welcome back you're watching our t. here's a look at today's top stories and a review of the week political and economic heavy weights of the pacific rim come together in hawaii vowing to prevent europe's debt crisis from engulfing the pacific the presidents of russia and the u.s. meet on the sidelines of the apec summit to discuss missile defense syria and russia's future in the w t o. two e.u. countries watch their governments fall at the height of the debt crisis with italy's prime minister silvio berlusconi resigning and agree swearing in a new cabinet but critics now suspect brussels of pulling the strings of uli

appointed and elected officials. you an atomic watchdog zeroes in on iran's nuclear ambitions by releasing satellite images letters which allegedly prove the country could be building a bomb iran dismisses the findings saying conditions are fabricated and politicize . the e.u. police investigate fresh clashes in northern caso after a new peacekeepers fired tear gas at ethnic serbs at a disputed border crossing the un secretary general says the situation has been caused by casillas attempts to expand its control over the area. but let's find out how to tame a leopard and witness a battle between creatures of the deep and our special report. the for most the region in russia's far east nine thousand kilometers from moscow the natural environment here is like no other on the planet here taken african

animals lives side by side among the eight subgroups of leopards this animal is the most beautiful one of the most peaceful predator on the planet a left that is more accustomed to sub-saharan africa but has adapted very easily to the harshness of the russian winter they have been known to attack the mesta cannibals which have never charged to humans listening for. the peace of the great bed in 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 dog is always an adventure. local divers rarely visit to the scenes the waters close to home a fall more diverse harvest so much interest than lifetimes can be spent exploring . for

dimitri rootless diving is more than a hobby it is his life the hood 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 on my free time revolves around underwater photography what will they do. the full anything i guess in a team together is of utmost importance the mystic state that at least three divers are present at any one time to be 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 is it move them out i was one of the first to go into the water. this year i've been going through four times a week. the same goes for last year. for you this right i'm going to start growing some kills the love of a. piece of the great day in the sea of japan most of the islands and the surrounding waters of protected areas dimitris keenum on the way to marvels his favorite diving spot is in the far east moviemaker to see. the joke of how deep is it here five meters. ok let's give him quickly.

color and shape of flora and fauna on the shores of the bay are the result of evolution in a harsh 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 fisherman 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 only feed on tiny crayfish and other invertebrates they locate them with the help of a long snout. everything 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 acute. 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 on the water 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 in peter the great bear load they're the subject of several research institutes five hundred metres of bays in the coastline is also part of

the far east marine nature reserve the hills in the thick forests of the territory of the kid the rover parts nature reserve it was established in the early twentieth century after the region was subjected to deforestation of 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. so gay are a mirror of works for the world wide 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 but 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 leopards 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 lappets each animal caught on film is given a name and if you need two of these cameras to get snapshots of a leopard 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 know there are several instances of leopards taking a camera away therefore he uses steel wire to keep it in place. if you will we're going to identify the liberty by most of the spots on its body. so what

we're going to do is make sure that the cameras are placed at the right level i mean really. if we were leopards on a trail we would realize that this tweak stands in our way. these unique shots were taken by the world wide fund the 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 have become a species in their own right i think for 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 four 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 leads out there a list of strict rules tourists are supposed to follow. the directions i was in when l.n. didn't kids a snobbish nies 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 at even also you are not to pick up anything from the scene like this morning 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 eroding the

rocks over millions of years extraordinary trees have taken root here to the slime with what's it called these japanese red line is more commonly known as the gravesite pine craigie and this is because it's also found in south korea where it's a symbol of foreign in such trees are planted on graves 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. well short 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 maki of each a marine biologist is a frequent visitor to pale as island. bullet hole

listening on hold of the new tires. and 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 nickel i have befriended some of the fish here and of come and i have regular contact with them. because some of them spawn here in mid september. you can sometimes a female fish sticks around here for several days. by truck or movements to see where she spawns connected shares the. 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. ok. 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 metre above the sea floor. alexander will be there for as long as the oxygen in his time last. thing here. i work with marine life in its own environment with i have direct contact with it much in the same way as you ologists on land your solution here fear for 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 them. so i have to put the bits and bobs of

a mosaic together to try and form a complete picture of. king. of the three hundred fish species in the primeau ski region some one hundred and how that 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 the rain life in the peter the great day is less active about one third of marine mammals head south.

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you. are still surprising. i'm finding. you're. getting bad out here but not saying hardly any birds squirrels you know. i don't know what's going on here. 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 thousand nine hundred six 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. it's possible to monitor the twenty four hour movement of incoming and outgoing seals. the primeau stream region is the sales southernmost habit scientists don't yet know how these arctic sails cope with the summer heat most of them head to other scenes for feeding but they always return here the breeding the common seals of peter the great day never make with seals from other regions eager caton made this discovery after monitoring the colonies for an entire year. now we're going to see what's happening on the kim tavor islands. all three of them . does where we find a seal or three with all the mothers and seal pups. as long as there are no

stores you speak of cats and heads to the nearby islands almost every day. when there are no seals on the beach because x. 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. because they can't see me if i watch them from here so they will act in their normal manner communicating and grazing. but i figure there are at least two hundred seals here with us because i wish. this is some of eager captains footage of a new born seal another discovery made by captain is a common sales that the mostly region freedomland all other seals species pre-dawn ice flows in the open sea winter the searchers have spent years flying around the

ice floes seeking out the local colonies as it turned out common seals give birth to their pups and secluded no under the of the hunting cliffs of i saw several hundred baby seals of all those once it was purely by chance even though i had intended on seeing such a thing anyway. of little formal official duty we should behave as if we're scared out of our wits of the size of these animals usual. definitely deliberately are if we can help it. if we live in the middle we should just steal. locks. if a seal comes close to you just relax and keep still. take pictures of you verse full face and her face what he wasn't going. to meet three who this is a diver an amateur cameraman he often goes to the cliffs and islands inhabited by

common seals they are highly organized and capricious animals. filming 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. home when you look into their eyes you can see how gentle and straightforward they really are. just like children you know you know that's reason enough to. get. common sales have almost no animals in the wilds the islands of peter the great day are inhabited by thousands of seal hunting in the reserve is banned but even then scientists are anxious about the future of the population. must work also because

they are so susceptible to any external influence that it is almost impossible to protect them 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 leverage as a species. alex a customer 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 left the tracks to determine the direction of their movements he hopes that several of the pilot as 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 one thousand nine hundred for such

snares have been set up once every three or four years a leopard the cat's caught as inspected and then set free this process is part of an international program for the protection of rare animals the loop is disguised with twigs around it arranged in such way as to deceive the cautious animal into stepping on the snare. well the force of the feline will always step over n. a finger lying in its path it won't even step on such a thin 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. of the whole world. a trap selected is shocked with a tranquilizer dart. once asleep scientists take skin samples draw blood and collect bits of further tests. they measure its blood pressure

pulse and carry out an ultrasound test before the leopard wakes up they also put a g.p.s. collar around its neck it will track its movements send real time data via satellite . with after fixing a collar around its neck we release the animal back into the wild. this tells environmental organizations how much territory these animals will need for their protection. also the color will let us track the animals whereabouts and how they use their habitat. and this way we will know which places are more important than others. that ten years of using camera traps are produced a wealth of archive footage scientists are quite familiar with a leopard named stamped he has been caught on film on several occasions.

this clip shows two leopards but the unique thing about this video is that the male is in front of the female apparently paying no attention to her and the female is trailing behind she seems to be flirting with the male something that's not typical of predators for 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 the female seems to have taken quite a liking to the male of. the natural environment of the primeau 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 my video here we see

a very old ash tree it's probably about eighty years old it looks quite young because of its many trounson stock appearance strong winds have changed the shape of the leaves and. 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 climactic conditions changed even the pattern of a coastline the so-called false island as one of the stops on the top is the one is busy and fifteen kilometers speed of sound links this time hector area to the mainland. that's when they're hard to season downpours salty sea water floods it and this is so called from silent actually and south as one. of. the marine reserve was established in one nine hundred seventy two since then the

underwater world today has become much richer and more diverse divers see it with their own eyes. vision. i think happiness is when you're able to do something that you really love you know and of course really has a purpose of the same time with the working of the world for material for other people to try and show them a whole new worlds. are trying to open their eyes about diving. nobody but a diver can witness a battle between crabs and they're pretty. says he. only

a diver can appreciate the diversity of stuff fish and make friends with an octopus . making a really productive beautiful dive with some amazing impressions as a real success i'm so happy with the results of. the sea of japan is home to an enormous range of fish from the ring bells dimitri orders hopes that in the distant future he will be able to say that he has visited every single magoon on every island and peter the great bear but it may take in more than one lifetime as he has barely seen a fraction of the wealth this land has to offer.

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