just got his bag. every once in a while big cry go up through the island of miss fit bags with someone saying they have got their stuff and they are on their way home. it s still a mess. you still have people who are stranded and can t get home. you have flight staff that can t penetrate this antiquated communication system to let the airlines know that they are available to fly people home. you have got a lot of really tired people and they are just stuck. our luggage is missing. it s mia. we ended up completely canceling southwest entirely. we are hoping we will get a refund. 2,885 domestic flights were canceled. 86% of them were southwest. 2,509. the southwest pilots union, as well as the flight attendants union say the melt down was very predictable because southwest executives did not invest in and modernize the logistics and communication technology. the ceo of southwest offered an apology. the tools we use to recover from this disruption serve us well 99%. time
brief weather window, but not for long. that dry spell for many today, replaced by wetter weather over the weekend particularly tomorrow, then showers follow, some of the wettest weather perhaps wales and the southwest. that s where the met office have won it out for further concerns for flooding but ahead of that at least we ve had drier weather, hazy sunshine for the rest of the day but it time the rain is gathering, light and patchy to start with but you can see waiting in the wings something more significant. it s still relatively mild, average is around 6 7 this time of year and temperatures won t drop below much of that tonight but the rain, once it arrives, its stock for 6 10 hours. it looks set to clear from northern ireland later in the night, temperatures dip back to 7 degrees but for most it sits a mild night and rather grey and dreary start to our saturday. it might be a while before the rain reaches the far south east and east anglia but for most of us if it s no
of staff at the homeland security department during the trump administration. welcome to the programme. the votes are being counted in israel, in the fifth election the country has staged in under four years. the voters have before them two coalitions the hard right bloc led by benjamin netanyahu, and a coalition of right, leftist and arab parties led by the current prime minister yair lapid. netanyahu, remember, is still facing charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, and yet, in spite of it all, the first exit polls that emerged in the last hour suggest he could be on the brink of a record sixth term. this is how the coverage began. showing netanyahu s likud party on 31 seats, against yair lapid predicted 2a seats. we bring in our middle east correspondent. let s bring in our middle east correspondent tom bateman. as says that the exit polls are a good start. how trustworthy of the exit polls in israel? exit polls in israel? they tend to be broadly exit polls in
thousands of royal mail workers in the uk stage a second day of strike action in a row over pay, disrupting deliveries of packages and letters. a new study shows the impact of climate change on the shrinking glaciers of switzerland. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk, or around the world. the last leader of the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev, has died, aged 91, following a long illness. mr gorbachev was crucial to ending the cold war. he was one of the most influential political figures of the 20th century. world leaders have been paying tribute. the un chief antonio guterres said he changed the course of history . president biden described him as a man of remarkable vision , who created a safer world . however, in a stamement this morning the kremlin said his romanticism about better relations with the west had been misplaced. our moscow editor, steve rosenberg, looks back at his life. he was the kind of russian leader the world had never seen. mikhail gorb