my review. three thirty am in moscow good to have you with us here on our t.v. see your headlines thousands really political unrest in north africa and the middle east but as they arrive in europe looking for safety they're accused of bringing

violence and instability with them the tiny italian island of lampedusa has been overwhelmed with thousands of refugees from tunisia. libyan leader colonel moammar gadhafi rejects calls to step down despite hundreds killed in anti-government protests this as british prime minister david cameron is slammed for taking defense company executives on his tour of stretchin countries in the middle east. president medvedev warms of extreme volatility in the arab world as the government pulls hundreds of russian workers from libya moscow's concern islamic militants could seize power in north africa and set the whole region on a destructive course. and the red planet has seen its last gasp for now with crewmen making a final walk on a martian surface as part of its simulated listen to mars project is an eighteen month long experiment to bring an actual mission to the planet one step closer. up next al gore and off talks to russia in advance. of lattimer chook of and sergei fan ever about their how they set off to the arctic on the most hazardous section

of around the world journey using self-made extreme terrain vehicles that's coming up next. hello again. i'm going to talk about traveling art. a group. decided to make a trip around the world. through. all terrain vehicles through severe. now third and. the traveling. public attention to the problems. is it working here's the head.

of the third transacted stage of the travel is the most difficult one the international group will have to cover a distance and several thousand kilometers through. the expedition starts in russia and will finish in canada five months later. the explorers are using the vehicles they designed and assembled themselves they also decided to give up the g.p.s. and will test the russian born rival. they will conduct scientific research on the climate and try to gather more data on life and habitats of polar bears. thank you very much for being with us. tell us a few things about this expedition. back in two thousand.

and want to current objectives. well originally the ideal for the polar expedition was born towards the end of the last century was. our goal was to make vehicles suitable for arctic conditions that it would allow us to travel along the age of three parts of the world thus making a circle around the arctic ocean. and we decided to use ultra low pressure timers. as you can see on the screen. it is a very interesting invention. the tires look like slick there is no tread pattern as you can see that all the chains of the time is no those are not chains

those are belts that keep the tire from going off the rim which you see when pressure is high the tire can go off the rim but when there is practically no pressure perhaps just ten percent or even less it can come off during a turn that is the only purpose of those belts. pressure makes the tires elastic which gives the cars a very good traction to kill this expedition be regarded as a second their vacation well who does an expedition have to be closer to the equator to be considered around the world trip technically an expedition has to cross the equator at least twice to be a circle navigation expedition that is limited to one of the hemispheres the northern one or the southern one is not a certain navigation so we're stretching it a bit when we see our expedition is a circle navigation strictly speaking it's a certain policy expedition. they expect crew has two canadian members yourself

you're an ethnic russian but a canadian citizen and then there is another canadian also with a russian name so all you guys russian or canadian and how did you join this expedition. well we're both russians and i just live in canada and to how we joined the expedition i can only speak for myself. i found out about the expedition in two thousand and four i saw it on the internet. i had been dreaming about traveling to the north pole since nine hundred ninety four . told me about his trips in the arctic. so when i found out about the project i first tried to join the expedition in two thousand for. the roster was fool so i didn't make it but. told me that i was welcome to take part in future projects.

scientific expedition would you rather call the next extreme signs tourism. well. i certainly can't say it's a fool fledged scientific expedition. because none of us are scientists with them of course we're all well educated people but we're not researchers. yet we do our best to keep in contact with scientists. and we're in gauged in certain scientific programs like you. and samples there is but if you intend to make a cross-section of the. by collecting ice and snow samples and making measurements why would you need to do that. because it's very interesting for scientific

purposes. of course but we are not presumptious. to the scientists to do something. we take up the tasks that we are able to handle on to the stream condition soft traveling across the truth think ice flows we presented these scientists with a unique opportunity to collect career specimens and they were very interested in work within modern metal scientists zoologists and other groups of scientists trying to provide materials for each of those groups are going to observe any animals. the flora and fauna. well i think we will observe the ones we encounter so you will not try to seek them out you know we will what will study animals to begin with but. you may be called a veteran in this sphere and i read that you are the only person in the world has reached the north pole full time zone ski and this is to. the point of that is true

but it's a bit o. dated information. you see about five years ago. i was the only one in the world. but there is an international independent group of travelers and several of its participants have repeated that record anyway the point is you've been doing it for quite a time they can one thing they did to you but this is an expedition to the purser on the plane right that's how this story started coming in your opinion has the changed much since you first went there can you confirm that the ice is really melting and the things have become was and the all it is doing it. i wouldn't say that the arctic is dying. it's changing and there are a few climate changes but i'm not among those who dramatize this situation.

we need to study the situation instead of pointing fingers as some do. some say it's all because of human activities i'm sure well human activities do you have some effect but i would say that ninety nine percent of the change has been caused by other circumstances. the earth is a living organism in all changes in nature follows certain laws and we need to study those laws. so these are just regular fluctuations of course and it's going to go back to normal it's not like it goes normal for good i can give you many examples confirming that those changes have already taken place many times. they find cowen swot bard you know we know that coal can only be formed in places with forests this proves that many years ago everything was quite different centuries after the exploration out they are taking began expeditions to the north

have not lost their thrill these days frozen x. and says attract not only scientists but tourists as well spotlights to me that has more. on loan in the outpost how to survive the loneliness and desolation is the theme of arctic circle grips gets through how it ended this sama expose how a young man's personality transforms when he's cut off from civilization in an optic station the director was inspired by a russian pool a researcher you're going. one hundred years ago he traveled the arctic serving the region island's rivers and glace years have been named after him by news of the arctic well loved by the russian people and revered by the government busy building in the center of moscow always called the house of the polar researchers in one thousand thirty six it was built exclusively for the arctic explorers so they could

take a risk here in between their expeditions now days more and more people want that cooler experience and tourism is on the up going to the top of the world is no longer a matter of survival or lower temperatures are still a challenge for those wishing to do it at least twice in the beauty of the frozen north but this doesn't come cheap a true cost ten thousand dollars many of those involving think it is worth every penny to quench their thirst for the red rancher and the spread of thing with more traditional tumorous and firms selling trips to the north who haven't seen a decline in number of customers ready to tread in them for food stamps. which in the military is saying that you're going to save the animals we should encounter. it's a clear thing that climate change has actually animals and you know what of course the government. well you know i haven't really studied these problem

for ali but i think global warming if you like forces polar bears to leave their usual habitats. i've read reports on the internet saying that they are hybrids now i mean between polar bears and grizzly bears. really and they don't have gobs and they have doubled polar bears now are you serious we have pictures i uploaded a couple of such pictures to my website so they've got spots like as a nation not exactly they just big brown spots on their coats amazing some people saw them in chicago or in alaska alaska no that's unbelievable what this is well you know things are changing because the environment is changing for. just a reminder that we're talking to the head of the polling expedition pledging to

choke and canadian travel surrogate spotlight will be back shortly right after the break we'll continue this in less than a minute so don't go. cultures that so much different and there's a huge musician on the mark with days of rage a revolution in the arab middle east is the era of dictators coming to an end in this vital region and as the west. press nutritious and this is products on the price of healthy eating. we need to test these toxicity allergenicity immune response lower nutrition and for environmental contamination don't you feel like a lab rat some consider the experiment in human treatment i. significant

differences between the g.m. . at the g.m. . but they weren't treated so well themselves one question means one career if you ask one question you could be uncertain and you might or might not be able to publish it but that's the end of your career.

welcome back to spotlight i'm going off in just a reminder that my guests in the studio today are the head of the polling explanation of legume of the choke off and canadian traveler said he. will say again we are going to use the globe system in this expedition which is the russian version of g.p.s. g.p.s. and i think this is going to be its first test on those such extreme conditions with what. can you tell us what equipment are you going to use for navigation these places and yell blood in there what kind of equipment i was going to use let me answer this question as surrogate is a newcomer to our team and that's why he's referring this question to me but we've always used the global positioning system for never. purposes. it has always worked

fine this ystem tracks our route automatically on our on board computer and the information is transmitted via the same system to any us or to our websites and so on but this year we have an opportunity to carry out the first task on ast system in highland city it's previously the russian system did not have enough subtle lights to cover an entire globe but know that this group or whatever it's called of satellites has grown a fleet of satellites i think they're still the satellites by now yes as the satellite fleet has courage we will try using a steer but it doesn't mean that we have given up g.p.s. so you still use it but yes of course you know some people who are very anxious

what will happen if something goes wrong but there is no need to warry because what we are doing is just testing the system and no one should worry if it works or not we are pursuing a very important and a very difficult task we are testing how the new system functions and highlighted to you it's that's it. being a new come a do you thing this is going to be an unassisted expedition or will you be in constant contact with the mainland receiving food from helicopters enjoying g.p.s. and other communications oh will you be mostly on tone as well what do you mean by tone on this it means just going on on your own and whether you reach your destination or done well it won't be exactly the case i think. yes and any a tournament six position uses communications in our case we will have refusing stops on the way we are also making fuel reserves and the pull could

as well. as sending clothes that will mean there will be complete autonomy we don't have such a goal. we're not interested in autonomy. the way. you want. new technology it deprives us of something important that there's no more of that psychological tension that kept you gripped from the first to the last day of an expedition as your equipment and food did not differ much from that used by the first explorers. did you miss that feeling don't you think it appears that today you like some of that risk and adrenaline don't you. i cannot talk about taking risks in terms of our goals. try not to use the word extreme if possible. but it's true that it used to be more romantic before. well that you were lying because of g.p.s.

yes really. absolutely when we made our first polar expeditions were doing is if we had been living in the eighteenth century they must have had a compass yes we need to have a compass but you know the chinese had invented the compass long before we reached the pole but how captivating into was to be looking at the sky thinking whether in the sun will appear or not if yes we have to stop and measure the height of the sun its upper and lower brink and then we had to spend an hour and make necessary calculations in a frozen tant as there were no computers down and a calculator was freezing any had to warm it up above the gasoline still with plastic dropping into your plate making the calculations and now you only have to press a button to get your exact location is that wes. is. it's not worse it's

safe for but it's no longer romantic because we expect a lot from new technology and we don't even give a thought to what we would be doing if not for those smart devices. but we can't reject technology can we. know we current. things that used to be more romantic in the past. as a new comer it is a romantic well yes pretty much so well there are a lot of such things like you're wearing more than clothes a new country that. of course we can't is so romantic wearing fur is the frozen limbs then because asians. oh yes it's her magic and we've been through it. even though your expedition is not autonomous didn't check your candidates for psychological compatibility do you have

some tests for them is something. that the q. well we don't have tests any longer but when we were younger and went on the physically harder expeditions we had doctors and psychologists who working with us the same people who prepared the consonants for long flights. so you're like oh no it's absolutely the media's go through centrifuge tests and a minimum temperature test psychological training as well where did is the psychological training really important. you shouldn't. it is important you know for example sorry for interrupting but it always seemed to me that psychological compatibility is more important when you're going on vacation to the canary islands right because if a person misbehaves there you can ruin your vacation but extraordinary an.

conditions people forced to act as a team it seems to me that when they're working hard and fighting for survival psychological factors are no longer important fortunately it's not always the case you still may have psychological issues yes a person without a bad bone will think first about himself their instinct of self-preservation overcomes in such a situation. they realize that they can only survive as a team and that they will never survive on the road unfortunately they don't it's a big problem many cannot act as part of a team because they do not realize that if you go on an expedition all by yourself your self-preservation instinct helps you but when you're part of a team you were to behave in an absolutely different way there is one person who's in charge and he makes all the decisions and you are to a be otherwise you'll be in trouble for that as far as the north pole you are going

to see bottom a time capsule with a year's b. drive carrying information for future generations with what kind of information does it carry it to know what you're going to say to the future generations. neither an enormous or again know what will be on the u.s.b. drive you see you provide an opportunity to those who are interested in it. so i can add something to. your welcome. there is a website. are you where people write what they want to be on that u.s.b. drive. spotlight program on it but yes you can. as for the form of presenting the information it can be absolutely anything you can be a video store in order to message will take all of it. transform it into

a digital format and put it inside the container what we're interested in is that there won't be any political slogans but something from ordinary people some people may write something funny others may write something serious some people just like the idea of writing to people live never seen i think i would be interested in reading such things if i were born some three hundred years later. we're going to just drop it into the water and want to sink this time and how it's going to fish it out you know we were asked this question before in my answer was it's not our problem if the future generations are interested in it i think they will figure out a way how to get it to the surface there's a beacon on it right they will find a way if they're at the same technological level as we yours i mean are you going to install a beacon and there is a beacon but i was against it i think we should not provide assistance in what may not be even a problem in the future if they're interested they will find it but if they're not

interested it won't be of any use even if they can scenery comes up to the surface on its own going to the part of the stuff is it true that your roots may later be used as a route for extreme take a tour is an offshoot of would a ship extend. in the way. you know it's a very difficult because that's what tourism i wouldn't call such trips tourism atoll. tourism is when a person is interested in a region and goes there it's a look around and take a few pictures. in this way he said he survives he's curiosity but what we're doing is more serious. we are gathering information about what we see do there to present it to those who do not have the opportunity to go there. but you know almost everyone is eager to go travelling that we. we're all born to be

travelers but we don't pay attention to it but when a man is born it is the beginning of his long journey in this world let your love with you so i'm sorry we're wandering off the subject into philosophical issues a little bit here. that's possible sure thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that my guests today were at the head of the polling station of pledging to choke off and canadian travelers seventy fifth and that's it for the after all of us here spotlight will be back with more first and comment on what's going on in that said rush and then sanity and take. my signature.

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