for his metal clothing designs and fragrances has died at the age of 88. he made his name with space age designs in the 1960s. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for the travel show. hello and welcome to the travel show, coming to you this week from the historic university city of cambridge in the uk. now, it s the beginning of term and students are coming back and like many generations before them, they ll be benefiting from some of the best educational resources in the world. and that includes valuable treasures looted from afar on colonial expeditions. but we re here because the university has recently announced it s actually returning some of those, specifically benin bronzes, to nigeria. and it s there in what was once known as the kingdom of benin that i want to start this story. for centuries, this street igun eronwan, has been famous for one particular craft bronze casting. its name literally translates to the place where bronze works are made. just five min
as he continues what s described as a pilgrimage for and the spanish fashion designer, paco rabanne, best known for his metal clothing designs and fragrances has died at the age of 88. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk, on pbs in the us or around the world the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has postponed a much anticipated trip to beijing after a chinese surveillance balloon was detected in the sky above the united states. china says the balloon is a civilian airship which had deviated from its planned route. however, us defence officials argue the balloon, seen above sensitive areas in recent days was a high altitude surveillance device. our security correspondent, gordon correra reports. i.have no idea what this thing is. a strange object in the sky, filmed by a member of the public in rural montana. and for those of you who think this mightjust be the moon, it is not the moon, the moon is off to my right, i can sate. to my right, i can see
they believe mother of two nicola bulley from lancashire who s been missing for a week, fell into a river whilst walking her dog. and the spanish fashion designer, paco rabanne, best known for his metal clothing designs and fragrances has died at the age of 88. hello and welcome. the united states is to provide ukraine with longer range guided rockets as part of another package of military support worth some $2.2 billion. in addition to the ground launched rockets, the package will include more air defence systems, anti tank missiles and armoured infantry vehicles. it comes as france and italy also announced further military aid afterfinalising plans to supply kyiv with a mobile air defence system. lets speak to our north america correspondent, nomia iqbal. what exactly has the us announced? isa is a bit ofa is a bit of a turnaround for the us. new longer range bomb which is sunday they have not given ukraine so far. basically, this bomb is doubled the range of ukra
at ten o clock, reeta chakrabarti will be here with a full roundup of the days news. first, the media show and a warning this programme contains flashing images. hello and welcome to this week s edition of the media show. now in a minute, we re going to talk about spotify. it s the world s most popular music streaming platform. it spent close to a billion dollars on podcasting, too, but there are all sorts of different developments coming out of spotify at the moment. and its ceo has said that perhaps they got carried away with new investments. we ll try and unpack what s going on and work out what that means for making money off music streaming and off podcast, too. first of all, though, we re going to talk about the fallout from a new bbc documentary about india s prime minister narendra modi. it s on iplayer at the moment, and it explores tensions between mr modi and india s muslim minority. it also specifically looks at claims around his role in the 2002 gujarat riots,
corner of the studio, but a story in two parts, the weekend weather, it starts with a lot of cloud but a mild feel. it ends on sunday with something a little bit chillier but much brighter. but certainly right now we have got a lot of cloud out there, that cloud actually thickening up enough to produce drizzle, some mist and murk of a high ground, limited clear breaks. but with that cloud cover, temperatures not dropping too far, 6-9 , temperatures not dropping too far, 6 9 , so i really might start to saturday morning, but a cloudy start for most. if you look closely at the map, some breaks appearing in the cloud, there will be some spells of sunshine, but equally, for northern ireland and scotland, this band of rain pushing in from the west, eventually with something brighter following on behind. 9 12 degrees. but as the band of cloud and rain sinks further south and east during tomorrow night, the rain will weaken but we will start to introduce something colder behind this