for taking landscapes jungle nigeria is a hike is paradise jury an association of travel agents reckons the tourism industry could even overtake the country's all important oil say the one day that sounds like a long hike. this is related venture seekers are climbing the top of khatami hill in the nigerian capital abuja. there are no trails marked out no sign posts no directions anywhere to be seen the government hasn't capitalized on the potential of hiking tourism just yet. unlike some of the guys here who have turned their hobby into a business. venture. like from what tourism in asia when it's a lot of people sort of how far to see it is have a lot of which would also needs a promotes get. together to say which the one in this country do you need to see i in the process of you get immediate as from differentiated from different from just business. economists say the government has neglected tourism as a source of income despite the country's rich offerings from markets to festivals beaches to mountains and even monkey sanctuaries. some even suggest that if properly harnessed tourism

of the matter such as local laws and customs that may have changed, it's also really important that you do check that before you do travel as well. emma brennan from the association of british travel agentsfor coming into talk us thanks. well, more on the developments in sri lanka today, on the story. where the death toll has been revised. a number of arrests have been made. our correspondent nick beek is in colombo for us tonight. clearly these have been devastating attacks for sri lanka, and they are continuing to bury their dead. but there has been tonight, a significant announcement from the health ministry, and they have drastically revised downward the number of people who have been killed. we were told initially it was 359, now apparently 253 people lost their lives. the funerals continuing nonetheless, and this is a country that remains in a state of emergency. there's a curfew once again overnight for the fifth night running. we are told around 7000 soldiers are part of a nationwide security operation, and the priority is to try and track down any remaining members of this cell, which has already brought great devastation on this country. worrying signs today though, more arrest

in a few minutes we'll be speaking to the association of british travel agents to get some advice for in march. at the al noor mosque, the duke of cambridge called the attacks an "unspeakable act of hate". it could not be more clear. the global ideology of hate will fail to divide us. and just as new zealand has taken swift action to ban physical tools of violence, we must unite to reform the social technology that allowed hateful propaganda to inspire the murder of innocents. when it was set up in 2010, the national security council, was designed to be a space where senior officials could discuss intelligence securely. that trust is now broken — a breach so serious that a formal inquiry has been launched and and criminal investigations could follow. we're joined now by baroness neville—jones, who came up with the idea of the national security council. can you give me your impression of what has happened here in the severity of what's happened? what has happened here in the severity of what's happened ?|j what has happened here in the severity of what's happened? i think what is serio

this has all come after the association of british travel agents and also a bournemouth travel companyttany ferries that operates services from places like portsmouth to the continent reported a fault of 10% to their eastern bookings. we spoke to a member of the bournemouth travel company earlier on. there is, as we have seen a lot in the press, the stay—at—home vacation is very popular at the moment. people are looking at that because of uncertainty with brexit, the weak pound. people are looking at the uk asa pound. people are looking at the uk as a destination to stay in for their annual holidays and then they are looking out for what the weather is like and how that compares and they remember back to the heatwave that we had last year and realise that we had last year and realise that actually when you are in a destination like bournemouth and the weather is as good as it has been, it is literally be anywhere in the world and it is somewhere that you can have your annual holiday and come away thinking that you have been to an exotic destination. as you can imagine, hoteliers, shopk

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agent of russia who came here to curry favor and influence with influential americans, mainly republican, and the national rifle association. and maria butina helped sponsor a trip that senior nra officials travelled to moscow in 2015, she was hosting friendship dinners. at one point according to court documents she even suggested that the russians would somehow have influence over who would be the secretary of state in the trump administration. there is no evidence that that is actually true, but this was the kind of thing that she was doing. she was making inroads and trying to influence americans. and the government said this was a dangerous process. she was doing it without registering, by passing state department channels. and it was bad for national security is what they were saying. the defense argued, oh, no, this was simply a woman interested in international relations, advancing the caused of her country and failed to register. the judge repudiated that view, handed her 18 months. she will get credit for the nine months she's already served in jail. and after she serves the sevnd tense, she will be deported back russia. the judge said this is no mere failure to provide the u.s. with re r