sunday, again, it's cloud drifting in from the north and west, bearing some showery outbreaks of rain, perhaps something a little bit heavier for the western coast of scotland. it looks like southern counties of england, though, and east anglia should remain fine with some sunshine and some warmth.

this hello, this is bbc news with annita mcveigh. the headlines: finland says russia has cut off supplies of natural gas — days after finland announced it was applying to join nato. meanwhile in ukraine, russia intensifies its attacks in the donbas region as its forces capture more territory in the south and east. the senior civil

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oh, it's very...it�*s lovely! yeah! it smells likejust a really good air freshener! and we go inside the world's largest crystal cave. hello and welcome to amsterdam, the famous city of canals. a little later, i'll be sniffing my way around town to find out about new efforts to create a catalogue of historic odours, and not all of them pleasant. but first... we're starting in cambodia, at the vast and ancient buddhist temple complex of angkor wat. it's the world's

largest religious site, normally attracting around 2.5 million people every year. as you could see around ourself, do we see any tourists? laughs ifeel quite sad, you know. i miss those days that i brought people here. we've got to deal a lot with our life situation at the moment, so many people lostjobs. in may 2020, we went to angkor wat to see the impact for ourselves. two years later, we've returned to catch up with

the people we met. the last two years has been very difficult for me because i totally lost myjob and ijust got nothing else to do, just like many other people who survive from tourist industry as well. yeah, it was something that we never encountered before in our whole life. it's hard to describe. sometimes you just want to cry, you know, talking about the tough time that we had nojob and no any support. i miss people who used to come to visit my country. yeah, i really miss the walking through the temple, my explanation to people, and also, the ways i try to make people happy.

but angkor wat hasn't been totally deserted all that time. important conservation work to protect the temples has continued.

this is the psar chaa. it is the most well—known market in the city where tourists would come for shopping, for woodcarving, t—shirt, silver, silk. yeah, normally, these stores are opening, but at the moment, every store is closed. to see tourists walking in the street, walking around the temple. even not enough to give jobs to people yet, but, yeah, when we see people coming, we, you know, have, like, a good sign.

nice people, we have beautiful temples and a lot of beautiful places around cambodia, so it is something that they should come and have a look in their lifetime. welcome back to the netherlands. this week, i'm in what's always been one of europe's busiest city destinations. oh, so many to choose from. amsterdam. when i travel, one of the first things i notice about a place tends to be the smells. and often it's one of the strongest memories when i go home, too, like the scent of a venetian canal or a middle eastern spice market. here in amsterdam, the smell i identify with this place tends to be these things — stroopwaffels. sort of cinnamon and caramel, you sort of get it in the air

when you're travelling around the city. the best part of it is you get to eat them, too. mm, it's good. scientists say there's a link between smell, memory and emotion. and now they're using that connection to enhance our travels. in fact, one group has started amassing a library of historical smells in an attempt to bring them back to life. the plan is to use them in museums and on walking tours. may i...may i come behind here? yeah, yeah, yeah, come, come, come! what an incredible place! yeah, isn't it wonderful? is this all original? it's more of a drug store, you might say, between grocery and apothecary. the project's not based in amsterdam by accident. this city, inga argues, is a rich hunting ground for ancient pongs. so, i guess back then, amsterdam would have been quite a smelly place.

absolutely! it was called �*the beautiful lady with the stinking breath�* because of the canals, which looked wonderful, but evaporated a foul stench of not only the sewer — the privies that were leaking into the canals and all the factories that were there, but also, of the cadavers of animals that ended up in the...in the canal. not all the dutch smells are bad, though. in fact, to ward off the whiffs, many of the nobility carried pomanders, a kind of perfumed ball. so, what we did is we tried to recreate a pomander smell from an old book of secret recipes. if you pump it, and then you canjust pump it in front of your nose and smell,

and maybe use both of your nostrils, and then try to... oh, it�*s very...it�*s lovely! yes, that�*s right! it�*s like a really good air freshener! laughs once these programmes are up and running, how might i engage with that? well, for instance, if you would go to the museum ulm in germany, you could look at a painting, smell a smell and then re—think, what is it that i�*m actually seeing? and all of a sudden, you might notice different elements in that painting. or in the summer in amsterdam, you can go on a smell walk yourself and have a smell kit that you bring, and then in front of certain locations, you can look at your iphone, smell, and learn more about that space that you�*re in. while sniffing around in the past is an important part of the project, they�*re also employing some of the most cutting edge technology available today. deep in the old hq of a former spice trade company lies the modern tech at the heart of this project.

marika uses artificial intelligence to scan historical documents, on the lookout for forgotten fragrances. through this data base, everyone can access all this information we�*ve gathered about smells from all these different sources. museum curators can use it if they�*re interested in adding smells to their exhibitions. we�*re working on an app so you can do a smell tour, so you can basically see what kind of smells could have been in your area. so, really, we want to make smells searchable. i see a collection of bottles over here, which is very exciting! are these some of the reinterpreted smells? these are reinterpreted smells for the ulm exhibition. it�*s going to be a guided tour. so, there will be several paintings that are paired with these smell creations. fantastic. so, i can see here we�*ve got helena�*s gloves.

helena�*s gloves! got the smell of someone�*s gloves? yes, the smell of someone�*s gloves. there�*s helena. i�*ll make helena full screen. so, helena was very rich, as you can also see by her dress, and she�*s holding these gloves and they also have, like, this embroidery on it. these are leather gloves and the tanning process wasn�*t as sophisticated as it is these days, so it would actually create some rather smelly leather, so people, if you were rich enough, you could perfume your gloves to sort of hide — mask the smell of the tanned leather. 0h! just move it around a bit. people used to use dried roses, that was a lot... definitely floral. ..very popular. frankincense and jasmine. some ambergris. but there might also be — i don�*t know if you can smell it — let me check — i�*ve got it here as well. sometimes it�*s a bit

hard to find. there might also be, like, a bit of friction in there, so some of that leather still kind of comes through sometimes. there is a... so it�*s notjust nice. yeah, there�*s like a... there�*s a bit of a pong. laughs there�*s, like, there�*s...there�*s a sort of like a gentle edge of a bit... bit animalistic as well. yeah, and what�*s really interesting is knowing the history, it smells like one smell masking another smell. yeah. but it�*s notjust a novelty. inga�*s keen to show me how the walking tours that are being planned can offer a whole new layer of historical detail. this is where the dutch east india company used to unload silks, spices, herbs and tobacco from all over the world. in the 17th century, there must have been a lot to smell. smell this scent that we also created. ok. so, do i wave it? yeah, wave it under your nose. ooh! chuckles.

maybe don�*t wave it too close! i mean, it�*s not great! it�*s not great, no! is that what the canal would�*ve smelled like here? there are, indeed, elements of, yeah, a polluted canal smell, so it has sulphur... it has a kind of bathroom smell, yeah. yes, excrement, urine components in there. but it�*s also, the sulphuric component also leads you from the water to the military might, to the gunpowder that was actually stored in this building. this is the headquarters — or used to be the headquarters — of the dutch admiralty, so they were the military force that went with the east india company to actually enforce labour, to use — make use of all kinds of violence to get that luxury spice trade into the dutch republic.

this isn�*tjust a touristic novelty — time, money and expertise have been spent making these smells as accurate as possible. and if there�*s one thing they�*ve taught me, it�*s that the past was a pretty stinky place. well, do stick around because still to come on the travel show — watching them watching her mending the night watch in amsterdam�*s biggest museum. this structured treatment really has to be done now because if we would wait longer, we will really get unrepairable damage. and we go inside the world�*s biggest geode in the crystal caves of southern spain. so, don�*t go away. one of the reasons amsterdam has become so popular is its museums and galleries. there are loads, from the microbe centre —

which i enjoyed a few years back — to the van gogh museum, one of the most popular in the world. but there�*s one place i particularly want to see while i�*m here. this is the rijksmuseum. it�*s the country�*s largest museum, and it�*s also home to one of the netherlands�* greatest art treasures. this — rembrandt�*s night watch. but, in fact, the painting isn�*t there on the wall — it�*s currently in there. rembrandt�*s biggest and most famous painting is being restored and as a visitor, you can watch the work being carried out. i�*ve been given permission to get even closer. yes. it�*s crazy to see, like, the back of an old master. can you tell me what you�*re doing here with what looks like a very tiny iron?

we want to get as flat, even canvas as possible because that�*s necessary for the new stretching, so we won�*t get any problems in the future. we want to get everything as even as possible. so, what�*s the next step after this? is it working? it looks very flat to me. yeah, it is working but, as you can see here, when we use this little light, you can still see all these... ah, yes — little wrinkles. yes, all these little wrinkles. so that�*s what we try to get out with the last step. this structured treatment really has to be done now because if we would wait longer, we will really get unrepairable damage on the painting, so that�*s why we are treating the painting at the moment. what�*s it like for you to work, surrounded by people? yeah, sometimes it�*s difficult — especially when the table is very close to the glass and you really feel like people are standing next to you, you know, and they�*re making so many photographs and movies, so, but i try to just not look at the public and just focus on the painting. and if you�*re worried that all you�*d see

is the back of the painting, you�*ll be happy to know that the night watch is now standing upright and visible again while ige and her colleagues continue their work in the museum�*s glass house. and we�*re going to finish this week inside a natural wonder underneath southern spain. the pulpi geode is possibly the largest crystal cave ever discovered. it was literally unearthed 20 years ago and only opened to the public a few months before the first lockdown, and we�*ve been to take a look.

well, that�*s all we have time for on this week�*s show, but coming up next week, rajan�*s in belfast... wow. ..scoring a night in the bed of northern ireland�*s most famous footballer. well, he was the fifth beatle, he was the coolest guy around and he was just an amazing footballer. and if you�*d like to catch up on some of our recent adventures, you can find us on bbc iplayer. and don�*t forget, we�*re on social media, too — you can just search for bbc travel show and look out for the blue icon. until next time, from me and all rest of the travel show team here in amsterdam, it�*s goodbye.

hello. rather mixed fare being served up by our weather for this weekend. to the north and west of the uk there will be more cloud around with some outbreaks of rain at times. the further south and east you are, the greater your chances of staying dry and seeing some sunshine and that is because of the proximity of this area of high pressure across the continent. and the low pressure towards the north—west will feed for western scotland, sometimes across northern ireland, a few showers drifting east into scotland.

the odd one i think for northern england and wales as well. southern counties of england and east anglia probably with the clearest skies will get the highest temperatures, up into the low 20s. through the evening and overnight, more persistent rain pushes into western scotland and by the end of the night extending up towards the northern isles. we will see some showery outbreaks heading into the east as well, perhaps some drizzly rain for northern ireland and northern england as well. a mild night, temperatures widely in double figures. and then for sunday daytime, this area of low pressure getting closer to the north of the uk. this high retreating further towards the continent but still having an influence on the far south—east of the uk. east anglia and southern counties of england are looking at a dry day on sunday with some decent spells of sunshine and some warmth. elsewhere, more cloud around and still some rain, particularly targeting western scotland. temperatures widely across the northern half of uk, in the mid—teens, for east anglia and the south east, 21, 22 or maybe even 23.

for the south—east of england however, monday could bring the prospect of some heavy, even thundery showers as a low pressure gets close by from the continent. and for the north, we�*ve got a weather front ready to drift south across the uk. so one way or another it looks like rain for the majority of the uk at some stage on monday. likely to be in showery outbreaks. there will be some brighter and sunnier intervals in between times but temperatures edging down somewhat, just 17 in the south east. we never quite recover those highs of the weekend as we go into the early days of the week ahead. high teens at best, and our weather picture stays pretty unsettled.

this is bbc news. these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. finland says russia has cut off supplies of natural gas — days after finland announced it was applying to join nato. meanwhile in ukraine, russia intensifies its attacks in the donbas region as its forces capture more territory in the south and east. the senior civil servant sue gray met with the prime minister to discuss publishing photos as part of her inquiry into downing street lockdown parties. joe biden discusses security and north korea�*s nuclear programme with south korea�*s president in seoul. today, president yoon suk—yeol and i committed to strengthening our close

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