britton s busiest airport, i m here at britton s busiest airport, heathrow, which like airports across the country now faces the mammoth meant that micro logistical challenge of clearing the backlog of flights and getting stranded passengers back home. spain prosecutors open a preliminary sex abuse probe over luis rubiales kiss. an urgent meeting of the football federation is under way. and a us federaljudge sets the 4th of march for donald trump s trial date on charges related to trying to overturn the 2020 election. hello, i m nancy kacungira, welcome to verified live three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. britain s national air traffic service says a technical issue which hit its systems, causing hundreds of flights to be delayed or cancelled, has now been fixed. but the knock on effects are substantial.
at the moment in terms of what the causes of this are and how long it will go on, very little. there are technicalfailings will go on, very little. there are technical failings affecting all of uk aviation. we first got reports when people posted on social media across europe their flights were being delayed. then an official statement from loganair confirming there was a uk wide system is a problem, followed up by the statement from the national air traffic service calling it a technical problem. at the moment, what is slightly confusing is there are some flight taking off and landing when you look at departure boards, but they will be going at a slower rate. it seems they are moving to manual systems which still allow flights to take off and land but they will cause delays. this is one of the busiest days of the year, more than 3,000 flights are meant to
thank you for that sportsday. you are watching bbc news. more but the main news today. air traffic that caused delays, passengers at airports across the uk and abroad are still facing many hours of disruption before things get back to normal. a reminder of the statement from the national air traffic service, it said, the issue affecting the system this morning has now been identified and remedied. and they are now working closely with airlines and airports to manage the flights effectively as efficiently as possible. today of chris marks the close of the holiday weekend and much of the uk. so it s unusually very busy day for flights. hearing that backlog of delayed flights is now the big issue. air
freak to another flight or to receive a refund, and they are recommending all passengers flying with them today regardless of their destination do check their status the status of their flight, online. they are offering transfers to other flights if passengers have been cancelled. also, if yourflight flights if passengers have been cancelled. also, if your flight has been cancelled, it is worth checking out her bbc news website. there is a live page up and running there, they have lots of tips and information there on the options if your flight is cancelled. but, to repeat, the good news, in the last few minutes, is that the national air traffic service who operate the air traffic system across the united kingdom have said that they have ever rectified the issue, the technical issue, that was causing the problems this morning. that means that they can plan the flight plans automatically, which was what they were having to do manually, which was causing the cancellations and delays.
knock on effects are substantial. and our other big story, prosecutors in spain have opened a preliminary investigation into spanish fa president luis rubiales kiss on the lips of playerjenni hermoso on grounds it could constitute a crime of sexual assault . the spanish football federation is also currently meeting now. we ll have more on this story in a moment. but first a technical issue has hit air traffic control systems across the uk. in the last half hour, britain s national air traffic service has released a statement with an update. it says that the issue affecting the flight planning system this morning has now been identified and remedied. and they are now working closely with airlines and airports to manage the flights affected as efficiently as possible. monday marks the close of a holiday weekend here in the uk, so it s usually a very busy day for flights. airports across the country are currently facing delays and cancellations. airports in edinburgh, manchester, birming