Programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation today. We are asking for your reaction to the da vinci frenzy the 500 year old painting sold for 400 million, smashing all records. Are you amazed or appalled . Is it worth it or wealth gone mad . Your comments to hashtag bbcthebriefing. We start the programme in zimbabwe. South africas defence and state security ministers have arrived in the country, and they now hope to hold talks with president mugabe and army leaders, following the militarys seizure of power. Mr mugabe remains under house arrest, although the military says he is safe. It denies staging a coup, instead claiming to be acting against criminals surrounding the president. The African Union has demanded an immediate return to constitutional order. 0ur correspondent anne soy joins me now from zimbabwe. Weve heard that theres a calm but tense atmosphere on the streets of zimbabwes capital, harare. It
A lost world war ii bomber crew. It features author and journalist gregg jones. This is a unique fellowship that allows an experienced and talented writer to spend a fall semester at the library of congress and a Spring Semester at the university of nevada las vegas to work on an ambitious writing project. Greggs project is ambitious and he has spent a quarter of a century reconstructing the lives and times of 10 airmen aboard the liberator which disappeared over austria on october 1, 1943. As you will hear gregg has a , personal connection to the story. He has traced the lines of the fallen servicemen, situated them within the larger story of combat deaths in europe, and reflect it on his own personal journeys to the village in southern austria where the men disappeared. This is the research you will hear about today and which will inform his forthcoming book about the subject. He has been a Foreign Correspondent and investigative journalist for more than 30 years. He is the author of
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Town centre-half Tommy Smith says time will tell whether the calf injury he suffered in New Zealand’s 0-0 World Cup qualification play-off first leg draw with Peru in Wellington will keep him out of the second game in the early hours of Thursday morning.