it's as the director of the grace museum has resigned with the immediate effect half to a series of fest. hardwick fisher is stepping down after close to 2000 artifacts with millions of pounds. i believe to have been stolen. a member of staff, a side off to items including gold jewelry. so my precious stones in glass were taken from the museum over several years. sonia diego has the latest on the story from outside the british museum, and under the resignation of the director of the british museum, completes a week of turmoil for the institution as it tries to get to the bottom of these alleged facts. now, mr. fisher, the outgoing direct to have said that he had noticed that there was something arise as far back as 2021. but it was really in 2022. when that had been a full audits of the objects, the artifacts at the museum. but he realized the extent of the problem. nevertheless, one member of stuff has been sacked on police on now investigating the looking into exactly what happened with the had even been reports from antiquities deal is that something artifacts had already been put on

that other one graces the halls of this great museum. many of you may have already seen it today or if you visited the museum previously. it has a very distinctive blue and yellow paint scheme that will end up at the national museum of the u.s. air force as the exact same paint scheme. reflecting on that story of that aircraft and accepting the aircraft, made me realize how far we have come. the progress our society has made since the tuskegee airmen learned to conquer the skies. the story of that plan, of those airmen. it is never a guarantee. they took -- it took the extent and reactions of two americans and a chance meeting with the third, seizing opportunity to make it happen. three african-american aviators organized a goodwill flight from chicago to washington, d.c. their mission was to port congress and lobby for change and legislation that would allow african-americans to join the army air corps. they flew from chicago to washington, d.c. in a two seater lincoln ptk biplane. it had a decade of wear and tear and was really brought

are now confronting the british museum with decades of a very arrogant and patronizing argument that greece could not safeguard their own treasures. now come to grace'sing the finger at the british museum and saying, maybe our parthenon marbles are not so safe in london after all. christian: fascinating. good to talk to you this evening. thank you. around the world and across the u.k., this is bbc news. let's take a look at the stories making headlines in the u.k. former metropolitan police officer, who abused his position to prey on women and girls, has been in jail for a series of rapes spanning eight years. the court heard the 44-year-old's predatory behavior dating back to the 1990's, and went unchecked until one of his victims came forward. the train driver and passenger christopher stock very died when the train to railed at carmen in august, 2020. the train hit a landslide after heavy rain. the caseill be heard at the high court in aberdeen next month. a children's charity in england says the cuts to the hours of young people spend doing sports should be a national concern. new data shows a further 4000 hours of physical educatn have been lost

time that within norma's grace and support from her team. the six museumas a fascination days leading up to the aftermath. while there still questions today. >> i remember at the time i found a book on our shelf at home it was the torch is passed. about the jfk funeral. and i am a member at leafing through it in seeing iconic images of the funeral. i thought the one thing about the question would be giving donated so many wonderful images. for innocent bystanders. this was taken who actually was a doctor before and after the assassination. he was here documenting this tragic very sad moment just before little john-john raised his hand in salute. we have a lot of materials we have been not able to put on display but this is one example he wanted to express thees powerful memories. but it adds so much rick texture and dimension to the story were able to do the programming. >> tell me, we use the word tourist sites. whether we are doing with ford's theater or the lincoln assassination or your own exhibits, tell me how do museums exhibits evolve dealing with a

lincoln was inspired by lincoln procession with enormous grace and support from her team. but the museum really chronicles the assassination and addresses those chaotic days leading up to the assassination, the aftermath and how the nation and the world mourned ny there are still questions today. >> yeah, i remember at the time, so i grew up and i found a book on our shelf at home, it was called the torch has passed, famous book about the jfk funeral. i remember leafing through it and seeing these iconic images of the funeral. i thought i would pull one up, yeah. tell us aboutt this moment. >> one of the strengths of our museum collection is what we have been given donated so many wonderful images and films and home movies byby innocent bystanders this photograph was taken by dr.ma thomas mcconnell who actually was a doctor at park land hospital before and after the assassination, but he was here documenting this tragic, very sad moment of mrs. kennedy coming up wit the children just before little john-john raised his hand in salute. so we have a lot of material that we haven't yet been

already now the novgorod state museum has more than a million documents, and in the future , the same number will be placed there . it is possible, by the gracepolitan, in gold capital letters with a wax seal , metropolitan nikon's desk charter document of the 17th century from among the unique and perfectly preserved veliky novgorod - one of the centers of ancient russia and orthodoxy and many archival documents. here the church firsts date back to the 15th century for centuries. all this is carefully preserved by specialists. now, in a completely new environment, thanks to a specialized storage system, large-format boxes, all documents are in an unfolded position , there are no creases, because. it is fully unfolded on the folds no paint is lost no text of the document is lost in the new building of the state archive, novgorod region eight. foundation. restoration workshops were stored reading showrooms here. they have already transported such priceless things as birch bark letters , handwritten letters from the russian emperor and thousands of documents from the great patriotic war. and it was all just recently. otherwise. we are with you