01/10/2016 Reporters - Short Edition

From here in the BBC Newsroom, we send out correspondents to bring

you the best stories from across the globe.

Among everybody here, if you are considering taking a boat, raise

your hands... And the leading building aimed at

bridging America's racial divide. Nick Briant goes on a tour of

Washington's new African American history Museum. I think the building

comes at an opportune time in America to remind us of its

incredible and rich history and contribution to the integration

story. The tragic sinking of an Egyptian

ship of the post last week has highlighted another route for

migrants seduced by the Law of Europe. The number setting sail from

the shores have almost doubled since last year. 12,000 made it to Italy

so far in 2016. Orla Guerin reports from northern Egypt on what is

driving so many young Egyptians to risk everything.

The sons of this town are coming home. This village and other ones

nearby have very 20 men and teenage boys. They fled the poverty of

Egypt's Nile Delta, only to perish at sea. She grieves for her brother,

who boarded the migrant ship. He was just 14. The women Telus people

smugglers should be executed. Instead, they pay bribes and get

released. His grandmother says that he wanted to help her get

electricity and running water. She's been waiting for 20 years.

This man says that his friends needed jobs. They paid with their

lives. He was supposed to go, with 30 others, but he stayed behind

because his aunt was ill. Among everybody here, if you are

considering taking the boat, raise your hands. Even this 11-year-old

wants to leave. Plenty of Egyptian children already have. Many of them

are unaccompanied. But here is how the perilous journey across the

Mediterranean to Italy can come to an end. A boat arrives with

belongings of the victims. Some of them phoned home as they struggle to

survive in the water. Relatives told us that the

-- in the early hours, they got no crucial help from the Army base

year. I come and ask the captain here, they say that he's sleeping,

at 11 o'clock. No videos spoke to us here. This man lost his brother, he

was 20. He gave him some money for the trip. A survivor brought it

back. I ask him, have you seen my brother? He said he swam for one

hour. He gave me your money, and says give it to you when I see you

again. Maybe I will see my brother. Locals say the lack of opportunities

on show will keep driving young men out to sea. They expect this tragedy

to be repeated. -- lack of opportunities here.

It is two years since the British air force joined

the military campaign against Iraq. Now, they are talking about the

campaign against Islamic State. They say that they've come under fire

many times. Jonathan Beale reports from Cyprus.

These are the crew 's leading Briton's fight against so-called

Islamic State. The RAF has already carried out more than 1000 air

strikes in and Syria. We watched as they prepared to do more. We cannot

identify them, to protect their security and families back home. We

know it is a dangerous job and we know the threat is there. There a

whizzy peeling of adrenaline as you are about to do the job. -- there is

always a feeling. They fly missions day and night from their base in

Cyprus, and with missions and bonds, they've already dropped more than

2000 -- bombs. But, for the first time, the RAF have confirmed that

aircraft are being fired at too by the enemy they called Daesh. Every

aeroplane that flies into those danger areas, in certain instance,

UK aeroplanes have been targeted by Daesh, at no point have they posed a

threat that has been catastrophic. They also have to stay alert in the

search for new targets. Each mission can last for seven hours or more.

Even above Iraq, the skies are crowded. Over Syria, they have to

keep an eye for Russian warplanes. We are flying over northern Iraq

where this tanker is refuelling British warplanes, providing close

air support to Iraqi troops on the ground who are pushing their way

forward to Mosul. We have seen one of the RAF tornadoes returning,

having dropped one of their weapons. This is the cockpit video of what

the bomb hit, a barge being used to ferry a truck bomb across the Tigre

stripper. Do you -- to Chris River. Do you worry

about mistakes? It would be too flippant to say it is a day in the

office, but it is what we are trained to do. Two years on from the

first British air strikes in Iraq, and there are signs of progress. But

the mission is not over, and defeating IS in Syria would be

harder still. Jonathan Beale, BBC News.

The designer described it has the living building for the black

American experience. Resident Obama opened the first-ever

museum for African-American culture this week. -- president. It is a

striking sculpture, built by a Brit. He took Lee Bryant on a tour of his

iconic project. This is a building that not only occupies the first

vacant plot -- last vacant plot on this land but seeks to fill a gap in

America's national memory. For decades, African-Americans have

campaigned for a museum that tells their epic story, opened by the

country's first African-American president. It changed my career, and

changed my life actually. The architect is British, David AJ, he

sees it has his Opus work. And rather than designing a monument, he

constructs a living building that contributes to the ongoing racial

debate that reflects the ongoing struggle for equality. The building

helps people understand each other, and understand how people are

interrelated in many ways. The path is coexisting. It comes at

an opportune time in America to really remind us of its incredible

history and own contributions to it. Inside, the building chronicles and

often traumatic journey to freedom. Shackles and whips of slavery, the

clenched fists of the Black Power salute at the Mexico City Olympics.

It's also a celebration of how black culture has come to define American

culture. These are all real, nothing here is a reconstruction. That

really is Chuck Berry's original Cadillac. Has it been a challenge

for a British man to help tell an American story? I try not to think

about that, if I did I would collapse! I would probably be in

therapy, because it is such a weighty subject.

But I bring professionalism about what I believe architecture can

contribute to the issue. The building is steeped in symbolism.

The form of eggs and African crown, and latticework recalls the ironwork

of the freed slaves of the American South -- the framework reflects.

This building has come in to completion as Barack Obama's

presidency is coming to completion. Have you been struck by the irony of

that? The irony has been beautiful. We started when he started his

presidency, he was instrumental in helping get the first money through

Congress and releasing it to get this going.

It feels like a bar -- book end.

From slavery comes a man who becomes the most powerful in the world. This

is the most important public building to open in Washington in

decades, and the structure, by one birth Briton's most celebrated

Celebrated architects. -- by one of Britain's most celebrated

architects. That's all from me this week.

Goodbye.