the latest news on the week's top stories on this is the weekly. pacific rim working on a free trade zone that could revitalize relations the russian and u.s. presidents also used the apec summit for a meeting on the sidelines to discuss missile defense membership for the world trade organization. new government prime ministers out. to pull back from the financial abyss i don't have to approve new austerity measures to stay clear of bankruptcy and disaster in the euro zone. plus a u.n.

report. but. as a u.s. backed smear campaign iranian now reconsidering the country's cooperation with the i.a.e.a. which they're calling a disappoint. my colleague bill dog is here in half an hour's time but for now we take you to a land of natural wonders and russians. right here. 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 arctic an african animals lives side by side among the eight subgroups of lovebirds this animal is the most beautiful one of the most peaceful predator on the planet the 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 domestic animals which have never charged to humans just beginning for. books piece of the great day 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 so he is always an adventure. local divers rarely visit the seas the waters close to home the fall more diverse harvest so much interest than lifetimes can be spent exploring. for dmitri who just 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 soul it's my business i'm afraid saw i'm revolved around on the watch of it's over free woman and you want to throw any dive getting a team together is of utmost importance the lives dictate that at least three divers a presence at any one time to the underwater. to help the other in case of an emergency the third remains in a motel but half. of all of them want to do the story of 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 are you this red i'm going to start growing some kills of the love of. peter the great day in the sea of japan most of the islands in the surrounding waters of protected areas dimitris keep them on the wall to models his favorite diving spot in the far east moviemaker trees. joke how deep is it here at five meters. ok let's triggering quickly. the peculiar 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 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 a 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 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. scientists of 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 them a trade 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 tanks cool. there are some three hundred species of fish in peter the great day alone they're the subject of several research institutes five hundred meters the base in the coastline is also part of the far east marine major reserve the hills and thick forests of the territory of the kid drove part 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. so ok irony 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 and 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 if you need two of these cameras to get snapshots of a leopard there is because the spots on one side and 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 ground so gay knows of several instances of leopards taking a camera away therefore he uses steel wire to keep it in place. we're going to identify the little bird 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. if we were lepers on a trail we would realize that this twigs stands in our way. these

unique shots were taken by the world wide 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 think a pushy tail and gray eyes distinguish they are more leopard from other species the first inventory of these animals was taken in one thousand nine hundred and 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 the miss

valentino resorts with every group she leads out of the realistic strict rules tourists are supposed to follow. the directions i was in when i landed at cases knowledge 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 it is also you are not to pick up anything from the sea like this way tourists of the reserve have to take steep paths they are not supposed to leave the trail or c. d. chores but once they reach the top they are awarded with a spectacular sight these sculptures of the results of the wind and see a road in the rocks over millions of years extraordinary trees have taken root here to this time with the support of these japanese red pine is more commonly known as the grave site fine grave and this is because it's also found in south korea where

it's a symbol of mourning in the path of such trees are planted in 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. while showing pellets 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. and the rain biologist is a frequent visitor to pair as island. with the bullet hole is being funneled into you 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. i have befriended some of the fish accord and i have regular contact with them. because some of them spawn here in mid september here because sometimes a female fish sticks around here for several days. by truck or movements to see where she spawns share it. well xander 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 of the sea floor. alexander will be there for as long as the oxygen in his tanks lasts. me. i work with marine life in its own environment with i have directed contact with it much in the same way as you ologists on lambda few. years here are a few 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 the mosaic together to try and form a complete picture. of

the three hundred fish species in the primeau ski region some one hundred inhabit the southern sea in summer they migrate to the north like birds too 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 the. head south. from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand saddam is not enough inpatient beds not enough urgency department beds and not enough nurses commandos that's to take care of all the people who are here the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture is a firefighter i didn't want to say i started out i want to just do firefighting

it's about eighty two percent of what we do the for the core of this medical that a rescue couple we saw waited for hours for a bit i've waited sometimes three hours but i was it's a safe francis and we were for four hours and fifty minutes getting us to all of the patients and we have a federal law that mandates that if you can't turn no one away who seeks care in an emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least. least. for. mine. would be soon which bryson if you remove the song from feinstein question is so.

nice for instance on t.v. dot com. twenty years ago the largest country in the suitcase it. was how did you train. began the journey. where did it take. 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 eagle has defended a thesis and written many scientific papers on the subject he spends nearly all his time on tellus island. we're on the lookout for possible intruders along the reserves perimeter of. the closest seal nursery can be

clearly seen from here with this possible to monitor the twenty four hour movements of incoming and outgoing seals. the primeau ski region is the sales southern 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 he could cut in 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 . does where we find a seal nursery with all the mothers and seal pups. as long as there are no

school speakers caton has to the nearby islands almost every day. when there are no seals on the beach he collects tufts of the fur and sends them to the board for genetic analysis when the mammals return he stays in a hideout taking pictures and filming from afar. they can't see me if i watch them from here so they will act in their normal manner of communicating and praising. i figure there are at least two hundred seals here truthiness i could wish to live. this is some of eager cottons footage of a new born seal another discovery made by captain is that the common seals of the for mostly region freedomland all other seal 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 some secluded no under the eye of the hanging cliffs of beisel several hundred baby seals all at once it was cured by chance even though i had intended on seeing such a thing anyway. of the militia we should behave as if we're scared out of our wits of the size of the shuttle's usual. definitely learned during the ah if we can help it. if we live in the middle we should just steal it lots. if a seal comes close to you just relax to keep still and i'll take pictures of you verse full face and whole face i want you. to meet me 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. 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. when you look into their eyes you can see how the gentle and straightforward they really are . bullshit just like children who know you know that's reason enough to go carving . common sales have almost no animals in the wild the islands of peter the great they earn habited by thousands of them. seal hunting in the reserve is banned and even then scientists are anxious about the future of their population. most 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 leopard 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 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 one thousand nine hundred four such

snares have been set up once every three or four years a leopard that gets caught is 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 a way as to deceive the cautious animal into stepping on the snare. for the fourth book feline will always step over anything lying in its path it won't even step on such a fin little stick so i'm going to put a small block of wood across the calf in such a way that the leopard stepping over it with one paw gets the other caught in the snare. with all. the traps a leopard 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 and will 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 a piece 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 with less. than ten years of using camera traps of 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 the unique thing about this video is that the male is in front of the female and apparently paying no attention to her and the female is trailing behind him 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 the 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 over. 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 facts as they take tourists around the reserve. yes we do here we see a very old ash tree its probably about eighty years old it looks quite young

because of its many trunks and stocky appearance strong winds have changed the shape of the leaves formalised up 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 the coastline the so-called false island is one of the stops on the top is that one is different and fifteen kilometers speed of sound links this time hector area to the mainland. but when there have a 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 well it has a purpose of the same time with with me but it was so much cereal for other people i try and show them a whole new worlds of what i try to open their eyes about going. nobody was a diver can witness a battle between crabs credit and their. it is. only

a diver can appreciate the diversity of starfish and make friends with an octopus it can get a really productive beautiful dive with some amazing impressions as a real success i'm so happy with the results. the sea of japan is home to an enormous range of fish three miles to the tree or just 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 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.

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