authorities say that as of monday, there were 90 fires in siberia.hey affect more than 880 square kilometers. over 3,000 people are fighting the flames. officials blame the fires on low precipitation and dry weather that's lasted since march. government authorities have warned there may be more yet to come. siberia's climate tends to be arid until october. >>> scientists in japan now have a powerful new tool. they upgrade it the supercomputer and it will improve weather forecasts and help them understand global warming. the super computer is ten times faster than the previous version. it's now able to carry out over a quad ril oncalculations per second. this is the third upgrade since developing the technology 13 years ago. a professor used the computer to replicate the cyclone that obliterated van yeah due. >> translator: we want to predict the consequences of disasters. >> a professor at the university of tokyo has plans for the technology. he wants to study the impact of climate change. he hopes it will help governments develop better policies for

i am mostly in this part of the world that is from the canada you kong territory in choose siberia. this far apart over here that coloration over here is shallow sea in during the ice age when much of the water of the planet may glaciers the sea level was a lot lower than in all those areas were exposed and rich grassland and supported an enormous ecosystem of a diverse species in the corridor of movement camels enforces moved into asia and bison in humans moved into north america have but today it looks like this but in the ice age a looks more like this so man with a and a mastodon and camels 16 feet tall on their client different lakes -- if they are on their hind legs for indifferent species of cat and even the be for witches punny. this is a helicopter reread years on a particular expedition in and you can see that there are some windows missing in this helicopter that was useful because of back three got into the air the french and russian people decided immunize to celebrate to light up a cigarette. near the gas tank. [laughter] so we stay in the five-star accommodation. i to

. >> so in 1908 an asteroid hit in siberia. it devastated hundreds of square miles.tons. it was bigger than the largest atomic explosion ever on earth. but as luck would have it, it strikes the middle of siberia, in an area where there's only a few reindeer herders. now, if that asteroid was an hour earlier or later, if it had hit in europe, the united states, even if it had hit in the middle of the ocean, we would have grown up with the whole 20th century shaped by this horrific event. imagine if it had hit london or new york or even the countryside of some place. we would have grown up thinking, oh, my god, there's death from the skies. we would have been focused on it. as it happens, it wasn't until really the '60s that people started thinking about it. >> and it was sheer luck that it hit siberia. >> sheer luck. now, it happens another asteroid two years ago hit also in russia in a place called chelyabinsk. there we were lucky that the asteroid came in only 18 degrees above the horizon. that's about this much. so it's a very glancing blow. it exploded in the uppe

eastern russia in siberia.to partnership or five years, they have also agreed on the daily gas delivery volumes, the quality, also the entry point for the pipeline. at least one of the pipelines -- vladimir putin put it -- the energy sphere is key to our relations between china and russia. a busy week for the chinese coming towith mohdi beijing -- he went to kazakhstan, kind of pushing his new silk road route that will go through on. he then went to moscow for that world war ii celebration and that he ended the trip yesterday in belarus, minsk. yvonne: we talked about the parade in moscow marking the 70 year anniversary of world war ii. what did vladimir putin have to say about that? stephen: what we got from china daily is probably more interesting. they had a big editorial in the paper today saying, it was a shame that the other allies in world war ii against nazi germany did not attend, even though they were invited -- the united states and the u.k.. paying with their next up to do and as the tanks rolled th

there is also the power of siberia and volume.ly, crossing the t's on the various pipeline deals. no deal on the shipment of oil to china. even though there was a 10% stake that cnp took in one of the largest oilfields in russia. that may down the pipeline, if you will. angie: it is interesting it is a dedicated pipeline to china. that deal is very much in play. but maybe china has the upper hand. stephen: there are some price issues. we will see. angie: the two did meet for the 70th anniversary of world war ii. what do they have to say about that? stephen: it is significant in that there were the two gentleman, moscow inviting the other allies from 70 years ago, the u.s. and u.k.. those leaders respectfully decline the invitation. it was 70 years ago on may 9 in moscow that they celebrate the victory over the nazis in world war ii. this was a chance for the leaders to show solidarity with each other. putin was quoted as saying that these countries suffer the most in world war ii, 45 million people lost their lives between those c

person a lead demon homeland security wanted to tour the port we gave them a tour porter and jim and siberia it is good to have him here back in wondering we know we have executive officer and cindy we're talking about cyber security he cares about infrastructure and the port one thing about the u.s. senate you have to be hundreds on with the u.s. senators to build those riderships i'll fly to london and it was an accident i wounded up going to a cruise line stakeholders month to month i was there on a union issue but met did ceo of the caravel cruise lines i would love to give him a tougher tour of the james r. herman we talked about things i was basically in london for the i attended the stakeholders meeting it is the largest third largest mining company in the world we had to speak at that meeting and my unions around the world we have a b h p network we deal what the my wife and i companies they have their power so the units need power we spoke about seaming ceo roy 10 to we addressed board of directors and sat next to one of the stakeholder thirty percent of stock roy tent to talked abo

. >>> most people would consider ten days of riding over a frozen lake in siberia to be ridiculous andis trailer coming out for the ice run, put out by the adventurous, the challenge, get on a crappy old russian motor bike. one of the deepest and longest lakes in the world and try and survive, basically. >> as if being there on a 2015 motorcycle wasn't dangerous enough let's make it an old one. >> a notoriously crumby motorcycle. parts are glassy and beautiful, others have tombtone like -- this is for most people total insanity. that is what is makes it a fun race and totally terrifying. if tess guess -- >> what do you do if you -- you have no resources. there's not going to be a big old fire truck. you're on your own. >> you're right. >> well if you do do it you will be expected to raise a minimum amount of money, because the funds benefit amazon rain forest efforts. the video is just remarkable as much as i love to ride this looks miserable. >> really? >> yes. >>> she wants this musician to use her as an instrument. >> i hope she doesn't bruise easy. >>> see how it makes for some swe

also news on accelerating that scheduled to siberia high plains. -- pipelines.signed. in november we had cnbc buying a 10% taking one of russia's largest oil fields. but again, no deal signed. thee: they were meeting on 70th anniversary of the end of world war ii. what did they say about that? stephen: they had a big parade through red square. xi jinping attended that. the other allied powers were invited, they did not attend. again, xi jinping and vladimir putin standing side-by-side in red square showing solidarity. it was 70 years ago on may 8 at nazist seize had -- the had their unconditional surrender. we call it the day in the united states. ve day in the united states. that is a moment that they could say they were standing side-by-side. 45 million estimated deaths in those two countries. of course, the chinese to the japanese and the soviets to the nazis. angie: we look at more on russia's military might. but breaking news right now, shares of toshiba finally coming online, plunging in tokyo right now after the company withdrew its full-year earnings for

y todo porque el vocalista, rene perez, viajo a siberia, desde donde ha difundido fotos, videos y mensajesn su hermanastro y mano derecha, eduardo cabra!!! lo unico que esta confirmado es que este verano "calle 13" se prepara para iniciar una gira en espaqa!! # vuelven a rugir "los tigres del norte", pero esta vez para pedir que cese la corrupcion y la delincuencia en mexico!!! desde monterrey, francisco cobos nos dice como la famosa agrupacion espera ayudar a traves de una campaqa nacional. # francisco: los tigres del norte mostraron que el cantar no estÁ peleado con las causas sociales. ellos se unieron a una iniciativa en mÉxico contra la corrupciÓn la violencia y cualquier otro acto ilegal. francisco: estamos dispuestas a hacer nuestra labor y esperamos que tenga un efecto importante para la comunidad. >> sÍ se tiene esto. >> sÓlo haciendo las cosas legales podemos darle vuelta al paÍs para que vuelva a reinar la paz en el gorriÓn y mÉxico. >> la asociaciÓn imita los tigres del norte a sumarse. este concierto en monterrey fue el inicio mÉxico atraviesa por una de las peores crisis de i

crashed after problems with its engine the project was launched from the cosmo drone and went down in siberiaight minutes later. it's the second mission failure for the russian federal space agency. in less than a month the mishap happened on the launch of another russian rocket satellite last year. >> boston mayor ton bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev has been sentenced to death for his role in the attack the jury took 14 hours to reach its verdict. the jurors' only option was to sentence him to prison without possibility to parole. tsarnaev and his brother placed bombs at the finish line of the boston marathon. >>> onthere have been unease in recent battles between security forces and armed groups. we have reports from kumanovo. >> this is what remains of the barbershop and the house behind. he is in police custody. the hospital therapist is counseling his family. >> on tv they're calling my house is terrorist. he's just a barber. who is going to walk my son to kindergarten now? >> familiesin this ethnic albanian neighborhood official eight police and ten gunmen died. today, there is only shock at t

. >> when is he going to siberia? >> ask me in the winter. not in the summer. >> once the fbi does if they do opens an investigation, now that they have more tools that they have ready to go into the people who may be doing business with hillary, not just the foundation? >> absolutely. because they have quite a tremendous reach and they have incredible investigatory capability in terms of forensic analysis of documents, servers, recovering any kind of e-mail. >> they can go right into her server and grab it. >> they can get all of that. >> that's why this is really a special time right now in history that they can do something that would be meaningful. >> i'm going to added that i think there's utility from a pr standpoint to be able to say the fbi is investigating. then she can come back out and do media interviews. we've made our public comments. we're cooperating with the fbi. they are looking into us. we don't think there's anything there but we're glad there's an investigation and now we want to talk about education. >> i think the fbi i

perceived threats by russia, in the days since russia's military has begun large scale drills in siberia. all of this is concerning to russia's neighbors which lack the military might of the much larger country. in our next hour we're going to be joined by the foreign minister of latvia. should russia make a more imposing move. the country relies heavily on moscow for trade and has a large russian speaking population all of which puts it in a bit of a tight spot. john. >> thank you barbara,. >> the museum of biblical art will close its doors in june. despite its success the museum has had struggles with funding. randall pinkston has the story. >> it is a breathtaking collection, 23 works of art three by donnatello, considered the greatest sculptor of the renaissance. and this sculpture of st. john the baptist and this lazucone, this is the first time that they left their home in florence's museum. their biblical inspiration that dovetails perfectly with the mission of their new york host, the museum of biblical art or mobia. >> not just a sculpture on a sped petd stall how beautiful this

rocket developed problems 8 minutes into the flight and failed to reach orbit and burned up over siberia. a russian spacecraft malfunctioned. the crew aboard is not in danger >>> shanghai skyline is rapidly approaching the clouds. here are the two new towers. the one on the left is the second tallest building in the world. the shanghai towers opened for a preview. it will not be completed until later this year. the view from the top is looking down at the cloud. to give you a comparison the tallest building in america is world trade center number one the freedom tower. with the antenna top it reaches 776 feet into the sky. >> fighting over a killer whale. peta plans to sue the miami aquarium for cruel conditions. why the federal government is getting involved. hard earned only on al jazeera america >> part of our month long look at working in america. "hard earned". >> tuesday. >> i thought we were doing something good. >> bodies donated for science... >> how much regulation exists? >> very little. >> a shocking look inside the world of body brokers. >> got a call from the fbi saying we

pentagon commissioned a report that said the world would destabilize because england would have a siberiaby the year 2020. that four and a half years from now. the military has never gotten this right. there's the right way the wrong way, and the army way and i'm not going there. >> eric? >> the military has been wrong many times. look at the wars we have been into. but on climate change there is something real that is occurring and that'ses what the you can look at the u.n. framework on climate change scientist predicting worse drought, worse access to water ask destabilization across various places in the world including the middle east, africa. it is going to occur. it is occurring now. is it the primary factor? no, not the primary factor. nobody is arguing that. is it a destabilizing force that makes those regions of the countries worse? absolutely. is climate change a scoter the? yes. it will create instability. is the military the right way to deal with security? absolutely not. this a humanitarian issue an environmental issue, an access to water and food. >> that's the last word. i

on monday moscow kicked off four days of air defense drills in western siberia. it involved 12,000 soldiers and hundreds of aircraft and anti-aircraft missile systems. defense officials say the focus of the drills is to set up all the aviation security measures in new base areas. they would be followed by a larger military exercise in september. we're joined by the lav veeian foreign minister in the studio. thank you so much for joining us here on al jazeera. we've heard about these sort of competing military xer sighses in the nordic countries, and now russia's response. do you think that sometimes other than being this this kind of posturing from both sides could actually escalate the tensions between them? >> actually, i have to say the russian military exercises are not news for us. back in 2009 2013 long before ukrainian crisis started. from that point of view i think what nato has done since last year last april's decision to steep up security in the balancetic states it was the adequate response to a growing russian military presence already before. seeing

and women but overall life expectancy in his arctic regions, especially if you go further out into siberia, they are extremely low. i haven't seen anything that's the priority of the russian government to address some of these issues. maybe around the margins but i forget the name of the institute but there was an institute for the arctic indigenous peoples, that's been kind of abolished. i just don't think it's a priority like it is in the u.s. i will end on that pessimistic note. >> well, we've gone gotten to the end of our time now. i think this is, just in closing, this is a very good in a way that very opportune year. we have the arrival of use of chairmanship. we have the sustainable development goals coming forward. in september. we have the paris climate change at the end of the year the summit there. is going to be multiple opportunities to sort of move this forward. i want to thank tim pamela and michael for bringing the enormous expertise that you have in your respective areas around the arctic. it's been really kind of astonishing to just listen. and we know you had to travel a

>> in siberia, when planning escape, you take weak person with you.adies and gentlemen, tatiana maslany. ♪ >> seth: how are you? >> i'm great. i'm so happy you used the clip where i do, like, 90 push-ups. >> seth: yeah, no, when you do push-ups, you want it to show up on every clip possible. >> exactly. >> seth: i do -- i feel like for those who might not know, we need to explain, you play a bunch of different characters in this show. >> yeah. i guess more than eight? >> seth: yeah. >> i'm trying to figure it out. >> seth: i've heard 13. >> okay. all right. >> seth: then again, you would know, i guess. >> i don't really. [ light laughter ] >> seth: but it's so incredible, because not only are you playing all these different characters which would be hard enough, all different accents. so they did not make it easy for you at all. >> no. they threw all kinds of curve balls. >> seth: when they introduce a new character to you, do you feel like now it's just punishment? they're like, "here's your new character." >> yeah. >> seth: "she's scottish, but she

i don't want to go to siberia. it's cold enough. and then very good lad yeah. then mitt romney in a boxing match for charity. look at the mittster if he had campaigned like that he would have won. >> i think putin looks adorable in that hockey sweater. looks like the oscar statue on a hayride or something. it's nice to see him wearing something because he usually bears his chest more than pam anderson in the early to mid 90's. we have him over there playing hockey and on our side of the pond john kerry shot a 99 in frisbee golf. we are way behind in the macho quotient. like you said 8 goals with that speed on his skates and ha shot, it's like playing poker with sam. you don't want to win because you lose at the end of the day. >> i'm not raising you sam. it's all yours take it away. mitt is such a nice guy. he actually brought -- he brought holly field's ear back off tyson and reattached it. too nice. restore the site of four people around the country so it was a good cause. i was impressed with romney. i wish he had had campaigned that way showed up in the deb

posting videos of workouts and wipeouts, and spreading glassman's gospel around the world, in africa, siberiaof afghanistan and iraq. whether soldiers or soccer moms, the evangelical enthusiasm of glassman's disciples... >> one, two, three, heck yeah. >> alfonsi: ...has led to criticism. when you hear people describe crossfit as a cult, what do you say? >> glassman: oh, i don't mind that. what if someone led a cult and they didn't know they were?" i mean, that would be messed up, right? so i started to kind of try to think what makes us a cult and what would define a cult. one is recruiting, and i ain't recruiting anybody. i don't... you know what, you guys... people call me up, "hey, i was thinking about joining crossfit." "well, then call back when you've decided to," you know? >> alfonsi: so the doors are open, you're not recruiting... >> glassman: yeah, we're not recruiting, we're not barring the doors. i mean, it really is an open house. >> alfonsi: glassman says he spends most of his time defending the crossfit brand with an iron fist. >> glassman: if you don't defend it, you won't have

it took over siberia. trotsky ordered them and relies they had more men under arms than he did. there was nothing he could do about it. by august, things had gotten so serious and the other direction that of tensions between the bolsheviks and the other powers that the bolsheviks invited german troops in to help them expel the western allies. although it is little-known to history, one of the last operational orders was for the germans to send troops to petrograd to overthrow the bolsheviks. there was actually an argument in the german government about the bolsheviks. the foreign office all along had been proponents of what we might call the lenin card. the two of the four in office was lenin will keep the russians busy and they will not threaten us and able to send into chaos and that is fine. we don't have to deal with this. the military had never been particularly fond of lenin. they saw him as dangerous and they may have been right. it is one of those interesting stories not adequately researched but that is the flow of -- slow of bolshevik war propaganda into eastern german

. >>> siberia has marked the end of the ebola crisis. it's the 42nd day since liberia's last case. >>> the mother of a autistic girl who was kicked off a plane wants to sue an airline. >> they are flying to portland, oregon. her daughter, who has autism, appeared to get upset on the plane and the pilot made an emergency landing in salt lake city. once on the ground the family was kicked off the plane. >> the captain never came back and said is everything okay or even met her. never. he landed a plane. >> well, the passengers on the plane at least some of them disagree. they say that the child was a threat and that the captain was right to land the plane. >>> he should have been graduating this weekend with a ph.d. from howard university. it is unclear if lance buckley will make the trip. he is the husband and father of two who disappeared last week. he was dropped off at a commuter lot tuesday to get a ride into the district and then he wasn't heard from until authorities found him at a campground days later in frederick, maryland, on fr

the two sides have increased their guess applies from siberia to china. >> the people's bank of chinase it as the central bank cuts it rate by 20 basis points. >> north korea says it has successfully tested a submarine launched ballistic missile. yesterday, pyongyang threatened to attack the south korean warship. >> and plunged the 17% on one day of treads. the early forecast had a climate. >> "the avengers" are still winning the battle at the box office for second straight weekend, raking in more than $77 million. ♪ stephanie: i didn't see "the avengers" this weekend. erik: i did. stephanie: and? erik: mmm. stephanie: you don't have to like it. the teams who are seeing it are going to get the games and the lunchboxes and that is how bob iger gets it right. erik: the first "avengers" movie generated a billion and a half dollars in ticket prices globally. more headlines from the global resources a bloomberg news. and could be a sign that saudi arabia is frustrated over american policy over iran. the new saudi king will not attempt the summit at camp david in maryland. saudi arabia has

. >> research found an ancient wolf bone in siberia.ord reviews on vivo. fans watched the action-packed video more than 20 million times in just 24 hours. charlie and i are responsible for at least 150 of those. vivo says all the videos on the service have a total of 5 billion. >> could not get enough. >> love the red hair too, in that video, don't we? >> yes. >> t >> video than we normally -- >> she has a rocket launcher. >> okay. >> she does. >> actually you have it worse than i do. >> moving on. >> moving on next week cuba is supposed to come off the u.s. black list of states that sponsor terrorism. it's expected to jump start the path to normalized relations. but if you're thinking of rearranging your summer travel plans, peter greenberg shows you how the island might still be a world away. >> ever since president obama said he wanted to reestablish diplomatic relations with cuba, more and more americans have been clamoring to get there. and while cuba has been welcoming more visitors it can be more than they can handle. >> reporter

that was a safe haven for the pentecostals from siberia. and reagan negotiated their release.they had this real intention. they said, i'm not going to tell you about arms control or negotiations or any of these other issues until you release the siberian seven, because then i know you are a credible negotiating partner. then i know that i can trust you and we can sit down and do business. trust, but verify. this would allow those seven siberian pentecostals to leave the u.s. embassy and seek freedom in the united dates. -- united states. promoting freedom and democracy was another thing altogether. that was precisely what president reagan called for in the westminster address, which we reviewed earlier. we must be staunch in our conviction that freedom is not be sold prerogative of a lucky few, but the universal right of all human beings. to foster the infrastructure of democracy, universities, which allows people to choose their own ways, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means. so, in the context of the cold war -- [indiscernible] put increasing internal pr

overall life expectancy in these arctic regions, especially if you go certainly further out into siberia, they're extremely low. and i haven't seen anything where that's a priority of the russian government to address some of these issues. maybe around the margins, but i mean, they're -- i forget the name of the institute, but there was an institute for the arctic indigenous peoples. that's been kind of abolished. and i just don't think it's a priority like it is in the u.s. so, i'll end on that pessimistic note. >> well, we've gotten to the end of our time now. i think this is, just in closing, this is a very, in a way a very opportune year. i mean, we have the arrival of the u.s. chairmanship, we have the sustainable development goals coming forward in september, we have the paris climate change at the end of the year, the summit. there is going to be multiple opportunities to sort of move this forward. i want to thank tim, pamela and michael for bringing the enormous expertise that you have in your respective areas around the arctic. it's really been kind of astonishing to just listen

. >> what do you do in siberia if you don't drink vodka?t desecrate your flesh. >> it's illegal to buy alcohol between 11:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. and television advertising of vodka and wine is prohibited. so it's a crackdown from government at the same time that you're seeing a big economic decline. >> you just talked about vodka. i don't understand vodka anyway. all i want is to be able to put it somewhere and not taste the alcohol. >> cover up the taste? >> what's a premium vodka when it's tasteless? >> i don't drink hard alcohol anyway, so -- >> margaritas really the best -- >> best way to go. a lot of sugar, though. >> you've got to do the low cal mix. >> i know. do you really drink those? >> with my pinkie proudly. >> alcohol itself has a lot of calories. >> it does right. >> do we have another story? we're going to get kicked off here. when we come back uber pulling out of kansas. we'll tell you why next plus a lot more. we're back in a moment. if you want to succeed in business, mistakes are a luxury you can't afford. that's why i rec

there is melting permafrost in eastern siberia. gated ton of methane is expected to happen at any moment. as the permafrost melts, one gigaton can be released into the atmosphere and contribute as much climate change has contributed 18 50. it is not a liberal thing. any serious politician needs to address this. we should repurpose factories like we did in world war ii and go totally green. host: hello. caller: i believe that the other caller that it is a ponzi scheme. i've have an article from 1975 in "newsweek." it is from april 28, 1975. it is called a cooling world. here they say, and of course meteorologists are almost unanimous in agreement, that the world's population is going to starve to death by the end of the turn-of-the-century. i did not see it happen. this is a big ponzi scheme. it is a way to scare people. it is amazing that this is going on. host: question. why did you hold on to that article? caller: to show people. i don't know what to say -- to show people that it is a ponzi scheme. if it was first global cooling,