reykjavik is home to a thriving street art scene. most of the buildings along the city's main shopping streets are adorned with graffiti and street art. the tourists love that. many house owners commission artists to design their facades. p.s. land the capital is a riot of color. and that is thanks to the likes of star every born here in one nine hundred eighteen she studied at an art school in berlin germany the latest work adorns the icelandic ministry for industries and innovation twenty five artists submitted proposals for merrill's and hers was the winning design. is this is how cops are the images semi abstract you can see a whale. and maybe a cod fish and a few other things but it's also open to interpretation if you follow it with your eyes it looks as though it's rising up from the ground and trying to get out. and then you can see it arch back into the sea. and smear everyone can interpret it differently and i'm happy with that it's overdue. creating the mural was a labor of love. the work was constantly being interrupted b

. >> reporter: we're headed out of reykjavik.o meet anti-whaling activists with a group called sea shepherd. essentially they keep a vigil monitoring every whale that comes into the whaling station. >> hey, this is it. >> this is the whaling station. >> reporter: rob reid is heading the effort in iceland. >> this is the largest whaling station there is on land. >> reporter: their goal, to shut down this whaling station for good. >> what you can see down here is the last remains of the two whales brought in at 5:00 this morning by the whaling ship. >> reporter: this hunting season, sea shepherd was staked out here around the clock. >> you can see the ship coming right into the corner of the rocks. >> reporter: waiting, and watching. >> four, five miles off at the moment. that's quite hard to tell how fast it's going. >> reporter: when a catch comes veamsea sheph rdy t usg social media as a weapon. >> just unloaded two more endangered fin whales -- >> really appreciate you guys joining us to watch this. >> reporter: #theirharpoons.

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gorbachev and reagan with reykjavik and agreed that having 50,000 more heads on each side pointed at each other was absurd. he turned it around. that didn't change reagan's view of the evil empire. nixon went to china. he separated a whole bunch of issues. he knew we had to open up china and begin to have a dialogue. that's the nature of diplomacy and making the world safer. we have to compartmentalize. dealt, when we made an arrangement to get declared chemical weapons out of syria. syria in00 tons out of the middle of a conflict. if we hadn't done that, isis would've had those weapons. his providential that we did that. we have to compartmentalize. at the same time, we were slapping big sanctions on them. for what they were doing in ukraine and crimea. we put pressure on russia. we disagreed with them on any number of different things. that's the nature of diplomacy. it's not just -- trust. it is building a process by which you put people to test. you require, with a ron, we didn't give a dime to iran. they say, you gave them $1.7 billion. they took us to court because they bought

return to all context in the depths of iceland's yes way heading northwest of iceland's capital reykjavik to visit a spectacular harbor it's not easy to design a house in any pos the wilds but when you have extreme weather conditions to contend with even want challenging luckily there are mere tiriel that will withstand the cold temperatures in iceland with one of them being cross and not only inside a house but also makes the building fit into natural surroundings. inspired by local traditional houses this house in the west fields of iceland belongs to peter vise i'm originally from the very end in southern germany. they are the common thread that i'm. vises me living in iceland for over thirty years he and his partner angular have been in this house since twenty twelve their aim was to create a home that blends in with nature that felt and looked as natural as possible the interior walls are painted with match chalk paint the view can be enjoyed from every corner of the house. when the look at this fantastic view on the house is basically built around the view of. the house faces south

point we were hell bent on annihilation and then we talk walk that one back reagan and gorbachev at reykjavik came very very close to eliminating nuclear weapons completely. reagan balked over the stupid strategic defense initiative and that was too bad gorbachev did everything he could to convince them and come to the fallback position the second prize went to the i.n.f. treaty and the i.n.f. treaty eliminated entire category of nuclear weapons this was a major step forward you have to remember that at that point you had about when europe we had about six to ten minutes warning time if attack was reported with into the continental ballistic missiles at least we have a half hour so we can take a little bit more serious consideration of what to do in response to you this is a dangerous situation in the early early there is going to say if you think it's going to go back to the dog period then we're going to see an exponential rate of new bombs being built on both sides if this treaty does. yes. that's a terrifying situation the bullets in the atomic scientists move the hands of the doomsday cl

anthony gambino he is the executive director at dr dennis mccuaig is pansy foundation in reykjavik by skype suzanna second she is the director of international policy at physicians for human rights which investigates and documents human rights violations as well as gives voice to survivors and witnesses welcome to you both susanna let me start with you from your perspective what does it mean that dr denis mukwege and not the inward have been awarded the nobel peace prize this year. well it's a phenomenal and wonderful validation of the extraordinary effort that these two very outspoken very courageous witnesses to what really has become or is thought to be an epidemic of sexual violence not only in their respective countries of iraq and the democratic republic of the congo but these two leaders our voices for the tens of thousands really millions of women and girls but also men and boys who are attacked in every continent. by predators by the powerful by people who are essentially using bodies human bodies as vehicles to exploit territory communities destroy whole peoples or simply ex

the reykjavik summit was the high point. the inf treaty really did start this enormous decline of nuclear weapons that has benefitted the world enormously. >> ambassador, thank you so much for your perspective. good to have you. >> you're welcome. >>> 16 days until the midterm election. according to a new poll, the president is seeing a surge in his approval. will trump -- what will he do to the blue wave? will it become a blue wall? we'll discuss next in the cnn newsroom. ♪ ♪ ♪ no matter when you retire, your income doesn't have to. see how lincoln can help ensure you still have income every month of your retirement, guaranteed, at lincolnfinancial.com. a moment of joy. a source of inspiration. an act of kindness. an old friend. a new beginning. some welcome relief... or a cause for celebration. ♪ what's inside? ♪ [laughter] possibilities. what we deliver by delivering. this is frank. sup! this is frank's favorite record. this is frank's dog. and this is frank's record shop. frank knowns northern soul, but how to set up a l

over that they have made a break through and it turns out they have because a few months later at reykjavik in 1986 they come very close to an agreement -- we have to define what it means, they didn't define what it means but an agreement to abolish nuclear weapons. and in that near agreement, we see their kpcomp

anthony gambino he is the executive director at dr dennis mccuaig is pansy foundation in reykjavik by skype susanna circuit she is the director of international policy at physicians for human rights which investigates and documents human rights violations as well as gives voice to survivors and witnesses welcome to you both susanna let me start with you from your perspective what does it mean that dr denis mukwege and not the inward have been awarded the nobel peace prize this year. well it's a phenomenal and wonderful validation of the extraordinary effort that these two very outspoken very courageous witnesses to what really has become or is thought to be an epidemic of sexual violence not only in their respective countries of iraq and the democratic republic of the congo but these two leaders our voices for the tens of thousands really millions of women and girls but also men and boys who are attacked in every continent. by predators by the powerful by people who are essentially using bodies human bodies as vehicles to exploit territory communities destroy whole peoples or simply e

anthony gambino he is the executive director at dr dennis mccuaig is pansy foundation in reykjavik byskype susannah sirkin she is the director of international policy at physicians for human rights which investigates and document human rights violations as well as gives voice to survivors and witnesses welcome to you both so let me start with you from your perspective what does it mean that dr denis mukwege and not the m word have been awarded the nobel peace prize this year well it's a phenomenal and wonderful validation of the extraordinary effort that these two very outspoken very courageous witnesses to what really has become or is thought to be an epidemic of sexual violence not only in their respective countries of iraq and the democratic republic of the congo but these two leaders are voices for the tens of thousands really millions of women and girls but also men and boys who are attacked in every continent. by predators by the powerful by people who are essentially using bodies human bodies as vehicles to exploit territory communities destroy whole peoples or simply exert the

as ana for speaking to us was on a second from physicians for human rights joining us there from reykjavik in iceland thank you very much for your time now the d r c has often been described as the rape capital of the world check out this page on al jazeera dot com which takes a look at the issue in death and in pictures. traveled to east india r.c. last year reporting on the slow road to recovery for rape survivors he spoke to victims who often ostracized and isolated by their communities heartbreaking stories of survival on al-jazeera dot com. now it was exactly one week ago today that an earthquake and tsunami tore through the indonesian island of so no way see in the days since the scale of the catastrophe has only grown more than sixteen hundred people have been killed and almost seventy one thousand have been left without a home many ona sleeping in the open and as wayne here reports from palo they still don't have basic surprise let alone any idea of where they will go next. people here escaped the earthquake and tsunami but the fight for survival goes on in palo parks have become r

gorbachev and reagan went to reykjavik and they agreed that having 50,000 warheads on each side pointed at each was absurd and they turned it around. it didn't change reagan's view of the evil empire. nixon went to china. nixon with mao tse chung, knew we had to open up china and begin to have a dialogue. that is the nature of diplomacy and making the world safer. >> we had to compartmentalize. we knew, i mean even as i dealt with lavrov, when we made an arrangement to get the declared chemical weapons out of syria, we got 1300 tons of chemical weapons out of syria in the middle of a conflict, which if we hadn't done, isis would have had some of those weapons when they swept across the country. so it was providencial that we did that. so we have to compartmentalize because at the same time we were slapping big sanctions on them for what they did to crimea. >> and some were still left. >> well, no, that too, but also what they were doing in the ukraine and what they were doing in the dundas and crimea, so we put pressure on them and we disagreed on a number of things around that's the na