and its institutions and by building a better future for all iraqis. tesla billionaire elon musk should sell about 10% of his shares, that's according to almost 58% of people who voted on his twitter poll asking whether he should off—load the stake. more than 3.5 million people voted in the poll, that mr musk, who is one of the world's richest people, should sell the stock. now it's time for a look at the weather with phil avery. hello. sunday has been marked by quite a lot of dry weather across many parts of the british isles. but some very windy weather across the north—eastern quarter. and that came about thanks to the influence of the low pressure and it will take a while before those isobars open up under the influence of this transient ridge of high pressure.

i say transient because it really will not stick around very long at all. and even in the first part of monday, we'll see the cloud thickening ahead of atlantic fronts as the high pressure just gets eased away towards the eastern side of the british isles. under it, clear skies could lead to a touch of frost if you are very prone. but a bright start and a dry one to monday. out west, different story. thickening cloud, eventually the rain through northern ireland pushes up into the north and west of scotland. eventually into the cumbrian fells, and maybe as far south as the north of wales. generally speaking, through the afternoon, the further south and east you are, the more likely it is you're going to stay dry. a high on the day of around about 12 or 13 degrees. hello, this is bbc news with lukwesa burak. the headlines: the family of an unvaccinated mother who died from covid—i9 before she could meet her newborn daughter urge all mums—to—be to get the vaccine.

saiqa parveen was eight months pregnant when she caught the virus. the mother—of—five died five weeks later. for the sake of god and your loved ones, please get vaccinated. if she had the vaccine, she might live and she might have had a chance of surviving. labour accuses borisjohnson of "corrupt and contemptible behaviour" after he tried to change the rules governing mps�* conduct just as one conservative mp had been found to have breached them. the prime minister is trashing the reputation of our democracy and our country, and so this is far from a one—off. police in texas have opened a criminal investigation into a crush at a music festival in houston in which eight people died. officers are also investigating unconfirmed reports of audience members being injected with drugs. now on bbc news it's

time for the travel show with christa larwood. coming up this week... the world's coldest cowboys. that was incredible. she sighs absolutely dashing across the water on horseback. ancient stained glass and very careful hands. i have been working here for 30 years and every time i see this, my heart sings. they are so beautiful. and how to get your old banger across a frozen lake. oh, it is worse than i thought. it sounds very bad. it's fixed russian—style. theme music plays

as the seasons begin to change, icelandic farmers drive their horses down dales and mountains to events known as roundups so they can shelter them on a farm during harsh winters. we have travelled to the north—west of iceland to attend one of the biggest roundups in the country, known as laufskalarett. we are here to find out why this spectacular icelandic tradition is more than an annual event, it is a way of life. icelandic horses — this breed perfectly embodies their homeland. they are rugged... ..tough...

..and absolutely stunning. and these guys are not just any old horses, these are viking horses. their ancestors were ridden by viking warriors, when they first came to iceland over 1,000 years ago. they can actually carry, they can pull, and they are excellent to sit on. so i think the vikings clever, not only cruel, they were also clever. this is the only breed of horse in iceland and it is an important part of icelandic heritage and culture. these are all purebred icelandic horses and if they ever leave the country, they can't come back. haukur is a horse farmer,

and every spring, when the lambing season is done, he and many other farmers let their horses spend their summers roaming free in the highlands and valleys of iceland. it is very good for their upbringing. they live there with big herds, and they learn the most in the herd, the behaviour and how to survive, to walk in the landscape, all this stuff. haukur is part of a collective of farmers who run a tour company called islandshestar, which gives tourist like me the chance to be a cold cowboy and find out what makes these horses so special. 0n the back of an icelandic horse, looking out at this landscape — it is not terrible, is it? icelandic horses have been bred over the years to be friendly

and trusting of humans, which means you can travel across the countryside in a unique fashion. the way we travel, when we are travelling with our horses, is that we have this herd of loose horses with us. they are there that we can stop and swap, you know, so we are always having a fresh horse so we can keep up the tempo, we ride a bit faster. we ride, stop, swap, go. we could go on forever, actually. the way to get the wild horses to come with you is, "up, up, up, up," like this. woo! most horses can trot, canter and gallop. but not every horse can tolt, a special gait that icelandic horses have which does notjust get you across the harsh terrain but it gets you across it

quickly and comfortably. the tolt, it feels like you are sitting on a soft sofa. they are very, very smooth. only one foot at a time is on the ground so they are kind of moving like a fast walk, actually. we reach the final leg of our ride and to complete it, we have to cross an ancient trail which goes straight across this lake. but as we swap our horses in preparation for the task ahead, we receive a norse omen in the shape of a sea eagle. we have a lot of old beliefs here, superstitious a little. the ravens know a lot, the eagle is very important, he is watching over us a little and bringing us luck. that is what i believe in at least. and with that piece of good news, it is time to hit the water.

that was incredible. she sighs absolutely dashing across the water on horseback, surrounded by these beautiful mountains. i think it's one of the most exhilarating things i've ever done in my life. as autumn moves out, signs of winter begin to move in, and even the rugged icelandic horses need help to shelter from the coldest season of them all. every year, the icelandic farmers head to the highlands and into the valleys to round up their horses and bring them home for winter. the horses are driven to lower ground, to places like this. this is laufskalarett, one

of the biggest roundups in iceland. every farmer has a small piece of the paddock. you help each other out to put the correct horses in the correct part. this takes a while, but it works. he laughs i think we can definitely fit this one in my hand luggage. due to covid, this amazing spectacle has seen fewer people able to attend this year's event. usually it's packed with people, tonnes of people, everybody tons of people, everybody drinking, laughing, singing. it's much more quiet right now. so it's a little bit different but it's cosy, it's nice. you have all the nearest family and friends, so. in normal times, a huge ball would be held after the event, that thousands of people would attend.

but in farm houses across the countryside, icelanders are still celebrating, in their own ways, that the faithful equine friends have made it home safely for the winter. guitar playing and singing well, we're not in a great hall and nobody�*s drinking mead back there, but i think it's fair to say that when it comes to celebration, the old viking spirit is alive and well here. cheering and applause next, we're off to canterbury cathedral in south—east england where research has been taking place on its world famous stained glass. it's been thought that the earliest of this glorious glass dates back to 1176 but could this new fact—finding mission reveal some surprising results?

ethereal choral singing canterbury cathedral is one of the most important places of worship in england and it's where archbishop thomas becket was brutally murdered in 1170 by supporters of king henry ii. for hundreds of years, it's attracted visitors from all over the world, and one of its biggest draws has been its stunning stained glass. there's a magic about it. it changes all the time, with the light. 0ur wonderful early mediaeval stained glass windows were made by the superstars of their time and they are truly some of the best in the world. behind the creation of these

mediaeval masterpieces was the sophisticated and international artistic trade. most of the glass in the early and high middle ages was made in what is now northern france and southern belgium, that sort of region. they would make sheets of glass and then pack them into straw and onto barges and just send them across the rivers and across the channel to england. craftsmen, master masons travelled all over europe. there were no real borders. i'm preparing to paint the face of christ, no pressure. as well as maintaining and restoring the glass, leone's team carry out research. a detective story combined with archaeology. these are historical documents. they obviously tell us about how people in the middle ages experienced their world. this panel here shows us the scene of the execution

of eilward of westoning. and it's all depicted in great, graphic detail. this is a guy who's had his eyes gouged out and his testicles removed. it's really, really evocative of the scene. you can nearly hear him scream. but for over 30 years, there's been an unsolved mystery over the cathedral's most famous windows, the ancestors of christ. we thought that the earliest of those dated to about 1176 but in the 1980s, a wonderful art historian called madeline caviness suspected these figures were much older. she thought at the time that nobody would ever be able to prove it. she was just going from a stylistic analysis.

a team from university college london have been analysing some of the ancestor series. we use a non—invasive technique that sends a beam onto the surface of the glass. this beam of x—rays interacts with the material and re—emit another radiation that is detected and processed by the instruments. studying the chemical composition of the glass, we were able to understand the periods in which it was produced and also its origin. so what we found out is that the glass from the ancestor series, its older than we originally thought. so we proved an hypothesis put forward by madeleine caviness in 1987. choral singing this new research estimates

that the windows could be half a century older than previously thought, making them among the oldest in situ stained glass in the world. to now find that she has been proved right is just so thrilling, you know? decades later. that's so wonderful because that art historian is still alive, and to call her up and after all these decades later, to say to her, "you were right, and we could prove it", that is fantastic. hello, madeline! wonderful to see you, congratulations on getting your thesis verified after all this time! it was absolutely extraordinary. rejuvenating, and octogenarians love to have early memories, so it brought back so much. but the main thing is to realise that this little tiny pebble that

i put in the water so long ago, 35 years ago, could so much later be taken up and ingeniously proved that i was right. so it does feel good. you know, it's been a tough couple of years for all of us, and i grow older. so absolutely extraordinary experience, it really, it means a lot to me. it really does. in proving that these windows are older than originally thought, we now know that they were present to bear witness to thomas becket�*s grisly murder, and the spectacle of king henry ii begging for forgiveness. and this discovery is just the beginning. the research on this ancient glass continues. who knows what other secrets could soon be uncovered?

still to come on the travel show... we follow an amazing road trip across the frozen surface of lake baikal, almost 400 miles long and full of cracks. and as if that's not hard enough, here's the car they're doing it in. the ice is really thin, last year it was super thin and now this year is even more thin. so don't go away. our next trip is to a literal hot spot, located in a lava field in southern iceland that's over 800 years old — the blue lagoon. it's a geothermal wellness spa. containing waters with supposedly extraordinarily regenerative qualities, the site attracts visitors from across the globe. iceland runs 100%

on renewable energy. the blue lagoon is man—made and its waters are the byproduct of a nearby geothermal power plant. what is fantastic about the blue lagoon, it's not actually blue, its white, but the silica's reflection of the sunlight makes it appear blue. the waters flow from 2,000 metres below the surface of the earth. it's there, deep underground, but they're imbued with silica, algae and a whole host of minerals that are said to be great for your skin. so you could kind of call it, like, a fountain of youth here. so it's really great for small lines and wrinkles in the skin, and it keeps you fresh and young forever. fountain of youth? brilliant! can't wait tojump in. of course, i can't take these claims at face value, i'd really better try them for myself. 0h! she laughs oh, this is a very odd sensation of being absolutely freezing on top, and then very calm

and comfortable down below. oh, it's lovely, it's like a bath. i suppose all i have to do now is lay back and wait to look ten years younger. it's a hard job for some. and to wrap up this week, we head to siberia, for the first in a three—part series following three friends from lithuania on a teeth—chatteringly cold thousand—kilometre journey across the surface of lake baikal, the world's largest freshwater lake. and if that weren't challenging enough, they're doing it all in a communist—era car. speaker: ladies and gentlemen, welcome to irkutsk internationall airport, temperature is 27 degrees below zero... - -27. i am karolis, sometimes we call me an explorer.

right now i'm here with two other mad guys, and we are going to cross the deepest lake in the world, on ice, called baikal. to cross that lake either way, on foot, by car or motorcycle is a huge challenge. we will do this in the russian car, which we'll buy today for 800 euros. keep looking. he's older than i am, 1.5 litres, 75 horsepower, good tyres. spiked tires, and what about colour? colour is good. yellow. ok, i think we need to call him. i'm calling regarding your car. you're selling the car? lada?

jurgis, we can solve this somehow? yeah, i have an idea. it doesn't look good. air conditioning working? sorry? air conditioning. air conditioning, yes, yes. owner, what about heated seats? laughter thank you. what do we have here? oh, it's worse than i thought. we have to change it also. it sounds very bad. it's fixed russian style.

laughter you want a challenge? you'll get a challenge. laughing continues inspirational music plays for me, the safety

is on the first place. we need to come back home alive and healthy. we're already on the shore of baikal. i feel a bit shaking. i'm just hoping it all goes well. if the car breaks through the ice, guys, i'm there. no, forget that, i don't care. is it water? yeah, 30 centimetres is not bad. not bad is 1.5 metres. the ice is really thin. last year it was thin, super thin, and now this year is even more thin. fingers crossed, we need to pray well now. baikal is baikal, it's serious, yeah? you cannotjoke with that.

laughs and we'll be catching up with karolis and co on part two of their epic drive next week. that's unfortunately all we have time for this week, but coming up next time... wish me luck! we find out how the fast electric cars of extreme e are raising awareness of climate change. don't forget you can catch up on all of our adventures on bbc iplayer. we're on social media too. just search bbc travel show on all the main platforms and you will find us there. but for now from me and all my new viking friends i've met here in iceland, it's goodbye.

hello. it could well take the first half of the night to get rid of the very strongest winds that have been battering the north—eastern quarter of scotland for a good part of sunday. this was the scene just a wee while ago across the north—eastern quarter, where some of the gusts were still touching around 60 mph or so. it is going to take time before that squeeze on the isobars gradually opens up as this little ridge of high pressure wanders in from the atlantic ahead of the next set of fronts we are expecting to see from the west during the course of the night. eventually, that cloud will thicken sufficiently to bring rain into northern ireland, the western fringes of scotland, maybe the cumbrian fells as well, but out east, the skies will be that much clearer and one or two spots on the eastern side of scotland, maybe in the heart of east anglia

too, could well get temperatures down very close to freezing. that is going to be a pretty cold day, and a bright one away from these weather fronts, but a cold start to the new day on monday. now, these weather fronts again just wanting to squeeze up the isobars to bring a spell of fairly windy weather across this north—western quarter, but i think the thing you will notice from the word go into northern ireland, for example, is there will be rain in the thickening cloud. that eventually gets across the north channel into the western side of scotland, some moderate if not heavy bursts here over the high ground and eventually it spills down towards the north—west of england and into the north of wales as well. further to the south and east, it is a somewhat drier affair, never particularly warm in east anglia despite the presence of the sunshine after that chilly start. as we take you out of monday and push you through tuesday, on into wednesday, you see the same set of weather fronts are there or thereabouts at some point across the british isles. and eventually i think we'll see the cloud thickening up and producing perhaps a heavier spell of rain come wednesday, but throughout, close to those weather fronts,

it will stay relatively mild, and just that little bit fresher without ever being really cold to the north of the weather fronts themselves. so here we are for the detail on tuesday. the fronts trying to meander their way that little bit further towards the south, brighter skies across scotland, northern ireland, with a rattle of showers in the far north and west. and further south, look at that. see what i mean about mild? 1a or 15 degrees or so. the temperatures in the second half of the week once that front gets away just tending to fall back without ever being cold, and little signs of night—time frosts. bye— bye.

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