of the night confined to northern and western parts of scotland, running down into northwest england. a fair amount of cloud around, clear spells and temperatures dipping lower than they have done on recent nights. a bit of rain around to start the day tomorrow, but a lot of that drifting away and by lunchtime, much of the uk will be dry. sunny spells around, but here comes the next system. for wales, western parts of england hello, this is bbc news with martine croxall. and northern ireland, the headlines... thicker cloud in the afternoon the former us president, and outbreaks of rain from that. barack obama, has told the bbc not as windy as it has been that the united states is more over at the weekend, divided today, than when he was these are average speeds, elected 12 years ago. with some gusts up to 40mph in some places. temperatures up to 13 degrees. we are very divided right now, certainly more through monday night, than we were when i first ran this rain here will spread north 00:00:48,199 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 and east across the uk. for office in 2007. the side effects of statins may be down to patient anxiety and have nothing to do with what's in them, according to a new study.

scientists behind the first covid vaccine to be successful in early trials say its full impact will be felt next year — but warn of a hard winter ahead. the uk's chief brexit negotiator insists he won't be changing course ahead of a crucial week in trade talks with the eu. we arejust we are just hearing via downing street that the prime minister boris johnson is going to have to self—isolate. he has been notified by nhs test and trace that he is a contact by nhs test and trace that he is a co nta ct of by nhs test and trace that he is a contact of someone who has tested positive for covid—19, so he will have to be self isolating, according to the rules, for a couple of weeks. he has no symptoms, but, of course, although the prime minister had covid—19 earlier in the year and was really very poorly, we know that people can get it twice. no symptoms

at the moment, but the prime minister is going to have to self—isolate as a contact of someone with coronavirus. coming up on the show... the lockdown elopers heading for vegas. laughs. 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. because it has got lots of things that you can't find anywhere in africa. theme music plays.

hello, and welcome to the show, once again in lockdown at travel show hq. it is 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 have 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 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 see huge spikes. so when portugal, for example, came onto the list of countries that you could go visit, we saw a spike of about 2000%. it is one thing to look at concrete bookings and searches, but when you're speaking to people about their feelings about travel, really, what's the shift for you? so they want to be sure that their money is safe and actually, again, that they can move things around,

make sure they can get a refund and then, 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 their responsibility to take care of the community that they are visiting and that they live around. people will continually 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 is 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 have booked for next year. can i get a round of applause? applause. orlando, with its range of theme parks and resorts like universal and disney has topped skyscanner‘s searches for this easter time.

i have been to disney about 11 times now. i think this was the 11th time this year. my dad's been 25 times — oh, so 2a — 25th was this year — and itjust 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 higher than them. 2019! i expected it to be a lot different. the queueing for the rides, i imagine, would be a lot different. the children, they are very excited. but they are very excited every year, to an extent. even more so, i think. we have been locked in this year. it gives us something to look forward to. well, fingers crossed they are 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 that said 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 is 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 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 have 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 lockdowns, so very possible that that may happen. the best advice i can give you, if lockdown is extended, is to make sure that 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 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, we just cannot do that anymore. 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 are performed each year. do you have anything to make me feel like an actual bride? how about a bouquet? 0k. and a veil. i want to find out how the wedding industry has been affected by the pandemic. laughs. 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. wedding march plays on organ. 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 hound dogs... # ..and 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 the demand for small ceremonies like this are increasing, the wedding industry has been badly impacted, with a 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 are 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 come in to vegas, and also, you know, it has really affected people financially so, you know, 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 “119112 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 — theyjust gotta produce their photo id. there's a few questions but it is pretty straightforward. and in las vegas, the marriage bureau, where you get that license, is open from eight o'clock in the morning until midnight every day of the year, that's why everyone comes here.

plus, it's las vegas — they 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, newly—weds nathan and barbie have some advice for people thinking about eloping. we've been together for 17 years and it's 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 is 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 weddings 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 is going to go for that. i definitely know your mom is not going to have that. yeah, my mom will probably throw a fit. just the thought of it. but, like, what are we going to do? we could have two ceremonies. you never know, that might be something. just do like us — just us, get eloped, get it on 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. yeah! i love you. all right. see you when i get home. before i head home to washington, i've got one more couple to meet. on the dusty plains on 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, and represent a promise of eternal and everlasting love. i do pronounce you, and present for the first time, mr and mrs stooks! 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 moms were definitely disappointed but i think in the end, they — you know, 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 have helped to shape the usa we know today. this week we are 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. slide guitar plays.

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 worked on a ranch every day, then on the weekends when you had a day off, then they went and put the dollars and $2 up and said "i can beat you riding a horse" and hey, that's where we began. the people began to say "hey, let's put this together. let's make an evening out of rodeo." these different cities decided "hey, 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 have 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 uncle were cowboys, all of my friends are cowboys and all of the cowboys i know are black, you know? i kind of get my strength and energy through how i was raised with those guys. my life is 24—7 work, sun up to sundown. the event that we know as bull doggin‘ or steer wrestling was invented by a black man named

bill pickett. i was going to about 130 rodeos a year. i've been beat up. i've had a punctured lung, cut liver, 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 you. 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 the animals, the scenery, everything. it is really very, very unique. when most people come in and they see the vegetation, they see the scenery here, they are like — they go home surprised because otherwise, it is something they don't believe that is here. it's another unique world. what makes rwenzoris, the rwenzori mountains so special is all of the surroundings, especially the water bodies. the place being very green with all different types of trees, which most of them are medicine.

in the rwenzori mountains, we have five different zones which includes the savannah grassland. we go to the the tropical rainforest zone, then to the bamboo zone, then afro alpine zone, then the moorland, which isjust bare rocks, and then the glaciers. right now, we are in nyamambwa 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 this almighty roar. it was about a 30 or 40 foot wall of water coming down the river. of course, it just smashed everything that was on its way. it just was 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 rang and started shouting at people down in the village to run, run, run! the flood actually happened that night when all of us were in our beds, 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 waked 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 is — this was my bedroom. so all the things that was in the bedroom, i was not able to pick them. ijust picked these ones in here,

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 have been coming here, helping, digging the trail, sometimes cooking for the team, sometimes slashing, yeah, just doing different kinds, as long as you are on the move. everybody's getting involved, porters and guides. it's hard. the work is hard. to me, it is important because nowadays, there is no plans, no visitors, so coming here in the mountains, coming for work parties is helping together for my family. as much as we have been

affected by the floods, also we have been making a new discovery of other places where to put the trail. but it has also come as an advantage that all this new places to put trails, we've got some other new discoveries, like we have got a series of waterfalls along this valley. we've managed to beat our way through and we found a fantastic trail down alongside all of these waterfalls. there's nine in total, just one after the other, and it is really incredible — i do not think there is 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 have 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 actually not — i mean, no, i'm lying! it's really cold! until then, if you want to catch up with our recent episodes, you can find us on the bbc iplayer, or all of usual the places on social media. and until next time, from me and all of the travel show team, standing a safe and sensible distance here from me in london, it is goodbye.

hello. wind gusts of 92 mph on the isle of wight today at an exposed weather station. although it has been stormy to the english channel on an adjacent coasts, a bit of sunshine, it has not been a complete wash—out everywhere. a bit of sunshine, it has not been there a bit of sunshine, it has not been is a gap between systems there is a gap between weather systems will develop and it doesn't turn... wetter in the west to tomorrow afternoon. overnight, what we're tomorrow afternoon. overnight, what we‘ re left tomorrow afternoon. overnight, what we're left with is a showery rain across northern and western parts of scotland, running down towards north—west england. still a few spots of rain elsewhere in england

and wales. cloud around, but some clear spells will be a cooler start to the day on monday morning. what is left of the rain will fade away. by is left of the rain will fade away. by the end of monday morning, it will be dry, there will be sunny spells around, but remember that next weather system coming in, spreading in the cloud to wales, western parts of england and northern ireland you will get rain arriving in the afternoon. breezy but not as windy as over the weekend, and temperatures in the range of nine to 13 celsius. you will see outbreaks of rain arriving through the evening and overnight, and behind that, we are drawing in plenty of cloud, but plenty of mild air, so it will be a mild start to tuesday morning, some of us in double figures. a wet start in north—west scotland. a lot of rain in tuesday and into wednesday with this weather front close by, which does bring a risk of flooding. elsewhere on tuesday, there will be

some cloud around, if you brighter breaks, and some mild air coming in from the site. mild towards western hills. you could see some light rain 01’ hills. you could see some light rain or drizzle. in north—west scotland... many of us will have a dry tuesday. temperatures widely into the mid—teens. eastern side of england could be 16 or 17 celsius. this weather system gets a move on as we go through wednesday, sweeping as we go through wednesday, sweeping a weather front east across the uk, with rain clearing to brighter skies on thursday with a few showers moving south. it will feel colder with temperatures sinking down to single figures by friday.

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current president, who actively signed division. because he felt it was good for his politics. —— fanned division. the trump administration is under pressure to begin the transition to the us—president elect, joe biden, as the country's coronavirus crisis deepens. joe biden‘s going to become president of the united states in the midst of an ongoing crisis.