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now on bbc news — the travel show. my name is lucy edwards, and this is my first time injapan. yay! oh, it's a latte! i'm experiencing it through sound, taste, smell and touch. all the colours taste different. different, yes. i'm a content maker, activist and broadcaster. hi, guys. this is my first blind vlog. ten years ago, i lost my eyesight. and since then, i've been on a mission to prove that having a disability doesn't have to hold me back. 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 tonne 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 techy, 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." indistinct ai voice 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. it's not like uk vending machines, so i'm very confused. 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. thud 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? oh, 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 have 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. a! 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. hello. 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. 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! lucy laughs 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! 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. 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. yes, yes. 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? i9. 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's just hit me like a tonne 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. ok. watch the steps. ok. 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. oh! it's the first time! yeah! they chuckle oh, i love it! perfect. perfect! it is sam, and i'm getting ready for my 6am meditation.

i slept so well on this futon. it is so nice. i realised i had hardly opened my eyes. good morning. bell rings monks chant i went to listen to the monks�* morning service and the chanting really does relax you to the core. bells chime gong

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! ok... ok. mm—hm. ok. 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! chuckling 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. mm—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. whoa... 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. oh... 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 herfamily 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. in your life and still... meeting everyone that i've met on this trip has been a true blessing.

go! yeah. 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... ..a tactile experience is a beautiful one. sighted experiences don't have to always come first.

hello. the week ahead looks very unsettled with heavy rain and gale—force winds at times. so far today, we've seen some showery outbreaks of rain. fairly fragmented, as you can see from earlier rainfall but low pressure still driving the weather at the moment. plenty of isobars on the charts and plenty of wet weather to come for the remainder of the afternoon. but not for all of us. central and southern parts of england and wales will continue to see cloud break—up and sunshine come through. heavy rain moving steadily north by the end of the afternoon, sitting across the scottish borders and northern ireland in particular. but with the sunshine we could see temperatures topping out at 20 or 21. the early evening will see another heavier pulse of rain pushing

in from the south—west, across wales, into the lake district and into western scotland. weather warnings are in force. gusts of wind accompanying the heaviest rain. on exposed coasts, 50—60 mph. pretty miserable conditions to close out sunday. that system will ease away. showers continue into the far north—west. plenty of cloud around and still the wind direction coming from the south—west. a mild night, overnight lows of 12—15. we start tomorrow on a quieter note. the winds will ease, still blustery but nowhere near as strong. sunny spells for many, a few scattered showers particularly through scotland and temperatures will respond. we could see temperatures peaking at 22, way above where we should have them at this time of year. more rain to come in the forecast, as you can see, on tuesday. it's western areas that will bear the brunt of the rain. the potential for some localised flooding as we go through the week ahead.

that rain will tend to focus its story across much of scotland and north—west england. central and southern england and wales dry and still pleasantly warm. as we move through the middle part of the week, we not only see yet more wet weather but also the risk of some severe gales. we need to keep an eye on this position of low pressure. it might be that bit further north or further south but one thing is for certain — the middle part of the week looks pretty unsettled, with heavy rain and strong winds. better by friday.

live from london. this is bbc news the uk home secretary orders a review of armed policing — an officer is charged with murder. nasa awaits the return of a spacecraft carrying asteroid dust — that could reveal new details about how the planets were formed. ethnic armenian leaders say thousands are without food or shelter — and may be forced to flee — the bbc has a special report from the disputed region of nagorno—karabakh. hello, i'm rich preston we begin here in the uk — home secretary, suella braverman, has ordered a review of armed policing after a large number