usually end with cake. the social network that people have created around the group is so satisfying, because there seem to be a little bit of a gap in that. also, i have just made lovely friends. it is fantastic, especially afterwards when we socialise, you learn so much more about them, their medication, how it affects them. then i can tailor what we do to assist them. it is almost like a one—to—one session within the group. having secured funding, this pilot scheme got the green light at the start of the year. the parky blinders are hoping to branch out and offer other activities for people with the disease. but i suspect cake it will be involved, whatever they do. andy burkett, bbc news. let's get the weather now with louise.

sunshine and showers the best way to describe saturday's weather. showers should be isolated and the best of the brighter weather the further north and west you are. top temperatures likely to reach 12 to 18 celsius. any showers through the i8 celsius. any showers through the evening will tend to fade away and we will have clearer skies across england and wales so temperatures will fall away quite sharply. cloud in the north—west where temperatures are likely to hold into double figures, but it will be a chilly start to sunday morning, hopefully a sparkling one as well, lots of sunshine around first thing on sunday. a few showers in north—west scotland and eventually more persistent rain as we go through the day. top temperatures through sunday afternoon 13 to 18 celsius. that weather front will introduce much colder, windier conditions on monday, and as you can see, a notable difference to the feel of the weather.

hello. this is bbc news. i'm lewis vaughanjones and these are the headlines... world powers condemn the self—styled referendums being held in parts of ukraine on whether to join russia. britain's chancellor defends his tax cuts aimed at boosting economic growth, saying they're fair for all. we'll have reaction to the mini budget. stock markets around the world have fallen amid growing fears of a global recession. hurricane fiona makes landfall on canada's atlantic coast, leaving hundreds of thousands without power. now on bbc news, this week's travel show comes from tarifa in southern spain. this week on the travel show, i'm in tarifa, in spain, where it's definitely the windier the better as i check out the big air

kitesurfing competition. oh my god, that was so good. i loved it. we are getting artsy in southern turkey for the mardin biennial. and tick, tick, boom, we go behind the scenes at boomtown during the countdown to the opening of this year's festival in the heart of the it's all hands on deck. hello, and welcome to the travel show, coming to you this week from beautiful tarifa in southern spain.

perched on the southernmost tip of continental europe, just 14 kilometres from north africa, tarifa is the gateway between these two continents. its position leaves the small spanish town open to a blasting from the winds that shape its rugged coastline. in this part of the world, there are two prevailing winds. one is the mellow, consistent poniente wind and the other one is this bad boy, the levante, which storms in from the east and batters this coastline. and when it does, all the best kitesurfers from around the world want to be right here. and yet, while a windy beach break might not seem like your idea of a dream trip, it is for a mass influx of kitesurfers that sees the population of this once sleepy town over triple in size during the windy summer months. and this year will be bigger than ever as the world's leading kitesurfers compete to fly the highest

in the world's ever big air competition, hosted right here in tarifa. the winds here can reach up to 60 knots with the athletes expertly manipulating it to fly over 30 metres high. i have headed over to the leaderboard to see how the competition is shaping up. so the best of the best kitesurfers in the world are competing here today? 60 competitors but they are divided in five divisions. we have 2a men and 12 women. it is an elimination system so they are riding in groups of two or three riders at the same time, and then the winner advances to the next round. we will see in the end of the day who is going to ride for the final and take the crown. there is a reason why the wind is so consistently good here in tarifa. judging commentator lewis explains why. here is so special because it's so close to the north

of africa, what happens with the geology of the land is these mountains push up and you've got this strong wind that it comes in, you've got to think of an hourglass where the sand rushes through the middle, that's what happens here in both directions either from the atlantic or the mediterranean, that is why so uniquely it's always windy and so strong. i think we are going to see something very special later. now that the winds are getting stronger and the competition is really heating up, i want to know how the athletes are doing. lorenzo, congratulations! thanks a lot. looked incredible out there, what is it like out there? the wind is pumping, it's like 30 knots and we are flying really high. it's just an unreal feeling. when i'm doing my best tricks, ijust feel like superman on the water. it's like i've got a superpower. it's great energy on the beach, the wind is super strong - and that is exactly what we are looking for, so hopefully - i continue to make it- and ride in the final soon. congratulations and good

luck for the next stage. and yet the mediaeval town of tarifa and its surrounding beaches were not always home to this global influx of tourism. tarifa is a really bustling town, and that certainly wasn't always the case. in fact, very few tourists came here because why would you want to sit on the beach with such a wind blowing all the time? but then in the 1980s, the world came to love tarifa's wind and everything changed. tell me about the first time you came to tarifa. i came through this entrance with my car full of boards and then we got stuck in one of these small street. in yourcar? stuck in a tiny street? it is absolutely tiny! i have come to the old town to meet michel who, in 1982, left his hometown and chased the wind to wind up in tarifa,

opening the town's first ever kitesurfing school. why were you coming to tarifa? i came just searching the wind. it was a paradise for windsurfing. wind every day, long beach, sandy beach, nobody. it is perfect for us. in fact, before kitesurfing came to tarifa, there was an exodus of locals leaving the town to find work. now, tarifenos can stay in their hometown thanks to the employment opportunities which this sport has brought with it. so at the end we are the ones that push this town up. you did a good job. yeah, we did a good job. sometimes you think it's better not to do it because then we'd have a perfect spot for us. now it's full of people. you gave the game away, now everyone knows! always when you think that one, it's too late. now i've seen the pros in action, i kind of think i should give it a go. can't be too hard, can it?

it's going to be disastrous. i've met with tanja, owner of one of the a0 — yes, that is 40, kitesurfing schools that line this coast. it is time to experience what this legendary wind feels like for myself. it's great! oh, oh! once we are in the water, you will see that it will feel quite natural. i wouldn't bet on it, tanja. screams how was it for you? oh my god, that was so good! i loved it. you did really well. i loved it, itjust felt

like being a kid again. i couldn't come to tarifa without trying its most famous sport. but i think for now i will leave it to the professionals. now, if that has inspired you to go to a destination with plenty of sun, sea and kitesurfing, then these are the spots you should be thinking of visiting on your next trip. if you are new to the sport, one of the best locations to learn kitesurfing is dakhla in morocco. this flatwater lagoon surrounded by moroccan desert makes an ideal training ground, with consistent winds virtually all year round and plenty of reasonably priced accommodation for the budding kitesurfer, then this is the perfect place to earn your stripes. feeling like you've got to grips with kitesurfing and looking to build your confidence? then cumbuco in brazil

could be for you. if you are looking for a fun and social experience with smaller waves then this is the setting to really hone those skills. and cabarete was once a fishing and farming hamlet on the north coast of the dominican republic, but today it is considered by many to have one of the best kitesurfing scenes around, kitesurfing scenes around. with so many of the sport's top contenders flocking to the beach, a phrase has been coined by the locals — "confetti skies", to describe the spectacle of so many people enjoying the best wind and waves the island has to offer. still to come on the travel show: it's boom time for boomtown. we go behind the scenes at the festival. we do really well at scrap yards and car boot sales as you can imagine. and we hit the streets of mardin for the city's fifth biennial.

it's in the middle of nowhere, but look! it's packed. so don't go away. welcome back to the programme. i am still in the tarifa area and at baelo claudia, the roman ruins, and i am going to meet someone who is going to give me a really tasty insight into the ancient life of this area. manuel, hello. hello. so tell me, what do we have here? garum paste was the main export of baelo claudia, one of spain's best preserved archaeological sites, revered over 2,000 years for this fermented fish conserve, which both preserved and flavoured the food of the time.

so if you were an ancient roman person you would have been very happy to find this on your table? and now the best chefs of the area are bringing back this ancient treat for modern day audiences. it's just a very savoury — a deep, savoury flavour. i can see why the romans would have enjoyed to have this on their food, especially if it were boiled. just how important is this resurrection? how does it feel to you to be rediscovering these ancient tastes?

strategically placed in south—eastern turkey, high above the routes connecting turkey to syria and iraq is the ancient city of mardin. due to its position, this place has lived under many different rules from the babylonians to the persians, but we are here to check out how the mardin biennial looks to encapsulate these influences

into new exciting works of art. here is a little bit of interesting info. the festival isn't centred in one place, rather it's spread about various culturally important sites around the town so visitors are expected and encouraged to go and visit all of mardin. tonight, where we are going for the grand opening is the german headquarters which was used by the germans during world war i as part of their alliance with the ottoman empire. and so off to the opening night we go! part of the appeal of mardin is its hilltop location, meaning its buildings are built in a tiered system more commonly seen and the theatre or sports stadium. it may look pretty but you'd better pack your walking shoes. after upping my step count, i arrived at the intended destination. and it's packed! i didn't think it would be because it took ages to get

here, it is in the middle of nowhere, but look! i'm not the world's number one expert on the arts, but i am willing to have my mind opened. there are so many nooks and crannies full of art, you really have to go searching. anything in here? no! chuckles. no for once. that's karl marx. what does this mean? look — come and look. that is karl marx, isn't it? ah, see, i did get it right — it is karl marx. but when i got talking to some of the artists, i started to understand what they were exhibiting and what it meant for the region, but also beyond that. what is this? what can you tell me about this exhibit? so basically, this piece is called osmoscape: echoes of the osmotic landscape.

so, over the past four years, i've been collecting data related to water and i've built a composition, a graphic notation score — a musical score. so i'm playing the sound, and the sound correlates to the data that's being collated. and i'm manipulating it as well. a lot of the power companies are facing water crisis and they're not able to cool their systems down, so it's causing, you know, electrical disruptions. i've been specifically looking at creation mythologies so ceramic is, you know, clay — like wet clay that is cooked and is transformed into a completely different matter. so there's a change — like a kind of alchemy where the matter is transformed into something else. so that is kind of my metaphor for myself as well. let's change into something else. now is the time. how important is it you have a festival of art and culture in mardin? i think it's very organic that's happening here

that it's happening here because here, likely, you sit down and you go into a store, you sit down and you have tea with somebody. all of a sudden, you're learning all of these, like, other stories and, you know, gossips and other information that you wouldn't have any access to whatsoever, but it's an oral tradition. the works on display here are varied but they all tie in to the festival's main theme. a big part of the thematic is to do with globalisation as a gesture for border crossing and a gesture that was quite universal and was an appeal to reach out to the other across barriers of all kinds — cultural, political, linguistic. the south—eastern region in turkey is like a mix between the kurdish people and other groups as well. i mean, the geography is sort of like already a cultural melting pot. itjust makes sense. it's like asking for it in some ways, and ready to be

the receptacle for that kind of occurrence. because itjust perfectly reflects the globalisation that you're looking for to, you know, thematically put out there? precisely. yeah. the biennial is a great experience but this city's rich culture is here to see all year round. from its people to its unique architecture scattered across the slopes of this ancient city, mardin itself is truly a work of art. this summertime saw many of europe's top festivals make their comebacks after two years of covid restrictions. we headed to the english countryside to find out how to turn a farmer's field into a temporary town full of music and theatre.

you've got the kind of core team. you've then got the district kind of co—ordinated team, which is outdoor set theming. then that goes down into the street venues and smaller crews, so each one of these street venues will have its own individual crew. so they add their own bit of love and kind of detail and energy to their own little space. we've been, like, working since last week, so we've kind have been working and now it's suddenly "do this! "do that! "do this! "do that!" it's all hands on deck! this platform that has been based out. that's is the platform that we're working with, is it? so, these guys have done — they have probably been here for about two weeks, i'd say, and they've just — i mean, they'd have planned it for probably a couple of weeks in scrapyards and yeah, we do really well our of scrapyards and car boot sales, as you can imagine! the space we finished today probably is going to have to be a voluntary day tomorrow

because i don't think it's all going to be finished by tonight. there's probably about 8,000 people on—site, i think. we start with the creative brainstorming of how the festival is going to look like in september and then, we do creative brainstorming right the way through up to december and thenjanuary, we go into kind of delivery and preplanning, preproduction and then, it takes us an eight months of the preproduction to get us to opening. now, it's all about delivery. now we're on the ground, just making sure that all that planning that we've done lands as it was — how it was planned to do so, and making sure we deliver the best show of the year. there's always last—minute hiccups. we've obviously got artists dropping out of the last minute, staff dropping out at the last minute, various things, travel problems, visa problems, all those sorts of things, so while it is locked,

there's — it's continually changing and evolving. a lot of people want to play here because of — well, we're a bit different with all the theatrics going on, so we have a good reputation for what we deliver and how spectacular it can be. a lot of production levels are hugely impressive, so people want to play here. as we come into the final show week of the build, we have a 24—hour shift, so we have a daytime crew and a night—time crew, so we just keep it flowing through. festivals generally gets a lot of bad press about line—ups not being gender balanced or diverse enough, so it makes you more and more aware of it. it's the fashion to be as bold as to try for to aim 50—50, but we've been trying to gender balance the line—up for — well, since i've been here. it has always been something that we've been striving for, but it's not about gender, either — it's about diversifying the line up to all people. you know, we want everyone to not only feel welcome, we want to go out of our way to try and bring them in. harriet from southampton, everybody! _ cheering. most of them have been waiting three years to come. they've had their tickets for three years. the gates will open,

they'll run in, they'll be setting up their campsites, be meeting their neighbours. it is really exciting. but before that, we have to get the site completely signed off. thank you! welcome! ourjob is to make sure they're well behaved, of course, make sure everyone's happy, well hydrated — especially in this sort of weather. yeah, make sure everything's ok, man. it's great seeing all the public come in — that moment when they come in. cheering and whistling. and when they come into the city and get lost and get so interactive with the world, like that's — you can't replace that. come back! yoga instructor! i have learned a lot in the last 15 years being here. i think that's the beauty, because we've grown. we grew at such

an amazing speed. there was so much learning every year. what's important to me is to go out and feel that vibe out there. old town derry. i want to see how it feels for the audience and how they're reacting. right now, it's all ramping up and everyone's getting settled in and everyone just starts exploring and chatting to characters, going through doors. all of those really unique, one—off experiences you get at boomtown that people remember, they start happening now. but that's all we have time for on this week's show. i'm off to watch a bit more kitesurfing. but before i go, here's what's coming up next week. we have something very special for you. we'll bejoining a group of adventurers heading off on a journey of a lifetime

to one of the most fascinating but inaccessible places in the world — the wreck of the titanic. we are literally 300 metres from the titanic and, you know, i was thinking, "we're not going to make it". so dojoin us then, if you can. and if you can't wait, in the meantime, check us out on social media, where you'll find a whole range of amazing travel content from the bbc. until next time, from me, christa larwood and the rest of the travel show team here in tarifa, it's goodbye.

hello. a quiet start to the weather this weekend but it was a morning of mist and mellow fruitfulness for some of us, with this atmospheric picture sent in this morning. some poor visibility but also some lovely morning sunshine as well. light winds too so in devon morning. the rain has moved off to the near continent and here are the clear skies. sunny spells and clear skies as we go through the rest of the day. perhaps some showers driven in off the north sea coast which will move further inland as we go through the afternoon. but they will be very hit and miss, the afternoon. but they will be very hitand miss, many the afternoon. but they will be very hit and miss, many keep sunny spells as we go through the day. 16 degrees in scotland, 18 further south. the showers will fade through the evening, and overnight we will have

clearer skies. evening, and overnight we will have clearerskies. more evening, and overnight we will have clearer skies. more cloud into northern ireland and western scotland will hold temperatures up into double figures, but elsewhere we are likely to see single figures. a chilly start of the morning on sunday, but hopefully again compensated by a lot of sparkling sunshine for sunday. the cloud will continue to bring scattered showers, as we go through the morning some rain quite heavy at times will gradually drift steadily south and east words. 18 degrees perhaps further south and east once again. as we move into monday, the weather fronts will sink steadily southwards and the winds will strengthen. a blustery day awaits and the wind direction important. it's coming from the north and that will drive in the cooler air. the blue penetrating further south as we go through the next few days ahead. early morning rain to clear away on monday, a trail of showers behind, a windy afternoon for many in comparison to of late and that will

just make it feel a little bit cooler perhaps than the temperatures suggest. we will see highs in scotland around eight to 13 degrees, maybe 16 degrees in the far south—east. that cooler, fresher and more unsettled they will continue as we move into tuesday and wednesday. take care.

this is bbc news. i'm lewis vaughanjones and these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world... world powers condemn the self—styled referendums being held in parts of ukraine on whether tojoin russia. britain's chancellor defends his tax cuts aimed at boosting economic growth, saying they're �*fair for all' — we'll have reaction to the mini budget. stock markets around the world have fallen — amid growing fears of a global recession. the search for survivors is continuing after a boat carrying migrants sank off the syrian coast killing at least 86 people. close encounter, nasa plans to fly a subtly international divert its path