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dry and it will stay clear through the night. still mild in the south, 111 degrees, but chilly skies clear across scotland. tomorrow the rain really isn't going to make much progress towards the east. it may nudge a little further north to engulf the irish sea coasts, perhaps nudging into south—western parts of scotland. dribs and drabs of rain here and temperatures typically 16—18. the best of the weather will be in the extreme south—east of the country, around 21 degrees with some sunshine. then monday evening again that rain doesn't really move further towards the east, but it does push a bit further into more north—western parts of the uk. hello, this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak, the headlines... emma raducanu makes history at the us open — beating leylah fernandez — to become the first british woman to win a grand slam, singles final, in 44 years. the singles final, in 44 years. queen is among those congratulating the queen is among those congratulating her following the queen is among those congratulating herfollowing her stunning victory in new yorkjust
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munched two months after finishing her a—levels. to munched two months after finishing her a-leveis-— her a-levels. to have a note from her a-levels. to have a note from her as it is — her a-levels. to have a note from her as it is very — her a-levels. to have a note from her as it is very honoured - her a-levels. to have a note from her as it is very honoured and - her a-levels. to have a note from | her as it is very honoured and very very grateful she took notice of my tennis. i can't believe them right away and maybe get a frame that letter or something. the government scraps plans for vaccine passports in nightclubs and large events in england. the trade union congress warns that up to 660,000 jobs could be at risk, if the uk fails to reach net zero carbon emissions, as quickly as other countries. now on bbc news — it's time for the travel show. this week on the show... upside down in nairobi. the city of love's freewheeling new ideas. and treading carefully in georgia's abandoned spaces.
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welcome to the mighty jumbo circus academy. these are kenya's best—known acrobats. in normal times, they would be off touring the world. thanks to the pandemic, they have been stuck in nairobi for a year and a half. this is probably the most action i have ever seen happening per square metre in my entire life. it's incredible. in years gone by, the performers here,
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from tumblers to contortionist, have travelled across the planet showing off their incredible skills. in 2020 though, thanks to the pandemic, they only have one booking. this year, they've got nothing, no money coming in whatsoever. the first time we had the booking of the school, people were confused, not knowing when they would come back. the senior acrobats have their own businesses but the young ones, the young generation, the ones that are starting, they have to keep on training but not knowing when. that must be frustrating. everything is just shut. i bet that is a loss of income for the academy? it is bad for the academy and for the individuals because they depend on this. everybody, the seniors, their families depend on acrobatics,
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and when they tell us not to come together for practising, something like that, it's so difficult for us. matthias invites me for an early morning run to show me how they have been keeping in shape without a show to work towards, and it starts at 5:30am, every single day. a whole country of good runners yeah? we are runners. i'd rather be an acrobat. it must be frustrating for you. really frustrating, not knowing when this thing will be over. so many restrictions, so that will be very confusing, not knowing when i can
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try to live a life. do you think it affects their motivation? it affects their motivation, but these people are really determined to move on with their life and make it count. they train for the new job, but the problem is they don't get an income for that. i wave the runners on the way, bouncing up the road, and i think about how much positive energy they are carrying with them. but if the destruction carries on for much longer, the biggest impact could be on their outreach work. mightyjumbo runs a number of programmes to help kids in nairobi, not least with acro—education services, which pays for children's schooling. it's a precious resource in a country that still has a problem with high unemployment and with poverty. why do you like coming to the school here?
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do you think you are learning a lot here? no rope necessary, that's amazing! any advice you can give me that you learned here? like what? there it is! nice! since the time they have come here, i have seen a big difference, they have a lot more confidence and they are willing to do better. i am very proud because the time they are here, i know
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they are under care. i know they are in a safe place when i go to myjob, so i am very grateful for this place and the things. and good luck to mightyjumbo for the second half of this year. i've got everything crossed that bookings start to roll in again soon. ok, here is our pick of some of the best things to see and do around the world in the next few weeks. london's chelsea flower show is happening in september this year, for the first time in its history. the organisers claim it's
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the world's most prestigious horticultural event, and it usually fills with the colours of spring and summer. the change in season was forced by the pandemic, and it could mean a much more autumnal field than usual. in recent years, nuit blanche, or white light, has become an autumn fixture on the arts calendar of paris. it's a citywide celebration of the city, a celebration that goes on from 7pm to 7am on october 2nd. public transport stays open all night to help you see as much as possible. this year it's themed around the outdoors, for obvious reasons. hundreds of museums across the us throw open their doors for free on september 18 as the annual smithsonian magazine museum day returns. it's not only museums — zoos, and cultural centres across all 50 states are included as well. you need to sign up online, and crucially, only us citizens can book tickets. china's midautumn festival begins
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on the 19th of september. it's got a history dating back 3,000 years when the emperor's worshipped the moon for a bountiful harvest. adherents believe the moon is at its brightest during the festival. a great place to see it is amazing's beihai park. the crowds heading there like to take a moonlight cruise on the lake with locally bought moon cake, and with tea. still to come on the travel show... the big ideas that could clean up paris. and the former asylum exciting america's urban explorers — so don't go away! our next port of call this week finds us in france, which has used lockdown to think again about how its people work, play, and travel
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next up, we're crossing to the us and the city of milledgeville in georgia, which used to be home to one of the biggest psychiatric hospitals in the world. in recent times, the half—abandoned site has become a honeypot for urban explorers. william lee roberts, who is from the state, has been to take a look. sprawling, overbearing and derelict,
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these 200 buildings once made up one of the largest and most notorious state—run psychiatric hospitals in the world. based in milledgeville, a small town less than 100 miles from atlanta, the central state hospital's dark legacy is infamous with local residents. founded in the 19th century as the georgia state lunatic, idiot and epileptic asylum, a lack of funding and a primitive approach to mental health led to brutal treatments and, at times, deteriorating conditions. it's strange but when i was a little kid and i was misbehaving, my father would threaten me by saying "i'm gonna send you down to milledgeville" and i would shut up. but to be here voluntarily all these years later, it feels a little wrong. a small section of the hospital is still in operation. there are still patients here at central state hospital — over 300 of them — and it's important to remember that this is still an active hospital.
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it's very disrespectful to them and to their treatment to try to come out here and either break into the buildings or quote unquote "hunt for ghosts". beyond the working hospital, most of the estate is now in disrepair and in recent years, dark tourism has attracted an influx of urban explorers keen to record milledgeville's sinister legacy. but structural damage and reports of decades—old asbestos mean that the interiors of most of the buildings are officially off—limits. roofs have caved in, windows have been boarded up and staircases have collapsed. but perhaps more powerful than the actual buildings are the thousands of graves of former patients — a chilling reminder that many people entered milledgeville but never left. so when you look at the stakes here, they all do have numbers on them and it's sort of a misnomer that we don't know who they all are. we do know every person is who's buried here —
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the numbers were for privacy purposes. many locals have relatives who either worked at the hospital or were admitted there. for some, not enough is being done to honour their memory. i feel sorry for my great—grandmother — she was in the building right there. if i can't relive and memorialise her and what she did here, at least you could memorialise where she stayed and the hospital that she spent her entire life in. over the years, racism, sexism and what is now viewed as a rudimentary, if not brutal, approach to treating patients with mental health issues meant that by the 1960s, the hospital's population had swollen to over 12,000 patients. so my great—grandfather sent his wife, betty stubbs, to central state, and i'm of the opinion that she had post—partum syndrome and had to live
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here for almost 30 years, either pretending that she was not normal so that she could cope, orjust living in a fog. 1899. 1904. these are the original trustee reports. 1950, there were 10,000 patients here. sadly, a lack of staff and resources meant conditions declined rapidly and the asylum became notorious for its mistreatment of those admitted. so this was for a lobotomy — doctor fisher's lobotomy picks. they went into the eye — orbital socket of the eye and deadened the front part of the brain. but it was real brutal, it really — i think it hurt more than it helped. we've come a long way since then and kari hopes a new museum will remind people how different our approach to mental health is today. with fields like psychiatry
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and psychology, as we learn more, we know more, we can do more. as we start to understand the brain chemistry and sort of the human anatomy, we can better help people and help them live successfully, so it's important to remember the history of where we came from and how we've continued to grow as a society and in the medical profession. local authorities now run a tour for those curious about the hospital's dark past. central state hospital is georgia's oldest and largest state psychiatric hospital. i think our tour fills a gap for local residents in milledgeville because the hospital has been something that has been here for a long, long time. i find that people often have a sense in their own mind of what they think it was like but when they come, it's an opportunity for them to really learn about the size, the scope and the humanity involved in the hospital campus. well, i think history is important because if you don't know
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where you came from, you're not going to know where you go in the future, and it's extremely important for the people who worked here, for the family members that were patients here and for researchers in the future to know what went on here. the people i've met today have driven home the importance of remembering the patients who lived here and the thousands who died. acknowledging them and what happened is uncomfortable but to me, it feels like the right thing to do. well, that's all for this week but coming up next week — we're in argentina, exploring a haunting city submerged beneath a lake for 30 years that's now slowly re—emerging into the sunshine. imagine living in these houses and all of a sudden, the water is slowly starting to creep up. ten metres! this place is wild!
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and remember, you can join our adventures by following us on social media — we are on all the regular platforms. and we've got quite a library of inspirational content to inspire you when we can all travel again. from me, mike corey, and the rest of the travel show team here in kenya, it's goodbye. hello. a nice sunset for some of us today but many of us across western parts of the uk have had a really cloudy and damp day with rain at times. this is the satellite picture with the jet stream superimposed with the jet stream superimposed with a look at that pattern looping
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to the north around iceland, thejet stream meanders for the cell. and it actually comes back again and is brought us this little weather front. quite a compact weather system with the cloud engulfing parts of wales, the southwest of wigan. not everywhere in the southwest but you could see with the rain is through the course of the evening spreading a little bit further and went into the midlands. but it's so slow moving which means that many parts of the uk further north will stay dry and quite clear in places. in actually quite chilly in places. in actually quite chilly in scotland. also the extreme south and the south he should stay dry and clear. it could be quite mild still in his office up is because the air is coming in from the style relatively speaking to everywhere else in the uk for sub the winds are very light and the small weather front is in an area of high pressure. so it's slow—moving. if you notice across the north sea the winds are blowing from the north. here they are just about in the south to where you see winds blowing in opposite directions, whether fronts tend to get stuck a little bit. that's what's happening on
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monday. cool and cloudy across some western areas and brightness in the east will give way to those temperatures rising to around 20 or 21 degrees. here's a look at monday evening, you could see that rain still across western areas. perhaps spreading a bit further north. it still here on tuesday. this is very early in the morning but through the course of tuesday we are expecting that range to very slowly shift towards eastern areas. there will be some rain in places like nottingham, london as well, brighton on tuesday. by london as well, brighton on tuesday. by tuesday evening that rain should be out of the way. we should have a fine end to the day across western parts of the uk. wednesday actually, the weather isn't looking too bad at all. a more confident with this one. a high pressure is tilting in from the azores and that's why it's called the a's are high. this ridge of high pressure is across the uk which means that wednesday and thursday actually not a bad day. temperatures will recover a little bit in the be some decent sunny spells but i think by friday it looks as though in atlantic weather front will sweep in and there will
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