The labour conference backsJeremy Corbyns neutral stance on brexit, but not everyone is happy with the outcome. At the un, the teenage Climate Change activist Greta Thunberg launches a furious attack on world leaders. How dare you . you have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And a convincing win for wales against georgia, as they open their World Cup Campaign injapan. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news, after a poor ashes performace with the bat, Jonny Bairstow has been dropped from englands test team for their tour of new zealand this winter. Good evening. An unprecedented operation has been launched to bring back tourists stranded abroad, following the collapse of the uks oldest travel company, thomas cook, which went into liquidation in the early hours of the morning. Dozens of planes has been chartered to bring home more than 150,000 british holiday makers. Many more customers, yet to go on their holidays, will also be affected. Its thought that 800,000 f
Capitals and the Foreign Ministers i have been speaking to. They want to see a no deal avoided. Saudi arabia say that they have evidence that iran is behind attacks on oil installations. Our security correspondent is at the scene. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport with gavin. Rugby world cup under way with japan facing russia in opening game. Yes, japan yes,japan are off yes, japan are off to a fantastic start, a straightforward win over russia. We have an update on that and of course the home nations. Thank you. Another dry day coming up for many of us on saturday, a slow slide into marek, settled conditions on sunday. And we will be look at what has been happening in the us where a tropical system has been working in. Nota where a tropical system has been working in. Not a hurricane, for most of its life not a tropical storm, but it has already brought so much rain in that it is one of the top five wettest systems ever in the us. We will take a look at that. And also. Also co
With killing eve and fleabag among the nights winners. And at 11 30 well be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers Yasmin Alibhai brown and Rachel Cunliffe stay with us for that. Good evening. An unprecedented operation has been launched to bring back tourists stranded abroad, following the collapse of the uks oldest travel company, thomas cook, which went into liquidation in the early hours of the morning. Dozens of planes have been chartered to bring home more than 150,000 british holidaymakers. Many more customers yet to go on their holidays will also be affected. Its thought that 800,000 future bookings had been made with the company. Thomas cooks collapse puts 22,000 jobs at risk worldwide 9,000 of them in the uk. Our Business Editor simonjack has the latest. Grounded thomas cook planes sat idle on the runway at manchester. The last thomas cook flight arrived earlier this morning, a sudden and dramatic end to 180 years in the travel business. Holiday makers were
Nairobi, paris and new york. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. New brexit talks in brussels but is a deal any closer . The boyfriend ofjodie chesney tells a court of her last moments as she collapsed in his arms after being fatally stabbed. A race against time for thomas cook the holiday firm must find 200 Million Pounds to stay in business. And at 5 45 find out if Jason Solomons thinks brad pitts new astronaut film is out of this world that and more coming up in the film review. Its 5 oclock our main story is that children around the world have stayed away from school to take part in a global day of protests calling for action on Climate Change. Thousands of separate demonstrations are taking place in 150 countries, including the uk. The protestors are demanding more action from both governments and businesses to cut emissions. This is the scene in new york where more than a Million Students from 1,800 Public Schools have been allowed to skip school in order to protest. The env
We start with struggling travel giant thomas cook. The 178 year old british firm, which pioneered package holidays, has been facing an uncertain future. Shares have slumped and debt has soared amid growing fears for its survival. Now it could be headed for a new departure under chinese ownership. Ramzan karmali reports. The worlds oldest travel company. Last year, thomas cook served 19 million customers, but for some time 110w million customers, but for some time now it has been struggling. Million customers, but for some time now it has been strugglingm million customers, but for some time now it has been struggling. It has faced fierce competition from the budget airlines, and perhaps more significantly from internet travel firms. In the first half of this year it made losses of 3. 8 billion and has been under pressure from creditors. Shares have also slumped, down 85 this year alone. Thomas cook said it was convinced that brexit had caused some customers to delay travel plans. Now,