it was well obviously we would lose but the point is you can have democracy in china because there is a shared cultural context where we can have democracy in russia there's a shared cultural causes as well in the united states and work by country but when you move try to move across societies and move across value systems i think we're in a different ball game and that's what international affairs are what do you think john i mean and i appreciate everything it's said but i mean a lot of people in the world would say that you know is that the international system is stacked in favor of very well maybe somebody that i'm not in so i didn't think anything new it's certainly the stack it's been reshuffled recently. but you know what's interesting about this talk about democracy and about china and whether or not it's become a democrat because we believe it is you know very different different way is that the western democracies are so dysfunctional these days the western democracy the

parliaments are paralyzed all over the place including the latest examples australia and almost all the represented democracies are including india and japan . so what what's happening to the traditional so-called universal western democracies at the same time that there are other countries struggling for maybe a new a new manifestation of how are you sure that in the end the people right ok i saw we have time here for i want to thank our guest for our discussion here on the politics of recession and thanks to our viewers for watching us here are t. see you next time and remember cross talk rules.

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broadcasting live from the heart of moscow this is our t.v. let's take a look at your headlines for you a key committee on capitol hill approves of the start treaty nuclear arms clearing the way for a full senate vote on ratification but despite being a top priority for the obama administration some republican senators say the treaty will in their plans for a u.s. missile defense system. a chechen man. who is wanted by russia on terror charges is it said to have arrived in poland despite a warning he could face the rest of the sets foot in the country russia wants him on extradited but he's been sheltered by political asylum in britain where the courts have rejected moscow's request. the u.n. is to decide on a russian canadian territorial dispute in the arctic with ownership of the areas in which resources at stake moscow says it has scientific evidence to back its claim.

next we find out what's got more than half a million birds flocking to the south of russia. the folded delta place with a multitude of islands but not a speck of giant land where you just jump into the boat and off you go to wherever you want for centuries this delta was where russians falling for black caviar giant fish can be found yeah boy of the two told man were holding up a catfish part of its tail was half a metre long number of birds here in spring and autumn runs into the millions of this place has a purpose for birds or they're lucky to have these islands you can easily lose your way in this tangle of beautiful plants see how water sparkles on these leaves coming across turtles bathing in the sun they will be a few meters from where you live is not something out of the ordering of the delta

wild is just a few steps away from civilization. and strand is a city in russia south it has a kremlin made of white stone and another symbol of the city is the swoons that live in the pond in the center this one stayed there all the year round most of all the people of astrakhan the proud of the volga river russia's most famous river drains into the caspian sea in the astra and region. from above it looks as though the deep river runs into an obstacle one hundred thirty kilometers from the caspian sea. it's into hundreds of small narrow channels this area is known as the volga delta it's almost a triangle shaped most of its territory covered with water. to go from

bastrop and southward you soon see feels totally missed and moved to. treasure delta fish come here to spoon. fish attract migrating birds. million beds of three hundred species come here the spring and autumn it's the centuries people from all over the russians south that come here to fish and hunt unfortunately that many species perished as a result. more the at that time women like to dress up they have hats with feathers hair and thought this was very much invoke but a heron only has spotted feather is on its head so its thousands of parents were killed in the name of fashion while pelicans were opposed by the million to make ornaments. in the early twentieth century the volga delta was

a desolate place a special expedition that came here from moscow in one nine hundred twelve found no trace of it the swans or pelicans. urgent measures were needed to save the deltas natural environment to the nine hundred seventeen socialist revolution the government decided to create a nature reserve here. at the ball and there was a civil war at the time the country's coffers were empty and the future was unclear that's what the situation was like when they started to create a nature reserve in the balkans out. it's hard to reach the reset for master it's a hundred kilometers through flooded fields and the ferry to the other bank of the volga. there's a fifteen kilometer stretch of dirt road once you've reached the end of it you don't need the car anymore you have to take a boat because there's not much ground from all the way to the caspian sea.

and you reach the boundary of the nature is. everywhere there are signs prohibiting entry and the person found trespassing can be punished by the rules. in all fairness such strict measures produced posted for exults soon after the nature reserve was founded. here with news that we begin with the first one ness were found here and the first terran colonies were discovered in the reserve as well as a boy about that school retains the harry detrick code of subsequent generations the queer gets. on to officially islands of the early spots of drawing down to. the house ranges and dogs with their families. scientists doing research they hit too. early in the morning on the fall of just dimitri bone the raf and ranger are out to beg off set out on an expedition to make a record of the birds in the reserve all right let's go today to that secret

channel to see what's going on there and over there with how high the water is we'll look at the type of marks yes rule check them in. the tiny box in the rituals act as natural measuring use for the stuff. as rangers make the rounds of the reserve they're supposed to see whether the tide box had been washed away is difficult to see though from the boat if they are secure enough. they make the rounds once a month during high season each time they follow the same route. in the fall or just puts down the description of each bird he sees in the notebook. the data is then processed and entered into a fifty year old book chronicling the state of the natural environment. everything is put on record even the first groping over from for example the first

turtle emerging from the water just some date and the first crossed snakes sneaking out of its hideout the first darling the first night the for. swallow the sun when baby birds start to leave their nests is also noted. the white tailed eagle is one of the biggest birds of prey in the astral. of. these birds have a wingspan of up to two in the hof meter. the white tailed he who is the fourth biggest bird in europe birds of the species in the volga tells him mostly feed on fish they either catch the fish themselves or grab them from other birds such as comrades. sometimes they call sheet cormorants by pretending to attack them when you normally they don't go out. but as

soon as they sense danger they drill each down to fish and get out of the way as fast as they can eagles get the prize crowns are their rivals or they too trying to pick up the fish in other words white tailed eagles and crowns live of requirements of work or. white tailed eagles are not as common in any other area of russia as they are in the volga delta. so say one of the hardest habitats for these birds in the world. about two hundred eagle pairs nests in the reserve alone. european come to astrakhan for the expressed desire of watching them in the wilds. of near. a visiting german camera man was so thrilled by doesn't whitetail the eagles flying overhead that he told the driver to hump the car there and then started filming them when i told him that fine white tailed eagles were nothing out

of the ordinary he said that only a few such eagles nested in. all of them in germany had been recorded and certified there were under constant observation. in recent years people with cameras have been exploring the underwater part of the delta. killed this field office of fish biologists and kill it you know as an underwater cameraman in the morning they go to one of the remote channels. and clear ideal conditions fifty. sixty fish species inhabits of all the data including. their famous for their black caviar. is a total ban on fishing in the rest of its employees are only allowed to use fishing

rods even so the local people will recount their interest of fishing tales. that i can show how big it was even if i spread my arms to the limit imagine this tall man hold up a catfish while part of its tail about half a metre long it's on the ground. during high water the fish move to the flood plain to spawn it's here that baby fish scramble out of hardware. receding water takes them back to the river. both fry and fish come here after spawning the warm water stimulates underwater vegetation this is a comfortable place for the young it's like a kindergartner it will. be their own fish and this is a quite a nursery so the cameraman switches his attention to the plants. occurring is fairly strong here it seems this tangle with education services or filter

purifying the water flowing through it. as a result it becomes clear. when i go down there i clearly see that the remote bottom and the seaweed are all covered with mud. even in the summer that clear water makes it possible to see that the seaweed is so thick it looks like a forest. is also fine there. are some of the most beautiful flowers in the delta. what's more here you can see above gradually from the water the interesting thing about water lilies is that they conceal themselves under water during the night and at dawn onto the water surface to bloom again. to little to assist the most famous plants of the delta. a few decades ago the

sacred symbol of the buddhists took up nearly a quarter of a hit. today to occupy twenty nine thousand. what. this is a lotus leaf for morrison it's a boil the water will slide down like mercury in chopped these reddish leafs differ significantly from the others look at how these leaders parco. notices considered a symbol of purity and in lighting meant. disbelief to help people understand the origin of their desires and reefs tiredness sharpens the senses and even provides protection from evil forces. persian in

a last minute lotuses makes you think your version was shot at. the southern most common plants and of all the delta they grow or they were the place have any of the deltas islands are in fact nothing more than a fifth of reeds growing in shallow water. some of them can even grow up to six metres in height. motorboats can't go too far off without damaging its screw propeller. fortunately the warden you know you can easily lose your way in a rethink it it's not like a forest here you can tell where north especially if the skies over cost and the stars are nonphysical and rethink its constraint for many many kilometers from the queue for. the noise of an engine is heard from a far it's there's peace and quiet it signals that there's a trespasser in the area in the range it immediately calls based with the gods.

a few minutes later that finds coaches next to one of the real dominance dimitry there is a net. oh yes i see it. the net is full of fish most likely it was last checked a long time ago. the bulk of the fish it. may have killed them all. they then set the surviving fish free which was one of the kind of fish is it anyway shall we let them go to miter yes sure. the boat continues on its way to more and that's a found there by the ranger called space again hello there there are three minutes here again so shall i remove them right i'm going to do it right away.

empties one of the nets and leaves it in place god's will come here in the evening to ambush the poacher. in the evening while decent parents descend on the area. but it's here has little fear of humans they know from experience that they will not be disturbed while they're in the reserves which is why there are so many. when these head. on a third exists or going to visit them and he in the movie. it's. listless to move it is paradise on earth. good when not for the

military presence which occupies almost juicers me on insta mitchell and overshadows the people's everyday lives. when will all the sound so people could use their land posing with. the edges where their religious struggle monarchy. culture is that so much of it is really made a lot of people carrying up look at the politics of the sept moscow beijing and washington and the rise of the multilateral world. the morning fog envelops the vote at delta or mythologists get up at dawn to get ready to go to a faraway islands to inspect its cormorants clooney. moment

is the most common bird in the delta. the number of cormorants him runs into hundreds of thousands. with uncovered schools of columbus's suture fish the staple food. but head their prey can be found everywhere the delta which is why former insulin to move into sensitive cohen is here. this claim is considered to be a fitting young one it appears only fifty years ago. numbers about fifty thousand mists. thinner and less look like round funnels thirty to forty centimeters in diameter these shallow funnels are made from tree to packed reeds. one trees might be home to schools of nests. on scorching hot days and old birds on the edge of their nests flapping their wings lose a cool it down they also make sure that their hatchlings are kept out of the sun

assume through the baby beds and then how to fly into him. at that time flocks of cormorants are spectacle on a par with a hitchcock movie. cameron says perkins often go to fish to get a political they are less common in the reserve. just a quick they often feed together when a corner of sports are sure to begin circling over it. calm they also want their share. you will be hard pushed to find pelicans in the delta. these very cautious beds nest as far away from people as possible. to see pelicans you would need to enter the area i think. the focus meets the caspian sea . level delta looks like

a large lake the host of islands in it. but it's still part of the volga river here it stretches two hundred kilometers wide. the flood waters right now are about one point four meters deep at other times of the tempters between a meter and one point two meters this is the middle of the volga delta there are a lot of fish here because to the river of there is. thoroughly warmed by the sun there is a wealth of vegetation and a good deal of food for fish and birds down there. back in the nineteen fifties there were one thousand five hundred pelicans nests in the astrakhan reserve. since then that number has dropped to five hundred. it's very difficult to spot a colony of pelicans in the thick reeds. they spend an hour looking for one before

the boat runs into a pelican colony. baby birds hatched here a short time ago. at the. colony was here forty years ago but then it disappeared that it has been grown in the past four years in the beginning there were only five nast's then forty and now we have one hundred chance of. at first glance pelicans look like very clumsy birds they have choking both. short stick legs and their tail is barely visible. less many religions revealed that the sacred animals muslims believe that a pelican brought stands for the construction of mecca and its bill. and in europe the package is a symbol of parents who love pension ties it becomes rich their chests

a people that seeks to feed hungry babies with blood. bullet conspire with each other only for the duration of one season building in recent decades. i first saw i stay look like a pile of garbage twigs. there are two or three baby beds to invest born knowing that they kids. sus starts to grow seven days later after ten weeks they can fly.

but there are only a handful of them are here and we try not to disturb them if we can help it we do keep records of them but we don't do any detailed research. even the gods make a point of not approaching islands with pelicans and nesting in fact the gods live in floating cabins and they visit the ivan delta they stay there for only three days at a time. have you seen many pelicans nicholai there are about a hundred nests here and in grown ups there are some but others are still very young. compared to pelicans there are thousands of swan nests in the delta. in the last century the swan population is rapidly shrinking due to the hunting. sit cannot fly so poachers would take that opportunity to cram them into nets and beat them with sticks. now that catching swarms is prohibited the population has

started to increase. in the fifty s. only five pairs of swan nested in the boulder delta but now their numbers have gone up hundreds of times over us. this one the scene is a symbol of devotion as it was thought that once pet they stay together for knife. as soon as they settle down and large plots start building tests as a roof other bugs anyway and thereby welcome. people because they're one of the assuring nesting season that the female seats on the nest while the male swims around to guard against intruders. swans are very strong the birds they don't like to present so for the birds especially glee's

sometimes swans even when she skis out from a shared habitat. move the there are five to seven eggs in the swans nest. or something frightens them though they leave their nests. crews often use this tactic to steal the eggs. or get a couple of crowns always accompany motorboats and when they reach the end of their section they hand over the boat to another couple of ground zero the man in the boat is to preoccupy its noses when the boat approaches the nest the noise of the engines scares the bird away. to get into the nest just steal the eggs as a result the sets this room and.

reserve is called the floating venice of russia for its calm and beautiful nature. people come here every year to find a quiet place under the sun and in their peace. in the dusk descends on the river maybe duck enough to see a spectacular sea talks of swans flying into the sunset. a close up game has been to the our hangal speech. where the first russian fleet was

born. our r.t. goes to the area which holds top position in oil and gas resources. where the biggest russian salmon can be our processing factories located. and where unique species of farm fauna can be found. welcome to the sun colleen region. should close up on our teeth. a chance to be soon which brightened the food movement sound from finest impressionists. who threw stones on t.v. don't come.