It will be a shorter working week with no loss of pay. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport holly hamilton wales have opened their World Cup Campaign witha wales have opened their World Cup Campaign with a convincing victory over georgie. We will relive all the tries at 2 30. With rain on the way, some have been looking for a dry place to stay and that rain is brought to us by a weather system that is influenced by what happened in the caribbean two weeks ago. I will tell you more later on. Also coming up by royal appointment harry and meghan visit a south african township as they arrive in south africa with four month old archie for their first overseas tour as a family. Hello everyone this is afternoon live. Its called 0peration materhorn and its the biggest peace time operation to repatriate britons stranded abroad after the collapse of thomas cook. The Civil Aviation authority has chartered a fleet ofjets to bring home more than 150,000 british holidaymakers. Thomas cook brita
On bbc news at 5pm a brexit showdown at the Labour Party Conference. Could Jeremy Corbyns support for a neutral stance be defeated by remain supporters . This is the scene live at the conference now and any short after the session there will be a vote on brexit and then a speech from sir keir starmer who is due to address the conference shortly. We will bring you that live. British talent dominates the emmys. Well speak to luke jennings, the writer who created killing eve. And wales enjoy a strong start to their Rugby World Cup campaign, beating georgia by 43 points to m in japan. Its 5 oclock. Our main story is the collapse of the holiday giant thomas cook and the measures being taken to help those affected. 0peration matterhorn is the biggest ever Peacetime Operation to repatriate those britons stranded abroad. The Civil Aviation authority has chartered a fleet of jets, to bring home more than 150,000 british holiday makers. Thomas cook is britains oldest package tour company and wen
Wings ready to sweep into bringing these unsettled conditions was much wetter across south west and then through the day, in towards wales, that rain pushing into northern ireland, too. Strong winds with rain getting into parts of the midlands. Much of the north and east should stay dry and bright with some sunshine and a few heavy showers for the north and western scotland the top temperature is 21 in the east, maybe 22, much cooler than yesterday when we saw 28 in norfolk. That rain continues to move north and it turns wet and windy across much of the country through the night but the far north of scotland should stay dry with some of the rain heavy and thundery across the southwest. Because of the cloud and wind and rain it shouldnt be too cold, 1215d, rain it shouldnt be too cold, 12 15d, quite a mild night. Low pressure 12 15d, quite a mild night. Low pressure family with us into tomorrow with a wet start. We have this centre of low pressure pushing on towards the south of britain
Dominates the emmy awards with flea bag and dominates the emmy awards with fleabag and killing eve amongst the knights winners. The nights winners. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. A huge operation the biggest in peacetime has been launched to bring back british tourists who are stranded abroad following the collapse of the uks oldest package tour company thomas cook. A fleet of planes has been chartered to repatriate more than 150,000 british holidaymakers after last minute negotiations aimed at saving the 178 year old holiday firm failed. Many more customers who are booked to go on holidays are affected. And the jobs of 22 thousand people around the world are now at risk including nine thousand in the uk. 0ur transport correspondent tom burridge has more. The last thomas cook flight ever arriving into manchester, after the company went bust. Passengers are lucky to be on board, the crew out of a job. As soon as we landed, all of them were crying. Its devastating, its a legacy ha
Fighting in northwest of the country and indeed theres a great deal of disagreement as to the status of the northeast of the country. Yes well i think what theyre trying to do is deal with one narrow post of this which is the future constitutional arrangements for syria and that takes you away from the issues on the ground but clearly the issues on the ground are so serious when you have the province of idlib which very much now is the last battleground of this long war when you have 3000000 people there when you have persistent claims that the Syrian Government and its russian allies are bombing those people but in particular bombing medical centers and hospitals there and no one really knows how this is going to conclude and everyone fears that they could be a very big death toll there is nowhere really for these people to flee not possible in most cases for them to cross the border into. Turkey and they obviously many of them fearful to cross the line from where they are indeed live