Are the serious right police. They have dressed in black and come in fa st have dressed in black and come in fast and hard. Talks aimed at averting strikes by thousands of Heathrow Airport workers are adjourned for the day and will resume tomorrow. More than 170 flights scheduled for monday and tuesday have been cancelled. And coming up in sportsday in half an hour, well have the latest from birmingham as england take control of the first ashes test at edgbaston. Efforts are continuing in derbyshire to shore up a dam thats in danger of collapse right next to the town of Whaley Bridge. The Emergency Services are moving swiftly to try to pump water out of the toddbrook reservoir with more wet Weather Forecast for tomorrow. Today, some Whaley Bridge residents, whod spent a second night away from their homes, were allowed to return to collect essential items. Charlotte gallagher is at the scene for us this evening and sent this report. An raf chinook helicopter picks up bags of aggregate.
In Northern Ireland and the best of the uk. The travel show in half an hour, here on bbc news. Our top story today engineers have spent the night pumping thousands of gallons of water from the toddbrook reservoir, in derbyshire which is threatening to burst through a dam and flood the town beneath it. Attempts have been made to shore up the dam at Whaley Bridge, which was damaged on thursday, and yesterday raf helicopters spent hours trying to reinforce the structure. The Authorities Say there is a substantial threat to life if it fails completely, and a Severe Weather warning remains in place for the areas seen here in red. Borisjohnson visited the area last night to meet some of the 1,500 residents whove been evacuated so far, and to talk to teams about the work theyre doing to repair the damage. It is looking dodgy but stable is how i would describe it. The Chinook Helicopters have done hugejob bringing in aggregate, and you still cannot tell that the hole has been filled. So there
The governments plans. Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield hayes reports from hong kong. Fellow citizens and members of the media. As she stood alone at the podium, carrie lam must have known every pair of eyes in hong kong was watching her. After a week of mass street protests and running battles between protesters and police, would she or wouldnt she back down and drop the widely hated extradition bill . I now announce that the government has decided to suspend the legislative amendment exercise. Not a withdrawal, then. So is this just a trick to pacify the protesters . It has nothing to do with an intention or wish to pacify. How could i restore, as fast as possible, the calm in society, and how could i avoid any more Law Enforcement officers and ordinary citizens being injured . The fear of more angry protesters returning to these barricades is what has prompted carrie lam and her administration to make what is clearly a major climb down. This is not a temporary pause to the extradi
Protests and running battles between protesters and police, would she or wouldnt she back down and drop the widely hated extradition bill . I now announce that the government has decided to suspend the legislative amendment exercise. Not a withdrawal, then. So is this just a trick to pacify the protesters . It has nothing to do with an intention or wish to pacify. How could i restore, as fast as possible, the calm in society, and how could i avoid any more Law Enforcement officers and ordinary citizens being injured . The fear of more angry protesters returning to these barricades is what has prompted carrie lam and her administration to make what is clearly a major climb down. This is not a temporary pause to the extradition bill this is an indefinite suspension. Nevertheless, it may not be enough to prevent very large crowds from coming out here again on sunday for another huge show of discontent. On wednesday, the policejust. This young protester and many of his friends will be out
Why are people still planning to march . That is a very good question. Iam standing march . That is a very good question. I am standing in victoria park, the gathering point for todays demonstration. In the coming hours they are expecting large numbers of people to turn out and much to oppose this extradition proposal. Now, there are two reasons why people will still come out. They are saying, one, although the government here was forced into a humiliating backdown, putting its extradition plans on the backburner, they want this that the protest that is it that they want carrie lam and the administration say we will not have administration say we will not have a bill which would allow residents and visitors here to face court in china. They want that bill abolished altogether. The second reason is, they are emboldened, they had a massive victory and it is a people power that hasnt done this. The government, with this system in the legislature has a number to get any bill through it onc