we can reduce the amount of time people spend in hospital and the need for them to come back to hospital again. so the net result is reducing the stress on the nhs. if not for pathway, i don't think iwould be here now, alive, and everything is going good now. fifth in £38 million was raised during last night's sport relief. the amount is below the record £55 million pledged in 2016 — but organisers are still hailing the event a huge success. our entertainment correspondent, colin paterson reports. commentator: and away they go, pushing hard! this was a very competitive sport relief. there was the clash of the channels — bbc versus itv. but with dan walker in one boat and charlotte hawkins in the other, it was really bbc breakfast versus good morning britain, and look who won. and the bbc will take victory in this sport relief celebrity boat race! there was the return of celebrity boxing. she's taking a lot of heavy shots from helen there. helen skelton used to be on blue peter.

this was black—and—blue peter. she won a full—on encounter with camilla thurlow from love island. now for sport relief, shay given has embarked on a 12—hour penalty marathon. he's been saving more than half of them. how am i going to get on? let's keep the microphone in my hand. 0h, disaster for scotland! andy murray's asleep. in this hotel. andrew murray genuinely did not know about plans to wake him up for michael mcintyre‘s midnight game show. andy! he ended up duetting with a spice girl. i really, really, really wanna... zig—a—zig—ah. and backstage, the donations were coming in. nadine, she is eight and she has just given her entire pocket money. i mean, you cannot argue with that, can you? what is pocket money nowadays? well, i didn't like to ask — that is very personal — but whatever she has got in the pot,

she has given us. and although the total raised was not a record, it was still a sizeable amount. colin paterson, bbc news, still annoyed about that penalty. colin usually scores, don't worry. alina jenkins has the weather. we have a north—south split with sunshine and showers in scotland and northern ireland but further south, more cloud, which will continue to bring outbreaks of rain and drizzle. it will ease off and the cloud slowly being eroded from the north with sunshine across north of england, isle of man. showers in northern ireland, west of scotland, some could be wintry. the best temperatures in eastern scotland.

cloud overnight, particularly in east anglia and south—west england. showers in north—west scotland and for many, a cold night. a touch of frost. a cold start tomorrow but right, spells of sunshine, cloud will be stubborn to go from south—east england, perhaps bringing drizzle at times. this is bbc news — our latest headlines. the french police officer who swapped places with a hostage in an armed siege at a supermarket has died. three other people were killed and 16 more were injured in three separate attacks — all carried out by a man who said he supported the group that calls itself islamic state. owen smith says he'll continue to argue against brexit, despite being sacked from the labour front bench over the issue. the views that i'm reflecting are the views of the vast majority

of labour party members, including those who supported jeremy corbyn in the leadership contest over the last few years. sergei skripal wrote to president putin asking to be allowed to return home, a friend of the former spy told the bbc. now on bbc news it's time for the travel show. hello and welcome to the travel show, coming to you this week from tokyo. it's a city that is gearing up to host the olympic games

in two years‘ time and also a place that i call home. but, like the rest of the team, i spend a fair amount of my time on the road, bringing you stories from around the world. so let's have a look back at some of our most recent travels. here's a taste of what is coming up. it's crazy here. there are gunshots, there are sirens. uluru is one of those must—see destinations if you are heading to australia. but not everybody manages it. it is remote and expensive to get there. despite all this, if you are still

keen to climb the rock then time could be running out as henry discovered when he headed there in january. the giant monolith attracts over a quarter of a million visitors each year. for many of them, climbing to the top is something of a rite of passage. as well as being an important place for tourists, uluru is a sacred site. at the moment, tourists are allowed to climb to the top but all of that is 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. why was the decision made in the first place to ban the climb? there are a couple of reasons. primarily because anangu do not want to see people climbing for cultural reasons,

but there has also been a significant number of fatalities on the climb. the ban will not come into force until october 2019 and, until then, tourists can continue to climb on days when the weather is not 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. so will the closure of the climb have a negative impact on tourist numbers visiting uluru? well, to keep visitors coming, local tourism bosses are working hard to show that there are other ways to experience the rock. uluru camel tours takes people out into the desert. they give people a great camel experience and it is about people connecting way than doing it from

the back of a camel? relax from the waist down and let your body go with the flow. they are environmentally friendly, they graze on 85% of the vegetation out here. they have big flat feet so they don't chop the ground up. they are a low impact animal. and go for months without water so they do not need to hang around a water source and eat all the vegetation there. unbelievable. the views from the vantage point are pretty breathtaking. in a moment we are off to abu dhabi to see rajan use an overload of horsepower to try and get to the top of one of the world's highest sand dunes. first, here is a reminder of the time ade had to rely on reindeer power in finnish lapland, and didn't manage to cover so much ground. you can't say you have truly experienced the delights of lapland until you have been on a reindeer safari. that is what i am about to do. i am told that if i am good, i may get to ride my own sleigh

with my own reindeer. like many reindeer herdsmen here in lapland, erik supplements his income with tourism. he takes small groups of tourists into the forest on a reindeer safari. it is a proper winter wonderland. so beautiful out here. everywhere you look is just a postcard. finally, it is my turn to have a go. if you want to go, you just say go. as simple as that? 0k. go, go! reindeer, go! he is not listening to me. go, reindeer! go! maybe we will take the next one. 0k. we will take the next one.

before i set off, erik gives me some last few tips. just pull it. and then he will stop in an emergency. he will stop. so this is my emergency brake? whoo—hoo! we are going! this is so spectacular. my first ever sleigh ride. 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. 3.5 hours south—west of the big city is the vast expanse

of desert called liwa. it is the uae‘s driest region. it is remote but beautiful. it is a world apart from the big city. at this annual sports festival, there are camel and horse races. but, basically, this is party time for petrol heads, attracting tens of thousands from all over the region. and, truth be told, it is very much a male domain. boy racers and supposedly respectable grown—ups bring their four—wheel drives and buggies for a romp on the dunes. and you do not get much bigger than tal moreeb. 300 metres high, at

an incline of 50 degrees. it's crazy here! madness, anarchy almost. all of these boy racers and man racers. getting it out of their system. i am going to travel with a bit of a seasoned campaigner. mohamad, hello. how are you? can you show me some skills if i hop in? can you show me a few of the things that you do? ican. wow! this car is like as it came from the factory. so from the factory it has around 250 horsepower. it will not be enough to take us to the top. but i refuse to give up.

rajan racing to the top earlier this year on the programme. still to come on the travel show, we remember the time christa took on a surreal underwater challenge in denmark. our newbie, mike corey, got a gentle introduction into life here on the programme. this is intense. there are gunshots,

there are sirens. this bridge is totally unstable. and i hit the streets of tokyo, dressed like this. how do i look? i feel like michelin mario. injanuary we welcomed mike corey to the travel show team. i'm not sure if he realised what he had signed up for when we sent him to mexico. he was there to join a group that run regular events designed to put locals off the idea of attempting an illegal border crossing into the usa, by recreating what it would be like. the experience is open to tourists as well, so we sent him along tojoin in. we are told to meet inside the main gate. and even though these guys are playing a part, they really mean business. he is yelling at the top of his lungs. he's the coyote, someone who brings

you across the border. he's taking his character extremely seriously. i'm going to have to get going. sirens wail. this is intense. there are gunshots, there are sirens. this bridge is totally not stable. and there are people crawling on the ground. i don't know what is going on but the group is slowly... man groans. you ok? yes. unsure footing i can deal with. woman screams. but things get much scarier when you are forced to the ground by these very authentic—looking armed bandits. solo.

i'm actually afraid to make too much noise. i don't want them to come back. sirens wail. we have to go. look at this. i have a cactus stuck in the bottom of my shoe. look at that. that went all the way

through the side of my shoe. this is the moment. hopefully we cross the border. our coyote is stressing out. we wait for the next truck and as soon as the next truck comes we are jumping in the back. sirens wail. sirens off in the distance. illegal crossings are currently at the lowest they have been for 17 years. though the journey still kills hundreds of people annually. here at the park they hope that this experience will save lives. it has certainly given many of the guests here tonight pause for thought. mike staying firmly south of the border there in mexico back in january.

we will see more of mike on the show as he heads to the philippines in the next month or so. next up, also back injanuary, we sent christa to denmark to try her hand at playing some musical instruments. i'm not totally sure we warned her that she would be playing them underwater though. underwater singing. this is the group between music. their latest show is the first in a four—part series called aquasonic, which aims to explore 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, different cultures, but here is something that i think 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, at least on an unconscious level, will have flashbacks to hearing those sounds. so here goes. one deep breath and... well, actually, this is quite nice. amazing. you're doing good. it's lovely and warm. yeah? yeah, this is great. so if you take this microphone that is hanging and then you hit this bell plate. you see that one? yes, this one here. and then you take the microphone and put it towards it. do you hear that effect? whoo, that's awesome. and 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 water in your lungs, so that is quite terrifying. so how on earth do you get musical instruments to play underwater? well, it took us 10 or 11 years to create this project. and how come it took so long? because it is something that we needed to really research and see what other people had done and try other instruments and most instruments did not sound really good, but we saw somehow a potential in this but also we realised we had to build instruments to work in water so we found collaborators around the world to help us build instruments for this project. i am beginning to think i am a bit of a natural. maybe you should just pull that in the front window and then you can sort of hit it with a hammer you can close the sound with your hand. another thing, there is a small stick on top.

yeah, exactly, and you can use that for the ring over there, with the holes in it. that is so cool. you are making music. and to finish our look back at some of our most recent travel stories, last month i took what i think is one of the most surreal sight sightseeing tours ever invented. and while it might be popular with tourists here in tokyo, it seems some of the locals are not so keen. i guess the best way to describe what i am about to experience is a self—drive videogame simulation

with some sightseeing thrown in. konnichiwa. welcome to maricar, nice to meet you! nice to meet you. gosh, this brings back memories from my childhood. yoshi, luigi and mario. it has got to be mario. how do i look? i feel like michelin mario. i'm not the best driver, you know. right now this costume is the least of my worries. i have got my foot on the brake. where is the key? john, where is the key? laughter.

this is ridiculous! screams. oh, my god. screams. even though it is a sunday morning and the traffic is lighter, it takes a while to get used to driving a vehicle that feels so low and exposed. slightly vulnerable, but i think i am getting the hang of driving this car now. oh, my gosh. do you see how close i came to a taxi? we are going through the most fashionable part of tokyo and i am dressed as a fat plumber. little chance of anyone wanting to copy my outfit here in harajuku, but nintendo are reportedly unhappy with their trademark super mario dungarees and cap being used by the tours. there has been talk of legal action,

but the subtle name change from mario kart to maricar and the inclusion of some other characters seems to be keeping the lawyers at bay. we are coming up to the crossing. oh, my goodness. oh, my gosh, i can't believe we are going through shibuya crossing! although some of tokyo's taxidrivers say that they can be disruptive and dangerous, johnny tells me that he has supervised over 2000 tours without any serious accidents. but several cab drivers we met still had concerns. new regulations now mean that modifications will have to be made to the go—karts and it is hoped that

repositioning tail lights and fitting better back and head protection and mudguards will provide safety for kart drivers and other road users and pedestrians. that's it for a look back at some of the best bits on the travel show so far this year. coming up next week... there is another chance to see our blind backpacker, tony giles, make his way around jerusalem and bethlehem. my name is tony giles, i'm from england. i'm totally blind and severely deaf in both ears and i'm travelling around the world, trying to visit every country. and the response to those films featuring tony has been amazing so thank you for all your messages and we hope to have more from tony on the programme sometime soon. in the meantime, don't forget to sign up to us on social media and you can share your travels

with the world. we'll see you next week. from everyone here in tokyo, it's goodbye. last weekend we were talking about smoke and severe wind—chill. still the prospect of some snow in this forecast, just not yet. an early typical spring weekend ahead. some spells of sunshine but also showers. we have cloud to the south—west. the spanish met office have named it storm hugo, bringing storms to

spain, but for storm hugo, bringing storms to spain, butfor us, storm hugo, bringing storms to spain, but for us, it is bringing cloud across england and wales, which will bring light rain and drizzle. the cloud being nibbled away across northern england. sunny spells and showers in scotland, northern ireland, and some could be wintry over high ground in scotland and maybe a rumble of thunder to the east of scotland, for the rest, sunshine. the cloud continues to be eroded this evening and overnight so clear skies here, temperatures taking a tumble and close to freezing if not below in some areas. hanging onto the cloud in the south. here, temperatures between 4—7. as low as —3 in rural spots. a cold start tomorrow but bright for many and the one exception to the sunshine will be south—east england, hanging on to cloud and maybe

drizzle. elsewhere, spells of sunshine, showers, and the winds will be fairly light. it should feel quite pleasant. things change slowly next week. it will turn colder. there is the risk of snow particularly on tuesday and wednesday and uncertainty surrounding the details so keep an eye on the forecast. monday, starts dry, bright and cold with sunshine and slowly the sunshine disappears. rain arriving into western scotland, northern ireland, wales, south—west england later in the day. we need to keep an eye on what is happening on tuesday and wednesday. we pick up an east, north—easterly wind, feeding cold air across the uk and the prospect that some could see some snow. this is bbc news. i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 11.00am. the french police officer

who swapped places with a hostage in an armed siege at a supermarket has died. three other people died and 16 more were injured in three separate attacks, all carried out by a man who said he supported the group that calls itself islamic state. owen smith says he'll continue to argue against brexit, despite being sacked from the labour front bench over the issue. the views that i am reflecting the views of the vast majority of labour party ‘s supporters including those who supported jeremy corbyn in the leadership contests. there are rallies about gun controls. also in the next hour sport relief raises more than £38 millioin for charities. it's below the record 55 million pledged two years ago, but organisers are hailing