in india has been enormous. you can see people already streaming towards the stadium. we are expecting more than 66,000 but they could have sold 150,000 tickets for this match. the people here are having england flags painted on theirfaces. a few with a spanish one as well. a big moment for india, an even bigger one for this england under 17 team. the under 20 team are already world champions. can they join them? can brewster score more goals to take them to victory? confirming he's probably the best young player in the world. the signs are good. they thrashed brazil 3—1 on wednesday. but they are up against the spanish team who beat them in the european championship. england fans are hoping it will not go that far. they will have a lot of support, lots of premier league t—shirts around me. man city fans, arsenal fans. all supporting england. the biggest football match in the world today and you can see the people of india turning out to watch it. they're all pretty excited about it.

it might surprise people that a match involving two countries thousands of miles away should call such excitement. i think this is an important moment because people don't understand how big football is in india. everybody thinks that this is a country that is obsessed with cricket but as you can see, they love their football as well. the fifa boss said yesterday, cricket move over, football is the future. if you want to catch the match tune into bbc two at half past three this afternoon when we will have coverage. if you are not walking today, let's have a look at the weather. good afternoon. if you are holding out for central heating, you might

need it next few days. colder air is on the way, cloudy for most of us, blustery over the pennines, gusts of 40 blustery over the pennines, gusts of a0 or 50 miles an hour. the occasional spot of rain and for most of us it is dry, some bright spells as well. tomorrow we have this plunge of cold air coming our way. chilly across northern parts of wales and scotland. 0vernight predominantly cloudy, against sickenerfor some spots predominantly cloudy, against sickener for some spots of rain and murk over the hills. cloudy skies in scotland, low temperatures in the night. freezing across rural scotla nd night. freezing across rural scotland nearly. cloudy across england and wales on sunday but melting away, sunny, still, feeling cold also. chilly because of those

northerly winds. temperatures back close to average for the time of year but that will feel older than of late. hello. the spanish government has taken charge of catalonia's administration, a day after the region's parliament declared independence from spain. the environment secretary michael gove has apologised' unreservedly‘ for an on airjoke he made on bbc radio a's today programme about disgraced movie mogul harvey weinstein. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn will say later that mps who sexually harass women must be held to account. in a speech, mr corbyn is expected to condemn a culture "where the abuse of women has often been accepted and normalised." those were the main stories, more on

them at the top of the hour,. now on bbc news, witness. hello and welcome to witness. i'm here at the british library to guide you through another five extraordinary moments from the recent past. we'll meet a man who was caught up in britain's worst ever nuclear accident. a woman who was taken hostage along with hundreds of others when chechen rebels seized a theatre in moscow. and a man who helped thousands of hungarianjews escape the nazis. but first, on october 9th, 1967, marxist revolutionary ernesto che guevara was killed in bolivia. felix rodriguez, a cuban born cia agent, helped the bolivian army

track him down. that was the last picture of che alive. i put my hand around him before the picture was taken. you can see a man who was so powerful at one point in cuba and to see the way he was at that point, he looked like a beggar, he was in rags, he was filthy, it was a completely different image from what people perceived of him in the world. in 1967 there was an interest to provide the bolivian government with capabilities against the guerillas that arrived in the area. my mission was specifically to provide intelligence about che guevara and advise them on how to proceed to be able to either capture or kill him. che guevara was in bolivia to be able to take over the country and if he was able to be successful that way he would be able to support a revolution to fight different neighbouring countries

that they have boundaries with. the instruction that we specifically got from the cia was if che guevara was captured alive to be able to keep him alive at all costs. we received information from the field that he had been captured. i was anxious to meet this individual, so on the following day we arrived at the area where he was. we all came into the room. he was tied down on the left side of the floor. in front of him were the dead bodies of a couple of cuban officers who were killed during the operation. later on i came back alone to the room and stood in front of him and said, che, i've come to talk to you. he looked at me very arrogantly from the floor and said, nobody talks to me. nobody interrogates me. at that point i looked at him and said, commander, iadmire you. i used to believe what you believe, although i think your ideas are mistaken.

i just came here to talk to you, not interrogate you. every time i tried to ask him a question that was of tactical interest to us, he would smile and say, i cannot answer that. there were times that, for example, he was talking and really i wasn't paying any attention. in my mind was the man i did remember from the news, that arrogant man with the big coat, now to see this guy who was really in very poor shape, that impacted me tremendously. there was a phone call from the high bolivian command and the order was "500, 600". we had a very simple code. 500 — che guevara, 600 — kill him, 700 — keep him alive. i asked for them to repeat it and they said "500, 600". i went to the room, i stood in front of him and said,

commander, i'm sorry. i tried my best. he turned white like a piece of paper and he said, it's better this way. i should never have been captured alive. i told him, is there anything you want for your family, if i can pass the message? and then he changed his expression and said, tell my wife to remarry and try to be happy. they were his last words. he approached me, we shook hands, we embraced, he stood back and stood at attention, thinking i would be the one to shoot him and i left the room. about1:10, 1:20 i heard the burst and that's when che guevara was dead. people really don't know who che guevara was. a lot of people see the picture of che on t—shirts, they like it and they have no idea who he was. to me, che guevara was an assassin and an adventurer. he really had no respect whatsoever for human life. felix rodriguez, in miami. next, in october, 1957,

a nuclear reactor in the north of england caught fire. morlaisjohn harris was working at the windscale nuclear plants when things went badly wrong. while the whole world ponders the mighty power of the atom, britain's scientists are proving its secrets to aid the peaceful pursuits of mankind. ijoined in august of 1956 when there was a big boost of recruitment into the not long formed united kingdom atomic energy authority. there were dozens of us joining every day, at least it felt like it. you very much felt that this was the future. britain is making rapid progress in atomic work. at windscale, a new milestone nears completion. it is the first atomic power station to be built anywhere in the world. thursday, 0ctober10th, ‘57. we had a bus run us into work each morning. i remember somebody saying, "hey, look"

and you could just see a little wisp of some light blue smoke. not much. just a little drift coming up the top of one of them, reactor number one. someone said, "hey, look at that. that shouldn't be there." file: the atomic energy authority have announced that some uranium cartridges in the centre of an atomic pile at windscale became overheated yesterday. when we got to the gates, we were flagged through and told to go straight to our various work places, laboratories, and stay there. and i remember the word spread very quickly that there was a fire in the reactor and i was given a job to do. i was going to go up onto the so—called pile top, the reactor top, and take measurements up there. sitting there, up there on the top of the reactor, it was quiet as a grave and i sat up there all night long. i remember that.

the whole damn night. file: emergency at windscale atom plant and the milk from 200 square miles of farmland is condemned as radioactive. the trouble arose when radioactive dust from the overheated pile fell on the cumberland pastures. but for these filters tops, once named ‘cockroft‘s folly‘ becausejohn cockroft insisted on them, the farms much further away would have faced not emergency but disaster. i remember the morning came. there were tapes put up everywhere — "don't go past this point". and water, you could see water swirling around. what had happened during the night? i realised they had finally decided the only way to put this fire out, they tried various ways, they decided to pump water through the reactor. that reactor was not designed to have water in it at all. at the time they took that decision,

the people concerned would have been extremely worried, to put it mildly, but it worked. file: now the worst seems to be over. though mr stan ritson, who helped to bring windscale's overheated reactor under control, was radioactive for four days and couldn't even kiss his wife until the geiger counters counters gave permission. if it had gone wrong, the worst i think that would have happened is we would have had a chemical explosion and that would have destroyed the structure of the reactor and the uranium would have been shot out. which would have meant at least a temporary evacuation of west cumberland, at least. file: milk samples were found to contain six times as much radioactive iodide as international health standards permit. so for the time being, down the drain it goes.

with atoms you can't be too careful. and morlaisjohn harris went on to be a lecturer in nuclear engineering, specialising in system safety. now, in october 2002, dozens of chechen rebels seized a theatre in central moscow and held hundreds of people hostage for over two days. svetla na gubareva, her fiance sandy and their daughter were in the audience when the rebels stormed the building. file: 700 people, including many children, are being held hostage in a theatre. gunmen armed with explosives raided the building in the capital, moscow. translation: on the 23rd of october, we went to see a musical in the evening, the three of us. me, sacha, my daughter, and sandy, my fiance. the second part of the show started with a song.

after this song we heard some sort of noise. we saw a man in military camouflage go up onto the stage. to draw attention to himself, he fired a gun. and then i looked around to the left and i saw that there was a crowd of people in military uniform walking along the aisle. people reacted very differently. some were hysterical. some people seemed to turn to stone in shock. some people took it calmly. file: the gunmen want russia to stop a war that's been raging for years.

thousands of people have been killed in the conflict and the gunmen have given the government a week to remove its soldiers from their homeland. the two sides are struggling for who gains control of chechnya, which is in the south of russia... a group captured a theatre and seized 1,000 people with great ease. i don't think they had a plan about what to do with us after that. only after the rebel leaders' announcement did i realise that we were really being taken hostage. i didn't want to believe this. sandy was the quickest to understand it and sacha, she was a child, 13 years of age. she reacted as though she was in a film.

there was no real fear. the last time i looked at my watch it was just after three o'clock. i had this feeling, a little bit longer and we'll be freed. sacha and sandy were asleep holding hands. i thought, i need to fall asleep quicker so that the morning comes sooner. i came to in hospital. i didn't see the storming of the theatre or gas, because my sleep gradually turned into a coma. file: within just one hour, hundreds of the hostages were being carried out, free at last after their two—day ordeal. many were unconscious. russian special forces had pumped

gas into the building to disable the chechen rebels, but it also affected the hostages. 0n the 27th of october, i heard on the radio that sacha died. 0n the 28th of october, representatives of the us embassy told me that sandy died. and svetlana went on to help found a survivors' group for those caught up in the theatre siege. 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 a thousand radio programmes on our online archive. we turn now to 19aa hungary

during the brief but brutal occupation of the nazis. david gur was a young jewish man and part of an underground organisation trying to assist hungarianjews to escape deportation and almost certain death in nazi concentration camps. this job was to produce tens of thousands of carefully forged identification documents for those trying to flee. translation: when the germans invaded hungary i changed my identification documents to aryan. i left the flat i was living in as a jew and began to live with a different identity as a gentile. a few days later i met with the leaders of the underground zionist youth movement who told me i would bejoining a team to forge documents. i became part of the biggest rescue operation during the holocaust

run byjews. i was 18 at the time. a month or two after the invasion, orders were sent to all hungarian provinces forjews to wear the yellow star of david and to be concentrated in ghettos. anyjew who arrived at a train station was arrested. they were the first to be deported to auschwitz. in our workshop we prepare the documents needed for everyday life. to rent a flat, to prove your residency and, later on, work permits. the most difficult stamps to forge were the hungarian government's because their emblem

had so much detail. you had to be very accurate. i was always busy, thinking about how to secure the safety of the workshop, how to provide documents that would withstand inspection, how to keep my friend safe by providing them with the right documents. i felt responsible for life and death. for safety reasons, we often had to change location, moving from place to place around 15 times over a period of nine months. on december 21, as the russians were at the gates of budapest, i was arrested along with two of my workshop team. we were taken to the hungarian fascist party headquarters where we were interrogated. later on, they stripped us

naked to beat us up. one of us, nicki, died in the early hours of that morning in our rooms. i spent three days in the prison in the hands of the fascists until my friends managed to free us. the police fled because budapest was under siege. they wanted to save themselves. only the civilian guards were left. we couldn't save all the jews but at least through our work we saved as many as we could. tens of thousands ofjews in budapest were saved thanks to the work of the underground. david gur now lives in tel aviv with his wife, also a survivor

of the nazi holocaust. finally, for five years maisoon bashir and her family lived on the frontline of the israeli occupation of the gaza strip. in 2005 when israel pulled its troops and settlers out, maisoon finally regained possession of the family home after years of occupation by israeli soldiers. israel has been in gaza since the six days in 1967 when it won a war against egypt, syria and jordan. the war shaped the modern middle east and the conflict that israelis and palestinians have been fighting ever since. israel occupied land including gaza and the west bank and started

moving its own people in. under occupation i lived in a very serious situation. to me, it happened yesterday. my name is maisoon bashir, i am 25 years old. my father was an english teacher. after the occupation of the jewish people they started to build a settlement in the gaza strip. one of the settlements was close to my home. because my home was a tall building israeli soldiers occupied my home for five years. they put all my family in one room and the rest of the home was for the soldiers. soldiers were sleeping here and there so... i felt like it was not my home. my grandmother told my father

please, leave the home. my father said no. this is my place, of my grandfather and i will die here. my family really suffered at that time. five years. in 200a, the israeli prime minister ariel sharon announced an agreement to withdraw from the gaza strip. i could not believe that. because the settlement here, they have the building and the school they lived in. they lived a life as if they were going to stay forever. but i kept dreaming of the day they would leave my home. 0n israeli television tonight prime minister sharon said that holding gaza forever was impossible. 0ver1 million palestinians

live there, he said, and hatred is growing with no prospect of peace. the soldiers fanned out across the sand dunes of this mediterranean paradise. the police took the beaches. the teams moved in to negotiate with the residents. they did not get far. "how can you be offering help", she shouted. "you are destroying everything." and then the time for talking was over. the people in the settlement who werejewish, they were very upset and angry because they have refused the agreement and they do not want to leave gaza. if we hear the sound of the people in the settlement shouting now, don't leave. i used to be positive, as my father taught me, but you have to look at the reality and the reality right now is quite difficult. i wish that in the future it will be

palestinian and jewish together to speak and do. ok, but before that, give me my rights. maisoon bashir talking to witness from her home in gaza. that is all from witness this month here at the british library. we will be back next month for another five accounts of extraordinary moments in history. good afternoon. for most it will be

cloudy through the rest of the afternoon and that in the evening you can see the cloud. there are some gaps in the midlands and heading towards fife as well. 0vernight cloudy and windy and the strong winds blow cloud over inverness. it blows over the mountains of the highlands, making it waves and wiggle, and it will be blustery in the north, gusts of 50 miles an hour, even stronger on the very top of the mountain, a gust of over 100 miles an hour right at the top, earlier on. not too much rain, a bit on the far west coast of scotland, but the second half of the weekend gets much colder swapping north—westerly winds for northerly wind flows, dropping temperatures.

that will be felt tonight across scotland, a cloudy start to the night, and those clear skies work m, night, and those clear skies work in, flicking around more to a north—westerly direction. cold in the rural parts of scotland by the end of the night maybe even some ground frost. cloudy over england and wales tomorrow morning, melting away, not much sunshine to go around but feeling cold, particularly. northern england where some temperatures will stray into single figures. even south, temperatures colder than it has been. the area of high pressure builds in across monday, clear skies overnight, and a cold night heading into the first pa rt cold night heading into the first part of monday morning, frosts developing across scotland and

northern england, perhaps in northern ireland and north wales as well. a good night in the countryside, and high pressure in charge on monday, if you mist and fog patches to start the day. the best of these across eastern areas, these test batches, clear patches, and the clocks go back to night. we are now back to gmt. we get an extra hourin are now back to gmt. we get an extra hour in bed for many of us! this is bbc news.

the headlines. tensions rise after spain begins to impose direct rule over catalonia after politicians there declare independence. pro—unity rallies are being held in madrid as the prime minister calls snap elections after dissolving catalonia's regional parliament. the environment secretary michael gove apologises unreservedly for an on—airjoke about disgraced movie mogul harvey weinstein. warped and degrading — jeremy corbyn says a culture which tolerates the abuse of women is thriving in westminster. the humanitarian crisis affecting almost a00,000 syrians in an eastern suburb of damascus is described as an outrage by the united nations. also in the next hour, the zip—wiring and clubbing glasgow pensioners.