A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. Were asking you about our breaking news, the collapse of thomas cook. Are you on a thomas cook holiday . Do you work for the travel company . How are you impacted . Get in touch just use the hashtag bbc the briefing. Lets bring you the details on the story that broke in the early hours. Thomas cook, one of the Worlds Largest travel companies has ceased trading. The final confirmation came about three hours ago, after prolonged talks to try and save the company failed to bear fruit. It was trying to raise 250 million to continue and had asked the uk government for help. Now a major repatriotion operation is underway to bring home the estimated 150,000 uk passengars stranded overseas. Simon jones begins our coverage. Grounded, the uk oldest holiday firm has collapsed after 178 years. A day of frantic negotiations failed. At two oclock this mor
Hello and welcome to world news today. Ahead of the uns Climate Conference on monday, scientists have warned the impact of Climate Change is already hitting harder and sooner than expected. A report compiled by the World Meterological Organisation says levels of Greenhouse Gases in the atmosphere are reaching new highs. And the world is heading towards three degrees of warming by the end of the century. Ive been speaking to the head of the organisation, who told me things are looking grim. Unfortunately, we have been the messengers of bad news. Global emissions have grown by 2. 1 and this was the case in 2017 and we have been breaking records in main Greenhouse Gas concentrations, carbon dioxide, which is the most important one and also methane and nitrous oxide. Those are all striking. And we have been breaking records in that system. We have seen this warming continue, lastjuly was the warmest single month since the 18505. And last 5ingle month since the 18505. And la5tjune 5ingle mo
Funding uncertainty means some some Vital Services for the elderly and disabled are at risk. In a moment, it will be time for sportsday but first a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news. At 6 50 well be talking to our Legal Correspondent about the legal moves under way to challenge the suspension of parliament. In response to a massive increase in the number of fires in the amazon rainforest, brazil has banned setting fires to clear land for 60 days. Well hear from our correspondent in sao paolo. And later this evening at 10 40 and 11 30 ill be having a first look at tomorrows front pages with Ayesha Hazarika from the Evening Standard and Christopher Hope from the telegraph. Thats all ahead on bbc news. Now on bbc news its time for sportsday. Hello and welcome to sportsday. Im sarah mulkerrins. Afamiliar a familiarfoe a familiar foe for liverpool. Well have the details of the draw for the Champions League group stages. Hes impressed for aston villa and now tyrone ming
Midlands. Elsewhere, dry, more sunshine around the Northern Areas later, temperature is not quite as low as they were yesterday. Again, 20 degrees in the south east of england. Not quite as cold at old trafford but it is a reducing risk of showers, if there are any tomorrow, we will find the more likely at the start of play. Most places dry this evening, we have rain, coming in from the second whether front, and this is more widespread, perhaps heavy rain coming down into scotland, Northern Ireland, northern parts of england and wales and with it, the wind will be kicking up, south westerly wind picking up overnight. Milder than it was last night, double figure temperatures. Tomorrow, we start with the rain across Northern England and north wales, a little bit of rain heading through the midlands, everything sinking south, and eventually, we will see more cloud and patchy rain for southern parts of england. Further north, some sunshine, showers, most in scotland, and temperature 16 to