luzon, the largest island in the philippines, is home to the banaue rice terraces. heritage site was carved into the mountainside over 2,000 years ago using traditional hand tools and techniques. visitors can hike or take guided tours to explore the terraces and learn more about the indigenous people who built them. we are it's in sydney's enormous month long worldpride festival to find out how indigenous gay and lesbian people are being put front and centre at the celebrations. and that's what we're doing on stage. and you can also catch us on the bbc iplayer, and we are on social media, too, in all the usual places, along with some great travel content from around the bbc. but until then, from all of us here in the philippines, it's goodbye and see you soon. hello. things have been turning progressively colder through the weekend. hello. things have been turning progressively colder today. we started with some rain across southern areas as that slowly cleared eastwards. it left a hang back of cloud, but also some bright or sunny spells. but the north or northeaste

luzon, the largest island in the philippines, is home to the banaue rice terraces.te was carved into the mountainside more than 2,000 years ago using traditional hand tools and techniques. visitors can hike or take guided tours to explore the terraces and learn more about the indigenous people who built them. still to come on the travel show... they're half man and half drone. this arm here? oh, isee! i find out if the human drones are the next social media sensation. and taking a dip with the stingless jellyfish. this jellyfish sanctuary has millions upon millions ofjellyfish. so, don't go away. this is mountain view, one of the most sought—after photo spots in siargao, and also home to the human drones. wearing sports—style jerseys with their names emblazoned on the back, these guys use their best moves to mimic those of a state—of—the—art drone for tourists�* social media accounts, all while trying to avoid oncoming traffic. and the results have gone viral. originally, they would come here to sell bamboo straws to tourists but recently, they discovered that visit

breed accompanied an american corporal william win until the end of world war ii during the battle of luzon even helped to lay a telegraph wire. but in appearance it looks like a lapdog no. this is not a lap dog. it looks more like a yorkshire yorkshire terrier to me, right? please, the wide-open mouth masks of greek theatrical masks served this practical purpose. probably to be heard what the actors say, the voice was amplified yes the philologist oleg maslennikov believed that it was his significance for russian poetry that is much better? guessed it was the silver age absolutely true metal, and the silver age was a century of new directions. this is poetry in 5.5 years the asteroid makes a complete revolution around the sun poetry is true. masks for 300 in this musical, the title character at the beginning of the second act appears at the masquerade ball in the costume of the red death from edgar allan poe's short story mask of the red death. count monsters. no. this is the phantom of the opera, if you please, poetry for 300. one and a half you have 600 from anton 400 dmitry to whom dmit

forces on the northern island of luzon in the philippines, only 200 mile from taiwan.ne corps announce this abdomen of a new base i guam, then we see the sp balloon coming over the. you can kind of feel extension ratcheting a i believe that the chinese are sending a signal and they ar more concerned about the u.s presence in the pacific than they are about the conflict in ukraine, they do not have vested interest in the success there. what they are going to do is continue to threaten to provid those weapons, i think in th end they will decide not to do that to close here, what they are really concerned about, an they should be is there economy, only 3% growth last year, that is terrible for china, the need 5% minimum, they have t get their economy underway, as we would say in a nautical context, to do that the last thing they need is an increase tension and hyper competitio with the united states so, i think china will rattl the saber a bit, talk abou providing weapons, probabl wait for these tensions to diminish, and a final piece of good news, here, in my view. speak

forces on the northern island of luzon in the philippines, only 200 miles from taiwan.ishment of a new base in guam. then we see the supply balloon coming over. so you can kind of feel these tensions ratcheting up. i believe that the chinese are sending us a signal and they are more concerned about the u.s. presence in the pacific than they are about the conflict in ukraine. they don't have interest in the success there. what they are going to do is continue to threaten to provide those weapons. i think in the end, they will decide not to do that, to close here, willie, what they are really concerned about, and they should be, is their economy. only 3% growth last year. that's terrible for china. they need 5%, minimum. they have to get their economy underway, as we would say in a nautical context. to do that, the last thing they need is an increased tension and hypercompetition with the united states. so i think china will rattle the saber a bit, talk about providing weapons. probably look for these tensions to diminish. and a final piece of good news here in my view, s

luzon, the largest island in the philippines, is home to the banaue rice terraces.iew, one of the most sought—after photo spots in siargao, and also home to the human drones. wearing sports—style jerseys with their names emblazoned on the back, these guys use their best moves to mimic those of a state—of—the—art drone for tourists' social media accounts, all while trying to avoid oncoming traffic. and the results have gone viral. originally, they would come here to sell bamboo straws to tourists but recently, they discovered that visitors preferred to part with their cash for stylised social media content. now, it was my turn to become a viral superstar. right, i've got to get my moves down. this arm here? 0h, isee! one more. 0k, take another pose. another. another pose. oh, so this leg down, this leg up. oh, my god. are you serious? laughs. oh, that was bad too! laughs. i've got to work on my moves. i've never seen anything like this before. but in this social media—mad world, i think it's an absolutely brilliant idea. laughs. that looks really cool! i'll leave it