milf belongs to what's become a rare breed he's a visionary a pioneer here in the extreme north of siberia above the arctic circle he's at the front here is ecological research this is a book of hugh. the. understood our thanks as i'd now see it in the pope. you can listen. to my vision emergency vehicles it's in my genes. are always knew i had a mission of i want life to return here the killing of hundreds and hundreds of kilometers of this huge region resemble a biological desert complete scientists are the only species that drive their needs in life. even these inhospitable landscape said gay created one of the most important research facilities in the arctic the northeast science station comprises just discussion of buildings surrounded by the taiga the boreal forest. past . the region has been set against him for more than thirty years apart from a short span of the university of berkeley in california the geophysicist has never wanted to be anywhere around us today he's a member of the russian academy of sciences and an internationally recognized expert on optic ecosystems until warm

lawrence island, this being shaped island between alaska and siberia. that was the way to get across my foot except on the other side that we think you walked across the land bridge and boom, you are in north america but no, there's an ice sitting on half of north america and the shortest way across is 1800 miles of just straight ice. before you would ramp down into the dakotas or the eastern oregon. and washington. so it's not an easy place to get to. because just the land bridge is way out in the middle of nowhere and i'm thinking this is i'm working on this camel going you don't know us yet. you've never encountered our kind. this is a moments before it happens. lunch everyone else left the cave and step down generator up top so they could eat in peace. i stayed below because my days be quick. i had to leave the cave early, run two miles back to camp and get a campfire going. the generator off, all were campers fell into darkness as i kept working, the only light in the pit of the earth . i heard the pump of a man striking rock on the surface of the

in a sense, the story that ros just described here of her going from the wilds of siberia to moscow tot -- it does sound too perfect in the way all of that happened. you wonder how she actually was identified by the russian government or intelligence to become an agent. >> right. why would they -- what was it about her and why they -- and how they chose her. was it her decision to make these contacts with people? >> can you answer amy's question? do you get the sense she was recruited to do this? what do you feel like you found out? >> i feel like we certainly don't know the full story yet. she had a key contact in the russian government. she was working on behalf of this guy, alexander torshin, who was a rather powerful figure in russia, former senator from vladimir putin's party, now a central banker. a lot of this was about her connecting torshin, this close to putin semi oligarch, with american conservative thought leaders. >> the thing i keep coming back to is it's hard to believe that she's the only one. how many other maria butinas are out there. i think ros's reporting rchlts t

the trend siberian railway has a different meaning for them it's called siberia it's lifeline but more in the sense that it's simply a form of transportation. to translate theory and links moscow and lot of us talk it was constructed in the late nineteenth century to transport wood or and how the resources from industrially under developed siberia to the west it was built bit by bit and completed one hundred years ago. the route stretches over eight different time zones often tourguide dietmar hébert has to remind the passengers that they need to turn back their clocks. i want to remind you that we will be possible through two time zones tonight so please remember to turn back your clocks. based on budget but if i'm traveling west on the trans-siberian train passengers again six hours so ironically there he never did lead jet lagged on board. but there's lots of time to enjoy the journey still why travel all this distance by train instead of by plane. he missed so much when you're on a plane and you don't get to interact quite as my guess they train seems that way when you can view it

every year when captain cook came it was a gigantic wall 20 feet high by salt away from alaska to siberiait was impossible to get through. that doesn't form anymore so those were protected by a barrier of i.c.e. and now the storms are coming. and the town is built on sand and permafrost and one that caused the sand gets softer and now the towns are washing away and they have nowhere to go. >>host: >> taking a vote about whether to move and how that community will be impacted. >> i did not have that in mind as an ending point thought i would end in nome. but in anchorage i met a kid who was 20 years old at the time and has become the spokesperson for his people and said i'd be happy to me for coffee in anchorage but i haven't finished packing to go back to school also the bbc wants to interview me. so i thought maybe this is bigger than what i knew and it just so happens the day we met that was the day supposedly they were the first town in alaska to go to an entirely new location. so once i got up there and spoke to some of the people it is a lot less abstract when you're standing on the

late nineteenth century to transport wood or and other resources from industrially underdeveloped siberia to the west it was built bit by bit and completed one hundred years ago. the roots stretches over eight different time zones often tourguide dietmar hébert has to remind the passengers that they need to turn back their clocks. i want to remind you that we will be passing through two time zones tonight so please remember to turn back your clocks. if i'm traveling west on the trans-siberian train passengers again six hours so ironically they're here never to bleed jet lagged on board. but there's lots of time to enjoy the journey still why travel all this distance by train instead of by plane. you miss so much when you're on a plane and you don't get to interact quite as minus the train seems that way when you can view it as close to the culture as possible with both of the people in one place and phil he is very much of. this is the capital of the autonomous republic of tatarstan. for hundreds of years muslims christians jews stars and russians have been living here peacefully side by

they even made it as far as siberia which is one of the most depressing chapters.the natives had been completely devastated by smallpox and syphilis, and i think that is the point where he set up his vacation has kind of run its course lets just get back to seattle so i can get back to my office. >> host: this has gotten real. the lost book of the trip as author and a student of glaciers. was that a modest description of how he was known nationally at the time? >> guest: yeah. when he first went in the 1879 i think that that would have been an accurate description. description. but by 1899 he is one of the best known writers in america. he's been writing for major american magazines and founded the sierra club. he's got this great image. he's got the beard, the scottish accent. he had to memorize the old testament by the age of 12. so he looks like an old testament prophet and speaks like an old testament prophet so he writes in this beautiful slightly florid transcendentalist style. after he gets back from the harriman expedition, teddy roosevelt goes on a nationa

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from alaska to siberia that is why they couldn't find the northwest passage at that time.so they were protected by a barrier vice storms are coming. the town is built on sand and permafrost. now the towns are washing away. >>host: you really conclude your journey did you feel it was building up to that? or the first-hand stories? and what happens in the future? and then just how that would be impacted. >> i didn't have that in mind because one of the last parts of the hair of an expedition i had the pleasure of meeting kid that was 20 years old at the time. and he said i'd be happy to meet you for coffee in anchorage but i haven't finished packing to go back to school also the bbc wants to interview me. so i thought maybe this is bigger than i know. so the day we met was the day the village held the vote supposedly the first town in alaska to become a diaspora and once i started to think about it and to speak to some of the people there is a lot more abstract. and with the army corps of engineers but when you see they have buried construction equipment in the beach and a g

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native made trap from siberia that was for hunting of makes and other land animals that were of interest to the russian fur traders. the russians business model and alaska required active assistance from alaska natives. which is hard to do when you are busy stealing their resources and lands from them. they put a lot of effort into diplomacy. in 1804, the russian navy came into southeast alaska and took over a site in now what is called sitka from the clink it people that work living there. 180 quickly had to pivot degrees and make peace with the same natives because they needed their help in harvesting the sea otter furs. and also doing things like hunting and cutting firewood, and other necessary jobs because there were not that many russians here. to help establish peace, they had a ceremony with the people on castle hill and presented the double headed eagle crest to one of their principal chiefs. this was given by a chief manager of the russian-american company to one of the clan leaders. this is very rare. it is the only one known to have survived into modern times. they consider t

they have teaming herds of reindeer imported from siberia years ago by the u.s. government.ng their home in the bering sea and an abundance of food in the winter snow, they have increased to the tens of thousands. this was the first heard of reindeer i ever saw. what impressed me the most was the see of moving horns -- the sea of moving horns. in this region nature stages its most spectacular spectacles. when the yukon's frozen it is a winter highway. when it breaks up, it is a death trap. mustbefore this breakup, i my dog team over these same chunks, now breaking up in chaos. ♪ secondo southward to the distinct section known as southeast alaska. very few realize how far south southeastern alaska is. sectionrawn from this directly eastward will touch of the british isles at exactly the same latitude. it may surprise you to know that the capital city of alaska,, juneau, is not a remote northern settlement but lies almost on the same line of latitude as the great city of london, and is almost as easy to get to. and climate and appearance, southeastern alaska is like maine, new

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i was born in siberia. for such places of siberia, this is a question of survival.has a gun. >> reporter: after graduating from a local university and dabbling in the furniture business, she set out to moscow to pursue political ambitions. there, she linked up with prominent russian official alexander torsion who became a staunch ally. by fall 2014, she was trading e-mails with her lover erickson about how to obtain long-term visas. her russian handlers wanted her to have a more permanent u.s. foothold prosecutors said. by the summer of 2016, butina was enrolled in graduate school at american university on a student visa, all part of her cover story according to prosecutors. by then, pbutina had already become a fixture at nra events. and worked with torsion and erickson to try to establish back channel communications between candidate donald trump and russia president vladimir putin. erickson's involvement in the alleged russian operation is murky. authorities found a note in his handwriting that read how to respond to fsb offer of employment. but it's unclear if t

for fresh meat, they have teeming herds of reindeer imported from siberia years ago by the united statesnment. finding their home in the bering sea and an abundance of food in the winter snow, they have increased to the tens of thousands. this was the first herd of reindeer i ever saw. what impressed me the most was not the reindeer themselves, but the sea of moving horns. in this region, nature stages goal -- spectacular spectacular goal -- spectacle. here is the most awesome. when the yukon's frozen it is a winter highway. when it breaks up, it is a death trap. just a day before this breakup, i mushed my dog team over these same chunks, now breaking up in chaos. ♪ let's go southward to the second distinct section known as southeastern alaska. very few realize how far south southeastern alaska really is. a line drawn from this center section directly eastward will touch the british isles, which are exactly the same latitude. it may surprise you to know that juno, the capital city of alaska, located in this section, is not a remote northern settlement, but in reality, lies on almost the

sylvan swineherd thing has been practiced in siberia for centuries. there was a time when nobody worried about biodiversity and the forests were seemingly endless come this kind of farming be sustained or even pasted. and. pigs are so good for the forest because they loosen the soil so grain and floodwater can be absorbed more easily. that's less runoff. with a bit of a little bit closer talk this is also good for insects and birds and helps. stop go put it also keeps pigs he's the last swine had in this part of the forest his son moved away to the city. well you know. doesn't garden when i was going through my studio he shows the visitors how dry the soil has become in recent years some pick lettuce and the mother a hare at the house. the rest of us had are out in the forests how many does he have in all. i mean it we don't discuss such matters my father taught me never to say how many piglets boys you have one meal would. of course farmers would eventually have to disclose numbers if it ever came to subsidies from some e.u. institutions. we wanted t

i was born in siberia for such places like siberia this is a question of survival.s a gun. >> reporter: after graduating from a local university she set off to moscow to pursue political ambitions. there she launched her gun rights group and linked up with prominent russian official. by fall 2014 she was trading e-mails with her lover about how to obtain long term visas. her russian handlers wanted her to have a more permanent u.s. foothold prosecutors said. by the summer of 2016 she was enrolled in graduate school on a student visa, all part of her cover story according to prosecutors. by then she had become a >>> worked with torshin and erickson to try to establish back channel communications between candidate donald trump and russian president, vladamir putin. erickson's involvement in the russian operation is murky. authorities found a note in his handwriting that read how to respond to offer of employment. it's unclear if the offer was for him, butina? she grew despondent saying it wasn't safe for her to return to russia. she graduated in may 2018. she didn't p

this girl was a -- early on in 2011, she was a 21-year-old furniture sales woman in siberia. and a few years later, she went to moscow, she's married up with torsion, the russian ministry person who came to the united states, and then she creates this right to bear arms organization which no one ever heard of in a country where you don't have the right to bear arms. >> this almost sounds like the movie "read spad sparrow." >> this is one of the oldest active measures that russian intelligence uses. a former kgb general, another board member at the international spy museum, is famous for his quote where he said in america you ask your young men to stand up for your country. in russia, we ask our young women to lay down for theirs. apparently, she was using honey trap techniques. that's where you use sexual favors or promise of sexual favors to seduce people who are clearly out of your league, and then they give you access to other people and you recycle, you know, rinse, wash, repeat. so she may have additional charges coming to her. more importantly, she had influence in two

backchannel lines of communications. 29-year-old maria butina is a former furniture store owner in siberia>> trevor: wow -- how did they know she was a spy and not a 29-year-old retired furniture store owner? what was the giveaway? all the guns she was holding in every single picture? you realize there's not one picture of her holding a chair, not even one? you sell furniture, no chair pictures? i don't trust anyone who says they sell furniture, i don't care who you are. i know it's not right to profile people, but i say, i've got my eye on you! flanagan, we're cool but raymar, i don't know. ( laughter ) it's no surprise russia sends spies to the u.s. a spying russian is as normal as a white person calling the cops on their shadow. that's just a thing. it's, like, one of them's following me! ( laughter ) what i'm surprised about is how close she got to republican power. >> the f.b.i. says butina coz idea up to n.r.a. officials trying to gain influence. >> an n.r.a. convention in 2014, 2015, butina met rick santorum, scott walker and bobby jindal along with n.r.a. c.e.o. wain lapierre. >> m

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time bomb is ticking in the siberia and wellness. the permafrost oil is melting and that could have dramatic consequences for before coming to the question should physicists want to fuse the small to do that you're going to need a lot of prehistoric enemies securing champions of pre-history. and thirty minutes on d w. border for more. blood. to. smile it's nice. elaine. bloom. blue. moon. the most every. fucking open air festival in northern germany. fucking middle class little shelters dozens of newcomers on the. c.w. the top experts are going to. fucking open their two thousand chain stores and all of a sudden it's going to dominate the mind. how to cover more than just one reality. where i come from we have a transatlantic way of looking at things that's because my father is from germany my mother is from the united states of america and so i realized really early that it makes sense to explain different realities. and now here at the heart of the european union in brussels we have twenty eight different realities and so i think p

physicists one to the fuse this fall to do that they're going to need a lot of prehistoric animation to siberia all champions of prehistory. in thirty minutes on d w. living on beethoven and. his works and the goddess fortuna. the maestro and figures. insist upon twenty. they make a commitment. they find solutions. they meet in stronger. africa on the move. stories of both people in a different state shaping their nation. and their continent. d.w. is a multimedia series for. for a good. deed don't come for god on the move. how's your view of the loan. where i come from the goal is that to get to says go it's just like with chinese food that's measurable where it's believed reminds me a cold after decades of living in germany chinese food is one of the things i miss the most but that taking a step back i see things i need to differentiate not many of the it's a purse as many coalitions that exist as a part of the law which haven't been implemented in china that's new not to chinese people wondering if they're going to take it but if people have the right to learn all that is this is their job a

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yet, vladimir putin, the napoleon of siberia, refuses to accept their independence and sovereign rights as free nations. for years, russian troops have occupied each of these nations, incite violence within the borders. moscow has used corruption and coercion to undermine the rule of law and democratic institutions of each of these nations. putin continues to use cyber warfare against each of these nations. we as leaders of the free world and guarantors of the international rules-based order have a duty to stand by these sovereign states and in some cases, mr. speaker, we have signed pledges to do so. their struggle for freedom is not some distant battle that does not concern our well-being. their fight for self-determination is a battle for the global order and survival of democracy in the face of foreign tyranny. specifically, putin's tyranny. nations and the people they represent have the sole right to determine their own fates. foreign bullies like putin should not threaten our dictate their way of life or the futures of those children. if we allow russia to so blatantly break inter

apparently, butina is a 29-year- old gun-rights activist and former furniture store owner from siberia is young to be involved in espionage, and really young to own a furniture store. ( laughter ) according to the affidavit butina worked to set up "back channel" communications between americans and the kremlin and moved to infiltrate an american gun rights organization as part of her pro-kremlin operations. now, the affadavit doesn't specify which american gun rights organization-- it's the n.r.a. here she is colloodling with n.r.a. executive wayne lapierre, wisconsin governor and n.r.a. supporter scott walker and former n.r.a. president david keene. so, either she's really tight with the n.r.a., or these are photos from the worst disney world trip ever. "honey, it's a 40-minute wait to meet buzz lightyear, but there's no line for wayne lapierre!" and back in 2015 at a town hall, she was actually the first person to ask trump about russia. >> my question will be about foreign politics. if you would be elected as a president, what will be your foreign politics, especially in relationshi

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. >> an online profile says butina was born in siberia a year before the fall of the berlin wall andt her childhood navigating the rocky transition from communism to capitalism. she apparently launched a chain of small furniture stores in her hometown before moving to moscow where it says her interest in expanding the rights of average russian citizens soon caught the attention of the most senior leaders of the russian federation. butina's gun lobbying got her privileged access in the united states, including to the national rifle association. john bolton, now u.s. national security adviser appeared in a 2013 video used by butina's organization to encourage the russian government to loosen gun laws. >> should the russian people have the right to bear arms? i can share with you a word about what this particular freedom has meant to americans and offer you encouragement as you consider embracing that freedom. >> i'm visiting from russia. >> oh putin, good friend of obama, putin. >> but it's now know putin's gun lobbying brought her into direct contact with donald trump, the russian ask

. >> for such places like siberia, this is a question of survival.ryone has a gun. >> after graduating and dabbling in the furniture business, she set off to moscow. by fall 2014 she was trading emails with her lover erickson about how to obtain long-term visas. her russian handlers wanted her to have a more prominent u.s. foothold. by summer she was enrolled at america university on a student visa, all part of her cover story. by then she had already become a fixture at the nra events, with the prayer breakfast and working with torshin and erickson to work with back channel communications between president trump and vladimir putin. authorities found a note in his handwriting that red had how to respond to fsb employment. but it's inclear unclear whethe for him or butina. with school behind her, she was planning a move to sioux city with ericsen. day after buying moving boxes she was arrested. now erickson is not explicitly named in the butina indictment but they do match the operatives that assisted her. he's not charged in the butina case but he's

with kremlin-controlled television track down her father in deepest siberia to plead her innocence. "she had to meet lots of different people for her future profession," valeri butin tells state media. "she did nothing illegal. of that i'm certain," he adds. but there's far less certainty in the united states, where it remains unclear whether this flame-haired russian really was just a pro-gun lobbyist or she had her sights set on an even bigger target. matthew chance, cnn, moscow. >> matthew, thank you. >>> we're learning much more about a daring rescue effort in southern syria. members of the white helmets were among 422 civilians evacuated by israeli forces over the weekend. >> that rescue group is credited with saving thousands of lives. israel says they were under threat amid a russian and government offensive. israeli forces moved them into jordan after a request by the u.s., canada, sxechlt u countries. cnn's jomana karadsheh is tracking the story from istanbul. she joins us live for a look at why there was such a global effort to rescue the rescuers and why now. jomana. >> r

. >> reporter: unlike profile, butina was born in siberia, a year before the fall of the berlin wall.t her childhood navigating the rocky transition from communism to capitalism. she apparently launched a chain of small furniture stores in her home town before moving to moscow where it says her interests in expanding the rights of average russian citizens caught the attention of the most senior leaders of the russian federation. butina's gun lobbying got her privileged access in the united states including to the national rifle association. john bolton then an nra official now u.s. national security adviser appeared in a 2013 video used by butina's organization to encourage the russian government to loosen gun laws. >> should the russian people have the right to bear arms? i can share with you a word about what this particular freedom has meant to americans, and offer you encouragement as you consider embracing that freedom. >> i'm visiting from russia. so my question -- >> good friend of obama, putin. >> reporter: now known putin's golf club lobbying brought her into direct contact w

they are found throughout the arctic whether it be siberia or the alaskan and canadian arctic.re are well over 3000 of them, that are documented. some of them are quite small and some of them quite large, and they are always in the process of building up or eventually deflating and puck marking the marking- tal pork the ground. they're usually the remnants of a shallow lake and then as the water starts to freeze and bubble up, it starts to expand as ice expands, which creates an ice core center and a further mount on top of it. on top of it.nd as i said, it starts with a shallow lake and the water seeps into the ground and starts to freeze part of the permafrost. so, these occur on permafrost which is where year-round subterranean ice exists. grow,row and precipitation and other factors continue to add water to them as it gets to the ground water, which eventually becomes part of the permafrost. the region and point whether there is no land to cover the top, and they split open and you can see into the ice core of them. or because they are in a space of changing climate, whethe

. >> that she might have gotten in the mountains of siberia or elsewhere. we'll leave it at that.t piece. you said of her interest in creating this gun group it seemed like less a political cause than it was a self help strategy, and in the piece you talk about her awareness of statistics, her awareness of american gun rights as she was, as she is a member of the national rifle association. talk about that, the degree to which -- >> reporter: lifetime member. yeah, what was interesting to me like i said was the way she was importing all of these american talking points, these nra talking points, statistics and talking points that are used by gun advocates in the states that are often fudged numbers but about how guns make things more safe, how having firearms which are not legal in russia would make russia more safe, which given the amount of alcohol they consume, but she was clearly very plugged into that universe. also something to pay attention to in the future is her, what then seemed like her mentor, alexander torshin, now we know as the person guiding her through these opera

. >> in russia, she was a furniture salesperson in siberia. >> she was allegedly involved in a quote duplicitous relationship with an american man who helped her gain access to influential americans. also accused of offering sex to another person. and prosecutors say she was in contact with suspect the russian intelligence operatives the whole time. yesterday, butina pleaded not guilty to charges and was ordered held without bail because they think she's a flight risk. >> well, when you are a russian national and tied to russian olely g oligarchs it might be safe to say. >> joining us now, first, butina's lawyer maintains she's simply an innocent student. with are does she go to college? >> well, i'm not exactly sure, but the government is now saying that was all a ruse, that she was in fact an agent of influence for russia and that her whole purpose for being here was to cultivate influence specifically within the republican party through the national rifle association. >> all right. prosecutors say she was acting under the direction of a russian official which nbc believes was alex

today, we learned maria butina, a one time athlete out of siberia, who became the protege of the nowernor of russia's central bank, maria butina has been charged with conspiracy to try to influence the u.s. political process. this is -- let me just say the fbi affidavit accompanying the release of these charges, the agent, kevin, made clear he incumbent saying everything he knows. we can expect more to come out of this nra aspect of the investigation. whether they found money, we don't know. late last month, the fbi and prosecutors likely did obtain the nonprofit tax returns of the nra, which would show all their so-called dark money donors, donations that don't have to be made public. we don't know whether the money side is going to prove out. we do know the nra is now part of a criminal charge. >> sir, greg, you speak so calmly, i think some folks may miss the bombshell in your answer here. you're saying there's been all these mueller charges of russians abroad, how will you get him? is putin going to extradite them? but using similar leads to charge a russian inside the united sta