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His apology comes after growing anger from passengers some of whom have been left stranded abroad. 0ur transport correspondent Richard Westcott reports. Dozens of last minute cancellations, thousands of unhappy passengers. Three days on, whats ryanairs boss got to say . This is our mess up. When we make a mess in ryanair, we come out with our hands up and we try to explain why we made the mess and when we will pay compensation to those passengers who are entitled to compensation, which will be those flights that are cancelled over the next two weeks. He flatly denies a shortage of pilots is also to blame, but thats not what a number of current ryanair pilots have told the bbc today. They talk of a large backlog in training because there arent enough simulators and staff, colleagues leaving in droves because they dont like the way they are treated. One said the company was appalling at making staff feel valued. Last year alone, 140 pilots left ryanair for rival norwegian. This is the uk base for ryanair, stansted airport. Now, there have been 17 cancellations today as a result of these changes. There will be 11 tomorrow, 15 the next day and so on and so on for weeks. Passengers have been venting on social media. Neil says hell never book with ryanair again because theyve been left to their own devices. Ciara says the company has e mailed him about car hire and accommodation. She just wants to know if she will make her sisters wedding. Ryanair left me stranded in krakow, gave me no options to get home in reasonable time so i took matters into my own hand and spent 500 quid on tickets for myself, my partner and my mother to get back to london on another carrier. We are about halfway through whats going to be an all dayjourney involving a taxi and two planes. Its been a really frustrating experience. Frustrating and costly. Pretty disappointed about it. I mean, even if they gave me a weeks longer notice, it would have been much better for me, but they didnt, they texted me the evening before the morning i was supposed to fly out. So, yeah, pretty disappointed, lost a holiday out of it and lost some money as well. Ryanairs now under pressure to make it easy for people to get some money back. They shouldnt quibble over the statutory compensation that people are owed and they should just give it back straightaway, rather than waiting for people to have to fight for their compensation. Ryanair says itll all be over by november but one current pilot told me he fears a repeat next summer, unless the company gets better at keeping its staff. With me is the writer, journalist and editor of Wanderlust Travel magazine, phoebe smith. Good to see you, thank you for being with us. Michael 0leary has made it clear there is not a shortage of pilots and this is a problem with the rotor, do you think that the full story . Its difficult to know what to believe, the whole thing is being handled badly. He says its because holiday time has changed, they used to take them between april and march and its changed january to december so they have lost three months but you cannot help but wonder, with norwegian taking on a lot of rya nair wonder, with norwegian taking on a lot of ryanair pilots, he has admitted they offered packages to pilots to get them to stay loyal, there is definitely something going on. He was coming out with random excuses because of the weather and air Traffic Control, there have been so air Traffic Control, there have been so many air Traffic Control, there have been so many excuses. Air Traffic Control, there have been so many excuses. The way they have treated passengers, iwonder so many excuses. The way they have treated passengers, i wonder how well they can recover from this. To be clear, Norwegian Air is muscling in on ryanairs near monopoly . Be clear, Norwegian Air is muscling in on ryanairs near monopoly . think so, we have seen them storm into the Airline Market offering incredibly cheap prices short haul and long haul. They are now in dublin and we know and its been confirmed 140 pilots from ryanair have gone to norwegian. They are definitely, how long that lasts and how long they can maintain the cheap prices we will have to wait and see but its caused some friction. Ryanair, its but its caused some friction. Rya nair, its low but its caused some friction. Ryanair, its low cost and thats very attractive to a lot of travellers. Its about the money in their pocket. Do you think the very fa ct their pocket. Do you think the very fact they are still offering incredibly competitive prices means they will be able to ride out the storm and keep a certain amount of loyalty with passengers even know a lot of passengers have ended up having a lot of problems . Its difficult to say. This is not the first time theyve had a bad exercise like this. But this one is very different. This is a lot of passengers, a lot of flights and its passengers, a lot of flights and its short notice as well as we have heard. They have found it difficult to rearrange things. Michael leary in his classic way seems to say no we are full of people who have promised to never apply with us again buti promised to never apply with us again but i think its an opportunity for other Budget Airlines to try to post some customers. Thank you very much for joining us. And well find out how this story and many others are covered in tomorrows front pages at 10 40 this evening in the papers our guestsjoining me tonight are pippa crerar, Political Correspondent at the london Evening Standard and former conservative director of communications giles kenningham. Theresa may has tried to stamp her authority over the government and the Brexit Process in particular after a weekend of headlines about cabinet divisions centred around Boris Johnson. He was accused of backseat driving after setting out his vision for leaving the european union. Speaking on her way to canada the Prime Minister insisted the government was being driven from the front. Heres our Political Editor laura kuenssberg. Military precision. Choreographed to the inch. The foreign visit, an escape from bumpy times at home. Before this tete a tete, the Prime Minister vowed she is in charge, driving from the front, whatever anyone else says. Its very good to be here, i said to you as i came in, this is my first visit to canada and it is great that in my first visit, i am able to have meetings with you and come to parliament. As it moves forward with brexit, we are going to make sure that the relationship between canada and the uk stays as strong as it always has been. Theresa may didnt hide how her foreign secretary had left her less than amused. The uk government is driven from the front and we all have the same destination in our sights, and that is getting a good deal for brexit with the european union, thats a good trade deal but also a good ongoing relationship in relation to other matters like security and i have spoken in the past of the deep and special partnership that we want to build with the european union. And there he is, 400 miles away in new at york, the home of international diplomacy, the United Nations. Borisjohnsons rarely been afraid of controversy. Branded by one of his opponents as a Poundland Donald trump. As the back seat driving, honestly, there is one driver in this car, to use ambers metaphor, which is often used and quite rightly. It is theresa. People want to know how we are going and i think it is a good thing to have a bit of an opening drum roll about what this country can do. And his rival, now it seems friend again, came to his defence. Michael gove and Boris Johnson working closely together to help the Prime Minister with brexit. But five days before her big speech on the eu, should that read trying to get their way over the remainders in the cabinet. If i have any advice, and it is not for me to advise but generally nudge in this direction, it is that once theresa may has set out where she wants is to be, it behoves all of us to get behind that and say we have to achieve that, so debates about how we achieve that, but lets fix our head. Labour claims it is chaos, not least because this man, 0lly robbins, has walked away from his job as the boss of the brexit department. He is not left just holding handbags, though. He will still be the governments most senior official in the eu talks. But as the days countdown to the Prime Ministers big eu speech, he flashed in downing street. Pressure is building on him, the tories and number ten. The government that ministers are so keen to show is not a sinking ship. Joining me now from ottawa is our Political Correspondent ben wright. Borisjohnson Boris Johnson says theresa borisjohnson says theresa may is the boss and the driver of the Brexit Process, is that the end of it . No, when you have the Prime Minister having to assert she is in the driving seat and leading from the driving seat and leading from the front it does not give the impression of a government going in the same direction with great confidence. There are undoubtedly huge tensions and rivalries within the cabinet on rare brexit goes next, thats been apparent for months and i think its also fairly clear theresa may is i think a bit exasperated with foreign. She said on the plane during the flight over that boris is boris when asked about his personal manifesto for brexit that he published over the weekend. There are currently tensions there. There are currently tensions there. The Prime Minister is going to seek to seize the initiative during the visit but also crucially on friday during the speech in florence which we all expect her to be the moment where she sees the transition going, thats the big question, what sort of transitional arrangement the uk is going to seek. If we save for the sake of argument that boris might potentially be a problem as far as brexit is concerned, when it comes toa brexit is concerned, when it comes to a good element for brexit today, thats been her meeting withjustin trudeau because he has made it clear he wants to see a seamless and smooth transition to a free trade deal with United Kingdom after brexit. Thats correct. It is very much echoes the message she had when she was injapan a couple of weeks ago. I was with her and the talk at the time was how the new eu japan trade deal which will be signed off within months will provide continuity for the uk after brexit and will form the basis for a new bilateral deal between japan and and will form the basis for a new bilateral deal betweenjapan and the uk and in this case the uk and canada. Its a starting point for an even deeper bilateral agreement. I think she will be pleased, the government will be pleased by that all stocks today but as i said i think the real question and the one that businesses in the eu and uk wa nt a nswered that businesses in the eu and uk want answered soon is what sort of transitional arrangement the uk envisages and how do they plan to get there . I think the florence speech on friday is the moment that that will come into focus. Thanks. Another major hurricane bearing down on the Eastern Caribbean has strengthened to a category three storm. With winds set to hit 120 miles per hour. American forecasters say Hurricane Maria will hit the Leeward Islands tonight. Its also expected to affect the british and Us Virgin Islands and puerto rico by the middle of the week just ten days after they were devastated by Hurricane Irma. A hurricane warning has bee issued for st kitt. Loshauan dixon a journalist at the st kitts and nevis 0bserver newspaper can tell us how theyre preparing for the storm. Hejoins us from basseterre via webcam. Thank you for being with us. How devastating could this be for the island . For the most part i dont think it will be devastating because our people have been in preparation mode since Hurricane Irma and preparations have been ongoing. Saw the islands are prepared. How badly hit was the islands in terms of Hurricane Irma . For the most part the damage was to trees and fences, not necessarily to households and residential areas. But some did get some damage but for the most part, the Prime Minister did report that 53 million of damage to public structures. What are the preparations being made for Hurricane Marias arrival . 0ther shelters . Yes, there are many shelters. Punt i think weve lost the line. Can you hear me . shelters. Punt i think weve lost the line. Can you hear me . I can. What practical steps have been taken to prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Maria . Most businesses and government buildings have boarded up their windows and doors in anticipation. We are going to leave it there, thank you very much. Best of luck to you. Lets get an idea of how the storm is progressing with our weather presenter nick miller. We have seen this storm intensified rapidly today and that is not good news for the islands in the path of this extremely dangerous major horror hurricane. The Movement Towards the north, northwest, more cloud going over. It is forecast to strengthen even further into a category four, winds and 30 mph or more to do that. 0ver category four, winds and 30 mph or more to do that. Over the next few days maintain its dangerous intensity of category three or category for hurricane. As we will see in terms of rainfall and windfall, you can see really in this, up towards antigua, the Virgin Islands once again and then the path of the storm will see porter rico. Major horror hurricane, could see as much as 25 inches of rain. Storm surge as well which is water above normal tide level coming to some of these vulnerable coastlines on these islands. As we look at what is happening beyond tuesday into wednesday and at the end of the week you can see it going right across puerto rico and then out towards the bahamas at the weekend. This is not exactly the same track of irma took and its not a strong but it is affecting many of the same places in some sort of way and when you have had so much destruction, lots of debris and people out of their homes this is the last thing they want and there is another major hurricane on there is another major hurricane on the doorstep of this part of the world going through right now. The headlines on bbc news the head of ryanair has apologised for messing up after the airline announced it was cancelling more than 2000 flights over the next six weeks. The Prime Minister has tried to assert authority over the government and the Brexit Process in particular after reports of divisions within her cabinet centred on borisjohnson. Divisions within her cabinet centred on Boris Johnson. New divisions within her cabinet centred on borisjohnson. New footage seems to show the parson s green tube bomber in the hours before last week s attack. Sport now and for a full round up, lets cross to the bbc sport centre. Englands campaign to reach the womens world cup begins tomorrow. Its been a controversial build up to their opening qualifier against russia. But manager mark sampson insists hes not allowing eni alukos discrimination case to affect the teams preparations. Forward aluko and midfielder drew spence have both submitted evidence against sampson who has been cleared of any wrongdoing by two separate investigations. The important thing is to be professional, we understand there is a huge interest in the investigations but the players have got a job to do. We are representing england tomorrow and these players have worked incredibly hard whole lives to have the opportunity so we are focused on that and making sure we can produce the level of performance we can. I have made clear my stands on the allegations and as we set now 25 hours away from and as we set now 25 hours away from an important world cup qualifier we ask people to respect that that is the case. England have decided to stick withjonny bairstow as an opener for theirfirst one Day International against west indies tomorrow at old trafford. Bairstow replaced jason roy at the top of the order for the last one dayer the team played which was in the champions trophy in june. Captain eoin morgan says bairstow deserves a chance and has been waiting in the wings for quite a while. Rory mcilroy will return to where it all started for