at least 18 people have died after an air india plane skidded off a runway during heavy rain in kerala. many of the injured have been taken to local hospitals. the aircraft with around 200 people on board broke in two afterfalling down a ravine, but didn't catch fire. the united nations is warning of a humanitarian disaster in lebanon, with widespread medicine and food shortages after this week's explosion in the capital, beirut. 154 people are now known to have died in the blast and thousands more were injured. at least 300,000 people have been made homeless. union leaders are threatening industrial action after accusing british airways of naked greed in forcing some cabin crew out of theirjobs. others will have to sign new contracts on lower pay. the airline says the changes are needed for its survival following the coronavirus pandemic.

friday was the hottest august day for 17 years, as large parts of the uk experienced high temperatures, and the south of england baked in a heatwave. london reached just over 36 celsius. people are advised to avoid busy beaches and maintain social distancing throughout the weekend, with the warm weather set to continue. sangita myska reports now from southend on sea. sun, sea, sand and social distancing. this is british summertime in our new normal. the sun—seekers of essex today flocked to southend sea front as temperatures here and across england's southern coast have soared. the government is urging people to keep their distance from one another, but with limited success. when we got here we suddenly realised there was a lot of people in a very small amount of space. so we're going to try our best to keep our distance

from everybody else. it's difficult when it's so crowded everywhere, isn't it? yeah, not many people wear masks in shops around here, i've noticed. well, i was stuck in for three months. you've got to live, haven't you ? because we don't know when this is going to end. with thousands of people having now cancelled their foreign holidays, public health england recognises that they will instead probably flock to beaches like this one in southend. even so, they are urging member of the public, particularly those in vulnerable groups like the elderly and very young, to limit their exposure to the sun and make sure that they remain hydrated. away from the beaches, at frensham ponds in surrey, accomplished swimmers have found their own way staying cool. but in another part of the same county, the heat has brought danger. thick smoke and lapping flames at the scrubland fire on chobham common could be seen from over 30 miles away. dozens of firefighters

remain at the scene. further west, by the dorset coast, those at boscombe beach has so far managed to keep socially distanced. but with the weekend arriving and temperatures rising, how closely those rules will be followed remains to be seen. sangita myska, bbc news, southend, essex. now on bbc news — the travel show. it's been 75 years, but survivors it's been 75 years, but sui’vivoi’s argue it's been 75 years, but survivors argue their memories of nuclear attack still need to be heard. this week hiroshima and magas ahki on the anniversary too important to cancel —— nagasaki.

hello and welcome to the travel show. i'm into this week from hiroshima. along around 900 kilometres south—west of tokyo. 75 years ago the world's first atomic bomb fell on the city, telling tens of thousands of people in a blinding flash of lightand, people in a blinding flash of light and, three days later, another bomb fell on nagasaki. in this week's so we will be meeting the survivors of those attacks and seeing how events designed to mark the 75th anniversary have fed during the global pandemic. also coming up on this week's show, chris dunn covers the wartime secrets buried deep in its travolta. we meet the people still trapped a long way from home because of covid—i9. long way from home because of (avid-19. we feel like hostage here covid-19. we feel like hostage here on board as we have no choice except to being in our

cabin. and rajan gets to grips with the new gadgets designed for a perfectly socially distanced holiday. i have come to a city injapan thatis i have come to a city injapan that is known all around the world, but it is known forjust one event, the devastation and destruction caused by an american nuclear bomb dropped on this city 75 years ago this month doing the final days of the second world war. today, though, much of hiroshima looks like any other japanese though, much of hiroshima looks like any otherjapanese city. in fact, coronavirus aside, it's doing well. this exhibition shows how the city has blossomed since.

each august the city commemorates the event stop but as this year's big 75th anniversary approached coronavirus severely restricted what is possible. so this is to remember the dead. this is in honour of those who died and families come here and offer prayers for the souls of those who died. at

hiroshima's peace plan, an area that was once one of the city's busiest commercial hubs but was flattened by the blast, has been made into a focus for its annual commemorations. about 60 oi’ annual commemorations. about 60 or 70,000 people were killed on that day and mostly because of the radiation and injuries up to 100,000 people died by the end of 19115. to 100,000 people died by the end of 1945. in what has been the effect on hiroshima today? it has scarred the city. people we re it has scarred the city. people were terrified of radiation and people stayed away from hiroshima stop people who were from here were discriminated against and it took the town a long time to rebuild but, in its rebuilding, one of its focuses was on trying to seek to eliminate nuclear weapons in the world. so it's really a lwa ys the world. so it's really always remained east defining aspect of this 30's experience and the city's ogres. -- focus. the testimony of survivors here can reveal japan's difficult

relationship with memories of the second world war. the number of survivors are dwindling every year and this yea r‘s dwindling every year and this year's ceremonies will be the last significant anniversary many will attend. but despite the limitations placed on proceedings because of the pandemic, many are still eager to come out and tell their story.

and it's not just and it's notjust personal testimonies which have a part to play in this year's events. across the city, a piano tuner was preparing as a special piano that had been exposed to the blast 75 years ago for this yea r‘s the blast 75 years ago for this year's scaled—down ceremony in the piece park.

0n on august six, the peace park ceremony went ahead, but with a socially distanced set up, allowing just 10% of the 11,000 attendees that were originally anticipated.

well, the anniversaries in hiroshima and magas ahki aren't the only wwii commemorations to be affected by the coronavirus pandemic this year. celebrations to mark the 75th

anniversary of the victory in europe day back in may were also relatively low—key. up next, though, well travelled returns to normal in some parts of the world, elsewhere some people are still stranded a very long way from home stop we've been to meet some of them. maroondah of the coast of brazil and in the south atla ntic brazil and in the south atlantic ocean a free cruise ships. dropped on board are a total of 103 marozsan and madagascan crewmembers. all passengers and some of the crew left in march, those left on board have been unable to return home since the borders their countries closed.|j wa nted their countries closed.|j wanted to get home to marissa because i'm missing my family and my loving one. they want to get home to mauritius because i'd belong there. they want to get home to mauritius because my motherjust passed away. please let us go back to mauritius. to be stranded on

board far from our country, far from our family is very difficult because we are stressed here and we don't know exactly when we are going to be repatriated. you feel very lonely and depressed to get home and praying to be on land sooi'i. home and praying to be on land soon. we feel like hostage here oi'i soon. we feel like hostage here on board as we have no choice except to being in our cabin, oi'i except to being in our cabin, on our except to being in our cabin, on our balcony, and taking our meal all the day. now another group of people who have been particularly ha rd group of people who have been particularly hard hit by changing government policies are australians. as cases rise, strict arrival caps have been imposed, living people stranded. ellaz have been forced to limit the number of passengers on their flights, pushing up ticket prices and making returning home even more out of reach of —— airlines. i'm originally from the uk but i've lived in australia now for a number of years, i married

two and australia, we are all australian citizens, we have four kids. we came on holiday initially in early march for a three week holiday to visit family in the uk and we been trapped here ever since, stranded. and it's now getting on for about four and a half months. the main challenges we have a small house and there are six of us. so we are filming this where i actually sleep. this is my dad's study ina shed sleep. this is my dad's study in a shed in the garden and the uncertainty of not knowing when that would stop has been particularly difficult. when the australians decided to put limitations on the number of people arriving because of pressures on quarantine, the allies have actually been forced to discriminate against the economy passengers and so we've actually been removed from a couple of flights —— airlines. it's not that we don't want to get home, it's not that we have been trying to get home. we've done everything in ourfinancial get home. we've done everything in our financial means to get home, but we'rejust in our financial means to get home, but we're just not able to. british citizen and tom

russell has been stranded in ghana where his week research trip turned into a five—month aid operation. i was due to fly out of ghana the day after it closed, and i've had ten flights cancelled since. the trick is to accept you are stuck somewhere, under soon as you do that, you just get on with life as much as you can, as opposed to kind of dwelling on it. and that's exactly what tom did by setting up exactly what tom did by setting up give back ghana. he set up boxes giving enough food for ten families for one week, which he gave back to locals to help funding for his trek. five weeks on tom and his business partner have put together thousands of books is to help people across the town —— boxes. i think it has

com pletely boxes. i think it has completely changed my experience for the positive. i've met so many people through this. everyone i've met has given it some value as well. i'd like to meet my friends and family, but the project is on here, and i've got to run with what i've started. well, let's hope they will make it home safely soon. still to come: rajan has some suggestions to keep your travel bubble intact if you are off on holiday, and chris finds there's more to gibraltar than first the eye. with the world slowly returning to some kind of normality, it's only natural that people are wondering where they can go on their next trip. but what do you do if you want to remain socially distanced from others but are still desperate for some kind of holiday? rajan

mightjust have the answer. well, yes, with fears of a second imminent wave of the virus and spikes being reported across the globe, the idea of social distancing while travelling does sound like a good one. conventional crowded summer hotspots like beaches, theme parks and busy cities are being avoided by many people in favour of more rural locations to allow for social distancing. so with all of this going on, it's hardly surprising that some fun but pretty unconventional ways of travelling are rising in popularity. around the world, businesses have been creating innovative ways for people to still have fun travelling while remaining safe. according to manufacturers, the cuckoo camping module is a mini mobile home ina camping module is a mini mobile home in a box, which means everything you need is in one

place to set off on a wild adventure without seeing a single soul — if that's your thing. how easy is that to turn this into a mobile home? developed by a husband—and—wife duo in germany in 2011, the boxes are now being used all over the globe. well, voila — amazing. as easy as that. tell me, where did the idea come from? prior to this, pretty much if someone wanted to use their own vehicle, it was our bed, mattresses, lying on a cold floor, not very convenient, not all of their kit in one space. it's a proper stove. it will allow you to have an adventure effectively in the vehicle you already own and be able to social distance if you needed to or wished to. and moving directly from the campsite to the open water. what if i told you you could buy a caravan you could move from london to water and sail

it out to sea? kind ofjames bond for campers, right? where did the idea for the sealander come from? it was bringing an innovative craft to an old—fashioned innovative craft to an old —fashioned caravan innovative craft to an old—fashioned caravan market for people looking for more freedom and more flexibility in their leisure time. this solution is a kind of dream of everybody, so it's notjust physical, it's also symbolic for possibilities follow your own path. i guess ultimately the potency beauty of this is you can travel across land and in water without meeting other people. that's the soul of our product. you are free to do whatever you want to wherever you want. with hotel occupancy rates down globally under virus not showing any signs of leaving us anytime soon, is the uptrend and socially distanced travelling a fad? i don't think it will be a trend. i think the quicker we find a vaccine, there is a possibility we will go there is a possibility we will go back to as it was before. if it takes longer, we will

actually learn a lesson about this. we will appreciate travel more. everything has become very homogenous, and the reason behind travelling in the first place is that we wanted to explore and see something different, not something the same, andl different, not something the same, and i think we've lost the plot about this way. what kind of activities or holidays can you see prospering in the future in this world? outdoor travel will become big. adventure travel will become big. touring holidays where you have small groups, about four or five people per guide. there's a lot of stuff on our doorstep that looks like it's overseas. 0ne doorstep that looks like it's overseas. one of my favourite countries is canada. i absolutely adore it. i'm not going to go to it this year, but scotland is like a mini canada. so there are lots of places that will resonate, and we've got plenty of opportunity to social distance, our budget. to finish up this week we had

back to some of the darkest days of world war ii. the british territory of gibraltar was vital for allied access to the mediterranean, but it's very location made it vulnerable to enemy attacks, which is why a secret network of tunnels was built there. but before lockdown, christian headed there to discover some of its hidden past. this tiny territory on europe's southern tip has been the subject of fierce diplomatic wrangling for years. spain claims sovereignty, but it's been ruled by britain since 1713. tourists have always come here to take in the sunshine and feed the famous barbary macaques, and it's not hard to see why this rock has been such a prized military asset too, especially during the second world war. up here on top of the rock, you really get a sense of why this was so

strategically important during the war. as we follow the map, you can see the mountains of africa to one side, and we've got spain on the other side of the rock, and of course the entrance to the mediterranean from the atlantic, so a really important place, this. inside the rock itself, work has been going on, which is revealing 1000 years of history, including information on how this place was repurposed as a military h0. this place was repurposed as a military hq. gibraltar is a fortress and it's covered in fortifications, but notjust on the outside. in fact gibraltar is honeycomb with tunnels, and there's 44 miles of tunnel inside the rock, which is more than double the amount of roads we got on the outside. so yes, gibraltar is a living fortress. these tunnels — they all connect up, and there are hospitals, kitchens, a bakery,

there's frozen food stores. the plan was to be able to house and caterfor 16,000 plan was to be able to house and cater for 16,000 and and caterfor16,000 and women. 16,000? yes. these rooms used to be the regiment headquarters. but one discovery in the 1990s stunned gibraltar aryans. the infamous stay behind cave. all to do with an urban myth that was hanging around town — people used to talk about this — about hidden tunnels, secret tunnels. so for many years people were looking for them, but no—one ever found anything, so by the 1990s it was dismissed as an urban myth. until one day some of the cavers found something.“ gibraltar were to fall into enemy hands, a top—secret plan

called 0peration tracer was to bury six men in the rock with six years' supply of food. the job was to spy and radio back intelligence to the uk. what do we have here? this is what would have been the main living chamber. if you look at the floor, it's been covered by cork tiles. now, the idea of this was to suppress any noise so the men wouldn't make any noise while they were living here. this would have been the radioshack. and the latrines. of the six people chosen, there we re of the six people chosen, there were two radio operators, a doctor, an officer and a signalman. and here we have the remains of a bicycle. and instead of a bicycle chain, it

had a leather strap, and that would have provided a means of generating electricity to power their radio. also at the back you can see there is a fan attached to what would have been the back wheel, and the idea was that was going to provide ventilation. the plan was for the men to hide and monitor air traffic on and off the runway, and shipping movements into the mad, the bay of gibraltar and the atlantic. this was their only access to daylight. —— the med. this is a really plumb spot. that's why they chose this particular point of view. access here is limited, but through the gibraltar museum, 30 people a year are able to visit the stay behind cave, on a first—come, first—served basis. christa exploring some hidden world war ii history there in gibraltar. that's it for this week. we'll be back with a new travel show very soon. next

week there's another chance to see rajan making his way down the mighty river sava in the balkans. join rajan for that if you can. but from me and the rest of the team here injapan, it's goodbye. hello there. for the second friday in a row, some of us have experienced some extreme heat drifting up from the near continent. in fact, the first friday of august saw temperatures peaking at 36.4 degrees in central london, and the heat was pretty widespread across the midlands, central and southern england, widely seeing those temperatures in excess of 30 degrees.

that said, not for all. in parts of north—west wales and the outer hebrides, we saw temperatures only at around 16 or 17 degrees, and here there were some showery outbreaks of rain. so over the next few hours those temperatures will fall into single figures. by contrast in the south—east it's going to be a very uncomfortable night for getting a good night's sleep. we wake up on saturday morning, perhaps low to mid 20s. so that means plenty of sunshine around, albeit hazy for the weekend. we keep the heat in the south—east for some very warm nights to come. much fresher in the far north—west. that's because we are under this influence of high pressure, but there is a weak weather front slicing across the high. now this is just a band of cloudy, really. maybe the odd spot of light drizzle, but it's the dividing line between the fresher air up into the north—west, and circulating around that high is a north—easterly breeze that will just make it feel a little more comfortable, perhaps, along those exposed east coasts. at the same time, after that warm and sultry start, the temperatures in the south are set to climb once again. so widely we are going to see mid to high 20s, possibly into the

mid—30s once again. further north and west, that's where temperatures should be, really, for the time of year. 17 to 22 degrees. that weather front could spark a few showers through the night, but generally speaking it will be a quiet night, and a quiet start to sunday morning once again. again it's going to be another uncomfortable night down into the south with low 20s to greet us first thing on sunday morning. we could see a few isolated showers here and there across eastern england on sunday, but generally this weekend it's a dry story with some hazy sunshine coming through. again, that north—easterly breeze just peppering the feel of the temperatures, really, across the east coast. highest values on sunday afternoon are 32 degrees. now that heat is set to stay with us, and it could, as we go into next week, trigger off the risk of some sharp and thundery downpours. that's it. have a great weekend.

good morning. welcome to breakfast withjon kay and nina warhurst. 0ur headlines today: britain calls on france to take tougher action to stop migrants crossing the channel in boats. iamata i am at a children's museum in halifax as it becomes mandatory to wear a face covering in all places in england and scotland today, u nless in england and scotland today, unless you have an exemption, including museums and cinemas. i will be finding out how that will work. a warning to steer clear of packed beaches amid concerns about social distancing, as the heatwave looks set to continue. manchester city finish off the job

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