live from moscow this is our t.v. let's take a look at your top headlines. the u.n. nuclear watchdog reports that iran could be developing the technology to produce weapons in its first public revelation of such claims the findings are raising worries that they might become a pretext for preemptive strikes against iran. the lengthy standoff in northern kosovo between serbs and nato back closer than a police finally draws u.n. attention and partly blames pristina for the trouble that's as the locals who don't want to live in self-proclaimed independent kosovo blend of their barricades into

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most beautiful one of the most peaceful predator on the planet the left that is more accustomed to sub-saharan africa which has adapted very easily to the harshness of the russian winter they have been known to attack domestic animals which have never charged to humans this triggering for. the peter the great day the sea of japan is famous among divers around the world even veteran divers are amazed by some of its inhabitants but diving is a journey dobby is always an adventure. local divers rarely visit to the scenes of the waters close to home a fall more diverse harvest so much interest the life times can be spent exploring . for dimitri rootless diving is more than a hobby it is his livelihood his video camera hardly ever leaves his side he

scrutinizes it before a plunge even a few drops of salty sea water leaking into the protective housing could ruin the film. this holy ghost writes my first experience with a video camera hearing it going. on since there have been totally carried away by it all my thoughts my business i'm afraid saw him revolve around underwater photography well woman do one thing before any time i guess in a team together is of utmost importance the news ticker tape that at least three divers are present at any one time to the underwater. to help the other in case of an emergency the third remains in the motor but half. of all of them wanting to do this don't have so much i've literally been counting

down the days you know as you know i was one of the first to go into the water. this year i've been going through four times a week come the same goes for last year because of this rate i'm going to start growing some kills the lot of. these is a great day in the sea of japan most of the islands in the surrounding waters are protected areas dimitris keen on the wall to marvels his favorite diving spot is in the far east moviemaker trees. which over how deep is it here at five meters. ok let's get going quickly. the. color and shape of flora and fauna on the shores of the bay are the result of

evolution in a hushed environment it is too cold for the natives of the southern seas but too hot for the plankton and fish coming from the north. quite a few local animals have an unusual appearance to such as this alligator fish host of myths of sprung up around it fishermen believe that they have mystical powers some believe an encounter with them portends a bountiful catch others think it signals an approaching storm but in reality they are useless and harmless creatures as far as humans are concerned they're no good as food and then they feed on tiny crayfish and other invertebrates they locate them with the help of a long snout. everything on it is unique in its own way and. when you dive you see something in the water. but

a couple of days later it might be totally different. that in this way you learn something new every time you discover something you didn't know anything about. scientists at the far east marine nature reserve were not aware of its existence they asked him to show it to them if he ever saw it again unfortunately for dimitri it was a one off. divers can stay underwater between thirty minutes and then our divers have to surface afterwards to have a rest and change their attics cool. there are some three hundred species of fish and peter the great payload there the subject of several research institutes five hundred meters the bays in the coastline is also part of the far east marine nature reserve the hills and thick forests are the territory of the

parts nature reserve it was established in the early twentieth century after the region was subjected to deforestation the handsome inhabitants falling prey to poachers today many of the species are thought to be on the verge of extinction for example only forty far eastern leopards remain here. sergei irony of works for the worldwide fund for nature each spring and summer he sets up so-called camera traps on trails where leopards look for prey this practice dates back to two thousand and two if you want to catch them in the act you need to get inside the mind of a leopard you need to imagine that you are the predator then you will know the levels ways you will know that he will choose mountain ridges and ranges to have a good view of everything around him in such a position he can sniff out his prey from the breeze that comes over the slopes then he will go about planning his attack. the

first camera traps were equipped with regular film now digital cameras are used to capture footage every leopard has a unique pattern of spots the markings help researches identify leopards each animal caught on film is given a name and you need two of these cameras to get snapshots of a leopard when you're there is because the spots on one side differ from those on the other and consequently you need to make sure that the leopard is in full view from every angle. two camera traps are lined up on both sides of the trail special care is taken to make sure they're at the same level of of ground so they knows of several instances of leopards taking a camera away therefore he uses steel wire can put in place. if you will we are going to identify the little bird by most of the spots on its body for chris so what we are going to do is make sure that the cameras are placed at the right level

. if we were lepers on a trail we would realize that this twigs stands in our way. these unique shots were taken by the worldwide fund for nature before camera traps were installed emigrated from their african homeland thousands of years ago since then they have learned to live in snow and become a species in their own right thick fur a bushy tail and gray eyes distinguish they are more leopard from other species the first inventory of these animals was taken in one nine hundred seventy two there were some forty individuals at the time since then the situation has not improved more than fifty leopards are thought to be necessary for the survival of the species but with only forty thought to be left they continue to survive somehow.

reserve staff regularly tours of the far east marine nature reserve one of them is valentino wysocki with every group should be down to the realistic strict rules tourists are supposed to follow. the directions i was in when l.n. didn't kids us navi i should remind you that this is a protected area it is strictly forbidden to take anything from this reserve or any other reserve for that matter that's a given also you are not to pick up anything from the sea this way tourists of the reserve have to take street paths they are not supposed to leave the trail or seek detours but once they reach the top they are awarded with a spectacular sight these sculptures of the results of the wind and sea of roving the rocks over millions of years extraordinary trees have taken root here to the

time with the typical of these japanese red fine is more commonly known as the gravesite pine. this is because it's also found in south korea where it's a symbol of mourning in that such trees are planted on grace there. unlike other trees if it prefers to grow on rocky coast so in many cases the roots of such trees stick out of the shale. by showing perilous island ranger igor cotton stays here in the far east marine nature reserve a small outpost for months on end. the bay near his makeshift home is an ideal place for monitoring fish. alexander marquis of h m a rain biologist is a frequent visitor to the pale as island. poets hold it on hold it in your tires. his diving gear travels with

him wherever he goes but his work place is the sea floor twice a day he goes underwater to study the behavior of fish in the natural environment for years miracle i have befriended some of the fish a quarter of cars and i have regular contact with them. like with some of them stone here in mid september. sometimes a female fish sticks around here for several days. if in my truck or movements to see where she spawns committee chairs. alexander needs to locate and catch several fish species to carry out d.n.a. tests the results are incorporated in a single database under an international program.

during his first dive he has enough time to catch the fish he needs for analysis for the second he will do nothing but watch as he keeps still half a meter above the sea floor. alexander will be there for as long as the oxygen in his tanks last. year. i work with marine life in its own environment i have to wreck contact with it much in the same way as you ologists on land to your solution here fear of the trouble though is that i can only stay underwater for short while. this exposes me to only a few fragments of the world underwater. other aspects elude me unless i spend years studying will. so i have to put the bit some bulbs of the mosaic together to try and form a complete picture. of

the three hundred fish species in the primeau ski region some one hundred and how but the southern sea and summer they migrate to the north like birds to waiting for them is a wealth of food and spawning grounds in winter rain life in the key to the great bay is less active about one third of the marine mammals head south. cultures the same on the taxpayers' money coming to the realization of a real mystery of the hero of the crisis without any eurozone leaders and national governments continue to give loggerheads on how to rescue a currency. a

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eagle caton is a ranger at the far east marine nature reserve he is famous for his knowledge of common seals since he began studying them in one nine hundred ninety six the ego has defended a thesis and written many scientific papers on the subject he spends nearly all his time on ellis island. we're on the lookout for possible intruders along the reserves perimeter of. the closest seal nursery can be clearly seen from here will it's possible to monitor the twenty four hour movement of incoming and outgoing seals. the primeau ski region is the sails of the most habit scientists don't yet know how these arctic seals cope with the summer heat most of them had to other seeds for feeding but they always return here for breeding

a common seals of peter the great they never make with seals from other regions eagle cotton made this discovery after monitoring the colonies for an entire year. now we're going to see what's happening on the kin tavor islands. all three of them . that is where we find a seal nursery with all the mothers and seal pups. as long as there are no store speaker cats and has to the nearby islands almost every day. when there are no seals on the beach because lex tufts of the fur and sends them to the fortress for genetic analysis when the mammals return he stays in a hideout taking pictures and filming from a fox. movie because they

can't see me if i watch them from here so they will act in their normal manner communicating and bathing. with i figure there are at least two hundred seals here through three because i wish to live. this is some of eager cottons footage of a newborn seal another discovery made by captain is that the common seals of the most ski region freedomland all other seals species breed on ice floes in the open sea winter researchers have spent years flying around over ice flows seeking out the local colonies as it turned out common seals give birth to their pups and secluded noakes under the overhang in cliffs of beisel several hundred baby seals all at once it was purely by chance even though i had intended on seeing such a thing anyway. of little asian we should behave as if we're scared out of our wits

of the size of the shuttle's usual. definitely very liberally ah if we can help it . if we look at the mole we should just feel. locks. if a seal comes close to you just relax keep still i'll take pictures of universe full face and her face when he wasn't. for. me to the rudest as a diver an amateur cameraman he often goes to the cliffs and islands inhabited by common seals they are highly organized and capricious animals. filling them can be a difficult task sometimes they approach divers to bite on their flippers more often than not they play hide and seek with the seals tease the divers darting away before picture can be taken. moment when you

look into their eyes you can see how the gentle and straightforward they really are . just like children who know you know that's reason enough to. get. common sales have almost no animals in the wild the islands of peter the great they are in habited by thousands of. seal hunting in the reserve his band even them scientists are anxious about the future of their population. because they are so susceptible to any external influence that it is almost impossible to protect them occurred for example if an oil tanker capsizes here right now we will clean the shores up but if this happens in february all the newborn seals will die obviously it is much easier to preserve the leopard as a species. aleksei costly

area is a biologist he is one of the few people to have an official license to catch leopards . alexei's job is to set up special snares and measure leopard tracks to determine the direction of their movements he hopes that several of the predators will end up in his traps in the autumn. we set up no more than twenty snares on two or three trails there is no point in placing more than that because we simply do not have the time. since nine hundred ninety four such snares have been set up once every three or four years a leopard the cat's caught is inspected and then set free this process is part of an international program for the protection of rare animals the loop is just skies with twigs around it arranged in such way as to deceive the cautious animal into stepping on the snare. for the foreseeable feline will always step over anything

lying in its half it won't even step on such a fin little stick so i'm going to put a small block of wood across the path in such a way that a leopard stepping over it with one paw gets the other caught in the snare. hold. a trap selected is shocked with a tranquilizer dart. once asleep scientists take skin samples draw blood and collect bits of further tests. then measure its blood pressure pulse and carry out an ultrasound test before the leopard wakes up they also put a g.p.s. color around its neck track its movements send real time data via satellite. after fixing a collar around its neck we release the animal back into the wild. this tells

environmental organizations how much territory of these animals will need for their protection. also the color will let us track the animals whereabouts and how they use their habitat. in this way we will know which places are more important than others and we'll let. that ten years of using camera traps have produced a wealth of archive footage scientists are quite familiar with a leopard named stone he has been caught on film on several occasions. another this clip shows two leopards the unique thing about this video is that the male is in front of the female apparently paying no attention to her at the females trailing behind she seems to be flirting with the male something that's not typical of predators or the male as well advanced in years he has earned respect of his

peers he has allowed the pick of the ladies for her part of the female seems to have taken quite a liking to the male of. the natural environment for more ski region constantly surprises its explorers familiar and well documented animals act completely differently here local plans to not resemble the counterparts elsewhere guides always make a point of stressing the fact is they take tourists around the reserve. yes we do here we see a very old ash tree it's probably about eighty years old it looks quite young because of its many trunks and stocky appearance but strong winds have changed the shape of the leaves a formalised according to one theory there was a tropical climate here until the last ice age the ice compelled many species of animals and plants to move here from the north as a result local plants and animals adapted to the new living conditions by changing

their appearance climatic conditions changed even the pattern of a coastline the so-called false island is one of the stops on the top one is this is a fifteen kilometers piece of sand links at least ten hector area to the mainland. that's when their harvest season downpours salty sea water floods it and this is so called from silent actually ans out as one. of. the marine reserve was established in one nine hundred seventy two since then the underwater world of the bay has become much richer and more diverse divers see it with their own eyes.

that vision and. i think happiness is when you're able to do something that you really love you know and of course well it has a purpose of the same time with which of them it was for material for other people to try and show them a whole new worlds of. trying to open their eyes about diving. nobody but a diver can witness a battle between crabs and their credit. says. only a diver can appreciate the diversity of stuff ish and make friends with an octopus . a really productive beautiful dive with some amazing impressions as a real success i'm so happy with the results you get. the sea of japan is home to an enormous range of fish. to meet me or does hopes that

in the distant future he will be able to say that he has visited every single goon on every island and peter the great day but it may take him more than one lifetime as he has barely seen a fraction of the wealth this land has to offer. more

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