Good morning, welcome to breakfast with Naga Munchetty and jon kay. Our headlines today thomas cook asks for emergency government funding to stop it going bust and leaving thousands of holidaymakers stranded. Infighting overshadows the start of the Labour Party Conference as activists try to remove the deputy leader tom watson. Are our National Park a National Treasure which too few use . Will be talking about a big, bold plan for the future this morning. In sport. Australia make a winning start on day two of the Rugby World Cup as they beat a talented fiji side, with the game of the day to come holders new zealand against south africa later. Good morning. Itll be another dry and sunny day for the vast majority 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. Ill 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 tries to avoid collapse. Britains oldest package holiday firm could fall into administration this weekend unless it finds £200 Million Pounds to secure a rescue deal. Katie prescott has more. Its low season for thomas cook in more ways than one. The weak pound makes it more expensive for it to buy the flights and hotels it pays for in euros and dollars. It is in a competitive market where profits are small and it has a lot of costs hundreds of shops and 22,000 staff. Now heading into the winter period, the debt laden company has a cash flow crisis. If we book a holiday with thomas cook, we will pay for it before we go, obviously, but they actually do not pay the hotel until after we are back, so they pay 60 to 90 days later, which means that everybody that went on holiday through the summer, it is now that thomas cook is beginning to have to pay the hotels. They simply cant and if they cant pay the suppliers, then the Company Faces a pretty tough time. The Company Lenders say it needs an extra £200 million on top of the money its already secured for a bailout. With a vote on that lifeline next friday, the company is hoping it can get over the next few days to reach that finish. Its a nervous time for customers. We just dont know what the situation is. We will either have a flight back and get back to manchester and be fortunate or things could collapse in the next couple of days or hours and we have nothing to go back on, so its just a case of waiting, really. If the company goes into administration, their 150,000 uk package holiday customers will be brought home and those whove booked holidays will be refunded. Katie prescott, bbc news. Lets speak to our correspondent jane frances kelly, whos in our london newsroom for us this morning. Jane, how are things looking for thomas cook . What exactly is happening now . That are able to deadlines . It has approached a number of investors, including the government for this extra funding. The department for transport, when approached, would not be drawn, saying in a statement that it did not speculate on the financial situation of individual businesses. Now, the unions have asked the government to step in, saying it is going to cost them more if thomas cook does go into administration. It has been estimated that it will cost £600 million to repatriate 150,000 holiday makers. But £600 million to repatriate150,000 holiday makers. But it does seem unlikely that the government, on pat stryker, will step in because it has not. It did not rescue carolyn, which was a Bigger Company on past record. It did not rescue carillion. The us has said it will send military forces to saudi arabia after drone and missile attacks on the kingdoms oil facilities. Washington has blamed iran for the attack, as david willis reports. Having initially pronounced the United States locked and loaded, President Trump now favours defence of attack. The president has approved the deployment of us forces which will be primarily defence. The number of additional troops being deployed to the middle east will be decided over the weekend in talks with the saudis. The attack on two of saudi arabias largest Oil Installations last weekend forced the kingdom to shut down half of its production and prompted the largest rise in crude oil prices in a single day. The Trump Administration branded it an attack on the global economy. Yet, although the saudis believe the wreckage recovered from those attacks is that of iranian drones and cruise missiles, they have yet to pinpoint precisely where the weapons were fired from. Mr trump also announced sanctions on financial institutions, including irans National Bank which, he says, is fuelling money to iranian backed terrorist organisations. The president and first lady played host to a state banquet tonight a celebration of 100 years of mateship, so it was said, between the United States and australia. Scott morrison said the us had no more sure and steadfast friend than australia. Next week at the united nations, mr trump will attempt to harness friends and allies in a Diplomatic Coalition against iran. David willis, bbc news, washington. A fresh bout of labour infighting is overshadowing the start of the partys conference today, after an attempt to remove tom watson as the partys deputy leader. A move by the grassroots group, momentum, to abolish his position failed to get the majority it needed last night. Another attempt is expected at the conference in brighton this morning. Lets speak now to our political correspondent, susana mendonca, who joins us from our london newsroom. There seems to have taken everybody by surprise, apparentlyJeremy Corbyn did not know about it and tom watson was not there. What happened . It was emergency motion, put forward byjohn manson, the founder of momentum a Jeremy Corbyn supporting group. It goes to the floor of the labour conference, and if it does go toa labour conference, and if it does go to a vote, potentially tom watson could lose and that post of deputy leader could cease to exist. Were not sure whether it will get that far, we understand thatJeremy Corbyn was not on board with this, so corbyn was not on board with this, so could there be some intervention with the leadership . Possibly but all of this is really annoyed a lot of people in the labour party who wa nted of people in the labour party who wanted us to be the moment that labour showed a united front and they want the to be talking about they want the to be talking about the policies at the start of the conference, but instead were talking about Party Disunity and labour have been taking the high ground in some respects in comparison to what has been going on in the conservative party where we saw those 21 tory mps purged from the party and labour are saying that were not doing this kind of thing, then we see that the pa rtys kind of thing, then we see that the partys deputy leader is in a position where he might cease to play that role. He is does not see eye to eye withJeremy Corbyn and brexit. And if he loses his job, where to go and what does he do then . Thank you very much. And well be speaking to shadow women and equalities secretary, dawn butler, in just a few minutes. The teenage activist Greta Thunberg has hailed the global day of protests she inspired as the biggest climate strike in history. Millions of people around the world have taken part in demonstrations over the last 2a hours, ahead of a summit in new york next week. The teenager addressed people in the city, praising them for taking part in what she called a wave of change. We all live here, it affects all of us, and we will notjust stand aside and watch. We are united behind the science and we will do everything in our power to stop this crisis from getting worse. Cheers. Fears that thousands people could storm the top secret us if if you have been on social media you will have seen that there was a plan that thousands or millions of people would go to that secret military base of area 51. 3 Million People responded to a post injune, but this is what happened in reality. A man dressed as an alien failed to get in. About 75 people turned up, there were not any buses in the end. Some of them wearing fa ncy in the end. Some of them wearing fancy dress, nobody got into the site, so maybe another conspiracy. Why did it all fall apart . Where the intercepted and so my . It is over for now, at least. Two agreement. I underestimated it. Two green men. Completely mad, incredibly destructive and undemocratic thats how some senior labour mps have reacted to the news that deputy leader tom watsons post could be abolished. The fallout comes ahead of the Labour Party Conference, which gets under way in brighton today. Were joined from there now by shadow women and equalities secretary, dawn butler. Thank you very much for talking to us thank you very much for talking to us this morning. I know that you wa nt to us this morning. I know that you want to talk about, and we will talk about, how we were pushing summers to get employers in the workplace to recognise the menopause and adjust the for women how you are pushing for some employers in the workplace to recognise the menopause and adjust for women. At the moment there is a push to remove the deputy leader of the labour party, what is your position on this . What youre referencing is a motion that was forward at the Partys National executive body, democratically elected members, they put motions all the time and they discuss many, many motions. It has, in effect, a private meeting, which i am not a pa rt private meeting, which i am not a part of, so it has a separate body of the party and it is important to just outline that. So that people understand, because sometimes when a test book about it is spoken as if were all about the table having this discussion, when it is not. When it is spoken about it is as if we are all run the table having this discussion. The governing budding of the party had put forward this motion. It did not go through yesterday governing body of the party. I understand that motion is going to be discussed today, it has not gone through and its not something that has been passed. But i understand that were going to discuss it today. Does it surprise you . Iam discuss it today. Does it surprise you . I am looking at some social media words from our political correspondence, quoting tom watson at he found out very late last night that he find out about this plot to scrap his position. He said he got a message any Chinese Restaurant in manchester that they were abolishing him. To get rid of a post that has beenin him. To get rid of a post that has been in the Labour Party Since 1900, there is significant. Yes does not i did not even know that tom got the text a ny did not even know that tom got the text any Chinese Restaurant, because i thought he was looking after his children. Tom is supposed to be at the meeting, so he is entitled and should be at that meeting as well. So that is why i think it is important that people sort of understand the structure of the party. Tom should have been at that meeting as well, but today, as a surprise to me, yes it did. It came com pletely surprise to me, yes it did. It came completely out of the blue. I thought when i would be doing the media wednesday that everyone they quite enthusiastic about my policy and the pa rtys quite enthusiastic about my policy and the partys policy in to menopausal women and ensuring that companies and businesses and organisations we address how they view women who are going through the menopause, but i understand that it is on twitter and everybody wants to talk about it, but i do think that anyway, it has been presented very differently to how it works in reality. Differently to how it works in reality. I will address those policies that you want to push her, but at the time of instability, which i think is fair the political world, tom watson has been on the radio this morning saying it is a straight sectarian attack on a broad church party and labour is putting itself as a stable potential to the conservatives, yet at this time it feels that the labour party itself is massively split . I think, anyway, presenting at way is also incorrect. 0ur leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has not purged 21 members of its own party and pratley lost his majority. I think it is still very different to the conservatives, so do not think you can compare this to anatomy. And not deliberately lost his majority. Apologies for talking over you, butjohn watson also said thomas also said thatjamie can stop this if he wants to tom watson has said that butJeremy Corbyn is not backing his deputy leader . I mean, he should not get involved in the governing body of the party to determine what they do and what they say. Members of the labour party can say what they like in their meetings. That is democracy. That is what we stand for. They can say what they like and we can have different opinions. I do not know how oftenjamie and tom speak on the phone, so i cannot comment on that. I do not know if they have communicated jamie that he wishes he was at the meeting. It was a shock for me to be dead. Ican meeting. It was a shock for me to be dead. I can imagine that it would be a shock, but at the end of the day, we do have different procedures and structures in the party and i think that what we should really do is merely wait until they had their meeting this morning and then see what comes out of that because it might not even be talked about later on. You do not think it is going to happen . That has possession will not be abolished . Happen . That has possession will not be abolished . His position will not be abolished . Be abolished . His position will not be abolished . I do not know because im not in that meeting, but their meeting again this morning, so it might all be nothing. By this afternoon, everybody might just it might all be nothing. By this afternoon, everybody mightjust be talking about the menopause. You know, i do not know what might happen. You see that a Labour Government would require all large employers to introduce a menopause at workplace policy, so it is basically forcing companies are asking companies to take responsibility for their employees, carry out risk assessments etc for women who are experiencing the menopause and offer expedited work. How easy do think that his temperamentvery easy to implement. All it takes is the will to want to do it. Its just all it takes is the will to want to do it. Itsjust about all it takes is the will to want to do it. Its just about educating people in the workplace. Women over 50 are the biggest Growth Numbers that are entering the workforce at the moment. We have 11. 5 million women aged between 50 and 64 who the moment. We have 4. 5 million women aged between 50 and 64 who are currently working and her through some going through the menopause. Get yourself trained up, is what we said companies, so that you know what the symptoms are, reassess your Sickness Absence policy so that if women need to take time off because theyre going through some severe symptoms of the menopause, that it does not count against them. Risk assess the workplace so that, you know, it might be a case of looser clothing or whatever or more ventilation. Risk assess the workplace and just make sure that we have a modern workplace for a modern time. At the end of the day, to seriously Cost Effective as well because i just mean seriously Cost Effective as well because ijust mean that everybody is honest. Lots of women at the moment will take time off as sickly, but not say the reason why. Because of embarrassment or because of a lack of understanding. Does the labour party have a policy for allowing women who are going through the menopause sufficient flexibility when it comes to working practices for the mps . We have very Flexible Working policies in the labour party, yes. Absolutely. We have very Flexible Working policies and we are very open about that as well. I mean, as members of parliament, we have different policies, but i have a very sort of Flexible Working policy as well. I have people working for me who are single pa rents, working for me who are single parents, got Mental Health issues, and they know that if they are not feeling up to it, they can pick up the phone and say yes. So, yes, we do have a policy in the party in regards to the menopause. It is very flexible, as i say, and yes, we are implemented, practising what we preach. Everything that were going through, everything that were sent organisations and companies to do, were also practising that within the party. Thank you very much for talking to us, the shadow women and equalities minister dawn butler. Heres helen with a look at this mornings weather. We need the rain because it has been dry this september so far so when we say that there is a change in the way i think that people will say that it way i think that people will say thatitis way i think that people will say that it is welcome for the gardens. We have some mist and some fog across the North Eastern parts of england and the midlands it has a little bit misty along with eastern parts of scotland as well. At this time of year, because the sun just does not have the same strength that it is over the summer, it takes until 9am or attorney for that fog to clear. After that, for most of us it is another warm and sunny day. The High Pressure isjust about hanging on and today is the start of the tr