and a car park cat. but first, a man has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of irish teacher ashling murphy. the 23—year—old was jogging along a canal near tullamore last january when 33—year—old jozef puska repeatedly stabbed her in the neck. ashling's killing cause widespread shock with vigils across ireland and the uk and pressure on the irish government to tackle violence against women. some other stories now: everton are in the relegation zone after being deducted ten points by the premier league — the biggest punishment in the competition's history. it's for breaking profit and sustainability rules. the club are going to appeal, though. next — millions of people are struggling with illnesses that get in the way of work. they include things like mental health issues or heart conditions. the problem's been growing, too. 16— to 3a—year—olds are now

as likely to have a health issue affecting work as a middle—aged person was a decade ago. and it cost hundreds of millions of pounds to set up formula 1 in vegas but the first practice was cancelled afterjust nine minutes when carlos sainz hit a loose manhole cover. the second session was delayed and fan areas closed. let's hope the rest of the weekend is smoother! and time now for 10 seconds of a car park cat. benjy gets reported missing many times a day when people find him wandering round his local shop in south shields but i reckon he'sjust having a fun time seeing all the different sights of aldi car park. i mean, can you blame him? you're all caught up now. see you later. voiceover: this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour,

which is straight after this programme. my name is lucy edwards, and this is my first time injapan. yay! ooh, 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 ton of bricks that it's actually really hard being in a new place when you can't see it. in this first episode...

the ferry�*s about to depart! ..i'm travelling from the mainland to one of the remotest parts of japan. oh, what are these for? but will i be able to make sense of a country so famous for its visual beauty? this is japan — the way i see it. i'm injapan�*s capital city, tokyo. it's my first time injapan. it's going to be very exciting but very overwhelming. where's the line? i've lost the line. 0h, here. here's the line. i left my guide dog at home and i'm travelling with my long white cane... ok, i think i'm on the crossing right now. ooh, there's someone with a megaphone. ..and at the moment, i am feeling apprehensive.

loud street noises. ah, there's so much noise! i'm going to go for it. i love the fact that the streets are quite wide. ifelt very confident walking up and down. day one in tokyo, i am going to meet rikarin, who is an influencer and a fashion designer, and we're going up harajuku. so, i want to know all about harajuku fashion. then, i'm going to have a feel with all of my other senses, so i can understand where she's coming from and what fashion she likes to wear. 0k. hey, hello! it's so lovely to meet you! can i hug you? yeah, course you can. it's lovely to meet you. can i get a quick audio description of you? sure, sure. i have a yellow, puffy dress, like this. can i feel? sure! it's like an organza dress.

oh, wow! with a — like a border knit top with the jeans. it's a little bit casual style. 0h, you've put jeans underneath. yeah, yeah. can i be guided by your arm? sure. so can i hold on to your...? here. that's it — perfect. fashion, it's a massive passion of mine, just actively touching everything and feeling all the fabric. there's this street, it's called takeshita street. okay. it's like the main street of harajuku. so, all the kids who have heard of harajuku first come here. it looks like so many different, like, tastes is mixed together. some shops, like on the left here, is really gothic. ah! wow! but maybe on the right you'll see kebab shop! laughter on the right again, i think you'll be surprised. and actually, i'm going to take you to the sweet place. 0h, 0k.

here's the first step. yep. yes. ok, the step is quite narrow. wow. it really smells sugary. yeah. 0k. you got one? oh, my god, amazing! oh, my gosh, it's so big! all the colours taste different! different, yes. wow. i think i like the pink one the best. yeah? the blue one's nice but it tastes like more like fake sweets. so, this is what harajuku tastes like? yeah. i'll stay here. laughs it feels exciting, it feels energetic, and very individual. and here is a shop sign. oh, my god. he only has one eye. oh, representation! he knows how it feels! he's visually impaired, too! and the last one. 0k. stop here... 0k. ..and turn to the right. this is a really very famous and important place

for the culture called kawaii culture. have you ever heard of it? no. yeah, kawaii means like something cute. we say "kawaii" to every single thing that we love. wow, that's so unusual. yeah. it feels like there's loads of clothes around me, so the audio is very dampened. mm—hm. the clothes there feel like nothing i've everfelt before that i would wear. it was a culture shock. 0h! what do you think is that? i think you cannot... i don't know. oh, my gosh. it's a big rat. a rat?! a rat, yeah. giggles this culture was born because of a little bit of rebellion — in a good way. that's why harajuku fashion or harajuku culture is not only about something really cute. like, its not like that. they always have, like, eyeballs or bones. yeah. or something a little bit dark side. yeah. you're walking on the red carpet right now. yeah! i work it!

work it, work it! laughter yeah! this shop is for the cosmetics and this room is for the wigs. shall we try some on? i could maybe try this one on. fluffy one. yeah. i've never worn a wig. oh, really? yeah, never. hey! what do you think? you look like a poodle! what made you want to get into this sort of fashion style? i was like a shy girl, but after i found this community, i feel it's totally different from my school or anything, like my family. it's different. so, it's a completely new community, it's new me, so i can be myself however i want. and that really changed my life, i think. i really relate to that because when i got my long white cane out, i felt really self—conscious and nervous. not dressing like other people makes you feel like, "yeah, i'm me! i'm individual". yeah. i became blind at age 17 due to a really rare genetic

condition. you want to just live the sighted life that you had and every day, every thing, every task that you go to do is a reminder that you can't do it any more and that, for me, mentally, was a massive struggle when i went blind. i'm heading to saitama, about an hour away from tokyo. i'm off to see ryusei. he is a blind skateboarder and he has not let his blindness define him. i'm just really excited to understand why he skateboards and how he does it, because it's really scary in my mind! ryusei holds two world records for performing skateboard tricks without eyesight. how long have you been a blind skaterfor?

what's it like to skate as a blind person? it seems scary. although i can't see ryusei's skills, i remember what skateboarding looks like and it blows my mind that he's got the courage to get back up every time he falls. oh! yeah. yeah? yeah. is every skateboard as wobbly?

how do you say "three, two, one" injapanese? san, ni... ichi. ..ichi. yeah. go! yeah. excited scream laughs wa—hey! i can see why this is freeing but i also don't want to go too fast! laughs ok, i think that's me. it's so scary! like me, ryusei lost his eyesight due to a rare disease. he's now 95% blind. how did that affect you mentally, you know, suddenly having sight and then not? �*cos i know, for me, i took it really badly for a couple of years. i had a mental breakdown. i just wondered about you and yourjourney.

i know what it's like to be in the darkest place because something's happened to you that shatters your heart. when you can't do just the little things that make up your life, you don't believe you can, like, truly go on without some massive, massive willpower behind you. i admire ryusei's drive to keep doing what he loves.

i think it's really amazing to see other blind people just rock it wherever they are, and that's really special. we've got something there that connects us. it's time to leave the city, and i'm heading to a place that's unlike anywhere i've been. the automated gates for the... my destination is sado island. and then, you can go through the gate. my local producer ryuso is helping me on the ferry. oh, my gosh. this is a line all the way to the ferry? yeah. this is so cool. i wish we had this in our ports in england. it would stop me falling in the sea. laughs right, now we are about to board the ferry. what is that metal drumming? right, so, they're telling us the ferry is about to depart —

so that's what the drum is. now, we are on the ferry. yay! oh, that's so cool! yeah. there was no step up or anything. it's so accessible. yeah, it was pretty smooth, wasn't it? yeah. whistle blows the ferry is about to depart! gong bangs cackles that was really fun! so, the ship is slowly turning directions. 0k. and then, from there, its 2.5 hours to sadogashima. lovely. how far down is the water? oh, far enough that you don't want to fall. laughs it's about, like, a four—storey building. 0h, ok. i would say, yeah. these are the kind of experiences as a blind person that are really sensory for me — the wind in my hair and the rain, like, little bits of rain. i can hear a seagull. laughs

gulls cry i can hear the engine down below. i can hear the water. really cool. i've come to sado island in the sea ofjapan, and i'm here to experience a unique tradition called the onidaiko festival. so what is the onidaiko festival? we try to keep the community together and, at the same time, we wish a good harvest and health. the onidaiko is danced to represent the gods. everything's connected to each other. i want to find ways to engage with the festival that don't rely on eyesight. konnichiwa. terue has brought me to the taiko drumming centre. this building is named tatakokan. tatako. yes.

tatako means "let's play taiko" injapanese. oh, tatako! yes! tatako, yes! taiko drumming is an ancient art that's central to the onidaiko festival. so this is taiko. ..not so strong. 0k. relax. yes. ok, good, good. laughter. ok, you lift your arm up higher. and down. beats drum. yes. 0k. more. oh, it's good. it's good. i give you to "se, no". se, no is like one, two. 0k, 0k. se, no! next. yes. cheering. i feel like it's a sense of self that you find when you're drumming.

i can't see visual pieces of art, but to be able to experience it with wood all around me, i felt the sound just through my whole body. how was it? amazing! laughter. it was a massive sensory experience. when masami started to drum... ..i didn't expect to feel overcome with passion for what she does. i didn't know how moved i would be by hearing

the sounds ricochet from the drum all the way around the room. it was so moving. wow! well done. oh, my gosh, that was incredible. ijust, ifeel this sense of calm after that because it was so... you just felt it through your whole body, don't you? right. it's like your body's echoing with the... yeah. ..drums. yeah. i didn't have a need to, like, be able to see then, which is like one of the first times in my life. being blind in that moment didn't matter. yeah. you can feel that. you don't need to see it. just feel it. yeah. that's what music does.

it's just amazing. sniffs. 0h. laughs. thank you. speaks japanese. thank you. thank you so much. i am so super proud of myself and i'm not afraid to say it. to think, "oh, being blind is so crummy, i'll never go "away" and now, i'm over the other side of the world and i'm so excited to experience all of my other senses. as well as drumming, costumes are a key part of the onidaiko tradition. konnichiwa. i've come to meet watanabe aritsune, who carves traditional oni, or demon masks, worn by the festival's dancers. translation: there's some chair. _ 0k. one more, one more. 0k.

one more, one more chair. here? no, next to. next to it. laughs. we got there in the end. what's in front of me? so, five oni masks in front of you. the masks are a tactile symbol of what once was and what is now. and i think that's beautiful to still have that within the small communities of the island. so, here is his mask. so that usually male only closing their mouths. 0h. 0h! that's scary. how does it feel when you see your masks in the festival? are you proud?

i loves the lion's mechanicaljaw. i think that was one of my favourite parts. yeah, i like that. the tactile experience is now going to make the festival come alive to me in my mind. i now have a picture of what they may be wearing. i can have an audio description of how they dance, and then i'm hearing the music. i can fully immerse myself in the festival, so i'm really excited. drum beats. there are over 100 onidaiko dance groups on the island and they dedicate their performances to a shrine. the lions came out. now, she's trying to scare them. wow. they're so close. yeah. the lions are moving around as well. yeah. applause.

yay! woo! thank you. 0h! he's got, he's got hair. i felt that day shifted my mindset. i always thought that my blind experience was less than... oh, what are these for? ..that when i felt something tactile, i didn't see that as valid as actually looking at that thing in real life. this is the god of snake. the god of snake. that day proved to me that my tactile experience was as valid as a visual one. yes! yeah. thank you. up the road, a children's dance group is performing door to door to the families in the village. i love that it's all really immersive. the kids are so, so cute as well. what are they saying?

kids chant. it doesn't mean anything, but it's cheering the people up. so, you mean like "yay"? yes, that's. .. yay! chuckles. chanting in japanese. this trip has made me more confident. i truly believe that the way i interact with the world in a tactile way when i go back home is enough. chanting continues. i am enough. chanting. oh, my god. the energy is so

electric right now. i'm so excited. it's just the chanting. it's like, makes you feel like you're in a bit of a trance. chants. yay! the kids are shouting. it's just such a sense of community. in the second part of my travels, i'm back in tokyo... go. ..asking whether guide dogs could be replaced. faster, faster, faster. i've never been guided by ai before. this is so cool! squeals. and i head to hiroshima to find out about the resilience of its people.

hello, there. friday was a cold start for all of us across the country but it was certainly a day of contrasts. fog lingered in some places and that had quite an impact on the temperature — particularly in north east scotland with temperatures barely climbing above freezing by the middle part of the afternoon. it was a different story further south — some beautiful autumn sunshine to look out for and we had over seven hours of sunshine in parts of kent. but the weather story is set to change once again as we head into the weekend with this deep area of low pressure bringing some wet and windy weather with it. the isobars squeezing together, a blanket of cloud and rain pushing its way steadily east, so a spell of wet weather, particularly across south east england during the morning, slowly easing away to sunny spells and scattered showers into the afternoon, so certainly an improving picture across much of england and wales by saturday afternoon. mild with it, 14 or 15 degrees.

a few scattered showers into northern england, more widespread through northern ireland and to scotland, accompanied by blustery winds. gales on exposed coasts here. but the temperatures certainly on the up, in comparison to friday. double figures. we're looking at nine to 12 degrees, generally, for scotland. now, as we move out of saturday into sunday, our area of low pressure just slowly drifts its way steadily eastwards, so that means plenty of showers spiralling around that low, and still strong winds. perhaps stronger winds down to the south. again, a relatively mild start, 7 to 10 degrees. a blustery start in the morning and that'll drive in plenty of showers from the west, so not everywhere will see those showers but they are going to be fairly widespread. perhaps drier interludes for scotland and maybe central and southern england as we go through the afternoon. temperatures likely to peak once again between 9 and 14 degrees. now, through sunday evening into the early hours of monday, we mightjust have to keep

a close eye on this little front here. we could see a spell of very wet and windy weather across south west england for a time. once that clears away, however, high pressure is going to build across central and southern england as we move further ahead into the week. so, if you're after something a little drier, a little quieter, we will get that across england and wales. still the risk of some wet and windy weather at times further north and west. take care.

live from london, this is bbc news. israel agrees to allow two fuel tankers a day to travel into the gaza strip, following pressure from

the united states. spacex plans a second test flight of its starship spacecraft in texas later today, after being delayed a day due to repairs. hello, apologies for that confusion, i'm catherine byaruhanga. the white house and the united nations both say israel's decision to ease its fuel blockade on gaza and allow two tankers into the territory each day does not go far enough, and more is required to avert a humanitarian crisis. israel said it was acting to help power essential infrastructure including water pumps, the sewage system and communications

late on friday. gaza's two main telecoms companies