warfare training in india, before he joined the indian army. but patrick was not long in india. the japanese had taken neighbouring burma in 1942, and his regiment became part of the huge 14th army which fought to win it back. but it became the forgotten army, as europe's focus was on itself. the men fought in the towns and jungles of burma in atrocious conditions. those back home could only imagine the horrors. my mother—in—law, jenny, still not married to patrick, wrote to him. "my darling patrick, i have been feeling for you tonight and i'm full "of sympathy for you. "they're putting more and more in the papers "about this 14th army campaign, and i feel nothing can be too good "to make up for such a hell." veteran john giddings was one of those men in burma, living that hell.

we lost quite a number of lads in night attacks and bombing attacks of course. a bad raid when we lost 15 in an air—raid, terrible. i suppose in a way we were always known as the forgotten army. the history books tell people how difficult it was, but of course, it's notjust like being there. in may 1945, it was the final push. newsreel: it's mud, mud and still more mud. but rangoon is the capital of burma and biggest prize of the whole campaign. rangoon‘s recapture by allied forces weakened japan, before its final surrender a few months later. as if war weren't enough, those on the front line had to contend with other, more personal matters. interestingly, there's a telegram here, which he received a few days after his father died, which was sent, and i guess that was the kind of brutal way of receiving that news, and the detail of it he didn't receive some three or four months later.

what does it make you feel, looking at this and thinking about him? sort of proud. definitely. everyone in the family is proud of patrick, and we all feel we've got to know him better now, as a result of making this film. and out of the horrors of the war he endured came this token of love. it's a ring that was given to him by a japanese officer. it's got his initials engraved on it, and he wore this as his wedding ring, when he finally married jenny. reeta chakrabarti, with herfamily‘s part in the people's war. that's it from us. have a very good night.

welcome to bbc news. it is now time for us to take a look at the national and international front pages in the papers. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are claire cohen of the telegraph, and sienna rodgers of labourlist. lovely to see you both. will get started in a moment. let's have a look at the front pages we have.

the metro leads with the scale of care home deaths at the height of the coronavirus pandemic in the uk. more than 400 people in care institutions died daily. staying with coronavirus, the independent reports concerns from health leaders about rising case numbers, as positive tests reach the highest rate since may. the daily mail calls on prime minister borisjohnson to get britain flying again, suggesting a lack of covid—i9 testing at borders is harming the uk economy. the financial times highlights another concern at uk borders as customs and logistics associations ask for clarity about preparation for the end of the brexit transition period in december. the guardian says borisjohnson is facing mounting pressure to backtrack over the appointment of former australian leader tony abbott as trade adviser. the daily telegraph reports that new director general of the bbc tim davies will crack down on what it calls twitter warriors, who share vocal opinions

on social media. the new york times highlights what it calls a ‘lack of foresight‘ from the spanish government which has led to confusion about the reopening of schools despite nightlife venues reopening following the coronavirus lockdown. and the gulf news marks the death toll from coronavirus passing 50,000 in the middle east, but warns poor testing in yemen and libya could hide the real situation. so those are some of the front pages we have an already. let's start with the daily telegraph, which looks at the bbc. in that case, we will start with you, claire. the headline... we have a new director general. some of the journalists and better—known stars of the bbc from using twitter to

voice their opinion. talk us through your paper. in the first week of any big job, obviously you want to make a statement. you want to set out your manifesto. it's not surprising that ten davey has a strong stance on this, and i'm suppose it's even better if you can crack down on something that your predisaster came under criticism for. bbcjournalists being vocal on twitter is something that has been accused of fanning the fla mes that has been accused of fanning the fla m es of that has been accused of fanning the flames of bias. it's something that's on ten davey‘s agenda. particularly those on twitter who are being vocal. 0bviously, particularly those on twitter who are being vocal. obviously, we are trained to be passionate and opinionated. it must be hard to marry that with the rules they are expected to uphold. what would be really interesting would be to see what the grey areas are, whether any

bbc journalists decide what the grey areas are, whether any bbcjournalists decide to leave social media or what rows might emerge out of this if you do an interview and you say, "i really respect the person i interviewed," and that person has a strong bias, will that overstepped the line? i suspect we will see a few rows p°ppin9 suspect we will see a few rows popping about of this. he said in his speech that if you want to be an opinionated columnist or a partisan campaigner on social media, that is a valid choice, but you should not be working at the bbc. impartiality is crucial. i agree with what a lot of claire was saying, it's quite difficult. where do you draw that line, because a lot of things he tweets about, like refugee rights,

he may argue that that's political but it'sjust expressing basic human compassion may be. so what is exactly political and what is party political? that's going to be interesting to see, how tim davie feels about where you draw the line and those kind of circumstances. emily talked about dominic cummings. but they also need to be able to call out the government when applying. let's look at the metro. it's got its front page, 400 care home lives lost today. looking at coronavirus. it focuses on the full scale of the death toll being revealed as tests trades had its work worst week the launch. talk us through the metro's

findings. this is a shocking number. perhaps we shouldn't be surprised in that we already know that more than 30% of covid—i9 related deaths were happening within care homes, i think around 40% were care home residents, including those in hospital. this is a scandal, isn't it? the release of covid positive patients into care homes and is fast emerging as a most serious criticism of the government. really, i headline like this makes a mockery. it comes in the same week as we discovered that england, care homes were of fifth more likely to lose than in a scottish one. they we re lose than in a scottish one. they were kind of increasingly downing the numbers coming out of this. we also learned recently, i think last week, care homes are still being

offered financial incentives to take positive patients by councils and other organisations. so there's huge amount of pressure on them and this hasn't gone away. this is the most vulnerable within our society we need to be looking after. vulnerable within our society we need to be looking afterlj vulnerable within our society we need to be looking after. i think this will really worry government ministers because they must be cognizant of the fact that these are the kind of things people remember. they will remember the fact that they couldn't visit their loved ones in care homes during the pandemic, and at the same time, they weren't actually being kept safe as well because there are those shortages of protective equipment. there are all those difficulties staff for having and accessing the right equipment and accessing the right equipment and getting those safety procedures in place. the fact that both those things were happening at the same time, that the kind of thing that

decide next election. if they had an expense like that, they won't forget anytime soon. this is something that is echoed in the independent. deeply worrying rise in coronavirus cases, with health leaders expressing concerns that the top positive tests reach the highest since may. there was a 696 increase in the last week of august in positive cases. nhs providers is blaming this on the slow movement of swa b test. blaming this on the slow movement of swab test. i think it says there is an infrastructure problem and the results were to move to the database cuyama. i find it results were to move to the database cuyama. ifind it worrying results were to move to the database cuyama. i find it worrying that we will are not getting the test results faster. —— database quick enough. you are not then getting in touch with people who may have been in contact with those positive results. let's turn to the goal

snooze now. “— results. let's turn to the goal snooze now. —— the goals news. there are concerns that figures could be much higher. the testing in places like lemon and —— yemen and libya where infrastructure has collapsed. we are not seeing true figures. that's actually right. we are just talking about how here in england, test trace has lots of problems. there's problems when the testing to the gathering of data to reaching people afterwards. if you talk about a country like yemen, of course the data will be under reliable — — course the data will be under reliable —— unreliable. the pandemic appears to be spiralling out of control, but at the same time, there isa control, but at the same time, there is a lack of transparency because in

yemen, they've refused to release the virus statistics. in the hardest hit nation, iran, over21,000 people have died. these estimates, it's difficult to know whether they are accurate because they are dealing with so many other crises at the same time. we talk about our failures here. it will be even more difficult over there. is there a question then in that case that the international community needs to reach out, claire, and do something? the political situations are complicated, but this is a crisis in already a very troubled part of the world. i think in an idealworld, we would, but as we know so well, so many countries in the developed world a re many countries in the developed world are battling with their own crises, albeit not as many as places in the middle east. i think countries are really struggling

right now. let's have a look at what the daily mail is saying. borisjohnson is asking to get britain flying again. we've seen the tourism industry very futilely affected by this virus and the travel core doors. interesting situation where people don't have to quarantine being put back on the list. it seems borisjohnson is asking people to get flying again, go back on holidays. is that realistic, will that help? with these reports and an opposing quarantine measures very much of the la st quarantine measures very much of the last minute. it will always be taking a risk at the moment. if you are taking a holiday abroad, you are taking a bit of a risk there. it

points out that other countries have had cova testing at borders, so on arrival, you are tested. could be cut down, but that requires a robust testing regime. it all comes back to testing regime. it all comes back to test and trace. you need to be conducting tests on arrival and conducting tests on arrival and conducting tests on arrival and conducting tests again during that quarantine period. that you might be able to cut it down to ten days. these are the kind of things that have to be taken in order to protect these industries, but at the moment, itjust looks like these industries, but at the moment, it just looks like the government isn't getting a grip on the situation. how easy would it be to implement this kind of testing on arrival scenario? given that we see difficulties in getting people to test centres that are close by to them, so this still feels like when it comes to the infrastructure of this system, there is a little bit of work still to do. i think there

isa of work still to do. i think there is a bit of work still to do, but actually, at the telegraph,