know they are circulation today. i know they are taking steps but i guess it is very difficult to make a change overnight. is it partly about our own attitude, maybe we just wait for government to tell us what we should do but perhaps we should just do this ourselves and not by food in plastic packaging, not do more recycling as well, which people are again pretty lazy about?” recycling as well, which people are again pretty lazy about? i think people do a lot proactively and we are much better that things like recycling even before the single use bag charge you would see people taking their own bikes. sometimes but not that often. it helps to have the legislation and the more clear signals through things like the bag charge, so that is why we do need legislation and we need the government to be looking seriously at the kind of things we do that would make things easier for people. people want to do what is right but they also want to do what is easy and if you make things easier by

setting up systems then people will do that. and if we carry on at the rate we are using plastic now, what will be the consequences. there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans for twe nty20 to be more plastic than fish in the oceans for twenty20 to and be more important point is the government has what about its plans for the uk. a lot of the problem comes from countries like china, sri lanka and so countries like china, sri lanka and so on, so the government needs to be leading in the world to be working in the world to see how they will be tackling those plastic problems. there's lots we can do bilaterally and the environment is a big emphasis for this government as we understand, and they need to be out there selling that message. very good to talk to both of you. thank you both for your time. at the recent golden globe awards, oprah winfrey sparked speculation that she could run for president and now she's received celebrity backing.

in an interview with the bbc‘s andrew marr show, both meryl streep and tom hanks were asked whether they thought oprah would make a good president and gave her their glowing endorsement. i don't know if she was thinking that specifically although i hear now that she is really considering it. she has set the bar pretty— everybody else who decides to run because nobody can speak in less lofty terms and then they are two and passion in a political campaign because we have seen it as possible. that is how you rose people, that was the voice of a leader, so ivey petty whoever does decide to run.|j think oprah is a social force that is one—of—a—kind and has never existed before. ithink

is one—of—a—kind and has never existed before. i think she wakes up each morning and wonders specifically what you can do to make the world a better place. maybe it isa the world a better place. maybe it is a local event or going out and giving voice to something that needs to be given voice to. we have proven in the last few years that if you wa nt in the last few years that if you want to be president of the united states, there is a way that can happen. that is one thing that has been shown. yes, indeed. now its time for meet the author. mary lynn bracht‘s first novel is a journey into her career and heritage. two sisters separated in a country that has for their whole lives been occupied byjapan. white chrysanthemum takes its name from the traditional flow of warning in korea. the book is an evocative version of loss and an account of how one of the deepest human bonds

can survive almost anything. for your first venture into fiction, you choose to go back to the country of your mother's birth to a period long before you were born. to what extent was it for you personally a voyage of discovery? it was very much a voyage of discovery, i had to doa much a voyage of discovery, i had to do a lot of research into history i had never heard of. i grew up in america so history of korea is very minimal. i started with stories my mother had told me, my grandmother had mentioned and i went from there. many people picking up the book in

this country will be startled to realise that anybody going into the second world war as a korean had been living under what we might call japanese occupation for 25 years. definitely. my grandfather was a boy during the japanese occupation so he grew up speaking japanese and had a japanese name. this is he couldn't express anything in korean and had to hide that. the two sisters at the centre of this book who live by the sea and do all the things you do to keep yourself going, to find things that can be sold and make a living, they are in a sense holding onto a culture which they feel inside themselves as permanently under threat. it actually was. they are really the only divers on the island and the japanese prise them, so they would take a lot of them to japan to

dive, so to stay in that small area they were lucky and to be able to do it themselves. lucky but we have to see what happens to them on this story cannot be described as lucky, they undergo appalling deprivation and are taken effectively to a brothel forjapanese and are taken effectively to a brothel for japanese soldiers. we see what happens to one of them there and it is a very seeding expedients for a young girl. your call theme is the relationship between these two can triumph over even disaster. i feel like the bonds between the two, one taken to a brothel, keeps her going and gives her hope, whereas for her sister, being left behind and having to go through the korean war without her sister, give said a lot of survivors guilt, so that wine is the story

together. and we should see that the sister you speak of, we meet in the 2ist—ce ntu ry sister you speak of, we meet in the 2ist—century looking back on this experience, and thinking about it and reflecting on it, although a tragic story with elements of hope. i hope so. i am glad you say that, because the comfort women's story is very dark. a lot of these women didn't survive, 200,000 i think were sent away to these brothels. which isa sent away to these brothels. which is a story most evil here want now. you didn't even know. is a story most evil here want now. you didn't even knowlj is a story most evil here want now. you didn't even know. i didn't, i was in my 20s by the time i heard this. i was very confused and spoke to my mother. effectively a couple of hundred thousand women who were used as sex slaves. and didn't make it back home. there were only around 250 registered voter at large number. it is curious timing that

this because a at the moment when people are trying to find out more about the korean peninsula for obvious reasons to do with contemporary politics. it is a curious accident of timing. korea is on more people's let's than it has for a long time. which for me is great because i grew up in a small suburb of texas and people saw me and thought japanese, chinese. suburb of texas and people saw me and thoughtjapanese, chinese. this i always thought one day i will write about korea and people will know where it is and who looks korean! it is a story of truth that occu i’s korean! it is a story of truth that occurs that there is still some question about. for me, it is very important to remember these women who are now in their 80s. a forgotten tribe, almost. and they are not in the history books. before the last one passes away it would be

wonderful if all these books have that in there. you talk about your mother being bornjust that in there. you talk about your mother being born just at the end of the korean war in the 1950s. how much did she know and when did she know it about what happened to match this i don't think she's ever talked about it. when i found out i asked and she said well everybody knows about that, it is not news. it was known but not spoken of? yes. under the dictatorships, they were not allowed to speak about the atrocities of the past whether the second world war of the korean war. it was frowned upon, you could get into trouble and sent to jail and it wasn't until the 1980s when you had democracy and freedom that it started coming out and you had one in's groups coming forward. the families must have known and they must have had to imagine, a very

cruel thing to imagine, they must have had to picture what happened to their children for example but without really knowing. a lot of them also had to ignore it. they couldn't think about it, so taboo. what sort of germany was it for you yourself, we talked about the exploration into korean history. what about the emotional feeling, when you had written this story and try to imagine how emi felt, looking back to innocent days with her sister and then what had happened, emotionally what to do you?m sister and then what had happened, emotionally what to do you? it was a bit course, at lansdowne, because customer happy moments. alsojust the melancholy and sadness. as a

writer i have to pretend like i am looking through it in order to get backbone. -- but down. that is also the potential of guilt and feeling i have never had to experience anything like this. how can i presume to picture the emotional state of people who have gone through something i cannot even imagine, it is quite a tricky thing to do, doing it for the first time. very much so. this i was a unique situation. i got to listen to them tell their stories and see how they reacted and how they felt and the emotion they went through. that's my entire childhood. we should see the title of the book, white chrysanthemum, is a reference to the traditional flower of morning in korea. if you see any funerals they

have a picture of the deceased, chrysanthemums have a picture of the deceased, chrysa nthemums left next have a picture of the deceased, chrysanthemums left next to the picture. mary lynn bracht, thank you very much. not particularly sparkling at the moment. if you spend the day in the south—west of england are parts of wales you did very well indeed. further east, the odd glimpse of sunshine across northern areas but my concern over night was again the return of fog. if indeed it ever left you. it'll be back across many central and western areas but quite chilly start, i again rather liked

this morning, some issue is with dense patches. don't think it will linger quite as badly as it did through thursday morning but worth consideration especially for the first part of the day. quite clearly it towards the east, best of the sunshine through central and western areas, speckling of showers but many of you could well stay dry with the temperature around 6—9. hello, i'm ross atkins, welcome to outside source. we have seen a second day of protests in pakistan after the rape and murder of a six—year old girl. local police say there have been 12 similar murders in recent years. this is footage of the girl being led away and her father has spoken to the bbc. translation: if the police had done theirjob properly, they would have found her as soon as they got hold of the cctv but they weren't interested. the political surprise of the day came courtesy of nigel farage. listen to what he wants. maybe, just

maybe, i am listen to what he wants. maybe, just maybe, iam reaching listen to what he wants. maybe, just maybe, i am reaching the point of thinking that we should have a second referendum. at 22 years old, i bought my first house for {6.5