tv The Travel Show BBC News September 20, 2020 8:30pm-9:01pm BST
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after the break, the pair ran riot. kane once again to son, and spurs were ahead, as southampton were swept away in increasingly familiar style. it is son and it is three for tottenham! son coolly completing his hat—trick, and guess what? they only went and did it again. four passes from kane, four goals for son. rarely has a partnership achieved such perfection. kane eventually got on the scoresheet himself. how he had deserved it. and with bale waiting in the wings, spurs will be hoping the fun is onlyjust beginning. andy swiss, bbc news. a total of 27 sarcophagi buried more than 2,500 years ago have been unearthed by archaeologists in an ancient egyptian necropolis. they were found inside a newly—discovered well in an area south of cairo. the discovery has been described
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as one of the largest of its kind with colourfully painted wooden coffins and other smaller artefacts. the location is a designated unesco world heritage site. how exciting. now, the weather with ben rich. low cloud mist and merck lingered for a while but as we go through tonight, that cloud should tend to retreat so the cloud should tend to retreat so the cloud should clear. cloudy in the far north—west and we could see four patches for the south across the midlands, east wales toward southern england. some could lingerfor a time, it will then clear and for many places it is a sunny day. sunnier than today across north—east england and south—east scotland. quite a lot warmer. 20 in newcastle.
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more of a breeze. cooler, 16 for belfast and for glasgow. then as we look ahead, some big changes to come through the week. much more autumnal, much cooler and we will see some outbreaks of rain and brisk winds at times. hello this is bbc news. the headlines... leaked documents reveal how some uk banks have allowed criminals and money launderers to move billions of pounds around the world. the government says the country is at a tipping point, and warns restrictions could be tightened — as thousands more cases are recorded. if everybody follows the rules then we can avoid further national lockdowns. but we of course have to be prepared to take action
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if that's what's necessary. the labour leader says sorting out the problems with testing should be ministers‘ top priority. if i was the prime minister, i would apologise for the fact that we are in this situation with testing. throughout the summer, we were saying prepare for the autumn. instead, we had the exams fiasco. and a fly—past over central london marks the 80th anniversary of the battle of britain, following a memorial service at westminster abbey. now on bbc news... the travel show‘s at recenlty reopened london zoo; mike corey's at brazil's national museum and we catch up with some of the explorers whose trips have been impacted by lockdown. this week on the show... starting from scratch. after a nightmare at the museum.
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walking around, you just feel hollow. how signs of celebration are slowly returning to the champagne region in france. when you're round the world challenge hits the skids. we could see that borders were starting to close and we were like, what is going on? and the pygmy goats who got a little too used to lockdown. hello and welcome to the show. so this is the giraffe house at london zoo. newly reopened after months of lockdown. something which these guys are
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clearly ridiculously excited about. so, i have come here to find out how this place has been looking to volunteers from london's furloughed workforce to get itself up and running once again. but first, an anniversary to remember and not an especially happy one. two years ago this month, fire completely gutted brazil's national museum in rio, destroying literally millions of priceless artefacts. ever since, teams of restorers have been searching through the ashes to piece together what is left. before lockdown, we sent mike corey to join them. around 200,000 people a year visited brazil's national museum. it housed some of the country's most invaluable historical treasure. 20 million items in all. their origins spanning thousands of years. a former imperial palace, it was built for the portuguese royal family in the early 19th century. but two years ago, in september 2018, disaster struck. a fire, blamed on a faulty
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air conditioning unit, spread out of control, destroying the building and half of its collection. the museum is still closed to tourists, as it's a burnt out husk of what it used to be. much of the devastation is still being cleared away. walking around, you just feel hollow. like the remains of the museum. and this room right here is where the fire first started.
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the public grief was overwhelming. the museum wasn't some dusty old relic, but one of the country's top higher education centres. a hub of activity. the national museum is located in the sao cristovao district of rio dejaneiro. it's a little chaotic and it's not the wealthiest part of the city. there are many poor areas nearby, some just a few stops away on the train. and in a city as divided as rio, which is as famous for its favelas the museum will forever be remembered as a place where people from all different backgrounds come together. for former staff members and students, it continues to leave a mark. i know that pain. luis here is tattooing the image of the national museum on marina.
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and he's doing it forfree. marina studied archaeology at the museum. more than 100 people have got one of louise's commemorative tattoos. i did my tattoo because the museum is so important to me. i work in the museum. my best friends are from there. my professors, so we loved it there. it's like our home. and we will see the final piece of art. beautiful. look at that. such fine lines, too, right? marina, you made it. yeah. you survived. back at the site, a team of researchers comb through the debris for surviving artefacts. despite all the destruction,
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there are still some exciting discoveries. it looks like there is something important in here. yes. 0r what's left of something important. yes. these are some of luzia's remains. it is one of the oldest skeleton finds in the americas. one of the oldest. it is estimated the luzia remains date back 11,500 years. it was an iconic item for the collection. we could rescue about 90% of the skeleton, so we hope that, in the future, we will be able to make a proper reconstruction or restoration of the material. i have a really great team. they are very dedicated and they are giving their souls to rescue what is possible to be rescued. since we visited the museum back injanuary, the outlook has grown more uncertain.
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restoration work is on hold because of coronavirus and the team has only managed to fund raise half of its $70 million target. it has meant plans to partially reopen for brazil's bicentennial in 2022 are unlikely to go ahead. the future of the museum, it's... it keeps on. we have to go on. we continue to work, we continue to discover, we continue to interact with the public. that is our main goal as an institution. well, from brazil, time now to head to france where, with fewer big celebrations and weddings going ahead this year, it hasn't been a great one for the makers of champagne. sales have tumbled and it is reckoned that tens of millions of bottles could be left unsold. the champagne region has seen
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particularly hot and sunny weather, and that's led to a bumper harvest, but with the collapse in demand, 2020 definitely won't go down as a vintage year. the crisis hit champagne very hard, because the drop of one third of the shipments is even worse than what we had expected during the great depression or in 7a, after the oil crisis. the region has a tradition of resilience because it has experienced all of the big crises, especially of the first half of the century, and first world war really took place here.
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the region has a tradition of resilience because it has experienced all of the big crises, especially of the first half of the century, and first world war really took place here. the second world war then also impacted the region, so there is this history of getting back on our feet after the worst crisis you can imagine.
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we know the situation is bad from an economical and health standpoint, but at least, in a few years, when those wines are ready to be released, we will have beautiful champagne wine to offer. still to come... stuck on your greatest adventure. the round the world challenges that lockdown stopped in their tracks. and the furloughed workers that helped get london zoo back on its pause. so, one of the things the zookeepers here were able to do during lockdown was give some of the animals extra special attention. the goats here, for example, love a good rub down. so chelsea, how did the goats react to the lack of visitors? it must have been quite lonely for them.
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i think they definitely missed the interaction. as you can see, they do like a good scratch. especially when we first shut, obviously, they didn't really know what was going on. so, for the first few days, they were all over there by the gate where the visitors would normally come in, waiting for people to come in and give them a bit of fuss. obviously, there weren't any visitors coming in so, as keepers, we made an extra special effort to come and spend some time with them. yeah. bless you. i can't say i've ever massaged a goat before, but i think it's equally relaxing for them and for me. now, more people have been to space then have managed to visit every country in the world. the un recognises 193 countries and it's estimated that less than 200 people have ever stepped foot in each and every one. we spoke to some intrepid adventurers who are attempting this
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and to a woman who has completed this monumental challenge. hi, i'm yui. i've been to every country in the world. it took me 17 years and five passports to do so. it was a huge personal challenge and a very long process. lots of focus and time and effort, but it makes me really happy and proud every single day. of the people that have done it, women only make up about 10% to 15%, so we are quite a minority. i don't think having this goal is completely impossible post coronavirus, it's just that you have to understand that it may take a little bit more time and effort. and patience. i'mjulia. i'm chantelle. i'm chloe. and i'm angelique. we did a mad dash to get here. we were in cambodia and we could see borders were starting to close and things were getting really
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uneasy and there were no more tourists except for us and we were like, what is going on? so we did the mad dash to new zealand and we got here literally right before they went into their lockdown. we want to somewhat achieve our goal within the next two years of visiting every country, so we were moving pretty fast this year until covid—19 hit. the big question is if its lasts for another year, what are we going to do? you know, where are we going to go? but i'm sure things will start to progress eventually. the world has to open back up again. i'm sam, i've been to 183 countries. covid was starting to be talked about more and more and people got worried and i was seeing people on planes wearing more masks and i kind of figured, well, i've only got 20 countries left. i was meant to finish in april. i flew from fiji to tonga and then once i got to tonga, about two days later they closed all the borders and said, nope. no—one can leave, you are all stuck here, then i waited there for five months and i was hearing
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from government officials from other pacific islands i wouldn't be able to visit any of the countries for 18 months, two years, that type of thing, so i kind of decided after that that i would just leave. a lot of people say, can i do it? just do it and make it work, so we always reverse engineer what we want to do. we say, this is our goal, this is what we want to do and how can i make it happen? i did it because it was my dream since i was really young, and my dream was to see as much of the world as possible, it was to travel, see loads of different countries and i did a pretty good job of that, so i'm definitely not disappointed. you have to understand your reasons for doing this. for some people, its escapism, they want to get out of a rut and they think travel, it's like a holiday, it's an escape, but your "why" will really colour the kind of experience you do have. i am up in the mountains of afghanistan, you can see the mountain ranges behind me here,
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super beautiful, so nice. one of my favourite countries in the world is actually afghanistan, it's a country that everyone is scared of. i was scared of it before i went, and then i went there and i realised i actually loved it. i love that it's super traditional, it feels like you're going back in time. everyone wears traditional clothes, all of the buildings are old, the only real signs of modernness is people have cellphones and cars. it's not easy when you are always together. you have to still keep a structure and you have to still have your own mental space to get away. there's times when, we are travelling, i said to the whole family, you guys are on that side of the street and do not come to my side of the street, and i willjust walk by myself and in within two minutes they are all over here again, and i'm like, what are you guys doing! this is my own mental space! everything makes a lot more sense now to me and i find that i understand people's behaviour, especially if they come from different cultures, a lot more.
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london zoo has a prime spot in the heart of one of the city's largest parks. since it opened its gates to visitors in 1847, the stream of income has been steady. i think the penguins are my favourite. the charity usually welcomes over1 million visitors a year through its gates, raising vital funds towards the care of almost 20,000 animals. after its historic closure in march, this iconic london attraction recently reopened, but months of lost income has left the oldest scientific zoo in the world struggling to survive. it's been really, really hard for us. the moment our gates closed, our income dried up. it was an incredible weight of responsibility for me and for the staff, it was a really momentous occasion. this was the first time
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we have closed since being back in the blitz. we had staff living on—site here, because they wanted to ensure that they could remain coming in to continue feeding our animals. take a metre step back, please. 0ur animals cost us over £600,000 a month to feed, so the more that goes on, the scarier it gets. we were depleting our reserves, our savings which meant that actually what we could do and how long we could keep going was getting really quite scary. long we could keep going was getting we had a fight on our hands to make sure that these guys, all the animals and all of the staff looking after them, that are so dedicated, were going to come out of the other side and come out the other side shining. london zoo isn't alone in its struggle. zoos all over the world are taking drastic measures to keep afloat. the calgary zoo is in the process of sending its pandas back to china because they can't source enough bamboo to feed them. the staff at vietnam's oldest zoo
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have taken a 30% pay cut and are relying on food donations from the public. and san antonio zoo in texas has transformed into a drive—through experience in a desperate bid to attract more visitors. we have had to change a lot in order to be covid secure, to make sure that people are safe and happy and enjoying things so we've created one—way routes, there's hand sanitiser everywhere you go, there's reminders about social distancing everywhere, and we have just had to adapt ourselves. visitor numbers are on the rise but enforcing these special measures requires more staff, something that the zoo just isn't in a position to currently afford. luckily, londoners have stepped in. thousands of them responded to a callout, asking people on furlough to come and volunteer and help the zoo get back its feet. excuse me, would you mind just try social distance a tiny bit, thank you very much.
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this is sofia, she volunteering to help fill her time since lockdown put her studies on hold. i've been volunteering for about a week, this is my third shift so i'm really new at this but i've been finding it really exciting and i am looking forward to coming here every time i've got a shift. you go all the way out of the tigers and you're gonna find the outback. the world is a bit all over the place and it's nice to see people have some time off and not think about everything else that is going on. you see people just being kind of carefree and walking around and enjoying their time here. i'm studying biology and i want to work in conservation, so having the time to go around and look at the animals, it really makes it worth it. another unexpected positive to come out of lockdown is that the keepers had a little more time to get on with some jobs without people like me getting in the way. right, so we will be going in and i will give a whistle and that is a signal to the penguins
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that they can come in. whistle charlie! come on. charlie! every year, the zoo has to check the weight of all their animals. so before lockdown, we didn't have these bridges in place so if we wanted to weigh a penguin we would just put them on the scales if we needed to, but with the time that we had during lockdown, my colleague got to make these amazing weigh bridges. yeah, good boy! now, i think i speakfor a lot of people when i say we've all piled on the lockdown pounds. suzie, how about the penguins? charlie was 4230. the penguins have been superb over lockdown and have maintained their weights. lucky them. unlike the rest of us.
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well, that's all from us this week but do join us next time when we will be bringing you a selection of our favourite wildlife adventures from over the years. from the dog who's exploring every national park in the us on the back of a motorbike to the world's first open water sactuary for beluga whales. we've met some amazing creatures on the show. and don't forget to follow us in all the usual places — we're @bbctravel. so from me, lucy hedges, and the rest of the travel show team here in london, it's goodbye.
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the week will start on a similar note but it won't end that way. as the week wears on things will turn much more autumnal with cloud and rain. much cooler air. you can see on the satellite picture, this cloud will bring rain. we have so much colder air, that will sweep its way south eastwards across all parts of the british isles as we head through the british isles as we head through the coming week. in the shorter term, it has been great and murky today for some parts of south—east call in and north—east england. that low cloud will tend to retreat back out to sea, so the sky should clue here through the night. it will cloud over in the far north—west of scotland. we could see if you fog patches to the midlands, parts of east wales towards the south of england. we'll have some early forks you can patches to the midlands, parts of east wales towards the
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south of england. we have some early fa u lty south of england. we have some early faulty content with for some places in england and wales. that tends to lift and break up and then we will see some centring. certainly a brighter day than today. it will be a bit warmer, temperatures in newcastle getting up to 20 degrees. with more cloud working into northern ireland and west of scotland, more of a breeze, it will feel a little cooler each year. we look ahead to tuesday, this is the autumn equinox, the first day of the astronomical autumn. it seems at this the day when things begin to change. the big band of cloud starts to work its way from the north—west bringing rain to western scotland and northern ireland. strengthening winds,. 25 degrees in london. those temperatures set to drop through the middle of the week. tuesday night will bring our band of cloud, a frontal system south eastwards. it squashes the mild air to the south—east corner. temperatures around 16 degrees in the south—east of england. compare that with 4—61!
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parts of scotland and northern ireland is that colder air source to work its way in. how this weather front fishing eastwards we all get into that colder air. the temperatures drop away through the second half of the week. it will be much more unsettled. we will see some outbreaks of rain in some brisk winds at times.
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