this is bbc news, the headlines. the bbc says it's highest— paid presenter, gary lineker, will step back from fronting its flagship football programme after he criticised the british government's migration policy. in a tweet, he'd compared the language used by the government to set out its plan, to that used by germany in the 1930s. the leaders of britain and france have held their first summit for five years. britain will more than double its payments to france to deal with illegal channel crossings. iran and saudi arabia have agreed to re—establish diplomatic relations after a seven year interruption. they will also resume trade and security relations, and reopen their respective embassies. a gunman opens fire at a jehovah's witness hall in the german city of hamburg. police say at least 7 people have been killed

including an unborn baby. coming up its news watch but now it's time for the troubleshooter. now its time for the travel show. welcome back to paris.

welcome to paris, where i'm soaking up the sun on the banks of the river seine. it's lovely. both the left bank and right banks of the river seine are unesco world heritage sites. the left is famous for inspiring generations of artists and intellectuals, while the right is home to the world's most—visited museum, the louvre. and with all this heritage to soak up here, it's the perfect setting to take an amble down memory lane and revisit some of our favourite historical journeys. and let's begin right here in paris. in 2018, one of the classics of the french car industry turned 70. and christa managed to get behind the wheel to give it a spin. i'm definitely going to need a lesson, vincent. vincent takes guided tours around paris. now, where is the gear stick? the gear stick is there. 0k! she laughs so, you just turn that, i if you want to pass the first one. | and pull — this is first, 0k? then back to neutral... there? ..and push, second. second. this is very unusual. yeah, i know, it's unique. this might take... please excuse me if we

bunny—hop up the street. they laugh driving a 2cv feels actually very different _ to any kind of modern car. you can feel the engine under your foot, you know, and the noise of the car. and it's very physical. and it's not a car that goes very fast, but it's not the goal, you know? it is a very, kind of, active experience. yeah. there's no sitting back and letting the car do its work. you have to be involved. yeah, exactly. and on the left — this is the louvre museum. is there something...? i mean, do you think this is part of french identity? yes, it is, of course, yes. with the baguette and the stripes. they laugh ooh! we'll have to stop for a baguette! yeah. you're very brave, because driving a 2cv car is not easy. driving in paris is not easy. driving for the first time in a 2cv car in paris is really, really brave for you. well, now you're making me nervous! there are no airbags, the windows aren't electric and,

as for ac — let's just say it's pretty rudimentary. but for some reason, the french really seem to love the 2cv. as long as that remains the case, the car they called the "tin snail" will keep ploughing its own furrow on slow lanes everywhere. right, it's time for us to cross over to a completely different part of the world now, as we transport you from the brisk northern coastlines of europe to the dust and the sand of southern jordan. petra is one of the world's most famous archaeological sites. carved out of the desert 2,000 years ago, it was built by a local tribe called the nabataea ns. well, in 2016, i went to see efforts to protect this ancient site from the elements, and from tourists like me.

this split in the rocks is called the siq, and it was the only entrance, or way in and out of the city. and it would've been heavily guarded to stop anyone from sneaking in and trying to take over. it's just breathtaking. at the end of the siq is the most famous part of petra, the treasury. an elaborate temple carved from the sandstone. just take a look around, you can see how popular this place is. it's the most visited in all ofjordan — but having all of these people here can bring problems. the delicate rocks are easily damaged by tourists touching the monuments or walking off the designated trails,

especially in places where excavations are under way. but now, there's a project aimed at getting tourists themselves involved with the conservation of the monuments, to help protect one of the most threatened sites in the whole of petra. this is the temple of winged lions, a religious complex built in around 27 ad. i'm liking your office, glenn. i like what you've done with it. no, this is a beautiful place. this is... voice—over: glenn is in charge of the site, and tells me how the problems here started in the 1970s, when the temple was first excavated. they uncovered this cool monument, but didn't do a wonderfuljob of doing the things necessary to preserve it for future generations. whenever you excavate a monument, you have to pull a lot of the earth

out of the ground in order to reveal it. and so, this earlier project dumped a lot of that earth. and so, as you'll see, we're trying to re—excavate those earlier archaeological dumps. the dumps are huge mounds of compressed earth which will take years to sort through. at the moment, there's a team of local people tackling this mammoth task. we have specialists who come and actually work and train and work with the local community, and not have them just be regular day labourers that sort of help with manual labour, but actually training them in the tangible vocational skills to help them preserve the site in the coming years. and the idea is that the locals then train tourists to help out, too. we're going to have them working on the soil dumps, looking for pottery and coins, and other things the original excavation missed, to have the experience of actually doing archaeology for a day. i've got some skills, man. have you got a digger here, orsomething? yeah, we're ready to go. ready?

woo! this is an interesting route to get down here. so, tell me what you're doing. now we sift most of this sand... ahmed and iman both grew up in petra, and have become experts at sorting through the material here. so, you're basically sieving out all the dust and looking for the valuable pieces. yes. can i have a go? i was enjoying tasting the dust, but now... voice—over: iman shows me the sort of thing they're looking for. like, normal stones, we don't need them. j we don't need to keep them. yeah, that doesn't look very valuable, that one. no. so, this is part of a jar. and it's nabataean. so, that'd be the original people who lived here, the nabataeans? yes. so, that'd be very, very old? yeah. wow. that's 2,000 years old. 2,000 years old? let's see if i can find any treasures. 0k, stand back. let the... let the master get to work.

is that cool? yeah. let's look. that's stone. i'm terrible, i can't find anything! well, i might not be having much luck — but over the last few years, they've found all sorts here. painted pottery, coins, lamps and decorations from the temple. now, as more pieces are retrieved and catalogued, it's hoped we can learn more about the everyday lives of the people who built this incredible city more than 2,000 years ago. we're off on safari,

in memory of one of history's most famous lions. elsa was made a star in the movie born free, which hit the big screens in 1966. it was based on a book byjoy adamson about her and her husband george's attempt to rescue an orphaned lion cub and train it for life in the wild. so, back in 2015, we sent henry, our very own hollywood movie star, to meru national park to find out more. this park is virtually unchanged since george and joy were here. really lucky, because we've come across a lioness and her cub. they've just feasted, so this is the moment where they get really lazy. they've nestled just below a lovely tree for some shade. this kind of... ..reminds you of what elsa would've been doing here in meru national park. george had this lovely call. never had to shout. just gently called him "boy, boy". "hey, boy!

boy! come, boy!" voice-over: of course, - joy and george needed helpers - and one of those was jonny baxendale, george's godson. he helped return the born free lions to the wild, but used to come back out to their favourite haunts for regular visits. you never felt in danger at all? never. no? they were relaxed. there was no tension, there was no issues. we knew very well that, you know, they would walk up to us and greet us in the most amazing way. the pair used to sit under this tamarind tree with warm beers. it doesn't take long for the memories to come flooding back. just being with him, and being able to work with him and see how he absolutely handled his lions and how relaxed he was. and he had this amazing rapport with his environment. he was totally in harmony with his environment.

and this is the born free country. this is where it all happened. this is where elsa was found, and this is where elsa died. hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. coming up, why has the bbc news channel's dedicated service for uk audiences largely disappeared? and why did a tweet from a sports presenter hit the top of the news headlines? it's been another week when the bbc itself has become the story, at least in its own eyes. on wednesday, the row over tweets posted by the match of the day, presenter gary lineker led

the evening news bulletins. at six, the bbc presenter gary lineker says he'll keep speaking up for those with no voice after criticism from downing street over his comments about the government's asylum plans. while other media organisations might have been less keen to air their problems in public, david wilson didn't see the prominence it gave the story as being to the bbc�*s credit. he wrote "bbc news felt this was a lead rather than, say, international reaction to the proposed bill, to analysis of the legality of the proposals or even discussion of the nature of the home secretary's rhetoric." "mr lineker is not the story." "as we saw with the endless bashir coverage. the bbc likes a bit of navel gazing. it appears that the bbc has lost independence with regard to news editorial policy, allowing the government or the tabloid press to dictate its coverage." we've known for a while that this spring will see the launch of a new channel, bbc news,

to be shown in the uk and around the world. it's replacing the current news channel which operates domestically only and world news which is only shown abroad. there have been signs of this move approaching, such as the ending of dateline london, the film review and the paper review, all uk focused programmes on the news channel and the announcement of a reduced roster of presenters for the new channel. some output has been shared for a while across world news and the news channel, especially overnight and at weekends. but it still came as a surprise to some viewers of the latter tuning in on monday to find that all dedicated domestic news bulletins had ceased to exist during the day. apart from breakfast and the bulletins at one, six and 10:00, all still simulcast on bbc one and the news channel every hour began something like this. hello, this is bbc news broadcasting in the uk on pbs in the united states and around the globe. i'm anita mcvey. our top stories.

to all intents and purposes, then, the uk only news channel seems to have almost disappeared, although there's been no announcement to that effect. viewer chris sharman was already telling us a few weeks ago. "it really feels like this controversial scheme is being snuck under the radar." and on monday, julian bray was surprised to observe, "we seem to have bbc world service output on the domestic "bbc news channel discussing the bangladesh fire. "clearly not enough uk news around?" later in the week after watching some of the output, rick from manchester wondered, "will the news channel be aimed for the uk or american viewers? this is my concern with the merger. as a uk licence fee payer, please focus on the uk market. american viewers do not pay for content. we do." we asked again for someone from the bbc to talk to about the new channel, but our request was declined. instead, they gave us this statement.

"as part of the transition