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welcome to witness, here at the british library in london. this month, we have anotherfive people have witnessed extraordinary moments of history first hand. we ll be talking about the legalisation of homosexuality in britain 50 years ago. a breakthrough for women in the men s world of racing, and, in a moment, the russian ballet star rudolf nureyev defected to the west. but first, we go back to a turning point for china. china was wracked with a civil war between communists and the nationalists. translation: i never even thought about joining the communists. i followed the nationalist party all the way. i m 99 years old, and i still haven t changed my mind about that. for most people, life was wretched. someone had to rescue china from these miserable conditions. there were two men willing to try. one was chiang kai shek, who was leader of the nationalist troops. the other was mao zedong, who wanted to turn china into a communist state. the two men were to become bitte ....
east anglia and the south east should stay dry for a good part of the day. temperatures around 17 to 22 degrees, it will feel pleasant in between any of those showers. there will be frequent showers, particularly in the north. some drifting into the south east into the evening hours as well. fading overnight across much of england and wales, showers continued the scotla nd wales, showers continued the scotland and northern ireland. tomorrow, similar to today. sunshine and showers, some heavy and thundery in the north and west, fewer showers towards the south east and temperatures up to around 22 degrees. goodbye. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines at 10.30am: the threat of terrorism is very real. the disruption operation the efforts overnight have been very effective, but there is more work to do. the international trade secretary liam fox has said the government would not be keeping faith with the eu referendum result if it allowed the free movement of people t ....
western areas tonight. central and eastern, and southern areas of the uk will tend to clear. where the skies clear in the north it could be very chilly, down to 5 degrees. towns and cities nowhere near as cold. tomorrow, showers return. there will be fewer across more southern areas, most of them across scotland, northern ireland and western areas. they are very difficult to predict, what time and they will occur. and where they will occur. hello. this is bbc news. president trump has criticised china on twitter, saying it s doing nothing to halt north korea s weapons programme after pyongyang test fired its second intercontinental ballistic missile in a month. the australian prime minister says counter terror police have foiled an attempt to blow up a plane. four people have been arrested in raids across sydney. the threat of terrorism is very real. the disruption operation, the effo rts real. the disruption operation, the efforts overnight, have been very effective ....
allow american firms to brand their whiskies as scotch. our business correspondent joe lynam reports. under eu rules of origin, any spirit described as scotch whiskey must be aged released three years and matured in scotland. but the scottish government says the us negotiators during the recent trade talks with the eu had wanted this definition to be relaxed to accommodate its whiskey makers. so now holyrood wants the eu definition of scotch to be incorporated into uk law after brexit. that is because whiskey making supports 20,000 jobs and is worth £4 billion to scotland. we have to make absolutely certain that any deal done with the us protects scottish jobs. if that deal does not protect the definition of whiskey as a spirit matured for three years or more, it weakens that definition and we will lose scottish jobs in the whiskey industry. 10,000 jobs depend on it, another 10,000 in the supply chain. so we tell liam fox, don t tangle with the scottish whiskey industr ....
cassettes as well? no nana, it sjust cds. why, do you have cassettes? no. the bafta winner played nana in the royle family. one of her co stars, the actress suejohnston, said she was devastated at her passing . in halfan in half an hour, reporters takes a look at the bbc‘s bestjournalism from the last year, including an exclusive report on chinese militarisation of international waters. some breaking newsjust in. the author of watership down, richard adams has died, aged 96. his tale about a family of rabbits was a bestseller and also became a celebrated film. a statement from his family said he died on christmas eve. they posted a quote from the book on the watership down website which read: it seemed to hazel he would not be needing his body any more. nick higham looks back at his life. they seem sad, like trees in november. it became a worldwide bestseller and animated film and made its creator a millionaire. not bad for a story about intrepid rabbits originally ....