between 8.30 and 9pm. and now the weather. yesterday one of the warmest places in the uk was aberdeenshire, hitting 17 degrees with westerly winds. since then the winters change direction and temperatures today around 8 degrees, and coupled with that winds gusting at 30 mph. 0vernight we will keep brisk winds along eastern coasts with isolated showers but inland, the skies are clear and arrest the —— and a recipe for frost. down to -2 in rural —— and a recipe for frost. down to —2 in rural pots of scotland and england. tomorrow morning, a glorious if somewhat cold start. plenty of sunshine. the exception in

the far north—west of scotland where there will be outbreaks of rain. for those places a dry and cold day. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines: hundres of thousands of people have marched through barcelona in support of spanish unity and against catalonia's unilateral declaration of independence. the international trade minister, mark garnier, faces an investigation — after he admitted asking his secretary to buy sex toys. heathrow airport says it's investigating how details of its security procedures were found lying in the street. scotland's first minister is to apologise on behalf of her government to gay men convicted of sexual offences which have since been abolished. parents will no longer be able to use a legal loophole to avoid paying child maintenance, under new laws to be brought in within months. 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, i admire 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. 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 he was given 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 morlais john 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. 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 19114 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 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 2004, 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 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. for now, from me and the rest of the witness team, goodbye. this week we will see some pretty

big swings in temperatures day today. at the moment cold air from the arctic is in place and that is targeting scotland and northern england. aberdeenshire was one of the warmest places in the country yesterday thanks to winds but the winds of change direction to in northerly direction and today it has been more like eight celsius, a drop of nine celsius. the winds have reached 30 mph. in land there has been plenty of sunshine out and about, iam been plenty of sunshine out and about, i am sure you have been enjoying those fresh conditions. 0vernight the brisk winds down the north sea could bring some isolated showers but they should keep any

frost at the near coastal areas. in land the clear skies and light winds allow temperatures to plummet, one of the colder nights of the tom so far. —— of tom so far. —— also. in monday high—pressure is firmly with others, these week weather fronts trying to move them but for most monday start of glorious, if somewhat chilly. plenty of sunshine. more cloud later in the b somewhat chilly. plenty of sunshine. more cloud scotland 1e b somewhat chilly. plenty of sunshine. more cloud scotland with the threat north—west scotland with the threat of outbreaks of rain. not amounting to two much. the cool weather will not stay too much longer. another cold mate, potentially some frost. as the high—pressure moves southwards on tuesday we get more of a south—westerly wind influencing

whether bringing more mild conditions for most areas into tuesday. turning more mild, quite a lot of cloud in western areas, more sunshine in the east and in the north of scotland it will be windy and cloudy with outbreaks of rain. mild southerly winds with us into the middle of the week to temperatures slightly above average. some rain in western scotland with the cold a tucking into the north. this is bbc news. the headlines at 5pm... at least 300,000 people march through barcelona in a show of unity with spain and to protest against catalan independence. the international trade minister mark garnier faces an investigation after he admitted asking his secretary to buy sex toys.

heathrow airport says it is confident it remained safe after details of security procedures were found on a memory stick lying in the street. parents will no longer be able to use a legal loophole to avoid paying child maintenance, under new laws to be brought in within months. lewis hamilton only needs a fifth place finish at this evening's mexican grand prix to be crowned world champion. and they winner new south wales brings the england women's cricket tea m brings the england women's cricket team within touching distance of