| | | | | | | Hello. King Charles's cancer diagnosis has come as a shock to the British public and the Royal Family. Royal correspondent Sean Coughlan reflects on how the monarchy will face up to this new public and private challenge. A year on from a powerful earthquake in southern Turkey, BBC Turkish's Esra Yalçınalp and Osman Kaytazoglu speak to a woman who spent the past year investigating the causes of the building collapse that killed her son and his young family. We also have reports from the island of Zanzibar in Tanzania, where an alcohol shortage threatens the success of tourist season, and from the Isle of Skye in Scotland, where fossils reveal a flying reptile lived there in the Jurassic period. |
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| | | | Top of the agenda | | King Charles begins cancer treatment |  | | King Charles will continue to receive his red boxes, the daily exchange of paperwork at the heart of his role. Credit: Getty Images |
| | British monarch King Charles has spent the night at home after beginning treatment for cancer. The statement from Buckingham Palace did not specify the type of cancer afflicting the King, but Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told the BBC on Tuesday it was "caught early". The King is expected to pause public appearances but, as political editor Chris Mason explains, he will continue to perform constitutional duties such as weekly meetings with the prime minister. The King's consort Queen Camilla, and son and heir Prince William, will be expected to take on a larger share of public duties, while also dealing with private concerns about their loved ones. Prince William's wife, Catherine, has recently undergone abdominal surgery, requiring months of recovery away from the limelight. As royal correspondent Sean Coughlan writes in his analysis, such emergencies can pull people together. Prince Harry's expected arrival from the US to be by his father's side already seems to be a step in that direction. | | | | |
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| | | | | | | AT THE SCENE |  Stone Town, Tanzania | | The island running dry | | Known for its stunning sandy beaches, Tanzania's island of Zanzibar is a top tourist destination. But a recent issue with alcohol import licenses has created a shortage of beer and other drinks arriving from the mainland, threatening livelihoods at the height of tourist season. |  | | Alfred Lasteck and Wycliffe Muia, BBC News |
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| | Several tourist hotels along the Matemwa beaches in the north of Zanzibar's main island are only serving soft drinks and people in that area say they have to go to the main city, Stone Town, for alcohol. Mr Mshenga's business selling beer and sea food has been badly hit. "We are running short of beer at my bar, and I just have a stock of soft drinks," he told the BBC. "The government has to take action. It is the high season now, it is very hot and these tourists need joy, they need cold beer on these beaches." |
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| | | | Beyond the headlines | | A grieving mother's fight for justice |  | | Nurgül Göksu has been helping other victims of the earthquake seek justice. Credit: BBC |
| | Before the earthquake struck southern Turkey last year, Nurgül Göksu was, as she puts it, a normal housewife. But after her son, daughter-in-law and six-month-old granddaughter died when their building collapsed, Ms Göksu became determined to find those responsible for the building's failure, and hold them to account. | | | | |
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| | | | Something different | | Jumper jubilation | | Classic knitwear is having a moment. But not all wool garments are created equal. | | |
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| | | | And finally... | | Rare fossils of a unique species of flying reptile, or pterosaur, has been discovered in Scotland's Isle of Skye. Scientists were surprised to find a pterosaur from this period off Scotland's west coast - they were thought to mostly live in China. Take a look at the remains and at an illustration of how the creature might have looked. |
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