3121 “ni tiff. “2m; “12.21 ii£1 “fl! fi£1§iim ”£121 e“ ”£1 our temperatures are hearing very well for the time of year, are above average, 2a, 25 expected in the south of england this afternoon, high teens across much of northern england. but it is along that north sea coast that perhaps just 1a or 15 will be as high as we get. northern and western scotland seeing more cloud draping across the northern and western isles. brighter spells rather than sunshine here. on into this evening and overnight we get a little bit of a change in wind direction to take us to the small hours of monday, is actually clearer skies across eastern scotland, still some low cloud and murk putting in to the north—east of england, but the thing to look out for a monday morning is a fog developing across eastern wales, parts of midlands and eastern wales, parts of midlands and eastern england, could be a hazard first thing on the road, but a lot is on trend colours that bounce back through the course of monday afternoon and again at temperatures approaching the mid 20s. call it was the north west. more cloud and a weather front counter to squeeze

into the north west. —— micro caller in the north—west. the wind picks up on the south through tuesday, there will be simmering for northern and western scotland and northern ireland before the is out. still sunny in the south—east, but wednesday is the change of date. really, we will see low pressure starting to take over from the atlantic, that gets rid of the high that has held us in summer, it is a spells of rain, strong winds, and the biggest difference is that it will pull in much cooler air, so we lose those warmer embers, even fade out of the yellows into the rather icy blues. by the time you get that down friday. and with a northerly wind, that will feel like a massive change. bear in mind it was 31 degrees monday just change. bear in mind it was 31 degrees mondayjust gone in a london. here we are by friday, just 13 degrees, yes some spells of sunshine, but factor in that northerly wind and it might even feel slightly wintry.

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the headlines... the government says the country is at a tipping point, as it prepares to introduce tough new fines for anyone in england who is told to self—isolate — but fails to. president trump says he will nominate a woman within the next week — as his choice to replace the supreme court judge, ruth bader ginsburg. tiktok has avoided a ban in the united states by setting up a new company with two american firms. president trump, who believed the app was a threat to national security, approved the arrangement. a mass protest in the thai capital, bangkok, has ended with an unprecedented call for reform of the monarchy. at the close of the two—day demonstration, activists handed over their demands to the city's police chief. i have a hurricane in three spitfires flight over central london to mark the 80th anniversary of the battle of britain after a memorial service at westminster abbey.

now on bbc news... the travel show‘s at recenlty reopened london zoo, mike corey's at brazil's national museum and we catch up with some of the explorers whose trips have been impacted by lockdown. this week on the show... starting from scratch. after a nightmare at the museum. walking around, you just feel hollow. how signs of celebration are slowly returning to the champagne region in france. when you're round the world challenge hits the skids. we could see that borders were starting to close and we were like, what is going on? and the pygmy goats who got a little too used to lockdown. hello and welcome to the show.

so this is the giraffe house at london zoo. newly reopened after months of lockdown. something which these guys are clearly ridiculously excited about. so, i have come here to find out how this place has been looking to volunteers from london's furloughed workforce to get itself up and running once again. but first, an anniversary to remember and not an especially happy one. two years ago this month, fire completely gutted brazil's national museum in rio, destroying literally millions of priceless artefacts. ever since, teams of restorers have been searching through the ashes to piece together what is left. before lockdown, we sent mike corey to join them. around 200,000 people a year visited brazil's national museum. it housed some of the country's most invaluable historical treasure. 20 million items in all.

their origins spanning thousands of years. a former imperial palace, it was built for the portuguese royal family in the early 19th century. but two years ago, in september 2018, disaster struck. a fire, blamed on a faulty air conditioning unit, spread out of control, destroying the building and half of its collection. the museum is still closed to tourists, as it's a burnt out husk of what it used to be. much of the devastation is still being cleared away. walking around, you just feel hollow. like the remains of the museum. and this room right here

is where the fire first started. when the scale of the devastation became clear, luciana and some of her colleagues entered the burning building to try and save some of the artefacts.

the public grief was overwhelming. the museum wasn't some dusty old relic, but one of the country's top higher education centres. a hub of activity. the national museum is located in the sao cristovao district of rio dejaneiro. it's a little chaotic and it's not the wealthiest part of the city. there are many poor areas nearby, some just a few stops away on the train. and in a city as divided as rio, which is as famous for its favelas as it is its golden beaches, that is quite significant.

the museum will forever be remembered as a place where people from all different backgrounds come together. for former staff members and students, it continues to leave a mark. i know that pain. luis here is tattooing the image of the national museum on marina. and he's doing it forfree. marina studied archaeology at the museum. more than 100 people have got one of louise's commemorative tattoos. i did my tattoo because the museum is so important to me. i work in the museum. my best friends are from there. my professors, so we loved it there. it's like our home. and we will see the

final piece of art. beautiful. look at that. such fine lines, too, right? marina, you made it. yeah. you survived. back at the site, a team of researchers comb through the debris for surviving artefacts. despite all the destruction, there are still some exciting discoveries. it looks like there is something important in here. yes. or what's left of something important. yes. these are some of luzia's remains. it is one of the oldest skeleton finds in the americas. one of the oldest. it is estimated the luzia remains date back 11,500 years. it was an iconic item for the collection. we could rescue about 90% of the skeleton, so we hope that, in the future, we will be able to make a proper reconstruction or restoration of the material. i have a really great team. they are very dedicated and they are giving their souls

to rescue what is possible to be rescued. since we visited the museum back injanuary, the outlook has grown more uncertain. restoration work is on hold because of coronavirus and the team has only managed to fund raise half of its $70 million target. it has meant plans to partially reopen for brazil's bicentennial in 2022 are unlikely to go ahead. the future of the museum, it's... it keeps on. we have to go on. we continue to work, we continue to discover, we continue to interact with the public. that is our main goal as an institution. well, from brazil, time now to head to france where,

with fewer big celebrations and weddings going ahead this year, it hasn't been a great one for the makers of champagne. sales have tumbled and it is reckoned that tens of millions of bottles could be left unsold. the champagne region has seen particularly hot and sunny weather, and that's led to a bumper harvest, but with the collapse in demand, 2020 definitely won't go down as a vintage year. the crisis hit champagne very hard, because the drop of one third of the shipments is even worse than what we had expected during the great depression or in 7a, after the oil crisis.

the region has a tradition of resilience because it has experienced all of the big crises, especially of the first half of the century, and first world war really took place here. the second world war then also impacted the region, so there is this history of getting back on our feet after the worst

crisis you can imagine. nature gave us a beautiful harvest this year, thanks to drought, thanks to very present sun. we had beautiful, very ripe natural grapes, again with concentrated aromas and a wide flavour palate.

we know the situation is bad from an economical and health standpoint, but at least, in a few years, when those wines are ready to be released, we will have beautiful champagne wine to offer. still to come... stuck on your greatest adventure. the round the world challenges that lockdown stopped in their tracks. and the furloughed workers that helped get london zoo back on its pause.

so, one of the things the zookeepers here were able to do during lockdown was give some of the animals extra special attention. the goats here, for example, love a good rub down. so chelsea, how did the goats react to the lack of visitors? it must have been quite lonely for them. i think they definitely missed the interaction. as you can see, they do like a good scratch. especially when we first shut, obviously, they didn't really know what was going on. so, for the first few days, they were all over there by the gate where the visitors would normally come in, waiting for people to come in and give them a bit of fuss. obviously, there weren't any visitors coming in so, as keepers, we made an extra special effort to come and spend some time with them. yeah. bless you. i can't say i've ever massaged a goat before, but i think it's equally relaxing for them and for me. now, more people have been to space

then have managed to visit every country in the world. the un recognises 193 countries and it's estimated that less than 200 people have ever stepped foot in each and every one. we spoke to some intrepid adventurers who are attempting this and to a woman who has completed this monumental challenge. hi, i'm yui. i've been to every country in the world. it took me 17 years and five passports to do so. it was a huge personal challenge and a very long process. lots of focus and time and effort, but it makes me really happy and proud every single day. of the people that have done it, women only make up about 10% to 15%, so we are quite a minority. i don't think having this goal is completely impossible post coronavirus,

it's just that you have to understand that it may take a little bit more time and effort. and patience. i'mjulia. i'm chantelle. i'm chloe. and i'm angelique. we did a mad dash to get here. we were in cambodia and we could see borders were starting to close and things were getting really uneasy and there were no more tourists except for us and we were like, what is going on? so we did the mad dash to new zealand and we got here literally right before they went into their lockdown. we want to somewhat achieve our goal within the next two years of visiting every country, so we were moving pretty fast this year until covid—19 hit. the big question is if its lasts for another year, what are we going to do? you know, where are we going to go? but i'm sure things will start to progress eventually. the world has to open back up again. i'm sam, i've been to 183 countries. covid was starting to be talked about more and more and people got worried and i was seeing

people on planes wearing more masks and i kind of figured, well, i've only got 20 countries left. i was meant to finish in april. i flew from fiji to tonga and then once i got to tonga, about two days later they closed all the borders and said, nope. no—one can leave, you are all stuck here, then i waited there for five months and i was hearing from government officials from other pacific islands i wouldn't be able to visit any of the countries for 18 months, two years, that type of thing, so i kind of decided after that that i would just leave. a lot of people say, can i do it — just do it and make it work, so we always reverse engineer what we want to do. we say, this is our goal, this is what we want to do and how can i make it happen? i did it because it was my dream since i was really young, and my dream was to see as much of the world is possible, it was to travel, see loads of different countries and i did a pretty good job of that, so i'm definitely not disappointed. you have to understand your reasons for doing this. for some people, its escapism, they want to get out of a rut

and they think travel, it's like a holiday, it's an escape, but your why will really colour the kind of experience you do have. i am up in the mountains of afghanistan, you can see the mountain ranges behind me here, simply beautiful, so nice. one of my favourite countries in the world is actually afghanistan, it's a country that everyone is scared of. i was scared of it before i went, and then i went there and i realised i actually loved it. i love that it's super traditional, it feels like you're going back in time. everyone wears traditional clothes, all of the buildings are old, the only real signs of modernness is people have cellphones and cars. it's not easy when you are always together. you have to still keep a structure and you have to still have your own mental space to get away. there's times when, we are travelling, i said to the whole family, you guys are on that side of the street and do not come to my side of the street, and i willjust walk by myself and in within two minutes

they are all over here again, and i'm like, what are you guys doing! this is my own mental space! everything makes a lot more sense now to me and i find that i understand people's behaviour, especially if they come from different cultures, a lot more. london zoo has a prime spot in the heart of one of the city's largest parks. since it opened its gates to visitors in 1847, the stream of income has been steady. i think the penguins are my favourite. the charity usually welcomes over1 million visitors a year through its gates, raising vital funds towards the care of almost 20,000 animals. after its historic closure in march, this iconic london attraction recently reopened, but months of lost income has left the oldest scientific zoo in the world struggling to survive. it's been really, really hard for us.

the moment our gates closed, our income dried up. it's been really, really hard for us. the moment our gates closed, our income dried up. it was an incredible weight of responsibility for me and for the staff, it was a really momentous occasion. this was the first time we have closed since being back in the blitz. we had staff living on—site here, because they wanted to ensure that they could remain coming in to continue feeding our animals. take a metre step back, please. our animals cost us over £600,000 a month to feed, so the more that goes on, the scarier it gets. we were depleting our reserves, our savings which meant that actually what we could do and how long we could keep going was getting really quite scary. we had a fight on our hands to make sure that these guys, all the animals and all of the staff looking after them, that are so dedicated, were going to come out of the other side and come out the other side shining. london zoo isn't alone

in its struggle. zoos all over the world are taking drastic measures to keep afloat. the calgary zoo is in the process of sending its pandas back to china because they can't source enough bamboo to feed them. the staff at vietnam's oldest zoo have taken a 30% pay cut and are relying on food donations from the public. and san antonio zoo in texas has transformed into a drive—through experience in a desperate bid to attract more visitors. we have had to change a lot in order to be covid secure, to make sure that people are safe and happy and enjoying things so we've created one—way routes, there's hand sanitiser everywhere you go, there's reminders about social distancing everywhere, and we have just had to adapt ourselves. visitor numbers are on the rise but enforcing these special measures requires more staff, something that the zoo just isn't in a position to currently afford.

luckily, londoners have stepped in. thousands of them responded to a callout, asking people on furlough to come and volunteer and help the zoo get back its feet. excuse me, would you mind just try social distance a tiny bit, thank you very much. this is sofia, she volunteering to help fill her time since lockdown put her studies on hold. i've been volunteering for about a week, this is my third shift so i'm really new at this but i've been finding it really exciting and i am looking forward to coming here every time i've got a shift. you go all the way out of the tigers and you're gonna find the outback. the world is a bit all over the place and it's nice to see people have some time off and not think about everything else that is going on. you see people just being kind of carefree and walking around and enjoying their time here. i'm studying biology and i want to work in conservation,

so having the time to go around and look at the animals, it really makes it worth it. another unexpected positive to come out of lockdown is that the keepers had a little more time to get on with some jobs without people like me getting in the way. right, so we will be going in and i will give a whistle and that is a signal to the penguins that they can come in. whistle charlie! come on. charlie! every year, the zoo has to check the weight of all their animals. so before lockdown, we didn't have these bridges in place so if we wanted to weigh a penguin we would just put them on the scales if we needed to, but with the time that we had during lockdown, my colleague got to make these amazing weigh bridges. yeah, good boy! now, i think i speakfor a lot of people when i say we've all piled on the lockdown pounds. suzie, how about the penguins?

charlie was 4230. the penguins have been superb over lockdown and have maintained their weights. lucky them. unlike the rest of us. well, that's all from us this week but do join us next time when we will be bringing you a selection of our favourite wildlife adventures from over the years. from the dog who's exploring every national park in the us on the back of a motorbike to the world's first open water sactuary for beluga whales. we've met some amazing creatures on the show. and don't forget to follow us in all the usual places — we're @bbctravel. so from me, lucy hedges, and the rest of the travel show team here in london, it's goodbye.

a very good afternoon tea. for a large swathe of the uk, the skies are looking like this at the moment. faultless blue, this image sent to us faultless blue, this image sent to us courtesy of one of our weather watchers in oxford in the last hour. not the case everywhere, though. there is more cloud to the east of scotland, feeding into the central lowlands, and it is gradually lifting that it has me to a slightly greyer lifting that it has me to a slightly g reyer start lifting that it has me to a slightly greyer start to the dacia, a similar story across the north—east of england but we should i think continue to see things bright and in the next few hours. there is a little bit more cloud close to the south coast too although it could be a little isolated shower. taste of

late summer with temperatures in the high teens to the null 20s. just call along the north sea coast we do see that crowd sticking around but overnight sunday into monday, watch what happens. it peels off into the north sea thanks to a change in wind direction. a chilly like to come here and in some of the girl said sheltered grand we could get down to ten or 11. sheltered grand we could get down to ten or11. —— sheltered grand we could get down to ten or 11. —— and some of the glens. by ten or 11. —— and some of the glens. by monday afternoon lots of sunshine, temperatures approaching the mid 20s to the south, mid teens towards the north—west, more edging in here, and at this point which will start to come in on tuesday as low pressure squeezes in. south—westerly wind picks up, i think quite different across northern and western scotland and northern ireland by the end of the day on tuesday. still lots of scott comics in china across england and wales. wednesday, all change across

the board. low pressure really comes into play from the atlantic. we lose the high pressure that has kept things summery. it will be much wetter, much windier, and the biggest change towards the end of the week will be feeling much cooler. the position of where we get the wettest weather is a little bit uncertain at the moment but i can definitely tell you we are going to be plunge into acting air with a northerly breeze by the time we get into thursday and on friday and that isa into thursday and on friday and that is a change that even if it still looks quite sunny when you are, which are many others it may do on friday, you will feel 31 degrees last week in london, just 13 by the time we get to friday with a northerly wind it will just feel so much more like autumn. so a big change on the way for the weather across the uk in the week ahead.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines. the the latest headlines. government says the country at the government says the country is ata the government says the country is at a tipping point as it prepares to introduce tough new fines for anyone who fails to self—isolate. introduce tough new fines for anyone who fails to self-isolate. if eve ryo ne who fails to self-isolate. if everyone follows the course then we can avoid further national lockdown. but of course we have to be prepared to ta ke but of course we have to be prepared to take action if that is what is necessary. labour leader says sorting out the problems with testing should be the government's number one priority. ifi testing should be the government's number one priority. if i was the prime minister i would apologise for the fact that we are in the situation with testing throughout the summerwe situation with testing throughout the summer we were situation with testing throughout the summer we were seeing prepare for the autumn and instead we had

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