this is bbc news. the headlines. jamie lee curtis has won the best supporting actress at the oscars, which are taking place in hollywood. her co—star in the the film everything everywhere all at once ke huy quan has taken home the best supporting actor award for the same film. the us government has announced a rescue plan to ensure all depositors in the failed silicon valley bank can retrieve their funds by the start of the working week. the treasury said the plan will ensure the resilience of the broader us banking system. the uk prime minister has flown to california to discuss

defence and the potential threat from china. rishi sunak is due to meet the australian prime minister, and the us president. the three countries are expected to agree to provide australia with nuclear powered submarines. 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 yourfoot, 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, normalstones, we don't need them. 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. ok, 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. 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 wasjonny 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. 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. the original torch. the torch! the original torch. wow! stood up there from 1886 to 1984. talk to me about how difficult it was to get the torch in here. well, it — i didn't have to do it. laughs. but it was — it was quite a task. yeah. 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's just 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 impressivejust 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 it 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 for wutanfall, one of the scene's top bands.

east germany's secret police, the stasi, regularly targeted defiant anti—authoritarian punks. on 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? chucrch organ plays. wow. this is pretty spectacular. yeah, it's a church. laughs. i can't imagine hundreds of punks coming to a church for a concert. yeah, but hundreds of beer. chuckles. 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? punk music plays. 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 the jewel 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 there. the snow was melting on sunday, temperatures were widely in double figures, but that doesn't mean the cold weather has gone away because we've got warnings from the met office through monday and into tuesday for snow and ice across northern parts of the uk. and it's cold in the far north of scotland — temperatures close to freezing first thing in the morning. otherwise, it is a very mild start to monday. we may well have some early sunshine across eastern parts of england before we see a few showers. other parts of the uk, more cloud, showers or longer spells of rain, and the rain in scotland is going to be turning more to snow, particularly over the hills as a northerly wind strengthens. it's going to be a windy day. we'll see gales developing in the north of scotland later and strong to gale force winds widely across england and wales, where we've still got temperatures in double figures on monday afternoon. but it's getting colder in northern ireland and particularly in scotland, and that rain undercut by that cold northerly wind will be turning to snow. more fresh snow, particularly

over the hills — 5—10 centimetres above 300m. could be a bit of snowjust for a while at low levels, too. and that mixture of rain, sleet and snow, mainly for the hills, will sweep down across england and wales after dark, clearing away by tuesday morning. and then, we're all in a north—westerly wind which will bring down colder air once again. and it will bring a mixture, really, of sunshine and scattered wintry showers, initially across scotland, northern ireland. they'll push down into england and wales — not much, though — arriving in southern england or south wales, and the afternoon may be drier in scotland and northern ireland. but it's colder — typical temperatures are going to be four orfive degrees, but there'll be a north—westerly wind as well, which will make it feel even colder. and those temperatures will fall very quickly overnight as we see skies clear and the winds drop. wednesday morning will start with a widespread frost. temperatures in scotland could be about —8 or so. and while it's a dry start, we'll see the cloud

increasing during wednesday. rain coming in a little more quickly with some snow over hills in the north, particularly for scotland. still quite cold air — temperatures around 5—8 degrees. so, over the week ahead, while we've seen some mild weather over the weekend, things are turning colder. we've got the risk of some snow and ice but then, things turn milderfrom thursday, when we're more likely to get some rain.

welcome to bbc news. i'm rich preston. our top stories: at the oscars, it's already been a good night for the superhero comedy everything everywhere all at once and the german film all quiet on the western front — both films have won multiple awards. there is a buzz in the air that we may be in for a surprise for the night's top award. could all quiet on the western front win best picture? we will know anything next hour. the us government announces a rescue plan to ensure all depositors in the failed silicon valley bank

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