this is bbc news. the headlines: the french president, emmanuel macron, says his russian counterpart, vladimir putin, has agreed on the need to send inspectors to ukraine's zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant as fears grow about its safety. the site has been under russian occupation since early march and the area has recently come under heavy fire. a former british member of an islamic state terror cell has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the murder of western hostages in syria. el shafee elsheikh was part of a group — nicknamed the beatles — involved in torturing, beating and executing prisoners. the man who was serving as mexico's attorney general when one of the country's worst ever human rights atrocities took place, has been arrested. jesus murillo is accused of forced disappearance,

torture, and obstruction ofjustice — after 43 student teachers went missing eight years ago. it is just after 5:30am. good morning to you. now on bbc news — the travel show. this week i'm taking a journey across yellowstone national park as it celebrates its 150th anniversary. 0h park as it celebrates its 150th anniversary. oh my god, just spectacular. i will meet the people using this milestone to address the part�*s complex history by returning america's largest land mammal back to native american tribes in an historic partnership. the ecological— historic partnership. tue: ecological importance historic partnership. tte: ecological importance of restoring animals to the landscape heals the land. by

integrating this animal back it heals our trust. t integrating this animal back it heals our trust.— heals our trust. i will attempt to track down _ heals our trust. i will attempt to track down the _ heals our trust. i will attempt to track down the part's - to track down the part�*s elusive walls that were reintroduced during one of the most successful rewilding initiatives of all time. tt initiatives of all time. tit doesn't happen too much in human endeavours where your ancestors have made a terrible, terrible mistake in terms of killing off wildlife that you can correct that mistake and make it better and that is what happened here in yellowstone. it's a very positive story.

yellowstone was one of the wilds first national parks, wild's first national parks, established in 1872 it inspired a movement that today there are thousands of them globally. lakes, volcanoes, and mountains span almost 4000 square miles of wilderness. home to almost half of the well�*s active jesus, the home is at the core of one of the largest ecosystems on the planet. this is old faithful, probably one of the well�*s most famous geysers. 0h of the well�*s most famous geysers. oh my god, it isjust spectacular. the snowcapped mountains in the distance. it's hard to drive with yourjaw open, basically.

and the first stop on my journey is the part�*s oldest lodge as it opens its doors for its busiest season yet. yellowstone represents some of the very best america has to offer and 150 years is a long time. we didn't always get it right, we killed every single wolf in this park, either in the 19 60s we were feeding bears out of garbage dumps. despite fierce opposition, when the park was first established, indigenous people were forcibly removed from their land. until now, their history has been largely untold, the park service is trying to change that. ~ u, ., that. so 27 american indian tribes that, _ that. so 27 american indian tribes that, to _ that. so 27 american indian tribes that, to one - that. so 27 american indian tribes that, to one degree i that. so 27 american indian | tribes that, to one degree or another, were on this landscape

prior to 1872. and even though we have done some really good things with tribes over the years, we felt that it was a point in time where we really needed to reengage the travel agents. and for us to not only be able to tell the stories ourselves about american indian history and culture — which is part of our mission — but also to get them in the park... yeah. ..to get them engaged with visitors. and so we've done it. oh, it takes me about four or five days to make a doll. wow. back inside i meet scott, whose native american ancestors were forced from their lands. he's here not only to sell his handicrafts, but also to later raise his tribal flag over the site. this song is my brother's song. it's a sun dance song. it's to wake up to. sings.

so, raising the flag to me is, you know, coming home and putting the flag in and reclaiming, you know, what was — to some — taken away. yellowstone calls out to people to come, worldwide. somehow that word "yellowstone" is a message to people to come and see not only the geysers, but the animals, you know? the buffaloes, the wolves. and so, for me, it's a beacon... yeah. ..of starting an environmental movement to save land for us in the future, but for us to come in to be with the people — the animal people. and it's the animals that are helping soothe these relations — in particular, yellowstone's iconic bison. these days, you don't have

to travel far to come across these guys thundering around, causing trafficjams. but at the end of the 19th century, they were hunted almost to extinction. in a short space of time, the population of america's largest land mammalfell from over 20 million to around only 200 and, with them, disappeared the futures of many native american tribes. it was really a sad story. we thought that removing bison from this continent was the way to remove the food source that native americans relied upon. and as we were essentially eliminating native americans from this country, we were eliminating their food. and it's taken us probably 100 years to come to grips with that and then to say what it really does mean to get these animals back out on big landscapes and, more so than that, hopefully get them back to people. these animals mean more

to them than maybe anybody on the planet. yeah, yeah. thanks to a captive breeding programme, bison numbers are now booming. coming now — one, two! and, for the first time in its history, the park authorities are working with local native american groups to relocate these magnificent beasts to roam again across tribal lands. here she comes — five! we get in the truck, i'm usually behind the animals as they're heading north. you know, we have these caravans of trucks just heading across the highways of montana. and it doesn't matter what time of year it is, the tribes are just waiting there, they're waiting for these animals to get off of the trucks. back on the road, i'm making a five—hourjourney to see how one of the latest herds to be released are getting on.

so, i've now left yellowstone behind, i've entered the wind river reservation and it feels really, really different here. wind river, one of the largest reservations in america, home to the eastern shoshone and northern arapaho tribes, was created when conflict broke out between the tribes and european settlers in the 19th century. hey, jason! hi, how's it going? i'm good! how are you? jason is the man responsible for the newly relocated animals. hello! along with the breeding programme, he also hosts local school groups to try and reconnect children with their native american heritage. so, how do the kids respond when they come out here? it's in our genetic memory, you know, buffalo are in our dna. we had some kids come out in a bus and they got off the bus and the buffalo were curious and they came

around the bus and to see them make eye contact with each other was something really, really special. it's an emotional experience, really, you know, to see those kids have a reconnection with that. yeah. it never gets old. never. no, they're such gorgeous creatures, aren't they? they are. drumming. so talk to me about the moment that the first buffalo hoof hit the land. it's taken me 15 years, really, to get the supporters — a bald eagle flying over us right here. gasps. bald eagle! it was very impactful. you know, you could never imagine thatjust that one hoof print would have been so significant. yeah, yeah. but it was 131 years that it took for that hoof to land. so, beyond conservation, you know, why are the buffalo so important?

that piece of our life, connection, was severed when the buffalo was eliminated.. yeah. ..nearly exterminated. so, restoring the animal to our communities is very important and our cultural revitalisation. yeah, yeah! you know, the ecological importance of restoring animal to the landscape heals the land. by integrating this animal back into our diet, it heals us. i myself had to find that — i struggled with alcohol for a number of years and was able to put that away 3.5 years ago, find recovery, find healing. yeah. it's putting away, you know, the atrocities, the problems that were imposed upon us and creating a new solution to something better. yeah, yeah — the buffalo have really helped you find yourself and just reconnect. i wouldn't be here today without these buffalo. jason, you are making it happen.

the work you're doing here is, honestly, nothing short of incredible and i wish you the best of luck with everything, from my heart. well, thank you very much. i genuinely mean that. thank you very much. jason is hoping his work will inspire similar —— the bison transport programme is happening very slowly. the impact of state law can be felt throughout the park, particularly where i am going next. gardner is home to around 100 people. it is obscenely early. i've got to tell you, i am obscenely early. i've got to tell you, iam not obscenely early. i've got to tell you, i am not used to waiting. we could be seeing wolves today. let's hope the wake up call is worth it. recent and controversial

changes to the law have increased the quote of balls that can be hunted outside of the part�*s boundaries, the pa rt�*s boundaries, potentially the part�*s boundaries, potentially placing these majestic animals under threat. making the work of yellowstone forever increasingly important. hi, amanda. good morning. amanda works for the part�*s not—for—profit partner to support vital conservation in the area, including keeping track of the wolves.- the area, including keeping track of the wolves. today we are going _ track of the wolves. today we are going to _ track of the wolves. today we are going to a _ track of the wolves. today we are going to a special- track of the wolves. today we are going to a special part - track of the wolves. today we are going to a special part of| are going to a special part of yellowstone called yellowstone's northern room. the special part about this is this is the most wildlife dense part of what is already one of the most wildlife dense places in the continental united states. even though this is only 10% of yellowstone, this holds 50% of yellowstone's wolves. �* . �* ., wolves. but that hasn't always been the case. _ wolves. but that hasn't always been the case. in _ wolves. but that hasn't always been the case. in the - wolves. but that hasn't always been the case. in the early - been the case. in the early 20th century the wolves here were wiped out by hunters. so were wiped out by hunters. sr people were wiped out by hunters. 5r people came out here, european

americans, specifically, came out and waged war on predators. though it seems yellowstone is a park of two polls in 27 years ago wolves were controversially reintroduced to stalk through the valleys once more. it was the valleys once more. it was the first ever attempt at releasing these predators and remains one of the greatest rewilding stories of all time. i'm just hoping that we really see wolves today, it has been a long drive, we have been out early, so the payoff is to be wolves. and as if on cue... where are you now? just passing the creek. amanda, just down the campground road. those four packs are going to be focused on their dens and caring — be focused on their dens and caring for— be focused on their dens and caring for their puppies, and so for— caring for their puppies, and so for one _ caring for their puppies, and so for one particular wolfpack they _ so for one particular wolfpack they are — so for one particular wolfpack they are considered enough to

have _ they are considered enough to have their genocide pretty much within— have their genocide pretty much within a — have their genocide pretty much within a few of the road. lots of cars here. _ within a few of the road. lots of cars here, what's - within a few of the road. lots of cars here, what's going - within a few of the road. lots of cars here, what's going on here because mark looks like a lot of people are today, so hopefully that means the wolves are out and about. there is a name for these people who come and watch wolves every day, wolf watches, and there are plenty of them. one in particular is ready to show us where to look. the black one, 29, a two—year—old female. rick has been watching walls every day for almost 20 years. we have been here for about five minutes and we have already spotted one. keeps popping behind trees, behind rocks, but hopefully i will see it in a moment. it is a grey wolf!

giving the wolves were pretty much wiped out here, it really is special to see them here just running in a wow, and it's actually quite strange to think of yellowstone without walls being in here, it is very much part of the territory. —— without wolves being here. i get the sense that rick is somewhat of a local legend. what is it that gives you coming back to get up early and check out the wolves each day? well, i'm almost at my 9000 day of being here looking at the wolves in yellowstone. so i never get tired of it. every day i want to get up at 3am in the morning and come out here. yes. there has never been an opportunity like this in human history to study the walls the way we are right now, so just yourself this morning, you got to see tony walcott coming out of the den.

i did! of the den. | did!- ofthe den. idid! ., , ofthe den. idid! ., ., ., oftheden. idid! ., ., ., ., i did! you probably had one of the best sightings _ i did! you probably had one of the best sightings of- i did! you probably had one of the best sightings of adult - the best sightings of adult wolves compared to many biologists in the world. in human endeavours, your ancestors have made a terrible, terrible mistake in terms of killing off wildlife, but you can correct that mistake and make it better, and that's what happened here in yellowstone, it's a very positive story, very optimistic story. a story that seems to bleed into every part of park management today. partly thanks to these wolves, the ecosystem is now back in check. which might have had something to do with my next stroke of luck. 0n the seemingly endless parade of the seemingly endless parade of the world public mr reid admirals i stumbled upon this. people were parked up looking at a certain direction, i asked them what they have seen, right over there in the distance is a grizzly bear! from what i

understand, it is quite rare to spot a grizzly in the wild, so this is a very special moment, i mean, this is why you come to yellowstone right? but it wasn't too long ago that visitors like this would have been behaving quite differently, whether wolves were at the bears were a source of entertainment. —— the wolves were oppressed. by were oppressed. by the late 1800s, bears had figured out that where there were people there was food. for the next 80 years, a hallmark of every yellowstone visit was looking for bears begging along the roadside, or watching them feed on food scraps at the hotel garbage dumps. thanks to research we have come a long way since then. while close encounters are rare, with over 700 bears in an area that is becoming increasingly populated, it's important to be prepared. andy! hello. i'm heading to

westella strategic branding, he runs courses in their safety but he doesn't work alone. 0k! but he doesn't work alone. ok! this is the better! talk to me about how you use this to teach people about their safety. well, if you are not able to avoid an encounter with a bow, bear spray is the most effective thing you can use to change about�*s behaviour. if you get this hot tub oil that is in this content into the face they are going to forget about you, that you might be a threat to them and are going to want to go somewhere else. most of the encounters we have with grizzly bears around here, they are different encounters. they will growl, they will draw, they will have and make different noises, they were found on the ground. so it is good to have distracting about all the time? yes, things happen really fast. the nice thing about this training device is that it goes at about 20 miles an hour. a bad about 35 an hour which is quite fast. this really gives people an idea of how quick

they have to be to get the best row to get the safety. i had no idea they could move that fast. 0h i had no idea they could move that fast. oh yes. all right, we have assessed what the bears doing, it looks like he's going to try. we have stood our ground, we have our sprayer. take the cd, he comes, sprayer. take the cd, he comes, spray out in front of him for a couple of seconds, some bursts, until he changes his behaviour. 0k, until he changes his behaviour. ok, here comes! wild west music. very good. even i know that as a mechanical bear and i was like, phew! it get your blood flowing. phew! it aet our blood flowinu. it get your blood flowing. one e. i it get your blood flowing. one ea . is it get your blood flowing. one egg is for _ it get your blood flowing. one egg is for sure, _ it get your blood flowing. one egg is for sure, i _ it get your blood flowing. 0ne egg is for sure, i won't need my spray where i'm going back. down the road, a group of dedicated individuals are working on methods to decrease the amount of bad encounters in the amount of bad encounters in the area, with the help of the

bears themselves. keeping bears away from food ultimately helps keep them away from people, so when camping it is so important to stash your food safely. here on the outskirts of yellowstone that they are actually testing the steadiness of food containers by putting them up against actual bears, and needless to say, these ones didn't quite pass the test. irate didn't quite pass the test. we have ut didn't quite pass the test. - have put some dog biscuits and there so that it rattles around. there is peanut butter and there, an old fish as well. he needs to withstand a 60 minutes of direct contact from these bears, but if it does it can be certified as bear resistant by the agency. you can see... look at those claw marks! you can see the tension there, teeth marks, claw marks. they are pretty deep. deep mud.— they are pretty deep. deep mud. they are pretty deep. dee mud. ~ , , ., , deep mud. where did these bears come from? _ deep mud. where did these bears come from? from yellowstone i come from? from yellowstone national park. this one is from glacial national park. they

were while baszler got into trouble with people. it doesn't happen just out of the blue, it happens when they get food rewards. his last act as a wild bear was to climb into somebody�*s vehicle in their own driveway in the middle of the day while they were trying to unload the groceries. sadly, not all the mischievous bears can be rehomed here, and around 40 are put down each year. in around 40 are put down each ear. .., , around 40 are put down each ear, . ., , ., year. in the case of the eight urizzl year. in the case of the eight grizzly bears _ year. in the case of the eight grizzly bears that _ year. in the case of the eight grizzly bears that lived - year. in the case of the eight grizzly bears that lived here | grizzly bears that lived here at the discovery centre, we have provided an alternative but maybe even more importantly we get visitors in the area just from their stories, even though they are still getting into conflicts of people over food the population is much more stable than it has been in the past, and a lot of that is because what we have learned about how important it is in backcountry to be careful with our food, backcountry to be careful with ourfood, and backcountry to be careful with our food, and the techniques we have like bear resistant containers to secure food. the

effort being — containers to secure food. the effort being made to educate visitors on how to protect the ecosystem for the future is undeniable. back at the lodge where i started myjourney, it is scott's big flag raising moment. this is the tribal crow emblem. this is the tribal crow emblem. this is the tribal crow emblem. this is a great honour to do this for the tribe and their people, really great honour. for the crow people, all of these native people who have never left this country. seeing these two flags flying alongside each other, hopefully signals the start of something new well although the wrongs of the past are acknowledged, everyone who lives and works in yellowstone can look towards a more respectful, more positive

future. and what better way to mark this truly astounding national park's 150th mark this truly astounding national park's150th birthday than that? hello there. we ended the week with some warm sunshine, but some showers, mainly in the north, close to an area of low pressure. and that same area of low pressure is sitting in the same place for the start of the weekend. but around the base of it, we've got this weather front thickening, the cloud bringing some rain and some stronger winds as well. ahead of that, with some clearer skies in england and wales, it'll be a cooler start on saturday morning, significantly cooler than the previous night in south—eastern parts of england. some sunshine for england and wales, one or two showers pushing across in the morning ahead of this main band of rain that's heavy for a while, accompanied by some

strong and gusty winds, sweeping away from scotland and northern ireland followed by sunshine and a few showers. that rain band is quite narrow, but it could be quite heavy rain as it gets stuck in northern england. elsewhere for england and wales, some sunny spells, just one or two showers, but most places will be dry. and temperatures very similar to what we had on friday, so we're getting up to the mid—20s at best. that area of low pressure will keep the showers going into the first part of the night. across scotland, another area of low pressure moving very slowly in from the atlantic, will push a lot of cloud ahead of it. it means the sunnier skies probably further north this time on sunday. those showers easing in scotland. sunny spells here, some sunshine for northern ireland, the far north of england for a while. other parts of england and wales probably turning more cloudy, the cloud thickening to give a bit of rain and drizzle, mostly for western wales and south—west england, where temperatures will struggle to around 20 degrees. once again, we're 18 or 19 for scotland and northern ireland. the cloud continues to thicken on sunday night. we start to see a bit more rain proper coming in from the atlantic as that low pressure heads in from the west. having said that, there will be little or no rain

for northern parts of scotland, some patchy rain elsewhere, the odd heavier burst for a while. nothing particularly organised, mind you. and some western areas should turn drier and brighter through the afternoon. temperature—wise, making 23 again across southern england and south wales and 18 in the central belt of scotland. now, into next week, this is where the jet stream is going to be positioned. it may start to buckle a little bit, but it does mean that any warm air is stuck in the south—east of england, confined to the south—east, and no heatwave on the way by any means. temperatures near normal for this time of the year. monday looks the wetter day. after that, it looks mostly dry, and there will be some sunshine from time to time.

good morning. welcome to breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. 0ur headlines today: more major disruption on the railways as thousands of workers walk out in an ongoing dispute over pay, jobs and conditions. the summerof the summer of strokes continues. this is_ the summer of strokes continues. this is a _ the summer of strokes continues. this is a sixth day that workers have _ this is a sixth day that workers have walked out in recent months, meaning _ have walked out in recent months, meaning only about 20% of services will he _ meaning only about 20% of services will be running today. former cabinet member michael gove backs rishi sunak for the conservative leadership, but concedes he doesn't expect to serve in the government again. good morning. keep on running.