it means that, from january, some long—distance commuters will see their season tickets go up by more than £100. well, business correspondent katie prescottjoins us now. that sounds like quite a hike but it is linked to inflation, isn't it? yes, it is allowed to raise prices by thejuly yes, it is allowed to raise prices by the july inflation rate yes, it is allowed to raise prices by thejuly inflation rate every year. they have gone for 2.7%, just below the rate of inflation. this is on things like so—called regulated tickets, season tickets, busy commuter routes, thinks that the government wants to keep a lid on prices for. the rail delivery group which represents train companies have said that these prices are necessary and that all of the money, 99p out of every pound, goes back to running the railways. but passenger groups are less sanguine about it

particular because on monday south—western trains will go on strike for almost one month, one of the longer strikes in history in the uk trains. that will not please passengers i guess, but thank you very much indeed, katie. let's get the weather now with louise lear. hello, frost and fog was an issue this morning as most of the country was under an influence of high pressure. that said, this weather front is drifting into the near continent and bringing some cloud and rain across the far south—west, so here, not quite as cold, but on the pc side with rain at times. elsewhere the fog lifts, it is dry, settled and sony into the afternoon, with just a few isolated showers across the north and east coast, temperature struggling to up to 8 degrees, quite widely, with the exception of the far south—west. that light and patchy rain drifts off to france through the night, mona of a breeze preventing frost and fog here, but further north, again, under those clearer skies, the temperatures are likely to fall.

the first day of december tomorrow, looks likely to stay quiet with some winter sunshine, after a frosty start for any. largely dry, temperature still struggling, the top temperature on sunday afternoon, between three and 8 degrees. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines... passers—by are hailed

for their bravery on london bridge yesterday as it's revealed the attacker they restrained before he was shot dead by police was a convicted terrorist. when we were all kicking him and holding him to the ground, the guy was screaming, get off me, as if eve ryo ne was screaming, get off me, as if everyone would let him go and do his thing. we wanted to make sure he would not harm another single human being. the attacker has been named as usman khan — he killed two people and injured three more — they are now recovering in hospital. an address linked to khan is being searched in stafford — he was on licence after being automatically released from prison. there are big questions that this case poses and it's really important for there to be a proper review to see if lessons can be learnt. i do absolutely accept we have to look long and hard at the type

of sentences we are using for these kind of violent offenders. the attack overshadowed the latest televised election debate last night. some of today's campaign events have been cancelled. more news at 11. now on bbc news, the travel show. this week on the travel show... hello. we are face—to—face with beluga whales and their table manners in iceland. the whale burps. another little burp. we meet the women crossing the us on two wheels. and i am in berlin taking in the spooky sights of an abandoned communist—era themepark. so spooky. we are starting off in iceland this week.

it is one of the best places in the world to see whales in their natural habitat. but it's also now providing a home for a pair of these amazing mammals who've spent their lives in captivity. they are now looking forward to their retirement in an environment that is closer to their natural home. and cat has been to meet them. here, just off the coast of iceland, we are searching because, apparently, there is something in the water. notjust one of them either. there are 23 species of them. every now and then, someone points in a direction and the whole boat rushes over, trying to see what is happening. and then someone points in another

direction so we rush that way. it is like whack—a—mole, you never know when they will pop up. whale watching boats cast off to sea each day in iceland in the hope of catching a glimpse of these mammals. you have a great spot up here. the best one on the boat. minke whales, two o'clock. minke whale at two o'clock. how do you even try to find a whale in such a vast area? what are the tell—tale signs? the easiest one is the body. when their black body comes up and you see the triangle—shape dorsal fin. but also the blows. when you see their breath, you know what species you have. really? you can tell the species from the breath? yes.

that's incredible. how often do you see whales on these tours? we basically see them almost every trip that we go out. in the end, it's the food. we have nutrient—rich waters because it is cold. the colder the water, the more oxygen and with that the more life that you have. elsewhere in the world, travellers' contact with whales is often in captivity, where they are kept for public entertainment. globally, hundreds of whales are thought to live this way. but public appetite for holding these intelligent and social animals appears to be shifting. just last year, greenpeace drew attention to dozens of beluga whales and orcas that had been caught and kept in poor conditions in russia, destined for entertainment parks in china.

in recent weeks, they were released after a public outcry. fortunately, these whales had only been captive for a short time so they could cope with life back out at sea. but what happens when themepark owners agree to release their whales who are unable to fend for themselves in the ocean? so, the next morning, i travel to the south of the island and to the westman island, a short ferry ride from the mainland. i had heard that here in iceland a new kind of sanctuary was being created. there are so many beautiful coves around iceland. why this particular place? it is a beautiful surrounding for them. the cliffs protect them from the wind and the icelandic

weather and then also having the water temperature more like the arctic and sub—arctic, where they would be found in the wild. two beluga whales called little white and little grey will soon be the first released into the bay. they had until recently been performing at an entertainment park in china, but after the operators decided to end the practice, they tried to find new homes for the animals where they could live out their lives. what is the plan for tourists, so they are not too overwhelmed? the plan with tourists is to manage boat trips. we have a partner who will be bringing visitors out. they will not get out on these pontoons but they will be able to see them from a distance, like a whale—watching trip, and hear about the project and learn why little white and little grey are here. little white and little grey were carefully flown on the long journey from china to iceland, but they could not be released

straight into the bay. they have, for the last few months, been acclimatising in the nearby sea—life centre and working with handlers to learn how to take the final journey into the bay. oh, my goodness. wow. these are incredible. can i come down? hello. they are so graceful in the water, aren't they? what do you love about them? beluga whales are a friendly animal. they will not hurt you and you can work with them peacefully and so it is great fun to work with them. beautiful gentle giants. yes. so, which is the naughty one? this one?

go. you are so soft. i like you. 0h! come for a little exfoliation? i'm open all day. do they like this? this country's relationship with whales is complex, being one ofjust a few places in the world that still legally allows some hunting of the animals. but projects like this, and the various whale—watching experiences on offer, are ways to encourage understanding and protection. for little white and little grey, a new life awaits in the bay next year, but it cannot yet be total freedom.

some critics say that the whales are just going from one sort of captivity to another form of captivity. what do you say to that? i would say that this is an opportunity for them to have a more natural environment. they are not being asked to perform nor asked to do shows. it is effectively retirement for them, an opportunity for them to still be fed and cared for because they've never had to do that for themselves, but they can have a more natural lifestyle. we feel that is a good first step for animals like little white would you like some more fish? yum! iwillgive you... the whale burps. 0h, was that a burp? she keeps wanting more. oh, if you insist. if you insist!

there we go. the whale burps. oh, there is another little burp. still to come on the travel show, why i am in an abandoned themepark. plus, we get creative with frankfurters in berlin and meet the women whose incredible journey took them on a gruelling bike race across america. so, don't go away. i am in friedrichshain in east berlin. for decades, this city has been a hub for artists and creatives and i am on my way to meet one who has an unusual taste in interior design.

wow. look at this place. what is this all about? cushions shaped like groceries. why?! i don't know. meat is such a strong thing and this is something i cannot understand, because i do not like it. i am observing it and it is kind of my question, what is it about meat? silvia has been selling her textile meat for ten years. have you ever had anybody come in here mistaking this for a real butcher? of course! and i think this is hilarious. so, this is the sausage meat? yes. so, i need to stuff all that in this little thing? you will be impressed how much fibre fits. do it first. let me see. my fingers just won't do

what i am telling them to do. why are you laughing? it is... ..lumpy. look at this. tie it up. ladies and gentlemen, you have your travel show sausages. my one looks rather inadequate compared to your sausage. up next, we meet two women who are part of the unique team that took on an incredible journey across america. so, race across america is 3,070 miles from the west coast of america to the east coast of america.

it was a different kind of cycling to anything i'd ever done before. so, from california to maryland and had to be completed in nine days. it was an idea that i'd had in the back of my mind, that i wanted to put a team together. i had seen two teams of wounded guys do it, and seeing that there had been no females in that team, i wondered why not. there was eight riders, all who had different health challenges, be that physical or psychological or both. half the team were civilian and half of them were military. i met sally through some invictus training camps. the one main concern i had was the fact that i am visually impaired. i had a brain injury when i was injured in the army, quite some time ago now, 1996.

so, for me to be cycling on the other side of the road, when i am completely blind to the left, was always going to be something i had never done and, quite frankly, didn't really know how that was going to go. we all went over the start line together. what then had to happen was, as a non—stop race, the team of eight riders broke down into two pods, so there were four people in each pod and the support crew. the first team carried on cycling for a nine—hour period, so within that nine hours, every 20 minutes, we would change riders. the other pod in that time had moved forward and they were having to get their rest in, which is quite difficult when you have just had the adrenaline at the start and then suddenly go, right, you need to go to sleep. i can remember seeing a lot of road.

when you're cycling, you're concentrating on cycling as fast as you can. looking up is not something you necessarily do. i looked up, and i'm so glad i did. we were the pod that was very, very fortunate to cycle through monument valley. a lot of colour, a lot of red rock formations thatjust stand in this vast array of countryside. it's almost indescribable. i'd never done any proper actual cycling at night, so i was very apprehensive, given that i could not see to the left. and it was something i had always avoided doing, because i didn't think i could do it, and probably because i was quite frightened. well done, mate! given that you couldn't see anything else, you could see if there was a hazard coming towards you,

because you would see lights. so it was really peaceful, because there weren't many people around, and actually quite easy. yeah, it was good. didn't realise you had a camera in my face. well done, good stuff. they had been a lot of doubts in everybody‘s mind. there is often times when you wonder if you can carry on because things are hurting and, for me, i look back and reflect on the time when my depression was at its worst, when i didn't think there was any reason to live. i'd look back on that time and think, this isn't as difficult as that, to try to overcome. the race finished in annapolis, maryland. eight of us cycled down the road. and everybody was cheering. i'm incredibly proud to have been able to have had an opportunity to take part in such an extreme event. it has forced me to sort of go

out of my comfort zone, i suppose. we were able to achieve something quite incredible, and hopefully others will be able to look back on what we have achieved and inspire them to go and take on their own race across america. this past month has marked 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall, an event which brought down a government, reunited families, and marked a change in fortunes for one very strange amusement park. so, i have come over to spreepark, in the south—east of berlin. it's about 30 minutes' drive from the city centre and my first impression is they absolutely

don't want you to get in. it's totally fenced off. the park shut its gates to the public in 2001. and since then, nature has slowly reclaimed the rides and attractions. it's just feels like something horrible has happened. i feel like i'm the last person left in a nuclear wasteland. everything is falling apart in this place. and every now and again, you just get these mad sounds in the distance. so spooky. the rides have not run for almost 20 years.

but people continue to be drawn here. 0n windy days, you have the ferris wheel behind us there, the wind actually turns the ferris wheel and makes this kind of whistling noise. it's like something from a david lynch film. man, look at this! yes, that is another kind of bizarre attraction here. i can see your eyes lighting up looking at it. does it remind you of the first time when you came here? yeah, i mean, the first time was 2009 and it was just like a wonderland, really. when something is abandoned, something didn't work out, something happened, and i guess, for me, i'm very interested in knowing what happened, exactly what went wrong. the park opened 50 years ago in 1969

in the communist part of berlin. back then, it was the veb kulturpark planterwald and up to 1.5 million east germans came here each year. but then the wall fell and travel restrictions were lifted. the park was bought, renamed, and had some new rides installed. but it struggled to keep up with its bigger, flashier competitors in the west. with spreepark, there is this crazy story with the family involved, the witte family, they had to close it down. the family, the man, norbert witte, took some attractions and moved to peru and tried to open a theme park there. the story takes a turn when he tried to smuggle cocaine back in one of the rides. wow! the flying carpet was the name of this ride. from the moment i came in here first, to everything that

happened after that, everything became more and more bizarre, the more you look into it. and this story isn't over. what we have got here, one of the rides was called the monte carlo drive, where people could sit inside and were pulled on string over tracks. we have many of these ones. this warehouse holds some of the surviving rides. it's unusual, when you see it in this context, it actually feels quite creepy. the city bought back the site in 2014 and has asked tim's company to restore it. we want to keep the park as it is, to a certain extent, and we want to put a new layer on top of it, something that involves arts and culture

and the natural habitat that has developed here since the place was abandoned. a modern take on what the spreepark used to be? yes, kinda. so it is not going to be an amusement park anymore, you cannot go on all the rides anymore, but we will find new uses for the rides. a rollercoaster could be something like a treetop trail. the spreepark is very dear to people here in berlin and in germany, and it holds a lot of memories. so, you've got a big responsibility. it feels kind of heavy, to be honest! as you say, it is really in the mindset, especially of people from the gdr, this is a very, very important place. that is why we want to keep the cultural and social heritage that we have found. and if you want a last look at the spreepark before its bigger restoration, guided tours and open days are listed on the grun berlin website.

sadly, that's it from us this week. join us next week, when carmen is in the world's capital of plastic surgery, seoul, to explore the booming south korean beauty market, where she goes for a no—holds barred consultation. the cheeks can be lifted, it is facelift. my gosh, i need a facelift?! a little lift. for now, from me, ade adepitan, and all the travel show team here in spreepark, it's goodbye.

hello. so far, a weekend dominated by early morning frost and fog. some of the fog has been dense and freezing in places. but as you can see by this picture, beautiful blue sky and sunshine across the scottish borders. but a hard frost. temperatures down to —10 in rural scotland. winter woollies essential item today. stein dry and sunny largely, a phrase i have used recently largely, a phrase i have used rece ntly — — largely, a phrase i have used recently —— staying. fog could linger in the east midlands and lincolnshire. in the south—west, wea k lincolnshire. in the south—west, weak weather front clipping,, isles of scilly, channel isles. preventing the temperatures from falling too low.

frost prevented or fog forming. but temperatures likely to fall quite sharply yet again. we could see a frost across scotland, northern ireland and northern england. perhaps the fog not that difficult ofa perhaps the fog not that difficult of a little bit more of a breeze. starting on sunday with high—pressure building in from the west, keeping things and quiet. quiet start, frost and fog lifting sunday and stein dry with some sunshine coming through and scattered showers in the far north—west but again temperatures likely to struggle, just below where they should be for the time of year.

high pressure is set to stay with us for the first week of december, drifting slowly south, and allowing winds to strengthen by the end of the week. 0verall story, predominantly dry, settled but cold, little bit milder and perhaps wetter in the north—west later on.

this is bbc news. the headlines at 11... passers—by are hailed for their bravery on london bridge yesterday as it's revealed the attacker they restrained before he was shot dead by police was a convicted terrorist . when we were all kicking him and holding him to the ground, the guy was just constantly screaming, "get off me! get off me!", as if everyone wasjust going to let him go and do his thing. but we wanted to make sure that he's never going to do this again, that he's not going to harm another single human being. the attacker has been named as usman khan — he killed two people and injured three more. they are now recovering in hospital. an address linked to khan is being searched in stafford — he was on license after being automatically released from prison. ido i do absolutely except we have to look long and hard as i types of sentences we are using for these

types of