nasa contracted space x to taxi its astronauts to the space station after the shuttles were decommissioned in 2011. now, the weather with stav danaos. hello there. part two of the weekend and a little bit cooler and fresher today than what we had yesterday and there was still some warmth in the air yesterday across the south—east in particular. today sunshine and showers, some of those showers will be heavy and most of them across northern areas because of this weather front here moving in from the west. as we head through this evening and overnight, the showers associated with that front should tend to ease down, and there will still be a couple dotted around but there will be lengthy clear skies and with light winds, a slightly cooler air mass, it will be a chillier night to come. temperatures in single figures across a few central and northern areas. but tending to hold onto double figures across the south.

this upcoming week will be quite mixed. starting off unsettled with quite a bit of rain across northern areas and then the second half of the week, we'll start to see high pressure build back in and that will warm things up again, particularly across the south where we will see temperatures again into the 30s celsius. monday is pretty similar to how it has been today. sunshine and showers — most of the showers developing will be across central and northern areas and we could also see some heavier ones developing across the east into lincolnshire and east anglia. there could be the odd thundery one too. across the south, it should stay dry, top temperatures 22 degrees, mid to high teens in the north, so on the cool side. monday night, it will be cooler still, that cooler air mass and clear skies and temperatures may drop into the single figures fairly widely. just some towns and cities holding onto double figures. clouds and rain will start to build in across northern ireland, that is because the next area of low pressure moving in. that will bring windy weather to northern and western areas and also quite a lot of rain, initially to northern ireland on tuesday morning,

and then spreading into all parts of scotland. and that rain will be persistent and heavy across the highlands, for example. the winds are strong around the irish sea coast, gusting at 30 or a0 mph perhaps for western wales. disappointing temperatures where you have the rain, but in the south—east where it will stay dry, some sunshine and feeling a little warmer. we have a wetter front bringing wetter windier weather on wednesday and then high pressure building in towards the end of the week, we start to tap into some warmth from the near continent. it will be a wet day again on wednesday for northern and western areas, fairly strong winds, but temperatures begin to climb, especially for england and wales. hello, this is bbc news with ben brown. the headlines: a former uk conservative minister — and current mp — is arrested on suspicion of rape, sexual assault and coercive control.

the australian state of victoria declares a "state of disaster" as the number of new coronavirus cases rises steeply. classified documents released by the british military raise new questions about whether uk special forces killed unarmed civilians in afghanistan. india records more than 50,000 new coronavirus cases for the fourth consecutive day. new homes and hospitals will be granted "automatic" permission to be built as part of sweeping planning changes in england. and heading home — the space x capsule leaves the international space station and safely enters the earth's orbit. now on bbc news — the travel show. coming up this week: elephants, iceland, and a splash of heavy metal, african—style. band plays heavy metal.

hello and welcome to the travel show with me, christa larwood. well, if you were watching last week, you would have seen ade in venice on the very first overseas travel show trip we've been able to do in a really long time. hopefully, we'll all be back out on the road sometime soon. but in the meantime, here are some more of our favourite travel show stories from the archive. they might even inspire your next trip, wherever that might be. well, i'm not going to lie, working on the travel show is a pretty sweet deal. not only do we get to travel the world, see amazing places, but we also, from time to time, get to meet truly inspirational people.

aug that]; the egg? of this week's programme. including the man whose family have pretty much dedicated their life to iceland's enormous imposing glaciers, but who is now charting their decline. but let's kick off with a woman who has a different life's mission — to help sick and injured elephants in thailand. and a few years ago, henry went to meet her. when it was opened in 1993, this was the world's first elephant hospital. and since then, they've treated over 4,000 elephants, and i'm here to meet some of them. the hospital aims to provide care for any sick or injured elephant in thailand. what kind of patients do you have? we have all kinds of illnesses, sicknesses, knife wounds, gunshot wounds. some have diarrhoea, constipation, cataracts. some have serious, like,

cancer, you know, and tumour. the most difficult case are the victims of landmines. laughs. she's very friendly! this one belongs to murtala. the old one. because, you know, she is growing up, she is still young. yeah — oh, that's true. yeah. so every so often you have to do... yeah, softer inside. get a new one, get a taller... right. soraida started the hospital after seeing elephants die because there was nowhere to treat them. so i told myself "0k, that's it. if no—one is going to do it, i'm going to do it myself. there should be a place where elephants can be treated. because there's no elephant hospital." the hospital is funded by donations and treatment is provided for free.

yeah! after medicine, get treaties! tourists can come here to see the elephants in their recuperation areas but there are none of the shows and rides you might find at elephant camps elsewhere in thailand. some have called for a ban on using these revered animals in the tourist industry, but soraida tells me that could also create problems. to ban them, then we have to have the solution where would these elephants be? you can't take 4,500 elephants back into the wild. how are we going to keep them, you know, in its natural surroundings and in a way to earn some money, you know, in order to treat them well? it's amazing to see elephants like these that would otherwise have died in the wild actually thrive here in the hospital.

and spending time with soraida and learning the ins and outs of what goes on here has been an absolutely amazing experience that i will not forget any time soon. my name is andri magnason. i'm a writer. i live in iceland. i have written children's books, poetry, plays, science fiction and non—fiction. my grandparents were founding partners of the icelandic glacial research society and they went on a glacial honeymoon in 1956, for three weeks. so these are your grandparents? this is my grandparents. this is iceland's highest peak — this is 2119 metres and, uh... grandma's not even

wearing a coat, is she? no, it's good weather there. so i slightly interrupted you — can i help you hang these up? yeah, please, help me. so i'm choosing what photos i would like to use in my book. i'll pop this one up here. andri, how does looking at these photos make you feel? well, they've always made me feel, you know, nostalgic, proud, but they're also a slice section of time — that is, this is the first generation that was able to enjoy glaciers, and we only have three generations that will live that period. so then the glaciers will go, and after 300 years, these photos will be totally alien to that generation, especially in iceland, when the ice has left iceland. when the ice has left iceland. yeah.

andri wanted to take me somewhere to show me just how quickly the landscape is changing. about 10% of iceland is covered in glaciers but glaciologists now believe that all of iceland's glaciers will be gone in just 200 years. five years ago, when 0k glacier was no longer heavy enough to lift itself up and move, it was declared dead. the amount of ice here has decreased dramatically. researchers from rice university in america recently drew attention to the loss. they approached andri to write the inscription for the plaque, commemorating the dead glacier. it's a strange situation, because how do you memorise the sky or something? it's like something big, firm, eternal. and so here it says, "a letter to the future. "0k is the first icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. in the next 200 years,

all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. this monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. only you know if we did it. august 2019, 415 parts per million of c02." that's the amount of c02 in the atmosphere, and actually the cause of the melted glacier. and that is rising, about 2—3 ppm every year. cat there with a man who is helping to memorialise iceland's disappearing glaciers. up next, back in 2018, lucy visited johannesburg to meet a very special lady who played a crucial role in south africa's history — from her kitchen, by cooking for nelson mandela. hi! really nice to meet you. mwah!

i have heard amazing things about your talents as a chef so, talk to me. what are you going to make for us today? i'm making the simplest meal that you have ever had in your life. it's called crumbly meal — in our language, it's called umphokoqo — that one that mr mandela used to love it to bits. and he can not go a single week without eating this. yeah? he had to have this meal every week? yes. chuckles. how i do this? i would use crumbly meal, we got maize meal, and then this is a sour milk. sour milk. it has to be sourfor him, so much that when you talk about it and when he eats it, he must feel it in his mouth. so with water and salt, that is all — that's how simple it is. very simple — that's my kind of meal. i will add water, then i add salt. that's called umphokoqua — am i saying that right?

umphokoqo. i can't say it! i'm just going to just nod. 0k. tell me what it was like cooking for mandela, just in general? well, it — at the beginning i felt intimidated, because i was going to cook for this... now, when i had to meet him, the first time, i was shaking — i must say, i was shaking and i was shivering. yeah, i bet you were! but he was so warm to me! when he received me in his house, he stood up for me and then he shake my hand and he asked me if — he said to me, "i know you are a great cook..." yeah. "..but can you cook our own home food?" that's when i said, yes. i didn't even hesitate, because i knew that now this is myjob, and then i got the job immediately. yes! so apparently when he went to london, we don't send him with food that we know. wherever he goes, in any country, but that particular year, that day, that week, hejust decided he's not going to eat, he's got a craving for his own home food while they were there already. then i got a call saying that

"we know you are off, you are home. can you please go back to jo'burg?" and i had to cook this simplest dish for him. and what i did, me and my colleagues, we had to wrap it up nicely — it looked like a present — and then when we sent it to him, we had to write "the president's medication". and after that, i was called that. i smuggled food to him. laughs. you smuggled his favourite dish into the uk! yes. the meal is about to be ready. is he doing what i am doing now? would he hover? he can smell the umphokoqo and then, yeah. umphokoqo is coming. do you want to try? i'm going to try it. come on — it was one of mandela's favourite meals! i've got to give it a try! yeah. chuckles. that's quite yummy. thank you. mmm! mm!

i can see why he liked it. i'm talking with my mouth full! both laugh. still to come on the travel show: we've got the californian sculptor who cooked up his own masterpiece in the kitchen. i literally microwaved a microwave while it was microwaving. i'm the only one in human history that's ever successfully pulled off this accomplishment. and ade learns to headbang, botswa na —style. so see you after the break. around this time last year, we sent mike off to dalyan in turkey to meet an incredible woman who spent the past 30 years doing her bit for conservation. she's become a bit of a local celebrity and she's a great lesson that it's never too late because she is in her 905.

welcome to iztuzu beach here, just a few kilometres away from the sleepy little beach town of dalyan, here in turkey. 30 years ago, no—one really knew about the beach, but 30 years ago, they also were not paying much attention to what was happening underneath the sands. this is one of the most important nesting sites for europe's population of endangered loggerhead turtles. every summer, thousands of hatchlings push their way up onto the beach and crawl down into the ocean. that is still the case largely because of the work of this woman. june haimoff, who is now 96, stopped a hotel development in the late ‘80s that would have spelled total destruction for the breeding grounds. she has devoted the last three decades of her life to the turtles, winning turkish citizenship and an mbe along the way. the government had a plan to develop this for tourism and it included — not only included — a vital part of it —

was a road down the middle of the beach. i spoke up, i said, please, don't put a road and i was helped. i did not do it alone. some said i was mad, others said i was a spy! a spy? a spy for greece. it is true. it sounds funny to us but that was actually written in a newspaper at that time. what's happened here now, what is the situation like? very good. the government here respects and knows about this beach. it is under protection. no—one can come here at night and start flashing lights around, looking for the turtles, or digging up nests, because there would be curious people who would like to do that. it would take a lot of fire in your heart to put all that energy and time into saving these turtles? i do have some fire in my heart. i can tell. i've still got it. i can tell. well, i think if turtles could erect statues, there would be one of you just

right over there, just off the coast, built by loggerhead turtles. it is interesting what you say because, in the village, they plan some kind of edifice to me, i think, in dalyan village. i said i would rather have it at the beach if they do one and could they, please, you know, not make it too big orgrand. you riding a turtle...? that is not allowed... well, actually, now that you mention it, that would not displease me, no. in turkey withjune haimoff there, 97 years old this year and still going strong. up next, surely this has to be one of the most creative and unconventional people we've ever had on the show. back in 2016 rajan visited palm springs, and met a man who could create amazing artworks out of practically

anything. wow, look at that, that is astonishing. welcome to the wacky world of kenny ingram junior. an artist whose work is now luring sightseers away from frank sinatra's old house around the corner to see this fantastical creation instead. i've been working on my art for i would say at least the last four decades, since i've been living and breathing. really? yeah, i was just born an artist. on these four acres of land kenny has used 1000 tonnes of recycled stuff to create 350 works of art. so far.

there is the hockey bot. what's that? it's made out of refrigerators. made out of refrigerators? yeah. right there is the robo—bear, made out of an air conditioning compressor. there's sa nta's barrel wagon up there. that is astonishing. this is the mongolian easter bunny's mobile throne. i'm just reading this, this is one of the world's only two microwaved microwaves. that is correct. this is a genuine microwaved microwave. i literally microwaved a microwave while it was microwaving. i'm the only one in human history has ever successfully