Of the ancient games. The gentleman speaking at the moment, the president of the Olympic Committee in greece, he is also a member of the International Committee. You can see the ancient remains of the 2600 year old temple, where this is taking place. What will happen is the flame will be lit and then it will be handed over to the paris 2024 olympic team. The relay will stretch from the acropolis to the south pacific. As you can see, there are hundreds of people at the ceremony and it is the First Time Since the covid 19 pandemic when of course there were toned down events for the tokyo olympics, that spectators are able to attend the Torch Relay Events and this flame Lighting Ceremony. We are expecting that flame to be lit in the next ten to 15 minutes. We will come back to that as we see it. We will have full coverage of that line from olympia as the flame is lit to head towards the paris 2024 olympics, which, of course, start injuly of this year. We start this hour with the latest de
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all sport voice-over: this is bbc news. we will have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. i m alice morrison, an adventurer and writer. i ve cycled across africa and run across the sahara. now i m on the trail of a mysterious and forgotten arabian civilisation the nabataeans. are we standing in the birthplace of written arabic? i think i would say that, yes. they were nomads who forged a rich civilisation here in the harsh desert conditions of western arabia from the fourth century bce. they ruled for around three centuries until they were swallowed up by the roman empire. now all that s left are the enigmatic remains of their great desert cities of petra and hegra in modern dayjordan and saudi arabia. and this is where i have come to explore, to find out how they survived and thrived here, who they were, and even what they looked like. i want to search for clues about their world. i ll investigate their ancient sites, delvin
My name is the about of the hook as a war. This is deja vu news live from berlin skirmishes in hong kong as protesters take to the streets for an 11th straight Weekend Police and prodemocracy demonstrators square up for another confrontation and a growing fears of a crackdown across Town Supporters of the banking backed government staged their own counter demonstration also coming up. A landmark power sharing deal in sudan as
the countrys military rulers and civilian opposition agree to elections within 3 years well hear what people in ca to take about. An easy ride a legend peter fonda dies at age 79 on Into Hollywood Royalty the after him producer will be remembered as an icon of the counterculture. Im Rebecca Ridges welcome to the program hong kong is being rocked by another weekend of prodemocracy demonstrations fears of an imminent crackdown by chinese authorities a stoking tensions after nightfall police began fanning out on the streets and chasing down the protestors Chinese Sta
It s been a true voyage of discovery through the nabataean world, from their great capital of petra to here at their second city in the hegra. finding out who they were, what they believed, and how their civilisation was run. and i ve been impressed by what i ve discovered about them. we may be 2,000 years apart, but i think i would have liked the nabataea ns. they seem to have been very resourceful people. they built a sophisticated society in the middle of the desert sands. one of the things that surprised me about the nabataeans is the prominent role of women. they held some of the most important positions in society. priestesses, traders, and in fact, the most important role in society, which is as queens. the crown passed from mother to daughter. i find that amazing. it s an intoxicating era of discovery, with experts from so many disciplines coming together to try and understand