and the antarctic treaty turn 60 we'll look at what's next for the frozen continent that has seen a shop rise in tourism in recent years. now my new coops mackinnon thanks for joining us all sorry in australia are warning that powerful winds could fan massive the bushfires towards major cities in the country's southeast fire crews a struggling to contain the spread of blazes around sydney a combination of record temperatures drought and powerful winds has powered the inferno on thursday it claimed the lives of 2 firefighters. the smoking remains of a home after bushfires swept through the area. these residents in new south wales fought the fire as well as they could before firefighters arrived and took over it happened quickly. we saw this mark and flop basically rushing towards us over the hill and basically every minute it was probably one of the kilometer close off before eventually just hit a fence and were pretty much they're finding their ass off. the fires are some of the most extensive ever they have left 30000 square kilometers of charred land in their wake since october over $8

but what's the here 4 years ago of the antarctic treaty was agreed and extended but . i see that as a good sign that it will continue to go in this direction just as in does that which don't why don't you. go back leads the research team. the work done here is purely scientific anything else would be forbidden in accordance with the antarctic treaty that the international community to in 1959. inspect their regular unannounced inspections to take place at the stations. so to this point there haven't been any conflicts. but considering world history one can only hope that the intentions remain purely scientific that. one big draw for researchers that is the emperor penguins. the scientists want to examine the animals breeding behavior in order to predict possible threats caused by climate change. international researchers share their results with each other. and. people always talk about the antarctic family all the conflicts that exist elsewhere in the world for by the way so everyone helps each other and people try to get along at times under truly inhospitable condit

first though we go to the antarctic and talk to the scientists who spend months based in the world's coldest region. right at the very south of our planet lies antarctica the continent of snow and ice. in 1911 the norwegian roald amundsen became the 1st person ever to reach the south pole the last region of earth that was still unexplored and uninhabited by humans. in 195912 nations signed the antarctic treaty pledging to use the beach and only for peaceful purposes and particularly for scientific research. today there are around 80 research stations in the antarctic used by 4000 scientists from all over the work. we wanted to know what it's like to spend months in the cold and ice and so we headed back starting at the airport close to the russian polar research station as i've read sky. approaching antarctica from the air. on board this aircraft are scientists from 10 different countries. will be spending the polar summer doing their research here. this year the team from bella bruce is especially large. billow says so we're a big program for science earned so we will just cause mor

members will be making their way to the countries to antarctic research stations. to study is there build up on because together what we. are studying so it does not emerge off. so i'm a commission of all the dirt of the world beyond that plant what is the condition of the ice of our example it is a big no the glacier. nearly all of antarctica is covered in ice. leon made fun of the length coat comes from russia he works at the noble last i read if they are stationed close to the airports. he's a veteran researcher like most of the russians here he started working in the polar regions during the soviet era. my wife. and. my. daughter. was 8 months. having been observing the environment for many years the researchers have been able to monitor the changes taking place. from. change. one subject of interest involves lunar observations it's well known that the moon's gravity effect ocean tides but its effect on weather has not yet been well explained. the russian team cooperated with the says molly just said the german nor am i of research station. 700 kilometers away.

and the antarctic treaty turns 16 we'll look at what's next for the frozen continent though seen a shop rise and tourism in recent years. i mean you could as mckinnon thank you for joining us australia's bushfire crisis is escalating with fire crews struggling to contain the spread of places around sydney a combination of record temperatures drought and powerful winds have powered at the inferno is at least 8 people have died since the country's began. to smoking remains of a home after bushfires swept through the area these residents in new south wales tried to fire as well as they could before firefighters arrived and took over this happened quickly. we saw this mark and for up basically rushing towards us over the hill and basically every minute it was probably another kilometer closer. before eventually it just hit a fence and pretty much they're finding their ass off. the fires are some of us truly is most extensive ever they have left 30000 square kilometers of charred land in their wake since october over $800.00 homes have been destroyed several states are affected this blaze wa

thank you. 4 years ago the antarctic treaty was agreed and extended but. i see that as a good sign that it will continue to go in this direction does this into the victim why don't you. the main draw for researchers that know i are the emperor penguins the scientists want to examine the animals breeding behavior or to predict possible threats cost by climate change. the international researchers share their results with each other ones act most people always talk about the antarctic family all the conflicts that exist elsewhere in the world for by the way some of these everyone helps each other and people trying to get along at times under truly inhospitable conditions it's nice to see that in spite of all the bad news in the world it can really work. does a. successful collaboration on the most sparsely populated continent on earth. and finally some dramatic footage of 2 massive cruise ships that collided off the coast of mexico the carnival glory rear ended the carnival legend as a doctor on the caribbean island resort of cozumel in a statement carnival

looking inside the container we can see how the antarctic greenhouse works in detail. the 1st part contains the services sector where all the technical systems such as air and heat management are monitored and controlled. the 2nd part contains herbs vegetables and lettuces which can also pollinates with the help of ventilation. the technology which allows them to grow is called. instead of transporting heavy soil into space the roots of the plant are sprayed with the water nutrients solution ele deal lamps containing the right color. composition by then mounted above to sunlight. complex water and air cleaning systems a complete and independent and sustainable ecosystem. but. people think that the plants are only for us to eat but there are other reasons we take the plants with provide us with oxygen to breathe they need the carbon dioxide that we humans breathe out it's a perfect symbiosis. for days after the arrival of the container everything is installed to start up operations. almost 2 weeks later than planned the german scientists can finally start sowing the see

back to the antarctic the conditions can change unpredictably with the possibility of wind speeds of up to 60 knots that's hurricane force. the weather here is the deciding factor it's exactly the right testing ground for the scientists with the perfect conditions for their research. young doctors to stay up to me and arctic is the most remote continent of the world it's not easy to reach mentioned the people living here are dependent on the technology which keeps them alive just like in a space mission so was the best place to test the whole operation of a greenhouse and then because i'm a twit disc of x. i was appalled. almost everything is prepared for their project even i assess where they're planning to grow vegetables and strawberries in a mobile greenhouse this platform has been standing here for a while 400 meters away from the german research station neumeier 3 of the mobile greenhouse should have arrived here days ago but the cargo boat transporting it to the site is making slow headway through the thick pack ice. 14000 kilometers away in germany mu research is also. being

in the antarctic the long wait is over. the cargo ship has to from south africa has managed to break through the ice and the unloading can finally take place. after a 10 day delay the german scientists watch their mobile greenhouse being unloaded from the ship. unloading on the ice has its hazards. although the area around the ship is frozen the layer of ice is thinner then further inland. the whole process takes around 90 minutes in the end all is well and the squad sets off back to base. it's 23 kilometers away from the unloading point to new maya 3. although there is no darkness in the antarctic summer as the sun never goes down they still have a regulated 8 hour working day this day ends with the long awaited arrival of the container at the station. the next day begins early it's time to build the green house the scientists have a whole freight container full of equipment which they have to unpack and inspect after such a long journey. at the same time the mobile greenhouse is assembled. it's made up of 26 metre long co

although there is no darkness in the antarctic summer. as the sun never goes down they still have a regulated 8 hour working day this day ends with the long awaited arrival of the container at the station. the next day begins early it's time to build the green house the scientists have a whole freight container full of equipment which they have to unpack and inspect after such a long journey. at the same time the mobile greenhouse is assembled. it's made up of 26 metre long containers and is precision lifted by crane onto the platform once this task has been completed the project can really get going. looking inside the container we can see how the ad arctic region house works in detail. the 1st part contains the services sector where all the technical systems such as air and heat management are monitored and controlled. the 2nd part contains herbs vegetables and lettuces which can pollinate with the help of ventilation. the technology which allows them to grow is called. instead of transporting heavy soil into space the roots of the plan

and the antarctic a tree turns 60 we look at what's next for the frozen comment in the service of science and international cooperation. and way of glue croft glad you could join us u.k. prime minister boris johnson won last week's snap election promising to get it done and now he has his e.u. withdrawal deal passed the house of commons with room to spare there's still more to do before it becomes law but friday's vote puts the u.k. on course to leave the e.u. on january 31st now the 2 sides will then have until the end of 2020 to strike a trade deal. after winning his historic election victory last week boris johnson said he wanted to heal the nation and in the house of commons he presented his bracks it bill as a step towards that was a time that together as one reinvigorated nation one united kingdom filled with a renewed confidence in our national destiny and determined at last to take advantage of the opportunities but not before us but despite the sweet talking johnson had stripped away many of the sweetness to reason may had added to help them piece support it before the election t

there was no knowledge at that time at all of what the thickness of the antarctic ice sheet was.50s that ice was semi—transparent to radio waves at certain frequencies. and what that means is if you fly a transmitter and a receiver at that frequency, this is the atmosphere and beneath it is the ice surface, which we can see as a very strong reflector. and then some of the megahertz energy from the transmitter actually penetrates through from the ice surface, through the ice itself to the wrath of more diffuse bed and therefore that energy is reflected again back to the receiver. and that allows us for the first time to actually map notjust the surface, but the thickness of the antarctic ice sheet. so thinking back to this data that was gathered almost half a century ago, technology must have come on a long way since then, so how do you get this into a kind of format that we can use and compare to our modern records now? well, technology has changed a lot. and, of course, we're in the digital age. so we, together with colleagues at stanford university in the us, have realised that

from antarct >> yes.n considered, on average, over a year. >> brangham: just put that in perspective, in the amount of time it takes to watch this story, antarctica wid more water than new york city uses every day. the warming that many believe is different parts ofoss varies in continent. here on the antarctic peninsula, the long branch of land coming on the northwest corner, warming has been especially pronounced. at the vernadsky research station, which is run by the ukrainian government, meteorologists like oleksandr poluden have been keeping some of the longest-term temperature while it's warmed and cooled at different times, poluden says the overall trend here on theni ula is clear: >> ( translated ): you will notice that the temperature doesn't tend to increase all the time. there are some fluctuations over time.de it becomes e that over year-round temperaasaverage increased by 3.5 degrees. >> it's becoming clearer that parts of antarctica appear to be unstable, and are losing ice much faster than

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that glacier you see behind me coects up over that peak t the massive west antarctic ice sheet. all of those layers of snow edd ice, built up over hun of thousands of years, contain a remarkable history of earth's past climate. >> it's like a tape recorder, a 10,000 foot tape recorder in places. so scientists have drilled ice cores through the layers afar down as they can get, and then they analyze those layers. >> brangham: glaciologist robert mulvaney, that's him in the black cap, works for the british antarctic survey. he and a small team have been drilling over 000 feet down into the ice sheet, pulling out these ice cores. >> what we've been trying to do is recover our climate record over the last 120 to 140,000 years to try to understand how our climate might change over the next hundred years or so as the climate responds to increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. >> brangham: the evidence from a these ice core many others, indicate that when the earth's climate was just a little bit warmer than it is today, the world's oceans were over twenty feet higher. >> at two de

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. >>> and a desperate search in the antarctic for a plane that went missing with 38 people on went missing with 38 people on board. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. >>> this morning investigators are at the scene of a wild shoot-out in a new jersey neighborhood that left six people dead. two men with high-powered rifles took aim at police officers yesterday in jersey city. witnesses say they heard rapid gunfire for 16 minutes straight. people ran for cover. schools were put on lockdown. among those killed, a veteran police officer. the mayor believes the suspects targeted a kosher grocery store for murder. don dahler has the latest. >> reporter: rapid gunfire turned this residential community into a combat zone. [ gunfire ] heavily armed officers rushed people to safety. >> she's okay -- >> reporter: as helicopters hovered above. >> i'm hearing a lot of gunshots. like unloading guns. and it was really bad. >> reporter: every single school in jersey city was placed on lockdo

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he's become the oldest person ever to complete the antarctic ice marathon.took him eleven hours, 41 minutes and 58 seconds to finish the course. that's all. stay with bbc world news. more on our web site bbc.co.uk/news and the news app. now on bbc news live to singapore for asia business report iok back i 0k back president president trump hal is an amazing new trade deal but relationships between us and china remains distressed. australia's recycling crisis. what do you do with millions of tons of plastic? it isa with millions of tons of plastic? it is a monday put up good morning, asia, hello, world. you forjoining us asia, hello, world. you forjoining us for this exciting addition of asia business report. i i'm rico hizon, let us begin with the trade will because the us and china finally reached a phase one trade agreement over the weekend. the us dropped plans to slap fresh tariffs on sunday while some existing ta riffs on sunday while some existing tariffs would be cut to seven .5%. according to the us, the agreement also covers contentious issues like i

bay area rower and his crew became the first to make it to the antarctic peninsula on a rowboat usingy traveled more than 650 nautical miles in just two weeks, which was way ahead of schedule. >> well, graduations. >>> we will be right back. >>> finding cats in car engines isn't a new thing. >> this very stowaway takes the cake. one driver had to call for help after driving 20 miles to cosco near sacramento. it wasn't car trouble, it was this guy, little oliver the orange tabby peeking out from the engine without a care in the world. part of the engine had to be dismantled to pull him out safely, he came out without a scratch. to everyone's astonishment. he was microchips and had hitched a ride under his neighbors heard. his very grateful owner was obviously over the moon to be reunited again. >> now he has eight lives. >> did not look thrilled in that picture i will say that. >>> thank for watching at 6, the news continue streaming on cbsn bay area. >> see you back here at seven. ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> garrett: the nightmare after reristmas. st what's billed as the worst

a man from canada is the oldest person to complete the antarctic ice marathon. roy ran his first marathon 55 years ago and was given a special medal for his eff tts near sth pole. boeing's halting production of 737 max planes running in january. the aircraft has been grounded since two separate crashes whi killed more than 340 people. the move is expected to affect. the u.s. econo boeing stock fell more than 4% on the news. earlier i spoke to the bbc's nada tawfik. what are boeing saying about why they have takeepthis drastic nada: essentially it is thatot they areble to the regulators, the fatime tolobal basically get the plane back in n e air without creating a larger backlog tey already have. remember, the ceo, dennis muilenburg, said that they were hoping that by the beginning of ng20 they could start ship out more of their 737 maxes, that they would get the regulatory approval. it turns out that isg a little bit longer. they say they understand that safety is the number-one one concern, but at the moment in their factories, they are sitting on 400 planes. w

are feeding in the antarctic and we picking up a lot of juvenile whales this year 202100 hanging around the south african coast that are feeding right in show in falls by a really interesting occurrence fast it gives us an opportunity to study the feeding behavior and the sounds and making whereas communicate using up to 4 conversations from clicks to whistles and of course each is associated with a specific type of behavior. comparing recorded here to that recorded in africa gives researches insights into which populations move through different areas so we were quite surprised when we 1st recorded. in in force by because i had a friend actually there to look at dolphin distribution because hamburg was only strongly associated with make these animals and around africa mating habits of tropical areas so rather equitorial which africa and of mozambique and east coast around cape town should just be migrating past although we are aware of animals of summer months feeding as well. while commercial whaling was banned several decades ago the animals to face a number of threats including bein

several trillion times and you froze it into trillions of tons of snow and spread that across the west antarctic ice sheet covering it with a blanket of artificial snow. the team from the potsdam institute for climate impact research or pic thinks this could save the ice sheet and stop coastal cities such as shanghai and new york from becoming submerged if and arctic as giant ice sheet melts pic researchers estimate that sea levels would rise by more than 3 meters. the colleagues of pick are doing what scientists do best the dokken experiment and it's what we call it. so that's all just hypothetical a thought experiment just like most of the ideas on how to intervene in the earth's climate system it's called geo engineering and there are 2 main approaches. first extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere known as carbon dioxide removal and 2nd reflect solar energy to prevent further heating called solar radiation management let's start with number one. a whole range of measures are being discussed on the one hand things like reforestation. trees absorb c o 2 from the atmosphere as they live and

there is a 600 mile stretch of sea where the atlantic, pacific, and antarctic oceans collide. it's called the drake passage between south america and antarctica. so dangerous, no one has even thought of crossing until now, in a rowboat. two of the six crewmen from the bay area. let's first take you and your fisherman's wharf. >> reporter: the last time he profiled kevin bellamy, he just swam 62 miles without stopping around the island of barbados. took him almost 41 hours. and now, for the san francisco resident, something really different.>> arctic cold temperatures, storms, high winds. and 40 foot swells.>> this is the impossible row. you look at the possible, it can't happen. it can't be done. >> is good to be externally hard, we are going to row 21 hours. an hour and a half on, an hour and a half off, 24 seven. were never really going to sleep. >> six guys, two from the bay area. attempting to cross the strongest, meanest, nastiest stretch of ocean on the planet. 600 miles in a rowboat. the discovery channel is there to document every stroke.>> about the ocean it is the mo

says it has found debris believed to be from a military plane that went missing on its way to the antarctic people on board. it was located around 30 km south of where the plane last made contact. a huge air and sea search has been underway, involving ships and planes from several countries. conservation groups have signed an open letter calling on the thai government to stop serving shark fin at state events. the un estimates 73 million sharks are killed for their fins every year. young consumers in china are turning away from shark fin soup, and it is no longer used in official banquets. but consumption is growing in places like thailand, vietnam, and indonesia. tests are being carried out on a painting discovered in northern italy to determine whether it is a work by the austrian artist gustav klimt, presumed stolen in 1997. a gardener found what is thought to be klimt‘s portrait of a lady behind a trapdoor when clearing ivy from the walls of the gallery where it had disappeared. completed in 1917, it is valued at more than $65 million. to the hague now, where myanmar‘s leader, aung san

chilean air force has found debris believed to be from a military plane, missing on its way to the antarctic on board. it is around 30 kilometres south of where the plane last made contact. a huge air and sea search has involved ships and planes from several countries. the acting prime minister of spain, pedro sanchez, has formally accepted a mandate from king felipe to try to form a government. his socialist party fell far short of a majority in parliament in inconclusive elections in april and november. days after the november election, mr sanchez announced a pact with the left—wing party podemos. the israeli parliament has agreed to hold a general election march 2. it will be the third in less than a year, which is unprecedented, but the deadline has now passed for parties to form a new government. inconclusive votes in september and april gave no party a majority. polls open here in the uk in a few hours as voters decide who will form their next government. the woman who effectively leads myanmar has been defending her country against accusations of genocide, at the international court o

chilean air force has found debris believed to be from a military plane, missing on its way to the antarcticometres south of where the plane last made contact. a huge air and sea search has involved ships and planes from several countries. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: why one of europe's most ill—equipped migrant camps has finally closed its doors for the last time. john lennon was shot at the entrance to the dakota building in the centre of new york. there's been a crowd here standing in more or less silent vigil and the flowers have been piling up. the 14th ceasefire of this war ended at the walls of the old city of dubrovnik. this morning, witnesses said shells were landing every 20 seconds. people are celebrating the passing of a man they hold responsible for hundreds of deaths and oppression. elsewhere, people have been gathering to mourn his passing. imelda marcos, the widow of the former president of the philippines, has gone on trial in manila. she's facing seven charges of tax evasion, estimated at £120 million. she pleaded not guilty. the prince and princess of wales ar

he's become the oldest person ever to complete the antarctic ice marathon.

chilean air force has found debris believed to be from a military plane, missing on its way to the antarcticle on board. it is around 30 kilometres south of where the plane last made contact. a huge air and sea search has involved ships and planes from several countries. two more people who were caught in the volcanic eruption in new zealand have died. that brings the confirmed deaths to 8. but 9 people are still officially missing, and police say it is too dangerous to try and retrieve the bodies from white island, because of the risk of further eruptions. twenty people are in intensive care, with severe burns. five have been moved to australia. the israeli parliament has agreed to hold a general election march 2nd, in what will be the third to take place in less than a year. the unprecedented move comes after a deadline passed for parties to form a new government, following a vote in september that saw no party win a majority and a similarly inconclusive poll in april. polls open here in the uk in a few hours as voters decide who will form their next government. candidates in the general e

the c-130 disappeared monday night while flying to antarct a antarctica. it disappeared withard over a d of ocean. tonight search crews found sponge material floating in the water about 18 miles from where that plane vanished. >>> could a cruise ship be the solution to a bay area city's homeless problem? an oakland city council member thinks so. tuesday night's city council meeting city council president rebecca kaplan brought up a suggestion she made earler about using a cruise ship to house homeless people. she says the ship could shelter up to 1,000 people. not everyone, though, is on board with that idea. >> the fact i made that comment got from someone i was here to someone they knew to someone he knew. and now i've been reached out by someone who actually does this and we may have the possibility of getting a cruise ship. >> if not at least hotels or something. but a boat i don't think that will work. >> reporter: a spokesperson for the port of oakland says the port is design the for cargo ships. they sent us a statement saying, "there isn't the infr