from nearby competitors by switching to a different rhythm. victoria gill, bbc news. the eurovision song contest is heading to the uk next year and seven cities are in the running to stage the event. we re taking a look at each of the potential hosts and this week our entertainment correspondent colin paterson visited newcastle. # you shook me all night long. newcastle and tyneside s musical output has been wildly varied, from ac/dc singer brianjohnson. # let s get ready to rumble! ..to pj and duncan. from sting, to gazza with lindisfarne. # fog on the tyne is all mine. and now the city could host eurovision. so this is what gives newcastle its name. this is it? this is the new castle. the team behind the city s bid are full of confidence. we have the hotel space, we have the arena, we have the connectivity links. we are the perfect eurovision host.
a statement said, as the new ownership group reaches 100 days since taking over, they believe it s the right time. now chelsea seek a new coach, less than a week from their eighth signing of the summer. at the very top in football, things change fast. joe lynskey, bbc news. scientists studying wild chimpanzees in uganda have found that each animal has its own signature drumming style . the chimps use tree roots to hammer out messages to each other over long distances. 0ur science correspondent victoria gill explains. chimpanzee screeches the panting, hooting call of a wild chimpanzee, quickly followed by a short burst of tree root drumming. these chimps, scientists say, use the large buttress tree roots to drum out messages to one another that carry over distances of up to a kilometre.
in disposable facemasks. 0ur science correspondent victoria gill has more. a grim but familiar sight in many urban waterways. how many different types of plastic are just floating here? yeah, i can see easily one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. seven or eight different types of plasticjust here. and it is the wildlife that inhabits these waterways that is living with and living in our rubbish. these images, submitted by members of the public and collected by scientists, show the global extent of the problem. scientists ask people to upload photographs and reports of birds tangled or nesting in rubbish. we have got about 400 reports covering every continent, except antarctica. so literally everywhere. and then covid happened and all of a sudden we have all of these submissions facemasks, surgical gloves. is a mask or ppe item,
according to the researchers these studies should correct the false theory that the virus came from a lab. 0ur science correspondent victoria gill has more. the whole argument about the lab leak theory, it became more politcised than scientific. there was a who, rub how the organisation investigation, the atonement, their dismissal of the lab leak theory was criticised into became politcised in a blame game essentially between the us and china, each trying to blame the other. but the scientists are saying let s get back to the evidence, and when they examine the evidence, and when they examine the evidence in this way with this new lens and all of this knowledge that we have that people would ve been wandering around wuhan in these communities, possibly asymptomatic, possibly with just a mild cold, communities, possibly asymptomatic, possibly withjust a mild cold, that that virus would ve been dreading. you still see that it centred on that lab. but they are saying is, what they are ho
understanding the consequences of that risk. ., ~ , ., , . understanding the consequences of that risk. ., ~ , ., , . ., that risk. thank you very much for talkin: to that risk. thank you very much for talking to our that risk. thank you very much for talking to our viewers, that risk. thank you very much for talking to our viewers, mark- that risk. thank you very much for . talking to our viewers, mark thomas, from merseyside fire and rescue service, their group managerfor service, their group manager for prevention. scientists believe the intensity of the extreme heat that europe is facing is being fuelled by climate change. 0ur science correspondent victoria gill has this report. the temperatures above a0 degrees that are forecast in england later today are unprecedented. and the sheer intensity of this heat, scientists say, is being fuelled by climate change. this type of heatwave is very worrying, and it is a little bit of a taste of things to come. we re expecting heatwaves