baby, charlie gard. judges have previously ruled against the child's parents, who want to take him to america for treatment. but the hospital now wants the case reopened to consider new evidence about a potential treatment. a range of doctors and scientists have voiced their opinions. i think it needs to be remembered that the doctors and nurses and all of the staff at great ormond are doing what they feel is their very best and in the very best interests of charlie himself. some of the media coverage does seem to have betrayed them as staff you are uncaring and just want to withdraw without giving anybody a chance. i think it's very important to remember that they are working in a fairly intolerable circumstances, because everybody has an opinion and those opinions are very polarised. i think what they're doing if the right thing, because if there is potentially new evidence that there isa potentially new evidence that there is a treatment that might work, it has to be considered. i don't see it asa has to be considered. i don't see it as a turnaround if this was evidence that wasn't necessarily available priority yesterday. if there is a

reasonable and responsible doctor willing to undertake this sort of experimental treatment, and they ought to be allowed to give it a go. we're not talking about quacks or quackery. it would be wrong for a child to be taken overseas the something that wouldn't have an affect. but as this current letter shows this is a treatment that has some scientific rationale. it isa it is a glorious saturday afternoon across the uk. it has been more co mforta ble, across the uk. it has been more comfortable, sunshine for most of us. comfortable, sunshine for most of us. i will pick out an exception. in the far north—west of scotland, we

have a weather front close by it is breezy and cloudy. elsewhere, lots of sunshine, some cloud increasing especially across parts of wales and south—west england, an isolated light shower cannot be ruled out. as the cloud thickens further overnight there could be drizzle in the hills, low cloud and hillfort. the weather front pushes more across northern scotland. elsewhere, more clout than we have seen and it will be another muqqy we have seen and it will be another muggy night especially into the south—east. tomorrow this weather front in scotland edges south through the central belt into southern scotland and then takes the rain into northern ireland. brightening up to the north of that. elsewhere, more cloud and sunny spells. there will be sunny spells in eastern england. could be heavy and possibly thundery in the afternoon. in the south—east it will be very warm once again. this is bbc news, the headlines: theresa may meets donald trump at the 620, the us president

says he expects a trade deal with the uk "very, very quickly" and that he'll be coming to london soon. the prime minister and i have developed a very special relationship and rethink trade will bea relationship and rethink trade will be a big factor with our two countries. i thank you for that. 620 leaders look to agree a final communique to come out of the talks. firefighers tell the bbc they didn't have the necessary equipment needed to tackle the blaze at grenfell tower. there were celebrations in auckland after the rugby union test match was drawn. in the meantime, let's bring you a programme called witness. hello and welcome to witness,

with me, rebecca jones, here at the british library in london. we've got another five people who've experienced extraordinary moments in history first—hand. this month on the programme, a mother who took on argentina's military rulers to find her daughter. paul mccartney's brother who remembers one of the beatles' most famous performances. and an astronaut who survived a collision in space. but first, back in 1953, american husband and wife, julius and ethel rosenberg were executed by electric chair after being convicted of spying for the soviet union. our first witness is the rosenberg's son robert.

archive: one of the greatest peacetime spy dramas in the nation's history reaches its climax asjulius rosenberg and mrs ethel rosenberg, convicted of transmitting secrets to russia entered the federal building in new york to hear their doom. the last time i saw my parents was in sing sing prison, just a couple of days before they were executed injune1953. i have this very strong visceral sense of a warm and loving family. my father played word games with my brother. i sat on my mother's lap. they were pretending like nothing was wrong, that we'd see them, like we'd see them in another few weeks. my brother, he knew that was wrong. and he wanted them to acknowledge the terrible situation that we were all in.

and so he started wailing, "one more day to live." both my parents were children of the depression. they grew up in poverty on the lower east side of manhattan. my father, julius, was an electrical engineer. he was a member of the american communist party. my mother ethel was a housewife. my father was arrested in july of 1950, in new york city and my mother was arrested. both were charged with conspiracy to commit espionage. the government said julius rosenberg was a master spy who led an spiring was a master spy who led an spy ring that stole the secret of the atomic bomb and gave it to the soviet union in 1945. julius was guilty of espionage, but it didn't have anything to do

with the secret of the atomic bomb. he had no knowledge of this. it's hard for me to believe that my mother didn't know about what he was doing. but there is no credible evidence that my mother participated in any way. this was the great red scare, the mccarthy period. the government was saying there was this international communist conspiracy that was out to destroy our way of life. fear makes powerful people do very dangerous things. the trial at which they were convicted was a travesty. we now know the judge secretly communicated with the prosecution, that evidence was fabricated. the chief prosecution witnesses perjured themselves. the government of the united states use the death penalty, used the death penalty, not as punishment, but as extortion. the purpose, as one of the fbi agents put it, we didn't want them to die, we wanted them to talk. there was a worldwide movement and mass movement,

even within the united states at the height of the mccarthy period, to save my parents' lives. they were executed on june the 19th, a month after my sixth birthday. my brotherjust kind of hung his head. and i came in and i knew something was wrong, but i didn't want to hear about it. even a month after the execution, i was saying, "when are we going to go and see mummy and daddy." and he'd have to remind me they were dead. my parents should not have been executed and we took on a campaign to exonerate ethel. have we given up? no. we haven't given up. my brother and i, we are marathoners. we are going to keep going.

robert meeropol, remembering his parentsjulius and ethel rosenberg. now, back in 1967, the bbc organised a live international television broadcast called our world. they invited the beatles to play and they came up with a new song called all you need is love. paul mccartney's brother mike was in the studio when the performance took place. this is steve race in the beatles recording studio in london, where the latest beatles record is at this moment being built up. notjust a single performance, but the whole montage of performances. none of us knew what the hell was going on, but everyone went along with it and it was just a magic thing. # all you need is love. # all you need is love, love. # love is all you need. it was all such an experiment. it was that ridiculous three, two, one... you're live to 700 million people.

# all you need is love, love. # love is all you need. in 1967, i was in a comedy group, it was a satirical comedy, poetic word imagery group called the scaffolds. and i used to stay with my brother in his house. so he said, there's this big thing coming up, do you fancy coming along? the our world broadcast was this extraordinary idea to link all these countries. for the first time we can see right round our world from sunset to dawn by television. in 43 control rooms all around the world, production teams are monitoring and selecting the hundreds of pictures and sounds from five continents which will combine to make this historic programme. and so, how do you wrap up what was happening in london in the 60s in one song?

john had written this thing called all you need is love, which was a peace song. we'd had the vietnam war, kennedy had been shot and it seemed to sum up the hopes and positive thinking of that era. kill it. very good. that will do for the vocal backing, very nicely. we'll get the musicians in now. everyone was rather polite, very quiet because it was such a big thing that was happening. here then is final mix track take one of the song which we offer to the whole world. # love, love, love... and then to actually experience the slow and the format of the song, you heard all the little bits fitting in and then

the orchestra joining in. and it building up, and up, and up. it was getting better, and better and people where relaxing more. # nothing you can sing that can't be sung. the whole thing built slowly, slow and apprehensive at first. and then into it and thenjohn and our kid delivering the harmonies and delivering the song and then building up to the crescendo and then it was party time. # all you need is love. all our friends are there, mickjagger from the stones, marianne faithfull, his girlfriend, all the cream of pop society. everyone is on such a high, the placards are going round, the balloons, the confetti is like snow, you are covered in snow, etc. and this atmosphere was electric and beautiful. # love is all you need.

and it goes to another country and then this beautiful atmosphere in the studio. right, it's a wrap, love. and we all went home. laughter. mike mccartney in the beatles home town of liverpool. for almost 20 years, the nobel prize—winning author, ernest hemingway, had a house on the caribbean island of cuba, where he wrote some of his bestselling novels. as a young boy, alberto ramos worked on the estate and he later became hemingway's cook. alberto ramos, speaking to us from hemingway's house. remember, you can watch witness every month on the bbc news channel or you can catch up on all of films along with more than 1000 radio programmes in our online archive.

just go to bbc.co.uk/witness. in the late 1970s, thousands of young men and women were detained in argentina for their opposition to military rule. among those who went missing was ana maria borivali. her mother spoke to witness. archive: they are called the mothers of the plaza de mayo, the square in the centre of buenos aires where they hold the same sad demonstration every week. they've all had at least one relative who's disappeared. merta, in the offices of the mothers of the disappeared. and finally, in june 1997, an unmanned supply vessel crashed into the mir space station. the station quickly began to leak air and the astronauts on board desperately tried to seal it. michael foale was one of them. he spoke to witness about surviving a crash in space. mir was a space station built by the russians.

the impression you got when you opened up the hatch and went into mir for the first time were two fold. one was the smell. it was a smell, a bit like an oily garage. maybe a little bit of must, because we did have mould on the mir. and then the other impression is clutter. as you go through, it's basically like going into the oesophagus of someone's throat. after about six weeks of being on the station, i'd been doing my experiments, i'm very happy, i get up onjune 25. the commander and the flight engineer had been using radio control equipment to fly a cargo ship called progress that weighs about seven tonnes into the mir station using a tv, looking at the station. as i look at the tv screen, i can see the orientation is all wrong for a proper docking to take place.

and sasha, the flight engineer, says to me... and he means, the spacecraft which was joined on to the end of the station, which was at that point our lifeboat. but i understood because of the emergency in which he said it, that he meant go there to save your life. and as i float through, i feel the whole space station shudder and move around me. i'm pretty sure this may be my last breath, because i'm looking at the thin three millimetre thick aluminium walls, just waiting for them to pass. waiting for them to part. klaxons go off when there is a pressure leak. then i felt my ears popping, which meant in this case, the air was leaving the space

station and there was a whistling sound coming from the spectre model. after 23 minutes, if we did not think we would start to go unconscious. sasha comes to me and doesn't say a word. he just starts trying to remove cables leading into the module. sasha looked around for a large hatch that could be put in place. as it went on, it sucked in. because the station had been hit by the progress, we were rolling. the batteries had given out, none of the carbon dioxide removal was working, no auction regeneration and no communication with moscow. it was a totally d ea d communication with moscow. it was a totally dead station. this is not something you see in the movies where it gets solved instantly by some brainy chap. it probably took

about six hours. we use the spacecraft fibre jets to stop the spacecraft fibre jets to stop the space station tumbling and rolling wonderfully, somehow after this, all of sudden the fans started to come on and the lights came on. and i said, we'd done it. how ever, the next month, the station was inoperable in any normal sense. it could just sustain our lives and nothing else. when finally the shuttle came in october, i was really, quite happy to see them. as we backed away from the mir station, i looked at it and thought, i don't really mind if i don't ever see that again. michael foale, safely back on earth. that is it from witness this month. , lucy will be here at the british library to guide you through

another five moments in british library to guide you through anotherfive moments in history. but from me, rebecca jones and the rest of the witness team, thanks for watching and goodbye. the latest live upstate will take you to the rest of the weekend, give you to the rest of the weekend, give you a look at the start of next week which is looking unsettled, which means if you want rain on the garden, there is some in the forecast. it is mainly dry this afternoon. a load of sunshine to be had. cloud increasing in wales and the south—west and thicker cloud in the south—west and thicker cloud in the far north and north—west of scotla nd the far north and north—west of scotland giving outbreaks of rain. but your pictures coming in today have shown a lot of sunshine. this is the isle of wight and the big

picture for the start of the weekend. this weather system at the other end of the uk we are watching for the rain. the far north of mainland scotland, it is breezy as well compared with the rest of the uk. let's look at things are for the rest of this afternoon and this evening. i have the weather system far north of scotland tonight. that will edge into more of northern scotla nd will edge into more of northern scotland across the northern isles. there might be a light shower from the cloud increasing and turning drizzly on the hills. another warm and muggy night across parts of england and wales, especially south—east england where it has been fresher today. humidity increasing again tonight. the weather front ta kes again tonight. the weather front takes outbreaks of rain southwards through scotland london to northern ireland. brightening up behind it. to the north of that system, this is 4pm tomorrow afternoon. 0utbreaks to the north of that system, this is 4pm tomorrow afternoon. outbreaks of rain in glasgow, moving across to edinburgh and northern ireland. much

of northern england staying fine and the far north of scotland as well. sunshine into north wales and the midlands. more cloud compared with today and that is drifting further east. showers breaking out across parts of central and southern england. if you catch one it could be on the heavy side. very slow chance of catching one of those at the anniversary games in london tomorrow afternoon. it will be warm again with temperatures more humid. cha nts again with temperatures more humid. chants of thunderstorms in the evening across eastern england and anglia. the weather system moving out of scotland and northern ireland as it moves south across the uk turning into showers. it is a day of sunny spells and scattered showers across sunny spells and scattered showers a cross m ost sunny spells and scattered showers across most of the uk. cooler than what we have had over the weekend. showers on tuesday, but a weather system moving in across southern pa rt system moving in across southern part of the uk tuesday into tuesday

evening, notjust showers but outbreaks of rain. you may appreciate some of that on the garden. more online. this is bbc news. the headlines at two: theresa may meets donald trump on the final day of the g20 summit in hamburg. the us president says he expects a trade deal with the uk "very, very quickly" and that he'll be coming to london soon. firefighers tell the bbc they didn't have the necessary equipment needed to tackle the blaze at grenfell

tower. celebrations in mosul as iraqi forces say they‘ re close to completely recapturing the old city from islamic state militants. this kick from 0wen farrell tied the match and tied the series as the lions and all blacks' test series ends in a stalemate. this is the scene as thousands of people descend on the capital, marching through the city centre, marking 50 years since homosexuality was decriminalised in england and wales.