they'd be hood to carry collection the load of clothes and even the maiden's originals believe put those a movie don't read or something shifty was punished for the repercussions hundreds . of r.c.u. live from moscow our top stories i had five thirty moscow time people in libya say their lives are now at the risk from a mass of weapons falling into untrained hands as nato says it will stay in the region for security. police have identified two out of the three suicide bombers who brought death and destruction in russia's north caucasus republic of tricks now killing nine and leaving more than twenty wounded in the czech president compares euro zone member sense of being in a straitjacket as the blocks leaders grow ever more desperate to solve the debt epidemic ravaging euro. and un go home and say israeli settlers ahead of september

throat on the recognition of a palestinian state as they prepare for a possible uprising experts say they might just be called in for it. now it's time for our special report which uncovers the not full spectacle the commander islands here on our team. for. this although i've been around for forty years since and. still don't know what kind of magnitude cracks people here. and like when a man comes here for three years. he will stay here much longer but if he leaves

and never comes back he will miss the place. perhaps it's the vast expanses these three the land the pacific ocean the stars overhead the when. they purify you. if it is there here people are more hard it is. good in this city but i know that this place is better because here and piece of heaven belongs to the. bearing on island russia's far east again or still a ship has dropped anchor in

a bank in the village of nicole square each year this ship bring scientists from all over russia to the island they come here to study the unique natural environment of the commando highlands. is the boats our third day should we grab a sure thing it's our generator. vixen a cool and has done a good deal of research into marine mammals he spends each summer on the island. new lonely without a doubt binoculars and a high powered telescope our research is most indispensable tools here we mostly use them to record the number of first seals we count them every five days. because base is only twenty five kilometers from the village of mccall square the best way to get around is on an all terrain vehicle with caterpillar tracks.

the island's main road goes along the beach where traffic is possible but sometimes . vehicles move along rocky paths along the tundra. these islands of the talk of an underwater mountain range stretching across the pacific from russia to alaska the commando archipelago includes two large islands bearing and near two smaller islands called the core and arctic come. they were named after commander visitors bearing the seafarer who discovered them in seven hundred forty one born in denmark vetus unison bearing served in the russian fleet he was in charge of geographic expeditions organized by peter the great. bearing ship ended up wrecked on this island.

hardships they suffered during the winter define description of high winds and bitter cold militarism sludge ice. there was an agonizing water just terrible. pass and new came to the commander rollins when he was seventeen years old. since then he's worked as a sailor a fisherman and a hunter. he singlehandedly crossed the pacific. before reaching seattle. he is now a permanent resident nicole story where he's preparing illustrations for his book about the commander island's. little bit of varying screw was lucky to be stranded at this place there must have been a guardian angel watching from above because the ship was thrown over a reef into this cozy day. most of the varying crew

managed to survive precisely because they had landed the shore but the commander died unable to withstand the harsh winter for a long time nobody knew where he had been buried his grave was found only in one nine hundred ninety one during an archeological expedition organized for the purpose local residents galas or state was on that expedition to meet. with. scientists tested the soil in several places to see how much phosphorus it contained they found the greatest amount of phosphorous around bearings grave. burying was not put in a coffin he was buried on the plank survivors were too weak to dig deep graves all agree is for shallow this is the place.

the members of the bering expedition were made by the diversity of the islands foreigner particularly the huge amount of marine animals according to their records the first seals breeding grounds took up nearly the whole coastline now there are just force illness and reason there an island one of them is in the northwestern part of it the scientist space situated next to. the war of sea mammals can be heard many kilometers away from the beach the shores divided by the high rocks into several sections and cannot be seen from one point in the full. to count the seals scientists have to look in. every little day. but as long. as you get the first seals of playfully for licking on the beach seals of the largest animals here they lie around looking forward to the arrival of

females after they come here the place will be teeming with arabs the smaller seals will be driven away they will move to the edge of the beach. in winter the first seals head for the sea of japan where they spend some on the commander on it's nearly a quarter of a million slaves gather harry each year this is almost one fifth of the world's total. there are only males on the beach now instead the seals a busy dividing the breeding ground into plots for the whole remains once they have moved into that territory they will stay there until late august. after the famous seals arrived the beach will be off limits to outsiders the males will kill anybody showing up there. these powerful animals quickly respond to any sign of danger is so strong that a brief jerk of the neck can send

a forty kilogram cattle flying over several meters. because of the beauty and your ability that copes first seals quickly faced mass extermination much like the seals the other inhabitants of the island by coptic foxes and sea otters were not faithless humans as a result they ended up easy prey for the hunters who came to the island at the end of the eighteenth century valuable fur bearing on ml's a town themselves on the brink of extinction. every now and then the russian merchants pillage the islands arctic foxes the sea otters where in an incredible numbers here and then they were killed by the thousands you see cowards. extinct within twenty six years his late commander islands where they only have a chat over that marine mammal. in one thousand nine hundred three almost the entire territory come on the lions was

declared a protected area hunting and other economic activity were banned as a result there was a gradual growth in the population of rare animals. thursday zeigler bill me as an employee of the reserve a moment has the population birds and animals and keeps a record. that we are going to ari cameron and top are called we are in luck today the sea is calm and the weather is nice there is a big hurry there are lots of sea birds and there are also many animals sea lions harbor seals and sea otters we will try to take pictures of them. each year about a million birds nest on among the islands there are real cories on almost all of the coastal cliffs the bird population on talk of island is one of the most impressive. up to one hundred thousand pairs of tough to. gather in an area of some

five hundred square meters they are called northern pirates because of the bright plumage. of each year we catch them tag about a hundred birds it won't let me go now i'll have to open and speak and say ok it happens. i'm going to try and take it now it's best to let them get back to their holes or else be taken far beyond the places where the other tufted puffins nest if one of these birds gets into a puffins nest the own vital guest might well be killed by another puff and. we usually let them go by tossing them into the air. and the courts though it seems he doesn't want to fly today. these birds cannot take off from the ground which is why they look clumsy instead they use a steep slope as a launch pad tufted pathans feet in the open sea it dives the depths of up to a hundred meters in the hunt for small fry. quite

often siegel snatch fish from tufted puffins that can't fly fast enough they swoop down on puffins to make them drop the fish and then they snatch it up in mid-air. sure and foreigner from both you laser and america have at the command of the islands of locust wind go is native to north america the commander islands of the eastern most tip of its habitat top are called island hosts russia's biggest nest in colony of cloudless when those scientists put the numbers at over one thousand five hundred pounds. with. these eggs were laid by a glow causeway and go such birds protect their nests by attacking intruders we've disturbed these two from their nest should we stop here they will attack us from above sometimes they might even whack us over the head with their wings i would recommend but you should not hang around here too long. as soon as they feel

safe it goes waste no time getting to the nests otherwise neighbors may destroy a clutch. from the harbor seals are only thirty meters away from us we are going to approach the big rock and try to get a close look at them. call the island a rare subspecies of harbor seals have a breeding ground close to the water during low tide the animals usually goes on the shore they slide into the water the slightest sign of danger. the commander islands are a kingdom of rain fall and relentlessly cold winds winters here last for nearly eight months but most of the year no clouds to the ground rare occasions some good sparing island the chance to reveal its true feet. in northern parts of the island

is flat with low shores. southern part is covered with mountains and vertical cliffs sticking out to sea. a warm can see the two highest waterfalls on the island which are especially stunning and the snow melts and spring. from what you can take a boat to see the rocks. the sun millions of birds it all looks like a pillow that has been torn into pieces. magnificently you. looking at.

on. the arm. to. the be. the best. there are clouds childhood was a shadowed by this tragedy. they still feel the fear they faced. and remember every second of this nightmare. that will remain in their memories and

hearts forever. and it seems so. innocent the be chuck a little angel on our cheek. airplanes arriving at nicole scoria airport are a welcome event for the population of paranoia and in winter time flights are often

cancelled because of gale force winds and poor visibility. sometimes regular service does not resume for weeks at a time the islands are known for their rigorous climate. here cold arctic waters clash with the warm currents coming from the southern seas to create a humid sub-arctic climate. zimm witnesses winters here very long and may snow in may or in early june. in fact i'm sure you will see snow. and his paintings surrogate has a new tries to recreate the beauty of the local nature over many years he's traveled around the thermometer islands. most of his works were inspired by his

trips. now surrogate family lives in echo square and teaches out to children of the local media. here you need to somehow make the announcement of the wing look a more prominent try again. and you won't want to have those dark spots in your picture the rocks the bird and the way in. which children usually draw sea birds which are the most common inhabitants of the command the nature of many of the nest and the recovery calls are a common which is a fifty seven it's a high rock and sledge is accommodate more than fifty thousand birds of seventeen different species reserve staff a very careful about taking stock of the island's alison's they have to avoid startling the birds such an incident could accidentally make them not bad eggs down

the side of the. girl molds have a long breeding period and guillemots female can lay up to seven eggs at a time if one of them goes missing she is ready to produce many more value which is to take advantage of this behavior before the nature reserve came into being they would come to our a common islands to move the eggs that are being late in order to get fresh ones a few days later. sea lions a fund of relaxing on the only common island this animal is closely related to the first seal but it is much bigger in the eighteenth century the loud howls signal danger to see thera's in that they should steer clear of the animals and the hazardous rocks in the area. the sea lion population on the under roylance a shrunken recently is about a thousand sea lines come here each summer the females affair from athena's they

leave the beach as soon as they see. that the sea lions are building hiram's for themselves by gallery and together a group of cows they always try to keep the cows by their sides because if they leave they may not come back this is a last ditch battle for the males. bearing islanders well away from normal sea routes and fishing boats in the rain giants will complete the security. of the beaches the whales often enter the day with a local see them and say look at the whales to each other which was as a common thing for the residents of the monkey because whales migrate past the

commander islands so it's very easy to observe them will go. dr olga a philosopher and even fit buton have been studying the behavior of whales for many years the scientists are luck of respirations of beaked whales has approached them and i know. they were first discovered off the sort of man. drop. it what it will look like you they don't let people approach them and that is why we're in such a hurry if they come to the surface where we have only got a couple of minutes to get a few pictures up close but even that's not always the case nobody knows anything about these species and they always stick together. whales can dive from the depths of several kilometers in search food after getting

a gulp of air they swim down disappearing without a trace. we're getting old this place is terra incognita each time we discover something new there's a simpler way of doing such research by studying mice or birds for example and you do get quicker results that way but we don't know much about this species it's a good deal of hard work to study them in your movie. and some of tom's millions of fish driven by natural instinct strives to get the best spawning areas in the northern part of barren island there is a small fish farm. fishing is an essential part of the local economy.

the fishing season means very hard work. i think any fisherman will agree with me see a lot of wood and just pressure the rough when you're a part of a team of fisherman. you get up early in the morning and go to bed late at night you wake up before the cigarette between your teeth goes out. the fishing season last throughout the summer is very hard work indeed but people are virtually dying to do it. fish dominates the local cuisine and the fishery is the main source of income for local residents in early june the valuable red salmon is the first to life for spawning. so this caviar isn't right it's small and very fact later when the fish enter the

fresh waters and begin to support this system gets transformed the fish stop eating fast lose their facts and become the red. caviar gets bigger and ripens. us of everything the red sun and is the favorite food the first seals silly pass and you'll observe this many time. was written they are real hunters this animal is very pretty it's impossible to tear your eyes away from the beach if the seals come here for summer or the beaches are full of them. it's a strong beautiful nice. master of the sea floor. puts in a cool in getting ready for the most dangerous parts of his job along with his son so again he's heading to the very center of the breeding ground in a special plywood box check on the health of the first seals for right now he's

worried about what one see line is going to do next the line puts up his ears when he sees something strange appearing each. pierce he can crush of plywood box just as easily as a human can imagine golds with but there is no problem for him to destroy the shelter of the same lion weighs more than seven hundred kilograms according to published figures they can weigh as much as a ton the plywood is a little a thing as far as this seal is concerned. first seals dislike any sort of movements he explores try to walk as slowly as they can to avoid startling animals. that would have developed one of the seals came up to us to say hello to you couldn't sniff us out because the wind was blowing our way otherwise he wouldn't have come anywhere near us.

first seals liven up towards evening when the temperature drops marine mammals are quite comfortable at this time considering they spend most of their lives in icy water. as scientists are going to monitor the first seals every day during the whole summer period. for an urban resident custom for the hustle city's life on barren island may seem monotonous boring. regardless it will still come in droves to the commander runs.

although i've been around for forty years. i still don't know what kind of magnet tracks people here that line of it and that. was a moment for hampshire as the vast expanse of us here there's nothing the eye can stumble against. we believe we'll hear a different these three big elements the land of a civic ocean when stars will rear heads in when they purify the food is just the people here don't fool around baby haven enough in the way not like they do in the metro here people are more warm hearted. where weigel was you know this place is better for to hear a part of heaven belongs to the island.