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their respects to brazilian football legend pele, as he lies in state at his former club, santos. american football player damar hamlin is in a critical condition in hospital after collapsing during a game. and coming up we ve been talking to a guide dogs charity that s recruiting for more volunteers to tackle a shortage of trainers. we are at the moment looking very heavily to recruit lots of volunteers, and we ve been very lucky lot of people have been so generous with their time, and we are in recovery mode and hopeful for the future but do need a little bit of patience for a little bit longer. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. politicians in russia have called for commanders in the russian military to be held to account for the deaths of dozens of soldiers in a ukrainian rocket strike. in a rare admission moscow announced that 63 of its servicepersonnel had been killed ukraine says the figure was actually in the hundreds. one sena ....
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He is the number one ambassador this country in the world, in my opinion. so, if you travel abroad and you talk about brazil, the first word you see coming back is, you are from from pele s country. we grew up with him, especially the streets where i grew up, he used to go to the supermarket. every day we say hello to pele. that was normal for us. i never saw him play, this little boy told me, but we ll really miss him because he was the best footballer in the world. for those who knew him well, the memories kept flowing. translation: he was a fantastic person. - he had a generous heart, he was kind, notjust because he was the athlete of the century, but he was a simple man. he always looked after people in a really sincere way. he was humble. that s my biggest memory of him, of pele, as a man and a great athlete. as the sun went down the people kept coming. the queue kept on growing through the day. ....
But when covid struck their owners were left struggling to feed them. although tourist numbers have started to recover, the industry faces another challenge, because many visitors now see using the animals for entertainment as unethical. our south east asia correspondent, jonathan head, has been looking at how the country s three thousand captive elephants can be supported in the future. there is a place in thailand where people and elephants have lived and worked together for centuries. they used to travel the country to entertain tourists. but when covid struck, they moved back here to surin, where they have been struggling to make a living. this charity is offering these elephants free health checks and medication. they often have problems with their digestive systems, says this volunteer, because of the stress of moving or because they are now getting the wrong kind of food. ....
Viewed as unethical, it is not clear how else their livelihoods can be funded. jonathan head, bbc news, north eastern thailand. an ancient egyptian sarcophagus that was looted fifteen years ago has been returned to cairo. the so called green coffin is nearly three metres long and dates back more than 2000 years. it had recently been on display at a museum in texas. it s one of thousands of items recovered by the egyptian authorities. tim allman reports. ancient, mysterious, and now finally back home. the green coffin predates christ, a brightly painted wooden sarcophagus belonging to an egyptian priest. it s from the country s late dynastic period which spanned the 7th to the 4h century bc, its return a significant source of cultural and national pride. ....