section of the wall like this is not easy. you cannotjust rise in coronavirus infections. drive up here forgetting italians will only be allowed to travel for work, health, or emergency reasons machinery to the wall is almost on a limited number of days. impossible too. that means this all but essential shops repair project has had to will remain closed. incorporate both cutting—edge technology and tradition. you americans will soon have a second coronavirus can see the mountains here, vaccine, developed by moderna, after it was approved by the us food and drug administration. machines can't come here. we distribution of almost six million doses is expected this weekend, with vaccinations have to use people. but we possible as early as monday. should use technologies to help these people. to do this work a damning report has been better. you have seen that even published by the us senate, saying boeing officials "inappropriately coached" test pilots during re—certification tests after two fatal boeing nowadays, people rebuild the 737 max crashes. the report also says boeing walls using ancient ways, they officials sought to cover up important information that use animals to carry the bricks and they use people to carry contributed to the crashes. all the other bricks. other bricks! yeah, other bricks. we can't use any machines or despite the rising number of covid infections, mechanic ways to rebuild the

on christmas day up to three wall. we use people to do this. households are being allowed people whose work is now being to mix in england, scotland and northern ireland, helped by cutting—edge with slightly tigher rules in wales. around half the population technology. can you take me is planning to form a bubble with friends or relatives through step by step how this for christmas, according to research by the office for national statistics. process actually worked? our home editor mark easton reports. "‘tis the season to be jolly careful, " says the prime minister. so how will britons celebrate christmas in this strangest of years? and what's people's reaction 800 photos? and how long does to the decision to relax the regulations on festive get—togethers, just it take? and if you did not as the pandemic threatens to overwhelm parts of the nhs? have your own footage and people had to go up and do all with the help of analysts of this just themselves, so britainthinks, we've assembled a focus group of people from across the uk. looking at things, taking photos themselves, measuring, well, season's how does that compare to this greetings to you all. i'm interested to know process ? how your christmas plans have changed, and specifically, how many people will you be sitting down with at christmas dinner? there will be seven.

there will be six of us. that drawing footage was used six. five. four of us. with an algorithm to create a by myself, so one. sd i work in the nhs, so i don't with an algorithm to create a 3d model. it meant that every really want to put anybody at risk, so for that pure stage could be closely reason i've decided that monitored. if, for example, 100 i want to spend christmas alone. that's very noble, i have to say. stones were taken off part of the wall and then had to be this year, there willjust be the two of us, and there's no replaced, the engineers could point in getting a turkey refer to the 3d model of the for two, so we'll probably just have chicken. original wall to know exactly how they made it —— needed to we're actually planning be put back. the project has to have our christmas dinner outside, hoping been so successful they are now that it doesn't rain. preparing a different part of the wall. 300 kilometres or 185 what, in the garden?! yes, so, our plan is to have two little tables outside, miles, from beijing, using the distanced, and have lots of blankets and maybe a little fire. same software and the same what do you all think principles. this is the second about the government's plans to relax the restrictions so that family and friends can project of the rebuilding of come together, albeit with this warning to the great wall. it will start be especially careful? i don't think it's a good thing. i think we will pay the price maybe next year. that's exciting! yeah. drones? of for it come january. natalie, you're nodding, i can see. i think they should have just course, yeah, of course! amanda left it down on lockdown

through the whole of the christmas period and then start up, like, 2021, a fresh year. if there had been a lockdown reporting there from the great wall of china. and there will christmas, people would have just said, "no, be more from ourfuture of to hell with it! wall of china. and there will be more from our future of the past series next year. this it's christmas!" at least this way, christmas, many of us will be there's guidance. the vast majority of people spending less time with our will be responsible and mature loved ones than we would like and there are some couples who about it but you'll get that minority who think, "well, i can, so i'm going to". have been separated because of and if there were no rules border closures and travel bands who are desperate to see in place, it would be anarchy. their partners. —— bans. tens this just seems like potentially another massive superspreader event that's been endorsed by the government. of thousands of people in this they don't want to be situation have rallied together the people who cancel christmas. to share tips and advice as i think it's a big mistake. well as their own sweet su ccesses well as their own sweet successes and well as their own sweet successes and we well as their own sweet part of me‘s really looking successes and we have met one of them. ryan and jessie ended forward to christmas because i'm a big kid and i love christmas. i'm buzzing for it. up of them. ryan and jessie ended up making the longest leo of honestly, the one thing that has been getting me his life when he was desperate through this entire year to see his partner alina in america. and the only way he is christmas is coming. could get there was to fly to well, thank you to all of you for your time and your opinions. croatia and spent two weeks in however you celebrate, quarantine before heading first i wish you a peaceful, a merry and, of course, a safe christmas. to istanbul and then finally mark easton. the us. all i was seeing all now it's time year was just news, just

bombarded with covid news, it for the travel show. was just like this travel is this week on the show: santa not happening, lockdown is getting worse, cases are rising. so when i started to see other people, real human lockdown in lapland. we try to beings, in the same situation, offer all the visitors the christmas spirit and joy tackling the same challenges, and being able to ask them just straight up on facebook and get despite of the challenging a response, then that planted times. fixing the world's longest wall with the help of the seed and then i could think technology. is it true that 3096 yes, this is possible. love is of the original wall has vanished? i think so, yeah. and not tourism is a grassroots a little warm holiday glow as global movement dedicated to reuniting binational couples months of enforced separation comes to an end for one couple. and families who have been separated by travel bands and border closures and shutting down the visa processes due to the pandemic —— travel bans. it was very meaningful to meet people, evenjust was very meaningful to meet people, even just online, was very meaningful to meet people, evenjust online, and heartheir people, evenjust online, and hear their stories and also to hear their stories and also to hear their stories and also to hear the successes and to collaborate. i wake up in the morning and then i'm like let's

do it! let'sjust commit. let's just go for it. so friday morning i booked a flight to hello and welcome to the programme coming to you this croatia, booked to examine a b8b and saturday i'm in week from a rather rainy norfolk in the east of england. croatia. i would like to well christmas is most definitely on its way and so welcome you here to zagreb. i'm many of us love to travel during december, but u nfortu nately during december, but unfortunately this year isn't quite the same. still, sit tight, say patient and let us too deep, i'm too committed to in the world to you. first up, this! i'm eithergoing too deep, i'm too committed to this! i'm either going to go all the way and get there or it's not going to work. i was traditionally many of us love to travel around this time of worried! for sure! iwas year but with so many worried. i think when i restrictions currently, what's happening in those places where initially booked everything, i got a huge rush. i'm excited, christmas is a year—round obsession? well, it feels like i'm like well, i have booked this i am flying tomorrow, a long time ago now, but around there's not even time, let me this time last year i was in pack everything and get to heathrow and get to croatia. the village of this bid for the uk's biggest annual christmas really empowered, i'm taking control of everything and i have not even told work that show. —— thursford. for overiio i'm going to be working in another country and i have not told work i'm going to be in yea rs show. —— thursford. for overiio years people have been flocking america, working on another here to see a traditional all completely different time zone.

singing all dancing seasonal we are more than willing to spectacular. it has broken quarantine before, after, that is not an issue for any of us records and become a regular fixture in the christmas and it never has been. we have calendar of many people here in always advocated for safe the uk. i hundred and part each protocols where we prove that we have a real relationship and year, and last yearfor one that we abide to any rules that night only, i was lucky enough to be one of them. of course are in the country and we will go actually above and beyond those rules if need be because this year things will be we want people to know that we wa nt we want people to know that we want you to be safe but at the different. but christmas is far same time, we understand that love is essential in —— and our from cancelled. sadly there is relationships are absolutely vital right now. only the night before i actually flew to turkey that i'd then check on no show — instead the vast the website just one last time. performance spaces and grounds idid not the website just one last time. have been transformed into a i did not get much sleep last night because i'm like everything is running through my head and everything that huge, dazzling light trailfor could go wrong but when the people to explore. since first actual date came, it was just opening back in 1977, the like a regular travel day. and cushing family have run the once i finally got in, it was site and put on the annual christmas extravaganza. this is like finally! finally! it is your baby, you've built this up all come out, i have completed from nothing, this business. it! and it got like a big yes. how hard was it personally for you to take the decision accomplished, a lot of stress

not to have the performers and relief my shoulders. just here? it was rather like a for the whole notion of the bereavement to stop it, so yes whole idea of doing a two week quarantine or the longest you're right, i have worked on layover i will ever do in my christmas here for over a0 yea rs. christmas here for over a0 years. it christmas here for over a0 yea rs. it starts life, that was filled with a christmas here for over a0 years. it starts almost as soon as one show is finished, and to lot of sense of empowerment, of taking control of myself. and produce it, write it, directed taking control of myself. and has been a major part of my taking control of myself. and taking control of my life. but when i got to america, it was life. so it is notjust me, just relief. it was just it's the team i had around me, relieved that it is done. which have all, a lot of them, been living here for 20 years oi’ been living here for 20 years or more. so that emotional loss just relief. it was just relieved that it is donelj think is a community, we give was difficult to cope with. in each other hope every time that we successfully reunite one theory you could have shut down partner at a we successfully reunite one partnerata time. entirely, kept hold of those we successfully reunite one partner at a time. one family pennies and waited until 2021, ata time. but you didn't, looking around partner at a time. one family at a time. that gives us hope. there is light at the end of you really took steps to do something different. really a the tunnel. i think many of us have seen the successes in new business. i was confident that it would work and various countries and that has confident in the success because the loyalty we have had for so many people, i have had motivated us to ask of the same kinds of protocols and exemptions in our own literally hundreds of letters to say "we are coming to your countries. she is coming here tomorrow for a month, which is journey of light because we amazing. can't wait! can't have been coming to thursford

for years, " and i think that wait! shejust has when they get here they won't amazing. can't wait! can't wait! she just has to quarantine in england, as is be disappointed because we have been working on this since the current rules. which is a bit nicerfor her, no july. loneliness in croatia. for her. been working on this since july. but of course it's not just thursford that has had to but, yeah, i'm excited. it adapt this christmas. even for should be a fun christmas sa nta cla us because of her, so... he, adapt this christmas. even for santa claus himself and his helpers up in sanders village travel show. we are currently in finnish lapland, things are at home quarantining and a little different this year. getting ready for christmas. it in finnish lapland, things are has been a crazy year but we a little different this yearlj am anthony, the busy alf. my managed to make it work. we are getting engaged and now spending christmas and new position is head of development year's together so from the in this village. santa claus both of us, very christmas. —— village is an international tourism centre in the middle of merry christmas. that is all we the official hometown of santa have time for on this week's claus. we have normally more programme but join us have time for on this week's than half a million visitors in programme butjoin us next time when you're taking a look back a year, they are coming from at the year that was 2020. a more than 100 countries. disastrous year for anyone who loves to travel but among all christmas time is the busiest time in our village, and we the gloom, some moments of inspiration that give us hope for the months to come. i can't will receive during the busiest days, more than 5000 people,

and now we will receive maximum do it! until then, you can find one third of that amount. 2000, all of our recent adventures on the bbc iplayer. we are on 260 kilometres from here is social media too in all of the london! finland has imposed places. now, from me christa strict measures on incoming larwood and places. now, from me christa la rwood and the places. now, from me christa larwood and the rest of the travel show team, take care and visitors, effectively closing we will see you in 2021. the borders to international tourists, which means that almost all of the visitors this year are from finland. we try to offer all the visitors that christmas spirit and joy, despite of these challenging times. the most valuable christmas present is that vaccination. after that, we are hello. able to focus and plan for the friday brought us another wet and windy day. the rainfall was particularly heavy and persistent future. santa receives around in the west. river levels have been rising half a million letters each across parts of wales, year from south—west england, scotland, too. half a million letters each yearfrom children half a million letters each year from children around the this was the picture in ceredigion. world. the elves sought them we've had plenty of flood warnings around and there for centre in the post room and could still be a bit of disruption with flooding as we head through the weekend this year they have been as inundated as ever. i am because there's a bit more rain in the forecast. greater, and i am working here it won't be persistent.

it will be scattered showers and some sunshine in between as well. so friday's rainfall in santa claus's post office in was courtesy of this cold front, which is going to be the arctic circle. this is a clearing away towards the east. real post office but also i am low pressure to the north—west helping santa claus with his of the uk, so showers rotating around that area of low letters. so children write to pressure, and the winds coming in from a slightly cooler direction, so the bluer colours sa nta letters. so children write to santa claus, they make returning to the map. still mild for the time wishlist, about their families, of year, but not as mild and the letters, they are a as it has been. so we start saturday, then, the early hours, little bit different when they some rain across eastern come from western countries, england which slowly pushes out of the way, and then a return to sunnier skies and plenty then they have a little story of scattered, blustery showers blowing in. always most frequent about themselves, about their in the west and along the south children's lives and hobbies, coast as well. but they have a bigger list. gusts of wind around about 30—a0 mph for some of us, because of coronavirus the post office was forced to close this perhaps touching 50 mph around yearfor those exposed coasts in the south—west. a blustery sort of day. office was forced to close this year for seven office was forced to close this yearfor seven months, for office was forced to close this year for seven months, for the first time in its history. again, mild but not as mild as it has been people, they cannot receive with temperatures about 10 or 11 degrees for most of us. now, theirfamilies, we could see 12 celsius there people, they cannot receive now, their families, but people, they cannot receive now, theirfamilies, but they down towards the south—east. can send a parcel. it is like but there could be some hail and some thunder mixed sa nta in with some of these can send a parcel. it is like santa claus. although it is scattered, blustery showers as they rattle through them. but of course the real on that brisk breeze. magic happens in santa's office they're going to continue overnight, so clear spells and scattered showers moving through into sunday. in grottoes around the world, it is going to be a slightly children traditionally meet

cooler night than we've seen sa nta children traditionally meet santa and reel off their wish recently. lists for presents. but this year, social distancing means still frost—free, really, that santa has to do most of across the board, with temperatures getting down this virtually. although on the to around about 5—7 degrees first thing sunday morning. plus side, this does mean that through the day on sunday, pretty similar to what we'll a chat with centre is now open see on saturday. again, some sunshine, to anyone, like me earlier on some scattered showers — perhaps fewer showers compared to saturday — and it looks like they will today. 0h hello christa! hello tend to fade away later on in the afternoon. a touch cooler as well — temperatures around about 8—11 centre. how are you today? very degrees on sunday. the next patch of rain waiting there in the wings. moving on into monday, well on this dark morning in looks like this area of rain, london. christa, what do you a low pressure system, will move its way in think, are you and i saw the from the west. some uncertainty about exactly naughty list? you know what, i how far north that gets as we head into the middle think given this year i have part of the coming week but it is looking unsettled been stuck at home, i haven't to start this coming week. had many opportunities to be certainly some rain, some blustery conditions naughty, so i would like to to around about wednesday. think i am always on the nice list but i think especially in heading towards christmas eve and christmas day, things turn 2020i list but i think especially in 2020! am on the nice list. so a little bit drier and a little bit cooler, too. centre, tell me a bit about so there could be a bit more your year this year. of course flooding for the first part of this coming week, it is different because we are and then cooler and drier doing it like this, people conditions by the time we get to christmas. aren't so close, but this is bye— bye. the new way to do things and

everybody should think about this way to do things because you have to be close with people, and at the moment it's not possible in the normal way, so not possible in the normal way, so it is a very good way to do it. so i like it actually. and have you noticed any difference in the kinds of gifts that kids are wanting from santa this year? small changes of course, the toys and those things, but quite many children want to have time with their parents, and that is quite heartwarming, i think, and this is the christmas to do that. and so this year, i imagine you have lots of questions about what your activities are going to be on christmas eve, it is your big night of the year, how is covid going to affect you this year? not too much, because thatis year? not too much, because that is the magic of christmas. yes. i'm going to deliver all of those presents normally, good morning. don't worry, they are going to come there, but for social welcome to breakfast, with rogerjohnson and nina warhurst.

distancing, please stay in bed our headlines today: and sleep. more than two thirds of people in england are living under the strictest covid restrictions, as more areas move into tier 3. the government says there's "growing concern" about a new strain back here in thursford, christmas celebrations are already in full swing. i guess of the virus, which appears to be it can't match the energy of the big show we saw last year spreading rapidly in the south—east. but there is plenty of noise and the set is spectacular and the people here seem to be teachers and school governors say really enjoying themselves. and plans to test millions of school there are people, honour rainy night in the middle of a pupils in england after christmas are "undeliverable". the ballroom battle pandemic, which is in itself for the glitterball is nearly over. quite incredible. we look back at a strictly series like no other. still to come on the travel show: we are in china, watching the cutting edge science being used to restore parts of the great wall. and the couples forced apart by border closures getting back together for

christmas. up next, the latest in our series about the brand—new technology being used to restore and protect our most ancient treasures. the question is this week, how do you protect a monument is kilometres long? amanda headed to china to find out. —— a monument that is 20,000 kilometres long. this part of the great wall of china, located a two—hour drive from beijing, is not where tourists normally go. this section is perched on a ridge of 1200 metres above sea level and you have to hike up a mountain to get here. this didn'tjust make it less accessible to tourists, it less accessible to tourists, it also made it very difficult to repair. so give me a sense, what kind of shape was this section in before the repairs started because we are sitting

ona part started because we are sitting on a part that has been repaired. yeah. what to look like before? how bad was it? was it dangerous before? yeah. every year maybe one or two people are dead on this period of the wall. hiking? hiking, yeah. and fallen down. for yea rs yeah. and fallen down. for years the section of the wall was considered so dilapidated it was even given a special name, part of the wild wall. 25 yea rs name, part of the wild wall. 25 years ago i came up with this term wild wall to differentiate

it from the tourist wall. the tourist wall in places where the wall was being rebuilt by ticket, there is often a cable car but the wilderness wall, which is thousands of kilometres of it actually constitutes the warp of my greatest open air museum. william lindsay is a historian who felt so in love with the section of the wall he moved during the 1990s. is it true that 30% of the original wall or walls, i should say, has managed? i think so, yeah. -- has vanished. but repairing a