soder says the cross is at the heart of bavaria's identity. but the new law has left germans divided. translation: i think it's a good thing, because it's a part of our tradition, and i'm a religious person. i don't need to hang one on the wall. sometimes i even feel a bit uneasy about the cross. but i am of the opinion that everyone should be able to decide for themselves. markus soder is the leader of bavaria's conservative christian social union. it's the sister party of angela merkel‘s christian democratic union. with state elections looming, critics say the crucifix law is designed to claw back votes from germany's afd party, whose supporters are typically right—wing and anti—islamic. translation: it's a move by the election campaign. the afd talks a lot about christian values, and i think markus soder had to do something before the regional election next october in order

to win at all costs. outrage at the law has come from far and wide, including the head of the german bishops conference, who said the move was never discussed with him and he doesn't support it. soder‘s also been mocked. the state premier of neighbouring baden—wurttemberg compared this photo of him to a vampire film. in an effort to wind back the critical lashings, the bavarian government said while it is compulsory for buildings like police stations, courts and government offices, it's merely a recommendation for schools, museums and theatres. tiffany wertheimer, bbc news. let's ta ke let's take a look at the weather i'tow. hello. sunshine for some of you today, nasty downpours for others. the greatest risk of some storms will be inland areas of scotland, isolated in northern ireland, through part of northern england, into the east

midlands and east anglia. slow—moving thunderstorms at that which could cause some minorflooding. away from it, some sunny spells, the best of which are in parts of inland northern scotland and through the likes of wales, the midlands and southern england where we could hit temperatures of 24—26d. clear skies through the night, the storms fading elsewhere for many but the far north of england and southern scotland could continue to see some showers into the morning. a very muggy night, 15 degrees in glasgow. a bit fresher further south compared with recent nights but a lovely, sunny start and a lovely sunday to come for much of the midlands, wales and much of southern england. the small chance of a shower in cornwall. a bit more cloud through northern england, scotland and northern ireland at times, threatening one or two showers and thunderstorms but not as many as we will see through today. many will be dry although feeling a bit cooler than the past few days. temperatures back to normal as we go into next week. most will be bright and sunny but one or two heavy showers in the south. this is bbc news.

our latest headlines... visa says its services are now operating at full capacity after customers across europe were left unable to make payments. president trump's summit with north korea is back on. confirmation after kim jong—un‘s envoy delivers a large letter to donald trump. the us defence secretary accuses china of trying to intimidate its neighbours by deploying missiles in disputed areas of the south china sea. the bbc learns that a police investigation into the attempted murder of norman scott during the jeremy thorpe scandal is to be reopened as police say hitman andrew newton may still be alive. now on bbc news, it's the travel show. this week we are in the netherlands' capital, amsterdam, battling the city's monster crowds. the streets are really small, the canals are really narrow and those areas are completely overcrowded. we have lentils, chickpeas, these fried onions... chomping our way around cairo. and listen up — the best tech

for your ears to take on holiday. if you say mandarin, it will play in my ear in english. it has long been known as venice of the north. with its colourful i7th—century houses, network of canals and bridges, and picturesque old city centre, it is not surprising that amsterdam has become a favourite with tourists. it is an explosion of tourists. we have our quiet times in the past, but now we don't have quiet times anymore, tourists are the whole year round. one study claims that numbers have shot up from 11 million in 2005 to around 18 million annual visitors. that is a lot of people in a city ofjust 850,000 residents. so how do locals feel about this constant influx of tourists?

we have seen that it has really risen in popularity in the last few years, and the streets are small, the canals are narrow, when there are tourists they tend to be around the same areas, and those areas get overcrowded. people who come here for the first time want to go to the anne frank huis, they stay around the red light district, they may not realise we have so many other nice areas cities across europe have seen similar rises, sparking a wave of anti—tourist protests. in reaction, the amsterdam authorities have introduced new laws restricting the number of tourist shops in the city centre and enforcing tougher rules on hotels and airbnb lets. measures have also been taken at popular sites like the van gogh museum. this used to be full of tourists. people would queue here for up to three hours to buy tickets.

but, as of recently, tickets are now only available online, meaning far less crowding on the day and a much more pleasant experience for visitors. the tourist board have also been looking for modern ways to keep tourists and locals happy. we think first of all the city is a city of the inhabitants. they own the city. and visitors are welcome, but it should not be an open—air attraction park. within the last year, frans and his team trialled a pilot called rijenradar. it monitors the size of crowds at popular sites. when crowds get too big it tells the user, suggesting less busy sites. it ties into another campaign

to encourage tourists to venture outside the old town into the wider metropolitan area. we can influence them to go into the neighbourhoods. we still have to address the challenge in the city centre. and this can help. new regulations and visitor initiatives can only go so far. so the amsterdam institute for metropolitan solutions have proposed a rather more radical solution, one that seems torn from the pages of a science—fiction novel. robot boats. self—driving vessels moving passengers and goods around amsterdam's canals. you have these canals which is 25% of the surface of amsterdam is water. it is not roads, it is water. so why don't you use that infrastructure that is already there again for moving people and goods in and out of the city. at the same time, we saw a lot of development in autonomous driving on the road, and they came up with the idea that autonomous boats, we call them roboats, could be employed in the city.

so far only miniature versions of the roboats have been tested on the canals. but stefan is certain their full—size counterparts will enhance the visitors' experience. one idea sees passengers hail the boats with an uber—style app. in the city you can get everywhere by boat. for tourists, it is a nice way, not the fastest way but you can get around, you can go to your favourite museum or hotel. stefan says the roboats could be up and running within the next three orfour years. providing tourists with fewer crowds and a new futuristic draw to this historic city. and if you are thinking of taking a trip here, here are our tips on what to know before you go. the rijksmuseum is home to rembrandt‘s night watch and other

works from the dutch old masters. you might have fight to see them though, it's one of the netherlands' most popular museums, attracting over 2 million visitors last year. the busiest days are friday through sunday so get there for opening at 9am, early in the week, to beat the crowds. if you don't want to see great works of art, how about the tiny wonders of micropia? it is the world's first museum dedicated to microbes, which live all around us, and includes a body scanner which will give you an intimate look at the microbes living inside you. look at all those! let's look in the large intestines. there is a lot. nearly 99% of all bacteria in the body live in your intestines. and every august, there is the grachtenfestival, which is a ten—day event staging

classical music around the canals. you will have your pick of 250 performances in 90 venues with the highlight being a free concert staged on a pontoon. next this week, our travels take us to north africa, to one city more famous for its hats than anything else. but fez in morocco has another claim to fame which makes places like oxford and cambridge seem like relative newbies. she dedicated all her wealth for building this institution. and during that time, she was devoted and she fasted a long time, at the time of ending the building. it is the oldest university around the world, because it is recorded

in the guinness world records, that is the oldest from the past to be operating and really working as a university, that is giving the chance for anyone who wants to study to have its curricula in this university. still to come on the travel show — the best tech to make yourself understood wherever you are. hello, how are you today. what is your name? yes, we have translation! and busting the myths about egyptian food. so gooey that i have to put on some gloves to eat it. adi takes a culinary tour of cairo. the proof is in the pudding. you might have noticed more

and more people walking seemingly talking to themselves. that is because there has been a lot of development in these things, hearables. the idea is that earbuds aren'tjust headphones but in—ear computers, that can help with everything from directions to translating foreign languages and even keeping you fit while on your travels. the google pixel buds operate via touch and voice control. once connected to your phone by bluetooth you can listen to music, have your notifications read to you and even translate on—the—fly. like a lot of this kind of tech, they are reliant on the tech behind it which is google assistant, which you trigger by saying 0k google or pressing the right earbud. how do i get to oxford street? head south—west and turn right.

the sound quality is loud and clear but because they sit outside your ear canal you get a lot of outside noise. and as is the case with any hearables, you will need to get over the fact that you will look like you are talking to yourself. next up is the bragi dash pro. they are wireless and can be activated with touch, voice control and gestures. i can tap my cheek or nod and shake by head to play music and take calls. pretty handy if you are nervous about pulling your phone out in a crowded place. and you can translate up to 40 languages by connecting to the itranslate app. and we are going to see how well they work. in theory that should play in my ear, if you say mandarin, it will play in english. speaks mandarin. app: hello, how are you today. what is your name?

we have translation! tap the left bud to trigger that. hello, i am having a wonderful day, loving the sunshine and my name is lucy. app: speaks mandarin. perfect? i understood lucy! i thought that was quite seamless, it was quite nice, i had a translation in my hear, it was on point, it was accurate. the app is expensive, £4.99 a month, that's its downside, but this is a wonderful insight into the future of cross—language communication. to find out just what we can expect from this sort of tech in the future i am meeting with mike who is an expert in wearables. we have got these, they will essentially stream your music like airpods or other hearables,

but it has augmented hearing. the idea is that you can be more picky about the audio or sounds that you hear in your environment. there are different profiles you can have, whether you are in a restaurant, whether you are out on a busy street, even on a plane. you can take more control of what you hear. can i have a listen? yes, sure. it is quite noisy in here. so from here you can kind of control it, if you want more world minus... or you can dial it back. and hopefully you should be able to hear that. a really big difference. it is really loud now! what else have you got for me to look out? something a little bit different. they certainly look different. this is from a company called lifebeam, and it is called lifebeam vi. the difference between these and other sports headphones is that they have an ai coach, who will coach you to stay

on top of your fitness, whatever level you are at. it is great if you are going on holiday and you are normally going to the gym. can i give them a go? absolutely. all right, i will give them a try in the real world. she is telling me to add some music. quite an excitable tone, obviously music is a great compliment when you are running. i will start the clock when you start moving. it is a bit weird having somebody this excitable in your ear, but that is why she is here, to offer motivation. so i'm going to run! and finally this week we go to egypt, a country to which travellers are just starting to return after several bad years. we sent adi to the capital, cairo, to see how foodies there are trying to stir interest in dishes which until now have not

been widely celebrated. egypt, a country blessed with a wealth of attractions. if you come here as a tourist there is no shortage of things to see and do. most people come on holiday to egypt for the ancient history. last time i came here, it was for the beautiful beaches and the lovely weather. you wouldn't normally put food at the top of your list of reasons to be here. but there is a new group of people who are working really hard to make us fall in love with egyptian cuisine. i am in the capital, cairo, where street food is visible everywhere you turn. typical local cuisine is dominated by beans, grains, and lots of rich flavours. now, up until recently it has not received as much international recognition as other middle eastern styles. we were like, 0k, we are going to do a food tour.

local entrepreneur mia is hoping to change that. she and her foodie friend lyna founded what they claimed to be the first tour of its kind in the capital. it all started off with lyna, my business partner. she was in italy, she was hungry, she found this pasta restaurant on the internet. she went there and had the worst lasagne of her life! a waste of tummy space, who wants that? back on home soil the pair spotted a gap in the market. there are no food tour companies here in egypt. that it is very popular in other parts of the world. egyptian cuisine is so underrated. it is always overshadowed by the monuments and by all the historical tours. that is really the reason why a lot of people come here but nobody really comes here for the food. the tours were launched just one year ago and include the area that

borders tahrir square, the site of the 201! uprising. prior to the revolution this place was very popular as the area where students from the american university, on the right, used to hang out and have their coffee. the aim is to offer small groups a genuine and perhaps grittier cairo experience through walking, history, culture and food. first on my tour is a family—owned business which specialises in the country's most ubiquitous dish. so, this is koshary. it is the national dish of egypt. you can get a very gourmet one, you can get a deconstructed one. you have lentils, chickpeas, fried onions, rice, macaroni.

all in this one dish! yes. it is typical of middle eastern food. a melting pot of influences from former rulers such as the ottomans, to mediterranean countries and beyond. ok, i am going to give it a go. it is very rich. you can get the kick as well, from the spice and the peppers and the garlic as well. i like it a lot. egyptians love social media almost as much as their grub. and that has led to increased awareness of the latest culinary trends and fusions. since 2011, some 6000 new restaurants have opened in cairo. young people in the country, lots of them want to

be their own bosses, they want to be entrepreneurs and give back to the community somehow. what better way to do that than with food? restaurants are coming up with more and more unique concepts to fuel demand. but it has also meant that places serving traditional dishes with a twist are now on trend. this unassuming eatery specialises in a local favourite called hawawshi. can you tell me what these guys are doing now? for thousands of years, bread has held a special place in egyptian diets. their word for bread actually means life. ancient workers were even paid in the stable. it is a food you will find with every meal. hawawshi is a bit like an egyptian version of a hamburger. but here it has been upgraded. when would you eat this?

that is what i like! every time. i love this. so gooey i have to put on gloves to eat it. serious. as we say in the uk, the proof is in the pudding. that's good! it is really tasty, very rich. tell him not to give away too many secrets, otherwise people will steal your recipe. there is no doubt that this tour has shown me a completely new experience. i would never have tried these dishes if i had been eating in my hotel. this trip has definitely given me a genuine taste of cairo. that is it from this week's show.

coming up next week... i will be here to guide you through some of our best bits from the last few months on the road. oh, hi! we have had some pretty special times. from an encounter with some of the scariest beasts in mauritius... i can't believe it! to michael's breakneck trip around manila on one of its iconic vehicles. the traffic here is crazy. dojoin us then. in the meantime, from me and everybody here in amsterdam, it is goodbye. hello there.

a good deal of sunshine and warmth again for many of you through today but for others, storm clouds are once again brewing. we have seen clouds spilling off the near continent through today, bringing early rain across some eastern parts of england, spreading northwards and westwards. but a few showers and storms dotted around and they will continue to develop into the afternoon, mainly across the northern and eastern half of the country. a lot more sunshine compared with recent days in the south and a fair bit of sunshine across parts of scotland, northern ireland as well but it is here inland if we look at the details that we could see some severe and fairly slow—moving storms setting up. mainly over the hills, maybe a few through the central belt and towards the southern uplands. one or two isolated ones in northern ireland. a greater amount of cloud here in southern scotland and into northern england, not a huge amount of sunshine but with a few thunderstorms and showers possible extending down into the north—east midlands and across east anglia as well. those storms could cause a risk of some flooding because they are so slow—moving

but many of us will stay dry and, with blue skies continuing in much of wales, the midlands and southern england this afternoon, we could see highs of 25 or 26 degrees. into this evening and overnight, the storms gradually fade away. there will still be a few showers through the night in southern scotland and northern england, maybe also northern ireland. most will be dry though. very misty across the north and a very muggy night, 15 degrees in glasgow, a bit fresher in the south compared to the past few nights. but here you will start your sunday with some sunshine away from some eastern coasts. blue skies for many, maybe one or two isolated showers close to cornwall and the isles of scilly. always more cloud in northern england, scotland and northern ireland so a little bit cooler than in recent days but not as many showers as today. if you do get one or two of the heavier showers, you could be rather unlucky. temperatures are bit closer to where they should be for this time of year but climbing a bit on thursday's values in the south, 26 or 27 not out of the question. so that's the weekend. a quick look into next week. we still have high pressure dominating the weather charts. it is to the north—west of us on monday and,

with winds flowing round clockwise, that means, like we saw the other week, cloud coming in off the north sea to give a rather grey start to monday. there could be the odd spot of drizzle around. most will be dry. isolated showers later but most having a dry and fine day. sunny spells breaking through and temperatures closer to where they should be for this time of year, mid—to—high teens if not low 20s. and we will stick roughly with those values through the week, maybe getting a little warmer at times. the chance of a few storms across the south but by and large, especially in northern areas, a lot of dry weather to come. this is bbc news. i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 11.00. visa says its services are now operating at full capacity — after customers across europe were left unable to make payments. president trump's summit with north korea is back on — confirmation comes after kim jong—un‘s envoy delivers a large letter to donald trump. the us defence secretary accuses china of trying to intimidate its neighbours by deploying missiles in disputed areas of the south china sea. also coming up, new developments in thejeremy thorpe affair.

the bbc learns police are to re—open the investigation into the former liberal leader, after discovering a key figure they concluded was dead, could actually still be alive. and at 11.30, foreign correspondents based here in the capital give us their views on the weeks events in dateline london.