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good morning, welcome to breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. 0ur headlines today: collusion between president trump's election campaign and russia theresa may tells mps is now complete. there won't be another vote key findings are expected to stay on her brexit deal if it looks under wraps for a few days — butjustice department sources say like it will be rejected again. that robert mueller‘s report does not recommend further indictments. signed, sealed and delivered. robert mueller hands in his long awaited report into alleged collusion between president trump's campaign team and russia during the 2016 election. australia is, for the first time since 2015, experiencing two a sterling performance tropical cyclones at the same time. from raheem at wembley, cyclones trevor and veronica he scored a hatrick, as england are causing high winds and have forced more than 3,000 people continued their impressive run, in the northern territory with a 5—0 thrashing to leave their homes. of the czech republic. it's the country's biggest ever evacuation ahead of a storm. and i've been to meet the premier league players set to potentially earn thousands, here in britain, prime minister from the beautiful game, theresa may says she might not not with their feet but with their fingers. bring her brexit deal back for another vote, if it appears there is not sufficient support. the european union has agreed to delay brexit — but only by two weeks — if british mps reject the agreement. now on bbc news, the travel show
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are in dubai, a place which has set ambitious targets for a more sustainable future. we meet the people working in the travel industry hoping to help make that happen. coming up this week on the travel show: i am in coming up this week on the travel show: iam in dubai coming up this week on the travel show: i am in dubai to find out how they are trying hard to make holidays more sustainable here. so that goes back in the land, back in the system to help create food? sustainability in a bag, i like it. plus i meet the turtles who have become temporary residence at an iconic seven star hotel. and then there is a serious drop in temperature as we travelled to russia to meet the man who has just completed his own incrediblejourney across siberia. it is people who live there, they say you will lose your face live there, they say you will lose yourface on the live there, they say you will lose your face on the first day.
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we are kicking off this week here in dubai, a place thatjust over a0 yea rs dubai, a place thatjust over a0 years ago was a sleepy trading town, but now is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, up tourist destinations in the world, up there with london, paris and bangkok. home to the world's tallest skyscrapers, biggest shopping malls and insane hotel suites, it has built its image on luxury, access and world records. but i am here to find out if the new trend in town could surprisingly be sustainability.
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this is sustainable city. it is only 20 minutes away from the heart of dubai where you find the massive skyscrapers, and over 500 families live here. it is fast becoming a tourist attraction in its own right. hello! hello, welcome to the city. how are you? are you ready for a tour? yes please. the whole city was built to cover all environmental, economic and social sustainability, so designed to use clean solar energy, and recycle 100% of water and waste, to encourage their used of electric buggies and shuttles. and waste, to encourage their used of electric buggies and shuttleslj was of electric buggies and shuttles.|j was going to say, i don't see many ca i’s was going to say, i don't see many cars or buses. it was designed to
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encourage walk ability, it is no car zone, it is designed to encourage people to walk and use their bikes inside the community. and they have the electronic buggies which is the other side. look at this place! this isa other side. look at this place! this is a three bedroom villa. this is something i am intrigued about. you have a flatscreen tv, you have lights, power points everywhere, even,is lights, power points everywhere, even, is that air—conditioning? lights, power points everywhere, even, is that air-conditioning? yes, of course. how does it all run? like any other home if under these appliances, but the rooftop is covered in solo, which produces 60% of the energy requirement, and we use led lighting. it is less power, using less power than what you usually would with an ordinary lamp. in the appliances in the —— in the kitchen are all environmentally friendly. we try to reduce the need for energy and when you do use
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energy it is clean energy coming from the solar panels on the rooftop. the vibe here is all about smart design and building a sustainable community. there are classrooms on site to cut down on the daily school run, and there is a pet friendly atmosphere. although the houses are not cheap, the owners make saving on —— the onus is on saving things like electricity and water. when i was told i was coming to dubai, the last thing i expected to dubai, the last thing i expected to be doing is pushing around a sustainable greenhouse of home grown vegetables. it feels like i'm in a jungle here, it smells lovely. back in 2006, the world wildlife fund said that people living in the united arab emirates had the biggest ecological footprint in the world. but with more and more of us thinking about the environment when we choose our holiday destinations,
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dubai has set a target of getting 7596 dubai has set a target of getting 75% of its energy from clean and renewable sources, by 2050. and i am off to visit a hotel that claims that sustainability makes good business sense to. all the best hotels in the world really pride themselves on their breakfast. so let's see what this place has got to offer. i tell you what, i am starting. looking forward to some proper breakfast, posh nosh. 0ne starting. looking forward to some proper breakfast, posh nosh. one of the things people like about big luxury hotels like this is that you can pretty much order whatever you wa nt can pretty much order whatever you want whenever you want. my italian is terrible. but having so much choice available inevitably can lead toa choice available inevitably can lead to a lot of food waste. and that is something that this hotel is tackling. here at the beauvais for example, they display smaller platters of food and only replace them once they are eaten. but it is
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back of house that the real serious work is going on to cut down on food waste. can you tell me how the system works? let me show you. here we have trimmings, trimmings are what is left over from the chef when he is preparing the dishes. they are very much food waste and we want to identify and categorise these in order to plan better with our menus. let's give it a try. we will throw it in the bin. the system is showing us it in the bin. the system is showing us that the weight has been added to the scales, we will categorise it now, and then it is going to come up with trimmings... i will identify trimmings, and it is as simple as that. and the weight is coming up there... yeah. what we're going to do is actually the food on the guest plates into the trough, it will wash down into the machine itself, the composting machine, like that. it is now segregating it to allow us to actually take out anything that is soluble, and then the food will then
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go through to the next stage which is composting. that is better. as the machine takes away all the soluble ‘s, it will go off to the composting room and all the food that has been left over goes off to the composting room, the composting room then takes all of the soluble is out of the food and dries it, and this is the end product, this is what you end up with. this is what it turns into. it is so heavy, how much food is this? it is a whole day's room service. holidays room service waste is squeezed into a bag like this. it is amazing isn't it, this will go on to be used as farming compost, back into the land. this goes back into the system to help create food. sustainability and a bag,i help create food. sustainability and a bag, i like it. so far through smart monitoring of its menu and waste, this hotel reckons it is preventing the equivalent of around
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120,000 meals being simply thrown away every year. but it is notjust food that is being looked at in more sustainable ways in dubai. it is estimated that each year over 150 million empty glass bottles are discarded here, with a lot of them coming from hotels and restaurants. but now there is a move to do something else with them. and this woman is an award—winning glass artist, and her studio here in dubai hasjoined artist, and her studio here in dubai has joined forces with a local waste management company to put lots of that unwanted glass to good use. so you don't call this recycled glass any more, you call it upcycled, why? we try and take the glass in the bottle in its originalform, and make it something that has a lot more value, and that is what makes it different from recycling. hence
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upcycling. but it is all sustainable? it is, but if we had not made a candle stand out of this bottle it would have probably ended up bottle it would have probably ended up in the landfill, and it takes a million years for a glass bottle... 1 million years? million years for a glass bottle... 1million years? for million years for a glass bottle... 1 million years? for a glass bottle to decompose in a natural environment. one thing i notice here in dubai is everything is flashy, it is blank, it is all about new. an old and second—hand does not seem to be something that people here in dubai are into. the reason you see a lot of things here which i knew and flashy is because it is a young country, a lot of the things and structures that you see here have probably come up only in the past few years. but having said that the uae and dubai have set themselves a target of 75% recycling and waste diversion by 2021. 75%, wow. where are they out at the moment in terms
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of recycling or upcycling? we are about 25— 30%. of recycling or upcycling? we are about 25- 3096. we are talking about doubling? absolutely. and initiatives like this are a step in the right direction. while there are some who say that the very idea of building a city in the desert is pretty unsustainable in itself, dubai has never been a place that has been short on ambition, and it has been short on ambition, and it has set some impressive targets in terms of clean energy and waste. look at this. i feel a little terms of clean energy and waste. look at this. ifeel a little bit nervous. and with more and more of us nervous. and with more and more of us looking for that eco— friendly element to our holidays, we will begin to know if they manage to reach them. look at that! (laughs). iam making reach them. look at that! (laughs). i am making glass cups! coming up, there is more from us
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here in dubai, as i am off to see the totals who have checked in at one of the world's most iconic hotels. so stay with us for that. for this month's incrediblejourney, we need —— we meet a man who motorcycle 1000 kilometres through subzero temperatures, to the self—proclaimed coldest town on earth. in siberia it can get to -60 celsius. when you receive frostbite it takes may 2— three minutes to lose your skin in that area. and literally my nose is one centimetre from all that cold, so it was really, really something that i was very afraid of. the project took maybe 1.5 years preparation in different stages, one
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is technical, what is physical, another is mental. i live in a wonderful town, my hometown, and i was preparing my body for different temperature exercises. we have cold rivers, so i go and jump into water, ijust rivers, so i go and jump into water, i just put my rivers, so i go and jump into water, ijust put my body in and splash around. it is 1000 kilometres to 0ymyakon. i around. it is 1000 kilometres to 0ymya kon. i travel 200 around. it is 1000 kilometres to 0ymyakon. itravel 200 kilometres around. it is 1000 kilometres to 0ymyakon. i travel 200 kilometres a day. so remote, nothing around, just forest and cold. it is a permafrost land. when i started on the first day, the siberian people who live there say please, don't do that. you will lose your face on the first day, frostbite will eat you. even though i had a helmet and some
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protection, motorcycling and winter does not promise a safe ride. normally i travel alone, this time i had two vehicles, a support team and a garage. what is happening inside my head, i call it active meditation. writing in harsh conditions, so cold, i have to be only now in here because if i get a chance to myself to think 0k, it will be warmer, i am hungry, i will get food and so on, it becomes so cold that it is impossible to ride. i have to accept all this cold, com pletely i have to accept all this cold, completely relaxed, otherwise it doesn't work. on the third day of my
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ride, i really had a feeling of, oh, iam ride, i really had a feeling of, oh, i am home. ride, i really had a feeling of, oh, iam home. there ride, i really had a feeling of, oh, i am home. there is no hotel at night, i received a simple tent with a little stove inside. that night was a8 degrees below and inside the tent we measured —13. (bleep) cold, you know! inside the tent you want to relax, but we said let's get out and see the night. most of us said, i have never seen sky like this. it feels like you are in space. the last 30 kilometres, it was so mentally tough for me. in one moment i opened the throttle more, 100, 120 kilometres per hour. the steering started to freeze. i see i cannot move it. i started to look for straight lines, not to move it too
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much. and then i arrived and i saw the sign. no thoughts. emptiness. 0k, the sign. no thoughts. emptiness. ok, i the sign. no thoughts. emptiness. 0k, iam the sign. no thoughts. emptiness. ok, i am here. the sign. no thoughts. emptiness. 0k, iam here. when it is the sign. no thoughts. emptiness. ok, i am here. when it is —55, the town it looks pretty empty. and then maybe one hour later, it was mike dunn. the last thing left was to have a swim in the river ——it was mike dunn. to finish this week, i'm back in dubai to check out an iconic seven star hotel, where you'll find some
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unexpected guests checked in. wow! this place is so grand. it's like gold everywhere. i've never seen a lobby like it. now, most people normally use this left to go up, but i'm going to go down to the basement. —— lift. it's the hotel which, almost 20 years ago, really put dubai on the map. but i've been told that behind—the—scenes never got a groundbreaking wildlife conservation projects going on. time to investigate. you must be gerhard. iam. to investigate. you must be gerhard. i am. welcome. it is not quite as billing, is it? what have we got here then, gerhard? what you see as
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pa rt here then, gerhard? what you see as part of the dubai total rebate —— rehabilitation programme. since inception we have released 1576 totals back into the ocean. but to get them to that stage is a long and lengthy process and this is where they have started. that sounds like an enormous amount of totals that you have released. why are the totals here? they either come to us because they are injured or because they are sick in some way. the bulk of the turtles coming to us are either impact injuries, total stuck behind a boat propeller, causing cracks to the karypidis, totals are reptiles, especially the smaller ones, when they get too cold they get lethargic —— carapace. another reason is when they ingest plastic,
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that leads to infection. that is a huge problem. ijust felt its flipper touch me. there's quite soft. i have been told that it's ok to handle the turtles are so long as you are to handle the turtles are so long as you a re really to handle the turtles are so long as you are really soft and gentle. it just feels like an amazing privilege. it is so soft. and the sheu privilege. it is so soft. and the shell is beautiful. so generally when the turtles arrive there dilapidated and often covered in barnacles, which is a sign that all is not well. in the wild, totals often rest under ledgers and they sleep under ledges, they also use those ledges to scrape their shells clea n, those ledges to scrape their shells clean, so when they're sick they don't do that. and then the
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ba rna cles a re don't do that. and then the barnacles are growing and prolific does my credit rating are becoming quite heavy. so that's often the first sign. so the first is will put the turtles in freshwater and the freshwater will kill these external parasites and they willjust freshwater will kill these external parasites and they will just fall off. the total may be severely dehydrated. we will then rehydrate the total. we were given a course of antibiotics. and then just monitor the total for a few days. and then the total for a few days. and then the next thing would be to put the turtle back in the seawater to see how it floats. some of the totals might have infections in their lungs and they will be positively buoyant, which is a problem for a turtle, because a turtle needs to feed, in the wild they need to be able swim, dive down to the reef, if they can't do that they can't eat. many of the turtles are rescued following alerts from local people on social media
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and education plays a big part of the programme here at the hotel. so i'm off tojoin a group of local schoolkids who are here to meet some turtles that will soon be released back into the wild. we release her from here. we named the turtle. what is the name of the turtle? this is a tough crowd. i have gloves on because it is time to feed the turtles. are you ready, guys? 0ne, two, three, go! feed the turtles! 0h, two, three, go! feed the turtles! oh, it's all donkey and smelly. there's just behind the rock. can you see it? yeah. it's all, isn't it? at this seems like a pretty cool place for a turtle to rehabilitate.
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what happens next from here? as you have said, it is a very nice place for them to spend the last few months of their rehabilitation. from here they will get released back into the ocean. we found that the instincts kick in straightaway, once we put them on the beach in a box, and the boxes tilted over, they make and the boxes tilted over, they make a beeline for the water. they never forget that. see you later. see you later! hopefully won't see you again. well, that's it for this week. join us next week when we follow the ellis family from america as they prepared to take their first ever flight with prepared to take their first ever flight with their two severely autistic twins, heading for the well‘s first—ever themepark for special needs kids in texas —— world's. but will they make it there? i'm so relieved that that
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pa rt there? i'm so relieved that that part is over. now let's just get to the gate. make sure you join us for that, if you can. but in the meantime, you can follow us in all the usual ways on social media. but for now, for me, and all the travel show team, it's goodbye from dubai. hello, welcome to a weekend which is going to deliver some dry weather though there will be blustery showers, particularly in scotland and it is going to feel cooler than it has done recently. we've seen this weather front move on southwards, coolerfresh air moving on behind, but it's clearer too, and more of us will see sunshine over the weekend. this is how we start saturday, a touch of frost possible in parts
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of northern england, scotland and northern ireland, still cloud through parts of southern england and towards the south coast in particular, it may hold on through the day and where you have that, don't be surprised if there is a little light rain and drizzle. elsewhere across england and wales, high cloud. any sun is going to be quite hazy. sunny skies in northern ireland and scotland though cloud producing a few showers here and there, and they are very blustery showers in scotland. these are average speeds — gusts are higher, the northern isles could be gusting between 60 and 70 miles per hour initially before the wind eases later, and showers moving into scotland are going to be wintry on the hills. temperatures mostly at around 9—12 degrees. saturday evening and night, further showers coming into scotland. that means a bit more snow to the higher ground. that may be the far north of england. still some cloud into parts of england and wales. maybe a little drizzle but where you are clear, hints of a touch of blue on the chart, you just get a bit of frost, particularly on the ground as sunday begins. early on sunday, there could be a longer spell of wet weather moving into the far north—west of scotland and that will move on southwards with more showers following on behind to northern ireland and maybe northern england later. in scotland blustery showers. elsewhere across england
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and wales, sunny spells. temperatures are fairly similar for part two of the weekend. highs of around 9—12 degrees. so that is how the weekend is shaping up. let's just take a look into next week and high pressure is back with us, looks like it will be moving right across the uk. moving very very slowly. just a few weak weather fronts into the far north—west of scotland. most places with high pressure are going to be dry. variable cloud, some sunny spells, the risk of a touch of frost overnight but other days we go deeper into the week, temperatures look like they will be going up a few degrees. that is next week covered. let's just recap the weekend weather. rather cool, chilly nights, some decent sunny spells around. you may catch a shower mostly in scotland, blustery showers 00:25:34,306 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 at that, and wintry on hills.
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