Heathrow saw the highest number of cancellations, followed by gatwick and manchester. There were also reports of thousands of passengers stranded in airports overseas. The technical fault was repaired within hours but the impacts continue today, with an estimated 281 flights affected so far. This is liverpool airport, where theres been confusion over cancelled departures. Our transport correspondent, katy austin, reports. The August Bank Holiday descended into flight chaos, with hundreds cancelled yesterday and more today. We are still at rome airport trying to get home, we have been here since 11. 30 yesterday morning. Its now been more than 2a hours. We boarded ourflight last night and then were told to get off the flight because the aircrew have been flying for too long. Our flight has been scheduled for this afternoon but there are other flights that have been cancelled going into london so we just hope to get out today. In liverpool this morning, passengers were also getting bad n
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. Its tuesday the 29th of august. Holidaymakers are facing days of Travel Disruption after a technical fault hit the uks 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 its not over yet. We were looking at alternative flights. There was Nothing Available from ba before thursday. And as were scrolling through comparison sites, flights were disappearing. Weve now arranged three trains
Are with us tonight. It is good to have you with us, and fresh from your visit to the white house yesterday. How was that, martin, and what came of it . Well, i think we had some very constructive discussions. A large part of it dealt with the most recent hate crime that occurred on saturday, the 26th, when we were actually engaged in the actual march. And the fact that hate speech, hate crime has to have more teeth in it, there has to be Something Else to change the climate, to change the conditions, looking at some kind of, i dont want to say regulation, but control on what is done on the internet, looking at the hate even in some Police Departments we found out a lot of Police Department have members who are sympathisers of nazis, etc. So we had some very constructive conversations. At the end of the day, the only time most of this can change is at election time. So dad said, a vote was people is a powerless people, and one of the most important steps we must take is that short step
Janet yellen, the Secretary Of State Antony Blinken and us climate envoyjohn kerry, all in the last three months. But despite all of these meetings, relations between the worlds two largest economies are at the most tense in years. Last august, the us passed the chips act, specifically aimed at growing the domestic Chip Making Business and blocking chinas industry. Beijing has responded in turn, including restricting exports of two materials, gallium and germanium, to the us, these are key ingredients in making chips, and it all comes in the same week as Export Controls kick in in the netherlands, preventing one of the worlds biggest makers of Chip Making Equipment from exporting without a licence, something china has complained about and analysts have said would only make us china relations worse. And this all comes as President Biden prepares to visit vietnam. Along with the us trying to increase production at home, vietnam has been seen as an alternative destination for the us to ou