‘ day is day is probably of weather. easter day is probably the best day of the weekend. more in the best day of the weekend. more in the way of dry, bright weather. a mix on the way with rain at times. snow in the forecast. easter monday there could be disruption. temperatures disappointing for the end of march, beginning of april, below average. some dry intervals. this is the radio this morning, showery outbreaks of rain across the north, some wintry. rain moving into the south. spreading its way north as we moved through the day for southern parts and central parts of england and wales. heavy bursts. western parts of wales and perhaps cornwall staying dry. still some showers. scattered showers. some brighter intervals, showery outbreaks for southern scotland over high ground. temperatures at a maximum of 9—10dc. seeing the wind strengthening in the north. easterly wind, not feeling warm. bromance

about tonight, outbreaks of rain, heavy at times, snow over the pennines, showers for the north and clearer spells in the northwest. tomorrow, low pressure dominating the weather, working east. fair amount of cloud, showery outbreaks of rain, some hills though. brighter intervals for western parts of england and wales. across scotland and northern ireland, still a cute showers persisting the degree for the north—east of scotland, some falling as snow even to lower levels. more of a contrast in the temperatures, colder in the north, cold but brighter start on easter day. frost on the ground to begin with, cloudy from the south—west with, cloudy from the south—west with wet and windy weather moving into south—west england. showers for the north, some falling as snow. area of low pressure, weather fronts moving in from the south—west, moisture of the night into easter monday and through easter monday. as

the cloud, colder, the potentialfor snow, could be disruptive. largely it is falling as rain in the south, but midlands, part of north wales and moving to southern scotland the potential for some disruptive snow. temperatures a little bit milder in the south. the potentialfor some disruption as we get a easter monday, if you are travelling anywhere stage into the local forecast. —— stay tuned. a the this is bbc news — our latest headlines. tighter rules on police bail have led to thousands of suspects in violent and sexual offences being released without conditions. new regulations on pre—charge bail came into effect in england and wales last year. the us has said it may take further action against russia following the expulsion of 60 american diplomats. moscow said countries that remove russian officials could expect a "symmetrical" response.

a group of labour mps has urged jeremy corbyn to suspend former disputes panel chair christine shawcroft from the party's national executive committee, as the row over anti—semitism continues. now on bbc news — the travel show. 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. we're in the old city! israel is country 120 force of will —— israel is country 124. i see a place with my senses, by the sounds, by the smells, by the textures. the hustle and bustle of people shouting, by this, buy this,

come on look at this! i feel the atmosphere, the energy, the buzz! i was born with my eye condition, i don't have any vision apart from sunlight sensitivity. and i've gradually gone deaf as i've got older and i gradually gone deaf as i've got olderand i am now gradually gone deaf as i've got older and i am now 80% or severely deaf in both ears and i use digital hearing aids. i travel alone, because it's the biggest challenge i can get the travelling by myself... excuse me! i get to interact with more people. if i travel with someone, more people. if i travel with someone, particularly someone cited, they would be doing all the work, all the guiding, and i would not get to touch and find as many things as ido to touch and find as many things as i do buy myself. today i'm going to catch a bus into the old city to go

to the western wall. western wall? western wall, yeah. are capable let's go. i will help you. 0k. western wall, yeah. are capable let's go. iwill help you. 0k. let me hold your arm like that. where are you from? i'm from england. england! i was lucky that the bar striker was nearby waiting, so it was really easy to find the bus. i've got it... let go, let go. new 0 rlea ns was i've got it... let go, let go. new orleans was the first place i went to buy myself, a foreign city by myself. didn't know where i was going, i was blind, myself. didn't know where i was going, iwas blind, and ijust throws. and then i took a couple of deep breaths and said to myself, tony, this is what you want as passive you don't want it go home. a couple more deep breaths, turn left panel walk down the street, and the rest is history. excuse me, are you

hear me...? this is your stock station. my stop? yes. 0k, thank you. you want any help? i'm good. just trying to get my bearings, trying to work out which way the traffic is going, and if i can use the sunlight, but i can't sense any sun at all. i have to be careful going down the steps, because blackballed and marble and slippery and worn so i have to go slowly and ta ke and worn so i have to go slowly and take care. but ok. yeah, yeah,, yeah. all right, thank you. treat people came to try and help me but they were a bit aggressive, they just grabbed me, which is not the correct way to help, it's a bit frightening. if people want to help, and many people do, ideally you

would want them to speak to you and say hello or can i help? but obviously not everyone speaks english. so if they don't, then touch you gently on the hand, on the arm, but not pull and not grab, ideally. you have to be patient, you get lost all the time it. it's very difficult if you're looking for something specific when you can't see mckinney obviously you can't pinpoint it. excuse me? you might get ten people what past and then someone get ten people what past and then someone will stop, are you lost, do you need help and then you can interact with them — that's how it works. excuse me, is this damascus gate? yeah. straight in front of me, no? ok. gate? yeah. straight in front of me, no? 0k. want some help? yep.

i like this! i like the atmosphere and the smells it's all close, compactor! it feels authentic. i'm going to the western wall, and on the way i'm going to hopefully explore some of the via della moussa, which is stages of the cross thatjesus walked. good morning, how are you? good good how are you wa nted are you? good good how are you wanted you want to see my shop souvenir? i could have a brief look, why not? what do you sell? very good! beautiful! yeah. this is

coffee. coffee yeah? 0k, good! beautiful! yeah. this is coffee. coffee yeah? ok, i get this. about $3. that's two five yeah? yes. thank you. i probably write a blog once a week so i document myjourney and my travels and i want to share it with the world, really, and try and inspire people to believe in themselves, that they can overcome whatever their challenges are. and i also add pictures i've taken. originally i did it because i thought it would just be funny, someone thought it would just be funny, someone seeing thought it would just be funny, someone seeing a thought it would just be funny, someone seeing a blind person take photos. it's an extra way of sharing, ican photos. it's an extra way of sharing, i can show my family and

friends and stuff, that's the idea, to try and share with everyone. thank you. excuse me! take the hand! people... don't leave him! overhear. .. 0k, thank people... don't leave him! overhear... 0k, thank you. people... don't leave him! overhear. .. 0k, thank you. adds a motorbike coming through, that's not very never. hello. looking for the station of the cross... this way, this way... this is the station of the cross? come back. 0k... then to the cross? come back. 0k... then to the left... this is what he has done here. this is where christ... up, up, up, up to the right... firm exactly. 0h, 0k! thank you! welcome. a p pa re ntly exactly. 0h, 0k! thank you! welcome.

apparently i'm at one of the stages of the cross, where jesus apparently i'm at one of the stages of the cross, wherejesus put his hand on the wall and lent against a wall. defined handprint, very smooth, also quite rigid, quite bumpy. it's a lovely texture. right, this is... is this the way in? sorry, machine? womans. woman? yeah, not men. the wall is sort of separated, male and female and the

quy separated, male and female and the guy took me into the male section and took me up to the wall. ok. on these notes, massive blocks, very smooth. the texture, the shape of the wall, the bricks, from a historical and a spiritual point of view, it's worth visiting. tony at the western wall! so, i'm heading to bethlehem, which is in palestinian territory. and separated by a dividing wall and a checkpoint. so, i'm going to have to get off the bus, get through the checkpoint, and somehow meet my host to. i e—mailed him using my laptop

with speech software, and he sent me his phone number, and i memorised it and i'm trying to call him with my phone now. i can use the phone because it is tactile, i couldn't travel without my memory, my memory is my biggest asset. i'm using my memory constantly, i'm exercising it all the time, i have to remember phone numbers, i have to remember directions. my memory gives me everything. i'm now at the checkpoint between jerusalem and bethlehem. i've got to walk across the checkpoint and go past the dividing wall. railings... getting through the checkpoint is a

little bit complicated. slightly more complicated than i thought, slightly more confusing. and then we'd just have to sort of try and follow other people, people sort of pushing me from one way to the other. have to get past this... looks like a deer on the palestinian side, the palestinian territories. it's quite exhilarating. as you come out of the tunnel into the taxi area, and where the wall is, you can hear all the people talking and smell the food and coffee and stuff. that's quite lively, that's quite interesting. can you show me to a taxi? taxi cab

which i'm looking for a taxi. where? church of the nativity. 0k. i'd take you... 0k, cool. you happy? yeah, always! how big is the wall? it's very big. 20 metres? yes. tony... yeah? welcome to bethlehem, the church... yeah, the church of the nativity. all this way... yes, wall. behind the wall you have banksy behind the wall, you have hotel

banksy. i'm feeling excited to be in bethlehem, it's a new city, newtown, new experiences. driving through bethlehem along the wall has sort of given me a brief grimms of how long the wall could be. it certainly feels quite long travelling along it. in my mind it would seem quite impressive. and i guess quite scary toa impressive. and i guess quite scary to a lot of people. here is the church, tony, this is the church. i just called my host to let him know i'm still coming. adam, we're at the church... hello?! hello... ? i'm still coming. adam, we're at the

church... hello?! hello...? icall him... hello?! church... hello?! hello...? icall him... hello? icall church... hello?! hello...? icall him... hello? i call him, church... hello?! hello...? icall him... hello? icall him, he's coming, one minute he coming here. thanks, mohammed. thank you. hi, tony, how are you? hi, adam, good to meet you, looking forward to seeing yourface. meet you, looking forward to seeing your face. how meet you, looking forward to seeing yourface. how many meet you, looking forward to seeing your face. how many country you visit before? i've visited 124 countries. 0h, visit before? i've visited 124 countries. oh, my god, that's nice! yeah. yeah! i'm very lucky! i love to travel! have you done much travelling? not, just hear, it's not easy to go move, or to travelling

another country. so you get travellers to come to you? yeah! you have steps here... this is actually couch surfing, so invariably you stay for free. 0k, have steps five... you live in a castle! yeah. it's a website and you can find people on it, they have profiles, and they want to travel or they want to meet travellers, and that's how it works. now, come here, the lift. 0h, it works. now, come here, the lift. oh, this is home! we've landed, thank you! shook cancellara i have had a wide range of couch experiences, i've slept on floors, on mattresses like this, i've slept on mattresses like this, i've slept on couches, and also i have couch

slept in africa where the toilet is outside, and it's a hole in the ground. ithink outside, and it's a hole in the ground. i think it probably helps not ceren, i don't see the dirt or the danger or the holes, ijust get on with it. the main thing is your meeting the people, the local host and sharing their food and their culture and their knowledge and whatever they can offer you. and hopefully you make friends at the end of it. good evening. and good dreams are! shook ran, and to you! people think being blind must be terrible, poor you, they don't understand, they don't know what they're talking about. i'm so lucky and i'm leading a fantastic life, to be able to go country to country when i want, where i want... this is the way to travel! with very few

restrictions on one i want to photograph or do, and you come here and you see people, yeah, they can see and you see people, yeah, they can see and they can walk but they can't go places, it's just see and they can walk but they can't go places, it'sjust sad. you know for directions to go change? 0k, go places, it'sjust sad. you know for directions to go change? ok, so can you give me directions? just a straight, not left, not right. so, just straight? yeah. and i wish you be happy and lucky in your life. bye— bye, be happy and lucky in your life. bye—bye, good to meet you, adam. bye — bye. bye—bye, good to meet you, adam. bye-bye. bye-bye. is this the entrance to the church and you can go in entrance to the church and you can goina entrance to the church and you can go in a straight now. ok, thank you. ican go in a straight now. ok, thank you. i can roughly hear a voice but it's a bit disconcerting, the e. the echo

fits the sound, so —— splits the sound, so it takes away the direction. we'll get there, it can't be far. there is a big metal thing with studs which could be... yes, that's a gator! oh, yes! oil, candles... a waxy smell... polish. finding the entrance is like reaching my goal, it's like reaching my target, and everything else after this is a bonus. they've started singing, isuppose, louder, and i'm

going to get close to this, because there's going to be a lot of energy involved, and then i've got to try and get close in close—up, eventually using mike kane and picking out the steps, then guy helped me down. realising that i was the only person to get close to hear that, feel that, makes me feel very privileged. i'm absolutely buzzing after that. energy is incredible! that was cool, just to be here for that if nothing else! it was quite crowded going down

those steps, and black—white slippery... oh, my those steps, and black—white slippery... oh, my goodness! those steps, and black—white slippery". oh, my goodness! from the fire into the furnace! very hot in here, and i guess, some candles at and more people coming in. this is my hand yeah? this is the place where jesus was is my hand yeah? this is the place wherejesus was born, here is the star where he was born. kneel down on your knees. kneel down... more, more, more. . . on your knees. kneel down... more, more, more... you can touch the place where jesus was more, more... you can touch the place wherejesus was born. this is the star, it has 14... no, it's a start. the star of david, yeah. marble? no, it's silver. this is marble. yeah, this is marble. the

ground where jesus marble. yeah, this is marble. the ground wherejesus was born marble. yeah, this is marble. the ground wherejesus was horn is down here, you feel it, he was born here. 0k. here, you feel it, he was born here. ok. about there? here, you feel it, he was born here. 0k. about there? yeah, it's not ok like this, let me help you a little bit, it's like this, you can take a photo now... definitely an experience, a very humbling experience, a very humbling experience, to sort of be in a place where one might argue history occurred 2000 years or so ago. visiting the church, the smells, the sounds, that's what makes travelling, for me, special. i

travelling, for me, special. i travel by myself because it's my challenge, it's like climbing a mountain, you feel, oh, this is difficult, it's a struggle, and then you get to the top, and you're like, yeah, i've made it, this is magical. that's what it's all about. broadens my horizons. and makes me become hopefully a better person. hello. some fairly unsettled weather through the easter weekend, there will be some spells of rain and we also have some snow in the forecast and it will be quite! at times, temperatures struggling to get above—average. but there has been some above—average. but there has been some brightness this morning, this was sent in by a weather watcher in highland, cloudier the further south you are. some rumbles of thunder are possible in this area but it will be drierfor parts of possible in this area but it will be drier for parts of wales and the south—west of england. some shower

lea k south—west of england. some shower leak outbreaks of rain the southern scotland, some of which could be wintry over the higher ground and a few showers for the north and north—east of scotland. tonight's teign valley cloudy, some outbreaks of rain across england and wales which could be quite heavy at times. still a few showers in the east of northern ireland. here is what is going on in the pressure charts, this area of low pressure working its way east and affecting the weather today and tomorrow. tomorrow we'll weather today and tomorrow. tomorrow we' [i start weather today and tomorrow. tomorrow we'll start of fairly cloudy but england and wales with outbreaks of rain and some hill snow and a little bit drier in the south—east. brighter conditions starting to feed in to wales and the south—west of england. the scotland and northern ireland there will still be a few showers around, still a fair amount of cloud, the best of any brightness in the west. there will be a fairly brisk north—easterly wind. a cool sta rts brisk north—easterly wind. a cool

starts to the date on easter day, a out of dry weather around, perhaps a scattering of showers in the far north which could fall as snow. some windy weather moving into the south—west of england later. that is thanks to the next area of low pressure, moving in from the south—west. as it collides with some cold air there is the potential for some snow. cold air there is the potential for some snow. there will be some option on easter monday, largely rain in the south, gradually working north through the day. from the midlands northwards there is the potential to see some northwards there is the potential to see some disruptive snow. northern scotla nd see some disruptive snow. northern scotland staying drier, and temperatures in the south reaching a maximum of 11 or 12. so, if you are planning to travel over the weekend, stay tuned. this is bbc news. the headlines at 12. thousands of crime suspects, some involving murder and rape, are being released without any

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