our sports correspondent jane dougall reports. celebrations began outside when confirmation came from 100 miles away. the wait is over. rangers is champions of scotland. celtic could not beat dundee united, handing rangers the title. the ibrox side did theirjob yesterday, getting all three points with a 3—0 win. no fans outside, but the rangers players knew where they were. rangers have assaulted celtic�*s attempt to win ten titles in a row. they will lift the trophy here at some point, but it will not be in front of fans and it will be behind closed doors. it has been ten years since rangers last lifted the top tier trophy.

financial turmoil. during those final years, celtic capitalised. in 2018, steven gerrard took over, guiding them to their 55th title and his first as a manager. we have waited a long time for this. absolutely delighted for myself and every rangers fan. all players all over the world. it is a big moment. we are right at the top, and we are going to enjoy every single minute of it. we are champions. it has been one fantasticjourney. just feel grateful. the best is still to come, i think. winning so early in the season has many benefits. rangers very next match is at celtic park where they will be

welcomed as champions of scotland. now it's time for a look at the weather with stav danaos. hello there. the weather's been fine and settled, albeit rather cold over the time of year this weekend. and as we start the new week, we should stay fine, certainly monday and tuesday, before things really change mid week onwards. a powerfuljet is going to spin up some very deep areas of low pressure, likely to see widespread rain and gales, with even the possibility of severe gales from wednesday into thursday. but in the short term, we've still got high pressure dominating the scene across the southern half of the country, some weather fronts further north. so through tonight, we will have some showery bursts of rain for northern ireland, parts of scotland, northern england, whereas further south with light winds, clear skies, it's going to be another cold one, a frosty one with some mist and fog, but less cold, though, further north underneath the cloud and the rain. so for monday, then, it is a north—south divide. we start off with some showery rain across scotland, northern ireland, northern england. some of that rain just getting into the east midlands at times, but for much of wales, the midlands, southern england,

after a cold start, we should stay dry through the day with light winds and some sunshine. those temperatures will be up a degree right across the board. hello this is bbc news with lukwesa burak. the headlines... hopes for nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, as she is released from house arrest in iran. but a new court case against her is scheduled for next week it's not the release we wanted. it's not that ticket home and her passport back and coming back to us. schools in england re—open to all pupils tomorrow — the first step in easing the coronavirus lockdown. the queen stresses the importance of staying in touch with friends and family in a message to mark commonwealth day, just hours before the duke and duchess of sussex's interview with oprah winfrey. pope francis on the final day of his visit to iraq, greeted by thousands for an outdoor mass in irbil.

now on bbc news, ade adepitan looks back at some of the travel show�*s top european adventures, including rajan datar testing a ferrari—themed roller—coaster in spain. this week, a look back at some of our favourite european adventures. we test drive the continent's fastest and highest ride... ..watch some masterpiece maintenance in the netherlands. it looks incredible. yeah. 0h, here we go again. and travel back in time — over 2000 years — as wejoin the crew of a replica galley in greece.

hello, and welcome to the travel show, coming to you from a very chilly st pancras station. now, normally, this place would be bustling with people going back and forth from the uk to the continent on the eurostar. pre—pandemic, it was carrying around 11 million passengers every year between britain and mainland europe, but that number has dropped by 95% since last march and, today, i can only see two outbound trains on the board. unfortunately, i'm not catching a train today as we're still under lockdown, but that isn't going to stop us from looking back at some of our favourite european trips.

we begin with christa's trip to france in 2018, marking the 70th anniversary of one of the country's most iconic cars — the citroen 2cv. the 2cv was born in 19118 in the immediate aftermath of world war ii. the very first prototypes, as well as the very last model and all of the others in between, are kept here at the citroen heritage centre in the north of paris. oh, and here they are. they've really got character. and this one — you can probably see from the bullet holes, must have been from the bond film for your eyes only. with its unique shape, the 2cv — short for deux chevaux, or two horses — quickly came to fame, and not only in movies. within a few decades, the car became a common

sight on france's roads, and in its countryside. the founding design principle of this car was four wheels under an umbrella — the idea of a light car, but with really good suspension, so you could drive over a field with four passengers and a basket of eggs on your lap and, by the end of your journey, none of the eggs would have broken. they're also a fun addition to any weekend in the capital. bonjour! bonjour, christa! vincent, good to meet you. good to meet you. this must be it. it is. this is it. your turn to drive. excellent! here we go. vincent takes guided tours around paris. i'm definitely going to need a lesson, vincent. he'll even let you drive, if you ask nicely. you can feel the engine under yourfoot, you know.

and the noise of the car, and it's very physical and it's not a car that goes very fast, but it's not the goal, you know. it is a very kind of active experience. yeah! there is no sitting back and letting the car do its work. you have to be involved. yeah! exactly. and on the left, this is the louvre museum. ah! there are no airbags, the windows are not electric, and as for ac, let's just say it's pretty rudimentary. but, for some reason, the french really seem to love the 2cv. as long as that remains the case, the car they called the �*tin snail�* will keep ploughing its own furrow on slow lanes everywhere. christa there in paris. next, wejoin mike in central

bulgaria to visit a piece of alien architecture. it's a spectacular building shaped like a ufo that's been left abandoned since the fall of the iron curtain. at 70m high and 60m wide, buzludzha look out across the balkan mountains. completed in 1981, it was built as an iconic national monument to glorify the communist party. it's here because this was the birthplace of the bulgarian socialist movement. this is powerful. powerful architecture. following the collapse of the regime, the building was abandoned and later shut off to the public as it fell into disrepair. da—da—daaaa! oh, wow.

here it is. me first? welcome. it's seen better days, hasn't it? definitely. it cost the equivalent of $35 million in today's money to build buzludzha. since it was abandoned, the years, they haven't been kind. dora, it's... ..it�*s incredible. there's some work to do, obviously, but it's still very impressive. look at this. 50 square metres of mosaics right on top. there is the symbol of communism, actually — the hammer and sickle — and you can read in cyrillic around it "workers from the world, unite". so there is a mosaic on the ceiling, but the entire perimeter is also covered in mosaic. we have actually more than 1,000 square metres of mosaic inside buzludzha. out of all of these, which one is your favourite? 0ver there — the people defeating

a dragon, and the dragon should represent the capitalism, monarchy and fascism — all the enemies of communism — and it's defeated by the communist people. when the monument opened, thousands came from all over the country to marvel at its beauty. there were sound and light shows and talks from well—known communist artists and poets. time could be running out for buzludzha. if the roof collapses, the walls will go, too, and the building will be lost. there's now an urgent debate about what exactly to do with the monument. those who remember the repressions and the hardships of the communist era would like to see it destroyed. others want to restore it to its former glory. but dora is working on a proposal to preserve it as a museum and a place where bulgarians can discuss the past. it was built to represent and glorify the communist idea, and we do not want to do this nowadays. we just want to know the history,

want to understand why it was built. but if we keep it intact and leave the symbols in their present condition, i think this will be much more powerful and meaningful for the next generation to understand. mike there in bulgaria, back in 2018. since we filmed that, dora's mission to save the building has had some success. in 2020, with the support of the getty foundation, she led an international team of experts on a project to protect those extraordinary mosaics around the interior and this year, they're hoping to publish a conservation management plan, outlining the steps required to open this iconic but controversial building to the public. to keep track of their progress, you can visit their website.

we're going to speed things up now with a trip to portaventura theme park in spain, home to the ferrari land roller—coaster, red force. sounds ominous, doesn't it? it's europe's tallest and fastest ever ride, going from zero to 180 kilometres an hour in just five seconds. and we managed to persuade rajan to test it outjust before it opened to the public in 2017. how much testing goes on before it's open to the public? around 6,000. times? cycles. 6000 cycles? 0k. thankfully, i have this veteran of nearly 1300 different roller—coasters in 21 different countries as company. what i love now, it's

the thrill of the chase. it's finding those coasters that are in obscure places — i go off to a place like china — to find something different that you haven't done before and other people haven't gone to. i went to dubai recently and i did 25 theme parks in six days. this is more than your average hobby. marcus spends up to two months a year in theme parks in chase of thrills... here we go! ..and now advises on how to maximise roller—coaster excitement. shall we go for it then? yeah, let's go for it! come on, let's go! let's do it. oh, you're going to get the best views from the front. you feel the force on your face, as well. right, right. there's a loose bolt there. should that be...? a loose bolt? hands up. eyes wide open — you don't want to miss it. ok, i'll try my best. i'll try my best. see if you can tell the difference...

here we go! ..between the seasoned coaster and the rookie tv presenter... argh! now, i knew you wouldn't be able to. uptown funk by mark ronson plays. incredible. what the hell?! both laugh. that was rajan becoming the first member of the public to try the red force roller—coaster. good on you, rajan! time now for a bit of high culture in amsterdam.

now, i went there in 2019, 300 years on from the death of one of its most famous artists, rembrandt. in 1631, he made this city his home. and it's here that he painted his most famous masterpieces. and you can see many of them on display at the rijksmuseum. but what i've come here to see is very special and involves a painting that rembrandt is best known for, one of the most famous works of art in the world — the night watch. the painting is almost four centuries old and, over the years, there have been various restoration attempts. but now, the museum is undertaking the most sophisticated one ever, using high—tech methods to carry out a forensic examination of how rembrandt actually

painted the picture before restoration can begin. and it's all being carried out in one of their galleries in full view of the public and live—streamed online. oh, man! so that's it, the night watch. yeah. it looks incredible. and what are they doing there? the machine you see there is an x—ray fluorescence scanner and, this way, we get an idea of the elements present in this painting. but this is a painting which is for us to admire. why is it so important for you to know about the elements? because we need to figure out... yeah, we want to know how rembrandt painted it, what his ideas were when he was painting it, how did he make this nice composition? was it first all ok on the canvas, or did he change his mind and change small things, or did he change the composition? those things we would like to know. yeah, we're basically on rembrandt�*s shoulder and watching him while he's

painting these paintings. so we're going to photograph the painting in daylight, but we're not going to do it, like, one snapshot, but we're going to do a lot of photos next to each other. i think, from the top of my head, its 11,000 photos. wow. so then we get a really high resolution. it's like you're looking through a microscope. 0ne pixel in that photo is like a blood cell or, basically, its smaller than a hair. 0r, basically, its smaller than a hair — a human hair. all of this scrutiny and all of this work for one artist. what do you think rembrandt would make of it if he was around today? i would personally think that he would think we are crazy. yeah, yeah. well, that feels like such a long, long time ago.

let's hope we can all go and see the restored night watch very soon. we're off to denmark now, where somebody had the crazy idea of putting a dry ski slope on top of a renewable power station. cat went to check it out. fuelled by waste and billed as one of the most environmentally friendly plants of its kind, the copen hill spans more than 40,000 square metres. the slope i'm on works its way from the bottom all the way up the side of the building and it's open for hikers, sightseers and even skiers. the ski slope is made from a slippery synthetic material that is coloured green to stop the slope from discolouring. so they're stilljust doing a little

bit of work up here but, look, right over there, that's sweden, which is very cool. and on the other side, we have this amazing view of copenhagen. and how did you guys come up with putting a ski slope up here? one of the things we realised quite quickly is that if you take a section of the building, it actually steps down from low to high, from the area where the trucks drive in to the furnace, to the boilers, the flue gas treatment areas, all the way up to about 90 metres. and one of the other things about denmark is that danes love to ski but denmark is completely flat, so they will drive for three hours to sweden to ski on a slope that is about 80 metres high, so we quickly realised that since we have mountains of trash, apparently, we could turn it into mountains of recreation and skiing that could become a public amenity in the very centre of the city of copenhagen.

sustainability tends to be this thing that's seen as a protestant act. sustainability is something you do which means that you have to do less of something and that you somehow have to have less life experience. but what we really wanted to do with this project is to express that, somehow, sustainability can be something that's positive and fun and that actually gives us more back to people and to the city. so i don't really know how this is going to go, or if i'm going to wipe out. giggles. i just want to make it down without falling over. whoa! after that initial wobble, i was soon feeling confident. maybe a bit too confident! laughs.

well, that went really well. cat there in copenhagen. now, the last time we saw christa, she was driving in a citroen 2cv around the roads of paris. well, the bosses of the travel show obviously thought she had things far too easy, because we're going to end this week just on the outskirts of athens, where she has to help power a far older form of transport. moored close to the modern yachts, a different kind of ship is ready to go out to sea. the trireme 0lympias — the only life—sized replica in the world of the athenian battleships that dominated the naval wars from the fifth century bc until early christian times. this amazing—looking galley belongs to the greek navy and, every year, groups of very lucky people get to go aboard and actually row, just like ancient athenians did. this year, i'm one of those lucky

people, so i'd better get ready. i think it's going to be quite hard work. the ship carries two small sails, but, just like in ancient times, most of the propulsion comes from the 170 oarsmen staggered over three levels under the deck. well, my fellow rowers are starting to arrive now, so i've picked a plum spot, right in the middle of the action. ready for ramming speed. woman speaks greek over loudspeaker. reaching speeds of about nine knots, or 17kmh, this boat was considered pretty quick in its time...

woman speaks greek over loudspeaker. ..and its manoeuvrability won athens some decisive victories at sea. the bronze ram served as the main weapon to puncture the hulls of enemy ships and to sink them. looking around, its almost impossible to imagine what this must have been like for the people who originally rowed these kinds of boats. i mean, to be in battle, three layers of different people all sweating and trying to ram another boat in the open sea. i mean, it's unimaginable, given how pleasant and lovely this is today. woman speaks greek over loudspeaker. 0h, here we go again! woman speaks greek over loudspeaker.

well, that's the end of our european look—back. but, don't worry — there's lots more great stuff coming up next week. carmen's in fukushima, ten years after a tsunami sparked a nuclear disaster there, to meet the surfers out to reassure travellers that a decade on, it's safe to return. no change. yes.

still safe! don't forget, you can watch this episode and many others again on the bbc iplayer, and you can also follow us on social media. but for now, from me, ade adepitan, and all the travel show team here in london, it's bye—bye. hello there. well, all in all, it's been a largely settled weekend, thanks to high—pressure. it has been chilly, though, and many places have held onto the cloud. now, this upcoming week starts fine, monday and tuesday, but then it really changes midweek onwards, as we see deep areas of low pressure moving from the atlantic to bring spells of rain and gales.

and there's a chance we could see some stormy weather through wednesday into thursday, the risk of severe gales. back to the here and now, we've still got higher pressure towards the central southern portions of the uk. a few weather fronts affecting the northern half of the country as we head through this evening and overnight. some patchy rain for scotland, northern ireland, northern england. further south, under clearer skies with light winds, it will be another cold one, subzero values with some frost, a little bit of mist and fog. less cold further north, of course, where we have the cloud and the showers. so monday's a north—south divide, we will have the showery bursts of rain for northern ireland, parts of scotland, northern england, perhaps into the east midlands later in the day. a bit of sunshine, though, there for northern scotland. the best of the dry and brighter weather will be across wales, the midlands, southern england, after that cold start, we should see sunny spells. i think temperatures up a degree or so right across the board, nines and ten celsius for many of us. now, for tuesday, we've got our area of high—pressure really retreating away now, and it's going to allow the first of these areas of deep low pressure to move into the far west

of the country later on tuesday. but for tuesday itself, actually quite a pleasant day for many. we will see the winds picking up from the southwest, but plenty of sunshine across central, eastern and southern areas where we will see temperatures reach highs of around 11—12 celsius, but thicker cloud, stronger wind developing out west with some rain as that first low moves in. now, the reason things turn very windy indeed is that powerful jet will develop across the north atlantic, aiming towards our shores and steering these deep areas of low pressure, which will develop underneath, and this is wednesday's low, an even deeper feature which could bring some disruption. so for wednesday, we will see wet and windy weather spreading across england and wales. a bit of sunshine and showers across the north of the country before the very strong winds and heavy rain arrive across western areas later on wednesday and through wednesday night. slightly milder air moving up from the southwest, but it might not feel like that because of the strength of the winds and all the rain. so through wednesday night into thursday, we are looking at the risk of gales or even severe gales, so stay tuned for the forecast

for the latest details.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. at least four extremely powerful explosions have gone off in the west african state of equatorial guinea — killing 15 and injuring more than 500 people according to the president. pope francis celebrates mass in irbil — declaring that iraq will remain in his heart — as he holds the last public event of his historic trip to the country. the british—iranian woman jailed in iran on spying charges has ended her sentence — but nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe now faces a new court case. the uk takes its first step towards easing the coronavirus lockdown — with schools in england to re—open on monday. and the queen stresses the importance of staying in touch