go find your way over there. that coloneljim is a tall... hidden figures also tackles racism and sexism — the true story of three women working at nasa has been a huge box—office hit. what happened 7 why didn't you come home like you were supposed to? and then there is moonlight, with its themes of neglect, drug addiction and sexuality, earning a nomination for britain's naomie harris. really great art reflects society and edifies us and shows us a different way of operating and so i definitely think that it's going to be a very political year at the oscars. and so we approach the oscars amid talk of politics and protest. in some ways, the world of entertainment has never felt so serious. james cook, bbc news, in hollywood. if you'd like any more details on the nominees, you can get them all on the bbc‘s oscars page and if you happen to be up late, you will also

be able to find out the winners as they are announced. the fifth named storm of the season has been affecting parts of the uk, maybe the north and west. it was named by the irish meteorological service because that is where the worst of the impacts are expected. for the bulk of the uk, it isjust worst of the impacts are expected. for the bulk of the uk, it is just a speu for the bulk of the uk, it is just a spell of wind and rain, but it has been blustery around the shores. those winds are slowly easing as heavy rain moves eastwards and northwards. by the end of the night, we will be into quite a showery picture, those showers coming from the west. and it will turn cold. scotla nd the west. and it will turn cold. scotland and northern ireland will have the risk of icy patches. tomorrow looks like a blustery day. there will be a lot of cloud and a bit of sunshine. the showers will be heavy, with some hail, thunder, maybe sleet and snow over higher ground. and it will feel quite chilly out there. single figures across the board. chilly again on

tuesday. breezy again, and there will be further scattered showers. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines: jeremy corbyn says he takes his share of responsibility for his party's defeat to the conservatives in the copeland by—election. speaking at the scottish labour conference, he urged the party to unite. britain faces a "sustained and serious" level of terror threat from islamist extremists — that's according to the independent reviewer of terrorism laws. sir mo farah has reiterated that he is a clean athlete after a leaked report by the us anti—doping agency suggested that his coach alberto salazar may have broken drugs rules. in a further sign of worsening relations between donald trump and the media, the us president has announced he won't attend this year's white house correspondents‘ dinner. now on bbc news, witness.

hello and welcome to witness, with me, tanya beckett. i'm at the british library in london to bring you five more unique glimpses into history from the people who were there. this month, we'll hear from the victim of one of india's first high—profile sexual harassment cases. a berliner who remembers west berlin's 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 aidid's 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 aidid's 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, we're going back to 19118 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 didn't know anything different. it was only three or four years after the end of the war. in 19118, i was six years old. ourflats had been destroyed, but it didn't 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: on june 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 couldn't 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 don't 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: it's a great day in berlin, a day for rejoicing. soviet planners did not understand our determination to fulfil our obligations to the people under our charge. translation: the soviet union had seen that they couldn't get round the berliners, they couldn't break their will. 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, we're 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 shepherd's 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 amazonjungle, 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 didn't seem to be 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 father's death,

my mother got to know two huaorani women who had fled the tribe because of the violence, and they said, we want you and the pilot's 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 don't 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 don't 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 our films, 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 country's 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 state's 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. that's 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 ifound that no one had ever filed in section 509 and 354, 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 don't want to go there. kps gill was expecting to win, so they had the police band there. and then my husband's driver rang up and said, madam, he has been convicted on both counts. it's 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 final judgment 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, hakuna matata. . . # that's 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 play 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, mister. how are you?

mzuri sana 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 then the financial director of polygram said, here's my card. you call me. i want us to record this song. we didn't 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 didn't 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. that's all from witness for this month. we'll be back here at the british library in march. next month, don't miss our india direct special. from me and from the rest of the witness team, goodbye. the fifth named storm of the season

has been affecting the uk, particularly across the north and west. it has brought heavy rain into glasgow. you can see the water running down the street there. but it has not all been doom and gloom. there have been a few breaks in the cloud and sunshine for some. the storm is named ewan by the irish meteorological service because it is in ireland that we are expecting the worst of the impact. for the bulk of the uk, it hasjust been some worst of the impact. for the bulk of the uk, it has just been some wet and windy weather. the strongest winds will be heading north as rain

moves eastwards and north. then we see showers coming in on the breeze through the small hours of monday morning. some of those showers will be heavy and they will deliver a bit of wintry weather, particularly over higher ground. it will turn quite cold further north and west, particularly in parts of scotland, northern ireland and maybe the north of england. from early on tomorrow morning, there will be showers which will affect most part through the day. they will be heavy at times, with rain my hail, sleet and snow, mostly over higher ground. some of the snow could get to lower levels. it will feel quite chilly out there, single digits across the board. monday night into tuesday, low pressure is still in charge of our weather. looks like it will stay pretty unsettled. a lot of isobars too, so still a breezy day on tuesday. we will cloud increasing in the afternoon and longer spells of

rain in northern england, southern scotla nd rain in northern england, southern scotland and the far north of scotland. again, a chilly day. low pressure starts off in charge on tuesday night, but then we see a ridge of high pressure mounting in to start the day on wednesday. it will be a chilly start in the north and east, with a touch of frost and and east, with a touch of frost and a few early showers in the final of the uk. wintry over the higher ground of scotland. the next weather system will spread some rain ever northwards through the day on wednesday. it will also bring slightly less cold air, back into double digits in the far south and west. thursday will start off wet, but not much rainfall. turning milder in the southern half of the uk. still chilly further north. quite a lot going on in the next few days. there are warnings in force for the overnight period. keep up—to—date on the bbc weather website. this is bbc news.

i'm annita mcveigh. the headlines at five... jeremy corbyn admits labour hadn't done enough to rebuild trust with voters — and had this message about his leadership. iam i am carrying on as leader because i am determined that we will deliver social justice in this am determined that we will deliver socialjustice in this country. a warning britain faces a "sustained and serious" level of terror threat from islamist extremists. sir mo farah insists he's a "clean athlete who's never broken the rules" after new revelations involving his coach alberto salazar. in a further sign of worsening relations between donald trump and the media, the us president has announced he won't attend this year's white house

correspondents' dinner. also in the next hour, preparations are almost complete as hollywood prepares for the biggest night in film — the oscars.