we need to train adult physicians how to look after paediatric patients. that is where more funding is required for india to save the future of this and the next generations to come. now to something that's captured the imagination of millions of people across china — a herd of wild elephants that has been moving northwards over the course of several months. they began theirjourney in a nature reserve in yunnan province, and after over 300 miles, they've now reached the outskirts of the city of kunming. tim allman reports. day after day, week after week, month after month, the elephants are on the march. 15 of them, heading northwards for reasons known only to themselves. occasionally, the smaller members of the group

need a helping hand, or trunk, to get them on the way. translation: such a situation has happened for the _ first time in history. it's never happened before, so everyone�*s thinking about the reasons. it remains to be further observed and studied. it's not entirely clear when their odyssey began, but some suggest they may have set out as early as december. the animals forging a trail through the chinese countryside, occasionally straying into towns and villages, even helping themselves to something to eat as theirjourney progressed. translation: they like to go| to areas frequented by humans as there's plenty of food. the asian elephants take such areas as their habitats. the authorities have deployed thousands of people to evacuate homes, block off roads and try to lure the animals away from the local population, but they've now reached a major city of more than 6 million people. what they plan to do

next is anyone�*s guess. tim allman, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with stav danaos. hello there. we saw a few showers across parts of england and wales today. elsewhere it was dry. now, tomorrow is looking pretty similar, with parts of england and wales, particularly northern and eastern england, seeing some showers into the afternoon, some of which will be heavy. now, this is the weather front which has been destabilising the atmosphere across england and wales, bringing more cloud and the showers today. those showers will tend to ease away through this evening, and then overnight most places will be dry with lengthy clear spells. a little patchy cloud here and there. under clear spells, further north we could see a little bit of mist developing. temperatures dipping into single figures across parts of scotland, but for northern ireland, i think with much of england and wales should hold into double figures to start monday morning. now, there will be a lot of dry weather around tomorrow with some sunshine, a bit of cloud here and there. and as the temperatures begin to lift into the afternoon, we could see some showers develop from north wales, north midlands,

northern and eastern england. some of these could be heavy and thundery. perhaps a little bit warmer across the board tomorrow. 20 celsius in glasgow, 23 celsius in london. hello, you're watching bbc news with me, lukwesa burak. the headlines: the health secretary says the delta variant of the coronavirus is 40% more transmissible and the government is "open" to delaying the lifting of coronavirus restrictions in england due onjune 21. coronavirus cases in the uk rise by 49% in one week. 5,31” new covid cases were recorded in the last 2a hours. vaccinations are being opened up to the under—305 this week in the drive to offer covid jabs to all adults in england. the duke and duchess of sussex announce the birth of a baby daughter, who they have named lilibet diana. she was born on friday in california.

now on bbc news, the travel show is on an epicjourney across the uk as it opens up for travel again. ade adepitan begins the first of four programmes by navigating the scottish highlands and islands. you gotta love it! proper british coastline. we are on an adventure across the uk as it opens up for travel again. yes! we're open! from rugged coastlines... ..to breathtaking landscapes. and natural habitats. see that? ourjourney will take us across the four nations that make up the united kingdom. and we're doing it sustainably

in an all—electric revamp of an iconic british motor. this week, i'm in scotland, meeting the conservationists restoring britain's biggest national park... we want to see the forest continue to march right up the hills. ..zipping through some spectacular scenery... ade screams and whoops ..and tasting some traditional bakes with a tiktok superstar. how do you say cheers in gaelic? slainte. slainte! i begin my scottish odyssey in inverness — the uk's northernmost city and the so—called capital of the highlands. in a normal year, well over a quarter of a million foreign tourists stop off here on their way

to exploring the region's rolling vistas of mountains, forests and lochs. it's a city that is used to visitors, but i'm willing to bet they've never seen anything quite like this! i wonder what people make of this when they see me driving around in it. it's definitely distinctive. apparently, we've already made it in the local facebook group. car horn toots hey, guys! got a little woo there, a little whoop—dee—woo! it's our travel show van! this prototype is a reimagining of an old iconic morris motor — the first vehicle built by the company since the 19805 and it's all electric. now, the original morrisj—type came out in 1948 alongside the classic morris minor,

which was the first british car to reach a million sales. so what we've done is stuck some portable hand controls on the car so i can drive it with my hands. and because it's a van and there's plenty of room in there, we've just stuck my wheelchair in the back and away we go, on our uk road tour for the travel show. each country in the uk has decided on its own timetable out of lockdown. in scotland, areas are graded from the most severe, level four, all the way down to level zero. concerns about new variants have slowed the move to level one in some parts, but visitors' attractions and accommodations are allowed to open their doors with rules in place for face coverings and social distancing. here in inverness, they're

still finding ways of adapting. at culloden, the site of britain's last pitched battle 275 years ago, the national trust has had to change some of their big anniversary plans. we would normally have an anniversary with around 1500 people here on site, and clearly that is not possible under covid, at all. we decided to go completely online, which then gave us the opportunity to attract a worldwide audience. you went global. absolutely, we went global! so we were able to offer this event for free because we did it, a lot of it as pre—recorded content. it didn't matter what time zone you were in, and the other side of it is, we had 3,000 people engage with it and more have since the event.

it's more than we could've possibly have expected. on the banks of the river ness the pandemic forced luxury hotel ness walk to close just eight months after it first opened. now, they're making up for lost time. we effectively risk analysed everything we were doing. fortunately, in this hotel, we have a lot of space so we can manage the social distancing side of things, but then of course, as everybody knows, the perspex screens, the masks, the visors, etc etc — our operation's much more expensive to run nowadays. our efficiencies in terms of room cleaning is way off the scale from where we were. both katie and tony agree that this summer's going to be crucial in getting the local tourism industry back on track. the reality is, across the whole of the highlands, tourism has been significantly affected.

it's a huge part of our economy and if we can have a good summer, if we can tell our stories and sell our scones, and engage people in the story of culloden, it's going to make a big difference. our best guess at this moment in time is that this year will be a staycation year and we really need our uk residents to get behind us and help us because we have had a very tough time. with things opening up again, i'm going to be travelling across the highlands towards the outer hebrides of scotland's extraordinary west coast. and i'm going to do it with the help of our travel show van, with an occasional break for the odd charge! my first stop is the uk's largest

national park, the cairngorms. i've heard there is an ambitious 200 year plan to restore this landscape. but i'm not sure our little van is up to the off—road bits, so unfortunately, i've had to switch temporarily to an old —fashioned gas guzzler. excellent. it's a long jump down, this. so, dan, where are we? well, ade, we're in the cairngorm national park. we're at the abernethy forest which is owned by the rspb but is part of the cairngorm connect partnership. it is absolutely beautiful, can you tell me what cairngorms connect is? yeah, so it's a partnership between four land owning organisations and what we're trying to do is restore natural processes,

we're trying to get the forest to go back to its natural tree line, we're restoring peatlands that's going to help take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, and where we've got rivers that have been altered, we're making them more natural by restoring them to their natural channels. excuse my ignorance, to my untrained eye this looks pretty natural to me. why would you say it needs to be restored? well, we've been working here for the last 30 years, ade, and if you'd come here 30 years ago you probably wouldn't have been able to see many young trees at all. it's the largest chunk of caledonian pine forest we've got left but it's been constrained by grazing animals and burning and man's intervention for a couple of hundred years, so we want to see the forest continue to march right up the hills and if we're able to come back in a couple of hundred years, we'd hopefully see some trees on the skyline up there as well. wow! the partnership use a range of methods to help restore the landscape, including planting

trees and managing deer numbers. this part of the cairngorms is owned by the royal society for the protection of birds. and their on—site visitor centre at loch garten has just reopened after a big renovation. this place looks shiny and new. yeah, it is, yeah, the first month of opening after two years of being closed. the centre's biggest draw is this observation area, looking out onto a tall platform containing an osprey nest. all right, so you can see the nest in the far distance here. so it's quite a large nest... massive. yeah, it's over a metre wide. and we need that nest to be big because the chicks get really big, really fast. it looks quite far away from here. so, it does look far away but it is actually one

of the best spots to see them, even from the windows, and we have our live cameras up there, you can have a really good look at them on the nest. it's incredible to think that they travel all the way from west africa, here, to the highlands of scotland. yes, so they migrate at the end of march, beginning of april, from west africa, senegal, portugal, spain, and it takes them about 1—2 months to come all the way here. they're beautiful birds and they're the only bird of prey that exclusively feeds on fish. pescatarians, are they? pescatarians, they are, yes, they like their trout! for almost a0 years, in the early part of the 20th century, these birds were hunted to extinction in the uk. conservation work led to their successful reintroduction and over the past few decades, their numbers have steadily grown. today its estimated there are around 250 breeding pairs across britain.

so all the natural processes we talked about, that produces bigger, safer habitats for wildlife to thrive, and the link with ospreys, i suppose, is quite symbolic. the first ospreys to come back to britain came back to loch garten in the 19505 and we're hoping that cairngorms connect�*s going to bring back lots more nature as we move forward through the 200 years. but there's more to the cairngorms than just walks and wildlife. adventure companies offer zip lining, canyoning and something called white water tubing — riding one of these rubber rings downriver. i was hoping to give it a go but the conditions were a little wild. so what was the issue about the tubing today, then? the river's too high, it's in flood, it wouldn't be safe, we couldn't actually stop you, you mightjust keep going. where do the rapids end? the north sea. ok, yeah, that's an issue, isn't it? now lockdown is easing, are you starting to see some pent—up demand?

yeah, absolutely. the may bank holiday weekend was sold out, so our first big weekend, but we are in a lucky position because we've got all this space and fresh air. guess you're the perfect activity centre for covid because of all the space? in the past, i would say about half of all clients were coming from the continent. we're not going to have all that this year, but we've been so busy with uk clients. we were sold out last summer, busiest summer ever, last summer. we're expecting the same this year. well, i might not be able to get out on the river, but kevin insisted i have a go on one of their longest zip lines. i'm feeling a bit more nervous, i mean, i was quite chilled out about this, cos i was like, why everyone does this? you know, kids do it. and now, looking down into the gorge, um... my nether regions have got a little bit tighter! put two hands on top. and then i'll go? yeah, when you lift your legs up,

you shalljust head off out here. i don't wanna...| don't wanna do it! you'll be fine, you'll be fine. ade screams and whoops next on myjourney across scotland, i'm travelling cross country to catch a ferry to the outer hebrides. look at that! do you know what, i'm getting quite worried. the charge is going down a little bit faster than i thought it would. next time i see somewhere to pull over, i'll pull over, and then look on the phone, on the app. ok, so it's saying there's

a charge point at a place called fort augustus. loch ness? hey, great! i mean, scotland is new to me when it comes to charge points, but it doesn't feel to me like you are going to run out. there are more than 1,500 charge points across scotland, but fully charging the van at one of these stations can leave you hanging around a bit. you know, a lot of people said this to me, "aren't you going to get, like, really bored, sitting at charge points, waiting for the car to charge?" but actually, after a long drive, it's nice, itjust makes you take a breath, pause, and enjoy the journey.

the calmac ferries take over 5 million passengers to the scottish islands every year. or at least every normal year! that number was more than halved in 2020. i'm heading to harris, one of the many islands that make up the outer hebrides. they're a collection of 119 islands in all, stretching for 130 miles. and i arrive in time for that one essential hallmark of the british summer. look at the weather! it's bleak. i guess this is what you get when you come to holiday in the uk! it's a different type of holiday. just a few weeks ago, i wouldn't have been able to do this journey because, for most of the year, travel between here and the mainland hasn't been allowed. to stop coronavirus from taking hold

in these closed off communities. and they've been relatively successful. when i arrived in may, they'd recorded less than 300 cases since the pandemic began. to help keep it that way, we've followed government advice and ta ken two lateral flow tests before coming over. but i'm really interested to find out what it's been like for the people living out here who've not been able to leave the islands. i'm on my way to meet a resident who was born and raised on neighbouring lewis, and luckily, we catch a break in the weather. if it was raining, i'd be worried. it would be slippery. it's good work. fingers crossed, ade, this is where my house is going to be. it's a wee bit airy at the moment.

wow, that's a doer—upper. it is a wee bit of a doer—upper, but i think you can see why. so this wee piece of land, my granny was born in that house down there, and this is a very important croft for the family. you'll find with people from the hebridean islands, we're very proud of where we're from. we are scottish but we're a wee bit distinct with our own language and culture and identity. the community, you can imagine in a wee village like this, is very, very important. we're social species, aren't we, human beings? as much as you want to come and live somewhere really remote, we do need that contact every now and again. yes, it's been amazing how folk have really made sure that everybody�*s been ok. that if you're a wee boy who doesn't see his pals any more or an old granny who's not seeing theirfamily, that they're getting a little bit of community feel, even if it's from a distance. as a proud hebridean,

coinneach has been sharing videos of island life on his tiktok account where he's become a bit of a sensation. over lockdown, he racked up 10 million views as the hebridean baker, posting dozens of traditional recipes. hello there! ade! welcome to adepitan taxis! well, it's been quite an adventure, ade, to say the least. it's been really quite special to be able to promote the islands. i do gaelic lessons, but mostly baking, my favourite ones are when i have a classic bake, maybe it's like a tiramisu, but i give it a wee scottish twist. how would you give it a scottish twist? go on. well, there's no harm in throwing a wee bit of whisky in! ah, yes! so, where are we heading now?

so, we're going to make the traditional bake called a duff. on the mainland, they call it a clootie dumpling. nice. but our first stop is a very important stop because my aunt, who's 92, makes the best duff on the island. coinneach's aunt entrusts us with her special ingredient for a perfect pudding — her own home—made three—fruit marmalade. a spoonful of this in the duff! a spoonful of that? and that will make itjust perfect? yes, it would. how do i say thank you in gaelic? ta padh leat. tapadh leat! and with that, we get to work on making some duff. it starts off really easy. this traditional scottish dessert is made with fruits and spices,

then wrapped in a cloth and steamed. look at that! this is baking gold! service with a smile and a scottie dog. wherever food goes, the dog goes as well. so here is our duff. the texture is slightly different. i thought it would be like a typical fruitcake. but it's a bit wetter. i think it's absolutely lovely, it's delicious. i think the marmalade has made a difference. i was going to say, if it wasn't for your aunt's marmalade... but what are your feelings about the island opening up again for tourism?

are you not worried about covid potentially taking hold of the community, like it's never done before? i think we have to stay and be conscious for a long time yet. but i think the island has done really well in making sure that people are safe, the vaccination programme has gone really, really well, but also, for us hebrideans who haven't been able to venture very far, for us to be able to see other parts of the uk would be nice as well. how do you say cheers in gaelic? slainte. slainte! the main town on the outer hebrides is stornoway, home to around 6000 people. and it's here that the first leg of our british roadtrip comes to an end. i think with all the covid rules and restrictions, a lot of us have just got used to staying at home. but then i've come out here and immersed myself in all of this nature and got

to meet actual real people, notjust faces on a laptop or phone screen. i think it's fair to say that nothing will ever be the same again after the pandemic. but if it teaches us to cherish more moments like this and to travel in a more mindful and responsible way, then maybe we can make it a change for the better! and in two weeks' time, ourjourney across the uk continues. for the second leg of our road to recovery tour, i'm crossing england's biggest county — from seaside to countryside. yes! we made it! to see how the people and places of north yorkshire are emerging from lockdown.

hello there. quite a mixed picture today, we saw variable cloud, some sunny spells and also a few showers especially across england and wales. a drier story for scotland and northern ireland. monday is pretty similar, a mixture of sunny spells and a few showers which could become heavy and thundery across northern england in particular. this weather front is bringing thicker cloud and showers across england and wales, it will continue to weaken and move out into the sea. a few showers struggling on through this evening and then

overnight it should turn drier for all with clear spells, variable cloud and mist patches here and there. temperatures, lows of seven or 8 degrees in parts of scotland. further south, northern ireland and wales will hold into double figures, a mild night to come. tomorrow morning starts off with a bit of sunshine, a little bit of cloud too. as the temperatures begin to rise, showers develop, the greatest risk for northern wales, northern and eastern england — some thundery ones likely in places. elsewhere it should be dry, temperatures higher across—the—board, 20 degrees in glasgow and 23 for the south—east of england. out of monday into tuesday, high—pressure dominates for most, but these weather fronts across the northwest will bring thicker cloud at times, certainly to northern ireland and to north and west scotland. increasing breeze as well, showers will start to push into northern ireland, the west mainland of scotland

and the hebrides, but for eastern scotland and much of england and wales, a fine day, sunny spells. quite warm, 21 degrees in aberdeen, 23 or 2a in the london area. on wednesday, those weather fronts push further eastwards so it could be a cloudier scene across much of the country away from the south—east. outbreaks of rain in north—west scotland and northern ireland, perhaps a few showers in west england and wales as well. it will be quite mild and muggy across many areas. best of this sunshine and warmth in the south—east of england. these weather fronts and low pressures continue to skirt past the north—west of the country throughout the week but then through friday and into next weekend, it looks like high—pressure wants to build in across much of the country. it could be quite unsettled across the far north—west of the country, but by the end of the week and next weekend, it looks like it will turn sunnier and warmer again.

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