variants. facebook is a tackle racism online. wanting it could be finding companies not taking steps to prevent racist content. they're among a growing list of footballers subject online racial abuse, a recent spate of incidents heaping pressure on the social media giants. today the biggest of all finally addressed the issue. facebook, which owns instagram, said they were determined to tackle the crisis. i'm horrified at the type of abuse that people, especially these footballers, have to deal with. as a company, we're disappointed to see that sort of behaviour that plays out offline also playing out on our platform. today facebook announced what it called tougher measures, vowing to disable the accounts of those found to have repeatedly sent abusive private messages on instagram. now because of the wave of revulsion and criticism that you and other platforms have received 7 so we've had ongoing conversations around abuse and hate on the platform for a while, and we have continuously released features and iterated on policies. we thank the footballers and other high—profile individuals who are talking about this abuse, and we know we need to do more, we absolutely recognise that. with abusers often hiding behind anonymity, many critics want the platforms to require a form of id from anyone opening an account, so why is that not happening? if we were to insist on people having to use both government or passport details before they can access their accounts, we would be barring initial access to the very people who use our platforms to create the communities they currently have, whether that is around black women, around immigrants, and so we're very conscious about making sure we allow for that access. racism is a much bigger societal issue, and we recognise we're just a small part of how we can have those conversations to fix it. but do you accept, nonetheless, that you are an enabler of hate? no, to imply that it's about enabling, i think would be inaccurate. bristol rovers�* mark little's among a record number of players racially abused on social media this season, his one of several cases the police are investigating. it's just confusing for me. what they've kind of announced today is what i assumed was happening before. but i do feel that the police need a bit more help from the platforms that this abuse is happening on. with football continuing to unite against racism, the government has promised new laws to make big tech more accountable. today it welcomed facebook�*s announcement but said more needed to be done. dan roan, bbc news. it is time now for the travel show. this week we look back at some of our coldest adventures. from frozen hotel rooms... ain't gonna lie about it, it's cold. to ride across siberia. people who live there, they say you will lose your face on your first day. and my solo bobsleigh ride. i could go again, right now, let's go. hello and welcome to the travel show, coming to you this week from... ..my living room, here in hertfordshire. ordinarily at this time of year we would be well into the ski season in europe, and i would be braving sub—zero temperatures to get out there and bring you some of the best snowbound adventures from around the world. this is really very nice. i can't imagine it'll be warm when when we get out though. we might not be able to go anywhere just at the moment, but that doesn't stop us looking back at some of our favourite adventures, some of them at below freezing temperatures. like the time a couple of years ago that ade went to the famous swedish icehotel, not exactly the place you would want to get locked down for a couple of months i'd say. it's not what i was expecting. i was expecting an igloo or something like that. for more than 25 years we've been building igloos here. it's been a winter project, a seasonal project. but this is our permanent... it is new. it's the first season that we're running the icehotel 365, a permanent ice hotel. why have an ice hotel all year round? because people want to do it. seriously? simple answer. when you're this far north of the arctic circle, there's daylight for 2h hours during the summer, and the icehotel has found a way to harness that energy, bizarrely, to keep temperatures inside below freezing. look at this! it's like a winter wonderland. there are 20 rooms in this new, permanent hotel, each uniquely sculpted by artists from all over the world. so it'sjust me, and my beautiful ice bed. who's in here? oh, hello, ade. ijust made your room ready. oh, wow! what temperature is it in this place? minus five. it reminds me of my first councilflat, when i couldn't afford heating. laughs. you will become very nostalgic when you sleep here. because the room is literally freezing, you need special gear to survive the night, including a sleeping bag that can withstand temperatures of —25 centigrade. this is your bed. you have a normal mattress but the frame is ice. will this keep me warm enough in —5 degrees? yes. this sleeping bag is for winter purpose. i'm lucky enough to have a suite, which comes with a warm bathroom. if you panic and you can't stand it, you can hang out in here as well. oh, i geta warm room! yeah. of course, i won't be spending much time in the warm room, other than to just get in. my guide, stefan gives me some advice. what people usually do, they go with their whole head. breathing becomes moist inside your sleeping bag and moist makes you colder, so the best way is to keep your face in the open. keep your face in the open? yeah, and breathe out in the air. enjoy your cold night. thanks, stefan i'll be just chilling here. look, there's pros and cons to this. the great thing about it is, it's beautiful in here. look around! and also, the silence is just incredible. so peaceful. but it's cold. i ain't hiding, i ain't going to lie about it. it's cold. ade there, sleeping on a block of ice in kiruna. things are going to stay cold as we head to siberia where temperatures can reach —60 celsius, to meet a man who motorbiked 1000 kilometres to a place that has been declared the world's coldest village. between yakutsk and oymyakon is 1000km. so i travelled 200km per day. so remote. nothing around, just mountains, forest, tiger and cold. it is the permafrost land. when i started on the first day, yakutian, siberian people who live there said, "please don't do that." karolus, you will lose your face on the first day. the frostbite will eat you. even though i had a helmet and some protection, motorcycling in winter on the road doesn't promise to save your life. i was riding for hours along. what is happening inside my head, i call it sometimes active meditation. riding in such hard conditions, so cold, i have to be only now in here because if i give a chance to myself to think ok, where will be warmer, i am hungry, i will get food and so on, then it becomes so cold that it is impossible to ride. i have to accept all of this cold, and completely relax, otherwise it doesn't work. on the third day of my ride i really had a feeling of oh, i'm home. there is no hotel at that night, i received a little tent with a small stove inside. that night was 48 degrees below and inside the tent we measured —13. (bleep) cold, inside the tent you want to relax. but then i said ok guys, let's go out and see into the night. most of us was like, i have never seen sky like this. actually feeling like we are in space somewhere. the last 30 kilometres was so mentally tough for me. in one moment i opened the throttle more, you know, 100, 120 kilometres an hour, steering started to freeze so i could see i could not move it. i started to look for the straight lines, not to use it too much. and then i arrive and i saw the sign, oymyakon. no thought, emptiness, ok, i'm here. when it is —55, the town looks pretty empty. and then maybe one hour later, it is done. the last thing left is to have a swim in the river. and you will be pleased to know that karolus survived that freezing dip in the river, and has been continuing his journeys around the globe. we caught up with him recently for an update. hello, hello, thank you for having me here. what happened since the coldest ride? a couple of seasons went through, and i had some interesting rides. one of them was around the world in a0 days on a motorcycle, it's around 1000 kilometres every single day, and a few flights over the oceans. i went around the south of india on a motorcycle, 3000 kilometres in nine days. the traffic actually was mad, mad traffic in india. ok, so what's next, within this pandemic? still, the situation around the region is all these bubbles of the countries where we can fly and drive and visit, probably it will be probably close north, i hope it will be finland, hopefully very very soon i will be on the north, in the cold again. not only riding, but having a cold swim. cheers, good luck. amazing. now stick with us, because still to come: we enter an endangered glacier. i can't believe how beautiful it is. and i try a bobsleigh run headfirst. wish me luck. so don't go away. we are heading now to the swiss alps, home of course to some of the world's most spectacular mountain scenery. but it is also where global warming has had a shocking impact on a centuries—old tourist attraction. a few years agojo went to discover what is happening. this is the tiny village of gletsch in the swiss alps, and it owes its existence and name to the rhone glacier that sits above the valley. the word "gletscher" means glacier in swiss german. this mass of ice is one of the largest in switzerland, and also the source of the river rhone. in the mid—19th century people started to come here from all over europe to see the glacier. at that point, even in summertime, it stretched all the way down to the village. now the view is very different. and you can see on this signpostjust how far it used to reach. in 1856, iwould have been literally standing on the glacier. it is strange to think that now i can't really see very much, just a tiny bit of ice at the top of the mountain. the scale of the ice melt is extreme. between 1856 and 2010, the glacier receded by more than 1,400 metres. as the ice has retreated, a new glacial lake has formed. we walked down to a spot where you can see right underneath the glacier. wow, unbelievable. you can see it. so blue. you can see here. it is all loose, the ice. yes. i can't believe how quickly the water is pouring down from underneath the glacier. every few seconds, whole chunks of ice are tumbling down from the top of it. it's quite heartbreaking, really. if it keeps melting back, it will affect tourism in the region. most who visit come to visit the carving done annually since 1870. the blue ice is reaching. you can touch it. it is beautiful. this tunnel through the ice is 100m long. i can't quite believe how beautiful it is. you can see the very clear ice, the bubbles there. it's 200 years old, the ice here. it's so blue. so blue, exactly. here we are in the heart of the rhone glacier, this space here. it is so peaceful here. it feels like a church of ice. for years, uv resistant blankets have been used to slow the melt. this technique has been repeated across europe, and recently in china. but since we visited, the swiss government has warned that unless carbon emissions can be reduced, 90% of the remaining glaciers will have melted by the end of the century. next, we are heading north of the arctic circle, to finnish lapland, and christmas may have come and gone, but there are still plenty of reindeer to be found there, as ade discovered. this is a popular winter wonderland. it is so beautiful out here. everywhere you look is just a postcard. there are more reindeer in lapland than people. there are around 200,000 of these animals, and most of them roam free. but some of them, like these ones, are tamed and specially trained for the reindeer safaris. just a little blanket. finally, it's my turn to have a go. if you want to go, you just say "go." so i just say "go?" as simple as that? go, go, reindeer, go! he's not listening to me! go, reindeer! go! i can't say i didn't try, but this reindeer is just not interested. maybe we take the next one. ok, we take the next one. before i set off, eric gives me some last few tips. just pull it. then he will stop in an emergency? then he will stop. that's my handbrake. yeah, baby! we're going! look at this, controlling this powerful beast. my gosh, he is picking up speed! go, go! this is so spectacular. my first—ever sleigh ride. i don't know how much this sleigh weighs — it is probably around half a ton, maybe a little less — but that reindeer is pulling it, as well as myself, so easily. such a powerful beast. let's go, son, let's go! it still might not be the fastest ride, but seems to be the smoothest and most magical way to enjoy this landscape. to finish up this week, no doubt one of the most intense experiences i have had on the travel show. a couple of years ago, i went to latvia, to visit a bobsleigh run that's used by winter olympians and the odd tourist who's brave enough to give it a go. and for some reason, the producer decided that included me. welcome to sigulda's bobsleigh track, one of the very few in the world where tourists can get the same adrenaline rush as professional racers. built under the soviet union in 1986, the track has played skeleton, and bobsleigh rides, with some obvious success. the track is now used as a training venue for several latvian champions, but there are no competitions on today, which is lucky for me, because it means i can try it out. but having a look, i don't feel so lucky. ok, let's go. get the team together... we're about to set off 100km down a very icy hill, but, luckily, i have an expert pilot. fingers crossed everything goes very smoothly. apart from the pilot steering the bobsleigh from the front, a team also includes pushers and a brakeman. but tourists get it easy — theyjust need to duck and hold very tight. this track is almost 1,500 metres long and you need a pretty strong stomach to manage its 16 curves. oh, man! whoo! i think that is one of the most intense experiences of my entire life. that was like being in a very, very active, very cold tumble dryerfor a minute and a half. i don't even know how long it was. that was completely insane. another winter sport that can take your breath away is this, the skeleton. imagine a luge with no brakes or steering aid that you ride headfirst. martin and tomass are brothers, and they are both world and olympic champions in this sport. it is our home track and we did many runs here. for learning, it is great. i agree, because if you learn and you can survive here, then you can survive anywhere. you must love the sport to devote so much of your life to it. what do you love about it? i don't like trainings and this stuff, but i love competition. so that is the best part for me. i don't think i'm ready to try one of the full—blown skeletons, but there is a tourist version available but is a little more my speed. wish me luck! it's called a frog, and for this one, there is no crew to make me feel safe. 0h! oh my goodness! oh my god! a very cool experience in latvia, but fair warning — it is not for the week of stomach. that is it for the week's programme, but coming up next week, we look at dubai's world expo, postponed in 2020, but set to go ahead this year, with 11 million visitors expected. we find out how plans at this huge event space are taking shape. and we find out if south korea's popular fortune tellers can guide us through the months ahead. after this year, it is a golden time for you. a golden time for me? i like the sound of that. very nice. in the meantime, keep up with us on the bbc travel accounts. from me, christa larwood, here at home, and from the rest of the team in theirs, it's bye—bye. hello. it is bitterly cold out there at the moment, not only the coldest night of the winter so far but the coldest night in the uk in over a decade. so, needless to say, thursday morning starts with a very hard frost wherever you are and some icy stretches as well. temperatures first thing widely well below freezing, about —3 to —8 degrees for many of us, but in the coldest spots, we are likely to see temperatures even across the southeast of england and east anglia down to around —10, possibly —20 across the highlands of scotland. so, very cold start, icy stretches around, some dangerous travelling conditions where you have got that ice, particularly in the east. through the day, we'll see more cloud working in from the southwest of england, wales and northern ireland. a few flurries of snow across the higher ground of the southwest of england. it's going to turn windy here, too, with gusts up to about 45 mph. elsewhere, the winds not as strong, a lot of dry weather, a lot of sunshine around on thursday, but not lifting those temperatures in a hurry, up to about 4 degrees in the warmest spots. and as we move through thursday night and on into friday, we've got a bit more cloud across western parts of the uk, a few snow flurries around here as well, temperatures not falling quite as low, but again, bitterly cold where you've got those clear skies. for much of england and wales, temperatures well below freezing once again. we've got this really cold air mass with us, and into friday, we're going to see the winds coming in for more of a south—easterly direction, so certainly fewer showers than we have seen recently. still some snow showers holding on across eastern parts of scotland on friday. much of england, wales and northern ireland looking dry. just the odd shower in the far south—west. once again, temperatures between about freezing and 4 degrees celsius. now, moving through into the weekend, and you'll start to notice the yellow colours pushing in from the west, so that means, gradually, it looks like that milder air is going to move in through the course of the weekend. but saturday once again, bitterly cold start to the day. then as that milder air moves in, we could see some significant snow for parts of northern ireland, scotland, parts of northwest england, wales as well. further east, you're more likely to stay dry through the day on saturday and, again, bitterly cold, with temperatures really struggling to get above freezing once again. but then that milder air looks to be sweeping across the uk, so all of us not quite as cold. some rain in the north and west by the time we get to sunday. bye— bye. and also the source of the river rhone. a warm welcome to bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. my name is mike embley. democrats present terrifying moments ofjanuary 6th riot on capitol hill through never—before—seen footage, as they make their case for convicting former president trump. the democratic party managers describe mr trump as the "inciter—int—chief" as they try to tie him directly to the siege. the insurrectionist mob overwhelmed capitol security and made it inside the halls of congress. because the truth is, this attack never would have happened but for donald trump. freed after more than a thousand days behind bars, the activist who has been campaigning to improve civil rights for saudi women. and a vote of confidence for the oxford astrazeneca vaccine as the world health organization recommends its use

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