hirhaps nobody personifies more than the fabled beauty nefertiti.you think she actually looks like that? e have no idea what she actually looks like, and her mummy has not been identified, and even if it had been, how are you going to go from one to t other and say here is the skeletal face and line it up with this as actual reality. this is what she wanted to present to her people. it is what her hband wanted to esent her as. jane: this exhibition also includes the last queen of egypt, cleopatra. her life, too, has been rewritten and manipulated over the centuries. but thanks to this exhibition, she and the other queens emerge from theirom tombs as real and not just the stuff of legend. jane o'brien, bbc news,. washingt laura: the trailblazing queens of egypt, cleopatra and nefertiti. you might say they were early feminis. remember, you can find much more of all the day's news on our website to including the latest on the brexit negotiations. to see what we are working on at any time, do make sure to check us out on twitter. i am laura trevelyan. "

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by nefertiti in despite the progress we've made we still need to work on the details it will take a few years. the afghan army still depends on outside support it receives equipment for the united states and training and mentoring from other nato countries. until recently the afghans didn't even have their own air force soldiers here are trained in weaponry engineering and navigation with maps. and when the training started four years ago we barely had any resources but since then we've learned a lot and we've developed a relationship of trust. along with the version i was from the afghan air force exercises are becoming more vital because the taliban have regained control of up to half the country. pressure is growing on both afghanistan and the nato alliance. unfortunately the clashes have intensified over the last year and so we have to be prepared for our mission to continue and. the situation remains fraught and the afghan army is still a long way from protecting the country on its own. it's feared that a u.s. withdrawal could further strengthen the taliban. but as leaders saturday

world heritage site by far the most famous exhibit here is the bust of an ancient egyptian queen nefertiti she was a proud beautiful old woman back in the fourteenth century b.c. she was said to have had many admirers. and some things just never change. also then the whole reach for the orient hit the bust wears thick eyeliner and it looks great so in the twenty's lots of people here started applying thick eyeliner to look like now for t.-t. for the wonderful teacher. thought it is not far away the home of another famous woman. so one gets to the right at the bright yellow building in the middle that's where uncle american lives. her official residence is in the chancellor but when elected merkel decided to continue living in her old apartment i was like you know on what most people don't know about america is that she was a squatter twenty shows during her wild youth in the one nine hundred eighty. that was in the g.d.r. time east berlin she probably had maybe begun to imagine that she would one day be the chancellor of every unified germany. our last stop is the berlin cathedral the germ

perhaps nobody personifies this more than the fabled beauty nefertiti.been definitively identified and even if it had been, our could you go from one and say this is the skeletal face and lined you go from one and say this is the skeletalface and lined it you go from one and say this is the skeletal face and lined it up with this is the actual reality. this is what you wanted to present to her people, what her husband wanted to present a hazard. this all - - this exhibition features cleopatra, whose life was manipulated over the centuries but thanks to this exhibition, she and the other queens emerge from their tombs as real women and notjust the stuff of legend. jane o'brien, bbc news, washington. you have been watching newsday. i'm babita sharma in london. and i'm rico hizon in singapore. coming up, we will have more on purdue pharma and their $270 million lawsuit. and we'd like to leave you with these dramatic pictures of a traffic bridge being completely washed away as a heavy storm batters new zealand's west coast. the bridge in the fraanosef townsh

perhaps nobody personifies this more than the fabled beauty nefertiti.mmy hasn't been definitively identified and even if it had been, you couldn't go from one and say this is the skeletal face and line it up with this as the actual reality. this is what she wanted to present to her people, what her husband wanted to present to the outside. this exhibition features the famous cleopatra, whose life was manipulated over the centuries, but thanks to this exhibition, she and the other queens emerge from their tombs as real women and notjust the stuff of legend. jane o'brien, bbc news, washington. you have been watching newsday. thank you forjoining us. we will see you again soon. hello there. don't expect any major changes in our weather over the next few days. there is more dry weather to come, some spells of sunshine and patchy cloud as well. one subtle difference, it is going to turn a little bit milder for a time at least. high pressure then sitting to the south of the british isles. the winds allowing cloud to feed in over the top of that area of high p

perhaps nobody personifies this more than the fabled beauty nefertiti.ow are you going to go from one to the other and say, 0k, here's the skeletal face and then line it up with this, is this actual reality? this is what she wanted to present to her people, it's what her husband wanted to present her as. this exhibition also includes the last queen of egypt, cleopatra. her life, too, has been rewritten and manipulated over the centuries but thanks to this exhibition, she and the other queens emerge from their tombs as real women and notjust the stuff of legend. wow, amazing. i have a real interest in egyptology as a former cairo correspondent, because i used to hang out with old mummies, the archaeological kind. this is me coming out of a tomb that had just been opened, a 2500 year tomb in a basket, which used to make me laugh. the chief archaeologist in egypt fancied himself as a modern—day indiana jones, and he always wanted ours, the bbc, there for the big reveal of a new tomb that had been opened because he thought he would find one of these queens.