tuesday looks like we'll see a more organised band of rain running across the central swathe of the uk but still the rain stays shy of southern and eastern counties of england where certainly gardeners and growers are looking out for some moisture at the moment. wednesday perhaps a better chance of seeing some wetter weather pushing in here but we will keep you posted on that element of the forecast. for the week ahead, the two important points are it is going to be feeling fresher and will be looking quite changeable.

hello, this is bbc news with martine croxall. the headlines: president trump comments again on brexit on the eve of his arrival in london — saying the uk should be prepared to leave the eu without a deal.

former universities minister sam gyimah says he is standing in the conservative leadership contest to replace theresa may. he is the 13th candidate to enter the race. liverpool win the greatest prize in european football — they are now heading home for a victory parade this afternoon. heavy rain and snow is hampering the search for eight climbers, including four people from britain, who are missing in the himalayas. boxer anthonyjoshua, has suffered a shock defeat — losing his three world titles in new york to underdog andy ruinunior. now on bbc news — it's time for 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? wish me luck. whoa! hold on! how was it? so cool!

all that and more coming up this week, including the time i explored a new museum at one of the world's most iconic sites here in new york. 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, 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 p4! 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? 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 role. —— roll. all right, so, 264 photos. and not a single mountain lion. 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 tranquilise and relocate, and then at least it has a chance. 0r now, the ultimate step is, 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. 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. 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 this sign says. disaster control centre. i think this is it. look, there is a sign 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 of st 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 st davids, it's not far off that. so ijust came up, ijust thought the idea of portraits sounded quite —— city 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 st davids, 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? a bit of social history, i think, somebody has described it a — 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. and guess what? a few days later i got this through email. well, graham tells us that he is now around halfway through painting everyone in st 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 adi burned some rubber in dubai. wowee, 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. 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 19805 it was removed and replaced during a massive restoration of the statue. 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 fixtures 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 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 to 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 past few months, here's a couple that maybe prove 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 going past, yeah, seeing like, it's 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 show 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 in thejebel hafeet mountains, you can head towards abu dhabi — there is amazing driving roads. there is amazing driving roads here. 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 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. oh, my days. welcome sigulda's bobsleigh track, one of the very few in the world 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 don't 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 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 breakman. —— 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. 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 don't 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! hold on! 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 the capital, addis ababa, in the first of two special films. in the meantime, don't forget you can follow our journeys on social media. until next time, though, from me, lucy hedges, and all the travel show team here in new york, it's goodbye.

the story of today's weather across the british isles is a cold front with cloud and some rain spreading eastwards and cooler and fresher air following behind. shot from the scottish borders showing cloud and rain. ahead of the weather front hazy sunshine across eastern england lifting temperatures into the high 20s. the highest the uk has seen so far this year. even here there is a chance of showers and clouds later in the day. this is the position of the front. moving eastwards. behind it when you have cloud and rain expected to brighten up. sunny spells coming through. showers later coming back to northern ireland and western scotland. most of us through the high teens to 20 and the 30 at

the high teens to 20 and the 30 at the hotspots in eastern england. there goes the last of any showers from the south—east later this evening. clear spells followed behind and blustery showers to northern ireland and western scotland. quite strong when‘s brushing parts of western england and north wales as well. temperatures down towards south—eastern parts after a warm humid night last night. on monday low pressure to the north of scotla nd low pressure to the north of scotland and close to that brisk winds and showers. in scotland and was frequent to the west. for northern ireland is more than we have seen today. for england and wales very few showers and some sunny spells. some sunny spells for eastern scotland. a breezy day, still quite windy for scotland and northern ireland. still pleasant if you get to see some sunny spells. in the main temperatures have come down especially in eastern england by 10 degrees are close to that. monday shapes up like this. low pressure is

in charge through the rest of the week. rain for some of us on tuesday and showers on wednesday. more rain for some of us on thursday and it will stay rather cool especially when you get to see rain as temperatures are a bit below average for the time of year for some of us. you get the idea, it will be dry at times and you will get to see sunshine and also showers, some of which could be quite heavy and even some longer spells of rain and a bit in the cool side. next week things might settle down a bit. that is a long way off. that is your latest forecast.

this is bbc news. the headlines at 2pm... the deal—maker president trump comments again on brexit on the eve of his arrival in london — saying the uk should be prepared to leave the eu without a deal. former universities minister sam gyimah says he is standing in the conservative leadership contest to replace theresa may. he is the 13th candidate to enter the race. cheering liverpool win the greatest prize in european football, the champions league — beating tottenham 2—0 in an all—english final in madrid. heavy rain and snow is hampering the search for eight climbers, including four people from britain, who are missing in the himalayas. a cruise ship lost control as it was docking in venice, crashing into the wharf and hitting

a tourist boat.