crucial trade talks between the united states and china in washington have ended after a two hour meeting. earlier, the us more than doubled tariffs on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods. beijing says it will retaliate. the united nations says at least 65 migrants trying to reach europe from libya drowned when their boat capsized off the coast of tunisia. local fishermen rescued sixteen survivors. a 24—year—old norwegian woman has died after contracting rabies from a stray dog in the philippines. bi rg itte kallestad was travelling when the puppy she took in bit her. she fell ill soon after returning to norway, and died at the hospital where she worked. those are the latest headlines. a canadian tourist whose fiance was killed

in the london bridge attacks two years ago, has told an inquest the scene was like a ‘war zone‘. tyler ferguson was walking across the bridge with his girlfriend christine archibald, when she was struk by girlfriend christine archibald, when she was struck by a van targeting pedestrians. he says moments before she was hit, they'd swapped places on the pavement. daniel sandford reports. chrissy archibald and her fiance, tyler ferguson, walking on london bridge on a summer's night. canadian tourists who'd just enjoyed dinner at a thai restaurant. two minutes after these cctv images, they stopped and kissed, and swapped sides, putting chrissy closer to the road. today, tyler ferguson told her inquest:

chrissy was dragged along the road at speed and over the central reservation and cctv shows her fiance rushing to help her. there was a desperate effort to revive chrissy archibald, that involved an off—duty lifeguard, police officers, ambulancemen and doctors. but she had almost certainly died straightaway. tyler ferguson said the scene on london bridge was chaos and mayhem. it was, he said, a war zone. this afternoon, it emerged that, amidst the chaos, a team of firearms officers were among the first police on the scene. but they left their main guns in the vehicle to care for the injured on the bridge, unaware that people were being stabbed in nearby borough market. chrissy archibald's parents have come from canada for the inquest, and today had this to say through their lawyer. "we are here to stand with other

families who lost loved ones, and with those who were injured on that horrific day. our heartfelt thanks go to all those who were on the bridge that night, and worked so hard to save chrissy. we were blessed that so many brave people rushed to help her and tyler." next week, the coroner will hear evidence of the second phase of that murderous night, when the attackers left their van and killed six more people with knives. it's 4:33am — now on bbc news, razia iqbal introduces us to five people who have witnessed history, including the de—mining expert who accompanied princess diana on her walk across an angolan minefield. 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. after the collapse of the soviet union, rapid market reforms in russia in early 1992 led to widespread hardship. one man was russia's economy minister. he was responsible for implementing this shock therapy, and he told us why he is proud of what he achieved. translation: after the collapse of the ussr, russia had no state apparatus, not at all. there was no army, no customs, no central bank, no national currency, et cetera. for thousands of bureaucrats in moscow's centralise ministries that future

looks uncertain. already they are not sure who they work for, russia ora not sure who they work for, russia or a soviet union that has been declared dead. all foreign loans we re declared dead. all foreign loans were frozen and we had no hard currency reserves. the country is entering a twilight zone between the old and the new. what comes next could easily be the chaos and anarchy which mr gorbachev has re ce ntly anarchy which mr gorbachev has recently warned of. translation: on sundays, the foreign reserves of our once mighty power were $25 million. million. while our foreign once mighty power were $25 million. million. while ourforeign debt once mighty power were $25 million. million. while our foreign debt was $180 billion. we had a real threat of hunger in large cities, but most food supplies were imported from abroad. across the road from my moscow home we had a large shop. on

the day of my ministerial appointment, i went in after work to buy something to eat. the shop was com pletely buy something to eat. the shop was completely bare. no bread, no meat, no sausages, no nothing. what were our options? to wait till the economy grinds to a halt or to remove the old communist price controls? yeltsin was ready to do it, and so we did it. the long haul towards a economy again —— began in january with the lifting of state controls on most prices, which immediately rocketed skyhigh. this in turn fuelled more inflation. over the year it amounted to more than 2000%. of course the transition was

tough. but that's normal. these boys doa tough. but that's normal. these boys do a brisk trade as big mac vouchers. for a small commission they will take your order and jump they will take your order and jump the queue for you at mcdonald's at pushkin square, earning themselves in one day as much as their parents earned ina in one day as much as their parents earned in a month. yes indeed, people went out and started to trade. it gave many a job, it allowed them, let's be frank, to head body and soul together. and it the market to develop. it was a messy start to private enterprise, but soon streets were full of stalls and small shops, mostly dealing and imported goods at exorbitant prices. translation: is sooner we gave people economic freedom, they began to trade in consumer goods. they sold food, drinks, clothes. all of that on their own initiative without

central planning or command. people talk about the horrible 90s, about our mistakes and abuses. but i did away with consumer shortages in this country. andrei nechayev in moscow. next, during her lifetime mother theresa became famous as the catholic who dedicated her life to caring for the destitute and dying in the sums of —— the slums of calcutta. she founded the missionaries of charity to look after abandoned babies and help the poorest of the poor. we spoke to one woman who volunteer there is a young girl. it was known as one of the

poorest cities in the world. you would see people who were lying in a pool of their vomit, their excreta, and filthy clothes covered in lice. so to go and lift up those people and take them to the home and clean them, it took a lot of kindness to do the kind of work they did. mother theresa and her sisters of charity live in one of calcutta's poorest slums. in addition to the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, the sisters take one of dedication to the service of the poor. mother theresa was back home with a five minute walk from where i lived, and we saw her every morning on the way to school stop we had a mother theresa's nun who came and said how would you like to come and help in the babies home. it was quite overwhelming, they had rows and rows

of little baby cots. we went and spent a morning helping to give the babies a bath. it was nice to hold the bottle and feed a baby and these children needed affection a lot, so the babies like to be entitled. —— like to be cuddled. my sister went around with mother theresa's nun ‘sand went around with mother theresa's nun ‘s and they used to regularly visit abortion clinics and pickup live babies from abortion buckets entails. we actually want saw a baby three in a garbage dump. ifound the

very authoritarian way in which the order was run not something that i would ever be able to agree with. i remember thinking that the nuns lived such an ostia life. she said" you should suffer for christ and offer your suffering to god". i couldn't bear that because i thought we should try to fight poverty so that people don't have to suffer so much on earth. i saw mother teresa again many many yea rs i saw mother teresa again many many years later. she was that much older, a bit more wrinkled. my mother asked mother teresa to bless her grandchildren, and my mother said to her, my daughter used to

come and volunteer. and then she said, very, quite arrogantly i felt at the time, that "oh yes yes, you used to do these things when you are little. now what do you do, what do you do now? " these 40 years, i have never doubted for a second that i had done the right thing, that it was god '5 choice. had done the right thing, that it was god 's choice. rebuilding sarajevo after the bosnian war in the 1990s was a huge task. for centuries people of different ethnicities and religions had lived side—by—side, but after such a bitter civil war, what could bring them back together again? one catholic franciscan monk, friar ivo markovic had an idea, a multifaith choir to unite people through music. was destroyed. it was a city and

people who were exhausted. sarajevo for me is a crossroad city. a meeting point of different religions. christians and muslims. the past 24 hours have been the worst ever it would seem. though considering what people have been through here it is very difficult to make comparisons. all people experience terrible suffering. that is something that deep touches me. you see, i live in it. so, easter, i needed to sing in the church, but they were no singers. so i started this idea of an interreligious choir. we started to sing and old

jewish song, it was very easy. then a song from that is lamb, it was very difficult. because there are war —— there was a war between these two groups. people couldn't sing the songs of the enemy, because they physically felt discussed against such music. after three orfour months, the same people said, this is beautiful. —— discussed. you see, this is the power of music, it clea nses you see, this is the power of music, it cleanses people. we promise in the beginning, when we sang in our church, the first time, in a catholic church, people who couldn't accept it. there are muslim, is lamb

isa accept it. there are muslim, is lamb is a very strong religion, but so tender in words and music. —— islam. the dues are the chosen people, and they feel so. and they feel that their music is full of play, a dance in front of god. for orthodox people, god, jesus christ, is only resurrected, jesus is living high in heaven. and when we sing an orthodox song we are angels. and then comes catholicism. catholics feel that heavenis catholicism. catholics feel that heaven is here on the earth, in nature, in the flowers, especially in human beings. (laughs). we created a name with powerful

symbolism. it is not a latin word, it isa symbolism. it is not a latin word, it is a combined word, of" bridge" and "soul. " we must help people to get rid of this fixation, for past, to look in front of them, to be again to hope. friar ivo markovic speaking to witness from the choir‘s uk tour with the wolf institute promoting interfaith dialogue. you can watch witness every month on the bbc news channel or you can catch up on all ourfilms along bbc news channel or you can catch up on all our films along with more than 1000 radio programmes in our online archive. in1997, in 1997, the world's base famous

woman, diana the princess of wales called for an international ban on landmines. see visited angola where she got global attention by visiting a live minefield. a man accompanied her on that iconic work. when she arrived she was very nervous. she arrived she was very nervous. she arrived in one of the most dangerous places in the world and he said you need to listen to me. i will give you a safety briefing. if you do not listen, you could get killed or injured. the prisoners publicly endorsed the red cross campaign for a world ban on landmines. it is my sincere hope that by working together in the next few days, we shall focus world attention on this

vital but until now largely neglected issue. my myjob was to be the programme managerfor a charity myjob was to be the programme manager for a charity that specialised in clearing landmines. this was probably the most famous woman in the world. it was going to be an opportunity to highlight and show off the amazing work we did. i had absolutely no idea what was coming in terms of the amount of media that came. i was expecting a few journalists but media that came. i was expecting a fewjournalists but there was something like 90 following her around. she went to huambo. the actual five — ten around. she went to huambo. the actualfive — ten minutes around. she went to huambo. the actual five — ten minutes we were around. she went to huambo. the actualfive — ten minutes we were in the minefield my mind was in overdrive, making sure i was not the

most famous person in the world the next day for blowing up the princess of wales. the princess says that the row over her support for the red cross campaign to ban minds is a distraction that was not needed. people say you are a loose cannon by supporting this campaign. people say you are a loose cannon by supporting this campaignlj people say you are a loose cannon by supporting this campaign. i am only trying to highlight a problem. that is all. she was caught out quite badly by that question. she was very upset and she was caught off guard by how political it became. my impression was that she was generally there because she was wanted to use her celebrity to highlight a problem. the red cross is helping casualties still by the estimated 15 million unexploded landmines that litter the country. princess diana really did

engage and you could see from her facial expressions and some of the questions that she was very moved by what she was seeing as she was very engaged on the issue. do you take into consideration the psychological side as well? she was a mother and when she saw children blown to pieces and missing limbs, it moved out and you could see it moved her. i think that her involvement in the support of the ottawa treaty banning landmines led to a huge increase in public awareness of the problem of minds — — mines and ultimately with a death six months later it made it ha rd a death six months later it made it hard for the government not to ratify the treaty. you say a picture paints a thousand words... for her to be wearing the body armour and

walking through the minefield, that image has been an iconic image of the 20th century. paul heslop went on to work for the trust in afghanistan cambodia and kosovo and set up halo usa. a group of islamic dues and palestinians have established a unique community. our witnesses are two of its early pioneers. this is a remarkable teacher. to 10—year—olds sharing a desk at school. they are friends. what is remarkable is that one is an arab and tom a jew. it what is remarkable is that one is an arab and tom ajew. it is a community called an oasis of peace. it was formed by four families, one palestinian family and three islamic jewish families. we wanted to try to live in an alternative way. dues and

palestinians inequality in one piece of land. iam palestinians inequality in one piece of land. i am an israeli due and i came to olivia in 1979.” of land. i am an israeli due and i came to olivia in 1979. i am a palestinian arab. i am a resident here. it was a small, tiny community with no trees, no running water, no connection to electricity but we had big dreams. here we found hope and we wanted to start a life for people who are enlightened, who accept us as we. when we came, of course, there were some questions about are you falling yourself? are you going

to be ina you falling yourself? are you going to be in a utopian society that is not realistic? i said, maybe, to be in a utopian society that is not realistic? isaid, maybe, but to be in a utopian society that is not realistic? i said, maybe, but we hope it will teach others that it is actually possible because this is why we are here. although only 15 families live here, 7000 teenagers have passed through attending its peace workshops. some had never met a member of the opposite community until coming here. it is powerfulto see a moment of change. when people realise that it is not the reality. we learnt a lot. this is why we started the school for peace. the different events that took place outside of the village, 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 — because here it is compulsory — she said, i expect all the people who come to be part of this community, pa rt of come to be part of this community, part of this project, not to serve in the army but i know these are easy words to say on our part but it is extremely difficult for the other side. my three kids went to the army but not to be combat soldiers because they did not want to fight, to be soldiers. when i see children playing together, loving together, crawling together, laughter, it feels good. the majority of kids that are studying here they are from outside. their parents want them to

have our kind of education, this exposure to the other side in an early age. it shows the effectiveness of this community. we have been working for almost 40 yea rs have been working for almost 40 years and it can work. the community is now home to more than 60 jewish and palestinian families. that is all from this addition of witness. we will be back next month to bring you more extraordinary moments of history and the remarkable people who witnessed them. from me and the rest of the witness team, goodbye.

hello there. gradually it's an improving picture this week. we've got high pressure moving in which will kill the showers. we'll see more sunshine around and it will turn a little bit warmer for most of us as well. but there's no heatwave on the horizon. it'll feel a lot better than we've experienced over the past week or so. low pressure, which brought wet weather to southern parts of the uk during friday night, will clear away. we could start off with early showers, particularly across the south—east. these will tend to fizzle out. many places starting off this morning on a chilly note, but bright and with plenty of sunshine. then we'll get the showers going again. in the afternoon they're likely to develop in the northern isles, one or two across scotland, otherwise plenty of sunshine here. quite a chilly breeze across northern coasts. most of the showers will be across central and eastern england. the odd heavy one, maybe the odd rumble of thunder too. the best of the temperatures

here in that north—westerly wind. i think we'll see highs around 15—17 degrees. the showers fizzle out tonight, but it will turn chilly. largely clear, a bit of mist and fog. likely a touch of frost across parts of scotland, but less cold in the south and south—east. sunday, high pressure right on top of us, keeping all these weather systems far away from us. so it looks like it's going to be a fine and largely dry day. it will start off chilly, mind you, especially in the north, with light winds and plenty of sunshine. those temperatures will begin to rise in the afternoon. could see some fair weather cloud developing here and there, and just the outside chance of an isolated shower. but most places will stay dry. temperatures reaching into the upper teens. next week we still have high pressure with us but what it will be doing, certainly as the week wears on, is tapping into cooler air of the north sea, whereas further west it will be tapping into warmer air from the bay of biscay. so it looks like next week,

though it will be largely dry with sunny spells because of high pressure, it's more likely to be cooler in the east and a little bit breezy as well, especially along north sea coasts. this is the picture on monday. largely dry. a fairly cool feeling. through the afternoon temperatures will be rising nicely. we should see highs of around 18, maybe 19 celsius in the warmer spots across western areas. generally speaking, the further south and east you are over the next few days, it will be cooler, especially on the coast. inland it is always a few degrees warmer, with temperatures further west doing much better. in fact, the north—west of scotland could fare best.

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