donald trump's efforts to overturn the us presidential election result suffer further setbacks. the state of georgia certifies its results after a recount confirmed joe biden as the winner. and senior republicans from michigan say they've seen no information that would overturn mr biden‘s victory in their state. the world could be a step closer to a covid—19 vaccine, after the drugs company, pfizer, and its partner biontech, filed for emergency authorisation in the us and other countries around the globe. if approved, it will begin to be rolled out from next month. for the first time the 620 meeting of the world's leading economies is being hosted by an arab state. a broad agenda is on the table, but the meeting — held by saudi arabia — is being overshadowed by questions over the kingdom's human rights‘ record. the acclaimed travel

writer and historian jan morris has died. she was 94. born as james morris, she started out in journalism, reporting for the times on the conquest of everest. in 1972, she had gender reassignment surgery, an experience she wrote about in the book, conundrum. jan morris wrote more than a0 books, and leaves behind a collection of unique and vivid descriptions of some of the world's greatest cities. our arts correspondent, rebecca jones, looks back at an extraordinary life: jan morris, award—winning travel writer and historian, journalist, and one of the earliest to undergo gender reassignment surgery. life had begun as james, a dashing young army officer turned ambitious newspaper reporter, whose moment came in 1953 with the conquest of everest. morris reported the achievement for the times, more interested in climbing the career ladder than the ascent itself. to fool rivals, morris sent news of the success in code.

the times published it on coronation day. for a moment, james morris was one of the most famous journalists in the world. when i got onto this thing, i was thinking always of getting a scoop, as we used to say then, of beating the opposition and getting the news home. that was what interested me. in 1956, morris revealed that the french, british and israelis had colluded in seizing the suez canal. they'd hotly denied it. this is tokyo, one of the biggest and busiest and most unusual of the world's capitals. it's big because 8 million people live here. it's busy because it's the capital of japan, a great industrial power where they make anything from artificial pearls to ocean liners. by 1958, morris was reporting for the bbc and writing travel books. a visit to venice after world war ii inspired an influential book that opened a new chapter. the whole sense of the city, the sadness of it, the beauty of it, the fascination, the fun of it all stuck — bonk — went into my mind,

and i have never got rid of it from that day to this. its success paved the way for a career as a full—time writer, turning to history, with a trilogy on the british empire. but a momentous decision beckoned. never feeling right as a man, something morris's wife had always known, she became one of the first britons to undergo a gender reassignment operation. she wrote a book about it, conundrum, shocking some. she defended herself publicly. it's an arrogant, egotistical book about myself, and i'm afraid that you must take it or leave it. she lived in wales. it agreed with her softer side more than england, she said. she wrote more than a0 books, but always feared she'd be remembered less for her writing than for her private life. now it's time for the travel show.

coming up on the show, pumping some in. hitting the floor. and i forget the rules. some in. hitting the floor. and iforget the rules. —— iron. let go of the bat! hello and welcome to the travel show with me, lucy hedges, coming from the heart of a low—key lockdown london. a host of events have been cancelled 01’ of events have been cancelled or postponed, from the olympics to the wimbledon championships so we to the wimbledon championships so we thought what better

reason than to look back at some of our best sporting adventures. we may not have championship potential but make up championship potential but make upfor it championship potential but make up for it with enthusiasm. we went to washington to take part in the wounded games. being the only person on the travel show who is actually one an olympic medal, they had a reputation to keep up. let's see how he got on. most spot is categorised by ability but this is different. by ability but this is different. by modifying the rules for each individual applet, they encourage people with a range of capabilities to compete together. it is called the

working wounded games. who is allowed to compete? anybody that has some sort of permanent adaptive need that fracture them physically. you are really inclusive and open to everybody? yes, we really get excited when we have first time athletes, first time competitors. this is the calm before the storm. everyone is chilled out but then the madness began when they start competing. —— begins. (music playing). come on! come on, you area playing). come on! come on, you are a beast! are you just trying to show off? i am always trying to show

off. he's saying is too easy now. wesley challenges me to a light workout. i have to use that skiing machines, then toe this sled and then i have to lift a bell up and down and keep doing that for 12 minutes. it is going to be sheer hell. wesley, i am going to give you the travel show warping. —— whooping. that is hard, really hard. it is what you need, right on. have they strapped

me? right, it is your turn. right on. have they strapped me? right, it is yourturn. do some work. i think you will agree that was a pretty impressive effort and he did us proud at that truly amazing event which usually happens every year but 2020 not being a year like any other, let's find out what happened. you are not in the united states, you are in afghanistan? i am a reservist in the us military andi reservist in the us military and i get called up to support the special operations component command. what happened this year? like everybody else, we have been trying tojuggle everybody else, we have been trying to juggle and figure out what it means to support our community and support people with disabilities virtually as much as possible. all of our training seminars where in

person, all of our competitions we re person, all of our competitions were in person, a lot of support were provided to communities where in person and so communities where in person and so really, it was a bit of a reset and rebuild year. this event must be a real focus for a lot of the athletes. we kept hearing about this sense of community about athletes taking pa rt community about athletes taking part in the championships. what stories have you heard from them about this year? obviously a lot of disappointment. people with disabilities have been really impacted by covid. we we re really impacted by covid. we were not going to risk the health and safety of our athletes to do it in person so the fact that we are starting to do seminars on mine and started to come up with platforms to do these competitions online has been very positive. the other thing we have done is a fitness app

that enables people — let's say you when i wanted to do a workout together but i am in afghanistan and you are in the uk, we can pick the same workout at the same time and we can face time and do the workout together so we have adapted yoga, weight lifted, we have how to as well as more functional fitness and that has been out stopgap, if you will between actually developing our platform and not providing the face—to—face interactions. let's talk next year, will it be back bigger and better?” think we're still going to do virtual next year. we're going to play it safe and then come backin to play it safe and then come back in 2022 and make that the big event. hopefully vaccines will allow us to do

face—to—face. right now the plan is virtual in 21 and bigger and better than ever in 22. fingers crossed the event is back in 2022. following on from the pretty impressive performance in washington, not covering himself quite as much glory but taking on a wrestler in mongolia in 2015. i wonder if you can guess who won? down to the nitty—gritty, the art of combat, mongolian style, where there are no wait divisions so there are no wait divisions so the biggest are often the best. my the biggest are often the best. my translator helps me to get to grips with the strategy. get this one down and this one

second. am i swinging him? like that? this goes down, this goes up andi that? this goes down, this goes up and i go for which leg? after several hours of quite intensive training, it feels like i am suddenly getting it. but i am still under no illusion it will be easy. after all that, how do you feel about tomorrow? my main worry is that ifault tomorrow? my main worry is that i fault really badly and injure myself, to be honest, because i am not going to get anywhere near average even basic standards. relax your body today, have a good relax and your body will be loosened up, thatis your body will be loosened up, that is good advice. so here we

go. this is an annual festival which takes place every out right across mongolia. participants compete in the three manly spores, horse racing, archery and wrestling. —— sports stop the biggest and most popular is in the capital but this is the real deal and to begin the pump of the opening ceremony. —— pomp. i spot my mentor. he is one of the first to compete. the match is one when someone falls to the ground and anything but the feet touch the ground. that

could be you. i was a k until just now but the guy before dislocated his arm which freaked me out a little bit. minutes ago before my bout and this is my opponent. the one tactic i was taught does not really work. and from that moment on, i am in a bit of trouble. good luck. thank you. obviously itching for a rematch in mongolia, back in 2015. stay

with us, still to come on this week mahmoud abbas looked back. braving the waves as we go swimming off the scottish coast. let go of the bat! one of the best things about working on the travel show as you get to do some of the craziest things in those unexpected places. at one of the things i really miss at the moment, and this next one is definitely filed under that category. in 2018 mike travelled to kazakhstan to get clea nsed travelled to kazakhstan to get cleansed by local shame and, as you do, before trying a spot of snowboarding on sand. i was so jealous he got to do that one. the doing stretches for three kilometres and reaches a height of 150 metres and let me tell you it might look at it from a distance but it is an entirely other story once you are up

there. it's a little bit windy today, but we're on the singing sands. and i guess that's always how it is here. for myself, i have gone snowboarding before. what are some differences with sandboarding ? 0k. lean back, yes? that being said, it was comforting knowing that i would be going slower than on snow. and also the cool thing about a sand dune is there are are no trees! so i guess it's safer, right? there is no doubt this is the definition of an extreme sport. there are i am strapped in. i think i'm ready. like this?

ooh — and then the board comes... whoa! this is a lot of fun, although i promise you that you get sand in a lot of places you do not want sand. karla's about to come down. she's standing up. she looks excited but little bit nervous. you got it, karla, yeah! but before long, we're starting to get the hang of it. this is a lot of work. what's incredible, though,

is when you come down, as the sand starts to avalanche, you can feel it shaking and reverberating underneath the board. it's very cool. it sings as you come down. we've got our final round from the very, very top, if i can — if i can make it. let's stay here and take a break for a sec. and with that, my trip to kazakhstan is at an end. and what a ride it was. yeah! amazing, mike koncan‘s extant‘s singings and use back in 2018. while swimming has been come popular over the last few years and last year we sent krista to give it a try. are you ready

for this? what's the best way, straight in, or... a bit of acclimatisation, hands in first, water in the back of the neck and then we can deal with floating in the water in the wetsuit and then get on with it. you're the expert, let's go. (laughs). oh, it's lovely. 0h, go. (laughs). oh, it's lovely. oh, lovely you say! do you know what, it's actually not... i mean, no, i'm lying, it's really cold. i was trying to be polite. but i think the longer you're in you just get used to it. absolutely. ok. i can do this. you're doing it! after a few minutes, thanks to my wetsuit, my body did start to warm up, and if you keep moving it's fine. it is not advisable

to come while swimming unless you're to come while swimming unless you' re really to come while swimming unless you're really familiar with the area, and norma is constantly checking in with me and guiding me to shallow areas where we can takea me to shallow areas where we can take a break. because we are now coming up can take a break. because we are now coming up to a low tide now we have slack water so it isa now we have slack water so it is a bit of... it is the tide really, so we were at the middle of the tired just now so we're going to go with it, the deeper we getjust now you can feel it again. we're going that way so you really need to be familiar with the area. due to the sea conditions we weren't able to go to any of the i age ruins on the islands, but we did manage to reach this place. we have just come to this absolutely beautiful little cave, and is so different, we came around the head land which was quite choppy and a really strong current, quite dramatic, and here it is so peaceful and calm. it is really dark, but if i looked down i can see my feet really clearly because the water is so clear. this is a

relatively unexplored corner of the uk and it certainly is a unique way to explore it. if it weren't for the cold and the jellyfish, l weren't for the cold and the jellyfish, i feel like i weren't for the cold and the jellyfish, ifeel like i could just float here all day. christer enjoying the solitude ofa christer enjoying the solitude of a wild swim in scotland. me, i'm much more of a team sportswoman which is why i was slightly worried about letting my side down when i went to new york last year and got roped into playing a sport i had never even heard of. see how you think i got on. and cringe aloud, i kind of had a few problems remembering the rules. —— alert. if you come to the bronx in the spring or if you come to the bronx in the spring or summer if you come to the bronx in the spring or summer there is us —— street colds stickball boulevard where most days the

stickball league eat this tradition alive. —— keep this tradition alive. as far as —— keep this tradition alive. as farasi —— keep this tradition alive. as far as i can tell each player has three attempts to serve the ball, one attempt to hit it, if they miss the ball they are out, if they had it you get to first base, second base, et cetera. to keep the game going the street is to traffic. there is a lot of smack talk as well, a lot of smack talk as well, a lot of smack talk. in fact i am told smack talk. in fact i am told smack talk. in fact i am told smack talk and out —— accounts for 90% of the game. but there isa for 90% of the game. but there is a lot of camaraderie, eve ryo ne is a lot of camaraderie, everyone is just having fun. it is just about a bunch of friends getting together, hanging out. how did you get into it? we all are washed up baseball players. (laughs). that is part of it the other thing is it is a tradition, stickball is a tradition that has always happened in new york

city and a lot of our parents kind of put us into the game. my family has been playing, over 50 years. i remember a young kid going to see my uncles play downtown. young kid going to see my uncles play downtown. what got you into it? nope! all of you have customise your bats, what made from? would, mostly. they are made from? would, mostly. they a re closet poles made from? would, mostly. they are closet poles from the home depot emma and they are closet rods, poles, whatever you want. the stickball league was established in the mid—19 80s. we have approximately 100 members playing stickball. one of the legs founders was steve mercado, a fireman who died in the 9/11 attacks. he always wa nted the 9/11 attacks. he always wanted this to be an olympian event. so on memorial day weekend we have teams from california come, we have teams

from florida, orlando, miami, tampa. we tried to constantly uphold the vision, for him, his two sons play in the league now. it is just a legacy we wa nt to now. it is just a legacy we want to carry on to him. the power of some of these swings, you can hear it. i don't know if i'm going to be able to hit that hard but i'm going to give it my best shot. all right, let's go. let's grab a stick right here for you, there one right here for you, there one right there. ok, all right. let it bounce once, step into the ball. 0k! 0k! it bounce once, step into the ball. 0k! ok! i it bounce once, step into the ball. ok! ok! i feel like it bounce once, step into the ball. ok! ok! ifeel like the ball. ok! ok! ifeel like the ball clipped the bat. i'm going for a clean hit this time. this time you get to run to first base. now they are going to talk trash though. keep your eye on the ball. (laughs).

don't say it! don't say it! ok. there you go, run it out! let go of the bat! (laughs). (laughs). ithink i'm go of the bat! (laughs). (laughs). i think i'm going to leave it to the professionals. i need a bit more pack us. (laughs). —— practice. i did warn you. i can't believe i just ran off with the bat like that. honestly those guys gave me so much stick for doing that. but you've got to admit though, i kind of had them worried. that's it for this week, i dojoin us next week if you can, when. .. week, i dojoin us next week if you can, when... one year on from their devastating summer bushfires we visit australia's kangaroo island to see how life is beginning to bounce back. catch that if you can, but in the meantime remember to follow us on

the meantime remember to follow us on social media using the hashtag bbc travel. hopefully we will give you even more inspiration therefore the time when we can all start travelling again. until next week though, from me, lucy hedges and everyone else here on the travel show team, it's goodbye. hello there. on friday, we saw temperatures slowly rising as milderaircame in from the atlantic, together with a lot of cloud. but over this weekend, it's cooler air that's going to return across the uk, with temperatures set to drop a bit. now, we've seen the milderaircome in, thanks to south—westerly winds bringing in that cloud. this strip of cloud here is a weather front. that's producing the rain that we are seeing at the moment and it's moving

very slowly southwards. now, that weather front will take the rain southwards. as it does so, the rain becomes light and patchy, but it pushes away the milder air steadily through the weekend, with cooler air then following from the north. and that's going to bring in some showers, mainly for scotland and for northern ireland. but we start the weekend with mild air across england and wales. it's colder in northern scotland early on saturday morning. it's windy here as well. and then we've got our band of rain on that weather front. that rain will soon move away from southern scotland, northern ireland, heading into northern england in the morning, and then down through wales, into the north midlands later on in the day. to the south of that, generally dry. a lot of cloud but a hint of sunshine now and again. it's quite mild air still here, so temperatures 13 degrees. further north, it's getting colder through the day. there will be some sunshine, but those showers could be quite heavy and blustery, as well, because it's going to be quite a windy day, especially for northern scotland, where we're looking at gales, gusts of 70 miles an hour for a while in the northern isles. now, through saturday evening and saturday night, that band of clouds and rain, becoming light and patchy,

heads down to southern england. elsewhere, we'll see clearing skies away from those showers continuing mainly in scotland. and the winds will gradually ease as well, so it points to a colder night. temperatures could be easily down to 4 or 5 degrees. but across southern parts of england, south of the ma, mainly, we could be left with a fair bit of cloud on sunday. a little rain now and again but on the whole generally dry. further north, more in the way of sunshine. we keep some showers going across northern ireland, and in particular into scotland. again, they could be quite heavy. it's going to be a cooler day, i think. for many places, temperatures are going to struggle to make double figures. but it won't be as windy on sunday. now, looking ahead into the early parts of next week, and the wind direction changing back to more of a south—westerly. a little bit milder, but we've got weather fronts on the scene as well. they're going to bring cloud and rain. it looks like the wettest weather through monday, and into tuesday, will be across more northern and western parts of the uk.

good morning. welcome to breakfast, with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. our headlines today: the nhs starts setting up coronavirus vaccination centres, and the first doses could be delivered next month. the home secretary priti patel keeps herjob, despite breaking rules by bullying staff. now, questions for borisjohnson over his influence on the report. taking a stand against fake reviews — we meet the businesman who's started legal action against google. new calls for restrictions on heading in football training, after concerns over the number of former players suffering from dementia.