hundreds of thousands take to the streets off walsall to mock one hundred years of polish independence but many members off nationalist groups joined disintegrations. and thousands of firefighters continue to battle three large wildfires in northern and southern california strong winds are making it difficult to contain the blazes which has killed more than two dozen people. i'm christine one welcome to the program. europe has been marking one hundred years since fighting stopped on the battlefields. earlier today in paris heads of state from around the world gathered for a somber ceremony around nine million soldiers and millions more civilians lost their lives in the conflict. was it was a moment that had been a century in the making played out against the spectacular backdrop of the uk to triumph in paris running late in the rain world leaders missed the exact moment when one hundred years earlier at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month the guns finally fell silent. but the message was clear never again the location adding extra resonance the tomb of the unkno

anniversary of independence more than two hundred thousand people took to the streets of the capital walsall including a number of nationalist scripts that joint this integrations president unjaded and that the macho after presiding over a state ceremony. a cannon salute in honor of the fallen. polish president n.j. due to kiss the flag and laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier the history of poland's last hundred years as one of much sacrifice and heavy loss of life is up on your own. these are our heroes we will not forget them in the coming hundred years. this thought. then came the controversial march through warsaw with senior politicians including duda at its head far right nationalist groups were out in numbers they had organized the marches in previous years making headlines with the recent slogans the government took over the planning for the latest event. for them us this is a general march for you poland for polish independence. the national anthem was sung the nationalists set off flares. everything disappeared in smoke. after a while they took to the streets accompani

groups really a european council head and form of polish prime minister donald tusk greeted crowds and walsall and said that what unites poland is stronger than what divides it. residents of the eastern ukraine regions controlled by russia backed separatists have voted for local governments they went to the polls to choose heads of government and they made in these self-proclaimed donetsk people's republic way separatists have battled ukrainian forces since two thousand and fourteen and the west say the vote is illegitimate because it's conducted way ukraine has no control . giant wildfires continue to rage at both ends of california at least twenty five people have died in the blazes most of them in the northern mountain town of paradise which was almost entirely consumed by the flames over one hundred people are still missing there more than a thousand firefighters are battling the fires in southern california thousands of homes have been evacuated officials say strong winds could worsen the situation in the coming days. for the latest on those fires we're joined now by janice chase and capi

and her sister were killed in the holocaust born in poland doris family fled the jewish ghetto in walsall to lithuania from their store of those deported to the state of concentration camp near done thick i can only tell you what happened in the in the years things that i will never forget i will never forget that i was hungry day and night i will never forget that and my mother died from hunger because the little piece of bread that she gave to me. it is estimated that over sixty thousand people were murdered institute half gassed executed or killed by extreme labor conditions and frequent epidemic's. remembers both the fear and the daily violence off the nazis what they did it's not he was not human you dancer or a child in their heart can of water the learned you have done to make a child. pick up a twenty killer cement which i had to pick up and i couldn't so i was beaten up only door and her brothers survived the holocaust in is version got married and raised a family since then she has made it her mission to talk to children about her experience. syncs which they what the germans pu

is forced to deal with the trump administration on its own by itself in a bilateral arrangement so walsall of the u.s. iran relationship with a terribly good at the best of times and again they are probably as stubborn as the u.s. is about backing down on this and saying that they would be moved by this. i mean can you see any negotiations coming as a result of this. well there certainly is there is a bit of a power struggle within the trump administration you have the trans national security advisor john bolton who has no interest in forcing iran back to the negotiating table into a negotiation his aim is squarely to undermine iranian power to under undermine its military its economy its place in the region so that it is not a competitor with the united states and that is not a competitor with us allies saudi arabia and israel so for national security adviser bolton this is just about undermining iran weakening its economic and political power for someone like president trump himself and perhaps secretary of defense mattis and secretary of state pompei o it is more about trying to get ira

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known waterfall the nearby tourist attraction means a lot of visitors take advantage of the chance to walsall see the bears. hardly any of the visitors can imagine the ordeal these poor animals have been through. like koby who lost his right front leg after he was trapped by poachers in a snare. he was destined for an illegal bear farm. whiskey was lost in nicholson explains to the visitors that bear bile is used in chinese medicine. and it commands a high price. a house in torn a cage is way bigger than the bass themselves live up to twenty years and saw those pages which is expected to surgical means from the day using a silver age imagine going through that torment the frequency of every couple of days living on his system is a very very big russians afraid. these pictures show up their bile farm near the lao capitol v.n. chant. the bears face is a portrait of pain. nobody knows how many farms like this are in laos it's actually illegal in laos to treat animals like this but is all too often in southeast asia enforcement and punishment are totally inadequate. luke nicholson says the greate

and this video in walsall shows a car thief trying to grab the keys to a mini from an off—duty policemanbbed in the chest. but one recent carjacking made national headlines. it happened on the afternoon ofjuly 19th. new mum clare o'neill left this supermarket in birmingham and drove home with herfour—week—old baby daughter eliza asleep in the car seat. what happened next so traumatised claire that she still feels unable to do a television interview. but she has agreed for us to use her voice and photos taken after the attack. we have used an actress to reconstruct what happened. i parked the car in the shared parking area of our cul—de—sac and had taken the baby bag out of the boot of the car and was taking eliza's car seat out of the back of the car when suddenly, i realised there were two, maybe three men running towards me. so, at that point, i started to scream because i felt like they were going to kidnap the baby, was my gut reaction. he looked inside the car and he saw my baby in the car and he ran away to the car, they came in, and he was told to finish the job and i said, "you'v

that america and her cabinet meet the polish counterparts at the time the strained relations with walsall immigration recriminations for world war two and a gas pipeline between germany and russia are just some of the issues putting a strain on their ties. and you could make it a cheese maker wants to improve the taste of his a. plane heavy metal and ship to his truck loads of jeans. celebrating hundred deals of the martin drum kits one kick drum set and abs on the hot seat of the music really good marriage from desperate at a small. kind of a very warm welcome to you i'm. do journalists and men module in connection with their reporting of the rohingya crisis are expected to file a piece this week the reuters report is valon and trolls who was sentenced to seven years in prison while investigating the alleged massacre of a hang up muslims during a military crackdown last year there was widespread international condemnation of the trial detail views southeast asia correspond boston hotting reports say appears to be a wider push by them in my government to stifle freedom of the press. a wor

and keith from walsall tweeted... it really does show you what difference it makes.irst thing we had to do was change the copper and leadership of the business, dividing the business into a family of businesses, combined with a strong brand, customers that share common values and common data. these are strong businesses but what we have got to do is make sure we transform them as part of that change programme. you have been pretty blunt about the amount of work that needs to be done, your chairman said this summer that it is on a burning platform. lot of speculation that you are about to separate the third business from the clothing business. is that any truth? no truth to that, strong family businesses and we share common strong family businesses and we share common customers strong family businesses and we share common customers in common data and common values. it is important to state that we make the majority of profit in larger stores where all the marks & spencer cameras are represented. you talk about clothing stores —— closing stores but he put out this this

on the indices we looked at, certainly grimsby was up there with walsall, blackpool. 27% of shops... empty in grimsby and what does it feel like on a high—street where one in four shops is empty? i think that's across the whole of grimsby with the empty shops being looked at. i used to work from home, i had had a travel agency working from home and got the opportunity to take that to the next level and have a freshly place unit ina level and have a freshly place unit in a shopping centre in grimsby. that did us the world of good. the high street is needed. we have great customers that comment is the us and morale does go low in grimsby when we have big department stores potentially closing down. we need a high—street, it is the centre of our community and it's interesting when you talk about a healthy high—street in terms of physical health with lots of takeaway is. i do think the high—street plays a role in the mental health, as well, with a sense of community, bringing people together and getting people to come out and meet for drinks and to do a bit of shopping. it is there in gri

grimsey, but this altogether and it holds the title as the most unhealthy streets in the country, walsallar. the new £50 note will be made of plastic polymer, and replace the current paper note. simon gompertz reports. the clue to who is going to be on the new £50 note is in way the appeal for names is being launched, in london's science museum. the field we selected on the advice of the advisory panel is science. as has always been the case, the bank will not represent living people or fictional characters on our banknotes, so i'm afraid time lords of whatever gender are ineligible. hello there, charles. have you heard the news? what news, charles? charles darwin and sir isaac newton are helping with the launch. you will never guess, the theme is... love island ? but who does the public think should be chosen? stephen hawking. stephen hawking? yes, that's a good one. it would be a good note with a black hole on it. there is ada lovelace always. the first computer. the mathematician. stephen hawking has passed away, so stephen hawking. so you would expect stephen hawking on the list somew