we have got a frost developing gci’oss we have got a frost developing across many parts of the country now and towards the south west of england it has been a bit milder, we this is bbc world news today. still have cloud, more of a breeze i'm lewi5 vaughan jone5. our top stories... and a few showery burst of rain that will help south towards the channel one of the two people stabbed finals. wales and the midlands, to death in the london bridge there will be more mist and fog attack has been named. jack merritt was 25 years—old, overnight, a few showers coming into and working for a prisoner east anglia. north of here will have education project. the coldest and clearer skies away from some showers near the northern the attacker — usman khan — was jailed 7 years ago for terrorism coast, particularly the north of offences but freed last year. scotland. further south where there is more of a breeze and a bit of a prominent maltese businessman cloud, those temperatures, in terms is charged with complicity of frost, a little more marginal. in the murder of the investigative but with more of a breeze tomorrow, that were left in the mist and fog journalist, daphne caruana galizia. more regularly in those places and they will be dry and sunny by late hundreds of climate campaigners morning. a few showers continuing on in eastern germany occupy open—cast coal mines for several hours the far north and north—east of to demand they're closed down immediately. scotland, one or two near the north sea coast as well. more of a and the draw for the euro 2020 noticeable breeze for of the uk and football tournament has taken place, for the first day of december, these with world champions france are the temperatures, similar to in the same group as

what we had today, not quite so mild but at least sunnier in the south west.

hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. tribute page of the first victim to be named in the london bridge attack cambridge studentjack merritt visioning a prisoner rehabilitation conference which is attacker had been invited. police have commended the bravery shown by members of the public, including convicted criminals who over powered the knifeman. it is emerge the attacker had been released on licence for his involvement in planning terror attacks. in other news, millions of commuters will have to pay an average of 2.7% more for rail tickets in the new year. and in sport, england will face croatia in their opening game for

euro 2020, on now in bbc news, witness history comes in the royal academy in london. as part of the bbc‘s crossing divide season we had two perspectives on the 1917 nine reunion hostage crisis. —— 1979 iranian hostage crisis. hello and welcome to witness history, as we present... coming up, the peaceful demonstrations which started the ball at the berlin wall. the fight online against the islamic state group in mosul and the dancers who broke down barriers to become

the first black classical ballet company. but first, as part of the bbc‘s crossing divide season, we bring you two perspectives on a historic moment in the relation between the us and iran. in 1979 a group of iranian students override the us embassy in tehran and took the us embassy in tehran and took the americans inside hostage. we had an opportunity to convey the message of the iranian people to the world. we had to make the best of this opportunity. in iran 700 students have broken into the american embassy into and under holding a number of staff

hostage. revolutionary guards and police did nothing to stop the students take over. the last week and seena students take over. the last week and seen a series attack of strong verbal attacks on the united states, including several statements. today, he voices support for the students action. i was attending classes at the university when i was approached by some of the students who told me that the students inside the embassy, they need you. they are asking for you tojoin embassy, they need you. they are asking for you to join them. we were young people. personally, iwas a young people. personally, iwas a young student. had no military experience, i had no experience in dealing with reporters, no experience in dealing with such a serious responsibility. the student started making contact with their friends in the states, other iran in

stu d e nts friends in the states, other iran in students who were there. they started constructing a delegation of american people will stop david be invited to visit iran for about a week, directly they could come and see what was happening in iran, what is happening with the students, who these people are. we had arranged everything and they arrived one by one, from the airport does not naturally they were very tired. we went together to visit a local factory into iran. the workers there started speaking about the problem is that they had joy division. —— that they had during the shah‘s regime. the shah was always talking about the stories of civilisation, but these doorways were nowhere in sight for our workers, for the

people who actually were suffering due to the severe poverty, the economic challenges that the country had at that time. we had a visit to the cemetery where thousands of marchers of the revolution lie there. there is an opportunity to speak about the revolution itself.

if we intend to confront violence, if we intend to confront war in today's world, if we intend to establish and restore a just world orderfor peace, for establish and restore a just world order for peace, forjustice, establish and restore a just world orderfor peace, forjustice, by the betterment of humanity, before all we need to engage in dialogue. a dialogue that will promote a profound understanding between the east and the west. she went on to become a cabinet member and the iranians government. now, by the other side of the cultural divide, as we hear from other side of the cultural divide, as we hearfrom rabbi who other side of the cultural divide, as we hear from rabbi who was a member of the delegation he visited iran at member of the delegation he visited i ran at the member of the delegation he visited iran at the time for in america there has been the estimate is calling for the immediate release for sexy americans has been held present in iran. the hostages had been kept inside a maxim choupo—moting embassy. —— bought 60 americans who had been held

prisoner. are they members of the delegation assembled at the church oi'i delegation assembled at the church on the upper west side of manhattan. and i guess we were taken to kennedy airport and we took off tehran. there were many members of the delegation from different parts of the country, but they seem to be, you know, at the same mind. that they wanted to help. i felt very purposeful. very committed. very focused. on my mission. that i would employ every fibre of my being to make it successful, to reach out to the hostages and to comfort them at a very difficult time. when we landed at the airport, here was an airport like a terminal atjfk, ripped off all the signs and just

picture of the revolution. debit militants with machine guns. —— there where militants. it was hard to be one—on—one with a running people. ijust to be one—on—one with a running people. i just remember empathising, but related not have much interaction with the ordinary people, the people and huts, the people, the people and huts, the people in poverty. i remember being very intense and iran, like every moment of the day was prayerful, it was dedicated, it was acutely alert, all of the senses. the day we saw the hostages, valentine's day, there was a knock on the door, then all of a sudden here we are, in front of the embassy. there are the students,

they look like 11—year—old students doing their homework. but they had machine guns. and we were, i guess, searched and checked out and so on, and brought into a room in the embassy that had been covered with blankets and maybe pictures. and then, the hostages came in, they looked nervous. so, i remember breaking the ice with them and saying hey, guys, i guess you want to know who won the world series and they sought a relax. they said they we re they sought a relax. they said they were treated ok, but by that time i was very, very doubtful. as we were leaving, they shouldn't say we have to detain you, one of you received a secret message from one of the hostages. so they took me apart from the other americans and search me. right down to my underwear, after

the longest 1050 minutes of my life, they let me go. i remember we were quite tired from all these efforts. we hope that we did our best, could we have done more? he at least when i come back i will be able to tell people a story that is more true. about what happens to human beings and how they suffer, without in any way condoning the taking of hostages. and when the american hostages were finally released from the tehran embassy, the rabbi was invited to greatham at the white house. now, to east germany, where in the autumn of 1989 a series of mass demonstrations

in the city of leipzig shipped the communist though to the core and paved the way for the ball to the berlin wall. here is the story of one of the protesters. in 19891 was living in leipzig and east germany asa living in leipzig and east germany as a peace activist and singer—songwriter as part of the oppositional movement. when i was a student at high school, i started being observed by the socialist secret service of the gdr. because of my oppositional writings, of poems and songs and so on. since it is seven, i started being a member ofa is seven, i started being a member of a circle of oppositional dissidents around protestant maine confederal in the centre of leipzig. in the beginning of the 805, i started in the beginning of the 805, i 5tarted something that we call the police prior to. this was once a week and it was kind of political

prayer against this logic of the cold war. what many east germans seem to object to is not socialism as such, but the grant at the returned version that has been thrust upon them. a frustration summed up in the contrast... in the ce ntre summed up in the contrast... in the centre of a spelling at the weekend another dissenting view has been articulated. the demonstrators and the new political groups formed a la poland and hungary are calling for democracy and free elections. everybody was in fear of a civil war and nobody could imagine what follows that, with the russian interfering. we thought if they would be a set of what in leipzig, maybe the west had to react. —— eight civil war. when i went to

church that afternoon to do the preparations for the piece prior, i can see that already thousands and ten thousands of people had failed the whole centre of leipzig. i could see the whole centre of leipzig. i could 5ee familie5 the whole centre of leipzig. i could 5ee families with little children come up with grandmothers, old people and so on. i really asked myself, what will happen to them if we would really have a violent conflict? but when the church were close with the prayer, we could only hear that something was going on outside. we could hear people 5hout, we could take the sirens of police ca r5 we could take the sirens of police cars and so on. when the doors opened at the end of this piece prior, we could not go out, because the city was so crowded, everybody was waiting outside. there was no for the people to go out. nobody in this situation wanted to give the order to ship. why? there is only one answer, because we were to many

indu5trie5. they were prepared for maybe three or 4000 people, more than 70,000 people, some experts say 120,000 people, came to leipzig, stood in the street and said ok, trips. if necessary, shoot u5, stood in the street and said ok, trips. if necessary, shoot us, but unionist people's army, people's police and we are the people. —— your name is people's army. at the end of this evening you could not see a conflict line any more. it was really a party atmosphere. i remember people sitting in and on the with of a police car, having a cigarette together with the policeman and giving a light to each other. everything that followed after that, month5 other. everything that followed after that, months later the wall came down, a famous leisure we had the very first free elections. in east germany, nearly exactly one year ago we had the reunification of germany. it was a consequence of

that moment, the moment when the decision was made, this conflict will end peacefully. martin is now a writer in berlin. remember, you can watch witness history every month on the bbc news channel or catch up with all of abbott villains and a thousand radio programmes in our online archive. just search for bbc wetness hit straight. now, in 2014 in the islamic state group to cover muscle in iraq they flooded the internet with propaganda. but one historian living in the city decided to launch a counter narrative. he told witness a tower is great personal risk he set up the website muscle i too expo5e personal risk he set up the website muscle i too expose the atrocities of violence taking place in his city. isis is a gripping of some of their world's was violent militants.

they have been disowned by al-qaeda. in less than a week the army took muscle. you have to take a side. you have to decide whether you're with them or against them. i decided to stand against them. at that time, i was teaching at the university and the university was occupied by them asi the university was occupied by them as i can. mosul eye was a website i set up to get information out of isis controlled city of muscle to the rest of the world. i wake up in the rest of the world. i wake up in the morning, i go out, i collect information and then i go back. i write everything i by hand. and then i scan it and put it online. one mistake could lead to death, to the end. from the public, dis leader

proclaimed himself ruler of all muslims. i felt very appended, because who is this guy to claim that he is in charge of our city? nobody knew that i was mosul eye. not even my mother. isis was getting into the city, into the neighbourhood, there was only a ten wall between me and isis when i was reporting against it. next door was an isis senior fighter, the other house next to our house was an isis fighter, in front of us was a whole house of isis. behind that there was another house of isis and diane in the middle of all of this, reporting against isis. from the beginning, i decided that i would only write fax.

by decided that i would only write fax. by knowing the source were witnessing the event myself. religious police controlled everything. shaping, smoking were all considered immoral and the punishment anything from public lashing5 to execution. punishment anything from public lashings to execution. the public executions were a system that isis imposed on the city. they were enjoying this. they were feeling the pleasure of terrorising the people. isis wanted to make it like a show. as that they were shooting a felon for hollywood. a horror movie. sometimes beheading or damage a brother should his brother. —— they made a brother. what made mosul eye

at that time were powerful, is that it's message reached out to the international media and they made it public everywhere. newsnight has spoken to the writer of a blog, a blog called mosul eye which has been communicating the plight in the city for over two years. i was visiting the fundamentals of their narrative and it was something they really did not like. that was my strength and that was my power, that i found a way to resist isis and all i had at that time was the pen and paper. 0mar has since left mo5ul but still contributes to the website mo5ul eye. and finally, to new europe. where in 1969 the first classical ballet com pa ny to where in 1969 the first classical ballet company to focus on black dancers was founded in a converted garage in harlem. they dance theatre

of harlem are still running today. virginia johnson was one of the first answer is to join the company. —— the first dancers to join the company. it was not until i was graduating from the washington school of ballet that the director came to me and she said, you know, you're going to have a career, you area you're going to have a career, you a re a really you're going to have a career, you are a really wonderful dancer, but you never going to be a ballerina because of the colour of your skin. it was following the assassination of martin luther king in 1968 that are that mitchell decided to set up are that mitchell decided to set up a dance company for black people in harlem. arthur mitchell was the principal dancer with the new york city ballet and he was the first african—american to achieve that level in a major american ballet company he looked around at this neighbourhood and he said, these kids do not have a future. education

i5 kids do not have a future. education is terrible, the scooter failing, nobody cares about them, they do not have a way of breaking the cycle of poverty. but if i teach in ballet, i am going to get them something else to draw from within themselves. we started with 30 children and two dancers and everyone said i was crazy, because i was using a european art form, classical ballet. but i think that is the strongest technical foundation. when she had the technique, you can do anything you want. classical ballet is impossibly difficult and it requires focu5, it requires self—discipline and it requires perseverance. in two months i had 400 kids, informant i had 800 kids, that shows there is a want, you need any desire for this. i got to new york in the bowl of 1968 and somebody to me that arthur mitchell was teaching a class up in harlem on saturdays and i could go

up harlem on saturdays and i could go up and take a class and get a little ballet back in my life. and ijoined dance theatre of harlem in the 5pring dance theatre of harlem in the spring of 1969 and right on the start it was magic. it is too soft. he was maniacal. that's it! it is tonight. if we were pointedly ballet, we were going to the best dancers ever seen. it was extremely difficult and painful, tho5e dancers ever seen. it was extremely difficult and painful, those first yea r5. difficult and painful, those first year5. nothing that we did was right. he was driving u5, year5. nothing that we did was right. he was driving us, he was pushing u5 right. he was driving us, he was pushing us every minute. to me, ballet i5 pushing us every minute. to me, ballet is about the elevation of the human spirit. i always said that dancing on point is the closest that you can get to flying. it is an expre55ion you can get to flying. it is an expression of how limitless spirit is. so, there were black people who

did not want to sue the white man's art form and there were white people who thought we would never date because we do not understand it or we do not have the talent but our bodies. we were really fortunate, for our first bodies. we were really fortunate, for ourfirst new york bodies. we were really fortunate, for our first new york performances, deep bay critics york times that this is the most exciting thing in ballet. and so, he gives the little note and people were saying oh, 0k let us go and see them and see if they're any good. ten years after that, i would see young walking into the studio with a sense of ownership. of course i can be a ballet dancer. and that was the most beautiful thing in the world to me, they had no question. whereas i had nothing but question. in a sense, dance theatre of harlem i5 nothing but question. in a sense, dance theatre of harlem is ahead of its time to stop now, there is a desire to bring more diversity to ally. we have been performing all over the place, celebrating its 50th

anniversary. it is notjust about being perfect on balance in a tutu. that is just a sliver of what ballet can save virginia johnson is now the dance theatre of harlem's artistic director. that is all fun witness history here, we will be back next month with more extraordinary accou nts month with more extraordinary a ccou nts of month with more extraordinary accounts of moments in history. but now, from the and the team goodbye. hello there, the final day of november this particular cult in scotla nd november this particular cult in scotland after that only a sharp fro5t. also in parts of the midlands, but they missed and focus relu cta ntly. midlands, but they missed and focus reluctantly. for most the uk were still reluctantly. for most the uk were 5till setting in the colder air at

the moment. the fat south—west that whether fund is not the moment. the fat south—west that whetherfund is not quite the moment. the fat south—west that whether fund is not quite as chilly. mcleod and my prai5e until a future repress of rain which will head southwards towards the channel islands. north and we have somewhat mi55ed islands. north and we have somewhat missed and bulk for the midlands and pa rt5 of wales. missed and bulk for the midlands and parts of wales. more complicated in east anglia with more cloud and one or two 5howers. showers for northern ireland and most of them in the dark north scotland in a brazen stop for the northern half of the uk, another widespread fro5t. it could be —9 in rural scotland and further south this frost i5 rural scotland and further south this frost is more marginal, because there's a better mcleod and mr and bob. that breeze should have left the mist and fog correctly and sunday, pressure that's clad. some back and white, but if you 5tab it in the north and north—east of scotland. more of a noticeable breeze for the southern have the uk and this is the temperatures for the first day of december. similar to what we had today, not quite as mild perhap5 what we had today, not quite as mild perhaps in the south—west, but at lea5t perhaps in the south—west, but at least there will be more 5un5hine.

a5 least there will be more 5un5hine. as we head into the beginning of next week, we still have high pressure around. still cold air across many parts of a country, signs of change coming into the north—west a5 signs of change coming into the north—west as these by the fans topple in an integer some milder air. it will not be as cold and scotla nd air. it will not be as cold and scotland and perha p5 air. it will not be as cold and scotland and perhaps not in with an i5land scotland and perhaps not in with an island on monday morning frost my likely further south, particularly in rural areas. a cri5p one, plenty of sunshine to come for england and wale5. perhaps brightening more for northern ireland. more of a brace for scotland, dragging on more cloud at most of the range will be in the far north of the country. the highest emptiness time body in the highlands, 10 degrees here and elsewhere 68 degrees. just lifting a touch. southern areas and south—eastern part5 touch. southern areas and south—eastern parts of the uk we will have high—pressure dominating into the middle part of next week. the5e by the front of milder air toppling into the north—west. for my 5outhern part5 toppling into the north—west. for my 5outhern parts of england, where they went i5 5outhern parts of england, where they went is lighter, long nights of mi5t they went is lighter, long nights of mist and fog and low cloud. making

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