so there s disarray there already. and unfortunately, with so little slack in the system, british airways, for instance, cancelling around 100 flights a day, but doing that well in advance, it s very difficult to see how some of those people are going to get back and they ve got school, some of them exams and of course, many people due back at work tomorrow morning. so what is the situation and what are their rights? well, their rights are very easy to state and they re absolutely clear. the airline that cancels the flight must get you home as soon as possible on the same day, if there are seats available, and if it doesn t have any seats itself, then it has to buy you a ticket on a different airline. now, i m hearing from a lot of people that they re not dateline london. now on bbc news, dateline london with sean ley. hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together leading commentators in the uk with the journalists from overseas who write, blog and broadcast from
hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together leading commentators in the uk with the journalists from overseas who write, blog and broadcast from the dateline london. this week, as this country marks the 70 year long reign of queen elizabeth, what future for queens and kings here and globally? from king mswati, who s used his absolute power to rename his country eswatini to the imperial family ofjapan, gods made mortal by an occupying power. from the often absent thai monarch to king felipee of spain, embarrassed by his dad. in the studio thisjubilee weekend, are catherine pepinster whose new book defenders of the faith, addresses one of the reasons this queen does not contemplate retirement and herfaith. yasmin alibhai brown, a british columnist who is a committed republican, and henry chu from the la times in the united states, a country formed in revolt from the then english monarch. welcome to you all. thank you very much for coming in, particularly on such a
thisjubilee weekend, are katherine pepinstow whose new book defenders of the faith, addresses one of the reasons this queen does not contemplate retirement her faith. yasmin alabi, a brown british columnist who is a committed republican, and henry chu from the la times. in the united states, a country formed in revolt from the then english monarch. welcome to you all. thank you very much for coming in, particularly on such a busy weekend. catherine, can i start with you? there s no doubt that this weekend feels like a very public affirmation of this queen. but is it also consciously, do you think, for the monarchy, at least, a moment of transition? it does feel like that. it s been feeling like that for a while now. we saw the prince of wales represent his mother at the state opening of parliament, another major occasion, and this one too. so i think transition is a good word for it, but he s not being a replacement. he s representing her. and i m intrigued that there hasn t
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rating. i can tell you, royalty or not, you would pain for such numbers. the queen won t be attending a service of thanksgiving amid some discomfort we re told during this platinum jubilee. it will not get in the way of what they re saying will be a number of events prescheduled and will go into the evening, including this beacon, series of beacons being lit throughout the day and the evening. it s about 9:00, 10:00 p.m. there, i should say. we ll be monitoring this. martha maccallum will be joining us to give us a sense of the flavor of this and what is in store the next few days. in the meantime, developments close to home look a little bit diceyer and murkier. the back and forth of the administration and how to address inflation that is running amuck. gas prices hit another record high. talk that there could be a shakeup within the administration. they re officially denying it, but we re watching it nevertheless amid over who is responsible for the inflation run up that wa