what about the prospects over the next few days question that let's get the latest. quiet over the next few days if you are looking out for significant rain, not that much to come. towards the end of the week we might see something for the gardeners and the farmers. for now lots of sunshine. a beautiful morning across parts of northern ireland was you could see highs of 20, 20 ireland was you could see highs of 20,201 ireland was you could see highs of 20, 20 i degrees. lots of sunshine out to the west. a slightly different story again in the east. more of a breeze, gusting to gale force in the northern isles, where it will feel rather cool. the sheltered western areas seeing mid to high teens. we will be lucky to see 21 through northern ireland today. with the clear skies tonight, temperatures will fall away. worth

bearing in mind that the tender spring plants may have to put up with a light frost. it stays dry for the remainder of the week with decent sunny spells. the chance of some rain thursday into friday. hello. this is bbc news — the headlines: labour promise not to raise income tax for those earning less than £80,000 a year, as part of an election "personal tax guarantee". theresa may has announced plans to replace the mental health act in england and wales with a new law tackling discrimination and the unnecessary detention of vulnerable people. the liberal democrats say their manifesto will include a commitment to keep the "triple lock" on pensions — which guarantees they rise by as much as wages, inflation or 2.5% — whichever is highest. voters in france go to the polls today in the final round of its presidential election. they're choosing between the centrist, emmanuel macron,

and the far—right leader, marine le pen. the islamist militant group boko haram has freed 82 schoolgirls in nigeria, in exchange for a number of its fighters held by the government. now on bbc news, witness hears stories about charlie chaplin's extraordinary life from the silent film icon‘s son, and the moment princess diana visited the uk's first hiv/aids unit that exclusively cared for patients infected with the virus, at london middlesex hospital. hello, and welcome to witness, with me, tanya beckett, back here at the british library in london. we have got another five witnesses who have shared their personal

memories of history. this month on the programme, we'll meet the israeli lawyer who prosecuted the architect of the holocaust. we'll meet a chinese archaeologist who worked on the statues of the terracotta army. and the son of charlie chaplin invites us into his home. but first, we're going back to the 1980s and the beginning of the hiv/aids outbreak. at that time, stigma about the condition was rife. but, in 1987, princess diana agreed to make a highly symbolic visit to the first hiv/aids unit in britain. our first witness, john o'reilly, was a nurse at the unit who welcomed one of the most famous women in the world. for everybody affected by hiv/aids around the world, it was a major moment. it was amazing. officially, the princess was simply opening the first purpose—billed hiv/aids ward in britain. but more significantly,

she demonstrated her confidence to staff and the public that aids cannot be taken in by casual contact. people were frightened, really frightened, because we didn't know what it was to begin with. there was a lot of aids homophobia. the media were unkind, particularly the tabloid press. i hated all of that kind of misinformation and hysteria. the headlines were scaremongering, ignorant, misleading the general public. as far as i'm concerned, the gay plague was the homophobia, not the virus. i didn't tell anybody what i did. i didn't even tell fellow nurses or doctors what i did. ijust said i was a nurse at the middlesex hospital. i didn't feel safe. none of us felt safe. but we had very, very few staff. we didn't have medical or nursing staff. we couldn't attract staff because people were frightened.

the unit had created other pressures in the hospital. staff treating people with aids are subject to extra strain. we have to be careful with blood and body fluids, obviously, because that is the way it is transmitted. obviously if we are dealing with those things, we will use gloves if necessary. but we're not going out of our way use spacesuits and the rest because it's totally unnecessary. my first impressions of princess diana was she was warm, sophisticated, elegant, and smart. i warmed to her instantly. she took our consultant down a peg or two, who'd really kind of condescendingly said, "do you know what this is?" he was holding up an x—ray of a chest. she just very politely said, i am patron of the british heart and lung foundation, of course i know what an x—ray is. i thought "good on her, i like that." anticipation always surrounds

what the princess of wales wears for an engagement, but the obersveration has rarely been keener than yesterday. just one question dominated the whole day. would she or wouldn't she wear gloves? princess diana demonstrated that she cared because she took everyone‘s hand. this was diana, the princess of wales, coming in without gloves and shaking our patients‘ hands, as well as ours. it was moving. the ward can take 12 patients. today, though, the beds were empty. they were hiding from the media, unhappy with how the epidemic was portrayed in the past. finally, one agreed to a picture of the princess shaking his hand to prove you cannot catch aids through casual contact. it did not take much convincing for him. he was dying. he thought, "well, so what?" "i will do it." and the night it aired, i got lots of notes pushed under my door.

it was very, very moving. and i never got any negative reaction from the public at all. for a royal to shake a patient‘s hands, somebody at the bus stop or the supermarket could do the same. it educated people. i think princess diana's departure has done the world a lot of harm. john now works as a psychotherapist in london. next, to a story from world war two. but this is not about battles, it is about the many women who met and married foreign servicemen when they were serving in europe. in 1916, thousands of war brides sailed from britain to canada to be reunited with their husbands and begin their new lives. betty hawkins was one of them. newsreel: since 1939,

some 211,000 british girls have married canadians. 3,000 of them have already been sent to canada by the department of immigration. we left our families and our relatives, our friends, for this one man that we were in love with. it was a marvellous thing that the canadian government did. and, i mean, they moved 47,000 women and over 22,000 children. when the war started, we thought london was going to be blitzkrieged. if you don't know what blitzkrieging is, it is having hundreds of bombers coming over and dropping bombs. b1 bombs were terrifying

because you could hear them coming. and this one came down with the enginesjust roaring. and it hit the houses at the back of us. the canadians, of course, are part of the commonwealth. another big ship tying itself up at the british port. so the canadian troops started coming over. they talked to everybody. that's the canadian way. this canadian soldier that became my husband was a very nice looking guy. i was 18 or 19 years old when i met him. it was a case of being young, being in love. he asked me to marry him.

i asked my mother. she seemed to think it was a good idea. more wives and kiddies are off to their land of opportunity across the sea. it was a one—way trip! we didn't know these men very well when we agreed to marry them. on arrival at the port, everyone is safely stored aboard the ship which will take them on theirjourney. it took ten days to sail over. we wondered what it was going to be like, of course. 18,000 adopted daughters willing to learn about canadian life through classes. we did not know thing except that canada was vast. all we could see was snow. when i first came to this house, there was no running water, there was no electricity,

there was no bathroom. we didn't have a lot of money. ken had to work away quite a lot. i think that, i'll admit, that is probably why i had eight children. when husbands work away, you're glad to see them when they come back. there was a lot of us who were very brave, or else, very silly. it was, well, i would say an adventure. betty hawkins talking to witness from her home in canada. now to one of the greatest archaeological finds of the 20th century. in the spring of 1974, a group of people in china accidentally uncovered the site of the vast terracotta army. our next witness is an archaeologist, li xiuzhen,

who has devoted her career to these life—size warriors. newsreel: it's a vast terracotta army being unearthed from the tomb it has laid in for more than 2000 years. i work on the site of the terracotta army in china. and li xiuzhen still works on the site of the terracotta army in china. remember, you can watch witness every month on the bbc news channel and you can catch up on all of the films along with more than 1,000 radio programmes in our on line archive. just go to bbc news.

the nazi who planned the holocaust in 1961 was put on trial injerusalem. gabriel bach was a young israeli lawyer at the time and was chosen as one of the prosecutors in a trial attracting worldwide attention. in the ninth week of thisjerusalem trialfor the murder of 6 million jews, albert eichmann takes the stand in the bullet—proof dock. eichmann was the head of what is called the jewish department of the ss and the gestapo. in many german documents, it was called operation eichmann, the murder of the jews of europe. hitler and himmler and these people who made the order to kill all the jews in 1941, they, of course, were more guilty. but eichmann was in charge

of the whole of the carrying out of the holocaust. eichmann, in 1960, was caught by israeli agents in the argentine. and then he was brought to israel. two days after he arrived in israel, the minister ofjustice called me, and he said "mr bach, i imagine you will be one of the prosecutors in the trial." "but would you be prepared to be in charge of the investigation?" the whole world spoke about it, in all the newspapers. you could see that eichmann was proud about anything he did in order to prevent the saving of a single jew. translation: and then they took my mother, and she said, let us go before her. they called mother and shot her, too.

there was a man in israel. i put him on the stage as a witness, and then i asked "what happened to your family?" he said he had no idea what auschwitz meant. and he said "my wife, when we came there, was sent to the left." "which we were told afterwards was the gas chambers." "and i had a little daughter, two and a half years old, and of course, they also said to the left." "then they asked ‘what was your profession?‘ and i said i was an engineer in the army." "so sent to the right, they wanted me to do some work." "and i had a boy..." how old was he? hub]. "so the ss commander said he had to speak to the commander—in—chief." "so it took a few minutes, and then said the boy, ‘run after your mother'." she was swallowed up in the crowd."

"i couldn't see my son anymore, at that time, my little daughter was exactly two and a half years old, and i had bought her a red coat, two weeks before that. and so when the witness said that about the red coat, it suddenly cut off my voice completely. i suddenly couldn't utter a sound. until this very day, i can be in a restaurant, i can be in the street, and suddenly feel my heart beating, and i turn around and i see a little boy or a little girl in red coat. the former isreali prosecutor, gabriel bach, speaking

to us in jerusalem. in april 1872, the silent movie star, charlie chaplin, returned to america after two decades in exile in switzerland. for our final film this month, witness has been to the comedian‘s former home on lake geneva, to meet his son, eugene. charlie chaplin, my father, he was a pioneer in silent movies. he understood, he saw the potential of filmmaking. he made about 80 films while he was in america. by the age of 23, he was world famous. this is the house where i grew up — but it's a museum now. i was born here, in switzerland.

i'm numberfive of the eight kids my father had with oona. in the 1950s, there was a witch—hunt against the liberals in america, and my father, he was accused of being a sympathiser to communists. plus had problems with his private life. so when he went to europe, he received a telegram, saying that they revoked his visa, and that he had to go in front of a moral committee, if you want, if he wanted to re—enter america. he was very hurt by that. he said, if they are going to treat me like that, i'm not going back. switzerland is the last part of his life, where he didn't do as many films, but he really had the normal life he always wanted. we lived in a bubble. my parents were really in love with each other.

he was funny at home. but he was very strict on education. he wanted us to do well at school, and he wanted us to be well—behaved at home. we would have dinner every night. if you wanted to get up to go to the toilet you would have to ask permission. we all had our turns to be able to speak. with me, he always said, you know, you can do whatever you want. but whatever you are going to do, do it well. in the 1970s he was invited to go to america to receive an oscar. he was surprised and bothered about it. i think he had very mixed feelings, because of all the bad memories he had there. my mother's view, she thought it

would be a great opportunity for my father and america to kind of forgive each other, and she was right. the reception in the united states was great. obviously it was much better than he expected. especially at the oscars. a standing ovation, 20 minutes. all his friends were there. afterwards, he was in a better mood. i could feel that the pressure of having to go over there was over. i've learned one thing — he is mine emotionally, but he is not mine any more. because he is such a public figure. he is everyone's, and everyone

has their theories about him. before, i got very mad about that. but now i accept it. five years after his return to the us, charlie chaplin died on christmas day, 1977. his son eugene still lives near the family mansion. that is all from us this month. from me, tanya beckett, and the rest of the witness team, goodbye. and to whether lottery. barrett in

the east it stays cloudy and cool but those who have the lion's share of the sunshine are further west. many western areas will continue to see some sunshine today and at this time of year the sun is quite strong and temperatures will respond. in the east the breeze coming off the cold north sea, a lot of cloud, thick enough for some rain in places and it will feel quite disappointing. here top temperatures of nine to 11 degrees. further west, it won't be quite as warm in western scotla nd it won't be quite as warm in western scotland as we have seen in recent days. 16 to 18 celsius. we could get 21 into northern ireland. if that happens it would be the warmest of the year so far. generally across england and wales, high teens not

out of the question. to the east of the pennines, that breeze off the sea making it around ten or 11 degrees. the day predominantly drive. if you have the best of the sunshine by day, with very little cloud around at night the temperatures will fall away sharply. first thing tomorrow and enrolled parts we could see temperatures around freezing, with a touch of light frost. again you will see the best of the sunshine. northern ireland, western scotland and fringes of wales and england will see the cloud breaking up. through the east it will stay cool and breezy. temperatures ha ps the east it will stay cool and breezy. temperatures haps a degree 01’ so breezy. temperatures haps a degree or so down on today at 16 or 17 with some shelter will feel pleasant. this quiet story will continue tuesday into wednesday. there are signs of a change set to come, an

area of low pressure showing its hand towards the end of the working week, we could see some fund a recount pause. generally dry for the first half of the week with some decent sunny spells. this is bbc news. the headlines... labour promises no increase in income tax, national insurance of the 8495% of workers if it wins the election. those earning above £80,000 will pay more to fund public services. nurses, and 11% cut in wages and having to go to food banks. that cannot be right. event to ask our highest earners to pay a little bit more. the conservatives promise more money to fund mental health staffing in the nhs, and say fewer people will be detained against their will.

it is new money going into the nhs thatis it is new money going into the nhs that is going into mental health. it is having the people who deliver these jobs. that is why we have the £10,000 extra.