Welcome to witness, here at the British Library in london. This month, we have anotherfive people have witnessed extraordinary moments of history first hand. Well be talking about the legalisation of homosexuality in britain 50 years ago. A breakthrough for women in the mens world of racing, and, in a moment, the Russian Ballet Star Rudolf Nureyev defected to the west. But first, we go back to a Turning Point for china. China was wracked with a civil war between communists and the nationalists. Translation i never even thought about joining the communists. I followed the nationalist party all the way. Im 99 years old, and i still havent changed my mind about that. For most people, life was wretched. Someone had to rescue china from these miserable conditions. There were two men willing to try. One was Chiang Kai Shek, who was leader of the nationalist troops. The other was mao zedong, who wanted to turn china into a communist state. The two men were to become bitter rivals. Translation
Welcome to witness, here at the British Library in london. This month, we have anotherfive people have witnessed extraordinary moments of history first hand. Well be talking about the legalisation of homosexuality in britain 50 years ago. A breakthrough for women in the mens world of racing, and, in a moment, the Russian Ballet Star Rudolf Nureyev defected to the west. But first, we go back to a Turning Point for china. China was wracked with a civil war between communists and the nationalists. Translation i never even thought about joining the communists. I followed the nationalist party all the way. Im 99 years old, and i still havent changed my mind about that. For most people, life was wretched. Someone had to rescue china from these miserable conditions. There were two men willing to try. One was Chiang Kai Shek, who was leader of the nationalist troops. The other was mao zedong, who wanted to turn china into a communist state. The two men were to become bitter rivals. Translation
Welcome to witness, here at the British Library in london. This month, we have anotherfive people have witnessed extraordinary moments of history first hand. Well be talking about the legalisation of homosexuality in britain 50 years ago. A breakthrough for women in the mens world of racing, and, in a moment, the Russian Ballet Star Rudolf Nureyev defected to the west. But first, we go back to a Turning Point for china. China was wracked with a civil war between communists and the nationalists. Translation i never even thought about joining the communists. I followed the nationalist party all the way. Im 99 years old, and i still havent changed my mind about that. For most people, life was wretched. Someone had to rescue china from these miserable conditions. There were two men willing to try. One was Chiang Kai Shek, who was leader of the nationalist troops. The other was mao zedong, who wanted to turn china into a communist state. The two men were to become bitter rivals. Translation
Welcome to witness, here at the British Library in london. This month, we have anotherfive people have witnessed extraordinary moments of history first hand. Well be talking about the legalisation of homosexuality in britain 50 years ago. A breakthrough for women in the mens world of racing, and, in a moment, the Russian Ballet Star Rudolf Nureyev defected to the west. But first, we go back to a Turning Point for china. China was wracked with a civil war between communists and the nationalists. Translation i never even thought about joining the communists. I followed the nationalist party all the way. Im 99 years old, and i still havent changed my mind about that. For most people, life was wretched. Someone had to rescue china from these miserable conditions. There were two men willing to try. One was Chiang Kai Shek, who was leader of the nationalist troops. The other was mao zedong, who wanted to turn china into a communist state. The two men were to become bitter rivals. Translation
Western areas tonight. Central and eastern, and southern areas of the uk will tend to clear. Where the skies clear in the north it could be very chilly, down to 5 degrees. Towns and cities nowhere near as cold. Tomorrow, showers return. There will be fewer across more southern areas, most of them across scotland, Northern Ireland and Western Areas. They are very difficult to predict, what time and they will occur. And where they will occur. Hello. This is bbc news. President trump has criticised china on twitter, saying its doing nothing to halt north koreas Weapons Programme after pyongyang test fired its second Intercontinental Ballistic Missile in a month. The australian Prime Minister says Counter Terror police have foiled an attempt to blow up a plane. Four people have been arrested in raids across sydney. The threat of terrorism is very real. The disruption operation, the effo rts real. The disruption operation, the efforts overnight, have been very effective, but there is more w