to boost the us economy and fend off competition from china. mr biden is demanding huge investments in infrastructure, education and green technology. the plan, the biggest since the second world war, still needs congressional approval. the us says its preparing a list of key members of the belarussian goverment who will face sanctions. it's after a passenger plane was intercepted to capture an opposition journalist. meeting russia's president putin, belarus�*s leader accused the west of trying to destabilise his country. police in france are investigating a knife attack on two police officers by a man on a radical watch list. a policewoman who is seriously injured had her gun stolen by the attacker, who was later killed in a shootout with police. the number of new coronavirus infections

across the uk has risen above 4,000 for the first time since the start of april, with 4,182 new cases and 10 deaths reported in the past 2a hours. infections have now risen by 25% over the past week. in the vaccine roll—out, more than 256,500 people have received a first vaccine dose in the last 2a hours, meaning almost 39 million people have now had theirfirstjab — almost 74% of the adult population. just over 434,000 had their second dose in the past 24 hours, meaning almost 24.5 million people, 46.5% of the adult population, are now fully vaccinated. the prime minister boris johnson says he raised significant human rights concerns at talks in london with his hungarian counterpart, viktor 0rban. the right—wing hungarian is only the second eu leader

to visit britain since the post—brexit transition, and british opposition parties have criticised the visit. ryan giggs will go on trial next year, accused of deliberately headbutting his ex—girlfriend and controlling her throughout their relationship. the former manchester united star is accused of assaulting kate greville last november. it'll take place at manchester crown court injanuary. he denies the charges. now on bbc news, it's time for the travel show. coming up on this week's show. my very own spacesuit. i look ready, ifeel ready, i'm ready. you hear the echoing gunshots. tonight is supposed to be the coldest night of the year, so that's good, as i head into my unheated church room for the night. this is an incredible . experience on an old,

disused railway line, very shuddery, - but exhilarating! hello and welcome to the travel show, coming to you this week from tokyo, home to the bullet train, arguably the world's best sushi and capsule hotels, the uniquelyjapanese place to rest your head. but you also might end up bumping it if you wake up in the middle of the night. and whilst we wait to get back on the road again, this week, we thought we'd take a look back at some of the strangest places we've stayed on the show over the years. and while they might not be

as cramped as a capsule hotel, they've left their mark and memories in other ways. well, let's kick off this week with a trip that mike made to bosnia back in 2018, to the city of sarajevo, which saw so much fighting and bloodshed in the �*90s as the former yugoslavia tore itself apart. mike met a man there that used memories from that time to create a unique but traumatic place to stay. 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. gunfire. 25 years ago, this was a very different place. bosnian serbs sat in the hills and laid siege to sarajevo as the break—up of yugoslavia led to nationalism and inter—ethnic violence.

10,000 people died in this city, in some of the most horrific fighting europe's 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. 01, nice to meet you. 01 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, 01 attempts to simulate the experience of living in sarajevo during the 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 rectangular foam. underneath the hostel,

there's a collection of relics from the war — paraphernalia salvaged from 01's walks on what used to be the front line. and there's the bunker, a recreation of the front—line facility once used by 01's father, from fighting up in the hills. we're getting ready for a night in the bunker, 01 is in here preparing the room for us, and he has reinforced the point that it's going to be quite intense. we can hear the echoing gunshots much louder down here. can see the smoke already. not many people choose to sleep down here, as the experience is pretty intense. distant echoing gunfire. one of the rules that 01 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, maybe it's been an hour. a couple of the sounds they play, whenever they sound, justjolts me. distant rumbling explosions and gunfire. well, the night's been a blur of pseudo half—rest, where i'm not really quite asleep, not really quite awake. distant rumbling explosions and gunfire. 0k, well, there's some daylight.

which i guess is a good sign. don't exactly feel like a fresh daisy right now, but the world seems to be awake. i take my leave of 01 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. 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 on the frontline, how there was no choice. well, thank you so much. that was a night i will rememberfor the rest of my life. thank you very much for staying here. really appreciate it. thank you for thinking of us. thanks, 01.

mike reporting from bosnia back in 2018. well, the year before that, christa got a slightly more restful night, sleeping inside a church deep in the english countryside. she was trying a spot of champing, or church camping, although something tells me it was the right location but wrong time of year. let's see how she got on. here, in this barely used norman church, is my bed for the night. so it's very reassuring, walking through a graveyard to get to your accommodation. i'm here for a spot of champing — church camping. it's available at 12 historic venues around the country, beautiful ancient sites that are rarely, if ever,

used as places of mass worship any more. a very big hotel room. money raised from letting champers like me stay means the crumbling buildings are spared a slow, inevitable decline. so i'm keen to give this champing a go. where will i be sleeping? so you'll be sleeping possibly in the executive pews, because it's meant to be the warmest part of the church. i'd expect nothing less! it's good that it's a box pew, because it stops the draughts. and so here you are. there are a few nice touches here — that good old staple, the tea tray, and a little basket of goodies with biscuits and wine. i mean, it's only 6pm and it's already cold — safe to say champing is usually more of a summer activity. at least the pub next door looks like it's going to be warm. why would anyone

want to go champing? because you get to spend such a lot of time in truly amazing historic buildings. the way people usually visit historic churches, and i've seen it, is that they go to the door, they pop their head round, they go, ooh, there's a font, there's an altar, there's a very nice stained glass, that's very pretty, and then they leave. and what you miss by doing that is you don't get to dwell in the place and really feeling for it. somebody at the pub just told me that tonight is supposed to be the coldest night of the year, so that's good, as i head into my unheated church room for the night. owl hoots.

i've got my airbed. sleeping bag. so i'vejust got into bed, and it's quite comfy, actually. quite cosy, given how cold it is, and i can see my breath. i'm going to try to go to sleep now. and try and forget that i'm entirely surrounded by graves. it is quite cold, notably quite cold. i think there's a jolly good reason the champing is usually only done during the summer. because these old churches don't have nice central heating, but it's oddly peaceful, actually. it's cold but peaceful. deciding to come champing in the dead of winter was a really terrible idea.

birds tweet. morning. hi! how are you doing? i thought you might want some coffee. you are my favourite person in the world. brilliant, and some bacon sandwiches as well. you, you...welcome! how did you get on? oh, yeah, it was great. i mean, it's the middle of winter, when you don't normally run champing! i was going to say, there's a reason why we run champing from spring to the end of summer. but how about the atmosphere, the experience? i tell you what, i was surprised, actually, because i'm quite a scaredy cat. but really, the second i sort of actually settled down to sleep...

it's really peaceful, it's really lovely. you just sort of, you know, there's no sound from outside, and the atmosphere was surprisingly quiet. sort of calm. and all through the night, i had no moment of being alarmed. the champing season starts around mid—march, a far more sensible time of the year to try this. christa trying a spot of out—of—season champing back in 2017. stay with us, because still to come on the travel show: we look back at the time rajan spent a night at a station with no passengers, here injapan. so let's see where the night train takes me. good night. and lucy gets a taste of sleeping on mars, deep in a cave in spain. i've not been in the top bunk since i was eight years old, so i'm not going to lie, i'm actually really excited about getting in the top bunk. now, when it comes to strange

places that the travel show team have stayed over the years, there is one particular stand—out. it's that time that lucy went to spain tojoin a group of scientists looking to recreate life on mars deep inside a spanish cave. and it would have beenjust plain rude to turn down an invite to a sleepover. so clearly, this is not a space shuttle, but mars, for the purpose of this exercise, is going to be in a remote cave in arredondo, and i have a feeling my sci—fi fantasies are about to become unlocked. the idea is to simulate how hard it will be to survive on another planet, with the barest of tools. this particular expedition is just for the night and is geared towards scientists who'll be doing experiments as if they're on the red planet. wow. my god! down we go.

but before any exploration, the team need to change. this is the bit i've actually been waiting for, my very own space suit, although it's a lot thinner than i thought. i thought it was going to be like this giant space suit that i was going to find a little bit unwieldy, but i think i can handle that. in fact, i think i've got an outfit like this. i look ready, ifeel ready, i'm ready. just one final touch. i'm ready for my ascent into martian land. i'm a little bit scared too! laughter. how's this? laughter. our aim is to get to ariz, our base, where we will be spending the night. it's anticipated that the first

colonists to mars will also have to live underground in caves or lava tubes to avoid interstellar radiation. and there's no time to waste on the experiments. ok, so i'm collecting some samples of the water that's trickling from above, it's really quite cool.

one of the goals is to extend the stays in the cave to see how people cope. very soon, we'll need teams of scientists and engineers and people from all areas of knowledge and science, spending one month, several months, more than a year in this station. more than a year? wow. when you're talking about isolating people for several months, or more than one year, there are so many things that come in that would be so useful for future space exploration. this experience isn't cheap. for non—scientists, it's about £5,000 for the 30—day experience, which includes preparation, training and about three days in the cave... ..i mean mars.

so this is where i'm sleeping tonight. it's the top bunk of a bunk bed. i've not been in the top bunk since i was eight years old, so i'm not going to lie, i'm actually really excited about getting in the top bunk. i've got a sleeping bag, so it's like a really cool sci—fi sleepover over with all my scientist buddies! although i'm not sure what time they get up in the morning. i have a feeling it's going to be very, very, very early. in space, they say that you can't hear anyone scream, so in astroland, i'm really hoping you can't hear anyone snore. lucy trying to get some sleep in that mars mock—up in spain early last year. well, our next film is from right here injapan, where, in 2018, rajan headed north to the island of hokkaido, where he met

a man with a lifelong passion for railways. and he got to stay in a station with no passengers and no scheduled trains. i'd arranged to stay in a unique guest house. tomioka worked on trains most of his life. timetable. when he stopped working on the trains, he restored an old disused station house back to its former glory. so this used to be a railway line here? in contrast to the japanese

mainland, much of the urban life in hokkaido first developed around the rail infrastructure. some of the old local train routes closed with the loss of industry. but for some people, like tomioka, this is not the end of the line. this is an incredible experience on an old, disused railway line. very shuddery but exhilarating, absolutely exhilarating! it's great, really good. it's a world away from this country's high—speed bullet trains. but what a way to experience the nature this island is famous for.

i've got my sleeper carriage berth, so let's see where the night train takes me. good night. well, i hope you've enjoyed our look back through the archives, and it's managed to satisfy your wanderlust.

let's hope we can all start travelling again soon. in the meantime, keep an eye out for us next time when... as the uk starts to open up to tourists, we begin an epic journey across the country in an all—electric take on a classic british motor. to kick off, ade�*s in the scottish highlands where he meets the conservationist saving britain's largest national park. what we're trying to do is restore natural processes. so we want to see the forest continue to march right up the hills. and if we're able to come back in a couple of hundred years, we'd hopefully see some trees on the skyline. and it looks absolutely stunning. it is. it's beautiful. it's a fantastic place to work. well, that one looks like a good one. i hope you canjoin us for that, but until next time, from all of the travel show team here in tokyo, it's goodbye.

hello there. friday was a bit of a disappointing day thanks to a weak weather front which brought more cloud around and also some light and patchy rain. but for the weekend, as high pressure builds in, conditions will improve. we'll see increasing amounts of sunshine, and it will turn warmer as well. so, here's our building area of high pressure today. it'll be pushing these weather fronts out into the atlantic, so we'll see a lot of sunshine into the afternoon. because we will start off rather grey through this morning thanks to the legacy of yesterday's weather front. a little bit of drizzle here and there close to the west coast. but increasing amounts of sunshine into the afternoon, and that could set off an isolated heavy shower here and there, particularly across the higher ground in the north. and there could be a little bit

of low cloud and mist affecting north sea coasts. but with more sunshine around, we could make 19—20 degrees, maybe even warmer than that in one or two spots. now, as we head through saturday night, any showers will fade away. we'll see some low cloud and mist rolling into eastern scotland and eastern england, but further west, skies should remain clear. those temperatures will range from around 7—11 degrees. so, on into sunday, then, our big area of high pressure�*s dominating the scene, slowly pushing into the north sea. that's going to bring a lot of dry weather around. it will start quite grey and cool across eastern scotland and eastern england, but that low cloud and mist will burn back to the coast thanks to the strong late may sunshine. many places will be dry with widespread sunshine around, so it's going to be warmer. temperatures reaching 22 degrees there for glasgow, 21, 22 or 23 degrees in parts of england and wales. now, as we head on into bank holiday monday, our area of high pressure will be out in the north sea, and that's going to draw some warm air up from the south or the south—east off the near continent. so, combine that with the strong late may sunshine,

it's going to feel even warmer. 23, 24, maybe even 25 degrees somewhere, so that will be challenging the warmest day of the year so far, which was set back in late march. tuesday, we do it all again. south—southeasterly winds, plenty of sunshine around. it's going to be another very warm day. a bit of fairweather cloud bubbling up into the afternoon. those temperatures ranging from low to mid—20s celsius. always a little bit fresher along some southern and eastern coasts. now, as we head through the week, there isjust the chance at the moment that we could see some thundery showers moving up from the south, particularly through wednesday and thursday. otherwise, we should continue to see quite a bit of sunshine.

good morning. welcome to breakfast, with nina warhurst and charlie stayt. 0ur headlines today: uk music festivals are facing "another lost summer." mps blame the government for not backing an insurance safety net for organisers. it is champions league final day. 6000 man city fans and 6000 chelsea fans are getting ready to jet off to porto. and which team will be crowned european champions? chelsea are hoping to win the champions league for a second time, while manchester city have been trying for a decade to lift the one trophy that's so far eluded them.

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