‘ rain ‘rain moving in. and those ‘ rain moving in. and those winds of rain moving in. and those winds will pick up. it remains unsettled into middle parts of the week so tuesday into wednesday, the next area of low pressure and this front sweeping in. then it will be all change towards the end of the week. the mild and unsettled conditions get cleared away with the open doors for this called air to move in from the north. unsettled on stormy times, turning a bit quieter but also colder till the end of the week. goodbye for now.

hello this is bbc news. the headlines... the british entertainer des o'connor, known for his prime—time tv shows, has died at the age of 88. calls for the government to force social media companies to remove anti—vaccine content from their platforms. lewis hamilton wins a record—equalling seventh world title after claiming victory at the turkish grand prix. and the promise of an extra £40 million for green spaces in england as part of a plan

to restore species and combat climate change. 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 hq. 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 to 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, where up to 120,000 weddings performed each year. do you have anything to make me feel like an actual bride? how about a bouquet? 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 motherwasn'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 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 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. i ran 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 whooping 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, the weather is set to cause us some disruption through the course of today. we've got a deep area of low pressure driving our weather, bringing some outbreaks of really heavy rain at times for many of us and also some strong winds, especially towards the south. so that deep area of low pressure has been moving its way in from the west, sitting to the north of the uk, but it's to the south of that where you see all these isobars here, that we see the strongest of the winds. and a couple of weather fronts moving their way through as well. so we've had heavy rain earlier across the south—east, which will be clearing away

into the afternoon, but then more showers rattling around that area of low pressure. nowhere really immune to catching outbreaks of rain. for scotland and northern ireland, the rain won't be quite as heavy, but it will be persistent and slow—moving in places. further south, look at the wind gusts this afternoon, up to about 60, even 70 miles per hour or more through the english channel. even inland gusts about 45 miles per hour, enough to bring down some small trees and a lot of debris on the roads as well. so temperatures only about eight to 11 degrees this afternoon, noticeably cooler air than we've had around recently. into this evening and tonight, then, still outbreaks of showery rain lingering for some of us, particularly through scotland, northern england as well. mostly dry further south, still enough of a breeze to keep things frost—free with overnight temperatures falling to around about five to nine degrees. now, tomorrow's weather will be in between areas of low pressure. so today's low pressure clearing to the north—east, the next one lining up in the atlantic but in between, just a bump of slightly higher pressure, so although we're likely to start off with a few showers, especially for scotland and northern england, they tend to fade away and there will be some

drier and some slightly brighter weather tomorrow. it'll be breezy, but not as windy as today, but then more cloud and outbreaks of rain move in from the west later in the day. and again, those winds will be picking up later on. temperatures about ten to 13 degrees on monday. it remains reasonably mild, but also unsettled into the middle part of the week. so tuesday and into wednesday, the next area of low pressure is this quite active cold front sweeps eastwards across the uk, another spell of windy conditions as well. then it's going to be all change towards the end of the week. the mild and unsettled conditions get cleared away. we open the doors for this colder airflow to move in from the north. so the next few days, certainly unsettled, quite stormy at times, too. it turns a bit quieter, but also colder as we look towards the end of the week, bye for now.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines at 2pm. the entertainer des o'connor, known for his prime—time tv shows, has died at the age of 88. big hopes for the new coronavirus vaccine from the company behind it — but warnings of a hard winter ahead. it may not have a big impact on the infection numbers in this winter. labour calls for the government to force social media companies to remove anti—vaccine content from their platforms. the uk's chief brexit negotiator insists he won't be changing course ahead of a crucial week in trade talks with the eu. and lewis hamilton wins a record—equalling seventh world title after claiming victory at the turkish grand prix.