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former newcastle united footballer christian atsu is still missing in the turkish quake. his partner believes he's alive and calls for equipment to be sent to the collapsed building where he was living. you're watching bbc news. now its time for the travel show. this week on the show... this is no ordinary cellar door. no. ..i'm in switzerland going bonkers for bunkers. oh, wow, look at this. it's right in the middle of this massive complex, isn't it? and you'd never know if you're just driving through.

hello and welcome to the travel show, coming to you this week from switzerland, or more specifically, i'm on a journey from switzerland's capital, beginning with a drive two hours southwest, because i've heard that all around this country is a vast network of bunkers, some of which are open for travellers to explore. among them are old military forts, which you can still see hidden i'v e i've been given a pen that tells me there is a bunker basically here somewhere. it's camouflaged so that is going to be a trick finding it. this stretch of mountainside looks like every other stretch of

mountainside for miles and miles this stretch of mountainside looks like every other stretch of mountainside for miles and miles in the right direction. we are in the right place. he shouldn't search for military bunker still in use, but what i'm looking for is something else. in recent decades, some of the bunkers have been sold off and made into everything from hotels to high—security data centres. i'm told this one houses a local delicacy. how well camouflaged will it be? this looks like solid rock. is there an entry point? crafty, look at this. look at this. camouflaged door. that is awesome, i was probably 20 feet away and didn't notice that. that's awesome, look at this. hello.

look at this. michelle bought this bunker in 2004 and recently started offering tours. there are thought to be many thousands of these oh, that is

lovely. it is gorgeous. for hundreds of years, switzerland has remained famously neutral during conflict, and staying neutral has involved taking precautions. so from the 80s and stepping up during world war ii, these bunkers help to keep out potential invaders. look at this. wow. this is a great spot to get a sense of the strategy

behind this place, because michelle is telling me, this is the on road to go into this region, and that used to be covered by a big anti—tank gun that used to be here. this is prime position right in fact, one company here has begun offering its swiss bunker experience for the world's wealthy, with prices starting at $10 million each. and today's bunkers aren't just for the ultra rich. since the cold war, a policy has been in place stating that every swiss resident must have access to a bunker, either within their own building or in a public shelter, in most cases within a 30—minute walk. so i've reached out to a local resident to show me something in her cellar... they exchange greetings. ..that�*s really not unusual here at all. this way to the bunker, i guess? yeah, it's just here. look at this door. i know, right? i think that even myself, i can't really...pull it. it's quite thick. i think it's concrete. and this one, you can basically close it from inside in case of emergency. i mean, this is no

ordinary cellar door. no, it's not. and you can see that the cellar is basically split in two parts, so you have like the bunker with some shelter inside that i'll show you. lead the way, let's have a look. and then you have here all the, like, half of the apartment�*s food stock and, like, othersupplies. so these are like survival supplies for the bunker? it's not... or is this used for general storage? it's for general storage. so it's not mandatory, like, to keep, it'sjust recommended to keep some supply. i don't do it. but you can see that here, for example, you have some neighbours that have some food supplies. what was your reaction when you first moved into the apartment and they were like, "oh, by the way, "downstairs there's a bunker." yeah, i was actually amused and surprised.

when i first moved in, like a few years ago, like, i didn't think about, like, in case of emergency, what can happen. but since covid and since also, like, ukraine war, that is like at the door of europe, right? you never know what can happen. in the city of lucerne, what was built as the largest shelter in the world lies hidden in the heart of the city. this kind of looks like any old tunnel you might find in europe, but we're in switzerland, so you might be forgiven for suspecting something else is going on, and this one is special. it's part of a huge bunker system that was designed to accommodate 20,000 people in the event of an emergency. theyjust slam shut big blast proof doors at either end of the tunnel, and suddenly this stretch of road becomes a i.5km long shelter. surrounding the tunnel is a vast seven—floor structure

with all the facilities that might be needed in the event that the bunker is activated. today, its capacity is reduced to 2,000 people with regular tours available. what kind of things might people use this for today? still, armed conflicts. it could be a conventional war, it could be a nuclear warfare, biological, chemical, orjust a natural disaster when people lose their home due to avalanches, mudslides, floods, for instance. it's basicallyjust a useful resource that's there to be used for whatever you need it for. yes. technically, you're supposed to have food stocks ready at home for two weeks. that's the maximum duration of stay you have to be prepared for in the beginning. we're four levels underground here, but you wouldn't know it with this big space which would have been used for up to 700 staff that would have looked after 20,000 people down on the tunnels, if it had been used. they really thought about everything, though, because you've even got prison cells

where, if there were some troublemakers, they could be brought up here, you know, locked up away from the main population. oh, wow, look at this. hum of traffic. this is the road we came in on right here. it's mad! it's right in the middle of this massive complex, isn't it? and you'd never know if you're just driving through. wowee. very cool. and noisy, too. ever since the war started in the ukraine, i've been getting calls and emails from people asking me, "can you please "tell me what i have to do if this gets closer?" wow, and that's swiss, swiss people... not people from outside saying, "how do i build a bunker?" swiss people. mostly elderly people, so this just shows how massive that threat must have been back in the �*60s and �*70s when these measures were taken and how those recent events bring up those fears again. that place is an amazing

place to visit. just the scale of it, seven floors under the ground. but i think what's most interesting for me is really what it says, a place like this, about this country and its mind—set, and really what it takes to remain neutral in such a conflict—ridden world. i think there must be also something quite reassuring for a swiss person to know that all of this energy and ingenuity has been expended in the event of an emergency to keep you safe, for a couple of weeks at least. we are looking back at the best bits from a few months, —— we're looking back at some of our best bits from the last few months, including eva's encounter

with a slippery customer in mexico. oh, my god, it's so smooth. it's so lovely. oh, this is so incredible! ade�*s hunt for art thieves in italy. and my big splash in an estonian bog. absolutely freezing cold, but i mean, what a setting. so dojoin us then, if you can. and in the meantime, don't forget, you can catch up with what we're up to on the road by checking out our facebook and instagram accounts. but until next time, from me and all the rest of the travel show team here in switzerland, it's goodbye.

hello and welcome to newswatch, with me, samira ahmed. what can viewers expect now that journalists will be able to report on what happens in family courts? and do we need to be told what the phrase "cabinet reshuffle" actually means? first, the number of people killed in monday's earthquakes in turkey and syria has been rising all week, with compelling and distressing images of the destruction caused shown on television. one of the first on the scene was the bbc�*s middle east correspondent anna foster, who reported on monday's news at ten using just her mobile phone, from the town of 0smaniye, 80 miles from the epicentre. wherever you look in this city, you can see where shop fronts have collapsed, there is broken glass and, of course, there is darkness, complete darkness everywhere apart from the light of the mobile phone that you can see me by. and this is a scene that has been

replicated across southern turkey. lighting there came courtesy of a taxi driver named berkan, via his mobile phone, and anna foster later tweeted these pictures of the two of them at work. broadcasting in those conditions is a considerable challenge, and viewers expressed theiradmiration, including jules 0, who posted this... but in the days following, there were criticisms of some of the bbc�*s coverage, particularly a report on wednesday's evening news bulletins which — despite a warning of harrowing images to come from the presenter beforehand — upset janet georghiou. .. janet cra btree agreed...

we discussed last week a review into the bbc�*s economics coverage, one of whose findings was that many viewers find the output "incomprehensible", and some of the terminology used "mystifying". simpler language and more explanation appear to be the answer, and notjust in the area of economics — but some members of the audience think that can be taken too far. take these lines seen on the bbc news website on tuesday, clive couzens read that, and this was his reaction.