That zone. And when our activists are going to take action, like, last year when i was involved, we would go in through an inflatable boat. But, you see, ill tell you the way we do it. The moment an inflatable leaves the ship to enter the zone towards the rig, our captain contacts the captain of the rig because the rig is actually considered to be a ship at sea, right . And says, captain of the platform, this is greenpeace. We are engaged in a peaceful protest. This is why we are doing it, because the arctic is the refrigerator and the air conditioner of the planet, and what happens in the arctic has impact globally, and this is crazy what is happening, and for these reasons, we are taking this action. Please be assured that we are peaceful and theres no threat to property or to people. We communicate that very quickly so its always very clear. I myself participated in an action a year ago protesting against that very same rig. We need to understand that drilling in the arctic has not
Park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations Whose Mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. The bernard and audre rapoport foundation. The john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. Anne gumowitz. The betsy and jesse fink foundation. The hkh foundation. Barbara g. Fleischman. And by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. We begin with drama on the high seas. Several days ago, environmental activists from Greenpeace International tried to climb a russian oil platform in the arctic. They were there to protest drilling for fossil fuels in this fragile ecology at the top of the world, but they were confronted by guncarrying members of the russian coast guard, who
Changed since south africas black majority since the end of aparthe apartheid. Antigovernment activists stormed the state Television Headquarters in eastern ukraine. They are demanding Russian Television charges be put back on air in the selfdeclared republic big of donetsk. Separatists say they will hold a refer endum on breaking away from ukraine on may the 11th. The leader of the group of the osc says they have they are being treated as guests. Eight International Monitor did are being held in the besieged city for two days, paul brennan reports reporter on saturday, he said they were prisoners of war. Now, the selfdeclared mayor of separatist slovyansk cant quite decide whether the International Observers are his prisoners or merely his guests. Either way, they will not be permitted to go home just yet. Speaking through their leader, the europeans said they had not been physically mistreated but were under no illusions as to their present status . Our presence here in slovyansk is
Heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations Whose Mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. The bernard and audre rapoport foundation. The john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. Anne gumowitz. The betsy and jesse fink foundation. The hkh foundation. Barbara g. Fleischman. And by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. We begin with drama on the high seas. Several days ago, environmental activists from Greenpeace International tried to climb a russian oil platform in the arctic. They were there to protest drilling for fossil fuels in this fragile ecology at the top of the world, but they were confronted by guncarrying members of the russian coast guard, who fired warning shots dangerous
Thousands descend on the vatican as two former popes are declared saints. We have the latest sports as north americas top Basketball League investigates racist comments allegedly made by this team owner. Good to have you with us. Prorussia government has released someone after two days in the ukraine. The Swedish National was apparently released because he suffers from diabetes, but seven colleagues are held hostage as Barnaby Phillips reports. Reporter the European Military observers were paraded before cameras. They are in no position to complain about what has happened to them. We are not prisoners of war. We are the guests of the mayor. Well be treated as such. Reporter at least they could show their families their alive and well, and later one observer from sweden was released on grounds of ill health. Others have not been treated so kindly. These three men were captured by prorussian government near slovyansk, ukrainian intelligence officers. This is what they looked like after t