it's that it's precisely concrete steps like this that can help to save the i.n.f. treaty this is what the world is expecting from our two countries. and stuck in the middle of this literally even is europe is us and russia need to remain engaged in constructive dialogue to preserve the treaty and to ensure. it to ensure its cool and verifiable implementation which of course is crucial for europe's and global security force i couldn't imagine that someone in europe would be interested in a new nuclear arms race and the only option to prevent it is to continue the i.n.f. treaty but the i.n.f. treaty as it is now is not enough we need to expand it because there are plenty of new autonomous weapon systems including those in cyberspace and they should be regulated not only the u.s. and russia should be included in the treaty but other states as well like china the e.u. is a helpless bystander here reduced to making desperate noises arguably it has the

most to lose if the starting gun on a new arms race is fired and i'm a gets done of reporting from moscow r.t. and there are just some of the world's top stories here on r.t. international for this hour we're back in about twenty five minutes hope you can join us that.

sea dragon was designed to sail around the world the wrong way so she actually porous best when she's healed over about forty five degrees sailing up when she's seventy two feet long so twenty eight and she's a pretty big tall but also wondering are conducting science a lot of people when i was going to go on the first one thinks that if you cross the atlantic in twenty four team you say oh you heard right from the atlantic with fourteen women and you know the chuckles but in terms of oh man you guys we can rip each other's here having all the ladies on board is pretty awesome. a lot of people say it can't be done but when proving them wrong day i'm not a feminist which is the reason they were having an all girl team or it's really because we wanted to understand more about female health plastic accounts for ninety percent of all trash that finds its way into the ocean in the majority of coastal and island states there is no organized sorting of waste in some areas so

much plastic is dumb to watch into the water that the sea is like a toxic plastic soup initially plastic waste this picked up by the stomachs of marine inhabitants and then at the end of the food chain is delivered to our plates before i met the old female crew of sea dragon i've never sailed and did know how to change the world but i did know that if you want to make a change you must start with yourself and as a beginning i decided to make this film. thing so everything in travel. that i gauge tell you all right. british airways that they did it it didn't and they say they have it yet. to me it really began about eight years ago i had the opportunity to take a boat around the world we set up but the best couple of years from the sea dragon . to live in these islands a prospect that we were hearing about and quickly realized that actually. what we

were looking for with the micro plastics these these tiny pieces. i am. not going to accept them back i. guess and that that opened up this whole question about toxics and that's really where x. expedition that came from all right let's move we're going to rewind i'm shanley i'm your skipper for this. it's going to be an awesome week and i have been living on board see dragon for the past three and a half years now and she's a great home so yeah we're. where we're going to get to go in this film cameras already here. hi guys i'm john mission coordinator for this leg of x x that she can be and i was on the first x. expedition across the atlantic in two thousand and fourteen with emily. i had never sailed before i married more so unless i'm going my way i'm from wales in the u.k.

and i'm the poet i'm from germany on the one hand and that's that it marrying geology and my background is in biology and also pharmaceutical sciences i'm studying green enough for history for the i'm an all chased a marine scientist and then i'm also about putting women in science i've been really a strong supporter about women in stem careers. then the last thing is i'm a breast cancer survivor you guys don't get seasick i believe that's not a problem but if it is we're talking about weird appeal right so the best place to be is inside the calming us that's what we call this in this case here that you'll be sitting on it runs up and down your is inside of that clinton not trying to hang over the side of the boat to get into the water just puke on the side we have a hose these guys here these little glue that's here are called the week lot so basically when the goats healed one where the other were kind of rolling back and forth this is what's going to keep you. talk to the right on the right thing to get

up. to twenty times already spends twenty writing take so long hikes and page twenty times up and sound like a wall so this will rise a little bit you turn it back so the writing says you know and then you think you still want to go out and have a care. bear and i think this might be her now so let's see you know that and to have it you know and sabrina. brant i'm looking at that and you're both down the would be awesome. like on the how you're yes you're right hope. you can still going to keep them. and show.

them the wrong thing. you know i'm terrible and i think much easier than i think that nobody. got hurt and i just am today. in the hole that he would like to try that there's not a drive to drag me with the on the that he's excited to get right to nurse the dad's here or to. say the reality is that they say there's an island that we've heard of they don't exist in the middle of the a shared need do you get an high accumulations in a and we see these photos of things masses of plastic that looks that you can pull on them and but they're all very castell out in the middle of the ation we get some areas and windrows. we get

localized areas where big a piece accumulate but the reality is the most. have it in this fine layer of micro plastics tiny tiny fragments and that's what we're looking for hit today and everybody. want to see you very. much. in the woods and now we've just been adjusting. to it to get the tool actually flying along the sickness and we don't want it to dip down and we don't want it to skip to the top they will basically now will she now to make sure that that. is going into bad hands and into the troll will do this the next few minutes and then. we'll have a. i think the biggest thing that has shocked me is that we've never had an empty troll no matter where we've been whether it. and the caribbean the baltic.

in the middle of the atlantic we've always. kind of scary when you haven't seen land for like eight days sailing out sea is or was the closest people to you are in the space station and you know still finding human and it's. like the. going out with. you like. the. caribbean is lucky because it isn't on the team one of the giants one of the key when they should say we're here today to see what is here is actually happening in an empty plastic southeast and that will just worried me as the os to the client states say we're curious as to what if it's not. good enough. seems so far

she daily styrofoam to take away containers. plastic bags is not will the words. hold is the smoking gun. we take this month on even the signs and thirty minutes yet if. we get something in store days or rinsing all of the things that we captured into a set of three sets of differing mike so there's the top serve or presents that as we go down smallish and we're going to use. these. to capture certain things so things that we think that look like plastic and even interesting organics biota that we might want to have a look at down the microscope. that . oh no these

things are this is plastic. yeah can you see it so well. but if you think it's just a little stretch of ocean it's a little bit of motion that's quite scary because we always find something. the more time we seem to spend see the more we realize that the solutions to say many of these things planned and that's a big reason for the shift to the caribbean and sex positions now to be say a landscape. where the abandoned yes. there's no doubt what i want sunk most.

this isn't the area just over this next door it's a little fishing community we're just going to try and do an estimate here the plastic bottles the palestine and everything that we're seeing and see that we can record that in the range every time. it's just that it's just that they don't come here to everybody. wanted to pass it back and to see if you can give an estimate of what we've got here and spend if you want to do i've been counting polystyrene alone so basically these containers here that you can see that are for takeaway food so people obviously come in they just throw them into the water as disposal i mean rochester oh there's another one i had counted four hundred thirty eight pieces of styrofoam alone like we can recognize these things now spray bottles these dishes the styrofoam we recognize the stuff

but once it gets out in the ocean what you'll find is that plastic breaks down really quickly because of the movement of the waves and the sunlight the u.v. it breaks down smaller and smaller and smaller into little plastic fragments so it may not be harmful for that little fish that eats one fragment of plastic but once it makes its way up to us and food chain it's getting to levels that are harmful to human health and marine health too. so this is the kind of thing that you. don't want to see just as much as you don't want to see little pieces of fragment when we pull up our show. maybe a guy been sued or something for it but we don't have the equipment so we have to think of some way of getting all this out you know and the main focus and would first be cleanup and then in the sort of bigger picture along with what you might like to see instantly we don't have a lot of additional company simply because we don't have the money that you've got to want the old really look to do you know. we can show people the results of their

bad disposal practices you know that kind of the so put it in a new documentary to dismiss him down the road education. this is where we. are the first being in touch yes you so absolutely thank you david when i haven't met you yet so i hope you've enjoyed yes all right. the value because it is that it is a store of value it is hard money and it is predominately useful for the poorest to

move the poorer you are the greater the need you have for sound money. you don't make on products and it doesn't that would as well i said been bonded over i did what is are made mine mine did my lawyer use his truck driver and just been trumped by his out in the rain but. i think we're done with it then every bishop learning on ours. say we hand them out talents and they should today we need to try to get an understanding of the big challenges around waste management on the small islands the way you have ordered the spice thing is you attending on importing packets to be made seasonable comes wrapped in plastic and is really very limited options to what you can do with that few things get separated the majority of it does get buried you can see here and you know this is this is where all of the waste from the whole island and. it's not really any sort of separation and see

their household level or at least this energy level. rustics. issue bill because i'm sure you've seen them all over. there even more expensive to deal with because you need to collect so many nasty you know tons of paper or so it's getting shipped to france. some of them to china wow so much. to well happen to all this trash you know it's not really a system to do with it. yeah kinda makes me sad in one way. oh it's horrendous i don't even know what to say those like bags lying about. where are they going to go.

looking to learning just like the extra. day this is the any thank you ten times and expanding you say was quite a new concept is it just getting going and you name it is working with. schools to get in school construction that way speak or simply say if you tell me you should send these kinds if you was responsible. for that waste and you want to be writing it and eventually will hopefully get you a household level as well. let me give you any decision you. thank you. thank. you you thank .

but it was. this. is a terry can. you remember. normally these are just really a huge turning point it's. this book thirty five. oh crikey they all quite have it i think we could make a sculpture of. i could see that i might need someone else to pick them up for me. just like. you go to. the. we see

a lot of plastic that's going down the drains running down streams and we're guys and ultimately everything goes downhill to the asian you house and the parents retain their rounds and the plastic goes into these parents this is what we call and jaya. needs. to wolves cities in. this edition stats here on land. do you see. classic school will close to a. very good question because we didn't really meet them and say to me something like that the hats you could go to linked to the supermarket and and i asked them. to provide a way to take the carriage people to bring that and instead and this in some cases there. hello think now ted and tags on the plastic backseat paid for eggs which is

we who cheats the number of plastic bags that anybody uses. it can be more. enough especially for the guests. clothes. washed up. so we got to get your ma. ma. behave. in.

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now. i'm. not. going to happen to understand their crazy. fancy belching.

and the yes and. it's just like you don't get strength here all the way in which is legal in the french for my last chemo is january eighth and by august i still looked like lice and ellie. oh it was like you know me like you. and a half spiky. you came back. hurt her back. and i guess sessional sat and she'd stand out like create my head and light all of everything in place and put me back on that hill and not move that maybe it comes thanks to the rest of our hope so right before coming on this trip i celery that is my two year anniversary for being cancer free that's part of this trip for me and also raising awareness about these chemical that are in our environment they're in

our oceans they're in our seafood they're even in our ground water supply and thinking about what are we putting into our bodies and how that's ultimately affecting us truth be told one in honor of us will get cancer it was a big hardest moment. this year you spend you take. the hardest moment. to my guests. tonight i'm going to have my product but you will try. to do in your appearance. but is tied to the open bags of chemo. sometimes ignorance is bliss and we don't know what wonder drugs going to do to you . then you kind of don't worry but a. as a scientist and having studied

a lot of stuff i knew. what they were pumping into my body what was about the how. the rest who is. i was more scared of the drugs keep searching. i love the chemicals the finding in the family offering in our own bodies and constant attempts i mean the fact that they are increasing makes us feel like they probably affection to the rising rates of cancer and definitely being part of expectation and the thought that. the toxic chemicals of my healing into my body over my lifetime i would pop out on my children. the only reason why i would like. to go in to become a mother and i can tell you that. having a biological child was just not for me or not in the stars but you know i don't

think that that is i can't be a mother. just in this time of the lying. somewhere that not on the floor. i mean when you are. up to whatever you want. yeah. you. are. through this. can anyone guess how to. use sixty pounds and. get. out yet you really get it this is very sad indeed. we say sixty pounds and stay back and these bags they get used

once maybe twice and probably three times at that and we didn't. really eat any reason strop you go out with a straw in their drink yeah. that's right that's a perfect example of single use do you think you could do without a straw. do you think we're capable of looking at lifting a glass to our lips and drinking from a. lot of other alternatives to like glass containers throughout the result home and these are all things that you guys can take back to your parents now because you can tell them let's stop using plastic or at least reduce our use of plastic do you think you guys could do that yeah i hear without a good and. bad

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three. without pay should be anything but all options are on the table just nicolas maduro breaks diplomatic relations with the united states blaming washington for an attempted coup in venezuela off with donald trump recognized the country's opposition leader and all of a sudden interim president. of the council of europe slams the use of. europe describing it as incompatible with basic human rights issue has suddenly called goodbye. if you are right now they don't need legal for sure greek people and with. countries where you have what you have. it's not experiencing right passing this it's a broad spectrum of european opinion.