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President Biden\u2019s administration has plenty to do \u2013 and has gone about doing it at a less hectic pace than its predecessor. The Democrats say their plans are all about \u2018rebuilding America\u2019 with proposals for huge infrastructure projects as well as social care reform. Senior Republicans have called it \u201cthe most socialist agenda\u201d Congress has ever voted on. Anthony Zurcher has been feeling a different mood in DC.

The conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno Karabakh last year cost Armenia dear, in territory and lives. A truce deal, backed by Russia, was meant to get all prisoners of war back home. But Armenia says around 200 of its citizens are still in captivity. Rayhan Demytrie reports.\nNick Thorpe, the BBC\u2019s correspondent in Budapest, is no stranger to the River Danube. He\u2019s travelled its length twice, has written a book and made a series of documentary films on it. But this week, he met his match - a hardy couple of adventurers who've been paddling upstream for weeks, only leaving the water to sleep.

The buzz over the Eurovision Song Contest is a little quieter this year in Rotterdam \u2013 though we can still expect blaring power ballads. Singing indoors is a high-risk activity these days. Covid restrictions don't make the easiest conditions for a festival of unity. But Steve Rosenberg\u2019s enthusiasm is undampened.\nThe work of Claude Monet is deeply rooted in nature. For him, plants and landscapes weren\u2019t simply pretty things to be observed, but the core of his inspiration. From 1883, at his home in Giverny in Normandy, he cultivated specific views to contemplate. His gardens are usually a major visitor attraction but languished unseen through much of 2020. As they got ready for a limited reopening, Christine Finn had an early look.

Producer: Polly Hope