Inspiring journey. Remembering the man who shouldve been englands first black player. Jack leslie was the victim of racism, now fans want to see him honoured with a statue outside his club. Good morning. Its going to be a fairly cloudy day today. Having said that, there will be some sunny intervals but there will also be quite a lot of showers, and some of those will be heavy and thundery. Ill have all the details at 6 27am. Carol to come a little bit later on but. Its wednesday 1st of july. Our top story the Worlds Largest aircraft manufacturer, airbus, has announced plans to cut 15,000 jobs including 1,700 in the uk. The Aerospace Giant said it doesnt expect air traffic to return to pre pandemic levels until 2023, calling the Current Situation the gravest crisis the Aviation Industry has ever faced. Andy moore reports. Its a global Aerospace Giant manufacturing a fleet of aircraft, but airbus is being hit by coronavirus like every part of the aviation sector. Thousands ofjobs will be
Of coronavirus this winter. They are dealing with a lot of ongoing pressures. So whilst £3 billion sounds like a lot of money, we need to be absolutely clear how and where that money is going to be spent. Later today the Prime Minister is expected to set out the next steps on the road out of lockdown restrictions and its known hes keen to encourage commuters to return to the workplace to help the economy recover. The uk Tourism Industry says that since lockdown theres been a near total shutdown in International Tourism to and from the uk. Russia dismisses allegations that it tried to steal uk research for a Coronavirus Vaccine. Captain tom moore will be knighted by the queen today in his own personal ceremony at Windsor Castle. Please do get in touch with us regarding any of todays stories, on twitter annita mcveigh, or bbcyourquestions and coming up this hour the Big Butterfly count. The public is urged tojoin an annual butterfly count, as part of efforts to protect wildlife. Good mo
Former vp biden says the disasters are clear evidence that something needs to change and shared by the vast majority of scientists, President Trump says the jury, well, it is still out. Weve got reporters across the country covering the latest on the natural disasters as well as the politics surrounding them. Lets start with Morgan Chesky in mobile, alabama, where they are starting to feel the impact of Hurricane Sally morgan, the big worry there with this storm isnt the wind. Its the water whats the level of concern where you are . The level is significant. I can tell you that. It just takes a few feet of water here in mobile before lowlying areas will be flooded. Im just on the banks of the mobile river as the storm surge starts to rise by just a few feet, parts of downtown could see themselves be submerged thats a real concern because this is such a slowmoving storm. 2 miles an hour that it could drop 15 to 20 inches of rain right where were standing right now. Mandatory evacuations
Dana President Trump set to leave the white house soon. We will see if the president has anything to say. He might. We will keep an eye on that. We have team fox coverage in cleveland. Bret baier here with me and peter doocy. Lets begin with the chief White House Correspondent in cleveland as well. Good afternoon. Good to see you. It is believed that when President Trump takes the stage at 9 oclock in cleveland against joe biden, he will try to get under joe bidens skin and try to protect some sort of reaction on the part of the former Vice President biden and force him into making an error. The Trump Campaign officials believe the best way to do that is for the president to go after bidens son hunter and the Million Dollars he made in business deals with the ukraine and china and what joe biden may have known about it. Listen to what alyssa said. Hunter biden had no qualifications to receive a massive loan, 3 million. There are real questions that need to be answered about corruption
World. This is new day. And it is the day that the American People finally got a sense of what is in President Trumps taxes. Its in the New York Times this morning and it is breaking news. The times reports for years the president paid no income taxes at all, but what might be most glaring and the most simple to understand is that the times reports in his first two years in office, this was his federal income tax payment. 750. This is what he paid his first two years in office. You know what the average tax filer pays . 12,000. Look at the difference between what the president pays and the average person pays. Its easy to understand, which is why i built these high tech graphics. Heres Something Else easy to understand. The times reports says that donald trump has more than 420 million in loans coming due in the next few years. So heis staying in the white hoe his only protection . Also this morning, 21 states are seeing a rise in coronavirus cases in the last week. And the next chart