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the broncos in the final quarter throwing for 47 yards to find kj hamler. that helped to set up latavius murray for a simple two yard touchdown and hand the broncos their third win of the season. max verstappen will start on pole for the mexico grand prix this evening. the world champion heat off competition from the mercedes pair of george russell and lewis hamilton, who will start just behind the dutchman on the grid in mexico city. that getting under way at eight o'clock our time. off the track, the spat between lewis hamilton and former team—mate fernando alonso continues after hamilton reacted to comments from alonso in a dutch newspaper. alonso said he thought verstappen
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had performed better than hamilton last year and his victories were worth more than his. this is what the seven—time world champion tweeted earlier. quite simply a thumbs up with a photograph of him and fernando alonso on the podium at the united states grand prix in 2007 in the middle of an acrimonious season together. make of that what you will. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening. this week on the show... pulling down the past. i believe that the monuments would not give a tribute to the regime but they should preserve the history and the memory.
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it's a question of symbols and for our people it is a symbol of occupation, it is a symbol of soviet troops, and we want to the new page. for 300 years, on and off, estonia was part of russia. ruled first by the czarist empire, then the soviet union. links between the two are many and deep — in fact, around a third of the people here have russian as theirfirst language.
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but since the invasion of ukraine in february, the government has steered a course very firmly away from its powerful neighbour. there have been travel bans for russian tourists, and something even more dramatic. historic russian and soviet monuments are being removed from public view. and notjust here. the other baltic states, latvia and lithuania, are making similar symbolic gestures. explosion. this was among the first — a replica tank commemorating soviet soldiers killed during world war ii. it's been moved to estonia's war museum from the town of narva, which sits right on the russian border. the government says it's to avert what it calls "increasing social tension".
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oh, wow! look at this. very welcome! the t—34 was produced from may �*aos to �*60s, more than 80,000. so, it's extremely ordinary tank, nothing special. wow — i mean, you say nothing special but, i mean, there's — that is like a rock. that's why it is tank. laughs. why do you think a museum is a better place for these sorts of objects? that's why the museums are created for — to keep the history. it's a question of symbols. and for our people, that is a symbol of occupation, that's a symbol of soviet troops, and we wanted to turn a new page. as you can see, we're not destroying it, we keep it. but the links are impossible to sever. so many of the big public spaces around the capital are russian built. they're bold,
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architecturally distinctive, and pretty popular, too. these days, the peter the great seaplane harbour is a maritime museum, painstakingly restored. the foreboding patarei sea fortress now hosts gigs and club nights. and noblessner port, imperial russia's submarine factory, is fast becoming tallinn�*s new leisure district. as well as cafes, bars and new luxury apartments on the way, there is this - proto. its owners call it an invention factory. it's sort of an interactive museum. so, as we cycle, the little cyclists on the track go round, so it's a race now. yes! it's a competition, yes! so, tell me more about this incredible building — i assume it hasn't always hosted parlour games. exactly. this building, it was the foundry... wow.
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..of the shipyard. next to it was the coopersmith, then there were some storages, local power plant, the engine generator workshop and assembly workshop, so huge area where submarines were produced, yes. among all of the family attractions, there are still glimpses of the building's former life. this is a control panel to open the gate, which is here. 0h, here we go! here, these are — exactly, these giant gates. that is a giant gate. yes. that was used to take the ships out of the foundry. 0h, right, so they'd bring them in and out here? yep. you'd press the button and they'd rumble on out? so, how do you feel about the russian and soviet monuments being taken down? well, i believe — i believe that the monuments would not kind of, like, give a tribute to the regime but they should preserve the history and the memory. in this case, the best place for the monument is in a museum. we have this place.
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this is a wonderful way of people to learn the history and to remember the history. so it's preserving the history, not celebrating the ideology. absolutely right. these spaces are being lovingly restored. money and hard work have been spent to make them attractive. some haven't had that treatment but have become popular nonetheless. this is rummu. it was one of a string of soviet—run prisons that used to stretch across estonia. it's got quite a grim backstory. that's all history now, right? from their arrival in 1940, the soviets used prisoners here to mine and process limestone from the quarry. when estonia regained its independence in 1991, the site was abandoned and reclaimed by rising groundwater.
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today, it's become popular with swimmers, divers and snorkellers. so, what can you tell me about this building and what it would have been when it was a functioning prison? prisoners were working in all positions. they were working in this building, they were working in the mine, where they were — they were digging out the material. they were also working as the ones who were making the explosions to get the material off. so most probably, they are the reason why this quarry was floated. the limestone makes the water such a striking colour that some call it �*the blue lagoon�*.
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i think the most precious places here is the visibility. as you see today, we can see almost, like, five, six metres — four, for sure — and every time i go diving here, i see something new. there's a complicated legacy of this place, given its history? i think the persons that were staying in this prison, for sure, they don't want to come back here. but for the rest of us, it's mainly the place we can spend summertime or enjoy the water because it's really warm and it's really good visibility here and we can see everything inside. i really love being here in the water. into the hands of developers.
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maybe the ones that we can use for the future to have the place to go, to see some pieces — some pieces of history, they should stay where they are. estonia is at a crossroads. many people are happy to see this country distanced from the russian regime but there's a shared history here — one that's not going to be disappearing anytime soon. and if you're thinking of heading to estonia, here are some travel show tips to help with your planning. tallinn is a classic christmas market sort of town and it looks lovely lit up in the town hall square from late november. pay attention to the tree.
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estonians reckon their capital was home to europe's first christmas tree in 14111. that claim is disputed by latvia but tallinn still makes a big deal of it nonetheless. a couple of highlights from the old town. 0lde hansa at a super—touristy but fun mediaeval—themed restaurant, just around the corner from the gothic town hall. it claims its food is still made to 17th—century recipes. also nearby is niguliste museum, in the 12th century st nicholas church. the big show piece there is bernt notke�*s danse macabre, which invites you to think about the futility of life. and sauna culture is everywhere in estonia. there's a good chance there'll will be one wherever you're staying, but look out for smoke saunas, where you'll sweat in the aroma of stripped alder and birch logs.
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there. the weather wasn't too bad this weekend, saturday the better day with many areas staying dry and exceptionally mild. for this upcoming week it is going to stay very unsettled and autumnal, with low pressure system bringing wet and windy weather at times, and it will also turn less mild as we start to lose the southerly winds from the azores and pick up more of a westerly of the atlantic. we have still got the south—westerly winds through this evening and overnight driving in this very mild air as you can see from the orange and yellow colours here. there will be some showers too, not so many for the first part of the night, starting to see if you returning into southern and western areas during the early
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hours, and further east it should tend to stay drier, and another largely mild night. into monday, the pressure chart shows this next feature starting to push into western areas through the day, another area of low pressure developing into the south and that will arrive during halloween evening across england and wales, but not a bad day for the last ever 0ctober, some good spells of sunshine, the odd shower, but western scotland and northern ireland really will be quite wet and could see some localised flooding. a few showers getting into the south coast, 18 or 19 degrees, very mild for the time of year, mid further north. 0vernight it spreads across much of the country, and some of the rain could be quite heavy at times, winds picking up, so quite an unsettled night to come, and the winds could
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pick up. temperatures double figures again across the south, eight or nine for scotland and northern ireland. monday's low pressure clears away north and east, but then we see this next feature running into southern areas, bringing a swathe of wet and windy weather across britain. for wednesday it has across britain. for wednesday it has a bulk of high pressure, thursday another area of low pressure moving, so it really is a roller—coaster ride of unsettled weather for this upcoming week. temperatures falling to what they have been of late, and some sunshine around as well.
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this is bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm david eades, the headlines... at least 68 people have died after a bridge collapsed in india's western state of gujarat. local reports say as many as 400 people were on the structure at the time. national mourning in south korea after 154 people are crushed to death at a halloween event in the capital seoul. and more people fell, and i lost my friend. and i turned around and i told the crowd, "you can't come this way. "people are dying." and brazil votes for a new leader. the current president, jair bolsonaro of the far right, faces left—wing former president luiz inacio lula da silva in the deciding round.
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