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you're watching bbc news. now it's time for the travel show, and stay tuned for newswatch. this week on the travel show... we've got the struggle of equality being queer, and we've got the struggle of equality being indigenous people in this country. ..how pride reaches the world's oldest cultures... you'll see the smell is close, but then the lands in the mouth is different. ..and a teetotal tipple in the land of wine. it's good, actually. i don't like it. hello there from sunny paris, where later on in the show, i'll be finding out whether the city of love is ready to relinquish its favourite drink, but first...

..we're off to sydney, which is celebrating 50 years since its first gay pride week, and five since same—sex couples were given the same marriage rights as everyone else. so that's made this year's pride events all the more special, as jacqui wakefield's been finding out. the summer season in sydney, and everyone's out on the streets. it's the time of year the parks and open spaces are full of parades, parties and concerts. and this year, after the quiet of australia's long lockdown, nobody needs much excuse to head outside to reconnect with their friends. most cities have a pride celebration. they've become a regular fixture in the calendar, but this year in sydney, we've got a special edition.

world pride is in town. god save the queen! world pride is kind of a touring jamboree held in a different place every other year, and, for some, sydney is the perfect host. it's going to be the queerest, biggest celebration of pride we have ever experienced in australia. you think mardi gras is big? this is mardi gras on steroids. it's so free. yeah? yeah, like, i've only been in sydney for a couple of years. _ i came from tasmania, - so sydney's pretty awesome. it's just nice to see everyone out and about celebrating, even friends that aren't in the community. just everyone gets together for it. 45 years ago, what we call our "'78ers", in 1978, a group of people marched on the streets and protested for equality. a lot of people were brutally attacked. a lot of people were put in jail. from then was, really, the start of our first public pride movement in 1978, which has now turned into our sydney

gay and lesbian mardi gras parade. this is the first time that a world pride's taken place in the southern hemisphere. so i say to people, we won it on three things. we won it on our first nations visibility and inclusion and culture cos we are the oldest surviving culture on the planet. we won it on the advocacy of our '78ers and our sydney gay and lesbian mardi gras, and we also won it because of our relationship with the asia—pacific region. in previous years, it's been held in new york and copenhagen. this is the first time it's come to the southern hemisphere, and that allows a spotlight to be shone on people from the oldest known surviving culture on earth. welcome, each and every one of you, unto my gadigal- people's custodial land. cheering. normally this place is an arts centre, but during world pride, it's where australia's first nations

lgbt communities have been coming, and for the duration, they've renamed it marri madung butbut, or "the gathering space". chocolate boxx grew up in a small town in new south wales and is now a drag act in demand. in fact, she won the miss first nations competition in 2019 and 2020, and is competing again this year for the title of supreme queen. i fell into drag cos i was working as a bartender at a gay venue and saw a drag queen, i was like, "that looks fun," and it looked like a good way i can continue my dance career and live out my dream, basically. and did it, fell in love with it, got asked to do a show, got asked to come back, and here we are eight and a half years later. it's myjob. your cultural background, how does

that come into your performance? how does that influence you? the way we tell stories, that's how we communicate. that's how we pass on our... there's no real, like, family heirlooms. there's no material things. we tell stories, we pass stories down from generation to generation, and that's what we're doing onstage. we all need, everyone just needs to communicate more, really. it'd would make the world much easier. laughs. australia's government said world pride had the potential to be the biggest event in sydney since the olympics in 2000. for first nations communities, it's a very bright spotlight and an opportunity like no other. as a first nations man in the lgbt community, what does that mean for you to see everything happening today? 10—20 years ago, well, i don't think something

like this would've happened. and so to be able to see, you know, our community and our culture front and centre is something that is so incredible, because if you can see it, you can be it. we've got the struggle of equality being queer, and we've got the struggle of equality being indigenous people in this country, the first people from this country. so, you know, i think that there's a lot of work to go. things like this make me happy because it's ensuring that things are changing and the conversations are happening, but there's a lot of truth—telling that needs to happen. there's a lot of healing, and i think it comes from the non—indigenous part to be able to actually really recognise what happened here and the effects of what happened all those years ago. chocolate boxx's dance set took runner�*s—up place in the end. the title of world pride's miss first nations supreme queen went to cerulean, a drag artist from melbourne. and the next world pride will be in washington dc in 2025.

jacqui wakefield in sydney. whether you're mad for merlot or salivate over a sauvignon blanc, the city of love swoons for a glass of wine. as other countries have music orfashion, in france, you'll see a glass of wine on each table in any bistro or michelin—star restaurant. it's worth 25 billion euro a year to the french economy, and then there were 5.5 billion bottles produced in france last year. but as bars and restaurants all over the world shut their doors, the pandemic forced loads of us to reassess our relationship with booze and explore more nonalcoholic alternatives. international sales of nonalcoholic drinks have shot up by a quarter, but in france, the growth has been slower, reportedlyjust

4% in the same period. one man hoping to transform french attitudes is augustin. hello, ade. last year, he set up what he says is paris's first shop entirely devoted to nonalcoholic drinks. do you get any snobbery? do you get people who come in and, when they hear there's no alcohol, they're like, "what? what is this?" yeah, at the beginning, _ some people were kind of making fun orjust laughing when they entered. but then, for us, it's not against alcohol, i because most of our customers, i they're what we call flexi—drinkers, so they keep drinking alcohol, but they also, time to time, l want to have a break. of course, you have all the pregnant women, the muslim people - who never drink alcohol. he's far from the first person to ride this trend. a few rounds of alcohol—free bars have opened up over the past few years all across the world. along with spirits and beers, augustin stocks two kinds of alcohol—free wine.

the first is dealcoholised. it's fermented like a traditional wine before the alcohol is then removed. you'll see the smell- is close, but then the lands in the mouth is different. you know what? that is so interesting. so, i can taste the kind of familiarity, and then i'm waiting for the alcohol. but it hasn't arrived. it's like wine—light. the second kind doesn't involve fermentation and is more like a poshjuice. and this one is very good if you eat it with your meat or pasta or... - we've picked a particularly potent one made from... ..beetroot. it's busy. i don't think i'm ready for this one yet. but this is exactly what we see with our customers. _ and we know in some years, - they may look more for new recipes and new techniques and everything.

but are parisians ready to embrace this new gastronomic experience? there's only one way for me to find out. would you like to try some nonalcoholic wine? it's good, actually. i like it. i don't like it. i don't think it tastes like wine. no, it's sweeter, i think. 0h... it's actually good. that's the dealcoholised wine. now for the beetroot. not my case. it's more... more acidic? ..acid, yes. more acidic. it's...this one's bitter, but... ade laughs. and whether they like the wines or not, most of the parisians we spoke to were at least open to alcohol—free alternatives. yes, because i'm not fond of alcohol. so, for you, it'sjust finding

something that has the right taste? yes. and then it'll be a winner. yeah. well, that's your lot for this week. you can find the longer version of this show on the bbc iplayer as well as some of our more recent adventures. see you soon. bye— bye. hello, and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. next week sees the start of a new channel named simply bbc news. what difference will viewers of the current bbc news channel experience, and why the change? next monday marks a big moment in the evolution of bbc news with the start of a single news operation for both domestic and international audiences. we've already noted on this programme some changes associated with the move and your reaction

to them, and there will be further alterations in the coming months. but it's a good time to take stock, and we'll be doing so in a moment with the man running the new service. before that, though, how did we get here? the corporation's first foray into 24—hour news was dedicated to audiences abroad. bbc world service television, as it was called at first, could not be seen in the uk and was funded by subscription in some parts of the world and advertising in others. good evening. this is the bbc world service news. i'm ed mitchell. the headlines tonight... six years later, domestic audiences got their own channel, news 24. hello, and welcome for the first time to bbc news 24. since then, with a couple of changes of name, the two services have run in parallel with some content being shared, a trend that's increased recently. but against the background of a decline in the bbc�*s income with the two—year freeze in the licence fee, the bbc announced last summer

that there would be a new unified channel, though uk viewers will receive specific content, such as this programme, at certain times of the day and during certain news stories. it'll be broadcast from london during the day and singapore and washington during the night. but some viewers have been telling us they fear there will be a downgrade from the current news channel. annette glaser wrote to us a few weeks ago begging... diane roberts echoed that. others were concerned about the practicalities,

with terry pearson e—mailing... and someone tweeting as patrickphotos posted this... well, let's put those concerns to the man in charge, interim executive news editor of bbc news channel paul royall. thank you for coming on newswatch. now, we've already seen some of the changes, like the loss of the paper review, the film review, dateline london. what differences will there be from next week? we're entering, i think, a really exciting phase for bbc news

with the news...with the new channel.