seventy occupy protesters have had to wish each other happy new year in custody they were arrested just before midnight attempting for to give the cotton park a place where the occupy wall street movement first come tode over three months ago . that more sights and sounds were a russian a special report we've got lined up for you from the white sea enjoy. the white sea its surface remains choked with ice for nearly seven months a year. the chilly breath of the arctic ocean peeps 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 heard around them. this is how so-called 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. but not a cure they are behaving strangely today. sure you know why you had a canary so why did you feel like giving us a song or something wrong with your fur. before you start singing.

water your best. is sure well. let's give our throat some fish oil. now let's try to get off the. sailors have dubbed baluga whales canaries because of the peculiar sounds they make . my three want to bring us to ring was that. skin color distinguishes these marine mammals from their relatives. baluga cobs are of a dark blue color thank you 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 the king. will need to tell them that these intelligent creatures are worthy of perspex a sniff not affectionate i think. this dolphinarium emulates to conditions of their natural habitat as much as possible he's nice reasoning. in the come to look should day of the white see specialists from the speeches but branch of the scenario in cooperation with the optics circle dive center of such. opening closure for the legal whales. the nearest settlement is the village of milne

a good book 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 pull the divers visitors from fifty different countries around they dream of getting a close look appealing to whales and swimming with them in the natural habitats. before they're allowed to do so even experienced divers have to attend a special ice time and cool i heard about. being with this same company that organizes this trip. and then when they said they were doing this trip dive with thought for got to do it moving to russia. anyway so far north pacific place to visit specie for the toddler photography definitely does speak to

people in south africa but the watch either i don't know where it is of all it's a whole experience for me and. i've been diving for the past eight nine years most serene topic a war. southeast asia and. mediterranean away called a cold water but now. it's a warm water computor here. in order to get to the depths of the want to see winter divers first have to break through the frozen sea. the thickness of ice is about forty to fifty centimeters in the diving school. it is hard work so the divers take turns to short intervals. the word for this device was invented by ancient people it's a type of lever that was taken it a step further and designed an intelligent device for snow bills to lift chunks of

ice nothing of the kind anywhere else in the world this original structure does the job of fall barely man to that of the. i starting in the white sea is a serious challenge in winter the water is bitterly cold. several hot spots bonuses are situated near every water hole here the divers change and comfort themselves after diving. according to international diving regulations should be certified by the professional association of diving instructors before venturing on to the ice because 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 on to the suit ok so you have to leave and then you have a dry suit which is all that once it has seals if you connect the dots a theory it's not supposed to allow you to tell if you have an inflamed post here and it up 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 ridges that 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 thorough checks 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 take their over your head your rope if you're ok the first dive

is always made by an experienced instructor to task is to learn to navigate on to the ice to exchange signals with your partner correctly and to control the equipment. cool. by 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 gardens of

kelp scattered about. cold water is the best environment for the 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 comet. c.n.n. money's feed on plankton and other organic particles the given i've taken from green hue to the water of the white sea.

just. her being here for we sure had a mortar. it was true ari didn't want to come where. we only need ice cream that's going to be have a. little bit after that. thing where you. go. from point 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 fans.

only going to fail 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 could be on the roads with almost what i like about kite sledging is that you have a choice of parachutes a three metre parachute is good for strong winds three and a 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 since all of them will kill you forward if you want me to push. why might you be a good one you're catching the wind is what i enjoy most of all i should yeah it is

like riding a giant horse galloping up breakneck speed to go i am carried away by a feeling of exhilaration you know because i am fully aware of the infinite power of nature's forces used to just do it or they could pulverize my yacht sledge and kite in no time and make mincemeat out of me but yesterday. the weather on the white sea often changes abruptly but after a long struggle a leg is finally able to catch the wind.

cultures that so much of a lot of people at materials that little word tell the fans what this new year two thousand and twelve hold for the world will be is trivial and it's the year before school said the trends will stay in power and. the close up team has been to docu stuff birthplace to the most ambitious football club in the world. now the party 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 mental well starts its way across the ocean. well come to the bar screecher 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 . but 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 tree owner would 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. i

. 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 or showing off animals ability to leap or carry balls and they tell us they will meet them through the fear people simply communicate with a living creature as humans this is the old. palookas get to type. to humans very quickly if they communicate with them for a long time they learn the habits. of the phone with you when you click here

sometimes their skin ages you and i have certainly experienced that thought you but they have no hands to scratch the spot so they like being scratched by the bite you are going to turn over and offer their sides make a point of scratching and stroking all the if she spots but. we also massage their stout bodies. they open their mouth but we don't allow everybody to touch their nice looking tellings you would find many people don't do it gently enough so we put them off we protect our charges and worry about if. this is an offshore enclosure for belugas even a natural environment in wintertime these palooka whales always flock to go 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 thanks. according to geological evidence the white sea appeared some twenty thousand years ago. the people who first settled in this northern land five hundred years ago book called 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 coast welders. the oldest one is jordan i already which means black river. is. first mentioned in historical scripts 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. the women went fishing in the sea 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 spinning with their own a particular way. as men usually sit with their backs facing forward and negative at the local women sit facing each other like this thing why do they do. for girls are so silly so the course of the trip to a fishing area takes a long time at the moment. in winter time far

from. their old was several shots out of 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 time it was a 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. amplitude of high and low tides in the wide sea is about two mazes both in summer and in winter all of the ice i'm standing on will take six hours to rise to this level it's within months of goodness names that six hours later anyone standing here will have no problem stepping into the building of ice frozen to the rock.

and by fields of 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 diving is funny the moment something goes wrong you have what they called narrowing of vision of you you'd lose the ability to to think like which increases your breathing and this and create a panic so it's like a circle you just create normal panic very difficult to get out of that side. besides the obvious part of getting you back to the hole 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 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 metres. 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 color as. divers call this place the ice kingdom. plus you can fly to another planet. nobody can certainly not now ask the americans a visit to the moon's probes of landed on mars and venus but actually another

planet is right here on earth with a parallel world with a parallel dimension everything is different here and i think people know much more about how the space than they do about what's under the seat of bush's vision sure but. there are hundreds of maritime biological research stations in the world today one of the most remote ones is in the come to luxor 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 to search 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 their 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 their own nest legs to help the ana females to race their baby birds and sometimes several get together to form a kind of kindergarten where they grow their flash things together ship with him to find a safe place with enough food for their ducklings raising them together is a convenient thing to do. on. the water in the white sea remains cold even in summer time but the odds of 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 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 and in no plane closure. 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 the is the syllable in the pride and. the whales oh it's careful divers cannot move as fast and graciously as they can 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.

a 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 always 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. a lot of good.

u.s. president barack obama signs a bill imposing new sanctions on iran over its disputed nuclear program while tehran threatens to cut off a crucial oil supply route in response. to a new wave of violence around since syria with demonstrators claiming schools more have been killed by security forces with arab league observers reaction with fury saying they may pull out and ends their mission to broker peace. and while the world welcomes the arrival of twenty two hour with fireworks and champagne almost seventy occupy protesters have to wish a child a happy new year in custody after being arrested in new york.