meanwhile, tributes have been paid to the five men who were on the sub including british businessman shahzada dawood. well, shahzada dawood was a supporter of the british asian trust. richard hawkes is the chief executive of the organisation and hejoins us now. i m sorry for your loss, richard, i m sorry foryour loss, richard, of course i m sorry for your loss, richard, of course it s a difficult time for friends and family of mr dawood. tell us more about him.- friends and family of mr dawood. tell us more about him. thank you very much tell us more about him. thank you very much for tell us more about him. thank you very much for your tell us more about him. thank you very much for your sympathy - tell us more about him. thank you very much for your sympathy and l very much for your sympathy and condolences. obviously all of us at the british asian trust are devastated by this terrible tragedy. shahzada dawood was an incredibly lovely man, i had the great pleasure of k
were over the craft s unusual design. it s non spherical state, effectively, the reliability of the material it was made of, carbon fibre, and the fact that it also not answer any external, independent testing process. the bbc has been given a e mail exchange between stockton rush, the ceo of oceangate who died in the incident, and a leading deepwater explosion specialist. the e mails sent in 2018. rob mccallum warns stockton rush. he went on. a few days later, oceangate s stockton rush replied. he told rob mccallum. guillermo, the former co founder of oceangate. .. the next day, rob mccallum replied, in starkest terms, i think you are potentially placing yourself and your clients in a dangerous dynamic. right, let s get more on this right now. our science correspondent jonathan amos is standing by. this is quite a stark exchange of e mails? it this is quite a stark exchange of e-mails? , ,., , , , e-mails? it is polite but it is very testy. one e-mails? it is polite but it
Good evening, welcome to bbc news. The government has defended its decision to allow hundreds of thousands of students in england to return to university for the new term, despite several outbreaks of coronavirus on campuses. Thousands of students have had to be confined to their rooms, but the culture secretary, oliver dowden, says its important their studies arent sacrificed because of the virus. But a member of the governments advisory body modelling the spread of the pandemic, says the consequences of allowing students back have been entirely predictable. Dan johnson reports now, from manchester. For the student in need, theres one Emergency Service that always delivers. Parents have stepped in when supermarket slots ran out. Its just really rough at the moment, and were really disheartened by the whole entire situation. These first year Nursing Student say theyre already rationing food. People wanted to drop out, were not getting the right uni experience. And were not talking abou
Sons and says she dreaded making the relationship public. He has been appearing at the old bailey fighting extradition to the United States for obtaining and publishing secret military documents a decade ago. Thank you very much for talking to us. I want to ask you first of all how you first metjulian assange and what you thought of him when you first met him nine years ago. I metjulian in paddington at the frontline club. I thought he was intriguing, a man with a mission. I mean, i first came across him when he released the collateral murder video, which is the video where two reuters journalists and nine other civilians are gunned down by a Us Helicopter gunship. So by the time i metjulian, i knew about what. Wikileaks did, but on the first day we spoke for i would say about two or three hours, about a wide range of topics. I never get bored with him, i can talk with him for hours about anything and. I find him very funny, i mean, we laugh a lot and. I spent almost every day in the e