let s start here in the uk, where thousands of passengers have had their holiday plans disrupted after numerous flights were cancelled on sunday. it comes at a time when the aviation industry is struggling to recruit full time staff after laying off workers during the pandemic. easyjet said it had cut 80 flights on sunday, and apologised to customers for the disruption, blaming the the ongoing challenging operating environment . flights from british airways and wizz air were also affected. the uk government has provided £8 billion of support to the aviation sector during the pandemic. transport secretary grant shapps believes the industry cut too manyjobs during the pandemic and said it should not oversell flights. joining me now is fiona cincotta from city index. some cincotta from city index. strains explained because this some strains explained because this has been an especially busy travel weekend, not just in the uk but other parts of europe, some highlight summer
hello. this is bbc news. let s get the sport. good afternoon. england s new s era under ben stokes and brendom mccullom got off to an excellent start against new zealand in the first test at lords. debutant matthew potts making test cricket look easy with three wickets in the opening session. but it was an old familiar face james anderson who got england off to the best start. two early wickets including this brilliant catch from bairstow. anderson and broad both were left out of england s tour to the west indies but both returned with take wickets. but the man of the morning is matthew potts. he got his first wicket in his first test match over dismissing new zealand captain kane williamson. he added another two and leaving new zealand going into lunch 39 for 6. not all plain sailing for england though. spinnerjack leach has been ruled out of the test with symptoms of concussion after taking this tumble trying to stop a boundary. england have brought in matt parkinson as a c
Iranian analyst abbas faiz gave me his thoughts and reflections on the events of the day so far. Well, i think the scenario that they would probably find the occupants of the helicopter alive may have become somewhat unlikely. So the next scenario might be that they probably know, based on past practice, past practice of the government of the Islamic Republic, they probably know what has happened. And then, again, we have two possibilities. The first possibility is that if, for example, Ebrahim Raisi is still alive, but injured. In that case, i think they would announce the news straightaway and very quickly. But if there is another news for example, that, you know, he is not alive the past practice of the Islamic Republic has been to suppress that news, to suppress that news for quite a few days. And this happened at the time of the death of ayatollah khomeini, and they really announced it several days later. Now, why would they suppress the news . That is really a very big question a