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this is bbc news. the headlines. the un says it has started a conversation with north korea over missing american soldier travis king. we speak to a us hostage negotiator. it has been 100 days since the war in sudan started. aid agencies say up to 19 million people are facing hunger because of the fighting. climate activist greta thunberg is found guilty of disobeying a police order at a protest we get the latest. all of those stories in a moment, let s head to the bbc sport sender. brazil had a comfortable win in their opening match at the women s world cup, beating debutants, panama, four nil. ary borges was the star of the show scoring a hatrick. the pick of the four brazillian goals though was the third, scored by bia zaneratto, but the beautiful backheel to set it up came from borges. that puts them top of group f, ahead of france and jamaica who have a point apiece. germany began their world cup campaign in style, beating debutants morocco 6 0 in melbourne. alex ....
trevor francis, the footballer who became britian s first million pound player, has died as the age of 69. the former england striker, broke the record, with his move from birmingham city to brian clough s nottingham forest in 1979. he went on to win back to back european cups with forest and played for his country 52 times. his family say he died of a heart attack at his apartment in spain this morning. saudi arabian side al hilal have reportedly made a world record bid of £259 milion for paris saint germain forward kylian mbappe. the 24 year old france captain has just a year left on his contract and has refused to sign an extension at the french champions. they want to sell him rather than let him leave for free next summer and he was left out of the preseason tour to japan. it s believed mbappe wants to join real madrid in 202a. some of europe s top clubs believe there s a chance tottenham will sell harry kane this summer, despite the club s insistence they are not ....
was always expected to do well. globally it s estimated to have made around $337 million during its opening weekend. in north america, barbie made $155 million alone, which makes it the fourth highest grossing film debut ever in the north american market. it s only behind two instalments of the avengers franchise and a star wars film. oppenheimer also delivered, it made $174 million worldwide, which was much higher than it was expected to rake in. earlier, i spoke to orlando parfitt, senior online editor at screen international magazine. he said it s been an exceptional weekend. in the uk, the uk box office had its biggest weekend in over four years, so the biggest weekend since cinemas were shut for covid. another good stat, i guess, is that never in the history of hollywood have two films opened with one making more than 100 million, and one making more than 50 million. so what is interesting about this, the barbenheimer phenomenon, is not that they have done as well ....
checking out the truth behind them. let s start in greece where new fires have been reported in rhodes. more than 80 wildfires are now burning in greece, with tens of thousands of residents and tourists forced to flee. the greek government says it s launched the biggest rescue of its kind in response to the emergency. this footage was filmed in island of corfu on sunday evening. over 2000 people have been evacuated from the island. this video was filmed in a corfu hotel, as guests were dining. the government says it has sent boats to evacuate residents by sea, if required. the greek emergency services are deadling with several fires including two in areas east and south west of the capital, athens. the eastern island of rhodes which has been badly hit, one fire brigade officials there says that around one in ten of the hotels in the central and southern parts of that island have been affected. ministers in the uk say they are reviewing the situation in rhodes. and our ....
and i learned from him i think that good reporting, decentjournalism, is rooted in human decency. there was a word that he and i used to use when we were living in south africa and it is from the nguni languages of southern africa and the word is ubuntu . there is no translation into english but it contained the idea that all human beings are bound together in a shared responsibility for each other. bishop tutu used to say ubuntu can be defined like this. i can only be fully me when you are fully you. we two are connected. i can t be rich if you are poor and i can t be free if you are enslaved. george mentioned ubuntu at a gathering to celebrate his 60th birthday seven years ago when we thought his cancer had been eradicated and he talked about ubuntu, the sense of humanity, and i think it was his lodestar. i hoped watching him as a younger journalist that some of the values he lived would rub off on me. so he was a very inspiring and generous and selfless man. i don t ....