narendra modi, with a potential bilateral trade deal on the cards. now on bbc news, the travel show. thailand s landscapes are like something from a dream. ah! imean. i mean, look at this. this is absolutely stunning! ..from dazzling coastlines to lush countryside and wildlife that will take your breath away. visions of paradise that in normal times attract more than 30 million of us every year. but that weight of numbers isn t necessarily good news for this country s fragile natural heritage. the boats are disturbing the sediment and that also harms a lot of the coral reef in this area. 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
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
into doing something that neither of you want to see happen. i m campaign, which is that if you reelect him, you are signing up for four more years of chaos confrontation, and division. and trump as you noted in that first debate in 2020, seemed virtually unhinged and encapsulated in those couple hours that that argument from from the biden campaign. so i think that the what how they say, how they say, how they perform on thursday is going to be as important as what they say and the arguments they make against each other. these are very familiar figures. people have a lot of settled opinions about these two candidates is not like one is an unknown calendar as we usually get in the debates. and so that s why i think kind of like the judgments that people make about each of them individually may be more important than the arguments they make against the other and ron, i think what s also really interesting is how will the rules affect their performances? like no live
into a wider regional war. the two sides have exchanged fire across the lebanon israel border in recent weeks. hezbollah says it is fighting israel to support hamas in gaza. israel s military said that operational plans for an offensive in lebanon had been approved and validated . the un secretary general antonio guterres has warned there is a real risk that the crisis on the israel lebanon border could escalate. one rash move, one miscalculation could trigger a catastrophe that goes far beyond the borders and, frankly, beyond imagination. let s be clear the people of the region and the people of the world cannot afford lebanon to become another gaza. with me now said shehata from bbc arabic a from bbc arabic strike near the icrc compound, a strike near the icrc compound, what more can you tell us about it. tell us about it. the international - tell us about it. the - international committee of tell us about it. tue: international committee of the red cross on the x platf
campaigning in wales today, but his efforts to promote the conservative s welsh manifesto were overshadowed by questions about tory insiders allegedly gambling on the date of the election. the prime minister insisted multiple independent investigations were under way and that any tories found to have broken betting rules would be booted out of the party. lets take a listen: there are full investigations that are currently happening. it s right that those investigations are allowed to proceed. they are independent. they are necessarily confidential, as you will appreciate. there s also a criminal investigation, and these are potentially criminal matters and the police are conducting those. you ll be aware of that. and because of that, i hope you can appreciate there s not much more i can add. what i can tell you is, as i said, if anyone is found to have broken the rules, they should not only face the full consequences of the law, i will ensure that they are booted out of t