Activists their support for opposition politician alexina volley hasnt gone unnoticed as the kremlin tightens its grip on social media platforms. A warm welcome to our viewers around the world. Experts are warning it could take weeks to dislodge a huge container ship blocking egypts suez canal more than a 150 ships are waiting to get into what is one of the worlds most important shipping routes the suez canal opens up a 7000 kilometer route from asia to europe around 30 percent of the world shipping container volume transit through the chain the canal daily the only alternative route of around the horn of africa is much longer a prolonged suspension of traffic in the suez will almost certainly impact local trade which has already been hit hard by the pandemic. Dredging teams work through the night to try to clear the canal bed around the 200000. 00 ton ship and no wonder the stranded ever given is holding up around 10000000000. 00 in trade every day it is stuck. Diggers tug boat drag and a crack team of dutchmen new and special forces of salvage operations have been drafted in to help. It stop containers may have to be offloaded to lighten the vessel the one mistake could spell disaster. The barrier is basically in asia the sterns in in africa and the middle is in the middle of the canal and what you can do is take a lot of weight off the ends and put a lot of what they call a sagging stress on the vessel you conceivably crack the whole cause an oil spill but worst catastrophic li fracture of the vessel in half which would close the canal for months if not years more than 150. 00 ships are caught in a traffic jam each passing day piles on the pressure for global trade route already struggling with the coronavirus pandemic a hick up like this that affects. Everyone with already scrambling to get back to normal and what have been quite strong demand. And yeah and i mean the lay on top of everything out and. Just how important and how the whole system of those involved have warned it could be weeks before the vessel is freed bad news for those stuck in the worlds longest mada time tailback. For more on this extraordinary story now joined by journalist rose george she specializes in the shipping industry and actually sailed the suez canal on a cargo ship this

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