simon calder giving us couple of weeks. simon calder giving us updates at events at the airport.psetting scenes as people get to the airport and staff find out what has been happening. live now to tim johnson, policy director of the civil aviation authority, at their headquarters in london. thank you so much for your time. first of all, i am sure many people, british people to begin with, who we re british people to begin with, who were on holiday with thomas cook are wondering what should be their next step. good morning. first and foremost, this is a very sad day for the employees and customers of thomas cook, which has been trading for 178 years. what is really important this morning is if customers have a flight out from the uk today, unfortunately your flight has been cancelled so please do not go to the airport. if you are overseas on a thomas cook holiday, then you can continue to enjoy your holiday. the cia is launching a repatriation, the largest since the second world war, and we will be bringing everybody back to the uk as close as possible to their return dates. we ha

simon calder, travel editor of the independent, thank you very much for your time.n authority here in the uk has had a lot to say about repatriating british people. tim johnson, policy director of the civil aviation authority, had this advice for passengers. first and foremost, this is a very sad day for the employees and the customers of thomas cook company, that has been trading for 178 years. what is really important this morning if customers, passangers have a flight booked out from the uk today, unfortunately, your flight has been cancelled so please do not go to the airport. if you are overseas on a thomas cook holiday, then you can continue to enjoy your holiday. the caa is launching a repatriation, this is the largest repatriation since the second world war, and we will be bringing home everybody, back to the uk, as close as possible to their return date. we have lodged a website, a dedicated website, that has got all of the details of those return flights, and the address for that website is thomascook.caa.co.uk. for people who are not british, who are watc

simon calder, thank you.oui’ fly off tomorrow, so we will keep our fingers crossed that those air traffic control problems will be sorted out. sport now and for a full round—up from the bbc sport centre, here's jane dougall. a formula to driver has dies in a crash. lewis hamilton played tribute on social media rates and devastating news, god bless your soul. my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. charles leclerc post a picture of him alongside antoine leclerc. on to football. there are two big derbies in britain today. the first in the scottish premiership with rangers taking on celtic in the first over much of the season. both sides are unbeaten in the league with three wins from three. rangers would go to the top of the table if they win today. i would be delighted to keep a clean sheet. i don't fancy your chances... i do fancy your chances to nick a goal. the defence, players are getting more up to speed with how we play and more familiar with how we play and more familiar with their surroun

that was simon calder.country, will lead to the destruction of the attacker. it comes after last week's attack on saudi oil production facilities — which the us has blamed on iran. major general hossein salami, reiterated tehran‘s defiance after the us announced it was sending more troops to shore up defences in saudi arabia and the united arab emirates. translation: anyone who wants the nation to become a battlefield, they are welcome. but we will never allow war to be declared on iran. our security correspondent, frank gardner, is in the saudi capital riyadh. he has more on the reaction to washington's decision of sending forces to saudi arabia. well, very badly across the water in iran where there has been a furious verbal response from the iranian revolutionary guards, who have talked about a "crushing response" if anybody tries to hit iran. they have interpreted this move as being offensive, being aggressive, whereas here in saudi arabia, it is seen as defensive because, let's not forget, just a week a

with me now is simon calder — he‘s the independent‘s travel editor. thank you for coming in.w likely is it that thomas cook will collapse? the company has been in really serious problems and here we are, a last—ditch attempt to save the company, last—ditch attempt to save the com pa ny, safe to last—ditch attempt to save the company, safe to say that things are trading normally at the moment, the first wave of flights from uk airports, places like gatwick, birmingham, glasgow golf as normal, people waking up in hotels from turkey to tenerife, enjoying their holidays and crucially, in about 30 minutes from now on uk high streets, travel agents will open up as normal. the bigger question is, will they have customers going in to them, short breaks for the autumn, winter sunshine holidays, or will they be full of people who are concerned about their trips and the big problem is for thomas cook, these things can become self—fulfilling prophecies, you can have people feeling that if the company is on the brink, that can create even more problems but at the moment, as we heard, talk

let's get the latest now from simon calder, travel editor for the independent newspaper.this mean? i am here at manchester airport and it means nobody will be flying out from here in the morning. flights were due to start in just under three hours time, heading off to greece. that is not going to happen. thomas cook has stopped trading. this is really the mightiest brand and travel. it has been going for 178 years. the numbers are awful. i'm afraid 21,000 people are going to be looking for newjobs. there is around 1 million people with advanced bookings for holidays. and actually the 600,000 01’ so holidays. and actually the 600,000 or so people who are stranded abroad, and that includes holidaymakers from germany, from scandinavia, and from here in the uk, they are going to find that they will be flown back. indeed, the rescue operation is already under way. flights leaving from here in manchester and airports across the uk, going to mainly mediterranean destinations, to bring people back. meanwhile, be seen here is pretty awful, as you would imagine, given the collapse

and at 11.30 this morning — you can put your questions to simon calder who you just heard from. n 61124, tweet using the hashtag bbc ask this, or email ask this at bbc.co.uk. after thomas cook, the next most popular hastag is emmys. the ceremony took place last night in los angeles. the hit bbc sitcom, fleabag, won four prizes — including two for its creator, phoebe waller—bridge. jodie comer picked up best actress in a drama for her portrayal of villanelle in killing eve. game of thrones was recognised as best drama series. one of the speeches getting a lot of attention online came from michelle williams. williams won best actress in a limited series for her role in fosse/verdon. the independent has the full transcript of the speech about equal pay which received a standing ovation. williams said: "i see this as an acknowledgement to discern her own needs... ..male counterpart — tells you what she needs in order to do herjob, believe her. "one day she might stand in front of you and say thank you for allowing her to succeed because of her workplace environment and not in spite o

from me, simon calder, the global guru, bye for now and see you next time!eek we're heading to the port city of cardiff in the united kingdom. the welsh capital was once one of the largest docklands in the world, made up of a bustling community of seafarers. and now it's the starting point for the travel show‘s alex taylor, who's in for a unique sailing experience. this is tenacious, the only tall ship of its kind in the world, designed and built so it can be sailed by a truly mixed—ability crew. wow, how are they going to get us up there? i will be on that mast? are you serious? this was the largest wooden ship to be built in the uk for over a century when it was completed in 2000. thejubilee sailing trust is a registered charity running the ship, which focuses on people can do instead of what they can't. with my ginger biscuits in my bag, i was hauled aboard to spend a week with my new shipmates. on board i'll be part of the ship's watch, hoisting the sails and getting stuck in. what you've got here is you've got your bunk. 0k. and you've also got lockers.

we're joined now by the travel editor of the independent, simon calder. good morning to you.ay with thomas cook are fine? a very fine, i have checked all the departures from the airports the uk, and chester, glasgow, bristol, gatwick, all of the flights going off normally. thomas cook is a going concern so thousands of people are flying away and thousands coming back. and then around 150,000 people who are enjoying another day in the mediterranean sunshine and everything is going to be normal as well in thomas cook travel agents which open up at about nine o'clock, except there may be slightly more people than usual asking questions about their forward bookings. 0k, but there is a deadline looming and the company has been told it needs to find the extra funding and is now asking the government for it, so it is in trouble? most definitely! terrible trouble! we last saw them having problems in 2011 and the share price collapsed and all kinds of things went badly wrong for it. but i think this looks more serious. we have deadlines coming up next friday when all of the stakeholde

earlier i spoke to travel expert simon calder who gave an assessment of the impact this is having onumber of uk airports say it will be the busiest day for inbound arrivals, but at the moment that looks uncertain. let me try and explain where we are. france absolutely at the heart of western european traffic control. 60% of all easyjet flights anywhere go over french territory. british airways say that they thought there would be some disruption, but there has already been 36 cancellations from heathrow, to destinations as far apart as athens, rome, berlin. they are blaming air traffic control in france. i assume that is because so many delays are building up. in gatwick, one easyjet flight to toulouse is running five hours late. we have had long delays on easyjet. also tui. at manchester, if you are watching this in the departure lounge, you are quite possibly booked onjet2 to alicante. thwo of their flights are running four hours late. do we know what has gone wrong at air traffic control? there has been industrial action earlier in the summer, is it just a coincidence? it appears

simon calder is the person we always turn to when a travel story breaks.anchester airport. describe the scene. some thomas cook flights have actually landed. what is going on? i am in the arrivals hall of the manchester airport, terminal 1, the third largest airport in the uk and it is very, very busy as you can see and probably here as well. there has been a steady flow of thomas cook aniline coming into manchester. —— airline. 50 departure is due to start a couple of minutes ago and people put on those flights, many on their way into the airport when they heard flights had been cancelled. it is very, very eerie in the departure area. flights, vacations cancelled. we know the civil aviation authority has begun this repatriation process. it is enormous. thatjob. but for those who have looked holidays, they still have a holiday to go to, took us still have a holiday to go to, took us through the logistics for them? the people abroad at the moment, they are in a relatively strong position whether they are from the uk, germany, france, belgium, scandinavia. t

when i spoke to simon calder yesterday evening on five live, he was saying that we shouldn't have paidtels because they will have names of people currently staying —— will be coming. we will have to leave it there. sorry to into you. we really empathise with your situation and we wish you all the best. good luck and we hope you get home soon. thanks for being on the programme. thank you. one example of the thousands. we will talk about this in business briefing, some of the details on that collapse. now it's time to get all the latest from the bbc sports centre. hello, i'm marc edwards, here is your tuesday sport briefing starting with football, and lionel messi and megan rapinoe were the big winners at the best fifa awards. they were named men's and women's player of the year at a glittering ceremony at la scala 0pera house in milan. it's the 6th time that messi has won a version of the fifa player of the year award. megan rapinoe, who scored six goals as the usa retained the world cup this year, beat lucy bronze and alex morgan to the women's award. rapinoe also became a vocal advoca

0k, thank you simon calder. you don't have to go abroad to see wonderful weather.rise you saw. a beautiful start once again, a very good morning to you. a bit on the fresh side once again. temperatures in single figures. 0ne side once again. temperatures in single figures. one or two degrees and parts of scotland and northern england. we do have some fog patches around. parts of scotland, northern england and northern ireland, some dense fog patches. gone by mid morning and then a day of widespread sunshine. much more sunshine developing here, patchy cloud towards eastern england. it's going towards eastern england. it's going to feel warm as well. temperatures highest in northern scotland, 23 or 24 degrees. a bit of breeze developing around the english channel and that breeze will pick up further as we head into tonight. that. the temperatures from dropping. it's a dry night. temperatures down to single figures for some. the weekend will start on a slightly fresh note. through saturday, high pressure with us. across central parts of europe, wins all around that in

i'll be putting your questions to the travel expert simon calder about the situation facing customersl also bejoined by victoria bacon from abta — the association of travel agents and tour operators. the battle to shape labour's brexit policy will reach the floor of the party conference in brighton today, where members will choose between two competing strategies. delegates will vote on whether the party should explicitly back remain in the run—up to a general election, or adopt jeremy corbyn's neutral position. 0ur assistant political editor norman smith joins us from the conference now. norman, over to you. mr corbyn would seem to be facing a battle royal over his brexit policy, the suggestion he will put off any final decision over whether labour will back remain, signed this conference is moving against him. we learned a short time ago that one of the big unions that had lining up behind mr corbyn now say they will be voting against him and backing the remain motion so we face a crunch vote later today, all of which has com pletely later today, all of which has completely oblitera

joining me now is the independent‘s travel editor simon calder.it's an old—fashioned pay dispute. ba believes it rewards its pilots extremely well and the union says that they made sacrifices in difficult times and they deserve a slice of ba's profits. it's already begun, hasn't it. how many flights will be affected? i calculate about 1017. they began with the british airways departure from gatwick to jersey and i make that the first cancellation followed by others to glasgow and edinburgh and in about an hourfrom glasgow and edinburgh and in about an hour from now glasgow and edinburgh and in about an hourfrom now there glasgow and edinburgh and in about an hour from now there will be a whole wave of departures to nairobi, abu dhabi, those will begin and then loads of american flights will be rounded and they will not be coming from new york, boston, toronto and some of the flights from miami and los angeles and that is simply nothing to do with a strike because pilots cannot strike while they are abroad. they are simply running out of space to p

let‘s get some information from simon calderfrom the get some information from simon calder from the and see who can help have a whip round to get those together. there will be so—called rescue fares going into the market. these always come up. the other airlines mostly do them to get people back from where they are at the moment but there will be some who say if you have got a booking to the us, just show us your confirmation and we will give you a special airfare. evenif will give you a special airfare. even if i am wrong and that doesn't happen, you are still all right. it is low season, relatively speaking. there is plenty of space across the atlantic. you will be able to find tickets. they will probably not be nonstop and they might cost 50% more than you paid, and you might have to change planes in newark or chicago, but you will get there. and you will be able to go through with your wonderful wedding ceremony. but at the moment i canjust imagine that it feels like the worst thing you could possibly find when you wake up and your holiday, your wedding, has gone wrong. can i as

let's get more on this from simon calder, the travel expert.s as divided as ever? even more divided than ever actually. i have been covering disputes with british airways over the last 25 years or so andl airways over the last 25 years or so and i have never seen anything nearly so damaging as this and i have never seen the two sides digging in so much. the gap between them isn't actually very far but british airways have stripped the pilots who have gone on strike of their travel concessions. some of their travel concessions. some of the agreements are going to be torn up. the union meanwhile, say they wa nt up. the union meanwhile, say they want to talk but they are getting angry at ba's refusal to negotiate. in the middle of that you have the angry union, the angry airline and a couple of hundred thousand angry passengers who are not where they wa nt passengers who are not where they want to be. the only people gaining from this are ba's rivals, particularly easyjet and virgin atlantic and all the airlines today, half the number of flights a

if you have questions about a booking that you have the thomas cook, then simon calder will be on the him using the contact details on the screen right now. still to come: sally challen, who was jailed for murdering her abusive husband tells us she's sorry she killed him. and we'll have the latest on a big night for the brits at the emmys. the comedy fleabag stole the show, winning four awards. labour will promise today to provide free personal care in england for over—65s most in need of it, so they won't have to pay for help with dressing, washing and meals. but that announcement is likely to be overshadowed by in—fighting over the party's brexit policy. a series of crucial votes is being held this afternoon on whether the party should campaign for remain when an election is called or stay neutral, which is what leaderjeremy corbyn has said he wants. the shadow treasury minister is annaliese dodds. she's in brighton and is going to talk about those plans to pay for personal care for elderly people in their homes. that is a really important issue for our audience, that i want to ask

let's speak to the travel editor of the independent, simon calder, who's here alongside heather and colinhis good morning. this time next week you should be flying off. we should be at the airport hope fully. so you hear all of the stories about an emergency bailout and thomas cook's future stop we have been feeling very uneasy for the last week and really trying to watch the news. we only paid in the last week or so. news. we only paid in the last week or so. air b and b, trips to new york, going over to boston. and we have spent around £3000 and at this stage we don't even know if we're or not. simon, you can answer if they are going to be able to go? the first thing to say is that thomas cook are going absolutely normally. there are about 300 people stuck who are due to fly to glasgow and they are due to fly to glasgow and they are sending apartheid from manchester this afternoon so that everyone will get back tonight rather than yesterday, but that is nothing to do with the financial problems. —— they are sending out a pa rt problems. —— they are sending out a part from manchester. th

simon calder in edinburgh, thank you. term. he has been calling it crisp. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london, i'm geeta pendse. thames water has had a 2a% increase in written complaints over the last year. it's amongst four water companies that have received a warning from the consumer council for water. they found almost half of the grievances were about bills, but there was also a rise in complaints about water supply and pressure as suppliers struggled to cope with the cold spring and a summer heatwave. thames water says it's cut complaints by 10% since april.. london is sending too much waste to landfill. that's according to figures from city hall which shows a third of all rubbish in the capital is recycled, that's 10% less than the national average. the mayor has set a target to double london's rate by 2030. but critics say the strategy will need a commitment from local authorities and the government. a 100—year—old veteran from north london is setting off on a j

simon calder, thank you. —— much to consider. here's matt with a look at this morning's weather. it is pretty miserable. we want a bit more detail than that. i think it'll do for this morning. a very good morning. it is a bit grey, a bit damp, a bit up there this morning. it is getting better kind of day. as far as the brightness is concerned sunny spells will develop quite widely, and full turn drier for many of you. it was stay blustery throughout, blustery winds come courtesy of what was hurricane dorian. this area of low pressure long since passed away from being a hurricane. a standard low pressure system for us bringing those windy conditions. if you look on the radar chart fairly hit and miss across the country. heaviest bus north—west england north wales showers stadtmiller places waking up to a damp start. right of scotland and northern ireland. sunshine and showers. we will see brighter weather develop quite widely across england and wales through into the afternoon. the exception being across the southern most counties and into the channel islands. it will stay overcas