alan johnston, bbc news. now on bbc news, it's time for the travel show.week on the travel show, i'm in sweden, finding out how its capital, stockholm, plans to become the most futuristic city in the world. so, it shows the tickets, our names, and it all came from that. and i'll also be trying to get snug under the duvet in subzero temperatures. you have a good night's sleep. thanks, stefan, i'll bejust chilling here. and carmen's in japan, facing her food fears, as she takes on her latest taste challenge. it's quite overpowering. this might take a bit of getting used to. sweden's capital city stockholm is built around lake malaren and the baltic sea on m islands. its pastel—coloured buildings and historical old town date back seven centuries to a time when stockholm was scandinavia's main trading post. and, today, with a population ofi million, it's one of europe's smallest but fastest—growing capital cities and its eyes are set firmly on the future. this place has been called the start—up capital of europe and there are plans to make it the smartest, mos

alan johnston, bbc news. york. she beat madison keys in straight sets to pick up herfirst grand slam title. the bbc tim allman has more. there are comebacks and then there are comebacks. six weeks ago, sloane stephens was 957th in the world rankings after nearly a year out with a foot injury. now she is the us open champion and a grandslam winner for the first time. but in truth, it wasn't all that much of a competition. her opponent, fellow american madison keys, never really got started. a series of unforced errors helping stephens to an early lead. the nerves were perhaps understandable. neither player had reached a majorfinal before. their combined ranking the lowest in a us open final since rankings were introduced. either way, sloane stephens soon racked up the first set 6—3. she did occasionally have to work for it, producing flashes of brilliance her opponent had no answer for. and to be fair, madison keys did also set show some of the form that got her to this final but all those unforced errors mean

our middle east editor alan johnston has more.the darkness, deep beneath the banks of the river nile for well over 3,000 years. now they're emerging from their grave. every detail of their surroundings is being examined. and slowly, the story of this burial place and it's dead is becoming clearer. it's believed that this was the tomb of a goldsmith, and we even find an image of this man captured in the sculpture. he sits beside his wife, who is closed in traditional headwear, and a long dress. lower down, between their legs, is the outline of another figure, thought to be one of their sons. the archaeologists believe the goldsmith would have dedicated his work to the glorification of the god amun. along with the mummies and decorated cottons, the tomb has given up other bridges, including masks, jewellery and figurines. all now on show for the first time. and it's thought this place may have even more to offer, there are plans to keep searching for other burial chambers. alan johnston, bbc news. tennis — and america's sloane steph

our middle east editor alan johnston has more.re in the darkness deep beneath the banks of the river nile for well over 3000 years. now, they are emerging from their grave. every detail of their surroundings is being examined. and slowly the story of this burial place and it's dead is becoming clearer. it's believed that this was the tomb of a goldsmith and we even find an image of this man captured in a sculpture. he sits beside his wife who is clothed in traditional headwear and a long dress. lower down, between their legs, is the outline of anotherfigure, their legs, is the outline of another figure, thought to their legs, is the outline of anotherfigure, thought to be one their legs, is the outline of another figure, thought to be one of best ones. the archaeologist believes the goldsmith will have dedicated his work to the glorification of the god. along with the mummies and the dedicated coffins, the tomb has given out other riches including masks on the jewellery and figurines. all now on show for the first time. it's thoug

have discovered the tomb of a goldsmith that's more than 3,000 years old. 0ur middle east editor, alan johnston from the world of ancient egypt. they lay here in the darkness, deep beneath the banks of the river nile for well over 3,000 years. now, they are emerging from their grave. every detail of their surroundings is being examined. and slowly, the story of this burial place and it's dead is becoming clearer. it's believed that this was the tomb of a goldsmith, and we even find an image of this man captured in the sculpture. he sits beside his wife, who is closed in traditional headwear, and dress. that brings us to the end of the programme. thanks for watching us here on bbc news. thanks forjoining me. it has been a day of mixed weather fortunes, and i don't mean across the british isles, imean in don't mean across the british isles, i mean in any one location. whilst that low pressure has been the dominant driving feature of weather, we have quite out of shower activity surged along by an noticeable 0a north—westerly winds across the british isles. lurking in the wings is sunday's. a lot

well alan johnston, who's the world service middle east analyst, told me a little earlier about who was, give or take a few, who have been holding onto a stretch of territory in the barren mountains on the border between syria and lebanon. they were on the point of being defeated there when they managed to make a deal with the lebanese militant group hezbollah, and the syrian government. the terms of the deal were that they would stop fighting, they would surrender, but in return they would be able to gather up their families and head eastwards to the last province in syria that is still under is control. that plan was put into action. they were all gathered up and put into 17 buses, which headed eastwards. but the us led coalition was no part of that deal. the us coalition is very active in eastern syria. it didn't want to see these hardened jihadis dumped into that territory where they could take sanctuary and fight again. the us led coalition warplanes did everything they could to stop the convoy reaching that is province. they blew up a road, blew up a bridge and managed to trap the

alan johnston suffered similar abuse in knowway and ireland. we see he legacy of the durbin conference in the sanctions movement bds, launched after durbin and rebrand in 2005 as the supposedly palestinian led civil society initiative in large part to sever the toxic association with the racism of the durbin conference of we see he legacy of this when valencia council in space boycotts israel. over 50 councils in spade have adopted bds. we see the legacy of sis when norway's largest trade union, with over a million members, formally adopts bds policies and when the mennonite church votes to divest from israel and joinses the presbyterian quake whore have started to divest. this is the political war in israel and unlike conventional warfare it has no end, often rick to discern victory from defeat and takes place in the college that our children attend the news media we consumer, the political party wes choose to support and every form that touches our lives. my book does not tell a happy story. indeed israel is bleeding badly in many of the inst

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