they are. great steering we sped away from the start. gets off to a good start and a fair wind helps the ship pick up a speed of ten knots take the lead the polish sailboat j.j. pulls behind. the force sails of the largest of all the lower one is as large as two hundred eight square metres foremost and some others bear a great number of sales themselves the same is true of the mainsail mast all the sails of them are interchangeable a total of two hundred fourteen square metres the only exception is the main sail mast to the. nikolai abramoff is not just the ship's boat but also a former sub-mariner abramoff

a spend the last thirty years making sails. week with this utility room here is our workshop we have one hundred sales and store all of different shapes and sizes twenty six of them are meant for masts and races while the others are kept as replacements. lucian bute music. nicholai is the only person on board the can repair damaged sail. sails are torn fairly often specially by strong winds you might even say they were wounded in the battle against the elements i have especially vivid memories of one rather dramatic sail replacement that was last year when we were competing against the polish boat dharma. we were on our way across the baltic sea from finland to poland that's when the top most sailed. it took the cadets some four hours to get

a new one back up but all that happened amid strong winds and torrential rain. we don't poll don't touch that. again is the bosun's favorite student like all the other cadets he joined me as crew three months ago that remembers only too well the terror he felt when confronted with the prospect of climbing a fifty metre tall mainsail must have been billion to. my heart sank and i shivered all over although we didn't go very far on the last occasion. and we had that time the boat was more how sites in petersburg we looked up at the top of the mast and wondered whether it was possible to reach it is all but now it's quite a routine thing for me to do. i remember the ship being caught up in a vicious storm near here during a race about a sail in the gym britt. the guys had to be sent to the far end of the bow each

with safety equipment all the way it was so big. and the guys dipped under the water several times. because some trainees are divided into shift teams each lasting four hours without keeping watch on the deck is the most grueling task the crew can't predict what might happen on shift sometimes they sit around for four hours board but sometimes they have to constantly run from one end to the other. or watch. for our. team to. its field six. feet below. the. field through to each field.

thank. you. thank. you very quickly it's more like. spring for a while when you stop us and. this is me. and i don't want to. risk on my. knees. as you know set on. three hundred feet over. the first exchange of communications with race officials. today ships declared. an hour later. participants are informed of how they're doing. with

the belligerent form of mist up or the report we've got a science places in accordance with an updated coefficient of the handicaps and the like as expected the polish boat. is in the lead we are in the second place both of us have an equal chance at the moment and only. the gap between the polish and russian sailboats is minuscule it all comes down to the second phase of the race then everything will depend on the wind the poles decide to seek strong winds by taking the risk of going further south into the open sea they disappear from is view but the crew sees another vessel in its place approaching on the horizon. but. thank. you so where do you. think i would

abolish all the show must go on the. we didn't annoy people and. always will. break when i was sixteen ok back to work. politically it was also to stop the tourists want to take our picture just because. they don't see that many sailboats. the cruise liner sails off followed by the sun sliding behind the horizon the first night of the race his second face sets in the nervous tension from the start fades away life onboard returns to normal cadet self shifts do what they can to vent all that pent. ms current speed is twelve knots people in the captain's cabin

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o. p. m m m. m the second day of the race the crew in the morning shift hasn't got a single moment to spare the wind is stronger than expected the first attempt to take down some of the sails is unsuccessful one of them is caught in the hurricane force wind the sail will be torn apart unless it's fixed without a leg. just like when it's in the back to roll up the top sail we tried to tie it to the bow so that the wind couldn't repeat upon it but we couldn't the wind is too strong it's simply too strong and the crew gets control of the sails amid picks up speed to fifty knots the ship is tilting heavily to pull out

a difficult turn for the ship still lies ahead. of us all of the one past the turning point one and a half hours ago now we're heading for the finish line there are about one hundred forty miles to go the polish boat was slightly closer to that point and therefore made a turn a bit earlier than we did but now that we are on the right side of the wind we'll try to overtake it would think it was that. the polish boat is only a short distance ahead only as crew needs to do is keep a speed for the first few hours after the turning point everything's going smoothly . with little and shows where we all are when the ship began three hours or so ago the bering angle of the polish ship was something like one hundred thirty degrees now it's one hundred seventy in other words we have one back distance from the polls. but nature deals me

a crew blow the wind has died down and the ship speed instantly drops to five knots with her sails beginning to droop the bulky frigate almost comes to a halt lighter pursuers try to catch up with her another exchange with race officials confirms that mir is now trailing behind the polish ship. we've got a chance to remedy the situation but only if there's a fair wind to help us in that case we might overtake ships with a small coefficient poor fellow had of them in the morning but the wind has driven them closer to us. the situation can't be remedy for the time being a strong wind is their only hope the crews whose job is taking care of the musts i will most no work to do they decide to hold more competition to try to reduce the stress brought on by the common condition.

was that you. have that right loosen up. was. ready. ready. was . was he was. introduced to people with the help of this instrument where it will to see the constellation of the stars in the sky that of us will normally you see this from below but right now i am looking at it from above. was you she was on the ship this is a movie because that's. and not lucky enough to be involved in the tug of war go to

a room where they listen to lectures on astronomy they're not very popular but attendance has mandated. you know inside the age of g.p.s. satellite and internet communications these seamen and taught how to do six times determine a ship's coordinates by observing starts. to give up is measuring how high the sun is over the horizon is easy enough to get issues according to what you know that you learned to do it after two or three lessons but also about if you want to determine the ship's location with you need to take three different measurements at a time as it was called go. score the problem is that the ship will cover a large distance in the five to ten minutes it takes for the contents to do the measurements you dolittle was was

the foresail must team is victorious meanwhile reports of the overall race positions of the ship start coming in as for mere there is no wind in sight yet. listen for the information about the voyage first july twenty second monday lord nelson is nine think class and twelfth overall. and the mir is second class and second overall the pelican of london is eighth sing class and eleventh overall. the ship's galley has its own race against time when it comes to feeding almost two hundred people four times a day speed is of the essence the cooks have to work almost around the clock in such places. like detroit to make the first tasty during a race where normally cook food separately when you have

a tilt he can't make good healthy food with the burns of the other half would end up on the floor so taking in potions is much more convenient. on the second evening of the race labs team hardly has any work to do the wind is still quite weak changing the configuration of the sails is pointless cadet project going takes time out to explain why people still like sailboats pushing to get but this is the only place where you can feel the thrill of the wind swaying you from side to side while you're up there hanging on to the mast also a sail boat promotes the spirit of comradeship it builds character and your ability to stand up to the elements of truth it's a tough job setting sail was especially hard work would end up worn out and dead tired but not for one moment today i regret it.

down in the bowels of the ship away from the deck and the elements signs of normal life can be found there are two campaigns showers and lounges here. in addition to quarters for the cadets and cabins for the regular crew about one hundred fifty people spend several months together in these premises during the night when the fate of the years main race hangs in the balance the atmosphere here is just as calm as it all was. the crew on the bridge follows the coordinates of mir in the polish ship its chief rival the russian sailboat is closer to shore its crew expects to cross the finish line ahead of the polish ship the result should be clear by next morning. the morning brings the long awaited wind that comes too late in the day the race is almost over. but there's one mile to go to the finish line the poles should dharma

led usury came an hour ago mission hill and we should come second. there were closer to the line because they had been going a bit further south and benefited from southerly winds but they had a lead of several miles. cool on the deck is quest for the news of the defeat. or should we say three cheers for the winners will get. by. you see yourselves. to meet you. but you should take both defeat and victory in your stride when you. i'm upset of course i really don't know about the others but we had a chance to win and we didn't the way that i see it today we just didn't go the right way i don't think it was the right way. we simply should have taken another

route. it was a fair race after all it is foolishness the captain says. well well bound to win the next time. and it disappointed no less by. getting to this point i think will do better the next leg of the race. with good news for such as mayor and josie or cold wind jammers going to mars and it's no wonder our lives are in the wind if there is no wind we go nowhere the poles were fortunate i don't know if it was a small stroke of luck or an educated guess they showed a slightly better performance than we did the wind is what matters. eat. mears crew takes in the sails before entering the spanish port town of kid is.

in accordance with tradition that parades in front of thousands of spectators on the russian and polish ships more side by side they're like two peas in a pod. the sail boats turn into floating exhibitions open to the public for a few days anyone is free to inspect them inside out i. mean while off duty say was heading to town. and. the crews of all race competitors get together at parties on lounge with snacks drinks and dancing their rivals or see shake hands secretly hoping they will emerge victorious next time and receive such congratulations on the victory.

was. today this is the last stop for me she will later join thirty other sailboats returning to portugal from their russian ship will follow a route of her own once again the wind and waves will be both her friends and foes on the way. it is easy.

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was a. box on the race of the international atomic war show criticizes iran for the stepping up its nuclear activities but dozens of nations show support for the country's ambition. that these roll ramps up but the rhetoric against terror wrong to look at the population is being prepared for a possible state of the majesty. the triumph of a paralympics in london is overshadowed by a major sponsor used to imaging the vulnerable and the same people that. this is coming to mind for moscow hello and welcome to the program iran's taken steps to change its image as an international out cost about one hundred nations

have offered their support oh great some controversial nuclear program the final decorate. the declaration of the summit of non aligned states hosted by tehran box the right for all countries to develop and use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes while the gathering was being held the u.n. nuclear watchdog released its latest report accusing iran of increasingly rayman richmond i.a.e.a. findings that the number of centrifuges at one of iran's facilities has more than doubled but the iran has dismissed the document as politically motivated side mohammad marandi a professor at the university of tehran things it's unlikely the timing is purely coincidental. the iranians are saying that this report came at a sensitive time to sort of distract attention away from this iranian success the nonaligned movement. conference in tehran has been highly successful instead of iran being isolated the united states has become isolated printed opposed to senior

figures going to tehran and many major world leaders have come to the country in addition the president of egypt seem to be wrong which is a political earthquake the iranians are producing uranium enrichment at twenty percent for facilities in tehran which then produce medical isotopes the fact that the united states and the europeans tried to prevent iran from obtaining this fuel in the past met that meant that they were taking the iranian cancer patients hostage the irony here is that the iranians at the beginning had no intention whatsoever to produce a name at twenty percent and then produce nuclear fuel but the americans and the europeans by taking iraq mean citizens and people hostage for sea iranians to take that step the politicians senior politicians really know that an attack on

iran would be devastating for the united states and not only for its economy but for its global position and its credibility and despise washington clearly not slavery military confrontation with iran a zero isn't really a time out major drills simulating missile strikes in case of a rule with these clinics state has been held in tel aviv and take them maginnis to exercises and know the only ways rallies are being prepared for an attack as well she's middle east correspondent paula as he explains. this fifteen page emergency brochure is being distributed by the israeli army across the country and it puts a father's smiling face on very serious and grim statistics the brush it takes about what people should do in a state of emergency it says that there is a need for and we hope that families should get together and talk about what to do if this country is in the stage of crisis at the same time if it's at anywhere between fifty fifty and three minutes is the time frame that israelis will have

from the moment fire when found until there is a state of emergency there and also going to people to go and check that the bomb shelters up to scratch how the pressure doesn't make any mention of any kind of you want to rant but certainly it is giving some kind of urgency and there have been those who suggested that it is really the way to hit by israeli politicians in preparation for human and war and certainly for that kind of rhetoric coming out of these maybe political elite some officials have said that we're looking at a civilian conference some five hundred people in any kind of war that would follow and israeli strikes on the run parallel to the brochure there is an advert that you might think on his radio television and it shows a with some general research with the israeli army officers and then trying to convince him to give their support in an israeli attack on an enemy state presumably the ranch the general at that stage take a bite of the chocolate hazelnut that sitting in front of him and he said something

along the lines of let's go nuts which the israelis misinterpret to mean that he has given them the green light for the operation for the missiles start to fall guy and you have those who want to move situation the israelis so we have been putting up there with me and it does seem as if there is something on the go we have heard some israeli politicians on record saying that a strike on iran is going to happen soon but the official line to be from the government in terms of. this question and when we spoke to the army was that it is nothing more than just a general public awareness campaign that people need to know what to do in a state of emergency what is the. take it says it will continue to push pull forward protect and save zones inside syria despite opposition from russia and china. says military involvement it would require one security council approval its allies britain the signaled it was possible to bypass the united

nations western states claim buffer zones are needed to help refugees fleeing the conflict but fear and rebels say the would also help them in the fight against president assad and political analyst and freelance writer. is skeptical that foreign intervention would even be aimed at protecting civilians in the first place and this is not them here mary cary what should be done is to force is to push for a negotiation for a very look with the syrian leadership and with the opposition for example next month we have the interim an opposition meeting in san dimas goes to the president of risk to syria so why do some states are not hoping the syrians for a political solution where there are many down trying to see the so-called gee how the u.s. . and the fundamentalists in syria sided by both carried out. this against a secular states like syria i'm going to work work.