there are people, right here in west virginia, who had no idea what katherine johnson did for nasa and the united states of america. so when the movie "hidden figures" came out, it showed everyone who katherine johnson was, what she did, and how profound she was in the pages of american history. she was hired as what they called then "a computer." she came in and did mathematical equations for nasa. what they didn't realize, she was more than just a computer. she was a mathematical genius. that's what katherine johnson was. >> godspeed, john glenn. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. 0. >> in fact, john glenn said, this computer thing, not katherine, this actual computer that was built, calculated his trajectory to space and he wanted that verified by katherine johnson. here's the important part. he didn't ask the mathematicians from m.i.t. he didn't ask the mathematicians from stanford or harvard. he asked the brilliant mathematician from west virginia state university to calculate my trajectory, and make sure i get home safe. that says a lot about what katherine was to not only nasa, but what she meant t

in the west. in the east yes the there with you 7 do you know what the brandenburg gate stands for no i just got here just my 1st time here actually did not know. it's a symbol of germany's reunification because so. exactly oh a very good. one of the obligatory sights in berlin connected with its division and the fall of the wall is obviously checkpoint charlie it can hardly be missed with all the tourists and probably around. these large format photos summarize the most important points about the former border crossing where east and west faced off told to toe under high tension. i continue on our quest for traces of germany's division along the berlin wall its fall in 1989 was the 1st big step toward reunification. an impressive relic is the longest section of the berlin wall still standing the east side gallery. a few weeks after the fall of the wall $118.00 artists from $21.00 countries gathered to paint this section the pictures are expressions of a new era dawning and hint at the emotions th

this is what he said partly, i have come to you from the west. where we have always seen the backs of our enemies. he was also known for the defeat by lee shortly thereafter at manassas. now his fellow westerners and virginians, knew him as a hardliner, someone who had used the army as a wartime bludgeon against the city civilians and dakota sioux in minnesota in response to irregular violence. pope offered his former comrades a new bull, a stronger meat as he called it. pardon the pun, please. western armies had won the war by their hard style fighting. and eventually adopted that approach in all theaters that brought the confederacy to its knees. naturally their officers then , assumed the mantle of leadership in national government in the wake of union victory. as pope reminded them tonight, and this is his quote, when the war was over, we found that the president of the united states was a western man. the vice president, a western man, the speaker of the house a western man, secretary of the treasury, a western man, secretary of war, a weste

apprentice and is to join west ham lucky as a young apprentice and is tojoin west ham in 1965 luckyon the fa cup and in 66, as you said, we all said west ham won the world cup. bobby, the captain, geoff, the hat—trick and martin the other goalkeeper —— goal scorer. i was lucky to be an apprentice at the clu b was lucky to be an apprentice at the club when they were training and i made my debut with all three of them still in the team. people were intrigued. martin never levelled it 01’ intrigued. martin never levelled it or anything, he was low—key but as i say very humble and would company but stop —— never went looking for any headlines. liverpool have won the fifa club world cup — after beating flamengo 1—0 in extra time. the main incident of the 90 minutes came in injury time when the referee awarded liverpool a penalty after sadio mane was brought down. he then reversed his decision after looking at the var monitor. but then roberto firmino, who scored the winner in the semi—final did the same again. it's the first time liverpool have won the competition in their history. game

frontal system still up to the north—west.a time for the very first part of 2020. we'll have to keep an eye on that. we are likely to see rain at times but much of that up towards the north and the west. not much rain reaching the south—east. so generally speaking, through next week, including the new year period, of course, we'll see wind and rain at times but not all the time. mostly, it will be mild. the driest weather to be found in the south and east but perhaps not quite as bright as it has been during christmas day. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines... the queen highlights the need for reconciliation in her annual christmas message, in what's being seen as a nod to the divisions caused by brexit. earlier, the queen led members of the royal family at their traditional christmas day service — including prince george and princess charlotte for the first time — but prince andrew attended a private service. the spanish resort where a british man and his two children were found dead in a swimming pool say there were "no

watch ken burns' 1996 series on the west. pay attention to its treatment of the pueblo revolt of 1680. while he carefully uses 17th and 18th century engravings of spaniards to visualize his story, he relies on 19th and 20th century -- sorry -- i gave away my story. i was trying to highlight this picture here. he relies on 19th and 20th century photographs to depict the pueblo protagonists. this approach conveys an insidious image. european people change with time. one would never use images from two centuries later to depict them. but native peoples live on in an unchanging past. i photograph made 240 years later is just fine. we are susceptible to this a use -- to this ahistorical use of photographs when we do not know better. i like to imagine that burns' viewers realize that motion picture footage of a snake dance could not actually depict the pueblo revolt of 1680. but my students presume they saw 17th-century dancers performing in front of a movie camera. i know they are not alone. to move beyond the uncritical use of ph

to west uganda in the mountainous region the idea. of washed away. villages. to move. out. i'm joined by. uganda. i'm very fragile the government. reports the rain and it's very hard to reach. the people who are still trapped. there were. given to some of these people but some of the people. very tree. every year what's unusual about the. what could be unusual be related to the way the minds wired with a month sees the rain is way much more than what had been predicted now we. should note that many people are taking advantage of the dry season to houses and from the. least expected to heat they would be. victims people are displaced people or. even many bodies that are still trapped to be chopped. did rain. until the end of december and it could even go into a general artery quickly. people should really. need you know want to do that because they don't want to leave the house is going to be handled i think it's a lot of mixed reaction when it comes to previously hopped into specially in the eastern part of the country where people have been asked to leave. stayed behind be

and goes to a well i think it was all about the powerful man from the west. but in fact hans multiple remembers it very differently from. jerusalem and. there was a very mixed reception at the hotel all clues people weren't just there to greet her. but to greet hans too long i'd worked in dresden for many years they had faith in the class because i had a home advantage and this is in the home for. you. that was this was that was the 1st time we saw the germany united fatherland slogan. what it was the message the world was getting in those days you debated us with this book i thought any german saw this image the whole world did. it what. i remember him this i just incredible. at the press conference the distance between the 2 leaders was immediately obvious . they had to have kind of another i had no. reason to foster a special friendship with helmut kohl here it seemed i wasn't boris yeltsin was must go to work later all those stories emerged about gorbachev and meetings held in the sauna we weren't friends not even close. and was a cautious man and this wa

then the next batch of rain arrives across the far south—west.s here will be in double figures, but still quite chilly in the north. and a blustery day for all, but very windy around some irish sea coasts. so that rain starts to push its way northwards. the next batch of rain also arrives. and then behind it will be blustery with further showers, variable cloud, quite misty and murky. so a much milder start to friday for all areas. 11 degrees in the south—west, 4—7 in the north and )east. high pressure will start to establish itself over the near continent. low pressure out in the atlantic. what that will do is draw up this very warm air from the south or south—west, so that milder at will be right across the uk during friday. but it could be quite a cloudy day, outbreaks of rain across the north slowly clearing away from scotland. further south, though, we will have quite a bit of cloud around, there could be a few glimmers of brightness was not —— if that does happen it will feel very mild indeed. temperatures around 12—13 celsius and very mild

they beat west ham in the premier league. and can the defending champions reach the last 16 of the champions league? we'll tell you what liverpool and a few others need to do on tuesday. golfing news involving rory mcilroy on the way, but first, to the scandal that has rocked global sport for years and is still rumbling on. russia have been banned from all major global sporting competition for the next four years. the world anti—doping agency handed out the punishment after an investigation found russian officials had tampered with data from an anti—doping lab. as with now, those russian sportspeople who can prove they are clean can still compete, but only as neutrals. our sports editor dan roan has more. it's a sporting superpower, as both host and competitor. but today, russia found itself out in the cold. ever since hosting the winter games in 2014, the country's been mired in an unprecedented doping scandal and now it faces an unprecedented punishment. this morning at a meeting in lausanne, russia hit with a four—year ban

of wales and in the south and west of wales and in the south and west of wales and in the south—westour with gusts together with big waves and heavy rain for a while. most of that rain will clear quite windy just about while. most of that rain will clear quite windyjust about everywhere. the wind and rain. heavy rain or heavy showers, accompanied by gales oi’ heavy showers, accompanied by gales or severe gales. it is probably the strength of the one that will have more of an impact, with some disruption possible in the strongest ones arriving right now towards the south—west of the uk. we have had a lot of showers coming enduring today, but these two areas of cloud here are where we are seeing the one strengthening, and that has been hitting western parts of ireland. as far as the hitting western parts of ireland. as faras the uk hitting western parts of ireland. as far as the uk is concerned, the strongest ones overnight are across the south and west of wales and in the south and west of wales and in the south—west of england. perhaps 75 miles an hour with gusts together with big wa

a band of showers moving toward south—west scotland. the wet and in the south—west of england.nt will run away fairly quickly, and we have still got that fairly brisk airflow quickly, and we have still got that fairly brisk air flow as we head into the weekend. that means some spells of sunshine, but it will also mean so spells of sunshine, but it will also mean so much those will be accompanied by blustery winds. it will be cold enough for some snow on the hills. and you can see that across scotland. most of the showers on saturday for scotland and northern ireland. very few until right at the end of the day in england and wales, but signs of wetter weather riding. a cold day, temperatures five to 7 degrees. that's where the front climbing and the west is going to sweep across mainly england and wales on saturday night, and it is going to bring some snow. a few centimetres over the hills of wales, and likely and northern england. as it clears a bit, it is going to turn icy about the money. more showers are for england and wales on sunday. much of north—east england down toward

n the west, the progress of emancipation followed the army's movements southward. his predecessor, john c. vermont, the republican presidentialians 1856 had entered a hort-lived emancipation proclamation, one that lincoln states into drive succession. troops in northern and southeast issouri were enticing missouri slaves to abscond and become servants for fair wages. used slaves freely who offered information about sunionists.nd dins would not allow contraband slaves to be returned to the masters to reclaim them. going on in northern missouri when illinois eastern orred and in outhern missouri when illinois troops entered as well. as the western armies pushed south into the mississippi buckle of the nation's plantation belt, a umanitarian crisis created by the flood tide of fugitive owners ho fled their into eastern arkansas and northern mississippi, pressured oth political and military policy. union officers required to return these slaves often comply, encouraging congress to begin debate over confiscation bout and contrabands and commanders after indicated using

after several tense weeks in the west german embassy in prague. in september 1989 east germans were poor and into the embassy. the building was quickly overwhelmed. many ended up camping out in the embassy grounds it was cold. sanda spent 3 weeks here with his wife and 2 children new arrivals came in over the fence every day. then the fateful moment on the 30th of september west german foreign minister huns dietrich genscher arrived speaking to the refugees from the balcony his announcement that they could leave was drowned out by cheers. was i can't promise that everyone in the embassy would be allowed to go to the west i sang i was there and heard him i while you are standing right here. but. it's all coming about as we go. that same night sanda and his family left the embassy and boarded the train to west germany. in part of the war story it was a very emotional journey of a shifty very difficult or very it would show for us. it was a train to freedom. just a few weeks later when the citizens of east germany gained their freedom on november 9th

there are fears of a new stand—off with the west.come one of the front lines of what feels like a new cold war. as russia pushes for greater influence, i ask its leader how he sees his country. i am on a journey that will take me back to 1989 and across europe, to find out what it was like for moscow to lose an empire and whether russia is building a new one. moscow — it is a city that oozes empire. from the skyscrapers ofjoseph stalin, to the residence of the czars. the message is unmistakable — this is a country with ambition. throughout its history, russia has had an unswerving belief in its own greatness. you can feel that inside the kremlin. this is stunning. look at this. this says power, omnipotence. this says empire. russia was built as an empire, russia has existed as an empire because the essence is we are great, we have to have areas of influence and we have to have buffer states between ourselves and the outside world. so this is an empire. but in 1989, the buffer states broke free. people power swept away the iron curtai

and the other side to west bend and. you had everything that made up the cold war in general was condensed here i think thank you so much my pleasure and thank you. i press on toward the city center following the reversibility here beyond what's now the government quarter the river marked the border between east and west until 1989. but it was guarded just as closely as elsewhere is viz white crosses on the banks testify many escape attempts here and that in death. the brandenburg gate stands as a symbol of germany's reunification until the fall of the wall it symbolized the very opposite it was a part of the death strip right by the berlin wall. do you know what this gate represents i know not really. do you know where the berlin wall was almost here that's what it's my guess is it was here around here 7 do you know where the wall ran. back there behind the case there's a line on the ground. if you think they'd be so i've been then i get from this where are we now in east or west berlin. i mean here. in the west. in the

navy has trouble fighting really this as the coast of west africa becomes. stationed in uganda also villages again. welcome to the program. is on high after pirates kidnap the crew of last week it was the latest incident in a growing piracy problem afflicting the gulf of guinea off the coast of west africa . now have the most anywhere in the world nigeria. our correspondent shot went to the niger delta to find out the scale of the problem and how it's affecting people that. the beautiful. inside a problematic history in the past creeks. this region is already. after with the arms trafficking kidnapping and in recent years another business has begun to florrie nigeria's course line has become a hotspot for maritime piracy and armed robbery at sea. and this is where pirates operate from a labyrinth of the waterways but it's not only home to criminals lives near by the river the source of income transports goods and people he's careful since he was attacked by pirates. to critics like misplaces when they. drive down to creates. the pins 1st the armed man wanted

including the award-winning history of the american west. but she has always been a historian at heart. she finally join the history department at princeton. through all those museum years, she was working on the big book on photography and the american west. "print the legend" came out in 2002. it swept up a batch of prizes and readers with his contention that the conquest and development of the american west could not be understood without reckoning with the simultaneous development of the history of photography. she pursued this claim through archives. note prior, research on photography led her to work on the expeditions that mapped the western landscape and the career of clarence king. her accounts of king's life "passing strange: a gilded age tale" returns to the biographical arts she learned about inviting about guilt then -- gilpin. what animates "passing strange" though is race, the color line that snakes its way through the post-emancipation united states. her own work and away, a survey of that color line. it shapes the web-based

otherwise this fairly brisk west to north—west wind will bring in some showers.the best of the sunshine will be across south—west scotland after that cold start, east and particularly north—eastern scotland think the more rain. elsewhere some sunshine and showers but some —— some sunshine at times but some showers, really lining up a frequent showers in northern ireland. the temperature isa in northern ireland. the temperature is a little on the chilly side, typically 6—8. let head into the weekend. we keep this mixture of sunny spells and showers, quite blustery winds this weekend, and it's cold enough for a bit of snow over the hills particularly in the north. that's where we'll see most of the showers on saturday, coming into northern ireland, coming into scotland. later this wetter weather arrives towards wales in the south—west but gently —— elsewhere generally dry, some sunshine, blustery winds and temperatures 5—7, quite chilly. then we see the band of wet weather coming in from the west. it's hitting the cold air and there may be some snow, particularly o

milder on the far north—west. north—west coming from the south. clearer skies elsewhere, suker contrast and the feel of things overnight monday into tuesday. pc nine or 10 degrees into the far north—west of scotland, but it will be a cold and frosty start first thing in the morning, where we could see some freezing fog across the south—east of england. that could have a major impact on some of the airport surrounding london and some of the major routes, as well. tune into your local bbc radio station for travel and traffic updates first thing tuesday morning. the fog will be slow to left. elsewhere, a great day but a mild affair. 10 degrees on the far north—west is the high. cooler at seven or eight in the south—east corner. the milder air will continue to push on from the west. still a wea k to push on from the west. still a weak weather front on wednesday, bringing outbreaks of rain to scotla nd bringing outbreaks of rain to scotland and into north—west england. folk could be an issue across eastern and south—ea

some outbreaks of rain into northern ireland, west wales, south—west england and the winds picking uphe end of the night, 7 degrees in belfast, for example. further north in scotland, there will still be a touch of frost for some but for many the big weather story on boxing day is this frontal system working its way eastwards, bringing rain at times. but not all the time. this band of rain pushing out of northern ireland quite early in the morning, moving out of wales as well, pushing eastwards across england into southern scotland. a bit of snow might mix in over the very highest hills of scotland and the highest hills of the pennines but even if it does, it will not last long. behind it, sunshine and showers, some persistent rain getting back into the south—west later in the day where it will be very mild but further north, another rather cool feeling day, 5 degrees in glasgow and in newcastle. a fairly windy day as well, particularly in the south—west corner where we could see gusts of up to a0 mph or more for a time. through boxing day evening, we will see these outbreaks of rain

the strongest winds in the north and the west. i will have more inis north and the west.ill have more in 15 minutes. remember the ice bucket challenge. tributes are paid to the man who inspired it, raising more than £150 million for charity. it is tuesday 10 december. our top story: police in new zealand are launching a criminal investigation into the deaths of 13 people after a volcanic explosion at a popular tourist destination. white island remains too dangerous to access, but aerial reconnaissance flights have detected no further sign of life there. doctors treating the 31 injured fear some have suffered burns so severe they may not survive. our correspondent shaima khalil has this report. the prime minister on the sight of where those who were affected by the devastation were first taken, praising those who jumped straight into helper. they worked tirelessly in the most devastating circumstances. any of them had not yet rested or slept. told that the impact of this extraordinary tragedy has had on them was obvious. police are now launching a criminal investigation in

major general george command ofaced in the troops from west virginia. that's hunter's fourth. he's going to have 8000 men stationed around hillsboro, virginia. his job is to intercept the retreat of the army. it he's going to send cavalry -- from hillsboro. i just wanted to show you how close of a run thing it was that jubal early escaped. one of the things that is often lost to history is the reason that he is able to escape and doesn't have the entire army blocking his path, the rivers in west virginia were at low water. a thought they were going to be able to take riverboats and get on the railroad and the back in time to confront the threat. however, mother nature helped the confederacy at that time and cost them several days. it is because of that that jubal early will slip by. wright point, horatio would have been content to stay on the east bank and head back to washington. his orders were to ensure that the confederate were in full retreat. to make a good campaign of it. asht just heard get back fast as you can. horatio wright was a beautiful social. when he heard they

i raised my kids on the city's west side. i want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for illuminating the culture of the place i have called home for almost 60 years. as a small token of our appreciation, the city planning department has gifted our office the original plans that planning has for richmond district. i can think of no better keeper of this document than you. woody, thank you very much. so proud to recognize you today. >> thank you. [applause] >> is it okay president yee, if i say just a couple of words? thank you. thank you, supervisor fewer, i consider you a great friend to me and the richmond district. i appreciate the honor and see it as recognition of the importance of local history to the city we love. conversations about our past are often mistakenly framed as divisive topics, but i have advocated that local history in particular is an opportunity for unification. we all share a deep love for san francisco. our architectural and cultural heritage, our buildings, neighborhoods, our doorways to understa

collective security with the west. you have a juxtaposition you have a have a british delegation they set off to go to moscow but they take a slow ship and they go through the baltic and then but the nazis were picked up he got on a plane and he flew there immediately stalin knew the soviets knew that they were no goodwill from the west and at the last 2nd they made a decision you could talk about the morality of it that's fine but the geo political political aspects of this very make sense well from a moral point of view it should be admitted that almost all european countries between 10331941 corporator with nazi germany. was one of them unfortunately but it was not the one that won and the big lie now is that in the west we hear that it was all of the soviet union the ones who were clean no almost everyone with the exception possible exception of czechoslovakia and that's a huge lesson. because the western powers allowed it to be broken up against international law they were not supported sovereignty and that is the

really, to join west ham youngster, young apprentice really, tojoin west ham in' 65, when a win todayd then we said west ham won the world cup, because of the three lads there. they were key people, and i was exceptionally lucky to be an apprentice at the club when they we re apprentice at the club when they were training and everything, and they made my debut up it burnley with all three of those still in the team. people like martin were intrigued at how suddenly it grew more and more important. martin never levelled anything like that, he was very low—key and good company, but never went looking for any headlines. liverpool have won the fifa club world cup after beating flamengo1—0 in extra time. the main incident of the 90 minutes came in injury time when the referee awarded liverpool a penalty after sadio mane was brought down. he then reversed his decision after looking at the var monitor. but then roberto firmino, who scored the winner in the semifinal, did the same again. it's the first time liverpool have the competition in their history. liverpool remain ten points clear at

at the time, west ham, yeah, they did 0k, your career.of big clubs, if you sort of looked at it now, it wouldn‘t be the top six as far adds sides —— as sides, but it was affectionately thought of. we played some great football and won some great games and lost some and martin was a very part with bobby and geoff in creating. they could never invest in a big enough squad to be winning the league. but martin then of the three left, was the first to leave. he went to spurs. he got trophies there. and you mentioned going to norwich and 200 games. if you speak to spurs and norwich people, they loved him, because of way he was committed on the pitch and the way he always had time for supporters off it and that was the big thing. he was that is why hummen was a great —— humble was a great word. he enjoyed his career, but never looked to make the most of it in the way some others do. trevor brooking. let‘s go to qatar, where liverpool are playing flamengo in the final of the club world cup. it finished 0—0 after normal time but the main incident

the west would create a western one. of new administration included many veteran fighters for german freedom. for those of them who had suffered for their beliefs in nazi concentration camps to be members of the first democratic government in their country for over 20 years was reward indeed. here was the beginning of a new germany. facts, the fact that several million industrious people, deprived for so long of democratic processes, could not continue without a government of their own choice. oath, the chancellor of the new west german state. >> [speaking in foreign language] >> then, in 1953, joseph stalin died. the shocks are the communist world was profound. -- the shock throughout the communist world was profound. perhaps he had been there so long that the world could never be the same without him. and this was to prove truer than most of them emergent. now in moscow, there was not just one face, but many. for those in the west who were not experienced students of russian politics, it was hard to discern who if any

some rain will continue to play the far north—west of scotland.high ground, where you get some shelter to the north of our grant on the north coast of northern ireland on the murray coast of scotland, you could get to 14— 15 degrees, that is pretty exceptional for this time of year. as you go through sunday night, we will keep some areas of cloud but that cloud will tend to break upa cloud but that cloud will tend to break up a little bit more. we will see more clear spells developing. this band of rain in the north—west will try to make some progress south—east was. it's going to be a slightly cooler night than we've had of late. so as we go into monday then, this front will be sitting around across north—west trying to make some progress south—east was, bringing some rain for scotland and northern ireland through the day. you can see the outbreaks of rain pushing slowly south—east was with a mixture of sunny spells and a few showers coming in behind. had of that rainband it's stay largely dry day four much of england and wales, some areas of clo

temperatures six oi’ off for the west.emperatures six or seven with still some gales in the far north of scotland. showers will continue to blow into scotland this evening. elsewhere, the showers move away and skies tend to clear, so move away and skies tend to clear, so temperatures fall with the risk of some icy patches. frost likely not just of some icy patches. frost likely notjust in of some icy patches. frost likely not just in scotland, of some icy patches. frost likely notjust in scotland, but northern and eastern parts of england, with clearer skies for longer. further west, temperatures may recover later in the night, because the weather is set to change. i showed you the cloud earlier, and it's because of this weather system, which will bring some wetter and slightly windy weather in from the south—west. we have got rain arriving across western areas in the morning. that pushes north and east through the day for the chance of some snow over the hills of northern england, the pennines and the hills of scotland. i

to the north—west of scotland, again, a wet start on monday.in the afternoon. the rain approaching the central belt by the end of the afternoon, perhaps brushing the north of northern ireland. sunny spells and some cloud towards the north of northern ireland. that front to the south of the uk by tuesday moves us into smoother hourfor this the uk by tuesday moves us into smoother hour for this time of year. it will be a fresher field, we will lose the cloud that has been tied in with the mild hour. temperatures at the higher end of single figures quite widely and a bit more cloud in the south—west. here we have got more moisture in the air. it could be quite foggy quite quickly on new year's eve. also, there is that tendency, i think, for the disability to become an increasing issue as we go through new year's eve and into new year's day. if you have plans to head out for some revelry, at the moment it looks largely dry. still relatively mild, so not bad prospects as we had towards the new year, but the fog could be dangerous or disruptive if yo

that is hunter's force, moving in from the west. he's going to have 8000 men stationed around hillsboro, virginia. his job is to intercept the retreat of the army. he is going to send calvary south, about 500 men, south from hillsborough. he is going to hit the center of jubal early's retreating column. they will capture and burn about 50 wagons and teamsters before a general comes up drives out the union raiders. i just wanted to show you how close a run it was that you were early escaped. one of the things that is often lost to history is the reason that early is able to escape and doesn't have the entire army blocking his path, the rivers in west virginia were at low water. when they were treated in that direction, they thought they were going to be able to take riverboats and get on the railroad and the back in time to confront the threat. however, mother nature helped the confederacy at that time and cost them several days. it is because of that that jubal early will slip by. at this point, horatio wright would have been conten

and how it could be tied to economic and financial aid from the west. we didn't know that things would go in a completely different direction that day for. the men didn't know one another motto was taken aback to realize that calm had prepared meticulously for the meeting yet. to be king we talked in the car that took us into town meeting you know by the bush talks. of mission vosh and i was surprised the call had been briefed in detail on my biography 30 quid down to my childhood in the village of ya's and that's in western pomerania time. in the end though feels and that's gotten for pullman inform your thoughts. and i thought to myself. i could have told my own people to prepare is it better for the time. goes too far to do starts to turn to when people were lining the street on the drive into town because we couldn't go very fast we could only crawl along a street in quantity if you could see the people's faces. and the range of expression there is east people cheering but also people weeping. to flee through it was deeply moving and. these germans

all of germany west germany in this development. of president gorbachev reacted very negatively to the 10 point plan speech. when the west german foreign minister hans de twist kensho was in moscow gorbachev said very clearly that he opposed it he started to include that it was a dictate he couldn't accept it's important to see what if you look at the plan there was no timeframe it was basically just an attempt to create a road map not against the others but with them. if kohl had 1st gone around trying to shore up support for what he had in mind both on the domestic and the international stage nothing would have ever happened nothing i think it was very brave of him to shoulder the responsibility by himself. on the 11th of december the ambassadors of the 4 and i powers came together in berlin for the 1st time in 18 years they made it abundantly clear that german reunification could only happen with their approval. this alarmed the west german government they couldn't believe that the allies were discussing germany without their inv

our special correspondent ed thomas has been in west bromwich west, in the west midlands, to take a lookt the new political landscape. look beyond the cities, and move to the towns of the north of england, the midlands, to make sense of this election. to the people in constituencies like west bromwich west. singing. and listen. congratulations, borisjohnson. to the voices of wednesbury. it's happened, it's absolutely amazing. does it feel like you've woken up in a different country? yeah, ido. he's going to sort out everything. the poor, nhs, schools, police, immigration. what was the thing that got you voting for him? the one thing? because he wanted to listen to 17.4 million people. for the first time in 45 years, this constituency has broken its bonds with labour. family, generation after generation for the working class. labour voter, labour voter, labour voter. yeah, yeah, definitely. and now that has all changed. yeah. and you have woken up to a conservative mp, west brom west. yes. how does that feel? that feels 0k actually. i think it's great, it's what the country needs. a conse

frontal system still running across the north west on saturday, brisk winds as well. south and east, we are looking at a lot of dry weather. largely dry on saturday. cloud around but sunny breaks, largely fine for northern ireland, rain clipping into the north—west. eastern scotland dry, the western side seen outbreaks of rain. all of us just about by this stage in double figures. it stays very mild as we get into sunday, we should see more sunshine developing across england, wales, the south and east of scotland. still some outbreaks of rain at times, temperatures of 11—14 degrees in one or two places. as we head into the last couple of days of 2019, most will see dry weather, some rain in the north—west, and it will stay fairly mild. hello, this is bbc news, the headlines: spanish police have named the three british holidaymakers who died in a swimming pool on christmas eve. gabriel diya and his two children drowned at a hotel on the costa del sol. anyone that knew they would say the same thing. they were just beautiful, lovely people. more than 60 migrants in small

and it's had a turbulent relationship with the west for a long time.st country, and russians had very little contact with people outside. communism ended in 1991, but adapting to a capitalist society has not been an easy transition. still now, fewer than a third of russians have a foreign passport and you don't have to look far to find negative stories about russia in the world's media. more is now known about the substance involved in the suspected poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter. vladimir putin has been the political face of russia either as the president or prime minister for nearly 20 years, and that means for teenagers like katya, he's the only leader they've ever known. katya's day may only justjust be starting, but forjoy, halfway through the school day, it's break time. i have school six days a week. i would love to do other things on saturdays of course because you'd love to have that break, but now, the only break i have is sunday, and sunday is also a busy day. sunday is a church day. if i could have a saturday to myself t