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The labour conference backsJeremy Corbyns neutral stance on brexit, but not everyone is happy with the outcome. At the un, the teenage Climate Change activist Greta Thunberg launches a furious attack on world leaders. How dare you . you have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And a convincing win for wales against georgia, as they open their World Cup Campaign injapan. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news, after a poor ashes performace with the bat, Jonny Bairstow has been dropped from englands test team for their tour of new zealand this winter. Good evening. An unprecedented operation has been launched to bring back tourists stranded abroad, following the collapse of the uks oldest travel company, thomas cook, which went into liquidation in the early hours of the morning. Dozens of planes has been chartered to bring home more than 150,000 british holiday makers. Many more customers, yet to go on their holidays, will also be affected. Its thought that 800,000 future bookings had been made with the company. Thomas cooks collapse puts 22,000 jobs at risk worldwide, 9,000 of them in the uk. Our Business Editor, simonjack, has the latest. Grounded thomas cook planes sat idle on the runway at manchester. The last thomas cook flight arrived earlier this morning, a sudden and dramatic end to 180 years in the travel business. Holiday makers were handed a stark notice on arrival that their flights werent going anywhere. We are absolutely gutted, we looked forward to this for a long time, had the wedding injuly, so its been another couple of months waiting for this. Yeah, just totally gutted. I had a bit of a sixth sense at two oclock this morning, got up, checked the website, and thats when it hit the fan, basically. Martin and gemma had booked their wedding on a greek island. Planned down to the last detail, those plans are now in tatters. Just broke my heart, just couldnt believe it, i was gutted. Didnt want it to be true. It alljust seems for nothing now, just a bit confused and empty. Dont really know what to do, all that planning, all gone. Meanwhile, the first of a hastily assembled fleet of aircraft started bringing stranded people home. I took the decision that, look, people need to be back for work, for their families, all sorts of reasons. We cantjust leave, you know, brits stranded abroad, we need to bring people home. 150,000 people is the biggest peacetime repatriation this countrys ever known, and well try to do it as quickly and as smoothly as possible, but it wont all be plain sailing, i know. The cost to government, around £75 million. The cost to 9000 uk employees, arguably greater. At the companys peterborough headquarters, the mood was sombre. Angry, devastated, teary, as you would imagine. Livelihoods have just gone overnight, just like that. Ive got kids at home. Ive never been on benefits, never been used to benefits, so i dont know what to do, to be honest. And im not the only one. Im a young one, imagine a 40 year old, 50 year old, whos been working here for over 30, 40 years. Cabin crew member ella wayne was on board when she found out. One of the passengers just said to me, have you seen the news, when i landed at three oclock. And it was basicallyjust saying that weve gone bust. I didnt really want to believe it at first. But it was a heart in the stomach moment. The boss emerged early this morning to make his apologies. It is deeply distressing to me that it has not been possible to save one of the most loved brands in travel. Thank you. How did it all come to this . Its the oldest and perhaps best known travel company in the world, nearly 180 years old. From the 1800s, through the boom years, large numbers of brits started to have enough money to go abroad. Thomas cook, though, has been struggling for a decade. It almost collapsed in a 2011 after mergers had left it with 1,200 high street stores, just as customers were moving online. Just as customers despite cutting those stores, it announced a loss of £1. 5 billion back in may, which pushed it deeper into debt. A private deal, involving the Chinese Company and Club Med Owner fosun, fell apart when it emerged the company was still in need of an additional £250 million. These desks should be buzzing with 5000 people checking in on 23 flights out of Manchester Airport. They are silent. Thomas cook, another victim of that classic company killer, debt. When you owe £1. 7 billion, not much needs to go wrong to tip you over the edge. The private sector couldnt find an answer, and the government refused to step in. Its not had the Financial Resilience to weather the huge changes in the market, with the low Cost Carriers coming along, jet2 holidays, people booking online rather than using traditional high street agents, perhaps. And more recent factors, weve had brexit, Consumer Confidence has been knocked, there have been weather conditions, all sorts going on, and it hasjust added up to a bit of a perfect storm for thomas cook this year. This government feels it is not taxpayers role to prop up private business. Like bus contractor carillion, the government felt it was too weak to be sure it wouldnt be asked to clear up another mess in the future. So what does this mean for holiday makers . The government says all customers booked to return to the uk in the next fortnight will be brought back for no charge as close as possible to their original time. People on Package Holidays dont need to pay again for their accommodation. Theyre covered by the atol protection scheme. All future thomas cook bookings, some 800,000, have been cancelled. The Civil Aviation authority says most of those whove booked Package Holidays will have their money refunded. But many people who have booked flights only may not be covered by the atol scheme, so theyll have to try to claim back costs through travel insurance, or their credit card company, depending on circumstances. So as we heard, tens of thousands of thomas cook customers, still abroad, have spent the day wondering how, and when, theyre going to get home. 0ur europe correspondent gavin lee has been speaking to holiday makers in mallorca. The end of the line for thomas cook, butjust the beginning for thousands of passengers now trying to get home from majorca. British support teams have been specially flown in from the Civil Aviation authority and the Foreign Office to offer reassurance but cant offer an easy solution on how to get back to the uk. Were going to birmingham, which is a bit of a kick, but we are going to get home, so its not the end of the world. Wheres home . Glasgow. Glasgow, so a seven hour drive up the m6 probably. There is another concern not just for the thousands of thomas cook travellers here due to fly back in the next two weeks, but also for those reliant on the money from thomas cooks once reliable income. Well, this is the main thomas cook run hotel in parma, and were being told by staff that everythings 0k, but the management wont speak to us, and if you look, theyve got security here for the first time. Theyre quite nervous. This is one of a number of hotels that we understand are waiting still to be paid in arrears from thomas cook, and meantime theyre still having to look after the customers too. We just feel, like, at any moment were, like, vulnerable and we could just be asked to leave. This place was a sign of thomas cooks ambition for the future here a financial headquarters for 700 staff opened a year ago. Today they came in, but there was no work to do. We dont know nothing about our work. We just now that tomorrow we have to come, and now the atmosphere is a little bit strange, everybody is thinking what is going to happen with the future. And everybody is researching newjobs back at palma airport, there are still many passengers waiting to catch flights tonight. Sue coker is trying to return to bradford with his son. Theyve been up since five this morning, and now herflights been delayed until midnight. We knew itd be chaotic here today. And us flight keeps getting changed, from 20 to eight, quarter past nine, midnight. I cant do it, i want to go home ive got my 13 year old boy with me, and hes hungry, and he wont eat the food here. And theyre not helping, they dont tell you anything. Majorca was once the companys most popular destination. Tonight any sentiment for the loss of britains oldest travel firm is being put to one side. The priority is on getting home. Gavin lee, bbc news, majorca. Lets return to our Business Editor, simonjack, whos at Manchester Airport tonight. Simon, weve been talking about the inconvenience and concern for passengers. Tell us more about the business and economic implications of what has happened here. Yeah, huw, just as you were speaking, some people came by on a replacement flight people came by on a replacement flight from kos, they talked about an horrendous nine hour wait at the airport, and we will see more of that in the days to come. This corporate demise will trigger a very big postmortem, there will be lots of fingers pointing the blame at current management for taking big bonuses while their Company Finances dwindled, from the previous management for burdening them with too much debt, from the banks for the last minute request for extra funding, and the government for refusing to step in. And it will reignite some of those red hot issues about how businesses are run, in whose interests they are run, and dont forget, as we were hearing from spain, thomas cook is an enormous player in this industry. It buys hundreds of millions of pounds without flights and hotel rooms, so the reverberations and the recriminations of this corporate demise will carry on for many weeks and months to come. Simon, many thanks again, simon jack, and months to come. Simon, many thanks again, simonjack, our Business Editor at Manchester Airport tonight. After a lively debate at the labour conference in brighton, Jeremy Corbyn won the support of members to stay neutral on brexit while a future Labour Government tried to negotiate a new deal. There would then be a referendum within six months, giving people the choice between the new deal or remaining in the eu. The Conference Today voted against a motion, which would have committed labour to back remain right now, as our political editor, laura kuenssberg, explains. Can i see all those in favour of composite 13 . Composite number 13 lucky for the labour leader. Thank you. And all those against. Cheering and applause. This is how his supporters showed their strength this afternoon. Arms in the air to defeat a move by pro European Party members to campaign now to stay in the european union. What had actuallyjust happened . Sorry, i thought it was one way and jenny said something else, so. It is lost, yeah. That was lost. Cheering and applause. The vote was close, judged only by a show of hands. Some delegates were furious, demanding a precise tally that could have been taken. Point of order, chair no, im not going back to that, weve had the discussion. That was. Lost. 0h, Jeremy Corbyn. But the chants of Jeremy Corbyn ringing out tell you which side won the day. A sigh of relief this session, at least, is over. A result for the leaders most prominent backer. The plan stay neutral until after the election and then offer a vote on leave or remain. Of course, emotions will run high, but once the night settles and the morn arrives, i believe people will recognise that there was no stitch up. Heres a proper union for you but the unions, just like the party, split. Those who want labour to campaign to stop brexit now wont go away. So you wont to give up, might you try again somehow . Well, i didnt give up two and a half years ago when everything wasnt remotely on the radar. Why would i give up now when ive got most of what i want . This partys heart is remain. Labour is a remain party remain, revolt, reform. I know young people will hold their vote against us unless well tell them well campaign to remain. I want to see Jeremy Corbyn in number ten and campaigning to remain is the way to do it, and the only way to do it solidarity but this afternoon, before too long, this debate wasnt about brexit but a clamour for control. We stand behind Jeremy Corbyn, 0k, we need to support him, we need to trust him and his team. We cannot tell brexit voters that they are stupid and that they are racist. Back your leader support jeremy. And this fights still on prominent frontbenchers wont just sit back. There is a simple belief a simple position to remain would be more convincing. I mean, ive got a pretty clear idea, i think, of where the members are on this. And therefore i think its very likely that the members will want us to campaign for remain. Jeremy corbyn fought off attempts to force him to budge on brexit by turning this into a loyalty test. His supporters won out. But while todays debate is over, the argument is not. Not even close. Where are we going now . Up these stairs. Yep, ok, lets go. In this moment, this conference had to choose between pushing to stay in the eu and their party leader. Jeremy corbyn was their choice. Thank you very much. Laura kuenssberg, bbc news, brighton. Aside from brexit, the shadow chancellor, john mcdonnell, today put forward the partys other pledges if labour forms a government. These include reducing average full time working hours to 32 hours a week. There was a pledge to introduce free personal care for the elderly in england, a policy which already exists in scotland. And a promise of a new living wage of £10 per hour, up from £8. 21. 0ur economics editor, faisal islam, is in brighton. Lets talk a little about this package and how you see it. How radical is it . Yeah, pretty radical, it is part of a suite of measures designed for labour to say that they can end in work poverty in the first term of a Labour Government. This 32 hour week policy in particular, are not designed to go down particularly well with the boss class, with businesses, and they havent really welcomed it with open arms. They point to the example of a similar policy in france, the 35 hour week. Businesses say that it has led to employment going down, to wages being frozen and not going up. There is also fears about what this might do to labour intensive public services, like social care and the nhs. But for workers, it services, like social care and the nhs. But forworkers, it sounds services, like social care and the nhs. But for workers, it sounds like a pretty good deal, doesnt it . Less hours for the same pay. In truth, when you look at how radical it sounds, under the hood of the policy, it isnt quite that. Actually, this 32 hour working week would not be enforced on individual businesses. Instead, they hope to go from where we are now, an average of 37, down to 32. And if we dont, a commission would then say the whole economy would get extra entitlement to holiday pay. So not quite the force 32 hour working week that it sounds like, and not quite the policy that did not work in france. But designed to sound radical, designed to send a message, designed to squeeze the currents of the economy, which have not delivered a smaller working week, and to change that, to show that a Labour Government can do that. Thanks very much. 0ur economics editor at the labour conference in brighton. Greta thunberg, the 16 year old Climate Change activist, has launched a scathing attack on world leaders, accusing them of betraying her generation through their inaction on Global Warming. Speaking at the un climate summit, she said young people would never forgive leaders if they failed to do more to protect the environment. Some heads of state have stayed away from the summit. From new york, our north america correspondent nick bryant reports. A sweltering september scorcher in new york city not much sign of autumn here. And it hasntjust been a long summer, but north of the equator, the hottest ever on record. So, today at the riverside headquarters of the united nations, an urgent Climate Action summit. This global body, once more, sounding the alarm. The world is losing the race against Climate Change. Applause in this air conditioned auditorium, the heat came from the 16 year old swedish activist Greta Thunberg. The un hoping to harness whats being called the greta effect her ability to mobilise the young and to shame the old. And my, how she did that today. This is all wrong. I shouldnt be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you . you have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you, and if you choose to fail us, i say we will never forgive you. For the grown ups in the room it was awkward. Applause and cheers was their applause a form of apology . Mr president . The worlds most powerful adult only briefly stopped by. Greta thunberg watched from the side, scowling, as he arrived. He didnt address the summit himself. Hes withdrawing america from the paris Climate Change accord. And soon he took the chair at a rival event organised by the white house on religious persecution. Other International Leaders have come here with new pledges to curb emissions. 0nly nations with aggressive plans were allowed to speak. But even those commitments wont be enough to keep temperatures from rising to dangerous levels. But every world leader today was completely upstaged by a teenager with a furious speech that will echo down the generations. Nick bryant, bbc news, new york. The Climate Change summit, comes as the World Meteorological organization is warning that the signs and effects of Global Warming are intensifying. Climate scientists are calling for carbon cutting efforts to be boosted immediately. 0ur science editor David Shukman explains the scale of the challenge. The ice at the roof of the world is steering. The ice at the roof of the world is stirring. The more it melts, the more it raises the level of the sea threatening millions of people on coastlines. In the tropics, fires are destroying the great forest. And as they burn, they give off Carbon Dioxide, which accelerates the speed of warming. And all this, as industries and power stations burn fossilfuels and raise levels of Carbon Dioxide even more. Despite all the warnings about Climate Change, the world keeps adding to the problem, releasing more and more of the gases heating up the planet. The latest figures from the un show a total of 53 billion tonnes of emissions. And at this rate, they could reach 59 billion by 2030. Thats a path that could warm the world by up to 4 degrees celsius, a dangerous level, by the end of the century. To avoid that, scientists reckon we should cut emissions by about half, down to 2a billion tonnes, to have any chance of limiting the rise to 1. 5 degrees, which is seen as a safe limit. And thatll mean by 2050 reducing emissions, effectively, to zero. So, whats happening about all this . Well, the uk and several other countries have pledged to reach zero over the next 30 years. Developing countries like india say their economy still needs to grow, so their emissions will rise. Chinas are still going up, but maybe not for much longer. And america, well, its emissions are falling, despite the views of president trump. For climate scientists likejoanna hay, the world is warming a frightening speed. If we do nothing about it, and if we let it carry on as is, and co2 emissions carry on going up, and up, and up, it really is very scary. If we act now on Greenhouse Gas emissions and make sure that they slope down, so we get back to zero emissions by the end of the century, then really its a much better position. The un wants a massive push for renewable energy, like these Rolling Hills of solar panels in china. Another plan is to save the forests, because without them temperatures will keep rising. David shukman, bbc news. If you want to watch any of the bbc news at ten special reports on Climate Change theyre all available on our website. Just search for bbc news at ten, and then click through the links. You will see the special reports there. Lets take a look at some of todays other news. A 20 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, after two Police Officers were hit by a stolen car. The officers were carrying out a routine drugs check, at the side of a road in littlehampton, west sussex, when they were struck. They both suffered multiple fractures. The manager of a cctv company, sherry bray, and an employee, christopher ashford, have both been jailed, after admitting illegally accessing mortuary footage, of the body of footballer emiliano sala, during a postmortem examination. The striker had been flying from nantes after signing for cardiff city, when his plane crashed into the sea. A ruling on the legality of Boris Johnsons decision to suspend parliament is due to be announced at the Uk Supreme Court tomorrow morning. Ministers say the five week suspension, or prorogation, is not a matter for the court but critics argue the Prime Minister intended to limit scrutiny of his brexit policy. Borisjohson has denied any impropriety, following claims that he failed to declare a potential conflict of interest, during his time as mayor of london. He was responding to reports that an american businesswoman, jennifer arcuri, who knew mrjohnson, was given access to overseas trade trips, and received thousands of pounds in sponsorship grants. All i can say is im very proud of what we did when i was mayor of london, very proud of everything that we did, particularly banging the drum for our city and country around the world. And i can tell you absolutely that everything was done entirely in the proper way. John pienaar is in new york. Entirely in the proper way, he said, at the end of the clip. Does he still face serious questions about this . We saw Boris Johnson finally a nswer directly this . We saw Boris Johnson finally answer directly questions in a report that touches on his integrity and fitness for office. No more stonewalling, like the flight to new york, when he faced six questions from journalists and refused to give any answer. Now his critics and enemies will continue trying to keep this story alive, asking those questions. Borisjohnson will hope that it will blow over and he can get on with addressing big, broad questions, such as the future of brexit, which still looks, as far as finding a solution is concerned, so elusive. Indeed, lets talk about the purpose of the visit. And what you are picking up, about his meetings with other european leaders . Well, Boris Johnson has been spending hours in talks with european leaders, the french, german leader, donald tusk, the European Council president. The tone, from what i have heard, is a very cordial. But no sign of a breakthrough, and in truth, no breakthrough, and in truth, no breakthrough was expected. He will be meeting president trump, and we can expect an outpouring of optimism about the prospects of a future trade deal between britain and the united states. But in the here and now, of course, we have the Supreme Court ruling tomorrow morning which will determine whether the suspension of parliament was unlawful. If borisjohnson loses that case, he can expect a chorus of demands from his critics for his resignation, and another battle in prospect with hostile mps at westminster. If he wins it, he can only expect the briefest possible breathing space before the pressure is on again to get the brexit deal on, which his political hopes and, by the way, the countrys future, still hangs. The duke and duchess of sussex have arrived in cape town, at the start of a ten day tour of southern africa. Visiting one of the citys townships, which has the highest murder rate in the country, meghan spoke out against violence against women and praised those who had, in her words, stood up for what was right. 0ur royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell sent this report. They both know this trip needs to be a success after recent missteps and negative headlines. No time to waste, then. Harry and megan dispensed with a red carpet welcome and came straight to a township. The exuberance of the welcome masks the fact that nyanga township has the highest murder rate in south africa. The couple had come to show their support for a refuge for women and children and amid all the hugs and the handholding was the serious message. Violence against women is a huge problem here. And meghan marked out her determination to be heard. While im here with my husband, as a member of the royal family, i want you to know that for me i am here with you as a mother, as a wife, as a woman, as a woman of colour, and as your sister. And that of course was very much meghan articulate, passionate and about a subject about which she cares very deeply. It underlined the sussexs determination to do things their way. Were so excited another small example although theyve brought their son archie with them, there are no current plans to make any appearances as a family. Nicholas witchell, bbc news, cape town. At the Rugby World Cup injapan, wales, the current six nations champions, got off to a splendid start, beating georgia by 43 points to 1a. 0ur correspondent Katie Gornall watched the game, theres some flash photography in her report. In japan, the railways are an institution. In wales, rugby is like a religion, and these fans making their pilgrimage to the world cup were letting the train take the strain. They arrived here, as they seem to do at every tournament, brimming with confidence and national pride. With a record equalling 129 caps, alun wynjones is well versed in harnessing the passion of an occasion like this, and after two minutes, the welsh fans were singing again Jonathan Davies allowed to saunter over the line. Dan biggar usually finishes these in his sleep, but he would have plenty of chances to make amends, as wales scored four tries in a blistering first half. Georgias strength is in their pack, but only in the second half did they show it. Wales, though, were able to wrestle back control and finished with a george north flurry, with their sixth try. This was a game of contrasting halves for wales, but still they will be very satisfied to leave here unscathed, and with a comfortable win behind them, ahead of that huge game in pool d against australia in six days time

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