hundred the world s largest continuous iron ore deposit lies beneath the town had said the pit is karuna the town wouldn t exist without the iron ore every day they always transport it from here to novick by freight train novick is the closest ice free port on the west coast of norway the fact that the town is threatened by the mining activity became evident when cracks appeared in the ground more than ten years ago those responsible decided the whole town would have to be moved away from the dangerous cracks. this man helped design the new kiruna his model. the town is becoming a reality you hunt cons is aware that he s taking homes away from many people but on the alternatives he says they value it for the stall for homes we want to move the whole town two and a half kilometers east in this way there are a variety of reasons for that in this new location would allow us to keep some of
our only ice-free port? no, i don t think we invade that country like that, no. i think we use all the means of persuasion and we would be trying to charm them and offering them basing agreements. all that was done. this is entirely different. there was no reason for him to launch out with those forces. the idea that the russian citizens were in danger, that was a pretext. it was an excuse. right. this is in the military we call it a probing attack. but is it an invasion? the l.a. times reporting, john brennan said there s a treaty between ukraine and russia allowing 25,000 troops in crimea that are russian. by all measures, the amount is lower than that right now. maybe vladimir putin, is it possible he s got a legal argument to say i m not invading, i m within my limits? we ve heard the argument that the government and is protecting people. that the government is not legitimate. we ve heard the argument that russian individuals are in danger. vladimir putin himself
the history of this country. over his long career ted stevens experienced the heights of political power until he was convicted for corruption and it all slipped away. reporter: the state of alaska was just slort of being nine years old when it sent ted stevens to the u.s. senate. many people doubted whether alaska had what it took to be a successful state. reporter: oil had just been discovered along alaska s arctic coast but there was no easy way to get it to the rest of america. stevens pushed congress to authorize an 800-foot pipeline to the ice-free port of valdes. that act drastically improved america s energy and secured the economic future of alaska. reporter: that pipeline was squluft the beginning nchlt the decades that followed stevens funded billions of dollars to his home state, money that helped build modern-day alaska. critics call eed it pork.