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thursday's attacks on two oil tankers in the gulf of oman. earlier, the us military released a video which it said showed iranian special forces removing an unexploded mine from one of the stricken ships. tehran has strongly denied any involvement in the attacks. thousands of venezuelans have rushed to cross into peru — hours before the introduction of tougher migration laws. they'll need to produce a valid passport and a visa to be allowed into the country. numbers of migrants fleeing venezuela's crisis have now reached unprecedented levels. emergency teams in chile have been trying to locate three miners who became trapped some seventy metres below ground after a landslide on thursday. the authorities say they haven't been able to talk to the miners but have heard them making banging sounds.
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a couple have been convicted of murdering a vulnerable young woman. margaret fleming was killed and had learning difficulties at their home in inverclyde around christmas 1999. a benefits claim made 16 years later prompted questions. edward cairney and avriljones — the supposed carers of a vulnerable young woman — this is bbc world news. who instead became her killers. in a bbc interview before they were charged, they denied margaret fleming had been harmed. did either of you harm margaret? no. far from it. so, margaret is alive and well and she has come to no harm? that's right. president trump claims the attack on two tankers in the gulf of oman has iran "written all over it." iran denies the claims. not that i know of, unless she's got thousands of venezuelans rush hurt in the last couple of weeks. to cross into peru in a bid to beat but margaret — a quiet, the introduction of tougher migration laws. emergency teams in chile
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shy girl — had come to harm. try to locate three miners trapped the teenager had moved here, into the couple's home 70 metres below ground, after a landslide. in inverkip on the clyde, and it's paradise after herfather died. for a paleontologist. on one occasion she was seen here we go fossil hunting in search of the mysterious and with duct tape around her wrists. on another, with drainpipes covering her arms up to her shoulders. margaret was last seen alive just before christmas 1999. police believe that monstrous megalodon. in herfinal months she was effectively a prisoner — treated like a slave, neglected, deprived of food, murdered. the couple made fantastical claims to try and cover up their crimes. that margaret was scared of the police and had run away. that she had left to become a gangmaster. that she was a frustrated spy. it was left to one of her former teachers to talk about the real margaret — an isolated teenager who nobody was looking out for, who disappeared without anyone even realising she was gone. i taught margaret for two years, and i'm here speaking about her as a person, and i'm the only person that we've been able to find who really remembers her. and i think that is one of the saddest things, that this wee girl has just been forgotten. forgotten for almost 20 years.
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now margaret fleming's murderers finally brought to justice. lorna gordon, bbc news, at the high court in glasgow. now on bbc news, our world. in northern europe's lapland, temperatures are rising faster than anywhere else in the world, threatening the livelihood of its indigenous sami people. lapland is europe's great last wilderness. it stretches across norway, sweden, england and russia, the arctic circle. the far north of finland is the home of the sami, europe's only indigenous people, who still live off the land. but life of the sami people is changing. climate change is affecting the arc more than any other part of the earth. you can't
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rely on that you know how nature at 01’ rely on that you know how nature at or how animals act because everything seems to be changing. the melting ice is opening up opportunities for shipping routes and there is talk of a new railway. if the worst nightmare we are facing at the moment. which could threaten the sami people's way of life. how can you put a price target for a culture 7 can you put a price target for a culture? we have come to lapland to talk to sami women about the challenges they face. nature gives if we give back. we can'tjust take.
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this woman comes from a family of sami reindeer herders who still make a living off the land. it's the start of the calving season and anna is checking up on the reindeer with a finish elective. the reindeer are about to give birth. these are extra feed pellets needed for the mother reindeer. so that they are in good
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condition. eero is the herder of this fancier. he is the husband of my niece. female reindeer have a ntlers my niece. female reindeer have antlers during the winter and during the spring so they can chase away the spring so they can chase away the mail ones from good food places, places where the reindeer moss is growing. these reindeer are female and they are about to give birth in and they are about to give birth in a couple of days, some in a couple of weeks. they are so beautiful. reindeer herds roam free in lapland but when it's calving time, and a's family fences them into make sure the reindeer get enough food before the reindeer get enough food before
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the calves are born. over the centuries, sami people have made a living from reindeer herding. it's still a key part of their culture but now, fewer than 10% of them are involved in it. reindeer herding is getting much harder. normally, there would be a lot more snow on the ground in the forest at this time of the year. but the climate is changing and it's threatening the family's heard. usually winter came in the end of october and now it can be in december. during the winter, there can be really warm periods that get the snow to melt. winter should be approximately nine months
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of the year and now it's maybe six months. temperatures in the winter fluctuate a lot more than they did in the past which is making it more difficult for reindeer to find food. usually, reindeer can dig through any amount of snow. so whether it's two metres, it can smell the reindeer moss and find it and dig it but when the snow melts, then this food, the basic best food of reindeer, this reindeer moss, freezes, the reindeer can't dig it. they can't even smell it through the ice. that's starvation then. starvation means the reindeer herder has to take extra food. and of course, it affects the income of the reindeer herder. are you over the
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last 20 years, it is declined by almost half. there are fewer than 5000. many find it difficult to cope with the huge amount of unpredictability and reindeer herding posed by the changing climate. you can't rely on what used to know about winter, our winters are. you can't rely on how nature a cts are. you can't rely on how nature acts or how animals are, because everything seems to be changing. people who live from the nature, sami people over here, have adapt did an adapted over decades, almost centuries, i'd say. life here has a lwa ys centuries, i'd say. life here has
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always changed. we are reaching the point where these changes are not such things that you can add up to. people don't do it anymore and that sta rts people don't do it anymore and that starts to affect their mental health. 100 kilometres from anna's reindeer, in the far north—eastern corner of finland, close to the russian border. haini lives in a remote house. the nearest supermarket is 90 kilometres away. most sami people in northern lapland live in places like this and they are very much connected to their natural environment. we built this house ourselves and i think the log house ourselves and i think the log house itself is eco— friendly. we heat the house with would but we do
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have running water and electricity, like in any other house. we are not eco— warriors, we are just ordinary people who wants to do our best. in early spring, haini and herfamily usually start tapping the trees in may. but this year, for the first time, thejuice was ready in may. but this year, for the first time, the juice was ready in april. showing we get winter very late. it's not till december that we get permanent snow. for instance, this february, is incomes very early so we have shorter winters. —— winter comes. here, photos of my family. here, my grandmother. and here is my
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great—grandfather. he is icefishing here. he is doing traditional ice fishing. haini is an artisan. she makes a living by teaching traditional sami handicrafts. what i'm making here is a married women's hat. when women get married, she will have this crown for herself. it is asa will have this crown for herself. it is as a crown. this is the most the most difficult handicraft i have tried and this is truly, truly dairy difficult handicraft. traditionally, everywoma n
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difficult handicraft. traditionally, everywoman did handicrafts but not this one, because this was special. only some handicraft masters were doing this. haini uses reindeer skin to make shoes. but more rain in the summer to make shoes. but more rain in the summer has affected her ability to produce them. ijust made this ready, we were waiting for years for me to make these ready. ready, we were waiting for years for me to make these readylj ready, we were waiting for years for me to make these ready. i made these for myself. they are a little more fancy. the reindeer fur shoes. for myself. they are a little more fancy. the reindeerfur shoes. and these are already too small for my children. here is how we do it. when we skin reindeer legs. there we just put them to dry like this. this is how it should be. here we can see moulded ones. it tells us that the summers are more wet than they used
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to be. five hours' drive to the west, close to the norwegian and swedish borders, alan is a northern summary swedish borders, alan is a northern summary handicraft master. she is 84 yea rs old summary handicraft master. she is 84 years old and she is visiting her niece to make traditional sami close with her.
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climate change is damaging traditional sami livelihoods. but that's not the only threat. as temperatures rise and the sea ice melts, there is now the opportunity for a shipping route to open through the arctic. and plans are being developed for a railway to be built across lapland, threatning to cut through reindeer herding territory. finland's ministry of transport
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favours the route from rovaniemi, the capital of finish lapland, along the capital of finish lapland, along the shore of lake nra, and terminating in kirk and s in norway. supporters say the railway will boost lapland's economy, but the finnish government says no decision has been made on the railway or its routeing. but the sami parliament is fiercely opposed to the plans. and arctic railway through rovaniemi, through our very hartland ‘s of three different sami language groups in finland would be such an infrastructure which would be the end to the sami culture. we live from the nature and it will cut the reindeer grazing areas into two.
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there will be more forest logging, for example. it will be transporting oil and gas products from norway and russia. it will bring the mining industry to the sami homeland area in finland. it is the worst nightmare we are facing at the moment, a concrete one. of course, climate change is another one. but it is not as concrete as the arctic railway. haini, the handicraft, who lives close to the russian border, has found out that a proposal for the arc deck railway has been included in the development plan for finnish lapland. it seems it would go straight through our house. and my opinion is it would be a genocide. if the plans for the
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railway are approved, it is likely that haini would be forced to move. it isa that haini would be forced to move. it is a painful reminder of the past. haini is a sami. many of her people were forced leave their ancestral homes in russia and resettle in finland in 1944. these kind of mining plans are our big nightmare here. yeah, we're very of those. that is why we had to move after the second world war. nazis did want to have this nickel money. we are only a few. in finland we are around 600. everyone has kind of tried to work to maintain the culture and keep the language alive. and if we have to do fight against
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this kind of international greed it ta kes too this kind of international greed it takes too much of our time and energy away. everything is only measured by money. but how can you put a pricetag for our culture? and is getting ready to go ice fishing. we are trying to put the last books in. anna does fishing all year round —— hooks. as she takes great pride in supplying herfamily and friends with fresh fish. now the
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bait is in the hook. so the weight ta kes bait is in the hook. so the weight takes the bait down there in a good depth and this is how it stays. the stick stays there because this is holding or however big bike there would be. tomorrow morning i will come and check if there is movement in there. 20 years ago, the lake would freeze over by the end of october. last year, anna had to wait until the middle of december before she had to go on the ice. and the ice starts melting earlier than it used to in the spring, making it increasingly dangerous to fish. then you conditions, of course, the
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people need to learn again to get to know them. so some people drown. and that's of course, a tragedy every time it happens. sami be all are people of winter. if the winter disappears it would be really strange, really hard to continue on the cycle of the year that doesn't have the real cycle. if the fishermen will adapt, then maybe the fishermen will adapt, then maybe the fish won't adapt to warming waters. so my biggest fear is that fish will disappear. one fall, one winter the nets will start being empty. anna
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believes that reindeer herding and fishing wouldn't survive if the arctic railway is built and new minds open up in the area —— mines. what is the reason for these building plans? it is the greed of people, big companies want to give more profits to their shareholders. we need to be and we have to be active in this fight to save our world, to save our reindeers, to save our clean drinking water and where the fish can live and this... it is where the fish can live and this... itisa... where the fish can live and this... it is a... it is like a betrayal,
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both ways. nature gives if we give back. we can't just both ways. nature gives if we give back. we can'tjust take. will climate change destroy the forests and the lakes in europe's last great wilderness? willa new industrial railway wipe out sami culture or will it bring jobs and an economic boom to northern lapland? we don't know. for now the questions remain unanswered.
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hello. the weekend isn't looking as wet as it's been, particularly in those areas which have had a soaking in the past week but there will still be some rain or showers around and the reason why low pressure is still close by towards the north—west of the british isles, around that we're seeing weather disturbances moving through, with either some rain at times, very least getting showers from west to east. still fairly unsettled this weekend. it won't be wet all weekend long. some sunshine occasionally, looking breezy this weekend. still not particularly warm, though feeling a bit warmer than it has done for the past week. it looks like quite wet start to saturday morning in northern ireland after rain overnight. it peps up at the end of the night. some rain too towards western scotland, wales and western parts of england. this is that first weather disturbance coming our way, slowly moving eastwards, rain becoming more patchy, showery in nature but still one or two heavy showers. ahead of that, some sunny spells, maybe a shower, brightening up. the chance of catching a shower on a breezy saturday with temperatures close to 20 in the warmest parts of eastern england. most of us will fall a few degrees short of that. saturday evening, this first area
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of showers will push away. we could see more coming in towards south—west england and wales on through saturday evening and pushing a bit further northwards as we go through the night. clear spells too — the chilliest spots into single figures maybe towards mid single figures in one or two areas, certainly prolonged clear spells overnight and onto part two of the weekend, look familiar? deja vu. weather disturbances moving around the showers at times could be heavy and possibly thundery. we'll start off with a batch of showers, close to northern england on sunday, especially north—west england. south—west scotland pushing northwards across scotland as the day goes on. sunshine, one or two showers elsewhere and the potential for some heavier downpours to come into northern ireland through the day, into parts of wales as well. still some sunshine occasionally, not everywhere will be wet. maybe not many showers at all towards east anglia. close to 20 in the warm spots. it looks like a similar picture on monday. showers in northern ireland and scotland. she rain and a few showers affecting parts of england and wales, south—east of that, it could be a bit warmer into the low 20s and for many, it will start to feel a bit warmer. monday to tuesday. right now, tuesday is looking mainly dry. so the story of next week's weather is something drier, a bit warmerfor a time at the start of the week. i think it looks like it turns
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