what we re finding is we have to work with individual families in order to make sure we can build those bridges back and we can welcome the students back into school so they can see their friends again, access lessons again, and feel part of our community again. a deeper investigation is under way in some areas. school attendance has moved up ministers priorities. branwen jeffreys, bbc news. more than a century after it sank, the endurance, the lost ship of the antarctic explorer sir ernest shackleton, has finally been discovered. it was found by a team of scientists in remarkably good condition, at the bottom of the weddell sea off antarctica, 3000 metres below the ice. 0ur science editor rebecca morelle has the story. emerging from the antarctic deep. the world s most famous undiscovered shipwreck, now found.
the deep, until the endurance was at last found. probably the most famous as yet undiscovered shipwreck in the world, and now we know exactly where it is. we know what it looks like, we know what condition it s in and we can broadcast images of that around the world. it matters because people will see those images and will connect to this extraordinary story from our history, the greatest story of antarctic survival of all time. and this was the ship just before it sank, captured in footage restored and released by the bfi. the endurance became stuck in sea ice soon after it set off from south georgia, drifting for months before the crew was eventually ordered to abandon ship. the endurance expedition was amazingly well documented, with photographs, film and crucially, navigation records, which were vital for locating the wreck beneath the ice. what is extraordinary
endurance, perfectly preserved, frozen in time, 3,000 metres beneath the ice. i thought, if there s any wood built ship that could survive the impact of the sea bed, it will be the endurance, and she did, she held together beautifully. but i have never, ever seen a wreck anything like as beautiful and as inspiring as this one. the condition of sir ernest shackleton s ship is astonishing. the ship s wheel is almost pristine. bolts gleam in the woodwork. the portholes look polished. and these white circles are dinner plates, abandoned by the crew. this was the polar ice breaker that brought the team to the wreck. the conditions were challenging. the agulhas ii had to carve its way through the thick ice in the weddell sea. underwater robots were deployed and spent weeks searching
poltava has become one giant waiting room, as thousands are now evacuated here away from the front line and the immediate threat, and then stranded. there are people here from all over this region who fled the areas where the fighting is now at its fiercest, and they ve come here in hope of getting a ride as far west as possible. but for the moment, there is no information, no trains. they re just standing and waiting. when a train pulls in, they surge forward. it s a moment of hope but it s a fleeting one. this train is travelling east, not west towards the fighting, not to safety. sarah rainsford, bbc news, poltava. stay with us on bbc news. still to come, we will tell you how the world s most famous undiscovered shipwreck, sir ernest shackleton s app endurance, has been found. the numbers of dead and wounded defied belief. this, the worst terrorist atrocity on european soil
for the moment, moscow is defiant, uncompromising, unapologetic. but russia is intricately connected to the global economy. isolation will hurt. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. you re watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: we ll tell you how the world s most famous undiscovered shipwreck, sir ernerst shackleton s endurance, has now been found. the numbers of dead and wounded defied belief. this, the worst terrorist atrocity on european soil in modern times. in less than 24 hours then, the soviet union lost an elderly, sick leader, and replaced him with a dynamic figure 20 years hisjunior.