this is bbc news, the headlines: there has been a third night of heavy skirmishes in eastjerusalem between israeli police, jewish settlers and palestinians. the confrontations are over the possible eviction of palestinian families from their homes, to make way forjewish settlers. the un security council is due to meet to discuss the violence. the taliban in afghanistan have announced a three day ceasefire to mark the muslim festival of eid. this comes as the funerals take place of more than sixty people — mostly young girls, who were killed in a militant attack outside a school in kabul. over a thousand migrants have landed on the italian island of lampedusa, within a 2k hour period. one boat alone was carrying almost 400 men, women and children. lampedusa is one of the main arrival ports for people wanting to reach europe more boats have been spotted off

the coast of nearby malta. rail passengers are being warned to expect disruption into the working week while investigations continue into cracks in the chassis of hitachi 800 trains. one company — gwr — is advising against travel on its long—distance routes. katy austin has the story tannoy: this train will not be calling at llanelli. .. _ 183 of these high—speed trains were held back for safety checks after small cracks were found in some. great western railway has been hardest hit. only 10% of its long—distance service has been running today. i was meant to travel yesterday and that got cancelled twice, so i ended up going today. i got to paddington, not really picking up on the news last night. and then i found out that most of the trains had been cancelled. but it's added about an hour. passengers are being told not to travel on monday, either. we've got 93 of these trains in our fleet and we need around 60 or 70 to run

the kind of levels of service that we would normally do during the week. yesterday, we had 12 of those running, so that gives you an idea. certainly, this is going to impact the early part of next week. and we need to understand more before we know what that will mean for the remainder of it at the moment. there will also be some cancellations on lner services for the rest of this week. the government has asked the rail industry to urgently set out a plan to resolve the prolonged disruption and it has asked hitachi for a safety inspection plan and a longer—term repair strategy. some trains have been reintroduced now, following inspections. it's not yet clear how many others need repairs or how long that will take. katy austin, bbc news. now on bbc news it's time for the travel show. coming up on this week's travel show, we'll be finding out how tech could change the way we all travel

in the future. glastonbury gears up for another online festival. saving an underwater super plant in spain. and mike goes for a gentle afternoon bike ride in nairobi. this is a little bit crazy! hello and welcome to the travel show, with me, ade adepitan. this week we are in london's hyde park where the sun is out and it's absolutely stunning here. even the ducks and the swans have come to say hello.

now, in the uk we are slowly beginning to come out of lockdown, so maybe we can start thinking about travel again. over the last few weeks, we've been looking at how the covid pandemic has affected things like our attitudes to sustainable travel, and how and where we spend our money when booking online. this week we're gonna look at how tech could, and probably will, change how we all travel in the future. it wasn't so long ago that travel was a very different experience. you'd probably flick through some brochures, pop into a travel agent and write a cheque before heading out to a place you barely knew anything about. of course, with little more to help you along the way today, technology has changed things.

but what about in say, i don't know, ten years�* time? if technology can change how we travel so quickly, how different can we expect it to be when we explore the world in the near future? well, one big driverfor change will be what's known as the internet of things. it's predicted that by 2025, 42 billion devices will be capturing data on how we live and move through the world. some say the internet of things will play a big part in a fourth industrial revolution, and that the covid crisis has accelerated technological advances. the internet of things is a way of describing how more and more objects will connect with each other in an increasingly interconnected world. our bags will tell us where they are in the world if they get lost, for example. it's what will enable us to open more hotel rooms with our phones and once inside, use a tablet or your voice to switch the lights on, change the temperature and control the television. but that's just the start.

if you're smarter about how you move people around the city, public transport becomes more smarter, then actually you need less roads and less car parks to open it up to more green spaces, so actually the internet of things and getting different systems to speak to each other has a big knock—on effect for travelling and smart cities in the future. it's also a part of what will enable other technological changes to our travels that have been accelerated during the pandemic. imagine going through an airport and checking in with facial recognition. you continue on to baggage drop—off, authenticating in the same way, head on through facial recognition

security, and then finally going through the boarding gates, doing it all completely contactless. in fact, even your passport might not be around for too much longer as you know it. right now, we're piloting digital passports with air europa for people travelling to spain, so they will have their digital information on their mobile and in addition to their biometric information on their mobile as well, so i think it's really speeding up innovation because we need to have these technologies to make people feel confident to travel. it's just one example of how biometrics and contactless technology will change the way we travel. though, of course, this data—hungry world will mean giving more and more of our information, which could come with a risk to our privacy. thankfully now, lots of the technology in this biometric space stores a representation of your information. so not literally a reproducible copy, but a "recipe book" to enable you to validate it. so this, for me, is actually

one of the positives to come through this period, that will improve people's digital security overall, but we have some education issues to work through so people can feel comfortable with this technology and the benefits that it brings. technology, like having global maps in our smartphones, makes exploring the world much more simple, and the technology of the future will look to make things even easier. but is that necessarily such a good thing? are we losing the spirit of adventure? whether you are in the us or injapan, these online maps have exactly the same interfaces, and i think this can give you the impression that the world is everywhere the same, it's the same pastel blandscape that you are navigating using your mobile. but also, the virtual places that we inhabit really are like places. if you have flown from london to new york but you spend the whole time on facebook, it's as though you haven't left your virtual environment, you are kind of cocooned in the technology.

immersive locations and some people think this will accelerate the take—up of this technology in the future, as well as things like augmented reality. technology might soon make the process of travelling far easier but what's really exciting is that it might be this complete new opportunity for exploration that simply didn't exist before. a travel experience that reveals the history of that destination right before our eyes. for example, imagine being able to visit ancient roman baths and see the history of the unique place involved in front of you.

we've been working with the bbc in salford — we've been working with the bbc in salford and the roman baths. we been — in salford and the roman baths. we been able to get to grips with— we been able to get to grips with history and bring it to life — looking back through the roman era where there was the fall of the roof, so through the app we can actually see the roof fall down and cave down in front of you which is really exciting, where you get to see people actually react in front of you, it was lovely. some of this technology is already available in some form, but the question is, what will really take off to become the new normal of travel? well, tech has come to the rescue of many destinations and events over the past year or so as they've moved what they do online, but until we can visit them in real life, here's our latest global guide to the world of online travel. hopes are high that live gigs could return after successful trials in barcelona last month, and now in liverpool,

a non—socially distanced festival has just been trialled. the event is being held as part of the government's events research programme with hopes of finding a way to open up venues again. fingers crossed for good results. it will be next year that we can hopefully return to the world—famous worthy farm, but until then, glastonbury is going online again. this year the event will see a range of artists performing in support of the festival. tickets are on sale with a number of timed streams available to accommodate audiences around the world. another sign that virtual travel could be around long after covid is the latest offering from amazon. they've recently started

trialling amazon explore in the us. its aim is to offer real—time experiences with an expert local host from cities and sites around the world. and finally, one thing that virtual travel allows is time to enjoy the space all to yourself. the van gogh museum in amsterdam, which holds the world's largest collection of his paintings and drawings has provided a virtual tour, filmed in full 4k for stunning detail of the dutch master's work. ok, hopefully there's something there to keep yourfires burning. right, still to come on the travel show: we meet the marine biologist working to protect the vital seagrass around the balearic islands. and mike's taking to

two wheels in kenya. a man with a gun just crossed in front. now it's time to head to spain and the waters around formentera to meet a man whose passion is the protection if some of the most oldest living organisms in the world. they play an important but little—known role in sustaining our planet's natural environment. the posidonia is maybe the most efficient carbon sink in the planet. i remember perfectly my first contact with the posidonia and it was in october of 1992 in this place,

the and i came here with a sailboat and the first thing i saw is this amazing posidonia seagrass, and i really fell in love, and since then i am completely dedicated to the study, filming and spreading the value of this plant. the water that we see is like this because of the contribution of a plant, a superior plant, posidonia oceanica is not a seaweed, it's not in algae, it is a real plant with roots, leaves, flowers, and this plant that arrived to this place 80,000 years ago conquered completely the underwater bottom around the shore. the posidonia is giving a lot of things to us. it's purifying the water, at the same time it's contributing to the beaches.

most of the sand that we have on the beaches comes from the skeletons of millions of organic things that lives inside the posidonia jungle. formentera is a small island in the middle of the mediterranean. if we have stable beaches, it's thanks to the underwater reefs that the posidonia is building along centuries. in this 30 years i'm witnessing how the posidonia is more and more in dangered. we are spilling millions of tons of sewage waters without enough preparation from our towns and our cities. so we are intoxicating the underwater world. another problem here in formentera is this is a main boat destination. thousands of anchors every day goes in the water,

and the anchors dragging on the bottom. this is happening underwater and we don't see. i decided to do a detail of cartography, like a scan, of the bottom and to place this cartography on an app that you can download for free, the name is posidonia maps, so you know, if you are over posidonia and i think it's an easy way to see if you can drop the anchor. this inspired the balearic government to copy the idea, and they are doing the whole cartography of the entire balearic islands. the aim of the save posidonia project is notjust a matter of ecology, people from all around the world come to formentera island, to see this kind of sandy, dies, we will lose our main economy which is tourism.

in autumn, the old leaves wash up on the shore and beaches and this is used for the houses, for isolation, because it's so clean that no insect, no parasite will go inside. the juice of the posidonia is a naturalfertiliser, it's something you can see in the balearic islands since a long time ago. i think that education is really the way to change the future, and it is educating the youth and this is why in the summertime we have hundreds of kids, and they learn how to dive, they learn to do underwater photography, they are learning the things we are doing wrong and how to do in a good way. i don't like to be using an apocalyptic message. the option to change, it's in our hands.

if we don't change, maybe in ten years, most of the posidonia here and many species, will be gone, but if we start changing, we have the possibility to recover the nature in the mediterranean and in many other places in this planet. london has seen a massive boom in cycling. social distancing and largely empty streets has meant many of us have seen it as the best way to get around. hey, i'm not complaining, i've been a fan of wheels for years. even in paris they've managed to create hundreds of kilometres of new bike lanes. but up until now, this revolution has largely bypassed africa's great cities. mike is navigating nairobi's crazy streets to find out why. if you have been to kenya, chances are you were on safari or out on the beaches.

the capital nairobi isn't well known as a glamorous city break destination. it's busy and it's congested, not exactly the peaceful sanctuary you'll see other places in kenya, especially now, we're all worried about social distancing as well. but what the city lacks in serenity it makes up for in charisma. check out these minibuses, called matatus. cheap, popular, beautifully decorated and serve pretty much everywhere you'd need to go. in normal times a really fun way to explore the city. ah, if it was two years ago i would so be on board one of those, it looks so cool. and given that the light railway only serves a limited number of destinations, you might imagine that cycling would be the next best way to get around. but the bike sharing trend that's been massive all over the world in big cities like paris and rio, it hasn't really caught on africa's biggest cities. in the entirety of kenya

there's only been one that has been opened — i guess i should say, was opened. nairobi's sole scheme is here, on a university campus. it began a couple of years ago as an experiment to see if bike sharing could work in africa. that's a shame. but it's all been locked away since the pandemic began. so, it seems like it's been a while since these bikes have seen the light of day. yeah, it?�*s now almost a year now �*cause after covid everything was at a dead stop. so why do you think africans have been a bit slow to adopt bicycle as a mode of transportation? there are a number of reasons why the adoption of cycling has been a bit low. but in rural areas bicycles, you know, bicycles are commonly used, because bicycles are seen as a poor man's tool for transport, so i'd say 75% or 80% of the people in rural areas know how to cycle. but now when it comes to urban areas, it's a whole new ballgame, because even in nairobi, we don't have, you know, cycling lanes, so there's a huge problem in terms of your security and your safety, so you don't

want to be knocked down by a car. all right. a little dusty. lately, enthusiasts like wekesa have helped drive through some of the small infrastructure improvements for cyclists. there's now a newish stretch of bike lane in the central business district, for instance. but there's one big consideration holding everyone back. nairobi is a city in which cars are king. cyprin, who's a committed cyclist, has spent the last few years fighting to make the streets safer for those on to wheels. ah, there's so many reasons why there's not that many people using bicycles in kenya and i think number one reason is definitely not having sufficient infrastructure. most roads don't have bike lanes and even when we're growing up, we are taught

to aspire to own a car. you know, that's your measure of success. your measure of success is not a bicycle, that's not african way of thinking about success. we just need to change the culture and start telling our kids, bicycles are actually something good to own, and riding a bicycle does not mean you're poor or you're incapable of affording a car. cyprin leads a monthly protest ride through the city, an attempt to reclaim the roads. she's offered to lead me on a little guided tour to demonstrate some of the dangers. coming up next, we're going to go for a little ride, right? so what should i expect? well, number one is, you can expect all types of drivers. some people, you don't deserve to be on the roads, so expect everything. but what i would advise is when you are riding in nairobi, is you have to be confident. you have to take your stand. ok, all right.

motorcycles, cars, people with carts. laughs. this problem isn't limited to nairobi. cycling in north america, europe and parts of asia has boomed during the pandemic, but that's not the case in the entirety of africa. experts at the world economic forum look at cities from lagos and accra in the west, to addis ababa and dar es salaam in the east, and raised concerns that cycling infrastructure is largely absent. this is a little crazy, laughs. the streets are dominated by cars, and as a result, the air quality�*s suffering. there's a man with a tv in our lane. and here in nairobi, cycling is hard work. all i see is a bunch of people in our bike lane. but also, yeah, the lanejust, uh, the lane just ends. oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi!

a man with a gun just crossed in front. i think i experienced the full spectrum, the yin—yang. this is really nice with here with the bike lane but also it was a little bit crazy over there with the buses and everything like that. i think the now national government has started noticing that there are cyclists in this city and they are coming up with laws that will protect cyclists and pedestrians, because traditionally cyclists have never been considered, we are the most vulnerable road users. we don't have a space on the road, but now as you can see, nairobi is slowly changing and it's amazing, and other cities in kenya are starting to notice the same, and, you know, they're playing their part in ensuring non—motorised transport is part of the infrastructure in cities. mike there in nairobi. that's all for this week.

coming up next week: carmen's looking back at some of our best moments injapan, including the time she trained likea ninja. and rajan went to visit what has to be one of the strangest classrooms in the world. join us for that if you can, and in the meantime, don't forget you can keep up with all our adventures on the bbc iplayer. but until next time, from me, ade adepitan, and all the travel show team here in hyde park, it's goodbye. hello. on sunday, the uk recorded its highest temperatures since the end of march,

22.5 celsius in suffolk. now, nothing that high in the week ahead. temperatures will be close to average for the time of year, and for monday, it is a mixture of sunshine and showers. in fact, that pretty much covers it for much of the week ahead, because for much of the week ahead, low pressure will be close by the uk, the source of these showers, and at least for monday, some brisk winds as well, especially in england and wales. and after a cloudy, breezy, showery night, well, this is where temperatures are to start the day. no frost out there. in fact, some spots just around 10—12 degrees celsius. we're not expecting any frost in the week ahead. there mayjust be a bit of rain skirting parts of eastern england to begin with. that moves off and may well head towards the northern isles of scotland later in the day. some of that could be

heavy and thundery. whereas elsewhere, it's sunshine, these showers moving west to east, some heavy and thundery, a risk of hail. and it will be quite blustery, particularly in england and wales. these are average wind speeds. there'll be higher gusts around 40—45 mph or so. and temperatures generally in the range of around 13—17 degrees celsius. now, quite a bit of sunshine to end the day across east anglia and south east england as many of the showers will fade away. as ever, some places will avoid the showers. you may get one, just a brief wet moment in an otherwise dry day. and england and wales will be mainly dry on monday night, but a batch of showers will move out of northern ireland and into parts of scotland. and these are tuesday morning's temperatures. again no frost out there. low pressure still very much close by as we go into tuesday, and from that, we're going to see some further showers. now, maybe notjust popping up, but tending to move through in a zone that will travel from south—west to north—east during the day. and a weather front close to north west scotland will bring cloud and some outbreaks of rain. some places may well miss the showers as the system moves its way in. similar sorts of temperatures on tuesday. and for wednesday and thursday, sunshine and showers. it's not going to be as breezy. and then by friday,

it becomes mainly dry with a fair amount of cloud out there. and with the air coming down from the north—east, it will turn a bit cooler, but not particularly cold, mind you. so, that's how the week is shaping up. it is sunshine, showers — some of those are going to be quite heavy — and not as cold as it was last week, and mainly frost—free. i don't know whether we're done with frost at the moment, but it's certainly not around this week.

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