with a first ever win at a grand slam in the us open first round. today and tomorrow will be days of bright spells, showers, some of which will be thundering. we have rain coming in from the south during thursday. all the details rain coming in from the south during thursday. all the details later. it s tuesday the 29th of august. holidaymakers are facing days of travel disruption after a technical fault hit the uk s air traffic control system over the bank holiday. the problem has now been fixed, but thousands of passengers are still stranded. airlines have apologised and are urging people to check their flights before going to the airport. jon donnison reports. it was a nightmare bank holiday for air travellers with hundreds of flights cancelled and many more delayed. and it s not over yet. we were looking at alternative flights. there was nothing available from ba before thursday. and as we re scrolling through comparison sites, flights were disappearing. we ve now arrange
good evening. the last bank holiday of the summer is always one of the busiest travel days of the year. and not the moment for a technical issue at air traffic control. nats, the body that runs uk airspace, says it has now identified and remedied a fault that affected the flight planning system, but for a large part of the day, they were operating manually on a greatly reduced schedule. which means there is still an enormous backlog of flights grounded across europe, with long, long delays. more than 500 flights in and out of the uk were cancelled. it could be 2a hours before some passengers will finally get it could be 2a or 48 hours before some passengers will finally get to their destinations. let s bring in aviation expert doug maclean, who worked in air traffic control for almost a0 years. good to see you. sympathies for all those people stranded outside the uk to mate, or at uk airports. what went wrong? there are always technical problems from time to time, but this
today, president zelensky says he is open to holding elections next year, if there is the money to run them. and riots in tripoli, the libyan foreign minister is suspended after meeting her israeli counterpart in rome last week. good evening. more than 500 flights to and from the uk have been cancelled today following a technical issue with air traffic control. the national air traffic services, the country s leading provider of flight plans, said controllers at one point today controllers were having to input flight plans manually due to a fault with its systems. mid afternoon the technical issue had been identified and remedied . but by that point chaos reigned. this is traditionally one of the busiest days of the year. thousands of miserable passengers out there. we can speak to one of them who is back. michele robson, who is a founder and an editor of a travel website turning left for less. michele spent over 20 years working in the travel industry, and used to be an
a statement from the national air traffic service says. monday marks the close of a holiday weekend here in the uk, so it s usually a very busy day for flights. clearing the delay of flight backlogs is now a big issue. airports across the country are currently facing delays and cancellations. airports in edinburgh, manchester, birmingham, and several airports in london, including heathrow, gatwick and luton, all confirmed they were affected by the system outage. a short while ago, the home secretary, suella braverman, spoke about the situation. what we do know is that there has. been a national outage at nationally control and this has affected uk airspace, it will affect all incoming and outgoing flights and those aircraft. which are in the uk airspace right now. i national air traffic control. i am very cognisant that this - will disrupt people s travels plans, those waiting to arrive in the uk, those waiting to depart, - and i do sympathise with any- disruption they m
the federation s call for him to step down, comes after spanish prosecutors opened an investigation into whether the kiss amounted to a sexual assault on the striker, jenni hermoso. from madrid, guy hedgecoe has the latest. the last week has been one of angerfor many in spain. but this protest was against the man at the centre of the country s football crisis, luis rubiales. but the backlash against him also seems to have taken on a broader meaning, more important. translation: this is a very - important moment, said this woman. it s difficult to capture behaviour like this on camera. i think it s important to raise our voice. all of the people that is agreed that i agree with the feminist movement and to fight this injustice that the girl and all of the women have suffered. this is the now infamous kiss that mr. rubiales gave the player, jenni hermoso, after spain s world cup victory and which she says was non consensual. fifa has provisionally suspended mr rubiales. prosecu