as far as caves go, this one is very impressive. oh, it s like paradise. there s so much to explore. we should preserve this. this week, i m in thailand, one of asia s most visited destinations, to ask might its staggering beauty be one of its biggest challenges? this is the andaman sea. it runs along thailand s west coast and i m about an hour offshore, on the hunt for the perfect, perfect beach. if you re looking for somewhere picture postcard pretty, you ll be wanting this stretch of coastline. it s all the cliches palm trees, emerald seas and lovely stretches of sand. this is the thailand i ve been waiting for. this. click, click, click. i m getting off at maya bay. it s famous for its attention grabbing role in the hollywood movie, the beach, starring leonardo dicaprio. in it, the characters hear rumours of a totally secluded and unspoilt paradise. the movie s success brought sightseers in their thousands. so, i came here around 2015, so about eight years ago, and, h
before he gets together with rishi sunak and keir starmer. music: doctor who theme and we ll take a journey through space and time with doctor who s companion, and legendary comic, catherine tate. whatever! 100%, it will always be, i m sure, the bestjob i ve ever had. really? 100%. i think david and i both feel that. it s 100% the bestjob. with me at the desk richard tice leader of reform uk the party, who fancies gobbling up the tories vote. with a public sector squeeze on the cards, christina mcanea head of the mega union unison and with energy bills on the rise again, alistair philips davies, boss of the energy firm sse. let s see what is making the news this morning. on the front pages. the sunday times leads with the israeli hostage releases we ll talk to clive myrie on the ground in israel in a second. but notice an intriguing story there claiming reform uk offered a prominent tory cash to defect. the sunday mirror has a picture of 9 year old emily hand who was r
incredible is happening. rocket fires. alarms sound. at that time, what it was was hundreds and hundreds of rockets being fired into israel. but it subsequently transpired that that was. and very quickly, it became clear that hamas had crossed the border, was in israel. gunshots. and videos started emerging of dead soldiers, dead civilians. so, very quickly, we decided and i spoke to the people here in london that we needed to change plans. we immediately started packing, making plans, we managed to get going by about midday. before i left kyiv, i did some lives from the roof of the hyatt regency hotel, in the pouring rain, talking about what was going on. they wanted me to talk about it and it was already clear that what we were seeing was an absolutely enormous story. let s talk to our international editor, jeremy bowen, whojoins us this morning live from kyiv. and, jeremy, you know this region well, what s your assessment of what s going on right now? what s going on