time for a look long swim. now it's time for a look at the weather with louise lear. hello there. it's a saturday afternoon of sunny spells and scattered showers driven along quite quickly by some blustery southwest winds. so most of the showers along south and west facing coasts, but some of them will start to filter a little further inland. but the best of any drier, brighter weather in more sheltered eastern areas. the winds a feature, widely gusting 30 to a0 miles an hour, perhaps even stronger gales along exposed west facing coasts. top temperatures as we go through the afternoon, 11 to 13 celsius in the north. we're looking at highest values of 17 degrees somewhere across south and east england. now through the evening and overnight, some of those showers across england and wales will fade away as the low pressure drifts its way steadily northwards. we'll still continue to see some showers across scotland and northern ireland, clearer skies, single figures elsewhere. and then as we move into sunday, it'll be a dry settled start for many before we see more persistent rain pushing into the southwest a little later on.

that's it. take care.

hello. this is bbc news. i'm shaun ley and these are the headlines... as the british prime ministerfights for her political life — her new finance minister admits mistakes were made in rolling out the government's new economic policy and that some taxes will now rise. at and that some taxes will now rise. least 40 peopl. died at least 40 people are known to have died in _ at least 40 people are known to have died in a _ at least 40 people are known to have died in a suspected _ at least 40 people are known to have died in a suspected gas— at least 40 people are known to have died in a suspected gas explosion - at least 40 people are known to have died in a suspected gas explosion in i died in a suspected gas explosion in turkey— died in a suspected gas explosion in turkey and — died in a suspected gas explosion in turkey and that _ died in a suspected gas explosion in turkey and that has _ died in a suspected gas explosion in turkey and that has left _ died in a suspected gas explosion in turkey and that has left others - turkey and that has left others injured — exchange of fire — ukraine continues to push back russian forces but the invading troops aren't giving up. the red cross in nigeria warns that communities affected by extensive flooding there could soon face outbreaks of disease. now on bbc news, the travel show. as a ground breaking new submersible begins the dive to the wreck of the titanic

we follow the fee—paying adventurers who have signed up for the trip of a lifetime. will they reach their destination or could techinal problems mean that the sub has to return to the surface early? no turning back, now. ijust need to get there. even if it isjust the debris field, i will be very happy, paying my respects in the debris field. radio: talk about comms. ..

co . so it was just weird, almost like he... radio: diver's comms, titan i was surprised when they made a turn as they departed the platform, i let them know he snagged a buoy... yeah, roger that, comms. this is diver one. just a heads up, it looked like he was heavy and possibly dropped a thruster because he started spinning really weird when he came off. he bounced a bunch of times when he was trying to leave the platform... inaudible. which direction did he spin? starboard. so, it would have been his starboard thruster? yeah. they checked it and said it was good.

we will find out, we'll see! good? hungry! laughs. need some breakfast. i'm all ready for when they come. must be a busyjob for you? very busy, it is indeed. it is steady. 0ne mealjust rolls into the other, into the other. and especially on dive days, it gets very busy. but i wouldn't have it any other way. really? you like it better doing this than on land? 0h, absolutely, 100%. every day is the excitement, is there a dive today, are they going to make it, what did they see,

who is going down, when are they coming back? so, some days, like i said, are more challenging than others but for the most part, every day is great. every day is great. for sure. bottom out around 800 metres... so, this is like the very first measurement an oceanographer would make from a site, you record the saltiness of the water throughout the whole depth profile and you record the temperature change. the ocean is getting warmer, it is acidifying, we are seeing much faster glacial melting, the ice sheets are melting, there's huge injections of fresh water that are going on. having this kind of information from remote parts of the world like this is really important to understand those changes. and we're going to be able to link this data

to all of the species we document through the video and through the edna, so we can link these species observations to the environmental conditions they are found in. edna stands for environmental dna, and it is dna that is left in the environment by all the organisms living there. you can imagine a fish swimming through the environment is shedding skin cells and bodily fluids as they move around so all of that leaves a bit of dna behind in the environment. this expedition we are collecting samples with niskin bottles, which are hollow tubes with caps on them that can be closed at particular depths to collect a sample, and those bottles are attached onto the titan submersible. we do have communication with the sub while they are down there but i don't believe there is a sample there until i see the bottle at the surface that is closed with the samples. the first time i dove the sub i said, this is amazing,

it is such a different experience, it is a totally different emotion. when you are in the sub, if you didn't bring it with you, nobody is bringing it to you. the sounds are different, what you see is different, and i thought, more people have to go in subs. it looks like silk! oh my god, it is getting bigger! whoa! 0n the way down, we saw a layer of animals we called _ mesopelagic animals. a lot of those animals - are bioluminescent, you get flashes of light herel and there all through the water column. we were going very fast down, so it was very difficult to see with the naked eye, but once in a while, a critter went by. 0h! oh, man, that was beautiful. we are at 1,200 metres. as we went down through the water column, it became darker and darker until past 1,000 metres there are no photons that get past that layer

and it is pitch black. so, it is very, very jarring because . for about 2.5 hours we see nothing but darkness, - and then all of a sudden you see the floor comel up to you, the ground come up to you. - all of a sudden you see i the earth come up to you, and it does feel like it is- coming up to you because you are descending so quickly. and so even before seeing any part of. man—made material of the ship, seeing the natural bottom of the ocean come up- at you was sort of spectacular. i mean, it was very exciting just to see dirt and mud. _ wow, it was amazing, when you suddenly saw the sand come up and we were just in the debris field there and then. seeing the pieces of| debris was sobering. all five of us in - the submersible kind of unofficially had this moment of silencel when we hit the bottom.

the first pieces i see - looking out of the porthole are pieces of coal. and it didn't even connect. that they were coal at first. i thought they were just rocks. and then someone in the sub said "oh, look, there's coal". - and that is the moment that connected me - to the humanness of - the titanic, that people had shovelled this, people had brought it on to the boat l and that during the sinking it just all spilt out. - and then we began to see other things, we saw a plate, a big dinner platejust sitting there on its own, then we saw a wash hand basin with a tap still attached. we were only about 300 metres apparently from the rack at that stage. i don't know what is going on, ifeel like... like, what, like it's thrusters? yeah, i don't know what is going on.

we have a grid map that corresponds. with the grid map that topside has. 946... it is like battleship, - they tell us which square we are in. we had kind of a good idea which square we were in. but we had topside confirm that with us and give us a heading. i is something wrong with my thrusters...? i'm thrusting and nothing is happening. range...and bearing...two... a bit closer to the bank? we will find out. i don't recognise that mud out there, do you? here is the map! no, i haven't been here before.

am i spinning? yes. iam? now you are going north. oh, my god. and scott is like, _ "oh no, we have a problem". when we are thrusting forward, one of the thrusters is thrusting backwards right now. the only thing i can do right now is a 360. i was thinking, we're not going to make it! we are literally 300 metres from titanic and although we are in the debris field, we can't go anywhere but go in circles. when i am initiating thrust, i am turning. that is why i spun on the platform. yeah. oh, god, no, don't tell me we have to go to surface, at 300 metres away from the titanic.

i had covid a few years ago. the first covid, the nasty one, as they say. and i found... i had lost 80 kg in the last two years, i had been keeping myself very fit and watching my diet. one of the things i do is i box every day. so, usually i spend about two or three hours in the gym but one of them is boxing for an hour, and i was running out of breath a lot. i went to see a heart specialist in london. they did a myriad of tests and they found the covid had given me sarcoidosis in one of the ventricles in my heart. so they decided i need a pacemaker and a defibrillator immediately, literally within 48 hours. i went in on a saturday, he allowed me back in the gym three days later, and gave me the 0k literally that week to come here and do the dive. people used to say to me "oh, you are doing your bucket list",

people used to say to me "are you doing your bucket list?", well it feels like i am now. no, it makes it more exciting, and the fact that i am able to do it is fantastic. if i had ignored my symptoms i might not be here. 0n the sticks now, . what is left and right? the right stick is forward, back, turn left, turn right. and when he goes forward he is getting a turn. what's left stick? down and up. yeah. what would cause that? one of the thrusters is... they swapped out one of the thrusters is... they mounted it the wrong way? it is unidirectional... yeah, it should be, but something happened. yeah, what he can do, so on the controller you have the up, down, left, right arrows, and you can set them so that one was going and every time you hit the button it would go forward. inaudible.

i hope he knows how to do this. hi, jerome, stockton on wendy's phone. just call me back if you got a chance, got a question, looking for a way to remap the ps3 controller. thanks. it's not going to be easy. if we bring up a picture of that controller, we can tell him to press x, press y, press a, press b. yeah, but i don't remember which one is up—and—down. i know that one does left and right. it might be that he could go forward with left and right. he'd only be able to turn one way, maybe. yeah, it would be interesting. so close! so if that is the case, when he goes left it should go forward.

when he goes to take a turn to the left, he is going to go forward starboard, which would be reverse starboard. it might work, yeah, left and right might be forward and back. huh, i don't know. alter track by 90 degrees... try turning right. go forward, 77. right is forward. i'm gonna have to write this down. right is forward, great, live with it. 0k, just say rotate the controller.

it's a lot easier if you just rotate the controller and then you've got it, because if right is forward, then left is back. rotate controller. and we were so happy that we figured it out that we could just move forward, that we started clapping going, "yes, we can go!" piece of metal on the right. can you bring up more light or is this it? - one of the early pieces we ran across were some tiles, not sure what part of the wreck they were from, but you could see the really pretty colours in the painted tiles. the pieces that were intact were pretty phenomenal because we see colour at the bottom of this ocean.

this is definitely the most challenging piloting i've ever done. so, bearwith me, guys. i'm trying my best! laughs. i'm trying my best! yeah, you're doing great! it's immensely exciting. you never know what's going to swim by. i don't see the wreckage. i lost my dbl. now i have to... my altitude. i see the wreck. on sonar though. how close are we to the titanic? two metres, no? very close. the bow should be visible. if you see anything,

let me know, 0k? yeah, nothing yet. we are ten metres away from the bow. i don't see it yet. it might be on the right. it's gonna be on the right. you've gotta rotate. yes, yes, yes, rotate, rotate. bow, bow, bow, bow, bow! we are at the bow. oh, my god, you did it!

we are at the bow of the titanic. doing everything in reverse, it looks fantastic. _ can't believe it, in real life, it's ginormous! i it's really incredible. i'm lost for words, - actually, to be honest. it's that good, yes. i'm just crying. we've made it! finally, made it. how does it feel to get a lifelong dream? hard to explain. hard to put in words.

she is big. i mean, to imagine how big she must have been, there must be 20 feet of wreck inside the sand. and even like that, what you're seeing is 20 feet high. amazing to realise that you are at titanic. it's no longer a myth for me, it's reality, it's right in front of you. you are so close to it, you can actually touch it. when you go to the bottom and you start slowly going up and you can see every portal, some of them are open, which is one of the things that people are amazed that, the people left

portals open when all this was going on, and you're going up and up and up, and it seems endless. the ship is huge. this was a floating palace. you can imagine the people in their finery walking up and down, taking in the sun, whatever, etc. we went down the side and captured the whole anchor. there is the name of the titanic on the anchor, we were able to see that. so this, sort of, nostalgic view, in a way, and also a tragic view. imagine seeing nothing and then lights turn on and you see - an entire skyscraper in front of you. - that's what it was like. there is no words to - encapsulate the feeling of it. seeing the scale of- the titanic is what anchored me into the realness of that i night, of the numbers of lives that were lost. 0k! bottom time expired, return. then we finally started

leaving the site. it was a sad moment for me, at the time, to leave it. it was so short, that the time went by so quick. i'm gonna tell them... speaks spanish. no hablo ingles. inaudible. there he is. radio: inaudible. it's an incredible experience. you are in this capsule, just like a spacecraft, with your other four travellers, and you go through it, and when you come to the surface and they open the dome, it isjust like somebody snapped theirfingers and all of a sudden you are back on planet earth. how was it? it was fantastic! how are you doing, jaden? hey! good. oh, my gosh.

it feels like i've left earth and now i'm just returning. it feels incredible, thank you. both models are closed. we've got two samples from the site. which makes me happy. 3,800 metres, there is enough pressure to break the cups. that's pretty good. everybody kind of started to go out, and i was trying to gather myself. cheering horn tooting. the ship even blew the horn, which was fantastic. and once i saw stockton, i started crying. happy tears!

happy tears. inaudible. 0ne less dream. it was like a weight lifted off my shoulders. i needed to do that to feel complete. and i feel now complete. we got it done.

hello, there. 0ur weather story will improve as the weekend progresses, but so far we've seen some rain, some of it heavy. this has been the progress of that wet weather this morning. we've seen around a quarter of an inch of rain in parts of north west england and that wet weather is going to continue to drift its way steadily northwards. it's going to be replaced by some blustery showers for saturday. a much drier, quieter story for most of us on sunday. so the morning rain confining itself to the northern isles by the end of the afternoon, sunny spells and blustery showers around an area of low pressure driven in by strong south—westerly wind. widely, we'll see gusts in excess of 30 to 40 miles an hour, maybe even stronger. so the most frequent showers along exposed west facing coasts, perhaps the driest and brightest of the weather in sheltered eastern areas. so highs of 17 degrees here, a little bit cooler further north and west. so that bodes well for the opening match of the rugby league world cup. yes, it's in newcastle and as you can see, hopefully those showers will stay

away this afternoon. now as we go through the evening and overnight, the area of low pressure driving those showers in will drift its way steadily northwards. it's going to allow a brief ridge of high pressure to build for a time and that's going to quieten things down for some day before another weather front gradually pushes into the southwest. but with those clearing skies, that means it's going to be a chilly start to sunday morning with single figures here. still some showers lingering in the far north of scotland. in actual fact, we'll continue to see some showers north west of the great glen throughout the day on sunday. but for most of us, dry settled with more sunshine coming through. you can see the next weather front waiting in the wings and that will gradually introduce more cloud and outbreaks of showery rain into south west england, wales and eventually northern ireland by the end of the afternoon. but with the sunshine comes a little more warmth. also, we'll see lighter winds during the day on sunday. so highs of 18 degrees. now, as we move out of sunday into monday, that frontal system, it's more of an overnight feature, really. so it's going to push its way through quite quickly.

again, quite a windy spell of weather to go with it. but once it clears away, we'll see a quieter start to our new working week before more wet weather threatens by thursday onwards. that's it. take care.

this is bbc news. i'm shaun ley, and these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. as the british prime ministerfights for her political life, her new finance minister admits mistakes were made in rolling out the government's new economic policy and that some taxes will rise. we are going to take some tough decisions. notjust on spending, but also undertakes. because we have to show the world that we have a plan that adds up financially, and that is of the ray will get stability back into the situation. at least 40 turkish miners are now known to have died following an underground explosion — dozens of others were injured. exchange of fire — ukraine continues to push back russian forces, but the invading troops aren't giving up.