Worlds Apart

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0:02:56 > 0:03:01New buildings seem to be going up

0:03:01 > 0:03:04of a European community now scattered all over the city.

0:03:11 > 0:03:14It will even have a heliport

0:03:16 > 0:03:19the effects of the Common Market

0:03:21 > 0:03:25The barriers are almost down and the goods move freely across frontiers

0:03:27 > 0:03:30The Common Market is changing

0:04:00 > 0:04:03Nowhere on the changing face

0:04:03 > 0:04:05is the drama of human progress

0:04:07 > 0:04:12roads are being cut through woods

0:04:12 > 0:04:18right into the lives of once self-contained little communities,

0:04:18 > 0:04:20Today, it's a place where new ideas

0:04:20 > 0:04:23in the developing technique

0:04:23 > 0:04:26Time is catching up with the men

0:04:26 > 0:04:30They know, these wood-cutters, just what it's like to battle

0:04:30 > 0:04:32every day of their working lives

0:04:32 > 0:04:35They belong to one of the most famous of the world's forest

0:04:35 > 0:04:38communities, at Berchtesgaden

0:04:38 > 0:04:42Their locally-built horned sledges

0:04:44 > 0:04:47weighs more than a hundredweight,

0:04:47 > 0:04:50and it takes skill and nerve to steer a crushing load of logs

0:04:50 > 0:04:54at more than 20 miles an hour.

0:04:54 > 0:04:57One mistake and you're wood pulp.

0:05:08 > 0:05:11a quarter of the population,

0:05:11 > 0:05:14were still working in wood.

0:05:14 > 0:05:18Today, hardly 500 make a living

0:05:23 > 0:05:26But when he's not working in the forest, many a lumberman can still

0:05:26 > 0:05:31turn skilled hands to figure carving, with the family joining in.

0:05:38 > 0:05:41With well-paid jobs available

0:05:41 > 0:05:45apprenticeship without wages

0:05:45 > 0:05:52And in our motorcar civilisation,

0:05:54 > 0:05:58There's still work to be done on the sledges - even now, the only

0:05:58 > 0:06:01at these heights in winter.

0:06:05 > 0:06:09And it takes a lumberman's physique

0:06:09 > 0:06:12on a 12-mile slide across the lake

0:06:57 > 0:07:03For the rest of the year, he fishes, hunts, grows enough potatoes

0:07:03 > 0:07:11But with the new motor roads that have been pushed into Lapland

0:07:15 > 0:07:18The family car, in the form of a two-seater motor sledge

0:07:22 > 0:07:26A product of the mid-20th century,

0:07:26 > 0:07:29the ways of a people who have used the reindeer sledge for 2,000 years.

0:07:30 > 0:07:34the Lapp reindeer farmers get together for a day's sport.

0:07:34 > 0:07:38The sport of reindeer racing In this case, in northern Finland.

0:07:38 > 0:07:42To own the fastest reindeer in

0:07:42 > 0:07:45First, individual times are taken

0:07:45 > 0:07:47with the rider towed on skis.

0:07:48 > 0:07:52but a steady 20mph is kept up.

0:07:58 > 0:08:02After the day's fun, the serious

0:08:17 > 0:08:20During the annual round up,

0:08:24 > 0:08:27Lapp women work the reindeer

0:08:27 > 0:08:30This woman owner, Katrina, a widow,

0:08:30 > 0:08:33which came from near Petsimo,

0:08:33 > 0:08:38Her tribe were driven into Finland by advancing Russian troops at the end of World War II.

0:08:39 > 0:08:41When the branding and gelding

0:08:41 > 0:08:44and no instruments other than human teeth were used for gelding,

0:08:47 > 0:08:51The herd is sorted, identified

0:08:53 > 0:08:56this separation of reindeer

0:08:56 > 0:08:58has gone on for thousands of years

0:08:58 > 0:09:00It's the big event of the year

0:09:00 > 0:09:03the reindeer is everything.

0:09:03 > 0:09:06It feeds him, it clothes him and up until a year or so ago,

0:09:06 > 0:09:09it pulled his sledge across

0:10:38 > 0:10:41And even the dustmen cast-off.

0:10:57 > 0:11:01It's guarded from the Adriatic storms by a broken sand spit

0:11:01 > 0:11:03that starts with the holiday town

0:11:03 > 0:11:06whose beaches attract 50,000 people

0:11:08 > 0:11:11Yet, at the mercy as it is,

0:11:13 > 0:11:16the world's most concentrated

0:11:16 > 0:11:21visited, it's said, by two million a vast fortune to stand and stare.

0:11:21 > 0:11:24Tourism is its greatest industry

0:11:24 > 0:11:26but, every year, on the big tides,

0:11:26 > 0:11:31Venetians are used to the sight

0:11:31 > 0:11:34and bubbling up through the paving stones of the square itself.

0:11:34 > 0:11:37It's all part of the life of Venice,

0:11:37 > 0:11:40with the pigeons and the tourists enjoying themselves, keeping dry.

0:11:56 > 0:12:00More of a problem than the tides

0:12:06 > 0:12:09One extra reason why Venice

0:12:09 > 0:12:12is sinking a fraction of an inch

0:12:19 > 0:12:21It doesn't really change much,

0:12:21 > 0:12:25it's still the most romantic the most loved city on Earth.

0:12:57 > 0:12:59Costa Smeralda means Emerald Coast.

0:12:59 > 0:13:0335 miles of clear green sea

0:13:03 > 0:13:05Well, almost deserted beaches.

0:13:09 > 0:13:11bought this stretch of coastline

0:13:11 > 0:13:15and is developing it as Europe's

0:13:15 > 0:13:18Their master plan calls for the construction of more than

0:13:18 > 0:13:34and 35 to 40 hotels by the 1970s.

0:13:34 > 0:13:38electricity and telephone cables

0:13:40 > 0:13:49It's estimated that eventually

0:13:49 > 0:13:53Royalty, film stars and people who can afford £6 to £10 a day

0:13:54 > 0:14:15are enjoying the Mediterranean sun

0:14:15 > 0:14:19In the evenings, whether at hotels, clubs or barbecues or beach houses,

0:14:22 > 0:14:26Most of the visitors are from England, Germany, France and Italy

0:15:19 > 0:15:23Nepal, an unaligned neutral,

0:15:29 > 0:15:32to the Nepalese capital Kathmandu,

0:15:32 > 0:15:35Roads that have helped open up

0:15:35 > 0:15:38that, less than 20 years ago, was practically inaccessible.

0:15:40 > 0:15:44Kathmandu - one of the most magnificently adorned cities

0:15:45 > 0:15:48Holy to Hindus and Buddhists.

0:15:51 > 0:15:54but only open to the outside world

0:15:54 > 0:15:57when the present king's father

0:16:03 > 0:16:06But into this ancient culture

0:16:11 > 0:16:15The old time-traveller did,

0:16:15 > 0:16:18Today's tourist will only spend his money in a home from home,

0:16:18 > 0:16:21so up go the air-conditioned hotels

0:16:21 > 0:16:24in that "might be anywhere"

0:16:24 > 0:16:28and in to them go the manifold

0:16:36 > 0:16:40A new breed of people comes willy-nilly into existence.

0:16:40 > 0:16:44this smart, young casino employee

0:16:48 > 0:16:52in forms like this absurd devil

0:17:09 > 0:17:13all manner of game abounds.

0:17:13 > 0:17:20It's more dangerous than it looks.

0:18:18 > 0:18:22On this day, the Dalai Lama

0:18:22 > 0:18:26commemorate the 10th anniversary

0:18:26 > 0:18:30of the bloodily suppressed uprising against their Chinese masters.

0:18:34 > 0:18:36Astrologers and priests chose him

0:18:36 > 0:18:41as the child into whom the previous Dalai Lama had been reborn.

0:18:46 > 0:18:49he has kept his scattered people

0:18:49 > 0:18:52utterly united in their faith

0:18:53 > 0:18:57But soon the speeches give way

0:18:59 > 0:19:02that are one more way of preserving

0:19:05 > 0:19:09Can exiled Tibetans preserve

0:19:09 > 0:19:13become absorbed into the ways

0:19:17 > 0:19:21the Dalai Lama waits in exile.

0:19:21 > 0:19:24An exile that may well endure

0:20:11 > 0:20:15It's Manly Beach, one of the world's great surfing beaches,

0:20:15 > 0:20:18not far from the spot where

0:20:21 > 0:20:23And even in those hard-living days,

0:20:23 > 0:20:32landings could hardly have been less comfortable than this.

0:20:38 > 0:20:43are reaching Australia's shores at a rate of around 135,000 a year,

0:20:43 > 0:20:47and finding their way even into such traditional Aussie strongholds

0:20:51 > 0:21:03And here's a present day reminder

0:21:22 > 0:21:29and be able to speak English,

0:21:29 > 0:21:33Migration on the scale Australia

0:21:33 > 0:21:36means a two-way traffic in ideas

0:21:36 > 0:21:39a growing cosmopolitan trend.

0:21:39 > 0:21:43of ten people are migrants.

0:21:43 > 0:21:47Yugoslavs, Italians, Germans, English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh,

0:21:50 > 0:21:5230 and more different nationalities.

0:21:53 > 0:21:58The migrants who find it easiest

0:21:58 > 0:22:02They merge naturally into a new

0:22:09 > 0:22:13A country in a hurry to make a splash in the modern world.

0:22:53 > 0:22:58High among the snow peaks of the Andes, La Paz in Bolivia.

0:22:58 > 0:23:01that new arrivals feel giddy.

0:23:02 > 0:23:05In the high streets of La Paz,

0:23:08 > 0:23:11marketing and strolling about,

0:23:11 > 0:23:15with the women wearing their

0:23:15 > 0:23:19But colourful travel pictures can't hide the great problem of Bolivia -

0:23:19 > 0:23:23backwardness of these Indians,

0:23:23 > 0:23:26whose traditions go directly back

0:23:29 > 0:23:32There is no need for things

0:23:32 > 0:23:34The trouble is human stubbornness.

0:23:37 > 0:23:41One, the high plateau - icy, unfertile, unfit for human beings.

0:23:41 > 0:23:44But most of the human beings

0:23:44 > 0:23:48The other is a rich, tropical land,

0:23:50 > 0:23:54that falls 12,000 feet in 50 miles

0:23:54 > 0:23:58lies a green world where crops grow almost without asking,

0:24:00 > 0:24:04and the main business is smuggling

0:24:08 > 0:24:12being done down here, and in

0:24:14 > 0:24:17In these lowlands, some of the

0:24:17 > 0:24:20could be grown, but the results

0:24:20 > 0:24:32because the Bolivians don't have

0:24:32 > 0:24:36That's always providing the Indians will come down from the cold plateau

0:24:36 > 0:24:38and plant and pick the coffee.

0:25:13 > 0:25:20This is a scene that made history.

0:25:20 > 0:25:23Thousands cheered the Queen

0:25:23 > 0:25:27Since then, thousands in Britain have been looking at the map.

0:25:32 > 0:25:35This goodwill grew from the British sailors, soldiers and adventurers

0:25:35 > 0:25:41War of Independence from Spain

0:25:47 > 0:25:48especially in the services.

0:25:48 > 0:25:51flies British Hunter fighters.

0:25:54 > 0:25:57The country's banking, commerce

0:26:00 > 0:26:02There's no doubt about the origin

0:26:20 > 0:26:23Chileans are highly conscious of attractive presentation.

0:26:26 > 0:26:29British recording artists are tops.

0:26:52 > 0:26:55the Queen planted a sapling.

0:26:55 > 0:26:58It was a traditional commemoration

0:26:59 > 0:27:03It stands today as a symbol,

0:27:05 > 0:27:10Will it grow into a sturdy tree

0:27:10 > 0:27:13The next few years will tell.