motorcade that is making its way towards the irish president. let s bring in our correspondence, charlotte gallagher. a lot of pomp and ceremony. today, very much the formal part of this visit. yes. and ceremony. today, very much the formal part of this visit. formal part of this visit. yes, it is really back formal part of this visit. yes, it is really back to formal part of this visit. yes, it is really back to business - formal part of this visit. yes, it is really back to business for i formal part of this visit. yes, it | is really back to business forjoe is really back to business forjoe biden after spending last night in a pub, he was even behind the bar at one point. it looked like he was going to pull a pint of guinness. today he is meeting the president, michael d higgins, his wife, and also the deputy prime minister. he is at the official residence to meet joe biden. and rows of soldiers as well. it has all the hallmarks of a state visit. so they are going to b
biden is continuing his official visit to the republic of ireland. he is meeting the irish president, michael d higgins at his residence. he also held talks with the irish prime minister, those are going underway right now. this afternoon, president biden will become the fourth us president tojoin president biden will become the fourth us president to join a sitting of ireland s parliament. michael d higgins and present biden side the physical book. as the irish saying goes, your feet will bring you where your heart is. and then i say, it is an honour to return. i talk about returning to the home of my ancestors, to celebrate the things that bind ireland and the united states, i think the most irish of words used in my family was dignity. anyway, thank you all very much. i m not going home, i m staying here in this incredible place. all you american reporters, it is just like the white house, right? thank you. this is the scene live. a short distance from where those even
resigns as chancellor on tuesday now rishi sunak sets out his stall to become british prime minister to replace borisjohnson. and novak djokovic reaches another wimbledon final beating britain s cameron norrie. we begin with the shocking news out of japan. we begin with the shocking news out of japan. japan s former prime minister shinzo abe has been shot dead in the street while giving an election speech. he was the country s longest serving post war prime minister. he served in office twice in the beginning of the 1990s. he served in office twice in the beginning of the 1990s. according to police, mr abe s attacker used a home made gun and fired two shots. world leaders have reacted with shock. us presidentjoe biden said he was stunned, outraged, and deeply saddened and india s prime minister narendra modi declared a day of national mourning. it all happend in nara, a city south west of tokyo. mr abe was shot near the railway station and flown by elicoper to hospital, w
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
Because this tomb was never finished, it tells us about how the monuments were made. that immaculately clean cut appearance of the facade was achieved through deliberate stages. what you can see here, this is the first stage. and then you can see the second stage. and then you have the third and the fourth. oh, yes! 0k? and then the stonemason have to chisel it down until then we have the final stage which is this more smoother facade. it s really clear here. this tomb is one of the great treasures of hegra, not least because it tells us something about the people who built it. i want to find out more about the structure of nabataean society. and to do that i ve arranged to meet academic doctor solaiman al theeb. he s a leading expert on one of the other things that makes this such an important site revealing evidence left