fat south wales should stay dry. the fat south wales should stay dry. a few showers up towards the new phase. that takes us into what will bea phase. that takes us into what will be a cool week ahead. sunny spells by day but the nights will be cold and frosty. that is all for me for now. enjoy the rest of your weekend. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines at 16.30: at least 39 people have been killed in syria after an explosion hit a convoy of coaches carrying evacuees on the outskirts of aleppo. north korea warns the us not to take provocative action in the region, saying it is "ready to hit back with nuclear attacks". the comments came as north korea marks the 105th anniversary of the birth of its founding president, kim il—sung. everton bans sun journalists from its grounds following a column by kelvin mackenzie regarding midfielder ross barkley. learner drivers will have to follow directions from a sat

nav to pass their test, under new rules coming into force in december. drivers will also be expected to answer vehicle safety questions while on the move. now on bbc news — the remarkable story of the woman thought to be the oldest living in africa — as she celebrates her 117th birthday. journalist priscilla ng'ethe travels to kenya tojoin her great grandmother for this special day. welcome to my great grandmother's 117th birthday. right now she's taking pictures of people who have come to see her and celebrate this big day with her. there's more than 90 years difference between me and her. she's 117 and i'm just 23. i'm returning to my ancestral home in kenya to celebrate remarkable

birthday of one of the oldest people in the world. my great grandmother, elizabeth. i'm here to discover the secrets of her long life as she throws a party and reunites five generations of my family. this is where i was born. it's about ten miles from nairobi, the capital of kenya. this fertile [and has been home to my family for at least six generations.

today there are hundreds of us, like me, spread around the world. i'm returning from my home in london to visit a woman very close to my heart, who has never left kenya but has cultivated a global family. we're just heading up to my great grandma's house. the road is bumpy. it's like a make shift road. this is a shrine where most of my family are buried, my great granddad, my grandad, his children and five wives. my great grandma is the fifth wife out of six. we're heading up to my great grandma's home. she lives by the side of where my great granddad used to live. i'm really excited to see her. there she is.

hi! hello. how are you? i'm fine. good to see you. it's a long time. long time, many years. this is my great grandmother elizabeth. she's going to be 117. this is my great aunt, irene. she's here to help me with the translation because i can understand everything my great grandmother tells me, but to speak the language is really difficult. great grandma elizabeth has lived on this land for 90 years.

she grew up tending cattle on her father's farm. then she moved here as a young bride and raised seven children. she built this house with profits from the farm. my great—grandmother is proud of her government identity card. it doesn't show the exact month or day that she was born. but it does have the year of birth as 1900. the tribal tradition of age groups gives the same name to all children born in the same year. my great grandmother belongs to this age group which means we know she was born some time between 1899 and 1900. do you remember when you got married?

do you remember your wedding day? force ? so... she was brought by force. she was married by force because she was too young. at that time she didn't want to get married to an old person, because she was the fifth wife. great grandmother elizabeth was the fifth of six wives of the senior chief. he worked with the british during colonial rule and is well known in kenya for playing a part in the country's independence. was it difficult for

you to be the fifth wife? leonard is elizabeth's sixth child and he's my great—uncle. he lives next door to my great grandmother. he was a child during the 1950s, when his father was detained during the mau mau uprising, that was a revolt against european land. archive: they were being checked and all members of the same tribe

who have suffered most under the mau mau. a state of emergency was declared, but though it led to the end of british rule, it was a tough time for my great grandparents. and for my uncle leonard. in 1952, my father was taken into detention. kenya had been declared emergency and he was detained for the next seven years, he was in detention. we used to be children of a chief. we became beggars. we were being helped by those people who we would have called poor. during now the mau mau it was not only affected our family. it affected other families. one of my auntie, who had i think

there were nine children, my mother took them. already she had taken two other children who belonged to our sister, who had died. my mother's sister. we were, my mother was raising about 20 children. wow. yeah. we had a lot of — it was chaotic, you know? like we are fighting for food. this shrine is the resting place of my great grandfather. he lies alongside his five wives and there's a space reserved for my great grandmother elizabeth. as theirs was a polygamist marriage, visiting the shrine puts into perspective how large the chief's family really was.

my great grandfather is resting here. but his legacy is living on in hundreds of descendants. what do you think about polygamy today? would you advise me to go down that route? you wouldn't like me to? no? you were the last one to practice polygamy,

does that mean that our family will now be smaller and smaller and how do you feel about that? so you wouldn't want me to just have one or two kids, you want me to have five, six... regardless of how many children i may have in the future, there's no doubt that the family is growing. my great grandmother gave birth to seven children. there are tens of grandchildren.

my father was one of them. i'm his second child of three, making me one of many, many great grandchildren to elizabeth. who's in this picture? is that you? that picture there, i think it's

you and there's kids around you i can see that photographs play a big parts in my great grandmother's life. i can see that photographs play a big parts in my great grandmother's life. to celebrate her birthday,

she's throwing a party. we're going to attempt something very special. a family photograph, a living family tree. with five generations of my family and my great grandmother at the centre. but with so many people involved, it could take a while. the first of january is a big day for my great grandmother elizabeth koinange. she's invited family and friends to celebrate her 117th birthday. we've travelled from far and wide and for me, it's a chance to reunite with my kenyan family. so the family, your children,

your children's children, we're all spread out across the world. like me, i'm in london. do you like that we're all over the world now? have you always celebrated on january 1, since you can remember? right now everyone‘s preparing the food.

there's going to be loads of meat, vegetables. so now i think it's time for me to get changed, as all the guests are slowly arriving. i'm going to wear something that's a bit more comfortable. by throwing this party, my great grandmother is continuing the tradition started by her late husband, of gathering friends and family together on the first day of the year. so right now, the party's in full swing. most people have eaten. there's still some people

getting served over here. we still have some late arrivals coming in, as you can expect. we have my great—uncle right now giving a speech and saying once everyone‘s eaten, all the family get together and take a group picture of ourfamily tree. next time for the guest of honour to take the microphone. time for cake and one of elizabeth's granddaughter‘s does the honours. happy birthday... to you. happy birthday. applause great grandma puts her longevity down to a diet of boiled yam and milky tea. but for today she's

happy to indulge. everyone has been given some cake. the first people to be given some cake was everyone named after my great granddad. so what my auntie said is all the koinanges come and get some cake. she's really happy. i think she's had a lot of cake. hopefully when i'm older than 100 years old, i will be fed cake by all the people who come after me. yeah, it's a beautiful thing. i'm quitejealous, to be honest. we're just going to wait... this cake is good. we're going to wait for my great grandmother to go to where we're taking a family picture. 0nce we've sat down we will start moving towards that area. organising so many

people is a tough task. everybody‘s keen to catch up. while great grandmother patiently waits, it's a chance to meet relatives i didn't know i had. do you know how we're related? i belong to the grandmother older than her. this is my cousin... cousin? his son is your dad? yeah. hi. thank you very much. i'm your aunt. yeah. people are so excited to see each other that they're socialising and they're slowly, slowly, slowly moving towards this way. hopefully we get the picture by the end of the day. first to join our living family true, great grandmother elizabeth, surrounded by her six surviving children, who have a combined age of more than 400. next to join, my aunts and uncles.

now the third generation has been called. so that means the people who call my great grandmother great grandmother, so i'm part of them and i'm going tojoin them. my mother has been holding this party for about 20 years. she enjoys it. she would like to do it every quarter of a year. she's happy to see her family coming together. she has become like the pillar for the family unit. applause many of us enjoy tracing our family tree. but for most families, gathering so many generations together like this isn't possible. it's no surprise that people have

travelled from far and wide because great grandmother elizabeth's enthusiasm for life is infectious. i finally got my selfie. hers is a life well lived. a life focussed on providing her descendants with advantages that she didn't get to enjoy. faith, love and food are the fundamentals of my great grandmother's life. although she rarely leaves her small house, the world comes to her through her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, like me. one of the things which i like about her, and i think this is god given, is her memory. because she doesn't get old. if you come here and you talk say hello to her and you talk to her, next time you come,

she remember you very well. she can't forget. bye. bye— bye. improvements in medicine mean we can all expect a longer life. but it's how you live it that really matters. and for this, my great grandmother elizabeth is my inspiration. hello. decent but unspectacular is

how this saturday will be remembered. some fine weather, a lovely start for this weather watcher in dorset and through the day it turned into a mixture of patchy cloud and sunny spells, the scene across parts of wales. some showers particularly in northern ireland, scotland and parts of northern england and this will continue into the first part of the evening, the occasional heavy one and thunder the one and far of scotla nd and thunder the one and far of scotland but generally speaking into the overnight hours most of the showers fade, dry and clear spells, cold enough for a touch of frost. a change in the early hours, clothing over with outbreaks of rain in northern england, scotland and northern ireland. this weatherfront brings some wet weather tomorrow but it is giving us headaches of uncertainty about how far north or south of the wet weather will be and uncertainty about how quickly this

rain will move eastwards. the zone of miserable weather through central areas for most of easter day. and heart of scotland it will be a decent day. —— in the north of scotland. through northern england it will be cold and damp. there may even be some snow over the pennines. for the south of wheels and south west england probably avoiding the wet weather for the most part. some sunny spells and relatively mild. the arena pushes to the south east into the evening on easter day. —— the rain pushes. easter monday, high pressure to the west of the british isles, lower pressure to the east giving us a northerly wind, not particularly strong. that's when we'll bring this cold ear southwards and we will notice that. a chilly

feel on easter monday, a fair amount of climate, some spells of sunshine and one or two showers. particularly called in the north—east. that brings us into a clearly chilly week, sunny spells by day but cold and frosty by night. this is bbc news. the headlines at 5pm: dozens of people have been killed in a car bomb attack carrying evacuees in syria. the bomb shattered coaches and set cars on fire, leaving a trail of bodies, including children, as the convoy waited in a rebel—held town. as tensions rise, north korea displays its military hardware in a parade to celebrate the birth of the country's founder. everton football club bans sun journalists from its stadium and training ground

following a column by kelvin mackenzie regarding midfielder ross barkley. i think it is disgraceful the way he spoke about ross barkley and the way that he described the people of liverpool. what he said about ross