and probably british as a sport and probably british engineering, you in other, as an enterprise would be as it is not have the path it does or the future it does without the influence of sir frank william, he is one of the great briton, the sions of our sport, and, just, a legend, and and icon who will be sorely missed. goad icon who will be sorely missed. good to have you — icon who will be sorely missed. good to have you with _ icon who will be sorely missed. good to have you with us, _ icon who will be sorely missed. good to have you with us, will. _ icon who will be sorely missed. good to have you with us, will. thank you. us fashion designer virgil abloh, the artistic director of louis vuitton�*s menswear collection, has died from cancer at the age of 41. statement from his family on his instagram page described him as a fiercely devoted father, husband, son, brother, and friend. it added — for over two years, virgil valiantly battled a rare, aggressive form of cancer, cardiac angiosarcoma. he chose to endure his battle privately since his diagnosis in 2019, undergoing numerous challenging treatments, all while helming several significant institutions that span fashion, art, and culture.

now it's time for a look at the weather with alina jenkins. hello, we've had an area of rain, sleet and snow moving its way southwards through scotland and england today. clearing away from the south coast through this evening, we'll keep a few wintry showers going along some eastern coasts but for many, clear skies that's going to lead to frost and ice before cloud pushes back in to the north and west of scotland and northern ireland later in the night, also bringing some outbreaks of rain. but for many it's going to be a frosty night as temperatures drop at or below zero, “4 or —5 celsius for some rural parts of scotland and northern england. bit of a mix tomorrow, we have these frontal systems pushing into scotland bringing some outbreaks of rain, may be some snow over higher ground. cloud increasing across northern ireland, some patchy rain here, could see some rain into northern england through the afternoon. further south it stays dry, best of the sunshine in a line say from east anglia to dorset, but a cold feeling day

here and starting to feel less cold the further north and west you are. actually, it'll be briefly milder for all of us on tuesday. doesn't last long, turns colder from midweek and also some wet and windy weather to come, too. bye— bye. hello this is bbc news — the headlines: a third case of the new variant of coronavirus has been found in the uk. the government has urged people to get their boosters and follow new rules on mask wearing in england. the government says pupils in year 7 and above in england should wear masks in communal areas of schools from tomorrow morning. the south african president has criticised the decision to put the country on the international red list. tens of thousands of

homes and businesses are still without electricity — in the wake of storm arwen. more headlines at nine o'clock. now on bbc news it's the travel show with lucy hedges. this week on the travel show: iam in dubai, with visions of the future at the delayed expo 2020. if i scan this image here, i get an augmented reality view of what south korea deems to be the future of mobility. and that includes flying cars. woo! i take a dip and tumble... laughs. and i discover an artificial rainforest in what was once a desert. 0h, hello! 0h here we go!

but first, in a difficult couple of years in the global travel calendar, there has been one giant mega event looming. and of course, fitting for a giant mega event, that was happen in this city of superlatives, dubai. nobody knew for sure it would happen, but here it is. hello, expo 2020, orshould that be expo 2021. it was delayed by a year, and for a place that relies so heavily on tourism, dubai needed this to happen. in fact, it is probably not too much of a stretch to say the entire international tourism industry needed this to happen.

well, i'm armed with my expo passport — let's do this. it is taking place over six months, and had nearly 2.5 million visits in the first month alone. 192 countries have created pavilions showcasing innovations for the future. here in a site twice the size of monaco, you have a world in miniature. looking around this place, one thing to remember is that pavilions are like shop windows for countries. you know, in amongst all the tech and innovation, it's a real chance for them to show the rest of the world their big ideas, and the idealised vision of their culture and values. but for some seasoned travellers, their experiences of these countries might be a little bit different. the first expo, then called the world's fair, started back in 1851, when it was opened by the uk's queen victoria in london. back then, when only a fraction of people ever went abroad, and information about the world

was harder to come by, the multicultural innovations on show, fuelled by the new industrial revolution, would have seemed extraordinary. but now, it is a technological revolution at expo's heart. as you can probably tell, still a work in progress... last year i came to see it in the making, so now i have come back to see how it has all come together. now, the last time i was here, this place did not look like this, it was basically one big construction site. and i can see they have completely transformed it. the uk's contribution presents a huge wall of poetry, which doesn't always make total sense. it's generated by artificial intelligence using words donated by the public, and was inspired by professor stephen hawking's theories about how the world might come together to communicate a message in the event of meeting intelligent life from another planet.

so i will type my word in here, i am going for "beautiful". and now i believe it is going to appear on the big screen. so talk me through the arrangement of the words. because looking at right now, it doesn't look like it makes a lot of sense. so how do we make a story out of this? it is really simple. poetry is very personal. every word is given a single couplet, those couplets will speak to the individual who donated the word, but what is really exciting about this is the algorithm has been trained over many, many months. it has digested 15,000 poems, including shakespeare, including blake and so on and so forth. the poetry societies across the uk have fed the algorithm words and poems, so that it can learn how to create poetry. and the more words we give it, the better the sense

of the poetry becomes. and right now it has been up for a few weeks, and you can see sentences, you can see sense within this building. what we're trying to do with this building is show that we are innovators as a nation. the pavilions each sit in one of the expo's three main themes — mobility, opportunity and sustainability. and each theme has its own building. the sustainability pavilion is net zero energy and net zero water, diverting people's waste water through a natural outdoor filtration system of reedbeds and then reused on the site's vegetation. so all around us you will find buildings that are net zero energy, you will find buildings that have employed sustainable wood technologies and methodologies — shading, outdoor passive cooling areas. and it is actually a real honour to stand alongside all of these country pavilions from all around

the world that have chosen to highlight solutions that are applicable to those regions. and trialling them out to see what works here. and walking around, one of the sustainability pavilions stand out among the others. so there is around 80,000 different kind of plans the tropical garden, and over 190 different species. and it really is so peaceful and tranquil, just wandering through here. and i also think it's kind of crazy that i am in a giant garden that is slap bang in the middle of a desert. in singapore we have more than 250 hectares of vertical green. so what we do here is reflected in what we do in singapore, in a much, much bigger way. five decades ago, singapore is known as the garden city.

and until recently, the last decade, we have evolved into a city in a garden. now we are aspiring to be a city in nature. and will be rewilding all our gardens, we will bring nature closer to the people. once you bring this down to the city, we are bringing the biodiversity closer to them. i think that is what we want to see. and what better proof of that than with their first visitor, a bird that has nested in the pavilion. but for dubai, while all this might seem like a huge boon for the time being, what happens when all the visitors go home and the pavilions pack up and shut their doors? how sustainable is this expo site then? dubai has expanded at an extraordinary pace in recent years, but still, plans are in place to repurpose expo to create a new living and working environment to support nearly 150,000 people as part of a vision for a human—centric future city.

this site is huge. twice the size of monaco, i believe. it is. for the built environment, it is twice the size of monaco. it is massive, so how will you make use of the space, how will you utilise it? 80% of everything we have built gets repurposed. and it is taking this space, this incredible environment that you see from on top of here, and repurposing it into this innovation hub. and it is a blank canvas, really, for us, for architects, for smart infrastructure solutions, for start—ups that want to come into this vibrant environment. dubai is moving towards becoming a very smart city, we are taking the lead in that. it is about creating this industry that is another focal point for dubai.

and finally, it's night time when this place transforms into something else altogether. like at south korea's pavilion, bursting with lights and technology. so, if i scan this image here... i get an augmented reality view of what south korea deems to be the future of mobility. and that includes flying cars. but there is one last emerging global superpower i wanted to see. so this is the china pavilion, and one of the biggest pavilions here, you might have guessed it might be — they definitely don't do things by halves, which explains why every night they do a drones and lights performance outside. here it goes! a brilliantly synchronised, stunning display.

i expected nothing less. stay with us, because still to come on the show: i take on one of the world's biggest floating inflatable assault courses... boo! ..and find out how the residents of a very special home here in dubai coped during lockdown last year. the speed with which those things devoured that chicken was unbelievable. the beaches here are one of the many reasons to visit dubai, and as you can see, it is a glorious

day, people are enjoying the sun. and i have been told there is a really fun way to cool off here. i'm about to give it a try. this is dubai aqua fun, the brainchild of a young emirati entrepreneur called ahmed ben chaibah. he claims it is the biggest inflatable water park in the world. against the backdrop of hotels and skyscrapers, and a short 25 metre swim from the beach, you will find a course made up of over 70 floating blow—up slippery slides, swings and other obstacles, all designed to test your stamina, balance and bravery. and after a bit of undignified clamber on board, i am ready to accept the challenge.

it is a lot slipperier than you think! come on, lucy! almost! i think i've — 0h! i was just about to say, i think i've been in the water enough. went five seconds and i didn't even touch the obstacle. here we go! boo! laughs. that is what you got to look out for. you might complete the obstacle but the slipping at the end, every time. every time! something tells me i may have spoken too soon. i challenge anyone to get over this thing and stay dry. i am fit, yeah? i'm trying my hardest!

but most importantly, this is so much fun. three, two, one! all right, here we go! woo! how can you not love the slide? i think i am ready to get off now. well, now that i am thoroughly soaked through, it is time to dry off. but i am not heading back to the beach — instead, perhaps it is time to feel the wind in my very wet hair. how's this for a socially distanced experience? these are the dubai hero boats — your own personal speedboat that lets you cut through the warm waters of the gulf at speeds of up to 50km/h.

after a short instructional and safety tutorial, you'll stick to a vast but designated course, accompanied by a guide who's on hand to ensure that you stick to the rules while getting a high—speed and unique view of the dubai beaches and skyline. as far as rides go, this one is awesome. it's super easy to drive and brandon's nearby for safety, just in case. you know, yeah, you could go pretty slow but the real fun begins when you crank up the engine and, more importantly, you do it with no mask! well, to finish off this week, we're heading to a place here in dubai where, despite the heat outside, it rains as regularly as clockwork inside and it's home to some rather special residents, and i've been to meet some of them. this is green planet dubai — a purpose—built biodome where,

no matter what the temperature is outside, inside, it is a different story and that's because of the thousands of animals, birds, fish and insects that live here. this is just amazing. i mean, you've got a rainforest in the middle of the city. how, how, how? tell me about the building. so the building itself, it's temperature and humidity controlled all year long. yeah, yeah. perfect tropical environment right in the middle of downtown dubai. chuckles. dubai is not a place that's kind of synonymous with nature. but dubai is known for doing things unique, so the only rainforest in the middle of dubai shouldn't come to a shock as anyone. cackles. so this tree here is artificial and then everything growing off of it is natural. i can't get over this soundtrack — it's so beautiful. relaxing, isn't it? it's very tranquil, isn't it?

it is, and it's funny when you start really seeing the animals and their personalities, so the toco toucan over, he is the boss of the birds. yep. he's in charge. so everyone has their kind of place and their homes and their personality and it's just a lot of fun to watch. yeah. and how many different species of animal are in here? there's hundreds of different species, thousands of different animals. you have the bestjob. thank you so much. i know, we're very lucky. we're — every day is a little bit different, though. it's like working with kids — you can't predict what's going to happen by the end of the day. yeah, yeah. every time you think you have them figured out, someone'll surprise you and get themselves in a situation where you go "i did not even know that was possible". yeah, yeah! how did you decide what animals actually go in here, you know, because they all have to play nice together, i presume. it's a very particular process to look before we bring any new animal. educationally, what would they bring to the facility?

how they would work together with the other animals. do they have the space and all the requirements that they need? our last new animals where our three ring—tailed lemurs that you'll see today and the first day that they came, right after lockdown, they were introduced, they kind of came out and i swear to you, there was about 100 birds all around them gathering like... who's the new kid? exactly! so there was a whole introduction process that they have to get used to and pass the test. yeah, yeah! but now, they are settled in like pros. but in the building, we try to be sustainable as possible, whether it has to do with the grey water recycling programme, with eliminating as much as possible single—use plastics. we also have many different critically endangered conservation breeding programmes for animals here in the building for the survival of these species as unfortunately, there's a lot of species becoming extinct in their natural habitat every year. yeah, yeah. we're trying to do all we can to just help them stay alive. yeah. we hope every one of our guests comes, experiences, has a great time, but leaves with a little bit

more of a passion to take care of the environment. come here! 0h, they are both back! 0h, hello. 0h, here we go! i love that there's just no fear. i don't think i have ever seen animals be this brazen before — collectively as well, you know? honestly, that's because it is their home first, right? so these guys are confident, knowing they can be wherever they want to be and guests can come nice and close but won't be touching any of the animals and therefore, they can be wherever they want and explore. 0h, hejust did a little twirl for the camera. you just want to have some more nuts? so when guests, when visitors come, they are told no touching the animals, you know — got to be strict about that, obviously. yes. we do have particular programmes where you can, in a small group, get to know the animals more

close—up if that is something you would like to do, but in general with our larger quantities of guests coming through, we'll observe them on a little distance so that they can be comfortable coming to see you. and that's why we can have the sloths, the monkeys, the birds, the lizards all kind of doing their own thing. it's so fascinating just watching the way he eats. in the claw, using the beak to scrape the nut. when the pandemic hit last year, it must�*ve been so tough for you. it's not what you guys can flip the switch off, go home and come back in a few months. no, definitely not. so considering there are thousands of animals and plants around here that are relying on us for their survival no matter what, but we knew that's what needed to happen and so it's what we were happy — more than happy to do, and that is how we got through it. in addition to being able to see wildlife from the aerial walkways, there are also programmes here that give you the chance to get up close to some of the more intimidating residents, like a shoal of deadly flesh—eating hungry piranhas. matt, are you sure this is safe? absolutely, it's safe. i've noticed you've got a cut on your hand.

is that cool? yeah, not a problem. it's alright to roll with you? yep. chicken — just doing their chickens, we're gonna watch from about 1.5m away. yep, yep. it'll be absolutely fine. and how many piranhas are in here? around 500. 500, nice. yeah. 0k. i'll see you on other side. chuckles. sounds good! let's go. thankfully, i am not on the menu today, which is a blessing considering how hungry these fish look. the murder from psycho plays. god, the speed in which those things devoured that chicken — chuckles — was unbelievable. i had to keep telling myself "they're not gonna eat my feet." but interestingly, it was not the piranhas that was the most terrifying thing. the pacu — the size of them! they're like this! some of them at the bottom are even bigger, so i think that was the more

disconcerting thing for me but that was brilliant. i learned a lot about piranhas today. they don't want to eat me, and that's good. towards the end of every day here at green planet, the artificial heavens open and the whole biodome is soaked in a warm tropical downpour as some of the more nocturnal animals wake up and others start thinking about heading for bed — which is exactly what i'm going to do, thanks to an overnight camping programme they also run here. so, the last thing i thought i would be doing when i was told i would be coming to dubai would be camping overnight with nothing but lemurs, parrots and a tarantula to keep me company. i have a feeling the morning is going to be very early and very, very loud.

the lights go out at midnight. wish me luck. owl hoots. sleeping in a tent inside a building that's pretending to be outside. only in dubai! well, that's all we've got time for this week but do join us next week, if you can, when... buongiorno! ..christa is in sardinia, one of only a handful of designated uber—healthy blue zones around the world where your chances of living to 100 and beyond are pretty high. 0h! all this, and you live a long life. it's a pretty good way of life, i think. do catch that if you can and don't forget, you can watch more of our adventures on bbc iplayer. and from me, lucy hedges and the rest of the travel show team here in dubai, it's goodbye.

it has been a quieter day today. we still had some sleet and snow from scotland and england. we will keep some wintry showers. for many, clear skies, which will lead to frost and ice before outbreaks of rain pushed back into the north and west of scotland late in the night. for many, temperatures at or below freezing, down to —54 rural parts of scotland and northern england. —— down to —5 for rural parts. colder

mid week onwards. spells of wet and windy weather. the rain on monday will chiefly be across scotland, northern ireland and into northern england courtesy of this warm front. behind it is some warmer air. cloud and outbreaks of rain into scotland through the morning, may be snow over higher ground, just clipping parts of northern ireland, could slide into northern england in the afternoon. further south, slide into northern england in the afternoon. furthersouth, mainly dry, the best of the sunshine stretching from east anglia down to dorset. temperatures to six celsius, still feeling cold, but feeling less cold in the north and west of scotland. the warm front continues its journey south overnight not bringing much rain but it will increase the cloud and push that milder air across the uk. less chance of a frost on tuesday morning with many staying above freezing and more like six, seven the further north you are. going into tuesday, we are in between these frontal systems. the isobars are closer together. a windy day. heavy rain in the morning across scotland, some

showers pushing south, and that rain band intensifies as the day goes on, pushing heavy rain into northern ireland, western scotland, and northern england. further south it is likely to stay dry with maybe some bright sunny spells but look at the temperatures, 12 celsius on tuesday. does not last long. as the front moves its way across the uk tuesday night into wednesday, it returns the cold air across the uk. feeling much colder by wednesday and thursday. we also see the return of those biting north—westerly winds also bringing some showers. briefly milder on tuesday, but turning colder through wednesday and thursday. goodbye.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. as the new 0micron covid variant spreads to several more countries, the south african president criticises the decision to put his country on the international red list. these restrictions are completely unjustified, and unfairly discriminate against our country and our southern african sister countries. one more — a third — 0micron case has been detected in the uk. britain is convening an urgent meeting of g7 health ministers on monday. tens of thousands of homes and businesses are still without electricity in the uk — in the wake of storm arwen. four european countries agree to deploy a plane to patrol the french coast — to help prevent migrants