that was the former united nations official gordon weiss. history every month on the bbc news channel or catch up on all our films along with over a thousand radio programmes in our online archive. just search online for bbc witness history. now to a story of triumph over injustice. for over 200 years, soldiers from the small south asian country of nepalfought and died for the british armed forces. the soldiers are known as gurkhas and over 200,000 fought in the two world wars, but it only in 2009 that they were actually given the right to settle in the uk. major tikendra dal dewan remembers the long campaign for equal treatment for gurkhas. outside parliament, the gurkhas and joanna lumley listened as the home secretary finally ran up the white flag. government surrender on the gurkhas' terms. all former gurkhas who retired before 1997 and who have served more than four years will now be eligible to apply for settlement in the uk. when the announcement was made in 2009, everyone felt very happy. it was very good news. exuberant with the new

gordon bethune will weigh in on all of this. shares of boeing finished the day down nearly 7% joining us to talk about the market day more broadly, though, steven weissmanaging partner, still with us. along with liz young, market strategist with mellen investment management. but first, mike santoli, let's go to you. i realize this wasn't the case for the s&p, the broader market. but the fact that the dow did close at fresh session lows, what can we read through from that >> we've had a series of soft closes i don't think it's been dramatic it hasn't really carried over into the next day. i wouldn't read a tremendous amount, except what the overall story for the week was i can tell the story is being resilient, s&p up about half a percent. we're hanging around the highs and you look at the same exact action and say, we're stalled out. the market is a little bit fatigued it's had an opportunity to make a run at the old highs and has not been able to get there if you net those out, it's probably more positive than not, just because the average stock has done okay. the rotation within the market towards somewhat more of offensive cyclical areas is probab