tv The Travel Show BBC News October 24, 2017 3:30am-4:01am BST
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into the deaths of four soldiers in niger earlier this month. donald trump has had to deny being insensitive to the widow of one of the serviceman, after she claimed the president forgot her husband's name, during a condolence call. the united nations says the global community must pledge more money to help hundreds of thousands of rohingya refugees, who have fled myanmar, which has been accused of ethnic cleansing. bangladeshi officials say they are now housing almost one million refugees but the burden has become untenable. china's communist party congress is coming to an end with xijingping exerting a tighter control on power than ever. the president is expected to consolidate his position for a second 5 year term with additional responsibilities that will see him become the most powerful leader in decades. there are an estimated 70,000 internships provided by companies in the uk every year. for some young people,
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they're a valuable first step to a future career. but others see them as exploitative and a barrier to social mobility. later this week, parliament will propose a ban on unpaid internships, which last four weeks or more. 0ur education editor branwen jeffreys has been investigating. racha finally has the job she wants, training at a tv production company. she's got a good degree and lots of skills but before she landed this job, racha spent a year doing unpaid internships. i had to work to support myself. i worked in retail, worked in a shop. i think at one point i had fourjobs on the go because a lot of them were zero—hour contracts and, yeah, i was still in a lucky position because i was living at home. how angry is your generation about this issue? we are really angry about it. i think the people that are experiencing it
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are really angry about this. i think not a lot of people have realised how big an issue it has become. there's nothing new about some paid work experience but what has changed there's nothing new about unpaid work experience but what has changed is the sheer extent and scale of it. for some graduate professions, you are now expected to spend many months doing unpaid internships and, with most opportunities in big cities, that is locking some young people out of work. it is not hard to find ads online for internships. a tory peer is calling for a four—week limit on unpaid work. some we looked at offered only travel expenses. over a third of existing internships are unpaid. that is bad for the individual, bad for the business, bad for the economy and an incredible drag on social mobility in britain. it is estimated there are now around 70,000 internships each year, 82% require a degree. creative, finance and charity
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sectors have a high concentration in london. so does the law need to change? he says not. matthew taylor lead a review of work for the government and argues it is about enforcement. if you have employers who are closing their eyes to the law, unpaid interns who are closing their eyes to the law, there is nobody then to alert the authorities and for them to intervene, so what we need here is employers to stop doing something that is not legal and we need individuals who are interns to claim their rights. university students study hard for their dream jobs. when they finally start work, they should be paid. ministers say they will come down hard on any abuse of the law. branwen jeffreys, bbc news. now on bbc news — the travel show. coming up on this week's programme — i head to the scottish 0rkney
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islands to help uncover their neolithic past. it's about 5,000 years old, the like of which have never really been seen before. here we go, guys. yeah? go, go, go, go, go, go! we take off in macedonia in search of new thrills. and ade takes a look at what's been trending in travel online, including a tweet that's been beamed into outer space. william shatner: we offer friendship across the stars. the 0rkneys are a remote archipelago of islands about 30 miles off the northern coast of scotland. they're known for their rolling green farmland and dramatic cliffs, but they've also become famous across the world for their extraordinary ancient sites. the region came to the attention of the archaeological world back
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in 1850 with the discovery of skara brae, a neolithic settlement on the west coast of 0rkney‘s mainland. since then, discoveries have been made across the islands, and in 1999, a group of monuments known as the heart of neolithic 0rkney was declared a world heritage site by unesco. in recent years, new geo—scanning technology has meant more discoveries than ever before, and some say we're in a golden age of scottish archaeology. it was this sort of technology that, in 2003, helped reveal a hidden treasure — a building complex up to 5,000 years old buried under a farm on 0rkney‘s brodgar peninsula. the site stretched over 2.5 hectares beneath the ground, comprising temples, paved streets and outbuildings.
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it's since been dubbed the mess of brodgar and hailed as the greatest neolithic find in the modern era. the scale of it, which is really... archaeologist nick card is responsible for excavating the mess of brodgar, which is no small task. the site is so big that even, you know, this trench behind us, it's still only about 10% of the whole area. wow! so what we're doing is just gradually unpicking it, trying to refine the chronology, seeing how all these buildings relate to each other, which ones were in use at the same time, and taking thousands of samples to try and work out how these buildings were actually utilised. the site is open forjust eight weeks a year and requires the hard work of dozens of volunteers. right, christa, here we have the remains, and you can see the outer wall of a really large building in front of norman and ray here.
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oh, yeah — it goes all the way over there. tracking right round. a huge curving wall. i have a trowel. i've got one ready for you — yes, a key tool, yes — and we're going to get into the trench and we're just going to clean back from the outer face of that wall, and just gently clean back, scrape back, to reveal the paving, 0k? amazing. so let's get in and see. we're crouched over an old pathway and slowly, as we scrape away the soil, the ancient paving stones are revealed. it's fascinating to think that the last humans to touch these stones were people living up to five millennia ago. there could be anything right here. yes, you just never know. an incredible fine. absolutely, yes. so, what is that, that i've found? i think that's a fragment of burnt bone. 0h! do you see how it's white? because it's been subjected to really intense heat. so is that an animal bone?
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probably animal bone here, yeah. somebody‘s had a meal, that's the remains. chucked it out the window. absolutely, yes. chucked it. it's not so much finding the special, pretty little things — which are lovely to find — it's the understanding of how the people lived here and when you find a fragment of a pot, and you think why is that artefact there? why has it been put there? and who put it there, and why did they put it there? you know, and it's unpicking that story, which is the really fascinating part for me. it's a great feeling to contribute even a little to the work taking place here. but maintaining an active site like this takes more than just elbow grease. it costs money — around £2,000 a day. much of that funding comes from donations, including an active charitable fund based in the usa, but also relies on eu grants. some reports have suggested that britain's forthcoming departure from the eu could result in a loss of up to 30% of funding for uk archaeological research,
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which could cause problems for sites such as the mess of brodgar. i think in the longer term, not being able to apply for research grants like the european research council, is going to have a quite dramatic effect on how projects such as the mess will develop, and we will be relying more and more on public support. one possible solution to the funding shortfall could come from what is already a strong contributor to the 0rkney economy — tourism. 0rkney‘s popularity as a destination has grown markedly in recent years with visitor numbers reaching around 200,000 per annum. many of these tourists arrived by sea, which is not surprising as 0rkney is the uk's most popular cruise ship destination. and one of the key attractions is the island's ancient past. many cruise passengers join tours
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straight off the ship and head to the site of skara brae, which has been famous since its discovery 150 years ago. it's now a well—established tourist site with buses arriving by the dozen and tens of thousands of visitors each year. skara brae is a great example of the power of ancient sites to draw tourists and how they can benefit from the tourist dollar. at the mess of brodgar, tourists visit the site daily during the season. they can view the proceedings from a specially built platform overlooking the dig site, and are encouraged to make donations. but the question is whether these contributions will be enough to compensate for any future
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shortfall in funding. gareth crichton from the local 0rkney tourism group is hopeful that tourism revenue will grow and allow more support for sites like the mess of brodgar. tourism already is a resource for the archaeology but it should grow, there's lots of opportunity to develop that and that's it is something that here in 0rkney we're very, very focused on. it's very much a two—way thing. there's so much for visitors to benefit from here, the value that you get out of a visit to 0rkney and the sites, you know, it's fantastic, but it has to work both ways. for now, the team here are getting on with the job of uncovering the mysteries of the mess. what the future holds for archaeology in the region is, of course, unknown, but in 0rkney, there's always a good chance there could be even more astonishing ancient sites still hidden under the earth, waiting to be discovered. and it's notjust the orkney islands that are brimming with history. it's reckoned there are tens of thousands of sites
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of archaeological interest dotted across scotland. so here's the travel show‘s pick ofjust some of them. the west coast of lewis, which is the most northerly island in the outer hebrides, is rich in ancient remains. the standing stones of callanish are famous worldwide and a must—see for any visitor. these gigantic rocks stand between 1m and 5m high and are believed to have been constructed around 4,000—5000 years ago. the site also includes a burial camp where human remains have been found. over on the mainland, you will find the site of a pictish fort close to the small town of burghead in moray. this north—eastern part of the country was one of the earliest centres of powerfor the picts, or ‘painted people' as the greeks and romans knew them. head to the bennachie hills in aberdeenshire to see a series of distinctive hilltops that are the site of an iron age hill fort.
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historians have suggested that this was the place where the caledonii tribe took on the might of the roman empire in a battle around 83 ad. according to the ancient roman historian tacitus, the caledonii lost over 10,000 warriors before losing the battle. and finally, built in the 1300s, dunnottar castle is a ruined mediaeval fortress located on a craggy headland on the north—east coast of scotland, about 3km south of stonehaven. the rocks it was built on are more than 440 million years old, and the ruined cliff top fortress was once home to earls marischal, one of the most powerful families in scotland, although they eventually lost their influence following the jacobite uprisings of the 18th century. still to come on this week's travel show, we take
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to the skies in macedonia. oh, my god! we're flying! wow! the travel show — your essential guide wherever you're heading. time now for trending travel, your monthly mash—up of the best travel—related stories, snaps and videos online. this year marked a0 years since the launch of voyager 1, the spacecraft that has gone on to become the most remote man—made object in space. it's so remote, in billions of years' time, it could be the last surviving piece of human civilisation. to mark the anniversary, nasa launched the message to voyager campaign, inviting twitter users to submit a 60—character message
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to be beamed to the craft. the winning entry was announced last month and took almost a day to reach voyager 1. it was william shatner, the actor who played captainjames t kirk on star trek, who gave the command at nasa'sjet propulsion laboratory to send a message, written by 0liverjenkins, that states: send the message. 0n yourcommand. message to voyager at 17:20:01. knowing william shatner read it is really cool. i'm a massive trekkie, so it was an honour to have captain kirk read my message. what could be more inviting than swimming in a new york river? the waterways aren't known for their cleanliness, but that could be about to change with plus pool. it's a swimming pool designed to float in the river and filter over 600,000 gallons of river water,
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making it safe to bathe in. the project has been floating around unrealised for years, attracting some celebrity backers and kickstarter funding. now, they're trying to get 100,000 online signatures to acquire a $100,000 grant which they claim will help turn these plans into a reality. thanks to everyone who sent us their pictures this month using the hashtag #traveltuesday. here are some of my favourites. claire snapped this view out of her hotel room in italy. while this was sent to us during the kampala city festival in uganda. rashid sent us a pic of these morning commuters in dhaka, bangladesh. don't forget to check out our twitter and facebook feeds for loads of extra special travel show content. now let's look at the travel videos clocking up views online. this year marks 100
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years since the russian revolution, so we've selected two films showing different sides to the world's largest country. this is a great place, it's a very beautiful and famous city, st petersburg. ijust wanted to capture the atmosphere of the city. classical music plays. i really wish i could get back to this country soon, because it's so big, there is so much to discover. there is such a diversity in the languages, the landscapes, the culture, the music. classical music plays. don't forget to get in touch.
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to enter this week on the travel show, we're off to the macedonian town of krusevo, which up until now, hasn't been on everybody‘s list of places to visit. but krusevo is slowly finding its place on the map for people who like to get their thrills high above the ground. as we found out. the tiny town of krusevo has just 2,000 inhabitants. but what it lacks in size, it makes up for in height. it sits at 1,350 metres, making it the highest town in all of macedonia. but not that many people outside of the country had ever heard of this place.
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there's one activity that's drawing people not only from all over the country and europe, but all over the world. i'm at the czech and macedonian 0pen, one of the dozens of international competitions that krusevo has hosted over the years. the wind strength for today, predicted for the whole day is 6—plus metres. today's competitors have come from as far away as india, russia and new zealand. they're drawn not only by the completion, but, they say, by the top—notch conditions that krusevo offers. it's just perfect. the distance for ta ke—off is very short, just five minutes. the road is good. in some places, you have to be driving for, like, one hour, on winding roads and stuff like that. the town is very small and cosy, it's easy being here.
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and also, the weather is very reliable. it's almost perfect when you want to fly a lot. in a short period of time. as the competitors wait for their briefing, i catch up with the competition's current champion. he is one of many paragliders who comes here year after year to fly. i'm hoping that all of the wonderful things i heard about krusevo's flying conditions are correct
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because i'm about to go flying myself. i've never gone paragliding before, and even though this will be in a tandem, there's something about flying like a bird that makes me just a tad nervous. you have the whistle here if something goes wrong. what could go wrong? i don't know... why would i have to use the whistle? ahead of my flight, my instructor gives me the rundown of everything he says i have to know. it's the easiest thing you can learn, it is easier than riding a bicycle, it's safer than riding a bicycle. it is good if you know how to do it, we prepare for the flight first, we check all the equipment. then in two steps, we are in the air. the wind, not too strong. if you want a good flight, we have this kind of weather like today. a nice, sunny day with beautiful clouds. as luck would have it, even though krusevo is one of the world's best places for paragliding, the conditions today aren't good.
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the wind is strong and keeps changing. disaster! and because we are flying in tandem, which is bigger and heavier than a single pilot glider, already risky wind conditions are even more dangerous for us. i'm just checking the lines. this was not properly attached. they weren't properly attached, so... i'm glad we figured that out. but igor is determined to find a spot where we can safely take off. due to the weather, and despite igor‘s best efforts, i can tell this is not going to be one of the most elegant take—offs. and i'm not totally convinced we are going to get off the ground. oh, my god! but suddenly, the wind takes hold and we are airborne. we're flying! i've never experienced
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anything like this. my heart is in my mouth as the ground disappears below. whoa! as cliched as it is to say, it is a feeling of pure freedom and of complete vulnerability. many of us may be used to looking down on the landscape from aeroplane windows. but it's altogether different when there is absolutely nothing between you and the sky. wow! that was amazing! i really want to go up again. but i don't think we're supposed to,
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the wind is definitely getting worse. and i think one flight was all we get today. but i'm really happy with that. it was awesome. i loved flying so much, i'm a little disappointed that we had to cut our flight short. but i'm incredibly glad we got the chance to experience something so thrilling, and in one of the best places in the world for it. no wonder paragliders become addicted to their sport, and no wonder so many of them come back to krusevo again and again. i may not be a paraglider yet, but it's easy to see the attraction. well, that's all we've got time for on this week's travel show. coming up next week, ade is in swedish lapland, finding a city on the move, literally, in one of the world's biggest ever urban transformations.
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about 6,000 people will be moving, because their houses and their apartments will be affected. that's because a sinkhole threatens to swallow up the whole of kiruna. and all these buildings, everything that you can see in front of you now, will eventually collapse into the hole. so dojoin us then, if you can. in the meantime, don't forget — you can keep up with us when we are on the road in real—time by signing up to our social media feeds. details are on the screen now. for now, from the travel show here in 0rkney, it's goodbye. hello there.
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it is going to be a lot of mild air moving ina it is going to be a lot of mild air moving in a south—westerly wind. will bring a lot of moisture of the atla ntic will bring a lot of moisture of the atlantic and a lot of cloud, outbreaks of rain. today is looking rather cloudy, but very mild and there will be further rain at times, particular across central and northern parts. the wet weather will push into many areas as we start tomorrow —— this morning. very mild here to begin the day. 15 to 16 degrees. into the midlands, wales, it will be quite wet. a poor morning commute into work. the rain clearing northern ireland but it will be quite a wet start across much of scotland. quite breezy, particularly
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across south—west. as the day progresses, it is an improving picture. it will remain quite breezy here. there will be a few short —— showers around. it will be mild here and marred across the south and the south—east. temperatures of 18 or 19 celsius. as the weather fronts makes across the uk, it looks like it will sink across central southern parts we think on wednesday, so here we could see most of the damp weather, whereas further north, brighter skies and sunny spells around. quite easy around scotland, a few showers across western areas. temperatures around the mid—teens celsius. further south, very mild. as a head on in towards thursday, looks like the weather front moves a little bit further northwards for the damp weather could be across central areas. to the north, breezy, bright, showers around. very mild. given some sunshine, we could even see 20
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degrees in one or two places. we the change on friday. the weather changed continues to get pushed to the near continent because high pressure builds in. that does is bring cooler air to this across the northern periphery of the hyatt pressure. there is cool air that will pour down across the uk on a north—westerly wind and we head towards the weekend. a bit of a change to take place. it will be brighter and sunshine, but it will be particularly cool. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. our top stories: donald trump denies being insensitive to the widow of an american serviceman. she claims the president struggled to remember the soldier's name during a condolence call. it made me cry because — i was very angry at the tone of his voice, and how he said it. he couldn't remember my husband's name.
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