so here we are in milan, the fashion and industrial powerhouse of italy. i ve only been to milan a few times and always in passing. i ve never stayed here long enough to really get a sense of it. the first thing that strikes you about milan is its dynamism. no wonder espresso was invented here. i think i might need a few of these just to keep up with the rhythm of the city, but do the hard-working milanese bring as much to the italian table as they do to the country s economy? i m stanley tucci. i m italian on both sides and i m travelling across italy to discover how the food in each of this country s 20 regions is as unique as the people and their past. that s delicious. here in milan, the menu is nothing like you expect. up here in the north, forget about pasta and pizza. oh my god, that s so beautiful. perfecto . this is the land of rice and polenta. -polenta in the ancient time, it was like the bread. -people from south of italy call us polentoni . [tucci] there isn t e
this week on the travel show. ..mont saint michel marks its millennium. that view is pretty amazing. there s the shadow of mont saint michel on the sand. oh, yeah! the parps and toots that make this port one of a kind. horns blaring. one, two, three, four, five. and saving these bundles of fluff from extinction. twittering and squawking. yeah, he s thinking about it. all right. we ll give him some time. here he comes. i m beginning this week in northern france on a journey that 2.5 million people take each year. i m kind of getting an idea of how popular this place must be because it s off season, it s super cold, but this bus is packed. you can see it. i ve just got a glimpse of the abbey. it does look pretty special. this is mont saint michel, one of france s most visited sites. it s an island off the coast of brittany in normandy, connected to the mainland by a half a mile long bridge that opened back in 2014. and this year, the island celebrates a very special anniversary
i m beginning this week in northern france, on a journey that two and a half million people take each year. i m kind of getting an idea of how popular this place must be, because it s off season, it s super cold but this bus is packed. i can see i vejust got a glimpse of the abbey. it does look pretty special. this is mont saint michel, one of france s most visited sites. it s an island off the coast of brittany, in normandy, connected to the mainland by a half a mile long bridge that opened back in 2014. and this year, the island celebrates a very special anniversary. it is the 1,000th anniversary of the construction of the church. how on earth did they construct something like this 1,000 years ago? mm hm. yeah, this is the best of medieval engineering. and it started off as a sanctuary dedicated to saint michel, saint michael, in the year 708. then it took off, you know, the pilgrims started to come. they had to come across the bay, so walk through the sands, and then i
of sub saharan africans by rights group human rights watch following a wave of anti migrant sentiment and clashes between locals and migrant communities in the country. our reporter, yasmin khatun, dewan is in the newsroom with more. according to a tunisian 1200 some safran migrants have been deported to tunisia to the port of algeria and libya over the last few days. the mp who made the statement suggested he wants to and hope that number would increase to 4,000 by the end of the week. he said the migrants had been sent with food and medical supplies. he is the mp for the region in tunisia whether been clashes between migrant communities in the last few days at local tunisians and one tunisian man was killed with his funeral just yesterday. even writes or suggests between 500 700 of the migrants are now stranded on the border to libya with little food, shelter or medical support. they said they spoke to a number of the migrants who said they saw large groups who had come to