Keep on dancing. Rough seas around many western coasts of the uk. It is another windy day across the uk. Heavy and persistent rain coming into western parts of scotland. Turning drier and brighter this afternoon for Northern Ireland. More rain this evening. For england and wales, it is a case of scattered and heavy showers moving quickly west to east on strong winds. Thus in excess of a0 miles an hour now. Some spots seeing wind over 50 miles an hour here. Tonight, it stays very breezy out there. Rain running back into parts of scotland. A few showers into wales. Temperatures not going down to far. The wins continuing to ease a bit, and some cloud around. At he vein in western scotland. All of that is slowly dying out and
turning a bit brighter. This afternoon, a bit warmer. A woman still on the bank holiday. More sunshine by then. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines calls for Boris Johnsons most Senior Advisor to resign after hes accused of breaking lockdown rules. Dominic cummings travelled 250 miles to his parents home when he had coronavirus symptoms a source close to him denies any breach of the restrictions. Engine failure was reported shortly before a plane crashed into a Residential Area of karachi in pakistan. At least 97 people have been killed. A two week quarantine for most people entering the uk, with fines for those who dont self isolate. A new study says an anti malarial drug promoted by the us president to treat covid i9 may increase the risk of death among infected patients. Us democratic candidate joe biden apologises for his
comments about African Americans who choose to vote for president trump. Now on bbc news, the travel show finds out what it will be like to get on a plane after the world finally emerges from lockdown. On this weeks travel show, your guide to the future of flying once the lockdown is over. Hello and welcome to an almost deserted sta nsted airport just outside london. We are here to find out
what the airlines and airports are planning to do to keep us safe when we do start thinking about foreign holidays again. Also, coming up this week we meet the new york cabbie who has continued working throughout the lockdown. We head to cambodia to see the temple complex and tourist hotspot at angkor wat, totally deserted. And we discover some of historys greatest minds thought that the very best way to travel was to stay at home. Here at stansted, there are normally 500 flights coming in and out every day. Today, there are only nine. But flight numbers from the uk could be slowly picking up again. British airways and ryanair have recently announced plans to schedule up to 50 of their usual flight capacity from the beginning ofjuly. Though they say, normal scheduling isnt
likely to return until 2023. Of course this is not going to be a normal summer. Not for any of us. Meanwhile, local travel restrictions are easing and some governments are even planning to reopen their borders to citizens of neighbouring countries, creating so called travel bubbles. The whole purpose of us discussing the possibility of having a bubble of sorts between us, a safe zone of travel, would be so that you wouldnt have to have a quarantine attached. I think everyone would acknowledge that it would be prohibitive. Safety, that underlies our guidance. And that means taking gradual, careful steps to help travel restart in line with what the science tells us. Those bubbles are one way of kickstarting travel again. But when we do begin to fly, can we trust the airlines are doing enough to keep us safe . So here at stansted, they are using all of the space to enforce social distancing. There are stickers on the ground to make sure that you stand in the right place. And when it comes to masks and gloves, well, theyre not compulsory but they are very much advised. You can get your hands cleaned first. Thank you very much. Then, you get the mask. Thank you. Then put that on around your ears. And then the gloves. And you can even get your temperature scanned before you get to security. Well, that all seems pretty straightforward and simple when youve only got nine flights a day. How easy will it be to maintain when there are many more passengers and many more flights . And also, when you actually get on the plane, how safe will that be . This week, the International Air transport association announced a series of measures the industry should be taking to keep passengers and crew safe. Etihad, based in abu dhabi, is just one of the airlines already taking action to try and reassure passengers. They are currently trialling technology that allows them to monitor passengers temperature, and respiratory rate, with the potential to detect covid i9. We have embarked on a huge sanitisation programme. What were doing is actively encouraging people to check in online. Its all about limiting touch points throughout the travellers journey. I want to ask about the middle seat because there seems to be some debate about that. Does it actually make any difference . It is difficult to achieve the two metre distancing. For example, in economy, what were doing is ensuring that the neighbouring seat is free. All of our aircraft have air filters which basically filter 99 of airborne microbes. Effectively, the air quality on an aircraft is equivalent to what you would get in a hospital operating theatre. To be able to not use
an aircrafts full capacity, its not economically sustainable in the long term. The only way i suppose you could counter this is to double airfares and thats not viable. We would hope that the wearing of facemasks, as well as the many other measures, that that is going to be sufficient. Because it is impossible to maintain social distancing on an aircraft. Etihad is not alone in this efforts. Delta will be spraying its cabins with a special disinfectant between every flight. The spray is electrostatically charged to ensure that no surface goes untouched. And hong kong airport has introduced decontamination tanks. The claim is they will kill any viruses or bacteria on your clothes or exposed parts of your body in only a0 seconds. But its notjust technology that could be seeing us through this crisis. Medical detection dogs may soon be in place at airports like this in an effort to literally sniff out passengers
with the virus. So, this is asher, one of the rescue dogs whos going to be helping in the fight against covid i9. Hes got 250 million scent receptors in the nose. Us poor humans have 5 million. That nose is going to be put to good use and going to save many, many lives. Volunteers who were tested positive for covid i9 were given special socks to wear. The socks capture the odour of the virus which is then used to train the dogs. We are hoping that the dog will be able to make a good detection without becoming too close to the individuals. This is going to be quite smelly. If there is an odour on a person, they are going to be shedding these odours and the dog should be able to pick it up. For example, when working at heathrow, where there flights coming in from areas of the world where we know there is a current hotspot. The dogs will be able to detect,
very rapidly, it takes. 5 of a second for a dog to make a detection. Lets find out what our global guru simon calder makes of the situation. Hi, simon. Lets face it, its going to be a long time before most of us are flying again, isnt it . That all depends who you talk to actually. Because you have, for example, in the middle of may, lufthansa suddenly coming out and saying, right, were going to be flying a really, quite Significant Network from the first ofjune. Youve had obviously, ryanair, the biggest Budget Airline in europe saying that they would be pretty much doing the same from the start ofjuly. And, its a question of which airlines are flying where and most crucially of course, as weve been hearing, what sort of restrictions are in place, notjust for the airlines but crucially,
for the passengers. I want to clear up a couple of things that people have said. Number one, by getting rid of the middle seat on the plane, you are making it safer. And number two, actually flying on a plane is safer because the air is circulated so we shouldnt worry about that anyway. What do you say to that . If you take the middle seat out of an aircraft, then you can reduce the distance between passengers from maybe 50 centimetres to one metre. A lot of people would say that in the course of a three hour flight, thats actually not going to make much difference but it would certainly make a lot of difference to the fare. If you take out a third of the passengers, the cruelty of fractions means that you would need to increase the price by 50 . And in terms of the way that the air circulates on aircrafts, yes, they do have very high quality air filters, up to operating theatre standards. If somebody next to you is sneezing
and coughing, im afraid that the best filters in the world arent going to do you much good. The other thing of course is that while these things are starting and people are trying to be induced into flying, if you like, there could be some nice, good deals. But in the long run, would it make flying prohibitively expensive . Its depends on who you talk to. There are certainly, of course, going to be some increased costs. If youre a low cost airline and you have to clean out the aircraft really thoroughly after a two hour flight, thats going to add to your returns. Thats going to reduce the amount of time you have aircraft in the air and effectively cause losses in your business model. The extra costs at airports are going to push prices up. Against that, youre going to see the airlines, the holiday companies, coming in with all sorts of deals to persuade us that, yes, it is a good idea to go travelling once again. And so, as it were for the brave,
maybe for the foolhardy, there will be plenty of bargains out there. But i think when things settle down, we wont see quite as many flights, we wont see the same range of opportunities that we have now, and we will certainly see higher prices because the only way that the airlines can recoup the billions of dollars that they have been losing over the past few months, is of course to push up the prices, and they will do that by keeping a lid on capacity. Thank you, simon. Stay safe. Lets cross the atlantic now and speak to anotherfamiliarface here on the travel show. Mike corey has been at home in lockdown in eastern canada. Hello, mike. Hello, how are you . Fine. How severe have restrictions been where you are . Things are different province to province. My province, brunswick on the east coast, weve only had about a hundred cases. We are taking it seriously but are slowly opening things
back up. For example, parks have now been opened locally and we can gather in groups of only ten, as long as we are outside and still retaining social distancing measures. But really you must be itching to get on the road again and travel abroad. What is on your list for the places you want to go next . I had plans to go to peru and of course, those are now on hold. Thats where im itching to go to as soon as i can. Ive got to find myself in the jungle sometime soon. It does give you a chance to explore your homeland, canada, some more. Are you going to do that . Yes, definitely. My province, brunswick, i havent spent a lot of time here in the past couple of years im always travelling. For example, there are the highest heights in the world, 15 metres of vertical water goes up and down each day. I think as soon as i can, ill be up there maybe getting my feet muddy in the ocean. I wish i was there too. Were going to stay on this side of the ocean for a moment and find out how new yorks famous yellow taxi cabs are dealing with deserted streets and no passengers. You can see how empty the city is. My name is ricardo rosillo. Ive been a new york city cab driverfor 15 years. Ever since the lockdown, business has been slowing down and it has affected us cabdrivers because normally, we would usually make around 30 rides a day and now, you could only make around ten rides per day. So this right here is the heart of times square. Yeah, so this is one of the busiest places in manhattan and as you can see, its completely empty. They got thousands and thousands of people here. It is crazy how, because of the virus, it has affected ourjobs and it has affected everybody. The only reason that im out here is because im a little bit
younger than other cabdrivers, so that makes a big difference. Ive heard that a lot of cabdrivers have passed away, you know, because they are in their mid 50s, so i think that most of the cabdrivers that are out here now in new york are mostly young in their 30s or, you know, a0s and they feel more secure. A couple of friends of mine have passed away. I was afraid of getting infected and infecting others you know, my family members orfriends. But, you know, i needed to make a living. I have sanitation products and alcohol. I always wipe down the seats after i pick up a passenger. So this right here is park avenue. Before the quarantine, you should see it at this time. At 3 00 in the afternoon, there is a lot of people hailing cabs. People coming out from work, kids getting out from school. Most of the passengers that i pick up now are nurses, doctors essential workers, basically. So there was one lady that was very generous to me. She had the courtesy to give me 50, just for going less than three blocks. She was surprised that i picked her up. Nobody had picked her up for at least 30 minutes because she looked elderly and they thought she would have the virus. People feel that as an essential worker, i should deserve a better tip, so theyve been really generous to me that way. Now, lockdowns remain firmly in place in some countries but are beginning to ease in others. Its been amazing to see some of the creative ways people have been getting used to their reduced circumstances. And some taking a new, more philosophical view of travel. In berlin, for instance, local group window flicks are projecting films for People Living in apartment blocks to enjoy. Berliners from all over the city can apply online for a viewing. Plays trumpet. Ecuador, baghdad, london and new york have all seen musicians serenade their neighbourhoods. In some places, it has become a regular fixture. Band plays somewhere over the rainbow. Even cartography has a place in this. The urban design site citylabs has been asking people to send in personal maps showing their new, limited horizons. Since the beginning of april, weve been running a project where were inviting readers to send in maps of how their worlds have changed under quarantine. Theyre using this extraordinary moment as a chance to explore their own homes and neighbourhoods and communities in ways that are fresh, in some ways. I mean, despite how, like, gratingly familiar our quarantine lives feel a lot of the time. Maps are really strange objects. We think that theyre just representations of the world but actually, theyre very much showing what we want to represent. So a map of a town might include all of the castles and it doesnt include all of the council estates. So when people go off and make maps, the really nice thing about that is that they are highlighting the bits of the world that they think are important. I think the process of actually making a map, of sitting down and drawing, portraying a place thats important to you, or that, you know, you have some thoughts or feelings about,
it really amplifies that whole experience and kind of forces you to sort through what youre seeing, hearing, thinking, feeling and even desiring about a place. Whenever we travel to a place, we travel at a certain time. New york in 1920 is very different to new york in 2020, and i think imagining how new york is going to be in 2021 could actually be really helpful. It will help us put ourselves in other peoples shoes, take ourselves out of our own particular lockdowns and imagine what the world more generally is going through what its gonna be like at the end of this. Theres quite a lot of evidence in different fields to show that the more you know about something, the more you enjoy it. The philosophers socrates and Immanuel Kant both argued its actually better to read books
about a place if you want to learn about it, rather than going off. So kant has this famous saying where he argues i dont have time to travel. I want to know too much about the world. And then you could just picture him sitting at home in his armchair, surrounded by travel books, and that was his way of doing it. Now, if youve ever been to cambodia, chances are that you will have dropped in on angkor wat. Its the Worlds Largest religious site, a vast ancient buddhist temple complex that attracts 2. 5 Million People every single year. That means its rarely empty. Crowds get there early to see the sunrise and stay for days, spending plenty of money in that part of the country as a result. But, of course, coronavirus has had an impact. Income from tourism has dropped more than 99 since 2019. The angkor wat temple, it really shows the peak, you know, of architectural and engineering skill, you know, of our ancestors. We even put it in the National Flag of cambodia as well. As you could see, around ourselves, we dont see any tourists chuckles. Ifeel quite sad, you know . Yeah, i have not come to this temple for now a0 days. I really missed those day, you know, where i brought people to here, you know . Weve got to deal a lot with our life situation at the moment, so many people lostjob. Of course, we have had some crisis before but nothing was ever bigger than this, so this is, like, the hardest hit ever. So far, cambodia has reported fewer than 150 cases of coronavirus. But the crash in International Tourism has badly affected the local economy. In nearby siem reap, many businesses are closed. Here is the psar chas. It is the most well known market in the city where tourists would come for shopping, for woodcarving, t shirt, silver, silk. Yeah, normally these stores are opening but at the moment, every store is closed. Back at the temple, some work has been able to continue. We use mortar so thats when water, when it flows, it cant go inside, not on in the stone. And fewer sightseers have actually made the job of some conservationists a little bit easier. Site managers are also working on a new bicycle trail and a new welcome area, but many of these projects rely on income generated from ticket sales. For the people whose livelihoods depend on tourism, the end of the crisis cant come soon enough. Of course that we pray that the coronavirus will be vanished from our planet soon, so that people can come once again. And a massive thank you to everyone
who spoke to us there at angkor wat. I really and truly hope that tourism returns to cambodia as soon as it possibly can. Thanks, mike take care. Thats is it for this week. Well be back in a few weeks time with a brand new show. But until then, take care, stay safe and goodbye. Hello. The weekend is getting off to a windy start. Some rough seas out there as well, particularly in the west of the uk. Big waves on the coastline and wet weather across
parts of scotland, especially in the hills north of the central belt. A blustery day across the uk and the heaviest of the rain in scotland. Elsewhere, sunshine and showers. Low pressure will gradually pull away from us as we go through the rest of the weekend. High pressure builds in from the south. That will settle things down. The wind will ease, more of us will see the sunshine once again and temperatures will begin to rise. Lets look at how the rest of the day is shaping up. Very heavy rain falling across parts of western scotland. Patchy rain in eastern scotland. Dry and bright this afternoon in Northern Ireland, more rain this evening. England and wales, sunny spells, blustery showers from west to east on this strong wind. England and wales with gusts of over a0 mph in places, Northern England, Northern Ireland and scotland, 50 to 60 mph. Temperatures down on yesterday. Low
to mid teens. Close to 20 in the warmest parts of eastern and south eastern england. Into tonight, wet in Northern Ireland, another speu wet in Northern Ireland, another spell of rain pushing on across north west england into scotland and north east scotland are seeing some clear spells. Clear spells elsewhere through parts of england and wales. Cloudy into wales. Temperature is not going down too far. Tomorrow we start with a lot of cloud. Patchy rain affecting Northern Ireland, wales, Northern England and scotland. Slowly dying away. The cloud will break up. Some bright and sunny spells coming through, particularly towards the east and south. Temperatures a little bit higher. Low 20s. Another check of the big picture going into the bank holiday. High pressure builds back in. Weather fronts close to Northern Ireland and scotland. England and wales will see the lions share of the sunshine. Northern ireland and scotla nd the sunshine. Northern ireland and scotland will see increasing cloud. You may see some rain, especially in
north west scotland. Still breezy. Most of us looking warmer, particular through Central Eastern england. This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Calls for Boris Johnsons most Senior Advisor to resign after hes accused of breaking uk lockdown rules. Dominic cummings travelled 250 miles to his parents home. Downing street say mr cummings believes he behaved reasonably and legally, but others call for the Prime Minister to make a statement. He is responsible for his special advisers, he needs to get an explanation and i am surprised that he didnt know at the time. I would have known i would have thought he had known at the time and did he sanction this . Engine failure was reported shortly before a plane crashed into a Residential Area
of karachi in pakistan