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0:00:12 > 0:00:15The UK's Foreign Secretary travels to Iran and says he had frank talks
0:00:15 > 0:00:17about obstacles in their relationship. At the heart of the
0:00:17 > 0:00:24discussions the fate of this British woman jailed in Iran for spying. Her
0:00:24 > 0:00:32husband gives the visit a cautious welcome.It can only lead to a
0:00:32 > 0:00:36better case for us.Also this hour. Another day of clashes in the row
0:00:36 > 0:00:39over Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
0:00:39 > 0:00:44The Palestinians pull out of a meeting with the US vice-president
0:00:44 > 0:00:51in protest. And, President, poet and a parade of motor bikes, France says
0:00:51 > 0:01:07goodbye to its rock and roll legend, Jonny Hallyday.
0:01:08 > 0:01:08Welcome
0:01:08 > 0:01:12to World News Today.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15The Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, says he has had frank
0:01:15 > 0:01:16and constructive talks with his Iranian counterpart
0:01:16 > 0:01:23in Tehran over the case of British Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
0:01:23 > 0:01:25who's been in jail since 2016.
0:01:25 > 0:01:26Our diplomatic correspondent James Robbins reports.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28It could look routine, shaking hands before talks.
0:01:28 > 0:01:38But there is nothing routine about this encounter.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43The Foreign Secretary looking uncharacteristically tense,
0:01:43 > 0:01:45and with good reason.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49He wants to improve relations, but also criticise some of Iran's
0:01:49 > 0:01:51actions, while arguing for prison releases, including
0:01:51 > 0:01:56of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a case many accuse him of damaging
0:01:56 > 0:02:00because of loose talk last month.
0:02:00 > 0:02:05Watching anxiously with me in London, Nazanin's husband,
0:02:05 > 0:02:08who has campaigned day in, day out for freedom since
0:02:08 > 0:02:10she was arrested last year.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13I'm sure it will make a difference, him being there, raising her case,
0:02:13 > 0:02:17and in the context of a lot of other stuff, can only help improve
0:02:17 > 0:02:20relations, can only lead to a better case for us.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24I think that's right.
0:02:24 > 0:02:28I'm not expecting that on Monday morning he comes back
0:02:28 > 0:02:29with her on the plane.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31Boris Johnson is saying nothing at all publicly while in Iran,
0:02:31 > 0:02:38instead the Foreign Office issued a statement after two
0:02:38 > 0:02:41hours of what they called a constructive meeting.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08One good sign is that Iran's Foreign Minister confirmed
0:03:08 > 0:03:11Boris Johnson should be able to meet President Rouhani tomorrow.
0:03:11 > 0:03:13Something that is not automatic on a visit like this.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16Talks went on for two hours.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18It seems that this was a genuine discussion,
0:03:18 > 0:03:20not a pre-scripted exchange.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23Positives and negatives in relations were aired.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25We should not expect immediate consequences,
0:03:25 > 0:03:29but Iran is in no doubt how much importance the British
0:03:29 > 0:03:39side attaches to getting Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe home.
0:03:44 > 0:03:52Earlier I asked Siavash Ardevan of BBC Persianian about what might have
0:03:52 > 0:04:00come up in those meetings.He hasn't met the head of Iran's judiciary,
0:04:00 > 0:04:04which is really the branch he should be meeting, the people handling the
0:04:04 > 0:04:08case.Because they are different, aren't they? The Government and the
0:04:08 > 0:04:11judiciary are separate. That's significant in this case.It's a
0:04:11 > 0:04:14power struggle between the two. Often you have the judiciary trying
0:04:14 > 0:04:19to undermine the Government's foreign policy. As much as the
0:04:19 > 0:04:23President Rouhani or Boris Johnson's counterpart may want to help it
0:04:23 > 0:04:26boils down to hardliners who controls the judiciary.What do you
0:04:26 > 0:04:31make of the fact Boris Johnson will meet with the President tomorrow?
0:04:31 > 0:04:35Well, the President is not handling her case, so as much as the
0:04:35 > 0:04:38President may be able to pressure the head of the judiciary, it's very
0:04:38 > 0:04:42good. But at the end of the day really it's up to the judiciary
0:04:42 > 0:04:45whether they want to go along with the Government and release her or
0:04:45 > 0:04:49not. The due process is that after five years, which is the sentence
0:04:49 > 0:04:54that she has received, if you serve a third of that sentence, then you
0:04:54 > 0:04:59are eligable for par role. Next month will be that, we approach that
0:04:59 > 0:05:03dead dlien. -- deadline, so that's good news.Her husband is being
0:05:03 > 0:05:06cautiously opt miscontinuing you could say. Even though he is not
0:05:06 > 0:05:11expect willing her to come home on the plane with Boris Johnson, he is
0:05:11 > 0:05:14crossing his fingers she may be back for Christmas, is that a realistic
0:05:14 > 0:05:18time scale if the judiciary decide to release her?It is, like I said,
0:05:18 > 0:05:21next month will be approaching the third of the sentence she's already
0:05:21 > 0:05:26served. Even according to Iranian law if the judiciary decides that
0:05:26 > 0:05:30it's appropriate to release her, yes, that could be done.In terms of
0:05:30 > 0:05:33negotiations, and as you have said, Boris Johnson is talking to the
0:05:33 > 0:05:37Government which is separate to the judiciary, but what kind of
0:05:37 > 0:05:40conversations do you think will be going on, negotiations on the
0:05:40 > 0:05:47ground?Well, we know that the Iranians are demanding money owed,
0:05:47 > 0:05:51something to the tune of £400 million owed by the British
0:05:51 > 0:05:54Government from back in the 70s, they want that money back. The
0:05:54 > 0:05:59British Government has not paid the Iranians back because of revolutions
0:05:59 > 0:06:02and sanctions and we understand they're facilitating now to make
0:06:02 > 0:06:06that payment possible, that would make the Iranians happy and there
0:06:06 > 0:06:09are bilateral issues, trade and other things signed between the two
0:06:09 > 0:06:15sides. So the more the Iranians feel they've made headways with the
0:06:15 > 0:06:17British Government and private sector they'll feel like they've
0:06:17 > 0:06:22gained enough concessions to release her.Journalists at the BBC are
0:06:22 > 0:06:27hoping that Boris Johnson will raise the issue of how British or
0:06:27 > 0:06:30Persianian journalists over here in the UK are being treated by the
0:06:30 > 0:06:34Iranian Government.Yes, after Boris Johnson went to Iran the BBC
0:06:34 > 0:06:37released this statement calling on Boris Johnson to bring that issue
0:06:37 > 0:06:43up. Yes, we here at the BBC Persian TV are hoping that issue also comes
0:06:43 > 0:06:46to the foreand Boris Johnson's negotiations with the Iranian
0:06:46 > 0:06:52authorities.What's the issue?That they are harassing families in Iran,
0:06:52 > 0:06:55interrogating them, summoning them every now and then, pressuring them
0:06:55 > 0:07:02to somehow force us to resign from our jobs, spreading fake news,
0:07:02 > 0:07:08personal slander against us. They've also just recently frozen all our
0:07:08 > 0:07:11assets, so is disinherited dozens of people from properties and whatever
0:07:11 > 0:07:15assets they may have had in Iran.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has pulled out
0:07:17 > 0:07:20of a meeting with the US Vice President Mike Pence,
0:07:20 > 0:07:22which was due to happen in Cairo later this month.
0:07:22 > 0:07:25The announcement comes as protests in the Middle East and other muslim
0:07:25 > 0:07:28countries continue over Donald Trump's decision
0:07:28 > 0:07:30to formally recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32There have also been Israeli air strikes on Gaza -
0:07:32 > 0:07:34after rockets were fired from the territory into Israel.
0:07:35 > 0:07:40Tom Bateman reports.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42A display of grief and of anger.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44Funerals were held in Gaza for two people killed in Israeli
0:07:44 > 0:07:45air strikes last night.
0:07:45 > 0:07:50The Islamist group Hamas said the men belonged
0:07:50 > 0:07:55to their armed wing.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57Weapons stores and a base run by the militant group
0:07:57 > 0:08:03were targeted said Israel.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06A new round of hostilities between old enemies.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09Israel said three rockets were fired from Gaza last night.
0:08:09 > 0:08:10One landed in this southern Israeli town.
0:08:10 > 0:08:15There was minor damage but no casualties.
0:08:15 > 0:08:22Further disruption took place in Jerusalem as Palestinians
0:08:22 > 0:08:25continued to vent their anger at President Trump.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27Police broke up protests before they gained momentum.
0:08:27 > 0:08:30And for a third day in the occupied West Bank protesters threw
0:08:30 > 0:08:37stones and burned tyres.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39Israeli troops responded with tear gas in Bethlehem
0:08:39 > 0:08:43and Palestinians answered back.
0:08:43 > 0:08:47The clashes since Mr Trump's statement have so far not matched
0:08:47 > 0:08:50the scale of previous escalations in violence this year but people
0:08:50 > 0:08:57here remain wary and diplomatic relations between the Palestinian
0:08:57 > 0:08:59leadership and the White House are under severe strain.
0:08:59 > 0:09:07President Trump appealed for calm and moderation.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09His critics point to what's happened here in the three days
0:09:09 > 0:09:11since his announcement and say he has stoked precisely
0:09:11 > 0:09:13the opposite.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15Many Israelis continue to praise his move but it comes
0:09:16 > 0:09:22at the cost of increased tensions.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24Staying in the Middle East, and Iraq's Prime Minister has
0:09:24 > 0:09:26announced that the war against the armed group
0:09:26 > 0:09:30Islamic State in his country, has been won.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33Haider al-Abadi says Iraq has been liberated and his army is now
0:09:33 > 0:09:36in full control of the areas along the border with Syria.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38At the height of its strength, the militant group controlled
0:09:38 > 0:09:40a third of Iraqi territory, and proclaimed a caliphate.
0:09:40 > 0:09:44But in the last few months, it has lost control of all of the remaining
0:09:44 > 0:09:51areas it held in Iraq.
0:09:51 > 0:09:55I thank all the countries, as well as humanitarian
0:09:55 > 0:09:57and international organizations, that stood with Iraq,
0:09:57 > 0:09:58and its people, during this battle.
0:09:58 > 0:10:01I salute every Iraqi fighter who took up arms to defend our land.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04I salute the souls of the martyrs and those injured,
0:10:04 > 0:10:06and their families, who preserved Iraq and its people.
0:10:06 > 0:10:16Iraq survived united and victorious.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22The New York Times has carried out an investigation which suggests
0:10:22 > 0:10:25that the number of people who've died in Puerto Rico as a result
0:10:25 > 0:10:28of Hurricane Maria is far higher than official figures suggest.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30The authorities said that 64 people were killed
0:10:30 > 0:10:32by the storm in September, but the paper's investigation says
0:10:32 > 0:10:35the total number of deaths caused by the hurricane could have risen
0:10:35 > 0:10:40to more than one thousand.
0:10:40 > 0:10:46Let's speak to Frances Robles from the New York Times now. Tell us
0:10:46 > 0:10:50about the investigation, how did you acertain the figure could indeed be
0:10:50 > 0:10:53far higher than the Government said and how certain are you of those
0:10:53 > 0:10:57facts?Well, the beauty of what we did is that we are looking at the
0:10:57 > 0:11:00Government's own figures. This is not a scientific study based on
0:11:00 > 0:11:07theory. It's based on the mortality statistics being compiled by the
0:11:07 > 0:11:13Department of Health. What you see is on 20th September the deaths
0:11:13 > 0:11:17there shoot up, really markedly. So, OK, what happened on 20th September?
0:11:17 > 0:11:23Well, there was almost a category five hurricane. So we went back and
0:11:23 > 0:11:27looked day by day comparing September and October to 2015, 16
0:11:27 > 0:11:35and 17. It's absolutely indisputable that about 37 people a day
0:11:35 > 0:11:40additionally were dying...What do you put the inaccurate Government
0:11:40 > 0:11:43figures down to, this vast discrepancy?Well, the thing that's
0:11:43 > 0:11:48important to consider is that we are not looking at people that drowned
0:11:48 > 0:11:53or got hit by a tree or got caught up in a tornado. We are looking at
0:11:53 > 0:11:56what happened when the system collapsed in the days and weeks and
0:11:56 > 0:12:01months after the hurricane. You have to remember even today most of
0:12:01 > 0:12:04Puerto Rico does not have electricity, a lot of people don't
0:12:04 > 0:12:09have cell service. We are talking about people who didn't have cell
0:12:09 > 0:12:12service to call 911 or if they did have a landline the ambulance never
0:12:12 > 0:12:16arrived. People who didn't have electricity to power their
0:12:16 > 0:12:22respirators. If you are the guy who didn't have electricity for the
0:12:22 > 0:12:24respirator machine you get to the hospital eventually and you die,
0:12:24 > 0:12:28that's a natural death. OK. So that's how it was coded. The
0:12:28 > 0:12:31Government isn't going out of its way to get behind all of those
0:12:31 > 0:12:35natural deaths to say how many of these natural deaths were people who
0:12:35 > 0:12:39were waiting for ambulances who had no electricity in their homes and
0:12:39 > 0:12:43died of heat strokes and things of that nature?I guess that's
0:12:43 > 0:12:46important to learn from what happened in case heaven forbid this
0:12:46 > 0:12:50happens again. What are the Government saying now they've been
0:12:50 > 0:12:53presented with this information? They started hedging a couple of
0:12:53 > 0:12:57weeks ago because other news organisations had also done other
0:12:57 > 0:13:01kinds of investigations, CNN for example, literally called every
0:13:01 > 0:13:05single funeral home in Puerto Rico and what's interesting about the CNN
0:13:05 > 0:13:11study compared to ours is that the results match identically. CNN was
0:13:11 > 0:13:16able to reach half of the funeral homes and came up with 500 deaths
0:13:16 > 0:13:20that the funeral directors thought were hurricane-related. We came up
0:13:20 > 0:13:22with 1,000 deaths looking at the totality of the mortality
0:13:22 > 0:13:26statistics. So now the Government is saying OK, well, if you bring us the
0:13:26 > 0:13:31information we will look into it. So this morning in fact the day after
0:13:31 > 0:13:35the story first posted online, they increased the total by two. So one
0:13:35 > 0:13:39of them is a person whose respirator machine was not functioning and
0:13:39 > 0:13:43another is a person who died waiting for an ambulance. What's interesting
0:13:43 > 0:13:47is both those people did die on the day of the hurricane.le.What do you
0:13:47 > 0:13:50make of President Trump's intervention in this, on the day he
0:13:50 > 0:13:54tweeted that the island had to deal with its massive debt, food water
0:13:54 > 0:14:00and medical top priorities and doing well, hashtag FEMA he said. Weeks
0:14:00 > 0:14:05later he visited Costa Rica and praised the low official death toll,
0:14:05 > 0:14:10related it to hurricane Katrina saying that had been a real
0:14:10 > 0:14:13catastrophe so welcoming this relatively low death toll in the
0:14:13 > 0:14:17area.That's right. I think that Donald Trump was working off the
0:14:17 > 0:14:21information that he was being given by the Government and the day that
0:14:21 > 0:14:25he was in Puerto Rico they were still sticking to the number 16 and
0:14:25 > 0:14:28it was a few hours after he left that the number first doubled and
0:14:28 > 0:14:32everybody was like, wait a second, a second ago the President was here
0:14:32 > 0:14:38praising the number 16. Then when I went back and we looked, went day by
0:14:38 > 0:14:45day from the 20th September until October 3rd visit, we saw that 550
0:14:45 > 0:14:49people had died, above that same time period the year before. Is it
0:14:49 > 0:14:5516 or was it 50? That's the question.OK -- 550. There we will
0:14:55 > 0:15:03leave it, thank you for joining us.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06Tens of thousands of people have filled the streets of Paris
0:15:06 > 0:15:08for the funeral of the singer Johnny Hallyday - who died
0:15:08 > 0:15:10on Wednesday at the age of 74.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12His coffin was driven in a cortege down the Champs-Elysees,
0:15:12 > 0:15:14followed by hundreds of leather-clad bikers.
0:15:14 > 0:15:16From Paris, Hugh Schofield sent this report.
0:15:16 > 0:15:19For nearly 60 years, Johnny Hallyday sang his songs
0:15:19 > 0:15:21to the French, and today they came to bid him goodbye.
0:15:21 > 0:15:24Tens of thousands of fans, many of them from the older
0:15:24 > 0:15:27generation, people who grew up to his sounds in the happy,
0:15:27 > 0:15:32optimistic days of the 60s.
0:15:32 > 0:15:37For France, Johnny was le rock and roll.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40He was the first to open their ears to the thrilling new music coming
0:15:40 > 0:15:42from The United States.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45America was his obsession.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47America and motorbikes.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50Hence the escort of hundreds of bikers for his funeral cortege
0:15:50 > 0:15:52down the Champs-Elysees.
0:15:52 > 0:15:57TRANSLATION:Let him rest in peace and wreak havoc up there.
0:15:57 > 0:16:01Let him sing, and get it going, and open his heart up there,
0:16:01 > 0:16:05surrounded by family and friends.
0:16:05 > 0:16:09Stars of music and screen, political leaders past and present,
0:16:09 > 0:16:13they were all there for the funeral service inside the church.
0:16:13 > 0:16:17For the French, Johnny was their rock hero,
0:16:17 > 0:16:21the man who, for half a century, was always there with new songs
0:16:21 > 0:16:25and new performances.
0:16:25 > 0:16:35With his death people do feel that part of the nation's life has gone.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39Donald Trump's visit to the Southern US state of Mississippi has
0:16:39 > 0:16:41been met with a protest by Democratic leaders.
0:16:41 > 0:16:43Mr Trump toured a new civil rights museum
0:16:43 > 0:16:47in the state capital, Jackson.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49He said he'd studied and admired the American
0:16:49 > 0:16:51civil rights campaigner, Martin Luther King, all his life.
0:16:51 > 0:16:53Two Democratic party congressmen and the city mayor pulled
0:16:53 > 0:16:55out of the ceremony, accusing the president of deepening
0:16:55 > 0:17:01racial divisions in the country.
0:17:01 > 0:17:05Officials in California have extended the red alert caused
0:17:05 > 0:17:06by a series of wildfires.
0:17:06 > 0:17:09And say it will now remain in force until at least Sunday.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11One person has been killed, and 700 buildings have been destroyed,
0:17:11 > 0:17:14by fires burning out of control in several parts of the state.
0:17:14 > 0:17:21More than 200,000 people have been forced to leave their homes.
0:17:21 > 0:17:26Stay with us, still to come. A new discovery from ancient Egypt.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29Archaeologists unveil a mummy and other treasures dating back more
0:17:29 > 0:17:40than 3,000 years.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56Britain's Foreign Secretary says he's had frank talks with his
0:18:56 > 0:19:00Iranian counterpart over the case of a British-Iranian woman held in
0:19:00 > 0:19:03prison there. There have been further protests in the Israeli
0:19:03 > 0:19:07occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip in response to President Trump
0:19:07 > 0:19:11declaring Jerusalem to be Israel's capital.
0:19:11 > 0:19:16Let's get all the sport now with John Watson.
0:19:16 > 0:19:20The football action first.
0:19:20 > 0:19:23Chelsea suffering a surprise derby defeat at West Ham
0:19:23 > 0:19:24in the Premier League today.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27A goal in the 6th minute was the difference between the two
0:19:27 > 0:19:31sides to give David Moyes his first win since taking charge.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33West Ham remain in the bottom three.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36The defending champions could be 14 points off the top by the end
0:19:36 > 0:19:43of the weekend if Manchester City beat neighbours United tomorrow.
0:19:43 > 0:19:47What a great result for us.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50We needed to find one of the results, we came close
0:19:50 > 0:19:52against Manchester City for long periods, thought we
0:19:52 > 0:19:53were going to get it.
0:19:53 > 0:19:55Don't get us wrong, it was tough today.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58Chelsea kept us under pressure.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01We scored a good goal, played well at times in the first half.
0:20:01 > 0:20:05If we had been better with the ball a couple of times in the second half
0:20:05 > 0:20:15we might have got another goal.
0:20:15 > 0:20:19To face one game, at the same time when you play almost always with
0:20:19 > 0:20:29same players it's very difficult because you have to play something
0:20:29 > 0:20:34and only is that we have just started this period.
0:20:35 > 0:20:44The day's other results.
0:20:45 > 0:20:49Christian Benteke missed a last minute penalty in Palace's 2-2 draw
0:20:49 > 0:20:55with Bournemouth.
0:20:58 > 0:21:01England's Ashes tour of Australia has been affected by news of another
0:21:01 > 0:21:03drinking-related incident.
0:21:03 > 0:21:08This time Ben Duckett dropped from England's tour match today
0:21:08 > 0:21:14for pouring a drink over the head of James Anderson at a bar in Perth.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17It's the latest incident relating to poor player behaviour in a series
0:21:17 > 0:21:21which threatens to become a nightmare for the team trailing 2-0
0:21:21 > 0:21:26with three matches to play.
0:21:26 > 0:21:27I think it's fairly trivial.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29In the climate it's just not acceptable.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31Everyone's been warned about even small things can be blown out
0:21:31 > 0:21:34of proportion and the ECB have also been quite strict to the boys
0:21:34 > 0:21:42with their message.
0:21:42 > 0:21:43It's simply unacceptable.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45Doesn't matter how trivial it is in this environment
0:21:45 > 0:21:48and what we have had to go through already with some
0:21:48 > 0:21:49of the small problems.
0:21:49 > 0:21:52As I said, it's not right, not acceptable.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58Today's warm-up match was intended to give England's batsmen the chance
0:21:58 > 0:22:01to press their case for inclusion in the remainder of the series.
0:22:01 > 0:22:03Still no one registering that big score which England
0:22:03 > 0:22:05have missed so far.
0:22:18 > 0:22:22Ronnie O'Sullivan is closing in on a 6th UK championship title
0:22:22 > 0:22:27after a 6-4 victory over Stephen Maguire in the semifinals.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30The Rocket booked his place in tomorrow's final after holding
0:22:30 > 0:22:32off a late fightback from Maguire.
0:22:32 > 0:22:33He did hold a 4-0 lead.
0:22:33 > 0:22:37That was cut back to 5-4 before he took a decisive 6th frame in York.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39He faces the 2008 winner Shaun Murphy or Ryan Day
0:22:39 > 0:22:49who are playing now.
0:22:49 > 0:22:54He has been known as a cyclist but Bradley Wiggins finished in 21st
0:22:54 > 0:22:56place on his competitive rowing debut at the British indoor
0:22:56 > 0:23:01championships in London.
0:23:01 > 0:23:04He retired from cycling last year and was competing in the elite
0:23:04 > 0:23:05men's 2,000 metres race.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08He began slowly after mistakenly believing he had false started.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11He finished with a time of six minutes 22 seconds.
0:23:11 > 0:23:14Half a minute behind the overall winner Adam Neil.
0:23:14 > 0:23:22That is all the sport.
0:23:22 > 0:23:26We're taking you now to the story of a man who over the last 50 years,
0:23:26 > 0:23:29has discovered more than 20% of the world's coral species.
0:23:29 > 0:23:31Charlie Veron was also one of the early scientists
0:23:31 > 0:23:32to document coral bleaching.
0:23:32 > 0:23:34We follow him underwater on the Great Barrier Reef
0:23:38 > 0:23:44I have been diving on the Great Barrier Reef for just over 50 years.
0:25:16 > 0:25:23Beautiful pictures. Archaeologists have
0:25:24 > 0:25:24discovered a mummy in one of two
0:25:25 > 0:25:27previously unexplored tombs in the ancient Nile city of Luxor.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30The mummy is believed to be about 3,500 years old and that
0:25:30 > 0:25:32of a senior official from Egypt's "New Kingdom".
0:25:32 > 0:25:34Other items on display include wooden masks and richly
0:25:34 > 0:25:35coloured wall paintings.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37The tombs were apparently discovered by a German
0:25:37 > 0:25:39archaeologist in the 1990s, but were kept sealed until recently
0:25:39 > 0:25:47by the Egyptian authorities.
0:25:47 > 0:25:52That's it from me. There is plenty more on our website.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55Don't forget you can get in touch with me and some
0:25:55 > 0:25:57of the team on Twitter - I'm @SamanthaBBCNews.