i have no doubt that they are going to win success, but i hope after sunday because for us it is so important, the three points, but i know it will be very tough because they need three points, too. in the scottish cup fourth round, it is the edinburgh derby between hearts and hibs. rangers were due to play fraserburgh of the highland league but the match has been called off because of a frozen pitch. there will be a new name on the masters trophy this evening with mark allen taking on kyren wilson. neither player has reached this stage before. allen knocked out two—time winner john higgins in his semifinal, having already beaten ronnie o'sullivan. wilson defeated world no 3 judd trump to make his first masters final. the final is just getting underway at alexandra palace. these are live pictures. you can follow the action on bbc two or the bbc sport website.

in netball, scotland havejust beaten northern ireland 52—31 in their final world beaten northern ireland 52—31 in theirfinal world cup beaten northern ireland 52—31 in their final world cup qualifying match in perth, scotland. both teams had qualified for the 2019 world cup in liverpool and head of the match but this is scotland victory means they will top their group. that's all the sport for now. now on bbc news, time to the travel show. not quite yet, but it will be soon, after the weather. yes, very important to keep an eye on the weather today. a real mix in eastern areas in particular is a pretty heavy snow in places, wet snow and sleet down to levels so there will be some travel issues. you can see this stretching through scotland through northern parts of england, down to east anglia. further west it is reverting back to rain with

milderair is reverting back to rain with milder air moving in. is reverting back to rain with milderair moving in. we is reverting back to rain with milder air moving in. we have rain falling on areas where we are seeing snow melt as well so a lot of standing water by the end of the day, but an improvement across northern ireland. cold across eastern areas. through the night, that will all clear away and into that will all clear away and into that less cold slightly milder air for many of us. rain into the south—west and an area of rain across the far north of scotland as well. mendy will be far better, quieter with a brisk westerly wind —— monday will be far better. feeling milder. it will turn much milder on tuesday and into wednesday. hello again. this is bbc news with me, ben brown — our latest headlines: afghan security forces regain control of a hotel in kabul after it was seized by gunmen — six civilians died and 160

others were rescued. the taliban says it carried out the attack. hundreds of people have been taking part in a women's ‘time‘s up‘ protest against discrimination and harassment outside downing street. the ukip leader henry bolton tells the bbc it's not right for the party's ruling committee tojudge him on his personal life — an emergency meeting on his future is being held this afternoon. i'm not going to let this party be disrupted by internal squabbling which has exploited my own domestic situation in order to cause problems. an eight—year—old girl has been stabbed to death in the west midlands, in what police are calling a ‘domestic incident.‘ those are our latest bbc news headlines. now, as promised, on bbc news it's time for the travel show. this week on the travel show... i explore australia's northern territory, hearing what the future holds for tourism at one of the country's most

famous attractions. we find out what it takes to work as a croc wrangler in a stunning australian national park. also, we scour the globe to meet people skilled in a rare art. we discover tacos with a twist in mexico city. and ade is back with the latest on what's trending in travel. first this week, i've come to australia's northern territory and one of the most iconic sites in the world — uluru. the giant monolith attracts more

than a quarter of a million visitors each year. for many of them, climbing to the top is something of a rite of passage. but for the indigenous people of central australia, the anangu, the rock means much more. as well as being an important place for tourists, uluru is a sacred site. at the moment, tourist are allowed to go up to the peak, but all of that's about to change. at the end of 2017, the people who manage uluru, in conjunction with its anangu owners, made a landmark decision to ban tourists from climbing the rock. the 600 million—year—old rock

is at the heart of anangu culture. they believe that touching the red sandstone is a way of communicating with the gods and it's the basis of their creation stories. it's almost like a law, and it's really something that is so integral, so important to anangu, and those very stories are based in locations around uluru. so why was the decision made in the first place to ban the climb? there'a a couple of reasons, primarily because anangu don't want to see people climbing, for cultural reasons. but there's also has been a significant number fatalities on the climb. they do get very sad whenever anyone gets injured or dies, and there have been more than 35 people that have died.

the ban won't come into force until october 2019 and until then, tourists can continue to climb on days when the weather isn't too extreme. the base of the route has a number of signs asking tourists to respect anangu wishes not to climb, but many people ignore these. while the decision has been welcomed by many in the local area, not everyone in the northern territory is supportive of the ban. i get the local indigenous people, i get where they're coming from, but i think it's a shame, because it's a fantastic place to visit. i think it's a good thing, because, like, you know, people go up and they get hurt and the government spends a lot of time and energy rescuing people. yeah, that's a big issue. i mean, it costs a lot of money to get to central australia, as you know, so if you're diminishing the experience, then i think it's got to impact, somewhere. so will the closure of the climb have a negative impact on tourist

numbers visiting uluru? left foot in the stirrup, here. just throw your legs through nice and gently. well, to keep visitors coming, local tourism bosses are working hard to show there are other ways to experience the rock. here we go. hey! holy moly. uluru camel tours takes people out into the desert here, they give people a great camel experience. it's all about people connecting to nature and with the outback and what better way to do it than on the back of a camel? 0n the cameljust relax, let your body go with the flow. don't try to tempt your body up. they're environmentally friendly, they browse on 85% of the the vegetation here. they've got big, flat feet, so they don't actually chop the ground up — they're a low—impact animal, and they can go months without water, so they don't have to hang around a water source and eat all the vegetation out. wow. unbelievable. you never get sick of that, do you? the views from the vantage point

are pretty breathtaking. for chris, the decision to ban the climb is very welcome. look, i think closing the climb has been long overdue, and it's been something that's been talked about for many, many years. for myself, will it affect tourism out here? i don't think so. i think it will still bring more numbers. i think it willjust give people a better understanding about the anangu stories out here and also the culture. as well as established activities like camel rides and cycling tours, new attractions are being introduced to encourage tourists to keep coming. and the most popular of them all comes to life at sunset. bruce munro's field of light installation is designed to embody the energy, heat and brightness of the desert landscape. what a way to finish my trip here in uluru.

there's 50,000 lightbulbs here, glowing and it all looks like iridescence and sort of water. the work was originally installed in 2016 and was only supposed to stay in place for a year. but due to the huge popularity of the piece, it will now be here until the end of 2020. a clear sign that uluru remains confident it can continue to attract tourists long after the ban comes into force in october 2019. now, while many people get their travel inspiration these days online, some of us still prefer to gaze at a map or a globe, to pick our next destination. so, we headed to london to meet some of the last people working in the intricate art of handcrafted globe making. there's something about globes

that's just, sort of, inspiring and sometimes looking at them, when i'm practising, to make, i wonder what it's like in that specific part of the world. they're quite special. i'm still learning how to make them. i was surprised by the complexity of the process. you don't quite realise how difficult it truly is. every single piece of the globe is on show. so every single bit has to be finished perfectly. you need to have a lot of persistence, a lot of patience. it takes a lot of concentration and willpower. you just fail so badly when you first have a go. at one stage, i was probably over £100,000 into the project and i still hadn't worked out how to make a globe. at one stage, i was probably over £100,000 into the project and i still hadn't worked out how

to make a globe. and ijust had to crack on with it and understand that if i did it enough times, potentially, it might work and thankfully, it did. the difficult part that, fundamentally to me, took a long time to work out, is how to stretch a flat piece of paper onto a sphere and to do that without tearing the paper, wrinkling the paper, making it obvious it's been done. and that's really, really difficult. slowly, i started to learn how to be patient with myself and just understanding the process. but i've definitely become a little bit more of a perfectionist, purely because of the standard that is required. i think everyone's fascinated by globes from an early age. it's the answer to so many questions, it's something you can interact with, all the time. when i see one i have at home, i,

literally, look at it every single time i go into the house and i spin it every single time, without fail. i think the perfect globe is something with character, something with meaning. people can add little things, to the little illustrations or highlighted areas of places in the world that mean a lot to them. definitely makes people understand where they fit in in the world. when you first see a globe and you first get pointed out that you live on a little speck of land surrounded by ocean, it makes you... it puts thousands of questions into your head and it often makes you think about how we should be really careful about how we use the planet — things like that. a globe allows you to understand. to mexico city next, where you'll find amazing street food,

pretty much everywhere. our global gourmet has been to meet one man whose culinary creation has been causing something of a stir. still to come on the travel show... we meet the filmmaker who turns mountains into miniatures in trending travel. and what does it take to work as a croc wrangler in one of australia's most stunning national parks? so, stick with us for that. the travel show. your essential guide, wherever you're headed. ok, it's time for trending travel: your monthly mash up of the very

best travel—related stories, pics and clips online. founded in 2015, the website accomable lists holiday accommodation for travellers with accessibility requirements. each listing includes photos and in—depth information on all adaptations. but with awareness around accessible travel growing, the company has been taken over by airbnb. they say they plan to incorporate accomable‘s listings and services into their own platform, later this year. i really believe that other companies are going to take notice of this and try to help the disabled community more, on the basis that this is a genuine market opportunity that should be ta ken seriously. loads of us love to see some exotic animals, when we travel. but getting too close can have harmful consequences. the charity world animal protection has launched a wildlife selfie code with the aim of discouraging tourists from posing with wild animals. they say many of the animals are kept in inhumane conditions. and instagram have followed suit, advising its users against sharing

these kind of images. if you can hug, hold or have a selfie taken with a wild animal, the chances are that that wild animal will have experienced terrible cruelty at some point in its life. say no to that selfie. there are ways you can have a fantastic wildlife experience, and finding a good responsible tour operator is a great start. check out the world animal protection website for more information. and people from around the world have shared video applications to a party on board a plummeting aircraft. next month, 16 winners, including two winners from every continent, will travel to germany to board a modified a310 plane, used to simulate weightlessness. their mission — to bust some moves in a zero—gravity nightclub. boasting three headline djs,

the clubbing is expected to last an exhilirating and stomach—turning 90 minutes. thank you to everyone who sent us their pictures from their travels using the hash tag travel tuesday. here's what caught my eye. elizabeth shared this night—time glimpse of dubai. while ashish took this picture of sky over mehrangarh fort in india. don't forget to check out our twitter and facebook pages for loads of extra special travel show content that you won't see any where else. ok, here are the travel videos we've been viewing this month. youtube channel little big world turns epic views and towering cityscapes into miniature. all through trick photography. we spoke to the creator, joerg daiber, to find out how it's done. a tilted effect creates a shallow depth of field, which tricks the eye into believing this is actually a micro

photography, making it look like it would be a tiny little miniature. there are a few other things you may want to do to, kind of, sell the effect, shooting from a high angle with a wide angle lens. 0r adding contrast and saturation in post—production. i believe that the world would be, sort of, a better place if people wouldn't take themselves so seriously. basically, we are tiny bugs and if only a few people get this message, my work is done. you can check out his channel for more videos viewable in glorious 4k. jaunty music. and if you see anything you think we should know about, please do get in touch. you can find us on twitter. finally this week, how would you like to be in charge

of a park encompassing more than 2,000 types of plant and an incredible 10,000 crocodiles? for many, it's a dream job. and when kakadu national park put out a job advert for a new park manager, it caused a global stir. so, what does it take to run a park of this size? we caught up with steve wroe, the current park manager on one of his last days on the job. every day is different and that's what makes the job so interesting. tourism is a big part of it, so working to make sure that tourist sites are as good as they can be. there's a lot of interaction with wildlife. about two weeks ago, one of the rangers called me up and they'd caught a crocodile in a croc trap and they'd tapped up its snout. and they told me as park manager i had to sex the croc. isaid, "well, what

does that involve?" and basically, i had to stick a finger into a slit on its underside and determine its gender. we put a pretty quirkyjob ad out there, which was looking for a ceo, a part—time croc wrangler. look, it has had a huge amount of interest from around the world. from all around the world — it really went viral, to use that term, and we had people from europe and america all, sort of, interested in the role. it's one of those jobs... you see a job ad sometimes and it says "unique opportunity", and it's a bit of an empty cliche. but this one is certainly unique. there's not a job like it in the world. so, yeah, it's pretty amazing. primarily, this is aboriginal land, so the traditional owners of the land have leased it back to us, as the federal government, and we, jointly with them,

manage the national park. the size of the park is enormous. 20,000 square kilometres. to put that into context, that's about the size of wales or half the size of switzerland. and with a workforce of about 75 people and they're extremely busy maintaining the park. we have a large influx of visitors in the dry season, particularly, in the middle of the year, particularly may through to october. and so our rangers are doing biodiversity work, conservation work, operational staff and making sure that our visitors are kept safe and having a great time. a third of all australian bird species live within kakadu. we've got 60 different kinds of mammals. really diverse landscapes, as well. we've got beautiful stone country, that rock's 1.5 billion years old, which is some of the oldest rock in the world. on that rock is 20,000—year—old rock art. we're living amongst

a 65,000—year—old culture, so it's the oldest living culture in the world. and just immersing yourself in that is amazing. for me, the big challenge going forward is tourism and growing tourist numbers, because there's a uranium mine leased within the park and that mine is closing down at the end of 2020. that obviously provides a large amount of income and also sustains the town of jabiru. finding a sustainable alternative source of revenue for the town, to keep people employed and services open is a really important thing, so we're working really closely with the traditional owners and the northern territory government to look at how tourism can replace mining as a source of revenue and sustain the park. i would say the biggest challenge is ensuring that tourism grows into the future, but continuing to work with the traditional owners, as well, making sure that their needs are met and aspirations are realised, as well. applications are now

closed for the next lucky ka kadu croc wrangler. i'm afraid that's all the time we have time for this week. coming up next week: jo heads to israel to find out how these huge sinkholes have become the latest attraction for travellers at the dead sea. it's such a lot to take in, because it's this devastation, but it's also quite beautiful, isn't it? it is beautiful. don't forget, you can follow us wherever we are in the world

byjoining our social media feeds. all of the details are your screens 110w. from me and the rest of the tavel show team here in australia, it's goodbye. hello. things are set to turn milder by next week. but today we have pretty severe wintry weather in northern and eastern parts of the country especially. weather watch pictures coming through on the snow falling across many eastern areas. snow and ice, watch out if you're heading out on the roads, slippery

surfaces and it looks to be on and off my all day in parts of northern scotla nd off my all day in parts of northern scotland and through here, as you can see on the small radar, more confined to eastern areas and further west turning back to feed and off the atlantic. watch out for snow and ice through northern scotla nd snow and ice through northern scotland in particular. we will see this turning to rain across the west of scotla nd this turning to rain across the west of scotland but for northern ireland that band clears through so improving conditions here. perhaps a little brightness as well and temperatures less cold than they have been, but a real wintry mix. the here, east anglia also, staying really cold as well so watch out for ice, but further south and west it will be mainly rain, some heavy rain falling on services where we have seen falling on services where we have seen some snowmelt now 3s falling on services where we have seen some snowmelt now as well as temperatures rising —— surfaces where we have seen some snow melt. the snow slowly shift eastwards towards this evening and those temperatures are really coming up in

the south—west by the end of the day, 10—12d location it. still very cold for scotland and parts of england. 0vernight, the rain, sleet and snow clears away. a few clear spells behind. —— 10—12 degrees here. temperature is not far off 10 degrees in the south—west but here it will start off quite wet. this feature running across the south—west careering into monday. some rain into the north of scotland as well but monday potentially much quieter. blustery westerly winds. the running milder on tuesday but went on from the south—west. but it will become windy and there will be afairamount of will become windy and there will be a fair amount of cloud around as well. we can see low—pressure out in the atlantic. some cool air wrapped in with that but we are always on the milder side of it as we had on too much of the week. tuesday and wednesday, very mild across central

and southern areas. but cloudy with outbreaks of pretty heavy rain. something colour for thursday and friday across the next weekend. —— but it turns milder again as we head into the next weekend. this is bbc news. i'm martine croxall.the headlines at two. afghan security forces regain control of a hotel in kabul after it was seized by gunmen — six civilians died and 160 others were rescued. an 8—year—old girl has been stabbed to death in the west midlands,

in what police are calling a ‘domestic incident‘. ukip leader henry bolton tells the bbc it is not tried for the party bosman ruling committee tojudge him on his personal life. an emergency meeting on his future is being held this afternoon. it's time the party moves on and the national executive needs to recognise that by pursuing this action against me they are undermining the party further. kyle edmund britain reaches his first grand slam quarterfinal at the australian open in tennis. and the women‘s march in central london.