the weather new. we'll see gale force winds around the east coast and very cold for a time. expecting temperatures around 15 degrees at this time of year but tomorrow there will be large stretches of the day where temperatures are struggling around three or 4 degrees. add to that there will be strong winds that will make it even colder. winter coats at the ready. this weekend the pressure has been rising across scotland. as this low—pressure rhoose northwards from france it brings us strong winds, wet weather working across east anglia and south—east england. further north and west clearing skies overnight will allow things to get very chilly, some patches of frost just in get very chilly, some patches of frostjust in the countryside, it might get down to zero or so around

edinburgh as well. so monday, windy conditions with gales around eastern coastal areas and heavy rain working in as well. this time yesterday i was suggesting the rain could be a little further east than predicted and it is about 100 miles further east there. that could continue so the likely areas to see the really heavy rain will be across east anglia and south—east england where some areas will pick up 25 to 35mm is framed with up to 80 in places that we have already had a month pa rs that we have already had a month pars worth of rain so far. those temperatures will struggle to rise. the north—west of the uk, sunny spells and temperatures into double figures. looking at the picture through tuesday, low—pressure still with us but the rain will ease and we can, the last of it clearing out through the morning and an pressure rises so we should see some sunshine for scotland, england and wales but later in the afternoon the cloud thickens as the next work weather front thickens as the next work weather fro nt m oves

thickens as the next work weather front moves in to northern ireland and west of scotland to bring some rain. that rate will push eastwards through true state evening and overnight and wednesday will clear away, sunshine will follow, no snow, heavy and sundry though, and temperatures continue to rise but still below par for the time of year. this is bbc news. the latest headlines. north korea's leader promises to close its main nuclear test site and invites the world to watch, according to south korea. us secretary of state mike pompeo uses his first diplomatic trip to the middle east to accuse iran of destabilising the region. and facing calls to resign, home secretary amber rudd will address parliament tomorrow as the fallout from the windrush scandal continues. now on bbc news it is time for the

travel show. this week on the travel show, we help celebrate 90 years of australia's legendary flying doctors service. what a remarkable bit of kit! yes. we investigate the mysterious ghost lights spotted over a town in texas. and we head to china to try out a style of skiing which is reckoned to be over 8000 years old. this week i'm in australia's northern territory. this massive state covers nearly 1.5 million square kilometres. it is the most sparsely populated part of australia and living out here can be hard. because of the sheer size of this part of the country, air travel has been an important part of life in the northern territory for the past 100 years. it's also the reason that the royal flying doctor service was set up 90 years ago, pioneering the then—revolutionary idea of using planes to bring medical care to remote communities. i have come to their central operation based

in alice springs airport. from here, the service dispatches emergency response planes all over the northern territory, and it is a busy place. as we arrived we saw one of the planes bringing in patients from the outback. one of the planes has just arrived. two patients were taken off, whisked away to hospital. it is a perfect opportunity to see what's on—board, as one of the senior flight nurses, cathy, is waiting for me. the service's fleet of planes are packed with cutting—edge medical equipment ready for any emergency. hello. hi! how are you doing? good, thanks, henry. what a remarkable bit of kit you've got here. yeah. explain what you have here? we have a mini intensive care unit, really. we have monitoring, we have drugs on board, we have anything to do with what you would see in an intensive care unit. we can take anything from a sore toe to a fully intubated patient who has probably had some trauma or a cardiac arrest or something like that. how many square kilometres do you cover out of this base in particular? about a million square kilometres, which is about four or five times

great britain in that area. wow. that's a lot of ground to cover. how essential would you say the royal flying doctor service is to the people of the outback? extremely important. it's their lifeline. if they had to come by road, it would be up to eight hours by road, and the roads are not always that good. there are camels and donkeys and potholes and water. as opposed to probably up to a one—hour flight. so they get into definitive care much quicker. but the high—tech standards we see today didn'tjust happen overnight. 1917 founder reverend john flynn first had the idea of creating a flying doctor service, but it took him another ten years to turn his plans into a reality. the first planes took to the skies in 1928. those first planes were very basic boneshakers by today's modern standards, but slowly innovations like pedal—powered radio were introduced, helping to build

a lifeline between the flying doctors and the remote communities they served. newsreel: this time the doctor is landing on a regular periodic visit. the sisters are waiting as it lands, welcoming former raaf pilot alan chadwick and dr miller. news of the success of those early pioneers quickly spread, and eventually the service became a national network across australia. in 1955, queen elizabeth visited from the uk to officially bestow the service with its royal title. today, as modern planes and medicines save even more lives, the story of the flying doctors continues to capture the public‘s imagination around the world. tourism is a crucial source of income for the service. here at the flying doctors tourism facility, visitors can learn how the service works and what flying

was like back in the day. 90 years of history are brought to life with some of the objects that made it all possible. even the building itself is historic. this building behind us was the original building in alice springs. this is where we ran our head office and also our communications department. so it's a listed heritage building, and it's now a tourist facility and cafe. as well as educating tourists about the service, the facility and shop are a crucial source of income. so how important is tourism to funding services like the royal flying doctor service? tourism is extremely important. 100% of our profits from the tourist facility go back into the royal flying doctor service. it helps fund the purchasing and also the medical equipping of our craft. we have 25% of our funding as a gap which needs to be filled

and that is where our money comes from. over the decades, the flying doctor service has saved countless lives. it's amazing to think that it's thanks to a small—town church minister who wanted to do his bit to help people living out in the bush. something tells me he would be very proud of the people who still fly to save lives today. we have gone from just a few planes to 67 aircraft, from 2a different locations in and around australia. next up, we leave the australian outback behind and head to america, where for over a century people have reported seeing strange lights on the horizon in the texan town of marfa. no—one is exactly sure what they are, but many people

claim to have seen them, so we went to meet them. this is the rambling boy, broadcasting live from the radio studios in downtown marfa, texas. i want to say a few words about marfa. it's a very small town, 2000 people. it was a cattle town and a ranching town for many, many years. we have become an international arts centre. but we are still a small texas town and it's an interesting combination. i have never seen the marfa lights. i have been told that the best time to see them is in the winter. a couple of hours after sundown, or a couple of hours before sunrise. a couple of hours after sundown in the winter is my suppertime.

and a couple of hours before sunrise is my sleeping time. and besides that, it's cold out there in the viewing station in wintertime. but i believe they are there. at least, i believe something is there. because i know a lot of reliable people who have seen some sort of light out there. scoffers will tell you that the marfa lights are the lights of automobiles travelling north from presidio on highway 67, or the lights of aeroplanes, or ranchers on mitchell flats, or a border patrol helicopter. many people who think they are seeing the marfa lights are undoubtedly looking at automobile headlights or ranch lights. but it is clear that there were other lights out there before there were either automobiles or electricity, and they

are still out there. i grew up in marfa. i was born in 1950. i'm 67. so i've been around, i have seen the lights and i've heard about them all my life. we show the lights regularly to people from our ranch. today we're in front of the viewing centre which is on the road between marfa and alpine. it does cause some confusion because of the way it's pointed. the orientation points you to where it's easy to be misled by automobile lights, which are coming up from presidio and 0jinaga. not very many people know

that from right here, there is a mesquite tree right there, and if you stand about ten yards from the mesquite tree and look straight ahead, there's a bush, there's another green bush, and you'lljust see a line, if you really look, of little green bushes that form a line out to a tree, and that tree is about a mile and a half away. right over the tree is where the lights are. i don't remember a single time that someone didn't say, have you seen the marfa lights? so now when people ask if i've seen the lights, i say, have you seen the lights? and most of them haven't. but the ones that have,

they are the ones who are really interested in knowing what the lights are. i came here about three years ago, to marfa, and immediately fell for the landscape. it was great for writing. i was stalking the lights every night. i think maybe i saw something like them what i wasn't paying attention. i do try very hard to find them. i was never quite sure. i got this poem, which is called western poem. purple clouds, my doubts. iridescent cream, my loss. amber street light, my reading. my appetite, my appetite. red striped sky, my confusion. bright yellow, grey sky... car lights, my commotion, telephone poll, my wishes. stop sign, my fear. black cloud, white sky, bliss.

linking signals, my intentions. black mountains, too many suggestions. skipping white lines, my attention. a young cowboy first saw the lights. the horns on your van, my defensiveness. that old train, my dreams. that old train. still to come on the travel show. the incredible journey of one woman who has a passion for wild swimming. water is my domain. i'm happiest in the water. and we learn to ski the traditional chinese way. so, stay with us for that. next up, we continue our series looking at incredible journeys happening around the world, as we visit snowdonia national park in wales. it's here where one woman's passion for swimming has led her to exploring this wild and unique landscape in a completely different way.

it feels pure. i don't think i feel anything more pure than swimming in a mountain lake. the water is my domain. i am happiest in there. over the last few years i have been exploring snowdonia national park, by wild swimming its 250 lakes. i have swum about 150 now. i am always searching for somewhere for a quick swim. if i can squeeze in a new lake then i will always go for that. snowdonia national park is a mountain range in north wales.

it is a beautiful area to live in. the mountains here feel very rugged. much more tightly packed. and in between that is where you get the lakes, and although they may be much smaller and a bit of a trek to get to, i don't know, for me, it makes it a little bit more special. i've always swum since childhood, my mum was a swimmer. my mum passed away 11 years ago and i found grieving was very hard for me, so i think the time alone was part of it.

i do obsessively swim now and i did not before, but i did not make a conscious decision to start swimming this way, it was definitely subconscious. i always have this, i call it a nervous anticipation in the tummy, but the nerves can be intimidation because sometimes the water is dark, you don't know what is inside, beasties or weeds, but that's all part of it for me, is wanting to feel those nerves. i am not somebody who wants to dive down. sometimes i just want to be submerged up to my shoulders and just feel that feeling of the cool freshness

on my skin and, yeah, sometimes that is just enough for me. it is a time to leave everything behind and that's a huge part for me. documenting the lakes visually came about by being scared of what was underneath the surface. and i would take a camera under the water with me to capture what was — what was in there, and i would rush home to have a look, to see what i had captured, and discovered that there was nothing, i never saw anything,

but occasionally, i would get a glimpse of myself on the camera or other people i was swimming with, and there was a graceful beauty in seeing people underwater. you are seeing the landscape for a totally different reason. most people come here to go walking or to hike to the top of mount snowdon or whatever. because i'm going to see lakes, i have seen parts of snowdonia i would never have seen before. i have no desire to go to the top of anything any more, i — yeah, there is still so much to discover. vivienne rickman—poole, wild swimming in wales, and we will have more incredible journeys for you soon. to finish up though, we are off to china, which strangely for some has been described as the birthplace of skiing ever since cave paintings of skiers were discovered in the country's altay prefecture.

we went to learn more. i'm afraid that is all the time we have this week, but coming up next week... if your invite was lost in the post like mine, ade is in windsor to find ways to experience britain's upcoming royal wedding without heading to the church on the big day. don't forget, you can follow us wherever you are in the world byjoining our social media feeds. all the details are on your screen right now. but from me, henry golding, and all the team here in alice springs, goodbye. hello. we are going to focus on the

weather across eastern england for a moment because tomorrow it is going to bea moment because tomorrow it is going to be a thoroughly miserable day. how miserable? wet weather works in, we will see gale force winds around eastern coasts and it will feel quite cold for the time of year. normally across south—east england we would expect temperatures of around 15 degrees this time of the year but tomorrow there will be large stretches of the day where temperatures struggle around three 01’ temperatures struggle around three orfour temperatures struggle around three or four celsius temperatures struggle around three orfour celsius and temperatures struggle around three or four celsius and added to that strong winds will make you feel colder so winter coats at the ready. this weekend, pressure has been rising across scotland and asked this area of low pressure moves northwards from france that pinches to get the bee isobars and brings strong winds, the wet weather working in across east anglia and south—east england. further north and west clearing skies overnight will allow things to get chilly once again, some patches of frost not just in the countryside, might get down to zero and around edinburgh.

0n down to zero and around edinburgh. on monday, the windy conditions and gales and eastern coastal areas and the heavy rain working in as well. this time yesterday i was suggesting the rain could be further east than we predicted yesterday and it is 100 miles further eastwards now. that trend could continue massa the likely areas to see the heavy rain will be east anglia and south—east england, some areas will pick up 25-30 england, some areas will pick up 25—30 millimetres of rain but with up 25—30 millimetres of rain but with up to 80 in places and bearing in mind we have had a month's rain so far it will work out to be a very wet month and temperatures will struggle to rise too. the north—west of the uk, sunny spells and temperatures in double figures. looking at the weather picture on tuesday, the weather front is still with us but the rain band will weaken, the last of the rain clearing out through the morning and pressure rises, slides of sunshine for scotland, england and wales but let in the afternoon the cloud thickens as the next atlantic weather front moves into northern ireland and western scotland to bring afternoon rain here. that band

of rain will push eastwards through tuesday evening and overnight and on wednesday we will slowly clear away from eastern england, sunshine will follow, some showers, no snow in the showers but heavy and foundry ones coming through, and temperatures continuing to rise a little but below par for the time of year. highs between 11 and 1a. this is bbc world news today. i'm tanya beckett. our top stories — is iran's nuclear deal at risk? the new us secretary of state uses his first diplomatic trip to the middle east to accuse tehran of destabilising the region. if we remain deeply concerned when he ran‘s dangerous escalation of threats to israel in the region and iran's a mission to dominate the middle east remains. south korea says the north has promised to close its nuclear test site next month, and invite the world to watch. tonight i'm going to try to make fun

of the president in a new way. a us comedian is facing a backlash over her controversial remarks at the prestigious white house correspondents‘ dinner. also in the programme... australia pledges hundreds of millions of dollars to restore and protect the great barrier reef.