event, with world number one masters event, with world number one mark selby being knocked at the first—round stage. he was beaten in the deciding frame by mark williams at alexandra palace in london. to discuss the match, use jason mohammed come out with steve davis and can directly. what a match? he dominated and got off to a flying start, in the end it looked like he would run over the mind quite easily, and to that horrible kick. cracking match both players, very high quality. that was the pivotal moment for mark selby, when he had the chance of getting into the corner finals. he got that bad kick, misfortune. then mark williams never looked back. fantastic start. you have to give a huge amount of credit to mark williams and not panicking when it looked like he had lost. that is one of his strengths. he is a great match player, not impervious to pressure, that most of the time he posts a pebbly under pressure. and on a big stage, when he has not been involved in much of the

masters, he could been forgiven for bowing out gracefully, but through to the next round. when it concerns the mark selby considering he crashed out early? didn't compete in the northern ireland open and first round here, he would be very concerned. he was ok during the season, but a few tournaments in the championship, over longer course and distance them mark selby will demean the main man in sheffield. thank you, it continues on the bbc red button, the website and the app. as mark allen takes on luca brecel, making his debut at the masters. leicester life to that match, between mark allen and luca brecel. it is well underway, started at 7:00pm. i—i frames, honours even. luca brecel is one of the younger and more exciting players on the tour this year. it is his debut in the masters. he is up against the experienced mark allen who is making

his tenth straight appearance at one of snicko's most prestigious events. it is 1-1 of snicko's most prestigious events. it isi—i in of snicko's most prestigious events. it is 1—1 in frames, first six as is best of ii. after weeks of teasing an annoucement, a world heavyweight unification fight between anthonyjoshua and the unbeatenjoseph parker has finally been confirmed. joshua holds the ibf and wba belts, while new zealander parker is the wbo champion. the pair will meet on the 31st of march at cardiff's principality stadium — wherejoshua staged his most recent victory against french challenger carlos ta kam. the contest will put the winner within touching distance of becoming the first undisputed heavyweight champion of the world since lennox lewis in 1999. that is all, they'll be more sport on the bbc news channel throughout the evening. thank you forjoining us. and emotionaljourney. the book

ta kes and emotionaljourney. the book takes its title from the traditional flower of mourning in korea. the book, which moves from wartime to oui’ book, which moves from wartime to our own century and back again, is then evocative picture of loss and also an account of how one of the deepest human bonds can survive almost anything. welcome. for your first venture into fiction, you chose 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? for me it was very much a voyage of discovery. i had to do a lot of research into history that i had never heard of. i grew up in america, so our history of korea is very minimal. so i kind of start with stories that my mother had told me, that my grandfather had mentioned, and i went from there. you see, i think many people picking up the book in this country will be startled to realise that anyone going into the second world war as a korean had been living under what we might calljapanese occupation for 25 years? yes, definitely. my grandfather was a boy during japanese occupation, so he grew up speaking japanese. he had ajapanese name. he couldn't express anything in korean. he had to hide that. so the two sisters at the centre of this book who live by the sea

and dive and do all the things that you do to keep yourself going, to find things that can be sold and create a living, they're, in a sense, holding on to a culture which they feel, i suppose inside themselves, is permanently under threat? well, it actually was. they were really the only divers on the island. and the japanese actually prised them. so they would take a lot of them and transport them to japan to dive over there as well. so to stay in the little small area that they were, they were very lucky and to be able to do it for themselves. well, lucky but we have to say that what happened to them in this story cannot be described as lucky. they undergo appalling devastation, they are taken to what is effectively a brothel forjapanese soldiers, we see what happens to one of them there, it is a very searing experience, of course, for effectively a young girl. but your whole theme is that the relationship between these two can triumph over even disaster? yes.

ifeel like the bonds between hannah and emmy hannah being the one who is taken to the brothel, kind of keeps her going — keeps her alive and gives her hope. but for her sister, being left behind, having to go out into the korean war, without her sister, gave her a lot of survivor's guilt. that winds the story together. and emmy, we meet in the 21st century, looking back on this experience. and i'm thinking about it but reflecting on it, although it is tragic story with some elements of hope? i hope so. i'm glad that you say that. because i mean the comfort woman's story is very, very dark. a lot of these women didn't survive. there are 200,000 that they think

were sent away to these brothels. which is a story that most people here won't know. you didn't even know? i didn't know. i was in my 20s by the time i heard this story. i was very confused about it. i spoke to my mother and asked her why she didn't tell me about this. so effectively, a couple of hundred thousand and these women were taken from their families and homes and made to go to japan to become sex slaves? yes. and it is a timing when the book is emerging at a moment when the people are trying to find out more about the korean peninsula for obvious reasons that have to do with contemporary politics, it is a curious accidental timing, that the words korean and korea are on more people's lips now more than they have been for a long time. which for me is great. i grew up in a small suburb in texas, when somebody saw me walking down the street, they thought japanese, chinese, never korean.

so, i always thought one day i'm going to write about korea, people are going to know where korea is, and who looks korean. also, it's a historical truth that occurred that there is still some question about. you know, for me, it is very important to remember these women. they are in their 80s. they are a forgotten tribe, almost? yes, they're not in the history books and we don't read about them. i think before the last one passes away it would be wonderful if all of the history books in korea, japan and america, to have them in there. you talk about your mother being born just at the end of the korean war, it ended in the early 50s, how much did she know and where did she know it about what had happened before she was born? it is nothing she ever talked about. really? when i found out about it, i asked her, she said everyone knows about it, it was not news.

but it was known, not spoken of? yes. under the dictatorships they were not allowed to speak of the wars or the atrocities of the past, whether it was the second world war or the korean war. you were not allowed to mention it? it was frowned upon. you could get thrown into jail. it was in the 80s in the democracy when women started coming out. the families must have known. they had to imagine, it is very cruel but they must have had to picture what had happened to their children for example but without really knowing? yes. and a lot of them also had to ignore it. they couldn't think about it. it was so taboo. yes. what sort of journey was it for you yourself? we spoke about the exploration into korean history, which it represents in the 20th century but what about

the emotional feeling. when you had written this story, when you had tried to imagine how emmy felt in the 21st century looking back to innocent days with her sister and then what had happened, emotionally, what did it do for you? it was a bit of a roller—coaster. it was up and down. there are happy moments when you remember your childhood. but there is also that melancholy and sadness, that you don't get it back, that it's gone. so as a writer i pretend i'm living through it in order to put that down. i suppose there is the question of potential guilt, 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 that i can't even imagine?" that is quite a tricky thing to do when doing it for the first time? very much so.

i was in a unique position where my mother and all of her friends had tragic lives in korea. it is why they are in america. i got to listen to them to tell their stories, to see how they reacted, how they felt, and the emotions that they went through telling their stories. and that's my entire childhood. and we should say that the title of the book, white chrysanthemum, is a reference to the traditional flower of mourning in korea? yes. so if you see a funeral they always have a picture of the deceased and they will bring the chrysanthemums and put them next to the picture. that is an appropriate thing to have on the cover of this book. yes. mary lynn bracht, author of white white, thank you very much. thank you. hello.

after a spell of very wet and very windy weather across all parts of the british isles, the forthcoming week promises to be a good deal colder than anything we have seen for a while. there will be some snow in the forecast and it will be much windier than the weekjust gone by. the transition comes behind this band of weather which has already made an impact across northern and western parts of the british isles. through the rest of the night, it will continue its journey ever further towards the south and east. around that weather front it will be easy to see gusts of wind around 60—70 mph in exposed areas. not a particularly cold night, the breeze may drop out in one or 2 spots across the north of scotland, a touch of frost here perhaps. but that is not the main story. here we go, just in time for the school run and morning commute, a really wet and windy one, all over east anglia, the south—east, the south and east midlands, central and southern england, parts of the west country, too. and then following on behind, no real relief, this is a lot of shower activity. some of these are really quite heavy, right from the word go. maybe a rumble of thunder in there as well. further north, this is where the cold feel will already begin

to set in across northern parts, western parts of scotland, into northern ireland, too. that belt of weather taking time to get away from the far south—east. probably lunchtime, early afternoon. following on behind, somewhat brighter skies, a chance of some sunshine. you get a sense that there are plenty of showers to go around. given that temperature profile across the north and west of scotland, northern ireland, too, across the high ground particularly the snow amounts will begin to rack up. and that continues apace on through the night, from monday on into tuesday. tuesday, another blustery day, and by that stage, we will all be experiencing that much colder feel to the weather as the cold air slumps its way right down across all parts of the british isles. throughout the day, the heaviest of the showers are across northern and western areas, and by this stage, because they'll be so much cold weather across many parts, even way down to the hills of wales, maybe the moors of the south—west, we could well be seeing something a wee bit wintry. elsewhere, it really will feel that cold,

given the strength of the wind. that will be ever present through the middle part of the week, and then we keep an eye on this. some uncertainty exactly where that is heading, that on the northern flank of that system, overnight wednesday into thursday, thre could well be a period of snow. oi 0ia 0i a this is bbc news. the headlines at 8.00pm: the government says it's doing everything it can to keep the serial sex offender, john worboys, in prison, after he was granted parole. ukip leader henry bolton is under pressure to resign after his girlfriend allegedly made racist remarks about prince harry's fiancee. the trouble with politics, it does inflame passions. people get very excited about politics. they have very strong views. but that must never be allowed to step over into abuse. police are looking for a man after a fatal attack, reportedly involving a crossbow, which left one man dead and a pregnant woman injured. the crisis at carillion — the government holds emergency talks in an effort to save the engineering giant from collapse.

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