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which saw australia awarded a win for today's pro league game, despite gb leading i—o. anna toman had scored from a penalty corner to put gb ahead, but then at half time thunder and lightning in sydney meant the game had to be called off. according to the rules, because australia won yesterday's game, they get double points and so were awarded the overall win. reacting to the decision on twitter, maddie hinch wrote... we'll be building up to super bowl liv on the bbc sport website and if you're up for a late night it's live on bbc one with coverage starting at 11:25pm. during the sports news we saw that plane carrying 11 more british people from wuhan landing at a military base in france. the plane taxing behind the buildings on the ru nway taxing behind the buildings on the runway and those who live in be taken on from france to raf brize norton and then taken to the wirral we re norton and then taken to the wirral were they willjoin the other 83 british nationals being held in isolation, quarantine for two weeks, 14 days. that second french flight has now arrived in the south of france. now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich. good afternoon. outbreaks of rain and drifting northwards across much of the uk today. cold enough for snow across a high ground in scotland. exceptionally mild to the south. lots of showers from the west to east tonight, blustery night, some clear spells between them temperatures reaching three and eight celsius. some brightness tomorrow and spells of sunshine but tomorrow and spells of sunshine but to the north we still have this area of low pressure and on the southern flank some very strong winds, also a frontal system plaguing the channel islands, could feed rain into the fat set england later. showers are for the northern half of the country, wintry over high grounds. temperatures between 7—12 but windy, feeling colder than that and the wind is picking up during tomorrow night even more, 75 or 80 mph possible for western parts of scotland. hello this is bbc news. the headlines: ii britons are landing soon in france, on their way back from the chinese city where the coronvirus originated. they will go into quarantine on the wirral. meanwhile, the first death from coronavirus outside china is reported, in the philippines. the prime minister reveals his demands for a post—brexit trade deal. we'll be looking ahead to tonight's bafta awards. joker leads the way with 11 nominations but it's the first world war epic 1917 which is tipped to take the top prize of best film. england hope to kick off their six nations campaign with a win against france in paris this afternoon. now on bbc news it is time for the travel show. coming up on this week's travel show, we're going to sicily, home to europe's biggest volcano, to find out about the risks and rewards of taking a trip there. for me, etna is a little bit like a person. a very. . .slightly lunatic person. global guru simon calder is back with some winter ski recommendations. and i get a crash course in a modern version of the traditional japanese bon dance. they are just being kind, they arejust being kind, i'm sure! first up on this week's travel show, simon platts heads to europe's most active volcano on the italian island of sicily. this film contains some upsetting images. there's been an earthquake on the south side of etna. e la sirena, ecco! ho detto che sarebbe tornato. in one of the most volcanic regions in europe, an earthquake is detected. it could indicate devastating activity on the continent's largest volcano. but still, on etna, tourists gather unaware. right now we are 9,000 feet above the sea level, the highest you can get when you come to mount etna. what we are looking at is the south—east crater, the baby. it's the newest, 1971, but it's also considered the most dangerous at all because at this moment, it's becoming, how you say, hyperactive. as a journalist, making programmes around the world, i travel a lot. like any traveller, a certain amount of risk goes with the territory. but some of those risks seem clearer than others. the recent catastrophic eruption on new zealand's white island which killed 20 and injured a further 27 has highlighted the risk of visiting active volcanoes. but for the 10,000 a year heading to white island and the many more visiting the 1,500 active volcanoes around the world, how could they really understand the likelihood of disaster? i wanted to find out more about what it means to visit these mythical phenomena and also what they mean to the people living in their shadow. so i'm going to etna, but i'm not the first bbcjournalist to visit the volcano. just three years ago, a group of tourists, along with bbc science correspondent rebecca morrell, were suddenly hit by an eruption on the side of the volcano. have you seen the others? yeah, they're down there. are you 0k, are you 0k? it was lucky that none were killed by the molten rocks that showered the group as they ran for shelter. but in coming here, i have been told by many people that this volcano is perfectly safe. but firstly, etna is currently probably the most active volcano on earth and in terms of eruption frequency, productivity, etna certainly has one of the most sophisticated monitoring surveillance systems on earth. you have instruments that record any sort of ground vibration, then we measure gas emission and then magnetism and gravity and infra—sound, which are acoustic signals at very low frequencies that we cannot hear, and then obviously there is a great need for monitoring of volcanic ash emissions. we have surveillance cameras, we have thermal cameras, we have computer stimulations, so this is being done virtually all the time. and i still left out a few things. but for the people here, etna is much more than just data. they call her mamma, and she is a constant companion. in 1669, the lava flow in six months covered a distance of 45 miles. it covered little villages such as nicolosi. if you look around, you can see old flows, late 1800s. you see the lava flow of 1983 and you can get into people's experience. for me, etna is mamma etna. it is a volcano, amazing but it is in my heart. but of course, faith and monitoring alone won't reassure many travellers. when boris and his team find activity, they send their findings to a special organisation. they use the data to set restrictions on where people can go on etna. there is no universal system to tell you the chances of an eruption. each place has its own, and fortunately, in etna's case, the lava moves very slowly. etna has killed no more than 77 people in the last 2,700 years. so here's the thing. intense local monitoring and strong regulation can protect people but by visiting, you put your trust in others and individual tour operators. what you can do is research what's happening at your volcano to help you understand the risks. in coming here, all the people i've met have reconciled themselves to living in mamma's shadow in their own unique way. for me, etna is a little bit like a person. a very. . .slightly lunatic person. a person that you adore

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