this is bbc news. the headlines: president trump has been angrily defending his decision to pull american troops out of northern syria — a move that opens the way for an attack by turkey on kurdish fighters. mr trump has threatened to "decimate" the turkish economy if they go what he called "off limits." thousands of climate change activists have begun two weeks of global protest. the campaign, coordinated by extinction rebellion, is pushing for more urgent government action to stop rising carbon emissions. in london, there were more than 250 arrests, as protesters blocked bridges and roads in the capital. a replica of the endeavour has been marking the 250th anniversary of captain james cook landing in new zealand. he'd set sail from the yorkhshire port of whitby. it's not without controversy, as some maori communities see cook's arrival as the start of the marginalisation of the maori people. a major new exhibition,

exploring how western artists have been influenced by the islamic world, is opening at the british museum. will gompertz reports. laid out before us, 500 years of inspiration, appropriation and exchange between the islamic world and the west. a near conversation between two cultures, whose artists were intrigued and influenced by each other. so, this room demonstrates the cultural exchange between the west and the east, or the west and the orient. two dishes, which you would think are made at the same time, because they're nearly identical. but this one, here, was actually made in the 19th century. this was made by a french ceramicist and his name was theodore deck. this one here was made in turkey, and this was actually made in the 16th century. so, you can see that theodore deck, here, nearly 300 years later, has done a very good

job at imitating this. the central room in the exhibition confronts a central issue in the show, which is the way that western artists controversially painted the islamic world in the 19th century — depicting it as the romantic 0rient, exotic and quaint. colonial powers like great britain were seeking to expand the empire, and sustain it. and one of the strategies of doing so was to derogatise or to belittle other cultures. whilst they look romantic at first glance, actually, if they were truly romantic, they'd be romanticising islamic civilisation as a whole. which, as we know, contributed tremendously to art, culture, science, philosophy and beyond. bringing us up to the 21st century perspective, here we an artist who's from palestine, and she's directly referencing traditional harem scenes that we might have seen in 19th century 0rientalist paintings, done by generally male westerners. but also isn't it in conversation with western art? i mean, the reclining nude? absolutely, absolutely.

coming from the perspective of somebody from the middle east and critiquing traditional western art, their view of the east. and critiquing traditional western art of their view of the east. it's a great play back and forth. the conversation continues? it does. it is the way of artists, whether from the east or the west, to explore, exchange and reinterpret ideas and experiences. that is the history and future of art. will gompertz, bbc news. now it's time for the travel show. this week on the travel show... i am in greece with a team of archaeologists, uncovering the long—lost city of tenea. i found an artefact! we take a dive into the life of a travel vlogger. is it reallyjust one long holiday? you may not have heard of youtuber burnout, but the burnout is real. plus, i'm going into battle. finding out what it was like for the crew of an ancient athenian warship.

we're heading to athens to uncover greece's ancient treasures, and the more modern ones. for more than two millennia, the temple of the parthenon has been towering over what has become the bustling capital city of greece. dedicated to the goddess athena, it is the centrepiece of the rocky acropolis hill. and it is the country's most visited monument.

nestled at the bottom of its slopes, the modern acropolis museum houses most of the artefacts found in the area. including some of the famous parthenon frieze. and this year, it celebrates its 10th anniversary. this museum replaced an older building that had become just too small to house the sheer number of antiquities found on the hill. it's ten times the size, it's got a unique collection, and as you can see from the queues, it's pretty popular. almost 15 million people have passed through the doors of the museum since it was opened a decade ago. hello. i'm christa. i am angeliki. nice to meet you. good to meet you as well. and to mark the anniversary,

a whole new section has just been opened to the public underneath the building. so what are we looking at here? this is part of the ancient city of athens which is at the foot of the acropolis hill. it's actually a residential neighbourhood. there are houses of everyday people, and workshops, bath, private and public buildings. we are excited that we can show this site to the visitors because it is a very nice roman and early byzantine site that is not usually uncovered to such a great extent in athens. it is quite important. the acropolis museum was built on top of this vast excavation site, a challenge for any good architect. but a source of great pride for angeliki, who spent almost two decades here uncovering the homes of ancient athenians. i can see there's sort of a tiled

floor in the middle there. would that have been a room? this is the central court out of the house of a middle—class house. quite big one, sort of, 360 square metres. it's an open—air courtyard. and looking at that, we can say that this is a wealthy person? definitely. this is a nice pavement. they could afford to make it a bit fancy. while archaeologists here have put down their shovels and brushes for good, there are enough forgotten treasures around greece to keep them in work. greece is like heaven for history geeks like me and if you know where you're looking, there're artefacts around every corner. i am driving to one of the most exciting ongoing excavation sides about 1.5 hours outside athens.

last year, greek archaeologists announced to the world that they had located the lost city of tenea which until then had only existed on the pages of ancient texts. the city is believed to have been built by prisoners of the legendary trojan war, and this month the excavation continued here in chiliomodi. it is considered one of the 15 most important excavations worldwide. tenea is a city coming out of myth. 0edipus was supposedly raised here. agamemnon brought trojan prisoners all the way from troy and established them here. so here we are excavating ancient tenea, its cemeteries, its ancient roads, its houses, and slowly by slowly comes to life.

elayna leads the team uncovering the ancient city, believed to have housed some 10,000 people, and she is thrilled with their recent findings. this is the place for storage and also for conservation and study. can i ask about this one here? this is a unique vase. the shape appears only in tenea, so they would put elements like herbs in here, and it was phase for an important child burial we found. this is totally unique in greece. and here i would like to show you one of the skeletons from the burial we have found. this skeleton in excellent condition came from a hellenistic grave. male, 25 years old. his teeth are in good shape. they are very good. so he was wealthy. we know that about him.

he had good health and good food. back on the excavation site, an army of volunteers from all over the world are busy digging, sweeping and carrying mountains of soil. unearthing objects from our distant past is hugely rewarding, or so i am told. so let's give it a go, and miriam is on hand to show me the ropes. so this is the spot to sift. yes. i will hand you these gloves and then you will be on this side, i will be on this side and this is our pile. so grab the scooper and dig in for a pile of dirt. it is like a lucky dip. exactly. hopefully we will find some treasure. that is pretty good. put it down, pick it up and then we will go back and forth in this kind of amotion.

and i think we're ready. let's set it down and then use your hands to spread everything around and look for ceramic pieces. so something like this... exactly! exactly, perfect. and you can see a bit of the decoration. yes. maybe a glaze. we would have to wash it to see in more detail. wow. i found an artefact! this site must be incredibly rich with different artefacts because we literally just pulled this out. it is. there is pottery everywhere. they have found drainage pipes, ceramic drainage pipes, yeah. greatjob. yes, two! one more? yes, sure, let's go for it. tourists and scholars will soon be able to explore the excavation site in a virtual museum

through sd animations. in the meantime, there's still some very practical work to do. less than 5% of tenea has been uncovered so far. digging up the past should keep archaeologists busy here for many decades to come. it'sjust the beginning. it will continue. without me, but i will always be here from somewhere looking at it. just casting an eye over, you know, making sure everyone‘s doing the right thing. definitely. still to come on the travel show... i get a taste of life in the galleys by rowing the only replica in the world of an ancient athenian warship. i think i'm going to have very good abs after this. yes, yes. don't go away.

while i was in athens i really wanted to show you this place. it may be not at the top of every tourist‘s hit list, but it's really worth a visit. if you're a meat lover, then this is the place for you. for more than a century, this section of the city's central market has been supplying athenians with some of the finest cuts of fresh local meats. and if the sight of fresh beef loins gets your taste buds going, then this unassuming eatery is the place to get your fix. it's called epirus and they specialise, unsurprisingly, in meat soups. this is our kitchen where we cook all of our soups. wow! this is the goat soup that needs a long time to become tender and come out, ready to serve it. 0ur goat soup. and the tripe soup, one of our most famous soups,

very good for the stomach. this is the stomach of a cow, but people eat it a lot. epirus is popular with locals, but some celebrity chefs have also paid a visit. well, i've got anthony bourdain and jamie oliver here as fellow customers. so there must be something special about this place. my father was, he was one of the most famous chefs of greek traditional food. he gave me the chance to have all his recipes so i keep going and people feel like home here because, you know, we make them taste the greek recipes that — mums‘ and grandmas' recipes. you know, fantastic the junk food, fantastic the nouvelle cuisine, but greek traditional food, is this one. fantastic.

next up, for many of us, the idea of being a travel vlogger sounds like a dream job. in fact, isn't itjust one long vacation? in the second episode of our series about travelling differently, we hear about the reality behind those exotic travel posts. travel feels like — sometimes it feels like the purpose for living. everything about travel makes me so happy and excited and ifeel like i'm alive and that is what life is about. i'm alana fickes, and i'm a travel vlogger. hi, guys! i'm in dubai, wearing a... wait, what is this called again? hijab. and a... abaya. ..abaya. ..wearing a hijab and an abaya, and i'm going to go out and hang out, because when in rome, or, in this case, dubai...

hello! welcome back to my vlog! today, i'm in santa monica. it's beautiful and every moment by the beach is perfect. i have experienced a lot of preconceptions about what being a travel vlogger is, when i tell people that's what i do. there's a lot of shame around being an internet personality. i mean, people can think you're really shallow and narcissistic. they think you just want to see yourself all the time and want to just make videos about yourself when in reality, the videos you're making — the content you're making is about your audience. hi, guys! i'm here with asha... hey! ..at the holi festival! which is the indian new year celebration, and we're in los angeles, california. what? they celebrate it here, too. yeah, there are indians everywhere. all i want to do is travel, so if i can get to do that free or pay me to do it, wow, what a dream. but the reality is travel vlogging doesn't really make that much money for most people. so you get creative and you make money through other avenues, or you partner with brands and you try to get more money through different specific things. a common way to make money

is working with a brand, and brands will start reaching out to you once you have a certain amount of views or subscribers. they'll start reaching out to you and usually you get a lot of free stuff, which is fantastic, but free stuff doesn't pay your rent. this picture, 0k, this is a love—hate picture. this was from a brand deal i did with a drink company, but i didn't get them to sign the contract that they were going to take my video no matter what before i went on this. and went to this really cool place and it was such a fun day and the whole video was really about this drink, we're holding it in our hands in every shot, i brought it back to the brand and they said, that location is too religious, so we won't take it. and i didn't get paid. i'm like, you — you learn and you grow, i will never do that again. hi, welcome to day two, day one official, in mexico. this is a really cool day

because we're at the pyramids. a lot of spiritual people such as my dad have told me how there's all sorts of great energy here, and it's like an energy vortex. ancient places are like that, blah, blah, blah. i know it sounds kind of weird, but, i don't know, these things excite me. if you haven't been on youtube in a while, you may not have heard of youtuber burnout. but this is a huge thing that's been going on. when you're on a platform like youtube or instagram, even, there's an algorithm and you have to keep up. you have to post videos at least once a week, if you're good, you're posting two a week, three a week, more than that. but if you miss a week, it changes the algorithm and your videos don't get seen as much. everything works against you and that's rough. nobody wants that, that's really scary. i mean, the burnout is real. in an extreme version, it really creates issues with your whole family, and hopefully in a smaller version, you just recognise that you're drained, your creativity isn't there,

you're not finding new things to make videos about anymore, you're not excited about doing it anymore. you're not enjoying the process. and if you're not enjoying the process, when it comes to making videos that are about connecting with another person, the video isn't really connecting to another person. like, you need to take a moment. at this point, committing to my channel and putting all in on my channel and having it become my life, as it has to for you to run a proper channel, would make my relationships suffer. it would make a lot of other aspects of my life suffer. so my system is to take breaks and my goal is to take shorter breaks. i mean, obviously there are difficulties, but it's still my dream, so i love doing it. to end the show this week, i've come a short distance outside of the athens city centre to the coast. and this place — it's what's become

known as the ‘athens riviera'. there are plenty of cool cafes, ritzy new hotels and, of course, plenty of luxury yachts. moored close to the modern yachts, a different kind of ship is ready to go out to sea. the trireme 0lympias — the only life—sized replica in the world of the athenian battleships which dominated the naval wars from the fifth century bc until early christian times. this amazing looking galley belongs to the greek navy, and every year, groups of very lucky people get to go aboard and actually row, just like ancient athenians did. this year, i'm one of those lucky people. so, i better get ready. i think it's going to be quite hard work. it took 20 years of passionate research to work out a design for this trireme as no remains of the wooden boats could be found.

she was constructed here in greece in 1987. the important thing for the rowers of the boat is that they were free citizens. it was a great honour to be a rowerfor trireme. and in such a small boat, we have so many people. they are the machine and they help the boat to move. i think it sounds like a fantastic lot of fun and hard work. yes. so, would you maybe show me how to do it? yes, yes, of course. wow! look at this. oh, this is amazing. this is the naval way to go down. definitely. this ship carries two small sails. butjust like in ancient times, most of the propulsion comes from the 170 oarsmen

staggered over three levels under the deck. it's quite tight in here, isn't it? as i told you. here, you put your feet in there. so, you sit in here. what's your technique? the technique must be like that. so you lift it up out of the water... yes...one, two. pull. yes, yes, yes. wow! i think i'm going to have very good abs after this. yes, yes, yes. i will give you the orders. yes, absolutely. thank you so much. you're welcome. well, my fellow rowers are starting to arrive now. so i've picked a plum spot, right in the middle of the action. i'm ready for ramming speed.

woman over loudspeaker reaching speeds of about nine knots, or 17km/h, this boat was considered pretty quick in its time. woman over loudspeaker and its manoeuvrability won athens some decisive victories at sea. the bronze ram served as the main weapon to puncture the hulls of enemy ships and to sink them. we get a break every so often. woman over loudspeaker 0oh, here we go again. dramatic strings music

i'm looking around. it's honestly impossible to imagine what this must‘ve been like for the people here who rowed these kind of boats. and to be in battle, three layers of different people all sweating, trying to ram another boat in the open sea. i mean, it's unimaginable given how pleasant and lovely this is today. fortu nately, this trireme is now being used

for less ferocious purposes. for now, the 0lympias is going back to the port for some pampering, it will spend the winter there before being spruced up for a new set of visitors in 2020. a lot of hard work with all that rowing, but a good bit of fun too. well, that's all we've got time for this week's travel show. but coming up next week: mike's underwater in turkey to see if sinking old planes can really provide a safe haven for local marine life. and he meets the 96—year—old woman who spent three decades fighting to save the country's endangered loggerhead turtles. some said i was mad, others said i was a spy. so, dojoin us then if you can. and in the meantime, don't forget to sign up to our social media feed so you can check out what we're up to out on the road,

and share your travel stories with us and the rest of the world. until next time, from me — christa larwood — and the rest of the travel show team here in athens, it's goodbye. or, as the locals would have it, ‘ya—sas‘! hello there. this week is looking typically autumnal, quite unsettled, windy at times and there will be plenty of showers in the forecast. also, some sunshine, it won't be a washout all the time, but when you catch one of these showers, they will often be quite heavy. maybe with a rumble of thunder and some hail mixed in too. all down to low pressure, which will be just to the north—west or to the north of the uk over the next few days and indeed for much of the week. so our air will be coming in

off the atlantic with these weather fronts bringing in bands of showers. one thing you will notice, though, it's not going to feel particularly cold, we will have our air source coming in off the atlantic from a west or a south—westerly direction most of the time. so that means around average temperatures through the day. and at night, it should keep the frost and fog at bay. so for tuesday, it's going to be a bright, sunny start across many central and eastern areas, but plenty of showers across to the west will tend to work their way through, and they'll be blown in on a strong wind. so they'll move through quite quickly despite them being quite heavy in places. like i said, with thunder and hail. and the winds will be gusty, very squally, 40—50mph in places, so the showers won't be with you for long. temperature—wise, highs of 16 or 17 degrees, generally the low—to—mid teens further north, particularly where you hold on to frequent showers. as we head to tuesday night, it looks like those showers, blustery, continue across northern and western areas, central and eastern areas may tend to turn drier, in fact,

with clear skies. most temperatures no lower than around 7—10 degrees. for wednesday then, low pressure still with us just to the north of the uk, tightly packed isoba rs, so another windy day, and these weather fronts producing bands of showers. there will be one heading into parts of england and wales, i think, through wednesday morning. so we'll see an enhancement of showers across western areas through the morning into the afternoon. there could be a cluster of some heavy, maybe thundery ones pushing across south wales and southern england. again, further north, closer to that area of low pressure, this is where we'll see most of the showers across western scotland. temperatures on wednesday probably a notch down on tuesday's values. 0n into thursday, low pressure again to the north of the uk, it's going to be another pretty windy day. bands of showers moving from west to east, most of them again across the north and the west of the country. eastern areas may tend to stay dry with some showers arriving through the afternoon later on. temperatures again 13—16, maybe 17 degrees in the south—east. and it remains unsettled from thursday onwards,

you can see sunshine and showers, those temperatures around the seasonal average, and it remains windy as well.

this is bbc news. welcome if you're watching here in the uk, on pbs in america or around the globe. i'm mike embley. our top stories: us forces are pulled back from northern syria, as president trump warns turkey he'll "obliterate" its economy if it attacks the kurds. hundreds of arrests as activists worldwide begin a two—week campaign of disruption, demanding action on climate change. the fallout from hong kong's demonstrations reaches the basketball courts of america, igniting a debate about free speech and commercial relations with china. and more moons are discovered orbiting saturn, bumping jupiter off the top spot as the planet with the most natural satellites.