i've come a long way, learning to live with sight loss. hello, sweetheart. good girl. but i've never been this far away from home. it's just hit me like a ton of bricks that it's actually really hard, being in a new place when you can't see it. in this second part of my travels, i get to grips with the future in tokyo. ai voice: start navigation. i've never been guided by an ai before! this is so cool! and i discover a new sense of hope in hiroshima. lucy sobs there's so many names. i believe that this journey that i'm about to embark on is going to be one of the best of my lifetime. this is japan: the way i see it. i'm kicking off the second leg of myjourney in tokyo, home to 37 million people.

tokyo being the biggest city in the world, there are definitely sirens around, a hustle and bustle to the air. people injapan are so techie, and it's really cool. and for me, i think tech really does help me when i'm travelling as a blind person. it allows me to have a much more fulfilling experience. i think when you first go blind, you rip up the rule book of anything you've learned. you know, the sighted world doesn't apply. so making toast and buttering it is a massive achievement. those little wins that i had were just so amazing. and i want them here injapan. i walked up to the vending machine, had high hopes that

i could take a picture with my ai app, and it lets me know everything that's in front of me. i love the fact that it can translate japanese. it says, "the picture you sent was a vending machine located "on a street." it's telling me i'm in tokyo. there's fanta and coca—cola. because i'm not used to vending machines in this country. i'm used to the set—up being really different. how much is the coca—cola, question mark? 130 yen. right. what button do i press? "in the picture, the coca—cola is second row from the top. "third button from the left." "give it money." it's not talking. two, three.

0k — yay! i've got something, and it's dinging at me. 0h, 0k. this doesn't feel like coca—cola. what's this drink, question mark? ooh, it's a latte! why not? i don't care, i've got a drink. never had a latte in a bottle. that is so good. i would've went with that, to be fair. i can't believe i'm standing on a street in tokyo, and i've just managed to get myself a drink independently. that achievement will stay with me for the rest of my life. i haven't been able to do that for ten years, since i lost my vision. so, yeah, ifeel quite emotional, and i love this latte. guys, was there actually coke in the vending machine? producer: no. ai has completely changed the game for me.

at first, i was quite freaked out that a computer could tell me what a sighted guide could tell me. but now i think it's so cool. i'm going to meet an extraordinary inventor who's pioneering tech for accessibility. nice to meet you. hi, lucy. nice to meet you. dr chieko asakawa is developing what could become the world's first robot guide dog. oh, my gosh, is it a navigation tool? is it like a different aid other than a long white cane? yes, yes. 0h, brilliant! a mobile phone app is used to programme a destination into the suitcase, which plans a route and directs the user. just hold the handle — not too tight. which button? ai voice: resume navigation. yeah, resume navigation. just hold. 0h!

0k, bye. bye! i've never been guided by an ai before! this is so cool! ai voice: push the elevator button on your front. .. - push the elevator button on your front left. no way — no way! it's moving me round the lift! we're going down. go! it's not a guide dog. forward ! no, door�*s not closing! no, suitcase! ok, i'm out the lift. go! faster, faster, faster, faster, faster. i think he's possibly going slow because there's loads of stuff around me. he's just being careful. he cares about my wellbeing.

come on, robot, you can do it. there's amazing people out there developing al to change the lives of our community. and now a! is allowing me to see the world again. this is so cool. i know i keep saying that, but it's just insane. you have arrived at - exhibition number one — how your body is made. hi, lucy. hello, i made it! why was it your mission, when it wasn't anyone else's, to make the world accessible? it was my first priority to be independent. i didn't want to give up anything because i cannot see. you might think your options, choices are limited compared to sighted people, but that's when you take a fresh approach, act, and never give up. it will lead to chances you never imagined.

i, for so long, felt that i couldn't really have a lot of hope, because i never believed that the world would ever accept me for who i am any more. and when you have to grow up overnight and you don't have any vision any more, that really does shape your view of the world. my time in tokyo has come to an end, and i am on the move again. i have to ration my energy levels when i'm in a new place. understanding and navigating that environment and then trying to hear all of the different sounds around me, that is so overwhelming. whoa... may i help you?

is that 0k? that would be amazing. i think there's like... i was always telling myself, "i've got to be independent." and then independence became a really, like, negative word. in here? in there, yes, put in there. 0k. and then i realised that, you know, everyone on earth relies on someone. yeah, thank you — thank you so much. your train departing from track number 19. i9? 19. hiroshima. thank you so much. thank you. have a nice day. you too. in some ways, i feel much more confident coming through tokyo station because of the tactile paving. it is absolutely incredible. no matter how many people went in front of me, behind me, i had my line and i had a sense of direction. i always say that i live in a sighted world that isn't made for me.

and i'm in a city... ..that accepts blindness so much. voice breaks: and i can't quite let myself believe... ..that i'll ever be truly accepted. but it feels like it here. feeling quite low—energy, to be honest. and i think i was so elated about getting on the train, the shinkansen, and feeling happy about the platform being accessible, it'sjust hit me like a ton of bricks that i'm now going to a new place and have to learn a new hotel room

and a new environment. it's actually really hard, being in a new place when you can't see it. i've taken the bullet train from tokyo about 500 miles to hiroshima. it's impossible to come here without acknowledging its past. gong clangs but first, i'm going to stay overnight in a buddhist temple on the outskirts of the city. the majority of japanese people are buddhist, so i want to understand what i can learn from this religion's teachings. good afternoon. konnichiwa! welcome to the kokubunji accommodation. oh, thank you for having me — i'm lucy. my host is shoko, the wife of the head monk. together, they run the temple. can i take your arm? mm—hm, yes.

lovely. watch the steps. 0k. when i first heard that i was going to a buddhist temple, i was like, "am i going to sleep on the floor? "am i going to be able to plug in my straighteners?" but then the innerjournalist within me was like, "you know, can you be a buddhist monk if you've lost your eyesight?" hi, lucy. hello! thank you very much for waiting. the temple for me is somewhere that you can really be with nature. i love that i can hear so much of the wilderness because it is in such a remote destination. have you ever slept in a futon before? no. 0h! it's the first time! yeah! oh, i love it! perfect. perfect! cooing

it's five a:m.. i slept so well on this futon, it's so nice. i realise i've hardly open my eyes. good morning. bell clangs monks chant i went to listen to the monks�* morning service, and the chanting really does relax you to the core. bells chime

gong clangs it's something about being in fight—or—flight all the time, and having a stress response to different environments around me. i feel like it really centred my nervous system. thank you, arigato.

this has definitely helped with my sensory overload of being in a new country and experiencing different things because, at the end of the day, i am just relying mainly on my hearing, so coming here, it's like a reset button for me. thank you so much for preparing this. i'm so excited to try it all. first time using chopsticks! 0k... ok, like that. i'm a chopstick novice. ijust could not get the hang of them. no! they chuckle but i was pleased because i've been taught by a monk. i got a little grain then! i actually felt really proud that i was eating with them.

i was very slow, but i'm going to use them at home. i'm a very confident person, but i don't believe that my hope is still shining in the same way that it did before i lost my vision. i still do see hope as a glass half—empty, rather than half—full. i think this self—exploration injapan is teaching me a different way to view hope and acceptance of myself. is buddhism accepting of disability in... you know, just being in this temple, ifeel like it is.

it's my last day, and i've come to meet mariko higashino in hiroshima peace park. ever since i learned about the disaster there, i felt compelled to find out about how people from the blast and the families that have followed actually deal with the aftermath of that. nice to meet you, lucy! konnichiwa! konnichiwa. could you audio describe

where we are, mariko? ok, hm—hm. mariko's mother and grandmother lived in hiroshima at the time of the bombing, and mariko has been sharing their story with the world.

wow. i'm so sorry.

is it this here as well? they were so young. they were the same age as me when i lost my eyesight. 0h... she stifles sob there's so many names. does it keep going? yeah. oh, my god. i didn't know it was this big.

thank you for showing me. even though i've lost one of my main senses, they didn't have the chance to start again and to figure out what their future was. you know, i owe it to them to have a future that is bright. oh, ok, to there? mm—hm, hold there — press? oh, wow! she chuckles. meeting mariko—san and learning about her family story and history... is this the symbol of hope? ..made me believe that...

..you can have a massive trauma in your life and still... ..and still have hope. meeting everyone that i've met on this trip has been a true blessing. go! yeah. she squeals they laugh. i can't wait to take a new sense of hope back home. i'm going to remember what the monk has taught me, how to meditate... ..understand that being with nature is one of the best things you can do for your mental health. understanding that hope comes even from the darkest of times. mariko taught me that. and... woman calls out in japanese

..a tactile experience is a beautiful one. sighted experiences don't have to always come first. hi, i'm levi, with the catch up. tonight — new pictures of sara sharif, an asteroid heading to earth, and a feathery pillow. but first, let's start with some positive news. an eight—year—old girl has become the first child in the uk to receive a special type of kidney transplant — that means she doesn't have to take long—term drugs to stop her body from rejecting it. doctors did it by reprogramming her immune system and using

bone marrow cells from her mum. here's her parents�* reaction. i feel so happy, actually. i've given the blood cells and the kidney... i'm so happy, yes, of course. i feel perfectly ok, yes. we're so proud — and she is amazing, she is doing very fine, each and every day. some other stories now — new images have been released of ten—year—old sara sharif, whose body was found at her home in woking in august. surrey police have released the pictures in hope that it'll prompt people to come forward with information. tributes are being paid to sheffield united midfielder maddy cusack, who has died at the age of 27. she'd been at the club since 2019, and became the first player to reach 100 appearances for the women's team last season. and in science — this weekend, a capsule is expected to fall from space and land in the american state of utah. it contains rocks and dust from an asteroid, which could give important clues

about how our planet was formed more than four billion years ago. and now, i'll leave you with ten seconds of laughter. michael from nottingham was walking to the shops when a pigeon crashed into him and hit him on the head. he said it felt like being whacked with a feather pillow. hope you enjoyed that as much as i did. have a good night! this week, it has certainly felt like autumn. at the end of the week, it has felt decidedly cool the week, it has felt decidedly cool. over the weekend, things are set to turn warmer but there is more wind and rain in there is more wind and rain in the forecast, and the main driver of the weekend weather is this world of cloud. this was a hurricane, hurricane nigel. not a hurricane any more but it is set to inject some extratropical moisture into this deep area of low pressure

that will be swirling to the northwest of us, that'll bring some wind and rain but also some wind and rain but also some slightly warmer southerly winds in our direction. but what we've had his northerly winds and some clear skies, a chilly start to saturday. through the day some spells of sunshine, turning hazy and thicker clouds rolling into west england, wales and northern ireland through the afternoon, a little bit of rain getting in here by the end of the day, temperatures 12—18 c. through saturday night, this weather front here starts to wriggle around and that will essentially hold it back across northern and western areas into sunday. so we can expect some quite heavy downpour of rain at times on sunday, particularly for northern ireland, wales, northwest england and up to scotland, turning particularly wet across the south side of scotland. some warmth returning, temperatures getting into the low 20s celsius. heading into sunday night, plenty more rain to come across

western parts of england, wales, northern ireland and western scotland, accompanied by some strong and gusty winds, wind gusts of 50—60 mph. the wind gusts of 50—60 mph. the wind could be sufficient to cause them to her because of travel disruption. heading into monday, this band of rain at weekends as it pushes to the southeast corner. sunny spells and showers following him behind, still probably speaking a south—westerly wind, some strong winds once again towards the western side of scotland. but with that wind direction, we will continue to see some warmer conditions, so temperatures in aberdeen up to 18 celsius, 22 in norwich and london. that feed of warm south—westerly winds as we head into tuesday, this next frontal system swinging into the atlantic will bring some outbreaks of heavy rain across northern ireland, western scotland, wales, western side of england, than eastwards through the day, sunshine and

showers following behind, and temperatures between 15—22 c. now for wednesday, it looks like — and this is a ways off — we will see and other developing system, this one spinning into a deep area of low pressure, so that will bring further heavy rain, driving its way northwards in eastwards across the uk with the chance for some strong and gusty winds, temperatures still into the 20s down towards the southeast corner, cooler north and west, but the end of the week is just a conveyor belt of weather systems, areas of low pressure just in time to time, we'll see high—pressure building towards the south of the uk. that's probably where we will see the best of any dry weather through the weekend and into next weekend. but plenty of rain, strong winds at times, a decidedly autumnalfield of rain, strong winds at times, a decidedly autumnal field are —— our weather. that's it for

me, bye—bye.

live from washington, this is a bbc news special look at the war in ukraine. ukraine's president wraps up a week of diplomacy by securing military commitments from canada. it comes as ukrainian forces strike a russian target in crimea. plus, we have a special report on front—line casualties from inside a ukrainian hospital. i'm sumi somaskanda. the war in ukraine is being fought on multiple fronts — on land, at sea, in the trenches and from the sky.

it's also a battle of high—stakes global diplomacy, with ukraine's president spending a whirlwind week here in the us to shore up international support. volodymyr zelensky started the week at the united nations general assembly, then moved on to meet with leaders here in washington, both on capitol hill, and in the oval office. on friday he wrapped up the week in canada, addressing the country's parliament after a meeting with prime minister justin trudeau. so, what did mr zelensky get for his efforts? on friday, canadian prime ministerjustin trudeau pledged nearly $500 million in aid to ukraine. that includes 50 armoured vehicles as well as training for f16 pilots and engineers to be delivered over a three—year period. and it's in addition to a $325 million package from the us, announced during mr zelensky�*s visit to washington on thursday. those commitments come as ukraine struck a symbolic blow against russia on friday. kyiv used cruise missiles to strike the headquarters of russia's black sea fleet in crimea. thick black smoke was still rising from the building

in sevastopol hours after the attack.