okay, now 1st erupted in september. no seismic activity has been registered since monday . so there's optimism that perhaps the worst is over or, you know, i'm on, i'm with you on a more, more just where i send you a lot of encouragement, a lot of strength, a lot of calm and strength to get out of all of this was an end to regain the peace of mind that even though the volcano took things away from us, we will rebuild. cern ah, a quick look at the main stories before we go. and there's been a dramatic rise in corona virus cases linked to the army cron variant in european countries. and netherlands government has announced it will impose a tough lockdown from sunday onwards with non essential stores, bars, restaurants, as well as other public places closing until january 14th. at the earliest, i mean to some of the thought summarized in one sentence. the netherlands will go into lockdown again from tomorrow. the netherlands will be locked down again. that

is unavoidable because of a 5th wave coming at us with the arm across very closely met. with the announcement from the dutch government was made just hours after the mayor in london declared a major incident in the u. k. capital, because of army cron fears and the effect it could have on the health system. governments across europe. now, scrambling to administer as many vaccine booster doses as they can o. meanwhile, have been some protest happening in germany. several people were detained, as people gather to voice their opposition to government measures to curb infections in several cities. government is also considering expanding a vaccine mandate for health work as to the general population. in all the headlines, chili's presidential ronald vote is less than a day away with the far right candidate. jose antonio cas, having the edge over his left wing rival gabriel burridge in a vote that's completely polarized opinion in at the south american nation. more

than 30 people are now fear dead off to typhoon riot. the philippines on friday rescue work as a starting to reach the remote areas now where dozens of people are missing, 18000 military and all the security forces of joined in the efforts and some of the worst effected regions. hundreds of thousands of people were forced to flee their homes. sudanese authorities of close bridges to the capital cartoon to prevent people from reaching the city center in order to protest. more mass opposition demonstrations of been planned for sunday. at least 8 bridges have been blocked as well as roads leading to the armies headquarters. earth rise, is the program coming up next? i'll be more news from dough other. the top the next hour in about 25 minutes time . ah,

al jazeera witt, every oh i oh, well see in antarctica, besides an extraordinary bit, great, the lodge is protected area owner. for this special episode of earth rise,

we going on board the greenpeace ice breaker optic sunrise, following one of the biggest campaigns in the environmental organizations, history, witnessing the spectacular biodiversity, and the many threats to life climate change to the fishing. as a team of scientists, photographers and ocean experts says how to prove these voss remote waters must become an arctic ocean sanctuary. ah ah, before i set off down south on go to find out a little about the journey i'm about to embark on, tucked away in a maze of old london streets. something quite extraordinary. ever since i was a boy, i've been as mariah by tales of the golden age of antarctic exploration of the early 20th century. names of pooler explorers,

mike rolled emerson and captain scott, ah, well, this is where some of those expeditions came to get there met us. we feel it cause it's good to see. this is a treasure trove of parts exploration. come, have a boat. turns out mankind has forever been hooked on the concept of a mysterious continent at the end of the world. this map from the 158 is, is the last of the classical worldview. this is the world as it would be understood by the ancient greeks and romans still got this great terrel of tallest nandan, konita the unknown, the southern land spin forward 3 centuries to the time of men like captain scott, who died on his return from the south pole. philip shows me a sledging from that expedition. this is what they actually used to place the food that pose for the attempt on the pole. incredible. here we have in reaching the

south pole. and then of course, the terrible trick back, captain scott died him. demonstrate how hard it was then just how challenging was that? a far cry from today. it's why this period is known as the heroic age. they were truly great heroes. up until the 1920s, there were probably less than i should think. 50 or 60 people had actually ever stepped onto the cold slip. of course, now thousands again. every year. like many of the old explorers i 1st had for printer arenas in southern chile, but unlike them, i'll be flying into antarctica to king george island. at the northern tip, harold joined the greenpeace ship. the arctic sunrise and head into the weddell sea,

with luck, will reach our target, the 64th parallel, which marks the northern edge of the proposed station sanctuary. an internationally supported marine reserve covering 1800000 square kilometers that would be protected from direct human impacts. like fishing, oil drilling and deep sea mining. our times of change immediately, it's clear how connected the outer reaches of the antarctic continent to become. the plane is full of tourists. what was once a grueling journey of months maybe is now can be done in an hour and a half with lunch and of you. i'm with van. happy out like that before funding. i think it's a cold, murky arrival. i'm surprised at how many people there are around. dozens are coming and going to haley are king george island and daughter can we made and i guess i

landed only not. so remote is more of a transport hub. you can see lots of tours gathered down. they're taking ribs out to inflatable boats out to meet the cruise ships for the holidays. i also had a lot of research stations with where the closing in we need to get a move on the hood over the next 2 weeks. and you hi, stakes. were under way immediately heading to the proposed ocean sanctuary . there's no time to lose. not just for the arctic sunrise. windsor is not far away and the ice was to close in. but it's also

a race against time to protect areas. like the way we'll see before it's too late. we'll mccollum. it's a greenpeace campaign leader weekend. meaningful will be the largest take to the area. when i talk to cushion sanctuary in an area of the weddell said to me about 5 times the size of germany, the proposal is already on the table. it's already got. the backing of the scientists are saying we need to protect a 3rd of the wall motion. at least we want to let fish docs recover, want to mitigate against them, climate change, and then talk to the right place to solve it just 9 months time. and hope all is australia. the decision will be made by the antarctic ocean commission, the international body responsible for the conservation of these waters on whether to accept this factory proposal. the aim of the expedition is to build the case that it needs to happen. the hours go by and the temperature dropped significantly on the bridge there on high alert. we're heading into dangerous waters 10 times to

skip a pool raziski. you have what they call burglary bits. growler is an iceberg depending on the size, but they can all damage is ship when you're steaming at night. key thing about ice is avoiding it. but now we're going to look for the ice and we will intentionally go in to some of the ice and there is room down here. now i think to push our way through a bit more comfortable, climbs into the crow's nest transport leads through the ice. come through the antarctic found which kind of by the on talk to friends with. we're now on the web . see, but not yes. at the point to perfect it get, there we go to get through all this ice. there's a lot of it around it. we're finding these clear passages trying to, we've all way through the i everyone on board is just willing the ship to make it

into the proposed sang tree. the big problem is getting people to realize why they should care about the you know, this is law life that most people have never come across will never come across. and so being able to tell us story relies on us getting that and not getting the footage back and talking about the importance of risk, i'm sorry. so the fact that the fish will only recover, we put these areas of limits to the fact that climate change will be not as bad. if we manage to put large areas of the ocean of limit me, darkness falls, but there is no rest on the bridge for the captain and the night crew mother ship floodlights on the bow show the ship now nudged up quietly against the ice. an intentional maneuver for the remainder of the night, but everyone keyed up slight 0 while

the next day at last, the 6 sunrise has arrived surrounded by some of the coldest, most diverse waters there are and was all on board who may yet be the largest protected area on the planet. well, one a good. you. good news, very good news made it made it to school. was sitting there now. there's awesome one other ship in this entire space. and you just go over this side and suddenly start getting sort of tens of, of ships. but cruise line is cargo ships fishing vessels. the moment you get through this sound as us and another ship about that. and that's it in the whole whole area that said slightly scary. yeah, terrifying. but very exciting as well. but exciting and kind of just makes a case that this is christine, this area is not develop is not co industry is never had industry sort of area

that's kind of most on touch, even within and talk to come i will talk to you in a row i think ronald well we're looking at here as well to yes. yeah, it's a great i spoke to the because i don't the glasses sweeping up. james ross, i like the weather will see expense way it proposed area really about just talk to like you would activity always know scientific research is taking place. it is an incredible site but deeply troubling. 2 glasses have always collapsed and carved into the until to goshen. however, with global warming that doing so with increasing speed. and as the ice sheets retreat, sea levels rise. this right here is humanities problem for decades. perhaps centuries

ahead. ah, it is laundry day. i'll knock at sunrise and here's the thing. we will think that being good citizens by wearing fleeces, which it laid out to recycle plastic bottles and sort of thing. but when you wash, the hundreds of thousands of microphone is end up in the world's oceans. so here on board, it's woollen and natural governments and horse 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 remarks is, was from a planet. there'll be a point that they do. they can replace success in the green pc conducted

experiments taking samples from water to see if any market plastics have infiltrated this environment with fibers that may be present. so they're both taking some of the fillings draws with where we certainly hope we don't find that this is very remote or just the way to caesar very close troyer system. and there's very few local sources that micro plastic fibers should be coming from. however, evidence of growing around the world studies that micro plastic fibers are extremely related and they all be found even very remote location. you know, it's a bizarre thing be a float on these wild and remote and desolate waters. feel quite exposed mujica gps a google map and zoomed out to be a tiny speck in this

t awful food device. water. yet beneath the surface of this magnificent desolation is just tv with life releases. so the remote is water solar and to see what lies below the expedition submarine is launched on board the antarctic specialist susan lock heart. what she sees is a stunning underwater realm composed of all manner of life. life not yet touched by mankind, but enormously at risk, not least from the effects of industrial scale fishing. it has a 100 percent coverage of the seats. all of our organisms has a great 3 d structure which are the organisms to come in and live there and a really interesting species composition. and all these factors make it really difficult for our community to recover after a disturbance, such as bottom pitching, we call these areas fundable,

marine ecosystems and the estimated $14000.00 species on the sea bed of hon. not just to fishing, but to other threats like warming, c, temperatures and plastic 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 site tree proposal and present it 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. are they 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 all i was cooking today for data, right. and any of any windows system is the

same every day and we share the light, we them, it is not everybody who has a view like this in their restaurant kitchen for the space. that's why we're here. later we had for sure making land phone on the south shetland islands near the to the antarctic peninsula. it's quite a relief to be back on dry land off basement really around all over the place to me welcome. hi, colin is marcy pen in chad territory with seals, one making the most of the comfortable feathers, the melting juveniles. but here to evidence once again of how the world is closing in on antarctica. a number of terrorists 20 years ago was around 4 to 5000

a year. now it's more like 30000 old like me, desperate to see this wilderness while it's still here. yet despite myself, i can't help the sense of unease and surprise about the sheer numbers. i've been a bit saddened by the great big crew shit there. here in pristine and taught the garand lines. interior is going up. there's dormant volcano, which is ridiculous because it's a free well, but it does just demonstrate the the new accessibility that there is here and then dangers. these areas becoming tainted by the footprints of humanity. next day was deeming down the west coast of the antarctic peninsula. we are going approximately 60 miles south west to an area called trinity island,

where we have seen approximately 3 fishing vessels. we want to go investigate with the vessels off from china, ukraine, and chile. their fishing for crill, a small shrimp like creature on which the whole ecosystem depends. there are a keystone of the ocean cycle that die to plant and helping to transfer c o 2 to the depths of the ocean. but colonel is being harvested on a growing scale for fish feet and omega 3 oil ships nets are out. and they're in the thick of a crill swamp. the corolla, obviously densely packed in to this area up against the island, is the boat. so just circling round and round to bring them up, i once at all, the whales are feeding. you see them blowing and whale tales disappearing. flipping showing buds really about the grill company, say they're tapping into a resort. it is sustainable. but the view on board is that that is what they said

about other species, like the bison in north america, or called stocks off new founded before both were decimated. it's essential areas such as well see are protected so stopped can replenish the proposal for the area, would put the area 30 kilometers off shore off limits to the fishing industry. so we'd say that solution you can continue to fish in the antarctic ocean, but keep it outside of these areas currently being proposed protected areas because the reason being proposed is because i saw importantly ecosystem down here. soon we'll begin the long journey home. but this time to make another landing and the variety of species hair on livingston island is just astounding. like it it absolutely spectacular. just

a lot more diverse me having 2 species, penguins time petals, elephant seals, rental sales has not been another landing a quite a variety. when you look at the straight from the ship, if it is leaking and yet you arrive here is just to be mean teeming. with us and as thriving right now, and you can say all around us, it's driving. who knows what it was like a 100 years got out. it was during even better, but right now it still compared to most other places on that. it's doing a lot better and the point of protecting is to allow it to continue in this way. we haven't yet messer's place up. we have the opportunity to protect it. ah. and then question that the, the dynamics in this place of antarctica. i changing the fur seal population expanding rapidly. there was

a penguin die off in these last year. the ice is changing. cradle populations are under threat as terrorism. i mean, this is the last great wilderness love. it needs protecting me. it's time to head back in for 5 days we crossed 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. then winning the protection of a precious part of our planet. and whether or not his protection would indeed be granted in hoboken. in 9 months time. ah. so after months of campaigning and intense lobbying by the greenpeace theme,

it all comes down to here. hobart, on the island of tasmania, in australia, with the future, the weddell sea, we decided this is where it's all happening. the headquarters of the antarctic commission that protects and manages the planets, southernmost waters. everything from territorial claims to fishing, right at being thrashed out right now by 25 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 our voyage together in antarctica, i hook up again with will. he's been lobbying hard for the weddell sea sanctuary since i last saw him. and the news he brings is unexpected. to say the least, it's not looking great. i think we've seen a rail a bit of a disaster of a meeting to be honest, something and on was really expect they were i a, we were always in the lodge. there was gonna be hard. and then what we seen is

a few countries just really undermine the process and, and essentially block any progress on any issue, not just, not just the antarctic ocean century, but actually progress in, in any field. good luck. thanks for to shoot in the next 24 hours. goodness great. i'm hoping for the best. perhaps we'll hear some good news to morrow is decision day and the country delegations have been locked in talks. journalists aren't allowed in. so we wait and wait for you. we have development, something's of just had a cool. so because again, trying to find out what's happening to that is the head of the indian delegation talking to australia to tell us what are you saying it is come out of

the conference every to real respect. we'll see dad in the water is not going to be adopted. it's just not gonna that's just devastating. use our comp edge and how, how the greenpeace team are free right now to say the other delegations or the other in june. she supported this proposal. just wanted to nations have gotten the waiver rush from china. lou 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 a, it's just a complete failure. on behalf of the commission on behalf of you know, the millions of people who sign this petition who wanted this to happen, and we've just seen the entire thing. trash. yeah. 22 countries. i for the 25 support it. they believe this is a good proposal, but china, russia, no, i,

you know, one by 13 different means and different reasons have just taken it apart and take turns with on grass. i'm from a personal point of view. you've invested so much time and energy and passion and heart into this inner what's, what's the most horrible, you know, it's been nearly 2 years of 1st working on it there it i every year. right. it i know via, you know, there are other good proposals on the table and this proposal in it is still a good one. i and we'll get the chance next year to resubmit it, but something's gonna have to shift in the next year. it is intensely disappointing for everybody involved, but it does just demons. the challenge we face in protecting this plan is especially in the face of a current climate of nationalist and political self interest. you know, it's not just about the wales and the penguins and the wonder of antarctica. it's

about us, us and our descended. we do, we want to leave them the world without wilderness, without healthy fish, dogs with ecosystems in tatters, with the 1st generation to realize the gravity of this crisis that we may be the last to be able to do something about it ah . from the al jazeera london broadcast, then tack 2 people in thoughtful conversation with no haste and no limitation. what is even more and p me that now is system innovation? systems design and system transformation part one of human rights activists. q, me,

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