this is bbc news. the headlines... us regulators have shut down silicon valley bank, a major lender to tech companies, after it ran into financial trouble. it's the largest bank failure since the 2008 banking crisis in the us. fellow broadcasters and commentators have said they will not work on match of the day after gary lineker was taken off presenting duties following social media posts criticising the government's asylum policy. the un's weather and climate monitoring agency says cyclone freddy is on course to be the longest—lasting tropical storm. it has left mauritius and madagascar, and is likely to reach

mozambique for a second time on saturday, forcing residents there to take shelter. now on bbc news, the travel show. this week, a look back at some of our most fascinating historical journeys. from the desert canyons ofjordan... that would be impressive if we built that today, but that was built thousands of years ago. look at it! to the noisy streets of paris. driving a 2cv car is not easy. driving in paris is not easy. well, now you're making me nervous! and from the majesty of lady liberty... it stood for freedom - and for liberty to people all over the world. ..to the drama of the kenyan bush.

hi! welcome to paris, where i'm soaking up the sun on the banks of the river seine. it's lovely. both the left bank and right banks of the river seine are unesco world heritage sites. the left is famous for inspiring generations of artists and intellectuals, while the right is home to the world's most—visited museum, the louvre. and with all this heritage to soak up here, it's the perfect setting to take an amble down memory lane and revisit some of our favourite historicaljourneys. and let's begin right here in paris. in 2018, one of the classics of the french car industry turned 70.

and christa managed to get behind the wheel to give it a spin. i'm definitely going to need a lesson, vincent. vincent takes guided tours around paris. now, where is the gear stick? the gear stick is there. 0k! she laughs so, you just turn that, if you want to pass the first one. and pull — this is first, 0k? then back to neutral... there? ..and push, second. second. this is very unusual. yeah, i know, it's unique. this might take... please excuse me if we bunny—hop up the street. they laugh driving a 2cv feels actually very different to any kind of modern car. you can feel the engine under your foot, you know, and the noise of the car. and it's very physical. and it's not a car that goes very fast, but it's not the goal, you know? it is a very, kind of,

active experience. yeah. there's no sitting back and letting the car do its work. you have to be involved. yeah, exactly. and on the left — this is the louvre museum. is there something...? i mean, do you think this is part of french identity? yes, it is, of course, yes. with the baguette and the stripes. they laugh ooh! we'll have to stop for a baguette! yeah. you're very brave, because driving a 2cv car is not easy. driving in paris is not easy. driving for the first time in a 2cv car in paris is really, really brave for you. well, now you're making me nervous! there are no airbags, the windows aren't electric and, as for ac — let's just say it's pretty rudimentary. but for some reason, the french really seem to love the 2cv. as long as that remains

the case, the car they called the "tin snail" will keep ploughing its own furrow on slow lanes everywhere. christa there at the wheel of an absolute classic, right here in paris, back in 2018. right, it's time for us to cross over to a completely different part of the world now, as we transport you from the brisk northern coastlines of europe to the dust and the sand of southern jordan. petra is one of the world's most famous archaeological sites. carved out of the desert 2,000 years ago, it was built by a local tribe called the nabataeans. well, in 2016, i went to see efforts to protect this ancient site from the elements, and from tourists like me.

this split in the rocks is called the siq, and it was the only entrance, or way in and out of the city. and it would've been heavily guarded to stop anyone from sneaking in and trying to take over. it's just breathtaking. at the end of the siq is the most famous part of petra, the treasury. an elaborate temple carved from the sandstone. just take a look around, you can see how popular this place is. it's the most visited in all ofjordan — but having all of these people here can bring problems. the delicate rocks are easily damaged by tourists touching the monuments or walking off the designated trails, especially in places where excavations are under way. but now, there's a project

aimed at getting tourists themselves involved with the conservation of the monuments, to help protect one of the most threatened sites in the whole of petra. this is the temple of winged lions, a religious complex built in around 27 ad. i'm liking your office, glenn. i like what you've done with it. no, this is a beautiful place. this is... voice—over: glenn is in charge of the site, and tells me how the problems here started in the 1970s, when the temple was first excavated. they uncovered this cool monument, but didn't do a wonderfuljob of doing the things necessary to preserve it for future generations. whenever you excavate a monument, you have to pull a lot of the earth out of the ground in order to reveal it. and so, this earlier project dumped a lot of that earth.

and so, as you'll see, we're trying to re—excavate those earlier archaeological dumps. the dumps are huge mounds of compressed earth which will take years to sort through. at the moment, there's a team of local people tackling this mammoth task. we have specialists who come and actually work and train and work with the local community, and not have them just be regular day labourers that sort of help with manual labour, but actually training them in the tangible vocational skills to help them preserve the site in the coming years. and the idea is that the locals then train tourists to help out, too. we're going to have them working on the soil dumps, looking for pottery and coins, and other things the original excavation missed, to have the experience of actually doing archaeology for a day. i've got some skills, man. have you got a digger here, orsomething? yeah, we're ready to go. ready? woo! this is an interesting

route to get down here. so, tell me what you're doing. now we sift most of this sand... ahmed and iman both grew up in petra, and have become experts at sorting through the material here. so, you're basically sieving out all the dust and looking for the valuable pieces. yes. can i have a go? i was enjoying tasting the dust, but now... voice—over: iman shows me the sort of thing they're looking for. like, normal stones, we don't need them. j we don't need to keep them. yeah, that doesn't look very valuable, that one. no. so, this is part of a jar. and it's nabataean. so, that'd be the original people who lived here, the nabataea ns? yes. so, that'd be very, very old? yeah. wow. that's 2,000 years old. 2,000 years old? let's see if i can find any treasures. 0k, stand back. let the... let the master get to work. is that cool? yeah.

let's look. that's stone. i'm terrible, i can't find anything! well, i might not be having much luck — but over the last few years, they've found all sorts here. painted pottery, coins, lamps and decorations from the temple. now, as more pieces are retrieved and catalogued, it's hoped we can learn more about the everyday lives of the people who built this incredible city more than 2,000 years ago. oh, wow, that brought back some lovely memories of pushing around that ancient city — even though it was a little bit bumpy on my wheels — and imagining what that beautiful place must�*ve looked like all of those years ago. right. do not go anywhere, because we've got loads more still to come, including...

..the secrets of lady liberty, and the new museum sitting at her feet. now, for the piece de resistance. the original torch. wow! it stood up there from 1886 to 1984. and how punk helped bring down the berlin wall. so, make sure you don't go away. welcome back to paris. now, just behind me is the iconic notre dame. sadly, we can't take you inside because it's still undergoing repairs after that devastating fire back in 2019. so, why don't we take you somewhere completely different, like kenya? we're off on safari, in memory of one of history's most famous lions. elsa was made a star in the movie born free, which hit the big screens

in 1966. it was based on a book byjoy adamson about her and her husband george's attempt to rescue an orphaned lion cub and train it for life in the wild. so, back in 2015, we sent henry, our very own hollywood movie star, to meru national park to find out more. this park is virtually unchanged since george and joy were here. really lucky, because we've come across a lioness and her cub. they've just feasted, so this is the moment where they get really lazy. they've nestled just below a lovely tree for some shade. this kind of... ..reminds you of what elsa would've been doing here in meru national park. george had this lovely call. never had to shout.

just gently called him "boy, boy". "hey, boy! boy! come, boy!" voice-over: of course, - joy and george needed helpers - and one of those was jonny baxendale, george's godson. he helped return the born free lions to the wild, but used to come back out to their favourite haunts for regular visits. you neverfelt in danger at all? never. no? they were relaxed. there was no tension, there was no issues. we knew very well that, you know, they would walk up to us and greet us in the most amazing way. the pair used to sit under this tamarind tree with warm beers. it doesn't take long for the memories to come flooding back. just being with him, and being able to work with him and see how he absolutely handled his lions and how relaxed he was. and he had this amazing rapport with his environment. he was totally in harmony with his environment.

and this is the born free country. this is where it all happened. this is where elsa was found, and this is where elsa died. memories of elsa the lion, from back in 2015. what a cool story that was. ok, it's time to go from the plains of africa to the razzmatazz of new york — and one old lady who's been watching over the city for well over a century. the statue of liberty has dominated new york harbour since 1886, a gift from the people of france. well, in 2019, a brand—new museum in her honour opened. so, lucy got the early ferry to liberty island, to be among the first

to check it out. there are three primary areas of the museum. people come in, they'll go into the immersive theatre. then they'll move on to the engagement gallery, which is where we're standing right now. and the engagement gallery is primarily the history of the statue of liberty. its beginning, and then how it became the symbol of america. and now, it's used in every sort of thing that you can think of. the museum takes people all the way back to the statue's creation.

in 1885, it was shipped in 350 individual pieces over to new york, where it was reassembled and unveiled to the american public the next year. in 1885, it was shipped in 350 individual pieces over to new york, where it was reassembled and unveiled to the american public the next year. and then, you finish with the inspiration gallery. now for the piece de resistance. the original torch. the torch! wow! stood up there from 1886 to 1984. talk to me about how difficult it was to get the torch in here. well, i didn't have to do it. they laugh but it was...it was quite a task. people worked for about two weeks from 3pm in the afternoon till 3am at night. and they had this carrier that they laid the face on its back and then put

the torch on it. and it all worked quite well. and here it is. martin and his team have been in charge of conserving the torch and cleaning it up. well, today is the last day. it's, sort of, the clean—down from the top down. - and so, as they're finishing up the lighting fixtures inside, . myjob is then the final . clean—down of everything that falls down. it'sjust a simple cotton cloth, just trying to get| the heavy things out. just getting rid of that dirt. yeah, like with any cleaning job, it's never done. i think it's really quite impressive, just how much detail there is on something that really wasn't designed to be seen close up. you know, just the detail is so intricate, it's... it's pretty amazing how itj all comes together, huh? part—to—part, piece—to—piece. and then, all of a sudden, you've got a torch. - yeah!

it's so iconic. and you think about its history, and how it stood for freedom and for liberty to people all over the world. it really is a remarkable piece of work. and the museum is free to all visitors of liberty island. lucy on liberty island, in 2019. now, to one of my personal historical highlights, on a trip to germany in that same year. it'd been exactly 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall — the structure that had divided notjust a city, but families, nations and superpowers. stretching over 80 miles, it was built to separate

the communist east and the capitalist west. but i was there to find out how, amongst other things, an energetic underground punk scene helped to bring about its demise. chaos was the frontman forwuntanfall, one of the scene's top bands.

defiant anti—authoritarian punks. 0n multiple occasions, chaos was imprisoned and brutally beaten. back then, the intense scrutiny of the stasi meant that gigs often had to be held in the unlikeliest of locations.

this is the place? wow. this is pretty spectacular. yeah, it's a church. he laughs i can't imagine hundreds of punks coming to a church for a concert. yeah, but hundreds of beer. what was the vibe and energy like in here?

when you think about those times, those difficult times during the gdr period where you were intimidated by the stasi, and the problems that you had amongst the people in the streets, would you do it again? don't you just love that? history told to us by people who were there, actually making things happen. right, coming up next time, the

story of a magnificent mount. mont saint—michel, in northern france, is celebrating its millennium. i often compare the mont saint—michel as being thejewel, and the bay the box. so, that's the jewel and the box — you've got it all. nice. i head there to take a peek behind the scenes and find out how things have changed there in all those years. until then, you can follow us on social media. we're in all the usual places, along with lots of other great travel content from around the bbc. see you soon. bye— bye.

hello. s take stakea s take a look at the weather for the week ahead, some truly atrocious weather conditions early on friday morning but it turned into quite a pretty day with a lot of blue sky and sunshine developing, as you can see from our pictures, but still a lot of lying snow around. 0urweather still a lot of lying snow around. 0ur weather system, the deep area of low pressure that gave us that snow is pushing off entered the near continent, their winds are lightening behind so on friday night into saturday it will be bitterly cold with icy stretches from the midlands to the north and temperatures could drop to —12, a widespread frost into the start of the weekend away from the far south—west. dry for most of us on saturday away from the western coast and there will be more snow on saturday night for northern england and for scotland and thenit england and for scotland and then it turns milder on sunday.

0n then it turns milder on sunday. on saturday morning, a bit more detail. here is our weather front approaching from the south—west, some snow across the moors, devon and cornwall for a time, snow to lower levels in wales but mostly confined to the higher ground. approaching north west england by the end of the day, brightness further east, cloud will increase through the day, maybe one or two snow showers across the borders and a central belt of scotland but then of course we've got our weather front moving eastwards and the area still cold so it is likely to turn cold across northern england and scotland, to lower levels for a time before it comes increasingly more confined to the higher ground. all tied in with this weather front that will sweeping from the west. a lot of this will fall as rain but still snow across northern scotland, the cold air hangs on the northern isles as well for much of the day and into the start of next week. elsewhere, it will be falling as rain, it will turn wet and windy, temperatures all the way up

into double figures, ten to 13 celsius. they will be a lot of snow melt as well into the start of next week and this could lead to localised flooding with more rain on top moving in on another front as we head through monday, so wet and windy again, temperatures 12 to 13 degrees but still cold air across much of northern scotland. that cold air is making a return because as we head throughout monday night into tuesday, we have a northerly wind developing and they will be snow showers tracking down on that northerly wind as we had through the day on tuesday so across much of northern scotland moving into northern scotland moving into northern england, northern ireland, and parts of wales as well, and further south and east, the more likely you are to stay dry on tuesday but it will still feel cold with a drop in temperature and plenty of added wind—chill. the cold air on tuesday, you can see that in the blue, but the mother in yellow is not too far away, and reading through it again on the weather front we will have another battleground situation between the cold air and the milderair

situation between the cold air and the milder air towards the south—west and of course as all of this moisture hits the cold air, it is likely to turn to snow. the cold air hangs on. we will see the milder air make a return, certainly as we head into that are part of next week, the low pressure not too far away so more athletic systems spreading in for the west, it is likely to be wet and windy at times, do keep an eye on the forecast, there is still a lot of uncertainty.

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