the $21.00 geologist of the continental shelf commission was building d.c. to the united nations plaza filming it is full. of the members may speak to the public in spite of precisely because of the fact that their decisions can change maritime nations. easily. i now confidentiality the. best i have seen de. mint. joe because you've run every loach that joe de it down the debt even east zhan why this 2002 in there does. plague of confidentiality pfaff on our nights great but does ice sheets rise you know house. there's a wave of sentiment around the world if you actually want accountability from the people who are running their countries and i think often people's voices are not heard because they're just not part of the mainstream news narrative. obviously we cover big stories and report on the big events going on but we also tell the stories of people who generally don't have a voice i mean when i was a child my doubts never be afraid to put your hand up not a question and i think that's what our series really does we asked the questions to people whose sh

were starting to work through this more recent component for a lot of the sea for the extended continental shelf they have a figure just just below $12000.00 us trillion dollars is the in-situ estimate of seabed resources in the expanded continental shelves. estimates about the quantity of natural resources buried in the seabed are highly speculative but if the figure of $12000.00 trillion us dollars is right it would be enough to if we person on earth a check for one and a half $1000000.00. for this is one of the country's leading the charge to claim a piece of the pie budget low current nothing has a leg up over many other states a colonial past. please leave. blues to preview in a realm of more. are hopefully she. do or do we do. not want to feel at least one of. the. well out. of the famous to its colonial past france administers islands in almost every ocean of the world now it stands to gain substantial maritime territory in each. currently 11 claims pending the continental shelf commission. says it is on t.v. . i know it is. jacqueline regularly did not put says is. definitely on. the on

we don't have any present plan we spoke of this before and the outer continental shelf is a very specificprocess that involves the development of the plan and then there is a lot of comments. we are not even to that stage yet what we committed getting to that point as we go through the process it is required not only be listen to but be considered i do not know a single incident where they objected to the leasing and it occurred. that is just the history nothing has changed in regard to my view in our prior conversation. >> i hope that history holds. i am worried about moral hazard the fact we talk about restore our parks act and the budget cuts maintenance by 50 percent i don't want us to rely upon the congress every ten years to do with a deferred maintenance issue that should be taking care of on the ongoing basis i am worried about the cut to fix the problem. >> it is cut 50 percent. >> if you look at the budget most of the budget for what you would expect to be maintenance typically doesn't come out of the construction budget. i don't think we backed away from our operations in a sig

he submitted extended continental shelf claim nor northward. this is may 2017. it was crafted a few months after the philippine ar b ar bys award. of course, when malaysia was kr criticized, he talked about the possibility of arbitration against them. we see some significant and positive shift. vietnam, i was disappointed with them. we expected them to do a parallel case. they waited it out. now they were on their own. now let's see what vietnam is going to do. if you welcome at the initial statements coming out of asean, it's more aggressive, more assertive than we saw in the past. and indonesia. we saw that he could not deny the public backlash in indonesia in light of more and more aggressive intrusion by china. because of the expansive nature is not clarified, indonesia is a party to the disputes indirectly. that's an important factor because indonesia is the biggest player in the region. i will wrap up here. we have to give credit to the trump administration. in addition to the regular freedom of navigation operation, we saw expansion of military aid to cou