Sport, and for a full round up, we go over to the bbc sport centre. Good afternoon. Britains tyson fury has promised theres more to come after becoming heavyweight World Champion for a second time following a seventh round stoppage of Deontay Wilder in their hugely anticipated rematch in las vegas this morning. Tyson fury was carried to the ring on a throne, having promised to knock wilder out early, who himself was adding to the occason in an equally extravagant outfit. Fury made a blistering start, knocking him down in the the third and the fifth before the fight was stopped in the seventh, wilders camp throwing in the towel, as fury underlined his status as the leading heavyweight in the division to cap a remarkable comeback from drink, drugs and depression following a two year period away from the sport. I am my own worst critic and even though it was a fantastic performance and i got a great win, i know i can do better. I have only just started with the style. We have had seven weeks to perfect
a style that takes years. But i am a quick learner and i aim to get back to work straightaway. Work on my balance and work on my straight punches. We will be putting people to sleep left, right and centre. Dont forget, when i came here, they said i cant punch. Deontay wilder himself said i have two pillow fists. Not bad for an old, fat guy who cant punch. Did all right, didnt i . He is a true british sporting great. He is there, he has done something that is just phenomenal. Come to the other guys backyard, did the same thing in germany, been here twice with Deontay Wilder and he absolutely took him apart. It was Like Fighting in manchester, the crowd were with them, everything he had to do he did and i told you he would stop him, i knew he would do it. To the six nations next, and theres only one mens game today, one that needs no introduction. England against ireland at twickenham. Our sports correspondentjoe wilson
is there in what is a big day for the farrell family. Is there in what is a big day in is there in what is a big day the build up to this ga and in the build up to this game, father and son have played down the significance, but i think it is a unique set of circumstances. Put yourself in the position of owen farrell when he runs out later this afternoon. He knows the man trying to exploit his weaknesses, trying to plot his downfall, defeat him is his father. This is the first time ireland will face england with andy farrell as head coach. This is a period of transition to some extent, but there are so many players in the tea m but there are so many players in the team who were part of that great Winning Culture of irish rugby union. I can remember standing here two years ago when the irish team won the grand slam by beating england at twickenham. The english tea m england at twickenham. The english team find themselves in the unusual position of having the first home game in the third round of the six
nations. Look out for three players who are out of position, who will play on the wing. Interesting to see how those three guys adapt. After includes first two matches, i think we we re includes first two matches, i think we were asking questions about their recovery from the world cup. Even though they won like last time out in edinburgh, the weather was so terrible, its hard to make too many judgments about the quality or lack of it in the english performance. As for the weather here today, outside the stadium, a really strong wind, but inside, we are sheltered, and it feels quite mild, almost warm. I hope that will be conducive to a really exciting game of rugby union here at twickenham this afternoon. In the womens six nations and france are beating wales as nil five tries in that match so far. England are beating ireland i7 nil. Italy against scotland has been postponed because of fears over the coronavirus in legnano. On the travel show carmen is chilling in japan despite on the travel show carmen is chilling injapan despite a lack of snow. Im in brazilfor the countdown to carnival. And we hit the road in america with one man and his very devoted dog. This week were kicking off onjapans northern island, hokkaido. Its the countrys winter playground, hosting skiers and snowboarders from everywhere. This its also home to one of the worlds famous winter events the sapporo snow festival. But, sadly, milder temperatures and drier conditions have led to problems for organisers this year. So carmen has pulled on her snow boots and headed north to see how theyre coping. The wide open spaces of hokkaido. At any time of year people come here to be outdoors, but especially injanuary and february the height of the ski season. The resorts on hokkaido are globally renowned, partly because of the quality of the snow. But also theres a real diversity in the landscape which provides fast black runs, gentle nursery slopes and loads of backcountry off piste skiing. But this year, theres been a problem. Its the lowest snowfall on record
injapan since 1961. And at this resort here they had to delay their opening by one month because there just wasnt enough snow. So do you think skiing as a pastime, a winter pastime, might be in danger . All of this is difficult to hear if this is the highlight of your sporting year. But the weathers had an even bigger impact at the bottom of the hill. This is the sapporo snow festival, held every february right in the heart of hokkaidos capital. Laughter wooo uptempo music plays its a big deal and famous internationally. About 2 million visitors come every year. Most people come for the incredible snow sculptures. It started in 1950 as a way for High School Students to publicly display their sculptures, but now its grown into something quite different. Teams come from all over the world to compete and, for me, watching them sweat is just as much fun as seeing
the final result. Gosh, this is serious business. Look at this man here, hes even got a sculpture, a mini version. Hi. Whats it going to be . Its going to be the legend of pele the fire. Pele . 0h. The fire goddess on the big island, the volcano killer whale. They say that when the flames would go to the heavens she would do a hula to the gods. Wow her spirit would be inside the fire. So this is the australian entry, and its going to be, eventually, a waratah, is an indigenous bush flower. Because weve had the bushfires over the summer and the flower is like a beacon in the australian bush and its got to regenerate after the fire. So were going do this beautiful flower with a beautiful flower head and its going to regenerate and its an ode to the bushfires from summerand our country, australia. Great. This is our team up on the top. Hi, guys. Hello hi konnichiwa from japan. So how long have you got . Tell me the logistics of the snow festival competition. Theres 11 international teams. But were all, equally, given the same amount of tools and weve got four days. So we work from nine oclock in the morning until nine at night. We can have breaks whenever we want. Basically today were marking out and each day well progressively remove the snow and then start to put the detail and then finish off the beautiful flower of the waratah. So what are conditions like this year compared to last year . Theres a lack of snow this year. Its been reported that the snowfall is 40 days late, they said. Wow. So there should be a lot more snow. And in past years, weve been standing against the sign and the snows been up to the bottom of that sign. So were actually standing. Wow. So were really low. With the good quality snow, its really easy to cut and carve. The snow quality is a bit less than what we would we have, but it is snowing
now, which is great. As this years festival opens, the hills around the city were measuring snowfall of about 60cm. Normally its close to a metre. So, where did all the materials come from . Well, a massive logistics operation sprung into action. Thousands of lorries scooped up snow from around the island and brought it into sapporo. Lets hope next year doesnt show a further decline. And, by the way, if youre interested in how the australian entry turned out here it is. The waratah flower symbol of the countrys resilience following those forest fires. And the winners . Well, for the third year in a row, first place went to thailand for this mother and baby sea turtle. Well, if youre still keen to hit the slopes, heres the travel show guide to some places other thanjapan you might want to think about. Two of scandinavias biggest resorts are now much easier to get to. Scandinavian mountains airport opened in december and serves norways biggest resort, trysil and salen in sweden. Salens only a io minute drive, but you can also book a transfer
by dog sled. The airports served by london, copenhagen and aalborg. If youre in europe and would rather not fly, there are plenty of seasonal train options running to the resorts in austria. Theres another month left on the alpine express, for instance, the sleeper train which runs all the way from the netherlands, through germany, to a number of stations that serve about 100 different resorts. Its one way to shave a substantial amount of the Carbon Footprint of your trip. And if you cant get your act together before the end of the season in the northern hemisphere, theres always copenhill in the danish capital open all year round. Its an artificial slope built onto the side of what they say is the cleanest Waste Energy Power plant in the world. Once youre done with skiing, you can try tobogganing, climbing, or hiking. And if want, you can book ahead you have a peek of the incinerator inside. Still to come on the travel show im getting ready for this years carnival here in rio. And we meet and easy riding duo taking on an incrediblejourney across the usa together. So dont go away. This week were in rio dejaneiro, a city certainly not lacking in colour. Theres graffiti, theres music, but nothing quite prepared me for this. This is the selaron staircase, first created 30 years ago by chilean artistjorge selaron as a way to brighten up his local neighbourhood. There are more than 200 of these kaleidoscopic steps. Its a bit like a giant i spy. Theres photos, little mosaic tiles of princess diana,
bob marley, kazakhstan, right in the middle. As its fame grew, people from all over the world contributed tiles to the project. For selaron, it was a cumulation of his lifes work. He died in 2013. His body found at the foot of the stairs. But his creation lives on. Today its a big Tourist Attraction in a largely safe section of the city. Get here after 10am in the morning and youll probably be jostling for space. This isjorge selarons legacy. Tiles were sent here from all of the world to create it, now tourists come here from all over the world to enjoy it. It really is a special spot here in rio dejaneiro, brazil. Up next, its time for another of our incredible journeys. Michael fiala and his best buddy, a Siberian Husky called sox, are part way through a truly amazing road trip across america. Their aim is to take on all 50 states and 6 National Parks and, as you can imagine, theyre turning quite a few heads as they do it. We caught up with them as they arrived in florida. My names Michael Fiala and this is my dog, sox, and we are currently travelling all over the country. Were trying to visit every single state and every Single National park in the country all on a motorcycle. This all started when i actually went on a trip abroad and i wasnt able to bring sox with me, and when i got back the greeting that he gave me, it was really heart warming, but it also made me feel kind of bad because i knew that he was really upset that i was gone for so long. So i kind of rearranged my bucket
list to do all the things i could do with sox. His safety is my absolute most important thing. I know that my eyes are on the road at all times, that i am fully attentive to whats going on. At this point in time, hes now got almost 3,000 hours on a motorcycle. And so im not concerned with sox falling off, because he knows how to shift his weight, he knows how to hold onto me. Every National Park has blown me away, just the cosmetic beauty of it, looking across a landscape that youve seen nothing that looks like that in your life. Its really impressive. And then of course the fact that every single time im there and im enjoying some sort of view i look down and my dog is doing the exact
same thing, hes taking in the experience just as much as i am. My best memories with him was when we were actually in big bend National Park in texas and we were driving on a highway and a deer actually ran across the road. I saw the deer run across and then run into the woods. But when i actually looked back on his go pro you could see that he watched the deer run into view and then traced it as it was running off in the woods. Im enjoying all these moments, but when i look at film like that and see that he was seeing the same thing i was, to me thats really special. I get a lot of people who say, well, you should strap him down so that hes secured to the bike. But its a common misconception. Truly, the safest thing for a motorcyclist is to be able to get away from the bike, so god forbid if anything ever did happen, the best Case Scenario is for us to be away from the motorcycle, away from the accident. Dont go in there buddy, you are going to be cold tonight. Im doing this because theres too many people that say, i wish i did in their life. And i dont want to be one of those people. I want to say i did the things i wanted to do and i dont want to wait until im much older to say, ok,
now i can go live life. To me, you dont know how long your life is going to be so you should just live it, and i have to include him, because hes living it too. Sox this weekend, millions of people across brazil are preparing for the worlds Biggest Party carnival. The main celebration in Rio De Janeiro lasts five days, but the action does not stop there. Over 500 parties line the streets of rio during carnival season, and this year youre in luck, because the mayor has more than doubled the celebration, from 23 days to 50. So in 2020, theres plenty of time to join the fun. Carnival began here almost 300 years ago as a ball for the portuguese elite. But since then, its opened up to everyone. Local groups called samba schools prepare all year round for the events, designing floats and costumes and planning epic dance routines. These schools are often located in poor neighbourhoods, which beyond carnival preparations also provide havens for local children, teaching them vital skills to help them later in life. This is you in the photo . Yes its got to be, right . Wait, ah, this one yes, thats me. The smiles the same. King benefited first time from the social outreach provided by her samba school. You know, when you grow up in a favela you dont have of opportunities, so when you get the chance to have an opportunity, you just grab it. So i started at the social project when i was about nine. And then i got a chance to learn english, thats why im communicating with you, because i got a course for free through the social project. So this is the part that most people dont know, the way that people can be part of the samba school. So the party is good, the social idea, its much more important. Patchy public funding means the samba schools have to find clever ways to support themselves. Kings school, grande rio, has turned to tourism. Theyve opened the doors of their workshop to those who want to catch a glimpse
of the monumental effort that goes into carnivals centrepiece parade. Along with other ex samba school students, king is now one of the tour guides here. Wow. This is the backstage of the carnival. This is the most fun ive ever seen in a warehouse. I think so. We have six floats in here. Only six floats . only six. Inside of this warehouse, only six. I guess i assumed this was a float, this was a float, that was another float, but theyre the size of city blocks, almost . Yes. Theyll be massive. Yes, yes. You can really see the scale of the operation. The parade is a serious business. The samba schools all compete against each other for a big cash prize. Each school keeps their plans and designs top secret. So much of rio grandes workshop is strictly off limits to tourists. But ive been allowed a rare behind the scenes look. Im having a hard time understanding this. This is all for your parade . It is, this is only for our samba school. All this warehouse, all the costumes are ours. All the welding, the sewing, the machines . Everybodys working on one show, your parade . Yes, everything. We can have about 3000 costumes, easily. So this is one show out of thousands, because it looks as though these headdresses have five, six, eight, maybe, per headdress. Theres maybe a hundred headdresses. You know, the last time i did arts and crafts i was probably in grade five. I have not worked with sparkles in a long time. This is the part im good at. Ready . Laughter 0k. 0k not bad for a first one, eh . You think so . He said its amazing. Its amazing somehow i dont believe him. Grande rio has been running for more than 30 years. The schools current leader, camilla, has grown up with it. We have an Educational Programme called the schools carnival and we have many courses, all through year, for free. When you meet the families and the kids and you understand the passion that they have, why not to get this and transform it for education . Especially in brazil, a place that needs a lot of effort to make peoples lives better. Ok, of course, the parade is amazing in itself and all the kids love it, but all year long, you need something more for these kids. Camillas school of carnival gives these kids hope and three times a week they all come together to rehearse for the highlight of the year the carnival parade. Moments like these are why i travel. I dont exactly know what is going on, but its a rehearsal . Ah, yes, this is the place where we actually do the rehearsal. So as you can see, its an enormous place. We can get involved, apparently i dont know what im doing but maybe thats half the fun. Behind me in this building a whole new generation is finding their best life through drums, dance, and a whole lot of fun. I think if weve learned something today, its that carnival is much more than a party in brazil. Its part of its soul. Well, thats all for this week. But coming up next week im continuing myjourney through south america by heading across the border into argentina to find out how one of the continents most fearsome predators mightjust hold the key to saving some of its most stunning scenery. Oh, my. Guys, this is. When you make eye contact with a beast of this size, your heartjust goes. So make sure not to miss it. But for now, from me, mike corey, and the rest of the travel show team here in beautiful brazil, its goodbye. It may be sunny out there for many at the moment, but more problem where there is on the way in the form of snow to start the day tomorrow for northern parts of the uk, Northern England, Northern Ireland and scotland. A tricky morning commute, so take advantage of the blue sky many of us have at the moment. An improving story this morning after the reign of last night and first thing, but the next weather system is bringing more wet weather system is bringing more wet weather across the uk tonight and into tomorrow, and some snow. We havent all got sunshine. Parts of south wales in southern england are holding onto cloud and rain. Elsewhere, there are showers in scotland, fading, so dry and sunny to end the day. Still a gusty wind out there. We will see rain pushing
north, but it is pushing into cold air, and here it comes, some white showing on the leading edge of this, particularly through parts of Northern Ireland and Northern England initially, even some slushy snow to lower levels here. It may turn back to rain. The more significant snow will be to the Higher Ground, but it could be icy and places to start the day tomorrow, so a messy morning commute. To relatively low levels first thing. Difficult travelling conditions. The wind picks up, so snow will be drifting on Higher Ground in the winds. Further south, rain pushing south through the rest of england and wales, clearing the far south east in the afternoon. Bright skies and showers follow one behind. Another blustery day out there, and still that snow falling
in northern scotland as we end the day. A big range of temperatures across the uk. This latest weather system will take the snow away from scotla nd system will take the snow away from scotland on monday night. Then a cold flow of air coming from the north west, showers on that going through tuesday and wednesday. The temperatures have dipped. They recover for some of temperatures have dipped. They recoverfor some of us, temperatures have dipped. They recover for some of us, especially the further you are. There will be further rain around at times. Rain this week again, early and late in the week, then colder with showers in between, often blustery. It is not just in between, often blustery. It is notjust rain, there is snow in places also might. There are met Office Weather warnings for rain and snow in Northern England, Northern Ireland and scotland to start the day tomorrow. Head online for the details. This is bbc news, im shaun ley. The headlines at 2pm more than 100 people evacuated from china because of coronavirus are released from isolation in milton keynes. In italy, officials impose strict quarantine restrictions and cut short the venice carnival to try control the worst outbreak of the coronavirus in europe. Tyson fury produces the best performance of his boxing life against Deontay Wilder to become the new wbc heavyweight World Champion. When i came here they said i cant punch. Deontay wilder said himself ive got two pillow fists. But, you know, not bad for an old, fat guy who cant punch, hey . The house of lords defends itself as busy and effective