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you with 10 seconds of skateboarding history. this is aussie skateboarder arisa trew becoming the first female to land a 720 in a competition. that s two full rotations in the air. and she sjust 13. you re all caught up now. see you. this is bbc news. we will have the headlines and main news stories for you at the top of the hour straight after this programme. 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. feeling the heat. we re getting major fires every year now, and multiple ones. oh, my god. and up to our knees in an estonian bog. there s a lot, yeah, there s a lot. - for 300 years, on and off, estonia was part of russia. ..ruled first by the tsarist 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. but since the invasion of ukraine, the governmen ....
bog. for300 up to our knees in an estonian bog. for 300 years on and off estonia was a part of russia ruled first by the royal family and the soviet union. links are deep and around one third of the people here have russian as their first language. the people here have russian as theirfirst language. but since their first language. but since theirfirst language. but since the invasion of ukraine at the government has steered a course firmly away from its powerful neighbour. there have been trouble bans for russian tourists and something even more dramatic. historic russian and soviet monuments are being removed from public view and not just removed from public view and notjust here. the other baltic states, latvia and lithuania are making a similar gestures. 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 governm ....
hundreds are known to have died with many more injured. those pulled from the wreckage were taken to nearby hospitals where they spoke of the horror of the crash. translation: when the accident occurred we realised that there was a fire. when it caught fire nobody could escape. some did manage to get out, some were able to run out of the carriage. but the train had fallen over another train. koshida had to watch as her only daughter died in front of her. translation: as we kept i rolling my daughter got stuck and was buried under bulky iron. i managed to stand in a corner but i was hit in the head by something. i thought about how to get her out from underneath but i didn t know how to move such heavy iron. my daughter kept crying and then died right in front of my eyes. after visiting the scene of the crash, india s prime minister travel to the hospital where many of the survivors were being cared for. he promised swiftjustice. translation: this i incident is very serious ....
hello, and welcome to a special edition of the travel show covered in ice, snow, and that special kind of magic, as much of the world prepares to celebrate christmas, and also the end of another year. we spent most of 2023 on the road, so it s a great opportunity to be at home to recharge and look back at some of our favourite winter adventures here on the programme. so without further ado, let s jump straight in and remember the time when ade headed to finnish lapland not to meet santa claus, but a rapper who s keeping his language alive with music. huskies howl. ade: finnish lapland is as close as it gets to a winter wonderland. more than one million tourists come here each year in search of the northern lights, santa, and his reindeer. the sami are the indigenous people who live in this part of the world from northern norway, sweden, finland, and the far north part of russia. there s around 6,000 samis left in this part of finland, and here, they re known as th ....
hello and welcome to the travel show with me, rajan datar. now, it s widely believed that the first ever museum was built more than 2,500 years ago in babylon, or modern day iraq. and now unesco reckons there are 100,000 of them throughout the world. but today, many museums are putting a lot of time and effort into thinking about how they can make their collections more engaging and more in tune with modern audiences. and that is what we re looking at in this week s show, starting here in belgium. the african museum in tervuren, just outside of brussels, is marking its 125th anniversary. and along with a range of events associated with that, the museum s taken the opportunity to reflect on its colonial past. five years ago, the museum underwent a massive renovation, removing problematic statues, changing the labelling around objects, anything that created a negative stereotype about africa. though some things couldn t be changed, like the enduring presence of the monarc ....