During this evening, so that means clear spells, just a risk of a little bit of rain the south east, maybe one or two showers in other areas. But overall, a dry night, turning misty, quite foggy in places, dense fog in central and southern areas, maybe the south east as well, affecting some of the airports potentially. Bear that in mind if you are travelling first thing, take and steady chilly, body, poor visibility. That rain is heading out of the way, you can see the fringe is pushing towards Western Parts of the uk through the morning, but the rush hour looks dry for most of us. The same weather in the south as the far north, more or less the same, notjust foggy everywhere. Through the morning, that rain pushes into the west country, wales, into Northern Ireland and western scotland. The eastern half of the uk stays dry. It wont be raining here steering daylight hours, a big contrast between norwich and cardiff. In the evening, the rain will push eastwards, a bit of snow across the pennines into the highlands as well. Quite a wet night on the way, monday night into tuesday. And then on tuesday, that Weather Front stalls across the east, so not pleasant at all from aberdeenshire, newcastle, holed, down into norwich. The wind is off the north sea, so it will feel cold. Hull. Sunshine in belfast and birmingham, but blobs of blue here, one or two showers in the south west and maybe in the north too. Wednesday looking pretty dry, the Weather Fronts cannot come in, this easterly wind is stopping the Weather Front towards a dry day, but pretty chilly. Here is the trend for the end of the week, you can see the easterlies start coming in, scandinavia, all the way from russia, so we chilly end to the week. Just how cold it is going to get, probablyjust week. Just how cold it is going to get, probably just about week. Just how cold it is going to get, probablyjust about cold enough for a little bit of wintriness across the hills, but we are not really talking about snow at this stage. Hello, this is bbc news with annita mcveigh. The headlines at a30. A setback for donald trump as judges refuse to immediately reverse a suspension to his controversial travel ban on people from seven countries. Frances National Front leader, marine le pen, has launched her campaign to become the countrys new president. Ministers pledge more Affordable Homes will be built in england, aimed at tackling the high cost of renting. Now on bbc news, Tanya Beckett introduces us to five extraordinary moments in history in witness. Hello, and welcome to witness with me, Tanya Beckett. Im at the British Library in london for the first time this year to bring you five more unique glimpses into history from the people who were there. This month well meet the widow of the former russian president Boris Yeltsin, the astronaut who survived an accident in space, and the sikh runner who overcame the trauma of losing his family during the partition of india. We start at dadaab in North Eastern kenya, the site of the largest refugee camp in the world. Witness has been speaking to zamzam abdi gelle, who grew up in dadaab, her family were among the first to arrive back in the 19905 as thousands fled the civil war in somalia. You dont know what life holds for you. We have been in mogadishu, in a big city, a good life, and then we end up in a refugee camp. In mogadishu, there were Militia Groups everywhere. We were scared. Bodies were scattered everywhere, like things you cant imagine. We were attacked by Militia Groups, i think there were about ten. They killed one of my uncles. They shot my father in his left leg and then from the back, it went out from the side. My father survived. We fled mogadishu in the beginning of 1982. We travelled to the border of kenya. We were very young at that time, and my father could not walk, so we had a donkey cart. We were trying to cross the border. Bear in mind that you can be caught by the bandits at any time, if they caught you, that was the end of your life. Also, if you were caught by the soldiers from kenya that would be the end of your life also so the means of survival was 50 50. Everybody was trying to come to kenya to look for means of survival, but we never expected that we would go to a refugee camp. At the beginning, we ended up here, you have a small hut covered by plastic. The environment is so harsh. It was nasty, the soil is not fertile, you cannot grow anything. In three years, there might be no rain. Its so hot, sometimes it can reach up to 40 50 degrees. When we arrived in the camps, there are gangs will come at night, they will rape girls and take away what you have. It wasnt safe at the beginning but things become cool as time goes by. Its like a city now. A big city. We thought we could have stayed there two years or one year, we never thought we would stay there 25 years. We could not travel from dadaab to other parts of kenya, and we could not go back to somalia. Necessity is the mother of invention. We got a good education in dadaab, i got a scholarship to university. I stayed four years in somalia and 2a years in kenya. But they were saying the other day that what they want is to close the camps and take away the Somali People living in the camps, back to somalia. Dadaab is the largest refugee camp in the world, and now kenya wants to close it down. Will they be forced to leave . Many have never been anywhere else. Where will i go back to . Kenyans are telling us we are refugees, we are not somalis, because we have been brought up in kenya. So we are caught in between. Zamzam abdi gelle, talking to witness in kenya. Our next witness is michael foale, the nasa astronaut who had one of the most frightening experiences ever in space. In 1997, he was on russias mir Space Station when a cargo vessel crashed into it. Mir was a Space Station built by the russians. Your impression when you opened up the hatch and went into mir for the first time was twofold. One was the smell, a smell a bit like an oily garage, maybe a little bit of must because we did have mould on the mir. The other impression is clutter. Its like going into the oesophagus of someones throat. After six weeks on the station i had been doing my experiments, i was happy, i get up onjune 25th. Vasily tsibliev, the commander, and aleksandr lazutkin, the flight engineer, had been using Radio Control Equipment to fly a cargo ship called progress, that weighs about seven tonnes, into the mir station, using a tv looking at the station. As i look at vasilys tv screen i can see that the orientation is all wrong for a proper docking to take place. And sasha, the flight engineer, says to me, michael of the station which was at that point our lifeboat. But i understood, because of the emergency in which he said it, that he meant, go there to save your life. As i float through, i feel the whole Space Station shudder and move around me. Im pretty sure this may be my last breath, because i am looking at the three millimetre thick aluminium walls, just waiting for them to part. Klaxons go off when there is a pressure leak. Then i felt my ears popping which means, in this case, that the air was leaving the Space Station, and there was a Whistling Sound coming from the module. In 23 minutes, if we did nothing, we would go unconscious. Sasha comes to me and doesnt say a word, he just feverishly starts to remove cables leading into the module. Sasha looked around for a large hatch that could be put in place, because the station had been hit by the progress, at this point, there was no electric power and the batteries are giving out. That was not a fan running, none of the Carbon Dioxide removal was working, no Oxygen Regeneration and no communications with moscow or anyone else. It was a totally dead station. This is not something you see in movies, where it all gets solved instantly by some brainy chap. It took probably six hours. We used the spacecraft and fired the jets to stop the Space Station tumbling and rolling. And then, wonderfully, we came into sunlight after this. And All Of A Sudden the fans started to come on, and the lights came on, and i said, vasily, weve done it. However, for the next month the station was inoperable in any normal sense, it could just sustain when finally the shuttle came in october, i was really quite happy to see them. And as we backed away from the mir station i looked at it and thought, i dont really mind if i dont ever see that again the nasa astronaut michael foale. In december 1999, Boris Yeltsin shocked russia and the world by announcing his resignation on new years eve. Yeltsin played a key role in bringing down the soviet union, but later became a controversialfigure. We went to moscow to meet his widow, naina yeltsina. In the heady days of 1990 and early 1991, he was the adored leader of a Protest Movement Unknown since the bolshevik revolution. But if russians liked that, they did not like what came next. First, the break up of the soviet union, engineered partly by yeltsin, then a crash course in capitalism that broke the chains of the centrally planned economy. Scenes like this at one of moscows Charity Canteens today are simply humiliating for most russians who remember the days when the soviet union itself gave aid to the third world. Yeltsin faced a rebellion from his own former power base, the russian parliament. His reply to bombard it into submission. Remarkably, Boris Yeltsin clung on to defeat the communists and win a second term in office, but there was a price to be paid. His health collapsed. Translation i want to ask for your forgiveness because many of our dreams did not come to pass, because what had seemed simple turned out to be terribly hard. Translation i ask forgiveness for not fulfilling some of the hopes of the people who believed that we could in one swoop, in one leap, jump from the grey, stagnant, totalitarian past into the radiant, wealthy, civilised future. I have done everything i can. Naina yeltsina, the widow of Boris Yeltsin. Remember, you can watch witness on the bbc news channel or catch up on all of our films along with 1,000 Radio Programmes in our online archive. Just go to the bbc website. In 2004, the environmental campaigner Wangari Maathai became the first african woman to win the nobel peace prize. She spent much of her life trying to protect the forests of kenya. Witness has been to the Karura Forest near nairobi meet her daughter, wanjira maathai. My mother was often asked, were you afraid, you were fearless, how could you do all these things . She said, i was afraid but what needed to be done was so compelling that i had to do it. She grew up surrounded by nature, surrounded by the beauty of nature. I remember her describing her mother being a farmer, growing all the food that they ate. And then she went to school, to university in the usa and came back and joined the university as a very young member of the academic staff. She was struck by the issues being presented by women who were like her mother. They were talking about lack of fuel, lack of water and lack of nutritious food. And everything they described, she felt, was connected to the degradation of the landscape, so why not plant trees, she asked them . The women here tilled the lands, so its important that they know how to conserve this soil. She founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977 to help women plant trees and at the same time begin to understand how to heal the land themselves. Its 50 Million Trees now and counting. Very quickly, the Green Belt Movement became about more than Planting Trees because we had a highly dictatorial government and a one party system. Land was being parcelled out to the friends of the administration of the day, so protecting it became political. Karura forest was, by far, one of the scariest battles. People are showing anger, because no one knew the extent to which the forest was destroyed. It was vicious. She got physically hurt, she was in hospital, but she survived, so whenever she survived she knew it was time to go back and finish the work of saving the park. We are in Karura Forest, one of the most beautiful and it is thanks to the Green Belt Movement and the efforts of my mother at the time that saved it. But she was also a human rights activists, womens rights activist. I have no idea where these policemen are taking me now. I have nothing. To challenge the president and the party of the day, that was gutsy. An ecologist from kenya has become the first african woman to win the nobel peace prize. Wangari maathai. She didnt believe it was her for a while. Maybe she thought it was a mistake, i dont know, but it was one of the most amazing moments to see her enjoy the spotlight and the platform in a way she had never done before. I think the whole day she spent saying, i didnt know anyone was listening. My mother died on september 25 2011. She has left quite a legacy, i think. Certainly for us as kenyans, women, africans, to believe in the power of one. That one woman from nyeri in the highlands of kenya could be such a potent force for change remains one of the most inspiring things, for me. Wanjira maathai talking to witness in the beautiful Karura Forest. Our last witness is the Legendary Indian Runner milkha singh. At the Commonwealth Games in cardiff in1958, the flying sikh, as he is also known, became the first indian to win a major gold medal in athletics. Archive independence was proclaimed and celebrated, but it had been obtained at a terrible price, and the price was the division of india, the partition. For a while the north of india ran with blood, as hindus, muslims and sikhs grimly slaughtered one another. Archive Men And Women pass Prince Philip on the saluting base. Commentator and away first time, going hard around that bend. And milkha singh of india milka singh of indias coming on the outside and its first milkha singh, Second Spence of south africa. Milkha singh there, whose incredible story has been turned into a bollywood film called run, milkha, run. Thats all from witness this month, well be back in february with more stories from history told by the people who were there. From me and the rest of the witness team, goodbye. Some Colder Weather on the way by the end of the week, a nagging easterly wind on the way. We have got some rain also in the short term, and that wont be arriving until tomorrow morning, so for the time being it is dry, a window of calm, i wouldnt say clear weather, because there will be mist and fog forming, but light winds and clear spells through this evening, just a chance of a bit of rain in the south east, one or two showers dotted around. The frost forms through the early hours right across the country, weather you are in the north of the south of the uk, temperatures in city centres one or 2 degrees, but in rural spots no doubt below freezing. In Southern Parts of the uk, the rain getting into the tip of cornwall, Maybe St Ives by eight oclock, penzance, those areas. But really, in the south, or further north, temperatures more or less the same, around freezing in some areas, and we have got fog patches. In some places, they will be dense, there could be freezing fog as well. Take it steady if you are driving first thing in the morning. This is how the rain progresses eastwards through the afternoon, you can see it reaches most of south western england, wales, Northern Ireland, nudging into south western scotland. All these areas, london, yorkshire, scotland, dry through the afternoon, and that Weather Front, with quite a bit of wind, it will not reach you until after sunset. Some snow of upland areas of the pennines and highland scotland. On tuesday, that Weather Front reaches eastern areas, so Weather Front reaches eastern areas, so quite damp if not wet first thing. Then unfortunately it doesnt make it any further eastwards, it just cannot stop sea floods, and it will be dying a death through tuesday. Its just will be dying a death through tuesday. Itsjust about will be dying a death through tuesday. Its just about stops here. Now, isaid tuesday. Its just about stops here. Now, i said that Weather Front diesa here. Now, i said that Weather Front dies a death, you canjust about pick it out, it has gone. The wind is coming from this direction, and this direction, nothing really moves, and eventually what is going to happen is that the weather, rather than coming from the west, will start coming in from the east, and that means, yes, it will turn colder, particularly nagging cold easterly winds, i think, towards the end of the week. We will be getting the hats and gloves out. That is it. This is bbc news. Im annita mcveigh. The headlines at five another blow for donald trump a court denies an Emergency Appeal that hed hoped would restore his controversial travel ban. Ministers pledge more Affordable Homes will be built in england, aimed at tackling the high cost of renting. Not fit for purpose mps publish a scathing report into the way britains train system is organised. Marine le pen launches her bid to be the next president of france with a twin attack on globalisation and islamic fundamentalism. Also in the next hour wales get off to a flying start in the six nations. Theyre top of the table after beating italy in rome well have full details of this and todays other Sporting Action at 5. 30pm. With the Film Award Season in
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