naomi osaka says she's withdrawing from the french open as a result of controversy over her refusal to speak to the media during the tournament. she said she got huge waves of anxiety about speaking to the press after matches. china has announced that couples will now be allowed to have three children — instead of the current limit of two. annual births plunged to a record low of 12 million last year — and communist authorities worry it'll get steadily harder to support hundreds of millions of retirees. questions are being asked of america and denmark after reports they had been spying on senior european politicians. danish media say denmark's secret service helped the us to spy on french, swedish, norwegian and german officials — including chancellor angela merkel. the claims have been described as extremely serious.

some scientists advising the uk government on coronavirus are calling for the lifting of the final lockdown restrictions in england — due on the 21st ofjune — to be postponed. they say they're concerned about rising infection rates, due to the indian variant. ministers warn that the government cannot make a final decision for another two weeks, but some businesses argue they need clarity now. here's our health correspondent, anna collinson. it is one of the biggest rugby stadiums in the world, but today, thousands have been encouraged to come to twickenham for their coronavirus jab. it's been really good, yeah. like, i thought the queue was quite long but it moves quite quickly, and everything seems really, like, organised. ijust sort of want the whole countryjust to come out of lockdown, hopefully, 215t of june. so the more people vaccinated, the better. so doing our part, really. this afternoon, it was announced anyone aged over 18 could come and get theirjab, which organisers say contributed to these long queues.

almost three quarters of adults in the uk have now had a first dose. hounslow�*s public health service helped organise this event as they're concerned some of those who are most at risk have not yet been vaccinated. we have, in a matter of four or five days, pulled this event together so we can vaccinate up to 15,000 people in one day. the reason we've chosen such a big event is, we can socially distance people, we can safely get that many people through the stadium. twickenham's location is also significant. it's close to hounslow, an area which has seen a rise in the variant first detected in india. people can come here and get a jab without an appointment, and it's just one of the many measures being tried across the uk to encourage those who are eligible to come and get a vaccine. in bolton, which has a persistently high infection rate, fuelled by the indian variant, a bus is offering jabs to eligible adults in affected areas. the army has also been on hand to encourage residents without symptoms to get tested. while in glasgow, another area of concern, a drop—in vaccine

centre has been set up to encourage anyone who is over a0 to get their second dose, as that provides more substantial protection. coronavirus cases in the uk are once again on the rise, with a 29% increase in the past week. it is thought it's been fuelled by the indian variant, but it is not yet known if this will translate into serious illness and hospitalisations. one of the experts advising the government says further easing of restrictions, due in three weeks�* time, should be postponed. look, people are not saying that we should, um, you know, abandon thejune 21st date altogether butjust to delay it by a few weeks, whilst we gather more intelligence, and we can look at the trajectory in a clearer way. if you look at the costs and benefits of getting it wrong, i think that it is heavily in the favour of delay. ministers say it will be a two—week wait before they can say for certain whether complete unlocking can go ahead on 21stjune.

i know everyone wants to know what's going to happen, but we can't actually make that judgment until we see the impact of the easements we have just made. the hope is that drives like this in twickenham will make a complete unlocking more likely. anna collinson, bbc news. now on bbc news, 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. door creaks. 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. door creaks. 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 that 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. 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 picking 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. it's 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? yeah? 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. ah, here we go! 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. but 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 that 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? hi! 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! well, 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. goodnight. and lucy got 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. oh, 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. so the guys have just made quite an interesting discovery. they've discovered a rock showing signs of photosynthesis, which is strange because there's no light down here. so this is a pretty incredible breakthrough for these guys. finally, we make it to ariz. and it's a bit of a squeeze in the decompression chamber. but the team are immediately analysing their samples. ah.

we have a table... the pod is set up with everything to meet your basic needs. and after all that work, it's time for dinner. couscous with chicken. wild berry yoghurt. they all sound the same. i'm going for one of my favourite dishes — bolognese. the water's in, give it a stir, leave for ten minutes... it looks a little bit like plastic! but i'm so hungry. that is actually quite nice. whilst the others finish up dinner, i sneak out to find out more about the project. also, any excuse to get suited up.

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. wow. more than a year? yeah. 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. goodnight. 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 conservationists who are 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 if you can, but until next time, from all of the travel show team here in tokyo, it's goodbye.

hello again. bank holiday monday was the hottest day of the year so far. i would say "no complaints", but may was a complete wash—out — the wettest on record in wales, the fourth wettest for the uk, and it was chilly. 25 celsius we had in kinloch certainly made a welcome change. that warm weather felt by most of us, however, we did have some of that pesky low cloud, the mist and fog around north sea coasts, and some of that lingered all day in shetland, keeping the temperatures atjust ten celsius here. and we have got more of these fog banks to come as we head into tuesday morning. again, shetland, very likely to see some of that, and across eastern england, stretching from norfolk across lincolnshire into yorkshire all the way to probably north yorkshire, you are likely to come across some fog, some low cloud, and even the occasional spot of drizzle. but otherwise, a dry start to the day on tuesday, relatively mild. and for those in the west,

probably a glorious start to the day because we have this weather front out to the far west, and some of that cloud will get illuminated. sunshine on through the rest of the day, but we will have some of these fog banks affecting shetland from time to time, but otherwise, i think, many eastern coasts better chance of seeing the sunshine. and it's going to be a bit warmer, 211—25 celsius more widespread, the warmest places probably getting up to 26 celsius which, again, will make it the warmest day of the year. and, of course, it'sjune, the skies are clear, that's why we have high levels of uv. if you are outside for any length of time, might be worth considering a bit of sun cream. on into the middle part of the week, we have some changes in the weather picture. this area of low pressure is drifting up from europe bringing with it some thundery showers. they will mainly be across southwestern areas of the country. further northwards and eastwards, it's another sunny and very warm day, in fact, temperatures could go as high as 27 celsius in the very warmest spots, but, perhaps over these north sea coasts, a little bit cooler, given the onshore winds will be strengthening a little bit. so highs of about 17 celsius or so in newcastle. on into thursday's forecast, that area of low pressure continues to push northwards,

just bringing the risk of those showers across northern england into scotland. this front really marks the boundary between fresher atlantic air that will be moving in across the uk for many of us from the slightly warmer weather that we still have a across far eastern areas. now, temperatures will be drifting down then for many, but still not bad, 19 celsius, feeling pleasant in cardiff, the highest temperatures, eastern england, up to 2a celsius in norwich.

this is bbc news our top stories. she's out! japanese tennis player — naomi osaka — withdraws from the french open — after her refusal to speak to the media.. china tells parents they can now have three children — as it tries to stop a steep decline in the country's birth rate. translation: i have one kid but if the government - could give us some sort of subsidy, we would definitely have more. three children? two are enough. even one is exhausting me. questions for the united states and denmark — over reports the two worked together to spy on top european politicians. and — the cold border that could get hot, once more. we report from the tense dividing line between

india and china.