PRI's The World - March 15, 2012 

From public radio with him and this is the world is a coproduction of the bbc world service pri and wgbh boston and him to thursday march fifty hi margot were in him and him and one year after the start of serious uprising un rate that all too well over eight thousand meanwhile e-mails mostly written by president assad and his wife show the ruling couple income the denial of the bloodshed around it just shows you that sometimes the problem with these autocratic regimes in the bubble that can be created around the world is that you just cannot pay train easily and will hear from the children of the syrian revolution humming up on the world and er rise a possible in part by medtronic searching for runners who benefit from medical technology to run in the medtronic twin cities marathon application and information available at medtronic global heroes and by pbs learning media providing accessible on-demand educational content to teachers nationwide thousands of resources at your fingertips from pbs learning media more information online at pbs learning media is a high marker were menaces the world it was a year ago today that the antigovernment uprising in syria began last march fifteenth hundreds gathered in the southern city of dara to demand the release of fifteen children they'd been arrested for writing graffiti on walls today the united nations marked the anniversary with a somber announcement secretary general banking moon said the death toll from the syrian governments brutal crackdown had now risen to well over eight thousand children haven't been spared in the violence the un says hundreds are among the dead and thousands have fled with their families to neighboring countries reporter maureen alda vasey met some syrian exile children in turkey i is will he is him and him and they today's english essay how to turn a declarative sentence into a question starting with how to even pronounce the word question is is is is is i said yeah and as i said i had a you a precedent the bell rings greater to have both another knows of a backpack into though some drawings he recently made my sony out one of the teachers in order that would become the single of the revolution and i did not run and one and the candle is burning on the other about the same the twelve year old wrote the arabic word for freedom with a few pencil strokes had catch capture the two sides of the student uprising violence and pain on one and peace and hope on the other sitting next to us had her twelve -year-old friend tax on that is and will i will effect says he's proud that his segment began the revolution by drawing and reaching the jason slogans on the walls of his will then he said he himself to to the streets that's training on these older brother for the blb cermak his brother was arrested friday protests he was released shortly afterwards the family decided to leave the country is is just one of many children here chest taken part in demonstrations against the syrian government will allow likelihood that she hot thirteen incentive village in the northern property that i can she says she felt empowered and energized during protests with a large smile on her face the highest phase she even sometimes use the loudspeakers shouting god is great in august ten then her two brothers were arrested she says the wayne fulton the armed insurgency that is steeling himself the father was wanted to to the family fled to return in august the high recounts the harrowing tape to cross over the border soon as you sat there listening to permit the debtor is not behind the one nine six two and half hours through the mountains i swear we didn't stop for a second it was a very hard journey diesels are steep and slippery on the way down the army was very close by the syrian army on one side the turks on the other we are very scared i was on the verge of crying out of fear that most citizens here at baja has relatives in shaky fifth family doesn't have to see at refugee camps now see that away from her brothers the right programs to express her anger love myself i said that i will smell the soft metal one of the lines about the president session that had busy really seems like in the point of knowing not even shepherd and you don't keep fighting us such a majesty that is cool because i think the best way for children to get over this years it is no easy seeks of the trauma some of them have gone through any of its use as they're going to do is sleep essential to writing under the table he was hiding at the serious and so it is likely when the garbage he was thinking of the garbage and use of the people inside so from that access thinking live the faith of five people with the test the seasonal busses flashing the streets between one of the once on board the hymen penetrator says that shealy and in truth this zone is this the you adore the english teachers had these kids are not just mimicking what they've seen on the longest streak we had in their evolution to come in and for the world i'm nothing i needed to in order i will send you pictures of students enter the world those kids in exile represent one side of the uprisings reality on the opposite side is serious president bush are all outside today britain's guardian newspaper published details gleaned from what it says are a stud 's personal e-mails the paper says it verified the authenticity of several messages written by asad his wife ozma and other regime insiders if true the e-mails offer remarkable insight into the regime 's inept effect she has been scouring through the documents to sexy as at the university of north carolina where she teaches about the social impacts of technology and watches all things arab spring she says the e-mails paint a picture of the syrian regime unaware that it's in crisis they are ordering luxury items they're choking about reforms they're making fun of arab league monitors their turning down all offers that political advice that sounds remotely sane and instead he is worrying about how to order music from itunes to get around sanctions that's crazy right anyone detail is just a day after the syrian military began shelling the city of homes by charlotte saad sent his wife a video of country singer blake shelton singing god gave me you it's just a real it just shows you that sometimes the problem with these autocratic regimes is this bubble that can be created around the rulers that you just cannot penetrate easily but again we have to be careful and point out that the guardian newspaper has only verified the authenticity of some of the e-mails but what does seem consistent throughout what we have read is that the assad 's and their associates are speaking pre- casual english are not speaking in arabic and their using acronyms like omg that is not surprising at all like his wife has a british raise then the assault was not meant to be the successor of his father he in fact is in that position he was only because of the son who was groomed for political power guide you with most of you i got there and he was supposed to have a different kind of life and if this is so very sudden shift know this is a very seemly tech savvy family downloading to their ipad purchasing music from itunes buying from amazon.com but i didn't realize those sorts of transactions if indeed they happened were permissible given the sanctions on syria but is it worth it appears that the sanctions in place did not stop anyone in the syrian regime 's in the higher echelons from purchasing whatever they wanted to including you know mrs. assad 's penchant for furniture and christian libertarian shoes and l she wanted she was able to get just using proxies friends fake addresses it's just series if you have money and spend just an extra few minutes so set up a new front account he can obviously purchase a lot of these things and have them delivered again many of these e-mails haven't been confirmed as to their authenticity but i'm wondering is it up as you read through were there any details that's the price you and set off alarm bells that maybe they aren't surprisingly they reached fairly authentic to me i mean obviously we can't discount the possibility some fake ones have been slipped into this and we and we can't go through every single one and confirm everyone but in terms of the political tone they did very much track the kind of leadership aside as shown in syria in a also track very much with the kind of lavish lifestyle these two had before it that exposes brutal dictatorship that it has what's striking to me is that there's a lot of fashion spreads about all small sum of being a couple years ago there is faith that did the very things that at the moment were ridiculing her for her the very things that a lot of western media and my little famous people actually praised her for her shoes and her taste in fashion and how elegant she was conscious just thinking the regime will really change if the killing has ramped up a lot e-mail but the regime in terms of this suppression of his people is a continuation but nash is being ridiculed and condemned while two years ago she was getting fashion spreads without you know perhaps the oddest e-mail that i have seen is a youtube link that president asad supposedly sent to an aide and president is a cracking up over this video which seems to be produced by asad sympathizers and there sticking it to the arab league remember when those monitors went to this video features the fat controller from thomas the tank engine and kind of a mockup of how to attack a building and there's a toy car with a tea straw what is going on in their it just shows you that they're living in alternate realities it also makes it clear they might be very hard to say down and negotiate with someone who was so divorced from reality they have defect to your professor at the university of north carolina where she teaches about the social impacts of technology thanks very much think yeah we're running a special edition of the world tomorrow dedicated to veterans returning from the wars in iraq and afghanistan and its veterans who were driving the coverage for the past few weeks we've been asking them and their families to share their homecoming stories and the issues they're dealing with we had hundreds of responses responses like this are ever going to end right wing that as outlined and yet in nineteen eighty nine and we were married in nineteen ninety two when we met my husband had artie been in the military several years back and read he had been honorably discharged not ever really had any intention of being involved in the military again and then timberland and my husband really felt compelled to reenlist in the national guard his first tour of duty in afghanistan was in two thousand eight and he a lot of horrible things the guys he served with are still being treated for ptsd but he's the next refine in turley has returned to work and then i was struggling to find this again is going to call the va and astra referral to a therapist in forty eight hours after he asked for help effectively talk himself out of any therapy and before deploying to afghanistan he had that been all set to take courses to switch careers from public administration to some kind of green engineering usually really goal oriented but expected that he would continue with the clan when he got home like he said he would but he and get the money together he got application and he did everything he needed to do but actually take the course it was like he was stagnant instead of filling your gold the end of the reenlisting and returning afghanistan is currently finishing his second tour i have no idea what can happen when you get home i feel that if the military had a real commitment to service men and women that make it mandatory that anybody returning from arab war would undergo a late rally twelve weeks or so behavioral and cognitive sarah keith and i see 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On marco warman and this is the world china's communist party booted a controversial official from his job as a municipal party chief today both she live fashioned himself as a populist leader who fought crime and lead the masses and singing songs from the cultural revolution of just yesterday prime minister whinge about said that china needs political reform not a return to the mistakes of the cultural revolution many chinese would agree including some democracy activists now in exile the world 's mary kay maxed that caught up with some of them in taiwan is and seeing you will see china these days past classroom listening out the status of the leaders of the nineteen eighty nine seven square pro-democracy movement talk about china's prospects of democracy some students here from the mainland and one of the gentleman leaders is one god now a college lecturer at taiwan's qinghai university at her as he says many successes come from failure just because nineteen eighty nine to succeed doesn't mean another attempt won't later one downside anything can happen in china that he's helpful is if i can be that they are motivated by the internet and other second-generation that's what where we are complying tonight and that is everything that is another former german student activist who spent time in prison challenges the mainland students here his name is lee hung chang is a he says look the question is how you see yourself you want to be called without any interest in character are you one of your real human being saying there's anything wrong with being conscious society needs cause nobody needs more individuals with independent character and independent thinking and vendors about who he's the son of a former government official who served under pro- reform communist party secretary johnson young at the time of the gentleman demonstrations because of that outcome went to prison for almost a decade his son now runs a publishing company in hong kong he encourages the mainland students in the classroom to think about why china's communist party limits free expression is is is is is is is is the problem is the communist party doesn't want you to have free speech because they believe it will threaten their regime they instill the idea that once we have a free press society will be in chaos but is taiwan entails taiwan is a democracy and not in chaos as pro-democracy advocates like to point out when china's communist party says democracy is not appropriate for a confucian culture the party also says china doesn't need an imported western concept former chairman student leader work i she says that's an absurd argument because the claimant is in itself is a western idea be imported a century ago we would really like to ask is part to one question with each aspect of the western values that they describe is not suitable for china freedom equality or citizen rights in classroom the students ask some pointed questions some sounding a lot like the communist party line was this woman says many chinese agree with what former leader deng xiaoping 's side but it was worth sacrificing a few lives and the kinnaman protest actually it was a few hundred lives so china could have economic prosperity later i asked the student how she views prospects for democracy in china before answering she confers with a couple of classmates as i thought you wanted as far as i know maybe i is granted back her classmates as a mainland chinese journalist make access with their arms length the label on a bottle of poison but we says he knows not all mainland chinese students you're going to be swayed by the argument say here still he thinks it's worth trying it doesn't take much actually know my own experiences when i was in iraq something that iraq will have you thinking my spirit was with the highest time you have things worth he said the funds lying young people believe if there is one student learns something and people start thinking that would do it if i was in fact know there is their own life one mainland chinese student twenty two -year-old electrical engineering major says he was first drawn to guangdong 's class here on recent chinese history on curiosity at first and i i just want to see what that really student leader at that time would be and after i take their first and wanted to closet i think that he really know a lot about china and accurately showed hope to give us some thoughts and she got to think more about china the student says he's proud of his country but he wants its future to include democracy including electing top leaders meanwhile he asks not to be named he thinks it might get him in trouble after the former man's most of the students stayed on to hear another three hours from one don as he gives his impassioned final lecture on why china needs democracy will job is as if you were back in china and running for president this gets a laugh he knows what he would push for first judicial reform rule of law just laws applied to top leaders as much as to common citizens in this charlie's classroom it still seems a dream but former chairman student leader who archives she says it's a dream that keeps him going and like one don he puts his hopes in china's network sassy younger generation that feels entitled to speak and be heard and quite confident that they will find a way and west they do where we intended to be a support to think you'll see democracy in china in your life absolutely need to know that i'm in exile in leaving in exile is unbearable it's already a spiritual torture i have to have hope from your one job i'll spoke this week about his own hopes for political reform that the term is vague and over when his nine years in power government controls on free expression tightened on discontent over corruption and mismanagement and abuse of power have grown it will take courage for china's communist party to do what taiwan did move from being an authoritarian state to one where the people are the final judges of whether leaders are governing well at least some mainland chinese students visiting taiwan and hearing china's pro-democracy exiles hope they have seen the future for the world primary can mag start hsinchu taiwan now here's a quick note from spain researchers there say heavy backpacks worn by many kids these days can surprise surprise lead to back pain study says it's especially true for girls the world jury had accumulated lives with his family in barcelona spain in a pretty strong feeling that our seven -year-old daughter lula is among them by complete coincidence just this morning i said to her she is leaving for school some combat trooper heading out on a mission she had her normal huge bookbag over her back second backpack across her chest with her swim gear under one arm japanese giant oversized folders that you close with little elastic bands on the corners and any other hand a plastic bag with a bunch of close out letter during a sleepover this is a fairly typical morning and i have to say really different from those of my own school days are usually showing up to school with one hand and my homework stuffed in my back pocket in another think about it marco this is an anecdote that probably won't share with my kids until they're done with their own studies yeah probably better that way the world jerry hadden in barcelona hi martha were coming up the underwater menace called a ride of his life as he verifies three two thousand eight will as a single filming this is about as close as devices to track phrases that that they had on the world is er rise felt is made possible in part by medtronic urging for runners who benefit from medical technology to run in the medtronic twin cities marathon application and information available at medtronic global euros to as high marco warman and this is the world of reduction of the bbc world service pri and wgbh boston it must've been a very tense meeting today between defense secretary leon panetta and afghan president hamid karzai the meeting in kabul was preceded by news of the us soldier accused of killing sixteen afghan villages on sunday had been flown out of afghanistan after his talk to panetta karzai put out a statement demanding that american troops pull back immediately from the country 's rural areas and villages karzai also said the us should speed up the transfer of security duties to afghan forces panetta later repeated for reporters what he'd said to karzai about sunday's killings by sure you will first and foremost that i shared by his reps about what took place was that we extended our deepest condolences to the families and villages to the afghan people all over what occurred and i again pledged to him that we are we are proceeding with a full investigation here that we will bring on the individual involved to justice that individuals now in kuwait despite afghan cost for a trial in afghanistan eugene fidelity just military justice gail law school he also served as a judge advocate in the us coast guard fido says that what happens next in this case will most likely be determined by the principles of military law starting he says with an investigation similar to a police investigation the next thing that happens under military justice is a separate investigation that is in the nature of a pulmonary hearing it's called an article thirty two investigation and you cannot conduct a general court-martial without there having been an article thirty two investigation it doesn't produce an indictment that simply produces a recommendation to some senior officers as to what charges if any should be brought to trial so you're talking a court-martial article thirty two investigation is a soldier all of the subject only to military law or also us civil weld the soldiers subject to us civilian criminal law as well but i would be awfully surprised if this wound up in federalist record i mean you know we live in an era where rss falkland in love with the military courts at night i can imagine why this case would be taken to a civilian federal court is another question which is can the soldier be prosecuted in the afghan courts and there i think the train has left the station we had an agreement with the afghan government that basically exempts us military personnel in that country from afghan criminal jurisdiction so i think the form here is going to be the us military justice system just to get a sense of consistency suppose there is a foreign soldier to ploy to the us and it does happen their exchange programs for foreign military on us bases and let's say that foreign soldier goes on a shooting spree here where does he or she gets her it depends on whether this is a status of forces agreement or other understanding between the two countries the status of forces agreements try to regularize that process instead of having a matter of guesswork or ad hoc negotiation every time there's an incident we do have for example a status of forces agreement with japan and under that agreement we've had a string of incidents in okinawa typically involving rape charges or other sexual assaults and those gis have been prosecuted in the japanese courts that is permitted under the us-japan status of forces agreement one question a lot of people but asking so far the name of this man is not been released as a typical is there a legal basis or reason for this well it certainly not typical the government in a case like this would typically make the name available this is the first time that i can think of in the united states where the name of a soldier accused of a serious offense has been withheld this long but we have to keep in mind is that a court-martial is not part of the regular federal court system and because a court-martial is technically part of the executive branch of the government its records are subject to public inspection only under the freedom of information act which has an exemption for ongoing investigations so if the government wanted it could really try to resist public and media curiosity on this for quite some time but i can't imagine that happening a mean sooner or later name is going get out and certainly by the time there any public decedents which i think are likely in the next once a couple of weeks now this is the first time in the last decade there's been a horrible incident involving us service people and local populations another one was the defect killings in iraq for instance is the us military been able to deal with these cases in a way that you feel inspires confidence in the military justice system long pause as a deep breath unnoticed and a deep breath there certainly have been cases where i've wondered whether public confidence was really engendered by the administration of justice under the uniform code of military justice i do believe that some of the outcomes are surprising even cases that never got the trial or cases that led to less than the full force of the law being brought to bear or cases where there were quibbles the system generally produces fairer outcomes but when you have a sufficient number of data points where you find yourself scratching your head i think it's time to pull back and say nine let's take a look at this system systematically we have a good system but it's a system that could be made substantially better and substantially more credible eugene fidelity to the military justice that yell law school is a co-author of military justice cases and materials i do very much indeed my privilege grease got word of another bailout today this one from the imf all part of an effort to keep grease from defaulting another part of that is the european union 's task force for grace is made up of specialists have been trying to help greece get its fiscal house in order today that task force reported on how well greece is doing but given how far the country still has to go some wonder whether a more permanent eu presence might be required to help greece to oversee reforms the world clark boyd has a story greece got a mixed report card today from the european union 's task force they say greece has made some progress in tax collection and using available eu money for starting projects still do not remains to be done horst reichenbach adjournment leads to ease task force for greece today he praised the greek people for making substantial sacrifices and said the eu remains ready to help greece implement reforms the greater number of member states i have with the the key is to be available for reuse but for some greeks foreigners telling them how to manage their money brings back memories of the years following world war ii that's what us secretary of state george marshall launched what became known as the marshall plan to rebuild europe here is marshall addressing congress in nineteen forty eight is unprecedented in their world they don't know as sure as it is greater with it is a difficult program and you know far better than i can notice involving this program and their political difficulties these days as well the economic crisis has created tensions within the eu and those tensions make a new marshall plan harder for greeks to swallow him a flat monthly protesters burned the german flag happens enchanted on the out but others like a resistance the hottest welcome outside help i is agreed having seen the amount of wasted capital that reagan ministration of some blue a possibility is i would not be averse to having an international body controlling this cialis is an economist and venture capitalist may concern about the marshall plan is any intimate distract us many many greeks should focus on how the below businesses export oriented businesses as the marshall plan would probably not be a bad accident and it would have been better than we need the full swing on on what how would the greek businesses now that's a tall order in a country where business stifling bureaucracy and corruption have become a way of life for the past three decades i don't think we need more money i think we need to to use the money that were getting much more properly philip ammerman is a greek-american businessman he's lived in athens for years and him and says that when greece joined the eu subsidies of money the country received amounted to a marshall plan for the state wasted too much of it building state owned companies staffed with overpaid political appointees and him and says it's time greeks found their own solutions to their problems the fact of the matter is you know this is our message we have to clean it up it's not that germany's responsibilities of holland 's responsibility guitarist and i think the sooner we realize that it was really get down and come up with a plan which is not the most by others with the plan which you know that at least two or three parties hereto agree with another processing center for but even ammerman admits he's skeptical whether the greek state can come up with a workable plan on its own and other grease watcher who think the country needs outside assistance is former us diplomat brady kiesling he looks back to the first marshall plan the united states took the blame and in some cases was responsible for forcing greece to reform its economy after world war ii i think the willingness of the eu to play the role of bad guy in making these reforms is vital i think you have to suck it up and do it otherwise grease will not do it on its own and kiesling says this is a long-term project this commits both europe and greece to a very close delicate minuet over a decade they will look at each other with a fixed stare but they will smile at the and well we can always hope for the world this is clark boyd affects of and move him now and in him and him of whether or what it is you who is location is cold this time of year temperatures can get down to minus thirty degrees fahrenheit were looking for an american scientific research station located on ross island in antarctica the bbc teams used it as a base for shooting an episode in a tv series called frozen planet film features something called underwater brian nichols cc water icicles are so cold or deadly to touch cv starfish and sea engines trying to get away discussing trapped by the ice and wriggling around in the very very quickly succumbing see for yourself we have extraordinary video of one of these icy fingers of death at the world and while you're at it don't forget to try to name the us research-based at the southern tip of ross island is in the will is is is is is is is is israel's short cold season comes to a close a new season kicks off with bigger cat mating season yeah that's right and it won't end anytime soon mile desert climate in israel makes it possible for cats to be in heat nearly year-round so you got a country with a whole lot of amorous cats zack rosen has our story and move to the center of tel aviv last summer at one of the first things i noticed was of free-roaming cats and one of my fortune of his is capped at what point will the porch to keep their everywhere there's one in orange and black woman sitting in a recent study from tel aviv university estimated at around thirty nine thousand free-roaming cats tel aviv is like one cat for every ten people and there's another but unlike the people why the caps mangy sick and the noises they make in the middle of the night of the wars in him and him my name is levi meyer and i'm the oldest these development director of the animals live which is the leading and in the worst organization in israel even lives in an apartment in suburban tel aviv she has a indoor cat and another didn't mean that she featured her backyard got a bunch of tiny red cut center fingers to prove it she says a lot of these cats aren't meant to live indoors most of them were born in the street and that's where they're comfortable they don't know anything else and they don't want to be inside that within the feral cats they could not leave inside okay because the closed area we have makes them very very frightened okay most recaps she says only lived to be one or two years old but despite their sadly short-lived and still managed to reproduce at amazing speed in is the right of her birth is very high and take three times a year at least the female gives birth and then when their kittens about five six month old that they give birth again it's for the kids give birth when they're on the final result is a even though these tips don't have owners thousands of people in tel aviv feed them every day it's actually become something that unites people here were men and old people and young people who truly shy around and really just go through the ages have stuck to the governing is the director of tel aviv 's veterinary apartment he says part of the reason there are so many cats in tel aviv because of all the people to feed him every blaze that you're going to see a group of cats someone is putting the tool something otherwise i will be here in the late eighties before meyer was one of the people who actually brought the idea of dating and neutering to israel before that population control metal poisoning stray cats is the deficiencies and with further with this for hours and so forth but now that the legal and spaying and neutering has become the norm but reavis says it has become part of the culture you that there needs to be much more emphasis on the amount of cats getting fixed by just aviva has good intentions but still didn't keep up with the net amount of kids being born on the street they have to dictate hundreds thing is doing today to keep up with the rate of five cats giving birth at the moment for the moment we have given them get something so damn kids are going to reproduce livesay keep you something for me if i can have one.

It was good to have thousands but that i'm not able to buffer the street cat population to freeze research shows that at least eighty percent of the cats need to be spayed and neutered is another one and as of now tel aviv is not hitting that mark and another so at least for the foreseeable future tel aviv will be full of cats another.

For the world and zack rosen and tel aviv this is pri i marco warman this is the world warning our next story might send a shiver down your spine first setting the frigid place we asked you about in today's geo quiz is mcmurdo station in antarctica as were a bbc team went to film an episode for the frozen planet tv series which premieres this weekend on the discovery channel 's pretty stunning mountainous stars of this episode or something called brian nichols of death bbc producer catherine just describe for us they are essentially phones as the ice cold brine which is released when the nci schoolrooms gathers together these ice tunnels and then isaac begins to drop three the sea with the delay is much denser and it's far far colder and so that was a strong patent suite allows a cheese of ice to form around drawing so sometimes they can reach write-downs of the buses the floor and starts going that stream of ice along the seafloor and this capturing anything in its path listeners can actually see one of these brian nichols growing under the ice shelf online one of the sylvia information so lethal we wiggled the mice finger death because it does looks like this thing or vice reaching down to the sea floor as they hit the seafloor fooling this stream of ice everything was cool to three revised this is trapped and frozen to death to see these poor starfish and sea at jim's visit trying to get away discussing traps by the ice and wriggling around in the very very quickly succumbing it is strangely beautiful form of death i have to say absolutely stunningly gorgeous quite sinister the and what amazes me to besides the bright nickel is just the rich colors under the ice shelf absolutely safe to me producing this program which is the wind to program the frozen planet at stake sites that do this particular sequence because my film was greatly very dark and light one today be darkened and i haven't missed their wind set pieces accounts to have the beautiful because he teaches to suggest as stunningly gorgeous seed will be ice refracting the light it is surprising to see what looks was like a coral reef the other stars of the story are the cameramen who captured these images in particular humility who improvised an underwater time lapse camera system to record the growth of these icicles is brian nichols pretty fascinating but we knew that we once captured the life of the communities of investments down that but then these incredibly slightly and said right from the start when we are brainstorming with how it's trying to film the life and the ice we knew that we were going to have to bring them to life with timeout isn't speed up the way they made say to his humility had in his mind these ideas about what he wanted to do what he wants to build your voice we have quite have time to build it before we went down this week nancy left moment neither for antarctica with a couple of new boxes with electronic components that he knew he wanted it together but is anyone we would download it every day off to have filming under the ice who come back up and he would do that well the soldiering together this case to move the building these books it is quite touching guys to whether we would get it done but he did not you didn't have any confrontations with these marine invertebrates but one mammal was not happy with your right encroaching on their turf that's right blindingly obviously we've be sold by nichols goulding and so you know still hasn't finished his timeless boxes the pressure was on when he did finally complete the time that spelled i we deployed it the first time in front of the brian nichols is very very excited the name we have to leave the mathematics hours when the guys went back to retrieve the cat i found it since it milks a veteran pointing down seafloor and we have no idea a year when it did not say that but we knew that this mail seal had been displaying the entire tree so we were hidden in his territory i don't think he quite appreciate the fact that they resist these new items and nancy could not delay the half i have him send me the next day when we put that the kit by downing fences that bicycle full nations keeping that he wasn't and calais this time and unluckily he must've got used to say do we went back down the kit was up and running and we got some messages that ask permission next time you want to take a picture strawberry for catherine just a producer with the bbc's natural history unit thanks so much cranky and thanks also to our texting game winners today kim michelle and anders representing philadelphia pa orange california and madison wisconsin you can put your hometown on the map by playing along next time just text geo quiz one word geo quiz two six nine eight six meadow we all know about antarctica 's icy fingers of death about some life-affirming tunes from trinidad is going back to the nineteen seventies and the music of trinidad black truth rhythm that steel drum music and the rhymes of calypso singers may be the caribbean island is better order years ago though black truth rhythm band with doing something different they play calypso yes but joseph carefully into figures with american funds nigerian afro the and global soul is that he said he thought that this is not.

A bad looking on is that black truth written them with only one out it was called eat with diet and upon its release in nineteen seventy six he became an underground classic it's been out of print for years but now it's been reissued for the first time on cd and frankly it's one of the best things you are old and heard so far this year he is not as will a will is what i read is that.

He is the band 's lead singer and founder with local imo since he played after on an island known for its muscular calypso culture imo gain musical streak read plenty most notably he caught the ear of fit a cookie nigerian pioneer of afro beat on the kojima went on the record with the up and performed with fellas band the egypt dating black truth rhythm band had broken up at that point and they were on a path to become a musical footnote albeit with some cult status but with the reissue of their one recording that could change to leave you with one more track from viva diode system is called by the banana still has to do the wgbh on mark warner will be back tomorrow as soon as this is a he is is is is is a as and as a and this is the first in the is is is is is is is is is is is the world is a coproduction of the bbc world service pri and wgbh boston is supported in part by the plowshares fund investing in peace and security worldwide auctioneers or the national endowment for the arts which believes that a great nation deserves great art and life the wgbh funds for environmental donors include the rest of foundation for the section is for a lot of approach to solving critical environmental problems while the cat and nasa leading research on the earth and its climate from the vantage point of space on our international