this is bbc world news, the headlines sudan's ruling military council and civilian opposition alliance have signed a landmark power—sharing deal. the agreement ushers in a new governing council, including both civilians and generals, to pave the way towards elections and civilian rule. there are reports of multiple casualties in the afghan capital, kabul, after an explosion ata wedding. eyewitnesses say a suicide bomber detonated explosives in the men's reception area of a hotel. at least 20 people have been taken to hospital after being injured. a massive fire has swept through one of dhaka's biggest slums, leaving more than 50,000 people homeless in the bangladeshi capital. city officials say at least 15,000 shanty homes were destroyed in the blaze. pro—democracy demonstrators are holding a series of rallies in hong kong this weekend. so far the protests — in favour of democracy and free elections — have been largely peaceful.

at 10:00pm, ben bland will be here with a full round—up of the day's news. first, our world. lapland is europe's great last wilderness. it stretches across norway, sweden, finland 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. but the life of the sami people is changing. climate change is affecting the arctic more than any other part of the earth. you can't rely on that you know how nature acts 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. it's 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? we have come to lapland to talk to sami women about the challenges they face. nature gives if we give back. we can't just take.

anna 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 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, 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, then it affects the income of reindeer herder. the number of reindeer herders is decreasin in finland. over the last 20 years, it has declined by almost half. now there are fewer than 5,000.

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, how winters 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 adapted and adapted over decades, almost centuries, i'd say. life here has always changed. but then we are reaching the point where these changes are not such things that you can add up to. people don't feel safe anymore and that starts

to affect their mental health. 100km from anna's reindeer, in the far north—eastern corner of finland, close to the russian border, heini lives in a very remote house. the nearest supermarket is 90km 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 log house itself is eco—friendly. we heat the house with wood but we do have running water and electricity, like in any other house. we are no eco—warriors, we arejust ordinary people who wants to do our best.

in early spring, heini and her family drink birchjuice. she usually start tapping the trees in may. but this year, for the first time, the juice was ready in april. we get winter very late. it can be december that we get permanent snow. for instance, this february, spring comes very early so we have shorter winters. here are photos of my family. here are my grandmothers. and here is my great—grandfather. he is ice fishing here.

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 saamcic. it's a married women's hat. when women get married, she will have this crown for herself. it is as a crown. the saamcic is the most the most difficult handicraft i have tried and this is truly, truly very difficult handicraft. traditionally, every woman did handicrafts but not this one, because this was special. only some handicraft masters were doing this. heini uses reindeer skin to make shoes. but more rain in the summer has

affected her ability to produce them. here are my latest. 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. 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. this is how it should be. here we can see moulded ones. 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 borders, alen is a northern sami handicraft master. she is 84 years old and she is visiting her niece to make traditional sami clothes with her.

climate change is damaging traditional sami livelihoods. but that's not the only threat. as temperatures rise and the sea ice melts, there's 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, threatening to cut 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. supporters say the railway will boost lapland's economy, but the finnish government says no decision has been made on the construction of the railway or its routeing. but the sami parliament is fiercely opposed to the plans. the arctic railway through rovaniemi to kirkenes, through our very heartlands of three different sami language groups in finland, would be such infrastructure which will be 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 however big a 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. 0ne 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, it is that time again when we try to give you some sense of how the weather is going to pan out right across the british isles in the forthcoming week and we will extend it right on into the forthcoming weekend, obviously with a bit more uncertainty with time. in the short term, not a lot changes very rapidly, because the low pressure that has driven our weather for a couple of days now is still there or thereabouts, close by in the north—west of scotland as we get on through sunday. lots of isobars on that chart, so these showers and i think it will be showers rather than more prolonged spells of rain, will rattle on through the northern half of the british isles. further south, the odd shower could not be ruled out but a lot of dry weather and the showers with less intensity, but it will still be a blustery day widely across the british isles, probably the strongest of the gusts with altitude across the high ground of scotland, so watch out if you're on the move and because of the strength of the breeze, you probably will not feel the benefit of every degree i am showing you there. those temperatures not very spectacular in their own right. not a great deal changes through the evening, some of the heavier showers drifting

down towards the north of wales, and towards the north midlands, and here we are on monday, the same low pressure has only managed to get its way over to the norwegian coast but it will have had the effect across northern britain of changing the direction of the wind and so we will find a different distribution to the showers across northern and western scotland, northern ireland, through the northwest of england to north wales and the further south and east you are, the drier your day will be but i would not rule out some showers as far south as east anglia. on tuesday, the high pressure will try and develop across the southern half of the british isles, and tend to suppress any shower activity but further north, we will have a system of weather fronts sliding over the top of that high pressure, bringing rain initially to northern ireland and onto western scotland, into the central belt and the northwest of england. further south, with the sunshine, not much in the way of a breeze, and the temperatures will be pushed to the low 20s, not sparkling for the time of year. on tuesday to wednesday,

this set of weather fronts has a bit more about it. it will tend to knock aside the high pressure, at least for a time, and spread the threat of wet and windy weather, initially through northern ireland but into western scotland, the irish sea coast of england and wales, and again, you have to be over towards the east midlands, east anglia, the south—east, to stay dry for the greater part of the day. with the sunshine, 22 degrees, not too bad but the wind will temper the feel of the day towards the west. to the second half of the forthcoming week you will see that these weather fronts are trying to make further progress towards the british isles, but the high pressure over the continent will keep them at bay for the most part and the flow of air from those isobars over the continent towards us, will make the first half of the forthcoming weekend warm and pretty pleasant. we are building up to a but, aren't we? but the second half may well be a wee bit more unsettled. i say "may well be" because at that sort of range, there is a deal

of uncertainty about how things are going to pan out, but it looks like the low pressure will be there, somewhere to the northwest of the british isles, another lobe of low pressure towards ireland, and another one developing towards biscay. it could throw up the prospect of unsettled fare across the western side of the british isles, with still some warmth coming in from the near continent to affect the eastern side of the british isles. time will tell.

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