people were killed in the violence and officially 350 people were injured from the around the wild they wanted off to create a logistical problem for the critical sorties but they were enough to make many of the people of lesbos anxious. for. hello i maryanne demasi in london with a quick look at the headlines now governments around the world have stepped up restrictions on the movement of the citizens to reduce the spread of the coronavirus the number of deaths recorded in a city has risen 25 percent in the past day to just over 800 on the number of reported deaths in spain as doubles up in our ports the latest tool in the fight against corona virus police drones in madrid flying over public spaces urging people to stay home whenever possible. the country's now under a 2 week state of emergency and as the death toll both and doubles even people out

exercising were ordered home. in front schools bars and restaurants are closed gatherings of more than 100 people are banned and people are being urged to work from home public transport is still running but more measures are on their way as of them at this stage in urban areas we will maintain public transport to allow french people to commute for strictly necessary purposes and regarding long distance travel by train between major cities by bus or by plane this will be gradually reduced. in the u.k. the government's been accused of not acting quickly enough to contain the spread as people stocked up over the weekend almost emptying supermarkets in some areas hundreds of scientists queried the government's strategy the health minister now says water time style measures are coming he's asking british manufacturers to make more ventilators soon everyone over the age of 70 will be asked to self isolate for up to 4 months and this week should see new measures including

a ban on large gatherings we will change the law so that we take the power to be able to close match coverings if we need to and and take other action that you just normally wouldn't but we might have to in order to respond to this to this virus italy's record is another dramatic rise in the death toll there have been more than 20000 coronavirus cases there in the vatican with some peter's square empty pope francis delivered his weekly sunday present a live stream you know let me reach you know i want to renew my proximity to all the sick and those who are nursing them and for the many volunteers helping people unable to leave their homes but everyone meeting the needs of the poorest and the homeless as of sunday night the czech republic's borders with poland closed a move designed to slow the spread of the virus and in poland they've shut the border with germany temporarily. this is a historic moment we have just restored an internal european union border between

poland and germany for the coming 10 days germany has confirmed its borders with austria switzerland and france will be closed for monday although commuters and goods vehicles are to be allowed through another sign of how europe is turning inwards as the number of corona virus infections continues to grow the dean barber al jazeera. and in iran the death toll there is risen to at least 724 and almost 14000 infections many iranians have ignored the official advice to stay at home though senior officials politicians doctors clerics have all contracted the disease iranian president hassan rouhani says u.s. sanctions are severely impact in country's ability to stop the virus. the largest airline in the united states american airlines is slashing its international flights by 75 percent until may cuts were announced hours after the u.s. government restricted travel from more countries including the united kingdom an island as a precaution against the virus international airports across the u.s.

were already in chaos though with incoming travelers forced to wait for hours to go through medical screening before being allowed through customs. we're following other news this hour as well the israeli president reuben rivlin will ask opposition leader benny gantz if he can form a new government head of current prime minister benjamin netanyahu rivlin has been meeting representatives of various smaller parties in an attempt to assess who they would support in any coalition free elections in the space of less than a year a failed to break the deadlock in israeli politics those are the headlines this hour coming up next oceans monopoly is the program which looks at the unseen global battle playing out for resources beneath the waves and then of course there's always our website for all the latest on the corona virus outbreak but of course we're not losing sight of all the stories making headlines around the world al-jazeera dot com.

for millenia the oceans lay outside the dominion of man. as state's influence extended only 3 nautical miles from the coast a little further than a cannonball could travel. but stand humans discovered the ocean floor. and 3rd largest land grab in won't history be kept.

in the unit. i'm tom apply and i'm in the bedroom of rodeo should the no for line take twice i've sold it twice in small yards and also crossed in a bottle bug in the unit. to meet with him when i lived on rockaway in this some people call a survival capsule i call it a wooden box it's a house like this is my house this is a one man house i lived with a 40 days it did the job it kept. for me i was warm and dry but don't forget i'm right at the top of the cliff it's just straight down to the city.

hall mclean is one of the u.k.'s greatest adventure as he crossed the atlantic 5 times the 1st time in a globe and once in a vessel shaped like a beer bottle for his latest trip he sailed for newfoundland trickle in the smallest sailboat ever to cross the atlantic. and. soon mclean traveled to new york in a boat built to resemble a whale. but it was more than an adventure it. was a mission a mission done in service to mother england. somebody said oh well what about some killed and go in there but so the rock or rock was right there in the middle

of the atlantic and there seems to be a dispute who owns it and i thought what if i be your 1st civilian to reside on rock call and that would help the case it wasn't quite so good the wind carried their safety line. they closed in without it. is very dangerous there now you can see how lumpy is quite dangerous. they were far from ok after that momentary triumph but then on the attic the big b. way down i go down there was 54 straight down into the foam flies helplessly into the. landing at 1985 most cost told him to clean his knife. but he eventually made it to safety and flew in london and get into the to. only the beginning however great britain we wanted to claim with a lot because an i learned but for that to happen international law stipulated that

tom must remain there for 21 days or more when the boat turned to go home and leave me for the 1st time. i was glad to see them go i was on my adventure i'm here with iraq and the birds i'm happy to be here the chiefs are making history. and those who may challenge it brittania ruled these waves. for the u.k. it was about more than just claiming a lump of granite in the ocean the real objective was to secure the resource which a oh yeah oh around local the islet was to play a key war when pushed territorial claims. the main players in british maritime claims work in an office on the south coast of india and. it's

a fascinating area of work to do. there's not often somebody working in oceans signs that you do get the opportunity to mix both the legal on the technical aspects and see how they work together almost in order to develop something on behalf of the state. but we have the united kingdom to the east and as we further west we passed the rock all rock itself on to the plateau the land area of great britain and 240000 square kilometers the area that the u.k. have submitted for the rock is a 163000 square kilometers. good to.

my main reason to go to rockall was to inhabit it and if i stayed in international law less than 21 days i'm only visited i had to stay more than 21 days and by staying there more than 21 days it in fact 40 days it wasn't iraq it's an oil and i made it or not and. local. for the u.k. to claim the territorial sea overwhelmed along it had to prove that it was inhabitable yet the eyelids could be easily confused with any walk and tom stay was controversial so controversial that the u.k. had to put another territory into the mix st kilda the archipelago increased the british crowns claimed by 160000 square kilometers to st kilda has been deserted ever since its 36 remaining inhabitants left almost a century ago but humans live there once and they could live there again at least

theoretically. what does the u.k. want with all this water. what do you mean by opening a piece of the ocean. the idea of the ocean has changed over time. most from. the plan was to show how the losing their kotoko has won so all of the world and what they flew into an ocean is very much sure what was important to them and also. before 1492 before columbus's journey to the americas the ocean as a broad portion of the world's surface as a as a major space that figured into our sense of the globe really wasn't there in the

middle ages the world was thought to be a single large landmass a veritable mega continent without ocean. so the ocean really plays no role at all except to show a limit the ocean shows the limit of society and shows the limits of actually of god's kingdom of the kingdom on earth to the east beyond the ocean clay eden lay that the promised land lay heaven beyond that there was really nothing baptist. for most of human history the oceans were projection screens for the imagination of an unexplored an irrepressible the a mighty barrier the place of terror. despite its dangers the ocean became more and more important over the centuries. as global trade developed merchant fleets transformed the oceans into vast shipping

lanes people from past centuries would never have dreamed of laying claim to the ocean for them it was a blue expanse full with dangers and obstacles that needed to be overcome a sailor's journey to foreign lands. and of course the 2 dimensional plane is ironic because the ocean is so material a 3 dimensional you know we you step into the ocean you sink. yet in the 19th and 20th centuries something happened that changed our idea of the ocean for ever the seabed became a place of exploration in 858 as the transatlantic cape was being late engineers noticed variation in the oceans to. be evidence of undersea mountains the 1st scientific study of the ocean floor was undertaken by the german survey vessel meteor in 1925 scientists today like can be expedition to columbus's

1st voyage which began the exploration of a towering incognita a previously unknown land over the next few decades a picture of the undersea cosmos gradually emerged suddenly kind of developed this new awareness of the seabed of the underneath of course this itself is also kind of a fantasized idealisation of the ocean because you're imagining that you can see through the water column the water is missing from here the fish are missing a subtle way the topography of the seabed is quite literally brought to the surface . of the discovery of the seabed radically changed our idea of the ocean the ocean was no longer just water it was 1st and foremost a land mass a vast expanse that belongs to no one but that could perhaps be seen just.

this man had a groundbreaking idea. the president of the united states harry truman a man who would implement the war reeking of any other man on earth. harry truman asserted his country's influence with the north claim this was a territory to retreat under water that could be the next part of the united states . enormous quantities of oil fell into the gulf of mexico but the oil lay beyond the 3 miles island in which coastal states could exercise their song rights truman wanted more home he wanted new terms story for the united states the superpower needed more more oil. or oil reserves on the mainland no longer sufficed. our dependence on these minerals and raw materials is so fresh and our supply so

uncertain that we are moving as rapidly as we can and by every means that ingenuity and buy to expand facilities to step up production find new sources develop substitutes and bring in increased supplies from foreign sources. after to 2nd world war in $1045.00 then us president truman issued a proclamation. declaring that the natural resources in the. seabed and subsoil belong to the united states of america. in convincing the world that the american president not only had no will but also the right to incorporate undersea territory truman used an argument that built on

a recent discovery in some areas of the seabed oceanic others a continental. the us had to have this kind of basis of a jew logical link between its land mass and the land mass submerge and lead to its territory. andy an idea of the geological continental shelf is the basis which the us saw as. a legal basis as well they had to finally end the bases that they found most convincing most of course science. but the.

other big get c.n.n. not so cursed by ever one is it was there should be yeah let's encourage 15 year tours like this name years. in. our business in the us we are by to get. the arguments that the continent continues under who made up the core of truman's justification this was more convincing because the historical events the legitimacy of this theory which by far into history. possibly far. entire do if keep this. time in. terms. of the korean talent left by mehdi army on minimum. will feed your cat is a geophysicist at the alfred bacon to institute in play my husband alfred vega noticed that the coastlines of north and south america seems to fit together with

those of you up and africa like pieces of a puzzle. was indeed carnegie lookee in differ on found on one of the dogs does the comment i'm on to some. pianist. in record scientists today believe there was once a supercontinent that at some point began to drift apart in the early 20th century this idea seemed completely preposterous. this being water sanitary. vs just. spin up could turn. out to damage that kind of supervise and. this is on the continent on. the nothing we only out working with us africa the american doctors and indian. muslim

if i'm going. to cure the present. indian. here. who took office as a con invite not. that. these are but i hear that's where the quote entire. went on he has only climate delegates as a. these are where these are up or kunder that could depend. on this have to be done article sausan of the feel of. the idea that this submerged land mass is really a prolongation of your land territory you know it's who can argue that this would not be part of it territory. the more people became aware of large quantities of oil and gas in the ocean floor the more coastal states tried to

claim it for themselves they called for an international law based on the geological definition of a continental shelf yet many states resisted the earth's history has not favored each country equally to brushless learned how to answer by can share. finance remind us as we buffy apart from. africa to acquire a particular made up artist in dozens i didn't want him hard in context look at a picture of us learned. to balance out the geological differences that emerged over hundreds of millions of years the nations of the world abandoned the geological definition of a continental shelf in favor of a legal definition that applies to all coastal states uniformly the godless of its undersea geology every country is granted a continental shelf extending 200 nautical miles around to see its exclusive economic zone. so these did they be of these 200 as

a magic number became acceptable to many states at the conference but the broad margin states did not accept this because of course they were as far as they're concerned they would come out as a loser and it's not just the us and. also other states such as canada russia is also one of those states so they were not willing to give this up. ultimately states with a wide continental shelf prevailed a clueless with momentous consequences was quietly appended to the law of the sea convention the clause in question is article 76 it says that the state can lay claim to his geological continental shelf in addition to his legal continental shelf provided that the state can supply data demonstrating the shelves outer limits within 10 years. the time limit triggered

a veritable wound on the world's oceans and the largest land allocation in world history. for the 1st time in the history of humanity a land grab occurred based not only more on. traditional forms of color but rather on geological findings. scientists have a special role in the case of the ocean because the physical difference isn't as obvious it's not as experienced if you're on an island detention oh you're on an island you can experience where land meets water i have no idea where the seabed ends you know where the continental shelf fans and you know nobody does from every day observation.

so i would like to explain you now actually article $76.00 of the convention to see actually works and it's all about natural. laws so we have. actually learned continues under water or something like this everything is decided by the point where the continental gradient drops off but the foot of the continental slope this spot is used to calculate the show outer limits the states can choose between 2 formulas it can extend its borders 60 nautical miles or 100 kilometers from this point seawards tran be more advantageously however to use the sediment thickness because the settlements on the mainland the state has a territorial claim to this part of the sea bed the thicker the layer of sediment the better according to the think list will the continental shelf extends until the

point where the thickness of sediment amounts to one percent of the distance from the foot of the slope. because no one only chests understand geological data only thing. determined to follow the state so when winds extend over the election it paints a commission of acts to respond to deal with the global community recognizes the states and the suffering bullet has evolved on. 0 non-si beside thousands why mickie the. zune or. commission on the limits of the pond. as pows idiotic and zap it is that's jeezy institute bob heaped then join just head busy sure if we had each really involved. would.

call him names helped build this commission yes now he is among its fiercest critics. g. home in your. paper for. lemar spot. it's bad one for. that hour i mocked our dinner tonight in president. the 21 geologist of the continental shelf commission was building d.c. to the united nations plaza filming it is for me the. members may speak to the public in spite of precisely because of the fact that their decisions can change maritime nations. easily.

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reason it is struggling to stop the spread of the virus throughout the country is because it doesn't have enough money to throw at the problem and that this is because of u.s. sanctions unilateral and illegal u.s. sanctions that they say are hampering efforts now and are having a compound in effect up this time when the country is going through a public health crisis and in the u.s. increased screening measures for people returning from europe of course chaos that airports the u.s. has extended its ban a lot americans traveling from europe to now include the u.k. and ireland well in all the news is already present riven rivlin will ask opposition leader benny gantz if he can form a new government ahead of the current prime minister benjamin netanyahu rivlin has been meeting representatives of very small of parties in an attempt to assess who they support in any coalition 3 elections in the space of less than a year have failed to break the deadlock in israeli politics. russia and turkey holding joint military patrols in syria to monitor

a cease fire there in troops from both countries are patrolling the strategic m. 4 highway linking syria's east and west despite backing opposing sides in the war the deal between the 2 countries was finalized on friday after 4 days of talks in ankara the 1st man to be convicted by the international criminal court has been released from prison thomas lubanga was greeted by supporters as he was driven out of jail in the democratic republic of congo capital kinshasa a bangle was found guilty in 2012 of recruiting child soldiers to fight in the 2nd congo war in 20022003 an explosion near an oil pipeline in nigeria has killed at least 15 people and destroyed dozens of buildings nijinsky workers say it happened when a truck or fire near a pipeline in lagos are you back with the news hour 2100 g.m.t. join me then. but.

before that the commission of ex-pats was founded in new york where the global community recognizes states and suffering borders as pows you do you got there and zara is that's jeezy institute joining bob peeped. for the 1st time in the history of humanity a land grab occurred based not only more on traditional forms of power but rather on geological findings. of the experts who tipped the scales in loring's about maritime territories a notoriously unforthcoming one members agreed to speak about the commission on the condition the team meters not to new york but in which city in fromm's. being an personally i've always felt that we could do an effort to actually be more transparent and to communicate more. to.

me. so my name is walter roost i'm a marine physicist a work at the from air france and i'm a member of the un commission on the limits of the continental shelf. well the 1st thing i should say is that you know the work of the commission yes it's true it's quite. 3 that very confidential fashion and the main reason behind that from the beginning of this 2 reasons one is that we're dealing with sovereign rights of states secondly many of the states submit data that are actually confidential data derives from petroleum industry francis so and those data they have to be treated with a very high level of confidentiality there are powerful interests behind the state's petitions seabed data that have enormous economic significance this information contains important clues for where natural resources might be located

'd industries and states are not inclined to share this information which can be worth billions i think what we did what i could say is that as members of the commission i think we consider ourselves really scientific and technical experts but we also. cautions of the fact that our recommendations or decisions that we make have huge impact both politically economically. and so on so is it possible to distinguish those 2. geologists in the commission to have the job of evaluating continental shelf data submitted by countries officially the commission only makes recommendations but since their conclusions are not cooperated by anyone else they have de facto or pfoa t. to decide which nations get which territories. 5 nations that border the

arctic ocean are in a bid to extend their software in why it's in the direction of the north pole denmark canada us norway and russia each wants as much territory as possible the area is best. managing to contain 10 percent of the world's oil was. due to fly a crew of. me edsel you shipped. if. for . us we're doing is is hince has put down. actions. that.

russia understood to take advantage of the new. in 2002 he was one of the 1st countries to submit a claim to the continental shelf commission the russians asserting to no less than the entire essential arctic an area of $1500000.00 square kilometers including the north pole coal hinz was known as the man who shot down blushes claim on account of insufficient scientific evidence employed a trick that many states are using to push through their claims even after they reject it. as i did. in this country and. this is i prefer a boat. or d.l.c. este. ron. i'm

a fresh one of. the. missions. in the race to control the world's oceans data is key if a claim this rejected nations can have just collect more information this effectively allows countries to circumvent the commission's 10 year deadline governments can submit new reports until their claims who approved each additional geological submission brings with it a fresh room for interpretation the name of the game is if you want to have the best answer for your time boundaries. nor the best answer for your extended continental shelf you go out and collect the best modern day data possible to go in use for your final application for law the seed to ensure that the answer is the

best that it can be. russia has since submitted it refines to data to the continental shelf commission but canada and denmark one home to. how can other countries with the same scientific arguments claim the same territory . is an ocean and water is a continent it is a question of just speak to the commission evaluates the scientific data and makes a decision if the for or against a state's claim once the claim is approved it is binding and cannot be with 1st. i don't know i mean we have no. if we replace all members of the commission

that the cleeve we have 21 new members and we would give them the same case it would be get the same result can be quite certain we will not get exactly the same result so i. i don't believe that the commission can be a 100 percent right because 100 percent right does not exist in natural sciences we're talking about interpreting based all relatively sparse data. the commission is a clip of textbooks selected by the. nations of the 21 members on the commission 19 come from countries that others write the territorial expansion to national interests play all decisions of its members won't inserts against the recommendations and tested. and the fans turn so good. i've tried

on top line is that the work i'd charm in every age i did my. country they have put all your lives over the problems your nobody. wiking son well there were 2 candidates. and all i can say is that. michael loved puts the international seabed to. say it is a type of executive council of the ocean floor they supervise one of the states are unable to get their hands on with continental shelf claims the i.s.a.'s official is that the deep sea bed is the common heritage of mankind they believe that the ocean

belongs to everyone the common heritage concept includes. a number of basic ideas the 1st idea is that. it's an area over which no single state can claim sovereignty and it has to be administered for the benefit of all mankind. the seabed over 40 years the tosca distributing witches that are not in the sovereign areas of national states if a country or company makes a profit from mining minerals the i s a ensures that poor countries and countries without coastal borders receive a share. when founding the i s a states agreed to make environmental regulations as strict as possible for deep sea mining in international waters because no one knows its effect on the merits of

the ecosystem. so the i say has no standing in the continental shelf commission it's not an observer to the commission it has no right to object to a recommendation of the commission. the commission's recommendations go only to the coastal state that is making the submission and not to anybody else. the ocean compass ever 360000000 square kilometers. of the earth's surface. over 40 percent of this area has been assigned to legal continental shelves. claims on expanded geological continental shelves make up another 10 percent of the ocean. it is now

projected to around 57 percent of the oceans will eventually be under the control of the coastal states. in the year 2000 and that's the latest set of figures that we have the international seabed authority which is based in jamaica they came up with an estimate as they saw that governments were starting to work through this more recent component for a lot of the sea for the extended continental shelf they have a figure just just below $12000.00 us trillion dollars is the in-situ estimate of seabed resources in the expanded continental shelves. estimates about the quantity of natural resources buried in the seabed are highly speculative but if the figure of $12000.00 trillion us dollars is white

it would be enough to if we person on earth a check for one and a half $1000000.00. for this is one of the country's leading the charge to claim a piece of the pie but like current nothing has a leg over many other states a colonial past. please leave. blues. in a realm of. say are hopefully she. do or do we do. not want to feel at least one of. the. well out. of the thanks to its colonial past france administers islands in almost every ocean

of the world now it stands to gain substantial maritime territory in which. currently france has 11 claims pending the continental shelf commission. says it is on t.v. . i know it is the. best feature jacqueline regularly did not put says is. definitely. the on the dosage it was this is subs. on the tour. de. france has claimed territories amounting to some 12000000 square kilometers around

20 times the size of continental farms if the claims are. it will become the world's 2nd largest maritime nation its sovereign wide stretching over an area of the ocean almost as large as the entire arctic less yasith also there. are a little him all the daily limahl and bulldog. bus a good. idea to just remodel a bit more now because i do security doing it don't drive or. duplicate control. that predict not pass up class.

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is both a different base support for sunni shock even. when a boarding is you also when you see forces not best. served up or didn't see 4 sets up off. critical. elements which present a crucial trump card in the battle to control the world's oceans it's all about geometry because islands are surrounded by water their software into a tree extends around them in a circle even if an island were just a small block its merits or inside would be larger than germany. if a group of islands forms and i'll keep a common base line around the entire cluster violence is used to calculate the

maritime territory. this man is japan's hope in the race to claim the won't oceans he cracked the genetic code of a life form the could help japan i'd say 400000 square kilometers to its territory . is a geo scientists in the university of tokyo he specializes in coal. and isms that display characteristics of both animals and plants. that's going to the mall all of them up and it's ok with a lot they get it up and always will step that we all. yet kayani has delved further into their biology into the secret of their reproduction and found a method for breeding them on a large scale. aussies on the go to the mall. at the bottom of it it's akin

to what i mean out of the often this is echoed argument about whether you know this . mass produced coles $60000.00 tiny coal babies are being artificially bred to farm on a small island off the coast of okinawa but for walked her does. look in a trollish him a is located 1700 kilometers south of tokyo it is a small cold matter during high tide it clears the surface by a mere centimeters japan regards it as an island but the existence of a q notorious under threat. and i see him in ga and he just said that i think

it's a matter of yourself with a lot of us going to the mall is one of the. so you kenya us. just decided that kinda true or you know foundation it's maritime area which presents a massive territorial expansion bringing with it so when whites over fish and other natural resources. at them. there. and so you think you know. nothings. all. this territory be lost if the lawyer disappears. coals being used to save the ad told thousands

of them have been shipped to a canoe torrie to preserve that we find make it as large as possible a pilot project on an oil and taiwan is studying what might one day look like things to coles. soon ok neutral could become a real island like the pilot project. which consists entirely of cargo. pants whistles fulness is not being welcomed by everyone however it's you maritime claims of tensions with his powerful neighbor china which itself is currently infomed an island territory disputes with a whole array of countries. as states attempts to extend their maritime zones as far as possible many international conflicts have

arisen. require. in the south china sea 8 countries to fight info on the business value to $100000000000.00 as. there is no part of the world that is safer than others in other words with 53 percent of all maritime boundaries within the easier. we're seeing conflicts raising up to volatile levels driven predominantly from by resource development for the offshore typically will end up having a coastal frontage area that looks like this and let's say that we have a land boundary we're country a is sitting here and country b. of sitting here back in the seventy's when we were moving from oil and gas exploration on land to the marine area they may have negotiated a provisional boundary that sort of allowed them for country

a to issue offshore oil and gas blocks and country b. and let's say in a so in a more recent scenario an extremely large discovery is made and let's say the neighboring country country b. then all of a sudden size we'd like to have some of that so they are starting to propose new boundaries as this initial line was not even a modern day accepted boundary lines. have become contestants territories the will of everyone wants a piece of the design new boundaries of being tooling for dividing up the switches powerful industries only move in the deep sea no one can predict the consequences of this industrialization of the wilds bhushan. they are the consequences of a whiff aleutian that began years ago and just mostly gone under noticed the ocean

is being defined you don't like. and. you also have to realize that the ocean is off you just so we need to have some way of. deciding who is responsible for walk and where and when. and so. at this point in time this is maybe not the ideal solution but this is the solution that was created with the convention. the world's oceans foam more than its continents build with a cohesive ecological system a sensitive continuum in which what happens to one area can affect the office. it is now up to the lowndes nations whether they will take the sponsibility of a new unity a quiet maritime territories. or

whether this lost a fight in dry now across much of australia by weather action is out of the car will say pushing up its was a new kind of the last say probable side plan grethel which will continue to drive his way further south as weakening as it does some very wet sand windy weather grassy pushing towards no quite reaching but towards the north island of new zealand back over into australia we do have a few showers just going on around the east coast you might catch charlotte say just around sydney to the north of pushing up towards the sunshine coast much of

claims that will be dry and $526.00 in melbourne the bat. the temperatures here and we'll see a similar value there for perth as we go on through a monday what it says showers a possibility just around the millibars we go on into cheese day but for much of us is going to be fine and to watch of those shows which was easy to see that what's the weather very close to north island of new zealand then some very wet weather maybe a few blustery showers rolling through and we have some showers of a wintry nature making their way across japan a recently things in the process of quietening down now we got some cherry rains there still in place as we go on through monday but it will quieten down for choose by warming up as well tucker with a top temperature of 15 telling rather wet for southern parts of china. perception is validation we believe want to be seen but in one life time

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