a silver from the women and a bronze from men in the 400 metre relays bring the tally to six in the final moments of the world athletics championship. good morning. we are talking about family run businesses this week. they are on the increase. there are nearly five million family run businesses in the uk contributing nearly half a trillion pounds to the british economy. and 50 years after pirate radio ships were outlawed, we look back at how they changed the sound of music radio. and carol has the weather. good morning. for many central and eastern areas today, dry and bright with sunshine. rain in the west that is slowly going east and north through today. i will have more details in 15 minutes. thank you. see you then. good morning. first, our main story. arrests of passengers suspected of being drunk at uk airports and on flights have risen by 50% in the past year, according to an investigation carried out by bbc panorama. critics of the airline industry say a voluntary c
violence from white supremacists, neo nazis or the kkk. arrests of passengers suspected of being drunk at uk airports or on flights see a 50% rise in the past year. a worrying rise in rural crime insurers say brazen thieves are forcing farmers to turn their farmyards into fortresses. and big ben s bongs will fall silent next week for nearly four years for urgent repair work. and coming up in the sport on bbc news. the british team claim a successful world athletics championships after reaching their medal target with five in the final 2a hours in london. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. this week india and pakistan mark 70 years of independence from britain a moment of freedom that came amid one of the largest mass migrations the world has ever seen. the muslim majority state of pakistan was created to both the west and the east of india, with muslims travelling in one direction, hindus and sikhs in the other. around 12 million people are thought to ha
and a bridge too far. plans to build a garden bridge spanning the length of the river thames are scrapped as it is branded a vanity project. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. south korea s president says he s confident donald trump will act calmly and responsibly over north korea. moonjae in has been holding talks in seoul with america s top military official, generaljoseph dunford, who has said that military options are only for if sanctions fail. his comments follow an exchange of threats between the us and north korean leaders last week. today, north korea has said that any war could only be turned into a nuclear war . yogita limaye has this report from seoul. america s highest ranking general, meeting south korea s president. a visit that comes at a critical time, general dunford has said that the us is ramping up diplomatic and military pressure to stop its missile tests, and military options would only be used if all else fails. words that could reassure south ko
the world has ever seen. at least a million people died in the sectarian violence that followed. a 50% rise in the last year in the number of airline passengers arrested on suspicion of being drunk at british airports or on flights. and no more bongs for a while. big ben will fall silent next week for nearly four years because of urgent repair work. good evening and welcome to bbc news. us president donald trump has finally explicitly condemned race hate extremist groups, including the ku klux klan, two days after a protester was killed in the violent scenes that surrounded a far right rally in the state of virginia. the president said racism was evil and the groups that espoused it were reugnant . it follows widespread criticism over his previous comments on the weekend s events. critics said it failed to condemn far right bodies specifically. meanwhile, one white nationalist has appeared in court charged with second degree murder a fter a woman died when a car was driv