you really should be scared, that was amazing! thank you, thank you very much! but they are so big, collected like so, pour it back the president of the european over, it leaves the bits behind. council, donald tusk, i've got francis like my has confirmed he's received a formal once we've distilled the juice, life depended on it. it's time to grind the millets request from borisjohnson to delay to allow for fermentation. brexit. and then a moment i have been waiting for. mr tusk said he would start time to put my gorilla consulting eu leaders talk to the test. on how to react. the british prime minister sent throat clearing noise. am i doing a good job? the letter after mps voted not yes, it's all right. to approve his dealfor the uk i know you have the trackers, i was relieved to hear to leave the eu until all the legal they have plenty of banana but how do you make sure beer already for me to try. steps had been completed. you always find them? turkey's president has threatened more bloodshed in northeast syria after turkish and kurdish forces how do you know? delicious. the thing is, make sure you don't accused each other of violating the five—day ceasefire. lose them any single day. turkey's president vowed to crush you follow their movement every day. i was not expecting this at all. kurdish forces unless they withdrew when you spend the night from a 30 kilometre safe zone i mean, just a level of hospitality you study them the next day, so you follow them all year round. they've welcomed me, i genuinely feel like one of them. how long have you been doing this? they've been nothing but kind. proposed under the deal. for now, 18 years. wow, you must love them. and you think we've gone from a part dozens of anti—government protesters and leaders of major opposition of bananas and grass to this parties in azerbaijan have been detained in the capital baku. yes, this is the work that is dynamic, you always see the detentions took place during an unsanctioned rally new, different things. what you see of the gorillas is just incredible. what an experience. organised by the opposition today, is not similar to demand democratic reforms. to what you see tomorrow. whispers: we have really lucked out here. we have the mother cradling her baby, we've got blackbacks,

so after so—called super saturday, what do people beyond westminster and we've got the mother of all gorillas, the silverback make of it all? right there. our political correspondent alex forsyth spent the day he is watching us watching him. with voters in birmingham. i can't believe we are this close. it was great to meet the locals at moseley rugby club this morning, people were certainly my mind is absolutely blown, benefiting from tourists who passed poised for a big result. through and spend their time the country on tenterhooks, they are so beautiful. and money in these communities. many hoping for a decisive outcome. next on myjourney, lake kivu. and when you think we share 98% but while the sport was settled, the wrangling of our dna with these great apes, in westminster goes on. as does, for some, the frustration. you understand why they, too, are curious about us. rwanda, in collaboration this is one of the it's not about whether we're with international conservation partners, has achieved remarkable african great lakes, going to leave or not. success in not only protecting it's shall we have a deal and sits on the border that they won't vote for, but growing the mountain gorilla population. between rwanda in fact there is now 1000 mountain and the democratic therefore we'll have no brexit, republic of the congo. but it's not our fault, gorillas up here in the wild, therefore we'll have up from 200 just 2 decades ago, i am here to explore to have an election, and then they'll say, well, when they were on the brink the water by kayak. you didn't back us up, of distinction. so you shouldn't vote for them. are you old right—handed? it's childish politics, and they‘ re playing 0k? with people's economic futures. on this side you go forward. seems easy enough. in birmingham city centre, despite diwali celebrations, for years after the civil war, there was a weariness the shores of this lake were no—go zones. at the brexit state of play. this is primarily down to the decrease in poaching, this is one of the epicentres when gorillas were hunted for meat. itjust seems that itjust keeps of the fighting in 1995. going round and round but in an effort to protect without getting anywhere. the gorillas, poachers were trained the economy is stagnant, to become mountain now there's a huge push guides and porters here, to develop this area.

because of brexit. further supporting tourism. because of the delay. this is parts of the kivu belt that view is just what boris johnson had hoped might convince tourism initiative. mps to back his deal, the desire among some to get it done. beep, beep! come on, mosley! back at the rugby club, talk to me about poaching here. there's support for that poaching, there is no problem. but there is no problem stance from those angry because we keep avoiding it this is absolutely spectacular. at mps' actions today. i think it's outrageous. from happening, by working with the communities and having poaching pathways. you can't say it is done kayaking doesn't get they're just cocking a hoop at us, basically, saying, no, we're not any better than theirs. interested in what you think, and we leave, so we keep on. we're going to do but of course gorillas means kayaking doesn't get any better than this. what we want to do. they need more space. it certainly beats the last i think it's an absolute joke. the government has now pledged experience i had, a lake in the uk. they're just holding it up. to expand the forest by 23%, elwa is pursuing a career in travel itjust needs to be sorted. adding almost 4000 hectares and entrepreneurship. and if they want to go to a general election, this is such a great go to a general election. example of tourism and my view is that innovation in rwanda. pa rliament‘s lost it. parliament doesn't represent the people any more. to its current 16,000. parliament has an agenda. faced with further delay, it seems boris johnson so it's important then to show the world is being defiant, trying there is more to rwanda to put himself on the side than just gorillas? the expansion of the park, what about the beautiful tea of the people who are it is about making the space bigger frustrated that this process estates, what about the coffee? for the gorillas, but it's another what about kayaking? hasn't yet been resolved. way to bring the climate to where it needs to be. it's a beautiful experience. the problem with that strategy so good for rwanda, is that some people think parliament good for the planet. yes, it will be for all of us. we have the monkey has done the right thing. and while numbers here island that you can see i think it needs a delay are increasing, the conservationists something that is exciting, to give more time for here cannot become complacent. something that people love between patrolling the park for any but they don't know. the deal to be scrutinised. remaining poachers and monitoring

because it's all a bit the gorillas' health, and how do the local last minute and rushed. there is an army of people involved people feel about it? in protecting them. are they excited to welcome so, i think it's probably a good thing. i think we had a better tourists into the area? deal with theresa may. as rwandans, it's and this one is worse. noelly bosco is a gorilla doctor, i'm a remaineranyway. and thejungle is his clinic. part of our culture. today he has come to check boris johnson is starting to get his comeuppance. so they are excited to see so, with westminster set on one of his patients. for a rematch, the public hey noelly! i'm good. view remains divided, it was that we see the kids running in what seems to many like a political game, albeit with crucial consequences. alex forsyth, bbc news, birmingham. around trying to grab you kayak. welcome to the jungle. laughter. it's been an incredibly wild now on bbc news — the travel show. thank you. and exciting day and i am certainly onboard for how do you know which one, any more this year. exactly who is who? while the history of the genocide hello and welcome to each one of this group has will never be forgotten, the travel show, with me, a specific nose print. the travel experience really shows lucy hedges, coming these guys have the gorilla card, a different side of rwanda. to you from the jungle in northern rwanda, where i am hoping to catch you look at the nose print, everywhere you turn there is just and you think oh, it is this one. something new on offer. a glimpse of one of the world's this place really is amazing. then over time you get used to it. most majestic creatures. talk to me about how important your work is to conservation. very much important, gorilla doctors is credited for half the population growth. but everyone has contributed, including tourism. the people here have been so eager this increases 4% every year. to welcome me on my first ever trip to this country. tourism is providing an excellent opportunity for rwandans to reshape in fact tourists pay their country's image and you can

$1500 to spend an hour up only hope the country's dark days here with these great apes. are well and truly in the past. that is an expensive trek, but it is contributing to conservation. when you are preparing for maybe a major action, you are so stressed, you don't know what is going to come out, you just come here stressed, rwanda, despite its diverse wildlife and natural beauty, have to be responsible for these has for decades been an unlikely tourist destination. guys, you have to be 25 years ago, the genocide here responsible for gorillas, grabbed international headlines. you have too much new in a very short time. over 800,000 people were killed but then you come back the next morning, and you see the guy playing in inter—ethnic violence or picking some food, you're like, i made it. so that's why i like it. now trackers have located hello there. injust 100 days. the gorillas, the tours for travellers have began. now i am tagging along with one saturday was a day of contrast, we finally got some but a quarter of a century on, much—needed sunshine across central and rwanda has become one and southern england. and in fact in hampshire, of francis' tourist groups. of africa's bucket we had over seven hours of sunshine. list destinations. that's not bad for and its biggest draw, the furry, curious cousin to us humans, aggressive gorilla. this time of year. the mountain gorilla. it was a different story though further north across the scottish borders. there was some heavy persistent rain at times, and some blustery winds and in fact, high—flyer gorilla. edinburgh had 3a millimetres

there he is! chowing down on some leaves. of rain, around an inch and a half of rain, throughout the day. the radar shows where that rain you can just hear the little tended to sit through much grunts in the distance, it is quite hard to tell of saturday, it is starting to weaken off now as the area so i have been promised a chance of if it is aggressive or playful grunts. of the pressure is drifting how did you feel when the gorila into the north sea and it's allowing a date with a silverback gorilla... a northerly flow to start to dominate across the country. came out here and ran and jumped so as the showers fade away ifeel like i should help them push. and the northerly air kicks in, ..that is, if i ever we will start to see those make it up the mountain. scared! temperatures falling away so it could be potentially oh my god, be careful! a chilly start to sunday. particularly in rural parts of scotland and lincolnshire and south—east england, we are going to see low single just standing there, figures, maybe low enough for some pockets of frost. waiting to see what happens. we start off on a chilly note, yeah, yeah, yeah! that low pressure sitting out i am standing here at the foothills whispers: he's up there in the north sea could feed a little of rwanda's volcanoes national park, more cloud along the east coast in the tree somewhere. which is the home and sanctuary i think he's getting ready tojump and a few scattered showers. of 20 troops of gorilla. down because he's heard how good this food was. so here it could be cold it is very exciting, off we go. and disappointing, but further south and west away from the low we should the park is part of the larger see the cloud breaking virunga conservation area up, sunshine coming how long have you been planning this through and highs peaking and a world heritage site. at 9—111 degrees. trip? we've been planning this trip for 12 it is also the only place months, it's been on our bucket list so that's the story for quite some time. on sunday, just need to draw in the world where the gorilla it's been amazing. your attention to what's happening population is on the rise. what kind of feeling? across the near continent, a wonderfulfeeling. this frontal system and this year marks a0 years since money from tourism was first ever moved towards used for their conservation.

francis, hey! this frontal system welcome to the park. it's very rare, these may well move towards essex and kent coast overnights sunday into monday, so this is where the park begins, and produce some wet weather, you can see the bamboo. beautiful majestic creatures but the high pressure there is a trench here, is building in from the atlantic, this marks the difference for making have just completely taken my breath so that is the dominant force the communities understand away and just being able to watch to the weather story. where the park begins, on monday as you can see largely and where the buffalos them eating, interacting, cannot come over. fine and dry but we will need ahead of me there is to keep a close eye on events down into the south—east. a team of trackers. and even communicating with us that could be a little bit hi trackers, i am lucy, of a fly in the ointment. generally speaking though, highs are likely to peek again at good to meet you! in their natural habitat 9—111 degrees. as we move out of monday for any traveller takes is one of the best to the mountain, the rangers into tuesday, that area of high share essential knowledge. experiences that i've ever had pressure pushing in from the pleasure of having the atlantic will just slip its way it is so beautiful on my travels. i highly recommend it. walking through here. steadily southwards and that's going to allow weather fronts yes, sometimes gorillas to topple across the high and push into the far north—west. come down to the bamboo. so potentially bringing the risk really, they come this far down? they can even come outside. of some wet weather and certain once we come to the gorillas still to come: i have signed up to explore some alternative ways we need to stay together, windy weather at times as well. to experience this. so only up into the far north we are creating a distance between us and the gorillas, of scotland potentially on tuesday, elsewhere with a south—westerly we need to have seven the country of 1000 hills. feed, might be a little more cloud along west face coasts, but a bit milder metres distance. with it as well. i take on these african champs... you can see the theme is generally we need to respect their movement. a dry one across the country oh, no! with highs of 11—15 celsius. there is a sound, they so we you move out of tuesday have to do like a... and i head down to explore one into wednesday and thursday, clearing throat sound. it's a similar feel to things. of the deepest lakes in the world.

once a hotbed of violence we keep the potential for wetter weather into final, much of england once they do that, during the conflict, but now i go to destination and wales instead right and a little it is confirmation everything is ok. milder. 0h, 0k. but once the silverback, for any traveller here. take care. or any gorilla say... coughing sound. that means that's not good. it looks like there is a party over so what i am doing, i have stopped. but then if i hear... there, a beach party ? low grunting... so i make the situation feel ok. it looks like there is a party over there, a beach party — it is pretty huge. my kind of place. these are gorilla droppings, it so now that i've spent time with the awesome gorillas, i'm heading off the beaten leads you to where the gorillas are. track to see what else so i follow the paths of poo. rwanda has to offer. as i walk, branches are gripping my legs, the last two decades have but the trackers have seen a real turnaround cleared a path for us, in the country's international appeal. and i can hear gorillas, and tourism is really on the rise. i have heard at least three grunts and gorilla noises. the walk is pretty tough, i am not going to lie. the higher we get, the higher the fact, rwanda has set itself up as africa's new big luxury travel destination. the altitude, my breath it's no surprise that tourism economy here is booming, it's growing by 15% every year, making it one is getting shorter. of the fastest growing tourism economies in the world. the government traditionally focused

on attracting big spenders to stay in luxury lodges and spend three hours, and 4000 metres above sea level, and i was beginning to fear a fortune tracking with gorillas. i might not everfind a gorilla. but it is opening up to cater for people whispers: oh my god! with all kinds of budgets and if you are an adrenaline junkie, you can have one hell of a ride here. if you don't mind, i can show you your bike. so, are you going to ride with us? i look forward to it. this is your bike, it's a new e—bike. it has a battery, so if you need assistance, just press that. welcome to bbc news. i'm james reynolds. press right here for assistance. our top stories: third and fourth. ultimate power. donald tusk receives a formal request to delay brexit yeah so i think you're very excited. from the british prime minister. i'm very excited. borisjohnson was forced to make how could i not be excited? the request after a bruising defeat in westminster. he says it's a mistake. running four new bike turkey's president threatens more routes to the country, bloodshed in northeast syria, covering over 500 as turkish and kurdish forces accuse

each other of violating kilometres of track. the five—day ceasefire. what is the bonus of having these bikes for tourists? the e—bikes, it doesn't matter how steep the hill is, anyone can go. rwanda has so many beautiful views, wonderful places. many hills. hello and thanks for joining us on bbc news. the president of the european council, donald tusk, supported by the world bank, has confirmed he's received a formal the government's 2020 vision for the reconstruction request from borisjohnson to delay of the country after the genocide has led to huge investment in rwandan infrastructure. that's why these roads are a joy to ride. what's it been like for you witnessing just how popular cycling's getting here. it makes my heart feel happy because i'm doing the cycling trips with the guests, people from all over. he tells me that over the last few years cycling has really taken off here. perhaps inspired by these guys, the national rural wind and cycle team, they are african champions.

perhaps inspired by these guys, the national rawandan and cycle team, they are african champions. hey, guys! they have inspired the nation and international cycling community with their success story olympic performances. from struggling racers a few years ago, they are known of africa's most successful teams. shall we race? go! laughter. oh, my god! oh, no! i'm last! yeah, i was never going to beat these champs. where are we going now? we're going to some locals just to taste the real rwandan life. oh, i'm going to get a true rwandan experience?

hello! nice to meet you. nice to meet you! this is a cooperative made up of women whose husbands have abandoned them. to support themselves, they now sell traditional banana beer. and i'm going to help make some brew. women are playing a pivotal role in rebuilding the country and economy, particularly since hundreds of thousands of men lost their lives during the genocide. now rwanda has the highest number of women in parliament in the world 68% of lawmakers here are female. do you enjoy sharing rwandan culture with tourists?

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