which co—ordinates future deals, says that scotch is a uk export success story and we will support the industry so it continues to thrive and prosper post brexit. whiskey may be the water of life, but it might also give london and edinburgh a headache — in trade terms, at least. we have got the travel show coming up. first, let's have a look at the weather. good evening. it has been warm in the sunshine today but a lot of showers around and thunderstorms too. over the next couple of days we have a mixture of sunshine and chalice. the heavy, thundery showers will fade, overnight the show was retreating to the western areas, continuing in northern ireland where there has been localised flooding, but not as heavy showers as we have been seeing. clearer skies further east, showers to begin the day. —— sunshine to begin the day. not many

showers for england and wales, the skies may be dry. heavy showers across scotland and northern ireland, the far north of england quite slow moving with hail and thunder possible. temperature similarto thunder possible. temperature similar to what we have had recently, average for this time of year. recently, average for this time of yea r. fewer recently, average for this time of year. fewer light showers, notjust in the south this time on tuesday, but then on wednesday the wind picks up but then on wednesday the wind picks up from the south—west with rain away. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: president trump has criticised china on twitter, saying it's doing nothing to halt north korea's weapons programme after pyongyang test—fired its second intercontinental ballistic missile in a month. the australian prime minister says counter—terror police have foiled an attempt to blow up a plane. four people have been arrested in raids across sydney. international trade secretary liam fox has said the government would not be keeping faith with the eu referendum result if it allowed the free movement of people to continue after brexit. but the chancellor philip hammond has previously said "it will be some

time" before full migration controls can be introduced. the duke and duchess of cambridge mark the centenary of the battle of passchendaele in belgium — one of the bloodiest in world war i. now on bbc news, it's time for the travel show. coming up on this week's 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'm 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've 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's much different. it's done on one of these things. this is the super savari 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. it's 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's the history of it? you see them everywhere in karachi. well, you know, the concept works along 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'm going to ruin your tea party. what is this? this guy says traditional

pakistani breakfast. yes, a traditional pakistani breakfast is essentially 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 chai. you actually dip it in the tea? yeah. i am just ruining your tea. 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's known as the worst part of karachi, but i was here to see what it was really like, and to play football. that's because i'm 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 sport people care about, and that is football. 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'm 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, mishal says things are getting better for female footballers. they have just set up a new women's team. i'm 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's about the ratio, but to me that's 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 enclave where it was huge. let's put it this way, 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... it's inherent in the game, solving your problems. 0h! i kind of want to hear some rap. music plays. 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 kind of flavours and curries, but at the same time you also have chinese dishes, and you also have pork. so that's what is really unique about it. we are going to do slow—braised pork ribs with buah keluak 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. i would say it's 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's spike reid, i'm

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. which means it's 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're one of the most endangered aquatic mammals in the whole world. wow! sorry, you're not seeing any of these, but there are definitely dolphins. did you see that one?

that was right behind me. trying to film these was really hard work. they'd 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 just day. 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're here, we are here, we've made it! i felt so alive. very 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're planning, or have completed an incredible journey of your own, why not let us know? watch out for details about how to contact at us at the end of the show. and finally this week, the last of our films marking ca nada's 150th anniversary. this week we're 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's 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'll 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's it. spring and summer, fall is by rail. our 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. oh, yes. 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 muskeg, 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's been here for years. i believe it'll be here for a lot more years. i'm hoping that we'll get partners who will want to help get the needs and necessities into communities. that's all the time we have this week, but coming up next week...

i only knowjustin bieber. you are a belieber? i'm a belieber. ben is getting in tune at a festival in pakistan. # what are you waiting for? i'm about to step in the ring with momo, who is a top contender. i'm 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's goodbye. hello, good evening. it's been a bit

although nothing today. there's been some very big showers and downpours —— or nothing. northern ireland catching quite a few thundery downpours with reports of some minor flooding in the country. towards the south—east of england there hasn't really been any showers, and literally enter the day. we keep the showers for a while all a lovely end to the day. for a while the thunderstorms will ease of the showers will keep going more towards northern ireland and western scotland. but they should be lighter overnight, further east. clearer skies means temperatures will drop away in towns and cities to 11 or 12 degrees. over the next few days we

will keep this mixture of sunshine and showers because we still have an area of low pressure sitting to the north—west of the uk. the closer you what the area of low pressure the more likely you are to get the showers. monday morning, a rash of showers. monday morning, a rash of showers pushing east with across scotla nd showers pushing east with across scotland and the eastern side of northern ireland north—west england catching a few showers into cumbria, lancashire, a dry start and funny. much of southern england, —— a dry start and sunny too. the showers across england should be few and far between, there will be a stronger breeze here. the showers won't last long. the heavier ones in the far north of england. more likely across scotla nd north of england. more likely across scotland and northern ireland, showers could be slow—moving and thundery. temperatures 18 degrees or so. thundery. temperatures 18 degrees or so. towards the south—east with the sunshine, 23, a bit like today. tuesday we have seen a mixture of sunshine and showers, fewer showers

across northern areas, lighter showers too. starting to dry off just a little bit. but only for a short while. thejets just a little bit. but only for a short while. the jets scream is a good way south, not where richard b at this time of year —— the jet stream. that jet stream at this time of year —— the jet stream. thatjet stream picks up another area of low pressure across north america right now, moving across the atlantic and heading towards the uk for the middle part of the week. we will find rain and stronger winds coming in from the south—west. many eastern area still drive through the day with some sunshine. these areas will see the rain through the evening and overnight. hello i'm karin giannone, welcome to bbc world news. our top stories... violent clashes in venezuela as the country holds a divisive election. at least two politicians are killed. us bombers fly over the korean peninsula in response to pyongyang's latest missile test. and british royals lead

commemorations to mark 100 years since the battle of passchendaele. and coming up in sport: germany's bid for a seventh consecutive women's european championship title is over a dramatic danish comeback in the quarterfinals.