lam i am lebo diseko. president trump's administration steps up its attack on what it calls the "fa ke media". president trump's spokesman said he was not going to sit back and allow false narratives, false stories and inaccurate facts to get out. iraqi troops have entered western mosulfor the first time in their offensive to drive out so—called islamic state from the country's second city. kimjong—nam is one of the world's deadliest nerve agents. vx is classified by the un as a weapon of mass destruction. past problems are continuing to haunt the royal bank of scotland. it

warned today that it made a loss of nearly £7 billion last year. that is three times more than the loss they made the year before. our business editor simonjack takes a look at what's happening at rbs. a decade of losses. 2008 was the big one. since then, billions of losses year on year. it was £7 billion. £58 billion in for the ninth time in a row, fines and compensation for sins of the past have laid waste to any profits made, and further cost—cutting could mean thousands of job losses. there will be job losses. i have not put a number out and i won't. my view is, always talk to our people first where they are affected. there will be job cuts in this organisation. there has to be, given that over the next four years we will take £2 billion of costs out of this

organisation to reshape it to be a really good bank. but that is not going to happen quite yet. you will eventually see a coherent uk retail and commercial bank arising out of the ashes. but we're still a long, long way away from that. even in rbs‘s own plans, we are four years away, and their own plans have a degree of hope. i stood here in 2008. i did not expect to still be here in 2017 reporting on yet another multi—billion pound loss. it was not supposed to take this long to fix, and the fact that it has shows that no—one really knew just how big a mess the world's biggest bank at that time had got itself into. in 2008, the government of the day announced an emergency £45 billion bailout to prevent a complete collapse. could things have been done differently? with the benefit of hindsight, it should have been fully nationalised and broken up and used in the national interest. but the taxpayer is now stuck with the losses and it could be some years before it can be returned

in a way that taxpayers get their money back. the bank is much healthier today but with more losses yet to come, now on bbc news: the travel show. this week, camping in churches. i'm going to try to go to sleep now and try and forget that i'm entirely surrounded by graves. a spanish celebration of pork. and getting to grips with sudan. wrestling a guy in front of 2,000 people is a bit further than what i usually go. this week, i'm in kent,

in england's south—east corner. this is the city of canterbury, a place of pilgrimage ever since the 12th century. apparently, if you look up at the stained glass windows — ah, here we go — one of the panels depicts a fairly extraordinary scene. really, the thing that put canterbury cathedral on the map. it's got thomas beckett, who,

at the time, was the archbishop of canterbury, being killed by two knights with swords and it was his murder and martyrdom that made this a place for pilgrims to come from across the world. britain's ancient places of worship have always attracted visitors. ca nterbury‘s competition comes from sites like york minster, westminster abbey and even the holy island of lindisfarne, but around the country there are religious treasures to be found in the smallest places. this is fordwich, about two miles down river from canterbury. with 370 local inhabitants, they reckon this is the smallest town in the uk. you wouldn't know it now, but tiny fordwich used to be an important port. it was here they unloaded the french stone that was used to build the cathedral.

here, in this barely used norman church, is my bed for the night. so it's very reassuring walking through a graveyard to get to your accommodation. i'm here for a spot of champing, church camping. it's available at 12 historic venues around the country. beautiful ancient sites that are rarely, if ever, used as places of mass worship any more. it's a very big hotel room. money raised from letting champers like me stay means the crumbling buildings are spared a slow, inevitable decline. there's 1,400 years of history here. you can see from the architecture, that there would be little bits from every generation because we all make our mark on it, often trying to modernise it, whetherfor the good or the bad

is another question. so i'm keen to give this champing a go, so where will i be sleeping? you'll be sleeping possibly in the executive pews because it's meant to be the warmest part of the church. it's good that it's a box pew because it stops the drafts. 0h, here we go. so, here you are. there are a few nice touches here — that good old stable, the tea tray and a basket of goodies with biscuits and wine. —— staple. so i guess there's a risk, what if people are here drinking and carrying on? there is an agreement that you have to agree to in terms of how you behave in the building as you hire it, as it were. particularly here, it speaks silence and good behaviour and one hopes that people would enjoy that and appreciate that. i mean, it's only 6:00pm and it's already cold. safe to say, champing is usually more of a summer activity,

at least the pub next door looks like it's going to be warm. purely medicinal this g&t. people have said, you know, waking up in this amazing place in the summer, with the bird's singing and the sun pouring through the windows, is just something very special. we are given historic churches by the church of england where there's no longer a worshipping congregation, but the church is of such significant historic and cultural value that it needs protecting and preserving for the future. why would anyone want to go champing? because you get to spend such a lot of time in truly amazing historic buildings. the way people usually visit historic churches, and i've seen it, is that they go to the door, they pop their head round and they go — oh, there's a font, there's an altar, there's some very nice stained glass, that's very pretty, and then they leave. what you miss by doing that is, you don't get to dwell in the place

and really get a feeling for it. somebody at the pub just told me that tonight is supposed to be the coldest night of the year. so that's good, as i head into my unheated church room for the night. i've got my air bed, sleeping bag. so i've just got into bed and it's quite comfy, actually. i'm quite cosy, given how cold it is, and i can see my breath.

i'm going to try and go to sleep now and try to forget i'm entirely surrounded by graves. it is quite cold, it's quite noticeably cold. i think there's a jolly good reason that champing is only done during the summer because these old churches don't have nice central heating, but it's oddly peaceful, actually. it's cold, but peaceful. deciding to come champing in the dead of winter was a really terrible idea. (knocking).

morning. hi, how are you doing? 0h... i thought you might want some coffee. you are my favourite person in the world. brilliant, and some bacon sandwiches as well. welcome! how did you get on? i mean, it's the middle of winter, when you don't normally run champing. well, i was going to say, there is a reason why we run champing from spring to the end of summer. yeah. but how about the atmosphere and the experience? i tell you what, i was surprised actually because i'm quite a scardy cat, but really the second i sort of actually settled down to sleep, it was really peaceful. yes. it's really lovely. you're lying there and there's no sound from outside and the atmosphere was surprisingly quiet, sort of calm, all through the night i had no moment of being, sort of, alarmed. the champing season starts around mid—march, a far more sensible time of the year to try this. bookings cost around £40 a head, but for that you get a historic

building all to yourself. so if you're thinking of heading to south—east england in the nearfuture, here are some things you need to know. there are may day events happening all over the country, four days of folk dancing and music parade in the old town. the roots of this go way back, to the 16th and 17th centuries. those clear spring days should be an ideal time to try to out the world's thinnest tall building, brighton's i360. it only opened last year on the city's seafront, marking the entrance to the old iconic west pier which burned down in 2003. and in hampshire, events are planned

throughout the year to mark the 200th anniversary of the death of the pride and prejudice author, jane austen. the main focus for events is injune, but even now there are exhibitions, tours and performances taking place around her home city of winchester. next up this week. our global gourmet heads to andalucia to take in a festival that shows, like no other, just how much the spanish love their pork. finding the locals quite a handful. you grab the arms,

you grab the legs. i think you need to get them on their back and then you win. the travel show, your essential guide wherever you're heading. welcome to the slice of the show that tackles your travel questions. coming up, a heated discussion about dubai in july. but first, skiers heading for winter park, in the american rockies, can take the train this winter. the winter park express runs from denver's union station every weekend until the end of march. from the city's airport.

next, neil smurdon faces an el ight hour stop over at hong kong airport next, neil smurdon faces an eight hour stop over at hong kong airport and wants to know... so long as you have a passport from one of 160 approved countries, including almost every nation in europe and many in asia and the americas, it's easy. make sure your bags are tagged to your final destination, then you won't need to wait around at the baggage reclaim, you can go straight through passport control into hong kong without problem, just be ready to show your onward boarding pass as proof of your travel plans. then take advantage of the superb airport express train link direct from the terminal into the city. you'll need 100 hong kong dollars in cash rather than a credit card to buy a same—day return ticket. take the train to the last stop, on hong kong island, where you'll emerge beside one of the world's great harbours ready

for a few hours of exploration and eating before the 24—minute trip back to the airport. rich and tara ballard are looking ahead to summerand, fortunately, contacted the travel show before they booked. yes. stay away from the gulf in summer, unless you're merely changing planes. 0nejuly i was flying via dubai and made the mistake of building in a day to go sightseeing, the a0 degrees plus heat was debilitating. i resorted to flagging down taxis just to travel a few hundred meters in order to get some brief air conditioned respite. sure, there are plenty of chilled indoor attractions, but that's not the point of a dazzling city such as dubai. i enjoy the gulf states from november to february, but during the remaining eight months of the year you'll

find me elsewhere. sharri rendall is heading to tel aviv in the last week in aprilfor a friend's 40th birthday. late spring is an excellent time to be in tel aviv. it's a beautiful, welcoming cosmopolitan city which, despite being barely a century old, has loads to see. exploring beyond tel aviv is easy, notably on the spectacular train ride through thejudaean hills to jerusalem, taking 80—minutes forjust 20 shekels, which is about £4 or $5. travelling as a single woman presents no special risks though the danger of terrorism is ever present. whether you're considering the balkans, the baltic or bogota, the travel show is here to help, so email your question and i'll do my very best to find you an answer. from me, simon calder, the global guru, bye

for now and see you next time. finally this week, we're back on the road in sudan. it's a country scarred by conflict and largely inaccessible for tourists, but with a bit of resolve and some careful planning it is possible to get there. last time, benjamin zand explored some of the country's impressive archaeological sites, this week he's in the capital khartoum trying something a little more hands on. every friday at 4.00pm, in haj yusef, khartoum, this ancient sport, originally thought up by nubian pharaohs, is still being practiced. for thousands of years, wrestling

has been practised among the tribes. but it is notjust a game. as unrest pushes people away from their homeland, the sport has found another home in the capital. and it isa another home in the capital. and it is a huge event. things are heating up is a huge event. things are heating up here, these guys going pretty hard. basically anybody can get involved, they have an empty arena, and all the kids jump involved, they have an empty arena, and all the kidsjump in and ‘seeing ‘ seeing - heated ‘seeing - heated the ‘seeing heated the “it“; , ~ ,, , , 9&5}? iééiéé e%)h%§*%f gas eggsegz get i was happy - 9&5}? iééiéé e%)h%§*%f gas eggsegz get i was happy! was 9&5}? sééiéé e%)h%§*%f gas esgsess get i was happy! was only a can get i was happy i was only a spectator. but quickly i realise the organisers had other plans. i was told an international exhibition match was going to take place, one between saddam and britain, ——

sudan. and i was going to be representing britain. wrestling a quy representing britain. wrestling a guy in front of 2000 people is a bit less tha n guy in front of 2000 people is a bit less than what i usually go for. he is kind of scary. i was given the chance to meet my opponent. i am kind of scared. then it was time to i've got my knee braces on, time to lose my life. this is going toind_so_badlys

it actually started quite well, that's until my opponent took off his shirt in a display of ultimate warrior in this man—on—man death match. i spent the duration of the match running away from the opponent. i learnt later that you're not really meant to move backwards, only forwards, but they let me off as i was knew it and they probably knew i was going to lose. as things heated up, i used my premium agility skills, dodged my opponent's attempts to bring me down. as it was all over, i was happy i could now retreat to the changing room and think about what i'd just attempted, but in a celebration of british—sudanese relations, my opponent decided a parade around

the arena would be more suitable. oh, my god, i lead a strange life! whilst in the arms of my new sudanese comrade, i had time to reflect on what i was seeing. sudan is a very divided country when it comes to things like religion and ethnicity, but here, in the wrestling arena, it doesn't matter where you're from. even a young lad from liverpool can earn respect. now it's all finished, all i can say is, this could be a bit of a daunting place to walk into, but, after that experience, and the love everyone showed me, all i can say is that was unbelievable. and a cheering crowd as well, i'm being carried around. i can get used to that, honestly. what a day, what a day. well, that's all we've got time for in this week's travel show. coming up next week:

skiing in the danger zone. six years after the disastrous meltdown at japan's fukishima nuclear plant, carmen heads for the slopes nearby to find out how skiers are being enticed back. so dojoin us then, if you can. in the meantime, if you'd like to keep up with what we're up to out on the road, you can sign up to our social media feeds. but for now, from me, christa larwood, and the rest of the travel show team here in south—east england, it's goodbye. well, friday was a much quieter and calmer day than what thursday

brought, thanks to storm doris, but as we head into the weekend things turn more unsettled again. we have loads of weather systems, weather fronts, i should say, ganging up on us, bringing bouts of rain, and isobars tighten up as we head into saturday. during the night it will turn much wetter and windier across the uk. the rain eventually reaching the far south—east towards the end of the night. some of the rain across the western upslopes over higher ground will be quite heavy and persistent, and the winds quite a feature. gale force across the north and west. but it's bringing mild south—westerlies across the uk. so it does mean it'll be mild this weekend. unsettled, there will be some rain at times. most of that in the north and west. it will continue to be blustery both on saturday and sunday. that said, there will be some sunshine in the forecast. i'll show you in just a moment. through saturday morning it looks like that rain will continue to sink south and eastwards. some of it heavy across the western up slopes of the south—west of england, western wales and for north—west england there could be quite a lot of rain piling up

for cumbria and lancashire. across central and eastern areas, rain will be lighter and patchier.