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‘w wnwit 1 ‘w vsn its “nit it ‘u' “m3 1“ 33 its “nit it ‘u ‘ur : ‘w vl l “flit il-l1‘ll 1l ill work. the important thing is to remember that the renewal fees are not being banned for another 12 months, so as tenants come up to renew their tenancy they will still have to pay those. at least for the next year. you did some research looking at the economic effects. this is bbc news, i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 11:00: the lettings industry is about 20% ahead of his state visit to the uk, president trump defies diplomatic norms — of the industry. it is a huge he praises borisjohnson and his bid to become prime minister. i've always liked him. i don't know that he's going to be change. £700 million across the year chosen, but i think he's very... in england and wales. landlords will a very good guy, a very talented person. see their fees go up by about £300 spurs versus liverpool — players and fans gear up million. for tenants... so about for the all—english champions league final in madrid tonight. iamon i am on the edge of the spanish capital as the final preparations see their fees go up by about £300 million. for tenants. .. so about £10 ta ke capital as the final preparations a month. if you were paying £120 take place for tonight's showpiece event. and i am in the heart of every six months, that is less than
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that, so you are better off as a madrid where thousands of fans are te na nts. that, so you are better off as a tenants. that is where the over congregating for what is the final under comesdoin. the over under is stage about two and a half years. if you are somebody who moves on a regular basis, they will probably see a slight saving as a result of the ban. for families, people slight saving as a result of the ban. forfamilies, people on low incomes. therefore the long tenancy. they will end up paying more. we can see with the government is coming from, but really you are just lies in the pie slightly differently. slicing it more fairly, the government would say. if people don't pay these fees, they didn't get the tenancies and we knew how desperately competitive the rental market is. we are not building enough houses. as house prices go up, rents go up. we are seeing
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licensing cropping up all over the country. at a time when demand is burgeoning across the country, supply is stagnating at not reducing and we have seen a reduction in the number of rental properties, prices will only go further up. david cox, thank you. there is a mini heatwave today to the south of the uk. we could even get up to 28 celsius. plenty of sunshine helping to drive those temperatures up. further north, thicker clwyd is pushing into scotland, northern ireland. showers for the north—west of scotland. under the cloud, highs and the high teens. in the south, perhaps 28 degrees. a fine evening to come.
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this weather front will move in first thing on sunday. the rain will clear to the north is the day goes on. still holding on some fine weather and some heat and eastern england, with temperatures in the mid 20s here. elsewhere, perhaps the high teens at best. a cooler, fresher feel for all of us into next week. hello this is bbc news. the headlines: ahead of his state visit to the uk, president trump defies diplomatic norms by praising borisjohnson and his bid to become prime minister. i have always liked him. i don't know that he will be chosen, but i think he is a very good guy, very talented person. think he is a very good guy, very talented person. tottenham versus liverpool — players and fans gear up for the all—english champions league final in madrid tonight. good news for tenants in england
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as a ban on letting fees, including credit checks and viewings, comes into force. in the us state of virginia, 12 people have been shot dead after a gunman opened fire in a local government office. now on bbc news, the travel show. hello, and welcome to the travel show, where this week we're looking back at some of our favourite stories from the programme so far this year. here's a taste of what's to come. this car is raw, brutal, unadulterated power. let's do this, man. oh, yes! whoa! 0h, urgh! various faeces and the bacteria smell of nature. hmm. is this... that's the cougar cam. did we just trigger the trap?
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first up, though, back in march, mike headed to the other side of america to see if he could track down some of the mysterious mountain lions that live, unbelievably, on the outskirts of los angeles. it's thought that there could be 30,000 mountain lions in western north america, but sightings are extremely rare. now, passionate locals are using modern technology to photograph the lions and broaden public understanding of them. joanna turner first discovered the verdugo lion p41 six years ago, with one of the dozen camera traps she sat up on the outskirts of la. today i'm joining her to check one out and see if a lion has been through here recently. this... is that... that was the cougar cam. did we just trigger the trap?
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where's the camera, in the bottom? in one week, what would you expect to see on this camera? the lions eventually come through every 2—3 weeks. so it depends where we fall in there. there's no telling until we take a look. that's a funny photo of a raccoon. all right, so this is what we're hoping to get. this is this camera spot, from about a month ago. this is a really big male. he's eaten well recently, he's got a big burger baby there. so let's see what was on this memory card. hope we get to see him again. let's see, a couple of daytime shots. and yeah, that's the end of the roll. all right, so, 264 photos. and not a single mountain lion.
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butjoanna has often been much luckier catching lions on camera. she invited me to her la home to show me some of her favourite photos and tell me more about p41, who was named as part of research work on local mountain lions. when i started this, if a lion wandered into suburbia and was seen by people, they would call lapd. they would call animal control. and they would instantly send people out to find it and shoot it dead. they were scared of it? yeah. and once i started showing pictures of a lion that is calm, it went from shoot on sight to, well, we can tranquillize and relocate, and then at least it has a chance. 0r now, the ultimate step is,
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you don't have to do anything. yeah, yeah. mike meeting mountain lions back in march. well, in february, carmen notched up another japanese city during her 2019 rugby world cup challenge. this time it was kumamoto on the southern island of kyushu, where as usual she did some sightseeing against the clock. let's see how she went. i've got 90 minutes on the clock starting from now! kumamoto castle was heavily damaged in the 2016 earthquake and is now closed to the public. but restoration is under way and they have plans to reopen parts of it by the time the world cup arrives this autumn.
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down there? thanks. kumamoto's speciality, ikinari dango, you can find served in the street. it's a steamed bun full of sweet potato and bean paste. which one's the most popular? actually, the purple one is very popular for women. ikinari is like a soul food for kumamoto people. so when you miss home, you miss ikinari as well. nice and warm. very sweet, but also very sticky. you are welcome, my pleasure, thank you. ok, i'm now heading for the tram. maybe it was over the bridge. wejust made it! so, ryuzo said to get on the back. it's quite busy.
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i'm looking for the smell museum. so, apparently i got on at the wrong station and now i got off at the wrong station because i was told it was only one stop, so let's get back on the tram. why didn't you tell me not to get off! this is helpful, it's written in english here. 0rigato. i'm a bit confused as to how i'm going to cross the road. i need to get over there. i think they're waiting for the green man. ok, you can cross the tramlines. i think it's in the basement. let me see what the sign says. disaster control centre. i think this is it. look, there is a sign
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with big noses. 0rigato! 0k. next, a treat for your nose. you can find the museum of smell in the basement of a kumamoto department store. there are dozens of different aromas to try out, ranging from the really quite lovely to the deeply unpleasant. 0k, level four. smelly socks. ew! something is really rank in here. i guess i should be worried because this one is in a metal canister. 0h, urgh! various faeces and the bacteria smell of nature. hmm. i have no idea why anyone would pay to smell anything quite so offensive, so well done to carmen. better you than me. something a bit more uplifting now, when back in february, rajan visited the tiny city
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of saint davids in wales, to meet the artist who has vowed to paint everybody who lives there. originally a landscape artist, he started doing portraits 1a years ago, but it was only five years ago he undertook the mammoth task to do the whole population and then some. he has done 600 so far. well, the initial project was painting, say, 100 portraits, and having them as one big image. so it would be like a big painting. and then i thought, if i'm doing 100, i could do 1,000. and then i thought, with the population of saint davids, it's not far off that. so ijust came up, ijust thought the idea of portraits sounded quite nice and that is what i'm trying to do. did you work out how long it would take? no! there are probably more art galleries than anything else at saint davids,
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although in the case of graham's place it is also a studio and his living quarters as well. it is a real one man and his dog operation at the new street gallery. his models, however, see it all as a therapeutic exercise as much as anything else. i quite enjoyed it, really, because i'm a busy mum, studying, working in a cafe, doing my jewellery. so for me to sit down, it's a bit of time out, really. a bit of time for reflection. it's a mammoth task for graham and the plan is to exhibit the first 800 to 1000 portraits in the cathedral. what are you actually achieving by doing this? the social history, i think. somebody has described it as, for me, personally, it is engaging more and more with the community. do people ever complain about the way you have depicted them? i think people have been slightly shocked. people have said, "i look a bit dowdy." it doesn't matter what age you depict somebody, you still see their inner beauty.
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and guess what? a few days later i got this through email. i am now an honorary citizen of saint davids. well, grahame tells us that he is now around halfway through painting everyone in saint davids, so only another 900 or so to go. good luck with that. anyway, make sure you stay with us because coming up... screams. we remember the time eddie burned some rubber in dubai. wowwhee, that was incredible, so much more power. we are about to set off, 100 kilometres down a very icy hill. and christa went for one of the most intense journeys of her life.
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oh, man, whoo. that was like being in a very cold tumble dryer. that was completely insane, whoo. behind me, far off into the distance, is one of the most iconic sites in the world, the statue of liberty. and back in may, i went to liberty island to visit a brand new museum, just a few weeks before it opened. i even helped them out with some of the final preparations. the piece de resistance, the original torch. the torch. the original torch. wow. it stood up there from 1886 to 1984. the original torch had been changed from bartholdi's design to include a glass—panel flame that could be lit up at night. in the 1980s it was removed and replaced during a massive restoration of the statue.
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tell me about how difficult it was to get the torch in here. well, i didn't have to do it... but it was quite a task. people worked for about two weeks from 3:00 in the afternoon, till 3:00 at night. and they had this carrier that they laid the face on its back and then put the torch on it. it all worked quite well and here it is. martin and his team have been in charge of conserving the torch and cleaning it up. well, today is the last day. it's sort of the clean—down from the top down. they are finishing up with the lighting fissures inside. myjob is then the final clean—down of everything that falls down. it'sjust a simple cotton cloth, just trying to get the heavy things out. just getting rid of that dirt. like with any cleaning
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job, it is never done. i think it is really quite impressive just how much detail there is on something that really was not designed to be seen close—up. you know, just the detail is so intricate. it is pretty amazing how it all comes together, ha? part in part, piece to piece, and then all of a sudden you've got a torch. yeah. it is so iconic and you think about its history and how it stood for freedom and for liberty to people all over the world. it really is a remarkable piece of work. now, to finish this look back at some of our favourites films from the last few months, here's a couple that maybe prove
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it's about where you are going, it's how you get there. how'dy, how do you do, mate. all right? yeah, good to see you, danny. look at this mobile. there you go, mate, jump in. all set? yep, let's do it. everywhere we look i'm just seeing — what's that? a rolls royce gong past, yeah, seeing like, its standard supercars everywhere. what is it about dubai? why are people so in love with their superca rs? i think there' a couple of different reasons. one is to show off. as much as nobody wants to admit it, people do like showing off. partly why people drive supercars. it puts smiles on faces and to shows off a little bit. then there is the most amazing drives in the uae. you head out towards jabaljais and ras al khaimah, or al ain
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in thejebel hafeet mountains, you can head towards abu dhabi — there is amazing driving roads. if you fancy a nice car but do not necessarily have the bank balance to be able to afford one, then there are a couple of ways to get your high octane fix here in dubai, without having to blow your life savings or sell your house back home. for a start, you can do a bit of windowshopping at one of the local showrooms that specialise in top of the range cars. hello, amin. hello, how are you? this is not a bad showroom you've got here. we try. we are all about the supercars, the luxury, and about the biggest, the baddest, the fastest. the citizens here, they can afford these kind of bad boys, from ferraris, to lamborghinis, to mclarens. so it's just one of those things. when you reach that certain stature in your life, it is a representation
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or an extension, should we say, of who you are. if you haven't got enough disposable income to ship a souvenir home, then danny's ninth degree group of local supercar owners hold regular track days and events here and they will even let you hire one of their top of the range models so that you can get behind the wheel, for a few hours at least. we're going to go for a spin in this car and this car is the real deal. it is almost £1 million worth of raw, brutal, unadulterated power. dan, let's do this, man. let's go. oh, yes! screams.
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oh, my days. welcome sigulda's bobsleigh track, one of the very few in the world where tourists can get the same adrenaline rush as professional racers. the track is now used as a training venue for several latvian champions but there are no competitions on today, which is lucky for me because it means i get to try it out. although, having a look... i do not really feel so lucky. ok, let's go. we've got the team together. we are about to set off 100 kilometres down a very icy hill
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but luckily i have an expert pilot, so fingers crossed, i can go through smoothly. apart from the pilot steering the bobsleigh from the front, a team also includes pushers and a brakeman. but tourists get it easy. theyjust need to duck in and hold...very tight. this track is almost 1500m long and you need a pretty strong stomach to manage its 16 curves. oh, man, i think that is one of the most intense experiences of my entire life. that was like being in a very, very active, very cold tumble dryerfor 1.5 minutes. i don't even know how long it was.
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that was completely insane. another winter sport that can take your breath away is this, the skeleton. imagine a luge with no breaks or steering aid, that you ride headfirst. right, i do not think i'm ready to try one of the full—blown skeletons but there is a tourist version available that's a little bit more my speed. wish me luck. it is called a frog and, for this one, there is no crew to make me feel safe. screams. oh, my goodness!
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how was it? so cool. i could go again, right now, let's go. christa taking on the ice and surviving in latvia, back in april. well, that's it for this week. coming up on next week's travel show: we are back on the road again with our blind backpacker, tony giles. so far, he has travelled to more than 125 countries on his own and this time he is in ethiopia. join us next week as he explores
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if you want to speeding up from iberia. by sunday, we will start to see cooler weather pushing into the west as low pressure takes an increasing influence. however, this afternoon, plenty of sunshine for south wales, through the midlands and increasingly into the north—east of england. temperatures will shoot up of england. temperatures will shoot up in the sunshine, perhaps up to 27 across eastern england in the afternoon. that will make it the hottest day of the year so far. in the north, clwyd, drizzly rain, showers for north—west of scotland and temperatures in the high teens. not a bad evening. the cloud will tend to thing and break before our next area of low pressure feeds from the atlantic, bringing heavy rain into scotland by the end of the
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night. i'm pretty muggy night, with clues in some spots of 16 degrees. for somebody, fresher air will be introduced. ahead of that, in the east, another warm day with sunshine. temperatures in eastern england could get up to the mid—20s. further west, charge from the beginning. the persistent rain clears from scotland, but potentially some more showers with the old rumble of thunder later in the old rumble of thunder later in the day. the cloud will fill eastern england later in the day, too. we are looking around the high teens with a loop 20s, with the potential high of 26 degrees in the south—east. for the start of the new week, we are opening our doors again to the atlantic feeding us areas of low pressure. an unsettled scene for
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