Those are the main headlines on bbc news. Dozens of people had to be rescued from a tower block in east london this morning after a fire broke out and spread over three floors. The flats are partially covered in cladding similar to the type used at grenfell tower. More than 30 people needed medical treatment for smoke inhalation. Our Home Affairs Correspondent tom symonds reports. For people in flats with fire safety issues, this is the nightmare. Open the door its open, its open. But at nine this morning, its what confronted residents. As i opened the door to leave my flat, thats when i bumped into one of the Security Guards running up, screaming that theres a fire, theres a fire, get out, and he was sweating and i could clearly tell that this was serious, it wasnt a drill. 120 firefighters tackled the flames and rescued residents, some suffering from the effects of the smoke. We recognise this has got cladding that is very similar to grenfell. We have got our Fire Investigation teams and our fire safety teams looking at this building and the procedures that have been put in place. The fire spread three floors of a building which has silver cladding, identified as a risk. Experts believe it is likely to be combustible, and work to start removing it was due to begin in the coming weeks. But thats after a delay of more than three and a half years since it was first identified as a problem. This could happen again. We need to get this cladding off buildings as soon as possible, not waiting around for finance, not waiting round for new bills to go through government. Get it off, keep us all safe there are Hundreds And Thousands of people affected by this. The buildings owner, ballymore, said the cladding didnt play a part in todays fire, but the government has accused a subsidiary of the company of consistently failing to take action to remove it. £8 million from the governments Building Safety Fund has been allocated to speed things up, but flat owners will have to find the rest thats £3. 5 million. Tom symonds, bbc news, east london. Now on bbc news, on The Travel Show. Coming up on this weeks travel show, we could be finding out how tech will change the way we will travel in the future. Glastonbury is up for another online festival. Saving an underwater super plant in spain. And mike goes for a gentle afternoon bike ride in nairobi. ,. , nairobi. This is a little bit cra hello and welcome to The Travel Show, with me, ade adepitan. This week we are in londons hyde park where the sun is out and its absolutely stunning here. Even the ducks and the swans have come to say hello. In the uk we are slowly beginning to come out of lockdown so maybe we can start thinking about travel again. Over the last few weeks, we have been looking at how the covidi9 have been looking at how the covid i9 pandemic has affected things about how we spend our money when booking online. This week we can look at how tech could and probably will change how we all travel in the future. It wasnt so long ago that travel was a very different experience. You would probably flip through some brochures, pop into a travel agent and write a cheque before heading out to a place you barely knew anything about, with little more to help you along your way than a paper map and a guidebook. Today, technology has changed things. But what about in say, i dont know, ten years� time . But what about in say, i don� t know, ten years� time . If technology can change how we travel so quickly, how different can we expect it to be when we explore the world in the near future . Be when we explore the world in the nearfuture . Well, one Big Driverfor the nearfuture . Well, one big driver for change the nearfuture . Well, one Big Driverfor Change will be driver for change will be what� s known as the internet of things. Its predicted that by 2025, 42 billion devices will be capturing data on how we live and move through the world. Some say the internet of things will play a big part in a Fourth Industrial Revolution and that the covid crisis has accelerated technological advances. The internet of things the way of describing how more and more objects will with each other in an increasingly interconnected world. Our bags will tell us where they are in the world if they get lost, for example. It is what will enable us to open more hotel rooms with our phones and once inside, use a tablet or your voice to switch the lights on, change the temperature and control the television. But that is just the start. Television. But that is ust the mi the start. Public transport becomes the start. Public transport becomes more the start. Public transport becomes more smarter, l the start. Public transport becomes more smarter, then you need less roads and less car parks to open it up to more green spaces, so actually the internet of things and getting different systems to speak to each other has a big knock on effect for travelling and smart cities in the future. I5 effect for travelling and smart cities in the future. Cities in the future. Is also a art of cities in the future. Is also a part of what cities in the future. Is also a part of what will cities in the future. Is also a part of what will enable cities in the future. Is also a l part of what will enable other technological parts of our travels that have been accelerated during the pandemic. Imagine going through an airportand pandemic. Imagine going through an airport and checking and through facial recognition. You continue want to baggage drop off, authenticating in the same way, head on through facial recognition rarity and then finally going through the boarding gates, doing it all completely contactless. In fact, even your passport might not be around for too much longer as you know it. Right now we are longer as you know it. Right now we are piloting longer as you know it. Right now we are piloting digital l now we are piloting digital passports for people travelling to spain so they will have their Digital Information on their mobile and in addition to their biometric and nation on their biometric and nation on their mobile as well so i think it is really speeding up innovation because we need to have these technologies to make people feel confident to travel. � , people feel confident to travel. 3 , people feel confident to travel. � ,. ,. , travel. Its ust one example of how travel. Itsjust one example of how biometrics travel. Itsjust one example of how biometrics and of how biometrics and Contactless Technology will change the way we travel. Though, of course, this Data Hungry World will mean giving more and more of our information, which could come with a risk to our privacy. Thankfully now, lots of the technology and biometric space stores a representation of your information. So not literally every principal copy but a recipe book to enable you to validate it. So this for me is actually one of the positives to come through this period that will improve people� s Digital Security overall, but we have some education issues to work through so people can feel comfortable with this technology and the benefits that it brings. Technology, like having global maps and our smart phones, makes exploring the world much more simple and the world much more simple and the technology of the future will look to make things even easier. But is that necessarily such a good thing . Are we losing the Spirit Of Adventure . Whether you are in the us or japan, these maps have exactly the same interfaces, and i think this can give you the impression that the world is everywhere the same, it� s the same pastel landscape that you are navigating using your mobile, but also, the virtual places that we inhabit really are like places. If you have flown from london to new york but you spend the whole time on facebook, like you haven� t left your virtual environment, you are kind of cocooned in the technology. Are kind of cocooned in the technology are kind of cocooned in the technolo . �. ,. , technology. But the Technology Ofthe technology. But the technology of the near technology. But the technology of the near future technology. But the Technology Of The Near Future Will technology. But the Technology Of The Near Future Will also of the near future will also open up new ways to see the world. During the pandemic, some destinations took the chance to show off their location in immersive Virtual Reality and some people think this will accelerate the take up of this technology in the future, as well as things like augmented reality. Technology might soon make the process of travel far easier but what is really exciting is it might give us completely new opportunities for exploration that simply didn� t exist before. A Travel Experience that reveals the history of that reveals the history of that destination right before our eyes. For example, imagine being able to visit ancient roman baths and seeing the history of the unique place unfold in front of you using your mobile phone. Unfold in front of you using your mobile phone. Weve been workin your mobile phone. Weve been working in your mobile phone. Weve been working in collaboration your mobile phone. Weve been working in collaboration with i working in collaboration with the bbc, we� ve been able to really get to grips with history and bring it to life. Looking back through the roman error where there was the fall of the roof, so through the app you can actually see the roof fall down and came down in front of you which is really exciting, you get to see people actually react in front of you, it� s lovely. Actually react in front of you, its lovely its lovely. Some of this technology its lovely. Some of this technology is its lovely. Some of this technology is already i its lovely. Some of this technology is already available in some form, but the question is, what will really take off to become the new normal for travel . Well, tech has come to the rescue of many destinations and event over the past year or so as they� ve moved what they do online, but until we can visit them in real life, here is our latest global guide to the world of online travel. Hopes are high that live gigs could return after successful trails and barcelona last month and now in liverpool, a Non Socially Distanced Festival has just been trailed. The event is being held as part of the government� s Events Research programme with hopes of finding a way to open up venues again. Fingers crossed for good result. It will be next year that we can hopefully return to the world famous where the farm, but until then, glastonbury is going online again. This year the event will see a range of artist performing in support of the festival. Tickets are on sale with a number of time streams available to accommodate audiences around the world. Another sign that virtual travel could be around long after covid is the latest offering from amazon on. They� ve recently started trailing and is on explore in the us. Its aim is to offer real time experiences with an Expert Localhost from cities and site around the world. And finally, one thing that virtual travel allows is time to enjoy the space all to yourself. The Van Gogh Museum in amsterdam, which holds the world� s largest collection of his paintings and drawings has provided a virtual tour, filmed in full 4k for stunning detail of the dutch master� s work. Ok, hopefully there is something there to keep your fires burning. There is something there to keep yourfires burning. Right, still to come on The Travel Show we meet the marine biologist working to protect the vital seagrass around these islands. And mike� s taking to two wheels in kenya. Now it� s time to head to spain and the waters around formentaria to meet a man whose passion is among the most important waters the world. They play a little known role in sustaining our planet was mac natural environment. Our planet� s natural environment. This is maybe the most efficient carbon sink in the planet. I remember perfectly my First Contact with the seagrass and it was in october 1992 in this place and i came here with a sailboat and the first thing i saw was this amazing seagrass, and i really fell in love, and since then i am completely dedicated to the study and filming and spreading the value of this plant. The water that we see is like this because of the posidonia plant, it is not a seaweed, it is not in algae, it is a real plant with roots, leaves, flowered, and this plant arrived to this place 80,000 years ago conquered completely the underwater part under the shore. The posidonia is giving a lot of things to us. It is purifying the water, at the same time it is contributing to the beaches. Most of the sand we have on the beaches comes from the skeletons of millions of organic things that live inside the posidonia jungle. From a small island in the middle of the mediterranean, is we have two think of the Underwater Reefs that the posidonia is building. In this 30 years i am witnessing how the posidonia is more and more endangered. We are Spilling Millions of tons of sea wedge sewage into waters from our towns and our cities. So we are intoxicating the underwater world. Another problem here in formentaria is it is a boat destination. Thousands of anchors every day go in the water, and the anchors are dragging on the bottom. This is happening underwater and we don� t see. I decided to do underwater cartography, like a scan under the bottom and to place this cartography on an app place this cartography on an app that you can download for free, the name is posidonia maps, so you know if you are over posidonia and i think it is an easy way to see if you can drop the anchor. This is a pilot by the balearic government for the idea, and they are doing the whole cartography of the Balearic Islands. The aim of the Save Posidonia Project is notjust ecology, people come from All Around The World to see the formentaria island, and to think one day, the posidonia dies, we will lose our main economic driver which is tourism. In autumn, the old leaves wash up on the shore and the beaches and this is used for the houses, the isolation, because it is so clean that no insect, no parasite will go inside, thejuice of the posidonia is a natural fertiliser and sub and you can see, the Balearic Islands since a long time ago. I think that immigration is really the way to change the future, and it is educating the youth and this is why in the summertime we have hundreds of kids, and they learn how to dive, they learn how to do underwater photography, and they are learning the things we are doing wrong and how to do in a good way full up i don� t like to be using an apostle i don� t like to be using an apocalyptic message. The opportunity to changes in our hands. If we don� t change and maybe ten years most of the posidonia here and many species will be gone, but we fully start changing we will have the possibility to recover the nature in the mediterranean and in many other places in this planet. London has boom in cycling. Social distancing and largely empty street has met many of us have seen it as the best way to get around. I� m not complaining, i have been a fan of wheels for years. Even in paris they have managed to create hundreds of kilometres of new bike lanes. But up until now this revolution has largely bypassed africa� s great cities. Mike is navigating nairobi� s Crazy Streets to find out why. If you have been to kenya, chances are you are on safari or out on the beaches. The Capital Nairobi isn� t well known as a glamorous city break destination. It is busy and it is congested, not exactly the peaceful sanctuary you will see other places in kenya, especially now when we are all worried about social distancing as well. But what the city lacks in serenity it makes up for in charisma. Take out these minibuses. Cheap, popular, beautifully decorated and serve pretty much everywhere you need to go. In normal times are really fun way to explore the city. If it was two years ago i would still be on board one of those, it looks so cool. And given the Light Railway only serves a limited number of destinations, you might imagine that cycling might imagine that cycling might be the next best way to get around. But the Bike Sharing Trend that has been massive all over the world in cities like paris and rio hasn� t really caught on africa� s your cities. In the entire of kenya there is only one that has been opened, maybe i should say, was opened. Nairobi� s soul scheme is here in a university campus. It began a few years ago as an experiment to see if bike sharing could work in africa, but it has all been locked away since the pandemic began. So it seems like it has been a while since these bikes have seen the light of day. It since these bikes have seen the light of day light of day. It is almost a ear light of day. It is almost a year now light of day. It is almost a year now because light of day. It is almost a year now because after i light of day. It is almost a i year now because after covid everything was at a dead stop. So why do you think africans have been a bit slow to adopt the bicycle as a mode of transportation . There are a number of reasons why cycling has been a bit low. But in rural areas bicycles are commonly used, because bicycles are seen as a poor man� s tool for transport, so 75 or 85 of people in rural areas know how to cycle. But now when it comes to cycle. But now when it comes to urban areas it is a whole new ball game, because even in nairobi, we don� t have, you know, cycling lanes, so there is a huge problem in terms of your security and your safety, so you don� t want to be knocked down by a car. Mil so you dont want to be knocked down by a car down by a car. All right. A little dusty. Down by a car. All right. A little dusty. Lately, little dusty. Lately, enthusiasts like this man have drive through some of the small Infrastructure Improvements for cyclists. There is now a new extra of bike lane in the Central Business district, for instance. But there is one big consideration Holding Everyone back. Nairobi is a city in which karzai king. Cars a king. This committed cyclist has been fighting for the last four years to make the city safer for those on to wheels. There are so many reasons why people are not using bicycles in canada and the number one reason is definitely not having sufficient infrastructure. Sufficient infrastructure. In kenya sufficient infrastructure. In kenya. Most sufficient infrastructure. in kenya. Most roads dont have in kenya. Most roads don� t have bike lanes and even when you are growing up, we are taught to aspire to own a car. That is your measure of success. Your your measure of success. Youi measure your measure of success. Your measure of your measure of success. Youi measure of success your measure of success. Your measure of success is not a bicycle, that is not african way thinking about success. We just need to change the culture and start telling our kids, bicycles are actually something good to own, and riding a bicycle does not mean you� re poor and of affording a car. She leads a monthly protest ride through the city, an attempt to reclaim the roads. She has offered to lead me on a little guided tour to demonstrate some of the dangers. Coming up next we� re going to go for a little ride, right . So what should i expect . Well, number one is, you can expect all types of drivers. Some people, you don� t deserve to be on the roads, so expect everything. But what i would advise is when you are riding in nairobi, is you have to be confident. You have to take your stand. Confident. You have to take your stand your stand. 0k, all right. Motorcycles, your stand. 0k, all right. Motorcycles, cars, your stand. 0k, all right. | motorcycles, cars, people your stand. 0k, all right. Motorcycles, cars, people with carts, weight to me, wait for me hold on laughs. This problem isn� t limited to nairobi. Cycling in north america, europe and parts of asia has boomed during the pandemic, but that is not the case in the entirety of africa. Experts at the World Economic forum look at cities from lagos and accra to addis ababa and Dar Es Salaam in the east, and raise concern that cycling is largely absent. The streets are dominated by cars, and as a result the air quality is suffering. There is a man with a tv in our land. And here in nairobi, cycling is hard work. All i see is a bunch of people in our bike lane. But also, yeah, the lanejust in our bike lane. But also, yeah, the lane just ends. In our bike lane. But also, yeah, the lanejust ends. A man with a gunjust yeah, the lanejust ends. A man with a gun just crossed in front. I think ijust experienced the full spec, the union yank. This is really nice with the bike lane but it was also a little bit crazy over there with the buses and everything like that. I think the National Everything like that. I think the National Government i everything like that. I think. The National Government has everything like that. I think the National Government has now started noticing there are cyclist in the city and they are coming up with laws to protect cyclists and pedestrians, because traditionally cyclists have never been considered, we are the most vulnerable road users. We don� t have a space on the road but now as you can see, nairobi is slowly changing and it is amazing, and other cities in kenya are starting to notice the same, and playing their card in ensuring Nonmotorised Transport is part of the infrastructure in cities. Mike there in nairobi. Infrastructure in cities. Mike there in nairobi. Thats infrastructure in cities. Mike there in nairobi. Thats all. There in nairobi. That� s all for this week, coming up next week carmen is looking back at some of our best moments in japan, including the time she trained like a ninja. And rajan went to visit what has to be one of the strangest classrooms in the world. Join us for that if you can, and in the meantime, don� t forget you can keep up with all our adventures on bbc iplayer. But until next time, from me and all The Travel Show team here in hyde park, it� s goodbye. Hello again. Friday was all about sunshine and showers. The best of the drier weather and sunshine was across Western Areas of the uk. But across northern and eastern scotland, Eastern Areas of england, we did have widespread showers, and some of them really pokey with some hail mixed in as well. At the same time, over the last 2a hours, trouble� s been brewing out in the atlantic. Look at this area of cloud and how it� s rapidly developed into what is quite a beautiful looking area of low pressure. However, this area of low pressure is a loitering low pressure system, a particularly slow moving system that� s going to be with us for the next five days or so, bringing rain and showers our way. So, an unsettled spell of weather. The rain is beginning to arrive at the moment and will continue to work its way in across parts of england, wales and Northern Ireland over the next few hours. But as the rain starts falling, the mild air starts moving in, so temperatures 10 degrees by dawn across the south west. Cold with a patchy frost in scotland, but at least there� ll be a bright start here. It� s in wales where the rain is going to be at its heaviest and particularly across the high ground of the brecon beacons. Here, through the weekend, we could see over 100mm of rain, and that could cause some localised flooding issues. After a bright start in scotland, the rain is going to be working in here as we go through the afternoon, but at the same time, the rain should ease off towards South East England and perhaps Northern Ireland as well. Temperatures higher than they� ve been for quite a while 17 degrees or so in london, but it� s still cold in scotland. 7 or 8 degrees for many here with that persistent rain, and it� ll be windy for many of us as well. Indeed, through saturday night, there will be further bursts of rain coming and going, but it will be turning increasingly mild through the night as well. Temperatures are staying at around 12 or 13 degrees across england and wales, and a frost free night, something we really haven� t seen much of over the last month or so. The low pressure still with us for the second half of the weekend, arguably the better of the two days. It� s a day of sunshine and showers, but those showers slightly to merge together to give some lengthier outbreaks of rain across Western Areas. We do have some showers pushing their way eastwards across england from a weak cold front, and that front separates really very mild air across Eastern Areas. With the fresher atlantic air, we have most parts around 15 17 degrees. That area of the pressure is loitering, no surprise to see rain and showers for most of the days next week as well. That� s your weather. Good morning. Welcome to breakfast with Naga Munchetty and jon kay. Our headlines today the snp wins key seats but its chances of winning an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament remain on a knife edge. 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