if you visit again you. could have you with us this is r.t. live from moscow. now it turns out that your main news story is syrian activists report war protester deaths of the head of the red cross makes a humanitarian visit to the country meanwhile russia's urging the u.n. to get the warring sides into talks to avoid a repeat of libya's chaotic descent. is read authorizes its special forces to shoot at palestinian protesters as they prepare to march in support of the un for independence is already on jewish settlers in the west bank but claims the sole purpose is to prevent bloodshed. impasse ukraine backpedals every threat of taking russia to court to force prices down moscow says

it will stand its ground on the already signed deal he has continued to insist on a price reduction but it's so far refusing to make any concessions but with more news stories more developments in less than half an hour from now. reports on the urgent plight of the world's oceans as the fight against plastic gets stressed stick. well it was because to put the north pacific good earth was to. protect all these things where would you think i'm through. your little shopping even though the

public. just to you is the first place to call to in the stomach of a do you translate it to human body size this will be to their fruits in the stomach. so in the past five minutes here in the concentrate i took a little walk around to see how many styrofoam cups i can pick up and five minutes what you see here is what six people would consume in one week of drinking coffee every day so many people think that their individual actions don't really have an

impact but if you multiply this by the millions and millions of people that drink coffee in los angeles alone you can start to understand how we see something like this in every single regular every single creek everest single stream and los angeles behind me is compton creek it's one of the many streams that drains the los angeles area now this stream will go into the los angeles river and then out to the pacific ocean the purpose of this boat is to to get attention and help politicians get other schoolteachers get the public to look at us and listen to our story. listening to marcus and emma stories like being the most in the climate seas and taking the time to look. in the mediterranean alone there are three million tons of garbage drifting around and eighty percent of it is plastic. we don't think about it but the

sea bed wasn't always covered with these or from annoyed and drifting objects. we're really the third generation to make massive use of plastic. all this is the result of sixty years of consumption. with that plastic colonize the sea. on the surface. a few meters down. and at the depth of one thousand meters. it's all of this material will be down here for ages especially where it's really deep there's much less oxygen and no light whatsoever i mean those are factors which help break down the plastic sort of stuff will be around for a few hundred years and have you kind of lose or dreams when you go really deep for

the one thousand meters for instance there is the you imagine something mysterious and completely different and also when you get down there and you see piles of plastic and rubbish it's just awful that was i was just so much as a three and a half. the oceans are being stuffed with plastic. with force feeding them. but there's something we haven't thought of. account digested. and the nets are full of there's nothing miraculous about catch. this material has revolutionized own lives today but at one point. what happens to plastic once it's in the ocean is really a new as we've always been told doesn't really have new effects on animals or humans.

is one of the thinking heads of the professional syndicate once you are in and you realize all the benefits that these testing will tell you all is bringing to the society and the quality of life you are convinced that their stake is fantastic and then you wants to explain that to everybody to prove that this product is not then or is that all as is providing quite a lot of marvelous things if westwood that the existing the resources for the planet would this deal everything that planets will live on would be totally exhausted it's thanks to the plastic which has been invented and this really speaking in the fifty's we have been able to produce so much material so much products that we use every day.

oh yes came back from a drive out to the desert one of the aircraft boneyard picked up this cessna for a few hundred bucks now it's missing the wings is missing the engine everything else except for the fuselage this is ideal because it's lightweight it has the doors intact the windows are intact waterproof but will make it waterproof. marcus erikson is a dedicated militant against plastic for fifty years he's been paddling along america's rivers he's seen the pollution growth and it keeps growing. one day monkeys have a dream so the whole world would care about the problem he hopes to mobilize the planet plan so you can see is an old airplane cabin sitting on fifteen thousand

plastic bottles. with the energy of someone who is determined to change the world he said you know from two thousand five hundred mile trip through the open ocean. so this is. over a thousand people schoolkids across the country of chicago have given us messages about the ocean and about flask six which we're going to take across the ocean and bring back and share with policymakers and try to get something done about this plastics issue. that's right next to the bottle. this is the marine mammal sometimes one of the biggest organizations of its time. for thirty five years

a thousand volunteers have constantly surveyed the beaches and grooves of the entire telephone post to help undernourished all sick animals. over the years they've had to learn to deal with new kinds of wounds. there definitely are crazy animals admitted to our facility with and. we have. this in mind that was attached to her that came out of an elephant seal stomach we have a big black bear and it was wrapped around a sea lions neck we have. monofilament high that was wrapped around us here i am back as well and inside of it now and then we had a strap and string that was found wrapped around a bottle of it first the other actually emptying fruit species so it's very much of a concern. last night's don't stop fishing.

there have been cases of strangulation in the home from the species of seals and sea lions. beaches species of whales have suffered incidents with plastic. plastic khamenei pill. and also suffocate. although the volunteers of the marine mammal center managed to save dozens of animals every year the vast majority are inaccessible. but we can see that it's very deep the biggest problem with something like this is this animal or male female she's going to grow some more and that entanglement won't and after awhile it could end up strangling her or stop her from being able to eat for a lot of science plastic items found in the sea come from what we threw away on.

here is some of the first collateral victims three hundred marine species of victims of plastic. twenty years ago i'm young i'm from literature i don't see that specialist started an experiment on foreman's a common species in northern europe. he wanted to know what the. completely straightforward investigation. but its results were a big surprise i look at home a simplistic more or less by accident because in the early one thousand eight hundred i found more or less states and at that time stuff i didn't know it all in in the stomachs which later proved to be industrial place that's the first time i

realized it was a place that in a bit worse. amazement. on his a little to his european colleagues. is determines knew how many full moons are affected. has received and analysed three thousand birds found beached along the coastline to beat countries is a piece of firm niland why are these green bit this pieces of plastic still with and dirty ninety five percent of these birds flying dustin's there's all sorts of fragments of broken plastic items and here this. at least seven industrial place that granules ok what i have here is the efforts place the content of a full moon in the southern no c. so if you translate it to human size. this is will be there for each and

a stomach and so death case there is no need to discus with this brutal best for you we agree that this is not elsie. according to the united nations plastic is no pun to the dogs of heart the species of sea but it's. thanks to the use of pesticides we dropped the planet and we protect the climates illusion as well but she would have to replace the basic by getting back of the material then you would have to milk apply the the weight of the magazine by for the price of the packaging by two and the amount of waste by one point six. drifting plastic. marcus and his friend joe assailing me pacific sitting on thousands of slightly leaky bottles. marcus's clam has already worked

his exploit is being followed by millions of people on the internet. it can affect some policy. some policy to help curb the exploitation of. a synthetic chemicals that we had used to our advantage short term advantage but now we're finding out just polluting our world and really i could feel that it's the impact of finish generation my kids are feel it so i feel like. obligated to do something it's an obligation knowing something's wrong you can't do nothing otherwise you're up to your accomplice. in the once in twenty years and english period and not blandish that particular farsighted idea. you fit into

a number of ships which regularly followed the same north european shipping lanes with a strange device. it was a record of ships have been towing them every month ever since. these are time machines to be kept as treasures. the recorders contain cassettes with which you can trace the evolution of plankton in the english channel and north atlantic. one hundred seventy thousand samples of plankton that has been trapped over five million miles a spider's web woven over almost one hundred years.

these devices have provided some unexpected and precious scientific proof. cutters that one of its catching pythonic organisms maybe it's catching small pieces of plastic at the same time so we went back through historic samples we sound cold from the one nine hundred sixty s. the one nine hundred seventy s. the eighty's in the ninety's and then compared abundance through time and that's where we showed that it had increased significantly when you compare the one nine hundred sixty s. and ninety's. this british scientist has proof of the increasing pollution of the channel and the blanket. in fact plastic never decomposes into the environment it just breaks down into small bits over time so even if we stopped producing plastics tomorrow which is not something that i would advocate because i actually think plastics can bring many benefits to society and even if we did the legacy of the plastics that we produced there fragmentation would continue for many decades and

centuries to come. marcus wants to share the scientific discoveries. all the plastic which has ended up in the sea is still there. three months and several storms later he finally reaches hawaii on his plastic bottle raft it was enough to make him a hero of modern times has struggled to start and get some attention. there's a steady trend of increasing plastic and it's growing exponentially sort of the purpose of this is to get the world to where it's been talk about solutions what do we do about this issue.

while marcus is busy consciousness raising on the other side of the planet richard thompson is busy collecting scientific evidence and contamination of the marine had bitten by plastics. i was just interested world there's a plastics that are forming by the breakdown of large pieces but what is the smallest piece of plastic present on the beach that was the challenger sets of my graduate students just a little over ten years ago. richard has found fragments of plastic that can be measured in microns finer than

a human who. has used huge quantities. of all of the pieces that we we extract that look a little bit unusual around about a third we confirmed to be plastic he thought that maybe his findings were the result of a freak event on a particular plymouth beach so he analyzed the sound of ten other british creatures and he checked all stars the same time worldwide. we found these materials every place we've examined and that surprised me the ubiquity the fact that these we know that large items of their brain now covering the ocean surface they down in the deep sea that but the fact that they chose worldwide and now contaminated with small fragments of plastic was actually quite surprising to me i expected that maybe as we move to more remote places and perhaps

we wouldn't find any plastics at this this microscopic scale but in fact we have. people are thinking that plastics are polluting and because they are totally ignoring the an enormous amount of. benefits benefits that you get from the plastic material like means less consumption and cetera if you have the light light of the cools then automatically the consumption is very slow or one hundred kilo less for a car is zero point three liter per hundred kilometer. captain charles moore is fed up of seeing the oceans used as a dumping ground. he traces do through your plastic back to the origin. of birds before becoming a bottle a blister pack plastic comes from petrol then it is delivered to manufacturers and

the form of little pellets. it comes out of this. right here. they come out of here it's now on the ground and after many years. billions. they call them urban stevens and that having been used for anything these pellets are on their way to the water courses this facility is still releasing millions every time it rains so this is an illegal dump of pellets preproduction plastic pellets this is a bag factory these are polyethylene pellets they float in fresh water. these are the pellets from the rail cars that have been washed and blown down to the drain this is the drain that leads to the river these millions of pellets are entering the ocean through those little holes right there you can see pellets on

every side of the drain we found two hundred thirty six million of them in three days of sampling these rivers coming down the rivers to the sea just in three days two hundred thirty six million pellets. jones more reason furia to burn plastic waste because you will soon as it never disappears. the captain's life changed when he sued a little used routes across the pacific. every time i took the time to survey the ocean i was able to see something in it i even would make a bet with myself i will come out now i will survey the ocean and see nothing but i would lose the bet i would always see something and this gradually made me think something is wrong. when he returned he was intrigued that there was so much plastic floating around so far from civilization so he decided to go back and quote

you find a problem. this was the big shock and this was a very very big surprise we were shocked when we pulled up the net for the first time i mean that was an aha moment my goodness what have we done that we can just throw a net anywhere in the ocean and hold this kind of plastic debris. hi dr mark is here i'm hired out of the ocean and middle of nowhere looking for plastic and lots of it. comes and shows move created a foundation called only going to eat a. month as the activists joined him alone with the construction team they've obtained government grants to study this area since they have kept on filtering the ocean. this place. since.

its couple. years. but up to a power cap. so this is seven hours in the open ocean with a truckload but as wide as a lawnmower that's not much area. that's like it's own human hair my entire football field the ocean is so bad this much plastic and very small strip code sample is a virtual. caption ml's samples of stirred up a planet wide controversy. he discovered to trash the water into. trash from the american continent is sucked into the trash or to explore spiral currents of the pacific joining the trash coming from asia. some of the islands and beaches of one are in the direct line of this massive

plastic. don't have is the victim of throughways from all the countries that border the pacific. we began cleaning this coastline here in two thousand and three and since that time we pulled over ninety tons of trash just this year miles it was like. the trash drips with major ocean currents spiraling round for at least ten years to finally ending up as a stagnant mass and centrism who sometimes is still a new. team

was established in operating procedure. samples are brought back to land he started. expedition after expedition the extent of the problem is revealed more clearly. six hundred seventy one fish that we collected have six different species over thirty five percent of them at least one piece of plastic in their stock and the reason we want to care about that although these might be ugly to some people i think they're adorable and they're also the making food source for animals such as tuna and mahi mahi and sound people don't necessarily see these fish people eat the fish that feed on these so. who buy in for more questions and how eventually is this going to affect humans down the line. in the middle of the

trash talk text as far as is possible from any inhabited land. and his team have discovered even the simplest forms of life struggling to support life in the midst of a trash. jellyfish so turned up they can no longer swim. even as old plant the most basic element of the ocean food chain are affected these tiny living organisms one of the tiny particles of plastic which get stuck becoming better in that bodies. microscopic life forms but life forms that are already struggling for survival as they become further and further in meshed in our rubbish.