this is bbc news. the headlines at 7pm... pope francis is on his way back to rome after his visit to ireland. earlier, at a mass for 300,000 people in dublin, he asked for forgiveness for the abuse irish people suffered by members of the clergy translation: we ask forgiveness for the abuses in ireland, abuses of power, conscious and sexual abuses arbitrated by members with responsibility in the church. flags are flying at half—mast at the white house — and global tributes continue to be made to us senatorjohn mccain who has died at the age of 81. nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe who's been imprisoned in iran on spying charges has been told her temporary 3—day release is over and she is back in prison. the daughter of british couple — john and susan cooper — who died during a stay at an egyptian hotel speaks out about the ordeal and insists ‘something in their room killed them'. the celebrated american playwright and screenwriter, neil simon, has died at the age of 91.

he wrote comedy classics such as "the odd couple", "the sunshine boys" and "barefoot in the park". and we'll be getting all the day's sport including... chelsea maintaining their perfect start to the season in our special programme sports day — here at 19:30. good evening and welcome to bbc news. more than 100,000 people, have attended an open air mass led by pope francis, on the second day of his visit to ireland. addressing worshippers he begged for forgiveness from god, for what he called the open wound of sexual and institutional abuse, uncovered in the church. 0ur religion editor martin bashir reports. ata

at a shrine where 15 people believed they witnessed and operation of the virgin mary, a man sent by the catholic church arrived this morning. good morning. and a brief speech he extended greetings to the people of northern ireland and prayed for a continuing commitment to the peace process and again he promised to be firm and decisive in dealing with child sexual abuse. has he won the people of ireland back? he spoke very simply to them and i think he has certainly gained the hearts and minds of many people which is most important. as he flew back, people were beginning to arrive at what would prove to be the climax of this short visit, a celebration of mass in the vast open space of phoenix park, almost a0 yea rs space of phoenix park, almost a0 years after the last papal visit. space of phoenix park, almost a0 years after the last papal visitm

will be my first time seeing a pope, i always thought would i ever see the pope in my lifetime, this might be our only chance. not forgetting the hurt and abuse, we will never move forward if we do not think about hope and he is hope for the church. all ages rushed for a closer view of the pope as he drove around the grounds for almost 30 minutes. and then, he asked ireland to forgive the church for its sins. translation: we ask forgiveness for the times that the church, we did not show the survivors of whatever kind of abuse, compassion. given the circumstances leading up to this visit, with abuse scandals reaching from australia to america, this has been a relatively trouble fee dunn

free trip for the pope, but the message inside and outside of ca plets message inside and outside of caplets them is that the time for talking is over. a and action must be taken at the church in ireland is going to thrive again. —— the catholicism is that the time is over. but francis spared little in his effort to engage with the irish people. well in the last hour pope francis said farewell to leo varadka, irelands prime minister, before boarding the plane at dublin airport. the pope is now on his way back to rome following his two—day visit. it was the first papal visit to ireland for 39 years. a very different and modernised country greeted this pope compared

to the one in 1979. those who gathered to hear, those expecting to hear how this will change across the catholic world. and we'll find out how this story, and many others, are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:30pm and 11:30pm this evening in the papers. 0ur guestsjoining me tonight are me rob merrick, deputy political editor at the independent, and the author and journalist, yasmin alibhai—brown. there have been numerous tributes paid to one of america's most respected politicians, john mccain, who's died at the age of 81. the vietnam war hero, defeated by barack 0bama in the 2008 presidential election, had been suffering from a brain tumour, and decided to stop treatment two days ago. chris buckler looks back at his life. john mccain was a politician of principle — a patriot who believed in his country and fought for it at tremendous cost to himself. during the vietnam war, he was shot down over hanoi. captured, interrogated and tortured. the beatings he received during those years as a prisoner left him with lasting injuries.

on his eventual return to the united states, he was hailed as a war hero and entered politics. he was to spend well over three decades representing republicans in congress. mr mccain was seen as a maverick, but he was respected, too. in 2008, he was selected as the republican presidential candidate, but his campaign was not without mistakes and he was criticised for choosing sarah pailin as his running mate. ultimately, was to lose to history in the form of america's first black president. i wish the outcome had been different, my friends. the road was a difficult one from the outset. barack 0bama is, alongside president george w bush, expected to give a eulogy at his funeral. in a statement, mr 0bama said: they were members of different generations, came from completely different backgrounds and competed

at the highest level of politics. but he insisted they shared for all their differences, a fidelity to something higher. but the current president didn't always show his fellow republican such respect. he's a war hero because he was captured. after surgery to remove a blood clot, john mccain made a point of walking into the senate and blocking mr trump's attempts to repeal the 0bamacare health reforms. with a grand gesture, he simply turned his thumb down. at the white house, whichjohn mccain was never given the opportunity to serve, the flag has been lowered to half—mast. on friday, he chose to stop receiving medical treatment for the aggressive form of brain cancer he had been suffering from. his family said he took that decision with his usual strength of will. butjohn mccain was a man who never gave up hope in politics or in his own personal battles. i hope to impress on you again that it is an honour to serve

the american people in your company. chris butler reporting there on the life ofjohn mccain. 0ur correspondent david willis is in washington. we canjoin him now. ata we canjoin him now. at a period where politics is so deeply divided in the united states, what is noticeable here is that the tributes have come from across the political spectrum for senator mccain. you are absolutely right and that is the interesting thing about this man. he was by his own admission flawed, he could be hot tempered and could be cantankerous at times but he could also be very affable and very self—effacing. you can tell from the tributes that have come and notjust from all the surviving american presidents but from leaders around

the world, thought this was no ordinary american politician. he was politically a maverick, someone capable of reaching out across the aisle but he was also a war hero. someone who was shot down over vietnam and spent five years, more than five years, as a prisoner of warand than five years, as a prisoner of war and americans love their war heroes. this was a man who was somewhat of a national treasure if you like. you put the nail on the head there, as someone who represented a more civilized period if you would like in american politics, compared to the sort of partisanship that we see today. and of course this tweet by the president, which sends condolences to the senator's family but does not actually comment on his life and his achievements, has raised eyebrows. yes, indeed and while don mccain

maintained a civil, respectful relationship with the man who defeated him, barack 0bama, in 2008, he could thinly disguise his co nte m pt he could thinly disguise his contempt for barack 0bama's successor, donald trump on occasions, announcing the cosy relationship thatjohn mccain regarded as tie in the mike tyrant, wa ke regarded as tie in the mike tyrant, wake the meeting in helsinki with vladimir putin and describing the behaviour of donald trump is one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president in memory. and we heard in the report, he dealt the fatal blow to donald trump's attem pts fatal blow to donald trump's atte m pts to fatal blow to donald trump's attempts to overhaul the 0bama care legislation about a year ago. so there was not a lot of love lost between those two men. as he can

probably imagine donald trump would not be attending john mccain's funeral. thank you very much. the british—iranian woman, nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, has been refused an extension, to her temporary release fromjail in iran. her husband richard confirmed she'd returned to evin prison, after a three day release, spent with her familyjust outside of the capital tehran. she was given a five year sentence in 2016 and accused of spying, a charge she denies. let's speak now to nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe's local mp, tulip siddiq. thank you very much forjoining us. how do you account for the decision to allow nazanin zhagari—ratcliffe out for three days but to call her back? it has been a very disappointing day as you can probably imagine. two days ago i was speaking to her husband who was overjoyed because this temporary release was very unexpected. we had

been putting in applications for temporary release for various occasions, whether it was christmas, whether it was for her daughter's fourth birthday and all of them were rejected. all of a sudden she was given ten minutes notice three days ago to say you are allowed to three days temporary release and we did not know why. but then in the same vein, itjust called her back up a few days and her lawyer went to see the people who made the decisions yesterday. he was told that we cannot make a decision today and her case is very complicated. it is very complex and not the same as other cases, come back tomorrow which was today and went back today and they said she is back to prison. so she breast drowned —— she rushed down and tried asking if she could stay longer but they said no she has to

go back to prison. she went by, and got her daughter who is four years old, who was shivering and in a state of panic and went back and they stood firm, and said no you have to go back to prison with no explanation. how likely is it then that this three—day release could be a precursor to longer periods out of jail? | a precursor to longer periods out of jail? i would be cautious about this because we've been through this so many times and we were absolutely convinced she was coming home for christmas and after the huge mistake that ourformer christmas and after the huge mistake that our former foreign secretary made, he went over to iran and spoke to the authorities there and felt like something had changed and she was going to be home for christmas. herfamily put was going to be home for christmas. her family put up the christmas tree expecting her to be home for christmas and she did not come home then. in a sense you can call me a bit pessimistic but i do think we have been burnt by this campaign before which is why i am being careful. we can take some hope for

the fact that this was the first temporary release she has been allowed into one half years. the first time that her husband actually saw her into one half years on—site because bear in mind, she has had no access to anything like that in present. the foreign office says they remain concerned about all the dual nationals contained in iran and continues to make decisions that they believe will make the best outcomes in their cases, what more could the foreign office be doing? what i will tell you is that we waited 18 months before we got a meeting with the former foreign secretary, and richard wright clip and i, we wrote to both prime ministers, and i raise them at every opportunity and boris johnson ministers, and i raise them at every opportunity and borisjohnson did not grant as a meeting until he made the mistake in front of the select committee and jeremy hunt on the other hand, i am critical of them

for other reasons but he'd met richard immediately and has been in touch with the family and says quite friendly that he believes that she should be released immediately. he even mentioned that he thought she should get diplomatic protection, which is something we have been pushing forfor a long which is something we have been pushing for for a long time. which is something we have been pushing forfor a long time. ifeel like the foreign secretary is doing more than the previous one did. of course there is more to be done but it isa course there is more to be done but it is a good start. jeremy hunt has been more strident than i expected him to be in all honesty. thank you very much for talking to us. the daughter ofjohn and susan cooper, the british couple who died at a hotel in egypt last week, has told the bbc she's convinced ‘something in their room killed them'. kelly 0rmerod, who was also staying at the hotel, believes her parents didn't die of natural causes. egyptian investigators say no trace of poisonous gas has been found in the couple's room. 0ur correspondent stuart flinders reports. john and susan cooper were on a family holiday at the red sea resort of hurghada when they were both taken seriously

ill and died on the same day. their daughter, kelly 0rmerod, who arrived home in burnley this morning, was with them. at 11 o'clock, i went and knocked on the door, to see whether they were just having a bit of lie in and didn't want to be bothered. as i opened the door, i could see that my dad was extremely ill. he was staggering back to the bed. mum was laid on the bed and i could tell that something was seriously wrong with them. the egyptian authorities say the couple, both in their 60s, died from heart and respiratory failure and that an inspection of their room showed there were no toxic or harmful gas emissions or leaks. tests are now being carried out on food, water and air conditioning at the steigenberger aqua magic hotel, as investigators try to establish how the couple died. their granddaughter noticed something suspicious in the room the night they became ill. mum and my daughter went back to their bedroom. as soon as they went into the bedroom, my daughter said

that they could smell something that was a little bit funny, that wasn't right. all they did, really, was spray a little perfume to try and eliminate the smell. they then fell asleep and my father came back to the room an hour later, and my daughter woke up and said she felt very unwell with the smell and she wanted to come and return to my room. the tour company, thomas cook, says it's looking into every possibility and expects it to be ten days before the results of tests at the hotel are known. this isjust a solo investigation which are carried out by our independent experts, in collaboration, of course, with the prosecutors in egypt and we have to leave them, what exactly they are testing. i totally trust that they are testing the right things. john cooper was a builder. his wife, susan, worked at a travel agents in the centre of burnley. she is described as "loyal and long serving" and the shop has been closed for the past few days

as a mark of respect. their daughter is still coming to terms with her loss. mum and dad were the best parents anybody could wish for. mum was fit and healthy, we used to go to the gym two or three times a week and dad was the same, he was an active walker. postmortem results are expected in the next few days, but it could be weeks before kelly 0rmerod is allowed to bring her parents' bodies home. stuart flinders, bbc news, burnley. the headlines on bbc news... pope francis is on his way back to rome after his visit to ireland. earlier, at a mass for 300,000 people in dublin, he asked for forgiveness for the abuse irish people suffered by members of the clergy. senatorjohn mccain, who died yesterday aged 81, will lie in state in arizona's capitol building, an honour only given to a few notable americans, including john f kennedy and ronald reagan. nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe who's been

imprisoned in iran on spying charges has been told her temporary three—day release is over — and she is back in prison and, british scientists say they have pieced together what dinosaur dna looks like — and their genetic structure is close to living birds. the government is expected to announce funding for the uk's own satellite navigation system to rival the european union s galileo project. it comes after concerns that brexit could restrict the uk's access to the programme. 0ur political correspondent tom barton says the galileo project is a vital security tool. britain had been a key player in the development of galileo but the european commission says that after brexit written will no longer be able to access it. ministers of course hope to persuade the eu to

change their mind, saying that it remains their preferred option. they are planning to spend around £100 million on feasibility study mapping out what the project could eventually look like and if a final system eventually look like and if a final syste m gets eventually look like and if a final system gets a go—ahead, it could run into the billions of pounds. sources and says that this announcement which is expected soon is not a negotiating position. it will clearly be seen as part of the government's attempt to show it is on the front foot when it comes to brexit. let's speak now to doctor elizabeth pearson, astrophysicist and news editor of the bbc‘s sky at night magazine. she's in our bristol studio. thank you forjoining us this evening. why do we need our own version of this? what the gps system generally is one of these huge things that we really do need gps in the modern day life and it is how we get to place to place and where our

food gets place to place. the eu in the uk wanted the own system because we are completely reliant on the uss them and if anything happened to that, we would be left out in the cold and it would be a big problem if we are locked out of that system 01’ if we are locked out of that system or it went down. there is security against that. —— we are reliant on the us system. how well-placed are we to get a system like this up into the sky? have we got the experience, have we done anything like it before on her own? the uk is one of the best countries in the world for building satellites, the uk is usually one of the first places that people come to build satellites. we area people come to build satellites. we are a huge player in the original galileo project to start with and we made most of the satellites that went up there or at least a significant portion of them so we

typically have the expert know—how and we do not have all of it. we will either have to do new resource 01’ will either have to do new resource or go abroad to bring in people to get new technology to work for a satellite system of her own but we are ina satellite system of her own but we are in a good place to start making one by ourselves. —— research or go abroad. it will be hugely expensive as the report said earlier in the uk wa nts to as the report said earlier in the uk wants to stay in the galileo. this isa wants to stay in the galileo. this is a secondary back—up position if we cannot get those negotiations, we do not really want to be doubling up on something that is already doubled up on something that is already doubled up on something else. if we do need to have our own project what might it do for the space industry here in the uk? it could potentially be a massive boon in for one thing it would be aiming to build most of the satellites within the uk. that is a

huge industry. the uk government is really keen to make the space industry one of the big industries of the uk, as we go forward into the future. it would definitely encourage more companies to be built and encourage more spending in that sector. hopefully it would also probably set out even more that the uk is the place to come for these sorts of satellites. news editor of bbc sky at night magazine. thank you for joining bbc sky at night magazine. thank you forjoining us. the us playwright, neil simon has died at the age of 91. simon wrote more than 30 plays, including comedy classics, come blow your horn and the odd couple. he was the first playwright to have a broadway theatre named after him, and won the pulitzer prize for drama in 1991 for lost in yonkers. with me is our arts editor, will gompertz. and the list goes on and on. he was one of the great american playwrights, simple as that. in the mikey had this purple patch into the

60s leading into the 70s where he wrote hit after hit after hit. he was the hottest thing on broadway, it he brought barefoot in the park, the odd couple, and always with the sense of dealing with the domestic, with people, not big epic stories but small urban stories and often with couples. their —— barefoot in the pot to mike park is a young married couple and of course he wrote musicals very brilliantly and the sunshine boys is a double act who grew old and reunited. this is a re—occurring theme for him. laughter, he was a comic writer and he grew up, he learned his trade by writing for sid caesar and he met people like woody allen and mel brooks had a similar background in the same sort of new york, jewish background and bring that

sensibility to the table. they kind of defined american humour and way of defined american humour and way of life in the 20th century which led to a spate of sitcoms which we see to this very day. not everyone can do it, he can turn his own play and do something for the small screen or big—screen. and do something for the small screen or big-screen. quality is quality, frankly and a great play it often will transfer into a great movie, and barefoot in the park is robert redford and lost in yonkers, a greatjob. he was successful in doing both but the most difficult thing in the world is too great a head. to write a hit time after time after time is amazing and a head that makes people laugh time after time after time as an extraordinary gift. there will be people who feel he influenced them who came after him in the industry. you think of jerry seinfeld and larry king.

although a contemporary, woody allen. they were succeeding at the same time. and he was never particularly happy with his success, he was frustrated that the critics did not taken seriously enough although his funny stuff. because he had so many he felt that the critics diminished him as a playwright but the public saw him as the greatest playwright after william shakespeare in terms of rating hit after hit. he had this extraordinary capacity and he actually comes from a sadness of his early life, as a child growing up, his father was often away. you would leave the family home for up toa would leave the family home for up to a year would leave the family home for up toa yearand would leave the family home for up to a year and there would be these flaming rows and occasionally the little cracks of laughter. that is what he loved. that is why he broke what he loved. that is why he broke what he loved. that is why he broke what he did, he wanted laughter, he wa nted what he did, he wanted laughter, he wanted people to laugh with him and that was affirmation for him and made him feel good and safe. always with these comic writers, a darkness

behind the lightness. ever wondered what dinosaur dna looks like? well you're about to find out... a team of researchers from kent university have pieced together the genetic characteristics of dinosaurs by working backwards from their closest modern—day relatives. they say the breakthrough reveals how they dominated earth for more than 180 million years. pallab ghosh has been finding out more. could these scenes from jurassic world really happen? dinosaurs recreated from dna wreaking havoc. geneticist darren griffin has used mathematical techniques to identify the genetic structure of the very first dinosaurs by working backwards from their closest modern—day relatives, birds and turtles. and so, would he, could he, bring them back to life? if we have some dna, the chances that we could recreate an animal from that are vanishingly small. we didn't really know what the overall structure of a dinosaur genome looked like. as a result of the work that's

gone on in this lab, we now have a very close idea and a pretty certainty that it was something very close to a bird. birds are the most diverse species on the planet. they come in so many different shapes and sizes. it's thought that this is because they have 80 chunks of dna, called chromosomes. that's more than three times as many as we have. if dinosaurs have the same genetic structure as birds, then that might explain why there are so many types of dinosaurs. their genetic structure may help to explain why dinosaurs survived so long and are so varied. some are huge. others were tiny. and some flew. it was their genes that enabled them to adapt to the earth's changing conditions over 100 million years, and they were able to do that far faster than any other kind of animal. the current theory is that a giant asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs,

when it hit the earth 66 million years ago. the new research suggests that they survived. the fossil evidence now, and our evidence illustrating the genomic structure of dinosaurs, actually reinforces the idea that, actually, rather than being distant relatives, they are actually all one and the same. and that, actually, the birds that are around us now are dinosaurs. so, it's not a question of whether we can bring them back — they never went away. dinosaur genes enable them to change shape and size quickly and so, survived for hundreds of millions of years. pallab ghosh, bbc news. professor paul ba rett, a dinosaur researcher at the natural history museum said that dna has never actually been recovered from a dinosaur fossil and is likely to never happen. it comes down to the fact that animals are all related to each

other in one way or another, we share common ancestors so we are able to look at the common ancestor of lizards, birds and turtles and use the information from those species to start working backwards to look at the genome and extinct species like dinosaurs and u nfortu nately we were species like dinosaurs and unfortunately we were never able to recover dna from eight fossil, it does not look like dna survives that long, but we can form a scalpel, so we can make deductions about the kinds of things dinosaurs may have had or may not a pad in terms of their genetic makeup. 0ne had or may not a pad in terms of their genetic makeup. one thing to remember is that in one sense dinosaurs are still here in one way, so we have a dinosaur descendent with us and flourishing that managed to make it through the catastrophic event 66 million years ago.