we will all see a spell of rain at some point today. it has been a fine and bright start to the day across northern and eastern scotland. some lovely sunrise pictures earlier on this morning but the cloud is gathering. this is rain bearing clouds and the the rain stretches out into the atlantic. it would be more heavy rain to eastern england for tomorrow as well so it is going to stay pretty unsettled. this radar picture showers you where the rain has been over recent hours. moving across ireland, rain easing here but we've got wet weather heading across england and wales. it will tend to turn light and patchy nature so no huge amounts of rain across central and eastern areas and across the north—west of the country will brighten up to the afternoon with some sunny spells. all the while, south—westerly winds were being

madhur. and for bonfire celebrations, it looks like it will be quite cloudy. and clearer and drier weather for scotland and one or two showers for western scotland and perhaps western counties of northern ireland but for most it is a reasonable night. temperatures holding on double figures, colder into scotland. tomorrow, the zone of heavy rain working across england. i suspect the vinyl be more extensive and it will be persistent and heavy. by and it will be persistent and heavy. by that feature, there will be breaks in the cloud and some sunshine between the showers. some of them, though, are likely to be heavy showers with a rumble or two of thunder and it will turn quite windy with the threat of gales

across the north west later in the day. mad again, though. 12—14. into next week low pressure stays firmly in charge. rain moving through on monday into monday night. followed by showers from tuesday onwards so it is an unsettled looking weather picture, often quite windy but those westerly winds will bring very mild and i7 westerly winds will bring very mild and 17 degrees later next week which is about four above average. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: elon musk defends his decision to sack thousands of staff at twitter, but admits revenues will drop. in britain, there's disruption on the railways, despite a series of strikes being called off by the unions. vladimir putin publicly approves the evacuation of civilians from russian—occupied kherson, as ukraine's forces gear up for battle.

thousands of people have gathered in seoul to remember the victims of last week's halloween crush — many are demanding the president resign. and we meet the british teenagers getting a chance to explore antarctica, thanks to their work in the community. now on bbc news, the travel show. good girl! straight on! my name is lucy edwards and, nine years ago, i lost my eyesight completely. since then, i've been on a mission to use social media to showjust because i'm blind doesn't mean i'm broken. how does a blind girl play tennis? how does a blind girl organise her wardrobe? ride a motorbike? engine revs i don't, my dad does. i'm going to get off this now, cos it's scary.

when i first lost my sight, it felt like my world had shrunk forever. but now, i'm embarking on a great big african adventure in kenya. with the help of my cane and a guide, i will tackle some challenging terrain... and you were using my cane, weren't you? it's the toughest thing i have ever done. ..come face—to—face with the effects of rhino poaching... you know, he's meant to teach people a lesson... crying he's meant to be here, to get people to understand that you shouldn't be poaching these beautiful animals. ..and end up metres away from some very hungry lions. i can hear a lion and a buffalo! yes, he wanted to hunt.

but the real highlight of my trip will be experiencing what's been called one of the great spectacles of the natural world — the great migration. so this is the eighth wonder of the world. each year, tourists from around the globe flock to see over 1.5 million wildebeest risk their lives avoiding predators like lions and crocodiles, as they make their way from the serengeti in tanzania to the masai mara in kenya, in search of fresh grass. but how can someone like me experience a "must—see" spectacular like this? well, i'm going to try and find the answer to... how does a blind girl go on safari?

this is my little make—up bag. i like to have things all in their set places, so i get everything on the bed first, then i'm like, right, let me just sort my life out. i was 17 years old when i lost my eyesight. and since then, i have had to discover a load of life hacks to make tasks like packing a suitcase a lot easier. where is it? oh, yeah, there it is. so these are little packing cubes. basically, i put bottoms in one, tops in the other, i'll zip it up and i might even label, like, "day one," in braille, and i will pack it. i live in the uk with my two guide dogs, olga, who is now retired, and miss molly. i want you two to come so badly, but i don't want you to be eaten by lions! you are, you will be eaten

if you come, so you have to stay with nanny. going to put you in the car now, my lovelies. it's like my left arm has been chopped off, girls! she ultimately allows me to experience the world in a way where i don't get overwhelmed, because she's got it. # you spin me right round...# and it is not going to be like that in kenya, it's going to be me and my cane. not being able to take molly, it does scare me. so i have a new passport, and it has braille on it! it says "passport" there. the flight from london to nairobi takes just under nine hours. can't articulate properly, i'm like...are we going to be ok? goodbye! oh, it's somewhere here, it says 0.3 away, frederick. here it is. thank you! nairobi. kenya's capital has a population of around 4.5 million people,

and it is the country's largest city. it's my first ever morning here in africa, and i'm in a completely new environment, without the help of my guide dog, miss molly. nairobi is a place where many safaris begin. but as i'm only staying here for a couple of days, i'm going to try and explore a bit. and my first challenge is to cross this busy road. 0k. loud traffic i can still hear it all coming. yeah, i am crossing, thank you so much. thank you, that is lovely. this is the middle section. nairobi is very overwhelming. zero out of ten accessibility when crossing the road. actually, possibly one out of ten,

because of the lovely people. broken pavement... a guy actually grabbed my cane, but i didn't know what was happening. and that, to me, kind of puts me in a panic mode because i'm like, how can i control the situation, what am i going to do? i really wanted miss molly because she just tells me with her little face, she tilts it to the left or the right, where shop doors are and things. so relying on my cane, it's like, there is so much stuff in the way. it feels like i'm in a festival, actually, with all the crowd noises. a matatu is a party on wheels, and a very popular form of public transport here. each one is decorated with images of famous tv shows, rappers and sports teams.

which is great — unless you are visually impaired. speaks in own language hello there! hi. can i get on the bus? yeah, you can get on the bus. let me help you. right foot up, slowly, slowly. this is really not like the 110 to birmingham that i used to get to school. loud music plays i can't hear anything over the music! how am i meant to know where i am? i don't know. finally, i've come across a market — but notjust any market,

a masai market. these are people, these are sailors. a masai market means that we, as kenyans, have been making from condition raw, and they are traditional arts. the masai are a tribe in kenya whose homeland is the masai mara, a savannah wilderness in south—western kenya, and the scene of the great migration that i will be heading to when i leave nairobi. this one is the wildebeest. so what does he look like? these are the legs, here is the ears. oh, that is the ears? yeah. 0h, they've got weird ears, i didn't know that they felt like that! yeah, they are these ones! how much is he? 500. can you do me for a00? i can do for you. the market was great fun, and ifelt like i really got

to experience nairobi. but beneath the smiles, i must admit i am completely overwhelmed and missing my guide dog, who helps me make sense of the world. back in the hotel room, and it is currently... 10:26pm in nairobi. and it has been such a full—on day, full of so many emotions. i am so excited for what is in store, but i cannot believe this is day one! i am one of the 340,000 people in the uk who's registered blind or partially sighted. but vision impairment is on a spectrum, and everyone is different. and if you are wondering what i can see, it is pretty much this — wherever i am in the world.

when i first went blind, the world became a scary place, and i never dreamed that one day, i would be going on a safari in africa. i have come a long way since those early days, but there is no doubt i am going to need some help. so i am heading to the nairobi national museum to meet william, who says he will be the perfect guide to take me to the masai mara. hi! hello, you must be william! how are you? lovely to meet you, i am lucy! i am william, pleasure to meet you. i know this is a little bit forward as we have just met, but i wondered if you can audio—describe yourself so i can build a picture of you in my mind. i am five foot nine. ok, i can hear where your voice... i like short hair, you can touch my hair, i love short hair. 0k, lovely. i don't have any beard. and what are you wearing?

i'm wearing a green sweater. lovely, perfect. and i'm wearing khaki shorts. yes, i will be your eyes for today. and i have a small surprise for you. you do? i do. ok, that sounds really cool. my big surprise is getting to meet some of the stars of the savannah. the great hall of mammals is a collection of taxidermy animals which have been in the museum for years. but not every visitor gets to get up this close and personal. so a zebra has one colour, and the other colour on the top. all of the mouth is black, so we say a zebra is black and white on the top. laughs

i think touching taxidermy animals initially was like, oh! do the teeth look like traditional human teeth? like human teeth, but much bigger, two times bigger. i don't know, how are they going to smell, how are they going to feel when i'm touching these dead animals, let's put it bluntly. yes, i want you to touch the eyebrows. i was like, no, lucy, just experience it completely and wholly, this is one of your main senses now, touch. and how you know an elephant is right—handed or left—handed is by the tusk. so this elephant is right—handed. right—handed? the shorter the tusk, that is the side that it uses most the time. and another thing, when he wants to warn you, you will see him flapping one, two, three. another thing about the giraffe, it has the biggest heart.

the heart of a giraffe is 14 to 15 kilos, so that it can pump the blood up there. for me, i last saw nine years ago, so when i think of visual memories or anything that i used to be able to see, it's like someone has taken a picture and put that picture in a drawer and locked it away for nine years. so that is what today was about, it was reimagining things that i used to be able to see and now can't. the next day, it was time to leave nairobi and begin my journey to the masai mara, with will as my guide. after a couple of hours on the road, it was time for a spot of lunch and a chance to use another of my senses that i've come to rely on more since going blind, and that's taste.

oh, my god, it feels spiky, like a pine cone! what colour is it? it's green. and yellow. it smells like a green apple. thank you! the melon was like something i'd never tasted before, like a cross between a banana and melon. thank you, thank you! because i can't see the world around me, i need to be able to taste it. and how i digest a culture is through their delicacies!

leaving the city far behind, we reach 0l pejeta, a 98,000—acre conservancy, located on the equator in central kenya, and home to some of the big five, including lions. this is where i'm hoping to have a first encounter with the animals that have made kenya a top safari destination. the smell is different here, as are the sounds. i'm told 60—70 lions call 0l pejeta home, but with many endangered species also living here, it's important to keep track on the lions and check they aren't preying on any of the rare animals. we have managed to put a collar

on one of the lionesses�*s neck, and once we are able to track and find that one lionness, we are able to see the other members. this is a sample collar. can i have a feel? you can have a feel, yes. it's not that heavy. lions are strong. because we have a gps tracking machine. and then i'll put it on, you could hear the sound which comes from it. radio white noise once the machine communicates with the collar, the sound will change. in front of me is an elephant. an elephant. so these two young males, they are very close, i want you to listen to them

because they are eating grassjust close to me. whispers: ok. that's so beautiful. yes. it's making me cry. i feel really emotional. i don't know, i haven't been able to watch documentaries in years about nature, and these are a few of my favourite. so, it's really sweet. thank you so much, will. it's really lovely that i can hear them in real life. i didn't know that it would make me this emotional. it's good, you can hear them. it's a good moment for me. i really feel it inside, in my heart. yes, thank you so much for sharing with me because it means the world to me that you are talking to me about all this culture around you, because it's just so special because i can't see it, i can hear them, so yes, thank you.

you are so welcome, you are so welcome. so i hope we will see more. yes, hopefully. and i want you to listen and smell the environment. yes. and i will try my level best to teach you whatever i have entered my heart, and whatever i know, i will try my level best to do that. i will. safari is said to be a game of chance and you aren't always going to be lucky and find what you set out to seek. but when it feels like all hope is lost... radio white noise you hear it, louder. so they are in—between this direction. - i know that the lions won't get me, but do they come close to the car?

can you hear them? there's so many things running through my head at the minute. when the signal is strong enough, samuel is allowed to take his vehicle off—road. they are there. do you? do you see them? oh, i can hear it. whispers: she is breathing quite heavily, isn't she? we have two female lions. we have one which is called lucy. this is lucy behind you. how far away? very, very close. and vanessa is just on the branches, sleeping.

so they are two sisters and there is a cub, lucy's cub is just right in front of you, just about six metres just from you. lions are like cats. daytime, they are sleeping. they hunt early in the morning or at night. does she look like the lion king? that's the last memory of lions i have. yes, yes, she looks like the lion king. yes, she does. and the cub that we see there looks exactly like the cub which was in the lion king. exactly. i don't really look at photos like everybody else, and i don't remember things through looking at a photo. i would remember the sound of that bird or remember

the time i spent here. i'm going to take in all of your recording tonight. sound is an important sense for me. but sight no longer is. so when night falls around here and darkness descends, i'm no longer so much at a disadvantage, as the bush really comes to life. i prefer night safaris because i feel like all the animals are at my level. laughs and ifeel quite equal with my environment at night time. there he is. whispers: are we going to hear the lion and the buffalo? yes. yes, he is going to hunt.

no way! hear the lion chasing them? are they running away? yes, from the lion. is he chasing them? let's get closer. let's go, let's go, let's go. they have already killed the young buffalo. no way! it's on your left. what are they doing now? it's so disgusting. that smell, it's like they were chewing something really soft. that smell can attract other scavengers, like, behind them. the sounds and smell of a bush kill are like nothing i've ever experienced before. things have just turned wild.

i can't believe i've just heard what i've just heard. singing hello there. we're all going to see a spell of rain at some point during the day today but, that said, it has been a fine and a bright start to the day across northern and eastern scotland and eastern england. some lovely sunrise pictures earlier on this morning. but the cloud is gathering. this is rain—bearing cloud, and the weather front bringing the rain stretches a long way out into the atlantic. a little bump on the frontjust here is going to be bringing more heavy rain to eastern england for tomorrow as well.

so, it is going to stay pretty unsettled. this radar picture shows you where the rain has been over recent hours. moving its way across northern ireland, the rain beginning to ease away here, but we've got the wet weather heading across scotland, england and wales. now, as it continues to push eastwards, the rain's going to tend to turn lighter and patchy in nature. so no huge amounts of rain really across central and eastern england and eastern scotland too. and eventually, across the north—west of the country, it will brighten up through the afternoon, with some sunny spells. all the while, south—westerly winds will be bringing mild air. those winds gusting into 30 mph. and then, for bonfire celebrations — celebrating, of course, my great uncle guy — it looks like it will stay quite cloudy. still with a few spots of light rain or drizzle across central and eastern england. clearer and drier weather for scotland, northern england, wales, and one or two showers for western scotland and perhaps into western counties of northern ireland. but for most, it's a reasonable night for bonfire celebrations. temperatures holding up into double figures. a bit colder than that, though, into scotland.

now, tomorrow, as i mentioned, we have got more rain on the way. that bump on the weather front i showed you on the satellite picture is this zone of heavier rain working across eastern england. i suspect the rain's going to be more extensive across the eastern half of england, where it's always going to be quite persistent and heavy. behind that feature, we'll see plenty of showers packing in. there'll be some breaks in the cloud and some sunshine between these showers. some of them, though, are likely to be quite heavy showers, with a rumble or two of thunder, and it will turn quite windy, with the threat of gales across the north—west late in the day. mild again, though. 12 to 14 degrees for many of you. now, into next week, low pressure stays firmly in charge. we've got another band of rain set to move through on monday, into monday night, followed by showers from tuesday onwards. so, it's an unsettled—looking weather picture. often quite windy, but those south—westerly winds will continue to bring some very mild air. temperatures could hit 17 degrees later next week, which is about four above average.

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