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Russia suspends flights to Egypt, after claims that a bomb caused | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
the Russian airliner from Sharm el-Sheikh last week to crash. | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
In Sharm - as the UK lifts its suspension - there's confusion | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
and anger as many flights are cancelled. | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
British Embassy are a waste of time, haven't been here, haven't helped. | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
They just stand around, not helping stop easyJet have only just arrived, | :00:28. | :00:28. | |
we have been here three days. Tonight the first passenger | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
plane bringing British tourists How university tuition fees could go | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
up with inflation - if the More than 200,000 Vauxhall Zafiras | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
are recalled after fires reportedly And the British astronaut preparing | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
to spend six months in space. Here, and investigation begins after | :00:51. | :01:16. | |
an end to leave man dies on a trolley in Scotland's newest | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
hospital following a six-hour wait. And a Scottish trader is charged in | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
separatists go with defrauding the US stock market. -- charged in San | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
Francisco. A week after a Russian jet crashed | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
after leaving the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
Moscow has stopped all flights to President Putin has now ordered his | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
government to draw up plans to bring home around 45,000 Russian | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
tourists holidaying in Egypt. Meanwhile there's been confusion for | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
British tourists in Sharm el-Sheikh - the first two British planes to | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
leave the resort since the government suspended flights have | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
landed in the UK, but hundreds of passengers have had | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
their flights cancelled Our Middle East Correspondent Orla | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
Guerin has spent the day with The number of Britons who managed to | :02:08. | :02:22. | |
leave here today and get back to the UK was far less than expected. One | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
airline, easyJet, was blamed the Egyptian authorities, claiming they | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
were blocking flights from landing. Officials here said many of those | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
flights never had permission to come here in the first place. They have | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
also been complaining about the mountains of luggage being left | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
behind by the holiday-makers, saying this is interfering with the | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
operation of the airport. Some of those we met here today said that in | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
spite of the enhanced security measures, they were still nervous | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
about flying out of Sharm El-Sheikh and many who were unsuccessful for | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
her to come back here tomorrow to try all over again. Checking under | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
the hood at the entrance to Sharm El-Sheikh airport, an extra line of | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
defence today. Locals tell us it's not always like this. Homeward | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
bound, Michaela from London, who came to celebrate her 18th birthday | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
in Egypt with her mum. Inside, long queues for a thorough security | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
check, unlike the flight they took just days ago. Very, very different. | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
Because last time we were just rushed through, I don't think the | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
security was very good, it was almost like going on a bus. There | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
are tight security measures today, passengers and aircrew are being | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
patted down, bags are being carefully screened and the staff are | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
very happy for us to film all this. Those returning to the UK are | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
travelling light. Its hand baggage only. There are no suitcases going | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
in the hold for security reasons. That's because of concerns that a | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
bomb could be smuggled on board with the luggage, as may have happened | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
last Saturday. Russia is still burying those killed in the skies | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
here was now it who has suspended flights, not just to Sharm | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
El-Sheikh, but to any airport in Egypt. A devastating blow by a | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
staunch ally. Amidst all the security measures today, we saw a | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
local company selling a fast track service. In theory that gets | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
passengers to the top of the queue for screening, but we saw some | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
walking away, perhaps to be checked elsewhere. As the hours passed, | :04:34. | :04:41. | |
tempers frayed. British Embassy, a waste of time, haven't been here, | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
haven't helped. They just stand around, not helping. EasyJet have | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
only just arrived, we have been here three days. The British ambassador | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
to Egypt was pursued by the media and some I rate passengers at the | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
airport. He blamed complicated logistics, not Egyptian | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
obstructions, but the delays with flights. Our aim is to get as many | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
people home as soon as possible and of course, our priority is to give | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
people a chance to get home who have been waiting since their flights | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
were cancelled on Wednesday and Thursday. I know how frustrating it | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
is not known exactly how long it will take you to get home. For me | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
and her daughter, it could take another day. Their flight was | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
postponed again. What have you heard? Not an awful lot. We have | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
just been told there are no planes to take us home, they are waiting | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
for trains from England, I spoke to them just now and they said they | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
thought it would be doubtful we would be flying home today. | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
Extremely frustrating. We were really geared up for going home. | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
Some did manage to make that journey, onto easyJet flights. These | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
photos were taken by Sarah, heading home to Portsmouth. She, her sister | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
and their five teenage children have been trying to leave since | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
Wednesday. And the first flight of stranded Britons has now arrived | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
back in the UK. Some were overcome with emotion when | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
back in the UK. Some were overcome on home soil. We were at Magic Daps | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
airport, they announced there was bad weather, and we were hearing | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
from home that it was because of a terrorist threat or a bomb threat or | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
something. The first flight of stranded Britons has arrived back in | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
the UK but long after all the holiday-makers come home, there will | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
be lasting damage to Egypt's tourist industry and its reputation. | :06:43. | :07:05. | |
from home that it was because of a terrorist threat or a bomb threat or | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
something. The first flight of stranded Britons has arrived back in | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
the UK but long after all the holiday-makers come home, there will | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
be lasting damage to Egypt's tourist industry and its reputation. | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
Just days after the UK's decision to stop flights to Sharm el-Sheikh, | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
Today investigators were still combing the wreckage | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
at the crash site, hunting for fragments of evidence which | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
But governments and not just in Britain are increasingly actimg | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
on the basis that this plane was brought down by a bomb. | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
In London officials talk of a strong suspicion that Islamic | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
In Moscow, travellers due to fly to Egypt found their flights cancelled. | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
The results of the investigation were still being | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
awaited but the head of Russia's Security service said the government | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
Until we establish the causes of what's happened, I think it makes | :07:44. | :07:53. | |
sense to suspend flights to Egypt, initially, all tourist flights. | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
I also think it necessary to actively cooperate with the Egyptian | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
authorities to continue the investigation into the causes. | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
It is thought that Britain's position might be the result | :08:04. | :08:15. | |
of so-called chatter that was picked up. What would that mean? | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
Intelligence agencies like GCHQ sweep up huge amount | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
of communications such as phone and Internet conversations. | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
After an incident such as the plane crash, they can then go | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
back and sift through this material searching for anything that | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
Chatter might refer to conversations among jihadists in the region | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
about something they were planning or had already done, but it's often | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
American officials this afternoon also said intercepted | :08:37. | :08:51. | |
chatter supported the idea of a bomb. | :08:52. | :08:52. | |
If the suspicions are right about an explosive device smuggled | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
on board, that would mean someone had evaded the security checks. | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
Britain's Transport Secretary today said he was not wholly satisfied | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
with the way screening had been done. | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
It could also be possible someone got airside and | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
around these checks to put a device in the hold, a possibility | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
If we talk about bags, scanners, pat-down searches, | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
are there any passengers, groups of people who are excluded | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
It is perhaps the airport workers that concerns me most as a pilot. | :09:18. | :09:29. | |
And they are now unconfirmed reports of the black box flight recorders | :09:30. | :09:37. | |
reveal everything normal until it's said, the sound of an explosion. | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
In a moment we'll be speaking to Orla who's at Sharm El-Sheikh, | :09:41. | :09:50. | |
but first Steve Rosenberg is at the Kremlin - Steve, a change | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
Yes, that's right. The Kremlin doesn't normally do a U-turn is | :09:54. | :10:06. | |
something he has changed. Around lunchtime today I spoke to President | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
Putin's press secretary, said the UK hadn't shared any intelligent with | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
Moscow, he said he didn't know what the UK was basing its intelligence | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
on, its assessment that this was a bomb and it seemed at that time | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
Russia was quite happy to allow its planes to carry on flying to Egypt. | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
What's more, yesterday a Russian official accused Britain of trying | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
to put psychological Russia on Moscow by suspending flights to | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
Sharm El-Sheikh. The night Russia to her suspended all flights to Egypt | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
and although the Kremlin is insisting that it still keeping an | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
open mind about the causes of this disaster, it does seem as if Moscow | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
now believes it may have been a bomb that caused this crash. Let's go | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
back to our correspondent in Sharm El-Sheikh for us. We heard | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
frustration from tourists earlier, what's the situation now? The | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
airport terminal is a lot calmer now, the crowds of disappeared for | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
the moment, there was a great deal of chaos and anger here today and | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
things certainly didn't go according to plan. There was an ambitious | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
schedule for 29 departures. We believe that by the end of the day | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
only eight flights will have managed to take off. We saw holiday-makers | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
turning up, many with young children, spending hours inside the | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
terminal, herded into departures, in some cases to be herded back out | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
into the departure area and told to go back to their hotels. The | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
authorities in Cairo, that massive blow in the course of the day, the | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
decision by the Russians to hold their flights not only to the ritzy | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
retort of Sharm El-Sheikh but in any airport in this country. The | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
Russians are the main street of tourism here. Many business owners | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
have told me that without them, there is no tourism. This is also a | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
massive dent to Egypt's international reputation and the | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
authorities in Cairo will be worrying now, how many more | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
countries will decide to follow suit and effectively make travel to Egypt | :12:11. | :12:12. | |
impossible for the moment. Universities in England will be able | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
to raise tuition fees in line with inflation - if they can show they're | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
providing high-quality teaching. The current maximum level | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
for fees is ?9,000, Critics say the plans are simply | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
a means of allowing universities to Our Education Editor Branwen | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
Jeffreys has been speaking to students at | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
Nottingham Trent University. Like most universities, Nottingham | :12:36. | :12:49. | |
Trent charges the maximum tuition fees. For each student here, that's | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
?9,000 a year. In a couple of years that could start rising with | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
inflation. Already, students taking on big gets one value for money. I | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
think people expect a lot when they come for that price, for most | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
universities like this one, you do get what you are paying for. If you | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
can show a student coming in that they are going to get a good job, | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
that coming to university is going to earn them more in the future, | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
that'll be the draw university, that's what drew me to university, | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
the quest for a better life. Famous for its textiles and fashion | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
courses, this university nose job prospects matter will stop a quarter | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
of its from low income families. The new system measure how universities | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
recruit from a wide range of backgrounds. Here, they hope to do | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
well, under plans to reward excellence in teaching. I think, if | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
we apply the excellence frame over teaching consistently, the top 25 | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
might look very different, the 25 you get from a metric based on | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
research. Ministers want students to have more information. The idea is | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
to link higher fees, bigger debts, the value for money. People going to | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
university end up earning over their lifetime, ?100,000 more net of tax | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
than those who don't. So university can be a life changing experience, | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
but that's just an average and we want everybody to get that sort of | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
benefit. The government isn't planning to inspect universities, | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
it's going to gather a lot of information, including the views of | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
students, to try and judge the quality of teaching. But how do you | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
measure teaching everything from art to engineering? And will this | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
deliver for students with the government expects? This could be a | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
Trojan horse for a fee increase, it could also be a Trojan horse for | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
cutting money from people who are not regarded within this framework | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
is doing well and that would create a 3 or four tier system. Students on | :14:56. | :15:04. | |
the street this week. In England, tuition fees are already the highest | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
in the UK. Universities will be under more pressure than ever to | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
justify the cost of an education. Our top story this evening: | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
Russia suspends flights to Egypt. And still to come - the British | :15:17. | :15:35. | |
astronaut preparing to spend six And coming up on Reporting | :15:36. | :15:36. | |
Scotland: Ronnie Delia asks for more time to | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
prove himself as Celtic face an And a scandal for painting nudes. | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
One of the challenges faced by female artists over the last | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
80 years. Now, it's a benefit that helps put | :15:46. | :15:57. | |
a roof over the heads of some Housing Benefit costs the taxpayer | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
?24 billion a year and is received by nearly five million claimants | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
at an average of ?95 a week. But how open is | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
the system to exploitation? The BBC has been investigating one | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
agency in South London which is helping the homeless | :16:17. | :16:18. | |
off the streets. But in doing so, is earning | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
thousands of pounds in housing benefit for providing some often | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
poor quality bedsits, as Michael Homelessness is on the rise. The | :16:30. | :16:41. | |
number of rough sleepers in England has increased by more than 50% over | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
the past five years. And for one company, this growing problem has | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
proved extremely profitable. The whole ceiling fell through. Derek | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
lived here for about two years. Previously homeless, he now has a | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
room in this house, provided by a lettings agency called Investing | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
Solutions. It's damp and has lacked heating and hot water at various | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
stages. I found it better on the streets. I felt more comfortable on | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
the streets than what I do in here. This place, it is like a walking | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
nightmare. I don't know if I'm going to walk down the stairs tonight and | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
get another bit of ceiling on my head. Since we filmed, the ceiling | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
has been repaired. Derek's rent, as well as that of another tenant, is | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
covered by housing benefit, which is paid directly by Investing | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
Solutions. They claim just over ?24,000 a year for the two men to | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
live here. The landlord gets ?15,000 in rent. Leaving the agency a gross | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
profit of over ?9,000. Investing Solutions are based in this storage | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
unit in south London where they manage properties on behalf of | :17:54. | :18:05. | |
private landlords. #r a charity finds homeless single men for | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
Investing Solutions to company. It has received ?5.5 million in housing | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
benefit over the past two years. Nigel McCann used to work for | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
Investing Solutions. You start seeing that it is all about the | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
money. I thought the inspections would be made. Because I knew what | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
the flats, what flats we were hiring, how much we were paying for | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
them and then how much they were charging the council for it. The man | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
who owns Investing Solutions doesn't just like renting properties. He has | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
bought one recently as well. In July he paid ?1.8 million for this. A | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
luxury four-bedroom property in north-west London. | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
We asked the owner, Samir Patel for an interview. He refused, though we | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
went to he soo him anyway. BBC News. Nice to see you. Can I ask you a | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
couple of questions about Investing Solutions. Obviously you know the | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
e-mail we sent you and everything else To be honest, I will have to | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
look into it. Do you think you have been getting a lot of money from | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
housing benefit? I would rather just get back to you guys when... Are you | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
ripping off the taxpayer? Mr Patel told us in a statement that the bulk | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
of the rents gets passed to private sector landlord clients and that | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
Fresh Start Housing is an independent Charity. The charity | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
themselves said they use private landlords other than Investing | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
Solutions but said they didn't have permission to name them It is a new | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
low I have to say. We have heard many examples of poor practice | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
amongst the worst letting agents. Housing experts say they are | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
involved Investing Solutions have received millions of pounds This | :19:40. | :19:47. | |
idea of having a charity with poor practices is a new low. Helping the | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
homes is Ing surely what housing benefit should be for but one | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
company has found a lucrative way to exploit the system that's costing | :19:59. | :20:00. | |
tax payers dearly. Vauxhall has announced a recall | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
of over 200,000 Zafira cars The model affected is the Zafira B, | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
built between 2005 and 2014. Around 200 fires have been reported | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
- starting behind the glove-box, in Our Business Correspondent, | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
Emma Simpson, reports. The recall follow an investigation | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
by the BBC's watchdog sells at the. The Zafira people carrier, one the | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
Vauxhall's best-selling family cars. The trouble is, some of them have | :20:27. | :20:35. | |
been mysteriously catching fire. without warning, car, after car, | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
engulfed by flames. Lisa's Zafira was full of smoke | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
in less than a minute. She'd only moments to escape with | :20:46. | :20:54. | |
her ten-month-old baby I couldn't believe it was | :20:55. | :20:56. | |
happening and how quickly. Obviously I'm phoning the | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
Fire Brigade. I think the whole street was out at | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
that point and obviously couldn't believe what they were seeing and I | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
couldn't believe what I was seeing. In the last few weeks, | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
drivers have been sharing stories and videos on this Facebook page and | :21:16. | :21:32. | |
with the BBC's Watchdog programme. | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
It's now become clear that some A lot of owners have described first | :21:36. | :21:37. | |
seeing smoke coming through these dashboard vents that hide | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
the heating and ventilation system. One theory is that repairs may | :21:43. | :21:44. | |
not have been done properly. In some cases, | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
genuine Vauxhall replacement parts But the company still doesn't | :21:48. | :21:48. | |
know the exact cause. We fully understand the seriousness | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
of the situation and your personal We will write to all affected | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
owners, check and repair their cars and make them | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
safe to operate when necessary. Some of the burnt cars, though, | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
are well beyond repair. Luckily no-one's been | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
seriously hurt. But it may well damage consumer | :22:12. | :22:12. | |
confidence Now, how would you feel | :22:13. | :22:14. | |
about spending six months in this? Well, Tim Peake - | :22:15. | :22:27. | |
the first British astronaut to be selected by the European Space | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
Agency to go to the International Space Station - has told the BBC | :22:31. | :22:32. | |
he's not feeling at all nervous. The former Army helicopter pilot is | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
due to blast off Here's our Science Editor, | :22:38. | :22:39. | |
David Shukman. Tim Peake makes it all look rather | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
easy - going through a long and tough training programme to | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
venture into space. One way to get ready is | :22:50. | :22:57. | |
to practise under water. And here he's being put through | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
the drills that will prepare him His final news conference | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
before lift-off. REPORTER: Will you just admit to us | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
a tiny little bit of fear Um, the only fear I have is of | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
forgetting something at this stage. I'm in transit from Houston | :23:17. | :23:25. | |
on my way to Russia. I'm rapidly wracking my brain | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
as it what I might have possibly In terms of the mission, I honestly | :23:29. | :23:30. | |
don't have any fears at all. That's partly because | :23:31. | :23:39. | |
the training's been so thorough. He's had to use skills he first | :23:40. | :23:41. | |
learned as a scout and after the dark confines of a cave, it'll be | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
easier to endure a tiny spaceship. Here at the Science Museum | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
in London, this is the kind of Soyuz capsule | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
Tim Peake will be climbing into, It looks old-fashioned but it is | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
tried and tested and it is the most After a six-hour flight, | :23:53. | :24:02. | |
he'll reach the International Space Station, orbiting high above Earth | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
and he'll live here with five others The first British astronaut | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
on board. But right now he is just | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
trying to stay safe. I'm trying to always watch where I | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
step and not twist an ankle, fall So what advice from a fellow | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
astronaut, Helen Sharman, who flew Sometimes it is important to do a | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
little bit for yourself at the end. And that part of looking out | :24:26. | :24:35. | |
at the Earth and then other In a matter of weeks, | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
Tim Peake will be leaving Earth Let's return to our main story - | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
the developing events following Russia has suspended all flights to | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
Egypt until the cause Senior French officials have ruled | :24:52. | :25:01. | |
out a technical fault as the cause of the crash. This evening, the | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
first two British planes, since the UK suspended flights, have arrived. | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
Well, Duncan Kennedy is in Gatwick for us now. | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
That first one arrived in the past couple of hours. An easyJet flight | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
with something like 150 people on board. It was full. Among the | :25:20. | :25:27. | |
passengers was Leon from Cambridge. What were the last few days like? | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
There was a lot of tension and confusion amongst the holiday-makers | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
as to what would happen to emthis. A lot of them were going towards the | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
airport to ascertain what was going to happen. This morning, the flights | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
from inbound from the UK to Sharm El-Sheikh which created tension and | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
they were wondering how much further the situation could detieriouriate | :25:52. | :25:53. | |
be and when they were getting home. What was the problem? Not getting | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
information from the Foreign Office, easyJet, what? Well it was | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
conflicting information. The hotel staff was telling us everything was | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
fine, the entire event was propaganda. At the same time sources | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
from the UK were telling us there was a bomb on the plane and this is | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
the reason why they had to ban all flights from leaving. A frustrating | :26:16. | :26:17. | |
process all around? Incredibly frustrating. There is another flight | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
due in here at Gatwick in another couple of hours and another one at | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
Birmingham but still thousands of people stranded in sharp for the | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
next few hours and possibly days as well. Thank you. Let's look at the | :26:30. | :26:38. | |
weather now with John Hammond. Up and down. I think our new | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
initiative will come into his own. In Kent many saw rain. However later | :26:45. | :26:52. | |
on in the day, brightening up with fantastic blue skies in Northern | :26:53. | :26:54. | |
Ireland. However the weather will continue to change through the next | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
few days. This was the weather system that brought the rain | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
earlier. Across southern counties of England front never gets away, so | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
staying damp and dismal for fireworks parties. Further north, | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
sharp and blustery showers. The rain edges back in again from the | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
south-west by morning time. A mild night in most places, but an | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
increasingly wet morning across southern and central parts of | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
England, pushing its way through the rest of England and Wales. Northern | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
Ireland sees damp and dreary much of the day. It could be cool. | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
Temperatures struggling within this rain band but once it brightens up | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
across England and Wales, yet again, temperatures ridiculously high, 18 | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
is higher than it should be this time of year. There could be gusty | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
winds, just as that rain clears away. Watch out. The next weather | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
system comes piling in off the Atlantic for Remembrance Sunday, | :27:47. | :27:48. | |
particularly across more northern and western parts. Further heavy | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
rain. The winds could be a concern. Could get 60 miles per hour gusts. | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
Keep an eye on that. Dry further south and east and mild. On into the | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
early part of next week, you know the story. Further weather fronts | :28:02. | :28:04. | |
coming in off the Atlantic on a conveyor belt. A quite strong jet | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
stream. Beneath the core of the jet stream, most of the rain through the | :28:10. | :28:12. | |
early part of next week and with successive bouts of rain, of course | :28:13. | :28:15. | |
catchments getting fuller and fuller so, bore keeping an eye on that in | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
conjunction with the Environment Agency. So to sum up, early next | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
week, strong winds and further rain but if it is any consolation, it'll | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
stay mild. Thank you. That's all from the BBC News at Six. | :28:30. | :28:32. | |
Goodbye from me, on BBC | :28:33. | :28:33. |