welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper. we take you into a world few get to see up close, the world of super yachts. private boats, some longer than a football field. they can cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and it seems there s plenty of buyers. since the pandemic, more people than ever are building and buying them. business is reportedly booming. they ve become status symbols for the super rich and striking symbols of economic inequality. their impact on the environment and the oceans is a topic of debate. the u.s. has seen some super yachts of russia s elite, and now your tax dollars are surprisingly being spent to keep their ships in tip-top shape. cnn s alisyn camerota takes us inside this hidden world of super yachts, and her first stop, the monaco yacht show. this is monaco. land of the ultra wealthy. dotting the harbor like crown jewels are some of the world s largest super yachts. that s no surprise considering this is the richest country in the worl
welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper. tonight, we take you into a world that few people get to see up close. the world of superyachts. private boats, some of them longer than a football field. they can cost hundreds of millions of dollars and it seems there are plenty of buyers. since the pandemic, more people than ever are building and buying them. business is reportedly booming. they ve become status symbols they ve become status symbols for the soup rer rich and striking symbols of inequality. their impact on the environment and the oceans is a topic of debat. the u.s. has seized some superyachts of russia s elite and now, your tax dollars are being spent to keep them in tiptop shape. cnn s s alisyn camerotota takes inside this world of superyachts. and her first stop, the monaco yacht show. this is monaco. land of the ultra wealthy.y. anand dotting g the harboror li crcrown jewelsls are some e of woworld s largrgest superyryach. bonjour. that s no
israel s security cabinet has approved measures in response to the killing of seven people outside a synagogue in eastjerusalem by a palestiniaun gunman. family members of attackers are set to lose their residency and health insurance rights. the former nato general, who will be the next czech president, has described the election outcome as a victory for the values of truth, dignity and respect. in a speech to cheering supporters in prague, petr pavel said it was time to return those values to politics. now on bbc news, our world: the hunt for the superyachts. for years, many russian billionaires enjoyed lavish lifestyles in the west. they bought the most sought after villas and holidayed on their beloved superyachts. but with russia s invasion of ukraine, theirfairytale came to an abrupt end. western sanctions sparked a game of cat and mouse between some of the world s most powerful nations and some of russia s richest men. there was a real frenzy around the world between d
attack from russian troops on the opposite side of the dnipro river. three people have been killed. president zelensky says russian forces are relentlessly trying to break through ukrainian defences in the east. scotland s prison service has announced an urgent review of all transgender cases in its prisons. it says it will pause the movement of all transgender inmates until the review is completed. at ten o clock we will be here with a full round up of the days news. first our world: the hunt for the superyachts. for years, many russian billionaires enjoyed lavish lifestyles in the west. they bought the most sought after villas and holidayed on their beloved superyachts. but with russia s invasion of ukraine, theirfairytale came to an abrupt end. western sanctions sparked a game of cat and mouse between some of the world s most powerful nations and some of russia s richest men. there was a real frenzy around the world between democracies to see who could sanction the most
an entire summer s worth of rain fell in just a few hours, and the deluge is set to continue. now on bbc news, our world: the hunt for the russian superyachts. for years, many russian billionaires enjoyed lavish lifestyles in the west. they bought the most sought after villas and holidayed on their beloved superyachts. but with russia s invasion of ukraine, theirfairytale came to an abrupt end. western sanctions sparked a game of cat and mouse between some of the world s most powerful nations and some of russia s richest men. there was a real frenzy around the world between democracies to see who could sanction the most people the most quickly, who could sanction the biggest yacht. we got stopped because this is a big, blue, easily visible, high profile target. for the first time, the head of the us kleptocapture task force reveals how they caught a superyacht. we saw it scrambling out of waters where we would normally be able to seize it. security, security, security. ..and