by the end of this year. a rare brooch has been uncovered in norfolk. the 800—year—old treasure features two [ions and is studded with two pink stones. it was found in a freshly ploughed field by a newly qualified archaeologist but it wasn't his first find. tom ‘luck‘—ing unearthed a anglo—saxon pendant worth £145,000 when he was still a student in 2014. now it's time for a look at the weather with sarah keith lucas. the chili theme continues through the day but quite a good deal of dry weather. not as windy as yesterday. we have quite a lot of wind working gci’oss we have quite a lot of wind working across bringing some chilly

temperatures for scotland. it should not feel too bad where you do see the sunshine in the south. that showers across northern scotland think a bit further to tonight. they turn wintry of the higher ground we had more higher ground capture still around two to 4 degrees. a chilly start to your bank holiday monday. bank holiday monday brings us a line of code. it bank showers out of scotla nd of code. it bank showers out of scotland and into northern ireland and well. either decided that line of cloud showers it should say was the right of the mostly here not particular one. temperatures just eight to 13 degrees. goodbye.

hello this is bbc news with martine croxall. the headlines... the prime minister appeals to jeremy corbyn to resolve their differences and help her deliver brexit. but the leader of the brexit party condemns any deal between the two parties. i think if they push through with this it will be seen as a coalition of politicians against the people, and i think millions of people would give up on both labour and the conservatives. police forces in england and wales are urged to rethink their policy of asking rape victims for access to messages and photographs on their phones. the illegal puppy trade exposed the treasury recovers more than £5 million in unpaid taxes, in an operation to tackle the black market trade. crowds gather in the royal quarter of the thai capital bangkok to watch their newly crowned king in a ceremonial procession.

now on bbc news it's time for witness history. razia iqbal presents five extraordinary testimonies from the past, including a fashion industry pioneer from the days of the soviet union. hello, and welcome to witness, with me razia iqbal. i'm here at the british library to guide you through five extraordinary moments in recent history, told to us by the people who were there. we start with an individual who helped create a fashion industry in the soviet union. under communism, clothes and designs were regulated by the state. but slava zaitsev had the urge to break away and create new designs. he became the first soviet designer to start his own haute couture fashion label. translation: what is the point of a fashion designer?

it's to give people joy, the joy of connecting with beauty you see. this has been the most important thing in my life. reporter: for the ordinary russian in the street, such styles are a long way off. fabric runs are altered only once in three years. to get a design from drawing to mass production takes two years. soviet factories produced very basic clothes, poorly cut and badly stitched. soviet fashion houses worked for clothes factories and every design had to be approved or rejected by a commission of representatives from ministries and other organisations. they had nothing to do with the art of fashion, yet they told artists what to do. myjob was boring and uninspiring. so i left the state fashion industry.

ideas were pouring out of me. i got together a group of young people and we began to create our own collection. at the time, the problem was getting hold of enough cloth. there was a shortage of fabric. we used fabric from a state warehouse. the fabric belonged to the state and we got state funding. the tickets are as hard to get and just as expensive as the bolshoi ballet. it's the fashion show — moscow's latest entertainment and one that can be assured of a full house as often as russia's top designer can be persuaded to put his models through their paces. working with black only is boring. but we didn't have any other colours, so i kept buying black fabric. for the moment, the fashion world regards zaitsev's work as rather old—fashioned. but then that's hardly surprising for a man who, until a few years ago,

had to rely on friends to give him old copies of fashion magazines. in 1989, i went to america and got hold of new italian fabrics. these were beautiful fabrics and i used them for a high fashion collection. in the past few months he's taken his models to new york and paris and the changes are already beginning to show. see, high fashion is high art. it is the art of creating a costume, a style which reflects its time. high fashion is still well above the heads of most of his audience. high fashion reflects the most striking features of its era. the 1980s was all about shoulder pads, creating the image of a woman who is more refined, more confident, she's in touch with herself, she is free of male influence. but although zaitsev's customers are part of the elite, it's hard to imagine the kremlin

wives in some of his numbers. in 1989, when i showed my collection injapan, i was recognised as one of the top five designers in the world. that was an amazing moment. i am a working man, i push myself hard and fashion is what gives me greatjoy. our next film takes us to scotland in 1983. corporal punishment in schools was still legal across the uk. but grace campbell objected to the possibility of her children being beaten and campaigned to get the law changed. a recent survey of scottish teenagers show that a third of the boys and one in 12 of the girls had been belted

in one fortnight period. to people who say that if you don't hit kids you're spoiling them, i say they have to take a long, cold, hard look in the mirror. when you strip it away, what you're really talking about is hitting another individual. most scottish secondary school teachers possess one of these thick leather straps with a double tongue. the largest teaching union in scotland maintains its an unpleasant necessity in today's unruly classrooms. corporal punishment in scotland was institutionalised. it was really strange that in a country like britain in the '70s and '80s, corporal punishment was still around because actually it wasn't in many european countries. local authorities, local education authorities had set down guidance for teachers on what implements to use, what was known as a belt, was used to hit you on the hand.

it's difficult to describe why the belt was such a terrifying thing to look at. i think it'sjust because from a very early age, you hear it from the older kids at school about the belt. it's a single use thing, it doesn't have any other legitimate use. it's just for hitting people. when you see it, ok, that's something to be wary of. my mum had been subjected to corporal punishment when she was at school and she was absolutely clear she didn't want that for her children. she tried to seek assurances from the local school, could you make sure my kids will not be belted. she went to the local authority, strathclyde regional council, they were clear that it gets used and she was in touch with the local mp, the councillors, trying to get something done and eventually it was clear that under

scots law at the time there was no point in trying to go through the courts in scotland. my mum had no choice, she had to go to the european court of humans rights in strasbourg. it didn't do me any harm. i think it should be kept because there will be more vandalism and fighting and bullying. in society at the time, we were definitely perceived to be troublemaking. the majority in society wanted to keep corporal punishment. the court ruled that beating children against their parent's whishes violated the human rights convention. i'm very pleased with the outcome of the case and feel that a speedy implementing of the findings will improve the educational environment for both teachers and pupils. when my mum got the news of the judgment, there was a lot of spontaneous

dancing and hugging of my dad, which in a west of scotland family just isn't a normal thing. they were really, really pleased. after the law was changed, it was changed just before the start of the school term, and itjust disappeared overnight. it was like it never existed. andrew campbell remembering his mother, grace. in 1978, a bengali textile worker was murdered in london's east end. the killing of a 25—year—old was racially motivated and mobilised to the bengali community to act. we recall what life was like in the east end and the events around the murder.

in 1970, life in east london wasn't very pleasant due to hatred, due to racial abuse. a recent report on racial violence in this area described it as an isolated and terrorised community, the victims of an appalling catalogue of violent crime. we had fire put through our letterbox. urinating in our letterbox. people were frightened to leave their house. spitting, pushing. it was common. it was very frightening. i was in fear all the time. national front is a group of people who always hate people. most of them are skinheads. the message was against immigration.

it was thursday the 11th of may, election day after work, he was walking through this street through here to go home, approximately six and when he got there, he was attacked and knifed in his neck. all of a sudden we heard a siren from every angle, every siren from... you can hear siren now, similar siren from every angle. after about half an hour, we heard a bengali man had been stabbed to death. we were very angry and didn't know what to do, everyone was shouting, crying.

the community finally united. smash the national front! we organised a march to hyde park corner. and we handed over a memorandum to ten downing st to the prime minister. it was the biggest bengali late march in the uk. and our message was no more killing. in brick lane, a favourite sunday morning gathering spot for national front supporters a group of 200 bengalis sat down to... after the big march, the national front continued with their activities, so we had to march every sunday after that and our slogan

was — black and white unite and fight. eventually, the national front lost that grip. because they know our community is no longer frightened. we stood firmly. where i'm sitting now, altab ali park, this has been named after altab ali. he will always be remembered. we have a memorial they are at the back. we come and we lay flowers in his memory. he is not forgotten. remember, you can watch witness every month on the bbc news channel or you can catch up on all ourfilms along

with more than 1000 video programmes in our online archive, just go to... at the 2004 athens 0lympics a young 800 metre runner from the gaza strip became the first woman to lead the palestinian delegation at an opening ceremony. translation: it was my greatest moment. my name went down in history as the first palestinian to carry the palestinian flag at the olympics. running was a hobby for me. i started as an amateur in school. at the school we were confined to inside the grounds but ijoined the national team and started running on the streets,

our conservative society did not look favourably on a palestinian girl running in public. but when i persisted people accepted to me and began to encourage and support me. when i run i feel happy, free and relaxed. all of my worries disappear. i prepared for the athens 0lympics in the stadium in gaza, which had a track. i was then sponsored by a palestinian businessman to go on a training camp for a month on a greek island. a month wasn't enough to take part in the olympics and get good results.

my participation was symbolic because the situation in gaza doesn't allow us to prepare properly for medals. it was such a beautiful scene. as 50011 as everyone saw the palestinian flag, they began clapping. but i also felt overwhelmed to find myself in the starting line. i had this feeling inside that as soon as you get going you forget about everything. —— but as soon as. whoever comes last still gets cheered, just like the winner. athens was a start for me. in 2009 i took part in the athletics world championships in berlin.

i'm still training, but because of the siege i can't go outside of the gaza strip. i cannot compete in international races. i manage with things, thank god, because of my husband's support, he is now my coach. for the past four years, no athletes from gaza have been able to take part in any event outside. a short while ago, there was an invitation to go tojerusalem for events, but we were all denied travel permits. my advice to other palestinian women is hold onto your dreams, do not give up, do not allow any pressures to defeat you. go for what you love most.

for our final story we head to france in the late 1970s where a doctor started a child by the revolution —— child birthing revolution. with his new invention, the birthing pool. he tells us how it came about. there is something special about human beings and water. as soon as it's lifted into the air, its lungs start to work normally. this obstetrician runs a maternity unit which are based on natural childbirth. the right place to give birth

would be the right place to make love. the way women were giving birth in the 60s was the same as a hospital. legs in stirrups. but gradually everything was reconsidered. we introduced the concept of a home like birthing room, a smaller room with no visible medical equipment to help women to feel more at home in a hospital. they still have the vision of a hospital, a place for you to come when you are sick or to die.

1am and a young couple have driven a 150 miles to have their first baby here in an ordinary state hospital in northern france. by changing the environment, we have attracted more women to a maternity unit, women come from far away. that's why i became an obstetrician. from 200 births a year to 1000 births a year. a pool to help mothers ease the pain of labour, babies are occasionally born underwater. we have painted the rooms in aquatic blue with dolphins on the well. many women couldn't wait, they wanted to enter the birthing pool before it was full. the main objective was to break a vicious circle. by replacing drugs.

all medication and drugs have side effects. after being in the womb for nine months, the baby emerges happily into the warm water with its life support system from the mother still intact. i remember the visit we had with this british obstetrician. what do you think of the pool? i don't think we'd have a room for it in our hospital and i find doctor michel 0dent's views on it as a wonderful mixture of mysticism and science. i don't think the word mysticism is appropriate! i try to consider any scientific language some emotional state. translation: it felt like a family

atmosphere, very reassuring. it gave you confidence in yourself and that's what i needed. i am pleased when i heard women talking any positive way about the birth of their baby. we have to learn from positive experiences about the way forward. doctor michel 0dent on the water both revolution. n on —— on the water birth revolution. that's all from a michel witness this man from the british library. we'll be back next month with more first—hand accounts of extraordinary moments in history. from me and the rest of the witness team, goodbye.

0ur bank holiday weather continues on this daily chilly team. to compensate, many of us are seeing a bit of blue sky and sunshine at there. here is a view of the devon... a little bit of a fair weather cloud building, do not be deceived, the sunshine is not warming things up. it is pretty chilly. it is not as windy or showery as yesterday because higher pressure is building in from the west. eight therapies across northern parts of scotland, this cold aircoming in northern parts of scotland, this cold air coming in from the north and the east coast of england. the best of the sunshine today will be generally by the south, across parts of east anglia, england and into wales two. more across the rest of the uk, particularly northern scotla nd the uk, particularly northern scotland and northern ireland to stop the wind speed is not quite as fresh yesterday. 0ne stop the wind speed is not quite as fresh yesterday. one or two showers are pushing in across northern scotla nd are pushing in across northern scotland this afternoon. most other

places avoiding the showjust about. it isa places avoiding the showjust about. it is a stage for of the tour de yorkshire and a chance of summer showers at any termers from halifax to leeds. some sleet and snow over the higher ground in scotland. most places not quite as cold, last night we saw can down at minus four degrees. could get close to freezing again particular impact of a south—west england and wales. under those clear skies. bank holiday monday, the band of showers into southern scotland pushing them into northern england and northern ireland through the day to stop a little bit of the entries in the showers over the pennines, for instance. showers which in east anglia make any day. most places dry, 11 or 13 and should not go to court we have some glimpse of sunshine. cloud for scotland, but

blue skies returning. tuesday summer showers cropping up for another hour, northern england and scotland it is falling as snow again in the higher ground. temperature seven to ten in the north. we could see 13 sizes in the south—east, so not as chilly on tuesday, but late on to get into when we are going to be seeing the adviser of this area of low pressure moving in from the south—west. if unsettled spell of weather through the middle of the week. think an increasingly wet and when through wednesday. some heavy showers abound on thursday. but, do enjoy the drier weather over the next couple of days. temperatures are not great for the time of year.

this is bbc news. i'm martine croxall. the headlines at eleven... the prime minister appeals tojeremy corbyn to resolve their differences and help her deliver brexit. the shadow chancellor says labour wants a customs union. where we are at the moment, and i do not want to portray any comps expenses, we want a comes ‘— not want to portray any comps expenses, we want a comes —— customs union. expenses, we want a comes ‘— customs union. police forces in england and wales are urged to rethink their policy of asking rape victims for access to messages and photographs on their phones. the illegal puppy trade exposed. the treasury recovers more than £5 million in unpaid taxes, in an operation to tackle the black market trade. crowds gather in the royal quarter of the thai capital bangkok to watch their newly crowned king in a ceremonial procession.