hundreds of billions of dollars and cause severe damage to people's health and way of life, all of which is at odds with president trump's stance on the issue. the spanish prime minister says he still hasn't got the british guarantees he wants on gibraltar, suggesting that a summit in brussels on sunday to approve an eu deal on brexit could be postponed. mr sanchez said, if there was no agreement on the draft deal, the summit would not take place. the trump administration has asked the us supreme court to review lower—court rulings which block the president's ban on some transgender people serving in the military. the administration wants the supreme court to fast—track a definitive ruling on the issue. in an unusually frank statement, one of britain's top police officers has admitted his force can't provide the public with anywhere near the level of service they require. cleveland police chief mike veale says budget cuts are too deep, and have gone on for too long.

earlier this week, the bbc showed officers in hartlepool struggling to police the streets. our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan, who brought you that report, has the latest. they've less money. am i getting arrested? you're getting arrested to prevent a breach of the peace. a third less, they say, since 2010. calm yourself down. they've less staff. don't kick off. 500 fewer officers. let me see your head. but have more demands. robberies and violence are on the rise. so now they are both going to middlesbrough police station, where they'll spend the night until she's sobered up and he'll get interviewed about the obstructing police.

on a recent weekend, i saw first—hand the pressures that cleveland police are under. we've just had a 999 call to say there was a male been stabbed in the neck. but he's got a puncture wound. typical of any night in hartlepool. today, the chief constable placed the blame squarely on the government. in a full and frank attack on ministers, mike veale said... he went on... the home office said they would review police budgets next month, and that forces can ask council taxpayers to help fund the local police. but cleveland's police and crime commissioner says that, in one of england's poorest towns, that doesn't raise much money. we're asking some of the most — the poorest, the most deprived areas in the country, we're asking them for more money to fund a public service which is underfunded. that doesn't seem like a very fair way forward. so stretched, simply reacting to incidents, local residents have taken to conducting night—time patrols to deter criminals.

other towns this week have recognised the contours of hartlepool‘s problems. it seems that, in too many places, there are too few officers dealing with too many demands. michael buchanan, bbc news. now on bbc news, it's time for witness. hello and welcome to witness, with me. iam here hello and welcome to witness, with me. i am here at the british library with five extraordinary moments in history, told to us by people who we re history, told to us by people who were there. coming up: we find out

about a ship that left 4000 tons of hazardous waste on a beach in haiti. a rather unusual car designed for disabled war veterans. we will remember robert graves, a british poet scarred by the first world war. and we speak to the man who invented the game of paintball. but we start with a story of the woman who became the first woman in india to successfully bring a case of sexual harassment to court. it was an extraordinary legal battle that lasted for 17 years. she may be working class, she may be an officer, she may be a high—ranking officer, she may be a high—ranking officer like me. all the men, nobody is immune. and it happens every day. in 1988 is immune. and it happens every day. ini988| is immune. and it happens every day. in 1988 i was serving as special secretary of finance. i had about 20,000 people under me. 90% were men. there was a dinner party hosted

by the home secretary, and mr kps gill, who was the deputy stomach secretary general of police, was also there. he said ms bajaj, i want to do about something. he got up and came and talked to make stood in front of me. he put a finger in my face like that, and he said, up, come on, up. face like that, and he said, up, come on, up. come along with me. come along, you come along with me. soi come along, you come along with me. so i said, i said, mr kps gill, go away from here, you are misbehaving. and i got out from the gap in between him and me, and then i was going, that is the time when he... when he slapped me on the bottom. that is what he did. always people have considered it to be a very trivial thing, but i could not get

over the enormity of it. letting it go meant living with a lowered self—esteem, gulping down my humiliation, basing that person every day, facing all the other people. the consequences of complaining they had not really estimated at that time. nobody was willing to take up the case for me, because they were so frightened of the police. he was the highest ranking police officer, with all the powers of life and death. nobody wa nt to powers of life and death. nobody want to do anything against them. and ifound want to do anything against them. and i found that no one had want to do anything against them. and ifound that no one had ever filed in section 509 and 354, which are the lesser offences against the modesty of women. 17 years, long yea rs, of modesty of women. 17 years, long years, of my life, all of it was taken up by this, by this one case. the lower case had watched the case

run out, it went to the supreme court, and it was the supreme court who called for all the records, reinstated the matter, and also laid down, they gave the definition of modesty. they reprimanded a high courtjudge and said this cannot be treated as something trivial. all the people in every household, this was the talk between husband and wife. the limelight was not on kps gill. the entire focus was on me. why had i resisted the police? there must be something wrong with me. i attended the proceedings of the trial throughout, along with my husband. but, on the day the verdict came, i specially requested, i said i don't want to go there. kps gill was expecting to win, so they had the police band they are, and then my husband's driver rang up and

said, madam, he has been convicted on both counts. it is the mindset i fought against. i neverfought against kps gill. i fought against the mindset of a society. people have started saying, now, offences against women are increasing, they are increasing. no. now, more women are increasing. no. now, more women are speaking up. rupan deol bajaj on herfight against are speaking up. rupan deol bajaj on her fight against harassment in india. now the story of an environmental scandal. india. now the story of an environmentalscandal. in india. now the story of an environmental scandal. in 1988 a ship dumped 4000 tons of american waste on a beach in haiti, and then sailed away. kenny bruno was one of the environmentalists who tried to bring the incident to the world's attention. i find it outrageous even now, 30 years later, to think that it was just dumped out of the open,

uncovered, not fenced in, no security, no protections, no signs, even. this is incinerator ash that has hazardous constituents, it is hazardous waste, and if you just dump it in another country, without environmental regulations, you are dumping a problem on somebody else. the khian sea left philadelphia on five september 1986 and it was carrying 14,000 tons of incinerator ash from the philadelphia municipal incinerator. at the time, it was routine to take this incinerator ash to landfills in the united states, but those landfills were filling up, especially on the east coast, so it started looking for other places to dump. well, the khian sea was out for about two years with its cargo, and went all over the world, pretty much. it wasn't especially easy to track the ship, but we had a lot of

contacts track the ship, but we had a lot of co nta cts in track the ship, but we had a lot of contacts in other countries, and people would give us information. we went to the bahamas, we went to the dominican republic, we went to hunter is. it was turned away by quite a few landfills and quite a few countries —— honduras. and it even few countries —— honduras. and it eve n we nt few countries —— honduras. and it even went to cape verde in west africa before coming all the way back to haiti where it landed on december 31 1987. it unloaded 4000 tons of the ash part of the 14,000 tons of the ash part of the 14,000 tons on board in gonalves, which is north of port—au—prince, the capital. while the khian sea was still in gonalves, offloading its cargo, one of the crew members came out and spoke with local people and was filmed by the local environmental group. this is how

worried i am with the toxicity. the incinerator ash had been marked as fertiliser, we had been told that. so for all we knew there were government officials that would not welcome our visit. so we were a bit nervous about going there in the first place. we were able to just drive up nearby, and then walk right up drive up nearby, and then walk right up to the ash. nobody interfered with us, nobody said anything. this isa sample with us, nobody said anything. this is a sample of the ash that came from philadelphia, and we are going to test for heavy metals like lead, mercury, cadmium, and also for organic chemicals like dioxin, ben sim is, chloroform, so forth. —— benzene. we took samples of the ash and send them to exeter university in the uk, and they found samples

that would qualify that ash is hazardous waste. it took 12 years to get the ash sent back to the united states. it took so long because no one stepped up to take responsibility. not the company, not the city of philadelphia, not the state of pennsylvania, not the us government, nobody wanted to take responsibility. they prefer to just leave it sitting in haiti. what has been important about it was how blatant the injustice was, and how we we re blatant the injustice was, and how we were able to stop a trend that was developing of dumping hazardous waste in the developing world. so some good came out of this event. environmentalist kenny bruno. it is 100 years since the end of the first world war, and our next film is about the writer and poet robert graves, who fought in the conflict. he was both physically and emotionally scarred by his experiences. his son, william

graves, spoke to witness about his father and how he was changed by the war. he never really recovered, i don't think anyone recovered from that war. "grey, haunted eyes. absent—mindedly glaring from wide, uneven orbits". he sort sat me on his knee, as a — four, five—years—old, and one of the things he used to do is say "feel here". he had a lump above his brow, which was actually a piece of granite. "one brow drooping somewhat over the eye, because of a missile fragment still inhering. skin—deep, as a foolish record of old—world fighting". injuly, 1916, which is the date of the battle of the somme, he takes a walk into the wood, actually looking for overcoats

and things like that for the winter, for his men. he comes across this german, a very gory sight. a poem came along shortly afterwards in which he describes this. "to you who'd read my songs of war, and only hear of blood and fame, i'll say, you've heard it said before, war‘s hell. and if you doubt the same, today i found in mametz wood a certain cure for lust of blood. where, propped against a shattered trunk, in a great mess of things unclean, sat a dead boche. he scowled and stunk, with clothes and face of sodden green, big—bellied, spectacled, crop—haired, dribbling black blood from nose and beard". you know, he suffered from shell shock. he had, certainly, nightmares until at least ten years after. one of the things he found very hard

to accept was this idea ofjoyfulness at the end of the war. when the days of rejoicing are over, when the flags are stowed safely away, they would dream of another wild war to end wars, and another wild armistice day. but the boys who were killed in the trenches, who fought with no rage and no rant, we left them stretched out on their pallets of mud, low down with the worm and the ant. here in majorca, he very much had his own life. in those terms i think it was good for him. he could really concentrate on what he really loved doing, which was writing. we used to go down to the beach.

of course he carried with him his army knapsack and water bottle. certainly he didn't have to talk with anyone else. he had very few people he could relate to here. he was always working. towards the end of his life, the war started coming back to him. i don't dream but i've got very strong mental pictures. i can see the whole thing as vividly as i can this room. when he was in a wheelchair, we would wheel him and there was a big bang or something and he would always jump if something was going on. he would almost point a gun at you. it was a very strange end of a life. but, at the very end, he was sitting in a chair and just sighed, and that was it. he died very peacefully. willian graves remembering his

father robert. you can watch a witness every month on the bbc news channel all you can catch up on all oui’ channel all you can catch up on all our films channel all you can catch up on all ourfilms along channel all you can catch up on all our films along with over 1000 radio programmes on our online archive, just go to: after the second world war, three wheeled cars were offered to disabled people in the uk, to help with mobility. it was not long before the vehicles, known by the brand—name invercar drew criticism. one former owner colin powell describes how the invercar came about and how they were so unpopular. it is very much a result of the war veterans coming back disabled from the second world war. it became apparent to the government

that they needed some form of transportation. all have motor invalid chairs and they go out to work every day in factories. the government came up work every day in factories. the government came up with designing what we would best describe in those days as being an invalid carriage. then they got the brand—name, which was the brand—name of the manufacturer, they became the invacar. all the hand controls, in other words if you take the three petals in a normal vehicle, the clutch, the accelerator and the foot rake, they were all inc to be only operated by the hands. —— incorporated. i am a victim of polio and have always suffered from restricted mobility. i was and have always suffered from restricted mobility. iwas 16 and have always suffered from restricted mobility. i was 16 when i first got my invalid carriage, the excitement of this vehicle coming into your possession after years of being dependent on, in my case, my pa rents, being dependent on, in my case, my parents, to take me anywhere, was an absolute delight and a thrill. it

gave you the feeling of somehow living —— levelling out the playing field of the limitations put upon you by your disability. it took me to college when i was a student, it took me to my firstjob, but when we look at it objectively we can see there was a lot not right with it as well. 8596 of disabled people using this vehicle are said to have complained about its uncritical behaviour on the road. they were not reliable, they were unstable, they we re reliable, they were unstable, they were fundamentally unsafe. the fact that it was a single seater meant in your formative teenage and 20 ‘s yea rs your formative teenage and 20 ‘s years it was a very antisocial method of transport because when you started to form friendships with girls and what have you, i was a bit ofa girls and what have you, i was a bit of a rebel, i can't say with my hand on my heart that i didn't sneak a young lady in my car on more than one occasion. she would sit where

the wheelchair would sit, on the floor, very uncomfortable, no padding, no seatbelt, totally u nsafe. padding, no seatbelt, totally unsafe. the campaign to get in onto four wheels instead of three switched in october to tower bridge. idid take switched in october to tower bridge. i did take part in a protest against these vehicles. we were looking for these vehicles. we were looking for the government to consider issuing a regular conducted ordinary cars. eventually the process got so heated that the government allowed the scheme to allow the provision of a regular car adapted ford a disabled person. this triumphant spitfire is the first sports car to be converted and cost £115 to switch to hand operation. most things you would find in the disability world are never designed by a disabled person. they are desired by someone who thinks they know what several people want. i might be disabled but i am a

human being, i am as normal as anyone else. it is just that i have additional challenges in my life, as the mass market for motoring could have easily accommodated from day one. colin powell's memories in 2003, the government scrapped inva ca rs 2003, the government scrapped invacars and a few that remain are in private hands. and finally, the strange story about the origin of the popular game that is paintball. it all began in the early 1980s when a young man, tried to settle a long—standing argument with one of his friends. paintball originated with an argument between myself and my best friend, hayes noel. hayes was a very successful stock trader on the new york stock exchange. he believed that the capacity to survive and to do well is an inherent, inborn talent.

he would argue he could be a survivor anywhere. i spent my life in the woods, hunting and fishing. i argued, on the other hand, that survival was more a function of learning certain behavioural tactics to get right, and that they're environmentally specific. and i said to hayes, if you came out to new hampshire and went out in the woods with me, you wouldn't have a chance. a friend of mine sent me a catalogue that had in it a pistol, and it shot a little ball of paint, about this big around, and it was used by foresters to mark trees to be cut down and so forth. and i had one of those eureka moments. two things came together. i called hayes up and i said, i figured out how we're going to prove this argument, one way or the other. so i ordered two of these guns, and a bunch of the pellets,

and hayes came up to my house. we decided we'd test these guns out, because as far as we had known, nobody had ever shot a person with them. hayes shot first, and he missed, and i shot him right in the butt, and it hurt. so then what we did, we went out into 40 acres of woods, and hayes went in one end, i went in the other, and we hunted each other. within about 20 minutes, i came around a big maple tree, and hayes was sitting on a rock. and i walked right up behind him and put the barrel of the gun right on his neck and said, "all right, i don't want to shoot you. who wins?" laughs. we had so much fun doing this that we decided we didn't want to just drop it there. what we'd do, we'd invite ten other people who had demonstrable survival

capacity, who had distinguished themselves by succeeding, in whatever chosen line of work that got into, more than normally. the first official game of paintball was played injune of 1981. the original game required four flag stations, and those flag stations were marked on a topographic map that each competitor was given, along with the gun, i think we gave them ten pellets, a pair of goggles, a compass, and this map. so that game rewarded stealth, wood skills, strategy. we started up a company called the national survival game. it set up franchises, and what we quickly found out was that what people wanted to do was shoot. we had fields all over the country. the idea of running

through the woods, competing, and in a way sort of symbolically surviving, those are all — does go way back into, you know, our genetic development. charles gaines on the origin of paintball. that is all from witness this month at the british library. we will be back next month with more first—hand accounts of extraordinaire moments in history. but now from me and the rest of the witness team, goodbye. hello.

the week ended on a pretty gloomy note for many, and i'm not expecting things to brighten up spectacularly through the weekends. yes, some of us will see sunshine but many more will be stuck with cloud, it will feel chilly and for some areas, a bit of rain in the forecast. the satellite shows quite a lot of cloud streaming towards urban areas, this cloud is ready bringing some heavy downpours of rain across the south—west of england, even the odd flash of lightning and thunder, and we keep potential for wet weather across the south—west but perhaps across other southern counties of england as well as we go through saturday. uncertainty about how far north that rain will get. it looks most likely that it will say to the south of the m4 corridor. so if you are in the london area, the south midlands, you may see a little bit of rain, on balance it should stay just about dry, temperatures around nine degrees. some rain could move into south wales but for the midlands, north—west england, south—west scotland and for a time across northern ireland a chance of seeing breaks in the cloud and some sunny spells.

for north—east england and the eastern side of scotland we will keep cloud and some showery rain and with that easterly breeze across the country, top temperatures no better than 7—10 degrees. some rain is likely to continue across southern counties of england across saturday evening, elsewhere dry weather, some rain in drizzle coming into eastern areas, we keep that easterly breeze feeding in cloud, the best of the clear skies in the west. if it does stay clear where you are there may be a touch of frost, most areas will stay frost free. for sunday high pressure in charge, but this frontal system threatens to throw a bit of a spanner in the works across the south—east corner. uncertainty about this but clipping into kent and sussex, we could see a little bit of rain. it may come a touch further north and west, but for many sunday is largely dry. a lot of cloud in the east, the best of the brightness further

west, but fairly chilly. on monday we keep our weather coming in from the east, not an especially strong breeze but a cool one bringing lots of cloud, patchy rain in the east, some sunshine to the west and those temperatures stuck in single digits are all of us. for all of us. and then a bit of a change as we had deeper into the new week because high—pressure retreats and the low pressure in the atlantic starts to wind itself up, a lot of white lines, a lot of isobars on the chart, that means it will be windy and at times wet. so tuesday another cool day, turning wet and windy on wednesday but also turning a bit more mild. hello and welcome to bbc news. i'm lewis vaughan jones. a report from the us government says climate change will likely cost the country hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the century, shrinking the size of the us economy by 10%, if action isn't taken. the report is at odds with president trump's policies. he has repeatedly cast doubt on the fact that man—made climate change is real, despite overwhelming scientific evidence. james cook reports. this, say many scientists,

is what climate change looks like. in recent years, california has seen bigger, deadlier and more destructive wildfires than ever before. during a cold snap in washington this week, president trump tweeted,