when a car was driven into a crowd in the american city of charlottesville, where demonstrations were being held against a far—right march. officials say there have been another two deaths linked to clashes. an explosion in the pakistani city of quetta has left at least 15 people dead and 30 others injured. the pakistani military said the explosion targeted an army vehicle and several vehicles were set alight. the biggest star in world athletics, usain bolt of jamaica, has competed in his last major championship. bolt led his team in the axioom sprint relay in london but he pulled up injured in the final straight. great britain won the gold and silver went to the united states. coming up at 6am, breakfast withjohn maguire and sian lloyd. but first on bbc news, witness. hello and welcome to this special

edition of witness with me, mariko oi. i'm here in tokyo to introduce you to five people who've experienced extraordinary moments in japanese history first—hand. we'll meet a doctor who treated thousands of the injured at hiroshima. two brothers who were among the first to learn the suzuki method of playing the violin. and a cameraman who ca ptu red the violin. and a cameraman who captured japan's royal wedding in the nineteen fifties. but first, in

1995, this city's busy subway system was brought to a standstill when the deadly nerve gas sarin was released at this station behind me. it later transpired it had been released in five locations across the network by the cult. at the height of the morning rush—hour in the world's most crowded underground system, the madness of indiscriminate murder. more than 3000 subway passengers we re more than 3000 subway passengers were affected. translation: at 8:12am i was told there was a suspicious object on the train which had just arrived, so i went up to the platform upstairs and i saw went up to the platform upstairs and isawa went up to the platform upstairs and i saw a train stopped right there. several people had been seen plotting packages at stations and on

a number of trains. i saw a package wrapped in newspaper, it was leaking, said this man, then the stinging fumes hit my eyes. translation: my colleague was communicating with headquarters from the driver's cab. another colleague, mr takahashi, was wiping the platform with newspaper. i saw a trail of spots. it looked like oil spilt as it had been carried out of the train onto the platform. i put the train onto the platform. i put the crumpled newspapers which had been used to wipe the floor in a plastic bag. the three of us put all the newspapers in the bag. i was worried that these things might explode so i took the bag downstairs to the office. then i heard mr takahashi had to the office. then i heard mr ta ka hashi had collapsed. the unseen chemicals striking people down ina the unseen chemicals striking people down in a matter of seconds. they

tripped and vomited, some were blinded and paralysed. one of the first confirmation is that a deadly nerve gas had caused the poisoning was given by this doctor. it is sarin, he said, it is one of the worst of all poisons. translation: by then my body had started shivering. i tried to make a report about the a12 a.m. train but my hand was shaking and i couldn't even write eight —— 8:12am. so i took of my cap and uniform and washed my face. i guess i was trying to pull myself together. then i collapsed. when i woke up i was in hospital. my staff were there. because i knew mr takahashi had staff were there. because i knew mr ta ka hashi had collapsed, staff were there. because i knew mr takahashi had collapsed, i was wondering how he was doing. i wanted to ask but i had to sit in my mouth, so to ask but i had to sit in my mouth, soi to ask but i had to sit in my mouth, so i gota to ask but i had to sit in my mouth, so i got a pen and paper and wrote his name. one of the staff made a

sign like this. then i wrote mr he zi numa's name. the worker made the same sign. out of the three of us only i have survived. my colleagues told me after i collapsed they carried me upstairs together and they evacuated all of the passengers from kasumigaseki station. there we re from kasumigaseki station. there were no passengers killed at that station. the leader of a japanese cult has been sentenced to death for masterminding a gas attack in tokyo nine years ago. he ordered the release of sarin into the underground system. translation: the pain never stops coming after me because two of my subordinates died

and me, the supervisor, survived. i wish i'd known about salary and how to deal with it. i could have made them washed their hands and faces. i feel i simply wasn't good enough as the person in charge. speaking to us from his home in tokyo. and next, in the post—war era, this musician developed a new method of teaching the violin. the system would later catch on around the world. the brothers were two of his first students. i started the violin at the age of ten. i'm one of the first teachers

of the suzuki method. ten. i'm one of the first teachers of the suzuki methodlj ten. i'm one of the first teachers of the suzuki method. i studied at the age of four. my brother was already listening to my practice. the idea here is that from the age of three, japanese children can be taught to play simple tunes by ear. as the japanese teacher suzuki says himself, they learn to speak with the violin at the same time as they learn to speak their mother tongue. hideya and toshiya there, still playing the violin 50 years later. in 1956 reports came to urge about what became known as japan's worst case of industrial pollution in the town. these two were among those

devastated by the disaster. translation: i can't tell youjust how much i hate a chemicalfactory. the corporation devastated the ocean and our people. ijust hate it. people used to say that life in the town was wonderful. the corporation was the only company in the town. we are still frightened by the awfulness of the mercury that was leaked from the factory. it poisoned the fish and then people who ate the seafood got disease. there had been no poisoning before a chemicalfactory there had been no poisoning before a chemical factory was built in the bay. but the company denied all responsibility and continued to pump

its waste into the sea. translation: people went blind and danced round and round like crazy. soon it was clear that people were suffering as well. translation: she was my first daughter. she couldn't eat fish well because she was only three years old, but she was only three years old, but she could eat prawns by herself, so i let her eat a lot of prawns. we thought something might be wrong with her. we thought she might have the disease when her hand started shaking. i realised she had the disease. she became unable to walk properly, unable to speak.

doctors from the local university filmed the shaking fits. they suspected metal poisoning. translation: when i visited her in hospital she had lost her sight, but she could still hear. i said to her, your mum is here, you don't have to cry any more. she gave me a sweet smile. it was her last smile. on january she gave me a sweet smile. it was her last smile. onjanuary the third of 1958, she died. by by 1958 win you it was caused by the company, by waste water pumped into the bay by the factory. they tried

to hide it. my second child is shinovu. she contracted the disease in the room. i didn't think it was possible. but three months after she was born i noticed something was wrong with her. shinobu is now 59 yea rs wrong with her. shinobu is now 59 years old. in 1959, the corporation offered some consolation money. human life cannot be replaced by money. it can review is oscar winner casey affleck

returns. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's interesting cinema releases is james king. welcome. what have you been watching? i've been watching charlize theron in a spy thriller that's 007 meets basic instinct. the name's blonde, atomic blonde. from the academy awards to the afterlife, oscar winner casey affleck returns under a sheet in a ghost story. and get ready to tap, clap and stomp your way through an uplifting new dance documentary, step. quite an eclectic mix this week, james. let's start with the big blockbuster. it looks like one. yes, atomic blonde, so charlize theron stars in this. it's a spy thriller directed by a guy called david leitch. previously he's worked on a movie called john wick with keanu reeves, that was a big hit a couple of years back. there are similarities, they are both very stylish. style over content, really. very violent, very polished, very cartoonish. but atomic blonde has some basis in real events because it is set in 1989 after the fall of the berlin wall. charlize theron is a spy sent there by the british government to track down a list

of missing agents. let's have a look. ok. so, is this your first time in berlin? yes. well, it is a remarkable time to be here. wonderful music. superb nightlife, marvellous restaurants. you must try the central cafe for a drink. you'll need it later. you remembeer abramowitz, don't you? of course you do. yeah. we can kind of guess what happens after that. it has been hard to find clips of any duration which are not violent. she's quite adept with her stilettos, is charlize. it is ridiculous. however, i think there is some fun to be had with its ridiculousness. firstly, charlize theron is great and there is a pairing that she has with james mcavoy,

we didn't see it in that clip, but he's a fellow british agent in berlin and he's crazy and over the top and she is ice cool and very measured so they have this great chalk and cheese partnership. that really works. she's such a watchable actress, isn't she? very watchable actress. looks great in this, of course is an oscar winner, she can actually act. i wouldn't say she particularly has to act that much in this, but we know she can. and the style is great, this industrial punk aesthetic to it, this pumping 1980s electro soundtrack. we can see a bit of action, the car chases and the fights are stunning and relentless. it almost beats you into submission. with it being visually striking should it remind us of pulp fiction, is that what he's after, the slick look with the violence that goes with it? what it does not have that pulp fiction had is the witty, clever script. it is easy to be snobbish and say

the plot is flimsy and stretched. it means you can get away with quite a lot. i think it relishes its own silliness and pulpy quality. it acknowledges that and when a film is shameless about it it can get away with much more. is it a missed opportunity because the time period in which it is set, berlin, such a great city, it could be the most fantastic story. are they not bothered about that. a slightly missed opportunity but still worth seeing, a male fantasy of a female spy, i don't think many spies are six foot tall former models wandering around in stockings and suspenders. but there is just enough awareness for it to get away with it and i would happily watch another, that movie hasn't done really well but if there is a sequel i wouldn't complain. ok.

we move to something that could not be more different. i am intrigued that this was shot in secret, is it apocryphal that the director was so concerned about how it might end up that he thought, i just won't tell people i am making it. it is very low budget. this is david lowery, last year he moved into the mainstream because he made a film with disney called pete's dragon, so a remake of the old disney story. but that was out of characterfor him. he's much more of an independent, low budget film maker, this is a return to that. this is a ghost story as the title suggests. not a horrorfilm, a drama. casey affleck plays a recently deceased man who returns in spirit to his home to watch over his grieving partner, rooney mara. he is still wearing the sheet that he had placed over him in the morgue. talking about difficult clips to find, it is hard to show you any clips out of context because pacing and the rhythm of

the film is so key. it is a very slow film. there are many takes were seemingly not much happens, the camera is very static and quiet. there's probably more music than dialogue in it. it's even shot in the old 4x3 ratio, the square tv ratio to make it feel claustrophobic. so it's pretty bold and risk taking. i can understand why david lowery might want to keep it secret in case it did not work. i think it does work. you have to take a bit of a leap of faith to get into its rhythm and slowness but when you do it is rewarding and a film about memory and legacy and slowl change. memory and legacy and slow change. ok, i am a bit worried the trailer might put people off, it's quite bizarre! it isn't that kind of movie. what is your third choice? a documentary, called step. people use the word ‘feelgood' too much, to the point of redundancy but this is genuinely a feel good movie.

a documentary about a girl's dance troupe, called the lethal ladies working out of a high school in inner—city baltimore. the film focuses on three of the girl dancers in particular, about their hopes and aspirations. trying to break the cycle of poverty they come from and get out of baltimore and into college. very charismatic leads, the people in the film are very charismatic. as we will see in this clip. this is the girls in training. you will watch me step. actually, i'm going to make you watch me step. i'm going to get my step, it's going to get up in your grill. i'm going to take you by your neck and you're gonna watch me do what i do. that's what you're supposed to project, every time you get in front of somebody. that's what you step on. if you're not stepping on it, sit down, go home, good night. stand to attention and give me that face.

nothing to stop! i like that teacher, i am not missing with her. i like that teacher, i am not messing with her. she's brilliant, everyone is brilliant. it's a really uplifting story. it's uplifting because it does not scrimp on the hardships. these people that we focus on have had tough lives. there is a lot of anger and it's set among the backdrop of the black lives matter movement and the female empowerment movement. so there tough issues going on. that makes it all the more feel—good when the highs come along and when it gets more optimistic. it's not really a film about stepping as a dance. if you don't know much about stepping, very popular in american colleges, but it's not about the technique and history of stepping. really it's a film about what dance means to people when they don't have much else. i'm really looking forward to that one.

and for best out this week you have delighted me because it is a reissue and what a pleasure it was to watch this film so many years later. this is prick up your ears. re—released, a movie about playwright joe orton, rereleased for the 50th anniversary of his death, the film actually came out in 1987, so the film itself is 30 years old. stephen frears is the director, alan bennett is the writer, based on the diaries ofjoe orton, which we see in the movie. we see john lahr who was the editor, played by wallace shawn in the movie. and then it flashes back to the life ofjoe orton. gary oldman is amazing as orton. i am always reminded of a couple of things, first that time in the 80s when gary oldman and contemporaries like daniel day lewis and tim roth were the angry young men of british cinema and the future of british cinema. weren't they? now daniel day lewis has announced his retirement! and gary oldman will be playing winston churchill! so you feel very old watching this!

secondly, more importantly, what alan bennett did with this script is capture the whit and boisterousness that made joe orton such a great playwright in the 1960s. gary oldman great, vanessa redgrave, for me, it is alfred molina's movie. he plays kenneth halliwell, orton's lover. they had an ultimately tragic and shocking relationship. he steals the show. but what is so striking, as you say, the film is 30 years old and it is a litany of wonderful actors because the mother of orton is played byjulie walters and his sister is played by frances barber, these people are part of britain's acting firmament. alan bennett has become even more part of the furniture. what he does brilliantly is give us movies that feel traditional but they are pretty out there when you look at what is going on.

now quick thought about the dvd. raw, belgian/french horror movie about a student who goes to vetinary college and discovers a cannibalistic tendencies. beautifully unsettling. determined to freak you out with the acting, performing and lighting and editing. it is like carrie directed by salvador dali! it weird, but it is wonderful. james, thanks very much. james king, thanks for being with us and that's just about it for this week. enjoy your cinema going. goodbye. good morning. well, despite a few nuisance showers across north—east england, for many of us, saturday was a promising day. and a ridge of high pressure continues to build through the night, so clear skies here, withjust a little bit more in the way of cloud across the essex

and kent coasts, with the legacy of those saturday showers. but, generally speaking, it is quiet start to sunday. it will be a chilly one, not necessarily in towns and city centres, but in rural spots, expect low single figures to greet you first thing this morning. but there will be a light breeze, and with those clear skies comes lots of pleasant sunshine. so not a bad start to the day. as we go through the afternoon, cloud will start to bubble up, and we'll see a few isolated showers, but hopefully they'll be few and far between. favoured spots likely across scotland and northern ireland. if you dodge the showers, with light winds, 17 or 18 degrees will feel quite pleasant. certainly a better day through the borders, north—east england, down into lincolnshire, in comparison to yesterday. fine, dry and sunny. yes, the risk of an isolated shower further west, into wales and south—west england. but again, you'll be unlikely to catch those, so highs of 19 to 20 degrees here, and low 20s quite possibly, again if we get the sunshine continuing. so, if you're heading off for the final day of the world athletics championships, whether it is

the morning or the evening session, perfect weather conditions for those spectators, and for the athletes. and a similar story, as well, for the premiership matches taking place today. very nice indeed, largely dry here. now, as we move out of sunday, into monday, a change to come. a weather front moves in from the west. it'll bring the heaviest of the rain through scotland, in particular, and north—west england. light and patchy into northern ireland, wales and south—west england. the best of the sunshine, really, through east anglia, the east midlands, down into the south—east corner. here, we could see highest values around 22 or 23. but, even in the cloud and the rain, we're looking at around 15 to 19 degrees. so once the rain clears through and the brightness returns, not too bad an affair. that front will still clear away. it is not going to bring that much in the way of persistent rain across the east, but it will do so through tuesday night, into the start of the day. so on tuesday it looks as though we'll see a scattering of showers, but not a bad affair.

17 to 23 degrees the overall high. that front still to clear away, and then another waits in the wings for wednesday. but, ahead of it, it stays relatively quiet, so not a bad day on wednesday. it will cloud over from the west with that rain arriving, but that is going to be the story this week. there will be some spells of sunshine from time to time, but also, we can't rule out spells of rain. hello, this is breakfast, withjohn maguire and sian lloyd. a woman has killed and more than 30 people are injured in violence at a white nationalist rally in the united states. a car is driven into a crowd of anti—fascist protestors, following a day of clashes in charlottesville, virginia. go home. you are not wanted in this great commonwealth. shame on you. good morning, it is sunday 13 august.

also ahead: ecstasy and agony at the world athletics championships. great britain's men claim the ax100m relay gold, but usain bolt pulls up in his last race on the world stage.