, across southern england in the midlands and into wales, and sophie scholl and probably dry with quite a bit of sunshine. but as we're back into showers across the north west of scotland and also northern ireland. there may be one or two showers and what looks like an interesting night match, the first in the uk, england versus the west indies at edgbaston. showers are not far away. they continue into the evening an

during a visit to portsmouth to mrs may called for a urgent review of the plans.arton in north yorkshire. this band of rain pushing forwards and the rain is going to get a bit heavy across the east of england. a milder nights. this rain band could be quite slow to clear away. it may well stay quite cloudy here. further north and west, the sunshine does come out and a number of showers working their way in. more sunshine between no showers, temperatures 19 celsius in glasgow and 20 celsius in belfast. northern ireland, scotland seeing some heavy rain. this time the heavy —— they will be heavy with hail and thunder. temperatures coming down. what about the weekend weather prospects? we will have to look at this. this is hurricane gert. this will bring some heavy rain into the north west of the uk during the second half of the weekend. the saturday, it‘s a familiar mix of sunshine and showers. cool and gusty, familiar mix of sunshine and showers. cooland gusty, out familiar mix of sunshine and showers. cool and gusty, out of the breeze not feeling too bad. but then t

duncan kennedy, bbc news, in portsmouth harbour.elping victims of the manchester bombing — has been charged in connection with the theft of a bank card in the arena that night. chris parker — who's 33 and of no fixed abode — ran towards the scene of the attack. he has pleaded not guilty. he was remanded in custody and will appear next month. a hospital trust being investigated over the deaths of babies has been criticised for failing to learn the lessons of past mistakes. there were at least seven avoidable deaths of newborn babies at shrewsbury and telford hospital, between 2014 and 16. the trust claims it's made improvements, but the nhs standards watchdog, the care quality commission, says there are deficiencies in maternity services. our health correspondent dominic hughes reports. come on, then. i'm coming to get you! for years, richard stanton and rhiannon davies have been campaigning for safe maternity services following the avoidable death of their first daughter, kate, just hours after she was born. go on, see if you can do

we can cross to duncan kennedy, who‘s live in portsmouth for us now.unique design, the first tower on the right is where all the aircraft will be operated from, like a control tower, and the one in the distance is where the ship will be navigated from and where the captain, commodore kid, will dry the ship. it has ever been done before that kind of design, but they felt that kind of design, but they felt that the designs were getting so, located they would split it up. one amazing fact, the windscreen wipers on those windows up there are two and a half metres long. to give you and a half metres long. to give you an idea of the scale of this vessel. look down, you can see a ramp there. the whole deck is an equivalent of three football pitches end to end and as somebody put it earlier today, it would take you saying bolton 30 seconds to run this entire deck, to give you an idea of how big it is. -- deck, to give you an idea of how big it is. —— usain bolt. the way the british government sees this is that this is a show of power in an uncertain world. in

britain's new aircraft carrier — hms queen elizabeth — is arriving at her new home in portsmouth shortly biggest warship ever to be built in the uk — but won't have any aircraft until trials are completed next year. now it's time for world business report. borderline decisions! the uk government says there'll be no return to a hard border with ireland. a trillion—dollar problem. later today, the us, canada and mexico will sit down to renegotiate the nafta free trade agreement. welcome to world business report. i'm ben bland. the british government has unveiled its second brexit position paper, ahead of the third round of negotiations planned in brussels at the end of this month. this time, it's about minimising disruption at the irish border. under one option the government has proposed, there'd be no customs border at all between the uk and ireland. this would enable goods to flow freely between northern ireland and ireland. (mix screen 2) the paper also highlights protecting —— the paper also highlights protecting the common travel area and associated rights for uk and irish citizens.

jonathan beale, bbc news, portsmouth.rom the bbc newsroom, our lead story, critical reaction to donald trump's latest comments on white supremacists now includes all great condemnation of bigotry from america's last two republican presidents. time for the sport. a strip, a guide and a push resulted in cristiano ronaldo being suspended as the first piece of silverware of the spanish season is about me decided. let's go to our correspondent. they did of course was the opening leg of the spanish super cup on sunday, 3—1, the one match ban for the second yellow card, both cards coming in the space of one minute. after he scored in the 3—1 on thursday when he came on as a substitute with 15 minutes ago did not last long, scored a goal and off he went. there are an extra four games for pushing the referee. his manager is not very happy that ronaldo is not playing, they take the 3-1 ronaldo is not playing, they take the 3—1win ronaldo is not playing, they take the 3—1 win from sunday into tonight came. he had a chance with two g

not just portsmouth. sunshine exception is in the west of england. notjust portsmouth.nt story. figure clad working in bringing pulses of rain to northern ireland and scotland. some dampness arriving as well. the rain is arriving in fife. as we go through this evening, the rain starts to get more of a wiggle on. the rain band pushes eastwards. the rain will turn heavierfor a time. a mild night. temperatures between 13 and 16 for most of us. on thursday morning starting off rather cloudy. the rain band taking a while to clear away. behind that there will be sunshine coming through from the also a scattering of showers, most likely to affect north—western areas. there could be some heavy ones with thunder mixed info still be warmer in belfast in glasgow than it is today. similar temperatures across england and wales. that is the forecast. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines: the government has said there must be an "unprecedented solution" for the border between northern ireland and the republic after brexit, as it publishes a paper outlining its proposals for a "seaml

jonathan beale, bbc news, portsmouth.ars they will look again at plans to silence big ben for four years after the prime minister said that such a proposal could not be right. the belt will be dismantled to allow repairs to the building surrounding it. we find out more about that in the coming days. now i look at the weather forecast. rain is going to be moving east overnight clearing to sunshine and showers tomorrow. 2a degrees or so across parts of the uk today but rain moving in and getting a bit more organised, turning heavier as it works east overnight. the wind also picking up but clearer skies following into northern ireland and scotland. we will all get some rain for a time overnight and temperatures no lower than around 1a degrees. some rain across england and wales to start off, that should move through during the morning. but some showers in southern england, wales and the midlands. fewer showers and more sunshine for northern england and south east scotla nd northern england and south east scotland for the fur

plus it tells a i portsmouth ohio and you have the drug traffickers. what should viewers know about the purdue farmer? >> guest: perdu farmer, oxycontin was crucial. it was crucial. for two reasons. one was purdue pharma use the daria gress is form of marketing to doctors very similar to the marketing tech makes to sell their heroin to convince doctors that these pills were no longer take if particularly oxycontin was no longer addictive and they began to prescribe it to their patients. they don't do this anymore but for seven years they gave away a little cd called swing in the right direction with oxycontin where when you have a swing band he was a very aggressive constant marketing. and then also oxycontin was a crucial part of it it is oxycontin was not an abuse deterrent. people would get addicted take their tolerance of two high levels and then they would be looking for a cheap potent alternative and heroin prove to be back. particularly the hera went initially proved to be the crucial alternative and all that. >> host: and the drug overdose deat

the recording star was born and raised in portsmouth. the petition details elliot's rise from humble beginnings to becoming platinum recording artist sent requires 15,000 signatures that house many need to be behind this so far it has more than 20,000 and counting. >> i think my favorite line was supremacy flip back and reverse it. >> did she say that. >> that was part of the -- she didn't say that. >> that's what they put in there. >> right i know it sounds awnlic caming from me. >> those of you that don't know it's a line if one of her songs. >> there you go. >> he became lightning rod for social injustice and tonight we're learning smithsonian wants items from colin kaepernick to get on display. they want the belongings in smithsonian museum of african-american mystery and be ininluded in black lives matter. he caused a fire storm refusing to stand for the national anthem. by the way he's still a free agent. >> no team picked him up as of yet. >> did you see a khuping of the can't write did. they had a clear view for the sky show this

portsmouth dockyard has seen many ships through the years.to have a bit ofa have been below deck to have a bit of a lift to get an idea what is going on below. it is brand—new. the crew are still getting used it. they have just got from two months of sea trials. we arejoined by have just got from two months of sea trials. we are joined by the captain. thank you very much for joining us. it is an honour to meet you. you are in charge of an historic day and an historic ship for the navy. it is a great day. to be here at portsmouth, the home of the royal navy, it is brilliant. how i perceive child is going? going well. she is the bigger ship we have ever taken into service, and she is a 21st—century ship, so packed full of innovation and technology. we have been testing the engines and all the other bits and pieces that allowed people to live on board, so from the galleys, air conditioning. we are very pleased. the prime minister was on board today. £3.1 billion, the defence budget under pressure, can this bejustified? every department has to li

metre—long hms queen elizabeth — the navy‘s biggest ever warship — sails into her new berth in portsmouth

britain's new aircraft carrier — hms queen elizabeth — is arriving at her new home in portsmouth shortly

fa ns weekend for a example the portsmouth fans who will see we can play football here this afternoon long journey. the advice from network rail if you are planning to travel today or tomorrow is to check your journey to see how long it could ta ke journey to see how long it could take and whether or not it is sensible to take your normal rate. it is always the same on a bank holiday, isn't it? thank you very much. the headlines on bbc news: several people have died and four others taken to hospital after a crash involving a minibus and two lorries on the m1 in buckinghamshire. counterterrorism police investigate after three officers were injured while arresting a man with a four foot sword outside buckingham palace. hurricane harvey slams into texas with winds of 130mph, it's the most powerful storm to hit the us mainland for 12 years. us president donald trump has pardoned the controversial former arizona sheriff, joe arpaio. he had been convicted of criminal contempt, after he defied a court order to stop traffic patrols targeting suspected immigrants. ben schreckinger is a staff w

this is for portsmouth, virginia.his monument 18 hundreds, some think there should be someone else there, instead. >> they say missy elliot should go up. i'm kind of here for it, though. >> i can see you being for that. >> his name is nathan coughlin, he started the petition. it started out with like 2,000 votes. now it has over 22,000 votes for missy elliot to go up. >> why her? why is she the perfect fit. >> you know, she's from portsmouth. he's like we're need our own up there. and it's so funny, the tag line for the petition is like, seeks to put white supremacy down, flip it and reverse it. they're using her line. i think that's kind of cute. i like it. i'm here for it. >> all right. also, big big splash here on social immediate yachlt i know you're following this one -- media. i know you're following this one. getting ripped by critics on instagram. >> when you try to be cute and flaunt what you have and it's like -- media, thank you very much. but she posted and deleted and here is what happened, so she was get

duncan kennedy, bbc news, in portsmouth harbour.public of ireland in its new position paper on brexit. donald trump faces criticism from within his own party after once more blaming both sides for violence in charlottesville during which one person was killed. in the business news: unemployment in the uk fell by 57,000 in the three months to june, according to the latest official figures. that brings the jobless rate down to 4.4% — its lowest since 1975. but earnings still aren‘t keeping pace with rising prices. average weekly earnings rose by 2.1% compared with a year earlier, but with inflation rising faster, we‘re still feeling the squeeze on our incomes. shares in admiral sank 7% after the insurer said the rising cost of personal injury claims hit profits. the firm‘s pre—tax profits rose 2% to £193 million in the six months to the end ofjune 2017, as the number of uk insurance customers rose 11%. however, changes to the way payments are made to accident victims, the 0gden rate, meant higher costs. north american trade between th

we'll be live in portsmouth all morning as big lizzie sails into her home dock.t. ministers say there won't be a return to customs posts between the uk and ireland — but critics say the plans lack

bought eisner has portsmouth.ted the takeover today ahead of the new season, which kicks off on saturday. portsmouth won the prestigious fa cup in 2008, but later filed for bankruptcy. he will be joined on the board. that is the latest bloomberg business flash. coming up next on the close, a legendary oil trader set to close its hedge fund as the global crude market struggles to rebalance. we have the detail on andy hall. that is next.this is bloomberg . ♪ vonnie: now to a bloomberg exclusive. isy hall, the oil trader, set to be closing down his main hedge fund. we wrote the story a little while ago. this is the person who left citigroup with a massive payout to start his own. >> big props to the bloomberg news team. they broke this story.it is a huge scoop . with thphibro. -- he all targeted targeted $100 million because he made them so much money, basically $2 billion in pretax revenue during the crisis. then it was sold in 2009. now, it is independent. simon greenfield started morgan stanley commodity business.

this is in portsmouth, virginia. a guy put up the petition on change.org last week. he's calling for the statute to be replaced with a monument with the grammy winner who has done work in the community and for the community. this petition calls elliott a true portsmouth native hero. >> the post reports that the star has not yet respond today a request on this petition. >> people think of her -- she's given sch her. >>> this is kind of incredible. they're lined up in center field. >> this is so cute. you're taking a look at quite the spectacle on the baseball field in williams port where the mlb little league classic started off. they teamed up for a one of a kind ceremonial first pitch. you get it. they're passing down to the mound. after that first pitch, the young players had a chance to watch the pittsburgh pirates and the cardinals go head to head. a show of unity by the youngsters. >> tomorrow the gloves come off. forget this teamwork stuff. >> you teach sportsmanship. it's one of the best things about it. >> little leaguers are probably going to remember this.

so nathan resident of elliott's hometown, portsmouth, virginia. petition to replace a monument with one of missy, who he calls a true hero. >> he asked people to sign if you have any of the following. from lyrics of her songs. cute face, chub eye waist. thick legs. rump shaking. >> those are other lines from this one, right? ♪ misdemeanor >> i know -- >> sorry. i like missy elliott. i got a little excited. >>> i know you're wondering, whatever happened to william hung. >> no, we haven't. >> who? >> a guy on "american idol." four. >> let's take a listen for a refresher. ♪ i go crazy ♪ >> that was his famous audition on "american idol." and apparently, he is still at it. here he is singing his signature song at the third base bar in arizona over the weekend, caught he is riding those three minutes. ♪ >> and he's still hitting the tune. >> and he packed the house, 250 people attended. >> wow! >> wow! can this much love be cleaned by a little bit of dawn ultra? oh yeah one bottle has the grease cleaning power of three bottles of this ot

hms queen elizabeth is entering her home port of portsmouth for the first time that the 65,000 tonne trials since setting self from the shipyard in scotland in june. since setting self from the shipyard in scotland injune. the ship is 280 metres long and her flight deck is begin upfor metres long and her flight deck is begin up for free but all pictures she is expected to be the navy's large ship for the next 50 years. the actor daniel craig has ended years of speculation and confirmed he will return to play james bond one more time. speaking on a us chat show last night, he also stressed that his fifth appearance as the spy would be his last. the film is due to be released in 2019. two years ago craig said he would rather slash his wrists than playjames bond again. that's a summary of the latest bbc news. more at 9.30am. he has performed a delicate u—turn, hasn't he? sam bridger has tweeted saying, delighted, love him. tim curtis, not really a fan of daniel craig when it comes to mr bond. would love to see someone else in the role. keep your thoughts on that. daniel craig staying on

of thousands of people have greeted the hms queen elizabeth as she sailed into her home port of portsmouthuild, is the royal navy's largest ever surface warship. it can't currently deploy planes, but flying trials are due to begin next year. a group of robbers used sledgehammers to smash their way into a london jewellers this morning. footage captured the men leaving the shop and escaping on mopeds. scotland yard said nobody was injured in the raid. no arrests have yet been made. a week of national mourning has begun in sierra leone, in the wake of the flooding and mudslides that claimed many hundreds of lives near the capital, freetown. officials say more than 100 children are among the 400 people who are known to have died when part of a mountain collapsed onto a settlement. and at least 600 people are still missing. from freetown, martin patience reports. in freetown the ambulances are rushing not to the hospital but to the main mortuary. they are ferrying the dead — victims buried alive by a landslide. the relatives wait outside to collect their bodies. the stench of death is overpower

we have party from portsmouth, virginia. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. i served for 25 years. ships, five or nuclear capable. this program with the nuclear capable ships and countries has been going on for a long time. like digital and spoke before me, they want to blame everything on the last eight years. president obama is now gone and president trump is no president. followingtrump has a such as a cold. i don't -- cult. i don't think he has no idea what he is getting this country into. he is not a king, he's a president. i think we are having done a real bad task with this president. we are not talking about an over the line war. we are talking nuclear war that will destroy this country and lead us to world war iii. those people propping up president trump and what to condemn president obama or whoever, they need to think about it twice. would i leave, what really impressed me is a president trump with all his language would encourage his daughter and his two sons to become a part of this war he's about to get us into. thank you for taking my call. gu

cloud there is and rain across east hang anglia and the east midlands, down to the south—east and portsmouthhe lake district, into newcastle nice sunshine on the way, but a fresh day. the rain in the south—east will hang around for a time during the evening and it will push away further east and wednesday night into thursday will be quite chilly. thursday will bring showers, possibly quite heavy showers. i think fewer showers on friday and the weekend is looking good. before igo, the weekend is looking good. before i go, here is an update on harvey. here is the storm. the problem with this storm is that it's moving at five or six miles an hour. this heavy rain across houston and louisiana keeps falling in the same place. we've had over a meter of rain now in houston. there's more to come. so it's not overfor a few more days. oh, dear. thank you very much. our main story. japan's prime minister says his country is facing an unprecedented threat after north korea fired a missile over its territory. that's all from the bbc news at six, so it's goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s

here is the scene at portsmouth. that summarises the weather. blue skies but big clouds, too.ing, we will see the heavy downpours easing away. for many of us, it becomes dry tonight and we have light winds and clear spells, too. so heading through the early hours of friday, we could see a few showers around the south coast. most of us, clear, dry and chilly. 10 or 11 in the towns and cities but the countryside, quite a bit cooler than that. in fact near to freezing in one or two rural spots across scotland. through the day tomorrow, we start off again with sunshine a fine start to september. we will start it see showers once again developing through the day. the heaviest and most frequent showers will be across eastern parts of england into south—east scotland. by the afternoon, much of scotland and northern ireland, not a bad picture. sunshine here a few scattered showers. heavier showers, the odd rumble of thunder through the pennines parts of east yorkshire, lincolnshire to east anglia. across much of wales and the south—west, the showers tomorrow will be fairly few and far

the civil war monument in portsmouth, memorializes figures representing the armed services but more thanon wanted taken down and replaced with homegrown heroes. >> one mayor considering a new law, residents avoided embarrassing moment. >> the mayor of stanford, connecticut says a cell phone crosswalk man would make people think twice before crossing the street without looking at their phone. >> people could be fined $30, the second city to ban walking behind -- i keep thinking of the woman who walked into the fountain at the mall. heather: people do that and drive. coming up what is wrong with pulling over to watch the eclipse? this guy was arrested during the historic event. rob: a traffic jam turning heads this morning, the good, the bad and the ugly. coming up. we're facing 20 billion security events every day. ddos campaigns, ransomware, malware attacks... actually, we just handled all the priority threats. you did that? we did that. really. we analyzed millions of articles and reports. we can identify threats 50% faster. you can do that? we can do that. then do that. . a penny has n

he's call it that honors the grammy award winner, who is from portsmouth. is reported that the star has not yesterday made a comment. >>> as we count down the minutes to the solar eclipse, wee check in with somara theodore in a few minutes. >>> and later today, on "ellen" visits from johnny depp, and there's some fun with ellen. you can see the interview here. "ellen" airs weekdays at 3:00, and catch up on all fios is not cable. we're a 100% fiber optic network. and with the new fios gigabit connection... you get our fastest internet ever. with download speeds up to 940 megs - 20 times faster than most people have. switch to fios gigabit connection with tv and phone for $79.99 a month online for the first year. plus hbo for one year and multi-room dvr service for two years, all with a two-year agreement. and switching has never been easier. get out of you contract with up to a $500 credit to help cover your early termination fee. go to fiosgiga