western areas, much chillier these western areas, much chillier out to the east despite the sunshine. some of the fog may well linger and throughout the day. even at this range, we've got a real concern. that rather ghostly pallor gci’oss concern. that rather ghostly pallor across the british isles is dense fog. the condition is absolutely right for it. i'm highlighting those regions but other areas will be affected by fog which may linger for the greater part of the day. not an issue at the far south—west where it issue at the far south—west where it is mild. pushing further north and east it is cold, some of this fog will be freezing, that will do nothing for the temperatures through the course of the day. the odd spelling of rain. it is the fact that even as far north as scotland and points north, it could be a really treacherous day on the roads. our west there will be mild air and

despite the presence of some brightness towards the east you will end up with a temperature around three, four, 5 degrees. a little bit going on with the weather and particularly on that monday night into tuesday. more details can be found on the bbc website. hello. this is bbc news with ben brown. the headlines. six people have died in a serious crash on one of birmingham's main roads. a0 firefighters and five ambulances were sent to the scene, which the fire service said was spread over some distance. we were called at 1:11 this morning to the report of a serious collision on lee bank middleway. three vehicles were involved in the collision in the underpass involving at least 9 people.

the government wants to lower the age for automatic enrolment in company pension schemes — from 22 to 18 — in a move to offer more people financial security in retirement. south africa's governing anc is due to vote for a new leader today, in a close contest that has exposed deep divisions in the party. now on bbc news, the travel show. coming up on this week's show... we travel to georgia to pay a visit to a town that's the birthplace of one of the 20th century's most controversial figures. rajan meets an artist in dubai creating a unique fusion of traditional arabic calligraphy and street—style graffiti. i always try to bring a message of peace and tolerance and try to bring people together.

we are all connected and this is what i'm trying to do with arabic calligraphy, to connect people. yeah, baby! and i discover that santa makes it look easy when i hop on a sleigh for an early slice of christmas in finnish lapland. let's go, son, let's go! but first this week, we're going to georgia. with its black sea coastline, forested landscape and world—famous wine, it's not hard to see why tourism is booming in the once soviet state.

but one city there is attracting tourists for a very different reason. in many ways, gori is an unremarkable post—soviet town. if it wasn't for a former resident, it might not be so firmly on the tourist trail. but tourists do come and in their tens of thousands every year, and today that includes me. in 1939, my great—grandfather, a polish official, was arrested as the soviets invaded under the leadership ofjosef stalin. like so many other poles, my great—grandfather was sent to a forced labour camp and died, leaving my family to flee, eventually reaching the uk.

today in gori, a flower bed lies in the place where a statue to the city's most famous son once towered in front of the government building. but i'd heard some locals want it put back up. so i came here, to the former hometown of stalin, where he remains such an important but controversial figure. for many in the former soviet union, stalin was a great leader.

over his 30 year rule, he established an industrial and military superpower, brought victory against the nazis and respect on the international stage. but he also oversaw the starvation, imprisonment, execution and ethnic persecution of millions of people across the ussr. for lia zautashvili's guest house, stalin is good for business. but for many here, stalin represents far more than potential profit.

he's still an icon. 100,000 visitors came to gori's stalin museum last year. you can see here original furniture from stalin's first office in the kremlin. given my family history, i have mixed feelings when i walk around the museum. for me, its interpretation of stalin's life feels far too positive. apparently, the guides in this museum do tell their tour groups about stalin's victims, but i'm sat right now in a room dedicated to his victory in world war ii and there's no similar room in this museum talking about his political oppression or mass famines. but museum officials maintain that they're fair in their representation of how many suffered under stalin. this is supposed to be a museum,

but particularly in this death mask room, it feels more like a shrine. it's actually quite reminiscent of the lenin mausoleum in the red square. in 2008, a long—running dispute with neighbouring russia over south 0ssetia spilled into war. gori suffered russian bombardment. following the war, the pro—western georgian government began removing soviet symbols from public spaces. in 2010, the statue of stalin was removed from outside gori's government building. but many of the locals are proud

of stalin and nostalgic for the old days and they want the statue put back up. for some of the younger generation, however, stalin should be consigned to history, not lauded. i'd heard that a local taxi driver knew where the stalin statue had been dumped, facing the elements in a scrapyard next to a military base. he agreed to take me. in many ways, georgia has yet to decide for itself how to remember stalin. although his statue remains hidden away, the museum which seemingly venerates him is actively promoted as a tourist destination. but while the nature of stalin's future in the city remains unclear, what does seem certain is that for better or worse, he will continue to bring travellers to gori for some time to come. stay with us, because coming up...

rajan meets the man making his artistic mark on dubai. and i take a magical reindeer safari through finnish lapland. now, if you were watching our special show from dubai a few weeks ago, you might remember we featured an artist called el seed, who's based there. he's displayed his unique form of art all over the world. so rajan has been back to ask him about his travels and where he gets his inspiration from. calligraffiti is the art of beautifying script and it is an art that has been mastered by a master calligrapher. as an artist, i am not

a calligrapher because i did not learn from a master. i was born and raised in france and i had this kind of idea. identit crisis. this is how i started to learn to write arabic. i was looking for a teacher who could teach me arabic calligraphy but i could not find anyone. so i started twisting the letters or extending them and creating my own style. and that style is el seed's mix of arabic graffiti, calligraphy, bright colours and street—style lettering, dubbed calligraffiti. and he believes his work is the most powerful on the street, with quotes of tolerance to streets around the world

from new york to south africa, to the favelas in brazil. i always try to bring a message of peace and tolerance and bring people together. we are all connected and this is what i am trying to do with arabic calligraphy, to connect people. i was lucky enough to experience this. in all the projects around the world we have seen people and created relationships and links with people. to date, this is his biggest project. an immense peace of art painted on 50 walls in an area of cairo where a marginalised and poor community of coptic christians make their living collecting and sorting the city's rubbish. it took over one month to complete

and gives a different perspective to an area many locals feared or ignored. when you go to a place to create art, then you realise that art is a pretext to create a human experience. we went to a place people from cairo are scared to go and the people welcomed us like we were family. i saw those people living in the garbage. but they live from the garbage. they taught us how to be tolerant and to be human, because it is not the easiest way to live. could we go through how you approach your calligraffiti? the only rule i have is from right to left. and then i play with the words and the letters. so let's write your name.

this is the letter r, this is the alif, jim, and nun. in arabic there is no capital. but what i do is i consider every letter as a capital so i separate everything. so rajan in calligraphy you can do it like this. this is the ra. and now the alif like that. and then this letter, the jim, takes the same shape here and then this is the letter nun. this is typography, this is calligraphy. and someone who reads arabic can read that? yes. they can decipher it. arabic calligraphy is what made me

realise that identity is not unique. iam french, tunisian and ironically, arabic calligraphy made me accept my french identity. i would not do what i do today if i were not french. if i had learnt arabic from a young age i would not have this freedom to play with the letters like i did with it today. finnish lapland is as close as it gets to a winter wonderland. over half a million people come here each year in search of father christmas and his reindeer. you can't say you have truly experienced the delights

of lapland until you have been on a reindeer safari. and that is what i'm about to do. i have been told that if i am good, i may be able to ride my own sleigh with my own reindeer. before i can do that, i need to learn how to use one of these. eric is my instructor today. is there anything specific i should know? do you have easy tips? just be careful. move slowly, not quickly. the reindeer are scared about that. how do we start? take a seat. who is your number one reindeer? this guy is 11 years old. he knows the place. he knows where he is going? that's what i need. how are you? before my lesson, eric takes me on a ride.

oh, my days! like many herdsmen here in lapland, eric supplements his income with tourism. he takes small groups of tourists into the forest on a reindeer safari. this is a proper winter wonderland. it is so beautiful out here. everywhere you look it is just a postcard. it is getting close... 0h, he shook me off. he does not like me. he is staying away. there are more reindeer in lapland than people. around 200,000 of these animals and most of them roam free. some of them, like these ones, are tamed and specially trained

for the reindeer safaris. these reindeer are so powerful and that is why i am not allowed to use them on my own yet. they would run off and i would be unable to control them. eric is guiding us at the front and controlling the sleigh. it shows you how hardy these people are. eric tells me that if i am lucky, i may see some wolves or brown bears roaming around. so far, it isjust me and the reindeer. we have travelled around 20 minutes into the woods and come to a clearing. eric will start a fire. we will drink something nice, chill out and he will teach me to use one of the sleighs. i have had a taste of the power of the reindeer so i'm a little worried.

do you get more people coming around christmas time? yes. it is one of the seasons. it is the high week, christmas week. they want to spend their christmas holiday in a winter world. today, reindeer sleigh safaris give tourists like me a taste of what life used to be like here before cars and snowmobile. cars and snowmobiles. finally, it is my turn to have a go. if you want to go you just say go. as simple as that? go! reindeer, go! he is not listening to me. go, reindeer! go! he is not obedient, this reindeer. eric said he has given me the safe one, because he does not want me

to have any problems. i think he has given me the slow reindeer. the lazy one. what is going on?! you will be left behind! you will be billy—no—mates! eric! he is not going anywhere! at the next roundabout, take a right. in 200 yards, make a left. i can't say i didn't try, but this reindeer is just not interested. maybe we will try the next one. 0k. we'll take the next one. before i set off, eric gives me some last few tips. pull it. and he will stop in an emergency. so this is my emergency brake? we're going! look at this.

controlling this powerful beast. oh my god, he is picking up speed. go, go! this is so spectacular. my first—ever sleigh ride. i don't know how much this sleigh weighs. it is probably around half a ton, maybe a little less, but that reindeer is pulling it as well as myself so easily. such a powerful beast. let's go, son, let's go! it still may not be the fastest of rides but it seems to be the smoothest and most magical way to enjoy this landscape. it feels really christmassy. very christmassy. that is it for this week.

join us next week when i take a look back at some of my personal highlights from this year's travel show, including my trip to ghana, where i met some of the country's cheekiest residents. they're not shy. look at him here. so that's next week. if you want to see what we're doing on the road between now and then, sign up to our social media feed. the details should be on your screen right now. but for now from me, ade adepitan, and the travel show team here in finnish lapland. envious? me? something baudry

falling across many parts of england and wales. —— something watery is falling. cloud and rain moving further to the south and east, offering an opportunity for the skies to brighten up before the day is done across parts of scotland and northern ireland. showers in the far north of scotland. but in the southern half, no sunshine before dusk. skies clear later in the night. then a widespread frost. less

ofan night. then a widespread frost. less of an issue in the west, where there is relatively mild air. you will not be scraping here, but you will further east on monday morning. high pressure, settled, but not without its own problems. some mist and fog around, some of it because there is no mechanism to get rid of it and it could linger on monday. more cloud out west. mild here. in the east, struggling for temperatures, despite the fact you will see sunshine. monday night, into tuesday, notice how extensive that is. ghostly across a good part of scotland, england and parts of wales. i highlight this area but there will be an issue with dense fog. and some of this fog will linger. not such an

issue on the western side of the south—west, but anywhere through central and southern england. maybe the midlands, parts of wales and here either side of the solway. it is difficult to get the detail right but conditions are set up for there to bea but conditions are set up for there to be a real issue perhaps on tuesday and perhaps persisting through the day on tuesday. a lot of people are on the move at this time of year. we will update you on the detail as we get closer to tuesday. still mild in the west. cooler out towards the ease. a little bit going on at the start of the week. more on the website. this is bbc news. i'm shaun ley. the headlines at two. an investigation is under way following a multi—crash vehicle in central birmingham in which six people were killed — and a man is critically injured. police described the scene as "harrowing". all of our thoughts are with the families of those that

are injured and deceased at this time, especially in the run up to christmas. plans to automatically enrol hundreds of thousands of young people in workplace pensions for the first time, to help them save for retirement. i think especially in london, moved jobs quite frequently, tend not to stay in one place too long, so pensions have always been lower down the list in things i've been conscious of. england's ashes hopes are fading — captainjoe root one of four men out already with still a day to bat to save the series. also in the next hour, prince harry takes on a new