, back to the 19th century, that was an important part of their sphere of influence between the suez canal and india. a very big deal for them. they had a strong presence. hi, thanks for coming. so they had a strong presence there. one about the americans? -- what about the americans? you probably heard of norman schwarzkopf, the famous general. you may have heard of his dad, also called norman schwarzkopf, who was the head of the new jersey state patrol, the guy who case, whoe lindbergh solved the crime of the century. who does the shaw, the british people of the old shaw who exchanged pictures with hitler, they got his son in. they got him to hire schwarzkopf to run his armory. -- army. this is the presence of the british and americans. what about the soviets? soviets were present too. they sent in the end kpd, the predecessor to the kgb, the guys who made their reputation in the 1930's with the purges and rounding up people and sticking them in the gulag, they filled them three or four times over. they were some of the coolest cruelest secret police this side of the gestapo. when the so

artificial waterways the suez canal which connects the red sea to the mediterranean are transporting new jellyfish species. changes neighboring these newcomers to survive with some the sea temperatures in the mad rising by 1.15 degrees c. in the last 3 decades. how bad is the problem there ecological impact of jellyfish is equivalent to lions in this are now they are top predators so they can have an impact on the functioning of the marine ecosystem some cases so we have large eliphaz wish to reach dance it is life up to 300 or 400 pounds a square tube. meters along the coastline so this would affect particularly human activities flies. swimming along the course or fishery and even our cultural plants may be affected because in some cases the venomous china fish can kill hundreds or thousands of fish in a few days these booms are using local fishing industries and it's estimated that in the north is rarity they cost italian fishing fleet $8500000.00 euros a year steffen and sent me north to the aquarium of genoa to discover how the creek tissue nick reproductive process is really com

importance for the west in the middle east it is israel's next door neighbor and controls access to the suez canalif and a very simple bargain the united states has provided egypt with a large amount of military aid every year and in return egypt has you know kept the peace with israel has provided access to the. 4 american warships and has provided america with really a very strong pillar in the middle of a very volatile region. when l.c.c. took power in 20. 13 relations began to crack there was a general willingness to try to work with the new regime out of the interest in preserving the bilateral relationship so they were willing to give the new military regime an opportunity to prove themselves l.c.c. soon showed the obama administration was he was capable of and the weeks after the military takeover morsi supporters had occupied 2 major thoroughfares in cairo they are not a square and the road in front of iraq by allah do we have mosque. in august the military cleared these camps with an unprecedented show of force. mohammed salt was there his father a deputy minister in the short lived musli

they carrier group this year sailed from the mediterranean by the suez canal across the indian oceanand via the maliki straight to singapore, rotating cast of allied ships was part of the carrier group. there was portugal, danish contributions, uk,, italy, australia and the u.s. also participated, and so transatlantic unity concerning the french initiative was demonstrated. during the deployment, the group participated in maritime exercises with the indian, australian, japanese navy's and also with the egyptian navy on the way back when the u.s. had left the carrier group. this tour as mentioned in the in singapore, important part of of europe, it's an authoritarian state but it is embedded in the u.s. online system. if an economically highly developed country and a country with links to both china and the u.s. and this is the kind of policy line that europe also adopts, not seeing china as a wholesale enemy but as somewhere in between, a (inaudible) competitor and a partner. so, this was an attempt to demonstrate that there is complementarity between the work done by european instit