martin patience, bbc news, lebanon.ng, mostly female and highly trained in singing and dancing are attracting billions of views online. now, inspired by their idol‘s success, children are trying to do just the same. some even spend their weekends training with special agencies to give themselves every chance at a shot of stardom — but how likely are they to succeed? the african giant swallowtail is one of the world's most mysterious instincts. it is a butterfly, is com pletely instincts. it is a butterfly, is completely unknown to science, never seenin completely unknown to science, never seen in its caterpillar or chrysalis state. now a team of french explorers to the central african republic see if they can find out more about this exclude —— elusive creature. mark you have to admit the scenery creature. mark you have to admit the scenery here is pretty spectacular. the opportunities for discovery, even more so. the opportunities for discovery, even more so. hidden away somewhere in this forest, a butterfly. not just

martin patience, bbc news.aking to the waves — why this year's sydney—hobart yacht race is set to make history. the world of music's been paying tribute to george michael who's died from suspected heart failure at the age of 53. he sold well over 100 million albums in a career spanning more than three decades. the united states troops have been trying to overthrow the dictatorship of general manuel noriega. the pentagon says it's failed in its principle objective — to capture noriega and take him to the united states to face drugs charges. the hammer and sickle was hastily taken away. in its place, the russian flag was hoisted over what is now no longer the soviet union, but the commonwealth of independent states. day broke slowly over lockerbie, over the cockpit of pan am's maid of the seas, nose down in the soft earth. you could see what happens when a plane eight storeys high, a football pitch wide, falls from 30,000 feet. christmas has returned to albania after a communist ban lasting more than 20 years. th

martin patience, bbc news, lebanon.t, ‘you, me and the big c', has shared every step of her cancer journey. this time last year, she didn't think she'd be celebrating another christmas, but that changed thanks to some new treatment and her medical team at the royal marsden hospital. she's been back to meet them. let's take a look. this time last year, i honestly thought i was celebrating my last christmas. my cancer had progressed. the actual words from my oncologist were "i can't promise you it won't progress quickly". i'm deborah james. i have metastatic bowel cancer and i have been living with cancer for three years. i host the award—winning podcast you, me and the big c on bbc radio 5 live. hi! hello! welcome back! thank you! it's nice to see you. you're looking well. i was going to say it's nice to be here not as a patient. 0h, absolutely, absolutely! cyberknife is amazing. it has stopped the growth of two of my tumours that were in inoperable places — one was wrapped around an artery — and i couldn't be more grate

martin patience. we will get more on this story with our security correspondent at about 12.30.liband, is to take part in a review examining the party‘s heavy defeat in the general election. the activist group, labour together, is setting up a commission tasked with mapping out a route back to power. the review will be led by the former shadow education secretary, lucy powell. and lucy powelljoins me now from our salford studio. thank you for talking to us, tell us what you aim to do? we are we are looking to have an objective and inclusive project, taking us into the new year, where we hearfrom members, activists, defeated candidates, pollsters and others and we are going to talk to the public in many of the seats that we lost in this election, to work out what are some of the underlying trends, some of the issues that we have faced and how we might seek to address them. so that we can produce ahead of hopefully the ballots for the leadership race, we can produce a really big piece of work that would stand the test of time and help shape and chart that way back for the labour p

martin patience reports. he was the journalist who criticised the saudi crown prince.im his life. jamal khashoggi was a government insider until going into exile, where he wrote columns highlighting saudi arabia's crackdown on dissent. when he entered the saudi consulate in istanbul, he was never seen again. murdered, in what saudi arabia called a ‘rogue operation‘. a saudi prosecutor said he was drugged, his body dismembered, and then disposed of by a local collaborator. despite a un expert calling for the saudi crown prince to be investigated for the killing, mohammed bin salman has always denied involvement and murder. with these prosecutions, saudi arabia will be hoping to put an end to its worst diplomatic crisis in years. five men have been sentenced to death. 0thers given lengthy prison sentences. but critics will see it as a whitewash which absolves the crown prince of any blame. if the murder wasn‘t premeditated, why did the team have the tools to cut upjamal khashoggi‘s body? that is just one of the many unanswered questions of this dark affair. the presenter

earlier i spoke to our middle east correspondent martin patience and i asked him whether saudi arabiag to draw a line under the whole affair. i think with time, with these prosecutions, you are right. this has been saudi arabia's worst diplomatic crisis in many years. the central contention, critics accused the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman of being behind this killing or having known something about it. that is an accusation he has always denied but with these prosecutions, i think the saudi authorities will be hoping to draw a line under it. they were saying it was not premeditated but that has been called into question by a un expert who says two hours before the killing took place, some of the men who were found guilty of murdering jamal khashoggi were discussing his death. that suggests it was premeditated. she came out and said the hit men has been sentenced to death but the masterminds of this killing, they have not been touched by this investigation. i think saudi arabia will continue to face criticism but a year afterjamal khashoggi's death, they will be hoping that

here's the bbc‘s middle east correspondent martin patience on what the saudis are saying.y this team went into the consulate in istanbul and it was an operation that went wrong. when they wanted to move jamal khashoggi to another area, for more interrogations, they say they realised they couldn't do it, and then for reasons only known to them they decided to kill the journalist. now, i think a lot of people will be deeply sceptical about that version of events. why, for example, did this negotiating team or interrogation team have the tools to cut up jamal khashoggi's body? and his body, the body of the journalist, has yet to be recovered. as martin was suggesting there, there's been a huge backlash to the sentencing. jamal khashoggi worked for the washington post. its publisher fred ryan has put out this statement. it adds, "those ultimately responsible at the highest level of the saudi government continue to escape responsibility for the brutal murder of jamal khashoggi." earlier this year this report was released by the un's special rapporteur, agnes kalamar, which stat

our middle east correspondent martin patience joins me from beirut.of all about what has emerged from this judgment. tell us more first of all about what has emerged from thisjudgment. what we have had is from the public prosecutors in saudi arabia, 11 people were put on trial, five have been sentenced to death, three others lengthy jail sentences been sentenced to death, three others lengthyjail sentences and three released. importantly, what the public prosecutor says is this was not a premeditated killing. according to their investigations, this interrogation team went to the consulate in turkey to interrogate jamal khashoggi. when they couldn‘t move him to another area, apparently for reasons that still are not clear, apparently they decided to kill him. now, i think many will see this as a whitewash of events, why for example did this team have the tools to cut up the body and the body of jamal khashoggi has never been recovered. one version of event ps is this killing was ordered from the highest levels in saudi arabia from mohammed bin salman,

patience in the sense that things are not going to be resolved tomorrow. but there is no other option. it is going to be next to impossible to go it alone. lisa: thank you, martin. i will return to you with some questions, but i want to go back to whitney now because you several times mentioned china and their role in the world bank, and what we see now, a lot of people would say, is that china, as you said, on the one hand, can get loans on favorable terms from the world bank, but on the other hand, china is also a global power with the belt and road initiative, coupled with financial resources from the asian infrastructure investment bank. it has an alternative form of development system, and even a system to support that or developing it that doesn't have human rights conditions. it is not very transparent. some people say it doesn't have all of the other elements that we would like to see from the old institutions to view with point -- of view with this form of development of world prosperity. can you comment on this and how that influences the working of the system, this role of china and what should be done about it, if anything? and if the other panelist