also this lunchtime: huge crowds gather for the funeral of ashling murphy, the primary school teacher killed while out running in county offaly in ireland. aerial footage from tonga shows the devastation caused after a volcanic eruption triggered a tsunami. three people are now confirmed dead. a five set thriller in melbourne andy murray wins through to the second round of the australian open on a good day for british players. and yours for hundreds of millions the 16th century roman villa up for sale, complete with a ceiling mural by caravaggio. and coming up on the bbc news channel, both england and wales named their squads for the six nations, which starts next month, with owen farrell and dan biggar as captains. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. in the last few minutes, the prime minister has dismissed claims by his former chief advisor that he misled mps about a drinks party in the number ten garden during the first coronavirus lockdown. he insisted
of a much bigger roman villa complex from the third or fourth centuries. excavations were carried out this summer in a farmer s field in rutland, but the discovery was made in 2020 by the farmer s son, jim irvine. it was amazing, really. i mean, the level of preservation. he found some pottery fragments, then checked satellite imagery and noticed the outline of what looked like ancient buildings. and this is the the mosaics in this section, all of this. so the family came back on a sunny day with some spades and started digging. you can only tell so much from a map and from some crop marks. until you actually dig a hole, you don t really know what s in it, so that was a good day out. we didn t really know what we had. so i expanded the hole up a bit until we came across what was obviously rare roman mosaic tiles, at which point things went a bit silent in the group and we realised what we had. late roman pottery gives us a date of third, fourth century ad. the university of l
and this beautiful roman mosaic, the first of its kind discovered in the uk, is unearthed by chance, in a farmer s field. and later in the hour, we will have sports day on the bbc news channel, with all the latest reports, results, interviews and features, from the bbc sport centre. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six, live from calais. three children and a pregnant woman are among those now known to have died in the waters between here and the english coast. wednesday s loss of 27 lives, people crammed onto a single flimsy boat, was the worst single incident of its kind. it has raised the question then very intense phase of what the uk and france can try to do to bring all of this, the trade in human beings that takes place in these waters, to an end. first of our reports today is from our correspondence nick beake, who has spent the day inside one of the many makeshift camps that are around the town of calais, where people who have already travelled thousands of
south africa s top scientist. - we start tonight looking at the international reaction to the deaths of 27 people who died trying to cross the channel on wednesday. the uk and france have both called for stronger international coordination to tackle human trafficking. let s ta ke let s take you through what we know so far. at least 27 people are known to have died. among them 17 men, seven women and three children. one of the women was pregnant. there are two survivors who are recovering in hospital. according to several charities, many of the dead appear to have been kurds from iraq and iran. some may have been arabs and afghans, as well as other iranians. the prime minister of the kurdistan region of iraq tweeted:| m deeply saddened by the tragic loss of 27 innocent lives in the english channel last night. our thoughts are with theirfamilies. this is a potent reminder of the dangers of illegal migration and the smugglers who send there have been five arrests from the french