calligraphy and graffiti, and it's the signaature style of a french—born artist of tunisian origin, who goes by the name el seed. he has taken his unique approach to street art around the world with astonishing results, including this monumental project he created in a working—class district of cairo. so what is he doing in dubai? for me, dubai is like, a new city. i look at it, i try to get a different view to it, a lot of people coming from outside say, "oh, it is fake, you as an artist, how could you be here?" and for me there is this kind of growing art scene, there is a growing art community. and as an artist it is good to say that i am part of this, i am part of making a change and making this movement. if i can question you on that a little bit more — it is also a place that is glamorous and wealthy, you have a big expat population, you have some very rich emiratis here.

is that inspiring for you? we are here in the middle of the industrial zone that has been turned into this culture and art community. when you cross the road you have a steel factory. this is the dubai that i want to see. i am not interested in this shiny thing, this is not for me, but some people, they want it. but i think at some point now, there is a switch, dubai is trying to show people, this is what we do. some people love paris, i love paris, some people hate paris. some people love new york, some other hate new york. you cannot compare, for me it is too naive. but when i look, is like, yes, what has been done here in less than 30 years is crazy, and i think people

should salute that. while the artists in al quoz are busy feeding the soul, many locals and expats here in dubai are also now keen to exercise their bodies. some of them in the most quintessential emirati locations. you wouldn't normally associate dubai with cycling. in fact, riding through the dubai rush hour is definitely a no—no. but the sport is becoming increasingly popular here, and that is thanks to facilities like this — the al qudra cycling track. it's long, smooth, purpose built and flat as a pancake. in a country not famed for its exercise culture, these days many locals are now getting into a whole range of sports. and in case you are wondering, i'm gonna leave this to the experts. hi, i'm omarmasri, i'm a wakeboarder in dubai. i am all about board sports,

snowboarding, wakeboarding, surfing, kite surfing, all accessible in dubai. living in the desert, the closest mountain is in lebanon orjordan or something, you have the best instructors, you learn how to snowboard over here and any time you go to any mountain, from the alps to colorado, it's simple. the younger generation is actually crazy here in dubai. they are crazy when it comes to extreme sports, they are trying to compete more internationally. it is actually very nice to see. the vibe of the city is all about work hard, play hard.

you put in so many hours at work, so the little time that you have left, you don't want to waste it just lolling around. keen to get another fix of the great outdoors, i am now heading out to the desert early in the morning to experience something new, that i am told you can only see here in dubai. it's a new twist on traditional arabian falconry — and i hear it is going to be truly breathtaking. 2,500 years ago, the bedouin relied on falcon the way you and i rely on the supermarket. the falcon was used

to put food on the table. traditionally the way it worked, it still happens today, birds from europe and asia migrate over the middle east on their way to africa. on that migration was when the bedouin would have trapped their falcons from the wild and then used them for the winter months. at the end of winter they would untie their birds and release them back into the wild. a really beautiful system of borrowing a bird for a while and letting it go back again. we are about to release 0beron from the basket and i'll untie him, he is wearing a transmitter on his tail, that is so i can go find him if he flies away, i will pop his hood off in a second, this device is called the hood, or burqa in arabic, and this hood is keeping him calm and relaxed. that comes off, 0k. ready, guys? five, four, three, two, one... wow.

amazing. good boy. well done. do you want a go? i would love to, let's try. oh, yes. peter has helped to hand—rear at these birds from birth and the bond of trust between them is vital. it is clear that to him the falcon‘s welfare is paramount, and months of work has gone into training the birds to get them used to this sights and sounds of the balloon and its passengers. if practiced correctly, these birds are in good shape. essentially the bird

is not suffering. absolutely not. what more could you ask for? unique experience, and what a beautiful animal. 0ur weather has been changeable recently. things have can dine nicely for some, but others this weekend have recorded theirfirst snow of the season, then we are about to change again. this area of low pressure thrown its frontal systems across the british isles

through the night. 30 or a0 millimetres of rain in some places, and quite windy, some gusts at a0 miles an hour. within the body of the low pressure the error is relatively mild. resting on monday morning, some of this rain will be quite heavy, a lot of surface water and spray. along the rear and banter could be heavy pulses of rain. north of that it is a mixture of sunny spells, particularly on the east of the pennines. there are plenty of showers to be had and some of those will be wintry. they will gang together again across the far north of scotland. this bug will take time to pull away into the north sea. the wind will be a feature of the date that the temperature is notjust as low as they will get in the days to come. double figures across the south. that really is the last of the mild error because once those

weather front of moved across the channel into the near continent, that then open the gate to supply of cold tea rs that then open the gate to supply of cold tears streaming these isobars from well north of the british isles, so that is what will change oui’ isles, so that is what will change our weather from the relatively mild airof our weather from the relatively mild air of late sunday and monday into something a good deal colder as we get to tuesday, wednesday and thursday. notice the supply of showers in northern and eastern parts, and the irish sea into pembrokeshire and parts of the south—west, some of the showers even here turning wintry across higher ground. the wind really becoming a feature across eastern parts as we get on through the day and where we have high ground in the east there will be lying snow and the temperatures never better than about 7 degrees, and feeling much lower given the strength of the wind. so briefly mad, then turns cold. watch out for the biting wind. this is bbc news.

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