the union say they will resist anything which could compromise safety. and these changes only happened after the deaths of 31 londoners. the new leader of the scottish labour party will be announced in the next hour. the contest is between the former deputy leader anas sarwar and richard leonard, who only became an msp last year. the winner will replace kezia dugdale, who stepped down in august. gerry adams has said he will set out a plan for gerry adams has said he will set out a planfora gerry adams has said he will set out a plan for a leadership change in his party at its conference in dub lib this evening. —— dublin. mr adams, one of the most significant and divisive figures in irish politics, has led sinn fein since 1983. he's indicated he won't stand down immediately but will talk about future plans. an original drawing of the comic book hero tintin is expected to sell for nearly £1 million today. the artwork, by the belgian artist herge, was published in 1939 as the cover of a story called "king ottokar's sceptre". other pieces up for auction

in paris include herge's designs for board games. right let's get a look at the weather. hello. there's no great rush about the weather for saturday. yes, there is a lot of wind to be had across the north—east of scotland. some showers here. a lot of dry, fine weather across the northern part of britain. the temperatures in single figures. cloudy affair, mild across the south are the prospects for some at least ofa are the prospects for some at least of a wee bit of rain that. prospect dragging its way to the south—west during the course of the night. elsewhere, as those skies begin to clear, it ends up being quite a frosty night, down to minus four or minus five we think. that gives us the prospect of dry, fine, settled weather to start the new day, with plenty of sunshine through central and eastern parts. all the while through the day we fill in the cloud and eventually there's rain for western scotland, northern ireland, maybe the north west of england, far

north of wales too. despite the sunshine, five, six or seven only in the east. the problem is we're pushing mild air into cold stuff across the heart of scotland. there could be some snow. elsewhere, a mild start to the week. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines: thousands of people are on the streets of the zimbabwean capital, harare, to call for the resignation of president robert mugabe. tens of thousands of people on low incomes face having their universal credit stopped over christmas. the government has confirmed to the bbc that many wage earners will see their benefit stopped through no fault of their own. police and air accident investigators search for clues as to why two aircraft collided over buckinghamshire, leaving four people dead. buckinghamshire, leaving a tax on single—use plastic products —such as food packaging trays and polystyrene takeaway boxes — is being considered to cut ocean pollution.

the chancellor is expected to announce the measure in next week's budget. i'll be back at 11am. now on bbc news, the travel show. this week, japan's prettiest railways... there is a push for the last carriage, maybe it has the best views. chomping your way through the big apple. we just eat crazy things for the sake of eating crazy things. the things we eat are actually really really delicious. and road testing apps for keeping you mobile. this service actually gives you a bit of a lie in. result! this is the tadami line

in centraljapan. it's regarded as one of the country's most beautiful train routes, and hugs the tadami river as it makes its way from fukushima to niigata prefectures. and it's especially beautiful in japan's autumn colours. the train stations along the tadami line are so unassuming and quaint, this doesn't even look like a train station, it looks more like a post office to me. but it is really bustling inside. people come here for the view and it attracts a particular crowd. it's popular chiefly with older people, a handful of railway enthusiast and of course, at this time of year, leaf peepers. there is a bit of a push for the last carriage,

maybe it has the best views. today is unusually busy. normally only around 35 people a day come here for the eight daily departures. it is a serene trip through some of the country's lesser—known backwaters. but there is a problem. this is tadami station, and everyone has to get off now, because the next six stations are the ones that have been damaged in the floods. this area escaped the twin tsunami and nuclear disasters that made fukushima's name globally infamous. butjust two months later mother nature struck again. heavy storms caused flooding which made a long stretch of the track here unusable. a handful of stations were shut and to this day remain abandoned. this is one of the six disused stations and this sign here says

"beware of the bears." locals don't much use the service that is remaining. it's less useful now that you can't travel uninterrupted from one side to the other. but it does still occupy a special place in some people's hearts. wow, look at this view. the colours are amazing. for a start, it's a beautiful thing to photograph. there is quite a view from up here, no matter what season it is. and it is not one that kenko hoshi is alone in enjoying. in thailand we don't have any autumn. i come for the autumn, leaves change colour. i thought this train moving is a very perfect shot. how did you feel in 2011 when the floods destroyed part of the tadami line?

the operator, jr east, plans to restore the entire line by 2021. but in the meantime, in an attempt to get more young japanese using the line, these comedians are hosting tours of it. you'll notice a very different crowd from the passengers

i was with earlier. this time, it's exclusively young women, most of whom would probably never have come here in the past. each comedian, including this palm reader, takes turn entertaining each group of passengers, so everyone gets their money's worth. money line. happy line! the tadami experience also takes in local temples, and the kaneyama well where you can drink the naturally occurring sparkling water. i expected to see a lot of old people on a bus tour like this, but i was really surprised to see so many young people.

i think it's a really clever marketing tool to get these comedians on board. this looks like a lot of fun. and if you're planning a visit soon, here is the travel show guide of things to see and do in japan this winter. the sapporo snow festival is arguably japan's most famous winter spectacular. around two million people had the northern city every year to see the 200 snow and ice sculptures carved there. entrance is free and the next one starts on february 5. japan is a very popular ski destination and many people tend to head for niseko, which is thought to receive more snowfall than any other resort in the world — or nagano, which hosted the winter olympics back in 1998. a good alternative though is zao in the tohoku region, famous for a snowscape dominated by trees blasted sideways by the siberian snow.

one of the more memorable trips on the travel show was to see the snow monkeys, atjigokudani in nagano prefecture. a troupe of wild macaques come to the hot springs to bathe. it happens all year round — partly because they're fed by the park wardens. but we think it's best to come in january and february for that extra winter wonderland experience. if it's wildlife you're after, then shiretoko on the northern island of hokkaido is well worth thinking about. it is the country's most untouched national park, and the place to go and see the mating rituals of the red crowned cranes. you can combine it with a careful walk along the drift ice or a ride out on one of the icebreaker ships there. and winter is also a really beautiful time to head for the buddhist monasteries at mt koya, south of the second city of osaka, for some meditative calm. stay overnight with the monks, eat

what they eat, and set your alarm for morning prayers. we are told the absolute peace that comes with snow in the mountains is a magical experience. next this week, we're off to south—west china to meet the man responsible for one inspirational building project in the mountains of guizhou. still to come here on the travel show: lucy's here with the best tech for getting you around town fast. this is simply a case of following the arrow and making your way safely to your destination. and we pull on our eating trousers for one of new york's more eclectic foodie tours. we just eat crazy things for the sake of eating crazy things. the things that we eat are actually really really delicious. the travel show, your essential guide wherever you're headed.

you may have noticed in recent years ride—hailing apps replacing the traditional arm in the air. taxi! and it's easy to see why. in just a couple of taps, your pre—booked cab turns up at your feet. uber is the market leader in most of the world but some have raised concerns about its working practices and the service has faced suspensions and even outright bans in a few places. so, what's the alternative? here's our guide to the best of the rest. first, a brand new app. it's called gett together. it mainly serves the uk currently in london and manchester and it's a black cab ride—sharing service on routes they say are underserved by public transport. so i'm standing at the start of one of the prefixed routes, it is a pretty familiar and easy—to—use interface, so with one quick click, the cab should be along in around five minutes.

fares start at about £2 and you'll be sharing with other passengers, which is fine when they're as nice as lucy here. this service gives you a bit of a lie in? exactly, yeah. result. yeah. in london, the service is limited to just four routes but there are plans to roll it out to other areas across the city. i like the fact you can hop on and off at any point on the route and the fact that the cabs use bus lanes which means you don't have to sit in traffic. your taxi options differ, though, depending on what part of the world you are in. andrew here has been looking through the options for us. so what are some of the best apps that i should be downloading? it really depends on where you live. 0k. and so, if you are in the states, you probably would be using lyft. it's been a bit of the underdog in the uber battle, but it is making good ground. here we have manhattan, we've got fifth avenue. you can choose the different types of car you want and so, depending on and the amount of people you have or you want go luxe, or if you have a kid and you want a child seat, add your destination — and so,

let's we want to go to macy's. then it brings up the total of what it will be, you request it, and then it arrives. if you are in europe, you will probably looking at mytaxi. it's available in, i think, about 50 cities in europe, in nine different countries. and it's a very similar interface. you say where you are — it can geolocate you, or you can put in a destination or the location that you are. you then order a taxi. it isn't the same sort of tailored service that you get with lyft or uber, but you get region—specific cars. so if you are in london and you want a black cab because you want to support the back cab community and, yeah, mixing with the new. for the next one, i have gone a bit strange, so... oh, yeah? yeah. how strange? pretty strange. and so, we've got pedal me. oh, wow! this is actually a ride—hailing app where you get driven on a bike. and so... asummerapp? asummerapp.

you can see here that we have our location here and your drop—off, and so you go "i want to go to buckingham palace", because why wouldn't you? and it comes up with — that's gonna you just less than £10, so it is actually pretty reasonable. not as expensive in as a tuk tuk in london. no, exactly! and so, it's a similar price to what an uber would be, and you get to have a bit of an experience. and just in case you don't fancy sitting in traffic all day, there's beeline. it isn't really classed as a satnav. instead, they call it a smart compass that attaches to the handlebars of any bike, even hire bikes like this, which it makes it handy for exploring big cities all over the world. put the destination in your phone and the app will relay the instructions to your beeline. it's incredibly straightforward. while some riders will strap a dedicated cycling computer or a smartphone to their handlebars, that can prove quite distracting. whereas with this, it simply is a case of following the arrow and making your way safely to your destination. finally this week, we're off

to new york city and to drop in on a food club that aims to try out the most interesting dishes the town has to offer. but you can forget the usual salt beef bagels or pastrami on rye — the gastronauts are looking for something a little special. new york is a food city. there are a lot of different kinds of foods to eat, from the tremendous ethnic diversity in new york. we are in flushing, which is new york's kind of major chinatown. it's really big, it's far away — about a ao—minute subway ride, but it's still inside the city. we're going down here, so this is the luxurious entrance to the golden mall. we descend into the stomach of flushing. i love coming here. whenever i'm in flushing, i try to stop by and at least have some lamb dumplings or some pig ears or some duck heads. my name is curtis calleo.

i am one of the founders of the gastronauts, which is a club for adventurous eaters here in new york. we started the club in 2005 and we started off in a tiny little malaysian—chinese place in manhattan chinatown. and it was six people. and we had pork intestines, and we had tripe, and it was a fantastic feast. and the next time we met, there were 12 people, and then the next dinner, there were 20 people, and then 30 and then 50 and then 100 and then itjust kind of kept going. so now we have i think somewhere around 2,500 members in new york city and 1,500 in los angeles and 1,000 in san francisco. the gastronauts is not a dinner club that is about eating out in fancy restaurants in manhattan. it is not the kind of club we are. we are interested in going

to the more far—flung places throughout new york city, to the other boroughs, to the different ethnic sections, so, the club meets once a month and every month, we find a different restaurant or place to make us an amazing usually four— or five—course feast that features the more challenging aspects of that particular cuisine. we have had lambs head in a cretan, greek restaurant, we have had baluts — which is a 16—day fertilised egg which the filipinos and the vietnamese love to eat. tomorrow, we are going to have sri lankan food in staten island and to get there, we are going to have to take a subway, a ferry, and a van to get to the restaurant. in sri lankan, we call it wambatu moju, but this is eggplant.

it's like a sweet and sour. sa njay is great. he has had at this restaurant for at least ten years, from what i can see. before that, he cooked in saudi arabia and in bahrain as a private chef to somebody very important. and he has travelled all over the world. the restaurants, they're usually extremely excited to see us because, you know, these are small, out—of—the—way places that don't see, you know, 30 people coming at once, you know. hi, my name is sanjay. welcome to randiwa. applause. thank you, thank you. so, before i start with the main course, i want to show you the baby goat today what i cook. so i'm gonna bring it around to everybody, 0k? one of the biggest misconceptions

about the gastronauts is that we just eat crazy things for the sake of eating crazy things. it isn't true. the things that we eat are actually really, really delicious. that's chicken liver, that is gizzard kabob, and that is lamb black curry on beef. this is unsurpassed. excellent. the gastronauts is a food club, but it's also a social club. we are really a mixed bunch. there's journalists, there's lawyers, there's a few policemen, there are architects, there are construction workers. it is a very diverse group. cheers. people have relationships — there's a gastronauts marriage, there's a gastronauts baby. someone has a tattoo of the gastronauts on their forearm. so people, it has become a fixture in people's lives. the gastronauts isn't really an eating clubs for people

who want to eat in manhattan — it is a club for people who want to explore the outer reaches of their city and what it has to offer. that's it for this week. coming up next week: rajan‘s in dubai for a special programme. he heads out deep into the desert to try his hand at traditional falconry, 2,000 feet in the air from a hot—air balloon. 2,500 years ago, the bedouin relied on the falcon the way you and i rely on the supermarket, you know? so the falcon was used to put food on the table. and that's why they have such a good stature. so traditionally, the way it worked — although it still happens today — birds from europe and asia migrate over the middle east on the way to africa because on that migration

was when the bedouin would trap the falcons from the wild and then just really use them for the winter months. at the end of winter, they would untie their birds and release them back to the wild. a really beautiful system. unique experience, and what a beautiful animal. don't forget, you canjoin us on the road by signing up to our social media feeds. but in the meantime, from all of us here in the fukushima prefecture injapan, it's goodbye. hello once again, weather watchers

reported a mixed bag of weather to start the weekend. demrors enough across many northern —— glorious enough across northern and eastern parts. as you drift out towards the western side of the british isles, particularly through parts of wales and the south—west, it could have been that murky with you, simply because you're closer to this weather front, feeding because you're closer to this weatherfront, feeding in warm, moist airfrom the weatherfront, feeding in warm, moist air from the atlantic. towards the north and east, a lot of isobars on that chart. the afternoon will be marked across the north—east of scotla nd marked across the north—east of scotland with windy weather and a supply of showers too. elsewhere across northern britain, it's essentially a dry and decent afternoon. we've got temperatures, well, five, six, seven degrees, something of that order. not overly warm despite the sunshine. more in the way of cloud as we drift back towards northern ireland. so too into parts of the north of england, but the morning showers will at least have quit the scene at this stage, come further south and you see it's not wall—to—wall cloud, nor

is it wall—to—wall rain by any means at all. you will notice 10, 11, 12. what news of the rugby? if you're in cardiff or twickenham, there's a chance of rain during proceedings. scotla nd chance of rain during proceedings. scotland versus new zealand, that will be a cold, crisp sort of night. the wind might be a bother for the kickers there. overnight, i think we'll find that we drag that cloud and rain prospect away to the south—western quarter of the british isles and that leaves clearing skies. at this time of year, that means frost. this is the profile in the countryside, as low as minus four or the countryside, as low as minus fouror minus the countryside, as low as minus four or minus five. at least that equates to a glorious start to the new dayment still quite breezy —— day. still breezy across the north—east. through the day we push more cloud into western areas and eventually it brings the prospect of rain from the north of wales through western scotland and northern ireland. east, the sunshine becomes increasingly hazy, despite the presence of the dry, fine weather, five, six, seven degrees only. as we

get into monday, weather fronts come in from the atlantic. part of our problem is that we're pushing this mild air into some cold air, particularly into the heart of scotland, there could be snow for a time to really quite low levels. elsewhere, i'm afraid it's one of those days, we've got the cloud. the mild air comes those days, we've got the cloud. the mild aircomes in those days, we've got the cloud. the mild air comes in from the atlantic. we'll keep you posted on that snow. this is bbc news. the headlines at 11am... jubilant scenes as thousands of people are on the streets in zimbabwe's capital — calling for president mugabe to resign. mugabe must go, you must go yesterday. it is a new beginning come at the end of authoritarian rule. if he doesn't resign from terribly either now or the next few

days, there is talk of impeaching him maybe tuesday. tens of thousands of people on low incomes face having their universal credit stopped over christmas. police and air accident investigators search for clues as to why two aircraft collided — leaving four people dead. also in the next hour... taxing takeaway boxes to tackle what's described