it in water and then wring out the juice and drink it all, and this gave her the idea a woman has been killed and three people injured to try a cold method of extracting in california after a man opened fire at a synagogue north of the medicinal properties san diego. police said a nineteen year old local man had been arrested. president trump offered his sympathies to those affected and said the shooting from the plant. appeared to be a hate crime. we conducted 190 experiments using this plant. sunday church services in sri lanka and it was the 1915t that worked. have been cancelled, amid fears of more attacks, one week after the easter sunday bombings. the country's president has used new emergency laws to outlaw two we couldn't believe our eyes. islamist groups suspected of carrying out the attacks. everyone was so excited. the un says some villages hit by cyclone kenneth in northern mozambique have been all our hard work had entirely wiped out. finally paid off. a senior official described next, we had to make sure the level of destruction it was safe for humans to take. as "heartbreaking" and said many people would need assistance tu youyou said, "i'm in the coming days. the leader of the team, thousands are living i should be the first to try this medicine," and i also volunteered. in makeshift shelters.

i said, "we should not expect other people to test whether it's dangerous," so we tested the drugs an investigation has begun into whether the home office acted over several days. fairly when it accused more and the result was we all felt fine. than 30,000 foreign students of cheating in the english language tests, required to obtain their visas. clear evidence of cheating there were no bad side effects, was uncovered by the bbc‘s panorama except the pill itself didn't taste very nice. programme in 2014 — but there are claims the government went on to wrongly accuse many people. kathryn stanczyszyn reports. this 11—year—old boy has the disease. so he's given his first dose of artemisinin. an instructor reads out the answers. the next morning, the students dutifully write them down. in 2014, panorama found clear the artemisinin has worked. translation: a gift from traditional chinese medicine, it saved millions of lives all over the world. evidence of this kind of cheating the professor on the life—changing chinese drug artemisinin. next, to switzerland. at two centres where foreign unlike most of europe, in the 1950s, students sit english language tests. it's one of the assessments switzerland still hadn't they need to pass in order to obtain given women the vote. a visa to study in the uk. but in 1959, there was

the then—home secretary theresa may said it would be a referendum on whether the law urgently looked into. should be changed. we have done a lot over the last three and a half years. but as former swiss president we've rooted out abuse, ruth dreifuss explains, the number of student visas has gone the voters in that down and the amount of abuse has gone down, but it's clear referendum were all men. people are finding other ways around the system. following panorama's investigation, i remember one mp in the home office ordered checks on more than 58,000 oral tests the mountain who said, "well, taken between 2011—2014. it concluded that 3a,000 people had cheated and said other the woman has to stay results were questionable. the government then cancelled 36,000 in the kitchen as the cow has student visas and more than 1,000 to stay in the stable." people were removed from the uk. the women had fought for 100 years and more for their political now the national audit office is investigating whether people like fatima were treated unfairly. rights in switzerland very actively. she had her student visa revoked swiss men vote very often, but denies doing anything wrong. she says she's not allowed to work because under the constitution, nearly all important measures have and has been left in limbo. to be decided by the people, oh, my life is actually by direct referendum. in the year 1959, we had a vote on the civil and political damaged, it's broken now. rights of the women. and i think there was a great hope because, whatever i'm doing to have a positive answer is just staying in the home and counting my time, from the men who were invited hoping that one day

everything will be sorted, to this ballot. and i will live my life again. do you think that women at the time, the conservative should have the vote? government had made very yes, i do, because as men, public its aim to reduce we must honestly confess, women are as intelligent immigration numbers, something critics claim as we are and i see no right may have played a part. those students were not even treated like criminals — to take the vote away. criminals would have a better chance does your husband think to defend themselves because you would have women ought to vote? to present them with evidence. he does not mind, but he is not very much for it. this is directly linked, we believe, with this effort to attempt he doesn't think women to reduce the number have the intelligence, perhaps? of migrants at any cost, no, perhaps he does not. and those students but you do? i certainly do. were caught in this. the home office insists we demonstrated in the streets. its investigation revealed systemic and organised fraud and points out we went to the capital and put that 25 people have since received criminal convictions. on a long demonstration because it was so obvious that women should be allowed to participate, the national audit office says it will now review the government's response to fraud but the arguments against it, in the student visa system. they were very strange, the home office says it's already let's say. cooperating and continues to welcome genuine international students. kathryn stanczyszyn, bbc news. i think it's an unnecessary luxury for the state because women's vote is expressed now on bbc news it's through their husbands anyway. time to witness history. as far as i'm concerned, here's razia iqbal. i think it's against nature because women are supposed

to do the housekeeping, education of their child and if she does that properly, she will probably not have any time to be interested in politics or things like that. i was 19 years old, so i was really hello, this is witness history at the royal academy in london. hoping that entering today, we have some more extraordinary moments from the recent past told to us in adult life a year later, i would be exactly treated by the people who were there. as my brother was. in this programme, we are going music. to hear how women finally got the vote in switzerland in 1971 and talk to one of the first people but this was not the case. to fly nonstop around the world we saw that two thirds of the swiss in a hot air balloon. we have the incredible story of an african—american engineer who got stuck in the ussr and speak men had refused this. to some of the founders of a community in israel set up to promote peaceful coexistence betweenjews and arabs. for me, the 12 years between ‘59 and ‘71 are really my personal years of emancipation. i was fighting for political rights, but it was also the time i studied,

the time i entered the trade union, the time i entered a political party. ‘71 was a very important date let's began in china, where in the 1970s, scientists because this was the proposal now discovered a cure for malaria. to introduce clearly what was incredible was the discovery was based on a fourth century chinese herbal remedy. this professor told us how the political rights for women. they found the cure. one of man's mortal enemies... 90% of all malaria cases are in africa. in the americas and asia, malaria has re—emerged in drug—resistant forms. translation: in the 19605 and early 705, there was a serious outbreak of malaria. the drug available at the time was chloroquine, but resistance to it was already very strong. chairman mao said the population of china had survived for thousands of years relying on traditional chinese medicine. we now think that the vote in ‘71 he said there must be a traditional cure for malaria. was in the same year than the first he told us to find it. election where women could enter into the parliament, and that 11 of them were elected because we women wanted to have our representatives in parliament, was really for me i would say probably the most important ten years,

could a drug based or 12 years, in my life. on an ancient chinese remedy ruth dreifuss on herfight really defeat malaria? in 1969, i was assigned to research a cure for malaria and the great for the right to vote. chemist tu youyou was our leader. in 1999, brian jones i had malaria myself when i was a child. and bertrand piccard made the first it makes you feel really cold, your whole body shivers, nonstop round the world flight then you get a fever and a terrible headache. in a hot air balloon, it's very painful. there was no money for this research taking off from switzerland because the whole country and finishing over africa. had economic problems. most of our equipment was old. the record—breaking we only had a few basics, trip tookjust 20 days. like test tubes and bottles. pilot brianjones recalls the highs but our slogan was we are going forward with or without and lows of their amazing journey. the ideal conditions. tu youyou had already made a list of all the chinese herbal medicines for treating malaria that were recorded in ancient books and folklore. we tested hundreds of herbal remedies over and over again until our focus was drawn to just it is an incredibly difficult thing the one, sweet wormwood, to achieve, to get a balloon or artemisinin. we knew it was noisily effective, to fly around the world. but it was inconsistent this had never been done before. so we had to work out why. tu youyou had a breakthrough. and yet it was the oldest she went back to the ancient texts and found the description form of flight. in a medical handbook. it's hundreds of years old. 00:06:48,154 --> 2147483051:40:08,792 it said take a handful 2147483051:40:08,792 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 of sweet wormwood, immerse and there was a kind of empty page in the history books. it was the ultimate challenge for a balloon. the morning of take—off

was difficult in many ways, actually, because we didn't know what was going to happen. and of course, we couldn't fly around the world in a basket, not at the altitudes we were thinking of. so we needed a pressurised capsule. we tried to make things as comfortable as possible. so, this is breakfast on the 11th of march at 8am in the morning. we had a little modesty curtain where the toilet was in the back of the capsule and we would go behind the curtain and wipe ourselves down with these baby wipes. for the first 11 days, which took us out beyond taiwan, the balloon performed really well. and we were very happy with it. i think that was the most satisfying time that i found in the whole flight. where i felt that i could make this thing dance. then things started to go wrong.

we lost communications. we lost three of our six burners. and then the third thing was the issue of looking ahead at these storms and seeing them there, not knowing how high they were and not knowing whether we would actually fly into them. because we were pushing the balloon as high as we possibly could, we lost our heating system. now, everything was covered in ice, inside and outside. we were terrified, actually. we're still nearly 2000 miles away from hawaii. so, we're right out in the middle of nowhere and not going very fast. it was not an easy situation for those four or five nights over the pacific. when we got communications back, it was a huge relief. we'd manage to get across

the pacific exactly as luke, our meteorologist, said this jet stream wind was borne and life was getting a little better for us. the balloon, now travelling at around 90 mph, has climbed into the jet stream. air currents they hope will carry them to their target just beyond african coast. and we were doing 160, 170 mph in a balloon, which is extraordinary. we were so excited. we've done it! yeah! it's fabulous! fantastic. so, we crossed the finish line, and ourteam said, "ok, get serious and we got to get the balloon down in one piece." and so we came down and we landed in the middle of the egyptian desert with the final dregs of our fuel. we were just incredibly

relieved, really tired. and i was kind of, i wasjust kneeling down feeling the sand and letting it run through my fingers and just thinking this is really cool. brianjones. remember, you can watch witness history every month on the bbc news channel or you can catch up on all our films, along with more than 1000 radio programmes, online. just search for bbc witness history. now for something from the archives. in 1991, the bbc spoke to robert robinson, an african—american who'd been recruited to work in the ussr. he then got stuck there against his will for 50 years. this is his story. in december 1929, ifirst saw a group of russians. they went around for a while and then they spotted me.

the leader of the group said, "would you like to come to soviet russia and teach our young people? " america was going through the great depression. all around me at the forge, people were being discharged. being a black man, i expected mine any day. being the provider for my mother, isaid, "well, i'll go for one year." and they were giving me more pay than i was earning. that's how come i went to the soviet union. i knew nothing about soviet russia. they would run up to me and say... he speaks russian. "why are you so dark?" my answer to them would be, "that's the way i was born."

when my contract had gone, it was about ten months old, i was called and asked to stay another year. and since the depression was still on, i decided to stay another one year. one morning, i went to work as usual. there was a meeting going on selecting people for the moscow soviet. one man got up and said, "comrade, i have no other name than that of robert robinson." i was shocked. without my consent, against my will, i was never asked, here i was elected to the moscow soviet, a foreigner. after being elected to moscow city council, the americans took away my citizenship.

i took soviet citizenship because there was no other way out. but i regretted it, and i will ever regret having done so. i felt threatened every day in my life. because the local men, as they told me many, many times, "you may have a soviet citizenship, but you're still a foreigner." i was being watched in my factory every day by five different people. i would be provoked for me to say something either against the government or the system itself. i used to go to bed with my clothes on, ready whenever the kgb came, i wouldn't have to dress.

i never allowed myself to become lonely. i listened to the bbc. if i am at home on sundays, all day long, and i would put the music on, take a chair as my lady and dance. robert robinson, the african—american engineer who got stuck in the ussr. in 1986, a small community called wahat al salaam — neve shalom was founded by four families, both jews and arabs on a hilltop betweenjerusalem and tel aviv. it was an experiment in peaceful coexistence in the middle east. four decades on, it's home to more than 60 families.

two of its long—standing residents spoke about life in the oasis of peace. this is a remarkable picture. tom and feda are two ten—year—olds who share a desk at school. they're friends. feda is an arab and tom a jew. there the product of a place called neve shalom. it's hebrew for "oasis of peace". the community was formed by four families, one palestinian family and three jews. we wanted to try to live in all alternative way. jews and palestinians together in equality, in one piece of land. i'm an israeli jew and i came to live in neve shalom in 1979.

i'm a palestinian arab. i'm a resident of wahat al salaam. it was a very small, tiny community. there was no trees, no running water, no connection to electricity, but we had the big dreams. here we found hope and we wanted to start a life with people who are enlightened, who are accepting of us as who we are. when we came, of course there were some questions about our youthful views, are you going to be in some kind of utopian society where it's not really realistic. and i said, "maybe, but you know, we hope it's going to teach others "that it's actually possible and that this is why we are here." although only 15 families live at neve shalom, 7000 teenagers have passed through attending

its peace workshops. some had never met a member of the opposite community until they came here. it's really powerful to see a moment of change. really, people realised that what they said before, it's not the reality. and we learned a lot. this is how we started the school for peace. the different events that took place outside the village, like the intifada, like the war in gaza, initiated a lot of talk and discussions and debates. my youngest daughter, for instance, her opinion on the issue of army service for the jewish israelis, here it is compulsory service, you cannot say no. she said that i expect all people who come to be part of this community, part of this project here in neve shalom, not to serve in the army. but i know this is something, these

are easy words to say on our part. and i know it's extremely difficult for the other side. yeah, my three kids went to the army, but not to be combat soldiers because they didn't want to fight to be soldiers. when i see the children playing together, laughing together, crawling together, it feels good. the majority of the kids that are studying here, they are not wahat al salaam — neve shalom kids, they're from outside. yeah, their parents wanted to have our kind of education, this exposure to the other side at an early age. and it shows the effectiveness of this community. it's a working model of almost 40 years that we are here. and it can work.

the pioneering experiment of wahat al salaam — neve shalom, which is still going strong. that's all from us at witness history this month. we're going to back next month with more first—hand accounts of extraordinary moments in history. but for now, from me and the rest of the witness history team, goodbye. hello, there. the second half of the weekend promises to be a lot less turbulent than the first half was because we are saying farewell to storm hannah which brought gusts of winds of up to 80 mph in north wales. you can see the swell of cloud

on the satellite picture, a deep area of low pressure which is now quickly becoming less deep and less threatening as it slides out into the north sea. high pressure building in from the south—west, this means a much more settled day on sunday, not completely dry, some showers around, some sunny spells, though, and crucially, it will be less windy, so a start to the day. one or two showers, as you can see, including close to the london area, so including close to the london area, so for the marathon, they could be the odd passing shower. a lot of cloud overhead, some glimmers of brightness, and it will feel fairly co mforta ble brightness, and it will feel fairly comfortable for the participants, temperatures even getting to only 1a 01’ temperatures even getting to only 1a or 15 degrees. across the assed of the uk, one or two showers, three merseyside —— across the rest of the uk, one ortwo merseyside —— across the rest of the uk, one or two showers. bringing rain from parts of northern ireland, west wales and the far south—west of england. in between, not of dry weather, sunshine, lighter winds

than saturday, the combination of lighter winds and more sunshine will lift the temperatures, 12 to 16 degrees at best. as we go through sunday night, the cloud and rain in the west will attempt to make progress east but it won't make much macros “— progress east but it won't make much macros —— much progress. some fog patches are likely to develop and it will turn chilly for some in the east. they may even be just a touch of frost here and there. the new working week starts off with high pressure in charge, not many white lies, not many isobars, the wednesbury light on monday morning, hence the mist and fog patches, which could take awhile to more cloud in the west, may be the odd spot of rain. the best of the sunshine on monday will be found in scotla nd sunshine on monday will be found in scotland where temperatures get up to possibly 20 degrees in the north—west highlands. generally speaking, the week ahead brings plenty of fine weather, some bells

of sunshine, and the chance of rain in the north and west. —— some spells of sunshine. this is bbc news. i'm reged ahmad — our top stories: a shooting at a synagogue in california leaves one person dead and several injured. police say a man has been arrested.

as the officer was placing this 19—year—old male into custody, he clearly saw a rifle sitting on the front passenger's seat. of the suspect vehicle. ongoing security fears across sri lanka, as church services are cancelled a week after the easter sunday bombings. the most comprehensive assessment yet undertaken on the state of nature: a million species face extinction. cyclone kenneth has ‘entirely wiped out‘ some villages in mozambique — according to the un.