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it was to be a steel worker who had the winners and losers. where do we stand? starts january 5th on d, w. ah, ah, we are crossing the arctic view, have ever seen it like this. it's demanding journey through a harsh, wild world that knows no mercy and yet is so full of magic. we want to know how this world is changing and what that means for all of us. we meet people who live happily here and have up until now been spared from global

political conflicts, but who also feel the change underlying everything for thousands of years, the arctic was considered impenetrable. but now a race has broken out to see who will dominate it in the future. that has led to a lot of distrust and mutual surveillance. we've traveled once around the globe way north of the arctic circle to better understand this region, which will play a big role in our future. it's a wild ride, but nothing compared to what awaits us. we're traveling with alina and alcohol. on

the other boat is his sister met with her son, bryan and husband aga, we want to visit the whalers. summer camp located a good 250 kilometers from the fjords mouth. it can only be reached by boat and no one has ever managed to get this deep into the fury at the end of october. scores be sound on the east greenland coast is the world's largest fjords system. we set out from ito core to me. the only settlement in a 700 kilometer radius. we are in the middle of the fjord when disaster strikes. the motor on aka lose boat breaks down. all go pulls up. and brian grabs are both noise, but elaina tells us not to worry. talking

home with we continued deeper and deeper into the fjord halfway there and almost 5 hours into our trip. in the sheltered bay of a small island, we come across a cap sized boat, aka lu, tries to figure out what happened here. most likely, it got caught in a storm and hit an iceberg, or some rocks. with probably smashed into that. as a precaution, we stash some gasoline and supplies in the bay. here you always have to be prepared for the worst. if it is not possible to go inside your course of the ice cervical back here and have a campsite, he knew the head the whole to over never

before, sir? yes, shoot. there should be more ice. ah, although we're all surprised by the mild weather, the temperature quickly drops to minus 10 degrees celsius. we pass a glacier tongue jutting out from the ice sheet far into the fjord. this ice is many thousands of years old. so far, we had only seen it from above. and its layers remind us of tree rings like a geological chronicle. on one of the bluish, shimmering ice blocks there is blood aka lu, thinks the polar bears must be around. telling us to stay alert and warning the other boat. and then we see them up on a slope by the bay and down in the water, there are 6 bears. one of them has blood on his head and

neck. we probably just interrupted their meal time. on land we see a narwhal carcass, aka lu, says it was probably shot by hunters and then snatched away by the bears. but in recent years, humans and bears alike have gotten new competition in their hunt for the narwhal. and kilo weighs ah, the problem for the hunters because they eat seals now is and although with with and they can affect them coming in. if they get an issue, it was to 1st time hunt is caught till away and something else has changed in the future. for the 1st time ever fisherman

caught caught, and salmon knew a few solomon spectra, very few. even nobody had ever caught salmon here before. we're in a hurry now. we still haven't reached the summer camp, and the further we go in the longer it would take us to get back to the emergency camp. and with all the icebergs drifting through the fjord and its branches getting there would be extremely dangerous after dark. ah, on the slopes, we keep seeing creatures that seem from another time must coxon the buying the cold even in the arctic winter with their long, thick fur. for hours we continue through choppy seas, with temperatures now around 15 degrees below 0. as we approached the camp and

turning around is no longer an option, aka lu doesn't hesitate. when a closed ice sheet appears in front of us, our small boat becomes an ice breaker. ah . when we go ashore and set up camp, it's clear that we have accomplished something that was long considered impossible traveling some 300 kilometers into the fjord. in mid october we pitch our tent in the freezing cold. there is no room for us and our equipment and the small hunting cabins, but we came prepared with thick sleeping bags and what musk ox fir neatly minky, will into a rice shoe we tissue normally. normally we do in

our church tradition of a we came group to same meet as moscow seal on with everything wash. and this is me. wow. outside in the bitter cold we eat, monkey wail, goulash with pieces of blubber and coarsely cut meat. the inward delicacy proves a bit too much to handle, for our inexperienced pallets and stomachs. but hunger is not what is stopping us from crawling into our sleeping bags after this long day. ah, out of nowhere, a strong wind grows into a storm and we quickly have to bring our tent and equipment to safety to keep it from being washed away by wind and water. aka lew in august,

jump in the boats trying to get them to the sheltered side of the bay. afraid that wind and waves will otherwise loosen the anchors and smash the boats against the rocks. that would be a big problem this far away from any help in as were all struggling with wind and weather. a very different natural spectacle, lights up the sky one that will reconcile us to this harsh arctic night. ah ah ah, in the morning the boats have returned and the storm is over. but 1st we have to

get our bearings. we had just quickly piled everything together and secured it, but all got an aka lu, kept watch by the boats all night long and are visibly exhausted. we get some visitors to our camp, but leave them in peace since we have enough supplies. normally, once again, we are baffled by the numbers on the thir monitor sick plastic says decrease. is it normal this time of the you know about when stim aka lu says the fluctuations of 16 degrees during winter is not unheard of here. but it's becoming much more frequent in recent years. the summers have also changed and says alaina during summer rain not positively almost on some but be had some

nice days with hot hot and sunny weather. but it's more rainy than usual. but since the storm has brought us this warmth, we decide to take advantage by heading even further into the fuel. the ice that aka blue had to break through yesterday has completely melted away in front of the camp. for elaina, this will be a day to remember me ah, oh, in the bright sunshine and spring like temperatures, we glide along the glassy waters of the fjord between fairy tale like creatures sculpted by the elements in ice. from millennia of the past. ready me

. ready me, i told my mom before we had district, i thought i would never have my birthday is october. at this time it will be, normally it will be i see frozen and it wouldn't be possible to say here. and since we were a child, my little brother had always birthdays here because his birthdate is in august. now is my birthday in the field in october. first i

it's, it's very funny. i will definitely with them, but we are all dazzled by the sheer beauty of nature and spell bound by all its fantastic shapes only the low drip from melting icebergs for boats the disaster about to befall this wonderland. when we are only pulled back to reality by the thick ice forming around the boat, suddenly there is no way for aka lou and alaina look for a way out scouring the fjord. but decide to turn around before the channel left in our wake. also freezes over with

hesitating, is not an option for those who live here. and on her 23rd birthday, we wonder how alaina sees her future. i will be studying as her skipper in january 2022 in denmark. that child woman have like nursing id been to it and you know, working with kids is too boy. i want to be a well what the falls lumen and young girls as well and encourage them to do what they want. not it pushes should this society told entropy. though, do you think we left camp too late and now a snow storm is catching up with us. visibility is getting worse,

and darkness is falling. with 0 visibility, we use our mo bile gps devices to help aka lou and aga, navigate along the coast. and hope we won't crash into an iceberg. at long last, we make it back to its core to me with the very next morning we have to leave again. we have an appointment in the barents sea on the other side of the arctic ocean. we need to get back to our plane half an hour into the trip. we asked aka lew if it wouldn't be better to turn around. but he seems unfazed. for us, on the other hand, what follows our hours full of fear on the roaring sea in freezing winds? ah,

ah. when we finally make it back to shore, there is no time to lose as the storm grows stronger. luckily, aka lu in august make it back in the nick of time. our pilot deer knows the extreme conditions of the arctic and says we're lucky that the wind is hitting the runway directly from the north. we should be able to get out. mm. but there is another problem. the control tower tells us you can see this is sandstone. it comes in the bubble, not secure. it goes out. in the reason that's because of the lack of snow. we haven't got snow down here as we normally

have. the storm is coming to me like then it takes all the gravity to set up. there's no just we want to get going before the sandstorm ruins both our travel plans and our plane. but when deer tries to forward our flight plan through the air traffic control, there's another surprise. the internet is dead. the solar in defense hips there. i guess it's that are power satellite over here around 2 to 50 in the afternoon everyday. and then them the next hour to the internet connection is gone. this happens everyday or yeah, especially especially here in the in autumn and we have a problem every year. snow sand and solar storms all at once. this doesn't seem to be our lucky day. i and then there is this not entirely risk free flight over the north atlantic

in a single engine propeller plains. ah, if we were to go to the water, we work with land to get to the width of the thick ledges aircraft actually has a very low speed from that perspective which land and basically swimming the water, the cabin sealed. so that will be really the water coming in, and we have an emergency exit above the water and the speed will, you know, of course we have a rock with us where we can all cuddled up, fish, follow one to that in. we each have our own emergency transmitter and survival suit with us. what could possibly go wrong? we have a rendezvous in the middle of the arctic ocean, just 1000 kilometers shy of the north pole. the norwegian frigates tour have left fort in transit 3 days ago, sailing across the rough barents sea to our meeting point and east yard on spits

bergen. island later, the russian foreign ministry will criticize this visit by tor. hey dog, claiming its part of a clandestine, planned by norway and nato, to militarize the region. ah, we receive a friendly military welcome aboard and make our way through the lower decks of this modern warship up to the bridge to meet the captain. nearly 50 percent of the crew are young women the bridge has bathed and a warm red glow that is absorbed by the tinted windows. the goal is to remain unseen by emitting as little light as possible. standard procedure for enable vessel. this is what most of us forget so we can monitor our all activity in the air up the surface under the surface as well. we are doings that's roles looking

for submarines so regularly we have for the last year to see and i'm increased russian activity. they are also a thing more often in i'm sort of out in the arctic region. so more sort of rest them south along which goes in recent years norway has been sending, it's worships further north into the arctic sea. the goal is to maintain a presence in a world that up until now has been virtually inaccessible that slowly change your mind. you know, so even though, because the, an increased activity, it has been the kind of an uncontested area will change in the future. so when the eyes, the mouth thing 0, it's become more accessible, we will see even more activity, very important for us to be ready to understand the increase on how to handle it in the future. in norway's capital are slow, we have an appointment with neil's, andreas stenson this. the states intelligence chief. after the end of the cold war,

norway kept a low profile in the arctic. not wanting to provoke gets big eastern neighbor. but in recent years, the situation has changed. first of all, the new doctrine that they call active defense, where they use the military more active also in peace to single political intent. and if they disagree with something that seem very clearly, they demonstrate capabilities. so they deploy further to west, we've seen them down to, did you turn gap several times. so that is one more than to all of most. the other one is the modernizing old, their capabilities were the introduction of long range missiles and in modernizing old they commonly control apparatus which makes it possible to be a lot more agile, react falster to political, necessities or opportunities. and so we see russia as

a small of horsemen a lot more agile and more attuned to political development in line with new priorities. russia has a ramped up its military presence in the arctic and is making no secret of it. they call it strategic communication during an exercise in early 20213 nuclear submarines simultaneously broke through the north poles ice sheet. it's a clear signal of rushes capabilities to potential adversaries. leaving arctic neighbors, uneasy is their increased activity, which is something they are allowed to do, but it seems like the more aggressive and as i said them, we'll address, let fall. so she will get that less time, less warning time about what the using and when you have mold to use platforms and weapon systems. it's hard to really did use and funnel for their intentions are new, military bases are being built and old ones modernized on france. yoseph land and

archipelago neighboring spits back in a new high tech base, was built in 2017 looking like something out of a sy fy movie. in 2019, an air base was added for russia's nuclear capable warplanes noon. and in moscow, we met a man who leaves no doubt about how important the arctic is to russia. russia can see that us the forest in arctic it's areas of strategic importance. russia is quite active economically and in other aspects. in the arctic of 9 cities with population above, 100000 people seeks are in russia. we have 2600000 people there and a lot of economy in the arctic. so we have a lot of energy produced in arctic. we have the key strategic materials such as

cobalt platinum, nico, more than half of that, actually produced a buffer arctic circle boeing permafrost, and melting ice, or suddenly making mining or minerals in the arctic economically viable. and the arctic ocean, once considered on crossable, could soon become one of the world's most important trade routes. if russia as its way geographically the way from shanghai to rotterdam is 40 percent shorter, way up north. it's not easier at the time. however, we see that the ice space, the ice areas are reducing the ne passage from china to europe is 6000 kilometers shorter than the passage through the indian ocean and the suez canal. and for the most part, it runs along rushing waters. so now she,

that bus to 100000000 tons throughput over know that she wrote 100000000 tons make it into a legitimate global transport route. we have arrived and pavek the northern most city in russia, a good 5 and a half 1000 kilometers from moscow. outside its bitter cold. so eager is cutting up a reindeer in his bath tub. he belongs to the 2 g, a nomadic indigenous people who have roamed the north east, russia for over 2000 years. as a city dweller, he's a funeral director and tourist guide. but sometimes he still misses life in the tundra. this loan crew, sunny is built in nature. you live with your family and the reindeer whole. so you see the sun and the moon and contemplate of warranty in the city. the television causes stress or smart does he see what is happening in the world? and it can frighten us. it makes us anxious or for when you come forth,

man schusters in the tundra. you don't get any of that when you just live in your own little wealth, meet. if we don't go woof swims for it. oh oh, he's held on to a bit of his old life with the dogs and a few reindeer. it's his connection to another ancient world war and although life in the city is more comfortable, there are always problems with the energy supply. another drawback is pollution from the coal fired power plant. love will. yes, gurgling. but he now has high hopes for the ship that has recently been mortally down in the harbor through really at the what you will mushroom loma yet will move storm. with the arrival of the partis, i hope that people here will no longer have such problems with because of partis, we even have electric heating in this district. now in look for a manager, what neighborhood jaylish to where i would like every town in ot,

you caught co province and all the residents of beverly to enjoy this comfort delaney. these conveniences surgically previous pottis' is the abbreviation for the world's 1st floating nuclear power plant. the academic mo, manasseh. on an organized press tour, the russian government proudly presents us with one of the central building blocks of its arctic strategy. floating nuclear power plants, which are to reliably supply mining companies, small port cities and military bases with energy along the arctic coast. it when they get here, we have the steam turbines, from the kalu good turbine plants and the generated from seal over me machine. oh, it was in a me, a floating nuclear power plant, provides enough electricity for a city of 100000 inhabitants. they brought it to table for more floating nuclear power plants are currently plant or under construction

eager hopes. they will help develop his homeland, bringing more ships and tourists. but he's not quite comfortable with the ship in the harbor below. back up to a store to have them come here. sonya mosca is kirkwood, the right. the thought makes me a little queasy monsieur. this is the world's fast floating nuclear power plant. up in my firm and it's right on our doorstep. if not the what, what happens to us if something goes wrong with it now, but yet after the end of the cold war, the arctic went temporarily quiet. many brushes northern, most settlements were more or less left to their own devices, but now russian influence is back with a vengeance. ah, russia is establishing itself as a major player in the arctic and leaves little doubt about its readiness to defend its claim against any challenger. but when

the russian military began simulating the occupation of arctic islands under extreme conditions and the winter of 2020, it's neighbors. understandably got nervous, especially canada and norway. we're back aboard the norwegian frigate tour. hey, a don by small a bought in light of the changes in the arctic, norway is counting on an increased nato presence in the region. norway alone stands no chance, says captain water military, i think it is so important for often away into the night though is throwing their presence in i, inadequate. because we are in a mutual defense agreement. so the end of the re must be prepared to defend the disa area within nato. it's weekly. so, so then we need to work through an exercise to get her to be ready to, to defensive recently, if that is necessary in the future. the next morning we set off for

a strange and unique place. there are no roads, so we have to take his ship from spits, baggins, capital long, your being ah, these are the last days where the sun barely manages to appear over the horizon before being replaced by the long night until spring. ah. visit of the norwegian frigate to east yard will have been carefully documented at the place where visiting says, our captain, i don't think the russians perhaps are too happy about the frigate being up here, but it's the weekend surgery, so it's a bay. it spits berrigan was a distant arctic island belonging to no one, but when large deposits of raw materials were discovered, a dispute arose and the so called small bar treaty from $920.00. the contracting states agreed that spits back would become norwegian territory. in return,

norway had to allow all contracting states to engage in economic activity on the island, and it was stipulated the island must not be used for war purposes. norway and now russia are the only parties that have built major settlements on spits, begun the norwegian long. your being at the end of the east fjords is the administrative and tourist center of the archipelago. after a 2 hour bus ride, barents borg appears in front of us. we have arrived in a place that seems stuck in time. everything smells and feels as if the soviet union would still exist and hadn't fallen more than 30 years ago. our goal is communism a friendly reminder in the form of public art. baron's board is an arctic outpost

for russia. a mining settlement on norwegian territory we've arranged to meet with an inhabitant of the building overlooking the town from the hillside. sergei goose chin personally opens the door for he is the russian consul general here, representing the interests of russia and the workers and barons bork to norway. he happily shows us his pride and joy in the entrance hall with plants you wouldn't find anywhere else in the arctic. ah, the building was constructed in soviet era palm back in the eighty's. and there are many reminders of that time. yes, this is all my reception cool. and the so meant ga, the gop it over russian pastries. we asked the console why there is

a consulate here to begin with in what feels like the end of the world on one of the planets most desolate islands. and so we had a lot of russian and soviet minus coming here and working in a very harsh conditions where people worked and died here. so we can say that these blood and sweat from the russians and not on the russians, ukrainians, also, and 1000 nations. it john search is berrigan into something which has, has become a part of russian history. 370 people still live in barons for today. but to us, the miners settlement seems more like a ghost town. many houses are dilapidated and the place is full of quiet reminders of a brighter past. a place which seems to be moving backwards into the future. as if at the push of a button, the coal mine which is said to operate 247 all year round,

only begins to rumble. when we set up our cameras. it's hard to imagine that money can still be made from coal mining. here today. in our conversation with the console, he hints at the fact that for russia, it was probably never only about coal mining here on spits back and, and that it still isn't. rational presence here is important for us in the context of a peaceful act arctic. because if we go, if we live, there could be a little then who would come and substitute us. we never know it could be some natal country, though. there will be no military activity, but the presence of another native country here would be very disturbing for us. we ask him, what would happen if the norwegians invited their nato allies, for example, the us to visit. of course they, they, they,

they could invite american vessels, but we will consider it as a rather big relational dispute or the treaty. and we will protest it. and we will also have the right to invite our own nose and fleet muscles here. it almost sounds like a threat and that russia will withdraw from barents borg and from the norwegian archipelago of spits back and altogether is out of the question. we don't know what will be going on here any more. when we leave, i can mention that this cons burke, small sub set, the light complex is providing satellite information to united states military. and it's a well known fact. it can be used to contempt submarines, american submarines. so we don't know what will be going on. we

won't have the stability of monitoring the situation if we go. so that's why it's important for us me as we leave balance board behind, we are reminded that the situation here in the arctic is much more complex than this harsh and lonely world would suggest. back in long your be and we are on our way to the place the russian console suspects of working for the us military. a narrow icy road takes us up to a plateau. at the top, a blizzard is sweeping through a compound that looks like something out of a james bond movie. it's the largest satellite ground station in the world. me. and we are meeting the head of the station, my esteem ex dead, and would like to know why it was built in this cold in hospitable place. these

satellites are going around the globes or around them. so the south north pole and the earth is moving. you have an antenna up here, you can down the de communicate to that satellite every time it's process over she shows us the control room around the clock all year round. a steady stream of data is gathered. here we have a one and if the system were to fail, says my esteem, nor it would have a global effect. if all of this would go down, you might not have their, the weather data at all from here. which means that when it comes to planning routes for airplanes, for, for shapes, it would be

a big challenge when it comes to navigation, data gps, that kind of data is also coming from satellites taking down here and for communication. of course, if you take down the station, of course it will be a challenge. so the word will be in trouble if this yes, it will be in many, many areas that will jo wouldn't notify the, the consequences. the world has become addicted to data with a host of gps devices, smartphones and other gadgets. many of these high resolution recordings are also used for observation. for example, to detect illegal oil spills. and from here, images and data are passed on to the relevant authorities. another example is illegal fisheries, which is use anyway, the same way. you send the report to the local authorities and they can go out and actually, you know, take action. and this is being done. this is said, this is how they can stop their legal fisheries. there are $125.00 antennas of all

sizes on the plateau and more or added all the time. my esteem wants to show us one of the antenna systems from the inside. with the blizzard picking up and temperatures of 25 degrees below 0, we are happy to go back inside. then suddenly, the big dish begins moving. this is the, i love me, this fish and with which is tracking one of the sentinels satellite it in goes around the earth 14 times a day. and it takes around 15 minutes from one path to cover, which means it takes one and a half hour for the satellite to go round the earth one time. we ask her what is being downloaded right now. it could be either optical images,

which are the image as you see, everything if his save his cloud, sorry. if it's, you know, you develop your face or whatever on the radar images which cease through the clouds. you can see a lot more details than the optical, even if it's the darkness. nothing escapes the eyes in space. nasa in america and isa in europe get data about the arctic from spits berrigan. but also private companies like iridium. the facility is operated in a joint venture between the norwegian government and the norwegian weapons manufacturer, conch speck. we asked maya stina about the russian consoles accusation that her facility works for the u. s. military. you know, everyone wants a good story and if you see something that looked like james bond, it has to do with the military at the picking. but the thing is that we're yet because of the small but treaty, we are not too large to,

to build any installation which is dedicated for military use up year. and we are either not allowed to take down and a date there which is dedicated from a military satellite. we say good bye. and the howling wind, fascinated and puzzled by this place, that is so isolated from the rest of the world, and yet knows everything about it. producing data from around the globe without which our modern life would be unimaginable. we've traveled around the arctic through a world that is about to go from white to blue, a world that is changing rapidly and in which there is a lot of mistrust and mutual surveillance going on. the future of humanity will be decided here in this place that has above all, humbled us by the forces and beauty of its nature. ah

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