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dominance. good is still the head with d. w. business beyond hulu. ah, we are crossing the arctic view. have ever seen it like this? it's a 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 important. triple. 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 aka lou on

the other boat is his sister, met with her son, brian and husband aga. we want to visit the whalers, summer camp, located a good 250 kilometers from the fjords mount. 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 corps 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 good pulls up and brian grabs are both noise, but elaina tells us not to worry. talking. oh, it gets on one

with we continue 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 lew 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 you, of course of the ice cervical back here and have a campsite here of a new been head. behold in tuba. never before

sir. yes it says 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 kill a ways, ah, the croaking from fish, because they eat seals, now is, and although with, with, and they can affect them coming into the shelf. if they get an issue, it was the 1st time the hunt is caught, kill away and something else has changed in the fuel. for the 1st time, ever fisherman caught caught and salmon new

a few months. that law practice today with you. not even nobody had ever caught them in 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 fern. for hours we continue through choppy, sees with temperatures now around 15 degrees below 0. as we approach 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 in 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 must oc spur neatly binky will into a rice shoe with tissue normally. normally we do in

our tradition of food i. we can group to same meet as must see you on the 50 waters and 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,

jumping 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 good and 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. once again, we are baffled by the numbers on the thermometer sick plastic. his decrease is that normal this time will be, you know, about winston. uncle lou says that fluctuations of 16 degrees during winter is not unheard of here. but it's becoming much more frequent in recent years . the summer's have also changed says elaina. during the summer it rained at lots, possibly almost on some, but be had some my stays with ha, hot and sunny. read this. but it's more rainy than usual.

but since the storm has brought us this warm, we decide to take advantage by heading even further into the fuel. the ice that aka lu had to break through yesterday has completely melted away in front of the camp. for elaina, this will be a day to remember me the oh, in the bright sunshine and spring like temperatures, we glide along the glassy waters of the fjord. ready between fairy tale like creatures sculpted by the elements in ice from millennia of the past.

ready mm mm mm i told my mom before we had district i supposed to say to here. and since we were a child, my brother had always that day here because his birthday is in august. no, it's my 1st day in the field in october. first. it's very funny. i was to financially was we are all dazzled by the sheer beauty of nature and spell bound by all. it's fantastic shapes. me only the low drip from melting

icebergs for boats the desert are about to befall this wonderland with we are only pulled back to reality by the thick ice forming around the boat. suddenly there is no way phone with oxblue and elaina 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 essay skipper in january 2028 than mac. that

job woman have like nursing in fin, taste, and you know, working with kids is to, boy, i want to be a lot of all lumen and young girls. this will and encourage them to do what they want knocked in, dead pushes. should this society told them to feed in 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 anne 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. 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 beer on the wrong see 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 our kaluan auger 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 do, can see this is sandstone and it comes in the bubble off of your. it goes out. is that something that is something that's because often the lag, a flu. we haven't gotten saw snow as we normally have allowed. a storm is coming from you like then it takes all the grandma who said office. no, i mean just we want to get going before the sandstorm ruins both our travel plans and our plane, pg. but when deer tries to forward our flight plan through the air traffic control, there's another surprise. the internet is dead. the saw in defense. it's there,

i guess it's that or power, satellite oh here, around 2 to 50 in the afternoon every day. and then in the next hour or 2, 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. ah, and then there is this not entirely risk free flight over the north atlantic in a single engine propeller plane? ah, if we were to go into the water, we went with land to get the width of the cigarette. just cropped actually has a very low speed for that perspective,

which land and basically swim at the water. the cabin is 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 rough with us where we can all cuddled up. and if we go fishing for low 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, tor. hey, i left fort in terms of 3 days ago, sailing across the rough barents sea to our meeting point and east yard on spits berrigan island. no later, the russian foreign ministry will criticize this visit by tor. hey, our dogs claiming its part of a clandestine plan 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 is 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 a multi purpose frigates, so we can monitor our all activity in the air at the surface under this office as well. we are doings that's roles looking for submarines. so regularly we have for the last years to see and i'm increased rush and activity. they are also, i thing more often in i'm sort of out in the regions so more sort of west and south along which coasts. in recent years norway has been sending its

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 changing so even though it's the an increased activity, it is still a kind of an uncontested area that'll change in the future. so when the ice, the smoke thing and the sea roasts become more accessible, we will see even more activity ally, it's very important for us to, to be ready to, to understand the death increase and how to handle it. in the future. in norway's capital are slow, we have an appointment with neos, andreas stenson, us, the states intelligence chief. after the end of the cold war, norway kept a low profile in the arctic, not wanting to provoke its big eastern neighbour. but in recent years, the situation has changed. first of all,

the new doctrine that they called active defense where they used a military more active also in peace to single political intent to. and if they disagree with something that seems very clearly, they demonstrate capabilities. so they deploy further to the west, we've seen them down to the g u turn gap several times. so that is one more than 12 months. the other one is the more than i single dare capabilities where the introduction of long range missiles and in modernizing all their command and control apparatus which makes it possible to be a lot more agile, react, falster to political necessity is or opportunities. and so we see it russia as a small of horseman, a lot more agile and more attuned to political development in line with new priorities. russia has 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 me is their increased activity and which is something they are allowed to do. but it seems like the more aggressive and as i said, then we'll address their false so she will get less time, less warning time about what they're using. and when you have more to use platforms and weapon systems, it's hard to really did use and find out what their intentions are. new military bases are being built. an old ones modernize on france, yoseph land and archipelago. neighboring spits back, and a new high tech base was built in 2017 looking like something out of a site. by moving in 2019 an air base was added for russia's nuclear capable,

warplanes me. 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 6 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, kermit frost and melting ice are suddenly making mining for minerals in the arctic, economically viable. and the arctic ocean once considered,

and 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, going up north its lot easier. at the time, however, we see that the ice space, the ice areas are reducing. the north east 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 a long rushing waters. so now she, that bus to 100000000 thorns throughput of the northern, 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 to cheat a nomadic indigenous people who have roamed the north east of 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. since william cru, sullying him is bureau in nature, you live with your family and the reindeer whole soul. you see the sun and the moon, which and contemplate of warranty in the city. the television causes stress or food. we see what is happening in the world, and it can frighten us. it makes us anxious or for when you come forth, matches fish in the tundra. if you don't get any of that, you just live in your own little world media. if we don't go woof swims for it. oh 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, gardening, but he now has high hopes for the ship that has recently been more to the down in the harbor through really at the with your mushroom moment. yet when we saw 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 the for america, what neighborhood jaylish to where i would like every town in ot, you caught co province and all the residence of pavel you to enjoy this comfort delaney. these conveniences surgically previous pottis' is the abbreviation for the world's 1st floating nuclear power plant. the academic 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 gas turbine plans, and the generated from seal over me machine was in a me a floating nuclear power plant, provides enough electricity for a city of 100000 inhabitants. they bought a book for more floating nuclear power plants are currently plant. or under construction igor 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 utmost already had them. can you send you mosca? yes. kirkwood, the right, the thought makes me

a little queasy. so this is the world's finest floating nuclear power plant at the my firm. and it's right on our doorstep. the not the which is what happens to us if something goes wrong with the long but yet after the end of the cold war, the arctic went temporarily quiet. many brushes, northernmost 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, vice balaban 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 delivery. i think it is so important for often away into the night though, as so as throwing their presence in, i think, which is because we are in a mutual defense agreement. so we must be prepared to defend this area within the night that was sweeping. so then we need to train them exercise to get her to be ready to the sensitive regionally thought it's necessary and if you so the next morning we set off for a strange and unique place. there are no roads. so we have to take a ship from spits, baggins, capital long, you're 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 i

visited 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 still a which insurance resort to be it spits back and 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 and would become norwegian territory in return, nor way 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 york is the administrative vent 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. sergey goose chin. personally opens the door. he is the russian consul general here

representing the interests of russia and the workers and barren spork to norway. he happily shows us his pride and joy in the entrance hall with plants you wouldn't find anywhere else. and 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 many ga, the gop. it all over russian pastries. we ask 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 for russian and soviet minus a government here and working in the very harsh conditions or what people worked and died here. so we can say that so the sir,

blood and sweat from the russians and not on the russians, ukrainians, also, and 1000 nations. it john search has been going into something which 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 places 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 would consider it as a rather big lation of the spirit of the treaty. and we were protested 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 in altogether, is out of the question. we don't know what will be going on here any more. when relief, i can mention that this cons burke, salt, salt, set, the light complex is providing satellite information to united states military. and it's a well known fact. and it can be used to contempt submarines, american submarines. so we don't know what will be going on. we won't have this ability 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 icey 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 the cold. so the south north pole. and the earth is moving, you have an antenna,

you can down the day and communicate to that satellite every time it process over she shows us the control room around the clock all year round. a steady stream of data is gathered. here we have one and if the system were to fail says maya stina, 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 ram, 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 many,

many area said will joe would notify that 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 used in a way the same way. you send the report to the local authorities and they can go out and actually in i take action and this is being done. this is saying this is how they can stuck 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, the port in times a day. and it takes around 15 minutes from one path to cover, which means it takes one and half hour for the satellite to go around 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, if you know your develope face or whatever, or 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, kong 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 head to the picnic. but the thing is that we're yet because of the small but treaty, we are not too large to, to build emulation which is dedicated for military use up year. and we are either not allowed to take that, and it ain't 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 in 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 ah

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