the bbc has uncovered new claims that children from china's uyghur minority have been separated from their parents by chinese officials. both the uk and the us have accused china of violating human rights as reports emerge of uyghurs being forced into internment camps and women being sterilised. south africa is to set up the continent's first covid—19 vaccine production facility, as president cyril ramaphosa said africa now understood that doses would never come from elsewhere in time to save lives. the project will take time to get started, no vaccines are expected until next year. voting has been taking place in ethiopia's general election, billed as a major test of the country's new democracy. prime minister abiy ahmed has told the bbc there is no hunger in the war—torn tigray province, but admitted there are problems, and the government was capable of fixing them.

the details of a coronavirus booster programme for the autumn will be revealed next week after seeing a doctor said planning forward should be split up stopping it comes as the parameter borisjohnson the parameter boris johnson said the parameter borisjohnson said it was important to look at opportunities for people who have been double jabbed to avoid self—isolating. to downplay suggestions that could be applied to people coming back from abroad as fergus walsh reports. your vaccine is being prepared now. the prime minister was in north london today at a sports stadium. one of many transformed into covid immunisation centres. this was meant to be the day that all social distancing rules were lifted in england. but that has been delayed by four weeks to give more time to getjobs in arms. i think it's looking good forjuly the 19th to be that terminus point. i think what the scientists

are saying is that, you know things like flu will come back this winter. we may have a rough winter for all sorts of reasons. obviously there are big pressures on the nhs. more than a million vaccine appointments were booked in two days after they were opened up to all over 18s in england on friday. meanwhile planning is under way for a possible autumn is to campaign. but that will depend on the answer to some key questions. first, how long will vaccine protection last? immunity will weigh in at some point but it is unclear when. antibody levels in trial volunteers, some of whom got theirfirst covid jab over a year ago, will give vital clues. third booster doses might be needed only by certain groups such as the over 65s, as immunity levels often decline faster as people age. second, which booster vaccines will be used? a uk trial is comparing seven

different covid vaccines and examining whether getting a different third jab from your first two doses may provide extra protection. we are hoping to have the results by the end of august that will go to thejoint committee on vaccination and immunisation. and that will tell us about the side—effects it will also tell us if any of the vaccines are not working properly as a booster. and what about flu? the flu jab campaign gets under way in september. flu — protect- yourself and others. health service providers say this means decisions will need to be made soon about how covid vaccines are deployed in the autumn. can we combine covid—19 jabs with flu jabs? can you have a covid jab in one arm and a flu jab in another, for example? and also do we vaccinate children? and it's interesting at the moment children definitely are in this delta variant a significant source of transmission.

restrictions were lifted today on the number of people allowed at weddings in england and wales. karina and graham were married in nottinghamshire after multiple delays due to covid. but honeymoon destinations remain limited. the next review of foreign travel destinations is expected later this week. fergus walsh, bbc news. now on bbc news, the travel show. you've got to love it, proper british coastline. we're 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

to the four nations that make up the united kingdom. and with an eye on our carbon footprint, we're in an all electric revamp of an iconic british motor. on this week's show i'm travelling the width of england's biggest county, north yorkshire. home of seaside treats... you know something's really good when you're sucking as hard as you can and you just can't get anything out. ..uphill climbs... made that look easy, guys! perfect! how you doing, guys? ..and the warmest, friendliest people you could hope to meet. say hello! hello! laughs. north yorkshire's coastline is stunning. long sandy beaches studded with old fishing villages. all on the edge of one of the country's great national parks. peace and quiet and beauty

is what attracts people here, but that's not where i'm starting. there she is! scarbados! jaunty brass band music plays. glinting in the sunshine. scarborough is the uk's oldest beach resort. this is where you come if you're looking for the proper old—school seaside traditions. got the ice—cream parlours, the slot machines, got the beach, the sea, the smell of fish and chips out the window. after a week in scotland, the electric van is still holding up well, and getting a lot of love here on the south bay. how you doing, guys? you all right? yes, really good, really good. we're travelling around scarborough and yorkshire. take care!

oh, it's you off the telly! how are you? i'm all right, you? yeah, good, good. we're filming for the travel show, you're actually on camera. come here, look, look! say hello! hello! laughs. scarborough is also home to the country's oldest funicular train company. scarborough has got, let's call it a mixed reputation these days. but it used to be properly posh. back in the 17th century, mineral springs were discovered in the cliffs so people used to come here for the healthy waters, and it is still incredibly popular. in fact, more holidaymakers visit the yorkshire coast than anywhere else in the country outside london. most of the businesses

on the seafront had a rocky old 2020. but this year, the hotels are already well booked all the way through to october. it's a golden opportunity to make up for all that lost time. morning, all right if i go in? thank you! if it's seaside traditions you're after, this is the place to be. the harbour bar has been in scarborough for 75 years. these days, like all of us, it's doing its best to follow the covid guidelines, with customers kept safely in the fresh air. i'm looking for your biggest, most extravagant and spectacular ice cream. yeah? i'll make a knickerbocker glory for you, then. is that the one? it's flashy, and tasty? yeah. you know something's really good when you're sucking as hard as you can and you just can't get anything out. it's ridiculous. the shop's been open since the end of the second world war. julian started working here when he was 12,

and he is the third generation of his family to make and sell ice cream in scarborough. we'd done 75 years, so we celebrated at the beginning of august. a small family party and a few staff. and that's about all we could do. it was sad, because children have grown up on our stools, and then they've come back as adults and they've brought their children. i think there will be a lot of people flocking to places like scarborough all over the uk. yeah. do you think scarborough's ready, do you think yorkshire's ready for it? scarborough will fill up, the hotels, boarding houses, they're getting busy, you can see a lot more people walking around. and the staff seem to be getting a lift, because they have stuck it out, we've tried. how confident are you about the future? very confident, yeah. i think scarborough... scarborough will do well, theresa and i have been talking

about starting a family... laughs. what's in these knickerbocker glorys? is it something in these? theresa, you hear that? idid, yes! i thinkjulian said twins. another trick scarborough has up its sleeve is its surroundings. it lies right on the edge of the north yorkshire moors national park. 20 minutes from the beachfront, and you're driving through all this. the poxy weatherjust makes it all the more atmospheric. so i'm on my way to a place that has become a real attraction in these parts. you'll have seen it on the big screens in the harry potter movies, and in fact,

only last month, tom cruise was here shooting his latest mission: impossible film. as i arrive, the north york moors railway has only been open a couple of days after months of lockdown. hey, come on! i'm on ! are you aid... ade! you're famous! i'm not that famous! it's really nice to be on this train. when it shut down, one of the consequences was not only did it impact the passengers, but all the staff that work on this line. i was speaking to the stationmaster, and he travels 100 miles to work on this line, and he's a volunteer,

he does it for free. so it's just... it makes it feel even more special that it's back up and running again. we need this, they all need this. it takes £7 million a year to keep this running. you put it here? marvellous. and when you come face—to—face with the guys trying to keep the wheels on the rails, you really understand the colossal effort, and expense. so i just light the flare, and what i want you to do is just have a look inside that hole inside the boiler there, and just make sure there is no lumps of scale and sludge, and make sure all the passageways are nice and clear. mate, it seems all clear in there, i think there's something, some brown stuff on the left, on the left—hand side. we have to do this every 28 days, to wash the boiler out, and there's nearly 50 of these plugs on the engine. 50!

and we have got to remove each plug, wash out, we have to check inside with the flare and fit them all back nice and tightly. having talked about the amount of maintenance you have to do, what was it then like for you to have to close all these stations down because of lockdown? it was a challenge, but we put out a marketing appeal online for donations to help us keep us going during the pandemic, we also did a silent auction where people could enter and bid to come out and have lunch with me on the diner, and stuff like that. nice! yeah, yeah, yeah, people pay for that, that's cool. things like that were incredibly important to keep us going. and how long do you think you would have been able to keep going, keeping this place mothballed without any visitors? probably not much longer, to be honest. there was a few moments when you sit there and you are watching the news and you are like, you are just uncertain about what's going on in the world, but you've got to be positive, i am a pint—half, full—kind of guy. we knew we would get back to this and survive it.

it is an hour's drive to our next destination, a city that has been spending a lot of time and effort thanking its lockdown heroes. there it is, york. around 8.5 million people came here on a trip pre—lockdown, and that supported around 2a,000 jobs, which was a lot of livelihoods that were thrown up in the air when the shutters came down. but what i really love about york is the fuss they have made about all the people that have kept us going during lockdown. this exhibit at the national railway museum celebrates the guys that kept the railways running last year. but there's more. these murals form a city centre trail to honour the local heroes who went to extremes

to help out their community. julia's cafe is bustling these days, and we're complying with its strict covid measures, but last year when the pandemic hit, it was forced to close. so instead of turning up to work and knocking out the breakfasts, she had an idea. tell me about the supper collective, then. we quickly started to worry and think about some of our locals, our regulars, and how they were going to manage. and quite quickly we realised there was going to be a need for people to get meals, that were isolated and vulnerable. so we just started doing some meals, and it sort of very quickly snowballed, lots of people came on board

with us, and we were delivering food to people that were vulnerable, isolated, all over york. restaurants from across the city got involved, from pizza joints to chocolate emporiums, and julia was right at the heart of it. julia, tell me about this artwork that is going on here. oh, yeah, it's incredible. they basically wanted to celebrate all the people that had done things for the community, so me and steve had our photograph taken, and it has been kind of like graffitied. it is great, an amazing picture. and it represents the supper collective, all the people that helped. then we have ones like an a&e doctor and we have people who have worked in boots the chemist, really on the frontline through a difficult time, who carried on working, and put themselves, some people, obviously at risk. the supper collective has scaled back its activities slightly to try and encourage people back out of their homes. but deliveries are still taking place to some of the most isolated and vulnerable.

the next leg of myjourney continues west, deep into the great expanse of wilderness that is the yorkshire dales. so i had a good scan of the maps that you'll find online that shows you where all the charge points are. and out here it wasn't that great. in york there were loads of charge points, it was really good. so my advice would be, before you leave the cities, make sure you have a full charge on your battery as you head out into the countryside. this beautiful landscape is getting more popular all the time. especially among people who would have gone abroad until the pandemic. in fact, the park authority estimates that in the first

three months of lockdown, 70% of visitors had never been here before. somewhere around here should be the mountain rescue team who are keeping all the newbies like myself safe. i can see some dogs in this direction. dog barks. mountain rescue search dogs turns 50 this year. the teams are made up of volunteers who help search for walkers and climbers who get lost or injured. dog barks. who have we got here? this is gus. hello, gus. search dog gus. hey, search dog gus, how are you? he is excited. how long has gus been doing this for? gus has been training for four years, and because of covid has only just, what we call graded. he's only just become operational. i can only use him for real in the last three week. so he is a newbie. well done, gus, well done.

how do they work and how do you train them? basically they're playing hide and seek. they work for a toy. and when we are training, we call them dogsbodies, where people who go out and hide and have the toy, and the dog is literally hunting for its toy. the scent is the important thing. yeah, they are air scenting. we all give off a scent, and the scent is picked up by the wind, and we use the wind and we run the dog and its nose through the wind, and when it picks up a human scent it will follow that to the person and come back and tell us by barking and then take us back to the person missing. the team has kindly agreed to show me how it all works. and they tell me in the nicest possible way to get lost. so we are going to send you out... you have got all serious here, dave, all serious. i'm worried now. we are going to take you out up that hill with two other bodies who are dave and simon over your shoulder.

here we go. and we're going to send the dogs to find you. how long have you given us? we will give you half—an—hour�*s start. half—an—hour start! look at that over there! let's go. wait for me! looks like a little bit of a cave behind you. i have got you. i need a shove up. made that look easy. all right, i have schlepped up to this little spot, found a hiding place. i will try and camouflage myself amongst these rocks.

there he is. here he comes. here he comes! he is coming over towards me. hello, hello, i've been found! i've been found! well done. oh, yes! you ready? go! that's a reward. yeah, really good. what a brilliant job. yeah, she found you in a very quick space of time. a lot of people won't be able to go abroad now, so more people will be hiking around the dales and around the uk, so will that bring added problems for you, do you think? yeah, to a certain extent, people with little or no knowledge of what they are

doing, let's get out onto the open fell and have a walk in trainers orflip flops... no, you will not get people out... yeah, seriously. two years ago kaz had a find in the middle of the night on the moors for a chap wearing flip—flops. yep. have you got any tips yourself that we can give to the viewers if they are going out on a trek round the dales? tell someone where you are going, pack the right kit, have the right footwear, and have a good idea look at a map, read a guidebook, find out what is out there to locate, to have a look around. it is important to enjoy yourself in safety. my final stop in the dales is more than 1,200 feet above sea level. but nevertheless, 300 million years ago this entire area was covered by a shallow sea. which means the limestone beneath me is riddled with all kinds of interesting things. stump cross caverns is a popular and long—standing family attraction here. from this point you descend into tunnels and chambers

discovered by lead miners about 160 years ago. but there's one issue with exploring caves — it's not all that accessible. bloody hell. blooming helmet. don't worry. i'll stay down. as soon as you get through here you'll be all right. that's the hardest bit. so the caves are older than the dinosaurs, and they used to be near the equator, near africa, and it was a warm, tropical, shallow sea. so the limestone is made up of all the dead sea plants,

and we have found loads of animals here as well, ice age animals, so there is a wolverine, reindeer, bison, woolly mammoth. the work lisa has put into trying to keep this place open is astonishing. first she raffled off her prized camper van. we had a beautiful camper van that was absolutely stunning, and my life dream. and so we actually raised money and we gave my camper van away. . . you gave your camper van away! this is like your dream campervan. yeah. and now she is raffling off her own flat. if you hadn't been able to raise money by selling your camper van or crowdfunding for yourflat, what would have happened? we would have shut. desperate times. however, there is light at the end of the tunnel. today lisa will finally reopen her doors to paying customers. there are just a few minutes to go until the big moment. fantastic. step back and soak that in. look at it. yes.

we made it! we are open! ready, lisa — let me count you down. absolutely! five, four, three, two, one — yes! we're open! first visitors. look at this. come on in. you must be marie. and two people for the caves? fantastic, if you want to come over to drjohn, and he will give you a briefing. thank you so much and have a fabulous time. it's just such a relief. we just want to keep this place going and our wonderful team, also be here for the people. it's the people who saved us. and we want to be here for them.

so it is just overwhelming, really. well done! i would give you a hug but we're now allowed to. elbow, there you go. there you go. two elbows. you know what? i think i'll leave her to it right now. she has a busy old time ahead. i'm so pleased for her — what a relief, she has had her first visitors. but you know what has really blown me away is lisa's resilience and her positivity. and what i've noticed throughout my time up here, to coin a cliche, is that true yorkshire grit and community spirit which has helped them get through some pretty dark days. fair play to them. the next leg of ourjourney across the uk sees lucy in the van exploring the cities, mountains, and countryside of wales, making new friends and hurtling herself off cliff edges along the way.

hello. monday was the summer solstice, but for some places, including parts of southeast england, it was colder than the winter solstice. this was the picture as we ended the day in pontypridd, south wales, so quite a lot of cloud around there. through the course of the night, though, the cloud has tended to break up a little bit. so, tuesday, it will be a drier day in the south, certainly compared to

what we had on monday. and for most places, some spells of sunshine around. low pressure that brought monday's rain will be slowly clearing away towards the south. we have got another weather front approaching from the north—west. before it gets there, though, a lot of clear and dry weather. quite a chilly start to the day, single figures in the north. in fact, those temperatures close to freezing in a few rural glens in scotland, but tuesday morning, for most of us, it is dry, it is bright with some sunshine. a few spots of rain for the likes of kent and sussex which should clear away through the day. so, light winds, not particularly warm for the time of year — temperatures around the east coast around about 15 to 17 degrees. we have got some patchy rain arriving across northern ireland and western scotland through the evening, and overnight into wednesday, thatjust spills its way a little bit further south. so it won't be quite

as cold as we start the day on wednesday, but the lowest temperatures will be across parts of southern and southeast england first thing. so, sunshine holding on for southern england, east anglia as well. further north, we have got more in the way of cloud, a few spots of drizzly rain coming out of this cloud for some places as well. temperatures getting up to about 20—22 degrees where you do see the sunshine. typically the high teens where you are stuck under the cloud, towards the north and north—west. into thursday, again, we've got a weather front that's a bit more active this time across western scotland, perhaps parts of northern ireland also seeing some fairly heavy rain on thursday, slowly slipping its way south. i think much of england and wales holding onto some dry weather, variable amounts of cloud. 20—22 degrees in the south, but the mid—to—high teens further north. bit of a mixed picture as we look towards the end of the week. most of us see some drier and eventually some slightly warmer weather too as we head towards the weekend. still, one or two showers around on friday. bye— bye.

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