festival organisers call on the government for more support to ensure live events can take place this summer. hello, welcome if you havejust joined us. this is bbc news. the funeral of the record breaking charity fundraiser, captain sir tom moore, has been held in bedford. the 100 year old came to prominence after raising almost £33 million for nhs charities by walking laps of his garden during the first lockdown. he died earlier this month, days after testing positive for coronavirus. our correspondentjohn maguire has the story. they were there by his side when he made his most famous journey, today they were with him again when he made his finaljourney. soldiers from the yorkshire regiment, the modern equivalent of captain sir tom moore s wartime unit paid tribute with full military honours. on the coffin, his medals, including his knighthood, and a specially commissioned officer s sword, on one side, the regimental motto, fortune favours the brave. on the other, his mot
not aware of this because the media began telling a different story about what happened. the washington post, for example, explained the radical left wasn t actually to blame for the capitol bombings. instead the culprit was far more general, something called the easy contagion of extremism in a time of dark frustrations and deep disillusionment, whatever that means. it meant there was the republican president at the time. the bombers remained welcomed in polite society. one became a professor at a prestigious american university, if you can imagine. even now, 50 years after the fact, the whitewash of that day continues. politico just ran a long piece telling us the real villain in the 1971 terror attack on the capitol was richard nixon, who was not there, but according to politico, the bombing, quote, supercharged nixon s paranoia in the end led to watergate. the story ended this way. 50 years on, it seems remarkable how fast the 1971 attacks faded from collective memory.
fighting tradition. a history of ferocious resistance. but it s nothing like what you might think. not at all. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la anthony: this is okinawa, just south of mainland japan. for all the relative rigidity of the mainland, okinawa answers in its own unique way. don t eat the same thing each day. that s boring. there s even an okinawan term for it. chanpuru, something mixed. bits borrowed from all over served up for anyone to eat. but maybe you re more familiar with the name okinawa from this. as the setting for some of the most horrifyingly bloody battles of the second world war. how horrifying? for the allies there were more than 50,000 casualties with around 12,000 killed, or missing in action, over nearly three months of fighting.
anthony: what does it mean to be strong? it implies hardness, inflexibility. okinawa is a place with a fighting tradition. a history of ferocious resistance. but it s nothing like what you might think. not at all. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la anthony: this is okinawa, just south of mainland japan. for all the relative rigidity of the mainland, okinawa answers in its own unique way. don t eat the same thing each day. that s boring. there s even an okinawan term for it. chanpuru, something mixed. bits borrowed from all over served up for anyone to eat. but maybe you re more familiar with the name okinawa from this. as the setting for some of the most horrifyingly bloody battles of the second world war. how horrifying? for the allies there were more than
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