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say it could destroy a unique ecosystem the canal is supposed to connect to the baltic sea and the black sea its route goes through one of the last big wetland areas in europe with rare black older forests. 90 percent of the birds in bellerose live here including endangered species some animals nest directly on the untouched banks. this is tall covers 35 kilometers along many narrow wild sections of the river which would have to be dug out to allow commercial traffic. when the group stops for a break they talk to local that's about the pan of water way. often people in the villages only have limited sources of information and we can be one of those sources for them so that they don't only get information from state media but also hear a different opinion. should be sure the war because and then they can decide for themselves what they want the rivers infrastructure to develop what they want to protect the environment around them and keep it healthy of their own for with as they are new day to the kayaking campaign many here are participating for the 1st time cheering breakfast constantine ch

meandering river pripyat into a major commercial waterway ultimately linking the baltic and the black sea would be a logical disaster. this might look like a legendary kayaking excursion but for constantine chick karloff it's a protest for the river p.p. it. this is the 3rd year that the chairman of the belorussian environmental organization bogner has organized tours like this one. he wants people to experience the unspoiled nature along the river and to demonstrate against an inland waterway which could be built here. at a company for us the purpose is like a european version of the amazon river. this place is unique because people can come here and see what rivers used to look like what nature in europe was like once . and if we can preserve these large areas of wild nature we're also hoping to keep the ecological balance on the european continent alonso going to skew. the proposed waterway would cut straight through 11 nature reserves and the activists say it could destroy a unique ecosystem the canal is supposed to connect to the baltic sea and the black sea its roots go through one

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middle east among other foreign policy she's up for discussion at a major foreign being held in the black sea resort of sochi the country's foreign minister is that on with other top officials but if it has been across the veterans . wednesday's gathering of valdai discussion club based international think tank is held him base absolutely stunning place in the mountains outside russia's black sea resort of sochi and discussions here today are just as hard as the weather the east has been announced this year is major topic asia and the middle east the latter is in the spotlight today high ranking politicians x. birds influencers are discussing current challenges and respects 10 ways to bring peace maintain peace has well as boost stability and developments in these regions syria was mentioned too many times russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has taken part in the conversation that last of the wrong 2 hours he has talked about iraq afghanistan libya as brothers set examples of global peace efforts blaming usas approach that he has described as interfering to influence stressing this should

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face meeting which stretched on for some 6 hours between the presidents of russia to keep in the black sea resort of sochi has resulted in a new plan for syria let's cross live to our correspondent philip to try to get to get more. on this. has been a long stretch for this day covering this thing 6 out of the meeting would emerge from the talks. neil good evening you're absolutely right there were many extraordinary things about this press conference but 1st of all i just want to point out a massive delay the talks were only supposed to last for a couple of hours but then we were led into this room where the press conference was supposed to happen and we had to wait for a very long time and we could feel that probably an important agreement a breakthrough agreement was on the table and we were hoping to get the details on it and then we did because 1st the presidents came out they had many things to say but then the foreign ministers took over they came over to a separate microphone and spoke about the new agreement between turkey and russia on the settlement near this area where crisis si

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has been using which is the bosphorus through istanbul and into the black sea and that is a very clear signal to the turks that backup plans are being put in place in case the u.s. turkish relationship to tear rates further john many thanks to replace that in athens richard white's is a security analyst at wiki stratton global consultancy he joins us now live from washington good to have you with us why would the u.s. set up a base in alex on drop only that that city north in the northeast of greece so close to that turkish border. right i think your correspondent got it spot on so the u.s. has had bases in greece for decades during the cold war the focus was naturally encountering the soviet navy in the mediterranean so the focus of the u.s. presence was an on the naval presence and so the bay but since the end of the cold war the u.s. has been relying its bases globally and in the case of greece the u.s. as big as been using other areas for example drone operations a rotation of army forces and so this agreement is another evolution of that process there is going to be allowed the u.

to speak of if a bit of clouding said that just making its way across turkey heading towards the black sea i would towards the caspian sea as well of towards. georgia see a little bit of that weather possibility here but for the most part as you can see it's generally set fair 41 celsius in baghdad 38 in kuwait city similar temperatures as we go down into the arabian place so maybe a high here in doha of around 36 degrees southern end of the red sea chances and showers here on wednesday tended to fade away as we go on into thursday but maybe just around the gulf of aden tools the whole of africa you could see a little bit damp weather from time to time it tells of a little bit of weather to parts of south africa just along the southern and eastern cape or for much of the region is fine and dry all shoshanna was filthy alter in some rather heavy downpours into tanzania over the next day out so even by the time we come to thursday close but see somewhat to weather also just pushing up towards the fall north east of south africa maybe pushing up towards zimbabwe as well most of that well with

our journey ends just short of the black sea in bucharest we began and the old dance shipyard. the fall of the wall began 500 kilometers from berlin and a good dance in this hangar built before the 1st world war to store torpedoes. money just isn't the. in a conspicuous building really doesn't look like a place that made world history here in the summer of 1980 after an 18 day long strike is where solidarity was born i'm. stuck. solidarity poland's 1st independent trade union began here at what was then called lenin shipyard a busy operation even today solidarity still has its european headquarters right in the middle of the yard. this is where we meet let's see who is as big nations has ever even the former shipyard workers t.-shirt is a statement aimed at the current polish government constitution it says. led solidarity went on to win the nobel peace prize and became the 1st democratically elected president of poland. to treasure you know i grew up without a father. who would have taken care of me. and i would probably have become a director of the shipyard and not just a wo

we go a little bit tighter, and you see here you have the baltic ports up here and the black sea ports down here. sorry i don't have time to get into these ports in the north. there is a race against the clock to get in before they freeze. not always successful. these are the transport lines here from moscow going out. and you see the volga river snaking down here. this is where most of the slides i am showing you come from. in a few minutes, we will go out here in the ural mountains. we are going to move these supplies. we have to get them to the victims. we have to get the seed there right before the corn arrives -- no, we have to get the corn there before the seeds arrive so the seeds will not be consumed by the peasants and will save the harvest. but this will take time. in the meantime, soviet citizens are dying by the hundreds of thousands every week. this is the most difficult image i will show you today. this is a city on the volga. it becomes stalingrad. today, it is volgagrad. this is the kind of thing going on all through the winter. the delivery of the relief proves to be a

announced that they have reached an agreement on the future of northern syria following talks in the black sea resort of sochi russian president vladimir putin and his turkish counterpart richard cohen say they're adding another 6 days to a ceasefire that was due to expire on choose day evening turkey wants to establish a buffer zone 30 kilometers wide along the syrian turkish border from which kurdish forces would be excluded. the kremlin had predicted long and difficult negotiations perhaps that's why the meeting was particularly friendly organized extra nice weather for you 6 and a half long hours of negotiations between vladimir putin and air to one mostly in private the hardest thing to decide was high big this so-called security zone should be and who controls it. in a very long discussions we have succeeded in finding a solution which in my opinion is very important and promising. it is the solution for the very complicated situation that the turkish syrian border. the main outcome is that russian military police and syrian border guards are to work together during the cease fire to ens

for joining us russia and turkey say they have a plan for syria's future following talks in the black sea resort of sochi russian president vladimir putin and his turkish counterpart recha type out on say they're adding another 6 days to a cease fire that was due to expire on tuesday evening turkey wants to establish a buffer zone along its border with northern syria from which kurdish forces would be excluded the agreement follows a u.s. brokered truce which expired all tuesday. the kremlin had predicted difficult talks perhaps that's why the greeting was particularly friendly we organize extra nice weather feedlot demand putin told his tax counterpart friendship type add on 6 and a half long hours of negotiations lay ahead mostly in private the biggest sticking point the extent of a proposed buffer zone and who controls it. in the very long and tends to sky since we have succeeded in finding a solution which in my opinion is very important and promising as well it is the solution for the very complicated situation that the turkish syrian border he's got what he is continuous. under the

juan and russian president vladimir putin are currently holding a joint press conference in the black sea resort of sochi following talks on the future of northern syria after the withdrawal of u.s. troops from the area turkey launched an offensive to clear the area of kurdish militias and carve out a so-called safe cell. the kurds who were backed by the u.s. and then turned to the army of syrian president bashar al assad and his main ally russia for help erica won and who is meeting coming just hours before a u.s. brokered cease fire giving the kurds time to withdraw is due to expire we will go to our correspondents as soon as that press conference which is happening right now live is over but 1st we're going to head to japan because emperor nero he too has officially ascended to japan's throne at an elaborate ceremony in tokyo he's pledged to fulfill his duty as the $126.00 emperor of the world's oldest hereditary monarchy the japanese government pardoned more than half a 1000000 people convicted of petty crimes to mark the occasion at the imperial palace in tokyo for many japanese peop

russia and turkey have reached an agreement on the future of northern syria and of meeting in the black sea resort of sochi letter reputing and wretch of type the presidents of russia and turkey say that they are adding another 6 days to a cease fire that was due to expire this evening turkey wants to establish a 30 kilometer wide safe zone along the syrian turkish border which kurdish forces would be excluded but the announcement came just as the kurds insisted they had already pulled out of the border regions. we have team analysis our correspondent you are shadows in moscow dorian jones is in istanbul and yuri i'd like to begin with you walk us through what exactly russia and turkey have agreed to here well russian foreign minister sergei lavrov presented to after the talks in sochi here in russia a plan which includes several aspects of points i think 3 of them are essential 1st to moscow and ancora have agreed to that to the kurdish militias would to pull back 30 kilometers away from the turkish syrian border 2nd to love russian military police and syrian border guards would be deploye

to speak of if any of the cladding set that just making its way across turkey heading towards the black sea i would towards caspian sea as well of tuor. georgia see a little bit of that weather possibility here but for the most part as you can see it's generally sat fat 41 celsius in baghdad 38 in kuwait city similar temperatures as we go down into the arabian place so maybe a high here in doha of around 36 degrees so the end of the red sea chances and showers here on wednesday tended to fade away as we go on into thursday but maybe just around the gulf of aden tools the whole of africa you could see a little bit damp weather from time to time itself have a little bit of weather to say to parts of south africa just along the southern and eastern cape or for much of the region is fine and dry all shoshanna was fill silt or in some rather heavy downpours into tanzania over the next dial say and by the time we come to thursday close but see somewhat to weather also just pushing up towards the fall north east of south africa maybe pushing up towards zimbabwe as well most of that well with tropi

since it took crimea, russia has become the dominant force in the black sea region.t use the word "annexation". crimea, it says, has sailed back to its home port. few believe that outside of russia. what we see is a pattern of behaviour where russia is responsible for aggressive actions against neighbours. that reflects that the main problem of russia is that they still believe in the idea of spheres of influence. in response, nato has bolstered its forces near russia's borders. from estonia's amari airbase, nato jets are regularly scrambled. their main task is to intercept russian planes approaching estonian air space, which fail to identify themselves. russia denies it is a threat to estonia or to any of the baltic states. but nato is on alert and taking no chances. the baltic has become one of the front—lines of what feels like a new cold war between russia and the west. to moscow, the presence of nato troops near its border is a direct threat to russia's national security. but nato insists that all of this is purely defensive, and the reaction to an increasingly

that essentially replaces the route that the us has been using so far through the bosphorus and the black sea which is controlled by turkey and the us is the us clearly signaling to turkey that it is creating alternatives where it can to its dependence on its relationship with turkey the 2nd leg of the support being offered here today is on energy where secretary pump unequivocal support to greece's position and to cyprus position on turkish drilling in waters that cyprus has marked out has demarcated with its neighbors in accordance with the international law of the sea as belonging to its exclusive economic zone a u.s. backed syrian rebel group is warning of all out war should turkey go through with the threat to strike an area east of the euphrates river turkey's president tried to topple the one said earlier that the military operation would clear the region of what he called terrorists and that an air and ground assault was imminent the mostly kurdish group the syrian democratic forces responded saying that they will defend the area from any unprovoked attack. after we have made our prep

kirgs strait, and north of there is a different body of water, that's the northern extension of the black sea. and once upon a time the sea of asof was a relatively normal thing, but 5 1/2 years ago russia invaded ukraine. and they took a whole big chunk of the nation of ukraine. they took crimea for themselves. they decided crimea was now a part of russia. and after they did that, after they took crimea to sort of solidify their hold on ukraine, russia built a big weird expensive bridge across the strait, and upon doing so, upon seizing crimea for itself and building this bridge between russia and crimea and putting the russian military into the other parts of eastern ukraine outside of crimea, in so doing russia apparently decided not only were they taking parts of ukraine for themselves, right, they were taking crimea, they were invading and occupying eastern ukraine. not only were they taking those parts of ukraine's territory for themselves, but they were also taking the sea between the two countries. they were also taking the sea of asof. they basically decided they would treat that as

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wednesday and thursday the 1st event of its kind all the african leaders have been invited to the black sea resort and almost all of them made it so we are going to see nearly 50 leaders and here global economic powerhouses such as of course the u.s. china and the you which as some say you have a reputation of really being eager to get a slice of the african high after all 30 percent of the world's natural reserves is a serious incentive while in the past they have organized similar events but now it's russia's turn but the russian officials of the most senior of them who we are going to see at the form of course have said that moscow's approach is completely different i do have to point out that president vladimir putin just before the summit began in one of the interviews even blamed the western countries for putting on a new face yet still trying to exploit the african countries mercilessly to their own benefit although according to mr putin that's not a plan for russia in the next 36 hours or so we are going to see whether the russian officials will deliver on their promises and commitm

its own it's difficult to overestimate the importance of odessa it is strategically located on the black sea and it's ukraine's largest seaport it's not surprising that ukraine's new authorities were watching the situation unfolding there with growing along arm. more and more of odessa as people were joining the anti my don movement at the same time as events in eastern ukraine were heating up . the. new ukrainian government didn't have the power to wage war on to many fronts if odessa were to join the growing uprising in the eastern regions it would seriously complicate the situation. this rebellion had to be extinguished immediately and at any cost and that cost was high. on may 2nd 2014 soccer fans flocked to the center of odessa city for the ukrainian championship match surprisingly a great number of these fans who descended into odessa just the night before also turned out to be fighters from the my don self-defense units along with members of radical organizations from all parts of ukraine that these. books. these families asked armed and shouting nationalist mottos began disturbances

manus: the story about the terminal in the black sea is incorrect?l: we are looking to make many investments. manus: what about saudi aramco? are you ready to take a stake in aramco when it goes public? kirill: russian investors are keen to participate in the saudi aramco investment. russian banks would also like to participate. it is early to say because we need to understand the final parameters of the deal, but aramco is a great company that quickly recovered from the attacks. it is a great opportunity for investment. seems the differentiation to be what mohammad bin salman wants, it is a big gap. kirill: we will see with the final conditions look like. we need to look at all of the details. the yields versus a dividend,ajor of 6% is a yield that matters in this investment story? kirill: it is also the opportunity to participate in the largest oil company in the world that has the cheapest reserves in the world and a lot of technology investment coming down the line. the broader story is aramco is unique opportunity, and i know lots of people are

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bring you that report because we're going to head back to our top story this evening and russia's black sea resort of sochi the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and the country's defense minister said a few moments ago they gave statements on the discussions that are taken place between the presidents of russia and turkey let's hear what was said. is that all. should have got a good. we shouldn't look at this. all of you have heard of the texts but if you were in russian and into the weather for the book in of the number of the agreements reached between president goodman about it or a little. over the horrible moment i remember that standing you know contains the reaction to one of the most urgent problems of the current. north eastern syria 'd or which is of great concern to many parts of the world and the most important thing is that we have reaffirmed the territorial integrity and sovereignty of syria. and the 2 we. have confirmed or to fight. all terrorist organizations in the area. and we. continue to respect disease syria turkey agreement reached in 1908 to. maintain security o

they could cut off the oil and so they really want to have a port to the black sea to be able to get oil and gas out and that's sort of the key to it but now all the sanctions have made it impossible for them to do business. do you kind of understand why donald trump cares about that? >> donald trump is in a completely different realm. because you know, one of the things you have is you're creating a circumstance where russia, if they gain control of ukraine, would be able to engage in energy blackmail of the entirety of western europe. where donald trump falls into this is he doesn't -- he doesn't care about international politics. this is where the stupidity comes in. he's all obsessed with fox news type conspiracy theories. he's just not in on the -- on the game that it's all a lie. and so he's spinning about mueller and dmc servers in the ukraine and you have the biden series of lies, and you ultimately have trump who is working to help his own egoand win for 2020 and -- and truthfully, the geo political consequences of what he's doing are too complex for him to worry about. >> y