this is bbc news. the headlines: with a couple of days to go until the us midterm elections, president biden and barack obama have hit the campaign trail in philadelphia in a final effort to win votes in the critical contest, while donald trump has held his own republican rally in pennsylvania. iran has admitted supplying what it calls "a limited number" of drones to russia, but iranian state media has said there's "no evidence" they've been used in ukraine. president zelensky has called on tehran to come clean about the extent of its involvement in the conflict. police say the firebombing ofan immigration

centre in dover, in south east england, was the result ofan act of terrorism. authorities believe andrew leak, who is thought to have killed himself after the attack last sunday, was motivated by an extreme right—wing ideology. 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? how does a blind girl ride a motorbike? engine revs. i don't — my dad does. i'm going to get off this now because it's scary.

african music plays. 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? laughs. it is the toughest — 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... cries. ..he�*s meant to be — he's meant to be here to get people to understand that you shouldn't be poaching these beautiful animals. sniffs. ..and end up metres away from some very hungry lions. here he is! 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. lucy gasps. 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 am 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 and then i'm like, "right, let mejust 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 then i'lljust pack it. i live in the uk with my two guide dogs, olga, who is now retired, and miss molly. oh, 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. gotta 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 has got it. # you spin me right round... and it's not going to be like that in kenya — it's gonna 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 takesjust under nine hours. can't articulate properly. i'm like... are we going to be ok? bye now! bye— bye! 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's the country's largest city. it is 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. that's so close. 0k. loud traffic noise. i can still hear it all coming. would you like to cross? 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. quite 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 am 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. 0k, ok, thank you. let me help you. slowly, slowly. right foot up. slowly, slowly. yells: this is really not like the 110 to birmingham that i used to get to school! love you first, genuinely. 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. oh, yeah. oh, lovely. these are people, these are sailors. a masai market means that we, as kenyans, we 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 is the wildebeest. 0h! 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. oh, they've got weird ears! i didn't know that they felt like that! yeah, they are these ones! how much is he? 500. could 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's currently... robotic voice speaks. ..10:26pm in nairobi. and it has been such a full—on day, full of so many emotions. i am so excited for what's in store, but i cannot believe this is only 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're 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'd be going on a safari in africa. i've come a long way since those early days but there is no doubt i'm going to need some help. so, i'm 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'm lucy! i'm 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, just so i can build a picture of you in my mind. ok, i am five foot nine. ok, yep, i can hear where your voice... i like short hair — you can touch my hair — i love short hair. oh, ok, lovely. i don't have any beard. oh, ok. and what are you wearing?

i'm wearing a green sweater. lovely, perfect. and i am wearing khaki shorts. shorts. yes, i will be your eyes for today. and i have a small surprise for you. you do? i do. oh, ok, that sounds really cool. my big surprise is getting to meet some of the stars of the savannah. elephant ttrumpets. 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. ok. 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 than human teeth — two times bigger. i don't know, how are they going to smell? how are they going to feel when i am touching these dead animals, let's put it bluntly. yes, i want you to touch the eyebrows. i was like, "no, lucy. "like, 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. is right—handed? it is right—handed. the shorter the tusk, that is the side that it uses most the time. m ost ofte n. 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. wow. 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 thorn 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 ol 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 am told 60—70 lions call ol 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 lioness, 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. you know, lions are strong. because we have a gps tracking machine. and then i'm gonna put it on you could hear the sound which comes from it. radio white noise once the machine communicates with the collar, this sound will change. ok. 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 grass just 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 is 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. ok. it's -ood, 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'sjust 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. and i will try my level best safari is said to be a game of chance and you aren't always

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 club that we see there looks exactly like the club 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 am going to take in all of your recording tonight. sound is an important sense for me.

but site no longer is. —— but sight no longer is. so when night falls around here and darkness descends, i am 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? you heard the rip. 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 in foreign language hello. a bit more sunshine around for many as we go through sunday, but it won't be completely dry day by any means. we'll see plenty of showers around and for one or two, a particularly wet morning. we've got low pressure that is creeping in ever closer off the atlantic and here it is on the shorts. around that, we are going to see strengthening winds pushing to the west. but before it properly arrives, the weather front that was with us yesterday today has developed a little bubble on it.

and into the start of sunday, could produce some very heavy rain. very mild conditions towards the southeast corner. cooler elsewhere some clear skies and one or two showers. of the folks in the first part of the morning. channel islands through to set these england and parts of east anglia with the heavy rain, some of or seen a months worth of rain is the last five days. it could be some further flooding around. that rain eventually easing. away from that though, showers mainly in the west to begin with will develop a bit more widely and push their way northwards and eastwards. there will be some spots of northeast england that stage right and brightening up to scotland into the afternoon with more in the way of drier weather. winds will be picking up throughout the day, particularly towards the southwest where you could see winds gusting in at a0 miles an hour through the afternoon and temperatures the degree or so up on saturday's values, ten to 15 degrees. now as you go through sunday evening and overnight, we will see the showers continue with an area of low pressure pushing its way towards the northwest of scotland, strongest winds across the west and perhaps some longer spells of rain to take us into monday morning. it shouldn't be too chilly a night though as we go through the night into monday morning, thanks to the strength of that breeze which is coming in from a mouth south—westerly

direction but it will bring plenty of cloud around on monday. a scattering of showers again just to buy for anyone, but not a huge amount of sunshine between them and even though we haven't got the sunshine, temperatures continue to climb under the southwest winds around 13 to 16 degrees. later in the day though, the winds really will be starting to pick up. 40, 50, 60 mile an hour gusts possible out towards the west. those winds strengthen even further as we go through monday night as this weather front pushes its way eastwards. one low pushes out and another one approaches from the west as we go through the coming week. at this next one is going to be dragging our air all the way from the mid—atla ntic. so, the second of the week, will continue to see those temperatures climbed. so, after rather chilly weekend, there will be temperatures around normal for this week ahead, temperatures will climb but is high pressure builds into the south and east, there will be more in the way of dry weather. see you soon.

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