here now, you know? you can recover — it is possible. i never believed it, but i'm living proof. so there is hope, but also fear that this new lockdown once again brings the ideal conditions for gambling addiction to grow and to destroy lives. jeremy cooke, bbc news. now, the weather with chris. hello, thank you. we have had a day of big weather contrasts from one place to the next. across england and wales for the most part it has been pretty murky. still low cloud around and mist and fog patches over the hills, but it has not been like that everywhere. in scotland, look at this picture. clear skies in glasgow, light winds. the satellite picture shows where the sheet of cloud is over england and wales. the cloud is over england and wales. the cloud has been encroaching across

southern counties of northern ireland. the temperatures have been all over the place. 14 in dorset. contrast that with a very cold air and the frost had not lifted in the newcastle area. chilly across northern areas. between the mild and cold, there is a weather front bringing patchy rain across the midlands, increasingly moving into northern areas of england. it will continue to be quite damp for these areas as the temperatures slowly begin to lift. looking at the weather picture overnight tonight, weather picture overnight tonight, we will have a lot of cloud around. still some fog patches over the hills. clear skies for north—east scotland, where it will turn cold. temperature is down to —3. a cold, frosty but sunny start for scotland in the far north, and otherwise a lot of cloud again. some fog patches around and it will stay murky and damp across parts of the midlands and east wales. there will be places

where the cloud breaks and we will see some sunshine. turning breezy later on. patchy rain for western scotland. weather fronts slide south and east across the uk on monday, bringing spells of rain. avoiding most of the rain across the southwest. as it clears through scotland, it should brighten up with some sunshine. starting to feel colder. deep into next week, another colder. deep into next week, another cold front will edging towards the middle of the week and behind at the air really starts to turn cold. it looks like we will see quite an u nsettled looks like we will see quite an unsettled spell of weather from wednesday onwards, with temperatures taking a dive. feeling very chilly. still murky weather to come over the next day or so, before the weather turns more unsettled into the middle of next week with rain, brisk winds and cold airon of next week with rain, brisk winds and cold air on the way.

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..new solutions for ancient problems... this thing is so much better than any of us can do. here he comes! and kangaroo island bounces back. do you want any milk? it has been awesome to see. yeah, the resilience of the australian wildlife. a hi, welcome to the show, coming to you this week from the eerily quiet london city airport. coming to you this week from the hence why i am allowed to talk to you from the actual runway. normally this would be buzzing with planes taking off and landing, but

as we all know, travel around the world has pretty much stopped. but nevertheless, we are going to do our best to try to keep you all inspired until travel resumes once again. but until then, stick with us and hopefully we will be out on our adventures very soon. let's face it. 2020 hasn't been a good year for travel. a year of lockdowns, border closures, and bans. but don't worry because behind the scenes, the travel industry is buzzing with exciting gadgets and innovations to get us all back on the road again. from protective seat design... ..to covid—destroying uv light swords. but the thing with the biggest impact in the short term is testing. and i have come to london city airport to find

out how it could work. there will be a testing regime in place prior to christmas. testing will take place once you have arrived back into the uk. you will go to a testing centre and get tested and if that test is negative, then you will be able to be released from quarantine. however, as the industry, we really do wish to see a departures testing protocol. and what that would mean is that passengers would be tested before they fly. it would mean that a quarantine period when you arrive is no longer required. what are the main challenges you foresee with all of these processes? capacity is one. if we are requiring to actually test significant numbers of passengers onsite before they fly, we will need to find space to do that. there will need to be trained staff available. we think that is going to take some time, but we are very confident we can do that. and we are hopeful that by next summer, we will be approaching some

degree of normality. but as testing, and even vaccinations, become more common, there is a whole load of new questions. like how do you trust that the person travelling next to you is covid—safe? commonpass is a health pass that lets people securely and privately share their covid status across international borders, whether that's testing or eventually vaccination. the challenge right now is the current system for ensuring that somebody does not have covid — who's sitting next to me or crossing the border — is a piece of paper that was got from a lab. there's no standard format for that paper and it can easily be falsified or even counterfeit. with commonpass, we have a way to know that this is coming from a certified lab. so what happens is, when you're preparing to travel, you'll say, i'm flying

from london city airport to new york, you'll pull out the commonpass app, it will tell you you have to fulfil particular requirements and when you have fulfilled all those criteria, it generates a qr code, which then you can show at the entrance to the airport, the aircraft or at immigration in the united states. how do you keep people's personal health data safe? commonpass is a non—profit organisation. we don't actually have access to your data, you control your data, you control who gets to see it, it is basically on your phone and at the source of where the data is. we don't have any access to that, nobody has any access to that. commonpass is hoping to become available in the new year, but some countries' entry requirements don't end at the airport. take a look at this — it's a pretty simple device, a wristband. once i put it on... and now it should transmit my location. these kinds of tracking devices have been trialled in several countries

to stop people breaking lockdown rules. there's been an unprecedented rise in all kinds of tracking technology. around 120 contact tracing apps are being used worldwide. you kinda look like a very cautious person to me, sam. so what are your main concerns? my main concerns really are about the speed and proportionality of these new measures. we need to make sure that they're transparent, held accountable and don't last for any longer than they‘ re needed. there is a danger, though, isn't there, sam, that we could scare people and overhype this? this whole surveillance thing. do you think it's slightly over the top and we're worrying more than we should be? i don't think so, no. i think we need to really be careful that we don't sleepwalk into a surveillance state with tools that aren't necessarily effective for fighting back in a public health crisis. it's like something out of a sci—fi movie. what should you be looking out for, then?

so when you're looking at a privacy policy, some of the really important things to look out for is how long your data is being retained for. there should be, under gdpr, certain restrictions on how long a company or a public health body can access your information. there's other things like permissions. if you look at certain apps that will have a lot of permissions that allow the app to read other aspects of your phone, look at your contacts, for example, as well as monitoring what you're doing online. so there are some simple steps to take that will allow you to make sure the app you're downloading is safe. this year has disrupted travel more than anything we've ever known, but as big as the problems are, the solutions too can be brilliant. as long as we stay careful, i'm hopeful we'll soon be out there experiencing the world again.

next this week, we are in the swedish capital of stockholm, which is actually made up of 30,000 islands, islets and rocks jutting out into the baltic sea. it means there is a big maritime tradition, which if you know where to look, results in some pretty interesting souvenir shopping. we went to have a look. my name is freddy braun. i am the owner of fartygsmagasinet. translated, the ship's warehouse. we were since many, many years ago, engaged in dismantling ships, taking care of all the beautiful interiors. we started actually with two empty hands and it became like part of myself. today, there are no longer such ships existing. the few that are left

are either museum ships or belonging to some private people. but we knew in advance that there will be a day where they are all gone, so now we consume whatever we have in our warehouse. here we have a piece of a stay from the cutty sark, including... so it is actually a trophy of a famous ship, i would say next to the titanic the most well known in the whole world. one does not see to it that these things just being brutally destroyed for the future because all these nice interiors, if they would have been ashore in a building they probably would have been protected, but when it came to ships there was nobody interested, so i started to collect, first for my own and gradually i got more and more

involved. good customers are based locally, but more than half of it comes from all over the world. interior designers, collectors, film companies. i have a few pieces, smaller figureheads, a few two smaller figureheads, a few instruments and a few models, which are more close to my heart and are not for sale. 0k. we are onto something totally new next. or is it something old? can't make up my mind. our future of the past series takes a look at some of the amazing new tech scientists are using to uncover, restore a nd protect humanity's ancient history. we begin in northern guatemala, at the maya biosphere reserve, deep

at the maya biosphere reserve. deep inside this vast rainforest lies the remains of one of the largest mayan cities. tikal. at its height, around 1500 years ago, it was home to as many as 90,000 people. so we sent amanda to find out how advances in archaeology have uncovered some long buried secrets. one of the biggest challenges to archaeologists in the maya biosphere reserve is the fact that it is extremely difficult to find or identify structures in a jungle as thick and wild as this one. and that is where a technology that is relatively new to archaeology, lidar, has been transformative. so this hill is supposedly a pyramid. they think it might be maybe as big as the great pyramid, the mundo perdido. it is definitely steep,

but it looks like a hill, so it is pretty amazing that they are able to find that out through lidar. yeah, we're right here. mm—hmm. so only 10% of tikal has actually been excavated and discovered. wow. lidar is a type of remote sensing technology that is used to create extraordinarily detailed 3d maps and representations. in the reserve, lidar is being employed in two ways. from aircraft to create topological maps and from hand—held scanners to build better 3d models of a particular site or structure. the project that involves beaming lasers from aircraft, the largest archaeological survey ever taken in the mayan lowlands, is the initiative of the foundation for maya cultural and natural heritage, pacunam. and what is lidar exactly? what makes it such a great tool?

well, it really strips off the forest canopy, with billions of laser beams that map individually each return, every time they hit something in the surface. and that will give tremendous use for understanding of the forest and the biomass. how many billions of laser beams are actually...? i think our first data said it had 60 billion returns, so that is an incredible amount of data. and how long did it take to collect that? really only a couple of weeks. it was something like eight flights. it is 2,100 square kilometres of area that was covered in that amount of time. well, you obviously have a great understanding of how sophisticated the mayans were, but did the lidar increase that understanding even more? yes. the lidar showed without any doubt

that we totally underestimated their engineering capabilities in terms of landscape, modifications to make the land more sustainable, to irrigate, bring water to places that they could cultivate, to stop erosion. pretty mind blowing. that's how i felt. and i thought the mayan were pretty sophisticated already, but not at this scale. one of the sites where lidar has been especially helpful is el zotz. so this was all for one king? yes. for the first king. this king we know was powerful. we didn't know the extension of the power. lidar is helping us to recognise everything that this king did to protect him, his family and his legacy, that it was the creation of our dynasty. so a find like this tells you, 0k, there is a king, and

then the lidar helps you realise what the whole context is... yes. ..the whole landscape and even morejust how wealthy and powerful he was... yes. ..than you even knew from this? everything that they built, we can make more sense of it. when you got that lidar data back and started to see all that stuff and put those pieces together, what did you say, think? it was wonderful, i was like, oh, my god, oh, my god! for hours, i was like, oh my god, look at this! wow. it is very humbling because you have been mapping and you think you know what you are doing... right. yeah. ..for all of my career and this is so much better than any of us can do. and it can do what we do in 20 years in two days. the same work, and it is better. with its extraordinary archaeological sites and wildlife, maya biosphere reserve has long been a major draw for travellers to guatemala.

it is thanks to lidar, however, that we now understand its history and its importance even more. and if you are a history geek, we've got some more treats for you next week, when amanda heads underwater in italy. and finally, this week, we head to kangaroo island, about 70 miles from the coast of adelaide. people come here for its seclusion, its golden beaches and its abundance of wildlife. but last summer, it was one of the highest profile casualties in australia's worst wildfire season on record. the flames spread over 16 million acres, mostly in the south—west of the country, in new south wales and victoria. it destroyed thousands of homes and businesses and claimed the

according to the wwf, it also killed or displaced as many as 3 billion animals. here at the kangaroo island wildlife park, the owners found themselves directly in the fire's path as they fought to save some of the country's most iconic creatures. this little one is grace. grace came in from a road accident when her mum was unfortunately hit by a car and killed, so she has been with us for nearly two months now. it's really important that they do have their teddies. she holds onto that and sees it as her mum. it gives her comfort. if she doesn't have one, she does start looking for one, she gets quite stressy.

this building is the koala orphanage we've got at the park. hello, you two. it holds all sorts of different animals, not just koalas, but it was established during the bushfire as a response to the need that we had. the park was a hub for all the injured animals coming off the fire ground. at times, the flames got within a couple of kilometres, threatening the centre and everyone working there. 0bviously, because i've got little conor, we evacuated twice. when i left the front gates, i didn't know if i would be coming back to absolute devastation or whether we would come back to having a business still here. dayna's husband, sam, took the extraordinary decision to stay behind and fight the fire. fortunately, the centre was spared, allowing the family's work to continue. throughout the entire fire period

time, we ended up with over 600 koalas come through, and around 150 other species. a lot of the animals that were coming in through the fires primarily presented with burns. quite a few had burnt down to the bone, and the best thing was for them to be euthanised, so we did lose quite a lot as well, but pretty much all of them came in very dehydrated, so quite a large range of injuries. it's really amazing to see how well they coped with the fires, and how well the ones that are still out in the wild have adapted to the changing conditions, so their habitat was completely destroyed and they've managed to pull through and be eating the regrowth rather than eating established trees like usual, they've been a lot more resilient than expected, so it's been awesome to see the resilience of the australian wildlife.

throughout the crisis, the centre received a wave of international press coverage and donations from all over the world. the whole area got a lot of attention because of the unusual intensity of the bushfires. nearly half the entire island burned, consuming almost all of finders‘ chase national park. some of the fire started here, after lightning struck dry vegetation and conditions made worse by climate change. so nearly everything went. you know, the visitor centre, the accommodation, the rangers‘ houses, university buildings. it was a very emotional experience. you know, when you love a park, you love what is here and what it represents and then to see it all wiped out in such a short period of time... but an amazing recovery has begun. so during the fires,

different things cope differently, so the stringy barks that are growing here nice and tall, they have a thick bark which burns off in the fire and burns really fast, and so they shoot out lots of shoots all up the stem. so the australian bush needs fire to regenerate. it is a way of cleaning it up. it removes diseased wood and old wood and a lot of things only germinate afterfire. most people won't recognise it has been a fire probably, in three orfour years' time. and then some of those species will take 10—15 years before they are actually doing a lot of...seeds set for the next fire. but the recovery is far from complete. international tourism hasn't been allowed in australia since march. so the only visitors to the island this summer are likely to be people

coming from the mainland. we were able to reopen again after covid—19. south australia was really lucky, the july holidays are really busy. holidays were really busy. south australia could only travel within a state, so it is awesome to support people who have never been to kangaroo island came over. it is important the park is open because it is a major tourist attraction and the island has two main industries, farming and tourism, so you need have both industries flourishing for a good economy. right, that's your lot for this week. coming up next week... to the batmobile! christa's here to look back at some of our favourite trips to north america. laughter from ice canoeing in canada... so how do you feel right now? i need to sit down! ..to paddling around the world's shipwreck capital. and here you are, on top of this massive wreck that's been

there for over 100 years! until then, from all of us, looking longingly at the check—in desks at london city airport, it's bye—bye! hello there. we have had a day of weather contrasts in a big way across the uk today, a lot of cloud across the uk today, a lot of cloud across england and wales and that cloud has been low, so it has stayed pretty murky at times gross these areas and you can see that from this picture, but it wasn't like that everywhere. in scotland we had clear blue skies, beautiful sunshine and

with light winds some pretty amazing reflections they are in glasgow city centre. looking at the satellite picture you can see the best of the rest of the sunshine in scotland and we have seen a bit of sunshine across the south coast of england, but otherwise pretty cloudy. the weather has been pushing in from the south, so temperatures lifting to 1a degrees in bournemouth in dorset, but the middle part of the day at the same time it was very cold across north—east england with temperatures hovering around freezing in newcastle. between the mild and cold, we have a weather front and this is a warm weather front, the warm air following it and that patchy rain extending and across wales, the midlands and increasingly into northern england, so it is turning dampier with rain at times. looking at the charts as we go through this evening and overnight, it is going to stay cloudy for most of us, but in scotla nd cloudy for most of us, but in scotland we will hold on to some clear skies, particularly for north—eastern areas and that will allow sharp frost to develop with temperatures here dropping down to about —3 or minus four degrees, but

otherwise continuing to turn mulder through the night, particularly across parts of northern england and northern ireland as well. sunday is another day where most of the uk will have pretty grey and drab skies, again the cloud thickening and some damp weather at times, drizzle. probably some mist and fog hill patch is continuing, particularly across parts of the east midlands and wales, but like i say a human areas of car breaking up with some sunshine coming through. later in the day turns to brazier for the far north—west of scotland, a few patches of light rain arriving. the rain will be with us again on monday, becoming more expensive as it slides eastwards across the country. clear skies following to scotland, but has the sunshine comes out here it will start to turn a good deal cooler through the course of the afternoon. beyond that, we are looking at our next cold front moving in towards the middle part of the week. that dives southwards across the country with colder air following from the north—west, so we are going to see the weather turning increasingly u nsettled the weather turning increasingly unsettled from wednesday onwards, along with really quite a sharp drop in temperatures, so highs ofjust 6

degrees in edinburgh and also in belfast as we go through thursday, and we have held onto that colder air through the end of the week and into next weekend as well. that is your latest weather.

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