phil mercer there, in gisborne, new zealand.u see something like this swimming in london's river thames. a humpback whale has been spotted for the first time in around ten years. it is over 80 foot, or nearly 30 metres long, and doesn't seem to be in any distress. scientists monitoring the animal say its behaviour is perfectly normal. nothing to be concerned about. coming up at 6:00am on breakfast, dan walker and louise minchin will have all the day's news, business and sport. this is the briefing from bbc news. the latest headlines: president trump is accused of abandoning america's kurdish allies as he withdraws us troops from northern syria. the british foreign secretary has urged his us counterpart to allow a diplomat‘s wife to return to the uk and face questioning about a fatal traffic accident near a military base. a stolen truck has ploughed into several cars in the german city of limberg. at least 17 people have been injured. the driver of the vehicle has been arrested. now it's time to look at a few stories making the h

phil mercer there in gisborne, new zealand.in touch with me and most of the team on twitter. thank you for watching. hello there. this week is looking typically autumnal, quite unsettled, windy at times and there will be plenty of showers in the forecast. also, some sunshine, it won't be a washout all the time, but when you catch one of these showers, they will often be quite heavy. maybe with a rumble of thunder and some hail mixed in too. all down to low pressure, which will be just to the north—west or to the north of the uk over the next few days and indeed for much of the week. so our air will be coming in off the atlantic with these weather fronts bringing in bands of showers. one thing you will notice, though, it's not going to feel particularly cold, we will have our air source coming in off the atlantic from a west or a south—westerly direction most of the time. so that means around average temperatures through the day. and at night, it should keep the frost and fog at bay. so for tuesday, it's going to be a bright, su

this replica arrived here in gisborne port about an hour ago, it's spent most of the morning sailinghe delight of hundreds of people who gathered around the bay to watch this spectacle. it was some sightseeing this boat glide into the harbour. this has been a day of commemoration, it also been a day of protest as well as the ship sailed into gisborne. there were very noisy protests by maori groups, they don't see today is a day of celebration, they see it as a day of mourning and they consider the arrival of captain cook 250 years ago as the start of a brutal colonisation. how are they protesting? just over the water to my left, rico, there were several hundred maori protesters. they say that before captain cook arrived here 250 years ago, the maori people were free, independent and self—governing. they were living in a thriving civilisation and they say they've had that taken away from them. they would say that colonisation is the theft of their land, though those messages they are trying to get across today. they also stressed there are lingering consequences of colonisation. maori

phil mercer, bbc news, gisborne.the dartford crossing. multiple sightings of the 26—metre whale were reported near the bridge yesterday. the british divers marine life rescue say they have been observing the whale and that its behaviour has been "perfectly normal". the sightings come almost exactly a year after benny the beluga was spotted in the thames near gravesend — it's thought he stayed for about three months before leaving. now it's time for a look at the weather with louise lear. it will be a witness week, weather you will be able to keep the envelope due to the strength of the wind is another matter. some of the rain has been persistent this morning, it is turning quite showery as we go through the next few hours. that will be the story throughout the remainer of the week, the winds will remain, showery outbreaks of rain at times. through the last few hours, a pulse of wet weather has moved away from eastern england, plenty of shows behind it, showers are heaviest and most widespread up north, even at the od

a replica of his ship, the endeavour has arrived in gisborne.'s ship. how significant is today's commemorations? that's right, rico. you can see behind me a replica of the endeavour, and it was this ship that brought james cook the endeavour, and it was this ship that broughtjames cook and his the endeavour, and it was this ship that brought james cook and his crew of british explorers halfway around the world from the united kingdom. this replica arrived here in gisborne for about an hour ago, it has spent most of the morning sailing around what james cook has spent most of the morning sailing around whatjames cook named polity bay, much to the delight of hundreds of people who gathered around the bay to watch this spectacle. it was some sightseeing this boat glide into the harbour. this has been a day of commemoration, it also been a day of protest as well as the ship sailed into gisborne. there were very noisy protest by maori groups, they don't see today is a day of celebration, they see it as a day of mourning and they see it as a day of mo

phil mercer there in gisborne, new zealand. of three recipients of this year's nobel prize for medicine. celebrating today in his laboratory at oxford university, sir peter will share his prize with two american scientists for research into how cells sense and adapt to oxygen levels leading to potential breakthroughs in treating disease. just for a moment, the serious work of science was put on pause at sir peter ratcliffe's laboratory at the university of oxford. in true nobel fashion, so peter had no advanced warning of the prize. fashion, so peter had no advanced warning of the prizelj fashion, so peter had no advanced warning of the prize. i found out this morning as my secretary catherine came through the door into my laboratory with an anxious look on herface my laboratory with an anxious look on her face and suggested my laboratory with an anxious look on herface and suggested i my laboratory with an anxious look on her face and suggested i talk to someone on her face and suggested i talk to someone from stockholm. what

phil mercer there in gisborne, new zealand.ree recipients of this year's nobel prize for medicine. celebrating today in his laboratory at oxford university, sir peter will share his prize with two american scientists for research into how cells sense and adapt to oxygen levels, leading to potential breakthroughs in treating disease. most human diseases are complicated by low oxygen. we call it hypoxia. that includes heart disease, anaemia, the primary target now, cancer in a slightly different way. we're right on the threshold of hearing the outcome of trials in the us, in europe and japan. before we go, it's not every day you see something like this. swimming in london's river thames, a humpback whale has been spotted for the first time in around 10 years. it's over 80 foot, or nearly 30 metres long, and doesn't seem to be in any distress. scientists monitoring the animal say its behaviour is "perfectly normal". there is more on that and all the news anytime on the bbc website for you. and you can get in touch with me and most

phil mercer reports now from gisborne on new zealand‘s north island.. this man is a former gang member who dropped out of school and was jailed for drug dealing. drugs was the easiest thing for us to do. you know, we could get drugs and we could turn that over and make money. where there were no other opportunities but drugs, really, for us. kind of ended up in a circle. we go to jail, get out, back to jail, get out. it‘s not uncommon for maori to live the life that i‘ve lived because we‘ve had the same struggles. the arrival of a replica of cook‘s ship, the endeavour, is part of a broader celebration of maori and polynesian seafarers who settled in new zealand long before the british. as a community in the past we‘ve tended to be quite focused on our own culture, i think, on both sides. so rather than trying to create a single version of the truth for everybody, we‘re trying to make a much more complex telling so that everyone can find their place in it. that‘s really been our focus — to make it nice and broad. james cook‘s legacy here in new zealand