some of david attenborough's lectures from 1973 have gone missing. there are also gaps in ‘66, ‘67, ‘69, ‘70 and ‘71. the royal institution wants to put all of these televised lectures online, and is asking the public if they have copies of the missing programmes hidden in a loft or stored in a garage. they were television's first ever science programme, and they're hoping that some of their technologically inclined viewers might be able to help them complete the full collection. recognise this sound 7 yes, that is undeniably ‘the lion king', but not as we know it. the trailer for the re—telling of the classic disney film has been released and it's already had 21 million views in 2a hours.

the remake is due to hit cinemas next summer and its cast includes the likes of beyonce, seth rogan and donald glover — otherwise known as ‘childish gambino‘. now it's time for a look at the weather with nick miller. a lot of cloud coming in across the east and south of the uk. and easterly flow and it will be all change next week. right now it is as you were with that easterly breeze. temperatures in single figures. showers in scotland, rain, southern england into south wales. into tonight, a few showers on the south coast. some into the far south—east. the east of scotland and north east england. elsewhere, variable cloud, clear spells and temperatures dropping close to freezing under the clearing skies. parts of north—west england, northern ireland may see a

touch of frost. the same tomorrow, some showers in the east of scotland and north—east england, some may drift west. some showers into the far south—east and single figure temperatures again. feeling a little cooler. that is where we will stay on monday and on tuesday, but more rain is coming in and stronger winds, much wetter and windier weather on the way next week. hello this is bbc news. the headlines. theresa may is set to head to brussels for talks today with top eu officials ahead of sunday's crucial summit to formally sign off the brexit deal. spain has said it will not attend unless a last—minute disagreement over gibraltar is resolved. the dup deputy leader nigel dodds has told the pm it's not too late to bin her brexit deal. speaking at his annual conference, he's warned that the proposed withdrawal agreement would see the uk assume a "pitiful and pathetic place". french police fire tear gas and a water cannon

to disperse protesters in paris who are demonstrating for a second weekend against rising fuel prices. a us government report warns that unchecked climate change will cost the country hundreds of billions of dollars and damage human health and quality of life. the warning is at odds with the trump administration's fossilfuels agenda. film director nicolas roeg, whose credits include don't look now and the man who fell to earth, has died at the age of ninety. next on bbc news, witness with razia iqbal. hello and welcome to witness with me, razia iqbal.

i am here at the british library with five extraordinary moments in history, told to us by people who were there. coming up, we find out about a ship that left 4000 tonnes of hazardous waste on a beach in haiti. a rather unusual car designed for a 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 the story of rupan deol bajaj 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 like me, all women, nobody is immune. and it happens every day.

in 1988, i was serving as the 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 was the director—general of police and he was also there. he called out to me and he said mrs bajaj, i want to talk to you about something. he got up and he came and stood in front of me, towering above me and he put his finger in my face like that and he said, up, come on, up. come along with me. come on, you, along with me. so, i said, i said, mr gill, go away from here. you are misbehaving.

and i got out from the gap in between him and me and when i was going, that was the time when he, well, 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 lower self—esteem. gulping down my humiliation. facing that person every day, facing all the other people. the consequences of complaining, i had not really estimated at that time. nobody was willing to take up the case for me, because they were so frightened of kps gill, he was the highest—ranking police officer with all the powers of life and death. no one wanted to do anything against him. 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 years,

of my life, all of it was taken up by this one case. the lower courts had quashed the case there, thrown it out. the case reached the supreme court and it was the supreme court that called for all the records, that reinstated the matter and also laid down. they gave the definition of modesty. they reprimanded the high court judge 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 registered a case? there must be something wrong with me. i attended the proceedings of the trial along with my husband.

but on the day the verdict came, i specially requested, i said i do not want to go there. kps gill was expecting to win, so they had the police band there 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 never fought against kps gill. i fought against the mindset of society. people have started saying now, offences against women are increasing, they are increasing. no. now more women are speaking up. rupan deol bajaj on herfight against harassment in india. now the story of an environmental scandal. in 1988, a ship dumped 4000 tonnes 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 in 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 any environmental regulations, you are dumping your problem on somebody else. the khian sea left philadelphia on september 5th, 1986 and it was carrying 14,000 tonnes 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 coast, so it started looking for other

places to dump. well, the khian sea was out for about two years with its cargo and it went all over the world, pretty much. it was not especially easy to track the ship, but we had a lot of contacts in other countries and people would give us information. it went to the bahamas, to the dominican republic, it went to honduras. it was turned away by quite a few landfills and quite a few countries. and it even went to cape verde and guinea—bissau in west africa, before coming all the way back to haiti, where it landed on december 31, 1987. it unloaded 4000 tonnes of the ash out of the 14,000 tonnes that were on board in gonaives,

which is about three hours drive north 0f port—au—prince, the capital. i don't want to hide anything, i want to be very open to everyone. while the khian sea was still in gonaives off—loading its cargo, one of the crew members came out and spoke with local people and was filmed with a local environmental group. this is how aware i am of its toxicity. that's how aware i am of 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 to the ash, nobody interfered 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 dioxins, benzenes, chloroform and so forth.

we took samples of the ash and sent them to the exeter laboratory in the uk and they found levels of lead and cadmium, especially that would qualify that ash as 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, nor the state of pennsylvania. not the us government, nobody wanted to take responsibility. they preferred to just leave it sitting in haiti. what has been important about it was how 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, absentmindedly glaring from wide, uneven orbits. he sort of sat me on his knee, as a four or five—year—old and one of the things he used to do was say, feel here, and he had a lump above his brow, which was actually a piece of granite. 0ne brow drooping somewhat over the eye, because of a missile fragment 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 winter, for his men, and he comes across this german, a pretty gory site. 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.

dripping 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. are stowed safely away. they will dream of another wild 'war to end wars'. are stowed safely away. they will 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 could very

much live his own life. in those terms, i think it was good for him. and he could really concentrate on what he really loved doing, which was writing. we used to go down to the beach, i remember, of course, he always carried with them his army knapsack and his water bottle. certainly, he did not 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, i've got a very strong mental picture of it. i can see the whole thing as vividly as i can this room. he was in a wheelchair and we would wheel him and there was a big bang or something and he would

sort of, always jump if something was going on. if someone was coming, 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. william graves, remembering his father, robert. remember, you can watch witness every month on the bbc news channel or you can catch up on all our films along with more than 1000 radio programmes in 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 wasn't long before the vehicles, known by the brand name invacar, drew criticism. 0ne former owner, colin powell, explains how the invacar came about and why they were so unpopular. it was 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 many go out in them every day to work in nearby factories along the great western road. the government came up with designing what we best described in those days as an invalid carriage, but then they got the brand name, which was the brand name of the manufacturer, they became the invacar. all were hand controls. in other words, if you take the three pedals that are in a normal vehicle, the clutch, the accelerator and the foot brake, they were all incorporated to be only operated by hand. i am a victim of polio and have always suffered

from restricted mobility. i was 16 when i first got my invalid carriage. the big excitement of this vehicle coming into your possession after years of being dependent, in my case, on my parents, to take me anywhere. it was an absolute delight and thrill. it gave you the feeling of somehow living on a level playing field, without 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 a lot that was not right with it as well. 85% of disabled people using this vehicle are said to have complained about his unpredictable behaviour on the road. they were not reliable. they were unstable. they were fundamentally unsafe. the fact that it was a single seater meant, in your formulative teenage and 20s years,

it was a very anti—social method of transport, because, you know, when you started to form friendships with girls and what have you, i was a bit of a rebel and i can say, with my hand on my heart, that i did sneak a young lady in my car on more than one occasion. she would sit where the wheelchair should sit, on the floor, very uncomfortable, totally no padding, no seat belt, totally unsafe. the campaign to get invalids onto four wheels instead of three switched in october to tower bridge. i did take part in a protest against these vehicles, when we were looking for the government to consider issuing regular, adapted, ordinary cars. eventually, the protest got so heated that the government allowed this game, to allow the provision of a regular car, adapted for the disabled person. this triumph spitfire is the first sports car to be converted

and caused £115 to switch to hand operation. most things you find in the disability world are never designed by a disabled person. they have been decided by someone who thinks they know what a disabled person needs. 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, and the mass market for motoring could have easily accommodated them from day one. colin powell's memories. in 2003, the government scrapped invacars and the few that remain are in private hands. and finally, the strangest story about the origin of the popular game that is paintball. it all began in the early 19805 when a young man, charles gaines 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 that he could be a survivor anywhere. i spent my life in the woods, hunting and fishing. i argued, on the other hand, that survival is more a function of learning certain behavioural tactics to get by and that they are environmentally specific and i said to hayes, if you came up 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, round,

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 come together. i called hayes up and i said, i have figured out how we are going to prove this argument, one way or another. so i ordered two of these guns and a bunch of the pellets and hayes came up to my house and we decided we would 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. hayes went in one end and 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,

put the barrel of the gun right on his neck and said, all right, i don't want to shoot you, who wins? we had so much fun doing this that we decided we didn't want to just drop it there, what we would do is we would invite ten other people, who had demonstrable survival survivable capacity, who had defined themselves by succeeding in whatever chosen line of work they have gone 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 which each competitor was given, along with a 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 and set up franchises and what we quickly found out was 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, that sort of, symbolically surviving. those go way back into our genetic development. charles gaines on the origin of paintball. that is all from witness this month here at the british library. we will be back next month with more first—hand accounts of extraordinary moments in history. but for now, from me and the rest of the witness team, goodbye. good afternoon. for a while now we have been looking to the east for

our weather but that is about to change into next week, the atlantic ta kes change into next week, the atlantic takes over. it will be wetter and windier. from the east we are getting a lot of cloud pushing into norfolk, but it favours parts of scotla nd norfolk, but it favours parts of scotland on this slow affair to see some sunshine. another glorious day in parts of highland scotland, whereas at the other end, the weather front has been giving rain into parts of southern england and the south of wales, the more persistent thread has been pushing across south west england, wales over the next few hours. still left with some showers, quite heavy at times along the south coast, and the isles of scilly, let us take a closer look at the showers dotted about this afternoon. you come north and you still have a good deal of cloud around, still drizzly in places, low cloud, misty and murky on the hills, but a drier story elsewhere in wales, east anglia, bar a few showers, a few brighter spells. you can pick up the land, the west of scotland, this is where

we are most favoured for a sunny spells through the afternoon until sunset. showers in the east of scotla nd sunset. showers in the east of scotland and into the northern isles. some of these will continue through the night, some into the far south—east and along the south coast as well, maybe a couple developing in northern ireland, but many of us are going to be dry overnight, variable cloud, some clear spells. temperatures will not go down too farfrom temperatures will not go down too far from where they were during the day but some spots will get close to freezing, maybe parts of north west england and the west of scotland. maybe some frost, nothing widespread. tomorrow, further showers in north—east england and some will drift further west across the north of england. 0nto northern ireland. a stronger and cool breeze with showers towards east anglia and the far south—east. many places will be dry with sunny spells, single figure chapters on monday as high pressure blast atlantic systems come in until tuesday and then wednesday thursday and beyond, these deep areas of low pressure from the atla ntic areas of low pressure from the atlantic will turn things windier,

also wetter. it will also bring a less cold air mass into the uk which means technically it is getting milder but then the wind will be stronger and it will be wet at times. all of this means much more active weather from tuesday onwards and some of the winds could be strong enough to bring potential disruption as well. if you this is bbc news, i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 3pm. theresa may prepares to head to brussels for talks with top eu officials — ahead of sunday's summit to formally sign off the brexit agreement. the dup renews its attacks against mrs may's plans at the party's annual conference. deputy leader nigel dodds has criticised the draft withdrawal agreement. republished with tall agreement portrays a pitiful and pathetic place for the united kingdom —— the published with tall agreement. french police use water cannon and tear gas against demonstrators in paris, who are demanding

a cut in fuel prices. a us government report warns that unchecked climate change will cost the country hundreds of billions of dollars and damage human health and quality of life. i don't understand how you can watch them all at the same time.