to world news today. british airways passengers around the world are facing flight cancellations and delays, after a globalfailure of the company s computer systems. planes have been grounded at many airports worldwide. all ba flights from london heathrow and gatwick have been cancelled for the rest of today. the airline says delays and disruption may continue into tomorrow. it has also apologised and said it s working to resolve the problem working to resolve the problem although it had found no evidence that it s a cyberattack . the british airways ceo, alex cruz, has said that a ‘power supply issue‘ was to blame. this is what happens when there is a major it failure. queues were snaking out of the door at terminal 5 at heathrow airport for thousands of ba passengers. the long bank holiday didn t start very well for these people. people have been standing in the queues for up to 120 minutes in some cases. the queue stretches from the check in desks all the way o
news. flutz cancellations and delays after a global failure over british airways computer system. planes have been grounded on many airports. flights cancelled for the rest of the day. the airline says delays and disruptions may continue into tomorrow. it has apologised saying it is working towards fixing the problem although it says there is evidence it is hacking at a system failure. this is what happens after a catastrophic it failure, thousands of ba passengers starting their long bank holiday weekend. queues of people snaking out of the door at terminal 5 in heathrow. people have been standing in the queues for up to 70, 90, 120 minutes in some cases. the queue stretches from the check in desks all the way out to the back of the terminal and down in front of the terminal, where all the taxis deliver people. many passengers contacted the bbc with their experiences. we ve just literallyjust now been told that nothing s happening, no flights till 6pm. prior to that we hadn
east across the uk. some intense downpours. if you have seen some sunshine today, in eastern scotland, it may be replaced with scenes like this as we go through the afternoon. in eastern scotland, the showers a bit more hit and miss compared with western scotland. the showers are tracking eastwards. after the big clump of showers in northern england, some more scattered showers. some southern coastal parts may avoid them. look at the temperatures, nothing special. the gusty winds make it feel even cooler. as ever, when the sun appears, it is not too bad. southern and eastern parts of the uk overnight become mainly dry. the showers are continuing to northern ireland and north west scotland. temperatures overnight of around ten to 15 degrees. most of the showers will be to the north west of the uk. for the rest of england and wales to begin with, some dry, sunny weather. some outbreaks of rain developing, pushing into wales as the afternoon goes on, some heavy bursts for the we
who won t reveal the wheerabouts of their victims‘ bodies that s what one mum is campaigning for after her daughter was murdered 30 years ago. strap> we will talk to marry mccourt in the next hour. good morning. welcome to the programme, we re live until 11 this morning. you ve no doubt seen beyonce‘s surprise announcement that she s pregnant with twins it has now become the most liked instagram post ever. that photo was taken when half a million people had liked it, we are now up to over 7 million. that is a lot of likes, isn t it? she said she and her husband jay z have been blessed two times over , adding we are incredibly grateful that our family will be growing by two . she signed it the carters , jay z‘s real last name. spit barbara it is an interesting picture. it is an interesting picture, isn t it? wearing just her bra and knickers and weirdly a veil, and kneeling in front of her local florist. if you ve been pregnant with twins, and you took a pic of
the government is expected to publish the brexit strategy in an hour s time. the white paper will set out its priorities for negotiations with the european union after parliament takes the first step towards britain leaving the union, as mps vote overwhelmingly in favour of triggering article 50. last night mps voted 498 to 114 in favour of approving legislation which gives the prime minister the power to start negotiations with european leaders. 47 labour mps, one in five, voted against the bill despite a three line whip imposed by the party leader, jeremy corbyn. and what will happen next? as mentioned, at around noon, brexit secretary david davis will announce the government s white paper on exiting the eu. this will allow parliament to send the bill on forfurther amending and scrutiny, before it becomes law. our assistant political editor, norman smith, is at westminster with the latest. what are we going to find out? probably very little. i think most people expect it to