his asking the egyptian government i thought least expel this really i'm person of from egypt this is not the first time that israeli troops kill people all soldiers and the border area egypt's public opinion has been liberated and their means are not going to pay silence again when israel commits any act of thuggery on its own our border or the people living on our border and that's what has brought down what happened last night so we have to look at the motivation to make a strategic solution to what has actually been happening. just turned twenty two minutes past the hour here in moscow let's have a look at some news making headlines around the world today in our world update this hour swedish police have arrested four people in the city of gothenburg on suspicion of causing a terrorist attack hundreds of people were evacuated from the city's art center following the arrests of the swedish authorities decided not to raise the terror alert level which has been at the elevated mark since november officials have not yet released any further information regarding the suspected plot. the tanzania

region of zanzibar has begun three days of mourning for the victims of a ferry disaster that claimed as many as two hundred forty lives many more still missing after losing power in rough seas the ship began taking on water eventually capsizing survivors it was overloaded with both cargo and passengers many of whom were children meanwhile rescue teams have resume their search but hopes of finding more survivors are fading by the hour it's the country's worst maritime disaster in fifteen years. natures reach mexico's gulf coast where officials of open shelters as a precaution the forecasters say the gale force winds have been strengthened as expected but the chances of it becoming a hurricane or reducing intensified air and sea search failed to find ten oil rig workers who went missing it was no word from a dozen fisherman who disappeared aboard two shrimping boats much of the u.s. east coast is still recovering from last week's hurricane irene which left more than fifty. with immigration rates reaching record highs experts warn the

sense of national identity in the united kingdom is on the wane it comes at a time when scotland's ruling party the s.n.p. has been pressing hard for independence since coming to early this year and wales is not far behind with growing calls to break from london's are all parties or emmett's explores now the small nations patients. welcome to wales part of the u.k. and a proud nation with its own language and customs and the latest voice to call for independence applied comrie which means the party of wales has always argued the country could be better off without the u.k. and it seems increasing numbers are starting to see their point of view our economy . from an interest in priorities of the south east of england to the fore an independent would be able to chart a different course. priorities wales is a long way from declaring independence but it's no longer just a pipe dream of people here voted overwhelmingly earlier this year in favor of

handing the welsh assembly full law making powers that was considered a turning point in welsh nationhood and plights comrie the party of wales have undoubtedly taken heart from the surprise victory of the scottish national party that a victory in may gave the s.n.p. an outright majority in the scottish parliament which has many powers devolved from westminster the party's promise to hold a scotland wide referendum on whether to declare independence according to applied comrie that marks the turning of the tide for a unified u.k. keeping now what i believe are beginning to to use the word independence in in a welsh context which they think they wouldn't have jennifer use our last activity gallops i think the people in where's are going to see that they're going stocking becomes independent the next logical step is for we're just becoming dependent to

of course separatism is nothing new to the british isles and the thousands of victims of the troubles in northern ireland are testament to how high feelings can run both in the present day and for centuries past while national sentiment may not be a new phenomenon the reasons for it have changed over the years and in these. current turbulent economic times money talks scotland has gas but while wales was a proud coal producing nation its mines are now closed and it's got some of the highest unemployment levels in the u.k. because of that the older generation is reserved when it comes to independence but young people are filled with national fervor for them independence is less about money and more about nationhood and identity and wales needs to be independent because it is a great country and we do we do and i like an ageing has already patriotic i think more patriotic than england we have

a lot of culture there we shouldn't go to seem to be better here at the moment but you can get free prescriptions. education seems to be a bit better plights comrie says it's going to build on that support providing not just emotional reasons why wales should be independent but concrete economic reasons too and it says wales does have resources particularly land and see for green energy if the scots vote for independence wales might not be thought behind. cardiff. will be back with a recap of this week's top stories in our weekly into those menus in just a few moments stay with us live. here in moscow.

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like millions of americans have lost thousands of dollars in retirement funds and i haven't had as bad as many so it's not just about them it's about needs to. mean i am probably. missing. the. boat. needed. since this is my film i get the last word this financial crisis will not be like a light sleep.

top stories this hour here on r.t. america matson. decades since the tragedy of nine eleven which united a nation but brought about two of the bloodiest wars of the twenty first century. russia in the sports world say goodbye to the country's top national ice hockey team wiped out in a plane crash in the blink of an eye. let's go calls on the international community not to take sides in syria's internal violence as president get it says negotiation is the only way to peace while the arab league announces it's reached an agreement with the mascot's on long promised reforms. that separate update for the moment i'll be back with more on those stories in less than half an hour from now on the meantime we explore what's being done to clean up the world's oceans of deadly plastic and it's our special report for you next on.

the thing that's most shocking to me is of all the samples we've taken whether they be at the surface can meters thirty meters organic one hundred meters every single sample has had plastic and from the samples we found in one thousand nine hundred nine there was a ratio of six to one bank and now in two thousand and eight we now know that plankton ratio forty six to one so that's over eight times as much plastic in the environment. critical to come through. the shark so shocking you know. the plastic soup of the north is a really good there's the super. scientists have shown that there is no untouched zone left on this planet and every square mile of the

ocean contains tens of thousands of bits of plastic the result of our consumption two hundred twenty pounds a year that are in the. we will not change the evolution of the society we are using less and less time to prepare the food for the luncheon for the dinner and as well there we. move and we have the habits to eat outside of the house so more and more we will use products which are much more packaged and ready to be consumed for the drinks or for the food then we were used to use in the past and in the first ten years of the current century since two thousand we produced as much plastic as we produced in this anti a century that preceded it we're using at the moment in excess of two hundred sixty million tons of plastic every year worldwide now around about

a third of that is used for single use items for items of packaging that are used once and then discarded so it's a material that lasts for very long time in the marine environment and yet we use it and throw it away within a year. all these oceans of plastic there because of our carelessness or is it because the system doesn't work properly. what happens to plastic when we throw it away. this is one of the biggest garbage trips in the united states. what else landfill serves our los angeles county about seventy eight cities and five point two million people as landfill takes then and is permit at about thirty thousand two hundred tons per day. accounts for if you take a football field from post to post fill it up with waste about ten feet higher than water three meters that's how much waste is except in your debt. in the united states and europe the least half the plastic we threw away his simply better it.

thousands of bottles and bags end up in this type of tip every year. between them the two continents very four to five million metric tons of plastic in two thousand and seven. in the face of this exponential consumption the infrastructures can't keep up. only five percent of the plastic used in the world is recycled and the west the main consumer does not even have the means to deal with. this is the port of chinari in india part of our recycled waste ends up here by the container.

hidden from european eyes our rubbish is treated behind these doors which are usually kept closed. you see containers are then unloaded and then the material is stopped in this yard in this yard as you can see there is a different different quality from different origin some material from germany some from france some from america some from the middle east it's not absolute polluters in the future india's number one recycling of plastic bottles. is a broker he buys that comes in several recycling games and resells it here where it can be treated by cheap labor. like the. line of business is doing well. the export of used plastic has been increasing by thirty percent a year in two thousand and seven france sent seven hundred thousand metric tons of plastic and broke as you see the build up from france if you see it from the label

you may be able to identify the bottles that maybe you would think of a in the garbage but these have come here now and they will be retitled and made again into valuable bottles more product which could be used again. the plastic recycled my future comes from western countries quite legally recyclers hope not showing us how we'll take our rubbish coming just european consumers to send the. message to the utopia customers utopian how homeowners are utopian men and women it's very straight and simple to put up on your sisters is proud to be associated been keeping the environment complete and good for the human belief i

have a week i liked those bottoms but you're throwing that must be that bad word into those products that you use every day maybe because i thought it was a back bencher are it is the bottles which you use but drinking water already brings out any juice. for. so we try to have zero waste if possible by trying to have no plastic come into our homes and then end up in the garbage can so not just going for a radical solution or just the way we go to buy things in the grocery store but we buy bread it sometimes comes the plastic bags you have to follow you to go to an

actual bakery we are now making these out of old t. shirts so we've been collecting t. shirts from schools and from good well when people are thrown away their shirts instead of using plastic bags and of course we never buy pasta water bottles anytime we want to get water we bring our own we fill up at the top filtered water we bring these with us everywhere so that you get these have as you develop them and then you don't think about them just remember to grab my bad leg of the market . even organics which doesn't go into plastic bags. show us the worms yet going to see underneath it carefully. and in the come out of it look some shallots some garlic. so there's

a recycling bin and we try to throw anything away if we buy something we try to make sure the packaging is recyclable the idea of waste is something completely invented by humans so there should be no waste if you're recycling if you're conscious about the things that you buy and you remember that everything you buy has to go somewhere. oh. no plastic in the home equals no plastic in the tip or going abroad plus no plastic in the ocean. that's marcus and is a question of time yes they're already off on another adventure pedaling two thousand miles between vancouver and tea one third to convince whoever they meet on the way. with them plastic is a problem full stop and it needs to be eradicated at the symbols. the

benefits which are brought by the usual complete statement are you also great for the society so great for the consumers in terms of security for food in terms of life this will transport etc that would be stupid just to cancel those thirty strong benefits in order to just. correct something which is just at the end of the life of the product and because that is a wrong be a view of the people and of the society we hear that same line from the weapons manufacturers guns don't kill people keep people kill people we hear the same mind from the plastics industry that plastics aren't the problem it's people that are the problem it's people littering but there's no way to educate every single person on the planet to add dispose of their plastics properly so the industry and the manufacturers have a responsibility to design a product that if people literally if a plastic bag blows out of

a garbage truck it won't have the sort of impact that we're seeing. and. can we do without plastic. for the moment you know answer is no. but in europe a few minutes a planet is a trying at least in part. because through time of law you don't find it so faced with the problem of plastic pollution. pollution of its beaches and the sea so ten years ago it made some changes. with age well there's bread there's vegetables a bit of everything if we. were in the summer months there's a lot of stuff from their gardens. or things like flowers grass from their lawns that sort of thing and he put whatever people have to the have a home that's biodegradable for you the other. for the moment these banks are one of the few alternatives to plastic. organic waste is collected every

week in banks made of stopped. alone have to be sorted the banks break down the tree and all the from waste. he said getting i have wanted to make all the article biodegradable bags are mixed with the organic waste so they break down completely within three or four weeks yes i saw the potato and corn starch that they're made of it reacts like any other organic matter and i thought it was like a peelings for example that if i saw. the resulting compost is used by the regions fungus so two million or going to banks go back to the earth each year. and a bit more plastic has not ended up screwed around or in the city. as we successfully sell to hawaii to get attention to the issue of plastic marine

debris with water hundreds of school and college students attend marcus and his lectures all along that trip from canada to mexico. now you might think ok this and well it eats plastic it goes in the mouth i'll get around it and that's it no big deal the problem is other and it's small so this past the past of particles actually stayed her stomach for a long time. the plastic these plastic particles are not benign they don't just sit there and do nothing while and marcus raises another question the industry has millions of tons of chemicals to plastics what kind of effects do they have.

these freshwater snails are sensitive to the slightest variations in their environment they serve a sentence under the federal agency of the environment asked york to study the effects on this gastropod the chemical substance use effects are still unknown this phenyl day. he was surprised but when the heading. was a complete new phenomenon for us we had and lost thousands of these new people and never find something comparable before and so we repeated the experiment once twice and even a third time you'll discover that ten percent of the females presented significant sexual differ missions and that their egg production was four times normal. this uterus with the two glands is considerably larger in the female compared with a normal form and this specific specimen. in addition exhibits this

great rapture of the open book you can imagine the power of the masses which have caused this rock said since it's really like. an eruption of a volcano. where is to be a found. the answer is in our plastics this antioxidant is added to baby's bottles. and package it belittles a risky. i was really shocked because you have to mention the test concentrations which can be found in every supposed order and it is hard to believe i confess that at these very low environmentally relevant concentrations such harmful effects like a killing or ukrainians is introduced. to. the scientists are really beginning to discover that the plastics in the oceans

released chemical substances into the endzone which have effects that are still know. how much escapes once the products are in the water. how do these pollutants accumulate in the food chain. on the remaining animals affect it. and to what extent. do we. know. that's what the crew of the world one left fund i mean trying to find out by studying the mediterranean fin with the world's second largest way. to do these animals are contaminated the scientists needed to study fat samples.

your situation. and the results of the pups and zakia just like polar bears and atlantic whalen's all the fin whales fact contains fire retardants which are additives to plastics. high. no one yet knows what if it is problems of the species. but. nick of m. . mayer we are in the middle of nowhere miles from any continent and we find substances and pollutants that have no business being here. they were just hundreds of miles away either being carried by the current. thought bothers me most is that

we are contaminating the whole planet or clearly in the remotest and wildest place that's. shocked by his own discomfort you want to do the food wrapped in plastic that we eat every day we're contaminated by certain substances. you put some more snows in bottles of water for forty eight weeks. those nearest which were kept in place to both us produced much more embryos compared to those near us in the glass bottles there are compounds in the plastic material in these key bottles that bleach into a culture medium or snails we do not know which compounds we haven't identified

them yet but they are idiots from going. called new well they must realize when we want to put a material or substance on the market it undergoes the bartley testing for me which enables us to show that it is harmless is the results are passed on to scientific and public organizations we would decide whether or not we're allowed to commercialize it when you put it in the thirty's or constantly checking all the products that we sell pointed. this man who are affected by these chemical products. and off a couple who use plastic like everyone else have agreed to have blood tests.

so this one is an epidemiologist for years she has been carrying out tests on fatality in two thousand and five she started studying the effects and finds another chemical additive for plastics she selected really made a high level of finance in their urine instead of the effect on their infant male children. no one had done this before. these delegates particularly the ones of most concern are called anti and versions they lower testosterone they do it actually to adults as well and but it's more important what happens in the womb because the changes that occur in the lower than permanent for life and so because it's and she and her janick lower testosterone at the critical time will alter the path of development of the male genitalia so

normally it starts in a feminine default if you will and then becomes masculine i was under the influence of testosterone and that process is interfered with by certain thali it's when they get to a certain level. phone it's a used in food packaging and towards for example to soften the plastic. but in rodents defendant eyes the species. the testicles disappear and the penis becomes shorter. the distance between the testicles and the anus which is normally double in males shrinks and becomes more like that of females. shanna had the idea and the courage to try taking the same missions with human babies and got the same results . when levels.