tv [untitled] October 31, 2011 1:30am-2:00am EDT
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trying to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into khan's report. nine thirty am in moscow these are your r.t. headlines scores of occupy protesters arrested across the u.s. in confrontation with police authorities confiscate tents and ban people from overnight camping meanwhile foul weather hits the east coast testing activists determination to keep the entitled birds by going. greek default narrowly averted but it's now another troubled euro nation crying out for help portugal wants to renegotiate terms of its bell out raising concerns that the rescue fund is not enough to avert a new wave of debt. puting russian billionaires are on our promotion boris
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berezovsky throw their fortunes at a high cost battle in the u.k. court errors often accuses our remote edge of robbing him of billions of dollars something the chelsea f.c. owner did not. up next we visit a remote set of russian islands where a population of just seven people live cheek to jowl with two hundred bears don't miss our special report. rushes for at least the noise your good sailing to the most remote part of the sea of a halt. if email from the interior were intrigued by the remote place. the nike yacht leaves behind busy sea lanes to set sail for the most uninhabited stretch of water. free elsewhere in this part of the journey is very dangerous therefore you know. the nazis captain is accompanied by six tourists. that they
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missed respect shanteau harlan's before the archipelagos biggest cull of the of seals isn't it lonely out here where the only one failing. to travel is on board hope to get to the oil looms body of the news of the following day but a few hours later the weather turns for the worse. great clouds in a cold piercing wind portend a storm moving two hundred kilometers a left to reach the shankill islands there's no way to floyd from the weather if the vessel is cool top in a bad storm anything could happen it could capsize the waves might toss it onto a sandbag if it's close to the shore. road of course this is a dangerous area her men are to create
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a risk here for her anyone trying to get through this two hundred kilometer stretch will have to cover it in one go going in for a new floor of course if you haven't gone too far away from the shore you can turn around and go back. in any case it depends on where the bad weather gets shipped it's up to the captain to make a decision. the yacht has a month's supply of fresh water and fuel on board however every. trip across the sea of a cult is full of danger ships crush it every year in two thousand and four a yacht called a song disappeared near the shores of the shanty orleans with three crew members on board. it's always unpredictable here if you're not prepared things could turn to the worst if you. will for. the next you look if it's fifty five years old and he is a professional sailing teacher the first visit to the show intolerance when he was very young building
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a yacht was his hobby now he uses it take tarus to shanteau harlem's. deal makes a stopover of chicago named in honor of the famed soviet pilot on the island is russia's only sense of that specializes in capturing white whales the travelers decide to wait here until the storm has passed. everybody. it's great that you arrived safe from us or if you're welcome to show love and the love of god you thought x a captain is an incredibly brave man do it feel like a. chink the head of the facility first came to this island with his parents when he was a young boy after completing his military service he returned here and spent many years working as a fisherman now he is in charge of a team catching watch whales so i'm in for scientific purposes of the sense
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dolphinariums in russia and approach. they spend most of the time underwater where they can hold their breath for twenty minutes by just go underwater and stay there until you lose track of the focus of the number of males and females we catch depends on the customer we don't take big ones because their capacity for adapting to new environments is not good enough. at present there are some twenty white whales in the facility they take about a month to be tamed during that troy they are expected to get accustomed to their trainers and allow people to hand feed them each instructor trains a small group he feeds the mammals and observes that behavior if a white whale refuses to eat for a long time it is released back into the sea. so crucial to me is the most difficult process but once the animals undergo the
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adaptation in a new place training is easy each animal has a distinct character some are bold colors or tenets each one requires an individual approach but. since the white whales have more yet become accustomed to humans they are very apprehensive of them they don't show up on the surface but eventually one of them agrees to be fed fish from a human hand. but. if you hold it by the gills and be quiet for a moment it should come up to you if you know it is a mile it will instantly pop up and something's coming yeah that's him down there. while you can. don't they look great you know martin and this too hungry i'm speechless they're wonderful.
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the men become stronger the travelers to start to hurry on and reach the shores of the shuttle or looms before the storm hits the back of the donkey genevieve feel at home this is how the c. of a caught screech everyone. always you know we will keep on sailing. with the weather strong winds whip up waves up to three meters high the yorkshire capsize at any moment the sea of a halt is the cool to see in the far east if someone falls overboard they could well die of exposure. with one hundred kilometers to cross until the shanteau harlan's there's not a single data point from the school as luck would have it to know if he has not yet moved far away from their previous stop from the artillery caught off guard and the
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seafarers spend several days in the tiny fishing village on a small spit of land. to the surface and suddenly we have been waiting for the storm to subside for almost three days and still has thirty meters a second wind almost knocks you off your feet local fishermen have given a shelter when there's an elderly officer buying into nearby vessels or of a situation is better than being on the high seas right now with. the fierce storm is a rim of a powerful typhoon the originated in china thousands of kilometers away even if the weather gets better it will take before he sees several days to calm down completely. through this is the second day we have been sitting
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around waiting for the. the shot of the bombings broken down today was a first catchable had fish food is running out. yet this is exactly their magic genii were after when we set out. five days later the weather improves the seafarers decide to resume the journey. says uncle scouts. this to more than two hundred kilometers to the shans harlem's the captain is charged to the cools fall from the coast any closer would restore your running aground the crew keeps on track with the help of the g.p.s. navigator and america's compass. of
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a phone it isn't so bad now given to the waves are just one metre high of the time to head for the sham time that. we have resolved to move on because of stable atmospheric pressure in the last twenty four hours we are fine full to the shore for the shelter it has given us now we are in open season for some of them with. the curious part of killer whales is attracted to the small boat this part of the sea of a cause is rich with salmon in the summer they spawn in the rivers of the shutoff islands providing plenty of food for the killer whales. for him wow it's the size of all bugs. it's underneath a look coming up our. family.
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killer whales the most colorful as belonging to the dolphin family they hunted in groups of an intricate social structure when chasing so it will prey they can swim as fast as fifty five kilometers an hour they're not afraid of people over they rarely attack from. jerry goes down it goes. it's a male suit for. the fuku. money shantel island greets sailors with its rocky shores the shanta islands were discovered by russian explorers in the middle of the seventeenth century in the language of the indigenous nif people shantelle means island.
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the participants in the expedition decide to cut the route short to get to their destination as soon as possible they head towards the opacity straight during high tide the water around the shuttle islands rises by several metres low tide rushes a gigantic mess of water back to the sea of a halt the currents in the straits between the islands a stronger than anywhere in the world the slow moving yachts runs the risk of being thrown back to shore because of the powerful currents underneath the counter flows create a swirling for tax as a result the boat looks as though it's sitting on boiling water. this isn't but there are massive currents here who are storms give rise to big chaotic always making it difficult for small vessels to seal the sailing here is a dangerous side from that their rocks in the middle of a strait if you ignore them you're in for
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a good deal of trouble for you for the first call. centuries ago the shanty harlan's were part of the mainland but later the advancing sea separated them from it the archipelago poisoned area some two and a whole thousand square kilometers roughly the same size luxemburg anyone wishing to see the many natural wonders will take several months to see them. culture is that so much of a good news going to be made in a lot of people a good idea but this is the world over populated as the world reaches still another population benchmark the debate continues as to whether the planet. wealthy british style. is not on the title of.
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year old's reach is a safe way of the crew cold set up camp by the beach it is below the truth more than that washed ashore and the shoreline is too narrow to set up the tents the. slow growth of all these frequent storms dr grifo into from the shore the trip for the. ends up here going to three hundred if there's been a long journey about this place is not suitable for a stopover. it's a blog of all sorts of things or go fishing. the captain decides to journey on woods even though the sun is setting he goes to get was separate bay for the bolshoi and the river for an overnight stay neither waves nor wind can reach it.
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the toy changes twice a day around the shanty arlen's the difference in water level can be as much as eight metres during the noise of the water receded and the yacht ended up stuck on a sand crank the captain seizes the opportunity to check his yacht for any damage and most of us felt well while the captain most asleep on the job the tide turned to yodel around and left us here thinking it is now that it's home and grounds we can't possibly get to budge we'll have to wait twenty five hours before the next high tide and then we'll continue our journey. with him as we have with. the old ones are inhabited by a great many animals but the best person the biggest threat to humans that's why wakes petitions come in here make a point of camping out in open territory that can be easily monitored.
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twenty five twenty five hundred three six hundred eighty. with the station is the only place on the shanty towns where people live all year round it's situated in the middle of bolshoi shanteau island. the station's marriage of vladimir boyd monitors the weather report stated to the mainland morse code is the most reliable way of transmitting information over long distances. the best to you. the weather conditions on the shan so islands are quite challenging the summer is short and in the winter the islands are cut off from the rest of the world by severe storms. when far away from civilization and your self preservation instantly keeps saying. you have to tread
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carefully to avoid slipping brainy rankle. away using an eye for an axe you need to be careful you must always remember that this place is far removed from civilization. there is an emergency help won't be coming for quite some time. foodstuffs and fuel to deliver it to the weather station twice a year locals take good care of themselves they grow vegetables on a small plot of land and they also make bread people here can only prepare a few items at the time in the preheat oven three tins of baked for forty minutes. going to our market your captain alexy love is always welcome here if you look at it he brings food news from the mainland the meeting is celebrated with a traditional tea party and the guest is treated to
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a local delights of bread with cloud very dry as which is with red caviar. this delicacy is considered an every day food here on the islands which are rich with salmon. anatoly haven't you and the island's oldest resident he has many stories about severe storms and unexpected meetings with baz. after coming here in one thousand eight hundred he was the weather station chief a manager for several years when he quit that job he decided to stay here for good . since then he's been making a living by hunting and fishing he's been to nearly every remote part of the arch. close to the weather station of the remains of a steam engine it was brought here by whalers in the early nineteenth century. if
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the boy and they were whalers from north america well this is where large amounts of fat were rendered the grinder was used to mincemeat the world there were lots of whales you know what but there was no electricity older machines the powers of prevention the meat grinders were all driven by belt here two belts were used. yet not even. anatoly over juke is sixty two years so when he sets out for the forest always takes his trusty rifle with him to ward off any bad as. if you carry a rifle with you you won't come across anybody for months with them but the moment you don't a pair is bound to appear that's why you need this. huge bears on chance all and there are big threats but they tend to come off the anatoly food supplies
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rather than the front to himself. and i need a bear in my case was barred from the law i had made sure she couldn't get inside the store house not really so she sent her cub there when it comes through i took what i could find in the store house and when the two men outside had a big feast. of the shuttle there are total of two hundred living here trails nearly always leads to the miles of small rivers where fish pool is that an encounter with a bear is most likely. more inquisitive aggressive. yeah he's the boss and he's behaving like one well you. know what i mean was states and mounds if you will working on flat ground. he looks like a clumsy animal but he would catch up with you in no time. even if you was good out
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of your wits you'd still be as fast as he mean so i mean. there's no trace of him anymore. miliband has retreated to the forest the captain can lead the york allow the travelers to go ashore and cook. shouted my mom will catch some fish leave it for an indian film powder they like it right now boiled that could be spy for him to thank yous we fish. a small river flows into the sea of a halt the storm has turned into a lake by blocking it with a mass of riverside pebbles a large school of salmon approaches the shore as the fish try to head up river for spawning but it is impossible to catch any during the spawning season salmon stop eating and ignore the bait the travellers are only happy to finally land some freshwater fish. worth of red on fast seem to be only too willing to get course
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they can help fight it on the line with their families she she and when i do post here. there are thousands of fresh water and salt water fish to be found in the shelter arlen's among them a hunchback simon flatfish and trout. in the morning the york dykey its roots may destination equal to chico i don't. know what it would if. we were approaching new teaching i love it gin and northeastern straight up we can't see anything because of the fog over so we have to rely on navigational aids if we're lucky enough we might see a colony of seals you know. with the help of the g.p.s. the york makes its way through thick fog and drops bank up by the island.
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program on there waiting for the signal. to. go off like say i'm going to say when i go ahead sir. all in this home to numerous rookeries here seagulls cormorants and other birds make the nests. but the most interesting attraction of the island is the vast colony of seals the travellers a lucky to take a picture of them. when the animals sunbathing on the beach they are reluctant to go on the water during low tide this is the best trying to get close to them. i mean this is done this go when we were still on board we noticed some lighting seals we were going see try to get closer and touch them.
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several species of sea memel inhabit shantel islands the ring seal is one of the most common they feed on mollusks and ground fish for a long time seals were the target of hunters but now the practice is bad and. the seals do you know just the people most of them rushing to the water but they don't head out too far hundreds of inquisitive always pop up all over the place the animals are puzzled rather than scared humans are a very rare sight here. because. seals can be very aggressive they can even bite that's why the tourists treat these creatures with care. just look at this little tail and flee.
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i'm sure the seals move slowly but they are excellent swimmers they can dive down to a dead five hundred meters and so should food. the nokia has covered almost seven hundred kilometers it still has to cover one third of that distance again to come full circle but then the return journey always seems d.c. . the .
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