they will meet on the 12th ofjune in singapore. mr trump has been celebrating his diplomatic coup at a rally in indiana and the release of three americans detained in north korea apparently as a goodwill gesture before the summit. iran's president, hassan rouhani, has insisted that tehran does not want new tensions in the middle east. he was speaking hours after israel launched airstrikes against iranian military targets in syria in response to iranian missiles. a libyan dissident who was kidnapped with the help of british security services and then tortured is to receive a formal apology and compensation from the government. prime minister theresa may said abdul hakim belhaj, and his wife fatima boudchar, suffered appalling treatment. it's been revealed that the eastenders actress, dame barbara windsor, has alzheimer's disease. her husband says the 80—year—old was diagnosed four years ago,

but he has decided to make it public now because her condition is worsening. our medical correspondent, fergus walsh, reports. 0 omy 0 my dear. in herfinal in her final appearance in eastenders in 2016 two years after being diagnosed with alzheimer's disease, the degenerative brain condition. increasing difficulty remembering her lines is one reason why she decided to leave the soap. her career on tv and in nine carry on films has made dame barbara entertainment royalty. seen here with her husband, scott mitchell, in 2000, collecting an mbe, scott said the couple had kept her dementia diagnosis privat for the last four yea rs diagnosis privat for the last four years but since barbara's 80th

birthday last august, a definite continual confusion has set in so it's becoming a lot more difficult for us to hide. he added: look at those tadpoles! look at them! 850,000 people in the uk have dementia. among them, brenda, who is 75. alzheimer's affects short—term memory and balance. married for 56 yea rs, memory and balance. married for 56 years, her husband, stephen, says being open about the condition has helped both of them. we've had the diagnosis bought three years now, we've carried on living as best we can, overcoming all the difficulties. you know, we've come to terms with it. we're living with it and living through it. we're making the best of it so please don't be sad for us. so, brenda, what's your philosophy in life?”

just go with the flow, what happens, happens, what doesn't happen doesn't matter. alzheimer's charities say overcoming the stigma surrounding dementia is vital and they've praised dame barbara and her husband for speaking out. fergus walsh, bbc news. now on bbc news, the travel show. this week on the travel show, i'm in windsor. in our royal special, we'll give you our guide to get the best out of the most talked about wedding this year. on may the 19th, these streets are going to be absolutely rammed. english barley to represent harry, with west coast us hops to represent meghan. we'll give you some tips on the very british art of queueing. to be honest i haven't even really come for the tennis, i've just come to queue. to be honest i think we're really good at queueing. queueing is definitely british. and wejump on the qe2 as she finally reopens as a floating hotel in dubai. in a couple of weeks' time, on may the 19th, prince harry

and meghan markle will get married in st george's chapel at windsor castle. windsor has a long history with the royals. its castle is one of the queen's favourite weekend retreats, and prince harry was educated at nearby eton college. now, i'm here on this beautiful spring day to visit a local brewery that's toasting the occasion with a specially made pint, which is lucky, because i'm feeling proper thirsty. never ceases to amaze me about how much is going on when you come into a brewery. never ceases to amaze me about how much is going on when you come into a brewery. martin's mashing in with the masher up there. he's on the second brew of the day. steve is flushing out the copper, he's on the first brew of the day, he's cleaning hops out of that. meanwhile, alex here is filling casks with our commemorative royal wedding beer.

we're combining english barley to represent harry, with west coast us hops to represent meghan, and we like to think it's a nice marriage of ingredients. so this is all wedding beer going on here? full of wedding beer. have a little smell of that. that smells lovely. is that fantastic? yeah, it's quite fruity actually. it's absolutely like jelly babies, do you get that? that's right. it's incongruous with how it looks. now, take a cone of that hop. what is this? this is a cone of a hop. what i do is put it in one hand and rub it with your fingers of the other hand.

that smells beautiful. isn't that fantastic? that is really... english hops are lovely but you can't get these sorts of flavours with english hops, so to get that fruity aroma you have of art and passion in it as well. here's to harry and meghan. that's lovely. windsor is only a short train ride out of london and it's reckoned around 100,000 well—wishers will show up here to see the royal procession. on may the 19th, these streets

are going to be absolutely rammed. it's going to be heaving, i'm telling you, and there are even reports that some hotels are charging up to £10,000 for a single suite overlooking the procession. so if crowded spaces are not your thing, this place is not going to be your cup of tea on the big day. there are other ways to experience the occasion outside of windsor. let's head over to the capital, where a number of outdoor screenings and street parties are planned. now, every self—respecting tourist leaves london with a royal facemask or a tea towel, but how do you find a future collector's item? every thursday, this place, old spit fields market, holds its weekly antiques there. now, i'm a bit of a novice at this but let's see what i can dig up. have a look at this, it's a proper mug with harry

and meghan on the front in the year they're getting married. it's going to be worth a fortune in a few years. look at it, it's beautiful. time to get it evaluated by a real antiques expert. mark, i've been looking around this market and this is what i've found, this rather lovely cute little piece, what do you think? i'm going to chuck it right back at you and say, "what do you think of it? why did you buy it?" how very dare you, it's so obvious why i bought it. it's got a couple of the moment, probably the most famous couple in the world. how can you resist it? there's nothing wrong with it. what we're looking at is mass—produced moulded factory or cast factory produced piece with a transfer print over the top. it's clearly what it is. it is a mug to celebrate an occasion for which we all come together, a little ray of sunshine in our world of doom, gloom, dictators and death i suppose. laughter are you mugging me off?

as a royal souvenir hunter, what would you look for, what are your tips? if you're looking something that might go up in value or simply hold its value, quality, quality, quality, limited editions and buy something with visual appeal. if you like it, it's highly likely there'll be plenty of people out there who do too. i'm going to take your mug and i'm going to raise you with my lidded pot. turning it over, we can see on the base of it it's by a country called moorcroft, one of the great british ceramic companies. can you see its number there, 39/100, that shows 100 of these will ever be made, of which this is 39. a story is always great. the scallop shells were initially used by the spencer family, and of course lady diana spencer married prince charles. since then her sons, william and harry, have adopted the scallop shells, the spencer family emblem, or one of them, in their coats of arms, which meghan is marrying into. you've got fabulous heritage in moorcroft and a fabulous connection with harry and the royal family. i'm not quite sure how to say this but thank you.

thank you for all your help. happy hunting. thank you, and enjoy your moorcroft funny thing. after all that hunting around, you'll probably be tired and you'll need to find somewhere to bed down for the night. now, if a palace is out of your price range, i know somewhere else that will give you a right royal welcome. we're in wembley, where the fa cup final will be held on the same day as the wedding. it's more famous for its national football stadium than its five—star accommodation. hello, margaret. hello, nice to see you, welcome to heritage house. thank you. margaret is one of the uk's biggest collectors of royal memorabilia, and wouldn't you know it, she's letting out rooms during the wedding weekend. margaret, looking around,

i don't know where to start, i've never seen so much memorabilia in my life. i know, it is a lot. i think it's around the 10,000 mark, but of course when you have more royal babies you have more royal memorabilia. i've been collecting for almost a0 years. it seemed a shame not to share it, because if people like the royal family, which obviously they do when they come here, i like to share it with them. that's when you decided to turn this into a b&b? yes, yes. for william and kate's wedding i had quite a lot of american people. a chap came here and he stood here with his mouth open and he didn't say a word. harry looks so much in love and we so want things to go well for harry, he was that little boy walking behind his mother's coffin, we want life to be good for him, he wants a family, we want that for him. and so much memorabilia to collect. i know, i'll be out on the streets soon, it's that bad now! and after all that excitement, you can retire to your quarters.

there's nothing like a royal wedding to bring a nation together, and it feels like the whole world is really looking forward to the big day, the 19th of may, and it's all because of this lovely couple. night, night, harry. night, night. and if you're planning on heading to the uk any time soon, here's our travel show guide to all the things you could be doing while you're here. liverpool biennial is a celebration of contemporary art that takes place every two years across the city in public spaces, galleries and museums. the festival commissions international artists to make an present work in the context of liverpool. running between the 14th ofjuly to the 28th of october, this one marks 20 years of presenting international art in the city and region. when it comes to quintessentially

english sporting events, it doesn't get more spectacular than the royal henley regatta. every first weekend ofjuly, a mixture of serious rowers, socialites and sun worshippers gather on the banks of the river thames in berkshire's town of henley for five days of racing. the festival, which attracts international rowing crews, is one of the highlights of the british summer social calendar. and finally, 2018 is the 40th anniversary of europe's largest hot air balloon event, which sees more than 150 hot air balloons take to the skies at dusk and dawn from bristol. the free event attracts hundreds of thousands of people each year, and you can also enjoy helicopter and balloon rides, family entertainment, plus acoustic music and fairground rides.

still to come on the travel show: how to queue the very british way. and we climb on board the qe2 as she finally sails. there was never a time. it was never going to go to the scrapyards. the travel show, your essential guide, wherever you're heading. now, if you're coming to the uk for the wedding orjust for a visit, it might be a good idea to get used to something that the british are renowned for doing quite well — queueing. some say we've almost

turned it into an art form, and nowhere will you find it on better display than at the most british of sporting occasions, wimbledon. queueing, we're number one. two, gin and tonic. and three, wimbledon. i think the british have kind of an obsession with queueing. to be honest, i haven't even really come for the tennis, i've just come to queue. i think we're really good at queueing. yeah, i think it is an example of how good we are. i'd say they're proud of how they queue. something we're born with i think. the british created the art of queuing, as i said with my british accent. it's quite civilised. the idea of the british being good at queueing comes from the idea that the brits are all about fair play and equal chances. it is that sense of taking

yourturn, not pushing in. anything that looks like you are trying to get an unfair advantage over other people is an absolute no—no. queue jumpers? where? that's the one thing that riles a traditional brit, someone who queue jumps, it's just not cricket. it's just not what we do. it's just common respect really, courtesy. we want to be good at queueing. it doesn't mean to say that we actually are. the fact that we get so stressed in queues on a regular basis, the tensions over who gets on the bus first. like, when you go abroad and you see people that aren't queueing, you get really pent up inside and you go all british. i think with all myths, there's element of truth. for example, queueing up for rations in world war ii, queueing was very much part of the intense propaganda effort that the government started.

all the posters, all the radio broadcasts, all the newsreels, it was part of that moment of british courage, resolve and all those kinds of things that make a good story, and, therefore, queueing as part of that has become something of a myth. it's got to be historic, it's got to be way back when, probably when war was polite. it's definitely british, but it's not as important as the queen. we are quite nostalgic for the 19405 and the 19505. there are so many images of ve day, of triumph, of success, of britain being a major player. they are very powerful and seductive images of what britain was. in that sense, looking back at the 19405 and the 19505, and things that look like certainties, like the ability of british people to queue politely, perhaps they are things that seem appealing to us at a time when things seem deeply uncertain,

both nationally and internationally. now, it was just over 50 years ago that queen elizabeth ii launched the ocean liner that proudly bore her name. the legendary qe2. throughout the 19705 and ‘805, the ship was perhaps the classiest and most elegant way to cross the atlantic, but times and taste change and in 2007, the qe2 was sold to a company in dubai, where she's been ever since. but although her 5ailing days are over, she's finally getting ready to welcome people back on board, this time as a floating hotel and museum. so we went to take a look around. what makes the qe2 5pecial is her class, her style, her sense of history, her heritage, and when you walk on board,

it's like really walking back into a bygone era of class and sophistication. in the evenings, we used to have dancing in the queen's room. we used to employ gentleman ho5t5 because there were of great number of single ladies that were travelling with us. as part of the crew staff, i had to learn how to dance. now, quite terrifying when you're a south african with two left feet, it was a little interesting. thank goodness we had this easy—to—follow step guide. one, two, three... one, two, three. one, two, three. thank you very much. despite her illustrious past, like concord, the qe2 was eventually taken out of service. she had become uneconomic to operate and upgrade, and when she arrived in dubai in the middle of the global financial crisis, many feared that her next stop could be the breakers yard.

contrary to popular belief, there was never a point where the future of the qe2 was going to be to the scrapyards. that is a fate that happens to decommissioned ships, but it has never been dubai's plan to do so. today, ken is back, working on the ship, this time, not as a member of the crew, but as the man charged with promoting the ship as a new floating hotel and museum. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. welcome on board the qe2. now, when they design her hull, there were two things that she had to be able to do. she had to be able to go through the panama canal, which means that she had to be narrow and to go through the canal, and she had to go through the suez canal. to take her out of the water, while perhaps feasible, would really take the charm and the beauty of her heritage and history out. so she is a floating hotel. when the winds blow and the waves are coming in, we do liste, the looks that's there, that if we would have the privilege of the queen coming back to visit, it would

be almost as if she just stepped back in time from the last time that she stepped out of that room. for over 20 years, this was the largest slot machines have been restored for decoration only, but other forms of entertainment are remaining retro and decidedly tra ns—atla ntic. this really was one of the great social areas of the ship. we've actually made this into a theatre dinner area. so you could sit here, you can order a light menu, enjoy your meal while you're watching your show, which i think is pretty unique to dubai, so we are looking forward to introducing it to everybody over here. there's no denying that this new hotel is definitely different for dubai, a place that's so far been obsessed

with everything shiny and new. it will no doubt be popular with nostalgic brits, but it's also essential that the local market take the ship to their hearts too. however, no matter how much interest there is in the qe2, it looks like her days at sea are well and truly over. no, the engines haven't been removed. but for our plans, she will never sail. part of the reason why she was decommissioned in the first place was to comply with rules and regulations of running that ship made it financially unfeasible for cunard to continue her. so we think that keeping her flight was very important, but she will not sail again. i walked off this ship 17 years ago with a tear in my eyes, saying goodbye to her in the bahamas and i never dreamt that i would be back on board again. to realise that we are back on qe2, having the most amazing time, once again, our beautiful lady is not dead

and people are on board, having a lot of fun and it's been a fantastic evening tonight. # see the glimmering lights shining so bright # turning night to day # only in new york # 0n fifth avenue # i see the dames in their curls, dripping with pearls # ah, what a view... that is it this week of the travel show. join us next week when... mike corey explore the filipino capital manila. it's cheap, they're relatively quick given the traffic, and it's really the best way to get around if you want to save some money. he finds out why it might be the end of the road for the city's famous souped—up former army jeepneys. so make sure you join us for that if you can. and, in the meantime, you can keep up with all our travels

in real time on the road by following us on social media. but for now, from me, ade adepitan, and all the travel show team here in lovely windsor, it's ta—ta. hello once again. we will update you on the weather. a little bit of uncertainty about the weekend. thursday was a pretty glorious day for many parts of the british isles. there was always a

chance of a shower around, but that was just the exception to an otherwise try rule. we made the most of it, especially across the western side because looming not1 million miles over the horizon, a new set of weather front bringing cloud and rain towards the western side of the british isles for friday. it starts pretty chilly will stop the scottish highlands and some spots in the south, the temperatures not1 million miles above freezing, but it will convert innate gloriously sunny start. come the middle part of the afternoon, the cloud would have filled in across the western isles, probably seeing the first signs of rain which will be there all over northern ireland, the odd moderate verse perhaps. if you haven't had a mention, you wouldn't see the rain until after dark if indeed you see it at all. you see the southern portion of the

front dies at that, the rain largely confined to the further north. the band of cloud keeping temperatures up band of cloud keeping temperatures up as we get into the weekend. this is where the uncertainty starts, not so is where the uncertainty starts, not so much about the low pressure or the showers it supplies into some western parts. it is the progress of that front and how far it goes east and north taking its associated rain with it. as see, at times, there is quite a deal of rain to be had. it may let not look that way to start with, across a good part of england and wales, there are showers to be had towards the south—west, northern ireland the odd isolated showers. a lot of dry weather on third front has pushed ever further towards the east. the many central and western areas. later in the day, we will pep up areas. later in the day, we will pep up the rain. it will run up the line of the front and just how far offshore that rain get will be the decider as to whether eastern england has a decent day on sunday 01’ england has a decent day on sunday or not. i think we are more confident about the fact that much

of scotla nd confident about the fact that much of scotland could see a grey deal of rain as we get on through the day. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley. our top stories: a month before his historic meeting with the north korean leader kim jong—un. president trump predicts the summit will be a big success. 0njune 12, in singapore, i'll be meeting with kimjong—un to pursue a future of peace and security for the world. iran appeals to israel to avoid new tensions in the middle east after both sides launch air—strikes against targets around the golan heights. the british government apologises for its role in the detention and torture of a libyan man and his wife after their forced return to tripoli. and we explore china's bike problem and the lessons for cities