And culture will be live streamed online, as the mob0 awards get underway. Music of black 0rigin comes in a year of momentous calls for change for black lives with the pandemic also creating fresh challenges for artists. This report, by the former mob0 award winner colleen harris, contains flashing images. Its been going for nearly 25 years, celebrating some of the biggest names in music of black origin. Make some noise re rewind, when the crowd say bo selecta. Unlike previous years, tomorrows event is a virtual ceremony. Thank you from the bottom of my heart again. Thank you to everyone that voted for me, to all my brothers that support me. Theres no live audience, but theyre trialling new technology to bring an immersive experience. This is a year like no other, so were producing a show like no other. And so, for us, it was about using the power of black culture to bring people together. Its return after a two year hiatus follows a year of highly charged black lives matter protests, a movement that prompted the founder of the mobo founder to pen an open letter to the culture secretary. Weve seen a solidarity which is so powerful and impactful, so i would say to any creative, look to see how you can connect, how you can work together, how you can find a support system. 20 years ago, i was here in a different capacity. I was lucky enough to win one of these, so i know first hand how much it means to an up and coming artist, but so much has changed in the music industry, especially in the last year. This time, this time i wont hold the line. Singer songwriter mahalia is nominated for three awards tomorrow, including best female and best album. It is an achievement she says has come at a time when musicians are relearning what it means to be an artist. I havent done any live performances, which is strange, because i basically spent the whole of last year on the road, and, yeah, its been a real, real roller coaster, emotionally and just physically. Its been strange, but im trying to stay hopeful about it because im sure ill get back on stage next year. Until then, the mobo awards are showcasing all music of black origin in a year when it needs the support now more than ever. Colleen harris, bbc news. Now on bbc news, veteran explorer Robin Hanbury Tenison, who spent weeks in a coma battling covid i9, says the healing power of nature helped to save his life. Robin was one of the first covid i9 patients into derriford hospital. He may be a veteran of 30 expeditions, but surviving coronavirus would prove to be one of robinRobin Hanbury Tenisons toughest experiences yet. Every day was pretty brutal and we were pretty broken. The doctors called us to say that actually, he is deteriorating further. His chances of ever recovering have now gone down to about 5 . I opened my eyes, saw the sunshine, saw the flowers and that was the moment when my life was saved by the healing power of nature. Its a long road back from Something Like that. Essentially, his body was failing and i think having a goal, something to work towards is vitally important because it gives you a target to aim for and that goal can be as trivial or as ambitious as you want it to be. So this has been as big a challenge as any that ive done in my life, to get to the point where i could climb this mountain. I will make it to the top, because i believe everyone should have access to the same thing that saved my life. It must be lovely to have all this old footage of your dad just lying around the house . Its incredible, weve got reels from pretty much every expedition hes been on from the late 50s, through tojust a couple of years ago. Everything from the orinoco, the sahara and the siberian steps and everything in between. I am so lucky to have been travelling with him on a number of those expeditions. So ive been coming down here a lot recently to look through the old footage and its really helped to feel like hes not in hospital at the moment. But he is still on the farm with us, its incredible to see how much he has achieved throughout his life. 84 year old Robin Hanbury Tenison is widely recognised as one of the worlds greatest living explorers. Hes crossed continents by foot, boat. And jeep. Leading expeditions of more than 120 scientists into the heart of remotejungles. Ive been here for nearly 12 months now and the expedition has grown enormously since its original conception. What we are doing is to examine the rain forest, which is a vital and very little understood environment. Probably the richest environment in the world and one which is disappearing with terrifying speed. Robin has chronicled his life of adventure through a series of more than 20 books. His most recent book explores the major threats facing the world today, including pandemics. Robin was one of the first covid i9 patients into derriford hospital, having caught the virus whilst skiing prior to the lockdown. 36 hours after he was in hospital, he was heavily sedated and put on a ventilator. So one of the ways ive been keeping in touch with the family is with a family group chat. My son says he is praying and thinking of him. I cant really read them. Sounds like hes getting the best possible care and lots of attention. You are so brave as well, louella. Robin is a tough, old nut. I cant really read. We know hell pull through. Being in first means he has their full attention. He is in the right place, stay strong. Sending huge love, hell pull through. We love him, etc. Yeah, theres lots of wonderful messages from people and hes still deep in the woods, but at least its not worsening. That is so encouraging, sleep well. Yeah, just lots of similar sorts of messages. Yeah, hell get there. Robin and louellas farm on bodmin moor, one of cornwalls designated areas of outstanding natural beauty, is overlooked by cornwalls highest peak, brown willy. Their shared love of nature drew the couple to the moor over 30 years ago. This is such a special place because we come here often together. And of course, your favourite place has got to be home, in the woods here on our farm. And its very comforting and reassuring to visit it and think about being here with him. After two weeks in hospital, robins kidneys fail. He is unconscious. The family can do nothing but wait as robin clings to life. But doctors tell them to begin to come to terms with a life without him. You never know how you are going to react when somebody you care about is so unbelievably ill and on deaths door. And every day was pretty brutal and we were pretty broken. The doctor says to him, your lungs are filling up with fluid. We have two options, option one is we leave you and hope that you get better naturally, but the chances are at your age you almost certainly are going to die if we do that. 0ption two is, we sedate you, probably for ten days, try and drain your lungs but at your age you have about a 20 chance of survival. At this point the doctors call us and say, actually, hes deteriorating further. His lungs are still filling with flu at and they want to put a tracheotomy in. Normally this is a relatively simple procedure, but because of his age there is a strong chance hell die in surgery. The doctors want to make it really clear to us, even if he does survive that, his chances of ever recovering have now gone down to about 5 . And even if he does recover, he may well be bedbound, have severe Cognitive Impairment and never be the man that we knew who went into hospital about a month before. And they say we have some Difficult Conversations ahead of us when we may have to decide whether its even worth continuing with treatment. I believe im alive. You are alive. You are definitely alive. After five weeks in intensive care, robin was wheeled into derriford hospitals healing garden with icu nurse, kate, by his side. I remember the first times he went outside and you feel fresh air and they see sun and they see flowers and its like they kind of start to emerge out of. Out of this dream. You could see he was looking at things and thinking, this is real, this is tangible. I feel safe. That was a real breakthrough for him in his recovery. My name is Robin Hanbury Tenison. Im an 84 year old explorer and i survived five weeks in intensive care with coronavirus. The moment when i actually woke up and i knew i was going to live was the moment when i was wheeled out by four nurses in a big bed with tubes coming out of everywhere and i arrived in the healing garden theyve got at derriford. I opened my eyes, saw the sunshine, saw the flowers and that was the moment that my life was saved by the healing power of nature. He may be a veteran of 30 expeditions, but surviving coronavirus would prove to be one of Robin Hanbury Tenisons toughest experiences yet. But here he is leaving hospital to the cheers of the nhs staff who cared for him. During the darkest days of his illness, robins family had been told, if he did survive the impact of the virus would very likely be severe and long lasting. It was quite a shock to be told that i might never walk properly again. Recovery after intensive care is like a marathon. Every step feels hard and challenging and its made up of a million different components. So even learning how to swallow again is a big journey. Sitting independently is a big journey. But robin had a goal. Unthinkable, perhaps, to those around him, but a goal that drove him through his recovery. Exactly five months from may the 3rd is october the 3rd. So i decided that on that day i would climb cornwalls highest mountain, brown willy, and try and raise £100,000 towards a garden at cornwalls hospital because i think every hospital in the country should have a healing garden in it, and lets start with cornwall. It was exciting to have him home but it was also quite nerve racking as well. We were in lockdown for two weeks once he came home, so no one came near us. And thats quite scary, im not a nurse and i didnt know whether i was going to have to do major nursing or not. He was very thin and had lost about a stone and a half. So we had a lot of work to get him back on his feet again. He could hardly walk a few yards when he got home ona zimmerframe. It just takes a bossy woman and a certain amount of threats and he would do what i had told him. So we borrowed and mobility scooter, we borrowed an exercise bike and we have done a lot of exercises and short walks. It hasjust been really amazing watching his strength comeback, his muscle come back. He was very thin and a bag of bones when he got home. He gets very breathless still and even though his lungs are clear, i am not sure everyone quite get back to where they were after this, but he is fantastic and he is strong and determined and he has worked hard. What would you say to any other patient who is having to fight off this infection from the outset because they are quite literally climbing a mountain when it comes to the impact this infection is having on the lungs or the oxygen content of their blood and the overall impact physically of this infection. Everybody has to have a goal when they are rehabilitating and when they are recovering. The journey that robin is going through at the moment in terms of his recovery following on from an infection like this is going to be no different to the journey that many patients across the country, indeed across the world, are going to be making at the moment. We are ecstatic to have him home and it is great to see him getting stronger and stronger. The weather is getting worse and he is a bit weaker than he was before and we are worried he might have bitten off a bit more than he can chew. My wife louella has been marvellous at encouraging me to do my exercises. And now that i am pretty well done with physio, we are concentrating walking long distances every day. Throughout his life, robin has set himself tough challenges. For his 80th birthday, he ran his first marathon. But the charity he is most proud of is international which he established 30 years ago. The organisation fights for the rights of these once voiceless people. Anywhere in the world where a new damp, high road of vast Mining Operation is planned and the blueprints cover land occupied for centuries by tribal people, commerce comes before conscience and the indians are swept aside in the name of progress. Survival international exist to temper that race for progress with patience and understanding. His friend and contemporary, sir ranulph fiennes, is proud of what he has achieved. In my opinion, robin is one of the greatest explorers alive today and his legacy is one that does more for conservation and human rights. In addition to the volume of his Great Adventures is his far reaching successes for various forms of conservation, includes sterling work for the preservation of threatened rainforests. I am truly proud to have known my friend robin down the long years, and i seize this opportunity to thank him for all his great works. It is the day of the climb. Robin and the family are getting themselves ready for the journey from their home to the base of the highest point in cornwall, 1,378 feet above sea level. Get these boots on. Absolutely, what a weather forecast. Its going to be quite a day. The ascent to the top of brown willy is a seven mile round trip and the terrain is difficult on the best of days. He is always pretty relaxed about this kind of thing and when the stakes are higher, he just gets more excited. So, a number of people have been phoning up saying, perhaps it shouldnt do it and he should postpone because of this storm alex that is coming in. The met office have issued amber weather warnings that will come into force later. The met office reminds us how wet it was on the 3rd of october, that was the wettest on record, records going back to 1891. It is making me quite nervous and i am going to make sure that were well and lizzie and i will make sure we will take Survival Gear we didnt consider taking before, so we will have exposure blankets, warm kit, hot drink and snacks. So if the weather does turn on the top, then we can get him warm and dry and get him off the mountain very, very quickly. Over the hills we could see as much as 120 millimetres, so a very wet spell of weather. We are likely to see some flooding building in through the weekend across these areas. Here we are at the base of brown willy, the weather is horrible. My family is with me and of course were going to make it. Well, it has been a roller coaster ride and with Covid Recovery it is a difficult thing for people to get over. They feel very tired and breathless and he does feel tired and breathless still. Storm alex has definitely come in and the weather is blowing and the rain is heavy but it is as good as we thought it might be. He is already heading up the hill like a schoolboy. He has raced ahead of me. He is full of beans and very excited. But obviously, we are taking it sensibly, because the weather is making this even trickier. When i first started exploring, it was all about showing off, about going further and more bravely than other people. And a lot of explorers today still do just that. But i was lucky enough to discover causes, tribal people and rainforests. And i now realise it is much more important for adventurers, people doing exciting things, to have a purpose which helps to save the world. Make it a better place, because we havent got time to do anything else. It is quite steep, steeper than i expected, theres been quite a lot of rain and wind. We have had to shelter occasionally. We are getting near the top now and all my training is being taxed to the limit now. But i think i will make it. Robin and his family have now passed the Halfway Point and have reached the step as part of the climb. Robins training so far has never been further than a few miles at a time and never more than a stones throw away from home. We knew it would be hard to get up here today because it has been windy, cold and wet and its not been an easy climb for him and the fact that he is 84 is pretty incredible. As robin is the final push, he starts to feel the effects of the climb. One of the ironies of having my life saved by waking up in the healing garden in derriford hospital, is that i have spent most of my life campaigning, fighting for rainforests and other wilderness areas in the world, because i believe they were important in their own right. But in the end it was the healing garden that saved my life. Exactly five months after robin was released from hospital with coronavirus, he completed his challenge of climbing brown willy in aid of nhs Healing Gardens. It is very, very important achievement for him. It is a challenge, but well worth giving him and he has done it. I am so pleased, i am so proud of him. I am feeling fantastic because weve made it. Thanks to louella dragging me up and the weather pushing me, ive done it. Couldnt have done it without everyone. It is all in a wonderful cause for the healing garden, which saved my life. It is massive for robin completing this and here at the hospital. Well raise money for Healing Gardens across the south west. These gardens make a massive difference to patients in intensive care in every hospital every day. It isjust phenomenal. When you take people outside after they have been in intensive care for a long time, even for a short length of time, you show them a blue sky or a grey sky or even let them feel drizzle on their hands, it often is incredibly moving. It is moving because it shows people that life is going to go on and there is life waiting for them outside intensive care and outside the hospital bed. It is anything you want it to be from a gym to where somebody spends their last hours of life, to a place where a married couple of 40 years can hold hands for the last time, to a place somebody can bring their dog in, where somebody can play basketball, staff can relax and talk about everything that is going on. It really isjust a space for people to be themselves. Since the climb, robin has turned his attention towards helping his son in rewilding theirfarm in bodmin. Kate was awarded a queens birthday honour for her contributions and dedication to the nhs. Completely overwhelmed. Hello there. Low pressure will continue to bring more unsettled weather to our shores for the rest of this week and very slowly, those temperatures will be creeping up as we reach the end of the week and into the weekend. Now for wednesday, well have some showers across eastern areas. Some sunshine will develop, though, behind it is this ridge of High Pressure that builds in and then there will be rain pushing to Western Areas later on all courtesy of this new frontal system. So well start off rather grey, misty, murky conditions with some showery bursts of rain through this morning. They should eventually clear away, its an improving picture with some sunshine developing though showers holding on across North Eastern scotland. Later in the day for northern ireland, western fringes of england, wales and practically into the south west we will see thicker cloud moving in here with outbreaks of rain. Temperatures slowly climbing but again its going to be another chilly day for most, temperatures range from to 5 7 celsius quite typically. As we head through wednesday night, we will start to see that cloud thickening up across the east as well. It looks like most of the heaviest rain will start to push across wales, the south west england, to the channel islands. Elsewhere, we will hold onto quite a bit of cloud, some light and patchy rain under clearing skies across the north, it will be quite chillier otherwise, less cold than its been on other nights. On thursday, we are in between weather systems although we have this weather front affecting the northern half of the uk. Weve got a slack airflow once again so winds will be light, rather grey skies for many with some patchy light rain or drizzle, little bit heavier across scotland. Could see a touch of wintriness over the high grounds. The air is still quite cool with those highs ranging from 5 8 celsius. But slowly coming up across the south west, 9 10 celsius there for cardiff and for plymouth. As we head on into friday, a more substantial frontal system spreads its way eastwards across the country. This one will bring a bit of a change to the weather, some heavier rain at times will make its way towards the eastern side of the country, winds stronger for a time, and then skies will brighten up across Western Areas, perhaps one or two showers here. So, its out west where will start to see temperatures lift by the end of friday, 10 11 celsius here. A little bit less cold further east, too. Still on the chilly side with temperatures in single figures. Into the weekend, we hold onto a lot of cloud, some rain in northern and Western Areas. By sunday, well see another area of low pressure which will bring windier weather, some milder air, and also outbreaks of rain. This is bbc news. Im aaron safir. Our top stories joe biden promises 100 million vaccinations against covid in his first 100 days as us president. Im absolutely convinced that in the first 100 days we can change the course of the disease and change our life in america for the better. 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