tv The Travel Show BBC News March 12, 2023 6:45pm-7:00pm GMT
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it was his second bad fall, having come off his bike on thursday, and proved too much to continue. belgium's yasper philipsen claimed his second stage win of the race — while slovenia's primoz roglic took the overall win, with britain's tayo gaygan hart claiming the final spot on the podium. two—time tour de france champion tadej pogacar says he's fulfilled a dream by winning the prestigious paris—nice race. the slovenian comfortably claimed a third stage win and the overall victory. and ireland's katie taylor will bid to become a two—weight undisputed world champion in front of her home fans in may. she'll take on england's chantelle cameron in dublin in what will be taylor's first professional fight in ireland. she was meant to fight amanda serrano in a world title rematch, but the puerto rican pulled out because of injury in late february.
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welcome to paris, where i'm soaking up the sun on the banks of the river seine. it's lovely. both the left bank and right banks of the river seine are unesco world heritage sites. it's the perfect setting to take an amble down memory lane and revisit some of our favourite historicaljourneys. and let's begin right here in paris. in 2018, one of the classics of the french car industry turned 70. and christa managed to get behind the wheel to give it a spin. i'm definitely going to need a lesson, vincent. vincent takes guided tours around paris. now, where is the gear stick? the gear stick is there. 0k! she laughs so, you just turn that, if you want to pass the first one. and pull — this is first, 0k? then back to neutral... there? ..and push, second. second. this is very unusual. yeah, i know, it's unique. this might take... please excuse me if we bunny—hop up the street. they laugh
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driving a 2cv feels actually very different to any kind of modern car. you can feel the engine under your foot, you know, and the noise of the car. and it's very physical. and it's not a car that goes very fast, but it's not the goal, you know? it is a very, kind of, active experience. yeah. there's no sitting back and letting the car do its work. you have to be involved. yeah, exactly. and on the left — this is the louvre museum. is there something...? i mean, do you think this is part of french identity? yes, it is, of course, yes. with the baguette and the stripes. they laugh ooh! we'll have to stop for a baguette! yeah. you're very brave, because driving a 2cv car is not easy.
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driving in paris is not easy. driving for the first time in a 2cv car in paris is really, really brave for you. well, now you're making me nervous! there are no airbags, the windows aren't electric and, as for ac — let's just say it's pretty rudimentary. but for some reason, the french really seem to love the 2cv. as long as that remains the case, the car they called the "tin snail" will keep ploughing its own furrow on slow lanes everywhere. right, it's time for us to cross over to a completely different part of the world now, as we transport you from the brisk northern coastlines of europe to the dust and the sand of southern jordan. petra is one of the world's most famous archaeological sites. carved out of the desert 2,000 years ago, it was built by a local tribe
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called the nabataeans. well, in 2016, i went to see efforts to protect this ancient site from the elements, and from tourists like me. this split in the rocks is called the siq, and it was the only entrance, or way in and out of the city. and it would've been heavily guarded to stop anyone from sneaking in and trying to take over. it's just breathtaking. at the end of the siq is the most famous part of petra, the treasury. an elaborate temple carved from the sandstone. just take a look around, you can see how popular this place is. it's the most visited in all ofjordan — but having all of these people
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here can bring problems. the delicate rocks are easily damaged by tourists touching the monuments or walking off the designated trails, especially in places where excavations are under way. but now, there's a project aimed at getting tourists themselves involved with the conservation of the monuments, to help protect one of the most threatened sites in the whole of petra. this is the temple of winged lions, a religious complex built in around 27 ad. i'm liking your office, glenn. i like what you've done with it. no, this is a beautiful place. this is... voice—over: glenn is in charge of the site, and tells me how the problems here started in the 1970s, when the temple was first excavated. they uncovered this cool monument, but didn't do a wonderfuljob of doing
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the things necessary to preserve it for future generations. whenever you excavate a monument, you have to pull a lot of the earth out of the ground in order to reveal it. and so, this earlier project dumped a lot of that earth. and so, as you'll see, we're trying to re—excavate those earlier archaeological dumps. the dumps are huge mounds of compressed earth which will take years to sort through. at the moment, there's a team of local people tackling this mammoth task. we have specialists who come and actually work and train and work with the local community, and not have them just be regular day labourers that sort of help with manual labour, but actually training them in the tangible vocational skills to help them preserve the site in the coming years. and the idea is that the locals then train tourists to help out, too. we're going to have them working on the soil dumps, looking for pottery and coins, and other things the original excavation missed,
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to have the experience of actually doing archaeology for a day. i've got some skills, man. have you got a digger here, orsomething? yeah, we're ready to go. ready? woo! this is an interesting route to get down here. so, tell me what you're doing. now we sift most of this sand... ahmed and iman both grew up in petra, and have become experts at sorting through the material here. so, you're basically sieving out all the dust and looking for the valuable pieces. yes. can i have a go? i was enjoying tasting the dust, but now... voice—over: iman shows me the sort of thing they're looking for. like, normal stones, we don't need them. j we don't need to keep them. yeah, that doesn't look very valuable, that one. no. so, this is part of a jar. and it's nabataean. so, that'd be the original people who lived here, the nabataea ns? yes. so, that'd be very, very old? yeah.
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wow. that's 2,000 years old. 2,000 years old? let's see if i can find any treasures. 0k, stand back. let the... let the master get to work. is that cool? yeah. let's look. that's stone. i'm terrible, i can't find anything! well, i might not be having much luck — but over the last few years, they've found all sorts here. painted pottery, coins, lamps and decorations from the temple. now, as more pieces are retrieved and catalogued, it's hoped we can learn more about the everyday lives of the people who built this incredible city more than 2,000 years ago. oh, wow, that brought back some lovely memories of pushing
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we're off on safari, in memory of one of history's most famous lions. elsa was made a star in the movie born free, which hit the big screens in 1966. it was based on a book byjoy adamson about her and her husband george's attempt to rescue an orphaned lion cub and train it for life in the wild. so, back in 2015, we sent henry, our very own hollywood movie star, to meru national park to find out more. this park is virtually unchanged since george and joy were here. really lucky, because we've come across a lioness and her cub. they've just feasted, so this is the moment where they get really lazy. they've nestled just below a lovely tree for some shade. this kind of... ..reminds you of what elsa would've been doing here in meru national park.
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george had this lovely call. never had to shout. just gently called him "boy, boy". "hey, boy! boy! come, boy!" voice-over: of course, - joy and george needed helpers - and one of those was jonny baxendale, george's godson. he helped return the born free lions to the wild, but used to come back out to their favourite haunts for regular visits. you neverfelt in danger at all? never. no? they were relaxed. there was no tension, there was no issues. we knew very well that, you know, they would walk up to us and greet us in the most amazing way. the pair used to sit under this tamarind tree with warm beers. it doesn't take long for the memories to come flooding back. just being with him, and being able to work with him and see how he absolutely handled his lions and how relaxed he was. and he had this amazing rapport
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with his environment. he was totally in harmony with his environment. and this is the born free country. this is where it all happened. this is where elsa was found, and this is where elsa died. hello there. it's been a much milder day today for most parts of the uk, with temperatures well on into double figures. now, overnight tonight, outbreaks of rain develop and move across the country. it's going to be quite a windy night as well. the winds coming in from a south westerly direction. for most of us, it's mild with temperatures into double figures, but cold for the far north of scotland, where there'll be a bit of frost and a few icy patches around for monday morning.
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monday, the worst of the rain clears through. it'll be followed by a day of sunny spells and blustery showers. very windy, though, gusts running into the 50s miles an hour for england and wales. so gales developing quite widely. temperatures for the most part still into double figures, but it's getting colder in scotland. and here we'll see more hill snow developing through monday, some accumulating snow above 200 metres elevation, some of the higher hills, you could see 5 to 10 centimetres. and then through monday night, as the colder air pushes southwards, there is a risk of seeing a little bit of snow across some of the higher hills in northern ireland, england and wales.
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this is bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines... presenters refuse to appear on more uk bbc sport shows in solidarity with gary lineker after he criticised the uk government over its asylum bill. lineker himself, who was ordered to step back from his duties by the bbc this week, remains tight—lipped about his future. have you spoken to tim davie yet, mr lineker? i'm going to walk my dog and i'm going to do my shopping, so would you mind letting me do it on my own? we'll hear what fans think of the row. also ahead... rishi sunak flies to san diego to discuss defence and the potential threat from china with the american and australian leaders.
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