see extends way to the distant proposed area already about just touched by human activity always scientific research is taking place it is an incredible sight but deeply troubling to glasses have always collapsed and carved into the ontology goshen however with global warming they're doing so with increasing speed and as the ice sheets retreat sea levels rise. this right here is humanity's problem for decades perhaps sentries ahead. it is laundry day off at sunrise and here's the thing we all think of being good citizens by wearing fleeces which is made out of recycled plastic also bottles that sort of thing but when you watch the. hundreds of thousands of micro fibers end up

in the world's oceans so here on board it wouldn't and not for girls. and of course plastic pollution in our seas is one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time and the team makes the most of a rare opportunity for research. these are some of the america's rules of the planet there could be a ploy to do they can replace successfully greenpeace to conduct those experiments and taking samples from the water to see if any micro plastics have infiltrated this environment. just simply into the sea surface like quest five is that maybe first so they're both taking such a fully trust more to. the. extent. to take over seven hundred five to be at this is very cold just the way the seas are very close try a system and this. very few local sources of micro plastic fibers should be coming

from however evidence is growing around the world studies that like the plastic for this green because pretty soon there will be found the right place to location. you know it's a bizarre thing be afloat on these wild remote and desolate war says feel quite exposed you could g.p.s. google map and zoomed out we could be a tiny speck in this. to draw from for life. yet beneath the surface of this magnificent desolation is just t.v. with life and these are some of the remotest pools on it. and to see what lies below the expedition submarine is launched on board the antarctic specialist susan lockhart what she sees is a stunning underwater realm composed of all manner of life life not yet touched by

mankind but it's enormously at risk not least from the effects of industrial scale fishing it has one hundred percent coverage in the sea floor i have organised and has a great three d. structure which allows other organisms to come in and if there and a really interesting species composition and all these factors make it really difficult for a community to but after a disturbance such as bottom fishing we call these areas fundable marine ecosystem and the estimated fourteen thousand species on the seabed are vulnerable not just to fishing but to other threats like warming sea temperatures and plastics pollution and that's why the expeditions all round research so important in the bid to protect these waters all the scientific data will be compiled to form a body of evidence in support of the sanctuary proposal and presented to the antarctic commission in less than a year's time. but the team needs to find out more about the growing threats encroaching on the region. we leave the lonely waters of the weddell sea heading

back through the antarctic sound a day shaped by the routine on board. everyone has different ways of filling spare hours from the top practice to running repairs and of course cooking for old guys and let's get what's cooking today but they do it their way and best of it is that when you know that somebody will know the customers they are the same every day and we share that with them it is not everybody who has a few like this in their restaurant kitchen pretty special that's why we are here. later we had for sure making landfall on the south set the night and the to be on top to an insular. it's quite a relief to be back on dry land off base when careening around all over the place to be welcomed. by colony of facets.

penguins shared territory with the seals one making the most of the comfortable feathers of the multi juveniles. but here too evidence once again of how the world is closing in on i talked to cut the number of terrorists twenty years ago it was around forty five thousand a year now it's more like thirty thousand. all like me desperate to see this wilderness while it's still here. despite myself i can't help the sense of unease and surprise about the sheer numbers. of it saddened by the. great big cruise ship that here in pristina on top of the care and lines of terrorists. there's dormant volcano which is ridiculous because it's a free world. it does just demonstrate the. new accessibility that

there is here and dangers here. and there is becoming tainted. by the footprints of humanity. makes day was steaming down the west coast of the antarctic peninsula. we are going approximately sixty miles. west of an area pretty violent where we have seen roughly three fishing boats we want to go. there all. the vessels off from china ukraine and chile they're fishing for krill a small shrimp like creature which the whole ecosystem depends there are a keystone of the ocean cycle the diet of plants and helping to transfer c o two to the depths of the ocean. but current is being harvested on a growing scale the fish feed and omega three or ships nets are out and they're in

the thick of the krill swarm the krill are obviously densely packed into this area up against the island is the basic just circling round and round to bring them up to months and over whales the fee to see them blowing and whale tails disappearing flicker is showing as we go about. the krill companies say they're tapping into a resource that is sustainable but the view on board is that that is what they said about other species like the bison in north america called starts off new found and before both were decimated it's essential areas such as weddell see are protected so stocks can replenish the proposal first area would put the area thirty kilometers offshore off limits to fishing industry so when so that's a solution you can continue to fish an entire depression but keep it outside of these areas currently being a protected areas because the reason they've been proposed it's because a solemn portably ecosystem down here. soon we will begin the long journey home but

this time to make another landing and the variety of species here on livingston island is just astounding. just like you said. truly spectacular just a lot more diverse me having two species of pain when it's time to pull out a from the seals went on tilt has not been another landing with quite a variety when you look at this great leadership that's really good and you're right here if you are. teeming with life and is thriving right now and you can see all around us it's thriving who knows what it was like a hundred years ago thought it was doing even better but right now it's still compared to most other places on earth it's doing a lot better at the point of protecting it is to allow it to continue in this way

we haven't yet met this place up we have the opportunity to protect. the question that the dynamics of this place around thoughts get a changing of the seal population expanding rapidly as a penguin die off in the east last year ice is changing krill import relations are under threat tourism. i mean this is the last great wilderness on. the need to protect. it's time to head back in for five days we cross the stormy seas of the drake passage to south america before heading home. an opportunity to consider the.

wonder of what we've seen and the challenges that lie ahead in winning the protection of a precious part of our planet. that and whether or not this protection will indeed be granted. in nine months time. after months of campaigning and intense lobbying by the greenpeace team it all comes down to here how about on the island of tasmania in australia with the future of the wealthy we decided. this is where it's all happening the headquarters of the antarctic commission that protects and manages the planet's southernmost waters. everything from territorial claims to fishing rights are being thrashed out right now by twenty five government delegations historically the departure point for several antarctic expeditions today hobart is the place where the fate of the continent hangs in the balance. after

a voyage together in antarctica i hook up again with will he's been lobbying hard for the weddell sea sentry since i last saw him the news he brings is unexpected to say the least it's not looking great i think we've seen a real. a bit of a disaster of a meeting to be honest something that gnomes really expect they were i we were always in the knowledge it was going to be hard and then what we've seen is a few countries just really undermine the process and essentially block any progress on any issue not just not just the antarctic ocean sanctuary but actually progress in any field good luck thanks fortitude in the next twenty four hours goodness me. i'm hoping for the best perhaps we'll hear some good news tomorrow. it's decision day and the country delegations have been locked in top journalists

aren't allowed in so we wait and wait. we have development something's afoot just had a. hall so we're going to go and try and find out what's happening. is that is the head of the indian league agent talking to australia host and you told us what he's saying is this is this is kind of a conference every two revealed is that where they did in the interest not to be adopted it's just not going to happen it's just devastating news or can't come out . how the greenpeace team of three right now now let's say the other delegations all the other n.g.o.s who supported this proposal it's just wanted to nations who go the way of russia and china. it confirms will's worst fears but it's not until much later we can speak to him.

he's devoted so much to this project. it's terrible nice i mean it's. it's just a complete failure on the behalf of the commission on behalf of you know the millions of people who signed this petition who want to visit to happen and we've just seen the entire thing trashed here twenty two countries of the twenty five supporter they believe this is a good proposal but china russia norway you know one by one. three different means and different reasons have just taken it apart and kicked into the long grass and from a personal point of view you invested so much time and energy and passion and heart into this. what's what's the food it's horrible you know it's. nearly two years of us working on it. in an r.v. you know there are other good proposals on the table and this proposal in this is

still a good one. and we'll get a chance next year to resubmitted but something's going to have to shift in the next year. it is intensely disappointing for everybody involved but it does just. the challenge we face in protecting this planet evolves especially in the face of a current climate of nationalist and political self-interest. it is not just about the whales and the penguins in the wonder of antarctica it's about us us and our descendants we do we want to leave them a world without wilderness without healthy fish stocks with the ecosystems in tatters. with the first generation to realize the gravity of this crisis. that we may be the last to be able to do something about.

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this is a lie from dog also coming up police fired tear gas in the democratic republic of congo of off the opposition supporters protest a delay in their votes. iraqi leaders accuse donald trump of violating their country's sovereignty on his unannounced visit to meet u.s. troops. indonesia steps up the alert level for the and atoll volcano a tsunami triggered by its eruption on saturday killed four hundred thirty people. alone there's been a shakeup at the top of saudi arabia's government a cabinet reshuffle has been ordered by royal decree with the biggest casualty foreign minister. the man replacing him was one of many senior figures who'd been

rounded up in a purge by the crown prince mohammed bin men more than a year ago dosage of body reports. baer a former advisor to the late king abdullah a former ambassador to the united states and now former foreign minister he was only the second saudi to be appointed foreign minister outside the royal family. during the gulf cooperation summit of regional leaders earlier this month where again defended the suspected involvement of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon in the murder of with regards to issuing an arrest warrant we don't extradite our citizens i believe turkey's constitution prohibits the extradition of turkish citizens as the motion follows months of questions controversy and denials about the killing of the saudi journalists and the saudi embassy in istanbul and

widespread condemnation of the kingdom including the us congressional resolution which said mohammad been summoned was responsible for the killing of his critic while donald trump repeatedly maintained his support for the crown prince senators call for an end to u.s. support for the war in yemen. where was appointed foreign minister by king solomon in two thousand and fifteen a month after saudi arabia went to war in yemen air strikes were launched with the aim of quickly crippling who's the fighters backed by iran instead the war has dragged on for almost four years killing at least sixty thousand yemenis millions face starvation in what's called the world's worst humanitarian crisis where's final months as minister have been marked by turmoil within the g.c.c. including saudi led air sea and land blockade of qatar for the past eighteen months . the king is now taking a step back with him last off instead of who wasn't in the first day is the first

choice or for the king anyway because he was very close to king couple or to the king of saudi arabia rather than to king so much so now by having brought him last of who was an old school he's a veteran he served as a minister of finance for twenty years from one thousand nine hundred six until two thousand and sixteen so now he's having come as a foreign minister in order to give the the message that now we are back to the vision of foreign policy it's unclear if you bears fall from grace in riyadh is a way to make him scapegoat for saudi policies attracting global condemnation or perhaps the latest attempt to take the heat of the crown prince jubera successor is a loss of a former finance minister he was one of the many saudi power brokers arrested in last year's purge his imprisonment in the ritz carlton hotel in riyadh was part of what the crown prince called his crackdown on corruption now saudi arabia's new foreign minister will inherit not only the controversy that continues to dog his

capture the crown prince but the crisis over the war in yemen that has also proven difficult to end so far dorsetshire bari al-jazeera. a senior political analyst model joins me now on set so what do you think is behind this small one and why now . well certainly that so they have anything to do something because since the murder of. the saudi citizen in istanbul so here to be has been in trouble it's a major blunder and the way they handled it afterwards for several weeks we've had saudi arabia embarrassing. behavior one day after another losing credibility when the n.f.l. another and set in losing legitimacy in the eyes of its own partners especially in the west whereby there was no more trust that three odd could in fact do

go with business as usual so it was clear that something got to give it could be regime change because it is what it is in saudi arabia and the crown prince is in charge and he is the one who is god fathering any change in the kingdom. and yet he needs to do something so it is far less than regime change but it is more than cosmetics in the sense that i think saudi arabia has to be responsive to the international community especially to the international business community because if so you're a b a wants to go on with the plans two thousand and thirty and so on so forth that the crown prince championed for the last three years then it had to do some changes now it got rid of bad record alger bad could not defend the indefensible which is the murder of her job she apparently wasn't convincing enough he couldn't settle

the saudi case i mean how could you sell murder right and on the other hand. who is clearly a man of business and business connection amount of economy with a long years of experience seem to be the right person in order to keep up appearances of a saudi arabia that wants to engage with the business community and certainly wants to send the message that it is listening to those who say we cannot do business with you unless you make certain changes in the way you run your economy in the way that you appoint people in charge of those major dosia's that we will be dealing with so i suppose time will tell then does does this do the job does this take the international heat off hamad bin solomon absolutely because it's clearly what is required of saudi arabia's much more than that because what was behind the murder in istanbul wasn't just

a mistake it wasn't some you know low ranking people taking business into their own hands there was a mindset the same mindset that took saudi arabia to yemen and that we blundered the war effort for the last three years is the same mindset that many facts are a crisis with its neighbor it's the mindset same. that humiliated them basically took hostage the prime minister of another country in this case but i missed that how did he of lebannon and of course you know we have these things about under the guise of reform it took a whole bunch of business people walk them into the ritz hotel and give them some beatings so there's a whole mindset that the choirs change a few appointments nots sufficient to change that mindset but we have certain people within the region and you either in egypt and other places certainly in washington we have a president that is more than happy to play with whatever cards he's dealt with

from saudi arabia or a kid to get your perspective model on the show thanks very much. protests of flared in the democratic republic of congo off to several opposition areas were excluded from sunday's presidential election police fired tear gas in beni tembo and goma earlier the electoral commission suspended the vote in eastern areas until march and said it was concerned about violence and the ebola outbreak sunday's election is already two years overdue our correspondent catherine sawyer joins us on the line and now from kinshasa so catherine what more do we know we know a number of areas will not be able to vote in the upcoming elections how is this going going down with the opposition who are not exactly united. well martin freewheeling correlation that is blocking mark and mark including housing was one of the main opposition tiny dates and these areas are with talking about where the

next and born safe areas are stroll marking the so they held a press conference and called for a general strike called call of these people starting friday do not come to walk in the shops at home he said the coalition said that this decision by the electoral commission is unfair that their voters are being disenfranchised and we're talking about one point two million voters this country to election it's normally a one round election so every single vote counts but as you mentioned the opposition seems somewhat divided because it's hard. opposition presidential candidates are talking about twenty one presidential candidates and that probably the for some of them have approved anything but of interest is a felix just to check with another prominent opposition presidential candidate one of the big three and the chief coalition has come out and said that they will go to

the polls or regardless of assuming this division but what is sucky. is that a lot of people here in the caucus will contract saying that i mean whatever happens even if you go ahead with the i'm actually the process is already paying their bills that they're. in the skies down on the credibility of that election on sunday and it's been announced within the last few minutes we understand a congo has expelled the european union and bassett what's the story there. yes this has come from the whoring a ministry they had a press conference for a moment ago that we should have stayed close and are basically. functions that communion or noun or some kind last week ongoing function. of continuing to function is just something that has upset the government because fourteen people

are targeted in the functions that include barnes and barnes. and barney. from entering the european union and one of the one of the full time individuals who are targeted is a man with a diary who is. ruling party presidential candidacy because. they say this issue will happen and remember that he was interior minister between december two thousand and sixteen and twenty seven to protest against the delay of the election all the people were killed mostly that the truth is that he was in charge of the back line here being targeted sanctions by the government saying that this really is a ploy by the international community and that's why i think back to me when i'm back at.