Japanese tortures shock world. Captured Americans after Bataan; eyewitness reports of atrocities; Japanese troops marching; starving Chinese; child tossed by bayonet; Chinese bodies; grieving US mother talking about buying bonds; US war bonds; cemetery

President Roosevelt makes speech in British Columbia warning that America could be drawn into war. 'Roosevelt Hits out for peace'; arrival in motorcade; crowds cheering; speech on platform.

Ku Klux Klan meeting with American Nazis in Andover, New Jersey. Parading; burning cross.

'Harvest Time Near!': horse drawn harvesting of wheat in Kent in 1939; drought in US - shriveled maize; water being drilled for; starving cattle

Pan American Airway's China Clipper takes off on its first Pacific Air Mail trip from California to the Philippines and back in 1935; plane in flight

Feb. 6, Woodbridge, N.J.: 85 died when Pennsylvania Railroad commuter train plunged through temporary overpass. American railway disaster: twisted wreckage and rescue work in Woodbridge, New Jersey in 1950s

General Eisenhower with Chinese leader Chiang Kai Shek after end of war; McArthur with American troops in Japan.

A Pan American jumbo jet crashes onto the Scottish town of Lockerbie. Aerial view of town; crater and charred houses; crumpled cockpit in field; plane engine in farmyard; damaged houses; police; locals interviewed; repairs to roof; personal belongings of dead; flashback to scene of crash; nighttime; fires; firemen; local man interviewed; smoke; cockpit in field; sections of plane scattered over wide area; emergency services.

After the fall of Saigon many orphans are evacuated to UK and America. Doctor and nurses from Save the Children with Vietnamese orphans, many of them babies. Aircraft passenger cabin as plane en route to UK. Interview with helpers on condition of children. Children lying in hammocks and in plane seats. Archer holds little girl up to camera.

Michael Nicholson reports after the fall of Saigon of the evacuation from the American Embassy building. Report on the battle for Newport Bridge.

British Prime Minister John Major visits America. After ironing out differences over Northern Ireland and Bosnia, he and President Clinton have come up with a joint plan to send a repair team to Sarajevo.

Prime Minister John Major arrives in the US amidst reports of disagreement with President Clinton on Sinn Fein and Gerry Adams. Meets US officials, talks to press about Gerry Adams statement on lack of confidence with Major, landing in concorde, meets Bob Dole, talks of disagreement with Clinton

Desire for demilitarisation runs deep in West Belfast. American Vice President Al Gore visits. Lessening of tension in Belfast/loyalist reservations

A report on US funding for Ireland and Sinn Fein's efforts to find backing within the Irish/American community.

Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland, becoming the first American President to do so. He rushed around Belfast and Londonderry, meeting both Loyalists and Nationalists. He switched on the Christmas lights in Belfast, and drew massive crowds where ever he went.

More Mars pictures. July 1997,The Mars Pathfinder exploration vehicle, Sojourner rover, has moved onto the surface of Mars more pictures are expected back. The American Space probe "Pathfinder" has landed on Mars and will shortly be transmitting pictures back to Earth. It has taken the probe eight months to reach the planet and there are high expectations of what the mission will reveal.

Suez Conflict: the canal; Nasser addressing rally; Anthony Eden addressing meeting; newspaper headlines; British troops boarding ship; American troops; APCs in desert;ship at sea; United Nations in session.

Includes: shots of Saddam Hussein pre-Kuwait invasion; Norman Schwarzkopf with troops; Thatcher on Saddam 'Saddam Hussein is now trying in his tactics to hide behind Western women and children and use them as human shields'; troops arriving in Saudi Arabia; tanks on exercises in the desert; aeroplanes on exercise; Gen. Colin Powell with troops; George Bush speech on 'this will not be another Vietnam'; anti-war demonstration in London; Prince Charles with troops in desert; Iraqi Foreign Minister speech saying they will defend country; Stealth take-off and in-flight; night bombing raids; flak; wreckage; planes on aircraft-carriers; Cruise missile launch; Schwarzkopf describing bombing raid; SCUDS over Israel; ships firing; Al-Khafji attack; troop convoy enters Kuwait; tanks and artillery firing; tanks advance; missiles fired; night battle; burnt-out tanks; Iraqi troops surrenders; American injured; entry into Kuwait; Schwarzkopf at surrender meeting; more wreckage including Road to Basra

Selected shots include: arrests in US; body searches; prison interiors in US; drugs raid on houses in Scotland; police cars in China; armed raid on gambling den in China; fire bomb riots in Ulster; drug addicts shooting up in Zurich; arrest in Glasgow law and order crackdown; football hooligans riot in Trafalgar Square; US police arresting gang members; Rotterdam church used as licensed drug centre; Rotterdam drug squad raid; more Zurich addicts shooting up; children living in rubbish dumps, pipes and caves in Romania; poor people in India; shanty town in South America; homeless New Yorkers; shanty town in South America (from rushes); child labour in India; ku klux klan in Texas.