laura travelyan reports. the recording of sesame street is a serious business. the mission is the same: learning through play. l-o-v-e. what that say? love! the creators of sesame street, back in 1969, had a radical idea: using puppets and humour to engage parents watching tv with their kids, to make the learning experience deeper. it started, really, as an experiment. sesame street was created to see if less advantaged children could benefit from early education through media, to arrive at school ready to learn. and of course, it was an overnight success. like millions of others, i grew up watching sesame street, and so did my kids. so meeting elmo and abby was quite the moment. now, i know that you two are very good with your words. elmo, what's your favourite word? supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! i like that one, too! that's a good one! abby, do you have a favourite word? yes, it'sjoy! that's good! i'm going to be an artist when i grow up. sesame street has always embraced diversity, which has led to controversy over the years. mississippi's education boa

laura travelyan, bbc news. laura gets the dream gig. the snow festival injapan. one celebrates naomi or osaka, the winner of the us and australian tennis open. a group of south american countries and canada support the opposition leader juan guaido as into ram president. they ask for a peaceful change of government and the immediate delivery of humanitarian aid. maul for you any time on the bbc website. —— interim. hello. monday saw a transition to much milder weather across much of the uk. tuesday though will start off on a pretty chilly note, at least first thing. this picture was taken on monday evening, by one of our weather watchers, in hertfordshire, showing that the fog's already been forming. so i think we are likely to start with quite a bit of mist and fog around, also some frost here and there, first thing tuesday morning. rain will move in from the west later on in the day, so we'll see those skies clouding over. a clear start for many of us. you can see the the blue colours indicating where the lowest of the temperatures an