00:00 Air traffic controllers across the UK are experiencing a technical fault, with one airline
00:11 reporting network-wide failure.
00:13 Passengers on airlines outside of the UK have been told that the air traffic control network
00:17 is down and their flight will be delayed.
00:19 NETS, the national air traffic controller, said, "We are currently experiencing a technical
00:24 issue and have applied traffic flow restrictions to maintain safety.
00:28 Engineers are working to find and fix the fault.
00:30 We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause."
00:33 EasyJet passengers were told that the issue was currently affecting all flights due to
00:37 fly in or out of the UK.
00:39 UK broadcaster Gabby Logan, who was caught up in the disruption, tweeted, "On a plane
00:43 on the runway at Budapest airport.
00:45 After almost 3 weeks away from home, I am arsed from hugging my family and have just
00:49 been told UK airspace is shut.
00:51 We could be here for 12 hours.
00:53 So we sit on the plane and wait."
00:55 France's ambassador to Niger will stay in the Sahel country, despite pressure to
01:01 leave from leaders of a recent coup, President Emmanuel Macron has said.
01:05 On Monday, he also reiterated France's support to Niger's overthrown President Mohamed
01:08 Bazoum, whose decision not to resign Macron called "courageous."
01:12 Macron also said that Paris would support any military action by the economic community
01:15 of West African states in Niger.
01:18 The French leader, who was speaking during a major foreign policy speech to ambassadors
01:21 gathered in Paris, confirmed that French envoy Sylvain Ette was listening in from Niger's
01:27 capital, Niamey, despite being given a 48-hour deadline to leave the country last Friday.
01:32 France and its diplomats have faced particularly difficult situations in some countries in
01:35 recent months, from Sudan, where France has been exemplary, to Niger at this very moment
01:40 and I applaud your colleagues who are listening to their posts, he said.
01:44 Bazoum was toppled on July 26 and has been detained along with his family at the presidential
01:48 palace in a coup that has been condemned by France and most of Niger's neighbors.
01:56 Children in French state schools will no longer be allowed to wear the abaya, a long, loose-fitting
02:00 dress worn by some Muslim women.
02:02 The French education minister announced the ban on Sunday ahead of the school term, starting
02:06 at the start of September.
02:07 France has a strict ban on religious symbols in state schools and has banned pupils from
02:11 wearing headscarves since 2004.
02:13 When you walk into a classroom, you should be able to identify the pupil's religion just
02:18 by looking at them, education minister Gabriel Attal said.
02:21 The abaya is usually defined as a loose overgarment, especially a robe-like dress, frequently worn
02:25 by women in parts of the Arabian Peninsula, most of the Middle East and sometimes in North
02:29 Africa.
02:30 Turkey and the US held their largest joint military exercises in at least seven years,
02:37 a sign of improving ties as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seeks another meeting with
02:41 Joe Biden next month.
02:43 The past week's drills, along with a visit from the bipartisan congressional delegation,
02:46 show both sides seeking to rebuild the long-term alliance, said three Turkish officials who
02:50 spoke on condition of anonymity.
02:53 Turkey is seeking to arrange a meeting between Erdogan and the US president on the sidelines
02:57 of the G20 summit in New Delhi following one in Lithuania next month, said the officials,
03:01 asking not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter.
03:05 Turkey sees the joint military exercises as recognition by Washington of Ankara's importance
03:09 as a NATO ally in a region crisscrossed by conflicts, the officials said.
03:14 Erdogan last month dropped his long-held opposition to Sweden's NATO membership in a bid to improve
03:19 ties with the US and buy American-made F-16 fighter jets.
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