may be some that are already developed or some new ones. the good thing about this new technology as we are using human membranes, so we don't have to maybe do some irrelevant experiments on animals and it is much more relevant to our systems if we develop a drug that works on us. the real goal is to find promising drugs are easily available and that we already know are safe for humans to use. now it's time for a look at the weather with darren bett. how is it looking? it is actually quite sunny across many parts of the country to the rest of the day. still a bit of a chill in the air, but the wind is a bit later. there is more ploughed for easternmost parts of the uk, especially eastern england. the cloud is taken off in east and the other south—east to give one or two showers. drier than yesterday. the wind, that has been really cold, is beginning to ease. the best

temperatures are probably in south wales, 18 degrees. this evening and overnight, the wind continues to drop in east anglia and the south—east. it stays cloudy. we have cloud coming to northern ireland, so it will be much milder than overnight. ahead had a better, clearer skies down to the west country. the risk of a touch of frost, short lived mist and fog patches and some sunshine. we have patchy rain coming across northern ireland, heading its way into scotla nd ireland, heading its way into scotland and western parts of england and wales on monday afternoon. not much rain ahead of it, some sunshine and eastern parts of england, the club raking in the south—east. it is going to be warmer tomorrow, highs possibly of 18 or 19 celsius.

hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: as thousands of students across the uk are forced to self—isolate due to coronavirus outbreaks, the labour party calls

on the government to promise students will be able to go home for christmas. as senior political figures mark national police memorial day in the uk, britain's top police official has paid tribute to the sergeant shot dead in south london on friday. president trump has nominated the conservative judge amy coney barrett to fill the vacant seat on the us supreme court. armenia has mobilised its male population and declared martial law as violence continues between the former soviet nation and its neighbour azerbaijan. now, on bbc news, it's the travel show. endangered jaguars... that is a predator, ladies and gentlemen, to easy—riding dogs... at this point in time, she has got almost 3000 hours on a motorcycle. ..and the beluga whales that got a second chance. there we go! this week, we look back at some

of our favourite animal encounters. hello and welcome to the travel show with me, mike corey, coming to you from romania, actually. during my time on the programme, i've come across some pretty amazing animals. there are orangutans in malaysia and borneo. 97% of their dna shared with humans, and that is where they get the name — orangutan means ‘man of the forest‘. swarms of butterflies in mexico. on to the mountain lions of los angeles. laughs.

but first, we start our look back with another big cat — this one in the wetlands in argentina — where there are plans to introduce jaguars back into the wild. welcome to the island home of rewilding argentina, a project aimed at reintroducing this terrifying animal to the wild. oh, my god. when you make eye contact with a beast the size, your heartjust goes boom, boom, boom. crazy. laughs. she is isa. she's a brazilian panther, or a jaguar. she's about six years old, yeah. she's quite young. and how will the wetlands benefit from introducing this beautiful animal? well, these animals were part of this existence. 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? hmm—mm. 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 onjoy‘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 poaches 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. it is been an unusually chilly we can. the sunshine is out in many places today, more sunshine today in the north of england than we had

yesterday. look at the difference here. it doesn't look very inviting in lowestoft in suffolk. the winds of the north sea piling in big waves and drawing a lot of cloud, so not everywhere is sunny. in eastern areas of england and perhaps the north—east of scotland, but the thickest cloud is in east anglia the south—east, can there could be one 01’ south—east, can there could be one or two spots of rain. 0vernight, we will see the cloud continuing across east anglia and the south—east, but the winds are dropping, and this cloud is coming into northern ireland, so a big change, much milder than last night. cloud across eastern scotland all the way to the west country, there may be a touch of frost and some mist and fog patches. in the early part of the week, the weather will change, it will be warmer but turning u nsettled. will be warmer but turning unsettled. we have this band of cloud and patchy rain coming away from northern ireland into scotland, across england and wales, western areas, during the afternoon. ahead

of that, sunshine for eastern england, the sunshine eventually breaking in east anglia and the south—east. as a result, it will be a lot warmer than it has been over the weekend. temperatures could reach 19 celsius on monday. high temperatures are as a result of this atla ntic temperatures are as a result of this atlantic influence we are getting. we have that weak weather front bringing rain overnight. more cloud in the south—east, may be light rain 01’ in the south—east, may be light rain or drizzle. generally a dry story elsewhere, with sunshine around as well. temperatures still as high as 18 celsius. tuesday, a quiet day. wednesday, it goes downhill a bit because we have another weather system coming in from of the atlantic. this one will bring heavier rain and will be accompanied by stronger winds for a while, costing 50 mph through some of the irish sea coastal areas. the rain a lwa ys irish sea coastal areas. the rain always heavy in the west, pushing its way through to eastern areas

during the day. the temperatures are near—normal for the during the day. the temperatures are near—normalfor the time during the day. the temperatures are near—normal for the time of the year. the rest of the week, it will turn somewhat cooler. still u nsettled turn somewhat cooler. still unsettled around as well, but temperatures will drop back to the sort of values we started with this weekend.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines at 2. the government defends its decision to allow students to return to university — despite several outbreaks of coronavirus, which have seen many confined to their rooms. labour demands assurances. students have been done over on their a—levels, they had been done ever on freshers' week. the government has threatened to lock them up in university and when they graduate they could be facing long—term unemployment. it is important for students not to have to give up a year of their life by not going to university and they are going to university and paying the fees accordingly. wales' two biggest cities prepare for lockdown. from 6pm, swansea and cardiff will go under heightened covid restrictions.