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Speaker 1: Devin Gray, UK correspondent with US Now, hey, Kevin, Hi there, Heather,

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Speaker 1: given how big is the search efforts still going on

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Speaker 1: in Spain.

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Speaker 2: It's massive. A whole city Valencia, absolutely in some neighborhoods

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Speaker 2: destroyed by a mass flash flood. They had a year's

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Speaker 2: worth of rainfall in eight hours. It's led to one

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Speaker 2: hundred and f fifty eight deaths in Spain's worst flooding disaster,

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Speaker 2: and one hundred and fifty five of those recorded in

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Speaker 2: that city of Valencia, in the southeast of the country.

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Speaker 2: More than one two hundred workers now deployed in a

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Speaker 2: rescue mission. But that rescue mission is getting increasingly depressing

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Speaker 2: because you know, time has ticked on since Tuesday's floods

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Speaker 2: and it's feared that many, many dozens remain missing the

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Speaker 2: task of recovering bodies from the mud and wreckage of

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Speaker 2: this flash flood that swept cars down streets as rivers

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Speaker 2: burst their banks. I mean, the pictures are extra ordery

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Speaker 2: of the damage is obviously deeply distressing. One British Man

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Speaker 2: believed to have died among those. As I said, the

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Speaker 2: death toll store rising, and the storm still sitting over

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Speaker 2: Spain sweeping its way up into the northeastern region.

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Speaker 1: As we Talkkevin, this al Fayed thing has become far

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Speaker 1: far bigger than any of us could have imagined when

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Speaker 1: it first blew up.

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Speaker 2: Ryan, Yeah, very much so. And now we learn that

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Speaker 2: some four hundred alleged victims or witnesses have come forward.

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Speaker 2: So Mohammed al fa Ed was boss of world's famous

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Speaker 2: department store, Harold's in London, and during that time there

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Speaker 2: are all these allegations that have now come forward that

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Speaker 2: he was basically using his power to abuse people, and

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Speaker 2: that also took place at the football club he owned,

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Speaker 2: Fulham FC, the Ritz Hotel in Paris, and other places

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Speaker 2: that he owned and ran. Harold's new owners say they

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Speaker 2: are utterly appalled by these allegies that are investigating whether

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Speaker 2: any current staff are involved. And al Fayed, of course

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Speaker 2: himself died last year aged ninety four. But this has

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Speaker 2: been an extraordinary thing. One or two have come forward

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Speaker 2: and then there's been an absolute deluge with people joining

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Speaker 2: a lawyer group in order to try and get redressed.

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Speaker 2: Now from Harold's claiming that they didn't oversee things properly,

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Speaker 2: and indeed from the al Fayed estate, and we had

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Speaker 2: learned that Harold's had previously said that they were in

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Speaker 2: the process of settling more than two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: claims for compensation. So the idea that another one hundred

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Speaker 2: and fiftieth joined is obviously going to deeply worrying for them.

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Speaker 2: The survivors involved have come, yes, from the UK, but

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Speaker 2: also America, Australia, Canada, Europe and Asia. According to the lawyers.

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Speaker 1: Now, what makes us think that the purple tunic belonged

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Speaker 1: to Alexander the Great because it wasn't found in his tomb?

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Speaker 2: Was it? No fascinating story? This? So, a purple found

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Speaker 2: some forty seven years ago in a tomb that's two thousand,

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Speaker 2: four hundred years ago, has now been declared by scientists

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Speaker 2: as belonging to Alexander the Great. Now he, of course,

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Speaker 2: at the age of thirty, actually managed to create one

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Speaker 2: of the biggest empires, known as the King of Macedonia,

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Speaker 2: and many say he was undefeated in battle and was

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Speaker 2: the greatest leader the world has ever seen. Now they

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Speaker 2: discovered this tunic in tombs that belonged to his family members,

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Speaker 2: and in the past it had always assumed that it

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Speaker 2: must belong to one of them. However, a series of chemical,

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Speaker 2: physical and microscopic analysis on the fabric suggests actually it

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Speaker 2: was Alexander the Great's fermus lilac or purple cloak with

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Speaker 2: a white white suicide to it. Now they've conducted all

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Speaker 2: this search. First of all, they were slightly surprised because

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Speaker 2: it's made of cotton, which was extremely expensive and imported

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Speaker 2: from Persia. But then these other tests suggest actually know

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Speaker 2: they leave it to be Alexander the greats that the

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Speaker 2: whereabouts of his tomb is still very much up for debate.

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Speaker 1: Very interesting. Hey, thank you very much, Kevin, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: This Kevin Gray, our UK, corresponding.

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