david shukman, bbc news.king sum in new york. the 500—year—old masterpiece named salvator mundi went under the hammer in a marathon 18—minute bidding war after being billed as the greatest artistic rediscovery of the 20th century. the purchase breaks the previous sale record of a top painting by an eye—watering $2110 million. decades after its debut, beatbox battling is still going strong, and the competition is only getting tougher. we caught up with some of the brightest and best at the world beatbox championships in new york. no matter how good a contestant is, anything can happen. my name is antony. i began the boxing for the fun of it. —— beatboxing. that turned into wanting to show others might beatboxing. that turned into trying to make an impact on the world with my beatboxing. welcome to the 2017 american beatbox championships. if you want to really learn how to beatbox, go back and look at how these rudders did it. it was different for me because people did not know what i was going to do. —— brothe

david shukman, bbc news.york. the 500—year—old masterpiece named salvator mundi went under the hammer in a marathon 18—minute bidding war after being billed as the greatest artistic rediscovery of the 20th century. the purchase breaks the previous sale record of a top painting by an eye—watering $240 million. and you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter. i'm duncan golestani. thank you for watching. hi there. for many of us it is going to be another pretty cloudy start to the day on thursday, but there will be some significant weather changes, because this cold front is going to be sliding its way southwards as we go on through the day and behind that we're going to see the skies turning much brighter with much more in the way of sunshine. before we get there, though, for the early rises, we've got a few fog patches knocking around, across south—east england, this morning. a lot of cloud too. there's the band of rain affecting northern ireland and scotland first thing. this band of rain, r

david shukman, bbc news. stood still or have fallen for a third year in succession, but the game is still having difficulty attracting a younger audience. a survey commissioned by the bbc, suggests that more than half of young adults say that they're attending fewer games because tickets are still too expensive. our sports correspondent, natalie pirks, has been studying the findings the biggest crowds, the brightest talent. commentator: eriksen. delightful ball. what a great goal. the reward for the fans dedication is thrilling entertainment. that loyalty comes as at cost. how come you prefer to watch it at home or play fifa it's money, really. the cost of travel and the cost of a ticket. fans like sam are feeling the pinch and missing out on the live experience because of it. it's louder than i thought it was going to be, to be you wouldn't go honest. get this at home. there are those who believe football could do more to help. pricey, especially for it's young people. wages are not going up every year. ie,

our science editor david shukman has this story.that has become toxic. smog created by countless engines burning fossil fuels, including coal. coal is one of the biggest sources of pollution worldwide. power stations such as this one in poland belch out gases including carbon dioxide, and despite promises to clean up, emissions are actually increasing. for countries in the path of devastating hurricanes, like the ones that struck the caribbean earlier this year, this is depressing. because global warming may bring more extreme weather. and it seems to them that little is being done to stop it. this is very worrying for us. i would hate to say that it sounds a death knell, but it translates into that, given that this summer we've had such an active hurricane season. we know what irma and maria did to the region. this new research finds that more and more carbon dioxide is being released from power stations, factories, and different forms of transport. and this matters, because the gas traps heat in the atmosphere. now, this graph sho

emissions are needed to avoid dangerous global warming later this century, as our science editor, david shukman. smog created by countless engines burning fossil fuels, including coal. coal is one of the biggest sources of pollution worldwide. power stations such as this one in poland belch out gases including carbon dioxide, and despite promises to clean up, emissions are actually increasing. for countries in the path of devastating hurricanes, like the ones that struck the caribbean earlier this year, this is depressing. because global warming may bring more extreme weather. and it seems to them that little is being done to stop it. this is very worrying for us. i would hate to say that it sounds a death knell, but it translates into that, given this summer we have had such an active hurricane season. we know what irma and maria did to the region. this new research finds that more and more carbon dioxide is being released from power stations, factories and different forms of transport. and this matters because the gas traps heat in the atmosphere. this graph shows how emissions of carbon diox

say cuts are needed to avoid dangerous global warming later this century, as our science editor, david shukmantless that has become toxic, smog created by countless engines burning fossil fuels including coal. coal is one of the biggest sources of pollution worldwide. power stations like this one in poland belch out gases including carbon dioxide and despite promises to clean up, emissions are actually increasing. for countries in the path of devastating harry kane is like the ones that struck the caribbean earlier this year, this is depressing —— devastating hurricane aims. it seems that little is being done to stop global warming. this is very worrying for us, i would warming. this is very worrying for us, iwould hate warming. this is very worrying for us, i would hate to say that it sounds a death but it translate into that given we have had such an active hurricane season this season. this new research finds that more and more, burke said is being released from power stations, factories and different forms of transport —— more and more carbon dioxide. this shows how emissions of carbon dio

our science editor david shukman explains.have been suffering in air that has become toxic. smog created by countless engines burning fossil fuels, including coal. coal is one of the biggest sources of pollution worldwide. power stations such as this one in poland belch out gases including carbon dioxide, and despite promises to clean up, emissions are actually increasing. for countries in the path of devastating hurricanes, like the ones that struck the caribbean earlier this year, this is depressing. because global warming may bring more extreme weather. and it seems to them that little is being done to stop it. this is very worrying for us. i would hate to say that it sounds a death knell, but it translates into that, given this summer we have had such an active hurricane season. we know what irma and maria did to the region. this new research finds that more and more carbon dioxide is being released from power stations, factories and different forms of transport. and this matters because the gas traps heat in the atmospher

here‘s our science editor david shukman.that has become toxic. smog created by countless engines burning fossil fuels, including coal. coal is one of the biggest sources of pollution worldwide. power stations such as this one in poland belch out gases including carbon dioxide, and despite promises to clean up, emissions are actually increasing. for countries in the path of devastating hurricanes, like the ones that struck the caribbean earlier this year, this is depressing. because global warming may bring more extreme weather. and it seems to them that little is being done to stop it. this is very worrying for us. i would hate to say that it sounds a death knell, but it translates into that, given this summer we have had such an active hurricane season. we know what irma and maria did to the region. this new research finds that more and more carbon dioxide is being released from power stations, factories and different forms of transport. and this matters because the gas traps heat in the atmosphere. this graph shows how emi