from there, we go to a lake island in eastern siberia, gorgeous, driving on the dirt road, and they noticeomething in the road. they decide to stop. >> hi there. >> oh, look at that. >> back up, and at first, well, okay, what is that? some sort of creature. you can tell the thing is not ail to move. the thing is not able to go anywhere. >> oh, my gosh. is it a gofer stuck in its own hole. >> it is. >> are you serious? >> eventually, the lady's like, you know, get a rag. we have to help this guy out. >> look at this. >> oh! look how big it is! >> wait until you see it out of the hole. like, oh, trying to pull it, look at the face, gets him out, and he takes off. look how big he is. >> why dig a hole in the middle of the roadway? >> might have been using somebody else's hole. >> a hole robber. ♪ >>> we've learned on the show that pranks are not always up to pranks. a lot of ultraristic. >> glen talks on the weekends when he has free time, he cuts homeless people's hair for free, came out today and showed acts of kindness to the world to inspire you. >> i'm glenn. i'm a barber from brooklyn,

mid seven hundreds russian trappers headhunter that most of severe intimate away to the eastern coast of siberiaand then crossed over the bering strait in the 1730s and early 17 '40s and discovered, reached the aleutian islands. that they also found sea otters. beautiful animals that you see here, and they referred to them as soft gold because their pelts were so valuable, in demand by royalty in the chinese court. sea otters possess the densest fur of any mammal. 18 times that of your pet dog. so by coercing the hunters, the native people, they slaughtered these beautiful animals by the tens of thousands and ship them across the pacific ocean on the eastern edge of siberia and then carted them overland to the river and then went up river to the lake and eventually put them in warehouses and sold them to traders who in turn brought them to the chinese court were eventually they line the roads of chinese royalty. this will help orient us here. well, so you can see this trade network. so you're the allusions. here's the river. amazingly this trade was not sufficient to meet chinese demand. so ther

beautiful animals by the tens of thousands and shipped them across the pacific ocean to the eastern edge of siberia and went up the river to the lake and eventually took them to warehouses, sold them to traders and brought them to chinese court and they would eventually line the chinese royalty. you can see this one trade network. here are the elusions and here are the husks and the yen see river and lake mccall. but amazingly this trade wasn't sufficient to meet chinese demands. so there was a separate, now world, american trade network starting 3,000 miles east that covered beaver furs across the atlantic. starting here in the prairies and the forest of canada. they would hunt these animals, sell them to british traders who brought them to montreal or new york and packed in ships and brought to london. at its peek 30,000 of the furs were repacked and exported to saint petersburg and put on sleds and carried across siberia and in the warehouse with the sea otter. and this amazes me every time i describe it. it is an asstounding example of the trait. it led them up the peninsula to alaska and i thi

and the second part of my question is, i understand there's a lot of gas or oil and siberia or the easternart of russia, and the russia has contracted with china to get that oil out. is it possible that china at some point will actually take over that part of russia for the natural resources in the siberia? >> i'm not going to pretend to be any geopolitical expert. i talk to people, and there are different pieces people have about what's going to happen here. the key really is something to undercut broad brush is doing. and exporting natural gas is when one of the things we can do unless we're ready to go to battle again. i'm not sure as a nation we are. when it comes to china, let's talk about your question about saudi arabia. saudi arabia has a huge growing young population. we are not always so i would've. they can produce more. no one knows how much but it's also not clear whether they have enough to export or how much they have to export. that the growing demand for energy as well. they probably can do more exporting but they're not close. china, let's talk about china for second. chi

the fastest way to get from , let's europe to asia say northern or eastern asia, is to go right over russia and siberiat torline stocks that very negatively yesterday. investors take this very seriously. air france, klm fell 3.8%. so investors have been concerned that in fact this might be one of the options in the cards. >> the world bank resident has been speaking at the trade summit in washington. business is only just realizing the opportunities africa presents. leaders in the american business community who probably didn't know very much about africa or getting a very different sense of what is going on in africa. we been saying it for a long time, they have been growing. policies ingood place. the central banks are independent. a lot of good things about africa. but i think the ceo didn't quite know what it was going to be until they got here and thought for themselves. itsedex is spreading logistics network across the continent. thanks for joining us today. it's very important, if you look at where africa is growing, we are starting to see good gdp growth, particularly in the southern africa par