allan little, bbc news.ggest stars has been hospitalised after testing positive for coronavirus. in a tweet to his 43 million followers, amitabh bachchan says he's asking anyone who's had close contact with him in recent days to get tested. the 77—year—old has appeared in over 200 indian films in a career spanning more than five decades. his son abhishek bachchan, who is also a film star, also later tweeted that he tested positive for coronavirus. haroon rashid, from the bbc‘s asian network has more. they have both been taken to hospital not too far from their home in mumbai. he had tested covid positive and hostiles we re covid positive and hostiles were inferring the authorities and that his family were undergoing the covert tests as well and about an hour later, amitabh‘s son confirmed he had tested positive amitabh said that they both have mild symptoms and has requested all of theirfans symptoms and has requested all of their fans not to panic and stay calm. amitabh is the greatest film star in india of

allan little, bbc news.me vera lynn, who died last month at the age of 103. the singer's cortege was accompanied by a battle of britain flypast as it travelled through her home village in east sussex. representatives from the royal british legion stood with flags as they waited to honour dame vera. staying with the battle of britain. it's emerged that a schoolgirl from london had a hand in the raf‘s victory in that aerial fight. she helped to improve the firepower of the air force's new fighters, the spitfire and the hurricane, which were key to defeating the german luftwaffe. sophie raworth explains. newsreel: way up in the sky there are messerschmitts, junkers, heinkels or dorniers that are going to get the thrashing of their lives! july, 1940, and nazi germany is beginning the first of many bombing raids in what became known as the battle of britain. but the raf‘s pilots managed to fight off the luftwaffe and defend these shores in their spitfires and hurricanes. it is the most famous plane from world war

our special correspondent allan little reports. this is notjust a day of commemoration.rom the killing fields where many had lain undiscovered for a quarter of a century. today, i am burying my father. the oldest among these victims here. it took 25 years until we found his body. his remains. so he can finally find peace. many bosnian serbs remain reluctant to acknowledge that the massacre at srebrenica happened at all. so remembering, keeping the historical record straight against distortion and denial, has the character of a civic duty. bosnians do not have the luxury of believing that genocide cannot happen to them. that is what has driven munira subasic, one of the widows of srebrenica, in her unflagging 25—year pursuit ofjustice. my first message is for criminals who have committed a crime and genocide. we will persecute you and we will never give up. there will always be someone to chase you. that is our right and obligation. bosnian serb forces seized srebrenica injuly 1995, after three years of siege and bombardment. the men and older boys were separated from the

allan little, bbc news.ied last month at the age of 103. two spitfires flew over the funeral cortege, as it made its way through her home village of ditchling. duncan kennedy was there. plane engines. it was a village that came to pay its respects, but this was a nation saying farewell. dame vera lynn's funeral cortege navigated the narrow streets, lined with people she called friends. applause her daughter, virginia, walked behind the procession. traffic stopped on a day for reflection. we've lost one of our great, you know, nationaltreasures, really. and this is more of a celebration to show our respect for her, what she's done for our country. she was a heroine, absolute heroine, yeah. two spitfires from the battle of britain memorial flight soared over the village. symbol of dame vera's close bonds with the armed forces. # don't know where...# below, spontaneity, amid the solemnity. # but i know we'll meet again some sunny day.# applause # when the lights go on again...# dame vera lynn's own rich tones g

allan little, bbc news.effrey epstein, has strongly denied charges that she helped him sexually exploit girls as young as 1a — and even participated in the abuse. her lawyers have requested her release from a us prison on $5 million bail. 0ur correspondent nada tawfik has more. this court filing by ghislaine maxwell's attorney comes ahead of a court hearing planned for tuesday where a federaljudge will decide if she can be released from prison pending trial. this is really an argument against the government's position that she's a flight risk. they say she is not a flight risk, that she hasn't left the united states in the past year and in fact, afterjeffrey epstein‘s arrest, she had actually reached out to prosecutors through her counsel. she said instead she should be released on bail with a bond of $5 million, that she would surrender her travel documents and not leave the new york area. and that she would also agree to home confinement with electronic gps monitoring. we know prosecutors are going to be a

allan little, bbc news.part of england's 1966 world cup winning team, has died at the age of 85, following a long illness. he spent his entire playing—career at leeds united and later, as a manager, led ireland to the world cup quarterfinals in italy in 1990. his family paid tribute to him, saying he was "a friend to many" and "a much—adored husband, father, grandfather and great—grandfather". andy swiss looks back at his life. he was known as big jack and he was a footballing giant. jack charlton turned his courage and charisma into a quite remarkable career. bobby charlton with the corner. jack! perfect goal! he grew up in northumberland, alongside his younger brother, bobby. but while bobby's skills soon made him a star, jack's defensive qualities were less glamorous and he knew it. tackle by charlton. came in like a brick wall and he's hurt. he got an elbow in the face. people try to compare us and i used to say, you shouldn't compare us. i can't play. i can stop other people playing but i can't play. bo

allan little, who covered the bosnian warfor the bbc, reports.re and boys separated from their families and, in the space of a few days, murdered and thrown into mass graves. at united nations peacekeeping force not only failed to stop it, it actively handed over thousands of bosnian muslims to their killers, led by the bosnian serb commander ratko mladic. the shared international shame that echoes down the decades. it is not as if we didn't know it would happen. many saw it coming. mass murder happy part of the bosnian serb military campaign three years before zach srebrenica, cap and date themselves called ethnic cleansing. the crimes committed rank among the most heinous known to humankind. enter here, ratko mladic was one of several convicted of genocide. the yugoslavia tribunal was the first experiment in internationaljustice and leading nazis were tried at nuremberg. even with quite a considerable number of people who had been convicted, not only in the hague but in the local courts as well, a considerable number of people have been identif

allan yang. you told "the new york times" this issue hit close to home for you with behavior you've seen towards colleagues of your in the past couple months. tell us a littlethat and your goals for this campaign. >> i just directed a movie called "tiger tale." one of the stars of that movie was going grocery shopping in pasadena. this was early on in the pandemic. someone saw that he was asian and basically told him he should be quarantined and go back to his country. yeah, it's hitting people all over the world and all over the country, especially. >> what do you hope to achieve with this psa? >> first of all, to raise awareness. there were people on our crew who were making the actual psa who weren't aware of the issue. so i think we're coming from a position where people don't even know that this is happening. so the first step is to raise awareness. >> as you're probably aware, president trump has repeatedly used the term china virus and other frankly racist nicknames to refer to covid-19. how difficult does it make it to fight asian-american bias when that's the message that is coming from the white house to this country? >> it's not helping. let's pu