the chairman of the british museum trustees, george osborne, has apologised for the recent thefts.ise the damage that has been done, and the shock to the members of staff, who have given their lives to the museum, and are very upset at what has happened. there is a police investigation, there is an independent review, but essentially we were the victims of an insidejob, by someone, we believe, who, over a long period of time was stealing from the museum, and to the museum had put trust in. 0bviously and to the museum had put trust in. obviously there are a lot of lessons to be learned as a result of that. the member of staff has been dismissed by us. the objects have started to be recovered. i can perhaps say more about that. we have changed our whistle—blowing code, changed our whistle—blowing code, changed our whistle—blowing code, changed our policy on theft, tightened up security around the collection. we have an independent review which we commissioned to give us some lessons learned and recommendations by the end of this year. we are undertaking a big project which mark will

around 2000 treasures are thought to have been stolen from the british museum with 350 or so recoveredon digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play gb news now it's back over to mark and . pip you. >> let's take you straight back to the latest live pictures we're getting from gaza. that appears to be some activity on this rooftop that we assume will be some kind of water tank there on the roof. but we have seen smoke as well. more explosions on the gaza skyline and indications, of course , that the indications, of course, that the hostilities continue even as president biden is meeting benjamin netanyahu to try and move diplomacy fonnard. we did hearin move diplomacy fonnard. we did hear in the commons just minutes ago that rishi sunak said the uk was trying to independently verify with its allies what had happened at the hospital in gaza . at this baptist hospital with the gaza health ministry now claiming that 471 palestinians were killed in what they termed an israeli massacre. but of course that's being questioned by others. president biden in that discussion with presi

mps will question bosses at the british museum about thefts from the institution's collection.uld focus on the reputational and financial implications for the museum. the mayor has written to the government saying he's considering a discount for low income londoners on future tolls for using the blackwall and silvertown tunnels. both tunnels in east london are due to be tolled from 2025. in the letter, sadiq khan says cars could be charged around £5. he's asked that any discounts don't affect funding for transport for london. let's take a quick look at the tubes now. now onto the weather with katerina christodoulou. hello there, good morning to you. it is going to feel rather autumnal out there today. the wind is picking up out there at the moment, a breezy start, and we are really going to feel the impact of storm babet as we head to the afternoon. heavy and persistent rain on the way accompanied by strong winds. a milder air mass to follow but the potential there for some heavy and thundery showers on thursday. this morning, it is quite breezy, there will be a few sunny spell

people like karl marx and other revolutionaries could and the british could sit there and the british museumoisonous bilge and plotting revolution against the russian empire, which many of them had escaped. right. and so on. and we'd say, yeah, because we're a free country. we're a free country. and people, as long as they keep the law here, people can say and write what they want. and we would be regarded as great leftist harbour of as the great leftist harbour of terrorists in those days . but it terrorists in those days. but it was because we had attitude was because we had an attitude of qatar is basically of freedom. qatar is basically a friend this country. we all friend of this country. we all right, so they've got hamas there, least know there, but at least you know where they are, which is actually quite good. and even the israelis need links to talk to hamas at some i know that never talk to them publicly but at some stages in the past and before this event happened, they would have had links, conversations with qatar at various with with hamas at various with with hamas at various

so there to the british museum. so there are to be sold on ebay. are going to be sold on ebay. bid for those. i remember a fella dying and bequeathing the and bequeathing his skull to the royal he royal shakespeare company. he wanted in future wanted to play yorick in future hamlet, for a while. hamlet, and he did for a while. and the actors got freaked and then the actors got freaked out by it and demanded that they replace him. was one? replace him. was he one? finally, josh mirror first finally, josh the mirror first wrestling. wildlife wrestling. now bbc wildlife is fixed. what we exactly what >> strictly what we exactly what can we believe anymore? surely we all this. bbc's hamza we all knew this. bbc's hamza yassin some wildlife yassin admits some wildlife scenes are faked to gain viewers sympathy. yeah, and i think we all kind of knew that. i mean, they've got to be careful about how do it. they do it how they do it. they do it subtly with the editing little subtly with the editing a little bit, also they show. bit, but also what they show. yes they can sort of yes and t

. >> museum stuff is >> british museum stuff is getting on his watch. getting stolen on his watch. >>thanks for the reminder. not the reminder. so we may not listen to what george osborne has but he may well be has to say, but he may well be right. you see, i mean, how does rishi this around if rishi sunak turn this around if indeed the public want him to? >> i think, you know, >> well, i think, you know, there was a of attention on there was a lot of attention on there was a lot of attention on the tory sort of minor win in uxbridge. i think that showed that are some potential that there are some potential issues they can show issues where they can show themselves as different with laboun themselves as different with labour. sorry, what was that ? labour. sorry, what was that? you said some potential issues where they can show a bit of a gap with labour. so like green issues for instance is a good one. i mean he's kind of done that, but quite weakly. i think a policies that he a lot of the policies that he scrapped are very much in the future, not even in future, probably not even in

and the british museum has announced plans to digitise its collection following the theft of some itemse museum says the project will take five years with the entire collection accessible online to anyone who wants to explore it around 2000 treasures are thought to have been stolen from the museum with 350 or so recovered so far . this 350 or so recovered so far. this is gb news across the uk on tv in your car, on digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play gb news. now it's back to . patrick well , there's back to. patrick well, there's only one place to start this hour that is, of course, the conflict in the middle east. >> but what i really want to focus is how it's affecting focus on is how it's affecting us here, our lives and brits involved. a lot has happened in the course of the day that we do need to get stuck into. so we've heard from rishi sunak, our prime minister speaking in the commons. condemned commons. he's condemned hamas for suffering. for causing untold suffering. he's that parliament he's saying that parliament spoke as one in its criticism of the terrori

and the british air force that bombed considers this an outstanding success. they are in museumsf it, this is a different philosophy, ours is theirs, and kirby cannot understand this, it is impossible here, there is no need to appeal to them, to some kind of their understanding, honor, people simply don’t have this, these are different civilizational approaches, there is... the difference is very significant in politics, but that’s not what i wanted to talk about, this week in minsk they not only celebrated the 105th komsomol, indeed, as andrei viktorovich said, but also a very interesting conference on eurasian security took place , and those approaches which were expressed there, by the way , hungarian interior minister petr sierta came for the second time this year, whom , by the way, like orban, the americans are threatening sanctions, and hungary is a member of the european union, a member of nato, well, just a position. and the president of belarus alexander lukashenko, as it were, expressed a vision of the configuration of the world that can be sustainable, these are the m

museums scotland. the nisga'a nation says the memorial pole was stolen from the mass valley in british columbia and sold to edinburgh for a ceremony ahead of its return. the logistics of moving the pole out of the museum were complicated. and the canadian military flew it home — back to where it belongs. it's part of our history because our pole was taken many years ago and it's come back to its rightful place. it's quite moving to see it come in. to me, it's a really big thing. my great—great—grandfather actually was the one - who carved the totem pole. national museum scotland accept the totem pole was taken and sold to them without the consent of the nisga'a nation, so they agreed to its return. it's beautiful to see it in the landscape that it came from, and put it into context of seeing it. and it's been such a fantastic day. for the nisga'a academic who campaigned for its return, words are hard to find. it's brought such a deep sense of relief to me, and i think i'm still processing it — now i'm going to cry! — but it's just... ican... icanjust... i can breathe now and i can... i can feel like myj

museum. signs from the civilizations of the pharaonic period of egypt to phoenicia, palestinians, canaanites, ashurians, mongols, to the era of byzantium, alexander and rome, to ottoman and british seen here. high precision and elegance. in the creation of these mosaic patterns used in the 6th and 7th centuries ad , they are exceptional and of course they are in danger and should be urgent measures should be taken to protect them. these days, the pasha castle building, which is the city museum , and the samaritans' bath both belong to the ottoman period, the gaza church of the 12th century, the al-omari mosque or the great mosque of gaza, a building related to the byzantine period and saint hilary's seminary. dating back to 300 ad and jabaliya church dating back to 400 ad, which palestinian archaeologists were exploring in both of these ancient areas until recently , are under the threat and destruction of the zionist regime's attacks. according to archaeologists, these are not all the civilizational and historical signs of gaza. ancient city al-balakhihe, tepe khas, and the historical castle of barqouk are also in danger. these are historical places that have been identified, a

museum. signs of civilizations from the pharaonic period of egypt to phoenicia, palestinians, canaanites, assyrians and mughals until the age of byzantium, alexander and rome, until ottoman and british. in the creation of these mosaic motifs from the 6th and 7th centuries ad, they are exceptional and of course they are in danger and urgent action should be taken to protect them. these days , the pasha castle building, which is the city museum, and the samaritans' bath both belong to the ottoman period of the church. gaza from the twelfth century, the al-omari mosque or the great mosque of gaza, a building from the byzantine period , the saint hilarion cathedral from the year 300, and the jabaliya church from the year 400, which palestinian archaeologists were exploring in both of these ancient areas until recent days. under the threat and destruction of the attacks of the zionist regime , according to archaeologists, these are not all the civilizational and historical signs of gaza. tepe khas and the historical castle of barqouk are also in danger. these are historical places that have been identified, and according to archaeologists , many unknown ancient and historical layers are

museum. but none have acknowledged it 50 is off the court to the was killed. people in central kenya rebelled against the british off the satellites. grab that farm land, such as estimate the breast has killed more than 10000 people in the crackdown on the rebels known as mal mile. many more with detained incense to villages and concentration camps. 10 years ago, the british government compensated about 5000 survivors, but it's never admitted responsibility. this is what remains of one of the accounts is now a school survivor has said that this sale was used for solitary confinement and talked to the british towards your methods. in rooms like this included test ration and right to extract concessions and information. think charles, is it? thanks. it's talk about britain's colonial. paused on his visit to kenya. people are waiting to find out what he's going to say. off the court to that was killed much of the land of the non the and keep saying is people's was grabbed for t plantations, many of that to send and still living nearby sacks. we're asking, i can get the city also doing the same say something about a

assault was brilliant, one of the best in history, but it was british aviation that bombed and considers it an outstanding success, they say in museumsft homeless, 41% of buildings... civilian buildings were destroyed, they are proud of it, this is a different philosophy, ours is theirs, and kirby cannot understand this, it is impossible, there is no need to appeal to them, to some kind of their understanding, honor, people simply don’t have this, these are different civilizational approaches, there is a certain difference in this significant in politics, but that’s not what i wanted to talk about, this week in minsk they not only celebrated the 1005th anniversary of the komsomol, indeed, as andrei viktorovich said, but also a very interesting conference on eurasian security took place and the approaches that were expressed there, came, by the way, minister internal affairs for the second time this year of hungary petr sierta, who, by the way, like orban, is threatened with sanctions by the americans, and hungary is a member of the european union, a member of nato, well, he’s just pursuing a position, not the one he would like, so th

museum, american history. and every visit time to washington. i visit that flag he flies that so to inspire us so the british launched this bombardment of fort mchenry to reduce it literally to rubble and before they do there's a doctor named beams. dr. beams, not mr. beam, but doctor beams. he's a scotsman who flip sides and is a spy for us as he's treating the british. he's spying on us. so british. coburn is livid. he wants to kill being so his men captured doctor beams, and they bring him on board. flagship of the british armada at anchor off baltimore the hms tonic to go in an antique so what they do is they're going to try doctor beams and kill him? not until they make him watch what they're going to do to baltimore. so because beams is a hero and knows folks get a young lawyer, a very handsome fellow goes to george at the time and a budding poet named francis scott key, and they send him on board ship to try to save doctor bees. ky brilliantly gets letters some of the british he saved and who and said this guy saved my life so he appeals to them and in a remarkable moment of charity say okay we're not