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a safety they're accused of bringing violence and instability with them a tiny italian island of lampedusa has been overwhelmed with 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 slammed for taking defense company reps on his tour of the stricken countries in the middle east. president medvedev warns of extreme volatility in the arab world as with government 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. plus the red planet has seen its last gasp are now with crew members making their final walk on a mock martian surface as part of a simulated journey to mars the project is part of an eighteen month long experiment to bring an actual mission to the planet one step closer. up next al gore and of talks to russian adventurers of life. there are about to set off to the arctic on one of the most hazardous sections of around the world journey using self

made extreme terrain vehicles that's coming up next on spotlight. 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 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 but. 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 as 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. 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't 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 level geisha well who does an expedition have to be closer to the equator to be considered around the world trip technically in 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 circle navigation so we're stretching it a bit when we see our expedition is a circle navigation strictly speaking it's a circular poller expedition. they expect 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 go is russian or canadian and held it is joining 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 this position in two thousand. but by that time 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. extreme signs tourism. well. i certainly can't say it's a full 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. mean. data and samples there is pretty intensive make a trust 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're not presumptious. to the scientists

to do something. we take up the tasks that we are able to handle on to the extreme conditions off travelling across through think ice flows we presented these scientists with a unique opportunity to collect career specimens and they're 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. you may be killed a veteran industry 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 to you but this is based in an expedition to the poster on the plane right that's how the story started cock 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 board and we know that cool can only be formed in places with forests this proves that many years ago everything was quite different centuries after the exploration of the are taken 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. all alone in the outpost how to survive the loneliness and desolation is the theme of arctic circle grips gets through how it ended this summer 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 glacier years have been named after him by news of the arctic well loved by the russian people and revered by the government this 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 rest 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 the lower temperatures are still a challenge for those wishing to enjoy the nice quiet and 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 in the red rancher and the spread of thing with more traditional tumors move 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 have the animals we should encounter. it's a clear thing that the climate change as actually animals and you know what of course. well you know i haven't really studied

these problem thorough lee but i think global warming 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 how big brown spots on their coats amazing some people saw them in chicago or in alaska alaska no that's unbelievable what it was well you know things are changing because the environment is changing. and just in way to that we're talking to the head of the polling expedition pledging to check

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explanation of the chill cough and. said he. will say you're 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 please. yell bloody mary what kind of equipment i would 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 navigation purposes. it has always worked fine this is tracks are route automatically on our on board computer and the information is transmitted via the same system to any user to our websites and

so on but this year we have an opportunity to carry out the first task on ast system in highland. previously the russian system did not have enough satellites to cover the entire globe but know that this group or whatever it's called satellites has grown business leader of such lights i think there's still the satellites by now yes as the satellite fleet has occurred we will try using going os there but it doesn't mean that we have given up g.p.s. so you still use it but then yes of course you know some people who are very anxious one will have. and if something goes wrong there is no need to warry because what we're 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 in

a high letter to you that's it. being a new comer 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 be mostly. tonal mous it means just going on on your own and whether you reach your destination or does. the case i think. yes and any a position uses communications in our case we will have refusing stops on the way we are also making fuel reserves at the pole as well as sending clothes that will in the end there be complete autonomy we don't have such a goal. we're not interested in autonomy. way. you want. new technology deprives us of something important but 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 it appears that you like some of that risk and adrenaline don't you. i cannot talk about taking risks in terms of goals. try not to use the word extreme if possible. but it's true that it used to be more romantic before the full. well that you were. because of globe as so 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 then yes we need to have

a compass but you know the chinese had invented the compass long before we reach 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 the its upper and lower brink and then we had to spend an hour making necessary calculations in a frozen tent as there were no computers down and a calculator was freezing any had to warm it up above a 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 was the whole it's not worse it's safe for it 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 is just things that used to be more romantic in the past. as a newcomer 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 social care and 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 d.f. some tests for them or something. like. that the q. well we don't have tests any longer but when we were younger and went on physically

harder expeditions we had doctors and psychologists who working with us the same people who prepared the consonants for long flights. so we're like no it's absolutely the media's go through centrifuge tests and a minimum temperature test psychological training as well when did is the psychological training really important. you shouldn't neglected 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 he can ruin your vacation but in extreme conditions people off 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 unfortunately it's not always the case you still may have psychological issues yes a person without

a bad bone will think first about himself the instinct of self-preservation overcomes in such a situation. don't they realize that they can only survive as a team and that they will never survive on their own. unfortunately they don't it's a big problem for many cannot act as part of a team because they do not realize that if you go on an expedition all by yourself you're a self-preservation instinct helps you but when you're a part of a team you are 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 let's go as far as the north pole you are going to see bottom a time capsule with a u.s.b. drive carrying information for future generations with what kind of information does it carry issue you 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 we 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 what four months is. as for the form of presenting the information it can be absolutely anything it can be a video store in which we 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 some three hundred years later. i'm going to just drop it into the water and want to sink in it how are you 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 are 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 the. 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 it's going to at the point of the stove 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 my. duties and. you know it's a very difficult business 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 to look around and take a few pictures. in this way he said he is he's curiosity but what we're doing is more serious what we're gathering information about what we see do there to present it to those who do not have the opportunity to go there because if you see it but you know almost everyone is eager to go traveling because 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 with your i'm sorry we're wandering off the subject into philosophical issues

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