hello this is bbc news. a quarter of the uk population is under extra lockdown rules — with new measures coming into force in parts of northern england and wales from today. it comes as 1,700 students in manchester are put into lockdown at their halls of residence for two weeks after a spike cn coronavirus cases. in france — protests from hospitality workers as new covid restrictions come into effect in marseille, the epicentre of a second wave of coronavirus infections. tributes are paid to a popular and talented british police officer killed at a custody centre in south london. sergeant matt ratana was shot, as a suspect in handcuffs was being checked in. us media say donald trump has decided to nominate conservative federaljudge amy coney barrett to the supreme court. a formal announcement from the white house is expected later on saturday. switzerland heads to the polls in a referendum on whether to end free movement between it and the european union.

now on bbc news, the travel show looks back at some of its most memorable animal encounters from the last decade. from endangered jaguars... 0h! that's a predator, ladies and gentlemen. to easy—riding canines. at this point in time, he has now got almost 3000 hours on a motorcycle. hello! and the beluga whales that got a second chance. there we go. this week, we look back at some of our favourite animal encounters. this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. a quarter of the uk population is under extra lockdown rules — with new measures coming into force in parts of northern england and wales from today. it comes as 1,700 students in manchester are put into lockdown at their halls of residence for two weeks after a spike hello, and welcome to the travel show — in coronavirus cases. with me, mike corey. coming to you from romania.

in france, protests from hospitality workers during my time on a new programme, as new covid restrictions come i've come across some pretty extraordinary animals. into effect in marseille, there were orangutans in malaysia and borneo. the centre of a second wave 97% of the dna is shared of coronavirus infections. tributes are paid to a popular and talented british police officer killed at a custody centre in south with humans, and that's london. sergeant matt ratina was shot, as a suspect in handcuffs was being checked in. where they get the name — orangutan means "man of the forest." swarms of butterflies in mexico. and the mountain us media say donald trump has lions of los angeles. oh, man, we are best friends. decided to nominate conservative but first, we start our look back with another big cat — this one in the ibera wetlands of argentina, where there are plans to reintroduce jaguars back into the wild. welcome to estancia san alonso, the island home of rewilding argentina — a project aiming to reintroduce this beautiful, terrifying animal into the wild. oh my... guys, this is... when you make eye contact

with a beast this size, your heartjust goes... she is issa, she is a brazilian panther orjaguar. she is about six years old, she is quite young. and how will the wetlands benefit from reintroducing this beautiful animal? these animals were part of this ecosystem. they have been here for hundreds of thousands of years. they disappeared from the wetlands, and now this ecosystem is lacking from this top predator. and of course, we need to maintain the prey populations in natural numbers — i mean, not making them increase so much. it's estimated there are only 250 wild jaguars left across the whole of argentina. but for many locals, they still have a special, mystical significance. it is common that here in corrientes, jaguars are related with bravery and masculinity and it's kind of related

with the gaucho image. i'm allowed into the enclosure to prepare isa's meal. 0k, we've got one hanging fish. we've got one piece of mystery meat. ready to go? 0k. she looks a little bit — a little annoyed. normally, i don't think food arrives this late. laughs. if you look here, there's two trapdoors and i've just been granted permission to open them. wait, which one do i open? both of them? i don't want to open the wrong ones. no, the blue one.

blows whistle. wow! look! here she comes, entering into the feeding enclosure. we've hung the fish up — let's see if she can find it. 0h! that's a predator ladies and gentlemen. wow! and breakfast is served! the plan is to release the first jaguars by early 2021. and if you want to keep track of their progress, rewilding argentina post regular updates on social media. now, we are off to the united states, the undisputed home of the cross—country road trip, and it's notjust us humans who are aching to get out on the open road again.

my name is michael fiala and this is my dog, sox, and we are currently travelling all over the country. we're trying to visit every single state and every single national park in the country, all on a motorcycle. this all started when i actually went on a trip abroad and i wasn't able to bring sox with me and when i got back, the greeting that he gave me, it was really heart—warming but it also made me feel kind of bad because i knew that he was really upset that i was gone for so long, so i kind of rearranged my bucket list to do all of the things i could do with sox. his safety is my absolute most important thing. at this point in time, he has now got almost 3,000 hours on a motorcycle and so, i am not concerned with sox falling off, because he knows how to shift his weight,

he knows how to hold on to me. every national park has blown me away, just the cosmetic beauty of it. looking across a landscape that you've seen nothing that looks like that in your life. and then of course, the fact that every single time i'm there and i'm enjoying some sort of view, i look down and my dog is doing the exact same thing. he's taking in the experience just as much as i am. don't go in there! it's too...! 0h, buddy. you're going to be cold tonight! i'm doing this because there's too many people that say "i wish i did" in their life. i don't want to be one of those people. i want to say "i did the things i wanted to do" and i don't want to wait until i'm much older to say, "ok, now i can go live life". to me, you don't know how

long your life is going to be, so you should just live it. and i have to include him, because he is living it too. michael and sox, getting the motor running in the usa — although we definitely don't recommend trying that with your own four—legged friend. now we're going back to 2016, when carmen went to peru to join a team returning rescue bears of the wild. the andean bear is the only native bear species to south america. it's on the endangered list because of hunting and habitat loss. but here, in the chaparri area, they're doing something about it. this is peru's first private conservation area, set up jointly with the local community in 2000. it tries to rehabilitate rescued

bears that have been captured illegally and mistreated as exotic pets or circus attractions. so, this is what conservation is all about here — releasing a bear back into the wild — and i'm lucky enough to be able to watch it happen. four—year—old alisa was born in this reserve. so this is alisa's mother next door? yes. her mother asulina was rescued from captivity, where she'd been kept as a house pet. sadly, she would never survive in the outside world. we're gonna sedate alisa. 0k. and we're gonna set up a gps collar for her. the gps collar will now allowjuan to track elisa when she's released. we're gonna charge the dart. juan prepares a tranquilliser that he'll shoot into elisa's muscles. his shot hits the spot

and elisa seems confused. 0h... finally, elisa is sedated. now we are going to do a test the collar on her. put the collar on, see if it fits. uh-huh. it's a race against the clock before the bear wakes up. ok, so is that thejob done? hm—mm. so what now? we shut the door and then...? wait until tomorrow, and tomorrow, we gonna release her. 0k.

so, it's a beautiful morning and today's the day we're going to release elisa into the world. i'm super excited! push the gate. it's incredible to be so close to a bear. there's no gate, there's no fence separating us. she's just there, a few metres away. from here on, elisa faces an uncertain future, but the gps collar will track her whereabouts sojuan and his team can see how she adapts to life in the wild. still to come on the travel show: we meet the beluga whales about to get a fresh start thousands of miles from home.

the coronavirus outbreak has had a devastating impact on animal welfare groups. back in april, rajan spoke to a few to see how they were doing. so many people lose theirjob abroad. we're clearly not going to have donations. so if things got really bad, we could be facing, you know, having to sell up. as you know, there's a restriction — what is called 'stay home'. but the population we're working with, a population of mountain gorillas that is used to humans. so it means if you lose one day monitoring, it means something else can happen — like trauma or snares or sickness — that we might lose an animal. there's a lot more work for everybody, just to try and get the basics done. i think if we lost any more people, then we'd be starting to really struggle. yeah, it's something that we have been thinking about and planning for, but not having to deal with. and now a few months later,

we've spoken to them again to see if the outlook is any sunnier. first to susan's donkey and mule reserve refuge in the atlas mountains in morocco. we have been locked down now for nearly six months, so there is no tourism at all in morocco. for the animals, it is catastrophic. we have donkeys and mules dying on the roadside from starvation. families can hardly afford to feed their families, let alone feed their animals, and they set them free in the hope that they can survive. the refuge has seen an influx in horses. normally, these horses would be used for tourism, raising much—needed funds for the animals' upkeep, but the pandemic has meant this income has dried up. i think we have now down to 400, and some of those horses are going hungry or ill or collapsing. and what we have done at the refuge

is do our best to raise money as we can to feed those that we can. the people from the village have been nothing but magnificent in their support of us and everybody has rallied round. and without our supporters, we would not have been able to keep going — that's just a fact. next, to rwanda, where one of the biggest fears of these conservationists is the transmission of the virus to the gorillas themselves. we are intensively working towards minimising any risk of spillover, anywhere that the virus can get to the wildlife. that requires more logistics and more equipment. that means there's regular testing of our staff and mandatory testing of anyone that is coming to visit us. in march, we heard about an increase in poaching. sadly, as conditions have worsened, this has persisted. well, we've have seen an increase of snare numbers, probably because people have lost theirjobs and they have gone back to their tradition.

the park management and law enforcement are trying to deploy more park staff to control those very sensitive areas to reduce this. not so easy because the country doesn't have that money from tourism industry. when we spoke, we had a few cases in rwanda. as we are speaking now, we have more cases. and as i say, the country has been more effective in containing it, but i don't know how much then this is going to last. and lastly to ecuador, where the volunteers who stayed in this rehabilitation centre became lockdown legends. since we last spoke in march, the lockdown legends volunteers have all gradually left us. and so, we are really a core team now, which means a lot harder work for us. on top of that, we've also had a lot of new coming animals that were rescued by the ministry and brought into us, so we are cramming all of the animals in and yeah, we've got a lot to look after. it's been a slow process but right now, we have three volunteers

imminently coming next week, which is brilliant, and a couple more next month as well, so they are slowly, slowly trickling in now, which is brilliant news for us. it means maybe we can have a little holiday. that was a look at how some animal welfare groups are dealing with the ongoing crisis. now, before coronavirus worked across the globe, cat went to iceland to visit two beluga whales before their big move to the first open water sanctuary of its kind. travellers‘ contact with whales is often in captivity, where they are kept for public entertainment. but i'd heard that here in iceland, the new kind of sanctuary was being created. audrey, there's so many beautiful coves and little inlets around iceland. why this particular place? it's a beautiful surrounding

for them with the cliffs kind of protecting them from the wind and the icelandic weather. and then also having the water temperature more like the arctic and subarctic, where they would be found in the wild. two beluga whales called little white and little grey will soon be the first to be released into the bay. they had, until recently, been performing at an entertainment park in china. but after the operators decided to end the practice, they tried to find a new home for the animals where they could live out their lives. little white and little grey were carefully flown on the long journey from china to iceland, but they could not be released straight into the bay. they have, for the last few months, been acclimatising in the nearby sealife centre to the waters here, and working with handlers to learn how to take the final journey into the bay. oh, my goodness! wow! these are incredible!

yeah. hi. can i come down? yeah, of course. hello! chuckles. they're so graceful in the water, aren't they? mm—hm. what do you love most about them? ah, you know, beluga whales is kind of friendly animals. they won't hurt you and you can work with them peacefully, and it's great fun to work with them. they're beautiful, gentle giants. yeah. chuckles. so which is the naughty one? grey. this one? yeah. look at theirfaces! hello! stand down! go! you're so soft! i like you! giggles. this country's relationship with whales is complex,

being one ofjust a few places in the world which still legally allows some hunting of the animals. but projects like this, and the various whale watching experiences on offer, are ways to encourage understanding and protection. oh, if you insist! if you insist! there we go! chuckles. 0k, ready for some good news? last month, little grey and little white were successfully moved to the beluga sanctuary‘s bay side care pool — the first time in almost ten years they've been in the sea. wow! so, up next, we're off to kenya with henry, where we see what impact the iconic ‘60s film born free had on conservation there.

right. here i am, meru national park. this place is amazing for many reasons but right up there has to be its most famous four—legged daughter — that's elsa the lion. she was the inspiration behind the film born free. the film about the lives of george and joy adamson was based on joy's book, which followed their attempts to rescue the orphan lion cub and train her to live safely in the wild. so, there she is. this is elsa's last resting spot, very close to the river where george adamson found her, and the last moments were spent with her before she died. and, of course, joy's ashes were scattered around here as well. the film of elsa's life was a sensation around the globe. it made stars of george and joy and the aftermath changed conservation in africa forever.

the elsa conservation trust still runs a wildlife retreat and conservation centre in hell's gate national park here in kenya. and the born free foundation launched by the film's two human stars, bill travers and virginia mckenna, operates around the world. these are some of the snares that we've collected in the last four months. here in meru, it counts lions, hunts poachers and clears the park of dangerous snares. so, what effect did the movie born free have on conservation efforts here in kenya? i think born free film, it's by far one of the most captivating films to has ever been done. that specific end of the film touches me and many other young people, you know? we continuously have to meditate about who will continue doing what virginia's done all our life, and what george did.

it's a continued inspiration for us — not only at born free, but across the conservation world. of course, joy and george needed helpers, and one of those was jonny baxendale, george's godson. he helped return the born free lions to the wild, but used to come back out to their favourite haunts for regular visits. have you never felt in danger at all? never, never. no? they were relaxed, there was no tension, there was no issues. we knew very well that, you know, they would walk up to us and greet us in the most amazing way. the pair used to sit under this tamarind tree with warm beers. it doesn't take long for the memories to come flooding back. just being with him and being able to work with him and see how he absolutely handled his lions and how relaxed he was,

and he had this amazing rapport with his environment — he was totally in harmony with his environment. this is the born free country — this is where it all happened. unfortunately, that's all for this week, but we've got some great stuff coming up next week. christa is in germany, where bavaria's famous oktoberfest may be cancelled, but local beer culture is still thriving. groans. laughs. and don't forget, you can follow us on social media — we're @bbctravel basically everywhere. for now, i'm going to go to explore the city so from me, mike corey here in romania, it's goodbye.

hello. we've got a fairly fresh, autumnal feeling weekend ahead, and something of mixed fortunes in terms of the weather. still quite windy with showers across some eastern parts of the uk, particularly eastern england. and for all of us it is staying fairly chilly. but there will be some blue skies and some sunshine for many places. an area of low pressure which is slow moving out towards the east. it has been with us a couple of days and it's still driving some showers into parts of eastern england. quite a brisk northerly breeze. any showers for scotland and northern ireland will fade away into the afternoon and some sunshine for many northern and western parts of the uk, but cloudier through the midlands and eastern england with showers affecting lincolnshire in towards east anglia and down toward kent and sussex as well later on this afternoon. temperatures for most around 13—16 celsius, but feeling cooler where you are exposed to that wind

around the east coast. average wind speeds here will be about 10—20 mph but if we focus in on the gusts we are likely to see in the east, they will be quite significant. these numbers in the black circles here, 40—50 mph gusts coming in from the north are driving some big waves into parts of east yorkshire, down towards norfolk, for instance, as well. through the course of this evening and overnight most places become dry and any last showers fading away from the south—east throughout this evening. still quite cloudy across the eastern half of england in particular. clearer skies for scotland and northern ireland, western parts of england and wales. here temperatures will fall lowest, so there could be a touch of frost to start off sunday morning, especially for rural scotland. after that fairly cold start to the day it is looking again like an east—west split. throughout the midlands and eastern england, you are keeping the cloud through the day, perhaps the odd light shower coming out of that. still breezy but not as windy as recent days. but for the rest of the uk we've got lighter winds here and more in the way of sunshine again. another dry day to come for the bulk of scotland,

northern ireland, wales, and the south—west of england. temperatures in the warmest spots a little bit warmer than recent days. 18 celsius or so. still feeling cool in the likes of eastern scotland and eastern england. looking ahead into the new working week, we've got an area of high pressure trying to build in but this week weather front just starts to push across the uk. it will fizzle as it does so. mostly dry through monday and tuesday and things return to more unsettled and autumnal conditions from mid week onwards. 00:26:32,789 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 goodbye for now.