48 year old conservative judge, Amy Coney Barrett, to fill the vacant seat on the us supreme court. Mr trump appeared alongside the judge at the white house, describing his nominee as one of the countrys most brilliant and gifted legal minds. Thousands of University Students across the uk have been forced into lockdown for two weeks after a spike in coronavirus cases on campuses. 1,700 students in manchester have been told to self isolate in their rooms on campus for m days, after 127 of them contracted coronavirus. Thousands of protesters have defied israels nationwide lockdown to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Large convoys drove to jerusalem from around the country to express their anger at mr netanyahus handling of the pandemic, and his refusal to step down over corruption charges. Tributes are being paid to matt ratana, the police
officer shot dead at a south london Custody Centre on friday morning. An investigation is underway into how the handcuffed suspect, who is in hospital with a bullet wound, was able to take the weapon inside. Acting Deputy Commissioner of the metropolitan police, stuart cundy, gave this update. Yesterday, one of my colleagues, matt, was murdered. And my thoughts are with his partner, his family, his friends, his colleagues, both here and across the world. And, as well as remembering that, over the last two days, we have been working round the clock on our Murder Investigation. At this time, the suspect remains in hospital in a Critical Condition and due to his state, we are not yet able to speak to him. We have teams of specialist investigators who are
investigating matts murder. We have four major crime scenes, each of which is being painstakingly searched and will be subject to a detailed and painstaking forensic examination. We have recovered the gun from the custody suite where matt was shot and that gun is being forensically examined. We also have the cctv from that custody suite, which shows the event. And we have body worn video of our Police Officers who were involved in the circumstances surrounding the arrest of the suspect. Our specialist investigators are carefully reviewing all of that footage, which will be considered alongside the accounts of the officers. One of the aims of our Murder Investigation is to establish why matt was shot. One of my priorities is to ensure that any future criminal prosecution is not jeopardised. And i know that will be important to the public, too, which is why i ask for everybodys support, to not speculate about the events and circumstances. And finally, i would like to thank everybody for their support, which means so much to all of those who worked with and knew matt. Thank you very much. Now its time for the travel show. Endangered jaguars. That is a predator, ladies and gentlemen, to easy riding dogs. At this point in time, she has got almost 3000 hours on a motorcycle. And the beluga whales that
got a second chance. There we go this week, we look back at some of our favourite animal encounters. Hello and welcome to the travel show with me, mike corey, coming to you from romania, actually. During my time on the programme, ive come across some Pretty Amazing animals. There are orangutans in malaysia and borneo. 97 of their dna shared with humans, and that is where they get the name orangutan means man of the forest. Swarms of butterflies in mexico. 0nto the mountain
lions of los angeles. Laughs. But first, we start our look back with another big cat this one in the wetlands in argentina where there are plans to introduce jaguars back into the wild. Welcome to the island home of rewilding argentina, a project aimed at reintroducing this terrifying animal to the wild. Oh, my god. When you make eye contact with a beast the size, your heartjust goes boom, boom, boom. Crazy. Laughs. She is isa. Shes a brazilian panther, or a jaguar. Shes about six years old, yeah. Shes quite young. And how will the wetlands from introducing this beautiful animal . Well, these animals were part of this existence. They have been here for hundreds of thousands of years. They disappeared from the wetlands and now, this ecosystem is lacking from this top predator. And of course, we need to maintain the prey populations in natural numbers i mean, not making them increase so much. Its estimated there are only 250 wild jaguars left across the whole of argentina. But for many locals, they still have a special, mystical significance. It is common that here in corrientes, jaguars are related with bravery and masculinity and its kind of related with the gaucho image. Im allowed into the enclosure to prepare isas meal. 0k, we ve got one hanging fish. Weve got one piece of mystery meat. Ready to go . 0k. She looks a little bit a little annoyed. Normally, i dont think food arrives this late. Laughs. If you look here, theres two trapdoors and ive just been granted permission to open them. Wait, which one do i open . Both of them . I dont want to open the wrong ones. No, the blue one. Blows whistle. Wow look here she comes, entering into the feeding enclosure. Weve hung the fish up lets see if she can find it. 0h thats a predator ladies and gentlemen. Wow and breakfast is served the plan is to release the firstjaguars by early 2021. And if you want to keep track of their progress, rewilding argentina post regular updates on social media. Now, we are off to the united states, the undisputed home of the Cross Country road trip, and its notjust us humans who are aching to get out on the open road again. My name is Michael Fiala and this is my dog sox, and we are currently travelling all over the country. Were trying to visit every single state and every Single National park in the country, all on a motorcycle. This all started when i actually went on a trip abroad and i wasnt able to bring sox
with me and when i got back, the greeting that he gave me, it was really heart warming but it also made me feel kind of bad because i knew that he was really upset that i was gone for so long, so i kind of rearranged my bucket list to do all of the things i could do with sox. His safety is my absolute most important thing. At this point in time, he has now got almost 3,000 hours on a motorcycle and so, i am not concerned with sox falling off, because he knows how to shift his weight, he knows how to hold on to me. Every National Park has blown me away, just the cosmetic beauty of it. Looking across a landscape that youve seen nothing that looks like that in your life. And then of course, the fact that every single time im there and im enjoying some sort of view, i look down and my dog is doing the exact same thing. Hes taking in the experience just as much as i am. Dont go in there
its too. 0h, buddy. Youre going to be cold tonight im doing this because theres too many people that say i wish i did in their life. I dont want to be one of those people. I want to say i did the things i wanted to do and i dont want to wait until im much older to say, ok, now i can go live life. To me, you dont know how long your life is going to be, so you should just live it. And i have to include him, because he is living it too. Michael and sox, getting
the motor running in the usa although we definitely dont recommend trying that with your own four legged friend. Now were going back to 2016, when carmen went to peru tojoin a team returning rescue bears of the wild. The andean bear is the only native bear species to south america. Its on the endangered list because of hunting and habitat loss. But here, in the chaparri area, theyre doing something about it. This is perus first private conservation area, set up jointly with the local community in 2000. It tries to rehabilitate rescued bears that have been captured illegally and mistreated as exotic pets or circus attractions. So this is what conservation is all about here
releasing a bear back into the wild and im lucky enough to be able to watch it happen. Four year old alisa was born in this reserve. So this is alisas mother next door . Yes. Her mother asulina was rescued from captivity, where shed been kept as a house pet. Sadly, she would never survive in the outside world. Were gonna sedate alisa. 0k. And were gonna up a gps collar for her. The gps collar will now allowjuan to track elisa when shes released. Were gonna charge the dart. Juan prepares a tranquilliser that hell shoot into elisas muscles. His shot hits the spot and elisa seems confused. 0h. Finally, elisa is sedated. Now we are going to do a test the collar on her. Put the collar on, see if it fits. Uhhuh. Its a race against the clock before the bear wakes up. Ok, so is that thejob done . Hm mm. So what now . We shut the door and then. . Wait until tomorrow and tomorrow, we gonna release her. 0k. So its a beautiful morning and todays the day were going to release elisa into the world. Im super excited push the gate. Its incredible to be so close to a bear. Theres no gate, theres no fence separating us. Shes just there,
a few metres away. From here on, elisa faces an uncertain future, but the gps collar will track her whereabouts so juan and his team can see how she adapts to life in the wild. Still to come on the travel show we meet the beluga whales about to get a fresh start thousands of miles from home. The coronavirus outbreak has had a devastating impact on Animal Welfare groups. Back in april, rajan spoke to a few to see how they were doing. So many people lose theirjob abroad. Were clearly not going to have donations. So if things got really bad, we could be facing, you know, having to sell up. As you know, theres a restriction what is called stay home. But the population were working with, a population of mountain gorillas that is used to humans. So it means if you lose one day monitoring, it means Something Else can happen like trauma or snares or sickness that we might lose an animal. Theres a lot more work for everybody, just to try and get the basics done. I think if we lost any more people, then wed be starting to really struggle. Yeah, its something that we have been thinking about and planning for, but not having to deal with. And now a few months later, weve spoken to them again to see if the outlook is any sunnier. First to susans donkey and mule reserve refuge in the Atlas Mountains in morocco. We have been locked down now for nearly six months, so there is no tourism at all in morocco. For the animals, it is catastrophic. We have donkeys and mules dying on the roadside
from starvation. Families can hardly afford to feed their families, let alone feed their animals, and they set them free in the hope that they can survive. The refuge has seen an influx in horses. Normally, these horses would be used for tourism, raising much needed funds for the animals upkeep, but the pandemic has meant this income has dried up. I think we have now down to 400, and some of those horses are going hungry or ill or collapsing. And what we have done at the refuge is do our best to raise money as we can to feed those that we can. The people from the village have been nothing but magnificent in their support of us and everybody has rallied round. And without our supporters, we would not have been able to keep going thats just a fact. Next to rwanda, where one of the biggest fears of these conservationists is
the transmission of the virus to the gorillas themselves. We are intensively working towards minimising any risk of spillover, anywhere that the virus can get to the wildlife. That requites more logistics and more equipment. That means theres regular testing of our staff and mandatory testing of anyone that is coming to visit us. In march, we heard about an increase in poaching. Sadly, as conditions have worsened, this has persisted. Well, weve have seen an increase of snare numbers, probably because people have lost theirjobs and they have gone back to their tradition. The Park Management and Law Enforcement are trying to deploy more park staff to control those very sensitive areas to reduce this. Not so easy because the country doesnt have that money from tourism industry. When we spoke, we had a few cases in rwanda. As we are speaking now, we have more cases. And as i say, the country has been more effective in containing it, but i dont know how much then this
is going to last. And lastly to ecuador, where the volunteers who stayed in this Rehabilitation Centre became lockdown legends. Since we last spoke in march, the lockdown legends volunteers have all gradually left us. And so, we are really a core team now, which means a lot harder work for us. On top of that, weve also had a lot of new coming animals that were rescued by the ministry and brought into us, so we are cramming all of the animals in and yeah, weve got a lot to look after. Its been a slow process but right now, we have three volunteers imminently coming next week, which is brilliant, and a couple more next month as well, so they are slowly, slowly trickling in now, which is brilliant news for us. It means maybe we can have a little holiday. That was a look at how some Animal Welfare groups are dealing with the ongoing crisis. Now, before coronavirus worked across the globe, cat went to iceland to visit
two beluga whales before their big move to the first open water sanctuary of its kind. Travellers contact with whales is often in captivity, where they are kept for public entertainment. But id heard that here in iceland, the new kind of sanctuary was being created. Audrey, theres so many beautiful coves and little inlets around iceland. Why this particular place . Its a beautiful surrounding for them with the cliffs kind of protecting them from the wind and the icelandic weather. And then also having the water temperature more like the arctic and subarctic, where they would be found in the wild. Two beluga whales called little white and little grey will soon be the first to be released into the bay. They had, until recently, been performing at an Entertainment Park in china. But after the operators decided to end the practice, they tried to find a new home for the animals where they could live out their lives. Little white and little grey were carefully flown on the long journey from china to iceland, but they could not be released straight into the bay. They have, for the last few months, been acclimatising in the nearby Sealife Centre to the waters here, and working with handlers to learn how to take the final journey into the bay. Oh, my goodness wow these are incredible yeah. Hi. Can i come down . Yeah, of course. Hello chuckles. Theyre so graceful in the water, arent they . Hmm mm. What do you love most about them . Ah, you know, beluga whales is kind of friendly animals. They wont hurt you and you can
work with them peacefully, and its great fun to work with them. Theyre beautiful, gentle giants. Yeah. Chuckles. So which is the naughty one . Grey. This one . Yeah. Look at theirfaces hello stand down go youre so soft i like you giggles. This countrys relationship with whales is complex, being one ofjust a few places in the world which still legally allows some hunting of the animals. But projects like this, and the various whale watching experiences on offer, are ways to encourage understanding and protection. Oh, if you insist if you insist there we go chuckles. 0k, ready for some good news . Last month, little grey and little white were successfully moved to the beluga sanctuarys bay side care pool the first time in almost ten years theyve been in the sea. Wow so up next, were off to kenya with henry, where we see what impact the iconic 60s film born free had on conservation there. Right. Here i am, meru National Park. This place is amazing for many reasons but right up there has to be its most famous four legged daughter thats elsa the lion. She was the inspiration behind the film born free. The film about the lives of george and joy adamson was based onjoys book,
which followed their attempts to rescue the orphan lion cub and train her to live safely in the wild. So there she is. This is elsas last resting spot, very close to the river where George Adamson found her, and the last moments were spent with her before she died. And, of course, joys ashes were scattered around here as well. The film of elsas life was a sensation around the globe. It made stars of george and joy and the aftermath changed conservation in africa forever. The Elsa Conservation trust still runs a wildlife retreat and Conservation Centre in hells gate National Park here in kenya. And the Born Free Foundation launched by the films two human stars, bill travers and virginia mckenna, operates around the world. These are some of the snares that weve collected in the last four months. Here in meru, it counts lions, hunts poaches and clears the park of dangerous snares. So what effect did the movie born free have on conservation efforts here in kenya . I think born free film, its by far one of the most captivating films to has ever been done. That specific end of the film touches me and many other young people, you know . We continuously have to meditate about who will continue doing what virginias done all our life, and what george did. Its a continued inspiration for us not only at born free, but across the conservation world. Of course, joy and george needed helpers, and one of those was jonny baxendale, georges godson. He helped return the born free lions to the wild, but used
to come back out to their favourite haunts for regular visits. Have you never felt in danger at all . Never, never. No . They were relaxed, there was no tension, there was no issues. We knew very well that, you know, they would walk up to us and greet us in the most amazing way. The pair used to sit under this tamarind tree with warm beers. It doesnt take long for the memories to come flooding back. Just being with him and being able to work with him and see how he absolutely handled his lions and how relaxed he was, and he had this amazing rapport with his environment he was totally in harmony with his environment. This is the born free country this is where it all happened. Unfortunately, thats all for this week but weve got some great stuff coming up next week. Christa is in germany, where bavarias famous oktoberfest may be cancelled, but local beer culture is still thriving. Groans. Laughs. And dont forget, you can follow us on social media were bbctravel basically everywhere. For now, im going to go to explore the city so from me, mike corey here in romania, its goodbye. The cold winds are still with us on sunday, especially if you live close to the north sea coast. Another very brisk day on the way and at times cloudy. But so many of us further towards the west will actually
have a very decent sunday. So lets have a look at the satellite picture. Were still sandwiched between two weather systems a low pressure centred in europe there and a set of weather fronts coming off the atlantic so were in this gap here. And actually, the skies have remained clear and thats also leading to a touch of frost across parts of scotland, certainly where the winds are light here around the lowlands. Northern ireland dipping down to around 5 degrees but notice where the winds have remained strong from hull down to norwich and london the temperatures are around double figures early on sunday morning. So you can see from the arrows, the winds are still blowing from the north. Theyre actually dragging in a fair amount of cloud into the north east of england, yorkshire, east anglia and the south east. So at times, london, norwich, hull to newcastle, it will be cloudy. 15 degrees on thermometer doesnt seem too bad, but it will feel chilly. Much Better Weather out toward the west where weve
got more sunshine. Now, on monday, there will be a change in the wind direction. Well lose the northerlies but also come these milder, wetter westerlies thats actually going to be the theme for the next few days and that does mean that the weather is going to turn a lot more unsettled. But i think on monday, were just talking about just a bit of cloud and rain splashing its way through Northern Ireland during the afternoon, maybe reaching the north west of england and wales as well. But generally speaking, where the sun comes out on monday, having lost that northerly wind, temperatures get up to around 17 or 18 degrees shouldnt feel too bad at all. And then on tuesday, again, we are between weather fronts one just exiting out into the north sea, another more sort of vigorous area of low pressure heading our way but tuesday isnt looking too bad at all. I think therell be some decent sunny spells around. But after that, pretty much from wednesday onwards this more powerful jet stream is actually going to send a series of low pressures in our direction. So that means that, yes, the temperatures might be rising because this is overall milder atlantic air, but also come the clouds
and the increasing winds, so i think from wednesday onwards, the weather is not looking too great for some of us. Thats it from me. Bye bye. They were doing. This is bbc news. Im maryam moshiri. Our top stories President Trump nominates conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett to the us supreme court, in a move that could have a major impact on Landmark Legal rulings. Today it is my honour to nominate one of our nations most brilliant and gifted legal minds to the supreme court. If the senate does me the honour of confirming me, i pledge to discharge the responsibilities of this job to the very best of my ability. Thousands of protesters defy israels nationwide lockdown to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Neta nyahu over corruption charges. Thousands of University Students across the uk are forced into lockdown for two weeks after a spike in coronavirus cases
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