to the country's military offensive in northern syria. the war looks set to enter a new, dangerous phase with syrian government forces on the move to help kurdish fighters under attack from turkish forces. protests have erupted in barcelona after spain's supreme court sentenced nine catalan separatist leaders to between nine and 13 years in prison. large crowds of protesters clashed with police at barcelona's international airport. margaret atwood and bernardine evaristo have been named the joint winners of the 2019 booker prize after the judges broke their rules by declaring a tie. at 79, atwood is the oldest ever winner, while evaristo is the first black woman to win the prize. they each took home about $32,000.

hundreds of colleagues, family and friends have attended the funeral of pc andrew harper in oxford. the 28 year—old officer who'd been married for just four weeks, was killed while responding to a reported burglary in august. three teenagers have been charged with murder. 0ur correspondentjon kay reports. just weeks after his wedding day, the funeral of pc andrew harper. hundreds of his colleagues lined the route. a city silent. to remember the 28—year—old officer killed in the line of duty. inside the oxford christ church cathedral his widow led the tributes. they met at school and married just 28 days before he was killed. she told the congregation:

she placed his ceremonial police had upon his coffin, pc harper was killed while responding to reports of a burglary in august. she said: your smile was infectious, your humour relentless. even in the darkest of times you made me laugh. your personality shone through in everything you did and i am so very proud of you. in the pouring rain, officers from around the country joined members of the public. well, he was so young and he had just got married. he'd got his life in front of him

and yeah, it's terrible. how important is it for you to stand and show your respects? very important, because where would we be without the police? jon kay, bbc news, oxford. now on bbc news, the travel show. this week on the travel show, i am in the jungles of borneo exploring malaysia's biggest state. sarawak. in the western corner of malaysia and borneo, sarawak has some of the most spectacular and diverse ecosystems. but it can be overlooked by tourists drawn to the bright lights of kl and the resorts of its neighbour state sabah. so i am going to discover for myself the sights and inhabitants of this remarkable state. along the way i will be hanging out with these guys...

climbing jagged peaks... easily one of the most beautiful and most difficult hikes i have done. ..and getting a taste of one of the world's most remote food festivals. sucking. laughs. i have to work on my snail sucking technique. yes, i love sarawak so much. everything very unique in sarawak. we have 26 ethnic groups in sarawak. sarawak mean "surrender to you" in malay. my trip starts here in sarawak‘s biggest city, kuching. and does the word kuching mean, it means something special, right? yes, kuching is mean cat, in english, called cat. like the city of cats? yes, cat city.

we are starting here in the state capital kuching, and we are travelling all the way up here to the kelabit highlands. it's going to be a journey. on my first stop, i am going to meet one of the state's most iconic residents. and here he is. the orangutan. so much soul in their eyes. 97% of their dna is shared with humans. that where they get the name — orangutan means "man of the forest." orangutans are native to only two islands in southeast asia. some live on sumatra, but the vast majority live here in borneo. i have come to the semenggoh nature reserve where the rangers

are preparing for the morning feed. it looks like they eat quite well because there is a whole buffet here, and it seems like every day there is a different meal plan. so today is saturday, so they will have 21 kg bananas, and then sweet potatoes, chicken eggs and pineapples. oh, it's heavy. maybe 15 kilos. ooh, 0k. where are we at? almost 20. we are ready, 21 kg. so emel, tell me what is special about semenggoh nature reserve? ok, so semenggoh wildlife centre actually started off as a rehab centre, so we were established back in 1975, so it is more than a0 years ago. the reserve took orangutans that had been rescued from captivity or suffered from habitat loss, and taught them to live wild in the surrounding forest.

since then, the rehabilitation programme has been moved elsewhere, but the forest is still home to 33 orangutans, and tourists have a chance to glimpse those tempted back by a free meal. it is very different to a zoo, there no orangutans in cages here. yeah, totally different to a zoo. two in the basket. yes. our ranger, he will... thank you very much. yeah. enjoy. he will bring the food to the main feeding area. when the tourists arrive, a ranger heads to the feeding platform to call the apes. calling. welcome to our centre. coming here is no guarantee you must see the orangutan. if you happen to see one, consider yourself very lucky already.

in the rainy season between november and march there is an abundance of food in the forest, so the orangutans often don't need this extra food. but lucky for us, we don't have to wait long for a sighting. this is edwin, one of the biggest males in the park. and like the ranger said, this is not a zoo. the orangutans can come from any direction at any time, so you have to be careful, especially around the big males like edwin here. while these orangutans are used to people, they are still unpredictable, so tourists are kept at a safe distance. edwin is 23 years old, born in 1996, and he was the first male offspring born in semenggoh. now fully grown, edwin is competing

to become the reserve‘s sole dominant male. only one orangutan dares to approach him on the platform. seduku, rescued from captivity in the 19705, and one of the first to be rehabilitated here. are they a thing? yeah, in a way. we called her the great old lady, because she is the oldest female, age 48 years old. and she is doing still very well. she is a8, he is 23. that is quite a big age difference there, right? yes, but love doesn't see age as a problem. feeding time is over, and there is edwin. i'm nervous. he is massive, so much hair. if you saw that from behind

you wouldn't know what it was. sadly, despite conservation efforts, orangutans face an uncertain future. over a 16 year period, the numbers in borneo fell by more than 100,000. a decline blamed on hunting and deforestation. it is now estimated that there are just over 100,000 orangutans left on the island. and so the facility here, how does it help? by having a centre like semenggoh, people get a sense of seeing the wild orangutan, and not disturb the orangutan in their natural habitat. and i guess the more people come here, the more they learn, and that also helps as well? definitely, the feeling, the excitement of seeing wild orangutan, bring you closer to conservation efforts, and to be able to share it with people out there, it really means something.

next up i am crossing the state to reach gunung mulu national park, sarawa k‘s largest piece of protected rainforest. this place is teeming with wildlife — over 4,000 species of plants, 20,000 species of invertebrates, that means thousands of different kinds of spiders, beetles and butterflies, but no orangutans, though, not here. mulu is also home to groups of penan, one of the last remaining hunter and gatherer tribes in southeast asia. a lot of their traditional tribal land has been lost to deforestation, so the vast majority now stay in settlements like this one.

plucks instrument. laughs. i didn't expect you to do that. plucks instrument. laughs. ok, with the nose... laughs. so these are flutes, right? blowpipe? you make these? can you show me? i see, so you drill it by hand, so many times... speaks own language. that would be countless hours. there we go. mike corey, blowpipe maker. blowpipes are the penan‘s traditional hunting weapon. they are loaded with darts, tipped with strong poison extracted from the bark of

the local tajem tree. and you would use one of these big ones? wow, it's, look, iam about six feet tall, that would be 1.8 metres. ok, so we are here like this... that one goes in the back. armed and dangerous. you first. safety off. sharp shooter! laughs. i guarantee i will not... like this? like this. and then... 0k. here we go.

hopefully there is some beginner's luck. i hit the target?! laughs. further inside the park there is a truly unique landscape. below ground there are some of the world's largest caves, formed from limestone and shaped by millions of years of ground and rainwater. this process also created a bizarre collection of stone spires above the ground. they're called the pinnacles, and i have come all the way up river to base camp 5 to see them. at almost 50 metres tall, the pinnacles are an imposing spectacle. but to get there, sightseers face a three day round trip and a long, brutal trek through the rainforest. so the guides have some rules in place to make sure tourists

are up to it. the first 60 minutes, so this is considered as a check—in point. if you make it more than 60 minutes, you are considered a slow climber. we you are sorry, we have to say you are not qualified. so if i don't make the first checkpoint in 60 minutes, you turn me around and say sorry, you are going back home? yeah, this is the rule here. ok, we are just about to head to bed for the big hike tomorrow, this is bed tonight actually, underneath this mosquito net, this is a bee, by the way, that just flew away. this is coming with me tomorrow... person: shh. there are some people sleeping, ijust got shushed. i am a little bit nervous for the hike tomorrow, it is supposed to be quite hard, a lot of very, very steep inclines, so i am going to get a full

eight hours tonight, i will see you in the morning and we will see if we can make it to the top. "caution, a high degree of physical fitness is required past this point." eight hours round—trip. lead the way. let's go. i havejust 60 minutes to make it to the mini pinnacles, the first checkpoint. you weren'tjoking. how is it? steep. the checkpoint is less than a kilometre up the slope but the humidity makes it feel a lot further. we've only just started and i'm already exhausted. and we're here, the pinnacles!

not quite, right? mini pinnacles. that is...not a joke. having reached the checkpoint within the time limit, it's another kilometre before i reach the most treacherous stage. this is the first ladder, mike. helmets on, right? who's first? after you. after me? ok, one down, 70 more to go.

beautiful limestone cliffs are sharp but at least lots of places to grab onto. it looks like it's rained down there. think it's going to rain? yeah, heavy rain. 500 metres to go, 100 metres to go. hope we get there before the rain. what ladder‘s this? last ladder. this looks like the summit. isn't it? the summit, yes. we are here, guys. wow, yeah. and there are so many of them.

this is beautiful. just daggersjutting out of the forest canopy. really is spectacular, right? the final stop in myjourney across sarawak is bario, in the kelapit highlands, home to one of the world's most remote food festivals.

it is not exactly a smooth road, it's like being a greased up piece of popcorn in the back seat, but it's a lot of fun. i'm quite an adventurous eater, i will try everything. at least once, it is not good, only once. but often when you come to these places will find some pretty far out food and i'm hoping we'll find some very interesting stuff. bumped around and a little bruised from the journey, i get there to find the festival in full swing. we're catching the eye of a lot of locals, because there's not that many foreigners, surprise surprise, in this part of the world.

i don't know half of the foods here today and that's quite exciting for me. a local farmer called dayang offers to show me around. would you like to try our dure... i don't know what dure is... one of the local exotic vegetable found here in bario. it is a plant that lives in the jungle? yes. i can eat that all day. that is delicious. but it's got, like, i was thinking it would taste like spinach, but it doesn't taste like spinach at all. it has like a heartier than spinach would. would you like to try the akep? yeah, we can try akep. this looks to be boiled snails. yeah, found in the paddy field here. it smells like boiled snails too. this is how we do it. this lives in the jungle, you suck it out? sucking.

just like that. you bit it first? it's stuck on my teeth. and you suck it? sucking. there we go. how do you find... the taste must be fantastic? i wouldn't use that word, but it's not bad, it's very chewy. this is classic traditional kelabit food, sourced from the surrounding area. welcome to bario. dayang takes me to herfarm, where she grows one very important ingredient. it's cool, cause each plant has one pineapple? yes, but it will take about one year to ripen.

but this looks ripe. look at the colour, its golden yellow. how do we... how do we pick one? you can pluck it. i'm going to have puncture wounds after this but it's ok. that was easy. yes, because its golden ripe pineapple, is very sweet. look at this, my first pineapple. back at the festival, locally grown pineapples have been made into jams, juices and even pineapple cider. down the hatch. a little chunky, how many do you have to drink to have a really good day? i'm not sure. shall we find out? since it started in 2006 the festival has celebrated both the cuisine and the culture

of the highlands. up top there are some bags with soda pop, cookies, the point is to climb up to the top, grab your prize and climb down. it's my turn. so... slowly from th bottom. freestyle ? as the games continue, my form doesn't really improve. it was by a feather that we lost. applause.

a game that i'm not bad at, i think it's my height advantage. let's watch. that's way farther than mine. i guess you might think that coming so far away you wouldn't be able to make friends, or that it might be a strange tourist experience. but i always find it's some of the best ones, when you come to these places, there's not many foreign tourists, so people are so accepting and grateful that you are here, and will share everything with you.

well, here's the good news. the weather on tuesday is looking pretty decent across most of the uk. it should be a dry day, at least for most of us, and there'll be some sunshine around too. we'll be in between weather systems, so all of that rain we've just had will be clearing away out into the north sea. in fact, by dawn, i think we'll be in between weather systems. you can see this gap between the weather fronts here. that's going to be in place right across the uk during the course of tuesday. but there is a weather front heading our way, and that's going to sweep in soon after. so let's have a look at the forecast, then, through the early hours of the morning. still some rain around in the north—east of the country,

so newcastle, perhaps the borders of scotland, edinburgh maybe as well, a few spots of rain. but the vast majority of the country, i think, a dry end to the night. well, it's still wet, there are lots of puddles out there, but it won't be raining. and a bit of mist and fog first thing, for example, in the south—west of the country. so a bright day, i think, for most of us in store on tuesday. not completely dry, there is just a possibility of a few showers there in south—western parts of england, possibly wales too. but you'll notice the vast majority of the country enjoying that bright weather. there will be some clouds around. 17 in london, 1a expected in the north of the country. and then tuesday night, into the early hours of wednesday, we're expecting another weather front to move across the uk. that means wednesday morning it is looking wet across eastern areas. so, anywhere from london through into lincolnshire and eastern parts of scotland, there will be some rain around. but, by the time we get to wednesday afternoon, you can see the weather's much better again, and the sun's out. so midweek, in the afternoon, there will be some sunshine. 16 in london, but cooler there in glasgow, around 12 degrees. and on thursday, we start to see a change.

this area of low pressure is expected to roll in off the atlantic. it's quite a large area of low pressure. it's also quite slow—moving, so that means, once it starts moving in, it'lljust roll and roll all the way through the rest of the week, and into the weekend as well. so on thursday, we're expecting increasing winds and heavy, frequent showers across western parts of the uk. but on thursday still, across some central and eastern areas, the weather should be mostly bright. and then, by the time we get to friday and the weekend, that low pressure‘s parked over the uk. strong winds in the west and the south, frequent showers, but sunshine too. bye— bye.

this is bbc news. welcome if you are watching here in the uk, on pbs in america, or around the globe. i'm mike embley. our top stories: the us announces sanctions against turkey in response to its military offensive against the kurds in northern syria. the united states is going to continue to take actions against turkey's economy until they bring the violence to an end. violent protests in barcelona after catalan independence leaders are given long prison sentences by the spanish supreme court. and england's euro 2020 qualifier in bulgaria has been overshadowed by racist behaviour which left some english players visibly upset. and a surprise result at this year's booker prize.