From here he could view the island that inspired him to help create the national trust. Now, at last, that island is part of the trusts portfolio, to be preserved and enjoyed by everyone for ever. I have a picture of grass near. This was earlier today. It has been pretty wet in cumbria, a lot of puddles and water around. More rain at the moment as well. Quite mild, but windy. The wind easing of the some extent. A couple of bands of rain sinking to the south away from Scotla Nd Rain Sinking to the south away from scotland and Northern Ireland, where you will end the day with sunshine and a cool appeal. The rain will be heavy over the hills, notjust across North West England but south wales for a time. It becomes like apache, petering out overnight. More wet and windy weather arriving in the north west overnight. Many places will start drive. May brighten up a touch here and there. It will be wet from most of the day in scotland and Northern Ireland. Severe gales running across irish sea coasts. Cloudy in england and wales, sunshine but cooler in northern scotland. This is bbc news. The headlines the former labour foreign secretary David Miliband has said the party is at its weakest 50 years. Jeremy corbyn s allies say that negative interventions arent helping the party. Several major News Organisations had been excluded from a briefing by President Trumps spokesman at the white house. The bbc, cnn and the New York Times were among those told they were not invited. Iraqi forces have entered parts of Western Mosul in an attempt to remove so called Islamic State from iraqs second largest city. Security compounds have been attacked in syria, killing dozens. Some reports put the number of dead at more than a0. Now, its time for witness, with tanya beckett. Hello, and welcome to witness, with me, tanya beckett. Im at the British Library in london to bring you five more unique glimpses into history from the people who were there. This month, well hearfrom the victim of one of indias first high profile Sexual Harassment cases. A berliner who remembers west berlins soviet blockade. And the musicians behind a swahili pop sensation. But we start in mogadishu in 1993, when a us raid against a somali warlord ended in disaster. Abdul aziz ali ibrahim was an eyewitness to the incident which became known as black hawk down. What i remember is, people were lying on the streets, even including americans. I knew Somali People would pay a very, very high price because of what happened. There was civil war. The drought came, and many people were dying. That was the reason why the United Nations and The Americans decided to intervene by force to deliver food. General Mohamed Farrah aidid was the most powerful warlord in somalia. The Aidid Militias started fighting with the United Nations peacekeeping mission, so americans started going after aidid, and the situation completely changed. When it was confirmed that aidids generals, supporters and allies were meeting, The Americans decided to come and arrest them. This was an enemy territory, and it all went wrong. Just a few kilometres away from my home, i started seeing americans coming. When they passed, the Aidid Militias started blocking the streets, so even if americans wanted to go back, they were not able to unless they fired. Around 3 30pm, we arrived where the meeting was taking place, there on the ground. When they started, the Aidid Militias started shooting. When the first helicopter was hit, it was just going down like this. And where it landed, it is less than 700 yards from my home. While the first helicopter was down, they were trying to defend themselves, and americans were trying to protect that helicopter, and another helicopter was also shot, so things changed completely. They were firing everywhere. The somali militias were firing everywhere. Every space they can see or shoot americans, they were firing. The americans were firing back, and any threat they have seen, they were shooting, including civilians, because they had to protect themselves. It lasted until the next morning. So, almost 18 hours. 18 americans were killed, and 73 americans wounded, and i heard people saying 1000 Somali People were the casualties. The aidid supporters and militias, they were dragging the dead american soldier in the streets of mogadishu, and the people that were celebrating were from aidids part, they were not from all somalis. We are very, very sorry for the loss of those who came to help. The American Government decided to pull out their troops from somalia. So, once again, the fighting started by the Warring Somali Faction leaders. Taking down these helicopters, it was a very Successful Operation for them, but for us, it was disaster. Abdul aziz ali ibrahim went on to become a writer and peace activist. Next, were going back to i9a8 and one of the first confrontations of the cold war. The soviet union blocked access to west berlin, so the western powers started to supply the city by air in what became known as the berlin airlift. Ulrich kirchbaum was a child in berlin at the time. Translation we didnt know anything different. It was only three or four years after the end of the war. In i9a8, i was six years old. 0urflats had been destroyed, but it didnt bother us. We used to play in the ruins. There were terrible problems. There was a lot of disease, nothing to eat. I think i often went to bed hungry. Berlin was separated into four parts, surrounded by the soviet occupation zone. The soviets tried to force the western powers out. Archive 0njune the 18th, all road traffic from the west was stopped. The reason given, a bridge was under repair. Translation overnight, all traffic was stopped. Nothing could move. 2. 1 Million People were trapped. Archive there was one way into berlin which the russians couldnt put under repair the right of way by air. There are three Air Corridors to berlin, from hamburg, from hanover, and in the south from frankfurt. Translation every plane they could find was sent to germany to set up an airlift. There had never been anything like it. Archive it takes a lot to feed 2. 5 Million People, keep them healthy and keep their factories going. It takes 12,000 tonnes per day. Translation they landed here, in Templehof Airport. There would be american lorries waiting. Berliners would unload the planes and they would go back to frankfurt in a kind of loop. They would bring medicines, fuel, household supplies, everything a city needs to survive. We stood on the balcony, and we timed it on our kitchen clock. In the end, every 90 seconds, a plane would come, vroom, over our house, then on over the rooftops to land in templehof. It was wonderful. And during these flights, one pilot had an idea. Gail halvorsen was a 19 year old lieutenant, and he was standing at a fence when some children came up to ask him for some chewing gum. So, he said, why dont i drop sweets down from the plane . So, where three or four years ago, there had been bombs being dropped, now, there were little chocolate bars, each wrapped in an individual little parachute. Whenever he came over, he would move his wings up and down, and so he got the name wiggle wings. After a year and three months, the airlift came to an end. Archive its a great day in berlin, a day for rejoicing. Soviet planners did not understand our determination to fulfil our obligations to the people underourcharge. Translation the soviet union had seen that they couldnt get round the berliners, they couldnt break their will. This airlift meant that our gratitude to this airlift meant that our attitude to The Americans, to the english, the french, changed radically. We had been enemies during the war, but then we became great friends. Ulrich kirchbaum, speaking to us from Templehof Airport in berlin, one of the centres of the airlift. And he still lives just around the corner. Now, were going back to 1956, when five american missionaries were killed by members of an indigenous tribe in the Amazon Jungle of ecuador. They had gone there to try to convert them to christianity. Valerie shepherds father was one of the missionaries killed. My father and the other four missionaries definitely knew it was dangerous, but they were willing to give up their lives in order for the huaorani to know the truth, what we believe to be the truth. My father arrived in ecuador in march 1952 to be a missionary to indigenous or primitive tribes in the Amazon Jungle. He found out about the huaorani through another missionary who had been in ecuador. This missionary said that the huaorani were very violent, stone age, and they knew nothing about the outside world. Itjust caught his heart, and he felt that those were the people he was supposed to go to. My father and a Missionary Pilot took several flights over the Amazon Jungle, looking for this group of indians, and eventually came upon this one very small settlement of the huaorani. I saw a thing that thrilled me. It seemed an old man stood behind the house and waved with both of his arms, as if to signal for us to come down. Waving at me to come. The pilot by that time had found a spit of a beach along the river that he knew the huaorani could walk to. These five men decided to set up camp on that little beach. After three days of waiting at the camp, there were three huaorani that came out of the jungle two women and one young man. The joy of the five men was that they were perfectly friendly and there didnt seem any hostility at all. But the huaorani were, of course, suspicious of these white men and really had no idea of the goodwill that the white men had for them. They might be deceiving them, they said. They might be tricking us, and we had better kill them before they kill us. We believe it was around three in the afternoon, ten men arrived at the beach, and with their spears, they brutally speared all five of the men and left the bodies in the water. After my fathers death, my mother got to know two huaorani women who had fled the tribe because of and they said, we want you and the pilots sister to come and tell our people about god. While we lived with them, and we were there almost two and a half years, i, of course, got to know all of the tribe and the ten men who had done the killing. Amazingly, i really dont remember being afraid of them. They were always laughing, and they would always make my mother laugh, so i simply enjoyed being with them. Of course, it was a tragedy, and of course, i have often wished that i had known my dad, still do. But i really believe that god allowed this to happen so that more and more people could actually see what real commitment to christ means, and i really dont believe their lives were wasted. Today, the huaorani tribe still lives in the ecuadorian amazon. Remember, you can watch witness every month on the bbc news channel, or you can catch up on all of ourfilms, along with more than 1000 radio programmes, in our online archive. Just go to bbc. Co. Uk witness. And now to the Indian State Of Punjab and the countrys first high profile Sexual Harassment trial. In 1988, Rupan Deol Bajaj was a high ranking female civil servant, but none of that mattered when she was sexually harassed at an official party by the states top policeman. She may be educated, and uneducated. She may be working class, an officer, she may be a high ranking officer like me. All women. Nobody is immune. And it happens every day. In 1988, i was serving as special secretary finance. I had about 20,000 people under me. 90 were men. There was a dinner party hosted by the home secretary, and mr kps gill, who was the Director General of police, was also there. He called out to me and said, mrs bajaj, i want to talk to you about something. He got up and he came and stood in front of me, towering above me. He put the finger in my face like that, and he said, up. Come on, up. Come along with me. Come on, you, come along with me. So, i said, mr gill, go away from here. You are misbehaving. And i got out from the gap in between him and me, and when i was going, that was the time when he. Well, he slapped me on the bottom. Thats what he did. Always, people have considered it to be a very trivial thing, but i could not get over the enormity of it. Letting it go meant living with lowered self esteem, gulping down my humiliation, facing that person every day, facing all the other people. Consequences of complaining, i had not really estimated at that time. Nobody was willing to take up the case for me because they were so frightened of the dgp. He was the highest Ranking Police officer, with all the powers of life and death. No one wanted to do anything against him. And i found that no one had everfiled in section 509 and 35a, which are the lesser offences against the modesty of women. 17 long years of my life, all of it was taken up by this one case. The lower courts had quashed the case, they had thrown it out. The case reached the Supreme Court, and it was the Supreme Court which called for all the records, reinstated the matter, and also laid down. They gave the definition of modesty. They reprimanded the High Court Judge and said, this cannot be treated as something trivial. All the people, in every household, this was the talk between husband and wife. The limelight was not on kps gill. The entire focus was on me. Why have i registered a case . Must be something wrong with me. I attended the proceedings of the trial throughout, along with my husband. But on the day the verdict came, i specially requested, i said, i dont want to go there. Kps gill was expecting to win, so they had the police band there. And then my husbands driver rang up and said, madam, he has been convicted on both counts. Its the mindset i fought against. I never fought against kps gill. I fought against the mindset of a society. People have started saying, now, offences against women, they are increasing. No, now, more women are speaking up. Rupan deol bajaj retired not long after the finaljudgment in the case. She now runs an academy helping people get into the indian army. Finally, this week, we are going back to kenya in 1980, when the booming Tourist Industry turned a swahili pop song into a global hit. Jambo,jambo bwana habari gani, mzuri sana wageni, wakaribishwa kenya yetu hakuna matata. Kenya nchi nzuri, haku na matata. Thats the way it went. The tourists were just crazy about this song. It went silver then gold, then it went platinum. That came as a complete surprise to me. I started the group, them mushrooms, in 1972. Me and him were working in a Cement Factory in mombasa. There was a lot of tourists coming into mombasa, so it was a very vibrant scene in mombasa. We were playing mostly congolese stuff and kenyan music, or whatever, but when we realised that we could make more money and playing for less time for tourists, we switched to play these Cover Versions of chart music from europe and from america. One night, i think it was late 1979, i was sitting at the pool bar after a performance, and there were these tourists in the pool, played around and joking, trying to speak swahili. And i got this idea, maybe we should write a song with the simplest words in swahili and get the tourists to learn swahili while they sang along and danced to our music. Jambo,jambo bwana habari gani, mzuri sana. It means, hello, mr. How are you . Which is a reply. Very, very well, thank you. All guests and visitors are welcome to kenya. There are no problems in kenya. It is a very simple song. When we finished, another tourist would come and say, can you do this jambo, jambo . We had to do it about 20 times, and any financial times, and then the financial director of polygram said, heres my card. You call me. I want us to record this song. We didnt know that it was going to be this big. Like they say, the rest is history. After recording, the rest was history. When we signed the agreement with polygram at that time, i didnt know much about copyright ownership. We were just happy to have our music recorded and so many people have wanted to do Cover Versions of it. Most kenyans say this is a song for the tourists, not for us kenyans. But they are proud of it and at least it has given some kind of identity to kenya. Any kenyan who goes overseas, they are always asking, you know the song and start singing, which is a big honourfor us. Billy saro harrison, and terry kalanda harrison, remembering their hit song. Thats all from witness for this month. Well be back here at the British Library in march. Next month, dont miss our india direct special. From me and from the rest of the witness team, goodbye. After a burst of cold air at the end of the week, things are more mild this weekend. It has been cloudy and windy across many parts, but there has been sunshine in the north. It has been sunshine in the north. It has been sunshine in the north. It has been quite soggy across some areas. This is bakewell in derbyshire, where there is still rain at the moment. It comes from this cloutier, together with Winds Lolling in the milder air. The wind is gradually easing. You can see the difference in the cloud amounts. In the south west, there is a band of rain moving in late afternoon, into the evening. That could be heavy for a while over the hills of wales. Not much in the midlands, east anglia and the south east, just dribs and drabs. Across and the south east, just dribs and dra bs. Across cumbria, and the south east, just dribs and drabs. Across cumbria, another band of rain. That is moving away from Northern Ireland, so late sunshine in the north. In scotland, it may turn a little chilly. The winds are dropping significantly across the northern half of the uk, which will make it easier at murrayfield. Could be some rain in dublin. This band of rain here will clear away during the evening, wetter weather initially across the western side of england and wales. That will peter out as it moves to the east, many places becoming driver while overnight. Wind and rain in the north west later. Frost free for most of us, but a chilly night, temperatures close to freezing in scotland and north east england. Tomorrow, wet weather driving down across Northern Ireland added to scotland, eventually into Western Parts of england and wales, where we will have gusty winds in coastal areas. The winds pick up again on sunday. For most of us, it will be dry, and sunshine eventually in northern scotland. Not much rain at twickenham, but it will be blustery. A lot of cloud around too. It will be more mild tomorrow than on monday. Monday starts with a band of rain in the south east. That will clear away, then we get into a mix of sunshine and showers. Temperatures will be lower, six or seven celsius. The air will get colder across the uk as we get a northerly wind, which means it will not only feel colder, with the risk of some frost, there could be wintry showers, particularly over the hills. This is bbc news. The headlines at 2pm the former labour foreign secretary, David Miliband, says his party is now at its weakest in 50 years. Jeremy corbyn insists his leadership is not to blame and his deputy says he needs to stay. This is not the time for a leadership election. That issue was settled last year. But we have to do better. We cannot sustain this level of distance from our electorate. 0xfa m of distance from our electorate. 0xfam says it is preparing for a huge influx of civilians fleeing iraq as forces push further into territory held by the Islamic State group. The white house has excluded the bbc, the New York Times and others from a media briefing. The block came just hours after President Trump used a major speech to attack sections of the press. As you saw throughout the entire campaign, and even now, the fake news doesnt tell the truth
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