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hello and welcome to the programme. i m luxmy gopal. we start with the news that the australian comedian barry humphries, best known for his character dame edna everage, has died at the age of 89. he d been receiving treatment at a hospital in sydney following hip surgery. barry humphries was a leading figure on the british comedy scene with his many satirical characters. his family said he never lost his brilliant mind and unique wit. our arts correspondent, david sillito, looks back at his life. dame edna everage! hello, possums! dame edna always said she was born with a priceless gift: the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others. iam i am awaiting us. i am weightless. listen, you could do with losing a little. success has gone to yourjowls! you re being very, very cruel! for more than 50 years, she took pleasure in saying the unsayable. i ve had a little work done, but. have you? not quite as much as some! laughter and applause no. no, you are still recognis ....
to protect the endangered species. hello. welcome to the programme. we start in sudan, where the army says foreign nationals from the uk as well as the united states, france and china are to be evacuated in the coming hours . these are saudi state tv pictures of a boat reported to be carrying saudi citizens and some other nationals arriving injeddah, across the red sea from sudan. other ships are said to be due to dock injeddah later. the head of sudan s military agreed to facilitate the evacuation, as fighting in the capital khartoum enters its second week. the saudi broadcaster says the evacuees were carried in a convoy of vehicles to port sudan from where they boarded ships tojeddah. the most intense fighting in sudan has been taking place in the capital khartoum, where explosions and gunfire have been heard in the past few hours. the un estimates that at least 400 people have been killed across sudan since the fighting began a week ago. the conflict is the resu ....
The advice, if you do get one, is to delete or report it straight away. and if you re tempted to transfer any money to a loved one after receiving a text, make sure you speak to them first. dan whitworth, bbc news. the african lion is one of the most endangered species in the world. there are as few as 20,000 of them left in the wild. their numbers have dropped by almost half, across the continent in just the last two decades. i ve been speaking to two conservationists dr shivani bhalla and jeneria lekilelei. dr shivani began by telling us about her unpbringing surrounded by lions. i grew up seeing wildlife and going on safari with my parents and ijust developed this huge passion for them. i very quickly realised lions were in huge trouble and the population in northern kenya, in samburu, where we live and work, was unknown we didn t know what was happening to them. and i learnt that they would disappear from protected areas and not come back. the numbers were plummeting across t ....
Scotland s anthony mcgill has given himself a commanding lead over jack lisowski in the second round of the world snooker championships. the players shared the opening two frames but mcgill has been in control ever since, finishing with a century break. he s got the chance to win the match with a session to spare when they resume tomorrow afternoon. meanwhile earlier in the day, mark allen needed just one frame in the morning session to beat stuart bingham after leading 12 4 overnight. the irishman will play either neil robertson orjakjones in the quarterfinals, with the concluding session of that match about to get under way. elsewhere in the snooker, ronnie o sullivan is about to continue his game against hossein vafaei as he looks to win with just one session to spare. follow that on the bbc sport website. that s all the sport for now. the african lion is one of the most endangered species in the world. ....
Means the animal was killed were probably unethical. i want to stress the fact this guy is the exception and not the rule. believe it or not, american trophy hunting in africa actually saves animals like african lions. the african lion is no endangered in place hunting is allowed. the money that goes toward them. $50,000 piece goes not only toward the economy in terms of employeeing people for jobs but resources and reserves and money that goes toward preventing poaching in areas. in 1977 kenya banned all hunting. guess what happened? they don t have a huge wild life population. it decreased significantly. they ve never recovered as a result of that decision. hunters are the saviors of african wild life. that s the bottom life. we can t talk about banning all hadn hunting and that s the solution. not going to work. ....