the russian president vladimir putin any use of chemical weapons by the regime he backs in syria is a red line and france would retaliate immediately. their meeting is described as "frosty" and their discussions as "frank." a week on from the manchester attack, the bbc has obtained exclusive pictures of the bomber. salman abedi is seen shopping the day before the blast. police have released an image of him days before the bombing carrying a blue suitcase they're still trying to find. after two days of airport chaos, the boss of british airways has apologised for the disruption caused by its computer meltdown, but refused to resign. alex cruz denies the crisis had anything to do with ba shedding large numbers of it support staff, and blamed a power surge. services are now returning to normal. now on bbc news, the travel show. hamilton park zoo in cambridgeshire has confirmed a female zookeeper was

killed in what is described as a freak accident involving a tiger. the park will be closed today while investigations continue. the zookeeper was mauled to death by one of the tigers inside the enclosure. it is not known how. the park was full of holiday visitors, and several posted photos of the air ambulance landing nearby. the park was shortly close by zoo officials who later handed out a short statement which said, this appears to have been a freak accident, at no point during the incident did any animals escaped their enclosures, and at no point was public safety affect it in any way. nine years ago affect it in any way. nine years ago a cheater escaped through a broken electric fence. —— cheetah. it was later recaptured nearby and nobody was hurt. the forensics fans have now left and the police say there

are no suspicious circumstances surrounding what happened. a full investigation is under way, where this evening, the animals are being prepared for the night. the gates are locked and the zoo says it will stay close tomorrow. time now for the trouble show. —— travel show. on the travel show this week: gigantic metal elephants. so this is how you make an elephant roar. elephant roars. that was incredible. how one tweet saved a rhino. and, exploring london's secret tube network. the top speed of one of our mail trains was about 35mph. that's pretty fast. we start this week on france's river loire.

along its banks you'll find some of the country's most impressive history. a chateau there were visited by the likes ofjoan of arc, leonardo da vinci and eleanor of aquitaine. but we sent keith wallace to the city of nantes to find out how the region's industrial past is being used to inspire a new generation. just over a decade ago, this little island in the loire was a scrap of wasteland close to the centre of nantes. a three—mile stretch of brownfield site, home only to the odd artist who had gone there in search of peace and quiet. but it didn't stay peaceful for very long. in 2007 this, the great elephant, began taking its daily constitutional.

people came from all over to hitch a ride in its belly. and, as it prepares to celebrate its 10th birthday, they still come. so this is how you make an elephant roarfrom inside its body. elephant roars. laughter. that was incredible. it's so low—tech. you can feel the whole thing pull against your body as you're doing it. this is the thing that i love. all of these switches are twitching every time the elephant‘s moving. it's so organic, it's incredible. the elephant rides form part

of the first huge push to turn the fortunes of nantes around. the industry that had recently departed had left a huge ugly scar just a stone's throw from the historic centre. it's a crazy project when you think about it, when they proposed to the city to create an elephant that will carry people on his back and go around on the isle of nantes. i mean, you have to ask money for that, you can imagine that people were quite surprised but the fact is that they managed to reach the challenge and to make it. i mean, there are loads of cities that have old industrial quarters that have been taken over by arty types but this is different. this is about rivets and metal and wood and workmanship and for a very good reason. they built ships here. in the mid—1970s, 60,000 people made their living on this island but the ships started getting bigger and bigger and the loire was too narrow this far upstream

to accommodate them. 30 years ago, in 1987, the last yard closed. these days, the old buildings are occupied, notjust by the elephant, but by a whole menagerie. francois. you're in a spider! all the animals began life inside the head of francois and he still gets a kick out of the drama. she waken. she wakes up. she wakes up! how long did it take to build? 0h, six months. can i move the head? too many play it like... with feeling, you understand?

with feeling. feel it, please. feel the spider. and these are all dockyards, aren't they, and they still feel like it, that's intentional. but there's another influence, the adventure writerjules verne was a son of nantes and his book, 20,000 leagues under the sea but there's another influence, the adventure writerjules verne was a son of nantes and his book, 20,000 leagues under the sea

inspired the island's gothic carousel. quite high up. yeah. do we control how high it is? no, we can't. we are on the top level precisely and under we have the deep sea and then the level of the sea and at every level you have different machines. the idea is that you make a trip and to dream basically. these will flap. so activate. flying as it goes up. this one is flapping now. no, we can do it any time. we can do what we like. yeah. we are on holiday!

since the carousel was built, it's possible that nantes skyline has become one of the most distinctive in europe and it's about to get even weirder. a 45—metre tall artificial tree complete with mechanical herons will offer tourists flights. building work on that is scheduled to begin soon with a finish date estimated for 2021. keith wallace in the french city of nantes. and if you're thinking about heading there any time soon, here's the travel show‘s top tips. the voyage of nantes is an urban trail that winds several miles through the city taking in dozen of artistic and historical sites. the distinctive green line will take you around all sorts of treasures, some of which are created especially for the summer and many of which are free. we have about a0 artists everywhere in town with great installation, follow the green line, it's kind of for children

to discover the city with their parents. at the end ofjune the museum of fine arts reopens after a six—year closure. it's been redeveloped and expanded and will become one of the region's largest galleries. treasures include works by picasso, kandinsky and max ernst. if you want a glimpse of some of the region's most important chateaux, head a couple of hours up the river to places like chambord, amboise, loire. they're not only historically important, they‘ re also beautiful to look at. and finally, if you fancyjoining in the great elephant‘s birthday party, it's being held onjune 30th. the venue is across the river at the old quarry where the heron tree will one day be built. entry from 8.30pm is free. next this week, london by night. the latest in our series looking at what the city

gets up to after dark. this time we're off to meet baker street's nocturnal florist. we are 21w, so it never close. yeah, we don't have keys. we can never shut down, if something goes wrong. my name kaleem and i work at flower station as a night shift supervisor. it's used to be a petrol station about 13 years ago but since then it's a flower show. our customers at night are kind of, you know, especially what i believe lovers. when they fight with each other one thing can fix that relationship, it's flowers. one time somebody came aam, he said that a search on google, only one shop open 21w, let's go there and fix it. the reason i am buying flowers

in the middle of the night, i have finished my shift as a taxi driver, it's my wife's birthday tomorrow and hopefully this will be a nice surprise for her. yeah, i was looking at the purple ones, as well. sure. perhaps this one here. 24/7 really helps people in australia and america and different parts of the world. when they want to be afternoon, everything going to be closed here. celebrities, sometimes they come and they choose their own flowers, they feel like they are in their own heaven or in back gardens. in centre of london you can never have that. we don't print out any letter and send it to customer, all of our cards are handwritten. we have a special team.

i am the one at night time who writes letters if any owner comes. at night it is peaceful, everybody is sleeping but we are working. for me flowers are everything. i was thinking if i have a girl, maybe girl i will give her a name dahlia. it's a flower name, it's one of my favourite, dahlia. i think flowers are the one thing which can connect you with the nature. stay with us because coming up on the travel show. a neat way to book new york hotel rooms by the minute. and i'm in london exploring the secret tube network that's about to be opened to the public for the first time. you're going to get a dodgy back if you're walking down here all day.

the travel show, your essential guide wherever you're headed. time now for trend and travel, your monthly mash—up of the best travel—related stories, snaps and videos online. a few months ago we met the tiletsons. they launched a huge social media campaign to find one lucky nanny who would join them on a once—in—a—lifetime trip around the world. well, almost 25,000 applications later, they found their new travel companion. it was such an honour, to have so much attention on us and so many people saying yeah, take me. the lucky nanny is from texas, usa. i called them and they were like yeah, we wanted to see how your week has been and derek goes, can we switch over to facetime. and i am like oh, obviously

i have the job, there was no way they're going to facetime me to tell me i won't do it, that'sjust rude! the group set off injuly and will be blogging about their adventures. travel packing for your next trip? this kickstarter project has a solution. the unique travel set packs seven pieces of women's clothing down into a single lightweight bag with 30 different combinations. the project hit its funding target earlier this month with a rollout planned for later in the year. off the red eye? in need of a quick rest? recharge is an app that lets you book luxury hotel rooms by the minute. it'sjust launched in new york offering customers a chance to use the rooms in the daytime. perfect for a shower and a nap. but be warned, if you're still there when housekeeping arrives, it's a $250 fine. so don't forget your alarm clock! and finally, one tweet managed to save the life of an endangered rhino.

after reading about puntung, a sumatran rhino with a dangerous a bscess, adam posted this call for help. i immediately tweeted at saving the survivors, and they put together an international crew of vets that performed a highly successful operation. puntung has now recovered and is living at a sanctuary in malaysia. the sumatran rhino is one of the most endangered species on earth. there are fewer than 100 of them left and if we're going to save them from extinction, every single last one counts. thanks to everyone who sent us their pictures this month using #traveltuesday. here are some of my favourites. richard white was in hong kong when he snapped the daily light show. and no prizes for guessing where this was taken, a famous landmark. don't forget to check our twitter and facebook feeds

for loads of extra special travel show content. now let's look at the travel videos clocking up the views online. surf's up! with the european summer fast approaching, we ride the waves with some of the internet‘s surfing stars. getting these waves are few and far between. they surf these waves a couple of times a year but when we do, it's well worth it. in my opinion, what makes a great surfing film? something really trippy. we're just having fun. you gotta go for it with what you got. don't sweat too much. you need to know your way around the ocean. it's not for the faint—hearted. and if you don't know what you're doing out there, you can find yourself in a lot of trouble. and if you see anything you think we should know about, don't forget to get in touch.

let's finish this week deep underneath london. announcer: mind the gap... final preparations are under way to open to the public an underground train network most londoners will never even have heard of. until 2003, it belonged to the royal mail. its tunnels snaked between and alongside the regular tube, the one that we all know about. i've been told to come to liverpool street station, the capital's gateway to the east of england, to see it for myself. this really is the bows of liverpool street. i think there's a set of stairs i am meant to go down. yeah, right here.

that's better. you can actually hear the old tube trains kind of going down so we must be at that level. the station mirrors its counterpart on the central line just above us. itjust lacks that nice tiling and polish. hello, is it ray? yeah, it is. hi, how are you. i'm henry. nice to meet you. it's amazing, isn't it. it's almost like stepping back in time, isn't it? it's pretty much how it was when we shut in 2003. nothing much has changed. ray's worked down here ever since it was decommissioned. he's one of three making sure the tunnels are dry and safe. how would it all work? after a letter is received at a sorting office if it needed to be transferred to the railways or another sorting office it would be bagged up and sent down to us and our trains ran it from east london at whitechapel to paddington in the west

and it was a loop and we would send trains round and they go continuously go around 22 hours a day with a six—minute gap between trains. to the depths we go. this is the under—platform area. yeah. this was the 150—volt power supplies for powering the trains around the stations. if i hold that up there you can work the handle. pull it down. it's heavy, isn't it? if i release that coil it will drop out. wow! not for the faint—hearted. now that there are no trains running through here it's safe to walk through. just down here? yeah, just down here. well, the whole railway is 6.5 miles long but there's 22 miles of track laid because it's double track and sidings. it was dug by hand. these are built on the hill, so as the train approached it could naturally decelerate. and as the train departed it could naturally accelerate.

you're going to get a dodgy back if you're walking down here all day. you could develop the mail rail walk. the mail rail walk! this was a 1980s mail train. right. actually a lot smaller than i thought they would be. they're sort of half—size, we use a two—foot gauge so it's quite narrow and they were unmanned, so they were automatic. the top speed of one of our mail trains was about 35mph. 35mph. the top. the average speed was much lower. that's fairly perky, though, it is pretty fast. mail rail was very busy, there were lots of people here, lots of differentjobs going on. it was a noisy environment with trains coming in and out. lifts coming up and down and people pushing mail containers around, it was quite a lively environment. and very soon paying customers will be able to see this for themselves. in the next few weeks, a brand new postal museum will hope here at mount pleasant in central london.

they're actually moving all their archives to a purpose built centre just over the road and the highlights will be put on display. oh, wow. look at that. that is amazing. so what is this room for? this is traditionally the heart of the network. this is where all the locomotives would have been worked on and this will be the centre of the post room museum experience. sorry to point out the obvious, but what is this thing? so, this is one of the new locomotives... the centre piece will be a ride through the tunnels below on the modern equivalent ofa mailtrain. push that back. 0h, right. ok, so this is where the driver will sort of sit and co—ordinate. exactly.

0ne train driverand one guard per train. it's a huge project so there must have been some challenges that you guys came across, what were the biggest? we started off very much from the point of view of it can be done and being honest we probable thought there was a reason it couldn't be done. and as we got further through the development i think we realised kind of how much the public wanted the tunnels to be opened up again. so do you think the british public find an affinity with the postal service here? certainly hopeful so, yeah. the collections that we hold represent 500 years of serving the public really. and constantly innovating and constantly changing and certainly in terms of post offices, they've been the glue that's often held the community together. while the ride is clearly the main attraction, the routes of royal mail go all the way back to henry viii. so the archivers have some rich pickings to choose from as they assemble the new exhibition. the postal room museum is scheduled to open injuly. i'm afraid that's all the time we have for this week.

butjoin us next week when... i head to istanbul to take in the sights and sounds of a city that combines two continents and thousands of years of history. along with some of best turkish baths in the world. after you have a good scrub you get a bit of water on the head... 0h, cold water! catch that if you can. but from me, henry golding, and the rest of the travel show team here deep underground in london, it's goodbye. hello there.

good morning. well, the bank holiday's over. it did actually end on a bit of a wet note for the north and east of england in particular. some wetter weather too in some parts of scotland but a lot of that has been moving away out into the north sea, so for the eastern side of england, still a lot of low cloud first thing but very little rain to speak of. scattered showers in the western side of england, parts of wales, western scotland will see a little bit of rain. this band of rain, this is a cold front heading our way, and that will be a key feature in the next couple of days. ahead of that still quite a warm night, particularly in the south—east, 14,15 or 16 degrees. now, as we start tuesday, we've got that low cloud across these eastern areas but it is still quite dry. further west, yes, we've got some rain for a time in northern ireland, that moves through. it will take a while for that to cross scotland and there will be at least some rain on this trailing weather front stretching down

across england and wales. but i think there will be very little rain in the south—west of england. could stay a bit grey around some of the coast, though. moving inland we could see some spells of sunshine. 19, 20 degrees. and in the south—eastern corner, it's still quite warm, still very humid, getting to 21 or 22 degrees. but there will be some rain crossing northern england down into wales. but it's becoming increasingly light and patchy as it makes its way south and eastwards. then behind that, we see it brightening up quite nicely and it begins to turn a bit fresher, we can see that humidity dropping away a little bit. but there is still some rain to be had in some northern parts of scotland. but at roland garros, we're looking pretty good over the next few days, 23, 20 four degrees, those winds are increasingly light, by the middle of the weekend we should see a bit more in the way of sunshine as well. tuesday evening back on our shores, we see this patchy rain fizzling out as it makes its way to the south—eastern corner. it will be quite grey around some of these coasts in the south

and west, but actually it's going to be a fresh start to the day on wednesday morning, that fresher air has spread its way in across pretty much all parts, so a much better night for sleeping. wednesday itself looks like a pretty decent day. might start offjust a bit windy towards the north—east of the uk, but that eases down and then most places are going to have a decent day with light winds and sunny spells but further weather fronts are waiting out in the atlantic. but wednesday, yes, it's a pretty decent day. there's that wind easing down in the north—east. good spells of sunshine for england and wales, northern ireland too, much of scotland as well and with those like winds and temperatures in the middle to upper teens, low 20s, i think it will be a very pleasant day indeed. and just ahead of all that rain in the south—eastern corner, looks like it will be quite warm and humid once again. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. our top stories: "frank" talk from the french president. emmanuel macron meets vladmir putin for the first time and issues a warning about the use of chemical weapons in syria.

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