this is bbc news. the headlines: thousands of people in florida have taken part in a rally to demand tighter us gun controls. the event took place a short distance from the school in fort lauderdale, where a former student, nikolas cruz, killed 17 people. there was strong criticism of president trump, for his refusal to consider new firearms restrictions. the us national security adviser says it's time the world held the syrian government accountable for its use of chemical weapons. hr mcmaster says reports and photos clearly show such weapons are being deployed. the syrian government has always denied using chemical weapons. the mexican defence secretary, salvador cienfuegos, has apologised for a helicopter accident that killed 1a people on friday in the southern state of oaxaca. the military helicopter was carrying two senior mexican politicians to the area which had been hit by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake. a convicted serial killer is understood to have confessed to the murder of a 21—year—old british student in france in 1990.

bbc news has been told that michel fourniret has admitted to killing joanna parrish, from gloucestershire. she was found dead in a river in the burgundy region. the family's lawyer said fourniret had appeared in court "two to three times" in the past week and admitted the killing on each occasion. charlotte gallagher reports. joanna parrish had gone to france to teach english as part of a university course. but she disappeared after placing an advert ina disappeared after placing an advert in a local newspaper offering lessons. her body was later found in a river, raped, beaten, and strangled. now, almost three decades on, the prime suspect in her murder, the serial killer, michel fourniret, has reportedly confessed. michel fourniret, known as the ogre of the

arden was jailed in 2008 for murdering seven young women with his wife as an accomplice. we were hoping to get some news from the french authorities for some time, but it was still quite a shock when we heard from france that he had actually admitted to being involved in the murder ofjoanna parrish. that parents have spent the last decade is fighting forjustice for their daughter and pressuring the french authorities to keep investigating the case. we suspected michel fourniret for many years. that suspicion was based on a number of things, quite a lot, as a matter of things, quite a lot, as a matter of fa ct, of things, quite a lot, as a matter of fact, but we always recognised those things had been circumstantial and probably not evidence that can be supported through a legal case. michel fourniret is yet to be charged with the murder ofjoanna parrish and will be questioned further, but her family hope very long search for answers is finally over. charlotte gallagher, bbc news.

now it's time for the travel show. this week on the travel show... seeing africa by train. we witnessed seven lions that were chasing a zebra. it was like a movie! and this was real. the history of selfies, lol. selfies have a very interesting history that goes back 40,000 years. distorted singing and rocking the mic underwater in denmark. making music, whoo—hoo! we're starting this week in africa on a train line that passes through some of the continent's wildest landscape. the freedom railway cuts through more than 18,000 kilometres of dense jungle, mountains and savannah, as it winds its way from dar es salaam in tanzania to zambia's central province. but more than a0 years after it opened, it's now beginning

to show its age and is overdue and major upgrade. we bought a ticket and went to find out what makes the journey so unique. and if you're tempted by a rail journey through africa, here's our pick of some of the highlights. the continent's first ever high—speed train line is due to open this summer in morocco. it'll more than halve the time it takes to travel from the port of tangier to casablanca, where you can pick up slower connections onto fez or marrakesh. another key upgrade recently has been the stretch from mombasa to nairobi, in kenya. that route used to be known as the lunatic express, because its construction in the late 19th century was so dangerous. thousands of labourers died working

on it, many from malaria, some from being attacked by lions. the 12 hourjourney has now been reduced to four and a half, but at those speeds you might find that any visible big game whizzes by at a pace that makes it slightly trickier to spot. one of the most luxurious and most expensive rides africa has to offer is south africa's blue train. it takes 27 hours to travel the nearly 1,000 miles from pretoria to cape town and will set you back around £900, or about $1200 us. however, you are paying not just for dramatic views of the landscapes, but also for high—end 5—star service onboard. and in egypt, the line from cairo to aswan tracks the course of the nile and offers excellent views of plantations and villages on the way. if you try and book at the ticket office they'll put

you on the sleeper service and you will miss all the views, however, there is nothing to stop you booking online orjust turning up and getting your ticket on the train. do check the latest travel advice before you go. still to come on the travel show... we take our best pout along to be museum of selfies. ooh! and why i'm getting a good dunking in the name of music. amazing. you're doing good. it's lovely and warm! when you're singing into the water, you have to have water down your throat and if you open up you get the water in your lungs. so, do stay with us.

the travel show, your essential guide, wherever you're heading. ok, it's time for trend in travel, your monthly mash—up of the very best travel related stories, pics and clips online. apparently over1 million selfies are posted to social media every day. so it was probably inevitable that someone would open up a museum of selfies. it opens in la for a month—long engagement, starting in april. it's more than just a gallery of art, it's an interactive installation that allows people to create selfies of there own. selfies have an interesting history that goes back 40,000 years. the human form is a very old thing that we've depicted since we were able to start drawing on cave walls. it's changed because technology and the techniques have become more advanced. this year, south africa celebrates 100 years since the birth of nelson mandela with a packed

calendar of concerts, celebrations and a new app. madiba's journey guides visitors around many of the sites that shaped the great man's life, including robben island, when he was imprisoned for 18 long, gruelling years. the listings are decked out with images, histories and even audio guides. it's available for both ios and android. now i'll meet a travel photographer with a difference. jacqui kenny uses google street view to explore the world, posting her screen grabs under the name ‘the agoraphobic traveller'. she suffers from a fear of open spaces, leaving her largely confined to her house, but her work is spreading across the globe, with an exhibition in new york and nearly 100,000 instagram followers. for a limited time, she's selling her prints and donating a portion of the profits to the brain and behaviour research foundation. and we caught up with blind backpacker tony giles, fresh from his trip to israel and palestine, for a facebook live interview.

tony has visited over 120 countries, despite losing his sight as a child. what has been the most unforgettable place that you have visited? what's been the most amazing place. new zealand is the most amazing country, i have been twice the first time i spent three months on the bus, travelling around and bungeejumping. i love the people and the nature, i can smell it all and i can sense it all walking up and down a mountain. thank you to everyone who sent us your pictures from their travels, using our hashtag. here is what caught my eye. mario took this stunning sunset shot of the church of assumption at lake bled in slovenia. roger captured another sunset view overlooking sydney harbour. don't forget to share your travel pictures with us on our twitter feed. ok, here are the travel videos we have been viewing this month.

70 years ago this month, sri lanka declared independence from great britain. so we have selected a couple of films that show the country at its best that you can also check out online. and if you see anything you think we should know about, please do get in touch. you can find us on twitter using @bbctravelshow. and finally this week, i travel to aalborg in denmark. this is a country almost completely

surrounded by water, no matter where you are you are never more than 50 kilometres from the coast. so it should come as no surprise that it was here that a local artist was inspired to combine music and water in a way that you have never heard before. this is the group between music. their latest show is the first in a four—part series called aquasonic, which explores who we are as human beings and it begins with our time in the womb. we are so often divided between you and me, them and us, different religions and different cultures, but this is something but here is something

we all know something about. we have our first nine months covered by this water filter, so i think somehow the audience, i think they are on at least an unconscious level will have a flashback to hearing those sounds. so, as performers, how does it feel when you are underwater performing to an audience? it gets really, somehow, a sense of loneliness to it. there is not only a visual loneliness to see these humans in the tanks, but also the sound has a kind of loneliness to it, and i think that is quite a nice idea. ooh! so, here goes. one deep breath and —

well, actually this is quite nice. amazing! you are doing good! it is lovely and warm. yeah. this is great. so if you take this microphone that is hanging and then you hit this bell plate, you see the one? yes, this one here? yes. then you take the microphone and put it towards it. do you hear that effect? ooh! that's awesome! then you can sort of play with it. playing music in water has two sides. on one side, it is terrifying because also, when you are singing into the water you have to have water down your throat and if you open up, you get the water in your lungs. so that's quite terrifying. so how on earth do you get musical insurance to play underwater? well it took us 10—11 years to create this project,

and how come it took so long? because 0k, it is something that we needed to really research and seeing what other people have done and trying other instruments. most instruments didn't sound really good, but we saw somehow a potential in this. but we also realised we had to build instruments to work in the water, so we found collaborators around the world to help us build instruments for this project. from his studio in bath in england, matt nolan works with artists all over the world to create custom—made instruments. i guess somehow i seem to become the guy people go to when they need something unusual. spooky. i was approached by, i think it was one of the new production guys for aquasonic, when they needed some bespoke underwater percussion.

i tried a lot of things in a small tank of water here and was astonished by how many things just literallyjust go clunk and don't do anything else. you know, all of the high frequencies that shimmer like a cymbal alljust disappears. so with various experiments, trying this and that, we sort of narrowed down on those instruments need to be heavy and massive and could sustain and contain a certain amount of sonic energy and then they'll radiate out in time so the water doesn't kill it too quickly. well, it is always good to find something that is not working and figure out how to make it work. back in denmark, i am beginning to think i am a bit of a natural. and then maybe you should just pull the darbuka to the front window and then you can sort of, if you hit it with a hammer, you can close the sound with your hand. another thing, if you take — there is a small stick on the top

of the — yeah, exactly. and you can use that for the ring over there, with the holes in it. 0h, 0k. ooh! that's so cool! you're making music! yes! it is amazing. you have these hammers that, when you hit, it resonates through the tank. you can feel it in your body. it is a totally different experience than hanging a bell with a hammer.= in the air. and when you have been out of order for a couple of weeks or months and when we go, we have to play somewhere and get in the tank, it feels quite like getting home again.

yeah. try to go down and then hit maybe number one and number three together. underwater music, trickier than it appears and definitely one not to try at home. unfortunately, that's all we've got time for on this week's show. but, coming up next week: with the winter olympics in full swing in south korea, carmen heads to seoul for a taste of its street food culture. so let me tell you, it is pretty cold out here right now — it feels like it's well below zero — but look at this place, it's so bustling! you would think people would be at home with the central heating on full blast, but no — this place is really happening. and we are off to one of the toughest, wildest environments the uk has to offer. jo walleyjoins a tour which teaches you how to survive a night outdoors in scotland's cairngorm mountains. so i have been digging for a couple of hours now and the camera is finally starting to completely freeze over and i am also freezing over. ,cheers everyone!

so dojoin us then, if you can. and in the meantime, don't forget you can catch up with us while we are out on the road in real—time by signing up to our social media feeds. details are on the screen now. from now, from me and the rest of the travel show team in denmark, hello there, good morning. it's going to be a bit chilly out there first thing this morning. clearer skies in many areas to follow the sunshine that we had yesterday. but there won't be as much sunshine today because all this cloud that has been filling in the atlantic is going to be slowly heading our way.

and we've already seen some of that cloud arriving across wales and the south—west, so not as cold here. less reliable cloud elsewhere means a touch of frost — especially for scotland and down the eastern side of england, and maybe some patches of fog, too. now, we are going to get some milder air eventually today — if not today, then tomorrow. this envelope of milder air coming in between these two weather fronts here and it is this first one that we need to look at for today because it will eventually bring more rain and drizzle into western areas. most places, though, will start the day dry. there may be some early sunshine across some eastern parts of england. the best of the sunshine probably for north—east scotland. should be a lovely day here. a lot more cloud spilling our way, though, through the day and especially in the afternoon, the cloud thickening up to give some more rain and drizzle, particularly across northern ireland. but temperatures probably around ten or 11 degrees. ironically, where it's going to be brighter, it's going to be cooler — towards the north—east of the uk. now into the evening and overnight, well, we find this rain and drizzle continuing to push its way eastwards pretty much across the country. not much rain, though.

there may well be some misty, murky weather over the hills and a lot of cloud overnight. so as a result, it is going to be a much milder night, and temperatures typically five or six degrees, so no frost early on monday morning this time. instead, a different look to the weather for eastern scotland and down the eastern side of england, where we are going to have some misty, murky conditions and some rain and drizzle. if there is any sunshine, maybe some of these western coasts, perhaps antrim and down, ahead of some more rain coming into northern ireland later. but a mild day — temperatures about ten, maybe as high as 12 degrees or so. but that mild air getting squeezed away. colder air is going to be spilling our way over the coming few days — whether it comes in from the east or from the west. and we start tuesday with some thicker cloud, some outbreaks of rain down the eastern side of england, for a time in eastern scotland. that rain tends to peter out, mind you. more sunshine for northern ireland and for scotland, perhaps some other western coasts of england and wales but already turning cooler out towards the east underneath all that cloud. and that is the way temperatures are going to be going. it is going to be turning cooler.

high pressure, though, building in over the uk — whether it is this one from the atlantic or this one from scandinavia, not a great deal of breeze out there and where you have some breaks in the cloud, there may well be some frost in the outlook. after a mild start to the week, though, it will gradually turn a bit colder. the chance of some of easterly winds, but it should be turning dry. hello. i'm nkem ifejika and this is bbc world news. thousands of people in florida, including survivors of wednesday's mass school shooting, have taken part in a rally to demand tighter gun controls in the united states. the event took place outside the court building in the city of fort lauderdale,

a short distance from the school where a former student, nikolas cruz, killed 17 people. laura westbrook reports. (chanting) no more! outside the federal court house in fort lauderdale, this was the message to lawmakers. among the protesters was emma gonzales,