immigration policies. people took to the streets in cities as far and wide as washington, san francisco, and atlanta, calling for migrant families split up at the us border to be reunited. at least one person has been killed and around a dozen injured in the nicaraguan capital managua. armed men are reported to have shot at crowds of people who were marching in memory of young protestors who died during more than two months of anti—government protests. and in the world cup, it's game over for argentina and portugal after losses on the first day of the knockout stage in russia — lionel messi and cristiano ronaldo are among the goalscoring greats who'll be heading home. their sides lost to france and uruguay respectively. four young men, three of them teenagers, have died in a car crash in leeds. they were in a vehicle which collided with a taxi. two teenage girls and the taxi driver were taken to hospital. sarah walton reports. the sound of this morning's crash

walk many of the residents here on leeds‘ outer ring road. a car carrying six people collided with a taxi at about 2:40am. those living nearby were some of the first to help. we didn't think it was this serious. i took some blankets and just some water. i thought, it'sjust a car crash, and we probably should come and help them. but then when we went outside, we saw the scene, like, you know, it was horrible. four men aged between 18 and 21 were declared dead at the scene. a 16—year—old girl who was also in the car is in a critical condition, while another passenger — a 17—year—old girl — and the driver of the taxi are being treated for non—life—threatening injuries. police are investigating, but say they believe the car was travelling at speed. it was absolutely devastating. a really significant impact. and, as i say, we have four young men, between the ages of 18 to 21, who died at the scene.

some in the area say this stretch is known for speeding. we get woken up all the time with people putting their foot down. i mean, it's a0 mph — they're clearly going a lot faster, and i said last week to our lass, "something bad's going to happen on this road," and lo and behold... the car was travelling in this direction when it collided with a taxi coming the other way. the impact was so big that it took police more than ten hours to examine the scene and reopen the road. through the day, friends and relatives of those who died have been leaving tributes beside the road. police are now asking anyone with information to help with their inquiries. sarah walton, bbc news, leeds. now on bbc news, the second world war is still controversial in east asia, even as it falls from living memory. so how is japanese cinema telling the story 70 years on? in conjunction with bbc radio 3, historian rana mitter has visited

tokyo to find out. japan's never ending war contains some distressing scenes from the start. japan today is prosperous, lively, and enjoying the upside of 70 years of peace. but in the 1930s and early 40s, japanese forces swept across first china and then the pacific, until finally they were driven slowly back towards the japanese mainland and destruction. hiroshima was completely hidden by an impenetrable cloud of smoke and dust. in east asia, the second world war is still so raw it dominate headlines. so how the countries of the region tell themselves their war stories really matters. but as memories of the war die away, what aspects of the conflict remain

in focus and was left out of the frame? i'm rana mitter, a literary historian of east asia. and i have come to tokyo to find out how japan tells itself the story of the war through its movies, movies that recreate the era of devastation that still shapes this country's relationship with the region and the world. this museum in central tokyo is a record of the everyday lives of wartime civilians. everything from preparing ever scarcer food to sheltering from american bombs. and it's that perspective on the face of japanese civilians that's at the heart of a recent surprise blockbuster. on its release in 2016, in this corner of the world seemed

to catch some weight of public mood and became a big hit. it talks about a woman called suzu starting her married life near hiroshima. as the war comes closer to the islands, it brings food shortages... and worse. but at first, suzu responds with youthful creativity. how do young people watch your film, how do young people react to seeing the war period portrayed on screen? finally, suzu loses her drawing hand, and her neice who's holding it, to an american bomb. but do young people think about movies as a way

to understand the war? i went to meet up with three students, akame, yuri, and haruka. in this corner of the world stays focused on the suffering inflicted onjapanese people rather than by them, but it does give glimpses of the harde edge of the regime. in this scene, the military police, the kempeitai, accuse suzu of spying for warships in the bay. arai harahiko‘s movie, this country's sky, also tells the story of a young woman trying to form her personality and ideas during the last year of the war and its desperation. amid the air raids, 19—year—old satoko begins a highly unconventional relationship with her 30—something neighbour.

we've heard quite a bit about films that mourn the japanese victims dead are commemorated. th yasukuni shrine is a controversial site, as it doesn'tjust commemorate the ordinary war dead, but also leaders who were indicted as class a war criminals after japan's defeat. it's also the place where the souls of kamikaze pilots were inducted after their deaths. it has become difficult to film freely inside. but it is this place invoked in a film that makes those kamikaze pilots its heroes. in for those we love, the young men about to fly off and crash their planes in american warships as japan struggled desperately to stall the american advance promised to meet each other after death at the yasukuni shrine. it was written by the then governor of tokyo, ishihara shintaro,

well—known for his hardline nationalist views, and his script insists on the nobility of the pilots‘ sacrifice. for those we love was not a huge box office success, but a more recent film about the kamikaze pilots proved a blockbuster hit. the kamikaze‘s plane was called zero, and the eternal zero was adapted from a novel from the japanese author, hyakuta naoki. however, the film adaptation took the story in a new direction. in this electrifying aerial chase sequence, the fighter, miabi, desperately tries to outmanoeuvre the american fighter plane on his tail. but when miabi is saved by one of his pupils deliberately crashing into the american's plane, he chides the badly injured young man for risking his life in direct

contradiction of japan's wartime insistance of self—sacrifice. some appreciated the film's take on the pilot's noble sacrifice, others, not least the director of the film, mr takashi, saw it as more critical. the director of the film sat down with me. we have known each other for years. people have this perception this film is pro—war. writers are coming out

and saying this is our film. the people in that film, the kamikaze pilots, they are to be pitied the way they died. so wasteful. how can they even think that? he was mad, offended. finally, miyabe sets out on a kamikaze mission and the film ends with a moment of emotional connection between kamikaze pilots and today's fighters as he comes face to face with his grandson in today's japan. in 2015, a movie called fires on the plain confronted audiences with a vision of the war as hell. half crazed japanese soldiers commit atrocities as they struggle to survive. the lead, tamura, is played by the film's creator, tsukamoto shinya. but there is another aspect to what war movies focus on. the differing memories of the war in other parts of asia. japanese movies tend to focus on the war in the pacific, rather than events like the massacre carried out by the invading

japanese army in the then chinese capital in winter 1937 — an event known in the west as the rape of nanking. although japanese journalists and academics have worked extensively and honestly on this, it is not a subject that japanese filmmakers have dealt with very much. but their chinese counterparts have certainly put the subject at the heart of their treatment of the war on screen. writer—director lu chuan's city of life and death is a vision of unsparing cruelty as the japanese army forced chinese women into sexual slavery. and this film, the flowers of war, explores very similar

themes through the eyes of a young american. in this scene, christian bale struggles to stop a cultivated japanese officer take away the convent girls that he is protecting to a terrible fate. sir, they're very young. i'm not sure that it is appropriate for them to attend an adults party. as their guardian and protector that is my responsibility. but we thank you very much. i am sorry. this is out of my power. the horrors visited on nanjing are also at the centre of the documentary the girl and the picture, a documentary out this year. it focuses on xia shuqin, who was barenetted as an eight—year—old when the japanese came to power. the film shows the woman passing on her memories to her curious seven—year—old great—grandson. that moment, to me, is the defining

special moment to me, because it is this visceral moments of literally him touching the past. she was passing on a very valuable lesson to her family and the grandchild: forgiveness. and that is the purpose of this entire film and exercise — learn from history so that we can reduce the possibility of it happening again. but then to move on. there is a moment where he sort of flinches a little bit, and he's concerned about his grandmother. and what i really love is what she says. she notices his feeling and says, "but i survived." japanese leaders have repeatedly apologised, but many feel the country has never quite fully

reckoned with its war crimes. some, though, do suggest that china uses the memory of war crimes to pressure japan and ignores its more positive role since the war. and then few chinese films confront the horrors of the cultural revolution. what's more, a reluctance to confront difficult history is notjust confined to east asia. there is no simple british equivalent to nanjing, but uk movies do often not tackle difficult subjects like the wartime famines that british policies helped to create in bengal. this is the legendary toho studios, fronted by a statue of their most famous star, godzilla. i'm here to meet harada masato, who is cutting his latest film, to ask him about his previous film, for shochiku studios, the emperor in august. most of the films we have been

looking at have been about civilians or soldiers. but this one tries to grapple with the responsibility of the top leaders who were ruling japan at the end of world ii. and emperor hirohito's decision in 1945 thatjapan had to surrender. harada explained that one of the reasons he wanted to tell the story afresh was because of his worry that shinzo abe's government wants radically to transform japan's constitution. article nine of the constitution says that japan will forever renounce war and the use of force to settle international disputes. shinzo abe and his supporters consider that a humiliation forced onjapan by the victors. it is a dangerous way that japan is heading. and shinzo abe's regime

and administration, i am afraid about. why did the making a film about 1945 might address those issues? well, it is clearly telling how difficult it is to abandon the army once we had this organisation. the emperor had to come out and to speak out and it made such tremendous effort for everyone in the cabinet to finish the war, to end the war, and to abandon the army to save the nation. and if japan moves that way again, to form a new type of army, i feel fear of what we're doing, that we're going to harm's way. some feel it is unnecessarily anxious view of the current japanese government. to bring about the surrender,

hirohito had to face down resistance at the top of his government. and harada says portraying the emperor on screen today also involved taboos. while in preproduction, i checked about the safety of making this film and asked mr hando who wrote the book, and he asked some right—wingers and checked the situation, and maybe it is safe to show the emperor in that way, but to betray the family feud among the emperor's family, nobody tested that water yet. maybe japan, like britain, cannot leave world war ii

behind, even though it is 70 years ago. there are so many interesting stories and plots not being exposed yet. injapan, like said before, there are so many taboos, you cannot do this and do that and it existed — and it seems like now is the time to show some of those hidden truth. at the end of the war the emperor was living in a secluded palace estate beyond this bridge, nijubashi. he then had to cross another bridge, away from a warlike japan that invaded large parts of asia to a new country of peace and prosperity. but the legacy has never really faded. the relationship with china has remained formal and cool. that bridge has never really been crossed.

both countries are still fighting one another on screen. both countries are still mourning the losses of more than seven decades ago. but they are doing so in relative isolation from one another. if the two countries are to overcome the enormous chasm between them, they will need to learn more about their histories. and perhaps filmmakers can make that crossing a little easier. hello there. june has been exceptionally dry for large parts of the uk. the heat has been far and wide. so too the sunshine. and for the first day ofjuly, many of us will see more of the same. but not quite everywhere, because we've got the chance of a few thundery downpours towards the far south—west. that's because here,

we're going to be very close to this growing area of cloud that has sort of sprung into life over the past few hours. that high—based cloud is drifting towards the south—west of the uk. ahead of it, we're drawing in a slightly different wind direction, more south—easterly, but that's picking up more heat and more humidity blowing into the south. that humidity and that cloud triggering a few thundery downpours towards the far south—west and the channel islands for a while. at the same time, a very weak weather front brings cloud towards northern ireland. maybe a few spots of rain in the far north—west of scotland. but elsewhere, it will be dry and sunny. temperatures in the mid—20s, scotland and northern ireland, high 20s, perhaps 30 degrees or so across england and wales. well, let's focus on those showers, and we've got thunderstorm warnings issued by the met office for the very first time for the south—west of england and south wales, but a few storms could arrive all the way towards sussex into surrey, maybe later on into the south midlands. don't take the position of those areas of rain as gospel because it is a developing situation, all developing around

this very flabby area of low pressure that's bringing that cloud and the potential for some storms. but at the same time, we've got high pressure building in across the north. so on monday, most places are going to have a dry and sunny day once again. there will still be a few storms not far away from the far south—west through the english channel and towards the channel islands. but away from here, no sign of any rain. those temperatures still on the high side for this time of year, particularly high towards the south—east into the midlands. 30 degrees quite likely here. and for the first week ofjuly, not a great deal of change. more dry, sunny and quite hot weather for most. the highest temperatures will be in the south where there is still the chance of one or two thundery downpours, although that threat, that risk, that chance is diminishing as the week goes on. because that high pressure is going to be building in across more of the uk, settling things down once again, and again on tuesday, it's sunny skies for most areas. but with the high pressure building

in across the north, here, it's somewhat cooler and fresher, there's a bit more cloud for northern scotland for a while, but fewer showers through the english channel. as you can see, in the outlook for our capital forecast, it looks like it should stay dry, temperatures widely into the mid—to—high 20s. that's it from me. goodbye. this is bbc news. i'm nkem ifejika. our top stories: chanting: no trump, no kkk, no fascist usa! hundreds of thousands protest across the united states against president trump's hardline immigration policies. syrian forces shell opposition—held deraa as rebels refuse to surrender. events begin marking 21 years since britain handed hong kong back to china. hello and welcome to bbc world news.

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