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00:00:13Today in Review: What is this, a queue
00:00:17number, are you in the queue? Thousands
00:00:20of people were waiting in line for tickets at the Drama Theater this morning
00:00:24and a large part of them still missed out. Why has such a deficit
00:00:28occurred and how can the public get into the hall? We discuss this
00:00:31with the head of the Theater Union and actor Kert Raudsepp.
00:00:35Men can also cry. It turns out that real men do
00:00:39cry. We talk about masculinity with Karl-Robert
00:00:42Saaremäe, Sveta Grigorjeva and Mart Juur. Men
00:00:46cry.
00:00:48I am Tiiu. I am Tiiu, I am Tiiu.
00:00:52According to the Population Register
00:00:55data, 47 Tiius
00:00:58live in Hiiumaa. Some of them held a gathering yesterday. There is probably no
00:01:02lazy Tiiu, or at least as far as I know, I know
00:01:05one, myself.
00:01:07ise,
00:01:15Good evening, dear viewers. Today is Monday, November 2nd, and
00:01:19the review begins. This morning tickets for the Drama Theater
00:01:22went on sale again for a few months
00:01:25next year. And if you weren't too early,
00:01:29very early at the door, or if you weren't particularly lucky with nimble fingers,
00:01:33then you missed out. Is it a blessing for a theater person
00:01:36or a sorrow that so many
00:01:40want and so many miss out?
00:01:43Well, yes, it's twofold, isn't it? The
00:01:48said "I want it this way," and accessibility of theater performances, it's great of course when the halls are
00:01:50sold out, and it's great to perform when the hall is full, always better than an empty
00:01:54hall, which we've also had to perform in, but on the other hand,
00:01:57yes, indeed, this spontaneity.
00:02:00It's quite a hobby, that "let's go to the theater tonight,"
00:02:04it's very difficult, yes, and even like this
00:02:08further spontaneity, that I book my
00:02:11theater ticket two months in advance, is also, at least from the example of the Drama Theater, still quite an
00:02:15impossible genre to slip into, yes, we also remember
00:02:18those times at the City Theater, don't we? Are there no tickets available at the City Theater?
00:02:21We checked, that too, yes, just just, and I remember in my youth,
00:02:25Tuglas had many productions for which it was equally difficult to get
00:02:29tickets, so that's not... it goes up and down by theater,
00:02:32yes, why has it come to this,
00:02:35because there are definitely good performances, good productions,
00:02:39no doubt, but is everything like such a
00:02:41golden taste, that everything should be snatched up? In that
00:02:45sense, well, I don't know, only the audience can
00:02:48say that, I can't say that. My question is, doesn't it create this feeling that in your head, that I should get
00:02:51something, give me something, and you end up watching a performance that
00:02:55might not be your taste at all, you didn't even like it, you shrug your shoulders
00:02:59and think. It depends, again it depends on the viewer, how much preparation you do,
00:03:03that theater doesn't have to be liked at all, and not all productions have
00:03:06to be liked, and it's not an obligation that it should
00:03:09be liked, and very different things, so
00:03:13that if people just grab these tickets because it's
00:03:17somehow very prestigious,
00:03:19well, let them grab them, then what can be done? Well, does some kind
00:03:22of elitism arise? Elitism arises from the fact
00:03:26that theater also becomes inaccessible
00:03:30to people with lower wages and smaller
00:03:33incomes. And by the way,
00:03:35the Ministry of Culture recently conducted a survey, a survey of non-
00:03:39attendance, and 44%
00:03:42of people there answered that they would like to go to the theater more often, and 58%
00:03:46said that the reason they don't go to the theater more often is that
00:03:50the ticket price is too high, and only in fourth place
00:03:54was it 31% that tickets are hard
00:03:57to get, so in reality, indeed, that
00:04:00the former theater policy, such that theaters tried to adhere to, that
00:04:04the price of a theater ticket should not exceed one percent of the average wage, which
00:04:08currently should be around 22,
00:04:10a little over 22 euros, but at that time
00:04:14the VAT was 5%, now it's 24%, so if you add those
00:04:17percentages, it really is simply too expensive, and it
00:04:21really becomes elitist, because a very large number of people cannot access it
00:04:25because the ticket price is too high, but that depends on the size
00:04:28of the funding and and there are also... discounted tickets, right?
00:04:31For students, pensioners, probably something else,
00:04:34but even at the Drama Theater, well,
00:04:37you can't just buy a full price ticket for 30 euros for any performance
00:04:40anymore, right? Everything is still 450, 60 and 70. I
00:04:44am obliged by my employer to watch Drama Theater performances, it's in my contract, I
00:04:48go like I go to the theater for free. What kind
00:04:51of free? Yes, but it's not easy either, is it, to find that place
00:04:54at that moment when you have a free evening, so you can go, so
00:04:58in that sense, I'm a little bit...
00:05:02But do you discuss this among yourselves, that the ticket price is moving too quickly
00:05:06and if there is demand, we could raise it further? Of course, we make theater
00:05:10with public money, right? Just like you make public money here at the National Broadcasting,
00:05:14which must be accessible to everyone, then in our understanding, theater must also be
00:05:17accessible to everyone. Everyone is taxpayers, everyone contributes
00:05:20to this, so the ticket price should be lower, so that
00:05:24more people can, at least, have the opportunity to come to the theater. The Drama Theater
00:05:27still discussed and figured out that you can't buy eight tickets at
00:05:31once anymore. For a while, it even went down to two tickets could be
00:05:35bought at once by one person for one
00:05:38performance. Now it's probably four still four, yes, so you can't
00:05:42take very large quantities as one person, did it give any results today? I think it did, because I heard, I
00:05:46spoke with the sales department during the day,
00:05:50that most people, those who stood in a physical queue,
00:05:53had come, and tickets were booked, reserved
00:05:57for those people after all. And to my knowledge, I may, I
00:06:01apologize if anyone really missed out, but
00:06:04they should have gotten them there, those who came. Well, Postimees
00:06:07Merilin Pärli also wrote today about this same Drama Theater ticket boom, I'll just quote
00:06:11one very... nice part from it, "Pensioner Tamara
00:06:14Jõhvis also came for tickets, she arrived in Tallinn on Sunday, watched
00:06:18My Fair Lady at the Estonia in the evening, stayed overnight in Kadriorg, took the first
00:06:22tram to the city in the morning and took her place in the main group
00:06:26at six o'clock, and the result: all
00:06:29the desired tickets for a total of 830
00:06:33euros." She's not going alone, she got them for her grandchildren
00:06:36and friends too, but well, it's pretty wild, yes, and the first person was already there
00:06:40at the Drama Theater door at 4:45.
00:06:43And when asked by a journalist, she replied that she is an early riser, so she could have
00:06:46spent that time there. This is still like
00:06:49a return to deficit thinking, isn't it? Yes, well,
00:06:53what can you do? The Drama Theater, what can it do? It can
00:06:57make worse productions so people won't come to watch, it can not
00:07:00play at all, right? We make the productions ready, but we don't play them. Then it's possible
00:07:04that we play so much that there are
00:07:07no breaks, right? One performance ends, immediately another begins, right? But we don't have enough technical
00:07:11staff. Because it's not possible to hire that many, the salaries are so
00:07:15low, that actually we all work at such an optimal
00:07:18level, so that we can perform
00:07:22and and and here, well, in some social media groups
00:07:26or it has also been talked about, "why don't you play in bigger halls?" Look, the production is made
00:07:30for specific halls, so there's no point
00:07:32in like climbing onto stadiums, for that,
00:07:36well, yes, and what other suggestions are there, how have other theaters
00:07:40managed elsewhere in the world, where there's... huge competition, right?
00:07:43Or people want to come so badly, let's try to go to
00:07:47West End in London to watch, you won't get in either, they sell
00:07:50two tickets per show, right, anywhere,
00:07:53well, popular shows, productions are just like that,
00:07:57well, it's hard to get tickets. Well, for example, it's also hard to get tickets for Hendrik Almet's
00:08:01Estonian basketball team games, that's also true. Hendrik Almet
00:08:04on social media, perhaps half-jokingly, perhaps seriously, said that
00:08:07when Drama Theater tickets go on sale, other theaters could set up a fair there
00:08:11in your square and... those who didn't get Drama Theater tickets, would see that
00:08:15oh, there's something else, and could get some there, or yes, well, you can always be witty, but
00:08:19it doesn't change the situation. How are
00:08:22theaters doing in general, if we now leave the Drama Theater, the City Theater aside,
00:08:25where tickets are unavailable, can you get into Vanemuine, can you get
00:08:28into Endla, do small theaters have a market, because
00:08:32new productions are constantly coming out, and well, fewer
00:08:35than last year, everyone has still taken the path of reducing
00:08:38production a bit, hopefully it will decrease even more, right?
00:08:42Hopefully, but there's nothing to do, the funding is small, so people, well
00:08:46theaters depend so terribly on ticket revenue, right? In the last
00:08:4920 years it has increased terribly, and
00:08:52that's why there's increased wage pressure, because
00:08:55state support has decreased, and and and and frankly, the
00:08:59state budget strategy foresees further cuts in the cultural sector
00:09:02and even less money for the Ministry of Culture, both for the National Broadcasting
00:09:06and for us, right? Now talk about that 1720 that you have
00:09:10printed, the minimum wage for cultural workers.
00:09:12Right now, many receive a little more than that, many don't receive
00:09:16even that, and taxes are deducted from this, right? Yes, this is the gross amount, right? And and we are
00:09:19currently in a situation where the median salary in Estonia is also higher than this, so
00:09:23this is the sad state of affairs, and that is why the situation is such
00:09:27that because the support is small, we
00:09:30have to raise ticket prices to be able to pay salaries at all or to be at some
00:09:34level, because we , by God, actors still
00:09:37somehow, right, come to the theater and those people who love theater very much and are willing to work there,
00:09:41for any salary, right? We are currently shooting ourselves in the foot with this, but well,
00:09:44in reality, not for any salary, right? But we have a lot of such
00:09:48technical staff or primarily technical and and marketing staff whose
00:09:51jobs are similar elsewhere and where higher salaries are offered,
00:09:54so the situation is bad, in short, at least the halls are full,
00:09:58people want to come to the Drama Theater for some time, you can only buy
00:10:01tickets from resale, does this scalping still
00:10:05happen and work in some groups and you have to pay 30 euros more for one
00:10:09ticket, and well, I guess it works, but
00:10:12I recommend, I also recommend, I've heard that it's actually worth
00:10:16still looking at the ticket, what do we have,
00:10:19this world of tickets, there are different ones, and precisely, that where Drama Theater tickets
00:10:23are sold, to occasionally check for performances, that some
00:10:26tickets are released back into general sale, people say that they can also
00:10:30buy them quite freely afterwards, but for the next
00:10:33time, when the Drama Theater releases tickets, then it's still a round of
00:10:37nimble fingers or queueing at four for tickets, something like that, yes,
00:10:40yes, what can you do,
00:10:43what can you do, but well, it's not a bad problem
00:10:55released her official photo, nice, yes, good,
00:10:58exactly. So let's review what the portraits of
00:11:01previous heads of state
00:11:03also convey.
00:11:06As it may seem, this
00:11:09is like real, this is not that bad. A traveler
00:11:13is coming who visited one of Europe's most isolated and seemingly
00:11:16windiest places and found herself in a yarn winding
00:11:19and potato sack holding
00:11:21competition.
00:11:33In our foreign news, however, we now switch from the Halloween
00:11:37wave to the Christmas
00:11:38anticipation wave.
00:11:45Today we start with something very ugly, namely supermodel
00:11:48Heidi Klum's Halloween costume. In previous
00:11:51years, she has been both Medusa and a little worm, but this year
00:11:55her very large makeup and costume team outdid themselves and
00:11:58turned Heidi into her left hand. Already on Halloween morning,
00:12:02Heidi started teasing her fans by posting pictures of
00:12:05chunks of meat and videos of her hand and makeup. But when
00:12:09she finally stepped out of the car in full costume at the party,
00:12:13everyone gasped with all their might.
00:12:27In addition to human monsters, the weekend also saw four-legged Halloween
00:12:30celebrants. In London, Hyde Park, for example, there was a party specifically
00:12:34for dachshunds, where short-legged dogs were seen dressed as
00:12:38spiders, dinosaurs, pumpkins, and
00:12:42other characters. And
00:12:44dogs and cats living across the ocean in Chicago
00:12:47did not get off easy either, who, to the delight of their owners, had to embody, among other things,
00:12:51Ramen, a poker player, and a police officer.
00:12:58In Guatemala, the Day of the Dead was celebrated with giant
00:13:02kites. For the 127th time, the
00:13:05kite festival features handmade kites made of bamboo and silk paper
00:13:09or fabric, through which the earth is connected to the sky.
00:13:12The giant kites can be up to 20 meters high, and it takes
00:13:15up to nine months to make
00:13:19them. The tradition began in the 19th
00:13:22century, when people started flying kites
00:13:25to ward off evil spirits and guide the departed to eternal
00:13:29peace. UNESCO included the tradition in
00:13:322024 as a representative list of the intangible
00:13:35cultural heritage of humanity.
00:13:41But hardly has Halloween passed when Christmas anticipation begins.
00:13:45In Caracas, Venezuela, interim President Delcy Rodríguez ceremoniously lit
00:13:48the Christmas light installations and
00:13:51called on Venezuelans to support each other and stand united.
00:13:55Participants expressed hope that Christmas would bring joy to a country that
00:13:58is still recovering from a devastating summer earthquake that claimed more than
00:14:026,500 lives. The Christmas spirit was also helped by
00:14:05Santa Claus, with whom people could take
00:14:07pictures.
00:14:12Let's continue with a battle. In London, two knights
00:14:15dressed in armor dueled.
00:14:16rüütlit.
00:14:22But what separated them from historical truth was only the fact
00:14:26that they did not ride towards each other on horseback, but sat on bicycle
00:14:29saddles, and as custom dictates, the winner was the one who
00:14:32knocked the opponent off their saddle with a lance. Under the gaze of
00:14:36hundreds of cheering spectators, Gantholomiu
00:14:39the First was declared the winner.
00:14:43In Peru, preparations are underway for Pope Leo's visit next
00:14:46week. In a cafe in the capital, Lima, a cappuccino with the Holy Father's
00:14:49picture is offered for the occasion. Two special design coffees
00:14:53are available. On one, the Pope is smiling, on the other,
00:14:56praying. The Pope begins his first South American tour in
00:15:00Kais, continues in Argentina, and concludes in Peru, where he had previously
00:15:04served as bishop.
00:15:15At the end of last week, the official
00:15:18portrait photos of President Ülle Madise
00:15:21were published. And I imagine that
00:15:25already this week, many state institutions, for whom it is
00:15:28mandatory, have already put them up on the wall. But we asked photographer
00:15:32Mardo Männimäe to evaluate them. So how interested are you and...
00:15:35kuidas kui suure huviga sina ja...
00:15:38how important an event is this for a photographer when the official photo of the
00:15:41first person of the state is released? Does it interest
00:15:45you as a photographer? Do you definitely want to see what's there? Hello Marko, to be honest
00:15:48with you,
00:15:52I knew it came out, but I would be lying if
00:15:56I said I was excited. Why
00:15:58not? I believe that in my daily work, I
00:16:02portray people every day, so for
00:16:06me it's everyday life, so I
00:16:09don't wait. But we asked you to review it
00:16:13and express your opinion about it. Now that you've seen it, it's different
00:16:17from how it's usually done. What rating do you give it? How do you like it?
00:16:21I think personally, I really like this
00:16:25picture, simply because looking through history, how presidents
00:16:28have been portrayed before, then
00:16:31I like its modernity.
00:16:34I've heard that people may have criticized the background a
00:16:38bit, but like every photo, the caption
00:16:42is also very important, and the caption also says
00:16:45that this is our president's wish,
00:16:49and I think that should be respected. Tarvi Laaman is the artist
00:16:52of this artwork, against whose background the president wanted to be photographed. What do you
00:16:56gather when you see that our country has such a president? What do you say
00:17:00about her? Trustworthy,
00:17:03I really like it, I know that there are standards through
00:17:07the ages, if you look at these pictures, that at some point they were blue, light,
00:17:11dark, very clean and conservative,
00:17:15then, this also says something about our president, exactly that
00:17:18she is bold, she dares to be a
00:17:21little different, and she asserted herself,
00:17:25so we do it. How the subject should stand, the placement of hands
00:17:29in a portrait is very difficult, this is a smaller portrait here, you can't see it, but if we
00:17:32enlarge it, then we see that her hands are crossed over her chest, which generally
00:17:36photographers don't like. It's a closed pose, it should be more
00:17:40open, I don't know where this myth comes from, I don't know either, is it a myth? Yes, it's
00:17:43completely a myth, because when I portray a person, whether it's an
00:17:47actor, a top politician, or some foreign author who has written
00:17:50a book, then I make them comfortable, I let them be in all
00:17:54poses that are recognized, and if someone
00:17:58says it's a closed pose, then I say, from what angle? It's that if
00:18:01a person talks to you for a long time, they need their hands to rest, or we
00:18:05are actually dealing with that visual, I want... I want them to be confident
00:18:09and calm. If they feel calm and confident
00:18:13in that position, then I couldn't take a better pose.
00:18:16At the same time, there's such an open smile, the columns are visible, no
00:18:19president has done that before, how do you rate
00:18:23that? Maybe it was time, maybe it was time for one, well, times
00:18:26have changed. If we think 20 years ago, 30 years ago,
00:18:30being in Estonia, living, and today,
00:18:33where it's a wonderful country
00:18:36to do your own things, whether you're an entrepreneur, an artist, whether
00:18:40you're a mother or you're a father, these are the best conditions
00:18:43ever, I think. And why not smile?
00:18:47I, this is so bold, this portrait is full
00:18:51of so much information that shows that I stand
00:18:54for myself and and actually we
00:18:57can, you can also be a person who every day just
00:19:00complains to everyone, or why not
00:19:03smile? Toomas Volkmann took this picture, and
00:19:07a separate creative segment was made by Pealtnägija about the making
00:19:11of this picture, a small excerpt from it, so
00:19:15all this is a lot, but well, let's try one way
00:19:17or another. It came as a surprise to
00:19:20me that we're taking an official photo, and she says, "I'd like to do it in the gallery, and I'd like
00:19:24to do it against the background of Tarvi Laaman's pictures." What was your first
00:19:28thought? I thought, "How am
00:19:30I really going to manage this?" And I remember when I came
00:19:34into that room and I saw that the whole... it's full
00:19:38of these incredibly vibrant, such
00:19:42vibrant, even screaming
00:19:45wallpaper-like paintings are
00:19:48covered, and and they are already so
00:19:51strong as objects, so I thought, well,
00:19:55what's going to happen here now?
00:19:59Okay, let's try one more smile, yes, will it
00:20:02come? Yes, nice, nice, yes,
00:20:05good, exactly, I'll take more.
00:20:08Yes, well, but the president has gone a step further, she says
00:20:12that it's not absolutely necessary to use that official photo, she has two more official photos,
00:20:15let's look at those. One is like, well,
00:20:19taken against a natural background, against a
00:20:22hayfield, let's say, and the wind even moves
00:20:26her hair, such a portrait still exists. I like
00:20:29how she thinks, I think the Estonian president should
00:20:32have new portraits taken of herself every quarter, it's part of the artist's
00:20:36life, that you are fresh and developing within it and you also enjoy
00:20:40the process, because and this too, this is also an official picture,
00:20:43yes, against a forest background and also such a kind, kind smile is still
00:20:47on her face, yes, a kind smile, well, a lot,
00:20:50maybe, but a kind half-smile, yes, I imagine
00:20:54they had a very fun shooting day, and they also had some laughs there,
00:20:58yes, but let's look at other pictures too. Well, let's go back in history,
00:21:02let's look at Päts's picture. The time was different, well, it's clear that it's something completely
00:21:05different, that the person is still the president and is serious about it,
00:21:09time has changed. At that time, being
00:21:12a person in Estonia was much more difficult
00:21:16than today, so that face speaks for itself. But
00:21:20Lennart Meri, I don't know, do we still see a slight kind smile
00:21:24or a slight smirk or is it not completely serious anymore? I think it's still a strong smirk
00:21:27and I use that word a lot when I portray people,
00:21:31we smirk, I want to see what your face then shows when you smirk
00:21:35and it is a smirk, yes, but at the same time it's also
00:21:38a simple official chain, it's not a blue-black-white flag in the background, it's not with that
00:21:41a simple picture, it's a simple picture, but when you actually think about it, then that time
00:21:45also shows a little, how many we are talking about presidents, but we are also talking about
00:21:49skills. In the past, today
00:21:52portraiture skills of photographers are on a completely different level, we
00:21:55are very modern, we are like in the world, like in America, like
00:21:59in Europe, they are doing it, so these are perhaps simpler ones, and
00:22:02this is also similar, even Arnald Rüütel
00:22:06also smirks, yes he smirks. I have
00:22:10been involved in various projects,
00:22:13mm, alongside his interviews, photographing various shows
00:22:17he participated in, and that's him, that's... I would say that's a big
00:22:21smile for him. With pots, there's a strange
00:22:23thing, that at the moment you're doing it and looking at it,
00:22:27you don't notice, but as soon as the next president comes, you feel how much
00:22:30this method, how he is recorded or
00:22:33immortalized, has moved so much with the times, everything has moved forward and
00:22:37here you can feel it immediately too, that
00:22:40you understand, and here is also President Kaljulaid's first photo, she
00:22:44also had a second photo taken during her term, I really like this first photo, it's
00:22:47very warm, having also been involved in different projects, then
00:22:51I really like this first picture, I like its tonality,
00:22:55that it doesn't have so much brightness there, a beautiful
00:22:58portrait is this first one. Well, and one more picture we have to look at, Alar
00:23:02Karis's photo is also visible, and but here there is still a slight, slight kind
00:23:06smirk on his face, yes, I have to sadly admit that unfortunately
00:23:10I have not been able to do this work, I hope that
00:23:14that it will open up sometime in the future, especially for the president,
00:23:17that I would say, I see...
00:23:20further with each of these pictures, where the photographer
00:23:23has also been taken, who has started to play
00:23:26with this more boldly. Do you talk about that too, whether it's good to hold your hand like this or not? What do you
00:23:30say about that? Well, you know,
00:23:33if I had been able to portray the ex-president
00:23:36today, then I don't know where I would have gone, I would have
00:23:39given the opportunity for it to be born
00:23:43when the moment is right. And people often think, everyone
00:23:46always thinks that in my opinion, only those who actually do it are allowed to think. Well? You have, you
00:23:50haven't photographed the president for a portrait, but you have photographed the prime minister.
00:23:54Kristjan Michael, have you taken a picture of yourself, how happy are you with this work, you see you're holding
00:23:57your hand the same way as like in prison, we made many different
00:24:01versions and this specific portrait was made for one of my
00:24:05own personal projects, then I was able to direct him as I wished,
00:24:09why did you want such a picture? Because,
00:24:12uh, I was, uh, these
00:24:16rooms, that flag, that table, that emotion and just...
00:24:20open up too, because uh
00:24:22Mr. Prime Minister is firm like his demeanor, how he carries himself, and I kind of
00:24:26broke that, that he wanted to be in one pose, but after about
00:24:2920 minutes I feel like I was able to open him up, so here's
00:24:33a selection and different pictures that you have, what you have done, portrayed, different famous
00:24:37people, who is easier to photograph, whether, uh, whether people
00:24:40who are known to the public or those who are not, the easiest person to photograph is someone
00:24:44who is interested in being in a portrait, so if you have to, you don't have to enchant them,
00:24:48that's why it's serving. There it is. It's easy, a person comes, they have a great sincere desire
00:24:52to be in the picture, they do it, they listen to you, and I wouldn't bring
00:24:55out any tricks here, but it's just that if they themselves are interested, for example, actors are very
00:24:59easy, do you see interest in Ülle Mandri's case, that there's interest here,
00:25:03I see that he's interested, but I also see such excitement, that he doesn't quite
00:25:07know what awaits him and he enjoys it to the fullest, so we could take a new picture again
00:25:11after some time, yes, uh, in that sense, that my phone is on, if
00:25:15I like that idea myself, that
00:25:18uh, why not? not photograph our president more
00:25:21than once during his term of office. Thank you very much,
00:25:25Mardo Männimägi for coming
00:25:34playing. It's like real. It's so
00:25:37crazy. A traveler comes to visit, who went to one of Europe's most
00:25:41isolated and seemingly windiest places and ended up
00:25:44in a yarn winding and potato sack holding
00:25:47competition.
00:25:55turns out that real men still cry, we talk about
00:25:58masculinity with Karl Robert Saaremäe, Sveta Grigorjeva
00:26:02and Mart Juur. Men
00:26:04cry.
00:26:12What if a storm blows the roof off a substation and the electricity goes out
00:26:15for days? We have our own preserves, then we have
00:26:19various beans. What we have at home here, but that's not a crisis stock, is it? Or
00:26:23if sirens blare across the city. Do you and your
00:26:26loved ones know how to act in such a case, keep away from windows
00:26:29I guess? How about some curtains then. pull them.
00:26:33On November 2nd, a new series begins, which provides vital
00:26:36skills for coping in difficult situations, so that everyone is
00:26:40clear, what if. Tonight, at
00:26:438:00 PM.
00:26:50An important part of literature has always strived for a deeper understanding
00:26:53of people. How close is it possible to get
00:26:57to the longed-for answers.
00:26:59Plekktrummi's guest tonight is the recently published
00:27:03writer Timmashilevi, we invite you to watch tonight
00:27:06at 10 PM on ETV
00:27:092.
00:27:14Mosquito bites are for us an annoying few minutes of
00:27:18itching, but for veterinarians and scientists these same gnats have become
00:27:21a worrying research object.
00:27:25Are Estonian mosquitoes dangerous? This is
00:27:28now the Tyrophilaria reepens separated from a human.
00:27:41We try to catch a year fish, ozone tonight at 8:30 PM.
00:27:56Men who have loved extreme tourism, been
00:27:59to who knows where and who knows how dangerous regions. have now
00:28:03embarked on the picturesque Faroe Islands, is it a bit like
00:28:06such an aging and calming
00:28:10down happening or why did you go to the Faroe Islands?
00:28:13Uh, well, I wouldn't say calming down, uh, already
00:28:16on the first day we got to experience the Faroe weather conditions, which are actually
00:28:19very, very extreme, the wind, the rain, I wouldn't
00:28:23say it's calm, well, let's clarify where the Faroe Islands are located and how
00:28:26to get there at all, where did you start from? The Faroe
00:28:30Islands are an archipelago located...
00:28:33"between Iceland and Norway and near Great Britain
00:28:36and it is considered one of Europe's most isolated
00:28:40places, so you can get there by plane
00:28:43from Copenhagen, Oslo,
00:28:47Iceland and that's how we went from Copenhagen.
00:28:50Scheduled flights fly on a frequent schedule or
00:28:54is it rather a more luxurious option to go there? Well, there
00:28:57it's more like half the flights get cancelled because the wind is just so strong
00:29:01and our flight was actually cancelled and the other flight
00:29:05was delayed by eight hours, so yes, it's a challenge to get
00:29:08there, but when you get there, it's beautiful. Well, on your YouTube
00:29:11channel, you made a long show about all of this and
00:29:15we'll watch a clip from it right now. You already mentioned the tremendous wind
00:29:19and rain, and well, when you say wind and rain, you don't really mean
00:29:22it, but look what's there, all these days it's
00:29:25such weather, then I don't know how much you even see in this video,
00:29:29we're just in the fog for three days.
00:29:39"I'm completely soaked right now and we've been
00:29:42hiking for, I don't know, 40 minutes, maybe 30 minutes,
00:29:46the wind is starting to get
00:29:52physically painful". "I have
00:29:55never
00:30:39seen anything
00:30:40like this,
00:30:43oh my god, it seems to me that reasonable people stayed indoors,
00:30:47I didn't see other people hiking on the trail,
00:30:50and there was really no one there in my opinion, was there no one at all on that
00:30:54island, no one hiking, there was really no one
00:30:57hiking, but it..."
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