the trump administration has confirmed that it's stopping all funding for the un agency that supports palestinian refugees. washington had already drastically cut its support for the agency, which helps more than five million palestinians. a spokesman for the palestinian president described the move as a ‘flagrant assault‘ on the palestinian people. the us and canada have failed to strike a deal to amend the north american free trade agreement, despite a week of talks. president trump has said he'll sign a bilateral deal with mexico if canada doesn't agree to the terms being offered. friends and relatives have been paying their final respects to aretha franklin at an invitation—only funeral ceremony in detroit. famous faces attending included jesse jackson and former president bill clinton. he described aretha as the voice of a generation if not the century. he was stubbornly optimistic deal

was able to be reached. the big hold—up is over parmesan cheese, parma ham and polish vodka. why? because brussels wants the uk to replicate the european system that protects some regional european products and stops them being made anywhere else, and the british government isn't too sure about signing up to that. there are still big divisions between the two sides about this eu backup plan for preventing the reintroduction of customs checks on the irish border, a situation michel barnier, the eu chief negotiator, says is urgent and critical. but where there are big strides being made forward is in post—brexit cooperation on security and the fight against terrorism and money laundering, where there are now the building blocks for an agreement although not quite an agreement yet. so after the two men had six hours of talks today, we're a couple of steps forward, no steps backward and by my calculation, there's a maximum of around ten more weeks of to go. this week on the show.

we're checking out the food scene in ireland's west cork. kayaking britain's coastline in all conditions. and i get a deeply visible tour of sarajevo's war wounds. we start this week ireland, the country is marking 170 years since the great hunger, a famine

that swept across the country we start this week ireland, the country is marking 170 years since the great hunger, a famine that swept across the country leading to the deaths of overi million people. but ireland has since undergone a food revolution and kate hardie—buckley is returning home and at the taste of west cork food festival to explore what was once the epicentre of the famine and is now the country's top foodie destination. welcome to west cork.

this is the mizen peninsula, the most south—westerly tip of the island of ireland. i've been coming to this part of the world since i was eight years old. people are drawn here by the dramatic scenery, the arts, and the great craic. and now they're flocking here for the local cuisine. west cork was recently voted ireland's food capital. the history of the area is as rich and diverse as its food. along the coast you'll find caves where pirates smuggled their treasures. it is where marconi sent the first tra ns—atla ntic radio transmission to america. and it was here the first famine death was recorded, the first of over i million across ireland, with a further 2 million people emigrating.

so this is the skibbereen saturday market. at the height of summer i think maybe the best market anywhere in the country. the freshest mozzarella available in ireland right now. mmm. it is like lactic poetry. april makes the most astonishing potions. slainte. when we think vinegars, we think it's something that's harsh and aggressive. it's very gentle. and that's gentle. obviously i can taste the apple. mm-hmm. but there's like a berry taste to it or something like that. maybe even the whisky. you're tasting the whisky. whisky? a bit early for the whisky. yeah. the skibbereen market continues to slowly but organically grow and get better. people, i think, are really realising more and more that the essence of a real experience is when it's grounded in that local foods. that is what you want without you're in bangkok or tuscany or west cork. i have come to meet the fergusons, who run gubbeen, one of the original irish cheese farmhouses here.

and they pay to play a huge role in the west cork food scene. giana and herfamily have been making their award—winning cheese for the last a0 years. and is this sort of where you begin creating the flavours and the texture? in a way. although i think the real start of the story is the soil. and, of course, the big flavour is once the cheeses are made and they start to ferment. this is heavier than you'd think. oh my goodness. smells incredible. there you are. the finished products. i think if you're in new york, or paris or wherever we export to, and you come across this, what your are going to feel or smell — west cork. that's what i love about this. giana's children are the latest generation working the land. fingal makes the charcuteries, with over 100 different products. the fergusons and other west cork food makers account for 75% of artisan producers across the country. in west cork, not only do you get to taste great food, but you also get the chance to find

and explore new ingredients. it's beautiful down here. here we go. jim and maria kennedy run sea kayaking trips all along the coast, where you get to forage for your own food. out on the atlantic looking for dinner. and we don't have to look far. when you start to investigate they become like friends. youjust see, oh, look, there's the oarweed coming up, and over here the sea spaghetti. it's absolutely amazing. for ireland's coastal communities, seaweed has long been a staple food. it has everything you need. it has minerals, it has vitamins, b vitamins, that we spend, you know, 20 or 30 euros buying across the shelf,

it's all in here. there's a seal over there, also looking for his dinner. hello, buddy. so what is on my seaweed board? we have dillisk or dulse, carrageenan, another traditional favourite, we have seagrass, beautiful green, also known as spirulina. i recognise that one. mm—hmm. and then for something completely different, the queen of all seaweeds — or maybe the king. pepper dulse — the truffle of the sea. that's extraordinary. peppery. such a bite to it, such a kick. what's most extraordinary is the diversity under the kayak, different shapes, forms, textures, colours. it's quite extraordinary. even in the famine people ate seaweed. but i think then it became associated with poverty and hunger. and now people are beginning

to rediscover the amazing properties of seaweed. the people of west cork are also exploring their past this summer in a special remembrance festival of the irish famine. various artists are gathering for the coming home: art and the great hunger exhibition. tonight they're performing at an old famine workhouse in skibbereen. it's been a great adventure exploring the west cork food scene. and it makes tonight all the more poignant being here on land that was once ground zero of the famine. three days in skibbereen, february 18117. over 400 people have come tonight to hear from the diaries of victims and pay their respects

at a famine grave. despite the success of the food story here, the famine years will always remain part of ireland's identity. food that was once in such short supply is now a source of great pride and people all over the world are coming here to savour the tastes of this food revolution. still to come on the travel show... tyne, dogger, fisher, german bight. north or north—east, four orfive, fog patches, moderate or good, occasionally very poor. the man using an iconic bbc broadcast as inspiration for his incredible journey. and i get a disturbing close—up view of what sarajevo was like 25 years ago during its terrible siege. so don't go away.

the travel show, your essential guide wherever you're heading. next up, a man whose passion for the bbc‘s much loved shipping forecast has inspired him to make the journey of a lifetime. we have been catching up with toby carr as he prepares to set off from his home in london. i think one of the really exciting things about going in a kayak on the sea is a sense of simplicity that is just about being very close to the water and it is a human—powered movement. you can use the environment to your advantage or disadvantage. i'm toby carr and over the next year i am going to kayak in all of the areas of the shipping forecast. and now the shipping forecast, issued by the met office,

on behalf of the maritime and coastguard agency. there are warnings for gales in south—east iceland. high norwegian basin 1029. expected 40s, 1030, by midnight tonight. the shipping forecast in the uk is the world's first storm warning system. it covers an area from the south coast of iceland and mid atlantic in the west to the danish coast in the east, right down to the north coast of africa. portland, plymouth, north biscay, northerly or northeasterly, four orfive, showers later, good. it broadcasts several times during the day on bbc radio 4. it's a pretty big undertaking to paddle in all the areas. the funny thing about the shipping forecast is that i think so few people understand its actual meaning or relevance, but so many people love it and enjoy listening to it. so there's this funny balance

between its meaning, or its practical meaning, and its cultural meaning, in a way. south biscay, variable, three orfour... the radio was on quite a lot in our house when i grew up. so in a way it was a bit of a background. so you'd hear this regular rhythm of something being read out. east sole, lundy, fastnet, irish sea. while i was growing up, we had a small boat on the east coast of england. because of that we also grew up listening to the forecast having a real meaning and trying to understand what it would mean and writing it down. so i have two days to go. i'm going through all my stuff. it's a bit daunting because i have to get all of this stuff into a kayak.

ijust am going through what i can take in what i can leave. this is a personal locator beacon. if something is really badly wrong this is registered with the maritime and coastguard agents in barmouth. and it's connected to an international rescue system. so you pull up the antenna and do the thing that you hope you are never going to have to do, which is push the red button here, so push the button and a whole fleet helicopters turn up. i grew up with a rare genetic condition, which my brother also had. when we were kids we were often told we would not live longer than 30 and the life expectancy is quite short. i think that obviously puts in your mind a sense of determination to try to get the most out of things. you have a sense of freedom.

you can get to places that people can't normally get to. so there's a remote aspects to it, which is appealing. there's also a point perspective, i think, that being on the water and looking back the land is quite an interesting way to experience it. faroes, southerly, four orfive, occasionally six in west. 0ccasional rain in west. mainly good. people havejust contacted me from other places and just got on board with the project — offered places to stay, offered to plan different parts of the trip, offered to lend me boats or equipment, offers of meals, all sorts of things. and you share a love for doing something. there is a side that is also really important to me, which is meeting people in these different places. and i think that is what will bring the trip alive. this is it.

bbc travel show, i am off. wish me luck. and that's the end of the shipping forecast. high in a balkan valley and studded with ancient mosques, it's fair to say that bosnia and herzegovina's stunning capital sarajevo is often unjustly overlooked by tourists. walking around the city, it is easy to always be looking up at the bell towers and cathedrals, the minarets and the mosques, the beautiful hills. if you do look up, you might miss these, which are down at your feet and you might not even know what your looking it. these are called sarajevo

roses and they mark the impact site of a fatal artillery shell. a couple of years after the war, artists came and filled them in with red resin and you can see them all over the city. 25 years ago, this was a very different place. bosnian serbs sat in the hills and laid siege to sarajevo as the breakup of yugoslavia led to nationalism and inter—ethnic violence. 10,000 people died in the city in some of the most terrific fighting europe has seen in modern times. it's cast a long distressing shadow and in an attempt to help me understand what it is like being there back then, i've been sent here to hostility city centre. hello. nice to meet you. zero 0ne. zero one is your name?

it was my father's war codename. and this is the hostel? thank you. inside, zero 0ne attempts to simulate the experience of living in sarajevo during a siege. it's something different, isn't it? it certainly is. there are gunfire sounds that never get switched off, electricity is run from a car battery, the windows are covered and you sleep on the floor on a rectangle of foam. i am making the stories come alive here, tried to make them come alive because when you open a book, you have to imagine here, turning the book, you just need to come and see it and would miss it for yourself. some aspects you understand, some aspects. for instance one thing i would never like to simulate is the fear of losing something, whether that is your life or yourfamily. this is a high frequency radio.

when there was power, this would be the only connection to the world. underneath the hostel, there is a collection of relics from the war, paraphernalia salvaged from zero 0ne's walks on what used to be the frontline. and there is the bunker, a recreation of the front—line facility once used by his father when fighting up in the hills. what we did is, we took my dad's memory and we made it real so that people would understand what it was like. zero 0ne began this project just by running tours to demonstrate just how badly damaged the city was during the siege on how the scars still pockmarked city. so this is what happens when you separate people into us and them. the hairs on my arms just shot up.

i don't know what to say. i've never seen anything like this before. the district of grabovica is harder to knock and up in the hills, you understand the scale of the problem. this used to be a luxury hotel with superb views. so this is a sniper hole. basically a sniper‘s den, shooting from here, easing the gun out and just picking some random targets. you can see the whole city from here. that's a lot of windows as well. we are getting ready for a night on the bunker. zero one is here preparing a room ferocity is reinforced the point that it is quite intense. we can hear the echoing

gunshots much louder down here. there is smoke already. it feels quite real. not many people choose to sleep down here, as the experience is pretty intense. one of the rules that zero one has the bunker is, no timekeeping devices. i had to forfeit my watch on my cell phone.

before he left. so i have no idea what time it is. they left me on here about 11:30pm and maybe it's been an hour. a couple of the sounds that play whenever they sound, itjustjolts me. 0k, there is some daylight, which is a good sign. i don't really feel like a fresh daisy now, but the world seems to be awake. i take my leave of zero 0ne in the morning but something has bothered me. is this in good taste?

people could think we are playing games or wargames, but it's not the point. the point is to give you a small glimpse of what it was like for people who were forced to live like this, like me and my family, people forced to go on the frontline. there no choice. thank you very much, that was a night that i will remember for the rest of my life. thank you for staying here. thank you so much. that was a pretty intense experience. not exactly for everyone but me, it was pretty powerful,

actually. that is it for this week. coming up next week. lucy is in south africa meeting the dancers who are challenging the perceptions of johannesburg's most feared neighbourhoods. yes! in the meantime, remember, you can follow our adventures on social media. you can find links are those on our website but now, from me, mike corey and the travel show team here in sarajevo, it's goodbye. well, the weekend's upon us, and the weather is actually looking

pretty good across much of the country over the next couple of days. some warmth, summerlike warmth. in fact, temperatures could get up into the mid—20s. the nights are drawing in, the days are getting shorter and any warmth that we do get, we really should make the most of it. so let's see what's happening then into the weekend, high pressure's very close to the uk, so that means settled weather conditions, but there are weather fronts very close to our neighbourhood. they will be nudging in later in the weekend, possibly bringing some rain to north—western areas. but before that happens, we've got that warmth being drawn in from the south, from spain, portugal, france as well and, as i say, temperatures will be well into the twenties. this is what it looks like through the rest of the night into the early hours of saturday morning, clear skies across many eastern and central areas so here there will be a nip in the air very early in the morning. temperatures dipping

down to single figures. not as cold as last night. across western areas, more cloud here, more of a breeze and a little bit warmer. that means in the west of the country, temperatures first thing will be around about 15 degrees but there's quite a lot of cloud you can see here from cornwall, devon, throughout wales, the irish sea and into south—western scotland, and if you squint you'll notice there's even a little bit of rain here, so perhaps for some of us, a grey start to the day across western parts of the country. the clouds here will be breaking up here, it's not one layer of grey, there will be some sunshine out for sure, and even if you get a grey morning, by late morning, lunch time, you will probably see some sunshine by then. best of the weather by far will be across eastern and southern areas and here, temperatures could reach around the mid—20s, but certainly around 20 degrees on the cards for northern ireland, and not far off that in the lowlands of scotland.

that was saturday, this is sunday now. again the best of the weather will be across eastern and southern areas but this weather front is edging closer and closer. the winds are strengthening, really quite blustery around the western isles, in the north and west coast of northern ireland. but the real warmth develops in central and eastern areas, that's that plume of warmth coming out of france, so temperatures will get into the mid—20s in london, possibly even the mid—20s as far north as yorkshire, but in the north—west, a little bit of rain on the way for belfast later in the afternoon on sunday or early evening. the outlook into next week isn't looking bad at all, variable amounts of cloud. looks like the temperatures will drop a little bit, but essentially speaking it's looking fine, into the 20s or high teens for most of us. bye— bye. good morning. welcome to breakfast with naga munchetty and steph mcgovern. 0ur headlines today: the mother and daughter stabbed

outside their own home. after a major police appeal, a man is charged with their murder. he'll appear in court today. the fight to free nazanin zahghari—ratcliffe steps up a gear today. the case of british—iranian charity worker will be discussed at high—level talks in tehran. no gongs for celebrities linked to tax avoidance schemes. government documents seen by the times shine a light on the honours system. england have mo—mentum in the test match. five wickets from moeen ali put india into a spin, and help england fight their way back in the fourth test.