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this is bbc news with victoria derbyshire. the headlines: commentator: the chance of a shot... england and tottenham footballing legend jimmy greaves has died at the age of 81. in later years he was a tv pundit alongside former liverpool striker ian stjohn in saint and greavsie. the british government says it's confident there's no risk to energy supplies for customers — amid soaring gas prices and warnings more companies could go bust. we are not being complacent about this at all, but i think the clear message that i want to give to people is that we do not see risks of supplies right now and prices are being protected. the foreign secretary has defended the uk's security pact with the us and australia, despite a diplomatic row with france. the first non—professional space crew ever launched into orbit has returned safely after their three—day mission. now on bbc news, the travel show with mike corey. this week, on the travel show... ..i am in argentina, exploring an amazing sunken town that has
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re—emerged from under the water. then i had to the country's spectacular iguazu falls. oh, my god! and in wales, wejoin a couple starting out on a pedal—powered adventure at sea, searching for a more sustainable future. ow! we're kicking off this week in south america. argentina, to be precise, where early last year i went to explore one of the strangest places i'd ever heard of.
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a town that had to be abandoned due to flooding back in the 1990s, but has since re—emerged from beneath the water. you can find ghost towns all over the world and there's many different reasons why they could be abandoned, but i've heard epecuen is special — because it's not abandoned, at not completely. there's not much left... just some bricks. you can only guess what they used to be. this place is wild. well, there is a couple of tourists here, notjust us, but more cows than tourists.
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epecuen was built in the 1920s, and at its peak was home to about 5,000 people. tourists came from all over argentina to take a therapeutic dip and its famous thermal bath. today they come for very different reasons. today, vivian takes us around the remains of her hometown, explaining what happened here. how did it become abandoned? how did it come to this? how did it turn into this?
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in 1985, heavy rain and storms sealed epecuen�*s fate. a nearby dam ruptured and within weeks the town was flooded. for years and years, the water continued to rise, and by the early 90s, everything you see here was completely submerged. then, just over a decade ago, the waters began to subside. and now tourists can walk these streets once again.
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hotel monte real. this looks damaged, but it's not — it's completely encrusted in mineral salts from the water. the inside, not so great... i guess that's what a quarter of a century underwater does. for me, here, ijust see concrete, but you — you have memories here. but even when it was mostly underwater, it wasn't entirely abandoned. for over 25 years, a local legend called pablo novak lived on the outskirts.
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some recent health complications have meant that pablo has had to move out of his home and into a nearby nursing facility. that means epecuen�*s last resident has finally moved away, but pablo's memories of the town still live on. while epecuen may now be fully abandoned, what is left behind is a uniquely desolate, stunning landscape with a legacy that will never be forgotten.
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next, we are off to new zealand to visit the north island's largest rainforest. back in 2014, the government returned ownership of the land back to the local indigenous people, who are now encouraging tourists to learn to interact with the forest on a spiritual level, rather thanjust think of it as a great place to take a hike and take some photos.
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this tribe, my tribe here, fought for 150 years to have land returned to the people, and they were eventually successful in 2014. what was formerly the national park area became a living entity of its own with all the rights of personhood. te urewera national park. and i believe that it was the first of its kind in the world. we don't take over and control — we understand where they fit in, and are guided by nature. this tree that's supporting me, and the energy from it feels male. it's a few hundred years old, whatevertree, plant, that your eyes alight upon, there is that thing acknowledging you and saying hello.
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if you ignore them, itjust means that you need more time, so more time spent in nature, the more you tune in, the better you develop your understanding of the language that she is speaking to you. people that i met when it was a national park often did not know much about the tuhoe tribe. 0r our indigenous ancestry, children of the mist. the retreat was born out of the desire to have a place where people could stay in nature, enfolded in nature, where they could connect
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with nature and themselves. you are unplugged from the business of life, and the distractions actually of life. i want people to realise that you don't need much to enjoy life, and to live. staying here strips back and takes you right back to the basics of what you need, what the body needs, what the spirit needs. still to come on the travel show...
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..i get to experience the spectacle and sheer force of nature of the amazing iguazu falls here in argentina. and we meet the couple setting out on a sustainable journey at sea with the help of a little pedal power. don't go away. this isn'tjust one waterfall — it's hundreds. iguazu is three times wider than niagara and it's a marvel of nature, right on the border between argentina and brazil, and i've been wanting to see this waterfall my entire life. during the rainy season, every second, up to 13 million litres of water spill over a series of precipices stretching 1.5 miles wide.
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well, the first time that i saw the waterfalls, i cried. the falls are steeped in local legends. though some are more sinister than others. in the mythology they believe that behind the waterfalls, especially behind the devil's throat, there is a giant snake living there, and they have a lot of respect for that. have you seen a giant snake? never, but i have seen the devil's throat and i have a lot of respect for that. it is one of the most spectacular sections of the falls, where a major portion of the iguazu river tumbles over, causing an effect similar to an ocean plunging into an abyss. wow! i've never seen anything like this before. 0ne waterfall, two, three, four, five, six, 20, 30, 100, all cascading down. the rush coming off
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this waterfall... you can feel it on your face and hands. this is an incredible wonder of nature. you have to come and see this sometime in your life. wow! next, we join the husband—and—wife team jason and tammi on an incredible zero carbon adventure around wales, and so far they have completed almost 400 miles over hills and valleys under their own steam. now, it's time for them to tackle the spectacular and sometimes precarious welsh coastline in a boat powered just by pedal. we are on a circumnavigation
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of wales using just human power, so we're biking, we're walking, canoeing, pack—rafting and using a specially designed pedal—powered boat. moksha is an eight metre by 1.5 metre boat made out of wood, it was designed and built back in the early 90s to complete the first circumnavigation of the planet by human power which is what i did, started off with a friend, and she is like almost a part of me, she is part of my soul now, i've spent so much of my life in her. like i'm ever gonna wear this. i think, for me, human power means being able to be more part of a community, and i think one of the most special things about ourjourney so far is the fact that we are going very slowly, we are meeting some amazing people that we would have never met. some of the most engaging encounters in terms of people and leading onto sustainability stories which is what we are interested
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in exploring here in wales have come about because of human power. so we biked from greenfield dock up on the estuary, then we hiked over the black mountains, used pack rafts down the river to monmouth, and then we've just biked from monmouth to here, milford haven. so tomorrow we are going to be peddling moksha, our little boat, out into the channel essentially, around the pembrokeshire headland and then around to fishguard, up cardigan bay, around by anglesey and back to where we started from, from greenfield dock. there on the dee estuary. thank you! i can't deny that i am more apprehensive about this than crossing an ocean, which i have done in that pedal boat, several times, but this, going around the coast, you've got tides, wind, other vessels, there
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0k. can you see me? no, up, up! no, up! stop! damn it. yeah, i'm just shattered. absolutely shattered. absolutely shattered. i'm not in my comfort zone on the water, but honestly for me, it's telling the stories of the local heroes that are championing, you know, their local environments and the seals and the whales. and they're out there and they are in the trenches every day working hard and they are fighting bureaucracy and i am so excited to bring those stories to other people so that they can get
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help, and i'm really, really excited about that. we have heard about this amazing organisation called the sea watch foundation, and jason and i are super excited, we're going to get out on the boat to see if we can't find some dolphins and other sea life, so we are looking forward to it. what exactly is it that the sea watch foundation does? so the sea watch foundation i is a nationwide research charity, and we study whales, _ dolphins and porpoises in the uk. 0ur flagship project is the one that my lead and we study - the population of bottlenose dolphins that we get around | here and we look at how do - they use their habitat and how many animals are here year after year.
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so today we are not actually on a surveying boat, we are on a tourism boat? yes. can you explain, is that a problem for the dolphins? a problem for the dolphins? it is a difficult situation. when we look at northern cardigan bay, where there is actually- a lot less tourist boats, | we have seen an impact of disturbance and that is mainly from recreational boat traffic - and we have seen an effect on the social structure - of the dolphins has not been so down here we have much smaller pods - with longer lasting bonds, . whereas up north the animals are often in bigger groups- but they have less long lasting bonds with each other. you just can't get away from it, can you? 0h...
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still rolling. well, as soon as we get under way, it will be not this continual rolling. honestly, we make a good team, and it's funny because we fight about little things that, you know, i think we can't even remember what we fought about. 0w! yeah, we do fight, but weirdly enough when we are out at sea or if we are on this expedition together... if we think we're gonna die, we're fine! can't one thing be easy? just one! i suppose when the chips are down and things are going really badly, that is when we come together and we work really well together. thank you. you're welcome. tammie's cafe at sea! food waste is a huge problem.
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yeah. 40% of our food in this country is wasted so we're gonna go and find out how this local group is preventing food from going to landfill, so they pick up food from restaurants, from people's houses, and a lot of it has not gone off — it's just gone past the best before date, so they make delicious food and we are tired of eating brown food on the boat, so that will be great, eating food other than our own cooking. it's reallyjust a great concept because they are feeding their local community and then anything that they can't use actually goes into a compost bin, so it is literally a complete circular economy with food that would be otherwise wasted. that's delicious!
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well, that's all for this week. but coming up next week... what we're trying to do here is get around this headland before the tide turns against us, but it looks like the tide has already turned. we are back with tammie and jason as they continue their voyage, but with the weather closing in will they get to their final port of call or have to abandon their mission? you're not going to want to miss it. but from me and the rest of the team here, at iguazu falls in argentina, it's goodbye.
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good afternoon. contrasting fortunes for a fair few of you. for some, rain pouring down at the moment. this is the view in kew gardens to the west of london just a short while ago. for others, some rain early but sunshine out. this is wakefield, puddles on the ground and blue skies overhead. progression of weather fronts pushing eastward at the moment. good to show you the view from space. one across scotland, western parts of england and wales, rain, but the second one is a little more potent and that is producing the downpour in kew gardens and thunderstorms in parts of norfolk, lincolnshire and just off the east coast. down that eastern coastal strip, coastal counties and into the south—east, outbreaks of heavy and at times thundery rain. further west, the front fizzing a little. a fair bit of sunshine to take you through your sunday afternoon and feeling quite pleasant with the sun on your back. this evening and overnight, our weather fronts across these eastern counties of england, grinding to a halt. turning brighter and patchy
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through the night and at the same thing cloud approaches to the west of scotland and northern ireland but in between clear skies mean mist and fog patches in a cooler night than recent nights, in rural areas down to single figures. that big swathe of sunshine tomorrow morning being squeezed from fronts approaching the west of scotland, northern ireland, producing rain into the afternoon and also that front is still with us, east anglia, showers. many across england and wales, but this will hold on to something for a big part of the day. to finish your day, a breeze, cloud pushing southwards. into an area of high pressure, so that means the weather front is basically cold off. nothing more than a zone of cloud across central parts of england and wales. either side, a few mist and fog patches, good sunny spells. through tuesday, the wind picks up in scotland and northern ireland, wind increases, spots of rain in the highlands and islands, but many will have a dry day and again very pleasant in the sunshine. through tuesday night into
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wednesday, of course the autumn equinox but very potent pushing out of iceland, not any direct impact of us but its those weather fronts down across scotland bringing more in the way of rain, wetter and windier, sunshine either side, england and wales staying largely dry and bright through wednesday. some sunny spells and the rain will edge into northern parts of england later in the day. still feeling warm across the south—east corner but going through wednesday night into thursday it looks like autumn is on its way as we see more on the way strong winds and temperature starting to drop. i will have a full forecast for you throughout the afternoon here on the bbc news channel.
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this is bbc news with the latest headlines. england and tottenham footballing legend jimmy greaves has died at the age of 81. in later years, he was a tv pundit alongside former liverpool striker ian stjohn in saint and greavsie. absolutely gutted. he was just an incredible player, and plastic when —— fantastic incense and greedy. a lot of us grew up watching that. he was so brilliant. proper _ lot of us grew up watching that. he was so brilliant. proper sad. - lot of us grew up watching that. he was so brilliant. proper sad. he - lot of us grew up watching that. he l was so brilliant. proper sad. he was a real goal-scorer, _ was so brilliant. proper sad. he was a real goal-scorer, that _ was so brilliant. proper sad. he was a real goal-scorer, that boy. - was so brilliant. proper sad. he was a real goal-scorer, that boy. i - a real goal—scorer, that boy. i would — a real goal—scorer, that boy. i would say _ a real goal—scorer, that boy. i would say he _ a real goal—scorer, that boy. i would say he is _ a real goal—scorer, that boy. i would say he is better- a real goal—scorer, that boy. i would say he is better than. a real goal—scorer, that boy. i. would say he is better than harry kano _
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