Afternoon briefing Wednesday 9th September

0:00This episode of the Times Radio News Briefing is sponsored by PWC. Staying competitive means getting ahead, not just keeping up, so how the business leaders cut through the noise and focus on what really matters. PWC takes you further with tech, from optimising the systems that put your data to work, to scaling AI from proof of concepts to competitive edge. PWC helps you meet tomorrow's tech demands, so you can compete at a speed that rewrites the rules. Discover more at PWC.co.uk This is the Times Radio afternoon briefing for Wednesday the 9th of September. The COO of Ryanair has told Times Radio the air traffic control organisation NAT has failed to invest in its system while rewarding shareholders, causing thousands of delayed flights and costing the millions of pounds. Neil McMahan was asked if he thought NAT's CO, Martin Rolf, could stay in post. Absolutely not. We had the same flight planning processing issue in 2023.

1:03Martin Rolf promised that it could never happen again. He went on the transport committee, he promised the CAA, all the recommendations were allegedly done, and here we are less than three years later with another flight planning processing problem, and as a result thousands of flights get cancelled. Mr Rolf says he's taken full responsibility in that a very thorough investigation will go on into the technical failure. At least 250 flights have been cancelled this morning, after more than 1000 days. Times Radio's Calum Mcdonald was caught up in the disruption he throw early this morning. If I look at the screens behind me, there are loads of cancellations of flights already this morning. Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, later in the day Athens, Ibiza, Warsaw. There are heaps of cancellations on precision, which is already confirmed on these boards. At the moment, the last sort of disruption I can see on that board is the flight, the schedule to Glasgow at 9, and it's already saying it's delayed till after 3pm. The deputy conservative leader Alex Burkhart has said the government sanctions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank are going to make life for people in Britain more difficult

2:08in coming years. Over the course of the past few years, MI5 working with the Israelis have managed to prevent a number of terrorist attacks on our streets, and that is the support that Israel gives this country. Whilst I understand, as I say, there are settlements that have gone up, that should not have gone up. Bringing in sanctions that doesn't change that, but does start to change the relationship we have between our country and Israel is not good for this country. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband says, right for Britain to call out injustice and that most British people would support the sanctions. One of the world's leading AI companies did not submit its latest model to be tested by the UK Government's Security Institute before its release, and Thropic only made its Claude Mythos 5.1 model available to US vetting organisations. That's the first time it had bypassed the UK's AI Security Institute. It was designed specifically for cyber security and life sciences. New powers to tackle young people wearing balaclavas to

3:11intimidate members of the public in Nottingham City Centre are set to come into force next week. The powers will include £70 on the spot fines, conversation and referral to an immediate justice programme requiring community work. An England men's head coach Steve Boothwick is expected to sign a new deal until 2028. It's to avoid uncertainty ahead of next year's rugby world cup. Meanwhile, his players will take the field with a back-of-shirt sponsor for the first time this autumn, Lloyd's Bank are paying the RFU £5 million a year to have their logo above the players names. You can hear more of these stories throughout the afternoon on Times Radio. This episode of the Times Radio News Briefing is sponsored by PWC. AI is everywhere. In the news, in our hands, but return an investment? Not so much. So how do you get beyond the hype and deliver AI that powers reinvention and growth across your business? Strong foundations unlock

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