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Now witness history hears from a survivor of the khmer rouge regime, and a warning, some viewers may find some scenes upsetting. Hello, and welcome to witness history here at the Royal Academy in london. Im tanya beckett. Today, we present five extraordinary moments in history as told to us by the people who were there. Coming up, we meet the scientist who tried to find a cure for the common cold. The diver who discovered the lost plane belonging to the author of the Little Prince. And the afric...

Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines emergency workers are in a race against time to prevent a catastrophic collapse of the damaged reservoir in Whaley Bridge in derbyshire. There are fears of storms tomorrow that could cause water levels to breach the dam. The Prime Minister has visited Whaley Bridge and promised a major rebuild to make the dam safe. Talks aimed at averting strikes by thousands of Heathrow Airport workers have resumed. The airport has already cancelled 177 flights scheduled f...

Theres more uncertainty for hundreds of thousands of students in the uk. The exams regulator has withdrawn its advice on how pupils in england and wales can appeal their allocated grades, just hours after making the advice public. The uk government has been under fire since thursday, when end of School Results for 18 year olds were awarded with nearly 40 of teacher assessments having been downgraded. Theres concern there will be more confusion with School Results for 16 year olds just days away....

Holidaymakers have arrived back in the uk, after a last minute dash to avoid new quarantine rules. Travellers from france, the netherlands, and four other countries would have been subject to m days self isolation after concerns over rising coronavirus cases abroad. Andy moore has the details. There were long queues at calais early this morning as people scrambled to get back to the uk ahead of the 4am deadline. At passport control, to get this far, they told us we should be fine to get back to ...

The Cosquer Cave in Marseille, France lies deep under the sea where many prehistoric rock art paintings and rock art engravings are preserved. The discovery of the Cosquer Cave is an important rock art find in an area of France where no Palaeolithic cave art had ever been discovered.

Archaeologists have raced to create a replica of the Cosquer Cave in France, before it is lost to the tide.

To get to the 30,000-year-old paintings, archaeologists first have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean near Marseille, before navigating a 450ft tunnel to reach a huge cavern.

Climate change and pollution are threatening to wash away the art prehistoric men and women created over 15 millennia.

Archaeologists and divers are working to preserve and record the Palaeolithic paintings and engravings, as a new replica exhibition opens this week

To reach the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been found, archaeologists have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean off southern France.