get much more the weather doesn't get much more grey grey than it has today. heavy outbreaks of rain and it is windy outbreaks of rain and it is windy out there. that is the story for the entire weekend. this area of low pressure towards the west is the centre of the loan, the cloud is a bit more thin and broken up in places, could be a few glimmers of brightness this afternoon. some wet weather surging across england and wales, some gales on the irish sea coast. or wet weather overnight across scotland and northern ireland. showers for england and wales back towards coastal districts by the end of the night. mild, a sticky day, quite strange when you think about it, wet and windy weather. temperatures in the mid—teens. tomorrow, heavy rain for the south—east, perhaps brighter come the afternoon, the risk of heavy showers for the south—west late afternoon, potentially winds of 60 mph and a risk of coastal flooding as we pick up the stronger

winds.

hello, this is bbc news. the headlines... conservative mps urge the prime minister to reset his government after the departure of his top adviser, dominic cummings. several states in the us bring in new restrictions to try to curb the surge in covid—i9. the us president—elect, joe biden, strongly criticises donald trump's handling of the crisis. president trump has insisted he won't put the us into lockdown and comes close to admitting he could leave the white house next year i will not go...this administration will not be going to a lockdown. hopefully the... whatever happens in the future, who knows which administration it will be, i guess time will tell. a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the uk is expected to be brought foward

to 2030, a decade earlier than originally planned. now on bbc news, it's time for the travel show. coming up on the show... the lockdown elopers heading for vegas. i think i'm ready for my big day, now. let's go. this week, we're in oklahoma, meeting some of its legendary cowboys of colour. and the uphill task facing these mountain guides in a remote and stunning corner of east africa. this is africa's botanical big game. it has got lots of things that you can't find anywhere in africa.

hello and welcome to the show. once again, in lockdown at travel show ho. it's getting a bit like groundhog day, isn't it? but i know from looking on our social media feeds just how many of you, like us, are desperate to get back out there on the road again. and i suppose all we can do in the meantime is plan and dream and we've got plenty of great inspiration coming your way. first, though, for those of us who are looking forward to a time when we can travel again, what does that look like? and how can we safely book a trip when things are still so uncertain? well, normally, at this time of year, lots of us would be thinking about booking our usual summer trip to the beach or maybe an easter city break. and there is, of course, one holiday coming up very soon that many travellers may still have their eye on.

but coronavirus has meant that this festive season will look a little different. travel website skyscanner has found that despite this, many brits are still searching for some of the more traditionally popular christmas destinations. they've also been surveying thousands of people a week since march to try and understand how people's views on travel are shifting. the searches we see people doing are short—term booking horizons. so that's either seven days or seven weeks at the most. and generally, that could be, you know, getting home, if a restriction has come into place. it could be getting away to work away. but actually, you know, ultimately, we seek huge spikes. when portugal, for example, came onto the list of countries that you could go and visit, we saw a spike of about 2,000%. it's one thing to look at concrete bookings and searches but when you're speaking to people about their feelings of travel,

really, what's the shift for you? so, they want to be sure that their money is safe. and, actually, again, they can move things around, make sure they get a refund. and second to that, or alongside it, i should say, is the health factor. people are really saying that, you know, not only is it their responsibility to take care of themselves, it's a responsibility to take care of the community that they're visiting and that they live around. people will continue to need to adapt and so will the industry. people are carrying over a significant amount of their holiday allowance from work into next year. so, there's more need and more opportunity to use it and get away. meet the hickman family. for them, a year is not complete without a trip to disney world. they've booked for next year. can i get a round of applause? orlando, with its range of theme

parks and resorts like universal and disney, has topped skyscanner‘s searches for this easter time. i've been to disney about 11 times, now, i think this was the 11th time this year. bippity boppity boo. my dad's been 25 times, sorry, 24. 25th was this year. and it just takes you away from reality. the children probably get as much enjoyment out of it as me, but i think i'm a little bit higherthan them. 2019! i expect it to be a lot different. the queueing for the rides. i imagine it would be a lot different. the children, they're very excited. but they're very excited every year, to an extent. even more so, i think, with being locked in this year, it gives us something to look forward to. well, fingers crossed they're back with mickey and the gang next year but for the rest of us still making up our minds, how can you book a trip away with confidence?

consumer magazine which? has said that since march, over 9 million people have had a holiday cancelled but that £1 billion are still outstanding in refunds. hello, rory. hello. what's your advice for people who want to book a holiday now, even if it's not going to happen for a little while? what i would say to travellers who are booking is book a package holiday that offers you protection against companies going bust. and, unfortunately, we are going to see holiday companies, and potentially airlines, going bust. it also protects you against the government's changing travel corridor advice, as well. please book with a good tour operator. so, unfortunately, there are lots of tour operators, lots of holiday companies, who've done a really poorjob of refunding customers. beyond that, i would say take out a travel insurance policy that protects you against disruption. so, you need to look for that specifically. and includes good medical insurance, because in 2021, if we travel to europe, the european health insurance card

will no longer be valid. so you are going to need that health insurance. finally, if you can, book with a credit card. what happens if somebody decides to bite the bullet, book a holiday for christmas, and then it turns out the lockdown is extended? a real risk and each of the different countries in the uk are applying different lockdown rules, different lengths of lockdown, so very possible that may happen. the best advice i could give you with lockdown and if it's extended is make sure you are booking with a trusted accommodation provider, holiday provider, one that will give you a refund. the law is broadly on your side. if you book with a package holiday operator, a good one, you book with an accommodation provider, a good one, you should be able to get a refund if lockdown is extended. remember destination weddings?

they've always been big business for places like the seychelles or the maldives. lovely, sun—kissed glamorous islands, suitable for the very best day of your life. or what about enormous indian wedding bonanzas with hundreds of guests that went on for days? as with so many things, you just can't do that any more. but, instead, an older and more furtive tradition has been revived, as alana yzola found out. i'm here in the city of las vegas with up to 120,000 weddings performed each year. do you have anything to make me feel like an actual bride? how about a bouquet? hey. and a veil. i want to find out how the wedding industry has been affected by the pandemic. i think i'm ready for my big day, now. let's go. nowadays, people can't or don't want to meet in large numbers,

so a lot of weddings look a lot like this. now, i'm not actually getting married today, but i've come to vegas for that authentic chapel experience. never in my life did i consider getting married by elvis presley, but here we are. well, hi, there, friends. name's elvis. i'm alive and well and here today at the world—famous little church of the west in the heart of las vegas, nevada. do you both promise to adopt each other's hounddogs, to never wear 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? well, that was slightly unhinged. despite the fact that demand for small ceremonies like this are increasing, the wedding industry has been

badly impacted, with the potential loss of $23 billion over the next two years. but there is now a growing trend for eloping with around a third of people deciding to stick with their original wedding dates. we're seeing a lot of coronavirus brides that are either coming here because their wedding was cancelled in their home state and they want to keep the original date, so they're coming to vegas. and also, you know, it's really affected a lot of people financially. so, a less expensive wedding in las vegas is making a lot more sense for couples. dan runs the little church of the west, one of the oldest chapels in vegas. it opened in 1942 and really started the wedding industry as we know it in las vegas. what do you think it is about vegas that makes this, like, the capital of weddings? in nevada, we make it very simple. they've just got to produce their photo id. there's a few questions, but it's pretty straightforward and in las vegas, the marriage bureau,

where you get that marriage license is open from eight o'clock in the morning until midnight, every day of the year. so we make it easy and that's why everyone comes here. plus, it's las vegas, so you can have a great time while they're here. eloping became very common during the great depression, as couples struggled to pay for big ceremonies. hence their reputation for being cost—effective and hassle—free. across the road at the little vegas chapel, newlyweds nathan and barbie have some advice for people thinking about eloping. we've been together for 17 years and it's a compromise. you're hesitant, you want family there. we can have a reception at any point in time. in a time when we're not putting anybody at risk. so i think it's a good option. as long as you know it's what you want. now, this is an issue that hits close to home. you see, i'm one of the couples who've had their wedding postponed due to lockdowns. a new study found that

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 wasjust thinking, it might sound a little bit crazy but what do you think about eloping? i don't know if my family's going to go for that. i definitely know your mum is not going to have that. yeah, my mum will probably throw a fit! just the thought of it. but, like, what are we going to do? we could have two ceremonies, you know. you never know, that might be something. just do us, get eloped, get it in paper and then celebrate with the family when everyone can actually celebrate? that is... that's an option. all right, well, either way, i'm still going to marry you. i love you. right, see you when i get home. before i head back to washington, i've got one more couple to meet.

on the dusty plains of red rock canyon, katie and her partner, sean, are eloping just a stone's throw away from the city. wedding rings are an outward presentation, a symbol of the vows you will share. they represent a promise of eternal and everlasting love. i do pronounce you and present, for the first time, mrand mrs stouks. so, congratulations to you both. this is such a beautiful place to have a ceremony, what, kind of, inspired this location for you guys? we really knew that we wanted to elope and we wanted to elope in a beautiful place. my mother wasn't too happy and i'm sure her mother wasn't, either. yeah, our mums were definitely disappointed, but i think, in the end, they understood that this is what we wanted. so, i've definitely opened my mind to the option of eloping, but it is hard not to 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're back with the mountain guides desperate to get us back trekking in uganda. let's stay in the usa for a moment, as we catch up with the latest in our untold america series, where we look at some of the people who helped to shape the usa we know today. this week, we're in oklahoma, meeting some of its legendary cowboys of colour. i 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.

there were black cowboys before me. 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 work on a ranch every day, then on the weekends, they went and put a dollar and $2 up and said, "i can beat you, riding a horse", and that's the way it began. the people begin to say, "hey, let's put this together, let's make an evening out of rodeo." let's start it over. different cities decided we need an annual rodeo in our town.

it is a financial boost for our city. cowboys of colour becomes a major event and it got to be big. big. i've ridden in the cowboys of colour rodeo all the time. 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, my uncles were cowboys, all of my friends are cowboys and all the cowboys i know are black, you know. i kinda get my strength and energy through how i was raised through those guys. my life is 24—7 work. sun up to sun down.

the event that we know as bulldoging was invented by a black man named bill pickett. i was going to about 130 rodeos a year. i've been beat up, had a punctured lung, ruptured spleen. you're going to go through it, you're going to get hurt, it'sjust a matter of when and how bad. once it's in you, it's hard to get out of. when you come to the dirty south, we're covered, there's a lot of talent here in oklahoma. you know, we're here, and we're not going nowhere. finally, this week, lockdown has been hard for most. but particularly hard for those remote communities that rely on our cash to keep going. in uganda's stunning rwenzori mountains national park, for instance, the crash in tourism was followed almost immediately by devastating floods and landslides. we've been to meet some

of the people now working to rebuild their villages, tourist infrastructure, and their lives. this is africa's botanical big game because it has got lots of things that you can't find anywhere in africa, like the trees, like, animals, like, the scenery, like, everything. it's really, really very unique. when most people come here and they see the beautification, they see the scenery here, they're like... they go home surprised, because it's something they don't believe that it is here. it's another unique world. what makes rwenzori mountains so special is all the surroundings,

especially the water bodies, the place being very green with so different types of trees, which most of them are medicine. in the rwenzori mountains, we have five different zones, which includes the savanna grassland, we've got the tropical rain forest zone, the bamboo zone and then afro alpine zone. and the moorland, which isjust bare rocks and then the glacial. right now, we're in the valley, one of the areas that was badly hit by the floods. and, like, you can see, these are just where the floods past, 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

an almighty roar, a 30 or 40 foot wall of water coming down the river. and, of course, itjust smashed everything that was in its way. it was just up over the top of the banks, everywhere. huge boulders, like the size of a car or even as big as a lounge room, just being taken down with the water. iran and started shouting at people down in the village to, "run, run, run." the flood is actually happened at night, when all of us were in bed. so, we just heard some sounds and people had to... i had a friend of mine, had to communicate to me through the phone. he said, "you wake up, the water is coming." and also when i woke up, i heard sounds of people and the sound of the river. when i came back, this was still there. i had two rooms. this was still there, this was the dining room and this was my bedroom.

so, all the things that was in the bedroom i was not able to pick them. ijust picked those ones in the... in the dining room. it destroyed some of the paths in the mountain. can you believe these guys here? they had no money in their pocket. i had no money in my pocket. they come up here and started working for free, started trying to rebuild the trails, trying to get a way across the river, exploring where we could pass. actually, i've been coming here, helping, digging the trails, sometimes cooking for the team, sometimes slashing. yeah, we just do different kinds. as long as you're on the group, everybody is getting involved. porters and guides. it's hard. the work is hard. to me, it's important, because nowadays there

is no plans, no visitors. so coming here in the mountains, coming up for walk parties is helping me so much to get for my family. much as we've been affected by the floods, we've been making a new discoveries of other places. where to put the trail. but it has also come as an advantage. on this new places to put trails, we've got some other new discoveries, like we've got a series of waterfalls along this valley. we've managed to beat our way through and found a fantastic trail down alongside all these waterfalls. there's nine in total. there's one after the other and it's really incredible. i don't think there's anything like this in east africa. it's a fantastic section of trail. so, in a way, the corona and the floods have also brought opportunity, where we've been able to develop and realise more potential

of the rwenzori 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've got time for this week. coming up next week... lucy's here to look back at some of our favourite sporting trips from over the years. including the whipping ade took at the working wounded games in maryland. and my brisk encounter with scotland's freezing lochs. do you know what? it's not actually not... imean... no, i'm lying, it's really cold! until then, if you want to catch up with some of our recent episodes, you can find us on the bbc iplayer or all the usual places on social media. and until next time, from me and all the travel show team standing a safe and sensible distance from me here

in london, it's goodbye. hello. no rest for the weather this weekend, more spells of rain swinging across the atlantic and pushing through on strong and gusty winds. every now and then between the rain comes the odd glimmer of brightness but unfortunately no sustained spells of dry and sunny weather the reason for this is this area of low pressure that will stay with us through the next 48 hours, feeding in weather fronts and clusters of showers. for the remainder of the afternoon as the centre of the low roles across

ireland, but equally strong winds on irish sea coast, high spring tides and the risk of coastal flooding. further rain pushing into the south—east, another band stretching from the west all the way across england and wales with wetter weather in southern scotland and a wet start to the evening in northern ireland. the numbers in black are the gusts strength come up to 50 mph in some spots on the coast. through the evening and overnight, some of the evening and overnight, some of the wetter weather retreats to the coast in england and wales, scotland are looking at wetter weather coming into the south and also for northern ireland. mild enough. in the far south—east, we need to keep an eye on rain approaching the end of the night and early sunday morning, could be very wet in the south—east of england under further fronts running across the uk through the day so pretty much rain for all areas at some stage, perhaps in northern scotland driest and brightest for the longest period the rain clearing out until later in the day put at the risk of kale is more

in the south coast through the sunday and with that some coastal flooding possible product gusts up to 70 mph in some of the exposed coastal spots but inland, 40—45 possible and heavy showers focused on the south—west late in the afternoon and rain also in northern england and southern scotland by this point but it stays mild, as it will next week as it stays u nsettled. will next week as it stays unsettled. but the end of the week, we pull down a northerly tip of colder air, an area of high pressure will start to build on thursday and friday so the story changes into a quite dramatic weight, becoming calmer but consequently much colder as well, the return of overnight frosts at the end of the week into next weekend.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines: conservative mps urge the prime minister to reset his government after the departure of his top adviser, dominic cummings. several states in the us bring in new restrictions to try to curb the surge in covid—i9. the us president—elect, joe biden, strongly criticises donald trump's handling of the crisis. president trump has insisted he won't put the us into lockdown, and comes close to admitting he could leave the white house next year. i will not go...this administration will not be going to a lockdown. hopefully the... whatever happens in the future, who knows which administration it will be, i guess time will tell. ethiopia's government warns that fighting with local forces in the tigray region appears to be spreading into neighbouring areas.