it all lasted several hours and tate modern eventually emptied the gallery and closed it for the remainder of the day. strike action by airport workers planned for tomorrow which threatened flights at heathrow has been suspended. but another strike, planned for tuesday, is still set to go ahead unless a deal can be reached. katy austin is at heathrow for us. it was quite last minute tonight that we had tomorrow's strike is off while further talks are carried out to try and prevent a strike happening on tuesday. it because it was quite last minute, a lot of disruption had effectively already been caused. some airlines had already cancelled flights and passengers had been left in a lot of uncertainty, in some cases, about whether their flight was going ahead as planned. some said they were finding it very difficult to get a firm answer from their airlines. we've just had a message from heathrow through literally in the last couple of minutes.

where they have confirmed, yes, unite have chosen to postpone the strike tomorrow. they've also confirmed that strike action is still scheduled to go ahead tomorrow. heathrow has said they'll continue talks with unite and remain hopeful they can find a resolution and stop the threat of strike action. heathrow has said airlines may choose to reinstate impacted flights. but it regrets passengers have been inconvenienced. and heathrow urges people to check with their airline for the latest information. if the strike was going to happen, we were being warned there could be very long queues to get through security and a number of airlines had already said they would operate a policy of restricting hand luggage that was allowed on flights to try and make it quicker to get through security. we hope to get more information in the coming day or so to see if this will apply on tuesday if that industrial action does go ahead. but for now, passengers can just contact their airline and we can just watch and wait and see how talks tomorrow progress.

now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich. hello, it has turned into another evening of drenching downpours across many parts of the uk. and these continue through the week ahead. it won't be raining all the time, but when it does, that rainfall could be quite intense. a met office yellow warning still in force through the rest of this evening in lincolnshire, northern england and into scotland. further very heavy showers, which could cause some disruption and yet another band of showery rain pushing in from the west as the night wears on. some clear spells in between. temperatures of 13—16 degrees. quite a few showers around generally as we start monday morning. but for england and wales, things will improve. we push those showers away eastwards and we see increasing amounts of sunshine. northern ireland and scotland are seeing some sunshine as well but there will be a scattering of heavy thundery downpours here. more persistent rain moving across the northern isles. temperatures generally between 19 and 25 degrees. it stays unsettled as we head towards the middle of the week, lots of showers, particularly in the north. there is the risk of

further disruption. hello this is bbc news. the headlines: two mass shootings in the united states — the first at a walmart shopping centre in el paso in which 20 people died — the gunman is in custody. the second shooting took place just hours later in dayton, ohio where nine people died. the gunman in that shooting has been named as 24—year—old connor betts and was shot dead by police. a six—year—old is airlifted to hospital after he was thrown from a viewing platform at the tate modern art gallery in london. a teenager has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. efforts to shore up a damaged dam in derbyshire continue as police urge those who remain in homes within the evacuation zone to leave immediately. tomorrow's heathrow strike is suspended to allow for further talks between the union and airport management.

tuesday's strike action could still go ahead. a chance to get away from it all. now on bbc news, the travel show. coming up on this week's travel show: we're in the united kingdom, a place which attracts almost a0 million visitors a year. more than half of them will head to london, but this week, we're going off the beaten path, exploring some of britain's best kept secrets, now being discovered by travellers. we begin in northern ireland, where forgotten places are being visited thanks to a hit television programme. yes! well done, you. before heading to england where cat is retracing the footsteps of the men who carved out the lake district's dramatic landscape. i don't know if my legs are shaking because i'm cold or because i'm nervous.

then we're in scotland with a man who's on a mission to walk the entire coastline of the uk. we start in northern ireland, in county down, because here, in places once rarely visited, something unexpected is happening. now, people are coming from across the world — and it's all because of one television programme. game of thrones. one of the biggest in history. in the fantasy series, of which the eighth and final season concluded this year, different houses battle to claim one ultimate throne.

it was here in remote locations south of the busy capital of belfast that many of the programme's most iconic scenes were filmed. and where some of its cast can still be found. ok, so i have a confession — i'm a giant game of thrones geek. and i'm super excited, because this place has to be top of the list for any true super fan. welcome to castle ward, or to what many tv viewers will know as winterfell. and, well, when in winterfell... aargh! evening my lady, where do you hail from? from london. london. and which house do you represent? i'm not sure i have a house. house of larwood.

house of larwood, never heard of them, sounds like something the night's watch would have dragged in on their way. i believe you are here to learn how to do archery. i need cohorts, i need people to hunt or to fight. are you up to the task? i hope so. i hope so too, otherwise there is a penalty. oh, a beheading... that seems measured. absolutely, because you're no good to me here at winterfell if you can't hunt and you can't fight. i'll do my best. in this series, no character is safe from a grisly end, so it never hurts to know what you're doing with a bow and arrow. select your arrows by the tip, never by the feathers and never further down the shaft. think of it coming out of a quiver, three fingers on the drawing string and then draw back... so that it brings to your right eye. loose! all right. i hit the actual thing!

that'll do. your first arrow ever and you hit the target. 0k. archer ready. draw! hold... loose! look at that. yes! well done, you. so this place used to be a farm and yet now it's a huge tourist attraction. how did that happen? we are where game of thrones started, so it's a perfect place to start your journey, to go on and do some of the other sites that are around. yes, they've gone off to croatia, yes, they've gone off to iceland, yes, they've gone off to morocco and so on, and that's fine, but most of it's shot here. and it has turned into what we now know as screen tours, something we've never had before. yes, we have the giant's causeway, a unesco world heritage site and it's beautiful, and all that, but people used to go there and there alone, and then they would take off. now they come to see many other parts of our province. and we'll be finding out more about these sites later in the programme. but first we head across the irish sea to england's lake district, where cat moh reports.

here in the uk's biggest national park, in the mountainous rugged lake district, you'll find the green and beautiful landscapes this country is known for. but there's also something else. scars to the mountainsides tell a story of a defining industrial era for the country and the communities in this region. at the uk's last working slate mine, travellers can come to walk in the treacherous footsteps miners used to take up the mountain. they call it the via ferrata. but, first, i wanted to see what life was like for these miners working deep in a network of mining tiles before modern machinery transformed the practice

of extracting the slate. it's a bit low down here. wow! look at this! it's an absolutely amazing space, isn't it? i can hear my voice echoing off the rocks. how fun. it represents a huge area where they found an awful lot of good rock, and it also represents some 11 miles of tunnels and caverns. i can't even imagine how long it would have taken to carve out a space this huge in here. it's a huge amount of time. paint a picture for me of what this would have been like back in its heyday. when was that? back in its heyday, after the first world war when production was getting going again, and it built up to some 2,000 tonnes of roofing slate produced per year. and that would have been in places like this, lit by early carbide lamps, which was the next generation of lamp after using just candlelight, we would have the dust of the rock in their lungs, and they always have the potential, when you're working the rock, for it to come down onto your head,

which would have been covered in a cloth cap. back out the mine, it's time to head up to the via ferrata. so the old miner's route starts way over here, and the only way to get there is on this narrow bridge. my mouth's already gone dry. and it gets worse — it's me first. ok, here we go... this is where it gets interesting. that's great, you're doing really well. 0k... how high are we? we are 3,000 foot above sea level, approximately. 0k. we are quite high up from the road, just the fact that the cars

are like micro machines from up here. yeah, these cars look tiny. probably isn't the best conversation to be having whilst we go over this. no. at over 150 metres, this bridge is the longest of its kind in britain, and as i creep my way across, i could not be more aware of every remaining step to go. right, i can do this. doing my best ballet feet. 0h! just keep breathing... ok, right. this one's really hard. oh, gosh. with the wind lurching the bridge from side to side, i have to be so careful where i put my feet. oh, my gosh! this wind! aargh! 0k?

yeah, just waiting for the wind blow past me. it'll soon pass by. if i actually stop and think about it, the view is... ..it‘s amazing up here. but to be honest, i haven't really been concentrating on the view so much as my feet and my arms so i don't fall into the view. actually it is really quite long. now i can appreciate the view. so pretty! well done. woohoo! solid ground! safety! i would jump for joy but it is a bit windy still. well done! we did it!

while cat catches her breath, we're headed up to the very northern tip of scotland, where one man has taken on an even bigger challenge. i have seen the land and the landscape, i see it completely different. i feel more connection now with the uk now as a whole than i ever have in my entire life. hi, my name's chris lewis, and this is my dog, jet, and we are walking the entire coastline of the united kingdom. i started in swansea. the united kingdom isn'tjust one

island, there is loads of separate islands off the united kingdom, in fact 700 off the west coast of scotland, so we've tackled those as well. so we're on the north—west coast of scotland, just about to turn the corner, having been on the move now for two years, so i reckon about another 1.5 years until we finish. we are on the mall of kintyre now, heading... i think people would be very surprised to hear that the uk coast, including the islands, northern ireland, is surprisingly about 18,000 miles. to put that into perspective, if you were to fly around the world as the crow flies, that is around 25,000 miles. before i started this, i suffered really badly with depression, i had anxiety, and this went on for a long, long time. i went for a surf one day, and i remember coming out and just looking down the cliffs and i honestlyjust thought to myself, "walk home".

so i started walking along the coast, and i've been going for two years now. i've got a lot to thank this place for. there is no plan, it really is this simple — i keep the sea to my left—hand side, and i know eventually that will take me around to where i need to be. i go as far as my legs can take me each day, and i camp when i think it's time to camp, and i repeat that process the next day. i'll show you where i slept last night — not complaining at all! jet, my dog, i rescued her on the way. she wasn't in the best nick when i first had her. she was very thin, very skinny. but there was immediate connection betweenjet and i. i felt that kind of brokenness in her. that maybe i had felt before. we bonded immediately. some of the stuff that she tackles on this coast i wouldn't ask

another human to do. but we have such complete trust for each other that if i go and do something or if i go and climb something before i know it, she's shooting past me because she knows if i'm doing it she'll do it. yeah, i've just arrived in gretna. which means i'm in scotland. but, yeah, i'm stupidly happy. the wonderful thing about the united kingdom is that every single part of the united kingdom that you go to, there is a change and it's not subtle, it is there in your face. mother of zeus. good afternoon, guys. it's a really wet one today. nice to have the scottish weather back. oh, my goodness. hailstones and they hurt like hell. some of my favourite moments on this walk have been when my tent‘s been getting smashed from side to side and i've peeked out and i've watched the seas and the waters and i see how powerful it is. oh, my word. i feel so old and haggard. yeah, obviously, i'm not feeling well at all...

i started this walk with £10 and two days worth of rations. i'd just given up the house so i had nothing really. i've pretty much relied on foraging and this kind of stuff. on anglesey, i soon realised i didn't know enough. i ended up doing the full 126 miles with nothing to eat. i've been coming around anglesey since sunday, monday, it's a cracker. i'm a bit annoyed at myself that i smashed it round. but i had my reasons. yeah, that was a really big mistake. i lost a lot of weight and i was very ill after that week. lesson learned. making my way up the west coast. good afternoon, folks. look at this. i'm on an island on my own and this family have came up and brought me christmas dinner by boat. i'm going to go over and say hello to them. bear with me. i have gone from being one

of the most isolated people you would ever meet, you know, shutting myself in a bedroom for three weeks, not seeing anybody, scared to go to the shops, to being the most confident, most outgoing, happiest person you'll ever meet. i do think this is a lifestyle now. so this will never end for me now. you know, it's a great lifestyle. i don't have tvs or anything. i don't need one, do i? welcome back. as we continue our look into the far—flung corners of the uk, i'm back with the game of thrones fans in county down. it's amazing as we're walking through here how many people are wearing the big capes for game of thrones, clearly here because game of thrones was filmed here. it's such a beautiful area. did you come to this part of the world because of game of thrones? yeah, idid. i mean, northern ireland is a fascinating country.

lots of history. i think if not for game of thrones, i probably would not have come all this way. really are you like a big fan? on a scale of one to ten, like an 11. i'm 2a, travelling alone, my father grew up during the troubles so he thought it was absolutely insane. but he has seen all my photos and thinks it has been a great trip. for three decades, up until 1998, northern ireland endured a violent and deadly conflict known as the troubles. since then, a kind of dark tourism exploring the locations and murals of the conflict has been popular here. but for some local people, there's now a more positive story to tell about what their country has to offer. so here we have summer, which is bran stark‘s direwolf. now, you're going to go meet him later on. this is obviously — he's not a puppy any more.

but he's stilljust as cute, trust me. ah, the runt of the litter. that one's yours, snow. the big draw behind my coach tour were local celebrities. william played a white walker in the programme, but it is his two dogs that people come from around the world to meet. who do we have here? this is odin and is thor. summer, bran stark‘s direwolf, and grey wind, rob stark‘s direwolf. aren't you beautiful? he's so fluffy! yeah. shall we take them for a walk? yeah, ok, do you want to take this one? sure. it's sort of changed from being only a couple of dogs to suddenly you've got a tourism operation now. well, you know, people started wanting to meet them. they contacted us through social media and so we decided that instead of them coming to our house we had to make it more official. so my brothers and i started up our own tour company. so tell me a little bit about the impact game of thrones has had on your community. county down, i think, was one of the least visited tourist—wise counties in ireland. now i think it's one of the highest

because of game of thrones. you look like a game of thrones extra. do you buy into it? are you a game of thrones junkie? i was actually contracted to keep this long while filming. my whole family have long hair and beards anyway... but, yeah, iam a massive game of thrones fan. well, while i finish my walk with odin and thor, we end with cat who's getting hands—on at the slate mine. so, apparently, the traditional practice of splitting slate has barely changed in generations. in the workshop, they now split 100 tons of it a year. paul here is riving the rock, that's our word for splitting. 0k. and the beauty of this rock is that it does split so beautifully into roofing slates. now, i have an idea. would you like to

have a go yourself? sure! will i have to pay for the slate if i ruin it? absolutely! i'm told it takes a lifetime for rivers to learn this skill. about there. but i'm not sure even that would be enough for me. i just start anywhere in the middle rather than on the edge? you didn't see that! laughter. you want to have it dead straight. more? you just want to make a line. sojust keep going. it's actually quite tricky keeping the chisel straight. can you hear that change? yes. i can feel it in my hands as well. i can hear it. idid it! there you are. give it a little twist and make there you go. you have just split a slate.

it looks absolutely glorious. ifeel like i've done a little workout. we've not actually started the miners‘ route, have we? no. back with my guide, jenny, it's time to continue onto the old miners‘ route up the mountain. i can see why you love climbing around here. it's pretty fantastic and it's always changing, the environment, wherever you go in the lake district. it was changing across that bridge. it was. so the via ferrata, also known as the miners‘ route, goes all the way up there. is that actually what they did? so this incline that you can see there is basically following the footsteps of the miners that they used to take to work. these added bits that we have on the fell side as well so that‘s just for fun. so, i think i‘m ready. are you? no. shall we do this? yes, let‘s do this. don‘t look down. 0k. i don‘t know if my legs are shaking because i‘m cold, because i‘m nervous, or because they‘re really exhausted from the bridge still.

just watch that clip there, cat. 0k. things are getting real now. while i‘m safe and hooked on, i know that one wrong step on these thin metal bars could see me test my harness much more than i‘d like. the miners wouldn‘t have climbed the wall this way. this is just for fun. but i‘m told this section does help travellers get a sense of the type of dangerous terrain they faced every day. make sure you leave a bit of space again for your next foot. that‘s it. then step up. how do i do this next bit? you can use the rock again. just a big step.

i don‘t know what‘s worse. here we go. but, finally, i‘m up and onto the miners‘ footpath. that‘s it! just making our way up the incline now. so this is part of the well—trodden route they used to take? indeed. walking the miners‘ footpath, it‘s amazing to think what this must have been like four generations of people working this incredible landscape. ok, it sounds good. and as my time in northern ireland comes to a close, i know it‘s thanks to amazing people like the ones we‘ve met along the way that so many more hidden places this country has to offer will continue to be revealed. wow. what a view. look at that.

what a reward. is that scotland over there? it is! it is scotland you can see in the distance. hello. it‘s turned into another evening of drenching downpour for many parts of the uk. and that actually sets the theme for the week ahead. it won‘t be raining all the time, but where it does rain, could be very intense, could bring some further disruption from these showers and thunderstorms. this is the radar picture from a little earlier on. you can see the way in which the showers and thunderstorms really got going across the midlands up into northern england, parts of scotland as well. these areas still covered by a met office yellow warning, this is valid until midnight. the yellow warning extended fairly

recently down into parts of lincolnshire as well. so these showers and storms continue to drift north—east as we go through the night. another band of showery rain pushing in from the west. some clear spells in between. it turns increasingly breezy from the west. it‘ll be quite a muggy night as well with lows of 13 to 16 degrees. so, at first glance, monday is looking like another day of widespread showers but actually, across england and wales, things will tend to improve through the day. you can see these showers pushing away eastwards, there could be the odd sharp one for east anglia and the south east, but then we see increasing amounts of sunshine. for northern ireland and scotland, here there will be some sunshine as well but still some showers breaking out, some heavy thundery ones and more persistent rain moving across the northern isles. temperatures range from 19 degrees in glasgow to 25 degrees in london. as we move through monday night and into tuesday, we bring this area of low pressure into the picture and where you‘re closest to the centre of the low pressure, across the northern half of the uk, that is where we will see the heaviest and most widespread

showers during tuesday. some showers developing further south. at least a fighting chance of seeing some dry weather across southern parts of england and south wales. quite breezy here but further north the winds are fairly light which means the showers do crop up. it could be quite slow moving, which means some locations could see an awful lot of rain. and generally speaking, a cooler feel across the british isles. as you move through the middle parts of the week, another very showery day on wednesday but signs of things turning temporarily at least a little dry on thursday. however, that probably won‘t last long, some heavy rain pushing in from the west as we go through friday. and another area of low pressure taking up residence for next weekend, so it stays very unsettled.

this is bbc world news today. i‘m lewis vaughan jones. our top stories. 20 people are killed in el paso in texas when a gunman opened fire on shoppers in a busy store. police are treating the attack as a possible hate crime. prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty for the 21—year—old man in custody. just hours later in a second mass shooting, 24—year—old connor betts is identified as the man who shot dead nine people in a bar in dayton, ohio. he was killed by police. and more clashes in hong kong between police and pro—democracy protestors, ahead of a planned strike on monday.