wait a bit longer it's i mean it's a truly amazing place i had the opportunity to visit the antarctic peninsula and explore these waters underwater earlier this year and it's just teeming with life and so ok so it's a wonderful place it's a beautiful place but why is it important to why do you believe it's important to get a deal to preserve it. well there is nothing else like it in the world for one it's truly unique almost every species that lives in the ocean there is not found anywhere else on earth but also there's some real urgency antarctic peninsula is warming almost faster faster than almost anywhere else on earth and also it's under threat from an expanding krill fishery it's an industrial fleet that is that giving up enormous quantities of. christo in this that are important for penguins for whales and really the whole food chain in the antarctic ok so why is it so difficult to reach agreement. it's a good question we had agreement from almost everyone there really came down to norway china and russia and they do have fishing interests in the region but that alone doesn't really seem

the antarctic peninsula is warming faster than anywhere else on earth. it is also under threat from an expandining krill fishshery. that is an industrial fleet that is vacuuming up p enormous quantities of crustaceans that are important for penguins, wales and the whole food chain in the antarctic phil:. why is it difficult to reach an agreement? it came down to norway, china and russia. -- phil: why is it difficult to reach an agreement? >> it came down to norway, china and russia. it is difficult to reach an agreement. phil: nobody knows what is going on. is that it? do we come back in a few years time? >> it is not a no, it is just not a guess. this proposal may be adopted when the commission meets again next year. phil: what will have changed between now and then? why will they change their mind nextxt year? >> we have a strong precedent to build on. this i is the largest in t the world. clearly there are politics at play. i am confident that we will build support for this. it will be from around the world but also these countries. phil: thank you fo

peninsula. it was officially incorporated into their one belt, one road initiative and additionally china is a growing presence in the antarctic with five bases with one ship under construction plans to announce another china's influence in high g region is only increasing. the coast guard builds trust and prevents complex among countries with interest in the polar region. uses diplomacy, cooperation in formal and oral, through mechanisms such as the arctic coast guard forum in the north pacific coast guard form an international maritime organization and bilateral relationships. however diplomacy and cooperation are empty without the maritime awareness and this means presence. presence in the arctic equates through influence. our nation currently has two operational icebreakers. one heavy and one medium and that heavy is a polar more than 30 years old. we've only had one heavy operational polaris icebreaker and we are well behind other nations. in those regions given the strategic geostrategic importance we absolutely have to up our game. because card cannot meet the nation's needs without the necessary tools and that starts w