rescued a twe-year-eld mercy. you've rescued a two—year—old cat. yes, arrested a black and white shorthair cat just today. cat. yes, arrested a black and white shorthair catjust today. we've got a very very dysfunctional rescue cat, her name is china is beautiful and she says don't touch me. we treated a bit like a dog for a while which is probably why she got so cfoss. which is probably why she got so cross. but i used to go walking and my cats used to come with me. was the name of the cat? maybe. for instance, was the name as an. can i have a cat. maybe! i had forgotten that gareth bale played for real madrid. i'm not sure that liverpool fa ns madrid. i'm not sure that liverpool fans will forget it, he scored an amazing goalfrom

fans will forget it, he scored an amazing goal from a fans will forget it, he scored an amazing goalfrom a bicycle kick. you sound as if you know what you are saying. is it the same as this scissors kick? no idea. but very clever and it makes you realise why he cost so much money because he really ca n he cost so much money because he really can play football. that's a lwa ys really can play football. that's always good for footballer to be able to score the odd goal! all that way, all that difficult to get into kiev for the liverpool fans only to end in disappointment. you're puzzled, penny. i'm sure people are very sad or happy depending on what side they are on. very sad for a lot of liverpool fans who have contacted us on of liverpool fans who have contacted us on twitter. mr southgate, i know that you will be sad to tonight, our apologies. we've exhausted our knowledge of championship football so we knowledge of championship football so we will be the better. we'll have another look at the papers in one hour when penny and claire will be back at half past 11. now it's time

for meet the author. the most inhospitable deserts in the world are places where you will confront danger, from heat and thirst. and storms. but also, where you'll find peace. and that conundrum drove william atkins onwards, when he decided to explore some of the loneliest places on four continents. his book the immeasurable world is the story of those journeys. rich in history, with many tales of human endeavour. all in search of an answer to the mystery, why do such hostile places where life is so hard, cast such a spell? welcome. what's your own explanation

for the allure of these dangerous and hostile places? i think we are sometimes guilty of making the mistake of confusing flight with quest. and, often i think attraction to the deserts emerges from flight rather than quest. and so, i think of somebody like te lawrence or... wilfrid thesiger in the empty quarter in the 1930s and 405, and i think they recognised something that reflected a sense of their own sense of being marginal in british society. and so it was a form of escape. and yes, it was exploration, yes, they carried out these

extraordinary adventures and, discovered routes across the empty quarter and the peninsula that were unknown until then. but they were seeking some kind of comfort. solace of some kind? yes, solace. you talk about the empty quarter in the middle east, this vast, pretty hostile terrain. what was your own experience like when you first got a feel for it, when you first got there? what was your reaction? it's the most beautiful place i've ever been. like entering the world of a dream another planet. it feels entirely unlike anything i've experienced. the shifting sands, the shadows. the sheer grandeur, the enormity of the place. the sparsity of the plates. we come from a very relatively low—lying green island next to the sea.

and this is another part of what i think appeals particularly to british explorers. it's completely unlike any environment we've experienced. you talk about the history of people seeking solitude. going to deserts, finding it sparse, godless. completely barren. and yet discovering there, tranquility and the deep sense of the spiritual. it seems a contradiction. and the tranquility is associated with that barrenness. the founders of victorian

travellers talk about the absolute desert. the desert where everything is taken away. and so, this is kind of a concrete image of transcendence that this idea represents the infinite, the eternal, the absolute. and so, i think it's true of the desert fathers for explorers and probably myself, this panorama. you've travelled all kinds of places. and to the united states,. arizona, the dusty hot places in the south west. there, you discovered that the desert, it is the border.

the deserts of the southwest, the borderlands of arizona and mexico effectively are a wall. we don't need a wall. because a wall already exists. it's the most extraordinarily insurmountable barrier. if anyone can cross that desert, they can get over any wall. many people watching this will not have experienced a desert, even the fringes of a desert. explain what it is like when night comes down in a desert place. a very long way from anyone else, what does it feel like? there is an idea i think that we, we go to the desert to find ourselves. in a sense, to lose yourself. and, night comes down and i think one of the things you are most aware

of if the stillness of the desert. the silence. and one of the things i realised through spending quite a few nights in desert places, is that when the silence comes, you understand that there is no such thing as silence. because you are thrown back upon yourself and you lie there and listen to yourself breathing, you listen to yourjaw clicking, your eyes opening. everything is magnified and not taken away. your body is magnified and far from somehow escaping the body, which i think was the idea of the desert fathers, you are thrown back upon it. and your body, your sense of your own body is magnified.

say heightened consciousness? a heightened sense of embodiment, a heightened sense of self. and yet, that corresponds to a diminishment of oneself. and you understand your place in this creation is quite a small one and a fragile one. so your vulnerability is underlined. yes. and your insignificance. what the thesigers of this world were searching for, did you find it? these are highly contested, conflicted, bridging's nuclear tests and the borders of the southwest, us, which we have just talked about. the desert in the northwest china, the aral sea,

the destroyed aral sea, these are places that are challenging in terms of political situations. which was your favourite desert place? i love arizona. and i spent a week in a hut, not very far from tucson, arizona. in the sonoran desert. it's exceptionally dry, and people there die every year trying to cross into the usa. and yet there is vegetation, there's the sand, the sound

of foxes and coyotes. and, it's one of the safest places i've ever been. i've never felt so safe. i would sleep outside under the stars and never feel a sense of threat. william atkins, the author of the immeasurable world. thank you. a bit of excitement in the forecast in that there may be at risk of thunderstorms in the southern counties of both england and wales. not everyone will get to see them but i'm giving you an indication of the sort of certain that may well see those showers, if not thunderstorms. generally speaking once you start drifting that bit further north or east, then the night is much quieter, there will be the return of low cloud across the north—eastern shores of england, filling in the central belt perhaps their mind about the north—eastern shores of scotland. underneath the clear skies further north to bridge is falling to 560 grease, a close

night in the south never lower than 1516 degrees and that's how start sunday. plenty of sunshine further north once the mist and fog is retreated back to the coast and then maybe for the most part popped away coming of the south we see the extent of those heavy showers and downpours, there will be a lot of surface water and spray if these come to pass. temperatures in the south, everyone well into the teens, whose eastern coasts, if you keep the mist and fog for too long and could be closer to 13 or 1a. the biggest weekend continues in swansea and coventry, not a wash—out at all but given the extent of those showers you can imagine if you catch them it will be wet. that threat recedes in coventry as the festival extends into monday. our weather at the moment is driven by a big area of low pressure towards biscay and iberia throwing up these storms from the near continent towards the

british isles. what we are also important that the moment is heat which originates from the northern shores of africa, comes up against western parts of europe, we see the temperatures into the 20s if not 30 degrees. sodhi we are as far ahead as bank holiday monday fewer showers, some sharp ones still and later in the day if we have the right we could see further heavy showers if not storms as the temperatures which 25 or 26. many, as offers temperatures come into the 20s. take care. bye bye. this is bbc news. the headlines at 11:00: victory for the yes campaign in the republic of ireland as voters reject strict abortion laws in a landmark referendum. today is an historic day for ireland. a quiet revolution has taken place and today is a great act of democracy. real madrid claim the champions league title

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