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FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
2019
Saving Venice
28 mins 25 secs
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This is not Disneyland,
this is not an amusement park. All we ask for is respect - Venice mayor Luigi
Brugnaro |
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Venice may be a world
treasure, but Venetians are disappearing - fast. In just a decade the city
has lost 12 per cent of its resident population, which now sits at just
53,000. Some locals say they’ll all be
gone in a few decades. |
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It’s all thanks to the 25
million-plus tourists who come to Venice and who, over a full year, outnumber
residents 500 to one. Many are “eat and run” day-trippers who spend little
but swell the crowds. |
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…Just three hours – Chinese tour group leader,
asked how long her group is staying in Venice |
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Longer staying visitors are
unwittingly helping to evict Venetians from their homes. As landlords scurry
to convert apartments into tourist beds, permanent accommodation dries up and
rents shoot up. |
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The city has made a total
shift in favour of tourism and against residents – housing activist Nicola
Ussardi |
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Politicians fiddle at the
margins. They’ve announced a new tax on visitors, but it will be too small to
dent visitor numbers. Every year they debate ways to curb the giant cruise
ships that overwhelm the city skyline. |
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Now Venetians are taking
matters into their own hands. |
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We are destroying the city,
we are choosing to kill it for money – anti-cruise ship
campaigner Tommasso Cacciari |
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Cacciari wants the ships
out of the Venice lagoon. He says they’re big polluters and bring in little
revenue. |
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Activists are taking direct
action to reverse the city’s depopulation. Nicola Ussardi’s group occupies
and renovates empty buildings to house evicted Venetians. |
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We are resisting. We have
to give Venetians the possibility of living in their own city – housing activist Nicola
Ussardi |
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In the long run though, tourists pose a
lesser threat to Venice than the very thing they come to see – water. |
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The main challenge comes from the sea
that is rising all over the world. We‘ll be a ghost town in the worst case
scenario – Giovanni Cecconi, engineer |
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Within this century, rising sea levels
could destroy Venice, says Cecconi. |
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So the city is pinning its hopes on a
fix that Cecconi helped design – a corruption-plagued, $9.6 billion flood
barrier that’s seven years overdue. |
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Even that, he says, might just be buying
time. |
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Episode teaser. GFX: Foreign Correspondent |
Music |
00:00 |
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SAMANTHA HAWLEY: For nearly 2000, years
Venice has prospered against all odds. |
00:09 |
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TOMMASO CACCIARI: “The magic of Venice
is the balancing between water and stone and people, you know? That’s the magic of Venice, the impossible
city, the city on the sea”. |
00:14 |
Hordes of tourists |
Music |
00:26 |
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SAMANTHA HAWLEY: But the famed floating
city is sinking and suffocating. |
00:30 |
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GIOVANNI CECCONI: “Venice will be
completely transformed. Its sea level
will be more than two feet, more than sixty centimetres. We will… have to abandon the ground floor”. |
00:34 |
Cruise ships |
Music |
00:46 |
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LUIGI BRUGNARO: “We have to recognise
that this is not Disneyland. It’s not
an amusement park. It’s where people
live”. |
00:50 |
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SAMANTHA HAWLEY: If rising sea levels
don’t take it first, mass tourism is set to destroy its soul. |
00:56 |
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TOMMASO CACCIARI: “We are choosing to
kill it for money, for a little bit of money now, without thinking about what
will happen tomorrow”. |
01:05 |
GFX: foreign correspondent |
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01:13 |
Venice sunset GVs. GFX: |
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01:23 |
GFX: Saving Venice |
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01:27 |
Hawley walks
GFX: Reporter:
Samantha Hawley |
[FX: Church bells] |
01:31 |
Canals. Carnival time. Gondolas on canals |
Music |
01:37 |
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SAMANTHA HAWLEY: It’s carnivale time in
Venice. |
01:46 |
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Music |
01:48 |
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SAMANTHA HAWLEY: For centuries,
Venetians have marked the lead up to Lent in spectacular style. |
01:55 |
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Music |
02:00 |
Tourists line streets watching street performance |
SAMANTHA HAWLEY: Nowadays, it’s a
celebration drawing crowds from all over the world. |
02:04 |
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Music |
02:09 |
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SAMANTHA HAWLEY: But behind the
flamboyant masks there’s a sad truth… Venice is dying. |
02:19 |
Venetian protest |
Music |
02:26 |
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SAMANTHA HAWLEY: There are no tourists
here. These are the real Venetians and
they’re fighting hard to reclaim their city.
There are only about 53,000 true Venetians now living in Venice, over
the year, 500 times as many tourists will come and go. |
02:34 |
Ussardi addresses protest |
Nicola Ussardi, a proud Venetian born
and bred, runs a community housing group, dedicated to keeping Venetians in
their homes. |
03:07 |
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NICOLA USSARDI: “Everyone thinks we’re
doomed, dead. There are lots of
individuals |
03:22 |
Ussardi interview |
who still have their say about changing
the way things work, even though it’s not easy because the city has made a
total shift in favour of tourism and against residents”. |
03:31 |
Canal GVs |
Music |
03:45 |
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SAMANTHA HAWLEY: In the last 15 years,
the number |
03:51 |
Hawley walks streets by canals |
of beds offered privately to tourists,
aside from registered accommodation, has grown more than fivefold. That’s pushed rental prices up and many
residents just can’t afford to stay. |
03:53 |
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Venetians from all walks of life are
being affected, but particularly the middle classes. They don’t qualify for state help, and on
average, half their salary goes on rent. |
04:10 |
Hawley walks with Ussardi to empty apartment |
Despite the rental squeeze, thousands of
council owned apartments have been left empty for years. These are the ones Nicola and his group
target for occupation. We have to be
careful, because in recent months there’s been a police crackdown on
intruders. |
04:22 |
Hawley and Ussardi into dark empty apartment |
“Alright, it’s very dark…” NICOLA USSARDI: “Yes”. SAMANTHA HAWLEY: “No electricity, but
this is one of the ones that’s empty that you want to occupy?” NICOLA USSARDI: “Yes”. SAMANTHA HAWLEY: Sometimes the
apartments are deliberately vandalised by the authorities to deter squatters,
but Nicola’s team renovates them and helps families to move in on peppercorn
rents. |
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NICOLA USSARDI: “This has more or less
75 square metres, here was living an old woman, but now this apartment is
ready for a family for two or three kids.
So it’s empty more or less two years”. |
05:03 |
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“Landlords see Venetian citizens as
risky. They’d rather cash in and make more money from tourists |
05:20 |
Ussardi interview |
because in a week, a tourist can spend
what a citizen might spend in a month”. |
05:31 |
Men with crab and fish catches |
SAMANTHA HAWLEY: Long term residents of
Venice say they’re being thrown out of their apartments, which are then
rented to tourists through accommodation website, Airbnb. It’s thought there are now almost 8000
Airbnb properties in the small historic centre of the city. |
05:27 |
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NICOLA USSARDI: “I believe Venice is
among the top three for Airbnb apartments in the whole of Italy. |
06:08 |
Ussardi interview |
The battle against Airbnb is very
difficult. It’s like trying to win
against Coca Cola”. |
06:17 |
Hawley walks with Ussardi |
SAMANTHA HAWLEY: Nicola and his group
have helped 150 Venetians to find homes, but there’s always the threat of
eviction. |
06:24 |
Ussardi knocks on window above banner hanging from it |
“What does this say?” NICOLA USSARDI: [reading the banner] “We
don’t move from here because we are Venice and we love there. So we love her. They say yeah we love
Venice!” |
06:34 |
Chiara and Davide at window and talk with Ussardi |
“Hi Chiara, hi Davide”. CHIARA & DAVIDE: “Hello, hello”. NICOLA USSARDI: “Did someone come?” DAVIDE: “Yes. They came… quite early this morning”. SAMANTHA HAWLEY: Davide and Chiara have
squatted here for 8 years with their 8-year-old daughter and now they’ve been
served an eviction notice. |
06:51 |
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DAVIDE: “Yes, yes, he gave us a
postponement to September 10”. CHIARA: “That’s much better. After two
months…” DAVIDE: “We can relax a bit”. SAMANTHA HAWLEY: The couple applied for public housing when
Chiara found out she was pregnant. |
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DAVIDE: “I had an insecure job and she
as at home. We didn’t have the income we needed to get a house in Venice
because rents are very, very high.
And… another thing is that landlords don’t do long term contracts. So it’s hard to find a house to live in for
four, eight, ten years, whatever. It’s complicated”. |
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SAMANTHA HAWLEY: Now they’re in a
precarious situation. |
08:11 |
Conversation at window continues |
DAVIDE: “It’s not easy. Living in an “occupied” house is risky. On
days when we face an eviction notice… we don’t know if they’ll come with the
police to move us out. So we have to live on guard all the time”. |
08:17 |
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SAMANTHA HAWLEY: “Do you think
eventually you will have to leave Venice?” |
08:37 |
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CHIARA: “That’s something we don’t
know. But clearly, we find ourselves
having to think about it. But hopefully it won’t happen”. |
08:40 |
Ext. Pharmacy. Digital counter in window at pharmacy |
Music |
08:55 |
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SAMANTHA HAWLEY: In a pharmacy nearby, a
clock records the loss of residents.
Locals say on current trends, they’ll all be gone in the next 50
years. |
09:01 |
Venice tourism GVs |
Meanwhile, the tourists keep
coming. The best estimates available
put the annual number of visitors to Venice between 25 and 30 million. |
09:13 |
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Music |
09:28 |
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SAMANTHA HAWLEY: Many are day trippers known as “eat and run”
visitors who spend little but swell the crowds and put more pressure on the
infrastructure. Europeans and
Americans still top the visitor list, |
09:32 |
Chinese tourists |
but Chinese are catching up fast. So far less than 10 percent of Chinese have
passports, but that’s set to increase dramatically. |
09:52 |
Tourist coaches disgorge tourists |
“So this is quite incredible watching it,
it’s coach after coach with masses of people |
10:12 |
Hawley to camera beside tourist coach |
rolling off. They’re going to spend a few hours here and
then they’re going to roll straight back on again. It’s just incredible to
watch it, and this isn’t even peak season”. |
10:19 |
Chinese tour group leader |
“Hello, do you speak English? ABC Australia, we’re from Australia”. TOUR GROUP LEADER: “I’m so sorry I must
go, go to the boat. So sorry”. SAMANTHA HAWLEY: “Where’s your group
from?” TOUR GROUP LEADER: “China”. SAMANTHA HAWLEY: “From China. And how
long are they here in Venice? TOUR GROUP LEADER: “Well we stay here
half a day”. SAMANTHA HAWLEY: “Just for half a day?” TOUR GROUP LEADER: “Yeah…” SAMANTHA HAWLEY: “Wow that’s really
quick. And so what do you hope… what
do they hope to see? Why have they
come here to Venice?” |
10:28 |
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TOUR GROUP LEADER: “You know, you know
now is it Chinese New Year and so much people to come here for Venice”. SAMANTHA HAWLEY: “So what will they do,
what will they see?” TOUR GROUP LEADER: “Yeah we will have a gondola
and a small boat in the river side”. SAMANTHA HAWLEY: “So you’re only here
for what five hours?” TOUR GROUP LEADER; “No, I’m so sorry
just for three hours”. SAMANTHA HAWLEY: “For three hours. Wow.
Okay”. |
10:52 |
Group leader leaves to find her group |
TOUR GROUP LEADER: “I’m so sorry”. SAMANTHA HAWLEY: “Thank you, thank you
so much”. |
11:16 |
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Music |
11:21 |
Mask maker Marilisa Dal Cason |
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11:31 |
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SAMANTHA HAWLEY: Tourism here is big
business. Visitors spend about 9
billion dollars a year and a good portion of that goes on cheap mass-produced
souvenirs. Marilisa Dal Cason is a
master mask maker. Her craft is
centuries old, but it’s gradually being lost.
In the last 40 years, Venice has lost more than half of its crafts men
and women. |
11:36 |
Dal Cason interview |
MARILISA DAL CASON: “And the people
doesn’t understand that when they see a big mask and we say the price, ‘Oh
too much!’ They don’t understand that for something like that there is hour,
weeks or month sometimes”. SAMANTHA HAWLEY: Marilisa’s been making |
12:09 |
Masks in Dal Cason's studio |
her art for over 30 years but isn’t sure
she can hang on for much longer. MARILISA DAL CASON: “It is difficult to
leave this, |
12:29 |
Dal Cason interview |
that is my, it’s me… and I want to keep
strong but it’s very, very difficult to stay alive”. |
12:37 |
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[FX: Church bells] |
12:46 |
Hawley walks across piazza and greets Cacciari |
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12:51 |
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SAMANTHA HAWLEY: Venetians don’t want to
stop people coming to their city, but they do want more control over how many
visitors come and how they arrive. |
12:59 |
Cacciari and Hawley on boat in lagoon |
“Okay well this is the way to travel”. TOMMASO CACCIARI: “Yes, for sure”. SAMANTHA HAWLEY: “For sure”. |
13:16 |
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TOMMASO CACCIARI: “Venetian’s means of
transport”. SAMANTHA HAWLEY: “Oh it’s beautiful,
beautiful. I mean you can see why so many millions of people want to come
here”. |
13:20 |
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TOMMASO CACCIARI: “The magic of Venice
is balancing between water and stone”. SAMANTHA HAWLEY: Venetian, Tommaso Cacciari, is a founding
member of the anti-cruise ship movement – no Grandi Navi or No Big Ships. |
13:34 |
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TOMMASO CACCIARI: “These enormous ships
come inside the Venice lagoon from there, they cross all the city”. SAMANTHA HAWLEY: Last year alone, 594
cruise ships sailed right into the Venice lagoon over a six-month
period. Now Tommaso and his fellow
campaigners want them to stop. |
13:50 |
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TOMMASO CACCIARI: “If you think that the
tallest house in Venice are from Jewish ghetto and they are tall, 16 or 17
metres. |
14:10 |
Cruise ship in lagoon |
A basic cruise ship which comes in here
is 65 metres, so they’re about six times higher than the tallest house of
Venice. When you see the pictures, you
think it’s a joke. You know you think
it’s a mistake, a scale mistake”. |
14:21 |
Hawley and Cacciari disembark boat at San Giorgio Maggiore and walk on paving stones |
SAMANTHA HAWLEY: Tommaso is taking me to
the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, just across the lagoon from St Mark’s
Square to show me the damage he claims cruise ships cause. |
14:42 |
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TOMMASO CACCIARI: “And so right here
where we are now, is the place where the movement of the water caused by big
ships is maximum”. |
14:56 |
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SAMANTHA HAWLEY: According to Tommaso,
the currents created by the passing ships are destroying these centuries old
paving stones. TOMMASO CACCIARI: “Here, this part of
the island is just slipping into the water and eaten from beneath. |
15:04 |
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You can see it’s going away from between
the stones. They’re trying to do this
kind of useless horrible thing…” SAMANTHA HAWLEY: “They’re putting
concrete”. TOMMASO CACCIARI: “Putting some
concrete, concrete is not a Venetian material. Nothing in Venice is made by concrete which
is totally useless”. |
15:23 |
Hawley and Cacciari on boat |
SAMANTHA HAWLEY: “So how does that make
you feel when you sort of come down here and you see these cruise ships
docked here? I mean inside”. TOMMASO CACCIARI: “Very angry. Very angry, because this is a big damage
for our health, our city, our natural city and our built city, because Venice
is so beautiful because it’s a city on the sea”. |
15:43 |
Protestors in boats around cruise ship |
SAMANTHA HAWLEY: In protest locals have
taken to their boats to vent their frustration. There’s debate over whether
the cruise ships cause subsidence, but there’s no dispute over the pollution
they create. Per day, one cruise ship
emits as many air pollutants as a million cars. Tommaso Cacciari and many fellow Venetians,
don’t see the benefit. |
16:06 |
Cacciari interview |
TOMMASO CACCIARI: “Cruise ships are not
giving money to the city. They’re not
giving money to the workers, to bars, to taxi drivers, to… there is nothing
this. Cruise ships is keeping the money concentrated in very few hands, and
these few hands are very powerful.
Some politicians are very tied with these interests. They are not very good politicians”. |
16:43 |
Cruise ship |
SAMANTHA HAWLEY: The cruise ships must
pay to enter and moor, but it’s believed the bulk of that money goes to the
national government and private interests, not to Venice. There’s not much incentive for Rome to change
anything. |
17:14 |
Hawley with Paola Marr |
As Paola Marr, Venice’s Tourism Chief,
tried to explain. “Is it right to
presume that despite all the talk, the cruise ships will continue to dock
exactly where they’ve been docking in recent years; |
17:33 |
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nothing is going to change?” PAOLA MARR: “No, actually that’s not how
it is. We put a proposal to the
Government in the committee again last year, no it’s two years ago now. And I think they’ve announced their decision
today, but I haven’t had the time to read it”. |
17:49 |
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SAMANTHA HAWLEY: “You need Rome to agree
with your view do you on that?” |
18:11 |
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PAOLA MARR: “Yes, it’s the Government
that decides. We can’t make the
decision. As the City Council, we take
the proposal to Rome and the government must decide”. |
18:14 |
Cruise ship |
SAMANTHA HAWLEY: Each year, the
politicians in Rome debate the merits of diverting cruise ships away from the
city centre, but so far words have not translated into action. |
18:26 |
Tourists in gondolas |
The arguments over lack of housing,
tourism and cruise ships could all soon be academic. In the long run, the tourists pose less of
a threat to Venice than the very thing they’ve come to see – water. |
18:38 |
Canals and bridges |
Music |
19:00 |
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SAMANTHA HAWLEY: As you weave your way
through the canals towards the lagoon, there are reminders everywhere that
this city, built across 118 islands, is at constant risk of going under. |
19:09 |
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Music |
19:21 |
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GIOVANNI CECCONI: “In centimetres, it’s
30 centimetres essentially”. SAMANTHA HAWLEY: “15 centimetres”. |
19:24 |
Cecconi interview |
GIOVANNI CECCONI: “15 due to the sinking
and 15 due to the global sea level rise”. |
19:28 |
Watermark along building foundation |
SAMANTHA HAWLEY: Engineer and scientist,
Giovanni Cecconi, has been documenting the flood water changes for 30 years. |
19:32 |
Hawley and Cecconi in boat looking at carved angel |
“Now this, this is an angel, just
describe to me how this has changed over time”. |
19:47 |
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GIOVANNI CECCONI: “The green line, that
is the main high tide. It’s well above
the mouth of the angel. So you have to
consider one foot of elevation on the main high tide with relation to the
main sea level. So everything has been
shifted 40 centimetres below. So the angel
is kind of a symbol, an icon of the danger of sea level rise”. SAMANTHA HAWLEY: “The danger for
Venice”. GIOVANNI CECCONI: “Yes, the green line
tells you”. |
19:54 |
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SAMANTHA HAWLEY: “And the angel doesn’t
look happy”. GIOVANNI CECCONI: “No, not at all”. SAMANTHA HAWLEY: “No”. GIOVANNI CECCONI: “It is looking up, so
it doesn’t trust the humans, he is more in favour of God, the intervention of
God”. |
20:28 |
Hawley and Cecconi on boat to MOSE |
Music |
20:41 |
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SAMANTHA HAWLEY: Giovanni is taking me to look at the long
awaited 9-billion-dollar solution to Venice’s flooding problem. He helped design it, |
20:47 |
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it’s known as MOSE. GIOVANNI CECCONI: “MOSE is a mobile
storm surge barrier. |
20:57 |
Cecconi interview |
So this means when not in use, it will
disappear. But when a storm surge is coming and the flooding starts over 110
centimetres, meaning above St Mark Square’s elevation essentially the barrier
can be elevated and close the sea out of the lagoon”. |
21:07 |
Venice GVs |
SAMANTHA HAWLEY: Many Venetians are
sceptical. Construction began 15 years
ago and it was due to open in 2011 but the system is still not
operational. |
21:30 |
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The project’s been dogged by one of
Italy’s biggest corruption scandals.
In 2014, 35 people, including the former Mayor of Venice, were
arrested for embezzling 30 million dollars of public funds. |
21:45 |
Cecconi interview |
GIOVANNI CECCONI: “Everybody was
benefitting from the extra cost, so there was nobody that was saying, on no
maybe we cannot do that because it’s expensive, let’s choose another solution
that is good, but not so expensive. In
a corrupted situation, as it was, the longer the better, the more expensive
the better”. |
22:06 |
View of MOSE from lagoon |
SAMANTHA HAWLEY: Some environmentalists
say the barrier will pollute the lagoon by blocking water flows but without
the MOSE system, the outlook for this floating city is grim. |
22:28 |
Cecconi interview |
“The biggest environmental challenge
facing Venice now is actually the rising sea levels?” |
22:45 |
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GIOVANNI CECCONI: “We are under the
threat of sea level rise and Venice will be completely transformed. Its sea level will be more than two feet,
more than 60 centimetre”. SAMANTHA HAWLEY: “That’s the worst-case
scenario, what would it mean?” |
22:51 |
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GIOVANNI CECCONI: “The scenario is to
move with boat and not to use the walking path anymore and abandon the ground
floor. I think it will take 50 years”. SAMANTHA HAWLEY: “50 years and then how
long would it take for the destruction of those buildings because their
bottom level is now under water? How many years after that?” GIOVANNI CECCONI: “Oh I think in another
30 years, really rapidly will be deteriorated if we do nothing”. |
23:06 |
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SAMANTHA HAWLEY: “So Venice could be
destroyed within 80 years?” |
23:38 |
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GIOVANNI CECCONI: “Yes, yes, yes”. SAMANTHA HAWLEY: “That’s incredible”. GIOVANNI CECCONI: “We’ll be a ghost
town, in case of a worst-case scenario”. |
23:42 |
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SAMANTHA HAWLEY: “And the world should
care about that”. |
23:51 |
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GIOVANNI CECCONI: “Yes, yes and Venice
is an iconic city of living on the water so is a not only a nation of
importance, it’s of international importance”. |
23:52 |
Street performer beside canal |
[singing] |
24:01 |
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SAMANTHA HAWLEY: For now, life in Venice goes on, a series
of serenades and gondola rides. Few
visitors are aware of the threats to the city. |
24:15 |
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SINGER: [singing to passing gondolas on
canal] “Long live Venice. Here we are
in Barricatella”. |
24:25 |
Chinese tourists in gondola |
SAMANTHA HAWLEY: Later this year the UN
will decide whether to put Venice on the World Heritage endangered list, a
move that would reflect poorly on the city authorities and its current Mayor,
Luigi Brugnaro. |
24:32 |
Brugnaro interview |
LUIGI BRUGNARO: “I respect the role of
UNESCO, I very much respect it because it is in our interest to be able to
keep competing at the international level.
It’s in the interest of Venice and Venetians and of everyone who loves
this city”. |
24:47 |
Brugnaro at city meeting |
SAMANTHA HAWLEY: He’s just got the go
ahead for a new tax, making Venice one of the only cities in the world to
charge tourists an entry fee. “Just explain |
25:01 |
Brugnaro interview |
the tax for me, what is it going to…” LUIGI BRUGNARO: “No tax”. SAMANTHA HAWLEY: “Not a tax”. LUIGI BRUGNARO: “Contribution of
access”. SAMANTHA HAWLEY: “Okay, you don’t like
to call it a tax, I understand. What do you prefer to call it and why…” LUIGI BRUGNARO: “No, it is in the access…
right… contribution. No money, it’s
the right of contribution”. |
25:15 |
Hawley with Brugnaro |
SAMANTHA HAWLEY: The new charge is meant
to be in place within months, but no one seems to know how it will be
collected. The Mayor guarantees full
transparency. |
25:41 |
Brugnaro interview |
LUIGI BRUGNARO: “We’ve made transparency
a point of pride, and this access fee will be fully transparent. It will be absolutely visible, not just
locally but at an international level on the council’s website where we will
declare how much we make and where it will be spent”. |
25:54 |
Carnivale performances on canals |
Music |
26:12 |
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SAMANTHA HAWLEY: Venice, the floating
city, “La Sernissima”, City of Bridges, has thrived for nearly two
millennia. But without drastic action
the city we know now might not survive this century making its glam carnivale
just a pantomime with no real Venetians left to play. |
26:24 |
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Music |
26:52 |
Cecconi interview |
GIOVANNI CECCONI: “We need to have a
vision of our future. If we don’t have
the others will impose their vision on us.
And we will adapt with short term advantages getting money out of the
tourism but without any long term plan”. TOMMASO CACCIARI: "I am amazed that
we are destroying the city. |
26:59 |
Cacciari interview |
We are making the wrong choices, or no
choice, that is like making a wrong choice, and we are choosing to kill it
for money, for a little bit of money now without thinking of what will happen
tomorrow”. |
26:28 |
Carnivale performances on canals |
Music |
27:41 |
Ussardi interview |
NICOLA USSARDI: “We are resisting, and
even if it’s painful, we have to give the Venetians the possibility of living
in their own city. It’s absolutely not
true that we’ll die. Absolutely”. |
27:49 |
Carnivale performances on canals. Credits over |
Reporter : Samantha Hawley Producer: Bronwen Reed Fixer: Josephine McKenna Camera: Timothy Stevens Editor: Garth Thomas Additional footage [Cruise ship vision]:
POND5 (must be credited) Executive Producer: Matthew Carney |
28:01 |
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Foreign Correspondent © 2019 |
28:18 |
Out point |
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28:25 |