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Over the past month a number of statues of past leaders have been defaced around the world, during protests that were part of the Black Lives Matter movement.
They’ve triggered debate over the UK’s colonial history.
In the latest in our series of reports on the legacy of the British Empire, Yogita Limaye reports from India, one of the UK’s former colonies about how former British prime minister Winston Churchill is viewed by people there, particularly in relation to a deadly famine that occurred in the country during the second world war.
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The US said it has hit “dozens” of Iranian military targets in overnight attacks, in response to Iran hitting commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
The military said it struck “air-defense systems, coastal radar sites, missile and drone capabilities, and small boats”, using aircraft, ships, and drones – including “one-way attack sea drones for the first time”.
“The Strait of Hormuz is a vital maritime corridor for global trade,” the US military said. “Iran does not control it”.
In response, Iran said it targeted US bases in Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwait and also radar systems in Oman.
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President Donald Trump has said the US is reinstating a naval blockade of Iranian ports and will impose a 20% charge on all cargo shipped through the Strait of Hormuz following days of escalating strikes between the two countries.
He said this would stop “Iran’s ships or customers” from entering or leaving the key oil shipping route, but “all other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait”.
Iran’s foreign minister later said whoever provides safe passage “should be compensated for this service”, but Iran would remain the strait’s “GUARDIAN” – using Trump’s word.
Tehran and Washington clashed over the strait’s control after exchanging strikes in the region overnight and on Monday.
The US said it carried out strikes against military targets in Iran, targeting air defence systems, coastal radars, and missile and drone sites. Iran said it responded by striking US military bases in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain, and radars in Oman.
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Wildfires of ‘exceptional scale’ have taken force in Paris, as neighbouring Spain still tackles flames across the country following its own devastating fires.
Now the UK is also experiencing wildfires in England and Wales, as its third heatwave of the year is set to intensify again this week.
Here’s what we know so far about the extent of wildfires in Europe and the UK, and how heatwaves are impacting them.
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Explosions have been heard near two Iranian port cities, Bandar Abbas and Bushehr, state media has reported.
It comes after another night of strikes between the US and Iran, with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps saying it hit two UAE tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and targeted US facilities in Jordan and Bahrain.
The UAE called the attack “brazen”, adding that an Indian crew member was killed and eight others were injured.
Meanwhile, the US military says it completed strikes on targets aimed at degrading “Iran’s ability to attack commercial shipping” – Iranian state media reports three people were killed.
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The US military said it was carrying out a new wave of strikes on targets in Iran. It said the aim of the attacks was to degrade Iran’s ability to attack shipping in the strait of Hormuz. It came ass the US Navy resumed its blockade of Iran’s ports.
Iran said that control of the strait of Hormuz was required for its national security and it will exercise sovereignty over the key shipping lane, whatever the cost.
President Trump announced that he was scrapping a plan he had announced a day earlier, for placing a 20% toll or tariff on all cargos passing through the strait of Hormuz.
Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Sarah Smith in Washington.
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@HhshhsHh-dw3qq
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Still waiting for the sorry?😅
@aolf8459
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
winston churcill spoke the truth about india and indians
@johnwiseman2249
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
For Indians Churchill is Adolf Hitler 😂😂😂😂
@Thistasteslikeass
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
he didnt cause the famine
@dawatergod
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
South Asian lives? It’s INDIAN LIVES, Yasmin Khan!!!! INDIAN!
@mauricebuckmaster9368
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
"The true facts about food shipments to Bengal, amply recorded in the British war cabinet and government of India archives, are that more than a million tons of grain arrived in Bengal between August 1943, when the war cabinet first realised the severity of the famine, and the end of 1944, when the famine had petered out."
– Zareer Masani, Churchill and the Genocide Myth
@manchesterunited910
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
I feel sorry and shameful for all the dead people and the merciless cruelty of our colonial past.
@stayfocused6848
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Hell says hello to Churchill after he died.😅
@mauricebuckmaster9368
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Attention Indians!
Did you know . . . .
. . . . that in 1942 India received 30,000 tons of grain, in 1943, 303,000, in 1944,639,000, and in 1945, 871,000 [Behrens, Merchant Shipping and the Demands of War, (London: HMSO, 1955), p.356]?
. . . .
@mauricebuckmaster9368
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Attention Indians!
Did you know? – The man who did the most to relieve the Bengal Famine was . . . .
. . . . Sir Winston Spencer Churchill.
. . .
@C01A60
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.
Winston Churchill
@apollocreed5391
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Stay focused and tinka bell can finally understand how silly they look and the dozens before them and after 😂
PS. Racist! 🧐🤣
@mauricebuckmaster9368
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
In the aftermath of the Famine, there was a call for a full government inquiry. The body formed to undertake this task was officially called “The Famine Inquiry Commission”, often referred to also as the “Woodhead Commission”, after its chairman, Sir John Woodhead, a previous Governor of Bengal. Its remaining 6 members were S V Ramamurty, Manilal B Nanavati, M Afzal Husain, W R Aykroyd, R A Gopalaswami, Secretary, and M M Junaid, Joint Secretary.
The Commission spent many months investigating the causes of the Famine and the effectiveness of the measures taken in response. In doing so, it travelled vast distances in the affected regions, and heard evidence from many witnesses, often in camera. Its report, published in 1945, remains by far the most exhaustive and authoritative study of the Famine in existence.
The report laid some responsibility for the Famine on pure bad luck, but reserved its most forceful condemnation for local politicians in the Government of Bengal.
“But after considering all the circumstances, we cannot avoid the conclusion that it lay in the power of the Government of Bengal, by bold, resolute and well-conceived measures at the right time, to have largely prevented the tragedy of the Famine as it actually took place.”
.. .. .. ..
@stayfocused6848
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Why does these insects from Britain having account handles AC and MBM don't even wanna reply to-the-point of my questions?
It's because me and my questions are nightmares for them 😂
I just enjoy it 😅
@mauricebuckmaster9368
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Professor Tirthankar Roy (b.14 Feb 1960, West Bengal, India) is India's foremost economic historian. He has published over 25 books and many additional articles. His work spans the fields of economic, business and social history. He is particularly expert on the effects of British colonialism on India's economic development.
Interviewed by The Times, he said: “Winston Churchill was not a relevant factor behind the 1943 Bengal famine. The agency with the most responsibility for causing the famine and not doing enough was the government of Bengal."
. . .
@stayfocused6848
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Let's Imagine a situation, If suppose someday in future, Prof. Tirthankar Roy wrote a book on Churchill and British Empire or in Bengal Famine, criticizing the policies of Winston Churchill.
Will Maurice keep on writing him as a credible source, or will he even regard his opinions on any subject?
Let's wait for the answer, I expect to get 😂
@Canvas73120
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
a leopard never changes its spot, same goes with this propaganda news agency of not at all great britan, time and again you said this was caused due to natural disasters while there r plenty of evidence that it was man made….
@johnmpainter1041
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
That statue should of been put down long time ago.
@mauricebuckmaster9368
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Attention Indian Nationalist Fascists!
– Professor Tirthankar Roy (b.14 Feb 1960, West Bengal, India) is India's foremost economic historian. He has published over 25 books and many additional articles. His work spans the fields of economic, business and social history. He is particularly expert on the effects of British colonialism on India's economic development.
Interviewed by The Times, he said: “Winston Churchill was not a relevant factor behind the 1943 Bengal famine. The agency with the most responsibility for causing the famine and not doing enough was the government of Bengal."
. . .
@mauricebuckmaster9368
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Attention Indians!
None of you charlatans can beat me in an argument about who was responsible for the Famine. That's been proved time and time again on here in the last few years.
Now, please understand that I don't claim that this is because I'm more intelligent, or more erudite, or better read and informed, or that my command of English is superior to yours. All these are indeed true – but they aren't the reason you can't ever beat me.
It's simply that the facts are on my side.
. . . . . .
@apollocreed5391
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
https://youtu.be/I3ONwNwPmi0?si=nx-dV39pIKpISzIY
@muditjain8784
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Like Napolean, he was a mass murderer responsible for the Noakhali famine
@Libertarian-Socialist
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
The journal World Development is now reporting over 100-million died through the Brits.
@anaheistmax
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Anyway Thanks 🙏 India 🇧🇩. It doesn't matter I'm Muslim
@mauricebuckmaster9368
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Attention Indians!
The narrative peddled by this video is entirely false. Churchill was the one who did the most to end the Famine.
. . .
@shikharagrawal1797
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Churchill is looking up from hell, burning in rage seeing the country of “beastly people with beastly religion who breed like rabbits”, developing and becoming a major global power in the 21st century.
@manavyoga2037
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
BBC is showing true pictures of British leader or British killer
@juanmiguelreyesguerr
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Churchill was worse than hitler.
@shikharagrawal1797
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
For India, the Brits were no better than the Nazis, Churchill was no better than Hitler, and what they did to India was no less than the holocaust.
@shikharagrawal1797
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
The Brits murdered 35 million of us, contrived 12 devastating famines, looted $ 45 trillion, reduced India to an opium economy, broke us in two, left us with a life expectancy of 32 years. But we survived.
Churchill hated Indians and his policies led to the massacre of 3 million Indians during the Bengal famines of 1942.
The west can keep worshipping mass murderers while our country is gonna thrive 🙂
@brianmacadam4793
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Yasmin Kan, uses "minimalistic" language when she speaks on the famine. I agree that Churchill didn't cause the famine, but he was notified and refused to provide help to the millions that NEEDED help. Churchill's language towards the Indians is despicable and I would call it racist.
The leadership in the British Empire were regularly contemptuous of their commonwealth citizens and ignorant of the responsibilities of governance.
@misterlove7895
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
W Poojeet slayer
@krishnamohanrao4191
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Churchill for Indians
Hitler for Jews
Masters of Genocide
@mauricebuckmaster9368
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Attention, Indians!
Read the words of Binay Ranjan Sen. This gentleman was the official in the Bengal Government responsible for famine relief up to September 1943. He then became Director-General of Food for all India, and later a very effective Director General of the UN FAO, expanding it greatly and switching its main effort to actually doing something to deal with hunger and famine.
Binay Sen said that "Sir John Woodhead, [the Chairman of the Famine Inquiry Commission], a former Governor of Bengal and a man of great integrity and competence, brings out the facts in their stark reality.
"Though I personally was an important administrative figure in the provincial government, I have to admit that, by and large, the observations and judgment of the Famine Commission were objective and correct.
As I recall those tragic days, I often wonder what more I could have done and did not do. Since I was responsible for emergency relief, why did I allow things to get so far out of hand with no protest? Why did I not cry out louder when the aman crop failed, and ask for planned supplies from other provinces?
"The Bengal Famine Report came out in 1945, and what the Report brought out about the inadequacies and inefficiencies of the Central and Provincial administrations was already clear enough to us."
. . . . .
@zaostrog
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Churchill was a war criminal and a warmonger. It is sad that he is portraited as a great leader. Even his famous speech"we shall never surender# wes spoken by his imitator and comedian of that tiume while he ran away from London bombing
@robinm4265
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Thanks for sharing
@mahindrasrikanth9880
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Churchill is hitler for India.
@mauricebuckmaster9368
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Much of the case against Churchill rests not on his actions but on his various "racist" comments about Indians, and Bengalis in particular. Most of these are taken out of context. Churchill was certainly no friend to Indian nationalist leaders, most of whom he regarded as moralising humbugs. He was an unashamed imperialist, like many of his generation, and committed to maintaining India’s unity within the British Empire. He had a strongly-held conviction that too sudden and rapid a move to democracy and independence would tear the subcontinent apart on sectarian lines, a fear that events would justify.
– Zareer Masani, Churchill and the Genocide Myth
Got that, Indians? The Genocide MYTH.
. . . . . .
@mauricebuckmaster9368
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
"The true facts about food shipments to Bengal, amply recorded in the British war cabinet and government of India archives, are that more than a million tons of grain arrived in Bengal between August 1943, when the war cabinet first realised the severity of the famine, and the end of 1944, when the famine had petered out.
"This was food aid specifically sent to Bengal, much of it on Australian ships, despite strict food rationing in England and severe food shortages in newly-liberated southern Italy and Greece. As detailed in Andrew Roberts’s brilliant biography, far from seeking to starve India, Churchill and his cabinet sought every possible way to alleviate the suffering without undermining the war effort."
– Zareer Masani, Churchill and the Genocide Myth
@winstonseecharan6321
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
All those die yet India population grow at a much higher rate than england even without immigrants and more migration
@rogergutteridge2307
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Get a life and move on , it happened so stop the racism
@samratkoley5060
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
There were actually 12 famines in india under British rule.
@k-8511
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
British are real evil who act benevolent now , they are living off the wealth they stole from us. They didn’t even leave us with enough food to help those who are starving 😢
@mauricebuckmaster9368
January 4, 2024 at 3:53 pm
In the aftermath of the Famine, there was a call for a full government inquiry. The body formed to undertake this task was officially called “The Famine Inquiry Commission”, often referred to also as the “Woodhead Commission”, after its chairman, Sir John Woodhead, a previous Governor of Bengal. Its remaining 6 members were S V Ramamurty, Manilal B Nanavati, M Afzal Husain, W R Aykroyd, R A Gopalaswami, Secretary, and M M Junaid, Joint Secretary.
The Commission spent many months investigating the causes of the Famine and the effectiveness of the measures taken in response. In doing so, it travelled vast distances in the affected regions, and heard evidence from many witnesses, often in camera. Its report, published in 1945, remains by far the most exhaustive and authoritative study of the Famine in existence.
The report laid some responsibility for the Famine on pure bad luck, but reserved its most forceful condemnation for local politicians in the Government of Bengal.
“But after considering all the circumstances, we cannot avoid the conclusion that it lay in the power of the Government of Bengal, by bold, resolute and well-conceived measures at the right time, to have largely prevented the tragedy of the Famine as it actually took place.”
. . .