suspected of spying which was brought down by an american fighter jet yesterday. the former president of pakistan, general pervez musharraf, has died at the age of 79 following a long illness. iran s supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei is pardoning a large number of prisoners, including some of those arrested during the past months of protests. the pardon by ayatollah khamenei comes on the eve of the anniversary of the islamic revolution in 1979 a date on which he regularly offers an amnesty to some prisoners. but the iranian state media says it excludes those facing charges of spying for foreign agencies, murder and bodily harm, as well as the destruction or arson of state property. taraneh stone, from the bbc s persian service, told us a little more on what s happening in iran the supreme leader has agreed to pardon and commute sentences of tens of people who are imprisoned or who are waiting for sentences. the letter from the judiciary said that a considerable numb
the former president of pakistan, pervez musharraf, has died at the age of 79. general musharraf took power in a coup in 1999, and served as president for seven years from 2001. you re watching bbc news. coming up in a few minutes is the travel show, but first here s sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday i m chetan pathak coming up on tonight s programme. harry kane makes history as tottenham stop manchester city from closing the gap to arsenal at the top of the premier league. france fight back in rome to avoid one of the great shocks in six nations history. and after a wait of more than eight decades, can great britain s four man bobsleigh team bring home a medal? hello and welcome to sportsday. totte n ha m tottenham have boosted their hopes for a finish but they have done their north london arsenal. arsenal s lead at the top remains five points, despite their defeat at everton yesterday. after a win at tottenham. spurs took the lead after 15 minutes pierre emile
of the job or the artwork. whenever tourists come to nigeria, they want to visit this place, through the buyer and the commission works. whilst the technique has remained the same, most are working off printed images with little access to their ancestors original works. we have few ones that is still left, which is in ourfamily house this year, and we still have them in catalogues. yes, there are a few, not much. we don t have much access to it because much of them is stolen. ifeel bad and i m not too happy because this is our treasure. it s what our forefathers laboured to do. it s reckoned around 10,000 pieces were looted by the british when they sacked benin in 1897, burning down the city s palace in the process. the bronzes were then sold to institutions around the world. now there s no law in the uk which forces museums or other places to return stolen artefacts, but some institutions are doing it independently, likejesus college, cambridge. they were the first institut
has died in hospital at the age of seventy nine. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for the media show. 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 $1 billion 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 podcasts, 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, in whi
suspected of being used for spying which was brought down by an american fighter jet yesterday. the former president of pakistan, general pervez musharraf, has died at the age of 79 following a long illness. hello, welcome to bbc news. iran s supreme leader is pardoning a large number of prisoners, including some of those arrested during the past months of protests. the pardon by ayatollah khamenei comes on the eve of the anniversary of the islamic revolution in 1979 a date on which he regularly offers an amnesty to some prisoners. but the iranian state media says it excludes those facing charges of spying for foreign agencies, murder and bodily harm, as well as the destruction or arson of state property. taraneh stone, from the bbc s persian service, has been giving us more details. the supreme leader has agreed to pardon and commute sentences of tens of people who are imprisoned or who are waiting for sentences. the letter from the judiciary said that a considerable n