the americans were across the river and pressing deep into southern manila.fortifications along the city's southern border were threatening to collapse. the americans had far more firepower and far more troops. at that point, the battle took a evil turn, devolving from a fight over one of asia's great cities, into one of the worst human catastrophes of world war ii. an examination of the timeline of dozens of atrocities that occurred in manila point to february 9 as a fulcrum in which the violence against civilians shifted from individual attacks, to organized mass extermination. american workrooms investigators were tallied 27 major atrocities in manila. the japanese tossed babies in the air and skewered them on their bayonets, burning housands a life. -- to death alive. the lucky ones received a bullet. japanese marines went room by oom, shooting and ban adding more than 50 civilians inside the headquarters, including a few infants, one just two days old. the japanese and circled the german clubs, and social hall in manila, where residents had gathered for

divided his soldiers and marines into several geographic commands that cover northern, central and southern manila. his ultimate plan called for defense centered around the ancient citadel guarded by towering walls, some as much as 40 fit week. largenned a perimeter of concrete buildings, small fortresses designed to withstand typhoons and earthquakes. to make it harder for the advancing americans, the japanese barricaded the insides of the building was a desks, chairs and bookcases, and went so far as to build staggered walls inside the passageways, filling them with dirt and leaving just enough space at the portbucci to throw a hand grenade. his forces booby-trapped 50 intersections in manila. this is a corner of one street where the japanese had set up oil drums with concrete and sank railroad axles into the roadway. in addition, they planted bombs mines here.ach minds her . this is a photograph of a primitive japanese trap, they were chained together and anchor to the tree. take the city, american forces carved up manila. the 37th infantry and the first cavalry would come into the city from th

well up towards manila though it is not looking too bad we are going to seeing some partly cloudy conditions there temperatures into the high twenty's more clouds down here across the southern philippines where temperatures into the low thirty's and maybe some rain coming into play by the time we end the weekend and then very quickly over here towards india we are going to see an increase of clouds over the next few days probably down here towards the south so on saturday still not looking too bad on your forecast so tonight we're going to be seeing a tempter there of about thirty degrees kolkata at twenty eight but by the time we get towards sunday notice all the clouds across much of the south colombo could be seeing some clouds and some rain in your forecast and the temps are there of about thirty. the weather sponsored by qatar and. every attack in europe creates fear and division amongst its citizens who has stories of loss go on told. a sweeping association of islam with violence leaves european muslims facing the stock reality of being ostracized by the very communities in which they live love and moon the tragic loss of life twice a victim on al-jazeera. top stories