Activists in Hong Kong have again blocked roads and clashed with police a day after some of the most violent unrest During 5 months of pro-democracy protests Riot police fired tear gas on a university campus and commuters were forced to abandon a train objects were found on the line on Monday Hong Kong's Leader Kerry Lamb said the unrest had brought the territory to the brink of no return hundreds of schools and colleges across the Australian state of New South Wales have been closed as the region prepares to deal with potentially catastrophic bushfires Shane Fitzsimmons is the head of the Rural Fire Service we are certainly starting to see an increase in foreign activity and therefore the foreign danger is increasing Accordingly the reality is conditions will simply continue to get worse a little here right now only coming hours and particularly to start anew when the combination of of all the temperatures draw our atmosphere and the strengthening winds all come together to draw a far I've you know 3 people have been stabbed on stage during a theatre performance in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh video shared on social media appears to show a man wielding a knife rushing on to the stage set up inside King Abdullah park he was chased and tackled by another man as people fled state television says the injured are in stable condition. One of those famous voices in Canadian sports the ice hockey commentator Don Cherry has been fired over comments suggesting that new immigrants failed to all of the countries warded his remarks described as divisive by his employer were carried live cheering a National Hockey League game on Sunday he said immigrants loved living in Canada yet wouldn't pay a couple of dollars for a poppy lapel pin worn in early November to commemorate war veterans b.b.c. News. Hello I'm Joe and this is Outlook the home of personal stories on the b.b.c. World Service today full remarkable stories about war and the love that can transcend it will be hearing about a Syrian couple who got engaged in Aleppo as the missiles flew around them you know what they say like a wise man will tell you like leave each day like there is no tomorrow so at that moment like we don't know if that it will be to morrow for us this is the girl that I wish to spend the rest of my life with and actually. This is the bigger I wish to die with. But also be hearing from a Polish soldier in the 2nd world war about a brown bear that was given the rank of private of course he did get up to mischief but most of it was harmless we had a lot of from with him in renewed that he always had good intentions for example he was sometimes sneak into and they live there in the mess and he would eat the whole general honey in one sitting when the company was sent to fight in Italy the bear went with them on to the battlefield and from the 1st World War the letters sent by a young soldier to his mum back in Britain 4th of January 9 $117.00 my own dear mother I have joined the regiment who are just at the end of 6 weeks rest since I set foot on Cali keys I've not had dry feet I'm perfectly well and strong but unthinkably dirty and squalid the favorite song of the men is the roses round the door make me love mother more I don't disagree your very own w.e.o. W.e.o. Was the much loved British war poet Wilfred Owen more on their stories to come but we starting with husband and wife Rex and Keiko whose home nations were on opposite sides in the 2nd World War and have sought in their own way to bring pace to families on either side Rex is American and Keiko Japanese She comes from Kyoto province and her grandfather was sent to the front line in Burma when he left his village he took with him a full size national flag as did many Japanese soldiers signed by family and friends it was meant to bring good luck but Keiko's grandfather never returned he left behind 2 young children who didn't really know anything about him grandmother never talk about grandfather and so much pain in their family so when I grew up myself I remember one another we visit my grandfather's grave there only what my mother said to me is my father disappear somewhere in Vama and then that the time when I go mother received the death notice they send a little small rock inside the box that's all for me received so my grandmother. Barry that Little Rock which you received from the government and so when I was a little I thought oh my God in the how can be possible just Iraq it's something we cannot talk about it because it's just so sad 62 years after the war Keiko's uncle received a phone call that caught him off god someone call my uncle asking me Do you know this name and he said yes that's my father and then he goes Well I have something that there has his name on it then I can send it to you so he received that package what was in that package inside of the package was the Japanese flag in the white merging it was written in his father's name his family's wife neighbors all the people surrounding grandfather's friend their relative many signature was written in the Japanese flag what does this flag symbolize to my family my mother set grandfather disappeared in the war and then you use that finally grandfather coming back home many years he wanted to come back and finally he made it to come to see us so he she cry she she just was very. Happy to have the grandfather finally coming back home. So the flag meant that much it represented your grandfather's return home yes that's his spirit is still strong that he disappeared we don't know what happened to him. And we have no idea why in the world that flag coming back so we all concluded that it was a miracle it turned out that all the time the flag had been in the possession of a British soldier who at the end of his life had asked his son to return it to the dead soldier's family and hate tracked him down to Kyoto Keiko lives in the United States and she told her American husband Rex SIAC about her grandfather's flag and it seemingly miraculous written kick on told me the story and I did not understand anything of what she was talking about she said a Japanese flag and writing and all so I then did a little bit of research and I realized that. For the soldiers on the battlefield who want to bring home some sort of momento of the war eventually they discover that in the pocket of if they need to see East Japanese soldier that they encountered would be one of these flags or 2 of them or 3 of them in some cations And so these became these highly sought after souvenirs and they came back home by the thousands and thousands and so when I realized the impact that the return of this had on Keiko's family I realized well maybe we could help this miracle occur for aether people as well Rick started looking into where all these facts it's going to be more than 2000000 Japanese soldiers have been killed in the war around Huff happened this does as missing in action I begin to get books and look at them and I saw pictures of American soldiers and Australian soldiers and British soldiers holding up these flags and I was maybe on the internet one day just just reading what I could find and I stumbled across a fellow who had one of these flags in his possession and he wrote this paragraph below it and he says I want to go back to the family so I contacted him and I was talking to him and he said to me this was my father's flag my father was a Marine and he listed all the islands where he fought and my father brought this back and he had it on his wall for years and years as a trophy in his office but my father passed away and I inherited it but I wanted to go back to the family and what unfolded was a story and he told me I joined the military and I fought in Vietnam and he said one day I was out to be had this battle and I was walking through the grass and I I stumbled across the body of a Viet Cong and I bent down and I opened his pocket and here was a wallet and I took out. His wallet and I opened it up and here inside of this Viet Cong wallet was a photograph of this man with a beautiful wife and a child. And he said My mouth dropped open because in my wallet I had that exact same photograph of myself with my wife and my child in the exact same pose in the exact same place on the wallet and he says it startled me so much I dropped the wallet and I ran away. And he said later I thought about that wife who would never know what happened to her husband and that child who would never know about their father and I thought to myself Why did I not bring that wallet so I could connect with that woman and returned as to her and he says that has haunted me for 40 years and he started crying telling me about this and then he said I have my father's flag here he should go back I didn't do the right thing but I can do it. So Rex and k.k. Received their fast good luck flag now they just had to find out who it belonged to I'm native Japanese I read Japanese when I look at the flag I can't read everything but these written scenes this is their personal Graffy and the old fashion and cursive So even the reading is not easy so it is a long way Johnny the very 1st flag it took probably about 4 yes it find a family Keiko and Rex decided they wanted to do more and set up a not for profit called the Obama society to collect these flags and return them since 2009 they've located more than 700 and have returned more than $200.00 each one of these flags came from somewhere it came from a house that came from a family and so it has its place of origin and for us when we receive these we look at it and it might have 40 names on it there might be $250.00 names on it and kick off has somehow attracted a group of people we call them scholars and they are people in Japan now what they have done and what they've done for years is we show them detailed photographs of these flags and these people their knowledge of Japan and their knowledge of names and their knowledge of the geography is so fine that it makes sense to them and they look at that and they start to read those names in little details know say where this came from the north of of Japan those names those groupings and names those are common names in that area and here's a mention of a shrine and they will take this flag that for most of us is just all of this writing and they will trace it back to a region and then down to a village and then down to a street until we knock on the door of the family. Where this originated among all the stories attached to these flags there's one that really stands out for Rex It concerns a man called Mr Watt and his brother went missing in action in Canara and all her life his mother grieved was desperate to know what had happened to him she begs have remaining son to do everything he could to find the body of his missing brother so he gets out some books and he begins to study about the Battle of Okinawa and then he gets out more books and he contacts the government and he finds out his brother's company and the division and what group he was with and then he gets maps of Okinawa and this goes on for 10 or 15 years this research in the study trying to pinpoint where on earth his brother's company made their last stand whether it was on a beach or a hilltop or a valley or where any fire in the is convinced that he has found the ridge where his brother would have fought and so then he gets a shovel and he goes down to Okinawa a long distance he's way in the north of Japan and he goes to that ridge and he starts to dig and he's looking for his brother and he digs and digs and finds nothing and he comes home and he goes back another year and then the following year and this man goes back to Okinawa for 30 years digging looking for his brother. And he finally gets cancer he's sick he's dying and here of all things we happened to receive a package that has a flag in it and so our scholars look at it in a search that they know it's from the north and they track it down and they determine Well it's going to this house this is word originated and so they contact that number and here is Mr Watson Abhi in they say we have this item with this name on it and he says hot What are you talking about and he said well we have this he says send me pictures and so they send photographs he goes that's my brother. So we sent in the flag and he was in treatment for his cancer and as soon as he's done with his treatment he takes this flag dresses up in a suit and he flies back to Okinawa and he goes to the battlefield where he's been digging for 30 years and he holds up the flag. Has a picture taken. And then he comes home and he goes the cemetery and he unfurls and front of his mother's grave. And shows her the pro there can. Tracks and Keiko aren't surprised by how emotional it can be for the families receiving the flags What has surprised them is how emotional it can be for the people handing them over the Americans would ask Can I take that to them Can I meet that family and probably 70 or 80 percent of the flags we returned whoever it is who sent it writes a letter to the Japanese family and they tell about themselves or they tell about their feelings or their or their hopes that this provides a family with closure and in many cases the Japanese will write back to them and tell them about their story and their feelings and how they are that the Americans have kept this precious family item and returned it to them what we're doing is we are writing the final chapter of what was probably the biggest and most destructive war in the history of this world it's becoming an all consuming passion for Rex and it is our mission in their lifetime mission sometimes we feel like a cycle doctor when we talking to people that is just so much meaningful so we have just a living with it Keiko and I are in it 7 days a week she works probably 16 or so hours a day without a break and my load is much less because I'm not bilingual in Japanese but I'm probably 10 or 12 hours a day and it's been like that for years I know you've described this is your mission Keiko but why has it become so important to the 2 if you. I really remember my mother's reaction in there I believe that this so important to my farm money so the reason we do this yes I know many of the family. Who had that same exact experience as my family they want to feel joy maybe or closure and we are the bridge inbetween the family to family so that's our mission and I hope we can make more miracles to many families. Keiko and Rex give up their time and money to return good luck Slax to the families of lost Japanese soldiers through the open society that they set out you're listening to you remember and stay edition of Outlook with stories about war and its impact on people's lives not just people in fact we're going to hear now about a bat that played an important role in one of the most famous battles of the 2nd World War Monte Cassino where allied forces launched a series of attacks on Nazi and Fascist positions among those fighting for the Allies was the Polish 22nd artillery supply company its mascot was a bear called Wojciech he was adored by the men in the company and when they were deployed to Italy and told mascots had to stay behind the soldiers didn't want to give him up so Wojciech was made a private given a ration book and sent into battle a teenage soldier called Wojciech no read for too long side him the fact that they had the same name a pretend usual name meant the pair of them where for I have a linked you don't they various history where you were in the oval huge scar what took the bear was already with the company when I joined up so when I went to see the commanding officer he said oh you already have a void Dick you would be a little boy take it because you're short and that's where even though he's small right now he'll grow up to be a big better one day so he'll be big boy Dick what can I say the name stuck and I was called the little boy thick and the bear was big whiter. How was he treated by the humans around him on the no bottom he was out of market we are absolutely loved him we were all far away from home far from our loved ones and for us he was a substitute for having someone close by he was a piece of home and the beggar Sybil The bear was close to us as he was so affectionate he was there like a baby we used to say that even though he is in a bad. Skin he has a Polish soul as he grew up from being a cub he was surrounded by Poles and he grew with us how do you describe a Polish so he was very kind he was very sociable few felt as if he was one of the gang. Did he behave like he was one of the gang to do the things that you were doing he had his own character or a keeper corporate plane this was his name and the bear treated him as a father he would climb into bed with him when he was small and wanted to sleep with him of course he did get up to mischief but most of it was harmless if you had a lot of fun with him and we knew that he always had good intentions for example he would sometimes sneak into and they live there in the mess and he would eat the whole Joe honey in one sitting What about the drink time to stand tonight to tranq Well the soldiers I have to blame for that because animals always try and copy their only resort Katter's he would see the cadets all drinking Australian canned the beer and he would wavy Aspies have to say give me some of that I want to try it so they gave him some and so they taught him how to drink beer that would seem to go to people who I think also like to dress up we had this one fellow young and strong who used to wrestle the bear but then the envoy take was very well behaved because if you won the contest and managed to pin down the young man he would lick him on the face did you ever wrestle him yet no no not me I was too small for that well I. Understand that one day when you were out with him he spotted the sea so when you were fighting you need to be close to the other the attic void take love that because we were very close to the sea our company would often move from place to place and boy take traveled on the company's crane truck he was tied with a chain much like a cow but breaking the chains didn't prove to be a problem at all often he would stand up and address these paws against that all of . The driver's cab one day it was a very hot day in June or July he broke free from his chains and saw that the sea is nearly 50 metres away he just ran off towards the beach and on the beach there were girls who were debating so the bad ran onto the beach but completely ignored the girls who had started shouting so we called out to them saying Girls Don't worry Nona be at the power any time. That the hour this bit is very bad behavior he won't do you any harm he was not in the least bit interested in the girls just in the sea because he wanted to go for a swim to have a good swim through our car he was a good swimmer Were you present Russia had the battle of Monte Cassino Yes our company transported them initially which was kept in boxes they were very very heavy weighing around the $140.00 kilos each and one thing again when he saw as we were doing wanted to join in he saw that we would have a king very hard and that he took 4 soldiers to carry just one of these boxes to load up on to the lorry by this stage he was much bigger weighing it is around $200.00 kilos and he was able to pick up munitions box and loaded onto the lorry or he would stack the boxes up on top of each other so we didn't have to bend over and pick up the boxes from the ground but it's such an extraordinary image of a bomb carrying these autonomy shells do you ever. When you with that bass stop and think oh yeah he's a bad this is this is surreal. You know he became so used to hearing very simply talk as normal that he was with us when the war came to an end the 2 Wojciech Swinton different directions little Wojciech went back to Poland to complete his studies and went on to become a member of the Polish Academy of Science big Wojciech retired to his e.u. In Edinburgh and as a bronze statue in his memory I am the last remaining soldier who remembers him though he never knew I was there to share the name he wasn't that clever. Wojciech never formally of the 22nd artillery Supply Company past the Polish armed forces he fought on the side of the allies the company's emblem pays homage to the other Wojciech it shows a white bear against a green background and the bat is carrying an artillery shell This is Outlook thanks for being with us wherever you are now. 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Coming next on Outlook wired and homes or who worked together at a hospital in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo I fell in love as the bombs fell around them got married and had a daughter of course we felt responsibility but having her make us stronger during the siege you know like to fight to live for her at that moment who are scared but we have the time to to laugh to to make that their child smile a wartime love story after the news headlines b.b.c. News with I can touch the former Bolivian President Evo Morales has set off for Mexico which is granted him asylum in the wake of his resignation on Sunday Mr Morale has tweeted that it pained him to leave but he would return with more strength and energy believe u.s. Military chief has ordered troops back to back police who have been involved in clashes with supporters of Mr Morale is. 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News. Hello I'm Joseph agenda and you're with outlook on the b.b.c. World Service in many parts of the world today there are ceremonies to remember those who gave their lives to defend their countries in war time but of course there are many wars still raging where people are putting their lives on the line every day to stand up for what they believe in the war in Syria has been going on for 8 years now the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimates that more than half a 1000000 people have been killed in that time we're going to head now from a young couple who have been trying to stem the flow of blood to literally and metaphorically how miseries a doctor who helped set up a hospital in East Aleppo which resisted government and Russian forces for a number of years want is a filmmaker who lived in the hospital for a while and he fell in love with Hamza in 2014 he proposed it wasn't a romantic setting he'd been battling to save the life of a seriously injured young boy while watching recorded the attempt on her camera the boy had died and what was crying I was here 20 crying Oh I was filming so I was like called my self and filming what I was crying hundreds of like was done to cry or something because other people when they see me they would be also like a failed with my sadness at that moment so you left the room yeah I hated on likely leave or are stopped right and I left and I'm so you followed Yeah. And it was then that Hamza proposed. Several people are dying all around you and you don't know who's next and when your turn will be so or that's when I. Like you know that I love you and I wish that we may continue this journey together. You know what they say like a wise man will tell you like leave each day like there is no tomorrow so at that moment like we don't know if there is to be to morrow for us this is the goal that I wish to spend the rest of my life with and actually going to see if they go I wish to die with. In some ways this is a simple love story of a couple who fall for each other marry and start a family but the rules are different in a war zone and wired and harms are found their own way of doing things they'd met 2 years previously at the very beginning of the resistance to the regime of President Bashar Asad we were both of us of the University of people and we were both presence think against the regime in a plane for City. It felt like change was coming and was 1st instinct was to film it to be a witness she ended up recording hundreds of hours of footage some of which has been broadcast around the world she just finished a film about the lives of those who stayed in East Aleppo until the bitter end when the regime to back control. But in those early days the resistance was in charge and wired was excited a parents were pleading with her to leave the city and come home but she wouldn't and instead moved into the hospital where her friend Hamza was based so it was like kind of a small home it's a big family you were together caring for each other I felt that Hamza like my father my brother also like my husband after that because you were all a family and supporting each other yeah we were all like feeling that you know we are the only family for all of us and we lived just in these 2 years more than what we lived with our families with our brothers or sisters why didn't Hamza got to know each other well and realize that they had strong feelings for each other so when Hamza declared his love was agreed on the spot to marry him a few months later. They tied the knot we try to make it normal as much as we can I borrow a white dress from my friend which she was made like 3 months before me and one of the nurses who wear the hospital at that time she was making like Solomon she joined doing all their house long before so like she did my hair and we like vita that around 15 offense of ours here will involve in the process and the resistance Yeah you know all of them and we didn't have any like special songs so we were like it's one of us who has any like some on his phone or something the Internet was very bad also at that time so we couldn't find like the songs that we want so we've tried to with anyone who has song we put it on anyone with us on the phone exactly just like that and then like we had it beats many songs again and again like please love this song I had what we got we don't have any choices to dance on so that's was like So what did you end up dancing to. The last one was crazy crazy by Patsy Cline crazy that crazy I can't remember exactly I think the famous one yeah. Crazy turns out it was the Willie Nelson version. Before we. Saw. Footage from the day shows what in Homs a dancing and smooching salon a long white dress hair up holding up Ok a flower as he in a dark suit with a lie like time balloons and confetti decorating the room and a Syrian independence flak did you get outta me. Actually I like not to be on call at the hospital I guess I was going to just let it go it's. Just one day after like they were doing and then we come back to the hospital. Life in the hospital was intense Russian Syrian forces were bombing from the air doctors were treating not just the casualties of the bombardments but those who needed help for the usual things illness child last. One has a decided to hold off having a child of their own given the circumstances within a few months of getting married and I thought you know what we might be living like this for years why wait what got pregnant and I had a baby girl we called her summer sky there's no limit for the sky we want the sky which we are now living in without air forces without aircrafts most of the people who lived in the city they were hitting the sky because it's all the death and all the killing coming from the sky so we hope that that will change our just like opinion about the sky that we lived and the sky which towers like sun and berets and all along the nice things how difficult was it having a new born in the circumstances it was very nice to was very nice. We're living each day like it's our last. So Or we were just like enjoying the moment we're entering like could be the weather the rain the snow or any meal that we will have a cold that might be our last meal so having a child like it was way different level of course we felt responsibility for her safety but actually having having her make us stronger during the siege you know like to fight to live for her at that moment who are scared but we had the time to to laugh to it to make the little child smile so I could tell that if you want to press the situation in Aleppo was getting more difficult regime forces surrounded the city and cut off supply routes. This is a scene from what's film someone has just woken up and is drinking milk. Ok Susan rushing Good morning telling her baby daughter that lots of air strikes but they haven't been hit her way and then there's an explosion really close by. What ducks like she's been hit over the head but someone doesn't so much as whimper . Walkie talkie barks that there's a helicopter heading their way carrying a powerful film she scoops up the baby and they had to the basement shocked asshole quiet she was like really sometimes when we were in there all she was like just sleeping next to me and then an airstrike happened and she was just like her head look at us and then like go back to sleep I can remember that she was like she cried but during the night after a little after we left after she sleep in the middle of night and she was just screaming and crying when she was almost one year and a half there were several studies that said that even in the under 3 years all children if they live in a conflict area or had like kind of trauma they can't express it but they have some dreams about it so Dr just screaming at the middle of the night and crying but that was after you left Aleppo while she was there she was quiet Were you getting enough food for all of you we had a lot of like cries but not the fresh thinks of fruit or vegetables not good for anybody particularly not good for for growing baby yeah one month before really. I.e. Like there was a kind of milk which is. Expired and this was the only milk which we have in the city so she started to take this moment with some of their eyes and she was like sick for 2 weeks because it was very bad for her not. Just tired like also other children come to the hospital I know this is expired but I know this is the only thing that I should like Ted thank you that we have learned after I wash used to that me so yeah it was still possible at that time to get in and out of Aleppo. I didn't want to get out they were committed to staying but when Holmes his dad fell ill they did go and visit him in Turkey while they were out of the city praying regime forces tighten their grip and there is only one very dangerous way back in the couple faced an agonizing decision to stay outside safe leave summer with her grandparents and going without her overturned all 3 to a besieged city by foot across the front line and that is exactly what they chose to do. Who are really terrified that it wasn't for their like they must like difficult moment and hold my life more than when we lived it was one of the decision that I guess both of us don't regret but it was the most like crazy craziest decision that we've ever made we don't regret at the same time walking into walls and with our little girl. And you could have walked out you could've stayed out we felt responsible for everyone in the city with a tattoo we know that every camera would make a difference there every doctor every nurse We're not talking about just like fighters fighting each other it was. People with cardiac diseases it's a city you know and we've been in this. Struggle or fight for our own 5 years and now it's like the critical moment and that's when we decided to to go back where family would just live through this together. It was one of the. Toughest decision but at the moment we felt that it was there I think to do and we don't know when that will be end like we if we weren't like back and leave her out we don't know if that's were like continue for one last 2 months one year 2 years we wouldn't expect that we would get out. And at that moment also like we lived with that with these people like Homs I said and this is a struggle for 5 years so I do believe and to know that if we stayed out just the feeling of getting. It will kill you more than like just to go and fight for what you believe and there's a scene in the film where a mother has lost her son and she turns to you with the camera what and she screams that you film this film this. I wondered how people felt about you filming that intimate grief Actually this is one moment when you feel that you are responsible for this and you can't just like turn your back because you have family now and just leave and leave these people does this is kind of the responsibility that I felt like I can do something for this people and I was very optimistic at that time that this footage could try to change something. Some people they were very desperate about the Western community and the Western governments and the people outside who was watching them and they felt that Ok now it's like 5 years or 4 years or 3 years and all the people around the world they watched us where we were killing or dying and they did nothing so while we would be like a new footage for them so many people who has this feeling that don't film because there was like we would have nobody will nobody would bother you know everyone noise everyone knows what's happening in Syria and nobody bothered to stop that massacres that's happening and from the other side there are some people who still believe that you know this thing's going to change like this situation and and that woman this woman she could have a child that don't feel what she felt at that moment that this is the camera there are you of the world here so it could be change something to show them what's happening to us want to got pregnant again I was intending to have her 2nd baby in a city under siege but by the end of 2016 it was clear that East Aleppo was going to fall to probation forces and a ceasefire had been negotiated to allow residents to leave before the regime took over what Homs are and some were among the last to go they went 1st to Turkey what tamer was born was that a very different experience a 2nd birth us 2nd baby it's very different from what I have when I got some all the time I was just like remembering how I brought summer because in a report was very nice day for me even without a worry family but I had all the family that I want and only pull the doctor or the nurses around me they were like my brothers or sisters so when I brought tamer in Turkey we have already lost people it was very very difficult for me just remember so even though you had a. Safer existence in Turkey and a less painful birth you know you remember the birth of Aleppo Yeah more fondly you know and I wish that we have the choice to stay in a liberal but we didn't have it be very dangerous for the couple to return to Syria and have been granted asylum in the u.k. You bring your little girls up in London how old they know. Is 3 years 5 months and playmates or so exactly 2 years and how are they now are good you know exciting about their new life yeah sisters playing together taking care of each other some showing any signs of the difficult start she had it's very early for now to know what effect that she has so we just like a minute or what's going on she's not screaming at night you know everything that's 6 months or less than a year she stopped thoughts like screaming and crying at moments they're like we'll see about the 2 of you did your relationship change when you moved to a peaceful place. Actually you know we are very surprised how good. It was like when the love of husband and wife and like we always had that before like when you got one more year out and then something is better when that's what. It's is still happening. And the same intensity as when as when you're in a war say it's more more intensity it's something you know like it's the 1st time that we are in a stable country in a stable life trying to do like what other people and there were like you. And wired. In on how the love has survived war and peace watch film for summer has won several awards it was produced by Channel 4 News and i.t.n. Productions. Now witness history and today Vincent out has been using the B.B.C.'s archive to look back at the life of one of Britain's great war pacts Wilfred Owen in 1919 a slim volume of war poetry was published in London the 25 year old author Wilfred Owen then virtually unknown to the reading public had died in France a year earlier in the final week of the 1st World War Today his work is read around the world but a lot about Wilfred Owen's private life remains a mystery one ressources is the interview with his younger brother Harold who spoke to b.b.c. Radio in 1963 I think the best description of Wilfred is not to use next ordinary by not much more news an ordinary in red eyes that he was different in that will fit in my mouth. Very close to each other with my father could not get close to her older and spent decades hoping for a claim as an artist but it never happened he did however write 4 volumes of family memoirs focusing in part on his older brother Wilfred speaking 45 years after Wilfred's death perils sounded slightly resentful of his brother the interviewer was Philip Hobsbawm one thing that sticks in my mind from the book is the way in which were for movies was given as a study of ensemble Yes rather the action and well usually a little bedroom at the top of the has sack to send to him did you realize he was going to be a great parrot No I did not and neither did any other never. Did you have a look at me but it was a boy in some way about yes a lot and I did this with yes and he struck me as a small dark little person very. Distinguished and about him even then which I read as separated him from the only running bodies and that I saw him . Or 10 to 25 yards away and the Senate came to me that he was different not a master from everybody besides a relatively small number of complete poems Wilfred Owen left behind hundreds of letters most written to his adored mother Susan 4th of January 917 my own dear mother I have joined the regiment who are just at the end of 6 weeks rest since I set foot on Cali keys I have not had dry feet I'm perfectly well and strong but unthinkably dirty and squalid the favorite song of the men is the roses round the door make me love mother more I don't disagree your very own w.e.o. The letters were eventually sold off to the University of Texas but not before they'd been issued in book form in 1967 the book is large but perhaps not entirely complete It's been suggested that Harold as coeditor tried to exclude anything which in his view reflected badly on his brother's private life especially his sexuality but there are a handful of letters which show Wilfred as more than just a devoted son letters which hinted at his attraction to men in September 918 he wrote to the poet Siegfried Sassoon who was 7 years his senior dearest of all friends yesterday I went down to Folkestone beach and into the sea thinking to go through those stanzas and emotions of Shelly's to the full but I was too happy or the sun was too supreme. Moreover there issued from the sea distraction in the shape shape I say but lay no stress on that of a hero boy of super intellect and refinement intellect because he hates war more than Germans refinement because of the way he spoke of my going in fact the way he spoke and this was well for it writing to his cousin Leslie Gunston 2nd Manchester regiment France dear Leslie there are 2 French girls in my billet too I suppose because of my French single me out there joyful gratitude for larger liver wrongs so much so that the jealousy of other officers resulted in a subaltern's court martial being held on me the dramatic irony was to killing considering certain other things not possible to tell a letter in the last year of his life one of Owen's most intimate relationships no one now could be certain if it was sexual was with the Scottish writer Charles Scott Moncrieff his biographer is Jean Findlay Owen and Charles concrete met at Robert Graves wedding in January 1900 Charles wrote a number of love sonnets to him and a lot of letters it was quite clear that he was quite seriously in love with him it wasn't as reciprocated on the inside because he was young and shy and inexperienced and unsure of his sexuality Oh in often gets portrayed as a naïve provincial lad will surely it can't quite be that simple he was an ambitious guy it was an intense relationship they met in January and own died later on that year they went through a whole lifetime in those few months swapping poetry discussing poetry it was in love with his soul and he knew would have Peart so was in his letters to his mother Wilfred usually contrived to sound boyishly cheerful 6th of June 1918 Dearest Mother health quite restored mood highest variety of jinx appearance sun boiled lobster hair 8 percent grey cash in hand. 5 francs affection yours in his interview with the b.b.c. Herald Erin later recalled his brother as clever ambitious but not always likeable but they do play together much no never. Mention walks together yes we did occasionally but there was a really great success I think mainly because Wilfred there again had this noise almost a name feeling that by going to war with last year's race in. Which by the motoring in isn't it in writing biographer Jean Findlay says it's hard to know now what did and did not happen between oh in the upper class socially well connected Charles Scott Moncrieff her own great great uncle sometimes I think they did have some sort of relationship and other times I think know this so evidence points to the fact that Scott in grief was rejected but loved him nonetheless it's one of those doors in history that a closed. Well and truly homosexual Owen was probably a latent young and could have gone either way when Wilfred died what we know about how it affected Charles Scott Moncrieff devastated and he wrote letters and poems about it and it Willie was the lowest point in his entire life do you get a feeling for what this young guy who died in his mid twenty's was actually like as a human being when you were talking and thinking about his dealings with Scott McGriff Yes he lacked social confidence it was shy and probably concrete found that aspect attractive what other people would see as provincial and not all the goods were in the shop window you had to dig a bit before you found the gold what still puzzles me Wilfred is well there's an enormous sympathy in feeling for the men the soldiers in the. Tens of thousands being killed in. In his own home life he had so little compassion you see nothing that is home except his own pursuit and the 1000000 is on the the grads the time it got his bedroom and to get his books so that it really does passably today this enormous compassion which is so evident you know more is better yet is person compassionate they show how old Owens comments on his elder brother can feel very least teenaged with resentment Wilfred's letters often do reveal compassion as in his last letter ever to his mother sent from France days before his death Thursday the 31st of October 1900 6 15 pm Dearest Mother I will call the place from which I'm now writing the smoky cellar of the forest his house it is a great life there is no danger down here or if any it will be well over before you read these lines of this I am certain that you could not be visited by a band of friends half so fine as around me here ever Wilfred Wilfred Owen was killed in action on the 4th of November 918 just outside the tiny French village of orse near the Belgian border it was only a week before the armistice which ended the 1st World War a conflict in which at least 15000000 people died and that was Vincent down bringing to an end today's edition of outlook to get in touch with us about anything here in the program either post on our Facebook page or send us an e-mail the address is Outlook at b.b.c. 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Coming up after the news it's people fixing the World with me Richard Kenny and today we're in South Africa looking at a problem which frequently devastate informal settlements where some of the poorest people live on our own turf or cloak made lakes we head people screaming that there is fire we try to clear up so few things that we can manage just to save them from fire but unfortunately the fire over our well but can a smart alarm that alerts the whole community help stop fires from spreading really creating the communal response to. Your neighbor will respond your neighbors neighbors neighbor as far away as 60 metres can know about the fire and everybody can come together to assist and that's only half the story the company behind the alarm has also found a way to help people get back on their feet if a fire strikes that's coming up on people fixing the world after the b.b.c. News. I'm Stuart Mackintosh with the b.b.c. News Hello Bolivia is former President Evo Morales is on his way to Mexico where he's been granted asylum following his resignation on Sunday in a statement on Twitter Mr Morale is said it pained him to leave and he vowed to return with more strength and energy very passports the former American president Jimmy Carter has been admitted to hospital in the city of Atlanta his statement said he would undergo an operation on Tuesday to relieve pressure on his brain caused by a series of recent polls Mr Carter who's 95 served one term as president from 1977 to 981 he remained in the public eye setting up the Carter Center to promote human rights around the world b.b.c. News. People. Fixing the world. Hello and welcome to people fixing the world from the b.b.c. World Service I'm Richard canny. Today I'm in South Africa in a place called Massacre Leyland all mussy as everyone calls it it's an informal settlement on the edge of Cape Town some 15000 people a crammed into this area living mostly in small shacks made of corrugated metal. And this being Cape Town it has a spectacular backdrop of hills too and the ocean is just down the road. Now the sort of places have a whole host of problems of sanitation electricity gang crime the list is long but perhaps one problem you wouldn't think about is fire but fires are a regular and frightening occurrence in South Africa there are around $5000.00 settlement Fi's each year and of course they have a dead.