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