Exploring how western artists have been influenced by the islamic world, is opening at the british museum. Will gompertz reports. Laid out before us, 500 years of inspiration, appropriation and exchange between the islamic world and the west. A near conversation between two cultures, whose artists were intrigued and influenced by each other. So, this room demonstrates the Cultural Exchange between the west and the east, or the west and the orient. Two dishes, which you would think are made at the same time, because theyre nearly identical. But this one, here, was actually made in the 19th century. This was made by a french ceramicist and his name was theodore deck. This one here was made in turkey, and this was actually made in the 16th century. So, you can see that theodore deck, here, nearly 300 years later, has done a very good job at imitating this. The central room in the exhibition confronts a central issue in the show, which is the way that western artists controversially painte
Partner on instagram. In a world full of specialist publications, competition to represent communities, and make more money, is getting tougher. But activists say the platforms are more important than ever. Ben hunte, bbc news. Coming up in a few minutes after the weather. The travel show heads to greece, as the Acropolis Museum unveils its newest excavation, to mark the tenth anniversary of the attraction. Now its time for a look at the weather with stav danaos. Hello. Its looking pretty unsettled this weekend, we have a band of rain slowly pushing into the west, thats going to bring cloud and rain to Western Areas today, and tomorrow it will be stalled across eastern areas to bring a quite a lot of rainfall, in fact. This is the weather front im talking about, slowly pushing in off the atlantic. So turning wetter and windier across Western Areas, particularly Northern Ireland, western scotland and around irish sea coasts. Further east, it should be dry, some hazy sunshine here. Best
37 people have been injured eight of them seriously after a bus crashed in devon. The double decker was travelling on the a385 between totnes and paignton when it came off the road and ended up on its side in a field. Richard lister has more. Just after am this morning, and the Emergency Services are responding to a major incident. 37 people were injured eight of them seriously when this double decker bus came off the road. Casualties were taken to hospitals across the region. Witnesses at the scene said up to 20 people were trapped in the wreckage and the fire and rescue service had to use specialist equipment to get them out. My friend was trapped on the bus for 45 minutes because. Thankfully, she wasnt injured but they had to cut holes in the roof of the bus to get people out. And, obviously, they couldnt move people who were badly injured. They were trying to get those people out first. The devon Police Serious collisions unit says the bus driver is helping with the investigation a
Score stays the same. Thats it. Time for a look at the weather forecast. Very good to you. We have seen a lot of rain over the last few hours and for some that rain is still falling. The met good afternoon. Just about all of us have seen some rain over the last 2a office has released an amber warning for parts of suffolk and norfolk. Hours but some spots have had an potential flooding and really poor awful lot of rain and it has started to cause problems. These were the travelling conditions. Some patchy rain in other eastern areas, quite scenes in norfolk little earlier on stop you can see the way this rain breezy as well and windy towards the south eastern corner. Tonight brings has become confined to northern and a brief dry interlude before this eastern parts of the uk. Really next weather system pushes in from heavy rain of fall in parts of east the west. Wind strengthens as well with gusts up to 70 miles an hour for the Western Isles of scotland. Anglia. The met office have issue