sad week in 1956? who knows? a sad week generally poor eurovision overwrought, because katie and she was associated with the competition. the phrase icon is overused, but we have lost two, with katie boyle, who hosted for the uk on four occasions, probably the best presenter eurovision has ever had. and like lys assia, she was loyal to the contest lys assia, she was loyal to the co ntest a nd lys assia, she was loyal to the contest and its fans. thank you very much for paying tribute. good to see you. time for a look at the weather with phil avery. it hasn't been a bad day for many parts of the british isles. a bit more cloud in the south—eastern quarter, but that's the sort of thing many of you will have looked at. perhaps for some even less cloud than that. this evening at overnight, we'll lose some of that cloud that has developed through the day and, underneath clear skies, i think

we'll end up with quite a widespread frost, especially inland. perhaps less of a chance across the southern counties. a bright, crisp start to the day on monday, but you'll notice that eventually we bring this weather front into western areas. rain by tea—time for the western side of northern ireland and pembrokeshire, and temperatures not bad. nine to 13, but we'll probably not see their like again through the week, as it turns colder. it will be rainy at times, and quite breezy for some, and a risk of snow, but i think that will be mostly confined to the higher ground. this is bbc news — our latest headlines. thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of barcelona following the arrest of carles puigdemont. the former catalonian president was detained in germany on a european warrant. separatist supporters are calling for his release. jeremy corbyn says he is sincerely sorry for the pain caused by what he describes as pockets of anti—semitism within labour. the australia cricket captain

steve smith has been banned for one match by cricket's ruling body, the icc, over the ball tampering scandal. the australian prime minister has said he's furious at the revelations. 3,000 extra midwives are to be trained over the next four years in the largest—ever increase of maternity staff in england. the plans will also see expectant mothers treated by the same midwives throughout their pregnancy. now on bbc news — 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 with the outback and with nature and what better 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 meet a guy who is 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. 0ur 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 0k? 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. 0ur 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 corey staying firmly south of the border there in mexico back injanuary. 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. 0ne 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 under water? 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. 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. she 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 taxi drivers 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. hello once again.

i think the weekend eventually got there for many of us. certainly, i think many more are seeing a drier, brighter prospect through the bulk of sunday. it wasn'tjust belper that got the very best of it. but having said that, there has to be an exception and it was to be found close to the south—eastern quarter of the british isles, where a veil of cloud, the residue of saturday, was still hanging around — wouldn't you just know it, it's gone as we get into the wee small hours. underneath, pretty clear skies. so, for the north of scotland, there is going to be quite a widespread frost, not a particularly hard one, but it's just a reminder that we're still fairly early in the season, so don't be at all surprised, even in the towns and cities, if you get close to, if notjust a tad below freezing. although i think there will be just that difference across some of the southern counties. the first part of the week is marked

by some mild air close by to the british isles, but once that's away, i've shown you mild air in the south, its relative to somewhat colder conditions getting into the northern half of scotland. monday starts, therefore, bright enough, but fairly crisp in one or two spots, as i say. and you keep your sunshine across northern and eastern parts for the greater part of the day. out west, things change and eventually come to time, i think we'll see rain pushing into the west of northern ireland, to pembrokeshire, maybe west of the tamar too. nothing wrong with those temperatures for the time of year, nine to 13 or so. that area of rain is all associated with weather fronts draped round that area of low pressure, quite a number of isobars there, so tuesday, a rather wet and breezy affair for some, although the rain eventually becoming confined to northern and eastern parts. and it's still relatively mild across the south. but further north, where you're getting a shot of cold air coming in from the north sea, well, 4 or 5 degrees only.

and it's as a consequence of that that there are cooler conditions to be found towards the north, and we see these snowfall totals beginning to mount up over the higher ground. for the south, well, as we get on into wednesday, the front clears away, brighter skies follow on behind, but it's a bright and blustery sort of day on wednesday, with a number of showers, maybe a wee bit of hail in the heaviest of them. so, a mixed bag to start off the new week. it will be turning that wee bit colder after those double—figure temperatures, there will be some rain at times, and a risk of snow, particularly on high ground. this is bbc world news today. i'm ben bland. our top stories: a protest on the streets of barcelona turns into a stand—off with police. this is the scene there now. this after the former leader of the separatist cause is placed under arrest in germany. his lawyer says he'll fight the case all the way translation: the european arrest warrant is being misused for political purposes. it is being used to put political opponents behind bars. "astonished and ashamed" — the australian cricket team

is engulfed in scandal after the captain admits to cheating and steps down. when i heard about it, i was outraged. i was just outraged. this is our national team. the australian cricket team for australians is iconic, and for them to behave in this way is just unbelievable. hundreds attend a memorial service for the victims of an islamist