and showers, fewer showers on friday and then it is looking dry into the weekend. authorities in papua new guinea say they estimate that more than 2,000 people were buried by a huge landslide on friday. the fbi says it is investigating to sale of hundreds of treasures that could have been stolen from the british museum. hello. the labour leader sir keir starmer has focused on security in his first major speech of the general election campaign. he s been telling undecided voters in west sussex that his party will deliver stability. the labour party says if elected it will carry out a 100 day national security review in government, looking at all of the threats facing britain. he was speaking in the last hour let s listen back to a little of what he had to say. politics has always been something that happens far away and yet something more profound has changed during the last 1a years of tory government. people now feel more and more of the decisions that affect their commun
artefacts the british museum says have disappeared. we ve discovered that two gems were unwittingly put on display at another museum in germany. we ve also established that around 260 ended up in washington, dc the fbi has been investigating. but many of the objects hadn t been catalogued, which means the museum hasn t yet been able to prove they were actually stolen. it s since begun to register all its objects, and has improved security. the truth is, mistakes were made. but i think in life it s how you respond to those mistakes that matters. the museum today a couple of years on as a result of this saga, i think is much more open, much more transparent. of the 1,500 items it believes were taken, the british museum has got back almost half. but others including ancient gold jewellery and other treasures missing from its collection will likely never be found. katie razzall, bbc news. you can watch the full documentary, thief at the british museum , which airs on b
this is bbc news. the headlines: in his first major speech of the uk election campaign, the labour leader, sir keir starmer, says his party will deliver security and stability. we will also provide the certainty that working people, businesses and communities need. a clear direction, not the endless spinning around that successive tory governments have subjected us all to. french president emmanuel macron is in germany as the first official state visit to the country in 2a years. he is expected to deliver a major speech on the continent s future. rescue crews in texas say they ve witnessed an unprecedented rate of drownings as more people are trying to make a deadly river crossing over the borderfrom mexico. south africa has seen much less electricity blackouts in the last few months, but some people say it could be an attempt to buy more votes for the upcoming general election. let s get more on the uk election campaign, now in its first full week. in his first major speech
it is 7pm, good evening. i am nicky schiller. we are going to start of course with the general election campaign. the labour leader has pledged to stop the chaos and rebuild the country in his first major speech of the election campaign. sir keir starmer appealed to undecided voters and urged people to trust him to deliver economic stability and protect national security. rishi sunak, also out campaigning today, dismissed the speech as waffle , saying it contained not a single plan for the future . we ll have more about the prime minister shortly, but first here s our political editor chris mason on keir starmer s speech. a man waiting waiting for his moment, waiting, he hopes, to be prime minister. if you ve ever wondered what this man is all about, today was his attempt to give you an answer. the leader of the labour party, keir starmer. applause this, the village hall in lancing in west sussex, as sir keir spoke of his own background. if you re working class, you r
this year and says people should do more to protect themselves from the sun. good evening. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has said an air strike which killed dozens of people in gaza was a tragic mishap . the hamas run health ministry said at least 45 people, including children, were killed when a strike hit a camp for displaced people in the tal al sultan area of rafah. the united states said the killing of innocent palestinians was heartbreaking , and warned that israel must take every precaution possible to protect civilians. the israeli army said it had been targeting two senior hamas leaders. our middle east correspondent lucy williamson is injerusalem. morning didn t end the nightmare, but it brought the children, picking through the debris of the dead. the burned remains of shelters mark the place where israel says a top hamas commander was hiding among thousands of displaced families fleeing the fighting in rafah to the south. translation: we were pre