Rated r and playing in select cities. Build a Solid Foundation and you can connect communities and commerce for centuries, that is the strength behind good banking relationships, too. Which is why at mufg, we believe financial partnerships should endure the test of time, because with time comes change what matters in the end is that you are Strong Enough to support it. Mufg, we build relationships that build the world. And now, bbc world news america. This is bbc world news america. Reporting from washington, i am laura trevelyan. Fighting the flames in california, thousands are urged to flee their homes. The crew tries to stop the dangerous flames from spreading. Getting ready for that game. Rio de janeiro is counting down to the olympic spotlight, firmly on brazil. It is only a year to go until the first Olympic Games in south america. Laura welcome to our viewers on Public Television in america, and around the globe. In Northern California thousands are being told to leave their homes as crews worked to contain dangerous blazes. One has grown to 100 square miles despite the efforts of firefighters. David willis has the latest on the biggest blaze known as the rocky fire. David in the hills above the california right California Wine country, rocky is growing bigger and bolder by the day. It is fueled by record high temperatures and record drought, and standby lightning strikes and benevolent wind. The fire is going in several directions. Operationlitary style has been mounted to fight the fire. Are onds of firefighters the ground, complemented by water drops from helicopters overhead. They have not made an impact carried some properties have already been destroyed, the house ands more lay in rockys half. His father and son returned home to find everything they owned had been destroyed. You have to be strong. I am young. I can start over. This steep and rugged terrain they are fighting fire with fire. They are carrying out controlled burns to starve the fire of fuel. Hipped bys w wind makes it hard to maintain the perimeter. There is no sign of rain in the forecast. Willis, abc news, los angeles. Laura i spoke with the california congressman whose district has been hit by the wildfire. I asked him why they have not been able to get i asked him if they have been able to get the flames under control. Congressman the rocky fire has burned 65,000 acres and is 12 contained. It is an rough terrain and the wind has been erratic and change directions a number of times fire to jump a couple of major fire breaks. That the conditions are better. The humidity is up a little. The firefighters are doing a fantastic job. On friday that they toected it to burn 70,000 80,000 acres before they got their arms around it. Everything they have said so far has been spot on. They are minimizing the damage homes, and, outbuildings. Laura that was congressman Mike Thompson from california. A family and lawyers say he was 14 years old when the crime is committed in 2004. From islam a band, we report. His body was driven out of jail. The months of appeals, campaigns, and Media Attention have finally been turned down saying that he was executed. His brother was there to receive the body. What justice is this . He was 2. 5 years younger than me. He was a young man. They claim he was a child and and wasured before tortured into a conviction. Im begging you, save my brother. He was a decent boy, his mother said. He left home to look for a job. Say thattani there was never offer evidence proving his german military. They say the case was properly handled. Looking into it fresh. The critics cannot possibly say there is no due process. The victim sentences has always been on the statute book. It has to be followed. The law of the land has to be respected by everyone. The government of Pakistan Limited a Death Penalty in which 132 children were killed. They wanted to show that they were doing something to combat terror. Nearly 200 people were executed since the attack, but only a fraction were involved in cases of terrorism. A Human Rights Organization say actions proper legal are not being followed. They worry that there are more like him that have been languishing in jail for years, and could meet a similar fate without an investigation. Laura they head of the afghan resigned. Fice has in a statement he criticized the way the groups new leader had been chosen. This came as general John Campbell was here in washington aking about the countr the countrys future. We were joined from the brooking institution. Michael, how does general campbell see this split in the tolley been ranks affecting the peace talks with the Afghan Government. He is supportive of the talks. He is happy theyre being led by the Afghan Government with coordination from the international community. I do not know that he expected in a high likelihood of imminent success, and he thought in the aftermath of the death of mullah omar that some elements of the tolle of the tolley been my try to negotiate, but others might think about joining isil, or who knows what. The overall tendency would be ofard some degree positioning of the group, but not in a way that renders the taliban weekend. Although general campbell is pleased with the resilience and patriotism and religions of the afghan army and police. They are taking a lot of casualties. Of peopleosing a lot through a wall before their terms are over, but they are generating enough recruits and showing enough fighting spirit that the taliban have not taken major cities or sections of the road. What reports are true, but is overlooked is that the afghan army and police come and take them back. Overall, that could improve the prospects for peace talks, but i do not think he was predicting a likelihood of eminent success. The army is supposed to be reduced. Could that change . I think the congress would be likely to support the president on a decision like this. The Iran Nuclear Deal is another contentious matter. If president obama said we should keep a few thousand u. S. Troops to battle al qaeda and isil in the region, there is a good chance that congress would go a long. It is going to boil down to what one person thinks, and that person was not in the room, so i do not know what would think. The Afghan Security forces are doing the overwhelming amount of fighting on their own, but they do then if it from nato support now and again, and we should be careful about removing that entirely next year. Laura thank you. Four Police Forces in the u. K. Are investigating claims of child Sexual Abuse Involving the Prime Minister in the early 1970s. Forces are carrying out inquiries. Mr. Edwards foundation says theyre confident he would be cleared. More than one million square kilometers belong to moscow according to russia. Research shows the seabed all the way to the north pole is an extension of the russian land mass. Sacked byor has been the government over a controversial treason case. A blog investigating state seekers and plans to step up the surveillance of online communication was investigated. He was dismissed when he said the government interfered with his work, something the government denies. Laura tonight, we look at the plight of 200,000 women or girls forced by the Japanese Military to work as comfort women during world war ii. That is a polite term for forced prostitution. The women, mostly from korea and china were forced into becoming sex slaves. Rupert wingfieldhayes has more. every wednesday, south Korean High School students gather outside the japanese protest. N seoul for the statue of another teenage girl are in their midst. She is a symbol of the tents and thousand of the tens of taken fromf women here to serve as sex slaves. She was just 15 when she was grabbed from the streets of blue streets by two men. One speaking korean and one speaking japanese. I was forced from the train. Cross the border into trying them. I was sent to a place where there were other comfort women. I wonder why they called us comfort women. I was forced to have sex with many men each day. It was so horrible that many women killed themselves. Formermost of the comfort women have already died. There are now just a handful left living in south korea. Given the tremendous shame these women have had to overcome to tell their story, it is hard to believe that anyone would try to deny those stories are true. Some do. Those deniers reach to the highest level of japanese society. Once commanded the whole japanese air force. Last year he ran for the tokyo governorship and got 600,000 votes. He says that the story of Korean Comfort Women is made up. Publication. They say that 200,000 women wear horse to work as comfort women. Fabricated to put pressure on japan. Historical denial is not a preserve of the far right. Prime minister shinzo abe has said that there is no evidence that women were coerced into sexual servitude. There is plenty of evidence if mr. Shinzo abe would like to have it. His owno saw it with eyes. As a 20yearold he served as a medical orderly in northern china. Comfortcted korean women for signs of venereal disease. It is ridiculous. Whatever mr. Shinzo abe says is wrong. He was not there. I was. Im speaking from my own experience. Those who say there were no comfort women are liars. Most of those who lived through this history are already gone. The few survivors are in their late 80s or 90s. Soon they will be gone. The voices of the deniers seem to be getting louder. Rupert wingfieldhayes, bbc news, tokyo. Laura covering up the comfort women. You are watching bbc world news america. A sizzlingme, outdoors. Some women are shivering. We will tell you why. The last surviving pilot from the dam busters rate in the Second World War has died. Monroe piloted one of 19 lancaster bombers that attacked german dams in the rumor valley in 1943. Rural valleys 65 years after the dam theers raid monroe made long way back. It was in operation and moralized on the big screen. A reallife story of bravery and danger to destroy dams deep behind enemy lines in world war ii. To the amazement of many, the byncing bombs dropped the lowflying lancasters worked. Monroes aircraft was hit by flak and he had to return to base. In 2000 and eight we flew with him over his training target. A great deal of pride in taking the dam. Were actually lining up those 2 tiers as an approach. The battle of Britain Memorial flights has a lancaster bomber in colors. To the crews monroe was a hero. They had very little experience and training. No one else has cleared low level, and they were down 60 in anat night, airplane, with a little training. The Prime Minister of new zealand described him as a remarkable man who led a remarkable life. Bundled in blankets, wearing a large sweater, and running a space heater. It sounds like a brutal winter, but this is the ritual many Office Working women undergo every summer. Theres an answer about why things are so out of whack. Agoere joined a short time to explain all. All the women in our office are cardigans around ernies and shivering even though it is boiling hot. What is it about airconditioning that does this to women . It is partly because your and my physiology is different than mens physiology. It is partly because we are typically smaller, and we generate less heat. We get colder in a temperature that would not be considered cold for a man. According to the study i wrote about, the formula for most Office Buildings to set their airconditioning is based upon a 1960s formula that has a lot of different factors. One is based on the metabolic rate, how fast we generate heat, and that was based on a 40yearold man weighing 150 pounds. That may have been the guy in the office in the 1960s, but not anymore. It is time for a new formula. Laura is anyone working on one . Belluck they are considering using actual and using things like the effect of your body tissue insulation, which is not in the current formula. That said, several of the experts that are talks to say that sounds nice, but you are talking about an entire industry that has been wedded to a formula for decades and it takes them forever to make changes. That probably will not happen. What is possibly likely to happen within the next decade or sooner is a move toward personalized temperature, meaning you sitting in your office or cubicle will eventually get a device or control allowing you to generate your own airconditioning or put on your own radiant heat panel if you are cold. There are already companies devising this kind of thing and systems that can work with your offices overall temperature your office costs ove offices overall temperature. Laura will this work in favor of women . Mrs. Belluck that was the argument that those who did the study made. It is more fair if we change the temperature, but it is really bad for the environment that we are over cooling our building so much. It is about the planet. Try to think about it that way if you do not care that the women in your office are bundled in blankets. Uck, thank youl very much. One thing to warm you up is lots of the summer olympics. The beaches of rio will be waiting for the action. The question is will the venue and infrastructure be ready on time. We have been finding out. Is takinglympic park shape. The stadiums are well on their way to completion. It is easier to imagine the welcomehat could 400,000 visitors to the game and 12 months. Whose political future rides on the success of 2016. Mayor eduardo pius is everywhere, projecting what a olympic official once called the worst prepare to games in history. Mayor eduardo pius it is a different level of development. When you come to the olympics in 2009, you will not believe it. Change can be divisive. Violent clashes when residents of a shantytown where it check it from the olympic park. Eye,from the public underground, the pressure is on. Workers are putting in shifts around the clock. There finishing substantial infrastructure that they are concerned about. Connecting the four olympic zones. It must be finished on time. The Mayors Office admits that promises to clean the chronically polluted bay have not been capped. Testsc is now ordering for viruses. My principal concern is the future. I think we had enough time to clean it, and im sad about not being able to have a better future. On the sporting front, things are moving fast. And event began this week were well supported. Security will be a big issue in a city with a reputation for violence. Many, rio is the perfect olympic venue and will be ready by august 2016. Welcome to rio. Bbc news, rio. Laura it looks nice and warm there, unlike this airconditioned studio. You can find all of the news from today on bbc. Com. You can find me and most of the team on twitter. Tune in tomorrow. 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