that they will be making a grave humanitarian mistake if they attack the last rebel—held region of the country, idlib. the syrian government forces are thought to be preparing to launch a huge offensive, supported by iran and russia. there has been condemnation of the myanmar authorities after two journalists from the reuters news agency were sentenced to seven years in prison for breaking state secrecy laws. the american ambassador to myanmar said the case was deeply troubling. the eu has called for the two men's immediate release. officials at brazil's national museum say almost 90% of its collection was destroyed in a devastating fire on sunday. president michel temer announced that the government was seeking money from banks, the un and other institutions to help rebuild it. staff had long complained of deep funding cuts. chris evans, one of the bbc‘s highest—paid presenters, has announced he is leaving bbc radio 2 at the end of the year. he is returning to virgin radio's breakfast show, which he first

presented in 1997. our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba has this report. britain's biggest radio personality, minutes after telling fans he was quitting the breakfast show, swamped by media outside his studio. why is the show so special, the radio 2 breakfast show? well, ‘cause it was sir terry's show. and it's very important, it's an important show. it's a useful show, it can do many great things, and i'm sure it will continue to do that. this is how he told listeners. i'm going to leave radio 2, and i've loved every single minute of it. but the thing is, you know, some of us are mountain climbers, and if you get to the top of your favourite mountain, and you just stay there, then you become a mountain observer. and i need to keep climbing, i've gotta keep climbing. perhaps other things might be climbing. he is paid around £1.6 million by the bbc. he is unlikely to be taking a pay cut. and, of course, he has always been

one of broadcasting's most sought—after stars. so that was u2 and this... ..is a bafta. when he left the radio1 breakfast show in 1997, he went to virgin radio. that has since been rebranded as absolute radio, but he is returning to the virgin brand, this time on their relatively new digital station. so who is likely to take overfrom him behind the breakfast microphone? perhaps sara cox, who has often filled in for chris evans, and has a late evening show on the station. maybe zoe ball, who presents on saturday afternoons there. or there are options outside of the bbc. jamie theakston and emma bunton currently co—host heart fm's breakfast show. many people say they're hoping a female presenter will take on the high—profile role. there are many women who work across radio 2 and across bbc radio, and indeed the bbc and beyond. and they're very able, and of course

we'll be considering them. there are many able men. the most important thing that we do is to select the best and the right person, and that's what we'll do in the fullness of time. in the meantime, chris evans will still be on radio 2 until the end of the year, so listeners still have a few months before they have to say goodbye. lizo mzimba, bbc news. now on bbc news, it is time for the travel show. this week on the show: we're exploring the food scene in ireland's west cork. skibbereen! kayaking britain's coastline in all conditions. and i get a deeply personal tour of sarajevo‘s still visible war wounds. the hair on my armsjust stood up. i don't know what to say, i've never seen anything like this before.

we start this week in ireland. the country is marking 170 years since the great hunger, a famine that swept across the country leading to the deaths of over one million people. but ireland has since undergone a food revolution and kate hardie—buckley is returning home ahead of 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's as rich and diverse as its food. along the coast, you'll find caves where pirates smuggled their treasures. it's 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 one million across ireland, with a further two 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. mmmm. it's 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 local foods. that's what you want without you're in bangkok or tuscany or west cork. here we go! bon appetit!

skibbereen! mmm. wow, it's a real west cork burger. i've 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 if you're in 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, all the 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 some 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, 1847. 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—north—east, four or five, 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've 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's 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'm 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 of 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 north—easterly, 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 where i grew up and 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.

whilst i was growing up, we had a small boat on the east coast of england. because of that, we've also grown up listening to the forecast having a real meaning and trying to understand what it would mean and writing it down. so i've got two days to go. i'm going through all my stuff. it's a bit daunting because i have got to get all of this stuff into a kayak so i am just going through what i can take, what i can leave. this is a personal locator beacon. if something goes really badly wrong, this is registered with the maritime and coastguard agency in falmouth 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, like, a whole fleet

of helicopters turns up! i grew up with a rare genetic condition, which my brother also had, and when we were kids, we were often told that we wouldn't live longer than 30, and the life expectancy is quite short. so i think that obviously puts in your mind a sense of determination to try and 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 aspect to it, i think, which is appealing. there's also a point of perspective, i think, that being on the water and looking back at the land is quite an interesting way to experience it.

faroes — southerly, four or five, occasionally six in west. occasional rain in west. mainly good. people havejust contacted me from other places and got on board with the project — offered places to stay, offered to plan different bits of the trip, offered to lend me boats or equipment, had offers of meals, all sorts of things, and you share a love for doing something. there's a side to it which 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'm off. wish me luck! and that's the end of the shipping forecast. lying in a balkan valley and studded with ancient mosques,

synagogues and churches, it's fair to say that bosnia and herzegovina's stunning capital sarajevo is often unjustly overlooked by tourists. walking around the city, it's easy to always be looking up at the bell towers, the cathedrals, the minarets of the mosques and 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 you're looking it unless someone told you. 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. explosions. gunfire. 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 horrific fighting europe has seen in modern times. it's cast a long, distressing shadow, and in an attempt to help me understand what it was like being there back then, i've been sent here to a hostel in the city centre. hello. zero one, nice to meet you. zero one is your name? yes — it's my father's war codename. and this is the war hostel? yes, it's just this way. welcome. wow. inside, zero one attempts to simulate the experience of living in sarajevo during a siege.

it's quite something different, isn't it? it is definitely something different. 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 — trying to make them come alive — because when you open a book, you have to imagine. here, you don't need a book, you just need to come and see it and witness 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. and 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 one‘s walks on what used to be the front—line.

and there is the bunker, a recreation of the front—line facility once used by zero one‘s father from fighting up in the hills. so 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 one began this projectjust by running tours to demonstrate just how badly damaged the city was during the siege, and how the scars still pockmark the 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... i don't know what to say. i've never seen anything like this before. the district of grabovica is hard—hitting enough, but when you go up in the hills, you understand the scale of this problem. this used to be a luxury

hotel with superb views. ok, so this is a sniper hole, basically a sniper‘s den, yeah? shooting from here, peeking the gun out and just picking some random targets. whoa. you can see the whole city from here. there's a lot of windows from here, too. we are getting ready for a night in the bunker. zero one is in here preparing the room for us and he has reinforced the point that it is going to be quite intense. we can hear the echoing gunshots much louder down here. you can see there's smoke already. look at this. gunfire.

explosions. wow. gunfire. explosions. it feels quite real, that's for sure. not many people choose to sleep down here as the experience is pretty intense. gunfire. explosions. one of the rules that zero one has for the bunker is no timekeeping devices. i had to forfeit my watch and my cell phone before he left so i have no idea what time it is. they left me in here about 11:30pm and maybe it's been an hour. a couple of the sounds that play, whenever they sound, itjustjolts me. gunfire. explosions. well, the night has been a blur of pseudo half rest where you're not really quite asleep, not really quite awake. ok, well, there's some daylight. which i guess is a good sign. i don't exactly feel like a fresh daisy right now,

but the world seems to be awake. i take my leave of zero one in the morning, but one question has been bothering me overnight. is this all in good taste? well, somebody could think that we're playing games or war games or something like that, but it's not the point. the point is to just give you a small glimpse of what it was like for people who were forced to live through this, like me and my family, people who were forced to go onto the front—line, how there no choice. well, thank you very much. that was a night i will remember for the rest of my life. thank you very much for staying here. i really appreciate it. thank you for picking us. thanks very much. that was a pretty intense experience.

not exactly for everyone but for me, it was pretty powerful, actually. well, that's it for this week. coming up next week: lucy is in south africa meeting the dancers who are challenging the perceptions ofjohannesburg's most feared neighbourhoods. yeah, yeah! yes! in the meantime, remember, you can follow our adventures on social media. you can find links for those on our website. but now, from me, mike corey and the travel show team here in sarajevo, it's goodbye. hello there.

yesterday we had quite a mixture of weather. some warm, humid sunshine across parts of eastern england, but further west, we had this weather front bringing cloudy skies and outbreaks of rain. i'm showing you this weather picture from yesterday because that front is going to be with us for much of today as well. it's barely moving at all, so it's going to be quite cloudy over the next few hours across a good part of england and wales too, with the cloud thick enough for an occasional spot of drizzle, perhaps misty over the hills for a time as well. but for the most part across england and wales, it's going to be a mild night. whereas further north and west, we've got the cooler air for scotland and northern ireland. and across sheltered parts of northern scotland, it could well be cold enough for a touch of frost for early risers tuesday morning. there will be a bit of sunshine

for east anglia and south—east england. perhaps not quite as much as we had on monday. we'll still have some sunshine for scotland and northern ireland, although the cloud will tend to bubble up a bit here a little bit as we head into the afternoon. things cooler there across the far north—west of scotland. we're on the downward stretch, the downward limb of the jet stream, and that means we'll have an area of low pressure form as we head towards the end of the week. now, uncertainty about the exact position. it might actually be a little bit further westwards, which will bring more general rain in across the uk.

rain at times probably best sums up the forecast on thursday, particularly across the northern half of the country, but nowhere is immune from seeing some wet weather. it will be quite breezy and cool, and some of the rain could turn heavy and thundery at times, too. i suspect it will stay pretty unsettled on friday and into the weekend with rain or showers in the forecast. very warm welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley. our top stories: president trump warns of a humanitarian crisis and a tragedy, as syrian government forces prepare to storm the last rebel—held province. western countries condemn myanmar‘s jailing of journalists, but there's silence from china and the rest of asia. a nation's heritage up in flames — a lack of funding is blamed for the disaster at brazil's national museum. and japan's much—praised efforts to recycle plastics are not exactly what they seem. industrial plastic has value.

it can be recycled and turned into new products. but the same cannot be said of household plastic waste. it is dirty, it is difficult, and it has virtually no value. hello.