Skip to main content

tv   The Travel Show  BBC News  March 12, 2017 1:30am-2:00am GMT

1:30 am
two turkish ministers addressing a rally. the protests came after turkish president recep tayyip erdogan described the dutch as nazi remnants and fascists. the dipomatic row between the netherlands and turkey intensified after dutch police detained the turkish ministerforfamilies. officers said they escorted the minister to the german border. dutch authorities had denied two ministers access to a building in rotterdam where a referendum campaign rally for turkish voters was planned. the un says the world's facing its largest humanitarian crisis since 1916. more than 20 million people face the threat of starvation and famine in four countries in africa and the middle east. over $4 billion are said to be needed byjuly to avert disaster. let's take a look at some of the morning's newspaperfront pages. the observer says theresa may
1:31 am
is under fire by mps who fear she has no back—up plan if the uk fails to get a trade deal with the eu. the mail on sunday also leads on the prime minister's impending plan to trigger article 50. it says she'll fire the starting gun on tuesday. the sunday telegraph's top story is what it calls a war in the cabinet over the budget, with ministers reportedly furious at the chancellor for not warning them that he was planning to break a manifesto promise with a rise in national insurance for self—employed workers. the front page of the sunday times has rugby hero danny care flying through the air as he scores in england's victory against scotland in the 6 nations. and the sunday express reports on a potential new lead in the hunt for madeleine mccann. the paper says police have been given extra funding to follow it up. now on bbc news, the travel show. coming up on the programme this week, i am on an arctic adventure
1:32 am
deep in finnish lapland. i hang out with a rapper who is helping to preserve a nearly extinct arctic language. and i get possibly too close to a reindeer round—up. i would not want to be hit by one of them, though. hello and welcome to the travel show with me, ade adepitan. this week we are in the north of finland. to be precise, we are in inari, home to the indigenous
1:33 am
sami people whose culture and language is under threat. i have come here to spend time with the sami people to see how tourism is saving their culture. finnish lapland is as close as it gets to a winter wonderland. overi million tourists come here every year in search of the northern lights, santa and his reindeer. the sami are the indigenous people who live in this part of the world. from the north of norway, sweden, finland and the far north—eastern part of russia. there are around 6000 samis left in this part of finland and here they are known as the inari because they live around lake inari, 250 kilometres north of the arctic circle.
1:34 am
i have never been so far north. after landing in the town of ivalo, just a 1.5 hourflight from helsinki, i meet my first inari friend. hi! welcome to finland. iamjohanna. look at your outfit! you look amazing! thank you. is this our transport? yes. it will be our transport for this trip. we have so much planned for you. i love that hat. that is the way forward. it is really warm. life here must be quite difficult. there is snow on the ground for seven months of the year and the most practical way to move
1:35 am
around is by snowmobile. so this is the best way to get there? there is no other way to get there. 0k. so this is how i am rolling. and you will teach me? yes. these things revolutionised life here. we got them about 50 or 60 years ago. it made things far easier here. what did you use before these? skis. skis and reindeer. old school. normally when you are driving you have your feet in here and your hands on the bar and if you want to go right you pull right, left you pull left. the brake we have on the left. this is the panic button. if something happens you just hit that one. i hit that button and scream? it is so hard to believe that i am on a snowmobile
1:36 am
going across lake inari in finland. beneath me, there is thousands and thousands of gallons of water. it is crazy. this place is so beautiful. i was not expecting that! around 30 years ago, the inari sami culture was on the verge of extinction. inevitably there has been a drift to the city, to an easier life. traditional cultures experience that loss the world over. but these days, tourism is creating jobs, allowing some young sami to move back home. inari sami culture has been under pressure for decades. in the past, this community was marginalised and their mother
1:37 am
tongue banned from schools. with only 400 sami inari speakers, the language is still threatened. but one man is coming to the rescue, using an unconventional method. he raps you are a hip—hop artist and you wrap in your native language, inari. yes. inari sami language. tell me about it. i love hip—hop, but the last place i would expect to find a hip—hop artist is in lapland. yes. the middle of nowhere. many people think it is quite weird doing hip—hop gangsta rap in inari sami language,
1:38 am
spoken by 400 people. that is the way i am telling about this, this minority in a minority. i like the sound. it is mystical, people do not know it. there are only 400 inari sami speakers in the world. imean... in that case, what is the average age of your listeners? the most people who speak inari sami as their mother tongue are mostly over 50 years old. older people. and those older people, are they into hip—hop? i don't think so. but there is a new generation now. 0k. can you spit some bars for us? i am pretty sure that this will be the premiere of bbc of anyone hearing someone wrap in inari sami.
1:39 am
we are looking forward to this. inari sami in the house! that is wicked! i loved it. i felt it. i was there. my first day in lapland is nearly over. it's been great. i learnt to use a snowmobile which is practical and a lot of fun. tomorrow i head into the forest and before i go into the forest i want to get the correct gear and i need some traditional sami clothing.
1:40 am
i have heard that there is someone here who can help me out with that. hello! nice to meet you. i'm stefanie. come in. sami handicraft is centuries old and dates back to a time when the sami were far more isolated from the outside world than they are today. what are you making? a belt. how long does it take you? it takes me five hours but people who have done at their whole life, it does not take them long. move quicker, stefanie! come on. using wool, antlers, wood and reindeer skin, the sami weave centuries—old patterns, each specific to a particular area orfamily. stefanie was forced to move away
1:41 am
to look for work but she has recently returned back to inari and teaches handicraft making to tourists. i got bored, sad in finland. and my grandmother gave me the passion to come here and learn the language. how important is it for you to keep the tradition going? there are very very few handicraft makers who do this. it is very important for me. it is like, sometimes i think, who would i be if i did not do these things? is it difficult? could i have a go? i don't know... yes, of course. so it needs to be tight? there goes my ribs. this looks so complicated. and that goes up? i think i need, like... four pairs of hands. i go through?
1:42 am
there? yes. and then you pull it. and then you have to do that over and over for every row? i'm surprised it only takes five hours. this would take me five days! it is complicated. here are some gloves for you. how many hours did they take you to make? those ones did not take me long. when you have done it for years that you can do that with your eyes closed. superb. how do i look? you look supercool. still to come: i try my hand at rounding up the reindeer here. so, don't go away!
1:43 am
the travel show, your essential guide, wherever you're headed! now, back to my adventure with the indigenous sami people here in lapland, northern finland. it's —13 celsius, and guess what my friends have got lined upfor me? we're going to go fishing today. you've been fishing before? i've never been fishing before. well, i have, i've been to the supermarket and looked for different fish on different shelves. we do it differently here. a really important question, do i get to use the snowmobile again? yes! oh, yes! let's rock ‘n‘ roll.
1:44 am
the sami people have lived in harmony with nature here for thousands of years. the wilderness around lake inari is virtually unspoiled, unlike the rest of europe, which has been largely harmed by industrialisation. fishing is one of the most popular sports for both tourists and locals. it's a pike! there's a real emphasis on low impact tourism here, playing a big part in protecting this fragile arctic ecosystem. there are not many places to work around here, not everybody can be a reindeer herder. other people are interested in the lifestyle we have. it gives the possibility to earn money and make a living out of tourism. how important is it
1:45 am
to you that the sami lifestyle continues and that you can pass it on from one generation to another? i think about the future, i wonder what i will do when i am grown up, or what my children will do. i like to have this lifestyle, to remain here. so, fish and potatoes on monday, potatoes and fish on tuesday... wednesday, maybe reindeer bits? then back to fish and potatoes on thursday. it's a great way to keep warm! the real thrill here is trying to catch fish with a rod. can i have a go? there are fish below us, swimming under one metre of ice.
1:46 am
i'm keeping warm! well done, well done. it's getting tough! there's layers under here. see, i did all the hard work! the next thing to do is to find out if there are fishes. you take a cup and taste the fish. you could tell me anything and i'd believe you! is it freshwater? oh, that's good. this is notjust a tourism activity.
1:47 am
it's a fact of life for the sami here. with only a handful of shops around, most fish still have to be caught rather than purchased, otherwise nobody would eat. take care of that one, if you see it running, grab it. i'll take care of drinks. it's always good to have something to drink with you when you're out here. i'm multitasking! multiple chances to get fish. cheers. at the moment, nothing is biting, so i am leaving them behind in the hope that they catch something, while i go to find an animal that captures the mind of everyone who comes to this land. now, this is something i've been looking forward to ever since i got here. oh, this feels really remote.
1:48 am
we are deep in the forest. i've come here because i'm going to meet a traditional sami reindeer herder. he's going to give me just a little experience of the traditional sami lifestyle. hello! nice to meet you. welcome. what have you got here? i have got a lasso, that is how we catch the reindeer. i've never done this before. we may be here for some time! if you don't catch it, you don't get lunch. here we go. ok, mr reindeer. yes! well done. like many herdsmen here, petri supplements his income with tourism. he takes tourists into the forest
1:49 am
to experience living like a herder for a day. i can't even find the reindeer, i can't imagine how hard it must be to survive in these conditions. but the saami have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years. there are more reindeer than people here. reindeer need large areas of unspoiled forest to find the little food that is buried under the snow. that's how they live in the winter. they get their own food in the forest.
1:50 am
they dig in the snow, eat lichen on the land. they are coming down, they know you're here! the sami regional parliament looks after notjust their heritage but also their rights to land and natural resources. if someone came here and offered me a good job in the big city, told me, you'd get $1 million every year, i would say, you can take it. fantastic! you're not a millionaire, but you're a happy man because you've got the perfect office. let's rock and roll. reindeer herding is in his blood. these animals have been crucial to his family for survival for generations, providing food, clothing and transport. we are surrounded by reindeer. this is so beautiful. look at them! look at them all coming. yelling
1:51 am
how many reindeer do you have? how much money in the bank do you have? ok, i won't ask how many! it's incredible to think that these animals find any food in these windswept and frozen woods. most reindeer rely on lichen as a food source in winter. petri supplements their diet to increase their chances of survival until the springtime. so, how cold does it get out here?
1:52 am
now, it's only —5. only! oh my god. it must be impossible to work... no, no. you have the right clothes! it's not about bad weather, it's the bad clothes! are we going to build a fire? yes. cool! it's a bit hairy, at times you think they're going to hit you with their antlers. but they avoid you. they're only interested in the food and each other.
1:53 am
i wouldn't want to get hit by one of them, though. well, i've had an amazing time here in finnish lapland. and this place just gets to you, it has a real rugged beauty. it is the furthest north that i'd ever been to. it feels like i'm at one with nature. it's been such a privilege to spend time with the sami people. well, that's it for this week. join us next week when... as india celebrates its 70th independence anniversary, we set off on a mammoth 2—part journey from the west to the east. i'm on a quest to find out how history, religion and politics
1:54 am
have shaped india. and also meet the people who call this intriguing, and sometimes overwhelming country, home. it's going to be an amazing journey. that's next week. if you want to see what we are getting up to between now and then, why not sign up to our social media feeds? all the details should be on your screens right now. but for right now, from me and the huskies here in finnish lapland and all the travel show team, it's goodbye. hello there.
1:55 am
saturday brought northern ireland its warmest day of the year so far. we will see some sunshine but the warmth will not be repeated today. this was the saturday evening sunset and 16 was the temperature that we reached, about 61 fahrenheit. there was 18 in the sunshine in the south and the east, and it was on the whole a fairly decent day for most. however we did have that weather front around. the rain has been pepping up with heavy bursts of rain in the south and the odd rumble of thunder off the south coast. so we do have notjust one but two weather fronts to contend with for sunday, an awful lot of cloud, misty low cloud, hill and coastalfog, so for most, sunday is going to get off to a mild start. this rain in the east obviously bringing a different day for eastern england, and damp weather in northern ireland in the morning, moving soon into wales and the south—west of scotland. remember, all the time it is going to be a gray and misty start.
1:56 am
so a lot of low cloud around the hills and coastal fog as well. behind this first weather front and ahead of the next one we may well have some brighter weather through the east of wales, midlands, into parts of northern england and central scotland. but still quite murky near the east coast of scotland compared with saturday, and that rain band getting into the west. now, all the time, the rain in the east will be fizzling out. it looks as if the rain further west as it heads its way in will tend to become more showery as well. there will therefore be a lot of cloud around and more limited brightness. it looks lovely for northern ireland in the afternoon, western fringes of the uk. and that means we will see some sunshine but it will not feel as warm as it did during the day on saturday. temperatures only 12—14 degrees. and then through the night, as the skies clear further, we are in for a chillier night. we could have a frost, a light frost as we head into monday morning. perhaps the far south and east still quite cloudy, so still escaping, but with high pressure building in for the start of the week, it means that the weather is settling down.
1:57 am
so monday looks like a decently dry day, with some springlike sunshine, just not the springlike temperatures we saw through the first half of the weekend. still, 14 or 15 with sunshine is pleasant enough. but that weak weather front is starting to invade from the north—west. the breeze is increasing, so tuesday brings more cloud and not much rain. it hangs around into wednesday before the pressure tries to build back in again, and the weather fronts mostly pester northern and western parts through the coming week. you can see risk of cloud in the south on tuesday. still a lot of cloud into wednesday. as ever, there is more detail on the website. bye bye. hello and welcome to bbc news. i'm gavin grey. the diplomatic row between the netherlands and turkey has worsened as the dutch government prevented two turkish ministers from addressing a rally in rotterdam. the turkish family affairs minister said on twitter that she was being escorted by police to the german border after being stopped from driving to her consulate in the city. dutch riot police have used water cannons to break up hundreds
1:58 am
of turkish supporters who'd gathered to demonstrate against the dutch government's decision. sarah corker reports.
1:59 am
2:00 am

67 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on