this is bbc news — these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. queen elizabeth has been reflecting on the hardships of the pandemic in her christmas speech. here, she and prince philip break tradition by staying in windsor. they have been challenges of the year but i am proud and moved by this quiet spirit. eu ambassadors get details of the trade deal in a christmas meeting led by michel barnier. thousands of lorry drivers are spending christmas day in the near dover as 800 military personnel good afternoon and are very happy continue to test the stranded christmas. the european union is hauliers. and pope francis gives expected to formally back the post—brexit trade deal reached with the uk within days. eu ambassadors have been briefed about the contents of the agreement by the bloc‘s chief

negotiator michel barnier. the timing of the deal has forced politicians and officials in the uk and europe to tear up their christmas plans. the queen has reflected on the hardships of the coronavirus pandemic in her christmas broadcast. the queen and the duke of edinburgh have broken with tradition and spending the day at windsor castle, away from the family. people have risen magnificently to the challenges of the year and i am so proud and moved by this quiet indomitable spirit. to oui’ by this quiet indomitable spirit. to our young people in particular, i say thank you for the part you have played. pope francis has used his christmas message to call for universal access to coronavirus vaccines. he delivered his address inside the vatican rather than on the balcony in order to limit the number of people gathering in saint peter's square. and the archbishop of canterbury and the most senior catholic in the country have both use the christmas message to reflect

on the darkness brought by the virus. communal acts of worship are allowed today but some churches have chosen to live stream their services. another 800 military personnel have been sent to kent to help with current virus testing and clearing the backlog of lorries there. after france closed its border with the uk for two days because of fears about the new variant of the virus. that's it, i'll be back with tonight's main bulletin at 11:25pm. for now, i hope you have a happy and peaceful evening. goodbye. let's be honest, it hasn't been the best year for travel. but amid the gloom, we've still found moments of inspiration and seen parts of the world, albeit sometimes virtually, that would take your breath away. laughs. i can't do it! welcome to our look

back at 2020. what a year it's been and it all started so well. wow! lucy took a trip to a simulated martian outpost in the caves of northern spain. in argentina, mike went to the world's second—biggest wetland and took a dunking. oh and we're away! laughs. and i went underwater to swim with sharks in the maldives. they're just so close! but then, disaster struck. lockdowns, border closures and holiday cancellations for the foreseeable future, leaving some of us still out of pocket. but back in those early days in march, simplyjust finding a way back home was the main problem facing many.

my situation is, i'm, i'm stranded. virgin cancelled my flight yesterday due to leave at 6:25pm from miami and i was told the day before that of the cancellation. the advice we've been given has been quite confusing. i mean, i'm obviously not a fluent italian speaker so that's partly my fault, but in general, the advice given has changed every few days and it varies by region quite a lot. now it's not possible to travel to the neighbouring islands or into the city unless you have a reason to do so. we also have curfew in place here between 10pm and 5am. we just want to get back to friends and family. i have got a new grandson who's going to be six months old tomorrow. i haven't seen him for six weeks now. i am being told i can book an alternative flight but i don't know if that is with the same provider. can i go with a different airline like ba, will i be

reimbursed for doing that? it is unsettling, there is so much happening everywhere. it is really easy to get caught up in the panic when you speak to people. i would love to get home, yeah. 0ne one of the things that has made it so one of the things that has made it so much easier has having a travel show family spread quite literally across the globe so we decided to catch up with the team and find out how 2020 has been for them. my people, my travel show people. let's have a chat about this year because it has been an odd year for travel, hasn't it. the travel show presenters. each of you, tell us what your year has been like, highs and lows. it has been really weird. i think i've travelled less than i

have ever travelled since childhood this year. and that is weird. so i have missed it. i think we have all missed it, haven't we? it's almost like we have had our wings clipped. in the beginning it was a little bit like 0k in the beginning it was a little bit like ok i'll take a break but after a few months you realise that travelling so much more thanjust seeing places, it is howl travelling so much more thanjust seeing places, it is how i found happiness in my life at least. and i felt alive. that was taken away. i was felt alive. that was taken away. i wa s a llowe d felt alive. that was taken away. i was allowed to travel to the eu in the beginning ofjuly, i went and i have been travelling since. 0ne the beginning ofjuly, i went and i have been travelling since. one of the big things are realised it animals and mountains and waterfalls but when you take away faces you realise that people and faces a kind of really important to travel. i'll tell you what i found really strange, the few times i have managed to travel overseas, it's how empty the airports are. what you think? it is weird, isn't it? i'm in dubai at the moment so we just

filmed the latest episode and this is the first international trip that we have done, but i've done for eight months and just being in the airport, i don't what i was expecting by deftly wasn't expecting that. there was just eerie silence, you couldn't see in a lot of places i'm very used to this where we have experienced locked down in that kind of thing but it was just really surreal, the entire experience. but just the fact i go on a plane and i was able to step off and get into the he and meeting people, the smells, the food, the bus. i really thrive off that kind of thing. that has reunited my passion for travel and made me realise how much i hate my makeshift desk in my living room! carmen, what about you, what has it been like there injapan? fortunately, japan is pretty big so i travel quite a lot in japan this year more so than any other year. it has been great from that perspective. i spent time with my family. but i have missed my family

overseas, right, and i've had so many trips cancelled and i've had my trip to chile cancelled three times and then i was meant to go to singapore and then they cancelled and i had a green zone pass that allowed me to travel without quarantining an, overnight, that was rescinded and the trip was off. chris, you are a seasoned traveller, have you found any highs or pluses in this crazy year? i was lucky enough, i think it was august, when i went to germany and not only got to track down some wild boar in berlin but we went down and got a taste of oktoberfest that wasn't! which was great because it gave us an opportunity to see really what a beer festival was like for locals because the visitors didn't come from overseas because it wasn't on for 2020 but for me, this year, for the first time

in my life, i have not been able to go home to australia and carmen, i know you live injapan but grew up in australia but the distance have never seemed wider for me. i miss my family and want to go home so at the moment australia opens borders i will be booking the ticket, i promise you that. and talking about booking your plane ticket once the borders are open, what are your hopes for the future? what will happen in 2021 in regards to travel? ithink numberone, for all the people who work in the travel industry around the world, especially countries where they are dependent on tourism, this'll be a massive relief, they can get some work, for gods sake, so that is really important but number two, i want to moderate some conferences and there is a notion that, are people going to reset? think differently about travel? will there be more conscience

travel and sustainability, thinking about that not just about the environment but what we do with the time we spend? certainly a time to value a trip more. what i think about non—stop is in 2021, if we do choose to travel and we can travel, whether we have a vaccination or risk tolerance, there will be a once—in—a—lifetime opportunity to see mount fuji, machu picchu, the angkor wat temples in cambodia without any tourists, and when will that happen again? i think there is an opportunity if people do choose to travel. i think people will have one big holiday next year. if anything, they will plan just one big holiday and not just nip over to paris for the weekend, you know,

a lot of effort and time put into it, and you may even have to consult with a travel agent! as opposed to buying it online. it's like we have gone back 30 years. and the grand master of travel, come on, tell us, what does the future hold? i would say savour every second, value every second because i think we dojust rushed through stuff and don't appreciate everything. do not undervalue how much the travel experience can change everyone. that was amazing... hang on a minute, ade, because we have been talking about our experiences and hopes the next year but we have not asked you! what do you think is coming up, ade? it is a bit of hope we can take from you? do you know what, you guys have summed up a lot of this but i think for me, i have learnt we should not take it for granted. for many years, travel has been

so easy for everybody. and i like the idea of next year being that one, rather than going for lots of small trips and weekends, we look for the one big life changing experience because you don't know when this can happen again and we don't know when it can happen again and as someone who, travel has changed my life so much, yeah, i want to hold onto every second so i think, for me next year, it is all about that big life changing trip. bring on 2021 and the travel show will be bigger, stronger and better! lovely chatting to you all! take care. merry christmas, everyone. merry christmas.

0ver over the new year you will get to see some great trips from over the last years. and lucy's magical visit to riyadh rwanda. until next time, have a happy, healthy and safe next couple of weeks and we will see you in the new year when hopefully we can get back on the road doing what we love the most. but for now, from all of the travel show family all over the world, it's goodbye. hello there, today has been quiet enough but we do have a name storm on the day, storm bella is going to be causing trouble saturday night and into sunday. generally as cloudy skies working it will be turning milder,

by the end of the night we will be frost free, temperatures four to eight celsius for many others. rain though through the end of the night will be persistent throughout boxing day really across western scotland accompanied by some strong gusts of wind, localised flooding is possible here. scattered showers for parts of wales and england. temperatures at the highest up to ten or ii celsius. then storm bella through saturday night and into sunday is going to cause problems, heavy rain could bring localised flooding even that they ground is saturated, southern wales looks particular vulnerable but as well as the rain it's going to be very windy, these damaging 00:14:38,761 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 gusts of wind are on the way.