So there was those you know state of mass hysteria the police discovered the source of the panic fake rumors about child kidnappers and violent murders being spread on messaging apps as a result strangers were being attacked by mobs so it's very difficult to engage with that kind of a crowd mob and you know put some sense into them but then you know that there are situations where the mob is wait a while and some of them will die you know a lot of you know stakes and weapons the police needed to act but nothing was working rather than had an idea traditional storytelling inspired by her grandmother would it work find out after this. B.b.c. News Hello I'm Gerri Smit Australia has issued a code red warning the highest far lower level in the state of Victoria for the 1st time in almost a decade as far as ice is a battling almost 200 Bush Fars across the country residents in the high danger areas have been urged to be prepared to leave their homes although some were told it's now too dangerous to do so the emergency management commissioner of Victoria Andrew Crist said it wasn't clear how long the alerts would be in place we've seen hot weather we've seen strong winds and we predicted there would be force in this particular point I don't want to commit to of 2 a number around as far as for the moment we've we've got more than 64 hours that happen across the state department point at this particular point on that we still have a long way to go we are and will continue to commit significant resources to the 4 risk that we still have to face as a state probably until until midnight tonight corruption charges against Sri Lanka's newly elected leader go to buy Rajapaksa have been dropped as a result of the immunity from prosecution here Qualls as president he'd been indicted by a special high court set up by the outgoing government electron a Smith reports it was while defense secretary under administration led by his by the Mahinda the go to buy Rajapaksa is alleged to have siphoned off state funds to build a museum a memorial to his parents but understood Lanka's Constitution proceedings can't be maintained against a serving president the charges have been set aside and his passport which had been impounded has been returned it came as course a biologic pack in his brother may hinder his prime minister paving the way for a minority government led by the man credited with crushing Sri Lanka's Tamil insurgency a decade ago an international group the landmine monitor which follows the implementation of the global ban on land mines says the progress made over the past 20 years is being eroded. By the increased use of improvised explosive devices this report from imagine folks last year 6897 people are known to have been killed or injured by mines but the report says the actual figure is likely to be much higher more than half of those mines were improvised devices most casualties were in Afghanistan Syria Mian Maher and Ukraine most were civilians and the number of children killed or injured increased by 12 percent over 2017 imagine folks India's Supreme Court has told the government it must answer questions over restrictions imposed in Indian administered Kashmir when its all communist traitors was revoked in August because his hearing petitions challenging curbs on freedom of movement the media and what's described as the suspension of civil liberties Well news from the b.b.c. The 4th or it is in the Democratic Republic of Congo say nearly 5000 people have died in the world's largest current outbreak of measles the contagious disease is said to have reached every district in the country in fighting more than 240000 people most of the children under the age of 5. The United Nations nuclear watchdog the i.a.e.a. Says Iran hasn't explained why the agency's inspectors found you Raney and particles at a suspect site the Iranian authorities haven't listed the location among places linked to their nuclear program he I.A.E.A.'s acting chief Cornell fruit said it was essential that Iran resolve the matter swiftly. Britain's main opposition Labor Party has launched his manifesto for next month's general election promising a green industrial revolution speaking in the English city of Birmingham his leader Jeremy Corbyn said the establishment who had rigged the system in their favor would try to portray Labour's pledges as impossible the manifesto contains pledges to create $1000000.00 jobs. The British band Coldplay whose last world tour brought in ticket sales of more than $500000000.00 say they won't be promoting their new album on tour because of the environmental impact the band's lead singer Chris Martin gave an exclusive interview to Collin Patterson Chris Martin says Coldplay won't be touring to support their new album everyday life the band a long time environmental campaigners and want to research ideas on how to make gigs carbon neutral before hitting the road again we're taking. Over the next year or 2 to work out how can not only in all the talk be sustainable how can it be actively beneficial instead of tearing the world tomorrow Coldplay will perform 2 concerts in Jordan No What ensues being allowed in instead fans can watch for free on the Internet. Colleen Patterson and Coldplay ending the b.b.c. News. Hi this is Outlook the show where we take you on a tour of the world through incredible true life stories and Emily where today told them grieving a child grieving. Merican man who spent his life documenting Dein is accompanied by his wife I describe her as being along for the Rye because basically we would go out hit the road look for diners take photographs and we had a daughter in 1983 and she also became a diner regular will also be hearing about the extraordinary connection shared by a pair of British twins when I was lost his memory in a motorbike accident in the u.k. His twin filled him in on their childhood but he left out one significant detail 1st a story about how rumors and fake news a changing life in a rural part of India ran the registrar e. Is a police officer working in the Indian state of Telangana her background includes battling jungle insurgencies and rescuing child laborers but in 2018 she came across something she'd never seen before people living in small villages in the state were scared staying at home and though one really knew why what they were about to find out include some graphic details so the police officers told me that there was this you know self imposed curfew like situation in all these villages they visited most of the people living in these villages refused to come out of their houses and in some of the religious they formed themselves into which allowed to groups you know unlawful assembly and they were trying to attack all the strangers who were trying to get into the villages so they were so so you know state of mass hysteria did you have any idea why people were so scared Well my field officers told me that there was something. Which was making these people panicking about something these villages where the ceilings are really graphic we do was over the local water groups and that was making them you know and shoes and these videos that we get around I mean what did the video show and what messages were they trying to tell people so one of the we do is hard the visual of you know trying to pull out the order and from somebody who is trying to stay alive. Quite quite Cordie quite graphic and most of these radios later came to know that they were only deep fake they were not originally real videos but they all had those wise message accompanying this radio as we've seen in the local language it was just that ago that in all people you should be warned you few come across anybody who looks suspicious so you have to you are supposed to give them and the 1st site so this kind of misleading messages but the militias cunt and was making these communities go really crazy you also realize that these videos that they were just being spread in the villages you were working in but across the whole country what stories we're hearing we started reading news reports about mob attacks happening in different parts of the country. That's are surging particularly in the British and the hard but also in fields like west been going these are as I mentioned about fake rumors about child kidnapping for just part of the fall of 2 men were pulled out of the garden and lynched by a mob and somehow these are not means I did after a message some political and social media. The last few months have witnessed incidents of mob lynching you does not want names. You know there were you know lynching incidents or were childless things rumors which led to large scale deaths so in 2018 alone. Hard almost 40 deaths you know in different parts of the country you know the very incident where an entire family was killed for example the one that happened in Maharashtra an entire family of a nomadic tribe there were killed and were there any attacks in your area where you were working we did not have any deaths but yes we had incidents of mob attacks and the one of the worse cases that I dealt with was so you know about 2 folks in those you know there were women they were in their late forty's this was during the dark drug time close a local festival you know these 2 women they went to willage to perform and after the performance that they were supposed to go back to their their native place but they missed the last bus that would have taken them back to their village so they decided to stay back in the village and they were trying to sleep inside the local temple and some guy saw these 2 women he ran back to the village he gathered everybody and told them that you know he's sort of a man who looked exactly like the child if you saw you know what's up video the whole village team almost $400.00 of them and they they Drac these women out of the temple they were tied to the tree and they were trashed Luckily for us one of the religious leaders who were tendered our outreach campaign had this sense to make of telephone call to the local police so really just right on time being played by 10 minutes these women were being killed and would you have to go into that situation as a police officer or yes every day every day yes it's a bit scary when you think about it now you know these are all normal people you know just like you one mean they're not hardened criminals but when they're part of the mob I know but a mob believes in something and they are quite convinced of the fact that they have the right to take you know somebody whose life they have the right to kill somebody so it's very difficult to engage with that kind of a crowd. And you know put some sense into them but then you know that there are situations where the mob is way a while and some of them will die in or a lot of you know stakes and weapons it is not very easy they're going to address is what did you find out about who was actually starting these rumors and why were they doing it we have no idea who are spreading this information we have no idea and we have no means to get to the origin of these malicious messages 1st Renna did what her police training taught her she went door to door with fellow officers and they tried to convince people that the videos were fake but no one really believed them the situation was urgent and clearly they needed a different solution which is when I started to think about how as a child she loved stories from this beautiful place called monarch hill station in the southern state of Kilo. Basically the growing town and you were living with your grandmother. Oh yes that's right I was raised by her my maternal grandmother and what sort of person was she you see kind of give me that 1st lesson on storytelling like you know how you can use storytelling to connect with people what sorts of stories which she tell she used to tell me stories about these warrior women you know Indian mythology so full of you know warrior princess you know queens who are really Valley and very brave so she used to tell me that kind of story is not so the sort of stories about worry Queens they gave you inspiration maybe to follow the career that you followed I guess I'm sure. There's no way of instilling these values in me you know she got those you know great talent of using stories from the mentality about you know you know did the values that you were supposed to you know carry forward so when you were looking at this issue of people spreading fake news and these big. Attacks When did you 1st start to think about your grandmother and her story telling really lies that you know these are religious people still stick to the all customs and traditions and if they have to campaign effective they could take the help of the local order storytelling tradition and they're just called as done a by the. So that's how it started what is Jennifer them. Usually you know a group of artist they more on the religious and they know a story it involves songs a little bit of darn thing a little bit of involving the community so what we did we we took the hope of this local storytelling tradition and I assembled a team of police officers who could sing and dance and we don't you know some songs on fake news and misinformation and we use this down of the format to conduct our programs and that became a huge hit because that was a great way to connect with these people when we were trying to teach them self or ablation Why don't social media platforms are regular speeches that don't really help us but when we try to send the same message through the story to really telling for mind it became a huge hit do you remember the 1st event that you did and what story did you tell how did you try and convey the message well you know we used to pick up local stories the 1st story that we picked up was about migration because this district people power of being migrating out for many many years in search of job and livelihood so when we don't have songs we wanted to send out this message saying that you know what you want to go out to big cities in search of a job what if you know people living there look at us a stranger as an outsider as us a child. What are you what what happens if you want more about that so you need to you know think about that and do not you know what that strangers who walk into your village don't take law into your hands this was the 1st story and when you put on these performances in these villages what do they look like what do they sound like I mean is it a real spectacle Well usually we go in the evenings because people living in the village as they walk in there are going to farms throughout the day so they all come back and on 630 or 7 in the evening we interact platform makeshift stage in those villages and then you know we try to introduce the other members of the crew and then be you know stuff with stories and you know just trying to reach the children living in the religious we call them onto the stage we encourage them to do some perform and we distribute dog candies to them and then greenlight the elderly persons from the well and just they come and share some stories and then we start the real program. And by the time the program is on we're around 9 30 in the evening and you have a crowd there was 800-2000 people the whole village comes out and then you know once you are done once you complete the program they don't want you to go they wanted to go on they want us to continue so we promised them that you know Ok we'll come back after a few days off for a month again to go back so we we keep it on. And how did you start to realize it was making a difference when after $43.00 days you know those $45.00 days of you know pensions and those religious We don't mind that you know people started joining the police or forces for for conducting awareness sessions. The social media monitoring team which operates out of my office came to know that our do you know the divide ality came down the number of messages which were being circulated came down under local you know what admins who are invariably the village had man or a community elder they used informers you know people stop spreading these messages so that's how we assessed you know the forced situation and we came to know that yes it was a factor when it's working seeing how storytelling was working for fake knees rather started to get even more ambitious whenever I used to go to the religious for these campaigns I used to tell the stories my grandmother told me like you know about you know how to empower women you know she had was very beautiful way of telling me stories that you know of women can choose to be a homey go she can choose to be a teacher or a doctor or a police officer it's who wish but whatever she chooses to be it is a responsibility of the man or the society to let her do that so she has written you know beautiful stories about you know how to convey this message to people who are used to tell those stories to these people and you know that was a great way of connecting with these people so she was almost there all through my you know. What do you think your grandmother would make of you using her storytelling now in your job. Whatever I am today it's because of my grandmother I think she's pretty proud she must be giving all her blessings to me but then you know what in her last days I showed her all these we do something global media coverage about my work and I can tell you how proud she was and I guess you know that gives me a lot of financing to go home and her. And her. Around the registrar is speaking to me from telling gonna you with Outlook from the b.b.c. World Service any comment she can email us outlook at b.b.c. Dot com Ok now we're going to the east coast of the u.s. To meet a man who spent so many years collecting memorabilia that this is the reaction when he's asked to choose a favorite piece boy do a favorite piece. Well. Boy cold turkey gravy a bowl just gravy a bowl chopped gravy I'll have a job but I want them gone break I'm Richard got bread and I live in Boston and I've been looking at diners studying them writing books about them for almost 50 years and is it true your nickname is dynamite it is true in the industry diner men are the people who are just completely devoted to diners and that says it all if you're a diner and back to give him the bad call on the card bad guy didn't. Want to say this all began when I was studying Cornell University in New York state and you met this English design a what did he say to you. At Cornell I was in the architecture program and we had a series of visiting design critics from Great Britain and because architecture students are notorious for working all night on projects so we would go for poached eggs were roast turkey sandwiches at 2 am and diners would be the places that would be open and my friends from Great Britain wanted to know how did these things come a bag and as I looked into it I discovered that there was really no literature on the subject and no one had really paid much attention to it so why is the Dyna different to say no more restaurant or cafe What is it that's unique about the classic definition of a diner is a building that's prefabricated that's built in a factory and then moved to its location because it has to move through the streets it looks more like a vehicle that helped to set up the diner image as its own thing. And which it was 15 American dynasty the many. When I grew up in Allentown Pennsylvania which was an industrial city of 100000 people there were 22 diners there were 4 within walking distance of my have and these were places that you went to any time because many of them were open 24 hours a day how do you love your eggs in the morning Alagna mom with. Them when you go to the diner what we do you. Adam and Eve on a raft you poached eggs on toast you know that the cook is good if he can deliver to you the perfect egg So that's the test of kind of the good Dinah chef is if they can do to keep a stag's on if it's a taste. Never. Say you had these conversations with no English friends they were like What is it done to you started looking into it what did you find out about the history of dinosaurs and when they started the 1st time there was a food truck pulled by horses or one horse I should say in 872 in Providence Rhode Island it was a wagon that served sandwiches Paez coffee milk and cigars and they came out after other restaurants and clothes for the name you was they just started going to dine is when I would be traveling to seeing these places you would find a place and if they weren't suspicious enough to chase you away and you could get the place if they were receptive they would tell you all the other places nearby Why would they be suspicious a lot of times people thought that I was from the Board of Health and of course this was in 1006 these and early seventy's I was a long hair and I guess I may have looked like a suspicious character just we have to prove it. And he started we need you to these different Dinah's you started collecting things yourself as well as taking photographs I did and similarly when I would come across diners that were closed or for sale Occasionally I would be able to acquire some architectural fragments that I have lived with that have decorated my has and are hanging on my walls so it took me 3 u. Of c. Married he had a family I need just bring one of this stuff. Well my wife I described her as being a long. On for the ride because basically we would go out hit the road look for diners take photographs write down the story and we had a daughter in 1983 and she also became a diner regular and when we slid open the door in the short order cook saw her coming her grilled cheese sandwich was on the grill. So I also can imagine getting into Richard's house by the time it was a bit like stepping into a die no one to look. Beyond science diner or at work our kitchen has a marble counter from a 946 diner with 3 chrome stalls and a menu board displaying prices from 1916. So when someone comes in and says I'll have the tuna fish roll were we to charge them it would be something like $0.65 that's what it says on the menu board. So you collection recently caught the attention of the Henry Ford Museum this big museum in Michigan and they decided to take you a whole collection and build this big display around it when they decided to take it how did you feel ecstatic for me to have my life's work go to a place that's been around for 90 years and I know that because of the tremendous attention that the Henry Ford gets with almost 2000000 visitors a year people will be able to enjoy this for years to come and by the time you handed all of the things he collected a vow How much did you have. We sent 92 boxes of material to the museum it weighed 2800 bands and one of our friends quipped the house was a time. And actually he underestimated because of course a ton is 2000 and. 6 of. Us. How do you love your eggs in the morning Alagna mom with a kid he told me that when I. Was little you don't go to a dining together is that something the Easter my daughter is married and lives in Houston now and when she and her husband and my grandson come back we go to the same and of course we've done the recreated photographs where we have one from 1986 and then one from 31 years later and I think the tradition will continue as a very cool what do you think for us a special about Dinah's I love going into a diner interacting with the people either having my usual poached eggs or having a daily special and varying my menu that's what's so good or bad you can get whatever you want any time of day to. Richard got money on his life in Dinah's to see the photo of him in his happy place with his whole family it's on the b.b.c. 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News. When Alex Lewis was 18 he had an accident that caused him to lose his memory everything had gone there was just one person he remembered me now is in a hospital I didn't know it was a t.v. Nothing and the only thing I knew was Marcus and his name but I didn't even Marcus is Alex's identical twin brother the person he relied on to rebuild his life and memories but not everything that Marcus told him was true best story on. B.b.c. News with juries Smit Australia has issued a code red warning the high as far as level in the state of Victoria for the 1st time in almost a decade far Vytas a battling almost 200 bush fires across the country. Corruption charges against Sri Lanka's newly elected leader go to by Roger picture have been dropped as a result of the military from prosecution he acquired as president is being charged previously with something off state funds to build a museum and memorial to his parents the authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo say nearly 5000 people have died in the world's largest current outbreak of measles it's infected about a quarter of a 1000000 people fewer than 50 percent of Congolese children have been vaccinated and there's a shortage of vaccines. And international monitoring group has won the progress on eliminating land mines worldwide is being eroded by the increased use of improvised explosive devices it says there was a record number of casualties last year with about 7000 people killed or injured by mines. The u.n. Nuclear watchdog the i.a.e.a. Says Iran hasn't explained why the agency's inspectors found uranium particles at a suspect site is believed to be in a suburb of Tehran where last year Israel allege there was what it called a secret atomic warehouse the Iranians say the location was a copy planing facility. Britain's main opposition Labor Party has launched his manifesto for next month's general election promising a green industrial revolution its leader Jeremy Corbin said the establishment who'd rigged this system in their favor would try to betray Labour's pledges as impossible the British band Coldplay will not be doing a world tour to promote their new album because of worries about the environmental impact the band will play just 2 shows and streamed them for free on You Tube b.b.c. News. I'm Emily Webb and you're with outlook on next guest's identical twin brothers they have that amazing twin connection and they've enjoyed some of life's was moments together in 1980 when they were 18 Alex Lewis was on his way back from a party when he was thrown from his motorcycle with such force that his helmet came off and his head smacked against the ground meanwhile some distance away his brother Marcus woke up they've been speaking to outlets and dry Kennedy I actually felt him have the accident while I was in bed it was in the middle of the night and I went and spoke to my mother about it and said he's in the hospital and we had to go to hospital now a matter of hour later the hospital phoned to say they was in the hospital and it went further than that he didn't just know his brother had had an accident he says he could feel his pain felt a bit like a look at me but it was too real so I knew what it was so you went to the hospital presumably what kind of state was he in he was already in the came about Tommy got there had broken his left wrist in 16 places and had multiple head injuries but after 6 weeks of being unconscious he finally came to I woke up and I just saw my brother I just saw marks his face he comes out to the bad and I said I Marcus and then this lady came up to the bad and she was hysterical and she was getting overexcited and started stressing out and I said to Marcus Who's that lady and he said you don't know who that is and they time out to me and said That's your mother and you had no idea and I reckon next in there recollection at all I actually had no memories I didn't even I was in the hospital the only thing I knew was Marcus and his name but I think actually you know my. 18 year old Alex Lewis had lost all his memories couldn't remember his mother his. His home his entire sense of identity had gone the only thing he had to cling on to that was familiar with his identical twin. When I like his body had healed he was sent home where he had to start again learn everything and Marcus took charge of helping him through it all my mother was refusing to believe that he had lost his memory so it was really just down to me so I had to show him where we lived this is the kitchen this is the bathroom this is our bedroom you know this is the ultimate boss is your shoes literally from scratch did you know how to use things like a tooth brush and what to do with shoes now Marcus showed me everything it took me seconds to line it but I had to be shown it everything everything presumably once you'd worked out the basics of kind of where everything was and what it was cold and how it worked I guess you started trying to piece together what your life had been like because you were pretty instrumental in this when you can you explain to me how you were helping to fill in the gaps Well I would tell him that we came from a very kind of normal family and recovered family holidays to France and this is a picture of us ought to be much I guess the pictures give you something to hang on to don't I've seen a lovely picture of the 2 of you half buried in the sand in the sunshine on a beach somewhere looking very happy and jolly yes exactly so I saw the picture of the 2 boys playing in the sand like any kids do and so I thought right I've got the information that holiday looks fun on to the next question and I understand that you had a girlfriend as well had you chosen well were you pleased your previous choice. It was both until quite late on then we started meeting friends but we only met him not till 3 at a time because I couldn't cope I would just retract and get too shy and then he just of dropped in or yes by the way you have a girlfriend so I was I was just surprised I didn't really just went with the fly like everything else until I got reintroduced to have and got snagged. And see if I stay with me. And tell me a bit more about you will and So You Want It was quite a strict man you know he was a lot older and you stood up when he came into her room you called him so you didn't go into his part of the house unless you invited some and I knew you were any suspect when you're allowed to because can you tell me about your mom what kind of parent to see. She was she was a very tall lady she was 6 foot tall and she was very loud brigade she was very beautiful and people were drawn to her because she was a lively character whenever you had a party she was the one who could have been the center of attention in the room in 1990 the stepfather died and then not long afterwards in 1995 the mother died too that was particularly hard on Alex after Nish Lee not recognizing his mother after the accident had now grown close to her it was difficult Yeah because I don't you know have talked years and I will tell you this so I was 18 when I met her and I was 30 when she died so I've become very fond of my mother so of course when she died I cried at the bed and you know we all are in that in the home when she went. And it was only at that point when I realized that nobody else was shedding any tears or bothered that she just gone that's when I started to question something he wasn't quite right after she died you too then started clearing the house which was a big house wasn't it yeah it's a big full exhaust she was a hold as I read 5 and 200 coats of cigarettes that were 20 years old in a cupboard with fine money side into the back of curtains so she had priceless and takes all over the house mixed in with stuff that she should throw away and we started going through lofts and attics and outbuildings and that's when we started to find strange things like all our presence that have been given to us all in a pile in the loft she'd never given them should never give them to us you know the gift cards and all the money from the uncles and the aunts and grandparents in another box never came to us and then I started getting right confused because everything wasn't quite the way I thought it was they continued sorting my way through the house and they were most disturbing discoveries to come we were in her bedroom we went into a cupboard old clothes that she had been kind of hoarding vacant a little drawer there was a cupboard in the back of this wardrobe and that inside that every found photograph . With Alex and I do about 10 years old completely naked with I had to cut off what do you mean your heads cut off. The heads of the photograph it was just a body is without heads in the photograph that's what I think Alex I did realize there was something very strange going on what did you think when you saw that picture and I was horrified because I mean nobody gets a pass is this and cuts off it's not accidental to cut the heads off why did she need to take a picture of us in a secret trial and it just blew my mind and then I started thinking the peasants aren't right and this this naked photos not right and then just started more questions I thought this woman's more complicated than I originally thought it was joining a therapy session. That some questions were asked and they came to the conclusion that there's something more going on is on my family and said I should go and challenge. Markers. So I did just that what did you and I just said in a very simple way I just said to him where we have used by our mother and he was standing the kitchen he had a cup teams hand he washed the sheet he turned round he dropped a cup of tea on the flaw and he just nodded and then just walked away outside. Ever since the day Alex woke up from that coma it's well vu. Because I'd been hiding a secret from his twin brother that they had been sexually abused. That moment in the kitchen that one question changed everything. Was your recollection of that moment Marcus. It was a moment I'll never forget because I'd been. Living this false life and giving out false stories devoid of the fact that. Mother had abused us or we'd had any kind of tough childhood taken all that way from him and created a new reality for him and I'd spent many many years doing it and suddenly within 2 seconds it all on my board and he knew that everything I thought was a lie by that stage the law had lasted nearly half of the adult lives I decided fairly early on. The pain and the anguish of what happened to us when we returned did was so strong why would I give him vulnerable 18 year old boy information that was going to be difficult for him to handle and that he'd go to live with rest of his life when I could give him something that was happy and nice and he was devoid of all of that so it was like pushing the delete button being abused as a child but he wouldn't have time any of the memories that you had that he had no pain so he was living a life free of child abuse not a bosun How did that begin that decision to not tell him things it was this like. Day one I think it started the questions got more complicated so then I had to make a conscious choice to say that we've been on a family holidays every every never had so that's when I started to not make up a story but just to leave stuff out so then I sort of consciously found myself doing it and then it just got stronger and stronger to a point where there's no way back but then I had to live that life so not only did I have to telling the stories and telling me everything was fine I still had to go to my mom's but they party and smile and played a part to everyone around us including our family. So that he would then have the narrative embedded and how did that feel during that I mean was that was that painful did it help you to kind of brush things away and pretend that they hadn't happened for you either it was painful to start with and then it became a tool for me to also get rid of it as well so by the time I'd told the story for so no I believed it myself I'm going I was read of it as well so it was helping him and helping me Alex you found out at this point to us of things you've found out about a piece the fact that you've both been abused as children and you also found out that your brother had told you some lies which changed your life how were you coping with these 2 bombshell if you back on it now it was it was just impossible the story was just too big for me to deal with and I didn't really have anyone to do it so I couldn't go back to Marcus So I left him and I and I had to do on my own and try and make sense of something that I had no idea what was real and what wasn't male and I had started my life at 18 and have to rebuild it I'm now 30 when we found out was 32 I'm dying to start my life again to try and really rock out who I was so if that's even possible I'm trying to have to do it 2 times and 2nd times not hard I'm a fast one and didn't feel that there was a bond of trust that broken between you know there was yet we didn't lose our relationship. But twins have an extra special bond actual little extra piece that identical twins have in particular and we lost that and that's the bit that upset me I wanted I wanted to have my twin back Alex and Marcus with the furthest apart they'd ever been they didn't talk again about the abuse they did finally break the silence very recently and in an unusual setting a film producer had heard about this story and they agreed to take part in a documentary and so we started to make a documentary and that's when we had a conversation about what really happened so this taken 30 odd years for us to sit down at a table and actually have a conversation which when I look at it back at it we're having done it is so stupid we should have done it 20 odd years ago and Alex How was that conversation I think Mark's didn't understand entirely why I needed to have all this information because when somebody doesn't tell you something you build it up inside your head you know actually make it into a bigger story than it already is so I just need the facts I need them by simply and I just wanted him to do that but Marcus just couldn't understand why I had to know that. I'm wrong because this is kind of a difficult thing to ask but what did you turn and. About what had happened. In the movie which is a movie documentary every been working with them for quite 5 years to make it a regular 7 day slot. And it took me 6 days to build up the courage to tell all the camera what happened to me you know a mother abused us other people abused us she passes around in circles and I did I've done it on camera I called her again because it's just too painful but I just told him actually what happened in detail what our mother had done to us and then I couldn't even tell him to his face so then we showed him on the laptop the recording as a 3 minute monologue of what really happened and then that's what he did so that was a way of getting closure because he just wanted to see that it so it was very cathartic for both of us to actually do it we just have to do it live on camera which is a bit scary stunts my brain is not yet it is I would have gone to any lengths just to get that moment when I wanted and if it took that to do it and I was prepared to take the risk and it was a risk because I didn't have what he was going to say and I didn't know what was going to come out of that box that he'd been tightly holding all these years and then he told me what it was and. I was finally ready of my journey and I was finally able to put that to one side and be satisfied with the fact that I now have everything I need and I know who I am and nothing is a lie and I've got my life in a straight line do you ever look back and understand why Marcus didn't tell you any of this stuff yeah I completely understand why he didn't and I completely understand what he did for me was absolutely extraordinary and it was beyond what anybody would do for a laugh and to take on all that anguish and all that pain and. Obs all the entire story on his own without any outside help just to save me. Makes me emotional just telling you about now actually. That's how stalking is Alex and Marcus have that own children now to each the same ages and as they say they're identical twins special bond is back I can see how close they are but now building new happy memories the documentary is called Tell Me Who I Am i think it's astonishing that a secret but Marcus kept entirely to himself a 30 year old he is something he couldn't even share with his identical twin should now be all over all screens and radios How does he do that is a strange one that because it's easier to talk at a public forum that it is to Alex because the people I was speaking to are there. I'm for Alex it's. And I've been carrying for 70 years and I guess all kind of message to people is you don't actually have to write a book and do a media and do all of this stuff you can't just go and have a conversation in a cafe and get on with it and not waste 20 years' time and it feels like that's why sometimes yeah absolutely after me it doesn't it doesn't I think us we could have saved ourself always heartache and just had a conversation a simple conversation inside a family. And we could ever have an effect the militarization we need to start talking and we need to stop this subject is not being to be a subject it's just another subject tough subject but another subject and I think the more that we can do that the more powerful we have voice the more difficult it is for perpetrators to do what they do because they live and breathe the secrets of silence. Alex and Marcus and I was speaking to Alex Andrea Kennedy you can find a longer version of that interview by searching for the painful secret I hid from my twins. Now witness history and today about takes us to the Indian capital Delhi The city has some of the worst in the world especially during the winter months but in 2002 Delhi opened the 1st stretch of its new Metro system to the public as part of an attempt to tackle the problem. One of the most heavily populated cities in the world with appalling traffic problems because of the lost of a mass transit system with most just along for the ride a 1000000 people a day have packed into trains for the trip on the 1st completed section and that time we never anticipated such a huge enthusiasm he was talking about all the trains were completely accurate even I wanted to drive one of the plus train it was not possible it was so Kroger I got it right only inside going to vote train at Christmas 2004 stream carrying members old. Public ran along a thank you meter elevated route from shot to peace has already easily that one was the metro's managing director Metro's proposes to see that you can just from the roads or reduce pollution levels are reduced and people a very comfortable kind really and an effort of or we have trouble in the 1990 s. Then he was a struggling to keep pace with its growing population the city's road system wasn't that the existing public transport buses including in famous Delhi transport Corp buses known as the blue line buses it's popularly called killer line because of the rash drivers who cause accidents also. Commuting into l.a. Is to put it mildly not an exercise for the faint hearted 1st of all there are thousands of cars buses motorbikes and also rickshaws like the one I'm travelling in clinging to the center of the city and secondly there's the risk to life and limb posed by the driving here I've had half a dozen near death experiences in the past few minutes alone and even if you were not killed by a bus exhaust fumes or making Delhi one of the most polluted cities in the world in $1095.00 he should be there and was asked to take charge of the project to build a metro system and engineer by profession he already had more than 3 decades of experience working with Indian railways but he had his doubts about accepting the offer I did not at all agree and it was offered to me I was not really familiar with the modern type of metros so I didn't have the confidence really speaking I was already 65 years age at that time and I felt this front cover to take up a big assignment at that age changing my life but the Indian government was determined that he was the man for the job and they told him he would be allowed to run the project his own way meant condition I put was that I should be given a free hand. I definitely no political intervention interference in my work no direct taken difference in my work this was one Esurance I took from the left in Ghana what you told me at the end of that was here's a blank check to you you can do whatever you like be wanted metric to be in time completed the Delhi Metro was open on time easily that included the success of the metro project to the work culture that he insisted on 1st of all we decided the organization will be very slim not a huge organization slim organization but everybody should be very competent to do things themselves. Minimum paperwork don't spend time preparing really tedious warning us notes and take it to different levels for approaches and all that 3rd thing was delegation of powers because people are now used by the individuals with important people and then delegate powers to them also make them accountable for his thoughts the Indian national government and Belize City government were both backing the project but most of the actual construction work was paid for because soft loan from the Japanese government the Metro coaches and machinery were manufactured by a consortium made up of the South Korean company high and dry and Japan's Mitsubishi corporation. One of the difficulties that the engineers is building in in time metro from scratch while the city operates above their heads it was decided that the Metro Networks should go underground in densely populated areas like cannot place and Old Delhi but go over ground on elevated railways where the roads were wider easily than on brought in international teams off and genius using the latest technology and safety techniques to build the network is there is any risk of collapse we stop the machine we take it for the courses we have the latest technology to. Coppice technology we have to train the operators and the workers so we understand why with what we're doing and how it has to be done the people of Delhi had high hopes for the Delhi Metro it's going to change the way people travel you know people are not going to use their cars anymore it's going to reduce pollution pollution and it's actually going to be more class yes compared to a car you know look I'm a student so I expect most every challenge and I know maybe it's clean maybe it's guard the people sitting in say that and metal people out there and then in 1998 the project almost came to a complete halt when India carried out a nuclear weapons test causing international outrage. And Crispin 4 to 5 hours. India conducted 3 underground nuclear test in the poker. I want to make it very very clear. That I am deeply disturbed by the nuclear tests which India has conducted several countries brought in financial sanctions against India and crucially for the Metro project Japan threatened to withdraw its funding but each leader and ses he gave the Japanese and ultimatum in my chamber for your 6 Japanese experts I gave them a challenge I did you fund this project or you can talk to if you are getting out the project is not going to suffer I'll phone from between the country charter going to Lima Sion that what is going to stop there are some local discussions among themselves and when they left they should be understand your position will go back to right quarter's and persuade them to resume the punch and the fund will see what immediately there was no problem with its air condition trains free from the queue also delis traffic jams the Metro became an instant hit and it reduced commuting times by a big margin one British engineer working on the project said it was going to be even better than the London Underground while longer this has the disadvantage it was started over 100 years ago almost rabbit warren type stations our system here will be as good as if not better than Jubilee line. And overall it will give Delhi a system which is I hate to say which is going to be much much better when London Underground but not everybody was happy many people said it was too expensive today the average commute on the Delhi Metro cost about $1.00 and a half u.s. Dollars a day in a country with an average book average income of just $5.00 id that is way too high but easily the run defense the metros hifi us Metro to has got a responsibility to pay back the loans that have been taken for the project. So the fair level is going to be such that it is financially sustainable I would say which means we should be able to have a fast lecture by rich b. Get sufficient revenues by which we are able to take care of only opposition mention schools as well as pay back the loans take up the Delhi Metro was started with the aim offered using dailies pollution and traffic problems but the city's still struggling with severe air pollution so why did the Delhi Metro field to achieve its goals does he met dress differently contributed got a lot in board but David things are going north of the village the city is growing fast we are not able to catch up we don't have a show definite impact on what everybody can see your delimiter was an order today in the heat what would be the conditions you can think of it would have been horrible able to prevent Sunday reporting next week on outlet a Singapore takeover present is Rico he's on and Sharon will be behind the microphone in taking you on a total of Singapore through Libyans comedians and the diver he was new wrecked Kilis Lee rescued after surviving 4 days floating in the South China Sea join them for that but for me Emily Webb by finale. 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