therefore say that sponsian could be a real person and that he is legitimately, therefore, a lost roman emperor. the researchers now want to find more evidence of sponsian to see what more can be learnt about the lost roman emperor. palab ghosh, bbc news, glasgow. time for a look at the weather. darren bett has joined darren bett hasjoined me. a beautiful image behind you there. it's a good example of what the weather has been like recently. tomorrow should be dry across many parts of the country with some sunshine, not as windy as today. it's been dry so far today here in northamptonshire but the weather is still quite unsettled today. if we

look at what's happening, low—pressure heading towards the north—west pushing in this weather front here and bringing in a lot of cloud that's been pushing our way. the ring on the weather front doesn't last long. let me show you the radar picture. it's a narrow band of rain, very intense rainfall, accompanied by the squally, very strong winds when you can see some thunder and lightning in there as well. they march eastwards across england and wales into more parts of scotland followed by some sunshine in west and a few showers. those temperatures around 9—11, that is near—normal for this time of the year. it's going be very windy weather rain sweeps its way across the uk, but also outside the rain some gusty winds along the english channel and through the irish sea as well. it takes a while for the winds to ease overnight, more heavy and perhaps thundery showers pushing in from the west across many northern parts of the uk. its only late in the night things start to calm down a bit and those temperatures should be just escaping a frost, probably getting down to three degrees in the

sun in rural areas. overnight showers will be out into the north sea. we'll keep showers across some parts of the uk, the wetter weather pushing its way across northern parts of scotland. many other areas may have a dry day, a decent amount of sunshine and the winds not as strong or augusta yesterday. the temperatures on a par with today, perhaps slightly higher, getting up to 13-14 perhaps slightly higher, getting up to 13—14 across southern parts of england and south wales. heading into the weekend a bit of a mixture. we've got more weather fronts moving in, very slowly from the atlantic, and ahead of that we are picking up and ahead of that we are picking up a stronger wind as well and we may start the weekend across eastern parts of england with some sunshine before it clouds over here. a lot of cloud coming in during saturday. rain developing across more of scotland, western parts of england and wales and affecting northern ireland from time to time. the winds will be stronger on saturday, may be touch and gale force around some southern and western coasts but it's a southerly wind. it's blowing milder airfurther a southerly wind. it's blowing milder air further north across the uk and in scotland temperatures likely to be in double figures,

perhaps 12—13. it will be very mild on saturday night into sunday morning. this is where the rain is by then. we'll keep a lot of cloud on sunday across south—eastern parts of england, may be a bit of rain still around into the afternoon but otherwise some sunshine and showers out to the west and those could be heavy thundery once again and the temperature is pretty good, not rising very much from the mild start, 11—13. rising very much from the mild start, 11-13. it rising very much from the mild start, 11—13. it does get colder as we head into next week. a reminder of our top story... tens of thousands of workers are on strike across the uk, in schools, universities and royal mail, as people protest about pay and conditions. that's all from the bbc news at one. it's goodbye from me. on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc�*s news teams where you are. have a good afternoon, bye—bye.

good afternoon, i'm gavin ramjaun from the bbc sport centre, and these are your latest sports headlines. the final teams enter the fray, at the qatar world cup today. and the first of today's four matches saw switzerland kick their campaign off with a win. the swiss beat cameroon in group g, and it was their cameroon—born striker breel embolo who scored the only goal of the game, early in the second half. embolo decided not to celebrate what proved to be the winning goal — raised both hands while appearing to apologise. embolo was born in yaounde, but received swiss citizenship in 2014 after spending his youth career in the country. brazil are favourites in that group — and to win the whole tournament for a sixth time. big things are expected after a disappointing quarterfinal exit in russia four years ago. they play serbia this evening, live on bbc one at seven o'clock. serbia's manager dragan stojkovic says his side won't show any fear. they game will start 0—0, so brazil has a chance to win,

but serbia also has a chance to win. we are not afraid of anyone in the world. excuse me, even brazil. we do not need to be afraid of anyone. uruguay against south korea kicks off in the next half hour. and in the same group, after that game, cristiano ronaldo son heung—min starts for south korea. and in the same group, after that game, cristiano ronaldo and portugal enter the tournament against ghana. ronaldo is now without a club side after he and manchester united agreed to terminate his contract this week. that followed his controversial interview where he spoke of not respecting manager erik ten hag. he didn't talk much publicly yesterday as he dropped out of the traditional captain's press conference. wales have trained today ahead of their game against iran tomorrow. midfielderjoe allen is fit again after missing their draw with the us on monday. a win against iran would put them in a very strong position going into theirfinal game against england next week. england manager gareth southgate

says the extra stoppage time being played has taken his side by surprise. they played nearly half an hour more against iran over the two halves and other games have had longer periods, too. a bit bizarre. clearly there have been some unique incidents, the incident with the iranian goalkeeper was a serious one. because it is a goalkeeper, you cannot restart the game with him off the field, so that definitely delayed things. there were the var checks, but across every game there does seem to have been a lot. it does have a consequence. we almost played an extra time, really. that will be interesting to track as the tournament goes on. the england squad trained this morning. captain harry kane should be fit to face the usa tomorrow. he went off injured in monday's 6—2 victory against iran, but a scan on his ankle showed no significant issues. james maddison is the only player still struggling for fitness, for a game that, if england win, would almost guarantee their progression.

usa midfielder yunus musah says he's looking forward to playing in the "biggest match of his life" against england. musah was born in the us but grew up in london — and is a former england youth captain. to be playing england, what a special game that will be, having lived in england, knowing how england are as a society, as people, just to share the field with him and knowing that the whole of england is going to be watching that game, as well as the us, what a big game that will be for me. just a special moment and i hope it goes well. lets ho -e moment and i hope it goes well. lets hepe he does — moment and i hope it goes well. lets hope he does not _ moment and i hope it goes well. lets hope he does not score! that's all the sport for now. there is growing evidence that the french coastguard failed to respond adequately to the migrant boat that sank in the channel a year ago today. 27 people died when the boat sank and several others are still missing. just two passenger survive. documents seen by the bbc suggest

french operators repeatedly told passengers to call the uk, despite evidence they were sometimes in french waters. uk investigators have said the british service and their assets were sent to search for the boat but found nothing. lucy williamson has this report from northern france. tragedy has changed little on the channel, one year on, the flow of migrants has only increased. the deaths of at least 27 people didn't even change the cost of a passage, the risk of disaster already priced in. tuana was 18 years old when he called coastguards from the sinking boat a year ago, a young footballer from iraqi kurdistan. his body has never been found. his brother, here in france to help the investigation, said his advice was always, if you are in trouble, call the police. translation: the two survivors confirmed they were constantly l in touch with french and british authorities, continuously sent them the location. after reading the legal

report, i found that their phone calls were dismissed and answered with mockery. these people were not viewed as human beings. the french coastguard first received the distress call from the boat at 1:48am. at that point, it seemed to be half a mile inside french waters. documents seen by the bbc suggest operators did not call in rescuers as promised and, instead, contacted the uk. they repeatedly told desperate and screaming passengers to call the british coastguard. "you are in english waters," one says. "wait, i'll transfer you to the uk." another tells french emergency services they've been calling nonstop. we know they are more or less in the english zone. boats in trouble can drift between french and british waters, complicating the rescue response. i believe that vesselj is now in uk waters. and there are warnings that resources are increasingly stretched as small

boat crossings rise. france's sea minister told parliament that any negligence found by the investigation would lead to sanctions. there are people here who said this was a disaster waiting to happen, and it is not the only time desperate passengers have been passed back and forth between rescue teams in britain and france. we have heard evidence that another migrant boat calling for help from the channel experienced the same response just a few days before. we dialled 999, were talking, they said call to france, and these messages were received by a migrant helpline in dunkirk four days before the channel disaster. raphael cousin who took the call says a french lifeboat came to rescue them.

when someone is in distress, theyjust need to be saved as soon as possible. so there is no time to talk about who is going to save them and in which boat are they going to be returned? one year on from the channel disaster, investigators have yet to report their findings as each month, thousands more steer their way between trust and tragedy, aiming for british shores. lucy williamson, bbc news, calais. michael gove has said tens of thousands of homes are not in the state they should be. the thousands of homes are not in the state they should be.— thousands of homes are not in the state they should be. the death of two-year-old _ state they should be. the death of two-year-old awaab _ state they should be. the death of two-year-old awaab ishak- state they should be. the death of two-year-old awaab ishak was - state they should be. the death of - two-year-old awaab ishak was caused two—year—old awaab ishak was caused by exposure to mould at his home. michael gove is holding talks with housing association that owned the flat where he died. earlier michael gove said the government will block new funding for housing providers that fail to address safety concerns. he said the toddler's case

should be a warning to other landlords who are ignoring complaints. landlords who are ignoring complaints-_ landlords who are ignoring comlaints. ., ., ., ., complaints. the regulator for social housin: complaints. the regulator for social housing has — complaints. the regulator for social housing has written _ complaints. the regulator for social housing has written to _ complaints. the regulator for social housing has written to local- housing has written to local authorities to make sure that we have a particular focus on damp and mould, but it is also the case that there is a responsibility on housing associations and other landlords to let us know about other hazards and let us know about other hazards and let us know that people are living with and how they are dealing with him. we are giving new powers to the regulator in order to make sure that housing associations are kept up to the mark. but i fear it is the case that there are tens of thousands of properties that are not in the state they should be. i'm joined now by polly neate, the chief executive of shelter. what difference do you think it will make, but we have been hearing from michael gove?— michael gove? well, of course michael gove? well, of course michael gove _ michael gove? well, of course michael gove is _ michael gove? well, of course michael gove is absolutely - michael gove? well, of course | michael gove is absolutely right that there is no excuse at all for

the kind of appalling conditions that we have seen in awaab ishak�*s case. he is also right, unfortunately, that this is by no means an isolated case in the sense that there are many properties that do not meet the required standard. my do not meet the required standard. my worry is i would like to know how we can be sure that this reduce in funding that he is suggesting will not actually end up reducing funding from housing associations's ability to build new, decent social homes. what we need more than anything else, and the root cause of this crisis actually, is that we desperately need more decent social homes, new social homes being built. at the moment, we're going backwards every single year in terms of delivery of new homes. so, yes, it is absolutely right to tackle poor

conditions and i completely why he wants to really clamp down hard on this and make sure that housing associations get the message. i completely get that. but in a way, this crisis is bigger and deeper than the disrepair issue. it is about a kind of total lack of political attention, really, about a kind of total lack of politicalattention, really, on social housing as a whole. political attention, really, on social housing as a whole. obviously i social housing as a whole. obviously i completely — social housing as a whole. obviously i completely hear _ social housing as a whole. obviously i completely hear your _ social housing as a whole. obviously i completely hear your concerns - i completely hear your concerns about the bigger picture, making sure that is enough housing stock, but on this right now, where people are living, michael gove says tens of thousands of homes are in this state, people are living in homes that could be immediately harming their health and well—being, how do you force the housing associations, the owners of those properties to put it right?— the owners of those properties to utitriuht?~ , , ., , put it right? well, yes, i mean this is the daily — put it right? well, yes, i mean this is the daily caseload _ put it right? well, yes, i mean this is the daily caseload of— put it right? well, yes, i mean this is the daily caseload of my - is the daily caseload of my colleagues at shelter who are working directly with many people

whose homes are in disrepair. we do try to challenge it as much as we possibly can. it absolutely does have to be put right. the government have to be put right. the government have brought forward, actually, the social housing regulation bill, which is currently before parliament. that is a landmark piece of legislation. it was actually the result of sustained campaigning from shelter and also from survivors of the grenville disaster. it will ensure that tenants are listened to and have a much stronger voice and rebalance the powers between housing association and landlords and their tenants. —— grenfell disaster. with; tenants. -- grenfell disaster. why is it do you — tenants. -- grenfell disaster. why is it do you think— tenants. —— grenfell disaster. why is it do you think that they are not listening? in the awaab ishak case, the family felt that there was discrimination going on because they had been repeatedly raising the issues that they were having to live with. i have spoken to a person who

makes it his mission to highlight these cases by putting them on social media, and he said that is the only time change happens in so many of these cases — when the owners, and housing associations are actually publicly named and shamed. he is an amazing campaigner and has done a huge amount to highlight this issue. i think what his work has shown is that there is a huge amount of neglect of tenants. that is what the grenfell tragedy showed five years ago. so you are absolutely right, there is a cultural issue here. there is plenty of evidence, actually, that the whole housing system discriminates against people of colour. so there is a lot that needs to be put right here. it is also really important to see that disrepair is even more common in the private rented sector than it is in social housing, and the government

has promised to do something about that. there is a renters reform bill ready to go, but we still do not have a date after years of this being promised by successive secretaries of state, by successive prime ministers, we still do not actually have a date for that legislation. so it is important, as well, that michael gove considers the private rented sector and brings forward the renters reform bill as soon as possible.— soon as possible. thank you very much. volodymyr zelensky has accused russia of crimes against humanity after strikes against ukraine's electricity grid. he said russia had been methodically devastating cities with indiscriminate attacks, hitting residential buildings, schools, transport and hospitals. we can show you some pictures of the aftermath of those attacks, of some of them at

least, which triggered a nationwide allowance. the energy system has been left in tatters and millions have been subjected to long periods without electricity after weeks of russian bombardment. translation: russian bombardment. tuna/mom- russian bombardment. translation: ~ ., , , russian bombardment. translation: a, , ., translation: ukraine proposes that the security council— translation: ukraine proposes that the security council adopts _ translation: ukraine proposes that the security council adopts a - the security council adopts a proposal condemning all forms of energy terror. let's see if anyone in the world, along with russia, can see that terror against civilians is supposedly good. the see that terror against civilians is suoposedly good-— see that terror against civilians is supposedly good. the un population fund has condemned _ supposedly good. the un population fund has condemned in _ supposedly good. the un population fund has condemned in the - supposedly good. the un population| fund has condemned in the strongest terms wednesday's attack on a maternity hospital in the zaporizhzhia region. the un's representative in ukraine has been travelling around ukraine and give us his assessment of the damage. the conditions are terrible, i have to say. the level of destruction is massive. many hospitals have been affected.

if we think about, we consider maternities, out of almost 400 maternity is in the country, more than 70 are not in operation. those are in the areas most affected by war, closer to the front, closer the contact line, or an area that has been recently liberated. the conditions are terrible also because the roads are very dangerous. there are many areas that have been mined. for women to access those facilities, it is really difficult these days. and without any guarantees that they will find the kind of services that they need, the type of health care they need once they get there because without electricity and without water, often times getting their treatment, getting their checkups done in makeshift shelters and in basements or buildings, that is a completely substandard situation. it is a critical situation, i have to say. lets hear from the rmt boss who has

beenin lets hear from the rmt boss who has been in talks with the government on the prospect of strikes in the run—up to christmas and new year. 0k, run—up to christmas and new year. ok, he has decided not to speak while he is being interrupted, i guess. we will keep an eye and see when he does go back to the microphones and when we will be able to hear what he has been saying. they have been holding those talks. they have been holding those talks. the strikes currently scheduled for the 13th and 14th and 16th and 17th of december. then the third fourth, sixth and 7th of january. he of december. then the third fourth, sixth and 7th ofjanuary. he said yesterday he does not believe the government wants to resolve this issue. he has been having talks with the transport secretary and they have just finished. you will hopefully speak to the cameras when he can. we will bring you that when it happens.

daily covid infections in china have hit a record high since the start of the pandemic nearly three years ago. that's despite crippling restrictions on life, including snap lockdowns. tightened measures have been announced for zhengzhou — where workers at the world's largest iphone factory have been clashing with security forces over covid—related conditions and pay. stephen mcdonell in beijing has more. so, like, for example, i am at home, my community is under a form of lockdown so everyone can be tested, and that is because one person in this complex was somehow linked to each case. person in this complex was somehow linked to a case. now, it may be that this only lasts for a day or so, or it could go on. of course, if the testing of everyone picks up more people, we could all be here for a week. all across, especially in beijing, there are thousands of towers where people are confined to their homes. and in many cases, that is for a minimum of three days at the moment as the city government tries to deal with the outbreak here. now, that of course is going on all across china —

north, south, east, west. you have various levels of lockdown in many, many cities. of course, this is really hitting the economy here, and it is despite the fact that there have been, you know, very serious measures put in place to try to prevent the spread of the disease. now, the thing is, though, that recently the authorities introduced a series of measures to try to take the heat off the economy. they know that zero covid is smashing the economy. but the problem is they have kind of created the worst of both worlds in a way because now businesses are still being hit, and yet by sort of easing off some of those measures, they are not quite as effective at crushing every outbreak as it happens. the feeling is that this might drag the whole crisis on for even longer, and we have no indication yet from the government of what the actual off ramp is and that is at a time when china has reported its highest ever daily number of cases right across the country.

an ancient gold coin once thought to be fake, has now been authenticated, revealing the existence of a third century roman commander. here's our science correspondent, pallab ghosh. a roman coin that has baffled historians, thought have been a fake for hundreds of years. a close look shows pit marks. these and its crude design led to the experts thinking it was made by forgers in the 18th century. oh, that's really nice around there. can we get a higher resolution image of that? let's go back to mick lynch. thank ou for let's go back to mick lynch. thank you for coming _ let's go back to mick lynch. thank you for coming and _ let's go back to mick lynch. thank you for coming and thank- let's go back to mick lynch. thank you for coming and thank you - let's go back to mick lynch. thank you for coming and thank you for l let's go back to mick lynch. t�*isfia; you for coming and thank you for the interest shown in these events. we have just had a meeting with mark harper and his team. have just had a meeting with mark harperand his team. i have just had a meeting with mark harper and his team. i would say it was a positive meeting in the sense that we have got rid of the nonsense we used to have from grant shapps and his cohort, in this era. we are

now starting to get a dialogue. what we are hoping for and what mr harper is committed to as giving as an outcome from this meeting which will be a letter to me saying how he sees this going forward and taking forward steps towards a resolution. we laid out in what we thought he should do, and he has acknowledged that some of that. what we are chiefly asking him to do, you have heard him say that he is going to be a facilitator towards a resolution of the dispute, we have sent him there is no good having one words, we have heard from his predecessor but nothing actually happened. we want him to sit down in writing what he is going to do about the mechanics of how a resolution will be facilitated. at the moment, we have even got doubt about the authority of the people we are speaking to, who are called the rail delivery group. they are telling us they have no authority to negotiate, they have no authority to negotiate, they do not have a mandate, and they have even put legal challenges to us as to whether they can negotiate at

all. so we have got a situation where ia train operating companies are telling us they cannot negotiate, and so is their industry group, the rail delivery group. i have asked him to set out in writing and clarify what the authority of these people is. i have asked him to create a liaison group or a liaison forum, howeverthey create a liaison group or a liaison forum, however they turn, at ministerial level so that we can go and see them, or at least liaise with them about how a settlement could come about. we have also said to them we need pace in these negotiations. i'm sure the public, the travelling public and the businesses around the country and the economy wants to see this dispute settled in a proper way. but we need pace. six months we have been negotiating at least with the train operators and we have had not one document put across the table. that has to change. i outlined to him what his responsibilities are as we see them. his responsibilities

are, legally, in the contracts they have with these train operators, he is not a legal responsibility for industrial relations and a responsibility to set their mandate, what they can offer, and what they can negotiate on at that table. so i am hoping he is going to do that, hopefully today, and we can get back to the table as he has been demanding in the media from me and from my union, but he needs to clarify in writing exactly where he stands and where the industry stands when they are transacting with us in those discussions. so they need a new position, they need a new mandate, and hopefully we can get on with it. we will be looking to do that immediately, we'll be talking to network rail in the morning. as soon as the rail delivery group invite is over, we'll be getting on with that. that is where we are at the moment. it is up to him now to give us some documentation about how we will this forward. it give us some documentation about how we will this forward.—

we will this forward. it sounds like that was quite _ we will this forward. it sounds like that was quite a _ we will this forward. it sounds like that was quite a positive _ we will this forward. it sounds like that was quite a positive meeting. j that was quite a positive meeting. will you _ that was quite a positive meeting. will you call off the strikes before christmas? we will you call off the strikes before christmas? ~ .., will you call off the strikes before christmas?— will you call off the strikes before christmas? , ~ christmas? we called the strikes of two weeks ago- _ christmas? we called the strikes of two weeks ago. we _ christmas? we called the strikes of two weeks ago. we gave _ christmas? we called the strikes of two weeks ago. we gave a - christmas? we called the strikes of i two weeks ago. we gave a two-week two weeks ago. we gave a two—week period, nearly two and a half weeks, where we were told we would get a tangible outcome, we would get commitments and proposals. we got none of that. so, once bitten, twice shy in that sense. we have also not had any strike since the beginning of october. it has been ample time for this lot to get their act together, along with our industry partners, as they describe them, the people they contract to run the railways. they have done nothing. we think the problem is that the treasury is pulling their chain, and they are not independent actors. they have got to assert themselves as an independent department and get to grips with the prices them a crisis that has been created in their industry notjust on strike days, but everyday is a crisis on a railway. we need to resolve the industrial dispute and also the organisational problems that has been created since privatisation.

mick lynch of the rmt saying he has had a positive meeting with the transport secretary mark harper. he said there was dialogue in the next step is going to be a letter written by mark harper which will be outlining the steps to getting agreement. for now, the strikes in the run—up to christmas and in january are still on. now it's time for a look at the weather. we are continuing to see a band of rain sweeping eastwards across the uk today. it does not last very long, but the winds are very gusty near that band of rain. it stays quite windy even after the rain clears across the south coast of england and through the irish sea. these are the temperatures by the time we get to the early evening, around 9—10. there is that narrow band of rain with those really gusty winds and some thunderstorms. it sweeps through, the men take a while to ease down because we will see some more heavy showers running eastwards, mainly across the northern half of the uk. things can down a bit by the end of the night. temperatures in rural areas may slip

away to around three degrees. the overnight shower spy tomorrow or out into the north sea. you'll see some further wet weather coming eastwards across northern parts of scotland. apart from the odds were across other western areas of the uk, it may well be a dry day, more sunshine around. the wind is not as strong and gusty as today. temperature wise, we are around ten in the central area of scotland.

this is bbc news the headlines: a wave of industrial action continues to spread across the uk. in scotland, teachers are on strike for the first time in almost a0 years. we have got a cost of living crisis and a backdrop of teachers pay having declined to the tune of 25% since 2008. so understandably they are very, very angry. university staff across the uk are also walking out, and thousands of postal workers are staging a a8—hour strike. more than half a million more people entered the uk than left in the year tojune, entered the uk than left in the year to june, the entered the uk than left in the year tojune, the highest number on record. ambulance wordings of

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