coming up on this week's travel show: i'm in taiwan discovering priceless treasures from china's ancient past. lucy hits the slopes in france to test out the latest ski gadgets. museum recently announced that in the summer of 2020 it will send a temporary exhibition, including some of its finest pieces, to tokyo to coincide with the summer olympic games. 1—2: 7,175: 7, [755,47 7,17, 5; 547: £17,757 treasures from 8000 years of chinese history. in beijing's forbidden city.

in 1933, china'snationalisll of the collection to nanjing to stop it falling into the hands of the invading japanese army, who had already occupied manchuria. japan's long war in china lasted until their unconditional surrender in 1916. but from the ashes of one war another started. as the ruling chinese nationalist kuomintang government became locked in a bitter civil war with armed chinese communists. by 1948 it was clear that the chinese nationalists had lost the war. so they retreated to nanjing and set sail for taiwan, taking much of the national palace collection with them. there are 700,000 pieces in this

museum and, of course, they're not all on display at the one time, so if you'd like to see the entire collection you'd have to come four times a year for 12 years. in this purpose—built museum, the collection is divided into eight main sections. ceramics, jades, and paintings are the most popular. researcher emma lai kindly agrees to show me several of the collection‘s star attractions. i'm going to show you a dragon vase. it's very impressive. ceramic in this size is very difficult to make. because if the firing temperature is wrong then it will collapse. the vase itself is a beautiful white colour, it needs a pure white clay to achieve this and then you can see the dragon is painted with cobalt blue. the dragon itself is painted just magnificently.

a ceramic of this size, we know, this should be exclusively be used by the chinese emperor. but a chinese emperor is symbolised by a dragon with five toes. but this one only has three. so what is that mean if it has three toes? this could be a diplomatic gift to the foreign kings. and foreign kings, of course, they should be inferior to the chinese emperor. so, emma, i've really been looking forward to seeing the jade cabbage. tell me more about it. why is it so popular? sure. this is a beautiful piece ofjadeite. this was actually a dowry piece of ladyjin. she was one of the concubines of emperor guangxu during the 19th century. and the green colour and the white colour indicating a girl's

virginity and purity. and you can see there are two insects on there, the katydid and the locust. they are quite prolific reproduces. so it's a great, good wish of the newlyweds, actually, to have lots of offspring. a big part of the work going on here at the museum involves conservation. and mr hong is one of the many experts working behind—the—scenes carrying out this highly skilled work. so, emma, where are we going now? i'm going to show you one of our most important works of art in this museum — it is the cauldron of duke of mao. the date is 3000 years ago. and the outside decoration is modest, but quite important, in fact, is the inscription inside. you can find 500 chinese characters being cast and this is the longest inscription ever found in any ancient chinese bronze. last beijing would like to see a lot

of exhibits returned, many trainees in taiwan say some of these priceless objects may not have survived the purchase of china's cultural revolution if they had stayed on the mainland. with so much to display some of the collection often travels abroad, later this year pa rt often travels abroad, later this year part of that will go on show in australia and in the run—up to the 2020 olympic games it would then be heading to japan. but so far there are no plans to allow any of the correction to go on show in mainland china anytime soon. —— any plans to allow the collection. they

are not for today i'm here in a beautiful ski result in the french alps to test out a bunch of the latest ski gadgets. first up is an artificially intelligent ski instructor that lives inside your boot. it comes with a pair of insoles and two trackers that sit on the back of your boots. with 48 pressure sensors and an excitement —— accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer attacks their motion, pressure distribution and orientation of your skis. it certainly sounds impressive —— in passing that how well does it work? i had the ski instructor to help me test it out. how are you feeling? a little nervous, but ready for the challenge. let's see what you've got. a bit nervous but ready for the challenge.

let's do it. let's keep your hands in front of you, good. it rates your performance as you're going down the slope to help you reach a better ski i0 in real time which is how the platform ranks how you're doing. it also offers encouragement as you're going down the slope. automated voiceover: bend the inside leg and maintain inside ski pressure. carv‘s video analysis feature also lets you review your technique alongside real data in order to get a better understanding of where you're going wrong and handily synchronises within seconds of coming off the slopes. darren, do you agree with the feedback that carv‘s been giving me this afternoon? what is useful is when i filmed you, you can see in real time where you're placed on which ski. you have a dominant side, we worked it out. i do. that right leg. and the data from the carv was saying exactly the same thing. it would be a good way to reinforce it. if you were skiing by yourself, you can check at the end of the day or the end of the run where your problems may lie and if it starts to look a more even, you know you're on the right track. a pair of inserts and trackers will cost you £279. fully charged it will last for 30 hours and at two millimetres thick, it will slip under the liners of your ski boots without

causing any tightness. this is no ordinaryjacket, it is an incredibly cool and intelligent heated jacket from a techwear company called ministry of supply. it will keep you warm and protect you from the elements. for a heated jacket it's surprisingly stylish, containing three carbon fibre heating elements concealed behind the pockets and back to keep you warm. it's pretty simple to use. you put in the usb battery to manually select your desired heat level using the companion app. use a button inside the lapel the turn the elements on and off. the battery also supports qi wireless charging so you can charge your phone while it is in your pocket. if you're on the slopes or enjoying a bit of apres—ski, a jacket like this is such a brilliant idea to keep you company. the manual mode's fantastic, gives you that control. smart mode means you can enjoy your day and go about your business and being able to wirelessly charge phone is just a brilliant a bonus. with a 10,000ma battery, you can get up to 4.5 hours

of continuous heat at maximum power. though it is expensive, currently selling online for £390. where are you, darren? i'm at the top, where are you? i'm at the bottom! laughs. i'll come up. 0n the gondola i go. these ski gloves come with a brilliant tech twist. as well as keeping your hands warm, they are loaded with bluetooth to make and receive calls. in the thumb, you'll find the waterproof loud speaker and the microphone with noise—cancelling technology. it also vibrates for incoming calls. the kjus bluetooth 2.0 gloves are retailing at £299. i'm not going to lie, talking into a glove is a little bit strange, and people will walk past you with bewildered looks on their faces, but call volume is clear, the gloves are nice and warm and comfy and if your hands are wet and the sodden and you are the sort of person that takes a a lot of calls on the slopes, they are really, really convenient. pricey but convenient. well, that's all we have time for this week, coming up next week: rafa is in madrid where a transport

revolution looks set to change the face of the city. three weeks ago it was full of traffic going around. only for pedestrians, for the people, no cars. i love it. join us for that if you can. until next time, from me carmen roberts and the rest of the team here in taipei, it's goodbye. hello. a brighter day for many of us today, but with more on the way of clear weather overnight that will lead to a widespread frost. here is a view of sunday sunshine from north wales. we have had a nice week when different bringing but rather into scotla nd different bringing but rather into scotland and northern ireland. this area will crowd into england and wales, patchy rain but hardly anything associated with that. larry the tent think crowd of temperature

may hold out. a lot of blood showing up may hold out. a lot of blood showing up on our map going into monday morning said that if the frost taking hold and quite a sharp frost and place, prolonged clear leather and place, prolonged clear leather and rail spots, 9697. and place, prolonged clear leather and railspots, 9697. icloud increasing across scotland and northern ireland but still some kneeling at the total lunar eclipse going into the morning but we are watching us as we go deeper into monday. a more vigorous weather system weather system coming into saturday. for much of daylight hours it will stay daily variable crowd and he the brightness around. the cloud and thickening for northern elffufi éfifi tfiifkgfiifififffi'flfirffiérfi ' " ' ireland and scotland, when it's not picking up and we could take a step to 60 knots an hour in the western aisles. —— we could see it when up to 60 mph. single figure temperatures from many of us, another cold day, cold week to come. there is rain, he held snow in scotland, the ten times, perhaps brinkley on the back edge before it pushes southwest going into the early hours of tuesday. wintry showers following into the north

left, another phosphorus asked as tuesday begins. a flow of colder air coming in on early on tuesday in the showers, may be some rain along the coast but a lot of these are sleet, snow, hail out of the coast but a lot of these are sleet, snow, hail out of these. we will see some accumulations out of that, notjust on the hills, may be in heavier showers to lower levels and places with drift a little further east across parts in england deeper into the day and temperatures will come down a bit. it does make for quite a cold, rural day on tuesday but there will be from sunny south around. frosty nights to come from the rest of the week but also a few showers around but quite a bit of dry, occasionally sunny weather but just a way of note. wednesday night into early thursday there could be snow showers into breath and east anglia and south east england. that week ahead is called. but by friday a little less cold. —— the week ahead is cold. this is bbc news, i'm martine croxall. the headlines at eight. two people are arrested

following a car bombing in londonderry last night. police describe the attack as unbelievably reckless. a highly unstable crude device could have detonated at any time. a callous act. a deliberate act against the people of derry. the prime minister briefs her cabinet ahead of a statement to mps tomorrow about the next steps on brexit. it comes after downing street warned mps not to try and block brexit. parliament has not got the right to hijack the brexit process because parliament said to the people of this country, "we will make a contract with you. you'll make the decision and we will honour it." a funeral is held in hertfordshire for six unknown auschwitz victims — whose remains were handed to a british museum more than 20 years ago.