barack could soon be forced into the north sea. -- barack could soon be washed into the north sea.only loved by locals. it is also a magnet for visitors to help langoland. >> see it while you can. >> i hope it does not collapse. it is a special attraction on the island. >> a few years ago, attempts were made to secure it but to no avail. scaffolding will alter the appearance of the rock and charlie. a wall of stone would have cost up to 20 million euros. >> the task facing helgoland is immense and costs a lot of money. i do not think there is enough money to save it, even if it were possible. >> ahead of the tourist office wants to give the whole island a makeover. the number of tourists who come here have fallen in recent years. the duty-free cruisers are not as possible to popular as they used to be. the traditional landing boats are still full, but now only four of them bring day trippers to the island. it used to be 10 or more. it still offers duty-free spirits and cigarettes. the increase in the ferry prices mean that visitors no longer make any great savings. some in the busi

but with the north sea oil fields reaching the end of their life and with it the grandstand a new of lens such as rushes you will blend all the e.s.p.n. pipeline blends are increasingly becoming the standard by which others adjudged russia's become the world's biggest oil exporter and many believe the time has come for the country to establish its own international trading platform rather than leaving it to the u.s. the u.k. and singapore. if we had our own stock exchange where we can trade or oil or i think that we could trade not only in u.s. dollars but also in rubles especially c.i.s. countries amount of us and i mean we are talking about the possibility of the becoming a major trading currency or even a reserve currency or with this can only be done if the ruble is fixed to serious material resources such as gold or oil and gas. the euro is blamed currently trades at a two dollar distilled to brant yet many believe this is an unfounded discount one which could be raised through the establishment oil exchange but for now russia is still happy to trade through the existing channel

have been laid in the north sea should drill for operation as early as next year the entire project could transport more than one point nine trillion cubic meters of gas to europe spokes person says connecting the second line to russia is an important symbolic step last week the first line of the stream has landed on the russian shore and tomorrow we're going to see the second line land from this to the shore so that will be a milestone for the construction and depression approach so far we have raised three point nine billion euros external finance for the first phase of the project and we are about to raise about two point five billion for the second phase of the project. for now you can always find more stories on our website www dot com slash business i'll be back next hour. one of the key elements of democracy which is so uncomfortable for me afford. who pays for the numbers. how dependent is this independent media. and who is behind the t.v. story. charge of media fiction and reality on our teeth. this is raging a forest and peach fires continue to sweep through central russia the p

an emergency warning that they were about to crash into the north sea. good news: it was a false alarm. flight attendants raced through the cabin telling the 275 passengers it was all a mistake, that someone in the cockpit had pushed the wrong button, triggering the automated announcement. is there any good way to hold a tiger? a suitcase isn't one of them. security at bangkok's airport found a tiger cub stuffed inside a suitcase. the three-month-old tiger had been druged to keep it quiet. the thai woman who tried to smuggle the cub out is now in jail. coming up next, more from harry smith in new orleans-- five years after katrina. but here at the final days of the ford model year end sales event, these folks are taking it up a notch. those guys are bringing some outstanding technology. over here, amazing fuel efficiency. behind me, that guy's bringing quality that can't be beat by honda or toyota. me, i'm bringing cole slaw. hurry in to the final days of the ford model year end sales event and get a f150 with 0% financing for 60 months. so many stories,

the first in the north sea, blowout preventers were mandated on all well. in 1980, of fire in the norwegian sector killed 123 people. in 1988, one platform explosion in the u.k. sector killed 167 people and triggered what were until the end record insurance claims. in canada, 84 deaths, 84 people died. most recently in 2009, an australian -- it took five tribes more than 72 days to kill the well. no country chose to stop offshore activity and neither should the u.s.. just last week, the canadian senate committee concluded there was no cause to halt offshore drilling in canada. the fundamental challenge all regulators faces the potential mismatch between paris dynamic business process these and static regulatory. there is a trade-off between production and safety. the offshore industry progresses and meets the growing global command for oil off by constantly advancing the barriers of what is possible and said. a static regulatory system cannot keep up in this dynamic environment. static thoma prescriptive regulations resulting static, perspective safety prac

it was a british airways 747 from heathrow to hong kong as the plane flew over the north sea. of course since we didn't report on a plane crash last night, it was a mistake. the cabin crew hopped on the p.a., apologized for undue distress. somebody apparently had hit the wrong button. but who knew they had that kind of prerecorded announcement ready to go on board the aircraft? >>> when we come back tonight from the ninth ward here in new orleans, our special friday night "making a difference" report. the actor brad pitt shows us what he's done in this neighborhood. or brad pitt shows us what he's done in this neighborhood. the one thing about smoking -- is it dominates your life, and it dominated mine. i honestly loved smoking, and i honestly didn't think i would ever quit. ♪ it was very interesting that you could smoke on the first week. [ male announcer ] chantix is a non-nicotine pill that stays with you all day to help you quit. in studies, 44% of chantix users were quit during weeks 9 to 12 of treatment, compared to 18% on sugar pill. it's proven to reduce the urge to sm

that is how to produce oil in the north sea. if you go to scotland, you would find shuttle tankers coming in with oil and transferring it to shore, but to do that, the tankers have to have the capability to be dynamically positioned. instead of having a traditional engine room and a propeller and a writer, you have to have propulsion jets, nozzles, computer controls that allow you to take gps information and hold the it and it tells the ship what to do. it is an order of magnitude that they built into certain takers because it is so expensive. they did not have those in the gulf of mexico. the first thing that they did was to bring those production platforms in and bring it ashore. the second is how do you bring it to the surface. the riser pipes are not connected to the well or the production unit at the top. they have a flexible coupling that comes out of the well and this riser pipe is anchored below the surface and at the top, there is another flexible hose that goes into the production unit. that is the with a produced oil

the first in the north sea, blowout preventers were mandated on all well. in 1980, of fire in the norwegian sector killed 123 people. in 1988, one platform explosion in the u.k. sector killed 167 people and triggered what were until the end record insurance claims. in canada, 84 deaths, 84 people died. most recently in 2009, an australian -- it took five tribes more than 72 days to kill the well. no country chose to stop offshore activity and neither should the u.s.. just last week, the canadian senate committee concluded there was no cause to halt offshore drilling in canada. the fundamental challenge all regulators faces the potential mismatch between paris dynamic business process these and static regulatory. there is a trade-off between production and safety. the offshore industry progresses and meets the growing global command for oil off by constantly advancing the barriers of what is possible and said. a static regulatory system cannot keep up in this dynamic environment. static thomas prescriptive regulations resulting static, perspective safety pra

because of that, they had to bring technology from the north sea and in some case off the coast of africa and combine those technologies to create the recovery system we have now. >> you're giving pretty good grades to b.p. in terms of what they tried to do after the spill occurred. >> rose: that's correct. that's correct. >> rose: didn't mislead you? didn't lie to you? didn't... didn't... did the best he could to understand the, comprehend and do something about... >> regarding the containment of the spill, yes, absolutely. >> rose: and with respect to before the spill occurred. >> well, let me go back one more time in addition to that. at the president's request working with secretary salazar we brought in secretary steven chu, secretary at the department of energy nobel prize winner, physicist. he's led a science team down there that have been like junkyard dogs looking over every procedure, pulling the metaphorical knot hole on all the things going on. in fact, they were down there meeting today and there's been a really, really watchful eye over all the calculations, all the assumpti

russia is keen to open up the north and sea routes from europe to asia the passage could cut ten thousand kilometers or so more compared to journeys that go via this canal and the indian ocean russia's biggest private gas producer no attack is acting as a pathfinder it wants to open up a directory to export its liquefied natural gas to asia the arrival of the tank a ball to go with seventy thousand tons of gas condensate aboard in the eastern russian port of pervez signified and new milestone in that ambition the most difficult part of the route between russia sicily a woman in china and here in the port of havoc the cargo ships of course is going nuclear icebreakers completed its journey in eleven days which was even quicker than expected nova tax as the shipment through the suez canal cost up to three point five million dollars for one cargo going via the north and route knocks about half a million off that figure not to mention the time saved and the fact there are no pirates along the way. we are very pleased with the result of the journey i think will drive the ship several cargoes m

they heard an emergency warning their plane was about to crash into the north sea.telling the passengers it was a mistake. someone in the cockpit accidentally pushed the wrong button, triggering the automated announcement. here's rebecca. >> thank you, whitt. it's being called a miracle. an australian woman who gave birth to twins prematurely was told one of them was dead but she saved his life with the kangaroo care method. richard roth explains. >> reporter: born prematurely with a twin sister at 27 weeks, jamie seemed to have no signs of life, his mother said, quoting a doctor at the australian doctor where he was delivered. so kate held her son and cuddled him. with her husband david at her side she said she assumed she was saying good-bye to her two-pound infant. in minutes he stirred and two hours later, opened his eyes. >> i remember looking and saying, what if he lives? we were both giggling like kids. like he might live. we could be the luckiest people ever. >> reporter: the twins are now 5 months old and healthy, according to their mother, who believes the

with the flanders come from the north into the sea and then there is. a warning by the united nations that the disease is . a chronic disease would spread in the areas was affected what is the how the you were in will deal to. contain these diseases in the. fifty's well again the united nations has been present and working with the health authorities in the country again for decades on the over the kitchen of paul your etc so there is a capacity on the ground and again intertwined with. the government health structures. sort of deserving and the need there may be and may have been even before but still there's a capacity to respond. there has been a very. a high level consultation involving and chaired by the prime minister himself to address this issue because it is of concern again because of the rather poor state of health of many of the people let's not forget that before the floods occurred the food insecurity was enormous in this country a lot of people did not have enough food on their plates every day poverty is a big issue here so you have very

north korea. >>> under the sea. spectacular new images of underwater creatures off the spectacular new images of underwater creatures off the coast of indonesia. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. welcome to our viewers across the nation, including the pacific time zone. i'm lynn berry and today we begin with five years later. hurricane katrina moved into the gulf of mexico five years ago this week before growing into one of the most devastating hurricanes in u.s. history. nbc's jay gray is in new orleans where the city that was hardest hit is still struggling to recover. jay, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, lynn. a testimony to the violent power of the storm, the definitetation that still lingers here. katrina almost as strong as the unbreakable spirit of the survivors here. the storm's been gone for a long time now. the casinos are up and running again in mississippi. the excitement of mardi gras, and the surprise super bowl win of the beloved but beleaguered saints

and our destination today is the white sea coast thousand kilometers north of moscow why is an asian land of sea conquerors sailors fishermen ship builders upon more people have been linked with the sea for generations and even today their way of why it hasn't changed much excess are so you found out. we are now in. the first russian fleet now the creators of the russian fleet are the more people the people who have very close relations with the sea and they are the first russian settlers on the white sea coast now they were primarily fishermen hunters and sea traders in fact they create a very strong trading links with northern norway to the point that a pigeon language was created between the two of them now they have also played an important role in russian history because it's the banks to them that russia was able to keep its northern borders unchanged now today the people who call themselves uphold very strong and gimmick traditions so we dug a little deeper and we had a first time taste of the traditions and the way of life of the mars take a look. they were one of the first co

here at the bay in the baltic sea the construction of the north pipeline project is only progressing now which you see behind my back at two pipelines the first one was a pulled out of the water just a week ago in july the twenty eighth and what happened just a couple of hours ago is that the second finally reached the russian soil now you see that both pipelines are lying in a special train that will be back filled up to the initial seabed a level one of the construction is over but now this train to protect the both pipelines from a different external impacts when in two thousand and eleven the pipeline will start its open ration it will have a capacity over twenty seven billion cubic meters of gas annually and in two thousand and twelve it is planned that both will start their operations with a capacity over fifty five billion cubic meters of gas annually the gas will reach him the pipelines hand near the finish border and a van it will be delivered to the european customers to and will reach you were up on the north end coast of germany. for now but you can always buy most henri'

north korean agents kidnapped shuchichi ichikawa and rumiko matsz u moto from a beach in southwestern japan. on the same day agents also abducted miyoshi soga and her daughter hitomi on sado island in the sea of japan. north korea returned hitomi eight years ago but the fate of the other abductees remains unknown. more than ten family members of the missing made an appeal on thursday for an early rescue. matsumoto's brother ter you aky asked passers-by not to forget about the abductions. >>> in colombia's capital bogota, a car bomb wounded at least nine people. investigative authorities suspect the bombing may have been carried out by an anti-government group. a huge amount of explosives went off in a car parked near a radio station early thursday morning. the blast shattered most of the windows of the 12-story radio station and other nearby buildings. terrorist attacks in colombian cities have sharply declined due to tough measures against guerrilla groups such as the revolutionary armed forces of colombia or farc, by former president alvaro uribe. since taking office last week, the president santos has shown a readiness to hold conditional talks with rebels. however, following the latest

sea of japan. the move came after the two countries concluded north korea was behind the march sinking of a south korean warship in the yellow sea. recent tension in the region has prompted the south to consolidate its military partnership with the u.s. the u.s. is preparing to enlarge its military base at pyeontack south of seoul. the changes at the base prompted protests four years ago. about 100 families tried to fight a government order to move out. in the end, they were forced to leave their homes. people are still unhappy about the resettlement, but the opposition campaign has faded away. >> we need u.s. forces. we should coexist. >> north korea played a role in changing people's attitudes. it conducted nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009. it also fired missiles. in march, the north was accused of being behind an explosion that sank a south korean patrol ship. 46 navy personnel died. three months after the sinking, the united states and south korea decided to delay the transfer of wartime command of south korean forces until 2015. the u.s. was supposed to hand over power in 2012. south korea asked for

that is the way you produce oil in the north sea. they do that in scotland. to do that, the tankers need the capability to be dynamically positioned it. instead of having a traditional engine room and the rudder, you .eed propulsion jets the computer tells the ship what to do. they only build certain tankers because they are so expensive. they did not have those in the gulf of mexico. they brought those production platform shuttle tankers. how do you get it to the surface? if we installed vertical riser pipes. these are not connected to the well. they have a flexible coupling that comes out of the well. there is another flexible hose. that is the way they produce oil off the west coast of africa. the ultimate solution in an elevator line -- there are some significant implications in going forward. bp greeted a production system for will containment that could be the foundation to look at response systems for containment as part of a reassessment for response plans and how to mitigate risk in the future for oil production. i have exhausted all i know on that s

in the same way that we have vice-president for drilling and operations in the north sea or in gold or other countries. my role is a functional role, not a line role. so i am not accountable through the line for any operations that have taken place within bp. that is the accountability of the incumbent vice presidents for that particular area. >> right. did i hear you say you have a function that is development of best practices? >> no, i did not say that heard >> do you have that function? >> the purpose of the function in bp is to ensure that across the business in the segment -- our particular area -- that we are managing our operations in accordance with the functional agenda. >> "with the functional agenda." what you mean? >> when you look at strategy, technology, are we doing things for the common good? do we manage people and places at the right time? can we ensure that people go prepared? >> do you, in the course of managing under the functional agenda, attempt to impose some uniformity in practice across the organization? >> bp has a set of standards for many parts of the dril

the containment systems were used out there were brought from the north sea and off of angola, where they have a much different production structure that has to do with things that are more flexible and mobile and can be disconnected and put back together again. i think the responses you will see in the future, where ec drilling and oil containment, will contain the basic elements of what you have seen it designed and built bp the partners as they try to control this well. host: the potential risk of another blow out -- the front page of "the new york times" shows that the rig owner at safety issues with three other wells. guest: i would like to focus on the response itself. the investigation is being done by the department of interior and homeland security and our other investigations going on to what i am trying to focus on is if you have and that is, what are the response capabilities unique, what did we have that we had to bring to bear to stop this problem, and how to that in for us in the future? host: what did you not have? guest: we did not have access to the wellhead, and it

and our destination today is the wide sea coast a thousand kilometers north of moscow why is an ancient land of sea congress say were especially manned shipbuilders but the more people have been linked with the same for generations even today their way of life hasn't changed much as the star celia found out. they were one of the first conquerors of the northern waters the fisherman. not so many fresh and so off season now younger salmond is a northern fish it comes to reverse for spawning shipbuilders sea captains the boomers have a bond with the sea unbroken for centuries. my grandfather used to build one mast into most boats he was one of the best ship builders out there everyone in my family is connected to the sea they were the sailors or captains. work of is a native of but to keep got island one that he calls the homeland of captains so we travelled to put it a four hour boat journey to an island only accessible during the summer months today it's inhabited by about four hundred to morse descendants of the very first settlers here we discovered that the so-called traditional more

said i got a big rise in north korea you said it was prepared to give a military response over the south korean and u.s. naval exercises in the yellow sea why do you think the reaction was so aggressive. this falls into the line of behavior that is generally described as aggressive a general aggressive stance north korea has been threatening to spill seas of blood destroying imperius and their marionettes for several decades i wouldn't overestimate the actual threat if we look at it from a historical perspective it has become a subject for jokes remember the late fifty's joke about the one thousand two hundred fifteen serious chinese warning so they've issued warnings but nothing followed i think they could not have kept silent in their current position and they couldn't have approved of the maneuvers they had to say something now what did they say they threaten but nothing specific happened so would the us impose new sanctions against north korea at the same time it seems that north korea was nearly ready to go back to the six party talks do you think the us is any fuel to the flames. i don't think the us is interested in any kind of i

the containment systems were used out there were brought from the north sea and off of angola, where they have a much different production structure that has to do with things that are more flexible and mobile and can be disconnected and put back together again. i think the responses you will see in the future, where ec drilling and oil containment, will contain the basic elements of what you have seen it designed and built bp the partners as they try to control this well. host: the potential risk of another blow out -- the front page of "the new york times" shows that the rig owner at safety issues with three other wells. guest: i would like to focus on the response itself. the investigation is being done by the department of interior and homeland security and our other investigations going on to what i am trying to focus on is if you have and that is, what are the response capabilities unique, what did we have that we had to bring to bear to stop this problem, and how to that in for us in the future? host: what did you not have? guest: we did not have access to the wellhead, and it

sea breeze. notices clouds. the marine layer back. mid to upper 50s in most north bay neighborhoods into san francisco. pressure moving to the east. we're still on the tail end of it but the sea breeze is weakening. i should say the land breeze or offshore flow is weakening. watch as the clouds creep up and down along the coast and eventually squeeze us. that will be the big key. if you wake up to clouds tomorrow morning, you know you're into a big temperature drop. the marine layer back. we'll drop 80 degrees at the coast tomorrow, 16 around the bay and 10 inland. drop another 4 to 10 degrees on friday and about another 10 degrees on saturday. temperatures will be 20 to 30 degrees cooler with a whole lot of cloud cover the next couple mornings and even into saturday and sunday afternoon. if you have video you would like to share, you did a great job with that fire, we sure appreciate it, upload it had to youreport at abc7news.com or e-mail it. sure looks like more people may be driving today, megan. what's going on? >> the bay bridge toll plaza, already a backup into the maze which is at least a half

." >>> south korea has begun a large scale anti-submarine drill in the yellow sea off the peninsula. north korea has already denounced it as a serious challenge. the five-day drill began on thursday in waters. 4500 personnel from the army, navy and air force are taking part in the drill along with 20 ships including destroyers and submarines and 50 aircraft. it includes torpedo drill in an exercise to be held to prevent for preventing landings by north korea special forces. it's near the location where the south korean ship sank in march. according to south korea's joint chiefs of staff, it's to improve the country's defense capability and discourage north korea from engaging in further provocation. north korea's committee for the peaceful reunification for korea has denounced the drill. it says if the south provokes it to retaliate, it may do so without mercy. >>> students graduating from universities in japan are having a harder time to find a job. the survey was conducted by the education ministry. of the 540,000 people who graduated in march this year, about 330,000, ovnly 61%, found j

together with canada and russia of launch competing expeditions to the bottom of the sea near the north pole. the country just take its place here well determine its prosperity in the coming decades more than a third of the world's undiscovered yeah and the temple it's all reserves estimated to be in the region. where is expensive right now but for countries like the u.s. it is a matter of energy security it will give americans uninterrupted energy supplies regardless of any conflicts anywhere in the world but it's not yet clear how the pie will be divided between the five nations closest to the north pole the easiest way to gain economic rights the significant portions of it by proving the link to the country itself and this is what these expeditions trying to do to. make rights to the region before the united nations by twenty thirteen this involves showing the exact location and makeup of our continental shelf russia symbolically planted a flag at the north pole in two thousand and seven some have speculated this is the end of the political grandstanding to follow. yeah i myself do n