to residents on the island. on the construction front, this was an exciting milestone this week as cahill, the contractor for the building mobilized on monday. also following our meeting last month, new detour along the waterfront was opened and the roadway surfaces on the east side of the causeway were removed. ticd has begun removing the last surcharge stock piles at the front of treasure island. the only area in subphase 2 still requiring geotechnical improvement is the clipper cove roadway alignment. and the contractor has begun installing trains in that area for laboratory compaction work. meanwhile the compaction work has been completed at the waste water site. and some of the soil removed is being taken to the waste water treatment plant site with a surcharge to that area. the installation of sewer and storm water infrastructure continues throughout the subphase 2 area. on yerba buena island, the framing of the upper -- of the bristol continues as does the construction of the new reservoirs. structure one

for japan to be fighting in the solomon islands over 2,000 miles from the japanese home islands, war had never been been fought at these distances and could not have been fought if it were not for the invention of the airplane. the way that these navies get at one another is never to come within line of sight but to be hundreds of miles away, launch their scout planes, try to detect the enemies' fleet first and then launch your assault planes on the enemy spleet that you've detected. but you might be hundreds of miles away. a battle fought here in the coral sea, a signal moment, the first naval battle fought which were the two fleets never came in the line of sight of each other. i wouldn't say -- this is early on in the going, may of 1942. i wouldn't say either side was particularly good at it. there was a certain amount of the next month, june 1942, there will be a battle fought at mid-way. that's the big sinking of the four aircraft carriers. the unforgiving environment, the humidity, the heat, the jungle, the insekt life especially that american troops, american personnel simply

and that was in a remote part of the island all the way down the end of the islands. so everybody else on the island had no idea what we were doing down there. but that's how we loaded them. and to the best of my knowledge as i said, i was on the last -- the last guy that had his hands on the bomb that blew up nagasaki. so, because we were all signing the bomb and on i'm the last guy that saw -- well, i signed it but since then, the last guy dropped in. jepson, he's gone. next day early, plane takes off. oes to -- well, we had to pick a target at the last minute. but it's interesting. .e blew nagasaki to smithereens nagasaki is built back completely by the japanese. it's a beautiful city. detroit got ruined a little later than that and it's still ruined. so, it was something. when those people, went the japanese -- when the japanese knew what happened to them, all they wanted to do was put things back together. and that surrender was by the emperor. it wasn't by anybody else. he just made up his mind when-saw what those two bombs did and, of course, they thought we ha

to residents on the island. on the construction front, this was an exciting milestone this week as cahill, the contractor for the building mobilized on monday. also following our meeting last month, new detour along the waterfront was opened and the roadway surfaces on the east side of the causeway were removed. ticd has begun removing the last surcharge stock piles at the front of treasure island. the only area in subphase 2 still requiring geotechnical improvement is the clipper cove roadway alignment. and the contractor has begun installing trains in that area for laboratory compaction work. meanwhile the compaction work has been completed at the waste water site. and some of the soil removed is being taken to the waste water treatment plant site with a surcharge to that area. the installation of sewer and storm water infrastructure continues throughout the subphase 2 area. on yerba buena island, the framing of the upper -- of the bristol continues as does the construction of the new reservoirs. structure one

thank you all for convening today as the treasure island mobility management agency. chair had to attend a meeting today. chair haney a nunsed constructioannounced theconstrur veterans. this month treasurer you're island hosted another ground breaking for the south gate realignment project. hosted by our executive director mr. chang and project lee on july 29th. the limited commencement thanks funders for collaborating on the 64 million-dollar interchange and road realignment. the south gate road realignment project took place at the job site the afternoon of july 9th. this project will provide the islands local connections be designed on and off ramps to i830 and san francisco oak land bay bridge. completely removes conflicts coming from the expansion coming to and from treasure island. this is the second project administered by the transportation authority. the westbound direction delivered in 2016 s 2016. the next project exceed yule scr the spring of 2021. federal highway administration, cal trans, bay area toll authority, united states coast guard, and one treasu

the island has been spared a huge onslaught of visitors. although almost everyone lives from too isn't the full spray of the coronavirus was pleasant almost like it was back in the day when miguel was still a little boy. and it's a message of freedom and thought in the months of the lockdown there was nobody on the island only us crasser set us free had the island all to ourselves to hear it be proved out and to be honest we really enjoyed it where no maneuvering could even enter. in madrid to the new normal has arrived in the city worst hit by the fires people are allowed to move around freely again but masks a mandatory almost everywhere. that. many businesses have not survived the last 3 months according to a u 2 mission is. the economy will shrink by almost 11 percent and there's a new word cornerstone for. use in madrid alone around 100000 people cannot manage without food donations. was very. good for you. and this is our my charger has had no work for 2 months. i i when the lockdown came her boss sent her home nash has asked the prie

i want to read the syllabus about islands.islands, edgar allen poe wrote in the stormy seas of the psyche's place is a perfect security where freedom from all restraint can be enjoyed. tiny cosmos were normal laws, normal rules of conduct in normal systems of logic don't apply. they are frequent locales for experimental communities including the original utopia which thomas moore set on an island in his famous 16th century book. and i would just say there are many things we can say about the community ahead of beaver island into being a fascinating place but it's almost controversial. but i want to talk about the drawer. sometimes you think this guy what was his draw? i think one of the things we need to understand is what apocalyptic times these were. write one strand is trying to start this colony on beaver island and really push it, that this was the year of just pop elliptical fevers in the united states and the world. i thought i would read about those and then you will see why this is here. strang spent the summer of 184

we're here in our island hopping gallery. most of the war in the pacific consisted of the so-called island hopping campaigns. that is choosing an island chain, leaving japanese forces in place on the rest of the chain and then advancing to the next island chain and doing the same thing. in this way you would choose your targets, vast numbers of japanese would not have to be fought at all but be simply left to say wither on the vein of various island chains. as we advance here we have a very difficult fight in november 1943, the battle of tarawa. it's a piece of atoll, but the japanese had dug into it a little bit. as we see here u.s. marines advancing toward the island their boat got caught on the coral reef so they had to get out of the boat and wade towards the shore often in waist-deep or deeper water under fire the whole time. no one takes precedence over me in terms of my respect for the u.s. marine corp but this might have been one of their most heroic days in their entire history. what we have here is a map of the isla

place line to the canary islands to lines of utter. holidaymakers have been allowed back into spain since just a few days ago not many around this sharing the beaches would like holes. in the system and cold but it's a dream you there's no one else here as you see if you like and you can have 20 meters distance to the next bathers ago it's never been this nice here before given the moment it's on the look if you ask other holidaymakers how would you have imagined this last year with a few less people that it would have been so bad so it's not so unpleasant to show his little face how ok we've already said we're bound to remember this very different holiday in years to come up with that idea it's a special moment see so where did it go more in the face. normally one of the half 1000000 to scum to lunch at all to every year now at the start of the summer season just a handful of hotels are open. now got that are coming up and a century ago cleans hotel rooms and has been unemployed since mid march in the car when now allowed to sit next

search, using an island chain, invading the physical island in the chain, leaving japanese forces in place and then advancing to the next island chain and doing the same thing. in this way, you would choose your target. vast numbers of them when i have to be fought at all. as we advance here, we have the application of a difficult fight in november 1943. this is not an island, but a piece of coral, a coral atoll. the japanese had dug into every inch of it and was very well fortified. u.s. marines got caught on the coral reef. they had to get out of the boat and wade toward the shore in waist deep or even deeper water. what we have here is a map of the island in the chain. if you look very carefully, you see that this is stained with blood. he survived the battle. the unit he was in, 40% men killed, two wounded here or to wounded here or 200 there, too dead here or to get there. it's is something about the difficulty of the fighting. visitors spend a lot of time in front of this map once they read the caption. think it is a smudge or a bit of dirt. but it is the blood of a man who was

shiny wooden buildings on top of their island. cher planted tropical gardens and adopted a pet monkey and a brown doberman pincher named jack. he adored cher and followed her wherever she went. she loved the local school kids, planned movie nights with popcorn and celebrated the holidays with enthusiasm even though her friend, shawn trainer, says the kids didn't always get the significance. >> she would do the easter egg hunts for the kids. they had no idea what this crazy white woman was doing, coloring eggs and hiding them around on the island. they never participated in anything like that before. >> keith and cher's relationship blossomed on the islands. in 2005 they married in front of their many friends in the close community. >> it's a small place. you go to the grocery store and meet 20 people you know. >> christen roberts who moved there from norway became part of cher's group of friends. >> she kind of stick together. you know, and treat each other like family. and take care of each other. >> spend holidays together? >> y

of the 37 inhabited islands in the archipelago. the defections amongst the privacy concerns internationally as well this is what survival international an organization that supports indigenous people worldwide have to say. then to be facing this devastating fire since it is just another tragedy in the long history of the problems that they've been facing because of. the contact with people outside. and we have been watching film some time to know those think creasing in the andaman sea great alarm and have written to the u.s. and of course expressing our concern about it reaching the try so let's get more on this from my colleague from the money not sure 3 joining me now from demi money don't try that lives on a remote island how did 10 members contract the virus and how on top of these reacting well they should have been reported that some member of this tribe a group this particular try to really use to work well in jobs in the capital city . and there was some of the people also used to make frequent travels between the secluded

mayall car and island of silence this was the island in the middle of june when german tourists largely began arriving again off the lock down but it may well start to look this quiet again soon now that germany has issued a travel warning for the bill eric islands gems schmidt runs a small her tellin my oka it is many rooms a large garden and now big water use. today we received 3 cancellations because people are insecure or cannot afford to go into quarantine when they come back from majorca on the blair garlands there is simply a great deal of planning uncertainty. for. the travel warning was announced after surge in corona virus cases across spain many here expected it but others were hopeful even for its white talking you hear him here 2 days ago and realize that i am sorry for here than in berlin or in brandenburg or in the baltic sea where there are a lot more tourists to see you see i have to wonder whether we will go home again all when we will go home and what impact this travel warning will have previously $5000000.00 germans came to the island each year many are now likely t

show you what you can enjoy on the island of who's a donkey and sama. off to vandeman. fresh air a short trip somewhere like to the baltic. it's something i've been missing these past months just like many of us the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted travel worldwide my 1st trip after that using your frustrations germany took me to vitamin d. in the state of mecklenburg western pomerania. here from the lighthouse you can get a good view of the ball degree sort of. traveling in coronavirus times how does that look like with all the social distancing in hygiene rules it's summer in germany so it's high season and bet means it can get really crowded on the beach in restaurants in hotels and i would like to know how those people in charge and the tourists are dealing with this situation here in volume and. holiday makers are back here involved in the end at the baltic coast and of course i'm curious to find out more about what's brought them here. where you're from cologne what brought you here and it was like baltic sea coast is the nicest coast we know we've been coming h

product yet we always say the island has protected us. february we were going to celebrate our new status as the 8th canary island with a big event which it would have brought large crowds of people here very much but we had to cancel it because the kalima the sand winds from africa were so strong in greece was then the people also believe that the salty water doesn't tax and kills the virus not they really do not. want. any shop miguel also sells a little of the island's history his family is why. of the 4 or 5 who came to 140 years ago fisherman from lands around until around 2030 years ago they had hardly any outside contact the bigger want that is to just have a built huts with no water or light. main character has said they had an incredible will to survive here although the island really has its limits. they wanted this place to become their home. but that's also it is not even 30 kilometers large it's a bias fear reserve a conservation area in the city. the island has been spared a huge onslaught of visitors. although almost everyo

nice and nice people with the sunny island. it's true all the dumb as one of the funniest places in germany. just. like right now in midsummer too much sun can be dangerous so beach goers have found ingenious ways of keeping out of the sun. there was also a colorful sea of umbrellas and tests. the more traditional option as the wicker beach chair and. vented on the baltic sea coast and $882.00 it's now an essential beach item. getting in on the fun is super easy if you get a key and a number at one of the many rental spots along the beach and 5 your chair then set it up. and relax. in the waker beach chair is tightly interwoven with beach culture at the baltic and the north sea and rarely found outside of germany. oh that is an island of superlatives it has germany's longest beach some 1900 hours of sunshine a year and super full especially the beaches are overrun by tourists what i'm wondering is are there any quiet spots left let's find out together on a tour around the island. closer to home has an impressive 12 kilometer bo

and for the islanders it's.more than just another cheese it's an important part of cypriot culture. and if you are looking for more reports about food from all around europe than check out our new you tube channel the food here is a small taste of what we have on offer. damage you see these. stories. to see as i'm. just now amazing the best chefs with their best tips from the lead dishes to eat in diets and order recipe secrets while. europe's diversity is a smorgasbord to my list going to. subscribe and enjoy d.w. food. julia was born in switzerland now he called vallon his home he said travel and research like the german geography alex on the from home board he wants to explore and discover the world but julian shania is also an artist and he is currently one of the most successful in europe foy's nature installations he takes things to the limits physically artistically and he travels to places few people ever go to one of his latest projects took him to regions where the icy temperatures pose a huge challeng

he was arrested with two other men on the neighbouring island of mykonos on thursday night.se their claimed they had to break upa lease their claimed they had to break up a fight outside the bar. three men were accused of assaulting and verbally abusing an officer before a altercation at a police station. yesterday he was taken by boat back to the island to spend another night in a police cell for his appearance in court this

in that moment the island that was a very tiny island and basically the hotspot that these are receiving the migrants are either serving as the gate to view it up and if you would see how tiny is lampedusa you would be. baffled to for the how. much between the size of the island and being that the gate that what you have up there is a. center for the receiving and then for the other resting the migrants are that after. some time and especially in these days or in these times of course. also the test obviously that should give the negativity of the people then are that i think the migrants all to different hot spots that are cost italy or according to work of the deals. and european union. as do other counties or beautifully in the late in the latest times in the last month the operation has been made it much more difficult to buy all the pulsars that has to be done of doing test canaveral status there and then the 3 thing always not coming out negative thank you just a final thought to you i mean what about the residence on lampedusa i mean how do they feel about yet more migrants landin

our troops drove for the airfield on new georgia island.th africa in allied hands, preparations for operation husky were begun immediately, to attack the soft underbelly of europe. the immediate target, sicily. little time was lost. only 60 days after the surrender of axis forces in north africa, patton's army invaded sicily with british troops under montgomery. some 3,000 craft were employed to land on the initial force of 160,000 troops. almost 14,000 vehicles, about 600 tanks, nearly 2,000 guns. but sicily was held by more than 200,000 italian and german troops, strongly entrenched on rugged terrain. it was to be a tough, hard-fought campaign. >> we invaded sicily just 18 months after pearl harbor. actually an incredibly short period of time for a peaceful and unprepared nation to have accomplished so much, to have come so far. it was a brilliant reflection of our military planning and the energy and enterprise that implemented that planning. it was america at its dynamic best. the forces of agricultural, industry, labor and management,

we had already begun our island hopping in the southern sun.tle for nazi held italy was only just beginning. -y ♪ ♪ on the 3rd of september, the british division cross the streets in the subpoena to land on the toe of the italian boot. six days later, american faces struck the beach a pleasurable, 30 miles south of naples. they met stiff enemy resistance. ♪ ♪,. for a time our foothold was precarious when the enemy launched a stiff counterattack. supported by his combination of aircraft, and artillery the allies held the beach head. heavy pounding by land, c in air was too much for the nazis. they fell back as our own forces pushed on towards naples. by then, italy had surrounded conditionally. they were officially out of the war. ♪ ♪ october 1st, 1943. elements they men and in the city of napoli. they were greeted not as conquerors but as liberators. here as elsewhere, a new problem confronted their invasion forces. how to provide government for a civilian population. years of fascism had promised many but it only delivered strife. there's a hu

protected islands such as small as the capital. already overcrowded new houses are being crammed together. but in another better irony of the sand wars new. construction requires ever more sand . we have been in the middle of the indian ocean for the last 5000 we have written history that goes but. we can't just. far from the mild deaves beautiful threatened beaches. greed and speculation drive the global markets for sand and show no signs of slowing down. bombay is not an isolated case there's never been so much construction but at the same time housing has never been less affordable. one 3rd of urban populations now live in slums while go cities and empty apartments are being built all over the world. in china 65000000 flats are empty yet the construction industry is flora xing swallowing up one quarter of the sand extracted on the planet spain holds the unfortunate record as the european country most addicted to sand in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis 30 percent of the homes constructed since 1906 sit empty entire a

[laughter] the mormons got wiped off the island and really wiped off the island.o there's maybe one building, maybe two, but we where you really see transtrand, kings highway is the only blacktop road on the island that was the kings highway he ordered his people, you really feel it, more than that you see donovan the book, he said donovan is a go there and experience that kind of writer and the best way possible, i just don't, i wanted to go there, i wanted to see it, it didn't affect the book any profound way but i wanted it to be in that spot. >> i'm sure you had a medium of like when you are putting yourself using your historical imagination into the place to be some subtle ways you have a sense of, the distance between the north end of the island where st. james is on the south end of the island where the fishermen are in revolt live, you have a sense of scale. >> i think it's like what you did with moby duck, the bestseller, highly acclaimed book, which is amazing, it's about, i don't know how many ducks rubber ducks that get released into the ocean and wher

in moscow than the mainland the greater and the mini's tribe lives on straight island one of the 37 inhabited islands in the occupied ago they defections among the tribe have raised concerns internationally as well this is what survival international an organization that supports indigenous people worldwide have to say to them to be facing this devastating fire it seems is just another tragedy in the long history of the problems that they've been facing because of. the contact with people outside and weeping watching full some time to know those think creasing in the end the men's rights a lot of them have written so yes not all stories expressing our concern about reaching the try so let's get more on this from my colleague spawn of money dr audrey joining me now from a demi money don't force tribe that lives on a remote island how did 10 members contract the virus and how it all taught these reacting. well they should have been reported that some member of this tribal group despite going to try to do the used to work small jobs in the capital city. and there were some other people

our allied forces landed in sterling island and a campaign launched to drive the japanese from that islanddivision took over us after 76 hours a bloody fighting. (noise) heavy casualties were suffered. but the japanese were wiped out. elements of the army 27th introductory division took over. our army air corps was engaged in massive bombing of the industrial part of germany. devastating nazi plants. but the nazis would only see that the twilight of the gods was about to come. the bitterest of large-scale battles had law and yet to be fought and some of these were soon to come on the italian front were strong defensive positions were held by a tough and stubborn enemy. that and the weather had bogged down our advance. ♪ ♪ it was winter, 1943. the stage was set for the cairo, tehran conference. roosevelt and churchill melt chang tsai check in cairo. even at the moment fighting was the most intense in italy. high-level master plans continue to be to be made for the invasion of france and four other allied operations throughout the world. in cairo, talks centered on the european operations fo

male and island of silence this was the island in the middle of june when german tourists largely began arriving again off the lock down but it may well start to look this quiet again soon now that germany has issued a travel warning for the belayer a car lands gens schmidt runs a small her telling my oka it is many rooms a large garden and now big worries. you know i'm it's similar to today we received 3 cancellations because people in secure cannot afford to go into quarantine when they come back from majorca or the blair garlands there is simply a great deal of planning uncertainty. in the course of planning seems enjoy it if you don't travel warning was announced after surgeon coronavirus cases across spain many here expected it but others were hopeful they've been forthright talking you here go i came here 2 days ago and realized that i am safe a heathen in berlin or in brandenburg or in the baltic sea where there are a lot more tourists to listen to it's you seem to like to we don't know whether we will go home again all when we will go home and what impact this travel warning wil

even the islands that belong to greece there are thousands of islands between turkey and greece and most of them are beloved to greece and reese claims that these islands can have individual exclusive economic zones but turkey claims that this doesn't happen unless a country is an archipelago ark archipelago country. and that there turkey always gives the example of the exclusive economic zone agreement between spain and. cork and the exclusive economic zone agreement that france says there are islands in between and those islands are not considered to have individual exclusive economic zones but only the continental territory is perceived also. another issue that turkey and greece has been at loggerheads is the turkish side for you to turkey recognize the northern cyprus as an independent state and turkey claims that all those that are all resources all those resources. found discovered by the greek side the turkish side also has rights on that then those should be shared equally this is what turkey is against also another thing is about the islands the crete and maize islands for insta

. >> enemy forces on the island were wiped out.nd. >> with all of north africa in allied hands, preparations for husky began immediately. the immediate target sicily, little time was lost. only 60 days after the surrender of axis forces, the army invaded sicily simultaneously with british and canadian troops under montgomery. ♪ >> some 3,000 craft were employed to land an initial force of some 160,000 troops. >> almost 14,000 vehicles, about 600 tanks, nearly 2,000 guns. but sicily was held by more than 200,000 italian and german troops strongly entrenched on rugged terrain. it was to be a tough, hard-fought campaign. ♪ ♪ >> we invaded sicily just 18 months after pearl harbor. actually, an incredibly short period of time for a peaceful and unprepared nation to have accomplished so much. to have come so far. it was a brilliant reflection of our military planning and the energy and enterprise that implemented that planning. it was america at its dynamic best. the forces of agriculture, industry, labor and management, finance and manp

the ocean is also the lifeblood of the mauritian economy last year 1400000 visitors came to the island. going to have a huge impact especially because of the whole process right busy now it's really really. based. on this model of all of this out. it's going to reveal. a specially fishy. you know that's how to make money the. residents along the coast have been collecting the oil sludge and buckets and the government says almost all fuel has been removed from the tanks of the ship but considering the scale of the accident longer term fixes are still going to be needed. let's bring in robin smith there now he's head of corporate banking at a fraser bank and joins us from. robin this is an ecological and economic disaster in one how will this affect life in hoods on russia's. thank you very much for having me on the show or. you know the truth is that that is quite difficult to determine right now because the crisis is not yet over you know current iran 1000 tons of fuel that's built into the the other protected marine areas on the east coast of the island. the japanese ship. which crash

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