now, if you've got an old petrol or diesel car — would you be prepared to swap it for a bike or take the bus instead 7 a scheme�*s begun in coventry, where people can hand their vehicles over to be recycled in exchange for credit to spend on more sustainable modes of transport. our business correspondent katy austin has the details. it's the end of the road for this car. it was sent here deliberately by its former owner. but why? let's reverse a few days. we met mohammed, who owned that 15—year—old diesel for four years. after, you know, the lockdown has kicked in, i have been mainly working from home, five days a week. so, i'm not using the car as much. he decided tojoin a trial in coventry. owners of cars over ten years old can give them up and get cash for other forms of travel. they are offering £3000 worth of credits, which you can use to travel by bus, train, taxi. authorities in the west midlands are behind this scheme, using funding from a government grant. the idea is to get 250 cars off the road and get their drivers onto more environmentally friendly transport. this is trying to address what you might call the behavioural choices of individuals. bear in mind we are investing hundreds of millions of pounds of the capital in the transport network, but we do need to know how we are actually going to encourage more people onto it. so it's all part of a wider scheme. the aa told us the timing was bizarre, and the money would be better spent on electric charging points. the walking and cycling charity sustrans, though, welcomed the trial, but said it wasn't a silver bullet. these schemes are more likely to work when you have got decent public transport provision already and safe walking and cycling routes. i think the challenge with schemes like this is obviously in rural areas, and in some suburban areas. there are not currently any plans for a national scheme, but traffic was increasing before the pandemic, and here, they hope to change at least some people's behaviour. katy austin, bbc news. now on bbc news, the travel show. this week on the show... the surfers making waves in fukushima, ten years after the nuclear disaster. the hunt for the priceless royal russian room stolen by the nazis. and we get a taste of sustainable sake. cheers to that! kanpai! we start this week in the fukushima region in north—eastern japan. now, as the world learns to cope with one disaster — a global pandemic — here, they're marking another. it's exactly ten years since an earthquake and tsunami triggered a nuclear catastrophe. the region has sadly become synonymous with those tragic events. a decade on, i'm here to find out how people are still battling to move on from the past. this is kitaizumi beach, some 70km from the centre of fu kushima city. while it's hard to believe now, this beach was once one of the most popular surfing destinations injapan. surfing was popularised injapan in the 1960s, when american gis stationed here headed for the beaches, armed with their boards, and the surf scene has been growing ever since. but at 2:a6pm on march 11, 2011, everything changed when,100km up the coast, disaster struck. a nine magnitude earthquake triggered the most devastating tsunami injapanese history. person wails. deadly 14—metre waves engulfed entire communities, breaking down the walls of the daiichi nuclear power station, triggering four days of catastrophic failures to the reactor�*s cooling systems, releasing radioactivity and leading to an evacuation order covering a 12—mile radius. this man's home was washed away. in total, the disaster claimed over 18,000 lives. sadly, events organised to commemorate the 10th anniversary of this horrific moment have been cancelled or scaled back, due to the pandemic. today, a decade on, after a $20 billion clean—up operation, the government says as much as 97% of the prefecture is safe to visit. locals are returning to live and domestic tourism is on the up, partly thanks to these surfers. suzuki—san was one of the first people back in the water. and they did return. kitaizumi officially opened in 2019 after the community pulled together by cleaning up the beach and hiring lifeguards. and today, despite the water being about six degrees, there are plenty of surfers out. so how long have you been surfing? it's about five years. five years? i'm just a beginner. yeah. so why did you start surfing? you started after the earthquake — were you not worried about radiation in the water? i'm not so much scared to go because many, many people surfing out there, so... is it safe? yes, i think so, yeah. i'll test the wet sand. and it's 0.4, 0.5... still safe ? yes. levels have returned to where they were before the disaster, and despite a recent earthquake nearby, authorities say the water is completely safe. now, there are positive signs with the vaccine starting to be rolled out in many countries, but travel is still some way off for most of us so here's what is happening online around the world this coming month — something to keep us going until we can hit the road again. windmills overlooking endless fields of colourful tulips have been the traditional postcard of the netherlands for centuries. every year at the end of march, millions of tourists usually flock to this flat country to admire the flowers blooming. but in 2020, the pandemic hit and the festival of colour transferred online. this year again, you can catch keukenhof, and the largest flower park in the world, virtually. speaks dutch. from march 20, head to their website to watch two videos posted each week, with some of their 7 million flower bulbs putting on a show of colour. and although the wild parties usually held to celebrate the king's birthday on april 27 are on hold this year, you can still tour amsterdam's most famous museums online. they have joined forces with google to offer virtual tours of their collection. you can wander through the exhibition rooms of the van gogh museum and look at the painter�*s self—portraits on your own, without the crowds. if you miss nature, there are plenty of options to explore the wildlife from your couch. for example, twice a day on wildearth.tv, you can take part in a live safari in africa and interact with a guide while being filmed on the lookout for the big five. hey, girl! wow! what a stunner! you see that? scent marking as she goes. now, if anybody wonders what a fresh track looks like, that is it. grunts. webcams are everywhere, too. explore.org features hundreds of livestreams from all around the world. just choose the animal you're interested in. for those who'd like to celebrate world penguin day on april 25, you've got four live webcams to choose from, including one located underwater at the aquarium of the pacific in california. and finally, if you want to regain your fitness after lockdown, virtual marathons are now all the rage. you sign up to complete a full marathon wherever you live and register your timings using a running app. you can find a full range of virtual marathons on different websites. and if you need an extra incentive to take part, some of the proceeds for the next virtual marathon in mexico will go towards supporting local indigenous communities. well, still to come on the travel show... it's not as easy as it looks. i learn the craft and graft of creating prizeworthy sake. it's like sweeping treacle! so don't go away. next up, a tale of missing royal treasures. the opulent amber room was a stunningly intricate and ornate chamber built inside a russian palace near saint petersburg in the 18th century. but during the turmoil of world war ii, it was dismantled and shipped to germany, where it simply disappeared. elgar: salut d'amour, op 12 plays. an extraordinary tale of stolen gems there. and to end this week's show from fukushima, i am visiting one of the oldest sake breweries injapan. some say it's the fresh water that runs down from the surrounding mountains that makes fukushima sake so good. others say it's the extreme weather in the region. either way, the brewers are doing something right, as the region's world—famous sake has won a record—breaking amount of awards. sake is a rice liquor that's over 2000 years old. it used to be made by chewing grains of rice and spitting it into a vat, so that the saliva enzymes would ferment with the yeast to produce alcohol. needless to say, methods have moved on since then! there are over 60 breweries in fukushima, but this is one of the oldest. yauemon sato is the seventh generation owner. evolving technology means the quality of sake is higher than it's ever been. but the industry is at a crossroads and domestic sales here injapan are falling because younger people have developed a taste for beer and imported wines instead. so breweries like this one are turning to tourism and the international market, and it's paying off. exports are at a record high and innovation and sustainability are helping to fuel this growing craft sake movement. winter is the busiest time of year for sake breweries. colder winter temperatures make for a higher quality sake. the head brewer, or koji, still completes much of the project by hand. so this smells just like rice. so it's been washed, then it's been dried, and now it's in here? i'm assuming there's yeast inside here to ferment? yes. the rice mash stays in the vat for a week. 0h! 0k. it's not as easy as it looks, actually. it's quite heavy. groans. it's like sweeping treacle. the whole process is incredibly labour—intensive. ten years ago, the brewery was left fighting for its survival. contamination from the nearby nuclear disaster meant all food and drink exports from fukushima had to be tested. after seeing the damage nuclear power can cause, sato—san founded a renewable energy company and now, much of the nearby land that was devastated by the nuclear fallout is home to long rows of solar panels. the local government says that by 20110, the entire region will be powered 100% by renewable energy. 100 kilometres away on the coast, another local is rebuilding her town's image with the help of sake. until a year ago, this area was a no—go zone. makiko—san returned home as soon as the evacuation orders were lifted. she was only 13 when the disaster struck. to break the stigma attached to her home town and to mark ten years since the disaster, she crowdfunded to launch the 0kuma sake project. cheers to that. kanpai! well, it was great to get a little taste of some fukushima sake. that's all we've got time for this week. coming up next time... while we all wait to start travelling again, we've got some more inspiration for you — this time from thailand, as we look back at some of our favourite adventures there. i'm about to step in the ring with momo. he looks really mean! in the meantime, you can catch up with more of our trips on social media — we're in all the usual places — and you can see more of oui’ recent programmes on the bbc iplayer. but until next time, from all of us here in fukushima, injapan, keep planning your next adventure and we'll see you very soon. hello. well, the weather on sunday morning isn't looking too bad for most of us — bright, even sunny skies on the way but it's not going to last. clouds are expected to increase and rain is in the forecast. in fact quite early in the morning it will already start to rain across some western areas of the uk. and as one weather system pulls away, a bit of a gap here through the early hours and then this next weather front pushes in and that's going to bring the rainfall on sunday. so, the forecast through the early hours shows the clear skies there across most of the uk. a few scattered showers here and there, the winds are light as well and by early on sunday morning, temperatures are close to freezing in some of the northern towns and cities. in the south of the country, it's closer to around 4 celsius for example in plymouth and in cardiff. so here is that bright or even sunny morning across many parts of the country with the clouds quickly increasing there from the west, so rain for belfast, rain reaching the north—west of england, certainly the lake district. liverpool in for some rain. probably rain reaching birmingham sometime early in the afternoon. but not the extreme south—east of england or the north or the east of scotland. in fact in aberdeen, it may well stay sunny all through the day. but i think as far as southern england's concerned and east anglia, you will get rain later on on sunday. now, the forecast into monday shows high pressure building very close to the uk. there are weather fronts approaching us and they will be brushing the far north—west of the country but i think that high pressure is eventually going to win. so, here's monday morning and we've got lots of fine, again bright or sunny weather, but clouds increasing here in the north west. so, skies i think are a little hazy both in the morning and the afternoon for places like belfast and glasgow but sunshine for norwich and london. and the temperatures, 13 celsius with lighter winds and sunshine, shouldn't feel too bad at all. tuesday into wednesday, that high pressure establishes itself across the uk but notice there's a weather front riding around its edge. so at times, it may be cloudy. but on balance, i think it's the high pressure that will win and the weather will be settled. so, here's the outlook for the week ahead. you can see mostly settled weather across the majority of the uk. temperatures rising a little bit but then it looks as though it's going to turn a little bit colder again towards the end of the week. this is bbc news — i'm lewis vaughanjones. our top stories: confrontations in london as police break up an unauthorised vigil for sarah everard. a serving police officer is charged with her murder. ijust wanted to be here today to stand in solidarity with all women. i just... it's really, really upset me, what's happened. exactly a year since a young black woman, breonna taylor, was shot dead by police officers, us investigators say they've made significant progress in their probe into the killing. her boyfriend says he needs justice. breonna taylor was murdered. so, i mean somebody is responsible. the only question i have now is what's next?

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