that was associated with the moscow church and now you know, we have the ukranian orthodox church taking over there and, and nording us, others in ukrainians. so deeply symbolic, symbolic, indeed that is our sonia found a car in keys. many, many thanks, sonia. we're going to end it there for now. our documentary series is next examining the climate implications of the degradation of the force that stretches across russia. a michael ocho in berlin for me and the rest of the team. here we really enjoy your company departure into the unknown. to day. this means flying to a foreign planet. in the 16th century, it meant being a captain and setting sail to discover a route. magellan journey around the world. starts january

19th on d, w. ah. the tiger, a massive ecosystem home to many species of animals and plants. it's the neurologist . conf. forrest forrest on earth. does this ios, i see. this is a huge region, a huge forest. the 1st time you take a look at it, everything looks the same. then you walk a few meters and you think you're seeing something new all over again. oh, by the taiga is vital to the survival of the planets climate to see their vault this siberian forest acts as a lung for the earth that it but the russian tiger is in danger. oil spills clear, cutting strip mining and fires a,

taking their toll on this unique habitat. one of the most important ecosystems on earth is in peril. the tissue, the destruction is real and there are already some sections of the tiger that have basically collapses. some of oh good kids ah, a dense, impenetrable forest. an almost mythical concept in russian coca cola space, the vast expanses of forest gifts, the earth, it's green color. but how long will this last i on the tiger rushes green loan in distress. ah, the anger ah, a river of great beauty around 1800 kilometers long. it cuts across the russian tiger. it's banks aligned with pine and locked trees.

ah, this is the home of demetrius le, budget of the hunter and filmmaking. those almost every bend in the river that begins its life in lake by kyle. for dimitry, the lake has something of a mystical quality, tear it apples to music. what will go on your bill? villages? i'm originally a biologist. and in biology there's a good term habitat, it's everything the place where something lives at the place that provides sustenance and a place from which you draw energy brought to my people a place without which you have no home or mr. because dorothy boss to bill de la mancha rosena michael lecture store jim suitable for the most to show that by cow this human habitat has its own character that you can really feel. i'm the worst

goddess, every one who lives here can confirm it to what effect on you, if you don't take in its personality, it's character and submit to it. you're long. you talk irish circle. i missed him when you church during the bullshit. dmitri believes in the power of nature, he still drinks the water here, but his paradise is in danger. especially because of the many tourists who come to lake by carland leave their garbage behind. dmitri fears for the future. yeah, good, because a lot now. i'm like a wild animal is idiot. when the city spreads out, which animals move further away from the streets from the noise, the music, the racket, new. so i'm the same way yellow. that means the more tourism there is around like by called the farther north. i go to feel my own project listening much. we break from last year in the tiger,

dmitri lives both with and from nature. as a blogger, he documented the changes in his habitat. he wants to help protect this unique ecosystem ah lake. by carl is the blue heart of the tiger. it is so large that it can be easily seen from space at 636 kilometers long. 80 kilometers, white and 1640 meters deep. by volume. it is the largest fresh water lake on earth. ah, we're enlist, fee, unkind, 70 kilometers, se if you could. and directly on the by kyle, the holy lake of the russians formed millions of years ago. the lake has long been isolated in far away siberia. it was not until rail roads and aviation were

developed. that it became accessible to many, from tourists, to scientists. environmental problems feel like they're far away here, almost undisturbed. the biodiversity here is unmatched at this latitudes. ah, that a fussy knows, all the fascination of lake by call is of course it's beauty is on it, but also how it's always changing fee id to pay on the lie till the season said it changes yala is the spectacle of incredible. beautiful or dead is one i know, globally for shewn height, all hone island on lake by kind. the rock formations considered one of the top sites in the region. but this beauty comes at

a price. tourists constantly leaves their garbage behind. activists from the foundation give the planet life help clean up the worst defected spots. but the thing that i thought aim was bits at the, the trampled soil, the trash on the shores getting into the water and was with the cheapest. which nav ward that could even the sewage at ending up in the lation of war there. ah, these are the main factors, hemoglobin and by sincere, these things are changing to landscape that owns touch. now would then i'll give them, oh, sorry. for decades this factory was the most serious pollution lake by kyle, the by koski pulp and paper m. l 1st opened in 1966 because the cellulose was the cent show for russian missile construction. the plant was

allowed to ignore environmental regulations for decades. hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of toxic waste water flowed into the lake. on top of that, tons of toxic lignin smudge accumulated over the decades. the plants closed in 2013, but the toxic sludge has remained the abs if hello, been ordered to several regions on earth are in danger. and lake by call is one of the i think, or it's an really incomprehensible that these valuable natural assets. these lands that are worth protecting, on really being protected niche to be efficient leg by carl is a paradise under threats. russia promised to act wild pu tins. government continues to rely on coal, oil,

and gas extraction. it also wants to score ecological points and has drawn up a national program by the end of $224190.00 illegal landfills. the to be closed down and clean dump. hazardous waste is to be removed from $75.00 sites and 7 new waste processing and disposal centers ought to be belts ah, beauty nose environmental policy is popular, especially with russia's use on state television. he professes his support for international climate agreements because we were pol name here. visitors took up what we are honoring all the commitments we made under international agreements, including the paris agreement, as well as for the full that there was the kyoto protocol,

which we took part in the such from the city of may, we have made serious commitments that do not only match, but even surpassed the european union in terms of emission reductions. i'll be almost near universal doesn't know yet, so huge expenses, skeptical that such words will be acted upon. putin makes no mention of the endangered tiger. the world's 3rd largest coal exporter, russia, so says over half of its coal from the coast bath, 3, a nature has had to make way for coal mines here for decades. and, and alimony em are also produced in the cos bass. for decades, the emission of pollutants wasn't even measured. ah, we meet alexei cheese p a cough who belongs to the shows. these indigenous people

have traditionally had a special relationship with nature. together with anton lemon to yes, from the environmental protection group. eco defense. alexei will show us just how far the destruction of the environment has already progressed. ah, alexei leads us to a river. the shores have been hunting here for centuries, he explains. but since coal mining began in the area, there has been less and less to hunt. mm. the water quality has also changed dramatically. alexei shows us a canal that directly dumps wastewater into the river for his people. this is a sin against creation. mm. the

crescent. yes, miss, thank this is just my whole life i have haunted and fish in the very places where the mining is now taking place. since the mining started, this is impossible. any more your the animals have disappeared near the fish in the river a dead before the forests are being cleared on it for him are all in all strip mining means the destruction of absolutely everything alive in the area of the us, burnished irony, absolute left. she was wrong, so you alexei shows us how the coal mining has affected things after just a few centimeters. his hand is no longer visible matter, but he and the water here used to be crystal clear. and i feel sad as rios let it go to glow or when the mining started, the water turned black from the call. yes,

live near i insure magneer blue. in the old days you could see every stone, every grain of sand procedure. now when you dip your head into the river, 10 to 15 centimeters in, he can't see it anymore. keep your last different jamie, for all that in your unit. this is what strip mining does the core of li, anya has any other mom, but she more at the place where you live with them. why is that like this up? because in my opinion, absolutely no environmental protection measures are being observed. or as any of them yes, the blue lights the tiger, the world's largest. conf. forrest forrest. this area about 40 times larger than germany, supplies the planet with oxygen ah, stretching from scandinavia all the way across canada. a large part of it lies in russia. ah. indigenous peoples,

like the shows have lived for centuries in the russian tiger as hunters together with nature to day, their homeland is in danger. alexei shows us how close the coal mining has come to the shores forest. seemingly out of nowhere, the tiger turns into a lunar landscape. and the forest has turned into a messy patchwork. the machines tearing into the landscape more and more is being mined in russia, from around 260000000 tons in 200-2400 1000000 tons in 2021. the figure is expected to continue climbing higher and higher. they says in direct conflict with pu tins, ecological promises. oh

ah. so the corporations and only got involved, this is huge business bumps for the indigenous population. it spells disaster. oh, they're in chest, so hardly hygiene far away. moscow left shorts of a boat that i've my zim alara. marcial. a look for the shows. this is our home lead . it is a pot of our being all a check when people are torn away from the ancestral land and him and thrown somewhere else. it's like their words being torn away, but incipient, a boy corn you how long alexei and his people will be able to live in the region is uncertain. entire villages have already fallen victim to coal extraction. a shoe village once stood right here on this snack cape. ah,

we continue to key, said he of sc a small town in the cas bass region. he had the pollution cannot be ignored. a truck is spreading coal dust all over the landscape. he said he of sc is a cold town with mines and factories. a new large co facility is in the works. more than 90000 people live here. ah, environmentalists say the coal industry has taken the city hostage. even the elementary schools spreads the message, happiness and the future lie in coal, mining the dangers of course and disgust. ah aah! anton, on the other hand, talks about the consequences. something that's quite risky and a place where environmental activists sometimes end up in prison.

and the so some of these are coma do from store for i see excused on but this is absolutely illegal. normative, according to russian regulations, the distance between strip mines and residential buildings should be at least 1000 meters and oscar. however, this regulation is not followed anywhere in the course boss, if, and especially not here in kill yoga here. and there are 90000 people living here. either they all have to be relocated, or the coal mining has to stall that are both strip mining in the chris bass, a $1000000000.00 business for the states and the operating company. it's the areas, largest employer, but it comes to great cost to the house of those living there. oh city and you on average, no less than $3000000000.00 tons of waste material accumulate on such dumps in the kim yet over region, year after year. which is a big problem,

because these dumps create toxic dust that damages the body of any one who inhales this dust can become seriously ill. damage to the lungs is typically as well as a reduction in immunity which leads to tuberculosis and even cancers. because of when one together with other environmental organisations and tones group eco defense published to study in 2021 on the health impact of coal mining on the region cold raced to the bottom. life expectancy and the cool bass smart here in blue has been well below the russian average. for years. respiratory illnesses are becoming more and more common. the study shows that people in the cust bass get sick more often and die younger than in the rest of russia. no official figures on this were made available to us. nina grigory f and i lived with her husband on the edge of

a coal mine. the family has spent almost their entire lives on the farm here. the coldest in particular has made things difficult. on the roof dock gray deposit saw evidence of the nearby strip mine was facing. the air has changed this. we're constantly breathing in the dust. in the past, when there wasn't enough water for our livestock in winter, we thought the snow and gave it to them to drink it. it will not to day that's no longer possible. that water is just coal and dirt. now the snow is dirty and black and they are. these are photos showing the toxic black snow. if the cas best region, even in summer everything is covered in soot, it clings to the locals, her clothes and hands needed to you see if they i've been picking grass for the rabbits. yeah. what if the grass were clean? what my hands look like, this cheese fit, cough citizens good and this is relatively clean corner. so.

oh, it's not the only change the mining has brought about, nina explains. she used to be able to catch fish with her apron in the small stream next to the house. that was a long time ago. to day, the water is black ah, that ball from what on call it fish. brown. coal mining actually destroys delays of the surface on denzil fan, the reversible damage has been done. i'd in as it cannot be repaired and the man of 50, not even over many centuries an issue because the vegetation takes thousands of years to develop with your new buy yet tower than the yahoo, that 1000. and because the extractable results is underneath the soil of the tiger, a rush is most important source of income. besides coal,

there also oil deposits in the tiger. in 2020 russia was the world's 2nd largest oil exporter with just over 11 percent market share. oil production is a particular threat to the tiger. many factories are old and outdated. according to environmentalists, there are around 20000 oil spills the year, like this one in may 2021. an accident in the comi republic, in north western russia coast around a 100 tons of oil to be spelled. but no, this was the greenpeace thanks. of addition, when we came to the site of the latest lake in comb equal these, here is the cova river. you wouldn't, and this is the location of the oil spill. it happened right here in the work as a just standing then what are they doing? got the oil is flowing out of the pipeline or they just wash it into the river with

the pressure washin. you're cool. ah monica ross, that was, we've accompanied journalists from norway in germany several times to while fields in siberia, in the taiga, and it was a horrifying experience. then it was very shocking for them. but when we tell them that russia spills $1000000.00 tons of oil every year, they can't believe it. i knew what the needed it. green pace regularly publishes alarming pictures of pollution in the taiga. russia has some of the largest oil reserves in the world. near the siberian city of norris, another serious disaster occurred in june 202020000 tons of diesel fuel spilled into the em by my i river the pallet chance

operator failed to report the incidence months. the government land debate on line russia's president was furious with the shit is one mature, which only after 2 days did we hear about the emergency through social media? are you out of your mind? so why? yes, this is natalie. these incidents endanger a unique bio tope home to special animals like bass and some parts the refuge to the endangered siberian tiger. ah, this is also the habitats of eurasian links and mace. ah, the tiger is doomed by its whilst of mineral resources in the ranking of the most

natural results rich countries. russia comes 1st for diamonds, natural gas, and brown coal with 59 percent, 24 percent, and 30 percent respectively of the world's deposits. rushes timber industry is also booming. ah, here in yes. so see bisque, large quantities of timber are headed for the wild market. surrounded by dense tiger forests. yes. so c bisque is considered the capital of russia's timber industry. dozens of sol mills produce up to 3000000 cubic meters of timber here every year. that's around 75000000 pallets. the demand for wood in particular, has grown enormously in recent years. it's a $1000000000.00 business ah

many previously untouched forest areas and now being targeted by big timber companies. for example, those in the north west of russia, in the ohio risk or blast blown protected by its distance from large cities and ports. ah, greenpeace video footage shows disastrous developments in many places in the tiger . large and t suede of land eaten away from the landscape being irretrievably destroyed. for i see it was additional in russia clear cutting is allowed or if that is that's dozens of heck to is here of to severe. imagine this was berlin and areas, the size of whole neighborhoods were being deforested, wired so you would have a board if you see this area from space, it's just one be clear cut yet. in fact, there are many of them in a som dealer equal moga. some locals, however,

a fighting back the village of upon us we see signs of protest. the cooper bus ah homeland, not a feeding trough for oligarchs. putin stops the cold chaos in the cool bass environmental activist until it puts up a post a warning against further deforestation. in upon us, locals activity fight against nearby mining operations. through anton, we meet nikolai montane cough he is an environmental inspector for the municipality of upon us. why nikolai takes us to a sly cape one. it looks as if the trees are being burnt here from underground.

nikolai meshes the pollutants and documents the results. oh dear, i'm your vol, style, blah blah blah blah blah. you see the trees jewelled, an image they start growing. i don't know why then the ground beneath them starts burning and they start to die, jack, and see what you want. last year these trees were still alive. in this part, you can see gradually how the fires spreads under round and the trees burn and fall down. this is not and above ground fire is it's all happening underground. it is impossible to register all the emissions caused by fires here on the dom furniture memorial. there are probably very, very large amounts of just senior harmful compounds from the cockburn's showed about the measurements show 40 different types of gas each and by up clark. i view among the gases emitted a carbon monoxide, hydrogen, hydrogen, so fight, and so for dioxide,

that's on top of the search and other particles that spread over large areas of the taiga. the environmental inspector, mourns of the consequences that we'll get through. this is what happens when the slag hayden weather's for, for the dust blows off the surface and spreads to the surrounding area. settling on villages allows you sufficiently, dust is so fine that new marconi osis or black long has become the miners, occupational hazard, the pool. all this gets into the bodies of people and animals with harmful consequences on health for watch and on. the environment was the orient ah, was osha, sibyl, underground coal fires are a worldwide phenomenon. they can occur in coal stores or in natural deposits,

often via spontaneous combustion. the ground here in qu, spouse can heat up to more than a 170 degrees celsius. in places extinguishing the fire over these large areas would be time consuming and expensive. companies therefore often decide to do nothing. nikolai does a little experiment to show us how hot the ground can get. he cracks and again to a pan and sit, sit down on the rocky ground of the cy came after seconds. the egg is sizzling. but what may look helpful to campos is actually a great danger to humans and nature. why is nobody doing anything about ah genuine. what when i look what was such repugnant also, but i cannot answer that question for one simple reason not to live up because that's a question for the government. we think i myself, am also interested in why the government is protecting residence and the thinking

of social decidedly about the future and what it could bring. oh, so i can't tell you, with an extra young model, my thoughts reach it for the local sli. capes of the worst part of coal mining, it's estimated that in the cam your of a region alone, around 3000000000 tons of waste material produced annually. for every ton of coal, 10 tons of waste produced the destruction of whole swathes of land. and of course, the devastating release of seo to contribute to the acceleration of climate change . russia's government and energy companies prefer not to talk about this. and critical inquiries are unwelcome. the local authorities are alarmed by our research. a whole convoy of observers follows us wherever we go, the message we have you in our sites

that dinner a large contingent of officials approach us at the restaurant. they forbid else from filming further, he commitment to the environmental cause can be dangerous in russia. several environmentalists had to leave the country. ah, alexandra carol, eva from callin garage, has applied for asylum in germany, and now lives interested in 2019 fife. criminal charges were brought against the environmental activist who faces 2 years in prison, ah vests in russia of the state, which apparently feels threatened by such people to day is doing everything it can

to prevent it were when the shots new laws are being passed. well no punishments are being toughened. oh because that means you risk several years in prison just for taking part in a rally level, which is very miscellaneous difficult because defense is one of the oldest environmental ngo's in russia in colon ingram. it was able to prevent the construction of a new nuclear power plant in the correspond, stotts of a new coal mine. the results, criminal litigation, new members of ico defense are now considered enemy agents. ah, because i shufa wouldn't have given you the voice from time to time. ego defense manages to get state decisions overturned and i think that makes governments equity angry sta ian by 0 one you is clear that the authorities want to punish us. close

us down. you dissolve the organization and sweep us away. heaviest though we no longer exist at home of the law on foreign agencies was passed in russia in 2014, comfortable. but it's a repressive law designed to shut the mouths of the most well known and successful organizations. viscado in his utsa our research continues in the north said the christmas region here lies the homeland of another indigenous people. we meet vasily to the chef, one of the approximately 3000 tilly woods, who have lived in the tiger for centuries. basine is a farmer and horse brita, following the tradition of his people was are we a nomadic escape? um cattle great. is it it closes our our main helpers. yeah. and horse made is the national dish for us to let you know that you knew of granular the small no magic

people were displaced also by mining till you'd settlements surrounded or separated from each other by the pits of the strip mines. the ceiling wants to show us another part of his postulant which can only be accessed through the site of the energy company which brought up this land. for vasily, this is difficult to back. it's roy won't go up to paula. though mushrooms feel the way back there are our lance. there is our land who you're my private property and you conscious go to these fields, look around or tend to them, so you have to get a pass for get commission before the gods open up the barrier. that's a violation of human rights, is the more luxury burtchel on the horizon, we see the dust cloud from a to nation in the strip mine ah,

shortly after security gods in uniforms. from the coal company block our journey onwards. wanting to prevent us from documenting the destruction of the postulates, ah, there are long negotiations, phone calls to higher authorities. ah, we also didn't from filming father with showing the ruthless exploitation of facility grazing lands is therefore not possible. ah, you either go further to these conflict situations happen all the time. well not, i don't blame these gog stay a just doing their job. the problem is that we didn't violate any things with us. we didn't drive in behind the gods. we drove where everybody drives it. people need to know where the coal is. mind,

how it is mind on what lad and who lives in these areas. this is where the indigenous people of russia live relevant. your daughter, brooklyn, or laura bush in the cd takes us to his farm. at 1st glance, it's idiolect, but it's just a stone's throw away lies a large sli cape. in many places, the mining leaves nothing behind, but a devastated landscape. the prospect song good for the telly youths, the ancient people of southern siberia, risk losing their homeland and culture forever. after the founding of the soviet union, in 1922 nomadic peoples light, the tele, it's was seen by the new rulers as an obstacle to the progress of communism. they were forced to settle down and work in collect som, so factories ah,

their ancient shaminy stick. religion was officially bans today. the tele, it's no longer threatened by socialist coercion, but instead by the force of capitalists driven environmental destruction. ah, what effect does the tiger by him have on the planet and its inhabitants? since 2006 and international climate research station operated by the max planck institute and gina gemini, has been trying to find out. the main question is, to what extent can large forest areas slow down the rise of c o 2. according to professor martin hyman's team the siberian forests, a particularly good at this. they function as highly effective carbon sinks. if clinton households are may shown fresh trim, just get out if you tie got from our measurements. we determined that the earth's

tiger regions, especially in canada and in siberia, of the most important atmospheric carbon sinks in the world. in this sense flies, they play an important role in climate change, hard to if they didn't exist, the rise in temperature would be even more dramatic, launched it the temper or even so global warming is already having serious consequences. forest fires and more and more frequent, such as this one from may 2021 in the, to me, an region of western siberia. $60000.00 tech has a burning nasa satellites document the scale of the fires. this is an image from the 8th of august 2021 enormous areas of land are in james ah, in siberia,

the flyers thought the permafrost soil releasing methane gas into the atmosphere. often all it takes is a lightning strike to start a wild fire. ah, at the unshared vega institute in potsdam gemini, experts like like a hat shoe analysis, climate change and its consequences. hat shoe focuses in particular on the taiga and its annual, some of fires to piece of isaac cotton. he typically, especially in these large forest. you would have these ground fires and the trees actually survived. they sprouted again the following year away. but now you see a lot of areas that have burned so hot at such high temperatures, that the trees of die to go up before was and ah, in siberia, conus

a trees dominate the landscape. there are 2600000 square kilometers of launch forest alone. experts have found out that for 20000 years, there's been an interaction here between the permafrost soil which traps greenhouse gases and the launch. this is significant for the climate economy. as isaac a home country of pam awfullest britain boxes, the large is the only tree that can grow on permafrost soils in permafrost. soil thaws 10, sometimes 20 or 30 centimeters in the summer, middle, that is not very much my and such a huge tree. 30 to 40 meters high, has to establish its routes. and the large can do that until like which creates an interesting interaction. when it grows out, it's canopy off. it insulates the soil, and so he, so he, so that he doesn't penetrate into little golden thing. oh,

when this natural shielding is missing, the consequences can be felt like the butter geico crater in the northeast in siberian taiga. it's the largest known depression caused by climate change. the crater is about one kilometer long and a 100 meters deep. after clearing the forest as a result of road construction, the shielding effect is lost and the permafrost thaws. ah, who gets to say, where are the steps at the moment in the moonlight in mongolia his were historically, there were large forests after that on the step was filled with large forests on permafrost. hm. and today they're gone. they're just a typical step landscape that looks and but one that could well be what happens in eastern siberia kind of whole areas of land already irreversibly. last

one example is lake cut, a chai in the chill. yeah. been screeching for decades. it was a lethal radioactive dump, fed with waste by a nearby nuclear weapons factory to give some form of protection to humans and nature. the lake was filled with concrete and covered. yet another example, if the destruction of the tiger ecosystem, o one deter school is chaos, the destruction is real. and there are already some sections of the tiger that have basically collapsed. they have hardly any biodiversity left and the now generators don't 0 to the all from phil crane. 50 with why gordon's in the taiga, fascinating, and seemingly infinite. but that's a deception. humans are on the brink of destroying the balance in this vast ecosystem for ever. through greed for resources, toxic waste,

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