:00:00. > :00:25.A man from London is helping to raise awareness of a rare bone
:00:26. > :00:29.marrow condition as he desperately tries to find a donor to help his
:00:30. > :00:32.sick father. The dad is originally from Sri Lanka which means his
:00:33. > :00:36.chances of finding a match is lower than if he was white and British.
:00:37. > :00:44.He now lives in Kent from where Charlie Rose reports.
:00:45. > :00:51.A winter's day is a world away from the Sri Lankan sunshine. But Yevi
:00:52. > :00:56.A acen background means he is struggling to find a bone marrow
:00:57. > :01:00.donor the UK, a search that's becoming increasingly urgent.
:01:01. > :01:05.Recently we had a bone marrow biopsy and that showed that the condition
:01:06. > :01:17.had progressed and was very aggressive. He would get quite tired
:01:18. > :01:22.and he is losing weight rapidly at the moment. It means that now it's
:01:23. > :01:26.imperative that he finds a donor because that's what's going to
:01:27. > :01:30.sustain him. The family managed to get a Sri Lankan superstar cricketer
:01:31. > :01:37.to help in their drive to raise awareness via social media. But so
:01:38. > :01:44.far, no luck. From the entire register only 4% from a south Asian
:01:45. > :01:46.background and 3% from Afro-Caribbean background. Doesn't
:01:47. > :01:52.mean to say any other back ground can't be a match for my dad or
:01:53. > :01:59.anybody else, but the tissue type is more likely to be from a south Asian
:02:00. > :02:05.background. At the moment we find a perfect match for about 60% of white
:02:06. > :02:12.northern European patients who need a transplant. But that drops to
:02:13. > :02:20.around 20% for any patient of ethnic minority. Experts say joining a
:02:21. > :02:21.register is easy. Yevi and his family hope the search will soon be
:02:22. > :02:26.over. There's to be a highly unusual
:02:27. > :02:29.auction of auction on Tuesday which will sell gadgets belonging
:02:30. > :02:31.to British secret agents who worked behind enemy lines
:02:32. > :02:33.during the Second World War. The Special Operations Executive
:02:34. > :02:35.were based on Baker Street and had their laboratory
:02:36. > :02:38.in the cellars of the Robin Gibson has been looking
:02:39. > :02:44.at the gadgets on offer. They look like props
:02:45. > :02:48.for a vintage James Bond movie, oddball gear designed
:02:49. > :02:52.by white-coated boffins who spent their days thinking up
:02:53. > :02:56.bizarre weapons and secret gadgets to break their agents on the ground
:02:57. > :02:59.out of one tight spot or another. To the naked eye this looks
:03:00. > :03:02.like an ordinary fountain pen, OK. When it unscrews, it reveals
:03:03. > :03:05.quite a sinister dagger. This would have been used
:03:06. > :03:09.by an agent if need be to either fight his way out of a corner
:03:10. > :03:14.or to eliminate an enemy sentry. This watch concealed a microphone
:03:15. > :03:21.to record conversations. A garrotte made of jagged wire
:03:22. > :03:26.conveys its horrific use. They all date back to
:03:27. > :03:29.the Second World War and were issued to agents and commandos dropped
:03:30. > :03:32.behind enemy lines. The items range from the gruesome
:03:33. > :03:35.to the incredibly ingenious. Here is a uniform badge
:03:36. > :03:42.which unscrews to reveal a compass A key, the end unscrews to leave
:03:43. > :03:53.a comparement useful for a coded message perhaps or some sort
:03:54. > :03:56.of suicide pill. Most people that buy this
:03:57. > :04:05.stuff are historians, they're keeping it to keep
:04:06. > :04:08.the history and story Edward Toms, who is now 96,
:04:09. > :04:13.and was attached to both the SAS and the Special Operations Executive
:04:14. > :04:15.during World War II. We all had buttons that
:04:16. > :04:18.could be used as compasses because the SOE laboratory
:04:19. > :04:20.was in the Natural History Museum cellar and it is where all these
:04:21. > :04:24.gadgets were being invented Murderous weapons may not be
:04:25. > :04:35.everyone's cup of tea, not least as the auction takes place
:04:36. > :04:38.on Valentines Day but the collection is expected to go for
:04:39. > :04:45.thousands of pounds. A look at the weather and there's
:04:46. > :04:48.a chance you could wake up to snow tomorrow or rain,
:04:49. > :04:50.depending on where you are. Either way, I can guarantee it will
:04:51. > :04:54.be cold outside so wrap up warm. Enjoy the Six Nations rugby
:04:55. > :05:14.which is up next on BBC One. Good afternoon. An afternoon to
:05:15. > :05:16.snuggle