:00:24. > :00:28.From here in the BBC Newsroom, we send out correspondents to bring
:00:29. > :00:30.you the best stories from across the globe.
:00:31. > :00:48.Among everybody here, if you are considering taking a boat, raise
:00:49. > :00:52.your hands... And the leading building aimed at
:00:53. > :00:57.bridging America's racial divide. Nick Briant goes on a tour of
:00:58. > :01:00.Washington's new African American history Museum. I think the building
:01:01. > :01:04.comes at an opportune time in America to remind us of its
:01:05. > :01:04.incredible and rich history and contribution to the integration
:01:05. > :01:18.story. The tragic sinking of an Egyptian
:01:19. > :01:23.ship of the post last week has highlighted another route for
:01:24. > :01:27.migrants seduced by the Law of Europe. The number setting sail from
:01:28. > :01:32.the shores have almost doubled since last year. 12,000 made it to Italy
:01:33. > :01:36.so far in 2016. Orla Guerin reports from northern Egypt on what is
:01:37. > :01:46.driving so many young Egyptians to risk everything.
:01:47. > :01:54.The sons of this town are coming home. This village and other ones
:01:55. > :01:58.nearby have very 20 men and teenage boys. They fled the poverty of
:01:59. > :02:10.Egypt's Nile Delta, only to perish at sea. She grieves for her brother,
:02:11. > :02:15.who boarded the migrant ship. He was just 14. The women Telus people
:02:16. > :02:22.smugglers should be executed. Instead, they pay bribes and get
:02:23. > :02:26.released. His grandmother says that he wanted to help her get
:02:27. > :02:37.electricity and running water. She's been waiting for 20 years.
:02:38. > :02:44.This man says that his friends needed jobs. They paid with their
:02:45. > :02:49.lives. He was supposed to go, with 30 others, but he stayed behind
:02:50. > :02:52.because his aunt was ill. Among everybody here, if you are
:02:53. > :03:04.considering taking the boat, raise your hands. Even this 11-year-old
:03:05. > :03:11.wants to leave. Plenty of Egyptian children already have. Many of them
:03:12. > :03:13.are unaccompanied. But here is how the perilous journey across the
:03:14. > :03:22.Mediterranean to Italy can come to an end. A boat arrives with
:03:23. > :03:28.belongings of the victims. Some of them phoned home as they struggle to
:03:29. > :03:34.survive in the water. Relatives told us that the
:03:35. > :03:42.-- in the early hours, they got no crucial help from the Army base
:03:43. > :03:49.year. I come and ask the captain here, they say that he's sleeping,
:03:50. > :03:55.at 11 o'clock. No videos spoke to us here. This man lost his brother, he
:03:56. > :04:01.was 20. He gave him some money for the trip. A survivor brought it
:04:02. > :04:08.back. I ask him, have you seen my brother? He said he swam for one
:04:09. > :04:16.hour. He gave me your money, and says give it to you when I see you
:04:17. > :04:19.again. Maybe I will see my brother. Locals say the lack of opportunities
:04:20. > :04:28.on show will keep driving young men out to sea. They expect this tragedy
:04:29. > :04:29.to be repeated. -- lack of opportunities here.
:04:30. > :04:39.It is two years since the British air force joined
:04:40. > :04:43.the military campaign against Iraq. Now, they are talking about the
:04:44. > :04:46.campaign against Islamic State. They say that they've come under fire
:04:47. > :04:54.many times. Jonathan Beale reports from Cyprus.
:04:55. > :04:58.These are the crew 's leading Briton's fight against so-called
:04:59. > :05:03.Islamic State. The RAF has already carried out more than 1000 air
:05:04. > :05:11.strikes in and Syria. We watched as they prepared to do more. We cannot
:05:12. > :05:14.identify them, to protect their security and families back home. We
:05:15. > :05:18.know it is a dangerous job and we know the threat is there. There a
:05:19. > :05:24.whizzy peeling of adrenaline as you are about to do the job. -- there is
:05:25. > :05:27.always a feeling. They fly missions day and night from their base in
:05:28. > :05:34.Cyprus, and with missions and bonds, they've already dropped more than
:05:35. > :05:38.2000 -- bombs. But, for the first time, the RAF have confirmed that
:05:39. > :05:45.aircraft are being fired at too by the enemy they called Daesh. Every
:05:46. > :05:51.aeroplane that flies into those danger areas, in certain instance,
:05:52. > :05:56.UK aeroplanes have been targeted by Daesh, at no point have they posed a
:05:57. > :06:03.threat that has been catastrophic. They also have to stay alert in the
:06:04. > :06:08.search for new targets. Each mission can last for seven hours or more.
:06:09. > :06:14.Even above Iraq, the skies are crowded. Over Syria, they have to
:06:15. > :06:17.keep an eye for Russian warplanes. We are flying over northern Iraq
:06:18. > :06:23.where this tanker is refuelling British warplanes, providing close
:06:24. > :06:28.air support to Iraqi troops on the ground who are pushing their way
:06:29. > :06:34.forward to Mosul. We have seen one of the RAF tornadoes returning,
:06:35. > :06:39.having dropped one of their weapons. This is the cockpit video of what
:06:40. > :06:41.the bomb hit, a barge being used to ferry a truck bomb across the Tigre
:06:42. > :06:52.stripper. Do you -- to Chris River. Do you worry
:06:53. > :06:56.about mistakes? It would be too flippant to say it is a day in the
:06:57. > :07:01.office, but it is what we are trained to do. Two years on from the
:07:02. > :07:06.first British air strikes in Iraq, and there are signs of progress. But
:07:07. > :07:09.the mission is not over, and defeating IS in Syria would be
:07:10. > :07:13.harder still. Jonathan Beale, BBC News.
:07:14. > :07:22.The designer described it has the living building for the black
:07:23. > :07:26.American experience. Resident Obama opened the first-ever
:07:27. > :07:33.museum for African-American culture this week. -- president. It is a
:07:34. > :07:40.striking sculpture, built by a Brit. He took Lee Bryant on a tour of his
:07:41. > :07:47.iconic project. This is a building that not only occupies the first
:07:48. > :07:52.vacant plot -- last vacant plot on this land but seeks to fill a gap in
:07:53. > :07:55.America's national memory. For decades, African-Americans have
:07:56. > :07:58.campaigned for a museum that tells their epic story, opened by the
:07:59. > :08:03.country's first African-American president. It changed my career, and
:08:04. > :08:09.changed my life actually. The architect is British, David AJ, he
:08:10. > :08:13.sees it has his Opus work. And rather than designing a monument, he
:08:14. > :08:18.constructs a living building that contributes to the ongoing racial
:08:19. > :08:23.debate that reflects the ongoing struggle for equality. The building
:08:24. > :08:29.helps people understand each other, and understand how people are
:08:30. > :08:34.interrelated in many ways. The path is coexisting. It comes at
:08:35. > :08:43.an opportune time in America to really remind us of its incredible
:08:44. > :08:47.history and own contributions to it. Inside, the building chronicles and
:08:48. > :08:50.often traumatic journey to freedom. Shackles and whips of slavery, the
:08:51. > :08:57.clenched fists of the Black Power salute at the Mexico City Olympics.
:08:58. > :09:02.It's also a celebration of how black culture has come to define American
:09:03. > :09:06.culture. These are all real, nothing here is a reconstruction. That
:09:07. > :09:11.really is Chuck Berry's original Cadillac. Has it been a challenge
:09:12. > :09:15.for a British man to help tell an American story? I try not to think
:09:16. > :09:19.about that, if I did I would collapse! I would probably be in
:09:20. > :09:22.therapy, because it is such a weighty subject.
:09:23. > :09:26.But I bring professionalism about what I believe architecture can
:09:27. > :09:32.contribute to the issue. The building is steeped in symbolism.
:09:33. > :09:38.The form of eggs and African crown, and latticework recalls the ironwork
:09:39. > :09:48.of the freed slaves of the American South -- the framework reflects.
:09:49. > :09:52.This building has come in to completion as Barack Obama's
:09:53. > :09:57.presidency is coming to completion. Have you been struck by the irony of
:09:58. > :10:04.that? The irony has been beautiful. We started when he started his
:10:05. > :10:09.presidency, he was instrumental in helping get the first money through
:10:10. > :10:09.Congress and releasing it to get this going.
:10:10. > :10:20.It feels like a bar -- book end.
:10:21. > :10:24.From slavery comes a man who becomes the most powerful in the world. This
:10:25. > :10:31.is the most important public building to open in Washington in
:10:32. > :10:36.decades, and the structure, by one birth Briton's most celebrated
:10:37. > :10:42.Celebrated architects. -- by one of Britain's most celebrated
:10:43. > :10:44.architects. That's all from me this week.
:10:45. > :10:48.Goodbye.