president trump says he won't put the us into lockdown, despite a surge in covid—19 cases. mr trump came close to admitting he's leaving the white house next year, saying he didn't know which administration would be in charge in the future. at least 42 people have died and 20 others are missing as typhoon vamco made landfall in the philippines. flooding on the largest island, luzon, has caused landslides and forced many to leave their homes. the typhoon is now heading for vietnam. italy has added more regions to its coronavirus red—zones. campania and tuscany have been placed under the country's strictest lockdown measures from sunday. it comes as italy registers a record number of daily cases and health authorities are growing increasingly concerned. 96—year—old kenneth meredith

moved into a care home five weeks ago because of his worsening dementia, but coronavirus restrictions meant his wife of 71 years, betty, was unable to visit. she missed him so much she asked whether she could be moved into the care home as well. phil mackie takes up the story. married for 71 years and reunited, after being separated for more than a month. kenneth meredith has dementia and had to move into the bourne view care home. neither he nor his wife, betty, could bear being apart so she decided to surprise her husband and moved in, too. he'd been away for five weeks, i think, and he wasn't coming back because they wouldn't

let him out, so i decided to come here tojoin him. how difficult was it for you, betty, to be apart from ken? very difficult, very difficult. we missed each other so much. for a week betty had to isolate in one of the groundfloor flats here, while kenneth was upstairs. she was ringing him but he didn't know she was there. when she was given the all clear they were allowed to reunite and now they are sharing one of these flats on the ground floor together. none of this would have happened without rosie and kylie, who organised the whole reunion and filmed it to. we got betty, she sat down and waited for kenny, and then kenny walked in and was so emotional. every member of staff were in floods of tears, we were also happy to see them reunited. the footage became a sensation when the merediths' granddaughters shared it on social media. in these bleak times rare moments like this bring much needed joy.

it's like seeing a different man. seeing him upset, as he was every day. he was crying... it was emotional, he was so upset, and then the minute betty came, it's like i go into their room now and all he does is smile. he is beaming, just so happy. it is incredible. now the merediths can enjoy the rest of their lives together. phil mackie, bbc news, birmingham. now on bbc news, the travel show. coming up on the show — the lockdown interlopers heading for vegas. this week we are in oklahoma, meeting some of its legendary covers of colour. an mountain guides in a remote and stunning corner of east africa.

this is africa's botanical garden you can find lots of things. hello and welcome to the show. once again in lockdown at the travel show ho. it is getting a bit like groundhog but from looking at our media feeds so many of you are desperate to get back out on the road again andi get back out on the road again and i suppose we can do in the meantime is plan and dream and plenty of great inspiration coming your way. first though,

for those of us looking forward toa time for those of us looking forward to a time we can travel again, what does that look like and how can we safely book a trip when things are still so uncertain? normally at this time of year lots of us would be booking our usual summer booking to the beach or an easter break and there is one holiday coming up very soon that many travellers may still have that ion. but coronavirus has meant that this festive season has meant that this festive season will look a little different. —— steel have our eye on. many brits are still searching for traditional christmas destinations. they have also been surveying thousands of people a week since march to try and understand how peoples views on travel is shifting. short-term booking horizons so either seven days or booking horizons so either seven days oi’ seven booking horizons so either seven days or seven weeks at the most and generally that

could be getting home if a restriction has come into place, it could be getting away to work away but actually ultimately we see huge spikes so ultimately we see huge spikes so when portugal came onto the list of countries you could go and visit, we saw a spike of about 2000%. it is one thing to look at concrete bookings and searches but when you speaking to people, what is the shift for you? they want to be sure they are money safe and actually, again, that they can move things around, make sure they can get a refund and a second to that or alongside it, is the health factor. people are saying not only is it their responsibility to take care of themselves but to take care of themselves but to take care of the community and the visitors they live around. people will continue to adapt and so will the industry. people are carrying over a significant amount of holiday allowance from work into next year so

there is no need an opportunity to use it and get away. meet the hickman family. for them year is not complete without a trip to disney world. they have booked for next year. orlando, with its range of theme parks has top searches for this time of year. i have been to disney about 11 times now. i think this was the 11th time this year. 2a, 20 fifth was this out for dad. itjust year. 2a, 20 fifth was this out for dad. it just takes year. 2a, 20 fifth was this out for dad. itjust takes you away from reality and the children get as much enjoyment out of it as me. i expected to have

queueing for rides but i expect it to be a lot different. the children are very excited but they are very excited every year, to an extent, even more so. year, to an extent, even more so. we have been locked in this year and it gives us something to look forward to. fingers crossed them back with mickey and the gang next year but for the rest of us still making up oui’ the rest of us still making up our minds, how can you book a trip away with confidence? consumer magazine, which, over 9 million people since march of had the holidays cancelled but £1 billion are still outstanding in refunds. what is your advice to people who want to book a holiday now even if it is not going to happen for a little while? book a package holiday that offers you protection against companies going bust and unfortunately we will see holiday businesses and

analyse going bust. also travel advice and please book with a good tour operator. u nfortu nately, good tour operator. unfortunately, there are lots of operators who have done a poorjob at refunding customers. beyond that, take out travel insurance policy that protects you against disruption and includes good medical insurance because in 2021, if we travelled to europe, the european health insurance card will no longer be valid and so you will need the health insurance. finally, if you can, with a credit card. what happens if somebody decides to bite the bullet, book a holiday for christmas and it turns out the lockdown is extended? the real risk is that different countries are replying different rules of locked out so it is possible that may happen. the best advice i can give you if the lockdown is extended, make sure you are booking with a trusted

accommodation provider, a holiday provider that will give you a refund. the law is broadly on your side. if you're with a good holiday provider, you should be able to get a refu nd you should be able to get a refund if lockdown is extended. remember destination weddings? they have always been big business for places like the seychelles, suitable for the very best day of your day but what about enormous indian wedding finances with hundreds of gu ests wedding finances with hundreds of guests that went on for days. as with so many things, we just cannot do that anymore, instead an older and more furtive tradition has been revived. as alana yzola found out. i am revived. as alana yzola found out. iam here in revived. as alana yzola found

out. i am here in the city of las vegas where up to 120,000 weddings are performed each year. do you have anything to make me feel like an actual right? how about a bow kate and avail? —— bouquet. right? how about a bow kate and avail? -- bouquet. ithinki am ready for my big day now. let's go. nowadays people do not want to meet in a large number so a lot of weddings will go on like this. now, i'm not actually getting married today but i have come to vegas for that authentic chapel experience. never in my life that i consider getting married by elvis presley is here we. well, hi there, friends, i am alive and well and hid today at the world—famous and well and hid today at the world —famous little church and well and hid today at the world—famous little church of the west in las vegas, nevada, do you both promise to adopt each other‘s hound dogs and

where your blue suede shoes in the rain, to always be each other‘s teddy bear and never go to bed without giving each other a hunk a hunk of burning love... other a hunk a hunk of burning love. . . that other a hunk a hunk of burning love... that was slightly unhinged. despite the fact the demand for small ceremonies are increasing, the wedding industry has been badly in active, with the potential loss of $23 billion over the next two years but there is now a growing trend eloping with around a third of people decided to stick with their original wedding date. we are seeing a lot of coronavirus brides that are either coming here because their wedding was cancelled into their home state and they want to keep their original date and also it has affected a lot of people financially so, unless expensive wedding in las vegas is making a lot of sense for couples. dan runs one of the

old est couples. dan runs one of the oldest chapels in vegas. it hope it in 1942 and started the industry. ——it opened. what makes this the capital of weddings? in nevada, we make it very simple. they just weddings? in nevada, we make it very simple. theyjust have to produce a photo id. there's a few questions but it is pretty straightforward and the marriage bureau is open from eight o'clock in the morning until midnight every day of the year so until midnight every day of the year so we until midnight every day of the year so we make it easy plus it is las vegas and they can have a great time while they are here. eloping became very common during the great depression as couples struggle to pay for ceremonies and the reputation for being cost—effective and hasslefree. across the road, newlyweds have some advice for people thinking about eloping. we have been together for 17 years and it is

compromise. you are hesitant, you what family there. not putting anybody at risk. i think it is a do option. it is what you want. this is a key issue that hits close to home. iam one issue that hits close to home. i am one of the couples that have had their weddings postponed due to lockdown. 71% of those planning to have a wedding have decided to postpone their original plans but what about eloping instead? i decided to call my fiance kendrick to get his thoughts. i was just kendrick to get his thoughts. i wasjust thinking it kendrick to get his thoughts. i was just thinking it may sound a little bit crazy but what do you think about eloping?” don't know if my family is going to go for that. yes, my mum would probably throw eight feet just at the thought of it but, like, what are we going to

do? just do us, get elope, get it on paper and then celebrate with the family whenever we can celebrate. that is an option. either way, i am still going to marry you. i love you. see you when i get home. before i head home to washington i have one more couple to meet. katie and sean are eloping just a stone's throw away from the city. wedding rings are an outward presentation, a symbol of the vows you presentation, a symbol of the vows you will share. it represents a promise of eternal and everlasting love. i do pronounce you and present for the first time mr and mrs stokes. so congratulations to you both, this is such a beautiful place to have a ceremony. what inspired this location for you guys? we really knew that we wanted to

elope and elope in a beautiful place. my mother wasn't too happy and i'm sure yours wasn't either. they were disappointed but in the end i think they understood this is what we wanted. so i definitely have opened my mind to the option of eloping but it is hard not to have my big day as i planned. guess we'll just have my big day as i planned. guess we'lljust have to wait and see what happens next but for now at least i'm glad to be going home to see my fiance and husband to be. still to come on the travel show after the lockdown, the landslides. we are back with the mountain guides desperate to get us back tracking in uganda. let's stay in the usa for a moment as we catch up with the latest in our u ntold catch up with the latest in our untold america series we look at some of the people who have helped to shape the usa we know

today. this week we are in oklahoma meeting some of its legendary cowboys of colour. oklahoma meeting some of its legendary cowboys of colourlj started riding bareback horses when i was 15. i'm 80 years old! born and raised in america. i am a cowboy! i'm a pretty good cowboy, there was a time when i was one of the top in the united states. slide guitar players. there were no black cowboys. this is not really new. this is what people did years and years and years ago when they didn't do anything but herd cattle. if you worked on a ranch every day, that on the weekends when you had a day off, then they went and put the dollars and $2 up went and put the dollars and $2 up and said i can beat you riding a horse and he, that is

where we began. —— he. people began to say hey, let's put this together, let's make an event out of a rodeo. we started over in the america... different cities decided to have an annual rodeo in the town. it was a financial boost. cowboys become a major event and got to be big, big. —— cowboys of colour. i have written in the cowboys a couple of rodeo all the time and i travel with them sometimes. when i first came in the game

about 22 years ago there was a lot of black cowboys, my grandfather was a cowboy and my uncle was a cowboy and all of my friends are cowboys and all of the cowboys i know i black, you know? i get my strength and energy with howl you know? i get my strength and energy with how i was raised with those guys. my life is 24-7 with those guys. my life is 24—7 work, sunup to sundown. the event that we know is steel wrestling was invented by a black man. bill pickett.|j wrestling was invented by a black man. bill pickett. iwas going to about 130 radios a year. i have been beat up, puncture wounds, puncture liver, ruptured sleeve, you will go through it and get hurt and it is just will go through it and get hurt and it isjust a matter of when and it isjust a matter of when and how bad. once it is in you it is hard to get out of you. when you come to the dirty south, there is a lot of talent here in oklahoma. we are here and we're going nowhere.

finally this week, lockdown has been hard for most but particularly ha rd been hard for most but particularly hard for those remote communities that rely on our cash to keep going. in uganda's stunning national park for instance the crash in tourism was followed almost immediately by devastating floods and landslides. we have been to meet some of the people now working to rebuild their villages, tourist infrastructure and their lives. this is africa's botanical gym otherwise it has got lots of things that you can find in africa like the trees, animals, scenery, africa like the trees, animals, scenery, everything. it is really very, very unique. when

most people come here, and they see the scenery here, they are like, they go home surprised because otherwise it is something they don't believe thatis something they don't believe that is here, it is another unique world. what makes the mountains so special is all of the surroundings, especially the surroundings, especially the water bodies, it is very green with all different types of trees which most of them are medicine. in the mountains we have five different zones which includes the savannah, wasteland, the tropical ra i nfore st wasteland, the tropical rainforest zone, bamboo zone afro alpine zone, bare rocks and the glaziers. right now, we

are in the valley, one of the areas but was badly hit by the floods. like you can see, these arejust floods. like you can see, these are just where the floods passed going down the valley and here is some of the area where the trail was really destroyed by the floods. all of a sudden we heard this almighty roar, about a 30 or 40 drip wall of water came down the river. —— wall of water came down the river. — — football. wall of water came down the river. —— football. of course it smashed everything that was on its way, it was up over the top of the banks, huge boulders like the size of a car or even as big as a lounge room just been taken down with the water. i rang been taken down with the water. irang and been taken down with the water. i rang and started shouting at people in the village to run, run, run! the flood actually happened that night when all of us were happened that night when all of us were in our beds so we just had some sounds and people had to, i had a friend of mine had to, i had a friend of mine had to communicate to me through

the phone. he said you wake up, the phone. he said you wake up, the water is coming, and also when i woke up i saw people and i have the sound of the river. when i came back, this was still there. i had two rooms. this was still there, this is the dining room and this is, this was my bedroom. so all the things that were in the bedroom i was not able to get them. i just kept these ones in here. in the dining room. to illustrate some of the paths on the mountain. can you believe these guys he had no money in their pocket and i have no money in my pocket and they come up here and started working for free, started trying to rebuild the trails, trying to rebuild the trails, trying to rebuild the trails, trying to get a way across the river, exploring where we could pass. i'm sorry, river, exploring where we could pass. i'm sorry, i had came here, hoping, digging with

friends sometimes, cooking for the team. sometimes slashing, yeah, just doing different things. as long as you are on the move, everyone is getting involved. it is hard. the work is hard. but to me, it is important because nowadays, there is no plan, no visitors, so there is no plan, no visitors, so family here in the mountains, helping people together for my family. as much as we have been affect by the floods, we have been making a new discovery of other places where we could put the trail but also it is an advantage that on this new places to put trails we have got some other new discoveries like we have got a series of waterfalls along this valley. we have managed to beat our way through and we found a fantastic trail

down alongside all of these waterfalls. nine in total. one after the other. it is really incredible, i do not think there is anything like this in east africa. it is a fantastic section of trail so in a way the corona and the floods have also brought opportunity, where we have been able to develop and realise more potential of the mountains. and good luck to those guys as they carry on finding new trails and by the way didn't uganda look amazing in those pictures? right, that's all we have time for this week. coming up next week lucy is here to look back at some of our favourite sporting trips from over the years. including the whipping ade took a wounded games in marilyn. and

my brisk encounter with scotland's freezing lochs. you know what? it is not does mike know, i'm lying! it is cold! until then if you want to catch up until then if you want to catch up with our recent episodes you can find us on the bbc iplayer all of the places on the social media but for now, from the travel show team sending a safe and sensible distance from me in london, it is goodbye. hello there. we ended the working week on a fine note. we saw quite a bit of sunshine on friday, but it's not going to be the case this weekend — it's going to be a lot more unsettled, thanks to low pressure. it'll be windy for most of us and there will be spells of heavy rain at times — all courtesy of this new area

of low pressure which is going to stick around both saturday and sunday, and it's going to bring strongest winds to southern and western areas through the day on saturday and there'll be bands of rain spreading from south to north across the country. some of the rain could be quite heavy in places, maybe a rumble of thunder for england and wales and very windy around the south—west. around irish sea coasts, up to 55 mph. probably the best of any drier interludes will be across central northern scotland and north—east england for a time. but a milder day to come — 12 to maybe 15 or 16 degrees across the south—east. but that rain gets into northern and north—east areas through saturday evening. it's followed by further blustery showers or longer spells of rain moving up from the south. though again, there will be some drier interludes but it's going to be a blustery night — gusts of wind around 20—30 mph widely. more than that around the south west — up to 50 mph there. temperature—wise, single—figure values across the north but again, i think, a fairly mild night to come for england and wales. now, as we head on into sunday, here's our area of low pressure to the north—west of the uk,

spinning across the country, bringing further bands of pretty heavy rain and strong winds. but it looks like the strongest of the winds on sunday will be across more southern parts of britain. gales running through the channel, 50—65 mph here, and there will be bands of rain spreading from west to east, again with some dry, maybe brighter interludes in between. it's not going to be a complete wash—out. a little bit cooler on sunday — temperatures of 11—14 celsius. now our weekend's low pressure begins to slip away as we head on into next week. a brief ridge of high pressure for a while, before this next feature starts to run in to bring stronger winds and some rain through the day. so we could start dry and bright across much of the country away from northern scotland on monday, but then it goes downhill through the day with more rain piling into southern scotland, northern ireland, england and wales. those temperatures will range from around 9—12 degrees. now, as we move through the week, it stays changeable. further spells of rain followed by sunshine and showers. though then there's a chance that all areas will be turning much colder by

the end of the week.

good morning. welcome to breakfast, with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. our headlines today: dominic cummings leaves downing street for the last time, so what next for borisjohnson and the government? christmas in the balance. a warning that covid infection rates need to be low and stay low to avoid a festive lockdown. donald trump speaks in public for the first time since losing the us election, and comes close to acknowledging defeat. who knows which administration it will be, i guess time will tell.