holmes company told me on the space of one of the oldest ionas fear the search stations in the world. the company's antenna rates takes readings of the concentration movements and a profile of this atmospheric layer everything minutes. any slight fluctuations in these kite to be sticks can disrupt shortwave radio communications all cuts them off altogether. the radio stations defense organizations and emergency services alike use this information to configure the equipment to the best frequency to stay on air. but the second task is scientific research that is studying there on a sphere itself examining how the electron density is distributed around the world are going to produce a lot of way on a spirit plasma changes and move. the basic principle of honesty a sounding is pretty simple a range of shortwave radio frequencies are transmitted vertically into the eye on this fair different frequencies are reflected its different heights depending on the president frequency of the ionized gas from this is just the case of picking up the reflects a signal as a measuring the time it's going

the digital age has opened up new opportunities for ionas fierce sounding owns latest hardware allows the honest fits we profiled in just one second with a resolution one thousand times higher than before the signal can also be modulated all faced to reveal the honest face hidden secrets it's also electromagnetically compatible with domestic t.v.'s and radios so they don't get any complaints from the neighbors and word of the radar system has bounced all the way back to moscow. the time has come to upgrade all of us hydro met stations with eighteen i honest fair extensions listed in russia with only around two or three of them up and running at the current moment the current task is to upgrade all of them in the course of the next three years and we've already received the first order of. environmental monitoring service that i skied that i'm yet to also plans to expand this ionas fit observation facility significantly by twenty thirty in the hope of not only better understanding this elusive atmospheric layer is also better harnessing its radio profits properties so it looks like tom

specialist in eastern european affairs and in new york we cross to jeannie zeno she is a professor at iona college and new york university or across the uk rules in effect folks that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage and scott in orlando if i can go to you first is ukraine as i said in my introduction on the verge of becoming a failed state well not necessarily i mean the grain is just like any other state in these dimes you know we have you call the americas a failed state look at the financial situation that we're going to you know you basically have failed economies around the world and you also have you know a lot of progress that's been going on in ukraine as well with a lot of help from russia and many other places around the world ok. i agree with scott but i think you know ukraine it's quite imminent that when they're out there facing default very very quickly they've run out of cash right now and we do have all to made him about separatists in east eastern part of the country and the people that could be threatening the ethnic russians and russian sp