welcome back to join us this is r.t. live from moscow and of these are the top stories new radiation leaks exceeding legal limits are detected in seawater near japan's crippled fukushima plant comes amid growing criticism facing authorities accused of underestimating the ongoing nature of the nuclear crisis. nail plans to expand its airstrikes to leave his northwest a target could obvious forces meanwhile the colonel himself used a high profile game of chess to reiterate his refusal to leave the country despite

mounting international pressure. and fresh protests on a massive scale is expected in greece following sunday's rally against a second round of hysteria measures that you demands new cuts before the country can receive over one hundred billion euros in bailout money. let's meet the people who thought i natural disasters as part of everyday life and our special report here on r.t. . the cooler peninsular in russia's north home to the q.b. need massive mountain range this is the cold and windy bolshoi process the snow here is between one and a half and four meters deep avalanche safety specialists are probing the snow structure on one of the slopes.

the top layer snow drifts on a slope is unstable and skis can trigger an avalanche shift attention those of you who are keen to scull mountain creeks please be careful. some avalanches a wet others a dry it all depends on the snow's composition the speed of avalanches varies between seventy and four hundred kilometers an hour man can do nothing in the face of tons of snow rushing down to such a velocity. and yet people do live in the mountains they study avalanches to be able to protect themselves from each year skiers and snowboarders tempt fate by taking to the mountain slopes. in this weather station in the q.b. massive a situation close to the town of kill one hundred fifty kilometers north of the

arctic circle it is one of the instruments of the avalanche safety service it records dozens of readings several times a day snow and ground temperatures wind direction solar activity and pursue potations all those factors affect the snow and its structure the station staff uses them as the basis for political reform casts concerning avalanches. or triggers a sudden movement of snow in the mountains resulting in a formidable natural disaster. finding the answer to that question is the job of scientists or some petersburg's hydra meteorological university one of the factors triggering an avalanche is nothing more unusual than snow evaporation little flakes turn into vapor even at very low temperatures. but with fiber in the top layer of the snow bunny escapes into the year. but in lola's it settles on large snowflakes and turns into us. as

a result snow in the lowest layer turns into large brown crystals. just makes the top most last slide over the ground pellets. the only way to fight avalanches is to get them to move before they begin sliding down the road whenever a weather forecast points to snow instability avalanches are set off to prevent the risk of a larger one occurring before the roads are blocked ski routes are closed and the area was cordoned off a modern computer system controls avalanche movement gasses fed into a bell suspended from a helicopter and operated and so it is a spark in the belt on the gas explodes the shockwave triggers an avalanche.

this method is widely used in the foothills of the caucasus close to the city of sochi russia's most popular ski resorts the situation here. is in the world are prone to avalanches and all of them are affected by our launches every single one. yes the slope is avalanche prone if it is steeper than fifteen to twenty degrees. and two thousand and fourteen winter olympics is to take place here in new ski lifts are being built a modern trails are being prepared the downhill routes varying complexity some are just right for budding skiers others pose a challenge to professional sportsman. the caucasus mountains off the pine area

about the same. i'm size of an average european country groups provided with all the necessary facilities take up a small part of the slopes so far it is only possible to reach most of the mountain tops by helicopter going downhill where nobody has set foot is the ambition of many skiers and snowboarders there is a special term for this costly form of entertainment kelly skiing. to get their wish her well being is what every free rider aspies see it just takes your breath away to ride down the slope after a helicopter. flies you to some out of the way knock in the mountains.

national. ones we left the helicopter we have to test the snow. so what this means is well we make a pitch to see the pattern of snow fall in the last few weeks. if we see that there's a danger of an avalanche happening that day then we just pack up straightaway and go home when the situation is just right though we follow this route down a mountain. or the wilds of the route the better the snow sure you have so many different routes lying ahead of you so you can choose whichever way you want to go down the mountain the pending on the level of skiing your experience and just how good you are. studying and forecasting avalanches is a complicated process with many phases any forecasts. by the weather station can

never be certain accurate conclusions are made only after testing the snow cover as a particular point. one layer of the snow is compact the other is loose you can see it is fluffy. but you see if i touch this with my finger it is almost uniform i'm going to see how thick it is and there's twenty five centimeters of snow drift. a snow drift is the layer that moves with the wind from one location to another this type of snow has the weakest bond with the lower layers. when somebody comes to the slope they see such snow but they don't know what it is like underneath it may be packed and in my case it is not dangerous but what if it is unstable down there you just step on the snow and it slides away from you if the snows temperature structure and density are all measured by the specialists to see how the layers point together they handle the readings right on the spot since.

the test demonstrates that the top layer of the snow drift on the slope is unstable so it may start sliding and ski is or snowboarders ride over it which could then trigger an avalanche so now we're going to designate the area as hazardous and closed to the public. attention of those of you who are keen to scale mountain peaks please be careful according to the avalanche safety center a heightened alert has been declared for the next two days because of an avalanche hazard. no showing video is a ski resort within the arctic circle originally it was meant as a place where the people of the town of kill lost could spend their vacations today tours from across the country come to visit. and we were going there for ten days but trouble struck on the second. memories of what

happened then are so vivid in young's minds that it seems as though it were just yesterday but in fact several years have passed since the accident in many ways that incident changed his life. if you look at the slope from below you will see a clearing between the trees as it is and it is there because frequent avalanches sweep away trees standing in their path i did not know at the time that the slope was avalanche prone. none of the people who came to that slope could even imagine the outcome. free riders make a special point of looking for wild slopes to ride over virgin snow.

for the past ten years yevgeny cliff because it has taken groups of free riders on the city of your coast to the mom i pass on the southern shore of lake baikal. the lake to me it puts region is the world's largest body of freshwater locals call it a c. it is fifteen hundred meters deep in place it's. what will cover part of the distance of the ice of lake baikal then it will be several kilometers of a winding path in the mountains another ten kilometers along a stream go which. you could say the place is in the. wilderness there isn't any electricity or a decent road bed it can only be reached on the by snowmobile on foot. on the way to its destination the group registers with the local rescue service. an official of the service and rescue party takes note of its roots the number of

people involved and approximate date of the group's return if the group fails to turn up on time presti teams will undergo a search and rescue operation like all other groups of this kind this one is briefed before it continues its journey. i wish to formally warn you of possible avalanches in the mountains you should be on alert especially after lunch time when warmer weather normally causes snow falls also a storm alert has been declared for tomorrow northwesterly winds of up to twenty meters a second. a member of the rescue services joins the clerk of the group they go as far as the foothills where the road ends they then cover ten kilometers across low hills with an all terrain vehicle but before taking a ride from the slope of the group needs to hike uphill on force there's no motor vehicles to get up such an implied.

we're heading towards slopes hidden from the sun because that's where pax knows likely to be the only time you may begin moving any time now that's why i will go skiing on the shady side close to the forests the snow still holds on board a poet. despite the long haul the group of free riders managed to scale the mountain and go downhill on the first day and for some some.

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regimentation over most of the nations of europe. and the shadow is approaching up on all. the early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the forms of the empire that the united states is trying to build that's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million or more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around. we don't have power bases on america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in in cross all bases are five there are the noises our north of those of all the us at all because they're our bases but for other people it's almost like

a cancer here for those few days since the end of world war two the spaces i've been. working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions the appeals to get everything you needed. the peninsula within the arctic circle is russia's northernmost point a group of sportsman skiing in the mountains has been hit by an avalanche rescue was of the care regional rescue services receive request for assistance they do not know how long it will take them to reach the scene a lot depends on the terrain and weather conditions they have vivid memories of what happened to a group of skiers from st petersburg

a few years ago. the average is one of those who know well the full force of an avalanche feels like. well as i approach the edge to get ready for the descent. i mean i was knocked over with such force from my clothes and hat in the shuttle and everything became unfastened. i sensed i was tumbling down at top speed with an enormous mass of something pressing on me it was like being under a stamping press but i can't say how long all that lasted it was i was told the avalanche was on the move for only four or five seconds but to me it seemed like an eternity was enormous of snow and ice reduce everything in their path to smithereens they sweep away trees and destroy buildings at one point i felt as if i was literally bending over backwards with the stress on my spine was so great i

thought my back would be broken. in my head was out of the snow. i think my lungs had filled up with snow and i strained to cough it up i remember feeling afterwards that my chest had become lighter was that. yann was dug up by a companion who had not been caught up in the avalanche rescuers found three more men buried under the snow they were dead quite often it takes several days to find victims buried in an avalanche for me to long proves they used to dig into the snow this is the only method to find a free rider unless he has a radio beacon on it. when appropriate something soft it's clear that it's a victim a sound produced by the probe in that case is also helpful. so we begin digging right there and then felix eva sure is a doctor with the local rescue team he always joins the team on duty when they go to help avalanche victims his eight kilogram kit contains all the necessary

equipment on site reanimation though in practice he rarely needs it for cooling to statistics if victims are stuck in an avalanche for fifteen minutes their chances of survival of fifty percent any longer and there is a sharp drop in the chances of survival. we haven't recovered a buried survivor from an avalanche around here in the past ten years. in terms preparations for the winter olympics of course the number of urgency lopes in the vicinity of such a label the freeriding results rescuers will be hard to recall the last time they dealt with incidents. and ten eyes to count of the snow on the mountain slopes but they are the visible part of what is otherwise covered with snow these are ultimately weather station days or is continuously supplied to an online computer of the resorts have a large control. the station measures snow depth air temperature

humidity. characteristics solar radiation. and it's very precious with this and more allows us to forecast avalanches quickly with. these old looking pipes on mountaintops a part of the results of a safety system. failing to so-called shelters booths containing gas cylinders with oxygen propane. or should know ok everything's in order here for shelter oxygen and propane is fed to an empty avalanche come through special pipes and operators sets off the gas mixture by pressing a button. in the old days all resorts use guns or mortars to fight avalanches they would be brought to

a slope and fired at the designated targets nowadays they're gradually falling into disuse. we have resolved the problem by taking on purely ecological systems used elsewhere in the world. cup they don't damage the ground either in summer or in winter. they simply remove the snow whenever we want to get rid of it or get out on the. a computer at the avalanche control service receive signals from automatic weather stations twenty four hours a day irrespective of weather conditions the figures are then analyzed. if necessary the operator uses the same computer to set a small avalanche in motion which cannot do any harm. which as we say any slip can pose an avalanche hazard. avalanches maker even in the most unlikely places. police skiing enthusiastic every possible precaution

but they can never be fully guaranteed against being caught in an avalanche. and that it was that when you get on the fresh snow it's already under stress but you make things worse by adding your weight to it and some of the barriers you're cutting the snow with your skis and all my combined myself an avalanche. normally the guy will do the job himself of testing the snow and if he senses the possibility of an avalanche he might deliberately force the snow to get moving. if the it's a boy if you cut into the snow in front of me that doesn't mean it won't snap behind he is trudel first break up front a little crack behind you to you no matter whether you've done the cutting or somebody else has done it for you there for the. scientists in some petersburg research the peculiarities of the mountains ice and snow there is also surprising

as it turns out an ice rupture generates a radio wave the can be located. i mean the most interesting thing about it is that radio frequency emissions take place shortly before i shearing. it obese means it's possible to forecast as well as record our shearing but i mean this can be done if only for a short time before just an. oral service. experiments for the snow by the scientists have also demonstrated that juror had survived an avalanche to emits radio waves. sneers the steady rodeo missions generated by a small snow crystals rubbing against one another in reserve and pointing to the existence of radio frequency radiation even in a visible range people seeing light coming from not time avalanches. for the time being it is possible to full cost of a launch is only

a few seconds ahead special radio receivers they used for the purpose. lantern on my on the southern side of lake baikal is known for its fluffy snow it is light soft and powdery freeriding fans need to demonstrate highly professional skills in such conditions otherwise one uncertain move may land you waist deep in the snow along the untamed slopes of fruit with numerous risks for the novice. but there you can see a large area covered with snow there were lots of trees there five years ago to go

to a big avalanche in december swept away everything in its way. places a constant reminder of the threat posed by avalanches like of us. free riders from neighboring towns have built cabins in the foothills of mount my mind they spend weekends here there is nothing inside apart from stoves tables and makeshift beds the cabins are almost buried in snow which makes them look like big snow drifts with smoking chimneys before they get to the mountaintop he riders spend a good deal of time scrambling along with skis or boards on their backs. you may not like it here if you enjoy sliding down hill you're unlikely to enjoy going up hill on foot completely nor are you likely to be very keen to stoke the coals in the stove even during the night here you can leave without wearing snowshoes to

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