hello this is bbc news. this is bbc news. i'm shaun ley. oversight, so the lords the headlines. the headlines at 11. recommend the creation the family of shamima begum have the home secretary, sajid javid, of a new digital authority. called for an urgent review is facing criticism after the death it also wants protections given to people in the real of the government's decision of the baby son of shamima begum — world to apply online. to revoke her citizenship, the british teenager whose one key principle for regulation after her baby son died in syria. would be respect for privacy, citizenship he revoked forjoining to keep our growing volume a man charged with murdering the islamic state group. jodie chesney has been of online data safe. remanded in custody. a man charged with murdering there's also a call the 17—year—old was stabbed jodie chesney has been for a classification framework, similar to that for films. to death in a park in east remanded in custody. london last friday. the 17—year—old was stabbed the government is currently working the brexit secretary stephen barclay to death in a park in east accuses michel barnier london last friday. on its own plans to more strictly of trying "to rerun old arguments" the brexit secretary stephen barclay as talks continue between the uk and eu. accuses michel barnier of trying regulate web companies. internet firms say they work hard "to rerun old arguments" as talks to keep their services free of some continue between the uk and eu. of the most serious issues people increased activity at a missile also coming up this hour... are concerned about, site in north korea — but they say they recognise that satellite images of a facility increased activity more needs to be done to address near pyongyang suggest the country at a missile site in north korea. potential online harms. may be preparing to launch rob young, bbc news. satellite images of a facility near pyongyang suggest the country the world's oldest living woman has been recognised a missile or a satellite. may be preparing to launch a missile by guinness world records. or a satellite. she is ”6—year old japanese woman, now on bbc news it's the travel show 7 with flying cars, kane tanaka who was born and lives sausage hotels and the campaign to keep austin, texas weird. on the southern island of kooshu. she's in a nursing home,

coming up on this week's show: where staff organised a party to celebrate the recognition. tanka says the secret to her long life are family, we are getting weird sleep and her shinto faith. in the lone star state. doesn't like being on tv! still in good health, her hobbies include board games hejust bit me! and calligraphy but she also confesses to a weakness for sweets and canned coffee drinks. why flying taxis and sausage hotels are the future of travel. now it's time for a look at the weather with helen willetts. and in the snow and hello there. against the clock, i take a turbulent weekend of weather, on the european sauna marathon. i don't quite know it has been windy, we have had hill the sauna etiquette — snow through saturday morning. the afternoon brings further snow i think i'm just gonna showers to the hills. rain and snow to the north. but fewer showers, more myself in there. sunshine and an easing of the wind for southern areas, —— throw myself in there. some good spells of sunshine. but this is waiting in the wings and this is going to give us a headache. one weather system approaching from the south and later, one from the west. although it will feel relatively pleasant out and about in the south this afternoon, a very different complexion to the weather will take place through the night. this comes north, bumping into that cold air so potentially giving us some more hill snow. and as itjoins forces with this next weather system coming in from the west which will give more significant snow,

we start this week in austin, the potential is also there for it to whip up into a deep area of low the state capital of texas. every year, it hosts south pressure potentially bringing by southwest, which has grown some very windy weather. but significant snow, from a one—week showcase even to lower levels we could of the city's musical talent have a couple of centimetres. to a massive internationalfestival. ten, 15 centimetres over the hills in the north, so in the face of all that global clearly a colder day for most of us attention, how do you keep a little and feeling so in that bit of local flavour alive? potentially very windy weather. we sent kate hardie—buckley to find out. the city of austin claims to be the live music capital of the world with over an estimated 300 venues offering a song and dance on any given night. austin is a phenomenal place if you play the music we play, which is what i call texas—made honky—tonk, and it's all about the dancin‘ and having a good time. every march, over 200,000 people flock here for the south by southwest festival, where you can delve into a world of music, film, interactive media, and seminars.

the city, which also happens to be janis joplin‘s birthplace, is a liberal hub in a traditionally conservative state. there is a lot that you can get away with here that maybe you can't get away in other parts of the state. austin is home to the only nudist beach in texas, as well as over 1.5 million bats in the summertime. it has its own cathedral ofjunk, and in all—year—round christmas shop. the city's immensely proud of its so—called weirdness, its creative, original character. in fact, there is even a motto here — keep austin weird. 20 years ago, red wassenich coined the term on a radio chat show in an attempt to fight off any signs of gentrification. so they said "well, why are you donating to this show" and i said "it helps keep austin weird" and i kind of clicked, and i said it to my wife and she said "well, let's get bumper stickers". so we did, i got a website up, and it slowly took off. i can't believe it's

lasted this long. 20 years. yeah. austin strikes me as a city where everyday life has an added twist. this coffee shop really is keeping it weird. civil goat's special offer with your coffee is a date with a furry friend. the old story of folklore is that, you know, a goat herder and his goats were out and they found some coffee plants and he saw them eating the berries and so the herder ate the berries and then he felt energised, and so that is how coffee was discovered. he's a little bit feisty today, i will say. he is a little... yeah, uh... he doesn't like being on tv! hejust bit me! he doesn't — oh, my god, this is so weird. he usually doesn't bite like that! take a trip downtown and it's easy to see how much the city is expanding.

it's a modern metropol now, with a thriving tech scene. the economy is booming and properties are going up left, right and centre. the joke is that the sky — the skyline is all cranes now, that you can't do the skyline without cranes. um, yeah, it's everywhere. it is sometimes good, sometimes bad. more housing for a growing city. we're a booming city, we have to make room for people, we have to put them somewhere. i think there's no other way to do it but to go up. with all this development, i just wonder if the quirky character of the city is injeopardy. anyone who says you can't change or tries to fight against the change is fighting against the inevitable. i think we are much better served just trying to find a way to grow together and to make sure no—one is getting left behind. but not everyone in town is as optimistic about the change. everything new that's coming in is raising the cost of living and the cost of everything else so high that you just don't have any other people that everybody

thought was so cool or "0h, i really liked that business, it was so weird," or "i like these people, because it was so much different than here". and it's like no, it'sjust like every other city. but some people are determined to preserve the quirk and the individuality here. i'm about to meet someone who, for a year, pushed the boundaries of weirdness to the extreme. professor dumpster spent the year living in, well, yes, you guessed it — a dumpster. i wanted to do an experiment around seeing how little stuff you needed and how little space you needed to have a pretty happy life. part way through that experiment, a lot of things were really better about life by downsizing. and i came to the sort of awareness that hey, we should do something totally different with housing and try to make housing more like a product than building it like a traditional house. all of that time in the dumpster inspired jeff to create the kasita,

or ‘little house', merging originality and the city's housing needs. he's keen to show me one that's just up and running. you can issue a voice command and the whole home will respond. so you can just say "alexa, turn kasita on." or you can say "alexa 7 turn kasita on." please? alexa: 0k. see, you have to say it with some polite british, like, say please. really, what the dumpster did was allow a sort of shift in how we actually thought about housing, so kasita was actually designed by a product designer. jeff thinks kasitas would be an ideal home for holidaymakers. the idea would be that wherever you travel, you're going to get a premier sort of hotel experience anywhere you go by staying in a kasita.

it seems only somewhere like here in austin could someone swing from living in a dumpster to launching a new technologically entrenched style of living. there's a lot of weird and wonderful things across the city, and some people are using their creativity to keep austin kind. these chefs have left theirjobs in gourmet restaurants and are now using their talents to feed austin's homeless. 0n tonight's menu... wow! ..pulled pork and a truffled corn grits with brussels sprouts gorgonzola salad. flavours are like music. you taste something that you haven't tasted in a long time, it will take you right back to where you were. and that's what these men are experiencing with our food. i think that it fits in with what austin — how austin sees itself, you know? we want to be perceived as a city that is doing better. well, i am very inspired. so, uh, while you're being inspired...

how do you want these? so the guys are beginning to pour in now for their meals and it's really lovely to see the look on their faces when they see the delicious food. this food they give us here, i love it! this is a good place to, you know, come in and rest and eat and get a good meal, take a shower. everywhere you look in this city, you see examples of people pushing boundaries and embracing unusual approaches. i've been to a number of cities across the us, but i've never have done anywhere as quirky as here, and the people of austin are all bursting with pride, all eager to preserve the playful, weird soul of the city. red, who coined the term keep austin weird, has invited me to chicken poop bingo. so, how many tickets can we get you? ah, two tickets — a ticket each, please. alright, so it's gonna be $4. may you all be chicken poop winners. the board has, i guess, 100 numbers on it in squares. 0k. and they put birdseed all over it.

they put the chicken in there and the chicken wanders around and eats and eventually, it poops, and there you go. cheering. there's four, so i'm down there. and you are 26. she's hovering around yours. yeah. right now. this could be good. man: we have a winner! it's been going on here for a little on 20—plus years, and it came from a local musician. a different chicken, i'm presuming. yes, there's been about 12 chickens. this is miss jenny. the noise does not bother them? not at all. looks happy. she looks very healthy. yeah, they are. they're very healthy, happyr and they're great babies. my time in this eccentric city is almost up, but i've got time for one more austin offering. quick, quick, quick. there you go. so this is texan dancing? this is texan dancing. there's gonna be a one, two,

and quick, quick, quick. is austin changing? that seems inevitable, but there's no doubt in my mind austinites will forever embrace all things weird and wonderful. one, two. and if texas is on your bucket list, here are some things we think you should look out for while you're there. space center houston is one of the big family attractions. the museum has loads of interactive exhibits and the world's biggest collection of moon rocks. there's a 90—minute tram tour of the old mission control itself, which is currently being restored. it's expected to reopen in time for the 50th anniversary of the moon landing injuly. if you're looking to cowboy culture, fort worth is a strong choice. it's often called the place where the west begins, and it won't take you long to find out why. there are twice—daily cattle

drives at the stockyards, and it is also the home of billy bob's texas, which claims to be the world's largest honky—tonk bar. another interesting site is the cowgirl museum and hall of fame, which aims to honour the women who helped shape the american west. big bend national park is vast, around 1,200 miles of rivers, mountains and deserts on the us—mexico border. there's an incredible amount to do there, including canoeing, hiking and horseriding. during peak periods a lot of the campsites get booked up, so try to avoid holidays like spring break in mid—march. if you're a carnivore, the state has plenty of meaty diets. visitors rave about texan barbecue. you'll find good eateries all over the place, but our tip is to look for a place with an outdoor pit and choose a brisket. still to come on the travel show, the electric journey that took this

man from amsterdam to australia. and i test my inner warmth in one of the world's chilliest marathons. this is really very nice. i can't imagine it will be warm when we get out. time now for trending travel. 0ur monthly look at some of the best travel—related stories, pics and videos making news online. facial recognition technology has been used on humans for the past few years. but now its use has been turned to track stolen apes and chimps. the idea came to conservationist alexandra russo, who has teamed up with non—profit conservation x labs to make chimp face, software that will search through social media and be able to track down animal stolen from the wild.

wiebe wakker and his electric car, the blue bandit, havejust completed the electric road trip of a lifetime. travelling from the netherlands all the way to australia, he has relied on the kindness of strangers who offered him a place the offers determined the route and took him through 33 countries on his epicjourney over the past three years. unfortunately, the uptake of electric vehicles is going quite slow, because people assume they're not reliable or that you can't cover long distances with them. so i thought if i could do something which really spoke to the imagination, driving an electric car from amsterdam to literally the other side of the world, i would be able to create a lot of exposure, and i'm hoping to change people's opinions of electric cars, basically showing that it can be done.

flying taxis have been out of the news for a while, but now boeing has successfully tested a prototype of a pilotless air vehicle. even though the test lasted less than a minute, boeing predicts they could be flying passengers as soon as 2023. this is a hotel for meat lovers all over the world. founder claus bobel, who is unsurprisingly a butcher in germany, has recently opened what is claimed to be the world's first sausage—themed hotel. the bobel bratwurst bed and breakfast, or bb&bb, features wallpaper festooned with sausages, bratwurst—shaped cushions, and even some sausages hanging from hooks. and getting that great photo to put on instagram is all—important to a lot of us when we are away. but now, vienna is asking people to unhashtag vienna and have a digital detox. the city says it wants you to photograph less and enjoy more. lots of you sent us your

pictures this month using the hashtag #traveltuesday. here are some of our favourites. there is an infinitely italian feel to the first two. marilyn hosken sent us this reflecting photo of the waterfront in florence. and rebecca husson shared this picture of the streets in scenic siena. while fern shared this stunning picture of chefchaouen, the moroccan city that's completely painted blue. remember, keep sending in your pictures. now let's meet the travel filmmakers and vloggers who have caught our eye this month. we all know berlin is one of the great capital cities of the world, with an exciting and vibrant culture. but did you know that their public transport system is also pushing artistic boundaries? berlin's bus and metro company, the bvg, has racked up 30 million views on youtube with some great

videos that are making the german capital's public transport network go viral. well, that's your lot for now. don't forget to send us your best pictures, clips and stories, and who knows, maybe next time you could be trending in travel. we are heading to the vast forests of southern estonia, and the popular ski resort 0tepaa, enjoyed by everybody from local kids to the estonian 0lympic medallists. once a year, though, it morphs into something slightly different. this tiny town is quiet today, but that's all set to change tomorrow morning, when this place becomes the staging area for the madcap, high—energy and very, very chilly european sauna marathon.

sauna has been part of estonia's culture for 800 years, so it's no surprise the marathon is popular. several hundred people are taking part this year, but before stripping down they need to register, and i need to find my team. i've been told they are wearing t—shirts with the town name on them. i see plenty of onesies and funny costumes and wigs, but no t—shirts. the marathon‘s rules are simple. teams of four must visit a list of local saunas as quickly as possible. they get time bonuses if they also visit hot tubs and ice holes. you must be my team, i hope? hello, i'm christa. is this for me? excellent. i'll wear it with pride. many nationalities are represented in this hall, starting with estonia's big neighbour.

i love your costumes. you look very beautiful. but you will be very cold. no! we are fine with that. with so many teams, starting times have to be staggered. and keeping track of them all requires some clever technology. i've been given a microchip which i keep on my wrist and i can use it to check in and check out of each of the different saunas, hot tubs and ice holes along the route, and it times us. clock is ticking, got to go. so, we need to visit all of the saunas. they're marked in blue dots. 19 of them. a long day ahead.

yes, hot fun. first stop, a traditional smoke sauna. in here, in here. you have to register. ah, registered. i don't quite know the sauna etiquette. i think i'm just going to throw myself in there. each team must spend a minimum of three minutes in each sauna. at around 80 degrees, plus a little extra heat coming from the crowd, you get warmed up pretty quickly. so we're probably about three minutes in now. let's go, let's do it. all right, guys. you see the ice hole down there? somebody has to do it and it's not going to be me. i'll do it. yes! it takes bravery to plunge into a frozen lake, but thanks to lilia, ten minutes will be deducted from our overall time. yes!

now, everyone in? let's go. another way to win time bonuses is the hot tubs. and i'm definitely volunteering for this one. this is really very nice. we are surrounded by snowy estonian forest, and feel very toasty and warm. i can't imagine it will be warm when we get out. at our next stop, the sauna truck. we meet two brits who seem to really enjoy the estonian winter. you know you've been in the sauna long enough when nothing feels better thanjumping into an ice hole straight afterwards. it's pretty fantastic. after going through many more thermal shocks, the finish line is finally in sight. well, we haven't won, but we did make it to the end, and i think it's not too bad

for a first attempt. and if that wasn't fun enough for one day, a wild party has just kicked off. these guys really don't know when to stop. that's all we have time for this week, but coming up on next week's programme, carmen is here with a look back at some of our favourite trips over the last few months. oh, my gosh! we've been everywhere from taiwan to los angeles to the french alps. and do watch out for the hairy new friends ade made in morocco. this one's called daisy and i think we're friends now. hello, daisy! hello. so, dojoin us then, and in the meantime, don't forget, you can sign up to our social media feeds, where you can share with us your travels around the world. until next time, from me, christa, and from the rest of the travel show team

here in the baltics, it's goodbye. it has been a windy and wintry start to the weekend and more snow in the forecast. we are watching the atla ntic forecast. we are watching the atlantic and if these joint voices we could have some significant snow and windy weather. it has been windy enough through this morning as well, making it feel cold but some sunshine around as well. and that there is the set up of the day, a

weather front crossing through 0rkney into shetland and one gathering to the south—west. in between some sunny spells and showers, most prevalent in the north and the west for the falling as snow over the hills of scotland. but the wind using a little bit this afternoon. temperatures across scotla nd afternoon. temperatures across scotland and northern ireland below average for the time of year. feeling quite pleasant in the south with many places having some dry weather. but through this evening and overnight the rain gathers in the south and west. some hill snow across northern england, wales and the midlands then the next weather front coming from the west. that cold air establishing itself in the north with a widespread frost overnight. when that system comes in

and joins forces with the one from the south we will see significant snowfall for scotland in particular but probably england and parts of northern ireland as well. and the potential for that to become very windy. the air is colder tomorrow and with snow showers to follow and that wind, it will feel a lot colder. and some showers as well. so a very different feeling day tomorrow. a brief respite on monday and then we get the next low pressure system coming in from the atlantic. that potentially could become a storm. the warnings as ever are on the website.