this is bbc news, the headlines: a 35—hour curfew is underway in the ukrainian capital. kyiv residents are only allowed to leave their homes if its to go to an air raid shelter. the mayor vitali klitschko, said the city's at a difficult and dangerous moment. ukraine's president zelensky has thanked the prime ministers of poland, the czech republic and slovenia for travelling to kyiv to meet him, despite the continuing bombardment by russian forces. the eu leaders said the main goal of the visit was to tell ukrainians that europe stood with them. the journalist who interrupted russia's main tv news bulletin to protest against the invasion, has been fined $280 by a court in moscow.

the editor on flagship channel one was questioned for m hours and charged with organising an unauthorised public event. within the first 2a hours of it being launched, more than hundred and 20,000 people in the uk have registered willingness to take in ukrainian refugees. the scheme was launched on monday and more than 3 million have now fled the ukraine. under this new uk scheme, households can offer a space for a refugee to live at least six months. lucy manning has the latest. doors thrown open, beds made up. in cities, towns and villages, ukrainians are welcome. this would suit a ukrainianfamily. in cornwall, normally a b&b, offered as a refuge from war.

but colin, like other british families, must have the name of refugees to sponsor. i need to find refugees to link up with. i haven't actually found anywhere on the internet where i can link up with people, and there's 2 million, 2.5 million of them? 0n social media, the number of people posting offers of accommodation is quite humbling, but not many ukrainians know about these sites, so the risk is that these rooms don't get filled quickly. but the new scheme should help those who couldn't come to the uk on the family route. this man's family are still trapped in ukraine. since i'm on a skilled worker visa, i was not allowed to bring my close family. hopefully the sponsorship scheme will work for people like me.

i'm not sure if i will be able to rent a place to accommodate my family plus my sister—in—law�*s family. some reunions have happened. just a few thousand, though. this professor finally made it to her daughter's home in yorkshire. we spoke to them last week in poland... the situation is very difficult. it's not working. ..as they fought for a visa to the uk. now that my mum is here, i still keep thinking about how hard the process was and how unreasonable it was, and how it wasn't human to put people in these conditions. i live with the hope that i will return soon to ukraine. all my thoughts and feelings now are there. i am happy that my daughter takes me here. so, mixed feelings, yes.

from today, the visa process forfamilies is now simpler. checks can be done in the uk with applications processed more quickly. professor kolodii has resumed her lectures to students still under bombardment. her husband and son stay to defend ukraine. for those who do make it to britain, there is security, but still no peace. lucy manning, bbc news. now on bbc news, the travel show. this week on the travel show, we look back at some of our top trips to thailand. mike gets stuck in. i am knee—deep and sinking further. and carmen tries a techy solution to pollution. i'm cleaning the beach!

hello and welcome to the travel show here in our home city of london. we are back and rummaging through the archives. we found so much gold from different and fascinating places around the world. this week we focus on the tried and tested traveller favourite, thailand. we kick off, literally, in the thai capital of bangkok where back in 2017 we convinced henry to train like a champion and try his hand at the country's national sport. muay thai is said to have been developed by thai warriors in the battlefields of the 14th century. it became known as the art of eight limbs because hands shins, elbows and knees are all

used as points of contact. it is really quite high octane. these fighters are absolutely astonishing, watching up close and personal but some bright spark at the travel show decided it was a good thing for me to trade out first hand so tomorrow morning i am heading over to an actual muay thai camp that trains fighters from all over thailand. ijust hope that i come out the other end not too bruised and banged up. so i head 45 minutes to the north of bangkok to meenayothin gym where some of the country's top champions live and train.

tourists who want to get fit can stay at camps like this throughout thailand but this place is known as the country's toughest. how has the experience been so far? good but it is tough. really, really tough. they are the best. back home i am training two hours a day and that are supposed to be the tough stuff for a professional. over here you train six or seven hours a day. these guys train twice a day every day.

they are determined to make me sweat even more. you always think of leaning in to a punch but actually in muay thai you have to stay pretty much dead centre and keep your weight evenly distributed. it is weird. it is like breaking habits. children here start learning from a very young age and it takes years to master the practice.

i am about to step in the ring with momo who is a top contenderfor muay thai in japan. he looks really mean. look at his abs. that is ridiculous! i have a fair way to go yet. whistle blows. so i think i will have to call it a day. these guys are finely tuned

athletes and i have had the tiniest of training here. it is amazing but my time here is done. i hope you enjoyed my agony. a greatjob there from henry, channelling his inner warrior. next, a local community battling to save its wildlife. back in 2019 we sent mike to the coast where conservationists have found an ingenious, though rather muddy, solution to an ongoing conservation challenge. few international travellers venture here but in recent years the amazing transformation of the ecosystem has begun to draw people like me.

while it may not be one of the most beautiful ecosystems, it is actually full of life. there are snails, cockles, crabs, macaques, birds, all kinds of wildlife here. there's a monkey right here with a crab in its mouth! this place is quite an experience. the shellfish, shrimps and crabs that thrive in this environment were almost at the brink of collapse just a few decades ago because of the dramatic loss of one simple thing, mangroves. industrial shrimp farming left the mangrove forest decimated and, with it, a fragile ecosystem that the villages depended on to survive.

but the local people began to fight back. paiboon brought hundreds of people from nearby villages to replant the mangroves and eventually their work going to pay off and it caught the attention of royalty.

when i knew i was going to be planting mangroves, i brought hiking boot for waterproof and traction. apparently this is not the footwear of choice. you wear these, a fusion of yoga pants and a woman's brassiere and i put these on my feet and we go almost waist deep in the mud and that is how we plant mangroves. so, iam ready. three, two, one. this is... i am knee—deep and still sinking further. how does it work? 0ne. i have one. dig a hole. and you plant it in, just like a normal tree. 0k. over 32 years since the replanting began, the mangrove forest has regained one third of what was lost. 0k.

a fun fact about the mangrove tree. they are shaped this way like a torpedo because when they fall from the trees they go like this and they are supposed to stick in the ground themselves so they can basically plant themselves. there we go. a mangrove forest one step bigger. highfive! and, of course, there is more than one way to get clean after a day exploring the mangroves. i'm told that years ago local kids found another use for these boards. it is great to give something back when you travel. but, hey, it is even better if you can have a little fun along the way. mike getting good and messy there on the coast of thailand. won't it be nice when we get

to have adventures like that ain? 39 followed, of course, by nice warm shower. stay with us because we have more great memories coming up, including henry learning survival skills when he gets lost in the thai jungle. this, ladies and gentlemen, is actually extremely co mforta ble. and rajan looks for some inner calm during a stay at a buddhist monastery. this is a feast. it is only once a day but it is a good feast. so, stick with us for that. time now to head to the famous sandy beaches of thailand. the country has around 3,000km of beautiful coastline which makes it a huge draw for tourists but that does not always been good news for the environment. back in 2019 we sent carmen to the country's south, not to catch some rays but to join a cleanup mission. cleaning up thailand's beaches

has become a priority for a network of volunteers called trash heroes. the group operates in 25 cities across the country. cleaning the beaches of trash and tiny pieces of cigarette seems a never—ending task. but the trash heroes here could soon have some help. why do we need a beach robot like this? because there is too much trash. this place i grew up, so many tourists come to this beach and if the beach is dirty no—one likes to come. so i started this project. how does it actually work? the robot is digging in the sand about five centimetres deep, checking to separate the sand out and move the trash back.

and how much rubbish do you actually collect? before this in 80 metres about four kilograms of trash. four kilograms in 80 metres?! i am dying to have a go to control it. sure. it is an easy control. forwards and backwards. left and right. and this controls the speed. and if you push this down it is digging the sand. this is great. i'm cleaning the beach! dr a and his team are working on a second prototype to separate the shells from the trash. at the moment that needs to be done by hand. it is satisfying to see so much rubbish come in. there is a big focus here on getting the next

generation to think differently about how they treat the country's beaches, to protect this beautiful landscape for the future. carmen doing her bit there on the beach. now, to dig deep into the travel show archives, back to 2014 when we shot a film with henry, long before he became a hollywood star. we sent him to trek in the jungles near phuket. everything was going just fine until he got lost. this barefoot explorer is survival expert dave williams. four years he has been teaching trekkers basic survival skills that could mean the difference between life and death. dave, i am lost and i need your help. what is the first thing i should do? just relax. it's not that big a deal, you can't be that lost. i have a mobile phone but battery is very low. 0ne bar left and hardly any signal. what is my priority, do i use it now or do i save it?

we have one hour of light and one bar, i would wait. the chance of getting rescued now are pretty slim. let's accept our fate, enjoy the night. we have a a night in thejungle to enjoy. let's do this and then tomorrow we will figure out, we will walk around a little bit find two bars and make the call. his most important tip is to keep hydrated. without water, the body and brain soon go into shut down. and that is what we need to sort out first. we are hopefully going to find some water in the bamboo. bamboo holds a lot of water, during the dry season it has water inside it. this water is pure, little bit sweet, and it tends to be cool temperature wise. so i will take... i'm going to make myself a straw. they could be this much water in here or this much water in here. it is a bit late in the dry season, so i'm going to expect there to be just a little bit of water here. we can cut up in here. there we go. have a little taste.

that is good, that is very refreshing. dave originally worked in the shipyards of virginia. when the work there dried up he decided to head to asia, his home ever since. so how did you get involved with all the survival techniques? i've been into wild animal plants and stuff all my life, —— i've been into wild edible plants and stuff all my life, i just find it very interesting subject. i lived back in america, if you knew a dozen plants, basically in my home state, you had it sorted. here i've got a dozen plants in my yard. with sunset fast approaching, i had to sort out where i was going to sleep for the night. why is it so important to build a shelter? at certain times of year is a little bit cold, the ground is cold, it only has to be a few degrees colder than your body temperature to literally suck the life out

of you, but you are also getting off the ground to get the creepy crawlies, the things that are going to annoy you and keep you from sleeping. go around as many times as you can, make it as tight as you can. 0k, we've got the foundation going. check this out. seems pretty stable. that is pretty good. now all we have to do is put some slats across and we are done. holding my breath, holding my breath. 0oh. ah! that is reasonably comfortable. hold on, just shift down a bit. you might want to take the knife off. and what about a pillow, a bit of a shoulder rub? no? there we go!

there's your pillow. and that's your shoulder rub, there you go. this, ladies and gentlemen, is actually extremely co mforta ble. henry there getting some tips from dave williams, who is still out there hacking through the undergrowth and teaching survival skills. well, to finish the show this week, it is time to something a little more relaxing, and even consciousness—raising. across the world, thailand is known for its hundreds of buddhist monasteries, where monks and nuns spend their lives in simplicity, contemplation and meditation. back in 2014, we sent rajan to get a taste of that lifestyle, for a day, at least. the first duty of the new day is collecting alms, food from the local community. every morning there is a number

of routes from this monastery, and the monks divide into small groups and go out to each route. as i'm soon to find out, this is not the only source of sustenance for the monks. there you go. this is a feast. it is only once a day, but it is a good feast. next on the agenda is one of my daily duties. you might have noticed that the task of sweeping up is given, really, to the most enlightened person here in the monastery. that's why i'm doing it. and after that is complete, a chance to meet some of the foreign monks as they finish theirjobs. some, it transpires, have had rather colourful

previous lives. i used to be a photographer. you used to be a photographer? yes, i travelled the world, enjoyed myself... what kind of pictures? fashion. really? yeah, fashion magazines, that kind of thing. and successful? oh, yes, quite. successful enough. turns out that michael was also the manager of the model claudia schiffer for three years. he was then a monk for a short period in 2001 and returned to the faith a year and a half ago, and this time, he says it is for good. mostly my family thinks i should have a family, i should make lots of money. no possessions anymore, no health insurance, nothing at all. nothing in the bank? nothing in the bank. no safety net.

the one that is quite simple, you train yourselves daily, seven, eight, nine hours, meditation, and when you are able to still your mind it becomes very peaceful. this experience has actually... it is much better than all the money i could have. michael has not completely forsaken his old life. he is still curious about the english premiership football scores, arsenal especially, and then reveals the abbot is a secret liverpool fan. chanting. monks have to observe 227 strict precepts or rules, so really, my efforts were rather pathetic. in truth, as i left, i realised i did gain something out of the experience. in a short period i appreciated the routine, simplicity, and the absence of empty choices you frequently have to make in the outside world.

the point, though, is most of us that world. rajan there taking some time to find himself back in 2014. that is all we have time for on this week's programme. coming up next week, rajan is in ireland to celebrate the centenary of one of the country's most famous and most notoriously difficult novels. and finding outjust how you move an entire library of very old and very fragile books. whoa, look at this! the ceiling is incredible. and it goes on and on for a long, long way. this must be at least 60 metres or something. if you would like to catch up on more of our recent adventures you can find us on bbc iplayer. we are on social media, too. just search for bbc travel show

on facebook and instagram and you will find us there. until next time, see you later. hello. there could be the odd interesting sunrise for some of you across the south as we start wednesday, and there could be a few deposits on the car from this. this satellite imagery from tuesday afternoon shows a vast swathe of saharan dust sitting in the sky across much of western europe, and it's tracking its way northwards, but will start to interact with this weather front pushing in from the west. that'll have brought rain through the night and into the start of the day across parts of scotland and northern ireland. but our weather system thatjust drags up that dust is a developing one. it will be a lot of cloud to begin with and not quite as chilly as it was on tuesday morning. greatest chance of frost where we see the clearer skies across western scotland and northern ireland. but here, vastly brighter day,

lighter winds compared with tuesday. that brighter weather pushes into eastern scotland during the afternoon, outbreaks of rain through the morning across the western half of england and wales, slowly turning brighter later. but notice across much of england, we'll see outbreaks of rain develop here and there. some of the heaviest, most persistent into the afternoon will be across that southeastern corner. that's where we're still dragging in the airfrom the near continent, so 13—14 celsius possible here, a little bit fresher elsewhere. as i said, the winds not quite as strong as they were for a time on tuesday. a wet end to the day across parts of eastern england, east anglia and the southeast especially. that rain does eventually clear, though, during the first half of wednesday night. clear skies, then, to take us through much of the night into thursday morning, so a greater chance, certainly away from towns and city centres, we'll see a frost develop for thursday morning. but it will be a lovely, bright, sunny start for the vast majority. this little ridge of high pressure is with us first thing. notice, though, we do have weather fronts pushing in off the north atlantic. the isobars close together once again, so a breezier day, especially for the northern half of the uk. showers through much of the day across parts of scotland and northern ireland, but a bit of sunshine in between. those showers could be heavy. through the afternoon,

some parts of northern england, north wales, maybe the north midlands could catch the odd shower, but much of england, again, and southeast wales will be dry, feeling pleasant in the sunshine. and it's that sunshine which really takes over over the days ahead. it does mean that with clear skies into friday morning, frosty and in places, foggy start, most prone across wales, the southwest and the midlands. some of the fog lingering for a while, but overall, actually, more of you seeing blue skies overhead. temperatures of around 10—15 celsius. warm spring sunshine, a quite strong spring sunshine at that, which will continue into the weekend, maybe a small chance of one or two showers for southern england late on sunday. take care.

this is bbc news. i'm david eades. our top stories: a 35—hour curfew under way in ukraine's capital as the mayor warns kyiv�*s at a difficult and dangerous moment. there is a real sense that the danger, the conflict, is coming closer, and a feeling now that nowhere is safe. amid the bombardment, a symbolic success as three eu leaders visit kyiv in a show of solidarity with president zelensky. you are fighting for your lives, yourfreedom, but we know you are also fighting for our lives and our freedom. the journalist arrested for her protest on russian state tv endures 14 hours of questioning but is freed after receiving a fine.