on the western coast of greenland, prompting fears that waves could overwhelm homes there. the village, which has around 170 residents, has been partially evacuated. it's feared the iceberg could break apart, with waves flooding the coastline. now it's time for a look at the weather with nick miller. much of the country has enjoyed a lovely weekend day, with plenty of sunshine round but it hasn't been like that everywhere. north—west scotla nd like that everywhere. north—west scotland has seen cloud, rain, it has been increasing in northern ireland, the cloud and from it overnight, we will see rain moving in here and by the end of the night there could be heavy burst, largely clear in england and wales, temperatures at their highest overnight in scotland and northern ireland. some round 17, maybe 18 celsius, so a warm night to come. and more of scotland and northern ireland tomorrow will see the cloud and some rain slowly spreading

south—east where as it stays dry in england and wales. misty and murky in the north—west and there will be plenty of sunshine to come. and winds, well they are fairly light, but it is breezy along this weather front here where you see the outbreaks of rain. as for temperatures cooler where we started so warm temperatures cooler where we started so warm at the weekend for scotland and northern ireland, but very warm to hot, across england hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. president trump's plays a round of golf at turnberry during his "private visit" to scotland on the final leg of his uk tour. thousands take part in protests on the streets of edinburgh in a second day of rallies against donald trump's uk visit. police in wilshire recover more than 400 items and samples in connection with the poisoning of dawn sturgess and charlie rowley, who were exposed to the nerve agent novichok. tourists from all over the world

visit uluru every year, but for decades there has been a dispute over the controversial practice of climbing the rock — which is a sacred place for indigenous australians. from the end of 2019 the chain that makes the climb possible will finally be removed. as rebecca hensch—ke reports, it is a vital step in reclaiming the rock. it's considered one of the great natural wonders of the world. and is a deeply sacred place for australia's indigenous anangu people. one of the oldest civilisations on earth. this means everything to anangu. uluru, also known as ayers rock, a sandstone monolith in the heart of northern territory‘s red centre,

dates back more than 500 million years. tourists from all over the world visit the site every year. for decades, there's been a bitter row over the controversial practice of climbing the rock. have you guys heard that the aboriginal people don't want people to climb? yes, i do. and i understand that. but i'm going to do it anyway. there are signs here at the base of the climb clearly saying, "please don't climb". "it's against traditional law". translated into six languages, but still every day we've been here there has been a steady stream of climbers. indigenous communities have long campaigned for the behaviour which they considered deeply offensive to end. now, the time for talking is over.

from november next year, the climb will close. i'm here in the spiritual heart of australia where i was born to find out why it's taken so long and how the anangu people feel about the multi—million dollar tourism operation that's been built around their sacred site. uluru is steeped in ancient stories about the creation time. the anangu people believe that in the beginning, the world was unformed and featureless. from this void, ancestral being submerged and travelled across the land, creating all living species. uluru is the physical evidence of feats performed during the creation period. they have walked this land for over 50,000 years.

the anangu believe they are the direct descendants of the ancestral beings that created uluru and are responsible for the protection of these ancestral lands. pamela taylor is one of the rock's traditional owners, a painter and holder of the sacred stories enshrined in it. the rock has a lot of stories, some of them i can't tell you, they are too sacred. what would happen? i would be in trouble! individual stories passed down orally as precious inheritance to families. some shared with outsiders like me in the hope that they will understand their significance. but it is pamela's family holds the story of lungkata, a greedy and dishonest blue—tongue

lizard ancestral being who came to uluru from the north and stole meat from an emu and went back up to his cave. the foundation of anangu life and society is known as tjukurpa, a huge word that encompasses many things. it's religion and culture, but it's also law, with clear punishments for breaking it, explains auntie alison, another western desert elder. everything is taught privately through the elders. i sat down as a kid, learning and listening with my elders. and through that process of listening to your elders, hearing the stories, do you get a sense of what is right and what is wrong?

these creation stories of the anangu's spiritual compass. they say the caves, marks and rock formations all live and breathe with them. senior traditional owner sammy wilson's family holds the story of kuniya, the python woman at uluru. sammy tells me that she fought liru, the poisonous snake here at uluru, and signs of their ferocious battle are all around this water hole. for 11—year—old tilly,

going to uluru and into the caves where there are rock art tens of thousands of years old, is a deeply spiritual experience. i feel like my nana was right beside me, and my grandpa, my great great grandpa. i felt sad because it was a very long time ago. when he passed, when he did that painting. is that place a very special place for you? yeah, because we are not really allowed to go in the rock

because we will get sick and on that rock, when you step on the rock, you will get sick because you are stepping on your dreaming. stepping on the dreaming is what hundreds of thousands of tourists around the world have done. including princess diana and prince charles, when they visited. the indigenous owners have asked us not to show footage of the climb, which is why we are not doing it. when the first known white australian explorers came to the area in 1873, they named the rock ayers rock, after the premier of

south australia, henry ayers. ayers arrived in australia with his wife ann potts from england in 1840, he gained wealth and power through mining before entering politics. over the next three decades in parliament, he exercised significant influence over the shaping of modern australia. this is the goal: ayers rock looms up like a giant mound from ten miles away... by the 1950s, increasing numbers of nonindigenous australians were flocking to ayers rock. the radio mast goes up to confound the spirits of the primitive men who made the rock for an ages the focal point of the ceremony. and the anangu people were displaced. they might not look it but they are nearly civilised. then to climb the rock itself, no easy task as the climbs steepen to an angle of 60 degrees.

the surface is flaky and treacherous. the big climb became the white australian's sacred duty. it's almost like a rite of passage. they have heard from their parents and often their parents' parents that you have to come out here and climb. australians like to conquer things and i think that is probably one of the reasons, but it's notjust australians, we get lots of europeans and people from asia that do want to climb. many of the climbers i meet at the base of the rock have come to do it before it closes. it's always been my dream and ifinally made it. yeah, i like to do challenges. i will see how far we get in the morning. have you guys heard that the aboriginal people don't want people to climb? yes, i do. and i understand that but going to do it anyway. yeah. because this will be the last chance, because it closes off next year and next year i will be too old.

so you don't feel at all uneasy about that, they say this is like a sacred site for them, like climbing notre dame or a sacred church? i hadn't thought of that aspect of it. no, me neither. i think we need to work with them and understand their culture and things like that. in years to come, they might change their minds and say all right, let's open it again. or they might open it for a certain period of a time each year or something like that. i came here with some girlfriends specifically to climb it before they closed it, we just wanted to get the full experience of uluru. and you know why the climb is closing, don't you? that the anangu people don't like it, they feel like it's trampling on one of their sacred sites, did you not feel at all bad doing it? idid. i did, and after climbing it, i'm glad that i climbed it and had the opportunity to climb it but i respect is why they don't

want people to climb it. it's very sacred and very important to them. so when you were climbing, you didn't feel at all bad? idid. there were parts of me that did. but the experience of wanting to get the full experience of a rock, i... i suppose... pushed that aside, too... i don't know, get the overall experience of it. it wasn't until 1985 that the anangu people, after being recognised as traditional owners, were presented with the freehold title deeds for the uluru national park area. an event known as the hand back. 2000 invited guests were there to enjoy a happy occasion, and it was. just before sunset, they handed over the title to uluru national park,

1300 square kilometres of land including ayers rock and mount 0lga. in 2011, the indigenous land council bought the ayers rock resort with a promise to employ and train aboriginal people for jobs in the tourism sector. as well as being blown away by the natural beauty of this area, equally impressive is the tourism machine that's been built around it, buses bringing in hundreds of people each day into this very isolated area, 300,000 visiting each year. bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars into the australian economy. the threat of losing the tourist dollar and the push to close was enormous pressure for the indigenous owners. and talk they did, in an historic

vote, the board of 12 people including eight anangu elders decided to shut the climb down last year. i was there that day, there were tears in people's eyes. notjust anangu, but from staff who have been here for many years. everyone was so excited that finally the decision had been heard. why did it take so long? well, anangu are very mindful, particularly for tourism, that there are many people who do want to climb deliveroo and that's want to climb uluru and that's why you have the lead time of two years for the decision to be implemented. they have done things the right way,

there's been lots of consultation and the ministry is fully supportive of the decision. sammy wilson has set up his own tourism company to try and get some of those visitors to see the land through their eyes. he is referring to the 35 people who have died attempting to climb uluru. we actually say to people, it's the equivalent of you clambering over notre dame. once you explain it that way, people are horrified and they realise, but if you say it's culturally significant and it's really important to traditional owners, that doesn't resonate. when we explain what you have done is sacrilege, they are taken aback and they understand. later in the day, pamela, who was planning to climb uluru in the morning, catches up with me at a different

part of the rock and she's very keen to talk again. my true reason for climbing is my ego, because i've just turned 70, i've got two replacement knees and i want to see if i could challenge myself to get as far as i can. and you've been thinking about that since we saw you last? i have been thinking about it since i saw you. and yes. it's the ego? it's the ego, definitely. almost 200 years since the british invasion, australia remains the only commonwealth country to have never signed a treaty with its indigenous people. last year, around 300 indigenous leaders came together at uluru, demanding real legal and political recognition and power, as the first nation people of australia. it is important to us. it is important. i grew up on anangu land in an area

european settlers called new england, because of its cool climate and rolling hills which reminded them of home. where is the ham? but my family on my father's side were amongst the first settlers to come from europe to south australia. while i was working on this story, i realised i had a much closer connection to uluru, or ayers rock, then i had realised. with the arrogance of invaders

and the ignorance of outsiders, they gave the rock the name ayers rock after my great, great, great uncle, henry ayers, who was the senior politician in australia at the time. a connection i have only recently realised, and i'm not sure how i feel about it. i spent the day thinking about this connection. after years living away from australia, this trip has made me realise how dislocated nonindigenous australians are to the stories of the land we live in. i tell sammy that henry ayers is my great, great, great, great uncle. the person that, the first white person to come here they named this rock after. something i feel a little uncomfortable about. i want to say sorry for the disrespectful way and brutal way that families like mine treated

aboriginal people in the past. his reaction surprises me. he's excited because he says his great, great grandfather met explorer william goss. what did they talk about? do you think it was weird that they came up with that name, ayers rock, that they wanted to call it something different? sorry about that. later that afternoon, i tell alison. i speak five languages.

english is my fifth. with alison's language skills, she works as a bridge between the elders, the government and the tourism operators. today, is dancing in a welcome ceremony for visitors here for a cultural festival. on stage is tilly, with her all—female schoolgirls drumming group. it's an event that showcases indigenous culture from across australia, for a mixed audience. renowned australian indigenous country music singer troy cassar—daley is a regular performer. what it does is bring people from the outside and helps immerse them in some cultural things they will never see in sydney, black and white people should all come here and carry this bit of the spirit home.

touch your foot over there near uluru and take a bit of that feeling with you, it's not hard to feel it, it's a great place. and then as night falls, a new way of stories being told is revealed. indigenous australian fashion brands using material with the paintings that tell the ancient stories of the creation time. led by australia's leading indigenous model. indigenous art work is on canvas and things like that but it's really great that now it's being put into fashion, it also has lots of meaning behind it, there is a story behind it, it's notjust a normal dress you would buy in a shop. it's special. elder auntie alison who helped organise this festival says she wants to see more of this kind of tourism at uluru. a sharing of stories rather than conquering the rock. do you think there is enough

of this kind of talking? the sharing of our shared australian history in order to heal and create a new, more inclusive, modern narrative on this ancient land. come. and winds, well they much of the uk has enjoyed a fine,

dry, hot in places, not everywhere. a pickerfrom dry, hot in places, not everywhere. a picker from high dry, hot in places, not everywhere. a pickerfrom high land scot where there has been more cloud but for some a bit of rain, along a weather system which is weakening as its moves in at the moment. although has we go into tomorrow may pep up a bit and turn that rain heavier through western scotland and northern ireland, in fact that process under way later in the night as the cloud sta rts way later in the night as the cloud starts to spread further east, whereas for england and wales, parts of wales and north—west england lit stay clear, and temperatures at their highest overnight in scotland and northern ireland. a warm night to come, as temperatures for some hold into the upper teen, tomorrow, and more of scotland, northern ireland will have cloud and outbreaks of rain. many in eastern scotla nd outbreaks of rain. many in eastern scotland won't see rain until late in the day. as for england and

wales, sunny start, some cloud building but a dry day to come, with plenty of afternoon sunshine and temperatures every bit as warm or hot as they were today, in fact a degree or two on to these temperatures where it will be cooler in scotland and northern ireland where we saw temperatures in the mid twenties so a range from north—west to south—east across the uk but near 30 in the warm spots in south—east england. and at wimbledon it will be one of the hottest men's finals as temperatures get not too far away from 30 celsius. much more sunshine compared with today. this is the picture for monday, and our weather front is continuing to move its way south—east wards, and it will include a few heavier downpours in england and wales, i think a variety of rain totals from nothing in some spots to quite a bit in other, so fingers crossed if you wanted something on the garden, the south—east staying dry until late in the day and quite hot for one more

day, elsewhere that weather front is changing thing cooler. it moves eastwards so where it is hot temperatures are coming down, yes, a few showers rounds as we go through the week ahead and a fair amount of the week ahead and a fair amount of the fine, dry occasionally sunny weather and it won't be as hot but it will be warm where the sun makes an appearance. this is bbc world news today. our top stories: booing. president trump continues his golfing holiday in scotland, but gets a rough reception from protesters. getting ready to head home — the boys rescued from a flooded cave speak out as they prepare to leave hospital. a huge iceberg is drifting close to a village in greenland. there's concern it could split and cause a massive wave. and german tennis star angelique kerber has won the wimbledon ladies' singles, beating serena williams by two sets to love.

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