live from moscow you're watching r t it's nine thirty pm here now moscow time the top stories the gulf is on edge two u.s. warships are close to a rainy and naval exercise right next to a crucial oil rig that surrounds been threatening to block. egypt's ruling generals are accused of tyranny is raids and staged against the offices of foreign human rights groups that the military says is stirring up trouble. major opposition march is being held in syria with activists suggesting more than thirty people have been

killed across the country on friday alone but some critics are dismissing those reports saying it's hard to verify them. coming up so ms waters are above the arctic circle still manages to attract tourists and kites seeking a thrill so next we invite you for the next thirty minutes to visit the white city in northern russia. the white sea its surface remains choked with ice minutely seven months a year. the chilly breath of the arctic ocean keeps the water freezing cold. near the coast however the high winds and bitter cold receipt. that even in winter can be seen through holes in the ice. squeals and cracking

sounds can often be a good around them. this is how so cold canaries of the sea communicate. typically they hide under the ice the white sea is the natural habitat. far from the civilized world in the north of russia on the coast of the white sea sea canaries are communicating with people with great pleasure in the open waters. of a q and they are behaving strangely today. sure why you had a canary so why did you feel like giving us a song it was something wrong with your first step. before you start singing vs.

the water your best go into is sure was more. than was a little let's give our throat some fish oil. bath now let's try to get off. sailors have dubbed beluga whales canaries because of the peculiar sounds they make . my three want to bring us tearing. skin color distinguishes these marine mammals from their relatives. baluga cobs are of a dark blue color. when they are one year old they turn gray like these

two female whales. later their skin acquires a milky shade. yes this is exactly how they should be kept but the people in society should know that the bloke a whale is not a stupid fish as many believe that. we need to tell him that these intelligent creatures are worthy of perspex a sniff not affection i think. this dolphinarium amulets to conditions of their natural habitat as much as possible. in the come the luck should day of the white see specialists from the speeches but branch of the trip. in cooperation with the arctic circle dive center of set up an open enclosure to believe the whales. the nearest

settlement is the village of no mcu but ok still on the coast of the white sea. it was a stoppage by local fisherman known as coast well as in the twentieth century. this place is very remote and difficult to reach only dirt roads in the cold sea found that. such things do not go. the doctor's visit to fifteen different countries. they dream of getting a close look at. a swimming with them in their natural habitat. to do so even experienced how to attend a special event cool head about. this trip. and then when they said they would dive with. got to do it to russia. this is

a good place to visit the species. he did visit he does speak to people. it's a whole new experience for me and i your war i've been diving for the past eight nine years most train topic a war. most seeing southeast asia. mediterranean away called cold water but now. it's warm water compared to here. in order to get to see. first how to break through the frozen sea. the thickness of ice is about forty to fifty centimeters in the diving school. so the divers take. into. this device was invented by an ancient people it's a type believe it was taken it

a step further and designed intelligent devices no deals to lift. nothing of the kind anywhere else in the world this regional structure doesn't. live. i styling in the white sea is a serious challenge in winter the water is bitterly cold. several hotspots bonuses are situated near every waterhole pier the divers change and comfort themselves after diving. according to international diving regulations should be certified by the professional association of diving instructor has the full venturing on to the ice. divers must be wearing dry suits

to make sure they don't freeze in the water the user is insulated by a small film of air into the suit ok ok so you have to meet up and then you have a dry suit which is all that once it has feels he is using the neck in theory it's not supposed to allow him to if you have an inflated post here and if he it say to keep it comfortable and you don't get squashed in the water with the pressure you put air into the suit keeps a nice and comfy and then if you're coming up on this you have to get ridges that i think ventured out through here. a lot of preparation is needed before diving under the ice. it takes time to put on a dry suit as well as making thora tracks on the equipment before finally getting used to the cold water. divers always had under the ice tethered to a safety line which is controlled by

a team member above picture over your head your rope your role the first dive is always made by an experienced instructor you like to tosca is to learn to navigate on to the ice to exchange signals with your partner correctly and to control the equipment. i study ving is fraught with danger the visibility beneath is only twenty to twenty five meters if the breathing apparatus fails the diver will not be able to surface immediately because of the ice above. the diver has to be aware of where the exit is. even in winter time life goes on under the white sea ice. on the seabed near the bolshoi christofi island there are underwater columns of

kelp scattered about. cold water is the best environment for this seaweed. fish move slowly through the cold war to the sea bass are used to the divers and often let them come up very close. there looks a menacing and they're not even afraid of bright light. the thread like tentacles of the sea anemones give the seabed a fluffy comment. c.n.n. money's feed on plankton and other old comic con tickles the given to take greenpeace to the water of the white sea.

just. get it very. clear or show you had a mortar. it was true ari do you want to come or. we only need some ice cream that's going to be heaven. that. we're there. for quite a few people the underwater world is not the only attraction of the white sea it's smooth ice is an excellent environment to kite sledging fountains. only

a failed often visits this remote place in the past he would only dive under the ice with scuba gear now he prefers to ride over the top with a special sledge and a parachute good interest with almost what i like about kite sledging is that you have a choice of parachutes or a three metre parachute is good for strong winds three to six to seven metre parachute is the right size for milder winds this one is nine and a half meters their case for any weather conditions or all of them will kill you forward you won't get you. by much be a good book but you catching the wind is what i enjoy most of all i should it is

like riding a giant horse galloping up breakneck speed to go i am carried away by a feeling of exhilaration because i am fully aware of the infinite power of nature's forces used to just do it well they could power over as my yacht sledge and kite in no time and make mincemeat out of me yesterday. the weather on the white sea often changes abruptly but after a long struggle a leg is finally able to catch the wind. gusts. could. come ashore is that so much of allaah table at an area will stand a little worse to tell the difference between multiple series of two thousand and

eleven the world changed in ways hardly anyone could have expected we witnessed the rise of people power on. the close up gene has been to die new stuff first plays to the most ambitious football club in the world. knowledge argy goes to the far east where the timber industry affects the legendary siberian tigers where the ancient native community loses its way in the modern world. and where the country's mineral wealth starts its way across the oceans. and well come to the from mars creature russia blows up. beluga trainer alexander and biologist natalia are cut off from civilization. they live in the village of new monkey and work in the nearby arctic circle dive center

. well so are you ready. palooka wails of plays an important role in their lives this is where they first met and then got married. let's go below go. to the belugas knew him a trio enough to go to the white sea dolphinarium when they were about one year old . alexandra natalia became their foster parents they tended fed and trained them. keeping in touch with palookas is not only that job but it is also a hobby and a way of relaxation. training

belugas means playing with them any hostility against them is totally ruled out. whales and dolphins have an acute sense of how humans are disposed towards them they respond to friendly treatment. and of course very many people come here they want to communicate with the belugas and touch them into thinking you're sure what's most important is that this is not a circus and showing off animals ability to leap or carry balsam they to me it's been pretty clear people simply communicate with a living creature as you will see just the old. belugas get to touch to humans very quickly. if they communicate with them for a long time they learn the habits. of the youth click here sometimes their skin h's here and i have certainly experienced that but they have no hands to

scratch the spot so they like being scratched out of what you're going to turn over and offer their sights that will make a point of scratching and stroking all the if she spots. we also massage their stout bodies. they open their mouth but we don't allow everybody to touch their nice looking tongues. many people don't do it gently enough so we put them off we protect our charges and if. this is an offshore enclosure for belugas even a natural environment in wintertime these palooka whales always flock to go for swell winds and currents create cracks and holes in the ice. then they can resurface to brief. large patches of open water close to the village of new mcgrew never freeze over.

according to geological evidence the white sea appeared some twenty thousand years ago. the people who first settled in this northern land find a hundred years ago called coast to us. fishing and hunting with their means of subsistence. many of them drowned during hurricanes and storms. locals still put up landmarks of the most dangerous sites they serve as a warning to others. along the shore of the white sea their villages founded hundreds of years ago by coastal is. the oldest one is jordan i read which means black river. it is first mentioned a historical square. in fifteen eleven. the church stands above the village it was named after some trifle the protector of hunters and fishermen. according to

local tradition this church had to look like a ship. sailed north along the white sea coast and reach the shores of spitzbergen island even the women made the long distance sea trips. was asia and i've also looked at the women went fishing in the city on rowing boats they caught fish many kilometers away from their homes and they went by these robots not by ships you can still see women on such boats going with their own a particular way saddle as men usually sit with their backs facing forward of negative at the local women sit facing each other like this i think i do i do that is what i've heard also. so. the trip to a fishing area takes a long time and the load which is off. in winter time far from cho not rich they're always several shots out of sea belonging to divers.

they were located in front of the rocky shore of bio filter bank. two white seas under the influence of the tide it's was the level of the shore rises up and down twice a day. in the bay even in winter you can see a change of ice level of the coastline. you know why there are daily tides in the whites only what they're triggered by the moon's orbit around the earth of the amplitude of high and low tides in the wide sea is about two mazes both in summer ending winter well the ice i'm standing on will take six hours to rise to this level at that would you want that would listen names that six hours later anyone standing here will have no problem stepping out of the buildings eyes frozen to the wrong crowd. in bio filter bank a divers learn how to work in pairs on their own so that they will be able to dive

under the ice without an instructor. some divers stand above the ice hole and control those who are underwater then they swap places. after the first two dips divers understand clearly that their lives depend on those above the ice. when everything is working fine it's fine but are they funny the moment something goes wrong you have what they called narrowing of vision and you use the ability to to think like which increases your breathing and this creates panic so it's like a circle you just create more and more panic very difficult to get out of that side . besides the obvious part of getting you back to the fold this is like an umbilical cord that keeps you calm. in the depths of the ice world the sense of danger is very relative. near the rocks piles of ice

a formed. ice piles up of the white sea coast due to the ebb and flow. huge chunks of ice create corridors and labyrinths stretching over many meters. this is the underwater world bio filter bank. it is so cold because plankton lurking among the rocks an ice cleans the water and also gives it unique colors. divers call this place the ice kingdom. for us so you can fly zone of the planet nobody can certainly. not now says the americans a visit to the moon's probes of landed on mars and venus but actually another planet is right here on earth it's a parallel world with

a parallel dimension everything is different here and i think people know much more about how to space than they do about what's under the sea which is versions of the world. there are hundreds of maritime biological research stations in the world today one of the most remote ones is in the candle laps of gulf of the white sea. and old wind powered generator is the symbol of the bottle tickle research station belonging to moscow state university. only a handful of staff stays at the station in winter young students from moscow state university's biological faculty often pairing their theses presentations. biologist yelling across nova has served to the station for twenty five years she often comes here with family in winter. she studies c i did ducks sure and i stay here. i just spend nearly all of the life time on water and

in the end. it is only during the brief reproduction period that they make nests on the shore they always stick together on land as they do on the sea. young female dogs who are there their own nest legs help the on the females to race the baby birds and sometimes several get together to form a kind of kindergarten where they grow they latch things together in the find a safe place with enough food for their ducklings raising them together is the communion thing to do. on. the water in the white sea remains cold even in summer time but the idea ducks are never affected by the cold water they bob in the waves the whole day. undercoat is the best biological heat insulator it doesn't lead to one thought in the old days where there were new modern synthetic materials around the fluff was used to make clothes for polar

explorers and sleeping bags and it's indeed an excellent insulator. like seabirds beluga whales simply don't feel the cold the temperature of their bodies always stays at ninety eight point six degrees fahrenheit thirty seven degrees celsius. the thick layer of hypodermic fat keeps the heat in well however it makes them look somewhat cumbersome. instinct compels belugas to save energy. they're easy movements never exhibit aggression. after a brief course of ice diving almost all divers go swimming with belugas in an open enclosure. for many it is a dream come true because nowhere else in the world can you communicate with blue whales in their natural habitat. our task is to provide

a good dive so that the whale school so we are in the deep waters for a while to communicate with people and then come back to the surface we treat them to fish if they fulfill the task correctly is the syllable in the pride and. the whales although it's careful divers cannot move as fast and graciously as they count so they adjust themselves to the divers movements. people always talk to the whales in their own language but beluga whales can barely hear human speech they perceive high frequency sounds. the huge forehead serves as an acoustic tool thanks to that palookas has perfect

echo location. in communicating with human beings they can comprehend body language and facial features. but divers or was calm feeling the whales understand them perfectly and even on so back with their unusual speech. for that reason sailors nicknamed them sea canaries. a little bit of good.