presence feeds now in the palm of your. home. one thirty pm in moscow these iraqi headlines as colonel gadhafi is remaining troops hold out against government forces and nato air strikes in libya the french president faces a legal battle at home over his country's intervention in the war lawyers claim nicolas sarkozy should be held to account for crimes against humanity committed during the bombing of libya. international efforts are being stepped up to calm border tension in kosovo where neither locals nor syria nor serbs are willing to back down after recent bloodshed is mulling a proposal to end the deadlock sparked by the violent seizure of two border posts by coastal bins in july. and

a statehood showdown at the un as the general assembly gets ready to vote on the status of palestine with deep divisions preparing to crack the surface the u.s. and israel remain opposed to giving the palestinians a seat on the world body but next hour he takes you to the farthest corner of eastern russia where mother nature is still very much in charge of that program coming. for. sure the c.e.o. before him lies market down one of the most extreme regions of russia you can get to the most remote parts of course good. for being. these researches are off to what may well turn out to be a sensation they know that something unusual has been found on the banks of one of the rivers in the country's north the scientists want to see whether the find is indeed as you. because they have been led to believe if it turns out to be true the

scientific community will get an intriguing glimpse of what life on earth was like thousands of years ago. expedition will travel across western chukotka the northeastern yakutia a wealth of remains of extinct animals dating back to the ice age is hidden beneath the permafrost a number of fossils and tusks have been found here. however the find that the researches are after is something special a prehistoric bison completely mummified by nature. of which some forty mummified animal remains have been found in the world since biology became a science two hundred years ago some twenty of them are more or less in good condition all the others are just fragments legs skulls and the like are only two guys and have been found over the years one in alaska and the other here you're

from what i've seen much more is left of this one this is why it is more valuable for research it's. some time ago geologists found in a raid of mammoth fossils and this out of the way part of russia. it was the world's first and most large scale expedition of its kind scientists believe the area is full of relics from the late pleistocene e talk that period came to an end some eleven thousand years ago i should probably the same time the last remaining mouth's died out on the rest of the continent leaving behind their tusks from a kind. of material which in this organic to tissue called can teen is really remarkable stuff. you know this is the last front tooth from a mammoth. it was an extraordinary animal the people are fountains of years ago were aware of its useful properties here the way they use the stuff to make the

first tools utensils even works of awesome people have always been fascinated by the material with. which a coat courageous villager venue risk has a population of about five hundred and the situation on the banks of the mali a newly river. nearly all the villages that spend the brief summer in the tundra and taiga tending reindeer hunting and fishing from here the expedition heads for the site with primitive bison was found snippets of the body to the shore to do what the man who steers the boat tells it it was the propeller made brush against the river bed in shallow places but if i happen to own panic the people know the lay of the land well and they'll tell you what to do with me to chat with you. here you can easily get around by water people mostly use light white votes for the purpose but explorers should be aware of the difficulties

that local rivers have and still. there are geologists biologists and paleontologists among expedition members travelling to this remote and cold environment has been a cherished ambition for many of them. since its formation several thousand years ago the molly and we river has kept many secrets about the ice age in no way in its banks. is the complete ice-t. there is an abundance of animal fossils here even if people were to come from all over to dig them up it would take several years to finish the job. the expedition camps out on the patch of land by the river. the cliff where the bison nami was found is across it some local saw the animal when they were travelling past the place by boat at that moment a huge chunk of permafrost collapsed into the water to reveal the mummified corpse

the find was immediately reported to fyodor should love ski he is officially licensed to collect paleontological objects in this area it was fyodor and organized the expedition and prepared a camp for field research. she would get no shoes today i think we need to inspect the place and just relax a bit before we would like to move to that side because. he did it mildred he worked in a viewing everybody will come up with a plan of their own and will correct everything with critique you. tagging along with the expedition is our country should love ski both the son of the organizer and the youngest member of the group of all the others arrived he had already gathered a huge number of ancient fossils found in the area a group has taken a lively interest collection. this is a bison horn. preserved because it was kept in a natural freezer. thanks

a lot of cary let me show you how well done. for another two days and then we'll send you back heard. that a moment this one squash interesting it's a mammoth a stencil points were divided into three sections which points to its very old age such plates are often found in early elephants. the only number is an extinct member of the elephant family during the ice age woolly mammoths lived in most areas of eurasia or in north america there is a trunks was small of them there was a elephants but their tusks were much larger. it is speculating that such mammoths lived in groups led by older females current theory suggests that they became extinct due to climate change and over hunting. the last moments lived in the late pleistocene a part. of. today

visitors are free to take a stroll in the park dating back to the place to see an era it's the result of the efforts of scientists. in fenced off one hundred sixty square kilometers of forests tundra shrubs lakes and swamps the park is situated seventy kilometers from the expeditions field camp and your course is north east the arctic ocean is only one hundred fifty kilometers away. but the question of the water in the bog that was here a few thousand years ago never dried up today there is grass here so bush has become grass when it is the least twenty twenty five centimeters long to figure for bison is fourteen centimeters it can be assumed therefore the bison nibbled at the lower grass level as the trail behind the horse's. zimmer a mr reconstruct what he calls

a mammoth step. this ecosystem was predominant in the arctic of the late place to seen huge herds of large herbivores such as namath's woolly rhinos running their horses bison used to graze here why many of the species died out approximately ten thousand years ago is still unclear another ice age came to an end around the same time it gave way to swamps to address the ecosystem of mt steps in the north has completely changed and she would you think today's climate to you would suit mammoth steps admirably i can even seen my minds are animals creating pastures for themselves when you do these wars and bison haven't seen one another for twelve thousand years but their genetic memory tells them after just a couple months that they do you know one another i mean i will recall the mammoth

two are there they count that's the least thing we want they'll do are everything around here. two members of the expedition are live missy and feel just share the back of their job is to look for a mammoth tusks eleven field who are together almost all the time when it comes to looking for fossils they can't wait near one wants to share his secrets with the other. reason there is steep slopes all along the bank everybody knows that mammoth tells can be found here although many people are on the lookout if you actually find any obviously i've got some secrets to keep what you need in his job his determination. the first step is a careful inspection of the steep slopes from a boat to molly and he is a tributary of the river call him on each spring rain and water from melted snow flood the tree the tree over flowing water washes the bank away forcing permafrost

from a treat as a result big chunks of rock tumble down into the water to expose ice bound missions deep inside. the mcdonald's not first of all you must know what it looks like. you should look for it everywhere. i dream about finding a mammoths goal. that's my aim you know after all others have found such things. only people whose job is looking for tusks know the telltale signs of where they hide shallow waters of the best place for tots comes in. with a great stroke of luck phil has found a tusk of the oppressive size. going on for this one is easy to carry it anyways but thirty kilograms. of.

rain has brought work at the burial site to an abrupt halt life in the camp has come to a standstill. cultures that so much definitely a huge music to share the power to find the friends in the absence of peace process the palestinians will ask the united nations to upgrade their current observer status to that a full member state. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has

been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are the day. when there was a lot of sunshine and the grass and flowers grow stronger with each passing day. when the icy nisha with the bison have been found nothing to weigh on the fied animal was instantly moved into an ice house and when we were about to enter a unique place it's a gift of people from the northern climates permafrost makes it possible to store food yes it's a remarkable place there's nothing special about this small ice house but it is

unique nonetheless you know we're going to see something even more exciting in science. the corridor and sells the ice house will hollowed out by hand and sand an enormous ice formation the walls and floor made of ice each year they're sprayed with water ventilation is checked at the same time this makes it possible to maintain the low temperature and humidity and you know if you're playing you're going to quote experience usually warm this summer in chicago. by the permafrost live again to degrade and rapidly melt away and we feared we might lose the bison buried in it. consequently members of my team moved it to this ice house as fast as possible. specialists instantly try to find out what caused the animals death the bison stale stands upright and said if they pressed against the public this in direct sign may indicate that quickly

suffocated many others have theories of their own. with only sure that it might have died when the spinal cord or the skull was suddenly fractured. in other words it might have been buried under falling rock one more also it could have fallen through a crack. when we were moving it into this cell i was saddened to see that one of its horns have been severely damaged i do you know look there's a crack at the bottom of the bird and that means that the skull must have suffered a serious injury. either this happened after its death or it was the cause of its death. chances are something helped it landed a natural trap. but it's possible. we know that lions were around here at the time it's true permafrost is an excellent job of preserving the bison soft tissues and even characteristic smell that's a pretty strong smell there yes it smells like

a cow from just. as far as can be seen there are no major injuries on the bisons body according to a tentative assessment by some die during the pleistocene period its body has spent around thirty thousand years in permafrost. wards scientists are delighted to see that here the bison is in the sort of environment that existed thousands of years ago. some of the working on the bank today. he would go there ups get as much information as they can and when he was there on the front line as it was. the summer heat was radically changes the shape of the cliff what the prehistoric bison was found to scientists to blunt the boat not far off on the five numbers burial place. would be with me this is where the normally fully poison was found

we need to establish when and how the animal delayed and the natural environment that was typical of that. periods where they would interact with you will agree with. the cleft contains clay with peach streaks in it this is the best material for radio carbon measurements radio carbon dating will help establish the period when the bison lived clay accumulated during cold periods where i speak for when the climate became warmer. she was disposed to this is pete here you can find anything you like grass insects and little twigs wished but it was more than. the bison may have been an evolved like this one idea. and will need to find out whether this kind of piece. is also on the other side of the bank within a. few puddle do you think the ripples in this formation date back to those times and i'm sure they do it highlights the relief of the periods usually in the period

when our bison lived right. in a lake with riddles that. the bison was in a nice situation one of the pete's top players one thing is crystal clear it was not a natural death otherwise insects would be to not bisons body scientists speculate that after the bison died the mud quickly enveloped its body and saved it from predators in the natural deep freeze prevented it from decomposition it was was not . disposable the tele bison might have been swept away by floodwaters rose here. or there it's most of being too weak to resist the flood. and the. thought also the small amount of peace hit points to a building process visible at your. body is was in fact in a strong. so emotive droned it will go at you.

ancient fossils now with tusks found in this area are unique with aerials. this is a standard but workshop it contains a wealth of natural specimens and manmade figurines. the moment we are vere mammoth tusks more than any other bones you know about it but they are valuable if only because they were underground for thousands of years before somebody chanced upon them. the material and the objects we made from them will survive for hundreds of years to delight people to. play therefore we treasure mammoth tusks of. phone calls as consul forwards and make mistakes a faulty cut cannot be undone all compositions are unique works of art it is impossible to fake all in a take each object costs

a lot of money nearly all of the world's moments connoisseurs of both intellect and traditional. the greens of mammoths made from tusks the moment the mammoth tusks and fossils are preserved in permafrost out of the woody frozen earth begins throwing with the test decomposes of the work that was going to thaw but just series riding in the permafrost like this one are absolutely satisfied with would assume. this is one of the permafrost areas so gazing off a scientist founded the northeastern research station the rocky bank of the river it takes four and a half hours by air to get to you could ask the nearest city is enough laboratory attracts scientists college students from all over the world. they're interested in zim of studies of permafrost anomalous and value the fact that the station is far

removed from civilization and nearly every summer college students come here from the united states to work and there is international projects. where i live is that for a claim around as well but where you go to school that is lisa this is a bit different than. that and that's the way. plasticine park is one of said gazing off most ambitious projects in recent years he has been doing his best to bring in various species of both of. these young elks are in for a long journey from a small pen to freedom. easy easy if you can take you forward to showcase there you go. future. behavior. looking for pets it it's like that well to our viewers if

they've been around for a month one of the elks was very sick and we had to work hard to nor seemed active health. now that there are fewer mosquitoes here they're out skin to be released into the pork weekend. place to scene pock is a very hot permafrost forty kilometers from the station. during the summer it can only be reached by boat the elks are transferred to the most of the trip without most cat. is enough is always at the will on such occasions. this is not the first time that he has used the small multiple to transport tunnels. here the place where i live is

the world's least accessible point economically speaking or the method of transport costs more than anywhere else we brought the most buffaloes by motor boat from wrong the oil. the young adults us become accustomed to humans and learn to trust and for that reason they patiently wait for the chance to go free. parks staff carry the animals by hand from the bank to the ten. but before they're let into the wild they will go through a period of a climatized nation. gay's him off believes that herbivores can survive in these rigorous conditions moreover they can radically change the landscape. with a clue it should be an open landscape with scatter tribes whooshes for trees tiny

brusa lakes and trimmed grass why do they mow the grass and parks you may ask that's because there were millions of early wars in the old days you want to throw a couple ras was there staple food it's the sort of landscape that man is used to i'm comfortable here though i'm trying to recreate the natural environment in which my distant ancestors lived. so cold arctic steps existed in the north thousands of years ago an abundance of food attracted numbness and other have those. early man quickly followed suit. today most of the people living in this rugged region of mine precious metals.

this is a gold mining field and to call cut and russia's far east ironically it is the cause of the gold industry that mammoths have been found scraping off the top layer of permafrost in search of mineral wealth reveals these prehistoric names but sometimes they emerge naturally. united that people don't know why permafrost sometimes looks to form gets over it's because there's a foreign object lying underneath which has been there for tens or even hundreds of thousands of years and all the sudden conference begins spirit outs. in the end the objects shows up in the midst of tundra edging for the place of several millimeters a year. over the course of many years the majority of unique prehistoric objects have been found in the permafrost they have been dug up in the russian far east

altai on the southern europe's. these remains of a woolly rhino cave there bison among the five horse legs and a complete one year old mammoth all give us an idea of what these prehistoric animals look like. the fossils of primitive predators herbivores provide unique material for studying animal d.n.a. from the ice age. the called kobol is widely different from all known fragments of prehistoric hoofed animals. scientists of concluded that it is the world's most complete mummy of a bison it is much better preserved the fruit baby the famous mummy of

a bison found in alaska. somewhere. this is a true scientific sensation such finds are absolutely unique when something similar is found it is just fragments in most cases but this is a perfect cultus a for boys and we can get an idea of what it looked like what was inside its body and what it ate shortly before his death and much more. if i go to . the next scientific expedition to this cold harsh environment may well result in another sensational find remains of a cave lying been found close to the site where the truth caught kubel died.