listening to personal testimonies, one which comes from the imperial war museum archive, is that of sidneywar held in a camp just outside nagasaki, he was in a work party when he saw the bombing take place. he remembers talking to his japanese captors and saying, what are we done to you? and in response they said, what have we done to each other? and for me that is so hugely poignant because it is a reminder that human beings do this to each other, we are all capable in a way of these incredible acts and incredible horrors and that is why we should mark these events. 0k, thank you very much for your time. mauritius has declared a state of "environmental emergency" after a japanese transport ship ran aground and began leaking fuel into the indian ocean. at least a thousand tonnes of oil are estimated to have seeped into the water — endangering some of the world's finest coral reefs. environmentalists have described the situation

i'm joined now by dr alanjeffreys, senior curator at the imperial war museum. m the war museum sound archive... to cover people from different ages, genders backgrounds and nationalities. in order to give an idea what it was like vj day. the last person that spoke was a nurse who also ran a canteen in singapore, and she was actually arrested by the japanese and tortured in november 19a3 and kept in prison for 200 days. in the national history of singapore she is very much remembered as a war heroine we've been talking a lot in the last few hours about the war in the pacific arena as a forgotten war in the uk... why is it called the? in the national consciousness, even at the time the wars in north west europe predominated. i think they really forgotten aspect is, in the 1ath army, there was 3a0,000 indian troops, 100,000 british troops and 80,000 african troops... i think the really forgotten aspect is the role of the indian and african troops in burma. can you tell is more about that? you'll make the indian army during the second world war was a volunteer army,

trustee of the central european university and more recently, at the imperial war museum. we are second only here at the national world war one museum and memorial to the imperial war museum in terms of history. they began collecting a 1917 and we began collecting in 1920. we are further delighted that they are having their world war ii gatherings re-installed by the gallery designs over the world war one museum so they are very wise, i might say. margaret's research specializes in british imperial history and the international history of the 19th and 20th centuries and she is written many publications and books. i don't want to list those but one of which is particularly pertinent to the conversation tonight, paris, 1919, six months to change the world. which really puts her in a position of authority to have the conversation with us this evening. she is of course been awarded with many distinguished prizes and awards, gave the bbc's 2018 brief lectures on war and humanity which explored the tangled history of war and society a complicated feelings toward it and those who

a trustee of the university and more recently at the imperial war museum. might i offer that we are second only here at the national world war i museum and memorial to the imperial war museum in terms of history. they began collecting in 1917 and we began collecting in 1920. and we're further delighted that they're having their world war ii galleries re-installed by the gallery designers of the national world war i museum and memorial. so they're very wise i might say. she's written many publications and books. i don't want to list those. one of which is particularly pertinent to the conversation tonight is paris 1919, six months that changed the world which really puts her in a position of authority to have the conversation with us this evening. she's of course been awarded with many distinguished prizes and awards, gave the bbc's 2018 brief lectures on war and humanity which explore the tangled of war in society and the complicated feelings toward it and those who fight, which is short to say of course, ladies and gentlemen, we're in the presence of a hist

i've actually seen the map at the imperial war museum. the french got limit on that got lebanon.rench asked the french got lebanon -- the french got lebanon. the french got the levant. , and itthe story now really shows the broad instability of the levant all the way up to his temple. jonathan: the problem the -- way up to istanbul. jonathan: the problem the international community has no is you can't just throw money because this is on the brink of becoming a failed state. i don't know how much faith there is at the moment. tom: there's a different fragility in lebanon, but you also see it with the complexities of turkey as well. jonathan: turkey not looking good this morning. that's for sure. matys joins us now, rabobank emerging market strategist. you and i usually only catch up when something like this happens, and it speaks to the frequency of how often these kind of things happen in turkey. what is different about this moment? that thereuld say are lots of similarities with what we witnessed in the summer of 2018. the turkish lira is falling quite precipitously, and the cen

today's commemorations began with a piper playing battle's over at the imperial war museum's hms belfastsunrise, as part of a tribute entitled waking up to peace. a military piper has also been performing at the national memorial arboretum in staffordshire. later, the prince of wales and duchess of cornwall will attend a service of remembrance there. also this morning, defence secretary ben wallace was joined by military chiefs as he laid a wreath at the cenotaph in london. our correspondentjohn maguire is at the national memorial arboretum in staffordshire. it isa it is a very significant day for those who remember and those who mourn. yes, we are a0 minutes away from the beginning of the national service of remembrance, gas gathering say they will be severing armed personnel at the moment, —— guests are gathering, there will be serving on personnel. you can see the families, pushing them around in the world chess, the real stars of the show. the royal family will come here later on, prince charles, the duchess of cornwall will lead to marriage say. you saw the paper, the second paper h