gulf of tonkin which i think most serious historians have dismissed that there was no attack by north vietnam against america but could you listen to this point. you know i've heard people what should who got the impression that the film said that there was an attack that was in my impression watching it i'm not sure on that that would of course have been a total lie and absolutely wrong there was no attack on august fourth the supposed to attack with the claimed attack to which we responded with. moves a ninety five or sixty five sixty four perhaps sorties that is individual flights bombing against north vietnam supposedly against an attack on our destroyers which if it had occurred would not have been as johnson president johnson claimed unprovoked there had been just before that covert aggressive attacks on north vietnam by resources p.t. boats and others that were entirely directed to owned run by the cia but i was in american attack essentially using cruise by the way from all over asia the philippines korea some from vietnam but it was a cia attack of which we were aware and which the n

by me against north vietnam johnson wanted to be the peace candidate and want to great mandate on that. issue among a couple of others for not widening the war as he promised we seek no wider war that was a lie he foresaw a wider war he intended a wider war and he carried it out in the spring after which we bombed we dropped four times almost four times as many bombs tonnage on indochina as we had in all of world war two. and we did this against this one region of indochina largely largely in the south actually but also in the north of vietnam and in laos and vietnam which we've been part of french indochina so it was a a major crime against the peace by the united states. and speaking of this. this bombing in the overall war profiteering that occurred it strikes me that a documentary like burns's is unable to actually address a large aspect of history because the corporate sponsorship that's in place from everything from ford foundation to bank of america and other corporations almost prohibits real history from discussing who profited as far as we know understand the military industr

the 17th parallel divided vietnam between the north and the south. h vietnam was supported by the u.s. north by the ussr and china. in 1964 the u.s. began bombing the north. american troops landed in south vietnam the following year. more than 500,000 soldiers were stationed in the south as the vietnam war became mired in the stalemate. in response, north vietnam set up the ho chi minh trail, a border route used to smuggle soldiers from the south. over 2,000 soldiers marched into the south. they work would the national liberation front to carry out guerilla lam was ordered to use his skills to launch a propaganda campaign in the south. lam made the grueling trek down the h he still has some of those posters. a liberation front soldier. the slogan reads protect the people's government. >> translator: a female soldier with the revolutionary flag has stepped into the sun lite. it symbolizes the birth of a new government. fighting for the peoples' government mattered during the war. it matters today. and it will matter in the future. always. that is what

navy flyer john mccain was shot down over north vietnam over his 20th mission in 1957. he ejected from his bomber into a lake and was captured, he was held in filthy conditions despite poor health care. for the years he was told as a pow were spent in solitary confinement. hethe 50th anniversary talked with american history tv about those events and reflects on the worst legacy and in act on it. when you look back 50 years ago when you're playing went down -- plane went down. what is the legacy of vietnam? before we get into a conflict we better have a strategy and a capability to win. gradualone of those drips that started out with a resolution that supposedly and it is next there to this day -- not clear to this date with ships. then it went through with lyndon a complete lack of focus on strategy on how to bring it to a close. i am very sympathetic. the one thing that overrode most of lyndon johnson's thinking was china. not want to did have a confrontation and a conflagration that would lead to a real conflict there. it cautioned all of our actions so that it was a

somewhere where we have seen significant weather of late is across north vietnam's.n and central areas of vietnam. you can see the mass of angry looking cloud. i need to draw your attention to what is happening on the northern philippines. a tropical depression which might strengthen to a tropical storm and maybe even stronger as it continues to track across the waters. by the end of the weekend it could move to vietnam and the flood ravaged areas, so we need to keep a close eye on that. this is hurricane mafileo. the 15th named storm of the hurricane season. it looks like it will travel ina season. it looks like it will travel in a north east direction —— 0phelia. it looks like it will go to the south and east of the azores and then we expect it to weaken considerably but we need to keep a close eye on it. there is a level of uncertainty as to attract the storm is likely to take and the influence it's likely to have across western europe and over to the uk. but as we move through the weekend, sunday to monday, it could bring heavy wayne -- rain monday, it could brin

at the republican tax form proposal. 50 years ago today, senator john bomber was shot down over north vietnam. he was captured and held in filthy conditions with poor medical care despite life-threatening injuries. c-span's american history tv sat down with the senator to talk with him about his experience in vietnam, and he reflected on the war's legacy and impact on america. senator mccain, when you look back 50 years ago, when your plane went down in hanoi, and through the last 50 years, what today, in your opinion, are the legacies of vietnam, good and bad? sen. mccain: the legacies of vietnam, that before we get into a conflict, we better have a strategy and a capability to win. this was one of these gradual drip, drip, drip involvements. started out with the resolution where there was supposedly end still to this day, confrontation s anden vietnamese ship american ships, which ran to a lack ofon to a complete focus and strategy on how to bring it to a close. i am very sympathetic because the one thing that overrode most johnson's thinking was china, that we certainly did not want to hav

ago, john mccain was shot down over north vietnam. he was captured and beaten and held in filthy conditions. american history tv sat down with the senator to talk about physics areas in vietnam. if he reflected on the wars legacy. >> 50 years ago when you're what in yourdown, opinion are the legacies of vietnam? >> before we get into a conflict, we should have a strategy and a capability to win. gradual things, it's still not clear to this day the confrontation between vietnamese ships and american ships. a complete lack of focus and strategy on how to bring it to a close. becausey sympathetic the one thing that overrode most of johnson's thinking appropriately was china. we did not want to have a a realtation with conflict there. it cautioned all of our actions so that it was a very gradual onlyation, which not didn't harm the enemy, but strengthened their resolve. it really split our society and away we sometimes forget. c-span itcan see on was a tumultuous time and most of it was bread by the conflict. neverpect i will countenance

flier john mccain was shot down over north vietnam during his 23rd mission on october 26, 1967. he ejected from his bomber into a lake, was captured, beaten, and held in filthy conditions without medical care despite life-threatening injuries. two of the five years were spent in solitary confinement. on the 50th anniversary, senator john mccain talks about those events and reflects on the war's legacy an impact on america. : before we get into a work, we better have a strategy to win. this started out with a drip, jerk with the gulf of tonkin resolution weather was supposedly competition between vietnamese ships and american ships which led to a resolution led by lyndon johnson. andcomplete lack of focus strategy on how to bring it to a close. i am sympathetic because the one most ofat overrode lyndon johnson's thinking, appropriately, with china. we certainly did not want to have a confrontation and conflagration that would lead to a real conflict there. actionsoned all of our so that it was a very gradual escalation which not only did not harm the enemy but strengthened their

flier johnnavy mccain was shot down over north vietnam during his mission in 1967. he was captured, the and held in ten and held in horrible medical care despite his injuries. senator mccain talked with american history tv about those events and reflect on the war's legacy and impact on america. senator mccain, when you look ofk, what are the legacies vietnam. senator mccain: before we get into a conflict, we have to get a strategy to win. the gulf of as tonkin resolution and there was confrontation between american ships and the enemies troops -- the vietnamese troops. lack ofs a complete focus and strategy to bring it to a close. one of the things that overrode lyndon johnson's thinking was china. we did not want to have a conflagration that would lead to a real conflict. they cautioned our actions so that it was a very gradual then, not onlyh did not harm the enemy, but it strengthened their resolve. that led to all sorts of implications. demonstrations right here on the mall. there was one million people. it really split our society in a way that we sometimes fo

. >> navy flyer john mccain was down over north vietnam during his 23rd mission on ctober 26, 1967. he ejected from his sky hawk bomber into a lake. beaten, and held in fifthy conditions with poor medical care despite life hreatening injuries. two of the more than five years he has pelled at p.o.w. as in solitary confinement. he talked to us about those reflected on the war's legacy and empact on america. his is about 25 minutes. >> senator mccain when you ooked back 50 years ago when your plane -- wept down there through the last 50 years, what today in your opinion are the legacies of bad?am, good and senator mccain:00 the legacies before we get into a conflict and a er have a strategy capability to win. of these one gradual drip, drip, drip involvements. with a thing called the gulf of tonkin resolution supposedly, as still not clear today, confrontation between ships se ship and -- and american ships. which then led to a resolution by lyndon johnson of focus and lack strategy on how to bring it to a close. and i'm very sympathetic because the one thing that -- overrode most of l

vietnam. we are talking about 8,000hecta res of land the north of vietnam.ing about 8,000hectares of land growing rice that was damaged and about 40,000 animals killed or washed away. can you give us more details on the forecast? i close my window because of of the sound, disrupting the programme, but it's actually starting to rain now and the forecast is there will be more rain in the next day or two. by sunday or monday there will be more rain and that's what the government here is really worried about because all the flooding and landslides already affected the area in many places. we are talking about reservoirs in the country as well. i happen to be in the biggest hydro—powered dam about a week ago and this evening it's reported that eight of the gates have been... it's dangerous because it makes the downstream more affected. briefly, how unusual is whether of this type in vietnam? well, i think what happens is the storm season, if you like, usually it happens betweenjuly and september but i think climate change is probably one of the factors here. usua

the 50th anniversary of the day navy flyer, now arizona senator john mccain was shot down over north vietnam during his 23rd mission. he ejected from his sky hawk bomber into a lake, was captured, beaten and held in filthy conditions with poor medical care for his life threatening injuries. he spent two of the more than five years he was held as a p.o.w. in solitary confinement. american history tv spoke with senator mccain about those events and he reflected on the war's legacy and impact on ameri america. >> senator mccain, when you look back 50 years ago when your plane went down there in hanoi and through the last 50 years, what today, in your opinion, are the legacies of vietnam, good and bad? >> the legacies of vietnam is that we, before we get into a conflict, we'd better have a strategy and a capability to win. and this is one of these gradual drip, drip, drip involvements, started out with the thing called the gulf of t tonkin resolution and still not clear to this day, confrontation between a vietnamese ship or ships and led to a resolution rammed through by lyndon johnson to a com

. >> we were both in north vietnam. >> reporter: both prisoners of war, there was a brief period where they were allowed to talk. galati remembers a conversation and the call mccain made after he was released for a guy he barely knew. >> he searched out my wife and said i met your husband in north vietnam, i'm john mccain, your husband's pretty skinny but will probably be home in a month. >> reporter: galati later thanked the man who would become a u.s. senator and run for president. he admired his courage in the political world. >> he's a pretty tough dude. >> reporter: just this summer, he watched senator mccain break with his party, his vote taking down a health care bill that republicans were counting on. >> it would have been very easy for him to vote with the republicans. it would have been easy, safe, somewhat an unnatural thing to do. >> reporter: galati realizes not everyone agrees with mccain's choices but he takes a stand. >> he does what he thinks is right. you have to admire him for that. at least i do. >> reporter: there were more senators like john mccain. he can't be he

he survived vietnam and lost his life in another act of heroism 36 years later. 9/11 after the north tower was struck, he helped thousands to escape. as vice president of security, rick refused to leave the building until he was sure all of his people were out. rick was last seen heading up the stairs just before the building came down. >> he was quite something. >> the battle proved superiority once and for all. >> we learned about how many troops have been on the ground. we learned about the accuracy of the aero. >> gun ships known as hogs were nothing more than modified transport helicopters. in 1967 a brand-new helicopter came called the cobra. >> it was the hottest helicopter in the world. >> the first exclusively attack helicopter. >> designed for one thing and that was killing. >> when 24-year-old captain mike brockovich arrived in 1966, he was flying the tiny oh 6 observation helicopters. >> i was out there flying by myself and armed with a .45. >> one of the jobs was to locate the enemy by flying low and getting shot at. >> he did feel exposed. >> he flew the gun ships. >> s

it brought north vietnam away from the negotiating table.ericans from north vietnam and said they were tortured, she called them liars and hypocrite hypocrites. jane has been wrong about so many things. she's wrong again. >> kennedy: she makes my blood boil. i can't let go of the vietnam thing and the fact that she has no contrition. it drives me. >> dana: she only feels bad that it looked like it -- her image took a hit. what's weird is she is so self-aware about everything else in her life. she seemed to have a momentary lapse. i think she has figured out that the talking point to get out of those interviews. i don't understand why somebody in opposition doesn't try to lift america up. however the president is, that's a temporary thing. in four or eight years, any president is going to be a former president. why can't you try to lift people often say of course i am proud of this country. it doesn't matter who the president is. >> kennedy: we are strong enough as americans. what drives me crazy as we had a wonderful conversation about vietn

and every day that john mccain was in that prison in north vietnam, donald trump was evading service in the military and possible assignment to vietnam with the kind of note from a doctor that rich kids in those days were obtaining to claim physical disabilities that made them unfit for service. and now we have a president of the united states, a commander in chief who psychiatrists are saying are unfit for service. they have a note about this president now. in donald trump's case, his doctors note to keep him out of vietnam was about a sore foot. he doesn't have to tell us that it won't be pretty. he never has to tell us that it won't be pretty when he next attacks john mccain because nothing donald trump ever does is pretty. and we've seen him attack john mccain before. >> he's a war hero. he is a war hero. >> he is a war hero. >> he is a war hero because he was captured. i like people that weren't captured. i have to tell you. >> it won't be pretty. kasie hunt caught up with john mccain today and got his reaction to the president's threat. >> mr. trump said on the radio, i heard an

the united states was bombing the dykes from north vietnam, earthen dykes in the red river delta.kes had given way, according to henry kissinger, somewhere around 2 million people could have died of famine and drowning. and we were bombing and it was not being talked about. and i thought, well, i'm a celebrity, maybe if i go and i bring back evidence... and it did stop two months after i got back so i am proud that i went. it changed my life. all for the good. the thing that i regret is that on my last day there, i made the mistake of going to a ceremony at an anti—aircraft gun, it wasn't being used, there were no airplanes or anything like that... there was a ceremony and i was asked to sing and people were laughing and so forth. and i sat down and laughing and then i got up and as i walked away i realised, my gosh, it is going to look like i am against my own country's soldiers and siding with the enemy. which is the last thing in the world that was true. i had spent years working with the veterans and soldiers. and then i made coming home in order to try to show what these men

. >> on october 20 6, 1967, navy flier john mccain was shot down over north vietnam during his 23rd mission. he was ejected from his bomber into a lake, was captured, beaten and held in conditions with poor medical care despite life-threatening injuries. this sunday, on the 50th anniversary, senator mccain talks with american history tv of the impact of the vietnam war on his life and the country. here is a preview. a4when you are in your taking off from the carrier, how apprehensive for you -- were you flying into a place like north vietnam? i was hit by a missile and all of that on the flight deck, and then i transferred to another carrier. i was flying off of that one when i was shot down. what was i thinking? i was young fighter pilot. >> how young were you? senator mccain: 28, something like that. that was what i wanted to do with my life, i wanted to go against the enemy. was not so much they were the enemies as that was what it was trained to do all those years. i wanted to do it. i did not want to fly the mission. it was, i am ready to go. my contemporaries and squadron mates with a

in asia there is a system around north vietnam, it is weakening but we are keeping a close eye to this staying out across open water, but on the shores of the philippines, some very choppy waters and strong winds bringing in heavy rain to the coasts, particularly to the south. as we sweep further west towards the bay of bengal, some strong winds at the moment around an area of low pressure, that the system looks like it will deepen quickly for tuesday and wednesday. strong winds are already affecting the coast, heavy rain affecting the coast, it could become a tropical storm and make la ndfall become a tropical storm and make landfall on thursday. the monsoon generally is retreating across india, still heavy rain, to the north sunshine and warmth. high pressure is building across the usa, but quite in unseasonably area of deep low pressure pushing into alberta in the next 24—hour is. somewhat weather, and wintry weather across the rockies. in the usa, fairweather, some showers on the tail of that system in the far north—west, still some showers towards the south—east affecting florida.

north vietnamese dead in vietnam, the black granite with the names of those who were killed. it is a place for all of the vietnam generation, and it is a place for all generations to come. if you go there, it is a fine place to take a child. with this ken burns think we going to relive the vietnam war and get ready to see the fight start all over again. the rift of the generation is going to be on display, but at least now we have a place of contemplation for what is the ultimate cost of war. the brilliance of the black granite to reflect the experience of the survivors, beyond that, to celebrate the key players, the modest vietnam veteran whose vision and determination made this happen, the white-haired manager of the historic competition, but also the artists who are not here today, maya lin and frederick hart. thank you. [applause] jan: can everyone hear me? i'm the founder of the vietnam veterans memorial, born in the nation's capital and i grew up in bowie, maryland. ended up in the vietnam war at age 18, seemed like a good enough idea for me to serve for two years. got

of the pilots sent over and he ended up writing a book he said we were i was awakened go bomb north vietnam i said what for they say because we were attacked or he said there was no what's aca was flying above so that this and that like the invasion of iraq which are going to really make fake news this is not some yo yos you know somewhere in russia or ukraine or somebody you know doing stuff and by the way that kind of stuff is done by every government now in the world that's what my book was about it's. pointed out it's you can take third rate stuff off the shelf and be it you know to be dictator somewhere and you can get massive amounts of information to screw up communication this is what happened but the fact is that the charges that. fake news somehow elected trump i mean this is. it is true that every government doesn't but they have not offer any evidence ok let me address this this is the most shameful moment for the democratic party establishment and i think maybe in my lifetime because at least in the old mccarthy does the new mick mccarthy play and the old mccarthy period ok it

ago, john mccain was shot down over north vietnam. he was captured and beaten and held in filthy conditions. american history tv sat down with the senator to talk about physics areas in vietnam. if he reflected on the wars legacy. >> 50 years ago when you're what in yourdown, opinion are the legacies of vietnam? >> before g

that linking frontal system and there is rain through the middle of china back to the west and north vietnam but you'll notice no spin the tropical storm or worse as it was has dissipated has disintegrated but still plenty of rain there to come for vietnam is just not quite as intense as originally thought behind it all things have gone quiet so all of southern china should be enjoying low humidity blue skies and still quite high temperatures a ton kong were thirty shanghai rather better twenty one. a family business handed down from generation to generation but when this funeral director retires will his son continue the tradition but i don't think he was that he before just like i don't feel like i was argued over a difficult choice for an al-jazeera producer caught between two worlds well it's really fight tending to the dead with a living get better an intimate portrait of an industry most and counter only fleetingly al-jazeera correspondent death in the family at this time. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera this hour kurdish forces are suffering huge territorial losses in iraq a

thailand was still an undeveloped country in a very tough neighborhood communist expansionism china north vietnam south vietnam laos cambodia. looking the rest of the region was undeveloped a lot of problems in the region and so this was a time in the one nine hundred fifty sixty seventy s eighty's ninety's that the king helped mentally. in the region so he shared and formed the country in this way look two things i think two major candidates fundamentally he helped. the expansion of communism in the region and away from communism second during that time of political stability in a very rough neighborhood thailand was able to do some economic development so no communism economic development that's why we have the country that we have today in addition personally the king also expended enormous efforts when he didn't have to that's why people are very grateful today and as well as the turbulence in the region that you've talked about there's also. much turbulence in thailand itself during his reign you know. nineteen constitutions even more prime ministers just how much of a symbol of stability du

southeast asia is a regional rich for media watchers this week we're looking at vietnam ever since the reunification of north and south back in one thousand nine hundred eighty five the ruling communists about a one party state and control over the media is near absolute but vietnam's bloggers have been putting that control to the test challenging mainstream media outlets pushing them to cover topics and issues the party has declared off limits blogs messaging apps and facebook all carry stories that would otherwise have gone untold and with seventy percent of the population now online the bloggers are finding a ready made audience they've also attracted the attention and the ire of the authorities facing a mix of old laws and new ones intimidation and close trials many have been disciplined silenced or put away last year alone eighteen bloggers and activists were jailed for listening posts mean actually ravi now in the supine state of vietnam's mainstream news media and the government's attempts to silence the country's bloc. cuba china north korea vietnam the four surviving one party communist states in th

flier john mccain was shot down over north vietnam during his 23rd mission on october 26, 1967. he ejected from his bomber into a lake, was captured, beaten, and held in filthy conditions without medical care despite life-threang

the air force did the aerial photo over north vietnam so there was a big turn over of air force photo people. so all the guys, 500 guys, it's called a flight, and we all got some kind of aerial photography, motion picture photography, lab processing and still photography. i'm valdez, i got still photography which was at the bottom of the list. and i was assigned to the 836-combat support group at mcgill air force base in tam pa florida. i worked for the newspaper but the strike command was there and that's kind of where the vietnam war was managed from. i, at 18-year-old was photographing three and four-star generals in meetings and ceremonies. so at a very early point in my photography career was photoing high-level people. and being trained in the military, and also coming from a military family, my father was career military, and you know we could talk about him, you know, growing up in south texas and working on farm and going into world war ii, that's a whole other big part of my life, my texas history roots. but, so, when i got out of the air force four years later in 1971, my d

campaign called rolling thunder where they flew the big bombers, the big b-52 bombers and bombed in north vietnam. a lot of people that i was associated with thought that was a horrible thing and they decided to have a protest in washington, d.c. and so i asked my parents if i could go to that protest with the two charter buses that went from iowa, and i was given permission to go on that bus trip and be part of that big national demonstration. on the bus ride back the people on the bus discussed what they might do to continue to protest the war, and it was decided that we would wear arm bands, black arm bands. now black arm bands were a symbol of mourning so if -- of mourning when someone dies. so if one of your family members had died or something like that, you might put a black arm band on your arm just to let your friends and neighbors know that this sad event had happened in your life. so we decided to wear black arm bands, and when we did -- it was a group of high school students that i was closely associated with. it was actually a unitarian youth group. although i wasn't a unitarian exac

from the naval academy and served during the cuban missile crisis and conducted air strikes in north vietnamuring the war. when his plane was shot down in 1967, he was captured and spent years in a vietnamese prison as a prisoner of war. there he was tortured. when he had the opportunity to leave that prison, he refused until all of his fellow soldiers were able to go home, as well. in 1982, he was elected to the house of representatives where he served two terms. afterwards he was elected to the senate where he continues to serve as he fights an aggressive form of brain cancer. senator mccain shooesd haid he honored to receive the madle, especially from joe biden, who he calls a great american leader. the two will share the stage together at 7:00. some of the setup still underway now. reporting live outside of the national constitution center pamela osborne, nbc10 news. >> whether you're red, blue, r, or d, you have to admit that's an honor that's deserving. >>> we'll take a live look at boathouse row. we've seen winds, rain. and the temperatures are really falling. they usually fall closer

might be interested in and of course those were the same missiles that our aircraft flying over north vietnam were encountering they today and countermeasures was a huge issue. so grateful was the american government they gave israel to gifts in return they we supplied them with the weapons they had just lost in the war and the liberty inquiry run by the department of defense the d.o.d. was watered down all its influence by what have we benefited from from the capture they say two missile sites so johnson did respond and took a much more lenient lie and wish that the whole incident could be put behind as soon as possible johnson softer approach to israel was immediately reflected in the american navy inquiry which was now underway on board the liberty. we began to realize that a cover up was was this list descending upon us a lot of people that were in a key position to offer testimony were not given an opportunity i testified to the machine gunning of life raf's to the captain state of mind and it was that those two issues in particular totally admitted lloyd painter was not the only officer

he might have had a less survival chance at his worst moments in north vietnam. he's a singular voice and yet he's raising military service at this time right now in the trump administration. >> it's not a coincidence that he's doing so, brian. this is a moment where john mccain stood there today, and he symbolizes to many americans, a lot about what is great for this country. he served 4 1/2 years as a prisoner of war in vietnam. he conducted his life admirably since. he makes these comments in the midst of an ongoing feud about perhaps the most sacred duty of the commander in chief, right? trying to console grieving families of america's war dead. and john mccain clearly does not think the president is doing a good job of that. he brought up today trump's deferments, the idea that five different times, once for bone spurs, he avoided being sent to vietnam. he has suggested that he wishes things were different in this country, and that president trump conducted himself with more honor and more grace on this particular issue. it goes beyond -- you've heard the qu

still some of the wet weather in place just into the gulf of tonkin just pushing up into the far north of vietnam and i still a case as we go on into wednesday that wet weather still very much in place much of southern china not too bad hong kong looking fine a dry northeasterly wind here temperatures around thirty one celsius but the showers they do continue into central parts of vietnam china showers on the other side of the south china seas and that joins up with some very wet weather that we have a close to the philippines on the side of the philippines we have tropical storm making its way in across the region i think it should just generally stay to the east of the philippines in place to say just push a little further north with but you can link these two systems up here just storms right across the philippines some very wet weather coming in. at the worst of the winds the worst of the heavy right will stay to the east of the philippines but still some rather heavy downpours in the offing heavy downpours in the offing too across southern parts of india well circulation in the go bring some

our top stories: the north of vietnam braces itself for more rainfall as a tropical storm approachespital, mogadishu, have killed 200 and thirty people in its worst terror attack. marriage rates are falling while more and more people are getting divorced in china. a report into the fate and fortunes of chinese families also reveals that despite overturning the country's one—child policy in 2015, its legacy will continue to be a problem for years to come. more on that story on asia news edition at bbc.com. police in london are investigating allegations of sexual assault made by three women against the hollywood film producer, harvey weinstein. one of them, actress lysette anthony, says she was raped by weinstein at her flat in the late 1980s. another woman has made allegations of an attack in 1992, while a third says she was assaulted on three separate occasions since 2010. daniel sandford reports. being battered by a storm of sexual abuse allegations in america, the clouds are gathering over harvey weinstein in the uk too. this was british actress lysette anthony in 1982, 19 years ol

on october 20 6, 1967, navy flier john mccain was shot down over north vietnam during his 23rd mission. he was ejected from his bomber into a lake, was captured, beaten and held in conditions with poor medical care despite life-threatening injuries. this sunday, on the 50th anniversary, senator mccain talks with american history tv about the impact of the vietnam war on his life and the country. here is a preview. touch -- >> they have an idea about graduated escalation, more,stepped up a little it would drive them to the negotiating table and it would become a peaceful end. i was actually happening is it was propping up the morale of the north vietnamese, they felt they were beating us. we are able to fight back. the whole concept was fatally flawed. when thethat point was ,alks in paris have broken down finally richard nixon said, go wipe them out. andwe went in with b-52s other aircraft and took out all of the resistance. guess what? the agreed to negotiate. think, had a lot somehowth a belief that you can convince the enemy to compromise when the enemy does not think they are being