e. 0ne party needs enough seats to form a majority government. now on bbc news, the travel show. this week, on the show, meeting mummies in chile. wow, there are so many mummies here, vivien. ..grannies in austria. this is the open kitchen where our grandmas and grandpas bake their lovely cakes. ..and cabbies in england. in the chilean region of arica, on the northern fringes of the country s atacama desert, you ll find clues that something significant lies beneath the ground. hidden in the sand are some of the oldest mummified bodies in the world, evidence of an overlooked culture that once lived and thrived here on the western coast of south america. it s amazing how close these skeletons are to the surface and, apparently, there is layer after layer after layer of bodies going down as low as 2m underground. this is crazy. ifeel quite strange, walking on the dead here. between 7000 and 1500 bc, the hunter gatherer chinchorro people called this area home and developed comple
cases of suspected and confirmed monkeypox are being investigated in a number of european countries, as well as the us, canada and the uk. and the man behind film scores that mesmerised millions, composer vangelis has died at the age of 79. ukraine s president says russian forces have completely destroyed the eastern donbas region, accusing moscow of senseless bombardments as it intensifies its attacks. in another development, the international red cross says its registered hundreds of ukrainian prisoners of war who ve left the besieged azovstal steelworks in the ukrainian port city of mariupol. russia says all those who have left will be treated in line with international standards, but there are fears that some could face prosecution by president putin s courts. from moscow, our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. tired and wounded. moscow released these images of ukrainian fighters leaving the steelworks they d been defending in mariupol, giving themselves up to the r
Brtish Prime Minister Rishi Sunak allegedly thought it was okay to just "let people die" during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, the COVID inquiry hears.