the travel show is coming up. now the weather. sarah keith lucas has the weather. sarah keith lucas has the details for you. hell changeable weather continues this weekend, not raining everywhere, there will be some decent and long spells of sunshine, but equally showers around too, and more persistent rain during today in the south. a weather front in the channel means rain here, blustery and heavy showers. and and northern ireland, the odd rumble of thunder, temperatures around 18—22d. into this evening, outbreaks of rain in the south, pushing further north across much of england and wales tonight, further showers in the north—west. through tomorrow, the rain clears quickly from the north

coast, thundery showers in the north and west chipping further eastwards through the day, temperatures around 16-21d, through the day, temperatures around 16—2id, bye for now. hello, this is bbc news, the headlines: president trump describes his new chief of staff, retired military general john kelly, as a true star. he takes up the position after reince priebus stood down from the post. angry clashes in east london during a protest over the death of a man who was restrained by police last week. pope francis leads tributes to ii—month—old charlie gard. his life support was switched off after he was moved to spend his final hours at a hospice. president trump said its actions were dangerous and reckless and responded by carrying out missile exercises with with south korea. now on bbc news, the travel show. we are taking a trip through

pakistan's biggest city on a bus. this might be a bit crazy along the way. we are looking at dolphins in india from a paddle board. wow, did you see that one? that was right behind me. and we are crossing the great canadian prairie on a train. hello and welcome to the travel show with me, henry golding, coming to you this week from amongst the soaring skyscrapers of singapore where later on we will be meeting this week's global gourmet. but first...

this is a country that some governments say you shouldn't visit as a tourist. pakistan. terror—related incidents, kidnappings and political turmoil have all taken their toll on the country's reputation. and as the country prepares to celebrate its 70th anniversary of independence, the travel show‘s benjamin zand packed his backpack and headed for karachi. pakistan is in the news almost constantly, but coverage of this area is pretty one—dimensional. if it is not focusing on the taliban, it is about the country's differences with india or cricket. but there is a lot more to it than that. the country is home to over 190 million people, and 63% are under 25. many of these are fun loving, forward—thinking individuals who are changing the world. so i am on my way to meet some. karachi is pakistan's most dangerous and notorious city, but a security crackdown over the last few years means it has got a lot safer,

and for a traveller like myself that means an experience like few others. itjust might be a bit crazy along the way. all right, so i have changed into more suitable clothing because i want to get a taste of karachi and when you think of a tour you usually think of a friendly tour guide, some foreigners, a casual stroll around the city. but in karachi it is much different. it is done on one of these things. this is the super safari express. in a city linked more with bombs and guns than tourist trips, the super savari seems a safe choice. but this is a unique kind of tour bus, created to change the image of karachi not only locally but also around the world. main aim — to help karachi's population reconnect with their city. and help the rich meet the city's poorest members. in its early days, each tour will come with an armed guard,

but as the situation has improved, it is nowjust this big, beautiful bus. i love this bus, it's incredible. don't we all? what is the history of it? you see them everywhere in karachi. well, you know, the concept works on the lines of this actually being a representation of the brides of the guys who drive them. obviously, you can climb on the roof, and who doesn't want to climb on the roof of a bus? why do you think a city like karachi needs something like this? there has been a disconnect between educated classes in karachi and the general population. what we have tried to do is eliminate that disconnect and show everyone that the culture that you have, the history that you have, and the city that you live in is for everybody, whether you live in a mansion or you live in a slum. and do you do this because you think karachi is misrepresented and it has a reputation it doesn't deserve? i will just say that there is so much more to karachi than we know. the cityjust has so much depth.

it has depth in terms of the people who live here, the cultures that exist, the lifestyles, the architecture, there is just so much to see. there is something special about this mosque that i have to show you. the tour takes visitors around the city in an attempt to show its diversity. you visit mosques, hindu temples, churches, karachi's version of the big ben, and then it is time for food. sorry. i am going to ruin your tea party. what is this? this guy says traditional pakistani breakfast. yes, a traditional pakistani breakfast is essential. so you get chai and a type of an omelette, essentially most things in pakistan are made spicy, so the same with omelettes. i have noticed. my stomach noticed that a few days ago. you dip some of that in the chai. you actually dip it in the tea? yeah. i am just ruining your tea.

i have got soggy pieces of dough in your tea. our next stop. so this is lyari. widely regarded as the most dangerous area of karachi. lyari has a pretty bad reputation, linked with gangs and violence it is known as the worst part of karachi, but i was here to see what it was really like, and to play football. that is because i am in town to meet the people helping to change lyari for the better. and it starts here. so here in lyari there is only one thing people care about, there's over 175 registered clubs, and that's because these guys, like everybody else, absolutely love it. anywhere you look you see man united tops, real madrid tops and hopefully some liverpool tops, and i am here to find out a bit more about why that is the case. this is our lyari centre, in lyari,

a centre of excellence, where we have approximately 100 kids that come across to train four or five times a week. we give them free football coaching, we give them life skills sessions on top of it. so i have been asked to have a game with these kids, who look pretty good. because i am wearing a liverpool top, everybody thinks i play for liverpool. a huge crowd has gathered. yeah, look forward to me embarrassing myself in front of everybody. here we go. after eyeing up the opposition, we began. sand and heat, it is not a good combination. soon, though, we were losing by two goals. me and my new friend michelle realised it was our moment and, after generously being awarded a free kick, i curled it into the corner.

then two penalties later we had won the game. after celebrating with my team, adequately named benjamin's liverpool warriors, i spoke to michelle about football here. she runs the local women's team and is trying to get more women involved in football and, amazingly enough, it turned out i had just witnessed herfirst ever game on this pitch. you were a little bit nervous about playing because you are like the only girl here. is this the first time you have played here? it is the first time i have played here without any other girls, and if you were to look around, and there's a game going on there, and there's an academy here, i think i am the only female in this stadium right now. sometimes we go into an area where the culture is just extremely male—dominated, and they don't want females to play. despite the resistance from some people here, michelle says things are getting better for female footballers. they have just set up a new women's team. i am really happy to say that we actually have a girls' centre here. from my point of view, it is brand—new for them, but the interest

is in that they are eager to play, they are keen to play, which is something very difficult in pakistan, to get girls excited about sports. there are 100 boys who come to the academy here, there are maybe 35 girls who come. that is about the ratio, but to me that is fantastic, because two years ago, there was zero. up until about a week ago, i had no idea that anybody played football in pakistan, never mind there was this conclave where it was huge. cricket is the dominant sport, but cricket also comes from a colonial past, and football is picked up in areas that have been otherwise neglected. these guys have had to come up with their own recreation, solving their own problems, and football is kind of an inherited a game, solving your problems. i kind of want to hear some rap.

so this really could not be more different from the image most people get when they think of pakistan. time now for this week's global gourmet, which this week comes from here in singapore, and today we are looking at a style of food unique to this part of the world, peranakan food, and a restaurant that has made quite a name for itself. what we do here is peranakan cuisine with a slight modern approach. if you see peranakan food, you kind of have the malay flavours and curries, but at the same time you also have chinese dishes, and you also have pork.

so that is what is really unique about it. we are going to do slow—braised pork ribs with a kind of a curry. this is the dish that everyone recognises the peranakan cuisine by. we always say if you can cook this dish well, it means that you can cook every other dish well. the base of most peranakan dishes are really what we call a spice base, rempah, and typically they consist of a few ingredients like shalotts, garlic, nuts, shrimp paste, galangal, turmeric and lemongrass. shrimp paste smells to some people bad, like socks that you have never washed for a week. to us, delicious. we are going to caramelise it with some oil until it dries up, and it has this really nice depth of flavour. there is something really rich,

and it adds something special to the sauce. in our kind of food, you really have to take time and be patient. if you rush it, the food will not taste good. so now you start to smell the garlic, the lemongrass, the chilli and the turmeric. at this point, this is the smell that i grew up with, and that is really the thing that always reminds me of when i was young. so this is the base that we use to braise chicken or other things. so the meat, after braising up to three hours, absorbs all the spice flavours that we have put in and also it is nice and tender and moist in the centre. slow—cooked pork ribs on the bone in black nut curry sauce and a black nut sambal on the top. it is probably the last dish i will want to have before,

you know, bye—bye. that is how much it means to me. still to come here on this week's travel show: planes, trains, boats and bikes in the dead centre of canada. so don't go away. the travel show, your essential guide wherever you are heading. my name is spike reid, i am an international mountain leader, and in october last year with some team—mates, i set off from the glacial source of the river ganges and paddle—boarded all the way down the river to the indian ocean. we covered 3000 kilometres. it took 98 days. it was a tough journey.

but it was certainly memorable. the expedition really began in earnest when we launched onto the river at devprayag, which is where two rivers come together and form the ganges proper. there's already a lot of flow, you have got these two raging torrents coming together. you jump on, and suddenly you have got these waves, you have got these flows, and it is like, "right, can i stay on this board?" this is the mighty paddle board.

it is 30 inches wide. it is virtually stable, i haven't really fallen in off it, and it has got such a great glide through the water. one of the biggest highlights on the whole trip was seeing the gangetic river dolphin. they are one of the most endangered aquatic mammals in the whole world. wow! sorry, you are not seeing any of these. they are definitely dolphins. did you see that one? that was right behind me. trying to film these was really hard work. they neverjump where you predict. throughout the journey, local people were fascinated in what we were doing. we were working with a charity that is doing a huge amount of work here in terms

of improving sanitation. it was quite sobering to see how many people are living without really any reliable clean water sources. the quality of the water in the ganges is incredibly low. another plastic cup. one of dozens upon dozens i have seen yesterday. we have been paddling seven, eight hours a day, and northern india in november, december, can be tough. some mornings, the fog was so, so thick, it was like pea soup. those last two and a half days were tough. one day i paddled 78 kilometres and was on the paddle board for about 13 hours. the end point of ganges' delta is gangasaga,

and when i got there i was like, "this is open ocean." "there is no bank to my right, there is no bank to my left." "we are here, we are here, we have made it!" i felt so alive. nice and salty. as well as learning a lot about the challenges facing these communities, i think i now know how far i can actually push myself. spike reid and his epic paddle board journey down the ganges and if you are planning, or have completed an incredible journey of your own, why not let us know. and finally this week, the last of our films marking ca nada's 150th anniversary.

this week we are in manitoba visiting communities that rely on a fragile rail link to the rest of the country. but that line has been closed by damage from storms. its owners say they can't afford to repair it and the communities may have to take over the rail link themselves. oh, my goodness, i can't see the communities surviving without the train. it has been the mode of travel for years. cos it's an isolated community, so you have only got the train or a plane, but usually everyone uses the train. they rely on it, right, because how are you going to get food? it will cost too much for aeroplane charters or helicopters to come in. yes, in the winter, providing you have a good winter season, we can have the winter road from january to march, three months, but that is it.

spring and summer, fall, it is by rail. 0ur elders, they all worked on the rail, and i was born up north by the railroad tracks. growing up here, i used to go out and go fishing with my grandparents and my grandmother, and i would go berry picking, and she would cook me rabbit every morning for breakfast. pretty good. we have grandchildren.

we enjoy watching them grow up here, it is quiet. it has its challenges, this is where we actually started, where our family was actually begun. can bears eat ants? yeah. what is that? yellow creek. you know that giant mountain, like that mountain? me and noel nolan, we walked over there. there is a lake. this is the kids' playground. they know every inch of this land. all this used to be a lake at one time. we are surrounded by swamp, and we can't build a road

there because sometimes we would say bottomless, but it isn't feasible for us to put a road in there and put in half a mile of dirt in the ground. some of the challenges are getting our food, our gas, our vehicles. everything is a challenge up here. what i like is that the children here are able to go out anywhere, and they are always watched by the whole community. especially after the school is over, they go out biking, they go out hunting. they really learn a lot from it, because it was our way of life a long time ago also. owning the railroad, i know that our leadership

has been pushing and have been staunch believers in the rail. it has been here for years. i believe it will be here for a lot more years. i am hoping that we will get partners who will want to help get the needs and necessities into the communities. that is all the time we have this week, but coming up next week... i only knowjustin bieber. you are a belieber? i am a belieber. ben is getting in tune at a festival in pakistan. # what are you waiting for? i am about to step in the ring

with momo, who is a top contender. i am in thailand learning the art of kicking. join us for that if you can, but in the meantime, you can follow us on the road byjoining our social—media feeds. all the details are on your screens 110w. but from me, henry golding and the rest of the travel show team here in singapore, it is goodbye. hello there. we've got some fairly unsettled weather on the cards through the weekend, but it's not going to be a write—off, there is some sunshine around too. here is the view taken earlier

on this morning in cullen, this is eastern scotland, in moray. you can see the fairly well broken cloud, so a decent morning, actually, for many places. as the third test continues at the oval, dry to start things off, but later on this afternoon we are going to see that rain rolling in, so i think that will affect play at times today, with the breeze picking up too. in fact, many southern parts of england, in particular, will see outbreaks of rain, with this front initially in the english channel pushing its way slowly northwards. to the north of that, sunshine and showers is going to be the story of the day, with low pressure sitting to the north—west of the uk. some of those blustery showers pushing in across scotland and northern ireland, moving through quickly on the breeze, some sunshine in between. slightly drier further south across northern england, the north—west, the midlands, just the odd showers, bright and dry in between. further outbreaks of rain in the south through much of the afternoon anywhere along the south coast of england, right up towards part of east anglia, perhaps 0xford as well. outbreaks of rain accompanied with brisk winds in the south—east, and along the english channel, lots of people heading towards france today, so quite blustery through the english channel. and we'll see a spell of rain across much of england

and wales overnight tonight, clearing the east coast during the early hours of sunday morning. and then further showers moving in around the north and the west coast of the uk, temperatures overnight down to 12—15 degrees. now, through the day tomorrow, this first area of low pressure does clear fairly quickly away from the east coast, more persistent rain with it, and then we are left with sunny spells, scattered showers, again with the low pressure sitting out towards the north—west. so most of the showers to start sunday will be around northern and western parts, and then they will check their way eastwards. eastern and south—eastern parts of english and avoid them, but there could be the odd heavy, thundery shower as well during the afternoon, temperatures between 16 and 21 degrees, so slightly on the cool site for this time of year, feeling cooler with those showers and the breeze around too. low pressure staying with us as we move into the new working week, against sitting out to the north—west, a hint of higher pressure starting to build in from the south, so still plenty showers in the north—west for monday and tuesday, things a little bit try, and a little bit warmer towards the south—east.

that it for now, bye—bye. this is bbc news. the headlines: more turmoil at the white house — donald trump names generaljohn kelly as his next chief of staff after days of public infighting. john kelly will do a fantasticjob. general kelly has been a star, has done an incredible job thus far, respected by everybody, a great, great american. fireworks and bottles are hurled at police in east london during a protest over the death of a man who was restrained by police last week. north korea says its latest intercontinental missile test is a stern warning for washington. north korea says its latest missile test proves the whole of the us mainland is within range of its weapons. also in the next hour — putting lives at risk — one in four shops are caught selling knives to children.