of iceland is tied to aluminum smelting may i ask this because iceland has a campaign out of it of icelandit's a geological wonderland it's a beautiful landscape it's one of the most pristine environments in the world great people and rank event as a fun town i've been there myself but do you need to have any aluminum smelting at all what percentage of aluminum smelting contributes to g.d.p. in iceland overall actually i'm not quite sure but the fact is that i mean they are big you've got this renewable energy source which is different than let's say energy coming out of the ground in the middle east or elsewhere which is nonrenewable it's it's it's renewable it's clean it's why can't i slam use that to drive some other industry then the dirty aluminum smelting business my question exactly and the point is also that the geothermal energy is not sustainable unless it is used with care i mean you can't just come. out of the ground without the need to go to to the area that you're using so it has to be harvested with clear to to keep it sustainable while there is a question for you wiki leaks

there is little demand for the meat, even in iceland.st of it is exported to japan where the international ban is ignored. there is no global market for the world's second-biggest mammal. but he stubbornly maintains this is not true. when asked if he is the most stubborn man on iceland. he answers that some may think so but it does not bother him. the only fin whale hunter in iceland refuses to give up the fight, even though he makes plenty of money from regular fishing. e.u. membership would put him out of business. >> it seems to be a matter of pride for many in iceland. we have to understanit is not important in our enomy. there are other things that are more important like the fisheries in general. >> the decision to join the e.u. will ultimately be decided by referendum in. as a form of protest, he has gotten two boats opposite the tourist boats in the harbor. iceland's visitors remain attracted by the island's natural beauty. they come here to see the whales alive, not dead. ♪ >> power series on european villages reaches braunwald

because free speech i think is pretty in iceland you know taking the initiative here in protecting the rights that we you know that what we deserve we we've learned over the years. but you know i think that people should should seriously consider signing up to a facebook users union because ok let me know if let me ask you this now the facebook users on facebook it's there was a movement for people to drop off a book just a few months ago it got no traction at all or had a bit of a move when it was news during the period when it was revealed that facebook's policy toward privacy was a sham and that forced them to completely. start another p.r. spin ball out there to try to get back on track but a lot of people dropped off facebook but their growth rate it was not interrupted at all so how do you force back how do you push back ok you're getting people to join you or how many people there are so far on your on your group well where the moment we have a thousand people we get fifty people joined just this morning and so it's growing quite rapidly we have an all hub so i. think facebook u

iceland restarted the commercial hunting of whales in 2006. it allows the killing of a small number of minke whales and fin whales. the latter is more controversial as they're listed as endangered. iceland argues the whaling industry provides jobs. >> the wailing will allow at least 300 jobs here, which is the same as 40,000 jobs in england. >> the iwc permits some subsistence whaling bite and digits -- indigenous groups like the inuit in the arctic. >> wewe spoke to a whale researcher and greenpeace activist and asked him what the current status of the whale population is worldwide. >> the population of whales -- the size is still unknown. it is a big question how many whales still exist in our big oceans. we know at e rges ving being ever on earth has been reduced to a few thousand. maybe 5000. not more really left in the whole world. and they have difficulties to find each other. so we know we have a huge decline of some populations, and the rest is still unknown. that is another reason why i think the hunting should really stop. >> what wo

there's a geophysical weapon that somebody is testing that is causing all of these problems there icelandic volcano. floods in pakistan the heat in russia is that true. so it's an interesting question that comes up at least every few years five years ago when hurricane katrina struck the u.s. sure there was a lot of noise perhaps more of it in the western hemisphere than in europe in russia but people started saying that katrina was the result of russian geophysical weapon tests and that nothing would have happened if it wasn't for the evil empire which meant to the former soviet union and wouldn't a russia this year since europe russia pakistan and china to a degree have all been affected by disasters this in sage and hungry whistleblowers came up with a different theory and they are saying these disasters are results of retaliation from the us that perhaps the u.s. wanted to strike pakistan and accidently hit russia and europe. in any case my answer to your question is no it was not caused by geophysical weapons with them i say this because so far there is no evidence in open media source

so then what is causing all this climatic chaos the volcano in iceland the abnormal heat in russia floods in pakistan what is the cause behind all of these things that . where did this summer disasters in russia europe and pakistan come from well they didn't really come from anywhere the situations like this develop in the atmosphere once every few years we call them blocking situations like they are characterized by a cycle and the cycle and pair of equal strength facing one another and the cyclon is a massive air spinning one way and producing to standing streams of air. in summer and winter this gives a clear sky it also makes the summers hotter now when we have a pack insisting of a stream circular and a strong anti cycling as the case is this summer over russia and europe this leads to a so-called blocking situation during which that pair can become very stable this pair will sustain itself until it gets tired and we'd have to either wait for that of autumn to come so that the strong and the certain would run out of the solar energy to sustained by. my point is that there is nothing

iceland. >> yes. >> charlie: the prime minister of iceland made history last month when she wed her long-timefriend becoming the world's first head of government to enter a gay marriage. >> yes, absolutely, and i think that it was a unanimous parliamentary vote that legalized same-sex marriage in that country -- or if i'm wrong on that, it was at least very, very close, so i think that her leadership has had a lot to do with that and that people are becoming increasingly comfortable -- actually, very curious to know what jeff thinks about this as a political analyst because i really think that we have kind of changed with respect to gay rights in this country -- it used to be that our invisibility and our diffuseness, we were called an anonymous and diffuse minority rather than a discrete and insular minority. the discrete and insular minorities were supposed to get the help of the courts -- at the time we complained that our anonymity and our diffuseness hurt us because we were spread out over the country, we couldn't actually vote, we couldn't vote somebody into office from our district bec

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as for men, qatar came first with 81 years followed by hong kong, iceland and switzerland. japanese men are ranked fifth. overseas media reports express skepticism that japanese people live longer than anyone else. >> in south korea where the population is aging just like japan, they aired a detailed report about a 113-year-old woman in tokyo whose whereabouts are unknown. the health and welfare ministry is planning to check the whereabouts of the country's old est residents. their reputation is at stake as it casts doubts on the reliability of the statistics. the evening edition carried an article, is the status of a country with longevity a scam? they say they're not managing the elderly population due to the collapse of the traditional sfaem and other factors. according to last year's data people aged 65 or older accounted for roughly 11% of the overall population in south korea with the number of elderly people living alone on the rise. some reports point out that similar incidents could happen in south korea. the global times newspaper affiliated with the communist par

iceland's supreme court ordered fisher's body exhumed after a woman, who had a relationship with fisher when he lived in the philippines, made a claim on his estate. >>> finally the "new york post" reports that actress hilary duff and hockey star mike comrie signed a prenup before getting married last weekend, but not for why you're probably thinking. it seems comrie also comes from a famous canadian business family with an estimated worth of half a billion bucks. >> wow. i'm not typically a big fan of prenups. when you told me what you did to protect your fortune -- >> we signed on a rock with a sharpie. >> that rock was a diamond. >> don't start rumors. >>> and this comes to us from wavy-tv 10 in norfolk, virginia, where one navel captain has reached another milestone in the history of women in the military. captain mary jackson became the new commanding officer at virginia's norfolk naval station tuesday, the world's largest naval installation. jackson, who has also been commanding officer of a destroyer, has worked her way steadily up since graduating from the u.s. naval academy in

phase of the sun and other factors put together that i even rid of theory that the eruption of the iceland volcano with an unpronounceable name is also a result of greenland glaciers melting but i don't not only those living on the islands but also russia can suffer from this that i'm not a big part of west siberia is a region where most oil and gas plants are located they are lower than the world's ocean level already in the smallest increase of that level will flood those regions . blazes in russia kill people and destroyed their homes there also destroyed harvests so that russian prime minister ordered to stop exporting grain for a while how much time do you think will it take to restore those fields and forests you're building with coverage for me carol i have to say that weather information services have predicted a temperature anomaly this summer but of course no one could predict the extent of it. the consequence is catastrophic you can plant a forest during one season but it will take decades for it to grow here. how badly will this affect fashion ecology doctors are saying spendin

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a lot of that comes into the major disruptions caused by the volcanic ash, from iceland. but it was already down in the gums and the first quarter thanks to the unbearably cold and long winter in europe. glad i missed out on that one. a plunging population and a drop in the number of skilled employees means germany has to make changes. the chambers of industry and commerce calculates that europe's largest economy will need up to 6 million employable individuals in the next 20 years. in berlin, political and economic players have come together to discuss how to deal with that shortage. >> edward is a mexican engineer working for carmaker in at the western city. germany needs more skilled workers like him. with the economic recovery gaining pace, companies need to add specialists to their payrolls, and fast. that is the finding of a survey of 1600 companies by the german chambers of industry and commerce. one in five of the surveyed companies said they already have shortage ofskilled workers. looking ahead ov the nexfive ars, one in two companies expect serious bottlenecks

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