welcome back here with our team here's a look at the top stories iran's long range missiles are standing by for a ten day naval drills in the persian gulf to iran is threatening to block a key oil supply route if the west continues to tighten sanctions over iran's alleged nuclear program. fresh rallies flare up in syria with opposition activists reporting dozens of deaths at the hands of police new york and says more than five thousand people have died in the ten month long and rest with damascus blaming

armed gangs for the violence. and the year of the protester as twenty levin draws to a close it's the revolutions of rallies around the globe that made it water was arab spring the occupy movement europeans walking out against ever growing cots were just some of them. well up next we visit the waters of the white sea as magic for children surfers. the white sea its surface remains choked with ice been nearly 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 recede. that even in winter also can be seen through holes in the ice. board squeals and cracking

sounds can often be 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 of communicating with people with great pleasure in the open waters. of a q and they're behaving strangely today. sure why you had

a canary why did you feel like giving us a song or it was something wrong with your throat. before you start singing business. of water your best big on is sure was. and was a little let's give our throat some fish oil. bath now let's try to get off. sailors have dubbed baluga whales canaries because of the peculiar sounds they make . my three want to bring us to ring. skin color distinguishes these marine mammals from their relatives. blue good carbs are of

a dark blue color. when they're 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. you need to tell him that these intelligent creatures are worthy of perspex a sniff not affection i think. this dolphinarium emulates the conditions of their natural habitat as much as possible he's nice reasoning. in the come the luck should day of the whites see specialists from the speeches but branch of the trip. in cooperation with the optics circle dive center set up an open enclosure to baluga whales. the nearest

settlement is the village of mill mcu but location 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. a doctor's visit to fifteen different countries. they dream of getting a close look at. a swimming with them in their natural habitats. to do so even experienced divers have to attend a special event called i heard about. this trip. and then when they said they were doing this. i thought for got to do it to russia. this is the place to visit

species of photography did. you speak to people. it's a whole new experience for me and i your i have been diving for the past eight nine years mostly in topical war. southeast asia. mediterranean away called cold water but now. it's a warm water compared to here. in order to get to see divers first to break through the frozen sea. the thickness of ice is about 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 snowmobiles to lift chunks of ice nothing of the kind anywhere else in the world this original structure doesn't really. lift. 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 under 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 the air into the suit ok ok so you have to heat up and then you have priced it which is all that once it has seals if you use it the next in theory it's not supposed to allow. you have an inflated hose here and here say to keep it comfortable and you don't get squashed in the water with the pressure you put air into the suit keeps the nice and comfy and then if you're coming up a c. you have to get rid of that thing 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 thorough 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 styling 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 causes 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.

dog. just. did it very. dangerous for a show head towards her. it was true ari do you want to come where. we only need ice cream that's going to be heaven. if. 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. of 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 but 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 a sixty 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 want you to.

buy much of you get you what you catching the wind is what i enjoy most of all 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 to make mincemeat out of me yesterday. the weather on the white sea often changes abruptly but after a long struggle oleg is finally able to catch the will. lead. her. mum.

told her science technology innovation all the latest i'm elements from around russia we've dumped those huge earth covered. me committed to the. elite. teams. 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 . so 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 believers 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 and to singing you're sure what's most important is that this is not a circus of showing off animals ability to carry balsam that we have been predicting here people simply communicate with a living creature as you will see just the old. belugas gets attached 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 you and i have certainly experienced that but they have no hands to scratch the spot so they like being scratched out of what you offer to turn it over and offer their sides will make a point of scratching and stroking all the if she spots. we also message their stout bodies. they open their mouth but we don't allow everybody to touch their nice looking tellings. many people don't do it gently enough so we put them off we protect our charges. if. this is an offshore enclosure of the belugas even a natural environment in winter time 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 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 hundred years ago coast to as. fishing and hunting with their means of subsistence. many of them drowned during hurricanes and storms. local 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 in historical screw. 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 see troops. position i look 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 you know if they're on a particular way saddle as men usually sit with their backs facing forward and negative at the local women sit facing each other like this i think i do i do that is. also because there's only so the course of the trip to a fishing area takes a long time and those in a moment. in winter time far from.

their own was several shots out to sea belonging to divers. they were located in front of the rocky shore of bio filter bank. the 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 you have the template shoot of high and low tides in the wide sea is about two mazes both in summer ending in winter while the ice i'm standing on will take six hours to rise to this level at which your mother would listenings that six hours later anyone standing here will have no problem stepping out of the buildings eyes frozen to the rocks.

in bio filter bay 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 diver 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 these 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 and creates a panic so it's like a circle you just create normal panic very difficult to get out of that side. besides the obvious thought 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 on the rocks in ice cleans the water and also gives it unique colors. divers call this place the ice kingdom. bus so you can flies or another 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 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 county 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 pattering their theses presentations. biologist yellin across nova has served at 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 with add their own nestlings count down to females to race their baby birds and sometimes several get together to form a kind of kindergarten where they grow their flat things together with him to find a safe place with enough food for their ducklings raising them together is the convenient thing to do. on. the water in the white sea remains cold even in summer time but the odds of dogs are never affected by the cold water in the waves the whole day. 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 cbre baluga well 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 palookas 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. and. our task is to provide a good dive so that the whale school so we know that deep waters for a while communicate with people and then come back to the surface we treat them to fish if they fulfil the task correctly the is the syllable in the pride and. the whales are also as 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 that the whales understand them perfectly and even on so back with their unusual speech. for that reason sailors nicknamed them sea canaries.