Its departure and, personally, i dont exclude a deal. All thomas cooks stores are bought by hays travel in a move that could save 2,5000 jobs. And bbc news has been in penzance today, looking at some of the issues facing coastal towns across britain. Good afternoon. Its 5 oclock. Our top story is that the head of nato has urged turkey to show restraint, as it launches an offensive in North Eastern syria. Kurdish led forces say two civilians have been killed in the offensive, along the border. Turkeys president erdogan, described the action as a peace operation against terror organisations, which is aimed at preventing what he called the creation of a terror corridor across the southern border. Earlier this afternoon, warplanes took off from a nearby airbase, after the border offensive was announced. Several explosions have been reported in the border town of ras al ain, while blasts were also heard in tal ab yad. This was the scene earlier on the Syrian Border with residents leaving th
Children, 100,000 children. And, as sadly so often is the case, children who are on free school meals, the poorest children, and children with special Educational Needs fare the worst in the situation. And excitment builds as the Rugby World Cup gets underway in japan. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Large numbers of british schoolchildren are joining millions of people in a worldwide protest against Climate Change. Around 5,000 demonstrations are planned across 150 countries. Many will involve young people staying away from school, university or work. Those involved are calling for more urgent action from governments to halt global warming. The demonstrations come ahead of a un summit on Climate Change in new york on monday. This was the scene outside westminster where thousands are expected to gather for one of the strikes getting under way shortly. The first protest began in the Pacific Island of vanuatu where rising sea levels threaten communities. In dehli, children an
Deputy Prime Minister, is in hospital after suffering a stroke on friday. England face norway in the quarterfinals of the womens world cup, after beating cameroon in a match dominated by drama and incident. And coming up on bbc news, england openerjason roy was back in the nets today. Hell miss tomorrows world cup match against australia, but could in time for india on sunday. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. The tory leadership race has turned more personal, withjeremy hunt urging rival borisjohnson not to be a coward about facing public scrutiny. He said that mrjohnson should man up and debate with him on television, before most conservative members vote. It comes as sky news announced it was cancelling a planned debate for tomorrow because mrjohnson had declined to take part. Meanwhile, mrjohnson has been talking about policies, warning that the uk will face a democratic explosion if it does not leave the eu by 31st october. Our Political Correspondent nick eardley
Has been in the newspapers this morning but as far as i can tell the Equalities Minister is one of those calling for the guidance to be strengthened from original drafts who wanted to go further in restricting the ability of people at school to identify as a different gender. We have reached this place where we do not know when the government is going to do in terms of the timetable for issuing new guidance, we do not knowing exactly when it will arrive when it comes to what it should look like short despite repeated assurances including in the last few weeks when we have been asking the government about when it was coming, it has been delayed and we do not know when and tell. Voters in three constituencies across england will go to the polls tomorrow in byelections and over the next few days well be in all three seats. Over the past two days weve been in Selby And Ainsty in North Yorkshire and somerton and frome in somerset. Today were in uxbridge and South Ruislip to the west of lond