alistair cook is closing in on 50 in what could be his last test, in what is his last test, before retiring from international cricket. and sarah with the weather. some beautiful autumnal sunshine out there today. for most parts of the country. whether looking changeable through the weekend but most places should see at least one day of sunshine. temperatures slowly on the rise. more in half an hour. also coming up: getting rid of the guns with the help of the gunners. the arsenal football initiative to help the most vulnerable youngsters in the world's trouble—spots. hello, everyone — this is afternoon live. there have been computer system hacks before — but perhaps not like this. it looks as though the credit card details of 380,000 people — including their three—digit security numbers — have been stolen in what british airways calls a very suphisticated, malicious, criminal attack. details were stolen following a major data breach on its website and mobile app. the airline has apologised to those affected — with some customers already reporting fraudulent activity on their accounts — others are cancelling their cards. and this could prove costly to the airline — notjust in terms of a drop in its share price and reputational damage — but also because of the threat of a fine which some experts believe could be as high as £500 million. in a moment, i'll be speaking to professor peter sommers, an expert in cyber security but first, our business correspondent theo leggettjoins me — he's been following this developing story we know that data from 380,000 card transactions was stolen. that is people who went online to bookworm modify existing bookings. that was between 11:00pm —— 11pm and 9:a5pm on the third of the timbre. that is the basics. the data that was stolen included names, addresses and credit ca rd included names, addresses and credit card details. the credit card details are a key because it was not just a card number, it was expiry dates at the three digit security code which you get on the back of a credit card. that is not normally stored in a database so the question is, how did the hackers managed to get hold of that number? ea says it did not store those numbers so where did not store those numbers so where did they come from? the tipping ba was tell us, because there is an ongoing criminal investigation, is whether or not the data taken was printed. that is also very important. the company says it has been doing everything it can to mitigate the damage. is what the chief executive of ba had to say earlier. this was a very sophisticated, criminal attack on ba.com. 0ver more than 20 years that ba.com has been operating, we've never had a breach of this type. we are absolutely committed to the integrity of the data of our customers. the important thing is that as soon as we found out that these records may have been compromised, we began the communications process through all channels available and of course directly to the customers to alert them about this potential problem. what are the ramifications of this? there are laws to protect personal data, we now have the general data protection regulations brought in by the european union. there are potentially severe penalties for a company which is negligent with arsenal data. that has led to the suggestions that ba could be in line for a fine of several hundred billion pounds. —— data. they have react —— they have reacted quickly and informs the information office. and then the issue of compensating passengers, ea says they will compensate anyone who has lost out. we don't know whether there is any widespread fraud. the reputation damage, this is not the first time ba has had computer problems. last yea r‘s ba has had computer problems. last year's may ba has had computer problems. last yea r‘s may bank ba has had computer problems. last year's may bank holiday, a lot of passengers were left stranded because it systems failed and flights could not take off. now a security breach, that undermines confidence as well. ekstrom the advice to anyone who has booked through ba recently? contact your bank. professors, what is different about this is the amount of information the criminals, as it seems to be at this stage, have got, including the three digit number at the back of the card that makes this a nightmare for all those who had used... yes, and you may imagine someone like me and other people wanting to know exactly what happened. the aa is not saying very much. you have to realise that you deal with a website, an app. —— ba is not saying much. behind that there is a large database of all flights they have receipts they have available. there will also be connections to the bank because ba wa nt connections to the bank because ba want to take money from you. there are a numberof want to take money from you. there are a number of intersection points which the hacker might be trying to get in. making a wild irresponsible guests, at this early stage of events, i suspect that someone may have —— something may have gone wrong with the banking link or the website rather than with the backend. that gets over the problem that surely the data was acquitted. the data becomes imprinted but there isa the data becomes imprinted but there is a point at which it is not and it is a point at which it is not and it is possible, at least that is one useful working initial hypothesis, that they were able to get out the data when it was not included. the advice is to contact a bank. will the bank tell you to cancel your card? probably going to have to. none of us will feel very to the dirty towards ba at the moment but you were told there is a breach, you are underan you were told there is a breach, you are under an obligation to report the information commissioner. —— none of us will feel very synthetic. the likes of us will be asking immediately what happens. the difficulty for the chief executive of the bank who we just saw is that we will want to also —— we will want all sorts of answers. he may not know at this stage. it has been described as very sophisticated. is there something you could do as a professor? are we talking about something incredibly unusual? we don't know. i have been in this game quite a long time. i'm also an expert witness which means i get to see sometimes what actually happened. comparing what is said initially, it was incredibly sophisticated, there's nothing we could have done, and then i get the papers, though, is that all? we really don't know. one of the problems ba has had her stirchley is the breach they had earlier on, is that the outsourced and that didn't work out very well. —— one of ba's problems in the past. we don't know if this aspect has been outsourced as well. those of us with conspiracy minds will look at what we have just heard from gchq about what the russians have been capable of doing, how sophisticated does it need to be to become a state run terminal activity? i'm not sure if this is state run but people's fans are not a lot of money, i have forgotten what we are spending on gchq each year at we expect these people who are collecting intelligence on our behalf and building defences against attacks, and also building aggressive weapons in case we want to use them, you need considerable resources. there are over 6,000 people employed at gchq. the ones i have met there are incredibly bright. you need significant resources. how much was needed for this action? as you might imagine, i am dying to know but don't know at the moment. when you do, we would like to talk to you again. thank you very much. the labour leaderjeremy corbyn has rejected an attack on him by former prime minister tony blair. mr blair said labour has become a ‘different party‘ and he's not sure it can ever be ‘taken back‘ by moderates. it comes as the leader of the liberal democrats, sir vince cable, claims that infighting in the two main parties means millions of voters in the centre ground feel ignored. sir vince has also announced he'll be stepping down as lib dem leader after brexit is resolved. 0ur political correspondent chris mason reports. rewinds two decades and tony blair was the centre of attention. commanding the political stage, perched atop a humongous parliamentary majority. rewinds not many years and servants cable possessed of a ministerial red folder perched around cabinet table. not any longer. now both men stand at the margins, grappling for releva nce, at the margins, grappling for relevance, trying to be heard. lots of people associated with me feel the labour party has lost, that the game is over. i am kind of hoping they are not right. the former prime ministers suggests another party could emerge. i don't think the british people will tolerate a situation where, for example, the choice is between borisjohnson and jeremy corbyn. i don't know what will happen and i don't know how it will happen and i don't know how it will happen. but ijust don't believe people will find that in the country as a whole and acceptable choice. someone will fill that vacuum? yes. at the national liberal clu b vacuum? yes. at the national liberal club in london, servants cable with a strikingly similar message in which he is willing to put a sell by date not just on which he is willing to put a sell by date notjust on his leadership but potentially on his whole party.|j think we have to recognise that despite our best efforts, the liberal democrats may not be the only centre force in british politics. i think it is the worst ke pt politics. i think it is the worst kept secret in westminster that political disquiet in the major parties is revoking some people to consider the formation of a new party in the centre ground or similar. i think this requires us to demand better than the usual tribalism, whether it is our own or others'. for all this talk, any mps have had a longer relationship with their political party than with their political party than with their husband or wife. walking away is not easy. plus history suggests that new parties find it mighty difficult to make a breakthrough in parliament. jeremy corbyn has been visiting a noisy museum in leicester today, and politely suggest that tony blair assured, well, wind his neck in. i think tony should recognise that the party membership is now much bigger that it has ever been, the biggest in my lifetime. well been, the biggest in my lifetime. we ll over been, the biggest in my lifetime. well over half a million. some supporters ofjeremy well over half a million. some supporters of jeremy corbyn well over half a million. some supporters ofjeremy corbyn are rather more blunt. what they will be talking about is representing a rug, representing a minority interest in this country. it is not the middle ground, we are the moderates, we are the centre ground. politics has changed rather a lot since this happens. and change is showing no signs of going out of fashion. let's cross now to westminster and speak to our political correspondent, iain watson. whilst the focus is on the labour party, it is really about the folk —— the state of british politics. yes, as tony blair has been saying, he has used this phrase before about people being politically homeless. this feeling that labour has now decisively moved to the left. and as if theresa may's position is vulnerable, you can see perhaps a strong brexit supporting replacement on the right. i think he is simply articulating what some people are saying in private. perhaps party politics in britain passed to catch up politics in britain passed to catch up with the electorate. these comments come against a backdrop of uncertainty within labour were a couple of mps have had thought of no confidence passed. last night, for example. that doesn't mean they will be deselected or thrown out but it does, i think, be deselected or thrown out but it does, ithink, i like be deselected or thrown out but it does, i think, i like this kind of volatilities and people are privately wondering about whether to jump privately wondering about whether to jump ship. vince cable's speech today was to say to people who are perhaps worried, pro—europea ns today was to say to people who are perhaps worried, pro—europeans in the conservative party, that perhaps they could come together in the centre ground with a new political force. he said he wanted to turn the lib dems into wave movement for moderates. no longer a traditional political party but a wider movement. he also was willing to work with anyone else who happen to set upa work with anyone else who happen to set up a centre party. during a surreal party speech, he compared all this to a monty python sketch. he said in his worldview the people's prodigy dear would be willing to work with thejudaean people's france. he reminded me of another line in that sketch for someone said, where is the popular front for the liberation ofjudy are? the answer was, he is over there. ——judea. the former foreign secretary, boris johnson, has announced that he and his wife marina wheeler are divorcing. the couple said they had separated several months ago. they've been married since 1993 and have four children together. you're watching afternoon live, these are our headlines: thousands of ba customers cancel their credit cards after a data breach —— the airline say it's due after a data breach — the airline say it's due to a "malicious criminal attack" on its website. tony blair claimsjeremy corbyn poses a threat to the future existence of the labour party. russia's threat to the international community is "real" and "active": a warning from the boss of gchq. in sports, alastair cook nears 50 in his final match before retiring from international cricket. he is 39 not out. england's 70 81 on the first day of the fifth and final test with india. serena williams is one win away from equalling the all—time records. she will play in the us 0pen final tomorrow. watford's. .. after guiding his team to four wins in theirfirst four after guiding his team to four wins in their first four league matches. i will have more on all of those stories at around 2:30pm. see you then. russia poses a ‘real and active threat‘ to the uk, according to the head of the gchq intellingence agency. jeremy fleming has called on the international community to reject what he called moscow‘s ‘brazen determination‘ to undermine the rules based order of the world. it follows the naming of two members of russian military intelligence as the suspects in the salisbury poisoning attack. earlier today, a spokeswoman for the russian foreign ministry repeated russia‘s denials of wrong doing, as our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford explained. in a foreign ministry briefing this morning, the foreign ministry spokesman in moscow, maria zakharova, said, everything in this story is absurd, and then attacking theresa may directly she said, especially absurd are the statements by the british prime minister. britain‘s representative at the united nations this morning telling the bbc that russia is a disrupter at the moment, and the director of gchq, jeremy fleming, saying that what happened in salisbury demonstrates how reckless the russian state can be, that there is a coalition ready to reject the kremlin‘s brazen determination to undermine the international rules—based order. there has of course been some talk of perhaps some retaliatory cyber attacks. in response to that, one of the very, very pro—kremlin newspapers in russia has published an editorial by a well—known kremlin supporter in which he said, i would like to remind the hotheads in britain that if these plans are carried out, russia will be forced to consider it an act of aggression with all that follows from that. russia will not turn the other cheek forever. so this is a very hot cold war of words at the moment. after seven years of brutal and bloody civil war in syria, it now looks likely that president assad is preparing for what could be the endgame — a military assault on the country‘s last rebel stronghold of idlib. nearly three million people are crammed into the province. some are jihadist fighters but many are refugees with nowhere left to go. the un says as many as 800,000 people could be displaced?and there are fears of a humanitarian crisis. today russia, turkey and iran are holding crucial talks which may decide idlib‘s fate. richard galpin reports. suchis such is the fear of what may happen in the coming days and weeks, people have already started moving out of areas likely to be first in the firing line. this is the last rebel held province in syria is a congested area with a population of almost 3 million people. half of whom fled here from previous battles elsewhere in the country. many of them are now living in camps like this. they are very vulnerable. earlier this week russia resumes are strikes on the province. reportedly killing civilians. this amid a major build—up of troops nearby, suggesting a full assault on a globe could be imminent. there is this eerie feeling that we are now in the final stages of a relentless countdown to war. i would say it is still time to call it off, to some hold this insanity and two and this last possible battle. in talks and not ina last possible battle. in talks and not in a bloodbath. that could engulf millions of civilians. in response rebel forces here are preparing to defend the province. these fighters are aligned with turkey. but amongst the thousands of rebels now in england, including many foreigners, the dominant force is an al-qaeda linked group with to 10,000 men. russia says they must be destroyed. the many civilians who are staying put, at least for now, are staying put, at least for now, are also preparing to defend themselves. these families have created their own bomb shelters and are stocking up with food supplies. while this man is also making gas masks for his family. he says people are scared. everyone knows russia and the syrian president will hit us with chemical weapons. at the united nations security council last night, concern was raised that syrian forces were preparing to use chemical weapons in a glib. rotting a warning that the us would retaliate. chemical —— chemical weapons in idlib. we want to remind assad and his russian and arabian partners, you don‘t want to bet against the united states responding against. by the russian ambassador denied that the syrian military had any chemical weapons. today in tehran, the presidents of russia, iran and turkey are holding a key meeting about idlib. turkey like many countries open to persuade the russian and a rainier leaders not to launch an all—out assault with the syrian military on the province. president rouhani has said civilians should not be harmed. here in set‘s main city and across the province, people are hoping for good news from the tehran summit. but they‘re also bracing for the worst. it is an all—out assault here, it could lead to the most devastating attack of syria‘s long civil war. there‘s been an assassination attempt on the leading contender in brazil‘s presidential election. of a crowd of supporters —— he‘s had surgery and is expected to recover. the controversial far right politician has outraged many in brazil with his speeches, which prosecutors have said promote hate and rape. however he‘s been performing strongly in recent opinion polls. katy watson‘s report does contains some images of the attack you may find dissturbing. out on the campaign trail and working the crowds, with just a few weeks to go before the elections, far right presidential candidate jair bolsanaro was in his element, but the celebrations came to a sudden end. mr bolsonaro suddenly gripped his chest in pain, after being stabbed. chaos ensued, and the politician was rushed through the crowd to hospital. initially, his son flavio reported on twitter that the wound was only superficial, but that soon changed. "unfortunately", he said later, "it was more serious "than we‘d expected. "he lost a lot of blood and arrived at the hospital almost dead, "but his condition is now stable. "please pray for him." mr bolsonaro is a politician who‘s polarised opinion in brazil. he‘s become known for his racist, sexist and homophobic comments, but his tough talk of tackling violent crime and of beating corruption has helped propel him to the top of the race. the latest polls show that if, as expected, former president lula da silva is banned from running because of his corruption conviction, mr bolsonaro would win the most votes in the first round. politicians of all stripes, even his biggest critics, were united in condemning the attack. translation: whoever did this has to pay, whoever did this cannot stay unpunished. this cannot happen. a democratic country, which respects itself, that wants to be democratic, cannot allow the stabbing of any presidential candidate. police have since released a photo of the suspect who was arrested. he‘s been named as adelio bispo de 0liveira. next month‘s elections are the most uncertain this country has seen in decades. with this stabbing, tensions are now running even higher. the chief inspector of schools, amanda spielman, has rejected criticism from mps that 0fsted is not enough of a "force for school improvement." 0fsted‘s budget has been cut by more than fifty percent, but despite this ms spielman insisted her staff were not under—performing. her comments followed the publication of a house of commons committee report which suggests the inspection body was losing its credibility. legislation to ban the smacking of children in scotland is being published at holyrood. the measure proposed by a green member of the scottish parliament, has the backing of the scottish government and other political parties. however, the scottish conservatives said present legislation "works well because it is based on common sense, and reflects what the majority of parents want". waterstones has bought the rival book chain, foyles, for an undisclosed sum. the foyles brand — once famous for owning the biggest bookshop in the world — is to be retained as part of the merger. waterstones says together they will be better—positioned to champion what it calls "the pleasures of real bookshops", and resist the dominance of amazon. the foyles brand is to be protected. the duke of cambridge is in newcastle and gateshead today to visit the great exhibition of the north — a three—month celebration of the region‘s art, culture, design and innovative spirit. the prince will also attend a reception at baltic to meet volunteers, who have helped make the great exhibition happen. time for a look at the weather. this weekend the great north run on sunday. 0ne this weekend the great north run on sunday. one of our team running it for the 13th time this year. you would be surprised how many of us have taken part. have they all completed its? they have! this year the weather is not looking too bad for runners and spectators. this is how it is looking. my train early on on sunday morning, should clear away. from then on the skies will be clearing a little bit. clouds parting and a bit of sunshine coming through. we need to explain, that is a computer image of what this guy will look like. that's right, this is data driven. this is what this quy is data driven. this is what this guy should look like on sunday. you can see later on there is some clear its slots. —— what the sky will look like. by the time the runners get towards the coast, i think it will bea towards the coast, i think it will be a fine afternoon. a bit of a breeze from the west but i think not too bad for the runners. breeze from the west but i think not too bad for the runnerslj breeze from the west but i think not too bad for the runners. i wish i had got my application in! what is happening for the rest of the week? it isa happening for the rest of the week? it is a lovely afternoon for many of us this afternoon. some autumnal sunshine, blue skies. this is in shropshire. not quite the same everywhere, and bit more fair weather clouds almost across—the—board. thicker cloud for parts of the north—east of england and lincolnshire, also across scotland. here we will continue to see some showers across the northern isles and also down towards east yorkshire into lincolnshire. most other places largely dry and fine this afternoon. a bit more cloud for the northern scotland with a view patchy showers. more sunshine for the western isles towards dumb freeze and galloway into northern ireland. some sunshine across cumbria and why fischer. further east, east of the pennines, more likely to catch showers. heading south across central and southern parts of england and wales, quite a lot of sunshine. just a bit of fairweather cloud this afternoon. the evening, losing those showers from the yeast. rain continuing for the north of scotland and more great night from the west. —— from the east. a few spots of rain also for northern ireland. a chilly start in the east with those clearer skies. saturday will be dominated by this brand heading in from the west, particularly parts of wales, central and northern england. either side of the france has some brighter and drier weather. sunny spells for scotland, northern ireland. southern counties of england‘s are likely to hold onto the dry and reasonably warm weather for much of the day. a scene or 20 degrees possible here. feel under the cloud. the weather but still with us into the second half of the weekend. as it moves on sunday we should see the weather improved. to start the day fans showers across northern england. also for scotland but they clear through on that strengthening westerly breeze. the sunshine breaks through during the afternoon. temperatures in the high teens in the north. in the south around 22. into the new working week, we are expecting one or two showers for scotla nd expecting one or two showers for scotland and northern ireland. looking largely dry as high pressure builds across england and wales. towards the middle of the week, warming up. territories could reach the mid—20s once again. —— temperatures. this is bbc news — our latest headlines. british airways says sorry after a mass hack of data from its customers. nearly 400,000 payment cards have been compromised. jeremy corbyn has hit back after an attack on his leadership by tony blair, insisting the party membership is now much bigger than it‘s ever been. earlier, mr blair warned it might not be possible for labour "moderates" to take the party back from the left. sir vince cable will stand down as liberal democrat leader once, in his words, "brexit is resolved or stopped". he says he wants candidates from outside politics to be given the chance to replace him. russia poses a real and active threat — that‘s the warning from the head of the intelligence agency, gchq. it comes after the government named two russian agents, suspected of carrying out the novichok attack in salisbury. sport now on afternoon live, withjohn watson. england‘s cricketers will be pleased with their morning‘s efforts at the oval? the talk before the match was about cook‘s impending retirement. well, he‘s nearing 50 in his last test — joe root the england captain said it was written in the stars he‘d score a century and he‘s almost halfway there. he was given a guard of honour coming out to bat he‘s unbeaten on 43, but was dropped just after lunch. keatonjennings the first to go. moeen ali there, who‘s also been dropped by virat koli 89—1. dropped by virat koli 91—1. if you goes on to make a test century once again, it will be some story. let‘s talk tennis, because our lives, not for the first time, and serena williams. she‘s called her return to tennis incredible following the health complications she experienced following the birth of her first child with left her fighting for her life. she‘s edged a step closer to equalling the record for the most grand slam singles titles after reaching the us open final. she won in straight sets against anaistasjia sevatsova, and will face japan‘s naomi 0saka in tomorrow‘s final, who was just one—year—old when serena won her first grand slam — now she has 23 — and could make that 2a in new york. i got a little emotional out there because last year i was literally fighting for my life in the hospital. i think i was on my fourth surgery by now... today is thursday... i was on my third surgery, i still had one more to go. to come from that in a hospital bed and not being able to move and walk and do anything, and now, only a year later, i'm not training but i'm actually in these finals. mo farah will be going for a fifth win in the great north run on sunday. now dedicated solely to road racing, the four—time olympic champion believes the race in newcastle will act as ideal preparation for next month‘s chicago marathon. i feel good. training has been going pretty well. i have been in arizona training hard with my coach gary and things are going well enough. for me it isjust going to be tough, as well as testing myself to see what i am, and asking them questions, and in three three and a half weeks, after the chicago marathon. i‘m excited. scotland begin their nations league campaign at home to albania on monday, but tonight they have a much tougher task. the scots host belgium, who finished third at the world cup, and they‘ll have to try to contain chelsea forward eden hazard. he‘s probably in the top five at the minute. i think i‘ve played against him many a times. i know what threats he can do and even if he‘s having a quiet game, he can pop up at any point and turn a game and that‘s what we‘re up against. i think it is important for us after the world cup that every game the beagle into we tried to pikhalyonok the game. i think everyone expects belgium to play any manner, to work really ha rd belgium to play any manner, to work really hard as a team, for each other, and have really high standards, and play for a win. i don't see any other way. watford‘s javier gracia has won this season‘s first premier league manager of the month award. the spaniard‘s guided his side to four wins out of four at the start of the campaign. their latest victory coming against tottenham on sunday. watford are reportedly keen to extend his contract at vicarage road. that‘s all the sport for now. let‘s return to one of today‘s main stories: the leader of the liberal democrats — sir vince cable — has said his party will hold a leadership election once the issue of brexit is — in his words — ‘resolved or stopped‘. earlier, sir vince spoke to my colleague annita mcveigh about his plans for the party. i think at the moment, we have a position where people are looking for great rallying point, because they see in the country and enormous sense of drift, big problems not been dealt with, andy two traditional parties, one has been taken over traditional parties, one has been ta ken over by traditional parties, one has been taken over by extremists, and the other is in the process of being. i think we have the capacity to do it, we have a substantial membership, andi we have a substantial membership, and i think by opening up the support this week, i have been open to new way of doing things, i think we have the capacity to capitalise and help lead this new force. this is primarily a rallying cry of an brexit. brexit is the issue of the moment, and we are completely united on it, unlike the conservatives and labour parties. we are very clear that it labour parties. we are very clear thatitis labour parties. we are very clear that it is damaging to the country, and we are campaigning for people‘s vote, and i want to win that argument. we don‘t know when this process will end, and that is why i am not setting a timeline my leadership. i have a series of tasks to do, that is one of them, and i am approaching it in a professional way, which is how people would approach things outside parliament. you have certain jobs to do and you in to do them. when you talking about bringing voters and who identify with the liberal democrats, are using these people may be ready for another full—time brexit, and then they made good their separate ways from the party. how would you define who could join the party and what rights would they have? we are saying to people who identify with our values, and we do have values of tolerance, we are a moderate, middle of the lord common—sense party. the fight extreme inequalities, but we believe in an open economy, open society. we have a set of values. people who identify with that kind join our support. they have 2p a fee, but as they are part of our supporter base, among other things, having the sea in the choice of future leaders, and have a real choice in shaping the way we develop our policy. is there a danger of entry is, are people trying join a party with a specific agenda in mind while, entryism is a specific problem for parties. you have to have a specific mechanism for dealing with it. we are in a different position from the other parties. the conservatives are the right—wing party and they are being taken over right—wing party and they are being ta ken over by right—wing party and they are being taken over by people on the extreme right. the labour party had a socialist party and i been taken over by people on the extreme left. we are in moderate party, and i think the issue is not the same for us. quite rightly, be have to be careful. but most of it, middle of the blood might mean different things to different people. do you think that the liberal democrats may be to let lying on some issues for some people? this survey is we suggest is that 40% of the public broadly share our values. they do not currently support us politically, but they share our values. some people do not, and i accept that. there is a lot of political diversity in the country. and obviously common ground and poetry have been talking about today. tony blair also talking about the centre ground of british politics. is there perhaps a way forward for a third party that we‘d be an amalgamation of the liberal democrats and people who feel, in labour, disaffected with the party because ofjeremy corbyn‘s leadership. i think you are getting ahead of us on this. i am talking about two things. one is strengthening our own party to create a rallying ground for people in the middle of politics, but there are in addition, people in the labour party who will notjoin us, for good or bad reason. they will wa nt to for good or bad reason. they will want to do their own thing, but they have given up on the labour party, and tony blair is one of them. i make it very clear i want to work with them. there is no point working against each other, we have got to cooperate. one by one, many of president trump‘s closest aides have been publicly denying authorship of the anonymous editorial in the new york times. it painted a damning picture of the trump white house. the writer — described by the times as "a senior official" — calls the president "erratic, impulsive and amoral". chris buckler reports from washington. ata at a rally in montana, donald trump was surrounded by supporters, people who believe in him. but this has been a beacon of persistent claims that many in the white house have no such faith in their president. mr trump is well above that some of those damning allegations and a p pa re ntly those damning allegations and apparently come from one of his own senior officials. an anonymous, really a douglas covered. nobody knows who he or she is. for the sake of our national security, the new york times should publish his name... the new york times insists it was a tramp insider who brought the resistance inside the white house. individuals who are a p pa re ntly house. individuals who are apparently working diligently to frustrate part of the president‘s agenda, claiming he is impetuous, adversarial, petty, ineffective and andy democratic. —— anti—democratic. the hunter to identify the author has led to a official after a official being forced to deny it is then. i think the new york times should be ashamed, and whoever wrote this anonymous editorial should be ashamed as well. i find the media's effort to undermine the administration incredibly disturbing. i will and should your question directly — it is not me. the fact that so many have felt the need to say they are not responsible has added to its credibility and feels conspiracy theories about who could have written it. washington is a city that thrives on political drama, and there is plenty of intrigue and the capital at the moment. this week, donald trump even appear to as the investigative journalist of the new york times to investigate themselves, with the simple question, who is the anonymous letter writer? but there are serious questions about the president, and what is happening inside has a great house. —— inside his white house. as we heard earlier, the war in syria has created millions of refugees. many of them are in camps in neighbouring countries. in jordan‘s zaatari camp, half the 80,000 refugees are children, often traumatised by the violence they‘ve seen. well, now arsenal football club have teamed up with pschologists from save the children to develop a football training programme that helps the refugees mentally as well as physically. it‘s been launched by former arsenal captain and world—cup winner per mertesacker. catrin nyejoined him at the camp. you try to prepare as much as you can, mentally, for going to a refugee camp. to imagine the circumstances is impossible. an arsenal star takes on a rather different pitch. per mertesacker is used to the emirates stadium in london. this pitch is in zaatari refugee camp injordan, just 12 kilometres from the syrian border. they shout: arsenal! the former arsenal captain is here to see a new training programme designed to help children traumatised by war. this camp is huge. it‘s home to 80,000 syrian refugees, it‘s the size of a small city. the place is well organised, but it has problems. children end up in early marriages and child labour. good, mohammed. .. the training programme teaches children about their rights, about teamwork, resilience, and gives them vital role models. it‘s also about letting them just be kids. save the children‘s psychologists worked with arsenal, who already do community work in north london. fleeing conflict from syria and living in a refugee camp with 80,000 people is very different from a young person growing up on an estate here, very different, but some of the approaches and responses are really simple. it's about belonging to something positive, it's about having a sense of purpose, trusting staff, there's trusted adults that do have an understanding of what they are going through. in jordan, per mertesacker meets mohammed, a syrian refugee who fled when he was just nine. what does football mean to him, like...? she translates: it's my life. have you seen your son, like, playing, and how good he is, skilful? the whole family fled. they don‘t know what‘s going on at home. they don‘t know how long they‘re going to live here. so, him, it‘s just been day by day. enjoying the football, it gives him so much. where do you want to be one day? she translates: famous player. famous player! she translates: like you. save the children and arsenal are aiming to coach 11,500 teenage boys and girls in the next three years, here injordan and in indonesia. they know they can‘t get these children their old lives back, but they can try and give them hope, make them stronger and make sure it‘s not war that defines their future. in a moment we‘ll find out what‘s hot and what‘s not in the business news. first, a look at the headlines on afternoon live. thousands of ba customers cancel their credit cards after a data breach — the airline say it‘s due to a "malicious criminal attack" on its website. tony blair claimsjeremy corbyn poses a threat to the future existence of the labour party. russia‘s threat to the international community is ‘ a warning from the boss of gchq. here‘s your business headlines on afternoon live. the chief executive of british airways has apologised for what he has called a very sophisticated breach of the firm‘s security systems. the airline said personal and financial details of customers making bookings had been compromised. uk house prices picked up last month, rising at the fastest annual rate since november, according to the halifax. in the three months to august, prices climbed by 3.7% from a year earlier, up from 3.3% annual growth injuly. however, the monthly change was just 0.1%, leaving the average cost of a house little changed at £229,958. waterstones is buying the 115 year—old family—owned chain foyles, saying the deal will help to "champion" real bookshops in the face of online rivals. waterstones said the deal would help booksellers fight back against amazon‘s "siren call". a bad day for british airways. yes, but we don‘t know how bad. there‘s an elite has compromised some 380,000 transactions. they seem to have got a lot of details, including the serial number on the back. this suggests that the hack was not a harvesting of a database, but they intercepted... because you are not allowed to keep them. absolutely not. you have to get them as they urban put into the system. the other interesting thing, the other warning, obviously, you have two monitors your bank account and change your password if you were perhaps exposed to this. be careful about people who bring you up and say you have been exposed and we would like to help you out, or claim to be from the police or british elbows. anybody who old college you, be very careful. this is a favourite pine for scammers to get in and try and take even more. we spoke to an independent technology expect about this. it is actually really important not to prejudge this. british airways will have to bring in, most likely, outside help, and they have alerted the national cyber security centre, the national crime agency, the police and the information commissioner's office. so you can imagine they are dealing with authorities to help with the forensics investigation of this crime, the criminal nature of it, which will be the people side, and then also liaising with the regulator, that's the ico, because they have to make sure that everything is being done in case there will be any fines issued under the general data protection regulation, the gdpr, whichjust came into effect this year. we don't want to prejudge anything about how this has happened yet because we don't know. we will talk about this throughout the day, because i want to move on, because tesla, the ayrshire side down. yes, they very sharp fall. 0ne headline grabbing thing is that mr musk has been smoking marijuana on a podcast. it is not illegal. dave morton, a former cfo for computer—drive maker it‘s because tesla‘s chief accounting officer gave notice he s resigning one month into thejob, citing the level of scrutiny on the electric—car maker. dave morton, a former cfo for computer—drive maker seagate technology plc, joined tesla one day before his boss elon musk tweeted that he was considering buying out some investors at $420 a share and taking the company private. the ceo abandoned that effort 17 days later, and in the process drew a subpoena from the securities and exchange commission and a series of lawsuits the other thing is that there‘s a possibility of legal cases coming out against tesla because of what musk said about taking the company private. all of this is building up a picture of a company that desperately needs to be focused on turning out these electric cars, which are going to make a fortune. but there needs to be a sense of focus at the top. that is what is worrying investors. it is a general feeling of instability in tesla. have you seen the shots of him smoking? yes, i have. he says he hardly ever smokes, and he says that he is not a habit. he says it does not help. it is not very good for his work. that is certainly true. it‘s the first friday of the month — that means the jobs numbers are out in the us. indeed. you cannot deny that the american economy is going well. these figures are very economy is going well. these figures are very strong r&d? right, and they are very strong r&d? right, and they are a much stronger than what a nalysts are a much stronger than what analysts expected. they were expecting to gain about 190,000 jobs in august. we have always been looking at hourly wages entries, and that has been a concern. but if you regard the last few months, the elderly wages entries by a small percent, and in this latest report, they have entries by .4%. that is actually be a pretty good, and it is giving economists a large more comfort about the labour market, when they see that elderly wages are going up. tell us about tesla. that is not going down very well, is it? what is interesting is that the incident with the marijuana and drinking whiskey on that webcast, that truly did not speak investors too much. what truly dead was that bskyb chief accounting officer, having been in the position for only a month, said i am out, i cannot deal with this any more. he cited the fact that is just so deal with this any more. he cited the fact that isjust so much pressure as a result of so many people watching the company, that it just made it very difficult. coupled with the pace within the company. i think investors are looking, and and a nalysts think investors are looking, and and analysts are saying that there needs to be someone else at tesla to try and delete some of the pressure from mr musk. listening to him talk about smoking marijuana, it was reminiscent of a certain somebody who said, yes, i did smoke marijuana, but i did not inhale. that rings bells, doesn‘t it? takes me back! did you go. does smoking marijuana do much for one‘s image? let‘s have a look at the markets. the ftse is down 1% because of a stronger pound. as it gets stronger, the big companies... it is not that strong against the euro. it is higher than yesterday. that is because michel barnier has been coming out with positive talks. he is saying there are bits of the chequers agreements he can go along with. that has made people feel there is more hope for a deal, and that has strengthened the pound, but by doing that, you make all the income that the big companies make less in terms of pounds, because they are making all their money in dollars. talk to you later. the prince of wales is visiting scotla nd the prince of wales is visiting scotland today. they reopened the willow tea rooms in glasgow today. one of the stars of the carry 0n films has died at the age of 88. liz fraser was a favourite leading lady across films and tv for over three decades. the british comedy society said in tribute that she was ‘a delight‘. her later credits included hero to zero and drover‘s gold. time for a look at the weather. as we head towards the weekend, the weather is looking changeable. for most of us, temperatures will rise in the next few days. 20 hours sunshine today for many of us. here‘s a satellite image. it shows will be have had the cloud. particularly cloudy in scotland and north—east england. we will continue to see rain later on this afternoon and into the evening. for much of the uk, not a and into the evening. for much of the uk, nota bad and into the evening. for much of the uk, not a bad afternoon. more cloud across northern and eastern parts of scotland. the cloud flecked enough to produce a few spots of sherry brain. those showers juggler gradually clear towards the east, down towards the side. parisi later on today, but quite a bit of sunshine as we look towards the evening. the shareware sees away, and the next area of rain moves towards the west. elsewhere, further north and east, it is looking fairly cool and clear with temperatures into single figures tonight. that is when that weather fun starts to creep into the bus, making to the early hours saturday morning. the weather front bringing cloud to western pa rt of weather front bringing cloud to western part of england, wales as well, and it published eastwards. some uncertainty about how far north it will get. rain and parts of northern england, but scotland and northern ireland scene not a bad day. southern part of england could well have i given for much of the day. we could see 19, possibly 20 degrees. this francois creep gradually eastwards. i think sunday probably will be drier, but there will be showers around, particularly around parts of northern england and scotland. further south, warmer air creeping in, so temperatures in the south, they may well reach 22 degrees in the afternoon. the chants of the lord shall work, but —— the cha nts of the lord shall work, but —— the chants of the odd showers. hello, you‘re watching afternoon live. today at 3pm: taking flight: thousands of ba customers cancel their credit cards after a huge data breach at the airline — after a sophisticated, malicious criminal attack on its website. this was a very sophisticated criminal attack on ba.com. and over more than 20 years that ba.com has been operating, we have never had a breach of this type. the battle for the political centre ground — tony blair claimsjeremy corbyn poses a threat to the future existence of the labour party. there‘s lots of people associated with me who feel that the labour party is lost. that the game is over. you know, i‘m kind of hoping they are not right. i think tony should recognise that the party membership is now much bigger than it has ever been. it's the biggest it has ever been in my lifetime. decontamination work begins at the home of novichok poisoning victim sergei skripal — as the boss of gchq warns russia‘s threat to the international community is "real" and "active". coming up on afternoon live, all the sport. yes, alistair cook has reached 50 in his last test before retiring from international cricket. let‘s have a quick look at the weather. good afternoon. as the weekend approaches the weather looks a little bit changeable. some rain on saturday through the central part of the country. for most of us on sunday will be brighter and warmer. mooring up will be brighter and warmer. mooring up an hour. thank you. getting rid of the guns with the help of the gunners: the arsenal football initiative to help the most vulnerable youngsters in the world‘s trouble—spots. hello, everyone — this is afternoon live. there have been computer system hacks before — but perhaps not like this. it looks as though the credit card details of 380,000 people — including their three—digit security numbers — have been stolen in what british airways calls a very suphisticated, malicious, criminal attack. details were stolen following a major data breach on its website and mobile app. the airline has apologised to those affected — with some customers already reporting fraudulent activity on their accounts — others are cancelling their cards. and this could prove costly to the airline — notjust in terms of a drop in its share price and reputational damage — but also because of the threat of a fine which some experts believe could be as high as £500 million. our business correspondent theo leggett is with me — he‘s been following this developing story. this was a big data breach but not the biggest we have seen. 380,000 cards, revised. what matters here is the kind of information, names and addresses but also credit card details including crucially expiry dates and security numbers, the three digits on the back of the card. those are supposed to be the last line of defence. companies do not store the information is of the question is, how did the hackers managed to get hold of it? if you have a credit card number, expiry date and security code, you can use that information very easily. the other question that has not yet been a nswered other question that has not yet been answered is whether or not the information stolen wasn‘t scripted or not. ba won‘t tell us because they say there is an ongoing police investigation. the company has indicated it has done all it can to get the information out there to ta ke get the information out there to take action. this is what the chief executive of bea had this was a very sophisticated, criminal attack on ba.com. 0ver more than 20 years that ba.com has been operating, we've never had a breach of this type. we are absolutely committed to the integrity of the data of our customers. the important thing is that as soon as we found out that these records may have been compromised, we began the communications process through all channels available and of course directly to the customers to alert them about this potential problem. well, one customer, yan anderson is travelling with ba tomorrow — and he has had the very serious inconvenience of having to cancel all his credit cards. mr anderson says it‘s ba‘s responsibility to make sure customers details are safe. i am sympathetic, however it is quite clear that it is a company‘s responsibility to protect our data as consumers. i believe that the businesses are therefore at fault. what are the ramifications for british airways on the wider issue? there is obviously reputational damage. people will feel they can‘t trust british airways. they have put this data into the website and it has gone missing, that is bad. we also have gdp or which means that companies who were negligent with personal data can potentially faced much biggerfines. that is why people are talking about hundreds of millions. based on a percentage of ta keover millions. based on a percentage of takeover —— turnover? millions. based on a percentage of takeover -- turnover? yes. ba did like to go very quickly. they took steps to mitigate the damage so they probably won‘t get huge fines but it is still a risk. the fact that they have had this breach and at last year they also have computer problems leading to lots and lots of flights being cancelled and thousands of passengers being stranded over the may holiday period, in 2017, it does not create a good impression. reputational lead they might —— they may find there is quite a lot of damage. thank you. thank you. i‘m nowjoined by dr mike mcguire, a criminologist at the university of surrey‘s centre for cyber security. we need to look at who might be behind this. yes, all bets are open at the moment. in the sort of vacuum of information we have for the present time. we are largely left with speculation. there are probably three broad possibilities. 0ne with speculation. there are probably three broad possibilities. one is one of them very well—organised cybercriminal gangs who i have looked at in various parts of my research. he were highly professionalised and highly skilled at what they do. —— who are. there's no reason why it could not be an insider job. no reason why it could not be an insiderjob. i would say that is less likely because of the nature of the attack. the third possibility, pure speculation, i have spoken to some people about it, we could not rule out a nation state involvement. i find it interesting that this attack comes the day after gchq has suggested they might retaliate against russia for the novel chock incident. wouldn't be a has to give us more details as to what was involved? what you want to know? we need to break down the details of what happened and how it happened. there is some speculation in the cyber security community about some of the details of the attack. the fa ct of the details of the attack. the fact that it seems to be that this dvd data was obtained is an indication that this was a live attack, as customers entered the data it was being fed off to some third party. —— the cw data. there are already indications of what was likely to have happens. clearly what we will need to know longer term is redrew detail. how forthcoming ba will be is another matter. hopefully it will be far clearer. we also want to know some degree of attribution. can we say it is simply a cybercriminal gang or is there something bigger going on? there are obviously national—security issues in place here as well. this is clearly a great pain for anyone who has become involved. if you had booked a flight in this way during this period, what would you be doing with your credit cards? ba has been specific about the time period when they think the data was mind. that makes it a little bit easier. i'm sure lots of people were looking around, having booked ba flight in the last two months. it seems if you did that you are ok. but if you booked in the specified time period, which ba have made available, you should certainly be looking to cancel your cards and is reissued them. how does this rate? we have had hacks before, how serious is this one? in terms of the volume, what we know at the moment is, about 400,000 records compromised. that is very small compared to the 10 million customer records which were breached with dixons earlier this year. audio unclear. in terms of... it is not one of the largest ones. usually the numbers grow once we are able to look back in hindsight. i suspect there is probably more than 400,000 people who state which has been copper mines. the other issue is notjust the volume but the reputational issues. this is obviously a landmark british company. if customers are not able to be secure in transactions, specifically the mobile app is one of the problems here, then it is a major problem for ba. yes. are you very much. -- thank you very much. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, has rejected an attack on him by former prime minister tony blair. mr blair said labour has become a ‘different party‘ and he‘s not sure it can ever be ‘taken back‘ by moderates. it comes as the leader of the liberal democrats, sir vince cable, claims that infighting in the two main parties means millions of voters in the centre ground feel ignored. sir vince has also announced he‘ll be stepping down as lib dem leader after brexit is resolved. 0ur political correspondent chris mason reports. cheering. rewind two decades and tony blair was the centre of attention, commanding the political stage, perched atop a humongous parliamentary majority. rewind not many years and sirvince cable, possessed of a ministerial red folder, purged around the cabinet perched around the cabinet table. not any longer. now, both men stand at the margins, grappling for relevance, trying to be heard. there‘s lots of people associated with me who feel that the labour party is lost, that the game is over. i don‘t think the british people will tolerate a situation where for example the choice of the next election is borisjohnson versus jeremy corbyn. i don‘t know what will happen and i don‘t know how it will happen, but ijust don‘t believe people will find that in the country as a whole and acceptable choice. something will fill that vacuum? something will fill that vacuum. swap a radio studio for the national liberal club in london and there is sir vince cable with a strikingly similar message in which he is willing to put a sell by date not on just his leadership but potentially his own party. despite our best efforts the liberal democrats might not be the only centre force in british politics. i think it‘s the worst kept secret in westminster that political disquiet in the two major parties is provoking some people to consider the formation of a new party in the centre ground or indeed several, and i think this requires us to demand better than the usual tribalism, whether it‘s our own or others‘. the thing is for all this talk, many mps have had a longer relationship with their political parties and with their husband or wife. walking away is not easy. plus history suggests new parties find it mighty difficult to make a breakthrough in parliament. jeremy corbyn has been visiting a noisy museum in leicester today, and politely suggests that tony blair should, well, wind his neck in. i think tony should recognise that party membership is now much bigger than it‘s ever been. it‘s the biggest it‘s ever been in my lifetime, well over half a million members. some supporters of mr corbyn are rather more blunt. what tony blair and what vince cable will be talking about is representing a romp, representing a minority interest in this country. it‘s not the middle ground at all. we are the moderates, we are the centre ground. politics, as you mightjust have noticed, has changed rather a lot since this happened, and change is showing no signs of going out of fashion. i spoke to our political correspondent, iain watson, and asked him — isn‘t this more about the state of british politics — rather thanjust a labourfocused issue? that's right, it is because there is that feeling, as tony blair has been saying, he used a phrase in previous occasions about people being politically homeless, that there is this feeling that the labour party has now perhaps, in his view now, decisively moved to the left. and that if theresa may's position is vulnerable, then you could see perhaps a strong brexit supporting replacement on the right. therefore he is simply, ithink, articulating what some people are saying, including in his own party, in private. that perhaps party politics in britain has to try and catch up with where the electorate might be at any given time. certainly these comments come against a backdrop of uncertainty within the labour party were a couple of mps have had motions of no confidence passed in them. for example, last night, people who would be seen as relatively close, i think, to tony blair's type of politics. that doesn't mean they will be deselected or thrown out, but it does, i think, highlight this kind of volatility. some people privately wondering about whether at some point in the future tojump ship. certainly vince cable's hole pitch today was to say to people who are certainly vince cable's whole pitch today was to say to people who are perhaps worried, pro—europeans, in the conservative party, playwrights, if you like, for want of a better word is, perhaps worried, pro—europeans, in the conservative party, blairites, if you like, for want of a better word is, that perhaps they could come together in the centre ground with a new political force. what he wanted to do, he said, was to turn the liberal democrats into a movement for moderates, no longer a traditional political party but this wider movement. i think he was also willing, he said, to work with anyone else that happened to set up a centre party. in fact, during eight surreal party speech, he in fact, during a surreal party speech, he actually compares all this to a monty python sketch. he said that in his worldview, of course, that the people's front ofjudea would be willing to work with the judean people's front. but there shouldn't be tribalism and politics. that there shouldn't be tribalism and politics. but i think with the lib dems reduced tojust a dozen mps, he also reminded me of another mine in that monty python sketch, where somebody said, where is the popular front for the liberation ofjudea? and the answer was, he is over there. the former foreign secretary, boris johnson, has announced that he and his wife marina wheeler are divorcing. the couple said they had separated several months ago. they‘ve been married since 1993 and have four children together. you‘re watching afternoon live, these are our headlines: thousands of ba customers cancel their credit cards after a data breach — the airline say it‘s due to a "malicious criminal attack" on its website. tony blair claimsjeremy corbyn poses a threat to the future existence of the labour party. decontamination work begins at the home of novichok poisoning victim sergei skripal — as the boss of gchq warns russia‘s threat to the international community is "real" and "active" and in sport alistair cook reaches 50 in his final match before retiring his 58 not out at the oval against india at the fifth and final match of the series. england 115 per one on day one. serena williams says it‘s incredible she is challenging for majors wallowing her health publications after the birth of her first child. she will play in the us open final tomorrow. and what it have won the season but my first premier league manager of the month award after guiding his team to four wins in theirfirst award after guiding his team to four wins in their first four league matches. i will be back with more on those stories at around half past. specialist military teams have started decontaminating the home of the novichok poisoning victim sergei skripal. the operation at the house in salisbury— where police believe the former russian agent, and his daughter yulia were contaminated with nerve agent in march — is part of the planned decontamination programme, during which items will be removed from the property. further sampling will later be carried out to ensure the site is safe. as the investigation and clean up operation continue, the head of the gchq intellingence agency has said poses a ‘real and active threat‘ to the uk. jeremy fleming has called on the international community to reject what he called moscow‘s ‘brazen determination‘ to undermine what he called the ‘rules—based order of the world‘. his comments follow the naming of two members of russian military intelligence as the suspects in the salisbury attack. a spokeswoman for the russian foreign ministry has repeated repeated russia‘s denials of wrong doing — as our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford explained. in a foreign ministry briefing this morning, the foreign ministry spokesman in moscow, maria zakharova, said, everything in this story is absurd, and then attacking theresa may directly she said, especially absurd are the statements by the british prime minister. britain‘s representative at the united nations this morning telling the bbc that russia is a disrupter at the moment, and the director of gchq, jeremy fleming, saying that what happened in salisbury demonstrates how reckless the russian state can be, that there is a coalition ready to reject the kremlin‘s brazen determination to undermine the international rules—based order. there has of course been some talk of perhaps some retaliatory cyber attacks. in response to that, one of the very, very pro—kremlin newspapers in russia has published an editorial by a well—known kremlin supporter in which he said, i would like to remind the hotheads in britain that if these plans are carried out, russia will be forced to consider it an act of aggression with all that follows from that. russia will not turn the other cheek forever. so this is a very hot cold war of words at the moment. the chief inspector of schools, amanda spielman, has rejected criticism from mps that 0fsted is not enough of a "force for school improvement." 0fsted‘s budget has been cut by more than 50%, but despite this ms spielman insisted her staff were not under—performing. her comments followed the publication of a house of commons committee report which suggests the inspection body was losing its credibility. legislation to ban the smacking of children in scotland is being published at holyrood. the measure proposed by a green member of the scottish parliament, has the backing of the scottish government and other political parties. however, the scottish conservatives said present legislation "works well because it is based on common sense, and reflects what the majority of parents want". there‘s been an assassination attempt on the leading contender in brazil‘s presidential election. zhur—eer bolson—aaroo was stabbed in the middle of a crowd of supporters —— he‘s had surgery and is expected to recover. the controversial far right politician has outraged many in brazil with his speeches, which prosecutors have said promote hate and rape. however he‘s been performing strongly in recent opinion polls. katy watson‘s report does contains some images of the attack you may find dissturbing. out on the campaign trail and working the crowds, with just a few weeks to go before the elections, far right presidential candidate jair bolsanaro was in his element, but the celebrations came to a sudden end. mr bolsonaro suddenly gripped his chest in pain, after being stabbed. chaos ensued, and the politician was rushed through the crowd to hospital. initially, his son flavio reported on twitter that the wound was only superficial, but that soon changed. "unfortunately", he said later, "it was more serious "than we‘d expected. "he lost a lot of blood and arrived at the hospital almost dead, "but his condition is now stable. "please pray for him." mr bolsonaro is a politician who‘s polarised opinion in brazil. he‘s become known for his racist, sexist and homophobic comments, but his tough talk of tackling violent crime and of beating corruption has helped propel him to the top of the race. the latest polls show that if, as expected, former president lula da silva is banned from running because of his corruption conviction, mr bolsonaro would win the most votes in the first round. politicians of all stripes, even his biggest critics, were united in condemning the attack. translation: whoever did this has to pay, whoever did this cannot stay unpunished. this cannot happen. a democratic country, which respects itself, that wants to be democratic, cannot allow the stabbing of any presidential candidate. police have since released a photo of the suspect who was arrested. he‘s been named as adelio bispo de 0liveira. next month‘s elections are the most uncertain this country has seen in decades. with this stabbing, tensions are now running even higher. katy watson, bbc news, in sao paulo. after seven years of brutal and bloody civil war in syria, it now looks likely that president assad is preparing for what could be the endgame — a military assault on the country‘s last rebel stronghold of idlib. nearly three million people are crammed into the province. some are jihadist fighters but many are refugees with nowhere left to go. the un says as many as 800,000 people could be displaced?and there are fears of a humanitarian crisis. today russia, turkey and iran are holding crucial talks which may decide idlib‘s fate. richard galpin reports. such is the fear of what may happen in the coming days or weeks that already hundreds of people have started moving out of areas likely to be first in the firing line. this, the last rebel held province in syria, is a congested area with a population of almost 3 million people. half of those who fled here were from previous battles elsewhere in the country. many of them are now living in camps like this. they are very vulnerable. and earlier this week, russia resumed air strikes on the province, reportedly killing civilians. this amid a major build—up of troops nearby, suggesting a full assault on idlib could be imminent. there is this eerie feeling that we are now at the final stages of a relentless countdown to war. i would say there‘s still time to call it off, to halt this insanity, and to end this last possible battle in syria in talks, and not in a bloodbath that could engulf millions of civilians. in response, rebel forces here are preparing to defend the province. these fighters are aligned with turkey. but amongst the thousands of rebels now in idlib, including many foreigners, the dominant force is an al-qaeda linked group with up to 10,000 men. russia says they must be destroyed. the many civilians who are staying put, at least for the time being, are also preparing to defend themselves. these families have created their own bomb shelters and are stocking up with food supplies, while this man is also making gas masks for his family. he says people are scared. "everyone knows russia and the syrian president," he says, "will hit us with chemical weapons." at the united nations security council last night, concern was raised that syrian forces were preparing to use chemical weapons in idlib, prompting a warning the us would retaliate. so, we want to take this opportunity to remind assad and his russian and iranian partners, you don‘t want to bet against the united states responding again. but the russian ambassador denied that the syrian military had any chemical weapons. today in tehran, the presidents of russia, iran and turkey are holding a key meeting about idlib. turkey, like many countries, hoping to persuade the russian and iranian leaders not to launch an all—out assault at the syrian military on the province. president rouhani has said civilians should not be harmed. here in idlib‘s main city and across the province, people are hoping for good news from the tehran summit. but they are also bracing for the worst. if there is an all—out assault here, it could lead to the most devastating attack of syria‘s long civil war. waterstones has bought the rival book chain, foyles, for an undisclosed sum. the foyles brand — once famous for owning the biggest bookshop in the world — is to be retained as part of the merger. waterstones says together they will be better—positioned to champion what it calls "the pleasures of real bookshops", and resist the dominance of amazon. the duke of cambridge is in newcastle and gateshead today to visit the great exhibition of the north — a three—month celebration of the region‘s art, culture, design and innovative spirit. the prince will also attend a reception at baltic to meet volunteers, who have helped make the great exhibition happen. now it‘s time for a look at the weather with sarah keith lucas. good afternoon. as we head towards the weekend the weather looks changeable but for most of us temperatures will be on the rise for the next few days. today plenty of sunshine for many of us. this is devon. here is the satellite image showing where we have had cloud. particularly across north—east england, northern ireland and scotland. we will continue to see some showery rain later this afternoon and this evening. for much of the uk, not a afternoon and this evening. for much of the uk, nota bad afternoon and this evening. for much of the uk, not a bad afternoon. some sunny spells. more cloud across northern and eastern scotland. just big enough to produce showery rain. a bit more sunshine breaking three in the evening across the central belt, dumfries & galloway, northern ireland. showers for northern england gradually clearing towards the east. some clear skies as we had further south. quite breezy later today but there will be quite a bit of sunshine as we look towards the evening. 0nce of sunshine as we look towards the evening. once the sun sets, the showers eased towards the north and east. the next area of showery rain is from the west. initially across parts of blood in ireland, wales and western england. elsewhere further north and east, light clear. —— parts of northern ireland. that is when that weather france starts to creep in from the west, moving through saturday morning. i say player to ring the day on saturday. bring a cloud initially to western parts of england, wales. pushing east. some unsettled weather. could bea east. some unsettled weather. could be a bit of rain in two parts of northern england. scotland and northern ireland is seeing not a bad saturday. 70 degrees or so. southern parts could avoid the rain for much of the day. we could see 19 or 20 degrees. the weather front with us into the second half of the weekend, creeping gradually eased. sunday probably will be the driver day. still a few showers, particularly across northern england and scotland. further south some warmer are creeping in. temperatures may well reach 22 degrees during a sunday afternoon. still a chance of the odd shower but the driver day overall. looking to be drying and warming up into the new working week. goodbye for now. this is bbc news — our latest headlines. british airways says sorry after a mass hack of data from its customers. sorry after a mass hack nearly 400,000 payment cards have been compromised. jeremy corbyn has hit back after an attack on his leadership by tony blair, insisting the party membership is now much bigger than it‘s ever been. earlier mr blair warned it might not be possible for labour "moderates" to take the party back from the left. sir vince cable will stand down as liberal democrat leader once, in his words, "brexit is resolved or stopped". he says he wants candidates from outside politics to be given the chance to replace him. the home of the novichok poisoning victim, sergei skripal, is being decontaminated. it comes as the head of the intelligence agency, gchq, warns that russia poses a real and active threat to the international community. sport now on afternoon live. the talk before the match was about cook‘s impending retirement. well he‘s passed his 50 in his last test — joe root, the england captain, said it was written in the stars he‘d score a century, and he‘s well over halfway there. he was given a guard of honour coming out to bat. he‘s unbeaten on 64, but was dropped just after lunch. keatonjennings the first to go. england 121—1. and if alistair cook makes a century, it will be another special moment in what has been you grow your career. let‘s talk about tennis. serena williams going from strength to strength. she‘s called her return to tennis incredible following the health complications she experienced following the birth of her first child with left her fighting for her life. she‘s edged a step closer to equalling the record for the most grand slam singles titles after reaching the us open final. she won in straight sets against anaistasjia sevatsova, and will face japan‘s naomi 0saka in tomorrow‘s final, who was just one year old when serena won her first grand slam — now she has 23 — and could make that 24 in new york. i got a little emotional out there because last year i was literally fighting for my life in the hospital. i think i was on my fourth surgery by now... today is thursday... i was on my third surgery, i still had one more to go. to come from that in a hospital bed and not being able to move and walk and do anything, and now, only a year later, i'm not training but i'm actually in these finals. mo farah will be going for a fifth win in the great north run on sunday to put his name in the record books. now dedicated solely to road racing, the four—time olympic champion believes the race in newcastle will act as ideal preparation for next month‘s chicago marathon. i feel good. training has been going pretty well. i have been in arizona training hard with my coach gary and things are going well enough. for me it isjust going to be tough, as well as testing myself to see what i am, and asking them questions, and in three three and a half weeks, after the chicago marathon. i‘m excited about sunday‘s race. another of the heroes from super saturday at london 2012 will hang up his spikes up for good this weekend. greg rutherford — who won the long jump title at the olympic stadium — is also competing at the great north city games. of course, it is sad, but i embedded to. i‘m ready to move on to new things. my body is most certainly ready, is getting out of bed nowadays is quite difficult. i need to recover properly will stop i have done this long enough, it is time to let the youngsters take over and they onto new level. scotland begin their nations league campaign at home to albania on monday, but tonight they have a much tougher task. the scots host belgium, who finished third at the world cup, and they‘ll have to try to contain chelsea forward eden hazard. he‘s probably in the top five at the minute. i think i‘ve played against him many a times. i know what threats he can do and even if he‘s having a quiet game, he can pop up at any point and turn a game and that‘s what we‘re up against. england face spain tomorrow. that‘s all the sport for now. we‘ll have more for you in the next hour. the chancellor philip hammond has responded to criticism regarding the scrapping of a tax cut that would have benefited almost three million self—employed workers. speaking in vienna, mr hammond said it was ‘regrettable‘ that the government could no longer remove class two national insurance contributions. let‘s hear what he had to say. reber very committed to making the class to national insurance contribution, and b have spent a lot of time trying to do this but one disadvantage to hundred thousand very low paid self—employed people, but there just isn‘t to weak to do it without introducing huge additional complexity and to the tax system, so regrettably we have had to conclude that we cannot proceed but the abolition of class two without imposing huge additional costs on 300,000 of the poorest self—employed workers. one by one, many of president trump‘s closest aides have been publicly denying authorship of the anonymous editorial in the new york times. it painted a damning picture of the trump white house. the writer, described by the times as "a senior official", calls the president "erratic, impulsive and amoral". chris buckler reports from washington. at a rally in montana, donald trump was surrounded by supporters, people who believe in him, but this has been a week of persistent claims that many working in the white house have no such faith in their president, and mr trump is well aware that some of those damning allegations have apparently come from one of his own senior officials. an anonymous, really an anonymous, gutless coward. you just look. he was... nobody knows who the hell he is, or she, although they put he but probably that‘s a little disguise, that means it‘s a she. but for the sake of our national security, the new york times should publish his name at once. the new york times insists it was a trump insider who wrote of the resistance inside the white house — individuals who are apparently working diligently to frustrate part of the president‘s agenda, claiming he‘s "impetuous", "adversarial", "petty", "ineffective", and "anti—democratic". the feverish guessing game to try to identify the author has quickly become a hunt, and led to official after official being forced to deny it was them. i think the new york times should be ashamed, and i think whoever wrote this anonymous editorial should also be ashamed as well. i find the media's efforts in this regard to undermine this administration incredibly disturbing. and i'll answer your other question directly because i know someone will say, gosh, you didn't answer the question — it's not mine. the fact that so many have felt the need to say that they were not responsible for the article has, in a way, only added to its credibility and fuelled conspiracy theories about who could have written it. washington is a city that thrives on political drama, and there is plenty of intrigue in the capital at the moment. in a tweet, donald trump even appeared to ask the investigative journalists of the new york times to investigate themselves, with the simple question, "who is the anonymous letter writer?" but after such damaging allegations, there are also serious questions about the president and what‘s happening inside his white house. chris buckler, bbc news, washington. as we heard earlier, the war in syria has created millions of refugees. many of them are in camps in neighbouring countries. in jordan‘s zaatari camp, half the 80,000 refugees are children — often traumatised by the violence they‘ve seen. well, now arsenal football club have teamed up with pschologists from save the children to develop a football training programme that helps the refugees mentally as well as physically. it‘s been launched by former arsenal captain and world—cup winner. catrin nyejoined him at the camp. you try to prepare as much as you can, mentally, for going to a refugee camp. to imagine the circumstances is impossible. an arsenal star takes on a rather different pitch. per mertesacker is used to the emirates stadium in london. this pitch is in zaatari refugee camp injordan, just 12 kilometres from the syrian border. they shout: arsenal! the former arsenal captain is here to see a new training programme designed to help children traumatised by war. this camp is huge. it‘s home to 80,000 syrian refugees, it‘s the size of a small city. the place is well organised, but it has problems. children end up in early marriages and child labour. good, mohammed. .. the training programme teaches children about their rights, about teamwork, resilience, and gives them vital role models. it‘s also about letting them just be kids. save the children‘s psychologists worked with arsenal, who already do community work in north london. fleeing conflict from syria and living in a refugee camp with 80,000 people is very different from a young person growing up on an estate here, very different, but some of the approaches and responses are really simple. it's about belonging to something positive, it's about having a sense of purpose, trusting staff, there's trusted adults that do have an understanding of what they are going through. in jordan, per mertesacker meets mohammed, a syrian refugee who fled when he was just nine. what does football mean to him, like...? she translates: it's my life. have you seen your son, like, playing, and how good he is, skilful? the whole family fled. they don‘t know what‘s going on at home. they don‘t know how long they‘re going to live here. so, him, it‘s just been day by day. enjoying the football, it gives him so much. where do you want to be one day? she translates: famous player. famous player! she translates: like you. save the children and arsenal are aiming to coach 4,500 teenage boys and girls in the next three years, here injordan sure it‘s not war that defines their future. we know that this summer has proved to be a record breaker and the heat also led to more than one—and—a—half million people visiting the nhs website looking for advice. john maguire reports. baby leo is blissfully unaware he hasjust been born into the joint—hottest summer on record. but during her pregnancy, his mum, cassie, had to keep her cool. i managed to work earlier, and avoid the hottest parts of the day, which was ideal, and also avoid public transport, and avoid walking too much in the heat of the city. that was really important. temperature—controlled birthing pools have been very popular here at the chelsea and westminster hospital. summer is always busy, but this year‘s extreme heat saw an increase in visits. things like swelling can sometimes mask other, more serious conditions with pregnancy, so it‘s difficult to exclude those when women phone in and say they‘ve got swelling of their feet and hands. so, again, we recommend that women come in and be assessed. and the government says, during july, thousands more people were seen in a&e within four hours than the same month last year. it was even busier than the winter. usually summer is the time when the wards are less busy. it‘s an opportunity for early winter planning. for staff to catch up. but we haven‘t had that respite. so really, since january, it‘s really been full on. as temperatures soared, the nhs advice website was red—hot. heat—related enquiries more than doubled, from 730,000 in the summer last year to more than 1.5 million over the past three months. the number of deaths related to the summer has not yet been published, but this climate change expert says high mortality could become the new norm. we had 900 deaths from heat—related conditions a couple of years ago. imagine... and we didn‘t hear anything really reported about it, but imagine if we‘d had a flood event that killed 900 people. there would be understandable outrage, uproar... it would be considered a national crisis. the deaths from heat are a public health emergency, and we have got to get better at helping it. and mps are warning that a change in climate must mean a major change in our culture. we‘re seeing hospital wards overheating, care homes overheating. this is where the frail, elderly people are, and they‘re the most at risk of overheating in a heatwave, so we really need to plan very carefully to keep the older population safe. so if, as is forecast, a summer like this one becomes the rule and not the exception, then our health system, so used to dealing with cold, wet winters, will also need to adapt to frequent long, hot summers. john maguire, bbc news. in a moment we will find out what‘s hot and what‘s not in the business news. first, a look at the headlines on afternoon live. thousands of ba customers cancel their credit cards after a data breach. the airline say it‘s due to a "malicious criminal attack" on its website. tony blair claimsjeremy corbyn poses a threat to the future existence of the labour party. decontamination work begins at the home of novichok poisoning victim sergei skripal — as the boss of gchq warns russia‘s threat to the international community is "real" and "active". here‘s your business headlines on afternoon live. the chief executive of british airways has apologised for what he has called a very sophisticated breach of the firm‘s security systems. the airline said personal and financial details of customers making bookings had been compromised. uk house prices picked up last month, rising at the fastest annual rate since november, according to the halifax. in the three months to august, prices climbed by 3.7% from a year earlier, up from 3.3% annual growth injuly. however, the monthly change was just 0.1%, leaving the average cost of a house little changed at £229,958. waterstones is buying the 115 year—old family—owned chain foyles, saying the deal will help to "champion" real bookshops in the face of online rivals. waterstones said the deal would help booksellers fight back against amazon‘s "siren call". another scandal about people with these holds. the latest bit of research on this shows that about half of people who bought leaseholds in the last ten years had no idea what they were getting themselves in for. it is the cost that are associated with it, and then the difficulty of being able to sell a leaseholds. as the least get shorter, it becomes harder to sell. and people are being warned off of them because of the costs, then. when you buy a leaseholds, you want to do please flooring, the landlord can charge you up to about £900. you change your blinds, there have been known cases where people have been charged over £500 just to change the blinds. beating any front door, £400. these costs are built and there, and you can see them, but many people simply did not realise when these leases were started, but they were getting themselves into. we are going to talk to the chief executive... some of these charges seem scandalous. they are still going on? absolutely. we surveyed over 1100 people who had bought a new house over the last ten years, and over 50% were unaware that these charges could be incurred. some of them were even an aware when the property that it was leasehold. 15% by an aware after the completed the purchase that it was leasehold. the consumer is not aware. was it not sombre in the small print? when you are buying a house, buying a leaseholds, it is a lot of money, you should be looking at the small print. it used to apply, but nowadays the seller needs to point out to deep buyer, and whichever sector it is, anything that would affect their transactional decision. so, anything material that might make them think twice. obviously, in this instance, that has not been made clear by the seller by the lawyer. if there's a problem is continuing question lizard people who have bought over the last ten yea rs ? who have bought over the last ten years? i think in some instances developers have looked at the way b—cell houses and are changing. in other instances, it be buried elsewhere within the paperwork, but for those who have purchase, they find themselves trapped almost in a life sentence in that home, unable to sell it. can anything be done for them? it is difficult, because it is 20 be retrospective. any vast umber of instances, the freehold is already sold the day after completion, so it has been sold on to an investor, by the very fact be an investor, they are looking at capital gain and income looking forward. they are unlikely to want to sell that freehold back to the leaseholder at considerable disco. this does not happen on new builds? this does not happen on new builds? this is houses built with than the la st this is houses built with than the last ten years. patricia '5 report would then that period. high seas being dealt now, can this arrangement still happening? being dealt now, can this arrangement still happening ?m being dealt now, can this arrangement still happening? it can still happen, as has been pointed out, if a lawyer has not inverted them —— alerted them. the staff have two point them out, they are not cove red two point them out, they are not covered by the same regulations as estate agents, so they have a lot more freedom. the markets? lets. don‘t look so nervous, i will take you through them. the ftse is down a half of a percent. i was telling you earlier about the pound gaining value — it is up now. michel barnier has been saying about brexodus negotiations, he seems to see cause for optimism over the chequers deals which is being offered by theresa may. the footsie following as the pound gallows in strength, because every cent that the pound increases, that reduces the pound value of every bit of income companies make. got it? yeah, thank you, jamie! zara tindall has been telling the bbc how pleased she is to be back in the saddle three months after the birth of her second child. she‘s been speaking exclusively to sally nugent about her very public highs and lows, and how two miscarriages have helped make her family stronger. you‘ve got your hands full there! with that one or that one? this one, mainly! back to work? yeah, i know, definitely. so, we‘re back to the serious business of the dayjob now. yeah, both. both. i‘ve got twojobs. yes, a bit of both. yeah, a bit of both. stepped up the daddy day care routine. good for you. we‘ll let you go and get on with that. thank you. i'll leave you to it. have fun. nice to see you, take care. and this fella is? this is class affair, this is my nice nine—year old that hopefully will be my next good one — or that‘s the plan, anyway. i‘m not sure he knows it yet! now, you went to the olympics, got your silver. a hugely proud moment, iimagine, foryou. something you‘ve been imagining since you were a kid? i don‘t know if i always thought that i wanted to go to the olympics. i think that probably came later. horses are very much in my life, in my family. being able to kind of have them still in my life and part of my career is great. do you ever look at women in the public eye, i‘m thinking at the moment of serena williams particularly, who have competed at a really high level, had a baby and come back? i mean, i can‘t believe what she‘s been able to do. but, at the end of the day, that is her, that‘s her character. so she can‘t immediately switch that off. you can‘t stop being a sports person. you can‘t stop being competitive. it really hasn‘t been an easy couple of years for you, privately, has it? you announced your pregnancy in 2016 and then, very sadly, went on to lose the baby. and we also heard later that you‘d lost another child as well, in between your two girls. yeah, i think that‘s the hardest thing in our situation is that everyone knew. very much when things like that happen, normally it‘s just your family and friends, but, unfortunately, everyone knew about it. you know, actually, i had so many letters saying, you know, "i‘m so sorry, we‘ve been through the same thing," which was incredible, and thank you to all those people, but itjust showed how often it does happen. i have a very supportive family. mike‘s incredible. you know, it‘s hard for the guys, too. you are the daughter and granddaughter of two of possibly the most hard—working women in the public eye. do you think that that work ethic is something you‘ve inherited? probably. i mean, i think it‘s something that i‘ve been around all my life, so you would hope that some of it would rub off — in a good way! one of the most famous images of this year, i think, has to have been you, pregnant at the wedding of prince harry and meghan markle. what was that like, having to go and get your gladrags on and your heels? oh, i was so uncomfortable, so uncomfortable. and obviously, you know, when they build churches, they don‘t think about pregnant women. it was a really hard bench? really narrow, as well. so you were perched? i was perched and trying to get comfy, but, yeah, it was very uncomfortable. well, thank you very much indeed. it‘s great to see you looking so well and so happy and with such big, ambitious plans for the future. well, we‘ll see what we can do. do it for all the mums. all the mums, yeah. i would love to. i mean, hopefully we can get there and, yeah, i‘ll see what happens. one of the stars of the carry on films has died at the age of 88. liz fraser was a favourite leading lady across films and tv for over three decades. the british comedy society said in tribute that she was ‘a delight‘. her later credits included hero to zero and drover‘s gold. time for a look at the weather. here‘s sarah keith lucas. as we head towards the weekend, the weather looks changeable. but for most of us, temperatures will be on the rise. plenty of sunshine today. this is a satellite image, and it shows where we have had the cloud. it has been cloudy across parts of north—east england, scotland. we will continue to seek showery rain later this afternoon and this evening. for much of the uk, not a bad afternoon. more cloud across northern and eastern parts of scotland. that cloud sick enough to produce showery rain. sunshine across the central belt and dumfries and galloway, and northern ireland too. they should gradually clear away towards the east, and clear skies in the south. crazy later on today, but they will be sunshine in the evening. the sandsend eases away towards the north and east, and they weather front moves and across the west across part of northern ireland, wales and parts of england. further north and east, it is looking cool and clear, temperatures down into single figures tonight. but the weather front keeps them from the west, moving and through the early hours of the morning. that‘s where the fund brings quite a bit of cloud to western part of england and wales, and will push eastwards. there could be rain in two parts of north england, but scotla nd two parts of north england, but scotland and northern ireland is seen not a bad day. they killed 17 degrees arsenal. southern part of england could avoid the rain. we have still got this far and with us as we move into the second half of the week, and it is creeping gradually eastwards. sunday will probably be dry, but as you can see, there are showers are run. particularly across northern england and scotland. temperatures in the side may well reach ever and 22 degrees during sunday afternoon. still the chance of the odd shoveller, but it dry the overall. bye for now. hello, you‘re watching afternoon live. i‘m simon mccoy. today at 4pm: taking flight: thousands of ba customers cancel their credit cards after a huge data breach on the airline‘s app and website. this was a very sophisticated criminal attack on ba.com. and over more than 20 years that ba.com has been operating, we have never had a breach of this type. the battle for the political centre ground — tony blair claimsjeremy corbyn poses a threat to the future existence of the labour party. there‘s lots of people associated with me who feel that the labour party is lost. that the game is over. you know, i‘m kind of hoping they are not right. i think tony should recognise that the party membership is now much bigger than it has ever been. it's the biggest it has ever been in my lifetime. civilians flee the last rebel held province in syria as the forces of president assad —— are poised to launch a major offensive in idlib coming up on afternoon live all the sport withjohn watson. alastair cook 66 not out on day one of his last test match before retiring from international cricket. more from you later. thank you for that. it is looking a little bit autumnal through the course of the weekend. a bit of rain in the forecast but most of us should see some sunshine on saturday or sunday. you will be pleased to hear that temperatures will start to come up in the next few days. talk to you later. also coming up — prince william visits proto in gateshead — the first centre in europe built specifically to support emerging technologies such as vr and augmented reality. hello, everyone — this is afternoon live. there have been computer system hacks before — but perhaps not like this. it looks as though the credit card details of 380,000 people — including their three—digit security numbers — have been stolen in what british airways calls a very sophisticated, malicious, criminal attack. details were stolen following a major data breach on its website and mobile app. the airline has apologised to those affected — with some customers already reporting fraudulent activity on their accounts — others are cancelling their cards. and this could prove costly to the airline — notjust in terms of a drop in its share price and reputational damage — but also because of the threat of a fine which some experts believe could be as high as £500 million. our business correspondent, theo leggett, says the kind of information taken makes the leak particularly worrying. what matters here is the kind of information that was taken. names and addresses — fine — but also credit card details including, crucially, expiry dates and cw or cvc numbers, the three digits on the back of the card. a security code. those are supposed to be, in a way, the last line of defence. companies do not store the information so the question is, how did the hackers manage to get hold of it? because if you have the credit card number, expiry date and security code, you can use that information very easily. the other question that has not yet been answered is whether or not the information stolen was encrypted or not. ba won‘t tell us because they say there is an ongoing police investigation. that said, the company has indicated it has done all it can to get the information out there to take action. this is what, alex cruz, the chief executive of ba had to say: this was a very sophisticated, criminal attack on ba.com. over more than 20 years that ba.com has been operating, we‘ve never had a breach of this type. we are absolutely committed to the integrity of the data of our customers. the important thing is that as soon as we found out that these records may have been compromised, we began the communications process through all channels available and of course directly to the customers to alert them about this potential problem. we can now speak to bill buchana from edinburgh napier unviersity, one customer has had a series inconvenience of having to cancel his credit cards. i am sympathetic but it is quite clear it is the company but it is quite clear it is the co m pa ny byes but it is quite clear it is the company byes responsibility to protect our data as consumers. i believe the businesses are therefore at fault. what are the ramifications for ba on the wider issue? obviously there is reputational damage. people will feel they cannot trust british airways. the fact that they have had this it breach and at last year they also had due to problems that led to lots on lots of flights being cancelled and thousands of passengers being stranded over at the may holiday period in 2017, it does not create a good impression. reputational we british airways may find is quite a lot of damage. we can now speak to bill buchana from edinburgh napier unviersity, who last year was awarded an obe for services to cyber security. just give us some perspective on this in terms of those who have been hacked, those customers with their credit card details out there, how serious is this? it is extremely serious. currently no one knows what the details are. just as what was outlined are, we don‘t know if the data was acquitted, if the security number was released. at this current timei number was released. at this current time i don‘t think there is enough detail of the instant response from bea to make sure that experts can make some sense of the data and to give reasonable advice if you had booked during this time, what would you be doing with your cards? cancelling it immediately. i have seen screenshots online of individuals being charged a considerable amount of money against their credit card. that hasn‘t been proven yet that that is the case but for two weeks it could be that someone somewhere in the world has a credit card —— has the credit card details of british airways customers. how sophisticated is this? is it something with your computers skills that you could have carried out or are we talking about something incredibly sophisticated? there is always a flaw in any secure system. i think our banks, especially in the uk, are pretty secure and have 24/7 monitoring. they‘ll be looking at the alerts and making sure every transaction is correct. early on they will be getting intelligence that there is something wrong. it‘s unbelievable that it has taken two weeks to find out that the credit card details we re out that the credit card details were being taken away. in terms of security every single part of the transaction should be credited. they should not be anyway the transaction p°p5 should not be anyway the transaction pops its head above the surface and then gives the opportunity for someone to grab that for a broccoli design system. that is what makes this different because they seem to have gone in between that period we re have gone in between that period were someone is typing the details in and it going into the website‘s library. that would be a scary thought. there was a case recently where a chat agent was colonised through the web browser, so that when someone typed in something to the online chat within the web page, and the details could be taking off by the hacker. —— was compromised. normally this type of attack —— hack is truly a database where code is put through the web page and then drops into the database which takes it, which the hackers can then take the information. a scary thing is that everything you type within a browser might be close to someone else in the world. it‘s a scary world. we would lose all trust in our e—commerce infrastructure if that could be scaled across the internet. at the moment we can't be sure that has not and what has happened here. that's right. so we should be trusting the little green padlock at the top, making sure we are connected securely. we know that our details are being held securely by the organisations. often we are using things like multifactor dedication to make sure that we have a good secure environment. perhaps we are not indicating enough to users that all these checks are actually happening so that they can feel reassured. i don't know if you enjoy a good conspiracy or a spy novel but we are in the middle of a big row with russia, 24 hours since the head of gchq was warning over at cyber attacks. is that coincidence? i cannot say. i know people are motivated by money. whenever there isa motivated by money. whenever there is a natural benefits and profits, that there are people there that will try to compromise systems. i wouldn‘t say there was a political motivation within this. certainly there is possibly a financial motivation. but it would take a great deal of investigation to find out what the true root of this hack was. in the scale of seriousness, ten being the most, where would you put this? 380,000 people with their credit cards exposed to the world, thatis credit cards exposed to the world, that is pretty serious. i would say nine. accused of much for your time. thank you. -- thank you for your time. the labour leaderjeremy corbyn has rejected a criticism on him by former prime minister tony blair. mr blair said labour has become a ‘different party‘ and he‘s not sure it can ever be ‘taken back‘ by moderates. it comes as the leader of the liberal democrats, sir vince cable, claims that infighting in the two main parties means millions of voters in the centre ground feel ignored. sir vince has also announced he‘ll be stepping down as lib dem leader after brexit is resolved. our political correspondent chris mason reports. cheering. rewind two decades and tony blair was the centre of attention, commanding the political stage, perched atop a humongous parliamentary majority. rewind not many years and sirvince cable, possessed of a ministerial red folder, purged around the cabinet perched around the cabinet table. not any longer. now, both men stand at the margins, grappling for relevance, trying to be heard. there‘s lots of people associated with me who feel that the labour party is lost, that the game is over. i don‘t think the british people will and he suggests another party could emerge. i don‘t think the british people olerate a situation where for example the choice of the next election is borisjohnson versus jeremy corbyn. i don‘t know what will happen and i don‘t know how it will happen, but ijust don‘t believe people will find that in the country as a whole and acceptable choice. something will fill that vacuum? something will fill that vacuum. swap a radio studio for the national liberal club in london and there is sir vince cable with a strikingly similar message in which he is willing to put a sell by date not on just his leadership but potentially his own party. despite our best efforts the liberal democrats might not be the only centre force in british politics. i think it‘s the worst kept secret in westminster that political disquiet in the two major parties is provoking some people to consider the formation of a new party in the centre ground or indeed several, and i think this requires us to demand better than the usual tribalism, whether it‘s our own or others‘. the thing is for all this talk, many mps have had a longer relationship with their political parties and with their husband or wife. walking away is not easy. plus history suggests new parties find it mighty difficult to make a breakthrough in parliament. jeremy corbyn has been visiting a noisy museum in leicester today, and politely suggests that tony blair should, well, wind his neck in. i think tony should recognise that party membership is now much bigger than it‘s ever been. it‘s the biggest it‘s ever been in my lifetime, well over half a million members. some supporters of mr corbyn are rather more blunt. what tony blair and what vince cable will be talking about is representing a romp, representing a minority interest in this country. it‘s not the middle ground at all. we are the moderates, we are the centre ground. politics, as you mightjust have noticed, has changed rather a lot since this happened, and change is showing no signs of going out of fashion. i spoke to our political correspondent, iain watson, and asked him — isn‘t this more about the state of british politics — rather than just a labour focused issue? that's right, it is because there is that feeling, as tony blair has been saying, he used a phrase in previous occasions about people being politically homeless, that there is this feeling that the labour party has now perhaps, in his view now, decisively moved to the left. and that if theresa may's position is vulnerable, then you could see perhaps a strong brexit supporting replacement on the right. therefore he is simply, ithink, articulating what some people are saying, including in his own party, in private. that perhaps party politics in britain has to try and catch up with where the electorate might be at any given time. certainly these comments come against a backdrop of uncertainty within the labour party were a couple of mps have had motions of no confidence passed in them. for example, last night, people who would be seen as relatively close, i think, to tony blair's type of politics. that doesn't mean they will be deselected or thrown out, but it does, i think, highlight this kind of volatility. some people privately wondering about whether at some point in the future tojump ship. certainly vince cable's hole pitch today was to say to people who are certainly vince cable's whole pitch today was to say to people who are perhaps worried, pro—europeans, in the conservative party, playwrights, if you like, for want of a better word is, perhaps worried, pro—europeans, in the conservative party, blairites, if you like, for want of a better word is, that perhaps they could come together in the centre ground with a new political force. what he wanted to do, he said, was to turn the liberal democrats into a movement for moderates, no longer a traditional political party but this wider movement. i think he was also willing, he said, to work with anyone else that happened to set up a centre party. in fact, during eight surreal party speech, he in fact, during a surreal party speech, he actually compares all this to a monty python sketch. he said that in his worldview, of course, that the people's front ofjudea would be willing to work with the judean people's front. but there shouldn't be tribalism and politics. that there shouldn't be tribalism and politics. but i think with the lib dems reduced tojust a dozen mps, he also reminded me of another mine in that monty python sketch, where somebody said, where is the popular front for the liberation ofjudea? and the answer was, he is over there. the former foreign secretary, boris johnson, has announced that he and his wife marina wheeler are divorcing. the couple said they had separated several months ago. they‘ve been married since 1993 and have four children together. taking flight: thousands of ba customers cancel their credit cards after a huge data breach on the airline‘s app and website. the battle for the political centre ground — tony blair claims jeremy corbyn poses a threat to the future existence of the labour party. civilians flee the last rebel held province in syria as the forces of president assad — are poised to launch a major offensive in idlib and alastair cook reaches 70 not out at the oval in his final test before retiring. england is taking on india in the fifth and final match series. they are 132—1. serena williams says it‘s incredible she is in the majors following health obligations after the birth of her first child. she plays in the us open final tomorrow. watford‘s manager has won this season‘s premier league manager of the month after guiding his team to four wins the month after guiding his team to fourwins in their the month after guiding his team to four wins in theirfirst the month after guiding his team to four wins in their first four league matches. more to come at around half past. after seven years of brutal civil war in syria, it now looks likely that president assad is preparing for what could be the endgame — a military assault on the country‘s some are jihadist fighters but many are refugees with nowhere left to go. the un says as many as 800,000 people could be displaced?and there are fears of a humanitarian crisis. today russia, turkey and iran are holding crucial talks which may decide idlib‘s fate. richard galpin reports. such is the fear of what may happen in the coming days or weeks that already hundreds of people have started moving out of areas likely to be first in the firing line. this, the last rebel held province in syria, is a congested area with a population of almost 3 million people. half of those who fled here were from previous battles elsewhere in the country. many of them are now living in camps like this. they are very vulnerable. and earlier this week, russia resumed air strikes on the province, reportedly killing civilians. this amid a major build—up of troops nearby, suggesting a full assault on idlib could be imminent. there is this eerie feeling that we are now at the final stages of a relentless countdown to war. i would say there‘s still time to call it off, to halt this insanity, and to end this last possible battle in syria in talks, and not in a bloodbath that could engulf millions of civilians. in response, rebel forces here are preparing to defend the province. these fighters are aligned with turkey. but amongst the thousands of rebels now in idlib, including many foreigners, the dominant force is an al-qaeda linked group with up to 10,000 men. russia says they must be destroyed. the many civilians who are staying put, at least for the time being, are also preparing to defend themselves. these families have created their own bomb shelters and are stocking up with food supplies, while this man is also making gas masks for his family. he says people are scared. "everyone knows russia and the syrian president," he says, "will hit us with chemical weapons." at the united nations security council last night, concern was raised that syrian forces were preparing to use chemical weapons in idlib, prompting a warning the us would retaliate. so, we want to take this opportunity to remind assad and his russian and iranian partners, you don‘t want to bet against the united states responding again. but the russian ambassador denied that the syrian military had any chemical weapons. today in tehran, the presidents of russia, iran and turkey are holding a key meeting about idlib. turkey, like many countries, hoping to persuade the russian and iranian leaders not to launch an all—out assault at the syrian military on the province. president rouhani has said civilians should not be harmed. here in idlib‘s main city and across the province, people are hoping for good news from the tehran summit. but they are also bracing for the worst. if there is an all—out assault here, it could lead to the most devastating attack of syria‘s long civil war. specialist military teams have started decontaminating the home of the novichok poisoning victim sergei skripal. the operation at the house in salisbury — where police say the former russian agent, and his daughter yulia, were contaminated with nerve agent in march — is part of the planned decontamination programme, during which items will be removed from the property. further sampling will later be carried out to ensure the site is safe. the head of the gchq intelligence agency has said russia poses a ‘real and active threat‘ to the uk. jeremy fleming has called on the international community to reject what he called moscow‘s ‘brazen determination‘ to undermine the ‘rules—based order of the world‘. his comments follow the naming of two members of russian military intelligence as the suspects in the salisbury attack. russia has denied any wrong doing — as our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford explained. in a foreign ministry briefing this morning, the foreign ministry spokesman in moscow, maria zakharova, said, everything in this story is absurd, and then attacking theresa may directly she said, especially absurd are the statements by the british prime minister. britain‘s representative at the united nations this morning telling the bbc that russia is a disrupter at the moment, and the director of gchq, jeremy fleming, saying that what happened in salisbury demonstrates how reckless the russian state can be, that there is a coalition ready to reject the kremlin‘s brazen determination to undermine the international rules—based order. there has of course been some talk of perhaps some retaliatory cyber attacks. in response to that, one of the very, very pro—kremlin newspapers in russia has published an editorial by a well—known kremlin supporter in which he said, i would like to remind the hotheads in britain that if these plans are carried out, russia will be forced to consider it an act of aggression with all that follows from that. russia will not turn the other cheek forever. so this is a very hot cold war of words at the moment. the chief inspector of schools, amanda spielman, has rejected criticism from mps that 0fsted is not enough of a "force for school improvement." 0fsted‘s budget has been cut by more than 50%, but despite this ms spielman insisted her staff were not under—performing. her comments followed the publication of a house of commons committee report which suggests the inspection body was losing its credibility. legislation to ban the smacking of children in scotland is being published at holyrood. the measure proposed by a green member of the scottish parliament, has the backing of the scottish government and other political parties. however, the scottish conservatives said present legislation "works well because it is based on common sense, and reflects what the majority of parents want". there‘s been an assassination attempt on the leading contender in brazil‘s presidential election. zhur—eer bolson—aaroo was stabbed in the middle of a crowd of supporters —— he‘s had surgery and is expected to recover. the controversial far right politician has outraged many in brazil with his speeches, which prosecutors have said promote hate and rape. however he‘s been performing strongly in recent opinion polls. katy watson‘s report does contains some images of the attack you may find dissturbing. out on the campaign trail and working the crowds, with just a few weeks to go before the elections, far right presidential candidate jair bolsanaro was in his element, but the celebrations came to a sudden end. mr bolsonaro suddenly gripped his chest in pain, after being stabbed. chaos ensued, and the politician was rushed through the crowd to hospital. initially, his son flavio reported on twitter that the wound was only superficial, but that soon changed. "unfortunately", he said later, "it was more serious "than we‘d expected. "he lost a lot of blood and arrived at the hospital almost dead, "but his condition is now stable. "please pray for him." mr bolsonaro is a politician who‘s polarised opinion in brazil. he‘s become known for his racist, sexist and homophobic comments, but his tough talk of tackling violent crime and of beating corruption has helped propel him to the top of the race. the latest polls show that if, as expected, former president lula da silva is banned from running because of his corruption conviction, mr bolsonaro would win the most votes in the first round. politicians of all stripes, even his biggest critics, were united in condemning the attack. translation: whoever did this has to pay, whoever did this cannot stay unpunished. this cannot happen. a democratic country, which respects itself, that wants to be democratic, cannot allow the stabbing of any presidential candidate. police have since released a photo of the suspect who was arrested. he‘s been named as adelio bispo de 0liveira. next month‘s elections are the most uncertain this country has seen in decades. with this stabbing, tensions are now running even higher. katy watson, bbc news, in sao paulo. waterstones has bought the rival book chain, foyles, for an undisclosed sum. the foyles brand — once famous for owning the biggest bookshop in the world — is to be retained as part of the merger. waterstones says together they will be better—positioned to champion what it calls "the pleasures of real bookshops", and resist the dominance of amazon. the duke of cambridge is in newcastle and gateshead today to visit the great exhibition of the north — a three—month celebration of the region‘s art, culture, design and innovative spirit. the prince will also attend a reception at baltic to meet volunteers, who have helped make the great exhibition happen. time for a look at the weather. it is the great north run taking place this weekend on sunday. the weather is not looking too bad. a little bit touch and go. i was asking one of my colleagues earlier what is the best type of weather for getting out there? they were saying not to humans, you want it quite a little moisture in the air, quite cool little moisture in the air, quite cool, no rain, not too windy. that is what i find! you will be unlike! you have some rather great computer wizardry to explain what this skies may look like. this data and going to show you is data driven, notjust a pretty picture. this is what the skies above newcastle will be looking like during the day on sunday. thoroughly great conditions. through the day as the runners start to move towards the coast, we will see a bit more blue sky. and improving picture during sunday. more brightness. weather not looking too bad, not too windy. the wind behind the runners so they won‘t be running into it. we call that a wind assisted on the running track! looking a little bit mixed, tom noel over the next couple of days. for many places today has been a glorious day. —— autumnal. a little bit of fairweather cloud. it has been bubbling up up and down the country. we have had bigger cloud for some of us producing rain across north east england, nor did scotland‘s. we will continue to see showers on and off through this afternoon and this evening. parts of northern scotland and north east england. most other places looking dry and bright towards the end of the day. around six o‘clock if you have plans to be heading home across scotland, most places dry. had she showers over the highlands. down through the central belt, the southern uplands. for much of northern ireland and northern england, the weather is looking fine towards the end of the day. heading south, most places dry. the chance of one or two showers. they should move away towards the east later this evening and overnight. most places dry with the bulk of the knights. further rain for the north of scotla nd knights. further rain for the north of scotland later on and is more rain from the west on this weather fronts. this brings a soggy start a saturday morning across northern ireland into wales, western england. this front will be dominating the weather for much of england and wales through saturday. bringing outbreaks of rain. either side of that band of cloud, brighter skies. largely dry for scotland, northern ireland is, the far north of england and the first south of england. with and the first south of england. with a bit of sunshine coming through. temperatures on saturday nothing to write home about. 16 to 19 degrees for most of us. cooler under the cloud and rain. warming up into sunday. still this front with us on sunday. still this front with us on sunday but pushing towards the north and east. with the strengthening westerly winds, that will help to blow through the showers across northern england and scotland. more sunshine further south. the breeze will take the edge off the feel of the temperatures. a touch warmer than saturday. highs reaching around 22 degrees in the south. still to play the high teens further north. into the new working week, we will start to see things just warming up. this is the weekend, still a little bit unsettled. a few spells of rain. the king had towards next week, we may start to see those temperatures, particularly in the south, up to the mid—20. this is bbc news — our latest headlines. british airways says sorry after a mass hack of data from its customers. nearly 400,000 payment cards have been compromised. jeremy corbyn has hit back after an attack on his leadership by tony blair, insisting the party membership is now much bigger than it‘s ever been. earlier, mr blair warned it might not be possible for labour "moderates" to take the party back from the left. sir vince cable will stand down as liberal democrat leader once, in his words, "brexit is resolved or stopped". he says he wants candidates from outside politics to be given the chance to replace him. civilians flee the last rebel—held province in syria, as the forces of president assad are poised to launch a major offensive in idlib also coming up — we‘ll be going to newcastle for the finale of the great exhibition of the north. and we‘ll be in bristol, where rescue centres say they‘re being inundated with dogs used to breed on puppy farms. that‘s in nationwide. sport now. it is all looking so good for alistair cook before he was bowled out for 71. it bilbey has last match for the country. joe root followed in the same all over. it has been and expensive last couple of overs for england. we should of course she alistair cook once again with their second innings to come, but lovely vision from the crowd at the oval as he departed. 134-4 crowd at the oval as he departed. 134—4 as things stand. let‘s talk about tennis, because serving a william seems to be back to her old self. there would us serena williams. she‘s called her return to tennis incredible following the health complications she experienced following the birth of her first child with left her fighting for her life. she‘s edged a step closer to equalling the record for the most grand slam singles titles after reaching the us open final. she won in straight sets against anaistasjia sevatsova, and will face japan‘s naomi osaka in tomorrow‘s final, who was just one year old when serena won her first grand slam — now she has 23 — and could make that 24 in new york. i got a little emotional out there because last year i was literally fighting for my life in the hospital. i think i was on my fourth surgery by now... today is thursday... i was on my third surgery, i still had one more to go. to come from that in a hospital bed and not being able to move and walk and do anything, and now, only a year later, i'm not training but i'm actually in these finals. scotland begin their nations league campaign at home to albania on monday, but tonight they have a much tougher task. the scots host belgium, who finished third at the world cup, and they‘ll have to try to contain chelsea forward eden hazard. he‘s probably in the top five at the minute. i think i‘ve played against him many a times. i know what threats he can do and even if he‘s having a quiet game, he can pop up at any point and turn a game and that‘s what we‘re up against. mo farah will be going for a fifth win in the great north run on sunday to put his name in the record books. now dedicated solely to road racing, the four—time olympic champion believes the race in newcastle will act as ideal preparation for next month‘s chicago marathon. i feel good. training has been going pretty well. i have been in arizona training hard with my coach gary and things are going well enough. for me, it isjust going to be tough, as well as testing myself to see where i am, and asking questions, and in three three and a half weeks, after the chicago marathon. i‘m excited about sunday‘s race. another of the heroes from super saturday at london 2012 will hang up his spikes up for good this weekend. greg rutherford — who won the long jump title at the olympic stadium — is also competing at the great north city games. of course, it is sad, but i am ready to retire. i‘m ready to move on to new things. my body is most certainly ready, as getting out of bed nowadays is quite difficult. i need to recover properly. i‘m getting old, i have done this long enough. it is time to let the youngsters take over and push it onto a level. that‘s all the sport for now. now on afternoon live, let‘s go nationwide and see what‘s happening around the country, in our daily visit to the bbc newsrooms around the uk. let‘s go tojeff brown in newcastle, where the duke of cambridge has been on tyneside today, for the finale of the great exhibition of the north. and alex lovell is in bristol, where rescue centres say they‘re being inundated with dogs used to breed on puppy farms. how has the exhibition gone down? yes, the organisers are delighted with the way it has gone. they say that more than 4 million people have visited newcastle and gateshead over the course of the festival. of course, not all of them just for the exhibition, but a third of them saying the exhibition was the main reason. 75% of them have engaged with some aspects of the exhibition. the four beg venues saw the return of stevenson‘s brocket, one of the greatest feats of 19th—century engineering. on the gateshead said, there was a music centre, would sell there was a music centre, would sell the visit from prince william today. that is all ahead of the big finality this evening. that is the big closing ceremony, which will feature a special event featuring the women winning the election night for the first time. a live band will play music on a barge, and they had a spectacular drawn exhibition. they had fireworks as well. we are expecting something special tonight. whenever you go, there are fireworks. i know that is the well can you expect? it is not without its problems. one of the early criticisms was that it was sponsored by bae systems. they called the partnership with the weapons maker unethical and pulled out, and it was a financial hole at the start. one of the other mishaps, the main highlight of the exhibition was an 80 metre fine—tune in the middle of the river. that was temporarily put out of action when a boat ran over it. aside from that, they are delighted with the way it has gone. a couple of big hitters were brought in to oversee it all. gary verity and brendan foster, the mastermind behind the great northern run. by happy coincidence, it ends tonight at the end of the great northern land, so we have thousands of runners converging. that is on sunday, but you can watch the closing ceremony on bbc from around nine o‘clock. there a highlights programme on sunday afternoon. and plenty more on look north on bbc one perjury are. indeed. thank you for the plug. and alex, rescue centres say they‘re being inundated with dogs used to breed on puppy farms. they think this might be a knee jerk reaction to the legislation coming m, reaction to the legislation coming in, it comes in on the 1st of october. the trouble with unlicensed puppy october. the trouble with unlicensed puppy farms as they can be preaching huge numbers of litters. they can sometimes take the puppies off their mothers when they are only four weeks old. they are just not developed wind as far as it should be to be separated, and that comes with inherent health problems that could be missed that could present themselves later in their lives. there are real difficulties. they could also make some of the breeding dogsin could also make some of the breeding dogs in some of the worst cases have far too many litters. we spoke to one particular rescue centre, and they said that in the last week, they said that in the last week, they had 42 dogs that were brought in from breeding farms. and what is really frightening is that they have told us that there is one puppy found the note of. next month, they are going to want to read, 300 leading dogs. we had from that tree homing centre. we have a cocker spaniel with a big lump in the top of its head. they have a german shepherd that is very, very underweight. we have a huge mixture, andl underweight. we have a huge mixture, and i think these are the worse ones we have ever seen. remind us of the law that s coming in? it is after a pure dog called lucy, who was forced to have far too many litters. her body was just really suffering from all of this. they are bringing in this law on the 1st of october. it bans third—party puppy and kitten sales, and it ensures that all breeders are licensed. so, if you want to buy a puppy or a kitten, the advice is to go to a rescue centre or ask your vet, or if you are going to be buying from a breeder, make sure they have got a licence. and also, this is really important and good common sense— or the kitchen with its mother. see it in that environment to see where it is coming from. if you buy online, thatis is coming from. if you buy online, that is where the trouble is. this is the breeders who are not so forthright, this is where they can really tricky. the rspca says 87% of files regarding animals as part of the internet. if this is a kneejerk reaction, we hope these puppies and dogs might find good homes eventually. eventually. more on .5, 6:30pm. yes, iwill eventually. eventually. more on .5, 6:30pm. yes, i will be there. so many plugs, i should be a plumber if you want to see more on any of those stories, you can see them on the bbc iplayer. legal nationwide every afternoon at 4:30pm here on afternoon live. the only functioning airport in the libyan capital of tripoli has reopened after being forced to close by intense fighting last week. clashes between rival militias killed more than sixty people and injured another hundred. our correspondent clive myrie sent this update from a suburb affected by the fighting. there are many in tripoli counting the cost of the recent fighting. this is the home of one family that has suffered quite badly. a week is taking place. it is a week sent a rocket landed on this compound and killed two magpies. the extended family here are gathering to remember them. there would us killed two boys. the militias have been attacked by forces outside the capital they say they have been siphoning off funds in tripoli, and they said they had to intervene. the battles over the last few days have been the result of that. i would just really what happened that this particular compound. the rocket landed just a couple of yards from here, and you can see what the shrapnel has done to this while here. pockmarks everywhere. there‘s concrete pillar has been badly damaged. two young people were killed. there is a lot of grief and anger that seven years after the overthrow of colonel gaddafi, fighting is still happening here. there is no one in overall control. they are squabbling over turf. the result is more devastated lives. in a moment, we‘ll find out what‘s hot and what‘s not in the business news. first a look at the headlines on afternoon live. taking flight: thousands of ba customers cancel their credit cards after a huge data breach on the airline‘s app and website. the battle for the political centre ground — tony blair claimsjeremy corbyn poses a threat to the future existence of the labour party. civilians flee the last rebel held province in syria as the forces of president assad are poised to launch a major offensive in idlib. here‘s your business headlines on afternoon live. the chief executive of british airways has apologised for what he has called a very sophisticated breach of the firm‘s security systems. the airline said personal and financial details of customers making bookings had been compromised. uk house prices picked up last month, rising at the fastest annual rate since november, according to the halifax. in the three months to august, prices climbed by 3.7% from a year earlier, up from 3.3% annual growth injuly. however, the monthly change was just 0.1%, leaving the average cost of a house little changed at £229,958. waterstones is buying the 115—year—old family—owned chain foyles, saying the deal will help to champion real bookshops in the face of online rivals. waterstones said the deal would help booksellers fight back against amazon‘s "siren call". we have to talk about british airways. it is a bad day for them. yes, we don‘t know how bad. what they have done, and what has happened is a have allowed people‘s data to escape. they haven't allowed it, there has been a criminal act against them. yes, and this is the question. was it theirfault? it did ta ke question. was it theirfault? it did take all the measures they could possibly take, all lacks in the security? if it is find that they we re security? if it is find that they were lax in the security, and were cavalier in the treatment of people‘s financial details, then of course they could be facing a massive fine. it could be up to 4% of their annual revenue. that works out at £500 million. in anybody‘s book, that is a lot of money. that isa book, that is a lot of money. that is a maximum of course. but for a lot of people, they will be concerned their credit card details are out there. absolutely. one of the interesting things is the breeders happen. the key is that the number on the back of the card seems to have been passed as well. they are not allowed to keep that stored anywhere, so it seems that anybody who hacked in was not going into a database. they were actually getting it at the point at which that detail was given to british airways. so, it is that type of hype. but whose responsibility is it? who is to blame? someone has to take responsibility at some point. let's talk about the us economy. these figures get tiresome the good, every month. it is another 201,000 jobs created. the unemployment rate is 3.9%. in economic terms, that basically means full employment. it means we‘re probably going to have another couple of interest—rate rises in the future. the other is trade problems, and that could — we are speculating a lot here — but those are the elements that could bring this to an end. at the moment, there seems to be no stopping this economy. a bit about hokkaido? yes, —— about tesla. there is nothing illegal about this, but he was on a podcasts smoking marijuana, which is perfectly legal. that is not the point. it is on top of another thing which has happened today, which is that his chief accountant has resigned one month after hejoined the company. he joined the day before mr musk said that he was going to take the company private, he was going to buy all the shares, and then you talent on it. this man has said he does not like the spotlight. he said it is not a good place to be. i think we will get somebody who knows exactly what they are talking about. he is not disagreeing with the! no, is not. what you make of mr tesla‘s problem? they share share around about 5% down. i think this calls into question mr must's ability to be a ceo. what the saudis must be thinking about this is going on, you can only speculate on. they have a 596 can only speculate on. they have a 5% stake. this is not in isolation. a month ago, you had the situation they he criticised the cave rescue. he had the interview when he broke down in tears, and you really have to worry about mr musk's mental health. ultimately, the question is, if you are putting money into tesla, is mr musk if you are putting money into tesla, is mrmuska if you are putting money into tesla, is mr musk a suitable candidate to bea is mr musk a suitable candidate to be a ceo. the crazy thing is that tesla was the best the first bestselling car in the united states in august. is this a damage to the reputation, or possibly a really serious financial blow to british areas? i think it could be both. under the new rules, they could be fined 4% of their turnover. that depends whether you look at it as in the context of ba rusty group as whole. the fine could be up toi billion. top top and yahoo were fined quite a lot, which in itself is manageable, not ideal. but ultimately i think it calls into question that all companies have to be very aware about data security, and apparently this breach took place over the course of a couple of weeks, so what was it security doing? on the us economy, it continues to roll ahead. i was saying the two things that could stop it, higher interest rates, and if the trade was get nastier. would you go along with that?|j if the trade was get nastier. would you go along with that? i think it is the latter point. i think in terms of higher interest rates, we are going to get a rate rise in threes time. more than likely, the wage rises are probably going to get one in decemberas wage rises are probably going to get one in december as well. i think that really calls into question some of the exposure emerging markets have two us dollars. combined with the uncertainty of trade, that could cause a pause to the economic recovery in the united states. we will probably not see it for another three to six months. thank you very much indeed. he does nobody is talking about. that is why we have him on! let‘s have a look at the market. when we have these figures coming out on the us employment, the dollar strengthened. but before that, the pound was getting stronger. it has eased off as the dollar has taken over, because of those very strong economic figures. international continental airlines, is actually ba. it has recovered a bit, because they were down when the story broke. and this company is suffering because the pound is so strong at the moment. ok, thank you. now, to a sponge on a string that will save lives in the future. one thousand patients across the country have trialled the cytosponge, a cambridge invention that checks your food pipe for potentially cancerous cells. the test is a cheap and quick option which can be done at local gp surgeries. it looks so simple, but this tiny pill on a string is a potential life—saver. tony richards survived his cancer. now he has volunteered to test the cytosponge. it is the new device to test the early signs of oesophageal cancer, when it can still be cured. they get the feeling that your oesophagus is being cleaned by a gentle grass. ijust wa nt to cleaned by a gentle grass. ijust want to make sure that other people have the chance to be diagnosed early, because that big, you will get the recovery rate from oesophagus cancer about them. the idea behind this clever little invention is quite simple. you have this we got a sponge inside a casual, and that is fed into the patient‘s stomach. over the course of about five minutes, this happens. once the capsule dissolves, you can pull the sponge backout, at the patient‘s fred peck, where it gathers around 1 million sales, that you can then test for cancer. you can see some of those cells here. they are the pride that voting open. they are the pride that voting open. the samples are taking to a cambridge lab to be shaken up, poured out, and then delicately put onto wafer thin layers of works until they can be tested under a microsoft. we are looking for a strip of cells that you can see here which have if rounded dark circles, and you can see that these are clear. these are indicative of the precancerous condition. merry as pa rt precancerous condition. merry as part of the team who spent ten years developing this bunch to gather the cells and the special rate of marking out the cells that might turn bad. this test could be the difference between getting cancer and not getting cancer. it only takes a few minutes. it is much easier than cheaper —— and cheaper than having it should send down your throat, and it is much more effective. funded by donations to cancer research uk, the cytosponge is now halfway through international trial, but it is already producing results. we have found some cases of early cancer, and these patients have gone on and had treatment. we have gone on and had treatment. we have also found diseases and a number of patients, and they have had endoscopy is as well. depending on results, they hope this plans will be widely used within a couple of years. the quicker, cheaper way to spot people at risk of oesophageal cancer. that‘s it from your afternoon live team for today, next the bbc news at five. time for a look at the weather. there are a few showers and planned to two across parts of northern england and scotland, but for many of us, it is a fine autumn day. we will keep those clear skies from most parts of the country through the latter part of this afternoon and this evening. they were cleared away from northern england, and more rain also working its way in overnight for parts of wales and northern ireland. clear skies on saturday morning. on saturday, this front saturday morning. on saturday, this fro nt m oves saturday morning. on saturday, this front moves on from the west. it will bring cloud and outbreaks of drink through england and wales. we should see some dry weather, and it will stay dry for much of the day in southern england. sunday, still shambles, but they should clear towards the north and east. and improving picture late on sunday, and it will be warmer too. today at five. thousands of ba customers cancel their credit cards after a huge data breach at the airline. the boss of british airways apologises for the failure of the firm‘s security systems, and promises compensation. all the more than 20 years we have been operating and never had a breach of this type. we are committed to the integrity of the data of our customers. we‘ll talk to a worried customer and a data security expert. justice secretary david gauke says he‘s considering allowing no—fault divorces in england and wales civilians flee the last rebel held province in syria, ahead of a possible assault that could be the endgame in the country‘s seven year civil war.

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