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what's up sunshine welcome to CNN 10 the
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I'm KY wire great to be back here with
you kicking off another week of learning
and some fun let's get started we start
today in Europe where Swedish police are
investigating a suspected case of
sabotage of an undersea telecom's cable
that took place last week it's the third
time the Finnish Telecom cable was
damaged this time in Sweden's economic
zone after being completely severed in
November and December of last year
undersea cables are the invisible force
behind almost all of our Communications
around the world everything from Bank
transfers to streaming and even this
episode you're watching right now are
all possible because of a vast network
of internet cables that lie Under the
Sea we've come to rely on this vital
infrastructure in our everyday lives
unaware they existed times that's
because companies spread data across
multiple cables so that if one goes down
customers won't be cut off it's an
important practice given how vulnerable
the cables can be to a host of factors
like hurricanes earthquakes an
accidental or intentional damage from
fishing nets or ship anchors within the
last few months multi mple undersea
cables in the Baltic Sea in Europe have
been disrupted NATO officials have
launched an operation sending warships
tasked with preventing these suspected
intentional attacks in the Baltic Sea
while improving coordination with border
guards from the affected Nations CNN's
Nick Robertson shows us how these cables
work and just how vulnerable they can be
you might think that the internet comes
from up there in the sky in the cloud
the reality is it lies deep below the
ocean and it's all possible because of a
Global Network of internet cables Under
the Sea this map shows the hundreds that
crisscross the ocean connecting
countries with each other according to
Nato 1.3 million kilometers of cables
carry $1 trillion dollar worth of
financial transactions
daily so how do they actually work well
modern undersea data cables like this
this one use Fiber Optic technology the
fibers are wrapped in layers and layers
of protection before they're laid on the
seabed by ships they lay directly on the
sea floor however closer to the shore
they are typically buried under the
seabed the process can take years as it
involves a lot of planning to determine
the best path for each
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line and because they're so vital
there's a real concern about their
vulnerability in a new era of hybrid
Warfare according to T geography there
are around 200 data cable faults in a
year most of which are accidental often
caused by fishing and
anchoring however in recent years
several cables have been disrupted in
the Baltic Sea as well as the Asia
Pacific region raising concerns over
potential sabotage
beyond the physical vulnerability these
cables are also susceptible to
surveillance during the Cold War the US
tapped Soviet undersea cables to
intercept
Communications so what happens if a
cable is cut repairing a cable is costly
and time consuming according to the
international cable protection committee
it cost between1 and $3 million to
repair a cable it can take several
months to fix a broken line While most
companies operate several cables so if
one of them breaks they've got a backup
a serious failure could take down the
internet for a whole country and a
coordinated attack that could affect
Services across the whole
world Pop Quiz Hot Shot what percentage
of Earth's oxygen is produced by the
Amazon rainforest 5% 10% 20% or 50%
% if you said 20 you're so money the
largest rainforest in the world
contributes an estimated 1 of the oxygen
produced on land via
photosynthesis deforestation has been a
major threat to the Amazon rainforest
for decades driven by factors like
growing infrastructure development
ranching and Mining in Brazil the
Environmental Protection Agency recently
led a raid to combat deforestation there
stopping illegal loggers closing their
Sawmills and finding those involved
millions of dollars our Stefano paban
shows us how the operation carried out
its goal to curb illegal logging in the
protected and Indigenous lands that see
some of the country's highest
deforestation rates this is Operation
marav Valia which takes his name for a
kind of sawdust environmental agents in
Brazil have kicked off a major campaign
to tackle deforestation in the Amazon
rainforest the government told Reuters
that the operation should be the largest
of its kind in 5 years as they granted
the agency rare access to this Timber
raid you're seeing now officials say
more than 5,000 truckloads of illegal
Timber were seized in the last few weeks
and most of it comes from some of the
most heavily loged regions in the Amazon
rainforest since taking back the
presidency in 2023 the Brazilian
president lis nasio Lula da Silva has
promised to tackle deforestation which
was surging under his predecessor Jer
bolsonaro and Lula has made progress
deforestation in the Amazon fell to its
lowest level in six years plunging
66% year on-ear in July of 2023 on the
other hand critics point out Lula's
investment in fossil fuels which
includes his recent push for offshore
oil drilling near the Amazon river which
is one of the most biod diverse regions
in the world Brazil has also announced
its intention to join OPC plus a group
of oil exporting Nations which signals
the country's Evolution into a key oil
producer and this is happening just N9
months before the country host the
United Nations environmental Summit Lula
has said before that the oid revenues
can speed up the transition to clean
energy but fossil fuels make up the bulk
of Planet heating pollution while the
other source is changes in land use
which include deforestation and this is
the fine line Brazilian authorities are
currently trying to
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balance today's story getting a 10 out
of 10 flying taxis of the not so distant
future a uk-based company is working to
launch a new mode of urban transport in
cities across the world by the year 2030
it says these flying machines will be
safe low no noise zero emission and
Nimble enough to fly through City
airspace and that they won't cost much
more than traditional taxis uers or
lifts our Max Foster visited the hanger
in Bristol where these flying rides are
being tested out imagine trying to book
a taxi on your app and it can fly well
it is a plan and this is what the
vehicle will look like that
arrives it's an electric what did we
call it is it the hel hel opter is it a
plane the answer is neither or rather
both this is VX4 an electric vertical
takeoff and Landing vehicle EV toll for
short built by Bristol based vertical
Aerospace it's not quite the flying car
from the Jetson but EV tolls are likely
to be landing in a verti port near you
in the not too distant future when we
talk about it being a flying taxi you're
comfortable with that because in the
future you do imagine
people calling up one of these instead
of a car is that right yes e TOS can
allow us to unlock the third dimension
to use air Mobility to get from point A
to point B the VX4 will have a range of
100 miles and a top speed of 150 mph and
it'll initially fly between airports and
cities so the inside the interior is
designed to the same comfort and
roominess of a London black Taxi so it
takes off vertically like a helicopter
and then immediately tilts the four
propellers forward to a longitudinal
horizontal configuration so that it
cruises like a propeller driven airplane
all being well vertical Aerospace planed
to make and deliver 150 aircraft to
clients across the world by 2030 talk
about taking technology from sci-fi to
reality let me ask you this if there was
a flying taxi in your town right now
would you take it or do you need some
more time to see how things will go all
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