Good morning. It will be another dry and sunny day for the vast majority of the uk. A little warmer for many of the uk. A little warmer for many of us than yesterday but windier as well. But there are changes afoot, as the day progresses, particularly in the west. I will have more detail for you in around a quarter of an hour. Good morning. Its saturday the 21st of september. Our top story thomas cook has asked the government for financial help as it races against time to avoid collapse. Britains oldest package holiday firm could fall into administration this weekend, unless it finds £200 million to secure a rescue deal. Katie prescott has more. It is low season for thomas cook in more ways than one. The weak pound makes it more expensive it to buy the flights and hotels that it pays for in euros dollars. It is in a competitive market where profits are small and it has hundreds of shops and 22,000 staff. Now heading into the winter period. If we book a holiday with thomas cook, we wil
this is bbc news. the headlines: the evacuations continue as the country holds a fragile three day ceasefire 300 british nationals are flown out of sudan and some have arrived in the uk in the last hour. in russia, the jailed opposition activist, alexei navalny, is now charged with terrorism offenses. and the singer, ed sheeran, is in court in new york to defend himself against charges he plagiarised marvin gaye. will have sport and just a moment or two, but i want to break a really important line linked to sudan because the home secretary so ella bradman has been talking in the last little while and said, the government has no plans to introduce death to a lab rather men, says the government have no plans to introduce suella braverman said the government will look at safe routes for refugees from two down, the government says we have no plans to do that. our focus first and for most right now, and bearing in mind this is a fast moving and complex situation, is to suppor
east quite quickly, with some showers coming into the north and west, but compared with this week, really it day. with temperatures back down to what they should be at this time of year. does it last? no. the weekend brings in this low pressure which is the remnants of storm martin which will bring wet and windy weather at times to us as well as some rather large waves on saturday night into sunday. saturday brings another land of rain eastwards, slowing down as it approaches the south and east. brighter weather following on behind. temperatures about average. because it is bonfire evening. are we going to get any dry weather? probably, between our weather front which is starting to clear away and the next a group of showers coming in. a rather unsettled picture this weekend, some large waves on saturday night and into sunday and some rather large amounts of rainfall potentially in the south and east once again. we will keep an eye on that. and that is it from the bbc news at