mr biden has been trying to persuade gulf states to boost oil production to help lower global prices. saudi arabia says oil wasn t specifically discussed. now on bbc news, this travel show. this week on the show. on board the world s biggest civilian hospital ship. where would you like to go, do you have any ideas? aruba. 0h, nice, aruba! i like that. greening up your trip while staying in the black. affordable travel is definitely green travel. and building a record breaker in the himalayas. when covid swept the world back in 2020, shutting borders and grounding flights, holiday makers weren t the only travellers to be stuck at home. many overseas volunteering projects were also locked down. in fact, voluntourism provider projects abroad say numbers will not be back to normal until 202a. but moored in the harbour of senegal s capital dakar could be just the thing to kick start the sector once more. so this is global mercy. 0h, mind the step. it is only a couple of months old
in england and parts of wales, an amber warning for extreme heat has begun. the five remaining candidates for prime minister will battle it out in their second tv debate later. a cargo plane has crashed in northern greece killing all eight people on board. the uk chief of the defence staff speaks out about vladimir putin. and at golf s open rory mcilroy and viktor hovland share a lead at st andrews after the third round. ben brown taking over at 2, with more on all of those stories. right now on bbc news though the travel show. this week on the show. on board the world s biggest civilian hospital ship. where would you like to go, do you have any ideas? aruba. 0h, nice, aruba! i like that. greening up your trip while staying in the black. affordable travel is definitely green travel. and building a record breaker in the himalayas. when covid swept the world back in 2020, shutting borders and grounding flights, holiday makers weren t the only travellers to be stuck at hom
fires are continuing to burn out of control, as parts of europe endure record breaking temperatures. in france, thousands of people remain evacuated from their homes, almost a week after the first blazes broke out. in portugal the entire country has been put on alert. the leader of britain s biggest private sector trade union is warning of a summer of discontent with widespread strike action. sharon graham of the union unite says that workers, and particularly those who got us through the pandemic, should not now be paying the price of inflation. the government says action like strikes on the railways are only creating misery for passengers across the uk. our economics editor faisal islam reports. injune, thousands of rail workers walked out in a national strike now more announced for july and august. and rail isn t the only industry affected by strike action. workers are increasingly willing to walk out to help push up they pay in tough times, says the chief of the bigge
and he s doing it in honour of tom smith, the former scotland rugby captain, who died from the disease back in april, aged just 50. martin geissler went to meet him. andy petersen has lost family and friends to bowel cancer. so he decided to get on his bike to raise awareness of the condition and help to fight it. the symptoms, broadly, are blood in your stool, is a big one, abdominal pains, sudden loss of weight, change in bowel habits, all of which, actually, i m about to experience in the next seven days. but not because of bowel cancer, but because i am spending 16 hours a day on a bike. this is no ordinary challenge. over the next week, with no support team and just the bare essentials strapped to his bike, andy will cycle literally the length and breadth of britain. starting at lizard point, the southernmost tip of the mainland, he will go to the easternmost lowestoft in east anglia. from there, it is an enormous schlep up to dunnet head, the most northerly tip of mai