we built this house ourselves this is bbc news, the headlines: and i think log house itself is eco—friendly. we heat the house campaigners in hong kong with wood but we do are promising to continue have running water and electricity, demonstrating — after a week of mass like in any other house. protests forced the government, we are no eco—warriors, to suspend a china extradition bill. they argued it would we arejust ordinary plug a legal loophole — and prevent the city becoming a safe haven for overseas criminals. people who wants to do our best. in early spring, nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, the british—iranian woman being held in prison in iran, heini and her family has started a hunger strike along with the new site is to demand her unconditional release. drink birchjuice. she usually start tapping in 2016 she was arersted the trees in may. and subsequently sentenced to five but this year, for the first time, years in prison — for allegedly trying to topple the juice was ready in april. the iranian government. she denies the charge. we get winter very late. a roman catholic mass has been held it can be december that at notre dame cathedral we get permanent snow. in paris for the first time since fire ripped through the iconic for instance, this february, building two months ago. spring comes very early so we have shorter winters. for safety reasons the priests and other religious leaders attending the small service had to wear hard hats.

now on bbc news, our world. here are photos of my family. in northern europe's lapland, temperatures are rising faster than anywhere else in the world, threatening the livelihood here are my grandmothers. of its indigenous sami people. and here is my great—grandfather. he is icefishing here. lapland is europe's great last wilderness. it stretches across norway, sweden, england and russia, north of 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. he is doing traditional ice fishing. heini is an artisan. she makes a living by teaching traditional sami handicrafts. what i'm making here is a saamchich. it's a married women's hat. when women get married, but the life of the sami she will have this crown for herself. people is changing. it is as a crown. climate change is affecting the arctic more than any other part of the earth. you can't rely on that you know how the saamchich is the most the most nature acts or how animals act difficult handicraft i have tried because everything seems to be changing. the melting ice is opening up and this is truly, truly very

opportunities for shipping routes difficult handicraft. and there is talk of a new railway. traditionally, every woman did handicrafts but not this one, because this was special. it's the worst nightmare only some handicraft we are facing at the moment. masters were doing this. which could threaten the sami heini uses reindeer people's way of life. skin to make shoes. but more rain in the summer has how can you put a price affected her ability target for a culture? to produce them. we have come to lapland here are my latest. to talk to sami women about the challenges they face. nature gives if we give back. ijust made this ready, these we were waiting for years in our shed for me to make these ready. this, i made these for myself. they are a little more fancy. the reindeerfur shoes. we can't just take. and these are already too small for my children. here is how we do it. we just, we skin the reindeer legs. then we just put them to dry like this.

anna comes from a family of sami reindeer herders who still make this is how it should be. here we can see moulded ones. a living off the land. it tells us that the summers are more wet than those are used to be. five hours‘ drive to the west, close to the norwegian and swedish it's the start of the borders, alen is a northern sami handicraft master. calving season and anna she is 84 years old and she is visiting her niece to make is checking up on the reindeer traditional sami clothes with her. 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 condition. eero is the herder

of this fence here. he is the husband of my niece. female reindeer have antlers during the winter and during the spring so they can chase away the male ones from good food places, places where the reindeer moss is growing. these reindeer are female 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 anna's family fences them in to make sure the reindeer get enough food before 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 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 itand dig it but when the snow melts, then this food, the basic best food of reindeer, this reindeer moss, freezes, climate change is damaging the reindeer can't dig it. they can't even smell traditional sami livelihoods. it through the ice. that's starvation then. starvation means the reindeer herder but that's not the only threat. has to take extra food. and of course, then it affects as temperatures rise and the sea ice melts, there's now the opportunity the income of reindeer herder. for a shipping route to open through the arctic. the number of reindeer herders is decreasin in finland. and plans are being developed over the last 20 years, for a railway to be built it has declined by almost half. across lapland, threatening to cut now there are fewer than 5,000. through reindeer herding territory.

finland's ministry of transport favours the route from rovaniemi, the capital of finnish lapland, along the shore of lake inari, and terminating in kirkenes in norway. many find it difficult to cope supporters say the railway with the huge amount of unpredictability and reindeer will boost lapland's economy, herding posed by the changing climate. but the finnish government says no decision has been made on the construction you can't rely on what used of the railway or its routeing. to know about winter, but the sami parliament is fiercely our winters are. you can't rely on how nature opposed to the plans. acts or how animals are, because everything and arctic railway through rovaniemi seems to be changing. people who live from the nature, to kirkenes, through our very sami people over here, have adapted and adapted heartlands of three different sami over decades, almost centuries, i'd say. life here has always changed. but then we are reaching the point language groups in finland would be where these changes are not such things that you can add up to. such infrastructure which will be people don't do it anymore and that starts to affect their 00:07:50,268 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 mental health. the end to the sami culture. we live from the nature and it will cut the reindeer grazing areas into two.

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's the worst nightmare we are facing at the moment, a concrete one. of course, climate change is another one. but it's not as concrete as the arctic railway. heini, the handicrafter, who lives close to the russian border, has found out that a proposal for the arctic railway has been included in the development plan for finnish lapland. those plans i have seen. so it seems like it would go straight through our house. and my opinion is it

would be a genocide. if the plans for the railway are approved, it's likely that heini would be forced to move. it's a painful reminder of the past. heini is a skolt sami. many of her people were forced leave their ancestral homes in russia and resettle in finland in 1944. all these kind of mining plans are our big nightmare here. yeah, we're very afraid of those. that is why skolt samis had to move after the second world war. nazis did want to have this nickel mining in petsamo. we are only few. in finland skolt samis are around 600. and everyone has kind of tried to work to maintain the culture, keep the language alive.

and if we have to do fight against 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? back in inari, anna is getting ready to go ice fishing. we are trying to put the last hooks in. anna does fishing all year round. and she takes great pride in supplying her family and friends with fresh fish.

now the 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 pike there will be. and then, well, 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 could to go on the ice. and the ice starts melting earlier than it used to in the spring, making it increasingly dangerous to fish.

the new conditions, of course, the people need to learn again to get to know them. so some people drown when learning. and that's, of course, a tragedy every time it happens. sami people 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 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 believes that reindeer herding and fishing wouldn't survive if the arctic railway is built and new mines open up in the area. 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... itisa...

it's a trade of, like, both ways. nature gives if we give back. we can't just 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.

hello. another day where we've seen some torrential rain across parts of the uk, exacerbating the flooding we saw earlier in the week. this was burton upon trent in staffordshire during saturday afternoon. for others, blue skies and sunshine. and it's this mixture that we keep as we go into sunday, our area of low pressure still slow moving to the north—west of the uk. and another frontal system working its way north and eastwards. so this will generate showers through sunday morning, initially across northern ireland, wales, south—west england, but soon extending north and eastwards across much of the uk. now, where these showers develop they'll be heavy, they'll be thundery, they'll be slow—moving. some gusty winds as well associated with these showers. here's an idea of average wind strengths. but the gusts will be even higher. could well see some hailstones, too. meanwhile, across parts of southern and south—east england fewer showers through the afternoon, more sunshine, so 20 or 21 celsius. where we've got the frequent showers struggling to get much above 14 or 15. and these showers merging at times

to give a longer spell of rain. certainly the case as we go through sunday evening. some heavy spells of rain working their way across northern england, into scotland, continue across parts of northern ireland, some rain returning to wales through the early hours of monday morning. it's not a cold night for most. we're going to hold up to between 11 and 13 celsius. high single figures across rural scotland. so as we start the new week, our area of low pressure still to the north—west of the uk, generating some heavy showers for scotland and northern ireland. a cold front draped across northern england and wales bringing some spells of rain through monday morning. but turning more showery as the day wears on. to the south and east of this, mainly dry, some spells of sunshine, some heavy and thundery showers, though, across a large swathe of scotland and northern ireland. so temperatures here again 14 or 15 celsius. in the sunshine, further south and east, 20, maybe 21 celsius. now, as we go into tuesday, briefly, we see this ridge of high pressure across much of england and wales and southern scotland. keeping an eye on this area of low pressure, though, could bring some heavy rain later on tuesday into southern parts of england. still some heavy showers and longer the spells of rain across parts of scotland. but they should ease across northern ireland on tuesday. much of england and wales having a mainly dry day with some sunshine,

but keeping an eye on this rain arriving into southern counties of england later on tuesday. ahead of this, some warmth, 20 or 21 celsius for much of england and wales. we could see some heavy rain for a time, later on tuesday and into wednesday. as that clears, things are looking drier and a bit warmer towards the end of the week. bye— bye.

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