fights to prevent its collapse. ministers are drawing up contingency plans while the supplier looks to secure extra funding amid debts running into billions of pounds. celia hatton has more. the future of the uk s biggest water company is far from watertight. but the government is reassuring thames water s 15 million customers they won t lose access to water as work continues behind the scenes to try to rescue it from collapse. thames water is £14 billion in debt and in crisis mode after the surprise resignation of its ceo on tuesday. no clear reason has been given for sarah bentley s departure. ministers are considering a plan to bring the utility giant temporarily under public ownership if it can t sort out its debts. we need to make sure that thames water as an entity survives. there s a lot of work that the government is trying to do on resolving sewage. certainly, up until now, the regulator has been focused on keeping consumer bills down, but there s a lot of infrastru
in its asylum processes are corrected, removal of asylum seekers to rwanda will be unlawful. and scientists pick up shock waves from colliding galaxies. and damning report says that a police unit to infiltrated protest groups for four decade should have been disbanded. and scientists pick up shock waves from colliding galaxies. could it be the first evidence of giant black holes distorting space and time? sport now, and a full round up from the bbc sport centre. hello from the bbc sport centre. england are doing well in their reply after bowling australia out for a16 on the second day of the second ashes test at lords. stuart broad took the first of today s five wickets, trapping alex carey lbw shortly after play resumed. steve smith dug in for australia though, and reached his 32nd test century offjust 169 balls. it was left tojosh tongue to remove smith picking up his third wicket of the innings in the process. 0llie robinson then made sure they carried through their mome
the paris suburb of non terre that s where the fatal shooting of a 17 year old boy by police took place on tuesday which triggered unrest. there ve also been disturbances with police in the southern city of mar say. at least 100 people have been arrested. in the past hour, we ve learned that the policeman who shot nahel has apologised to his family while in custody. lucy williamson reports. in nanterre today, thousands gathered to mark the void left by one local teenager and the rage that flowed in to fill it. the violence here last night still mapped onto the surrounding streets in ash and debris. nahel s mother leading a chant of police assassins. evan came from a suburb on the other side of paris but the problems there were just the same, he said. translation: we don t have jobs, we don t get hired - if we don t lie on our cv. there is nothing for us. we feel abandoned. and on top of that we get attacked by the people supposed to protect us. this is one offence too man
afterjudges intervened. today s ruling means it will be months, if ever, before any similar flight is cleared for take off. mark easton, bbc news. scientists say they ve found the first evidence of low frequency gravitational waves that are thought to be constantly rolling through space. the leading theory is that the waves are caused by the merger of super massive black holes at the heart of distant galaxies, as our science correspondent pallab ghosh reports. up in space, at the heart of every galaxy is thought to be a gigantic black hole. here s a real picture of the one at the centre of our own milky way. it s four million times the mass of our sun. it became that big by colliding with other huge black holes inside other galaxies. astronomers atjodrell bank and across the world think they ve detected some of these cataclysmic events. pulsars, which are like nature s clocks, really. 0n the dish of the giant lovell telescope, dr hannah middleton