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Coastlines can be clear one month and blocked the next, russians are still using icebreakers. nuclear powered icebreakers to have to accompany much of the shipping there, even as sort of an insurance measure. and containerized shipping, the new thing, it is a container ship, lots of traffic through the arctic already of ships that are not in a hurry. >> so, i want to ask you what is causing the new northern sea route? what is causing it? >> it is all about efficiency. you mean the actual passage...

Him what do you need? he replied sir, we need ice breakers and we need them badly. now you are getting them. [applause] and to be specific im pleased to report the coast guard is on course to receive its first new heavy ice breaker in more than 40 years and plenty other ships and boats and equipment and everything you need. our new budget, just passed, $700 billion this year, $716 billion next year. you are going to be very well taken care of. you will have to split that with a few others. were ...

The question was how we create whats going on because they are very important importance or sunders reiner we are. quietly asked. would be ice scriver recurve you why didnt you change plantings of these constructs of those ice breakers decrease so that was made to pay for good sign under nineteen sixties conditions and our own conditions future are stable. be that severe. so the first flight for you designed still for a t.v. deers operating. we want to confirm these claims and take a look at the...

Linus cant come as far north as this ice breaker and the captains pleased to have the tourism board they help keep the expensive vessel afloat financially it can travel at twenty two knots with two sets of turbines powered by nuclear reactors being the dominant force in the arctic costs billions the russians only ready have more than forty icebreakers. workings of the locals historic russia doesnt just have plans its already building for a new nuclear powered icebreakers. one hundred dollars alr...

Hydrocarbons under water, more competition. its going to be russia on one side of the arctic, on the other, u.s., canada, norway, denmark on the other side. that competition is going to be highly maritime in how it unfolds. thats why we have to increase our number of ice breakers, our number of ice-hardened ships and be ready to operate in the high north. >> on the submarine side, are we building enough of attack submarines. what about the attack submarines. >> were not building enough. the coin...

Three, cyber peace. they have to give us assurances they wont introod in our electoral process. we need to use the sanctions to compel their behavior. i think the white house is doing the correct thing in signing them. >> lets look at the military to fleet thing. up in the arctic, i was stunned by one thing in here more than anything else, you always get a facts that sticks, they have 30 ice breakers, 30 of them nuclear powered. we have six. what is going on at the top of the world that most ame...

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There so they want on to get theirs first. >> reporter: putin is navigating the region even having a russian flag planted on the ocean floor. russian has more arctic military bases than the u.s. and more ice breaking ships perhaps as many as 40. >> how many ice breakers do we have available? >> i believe its one. >> one and a half. >> okay, 1.5. >> reporter: russias race ahead of the u.s. in cornering the arctic analysts say is a sobering illustration of putins ambitions. >> for the arctic, it i...

Planet with no oxygen, this is one of the most dangerous areas to operate. >> reporter: russians forces pride themselves in able to operate in the most bitter cold conditions, even training with reindeer. much of the base is top secret but the russian military does boast a tour of some parts of the interior. this is part of putins plan to dominate the arctic. the oil and gas reserves he has his eye on in the arctic are massive and experts say worth possibly ten of trillions of dollars and expect...

>> reporter: putin is aggressively navigating the region, even planting a russian flag on the arctic floor. russia has far more arctic military bases than the u.s. and dozens more ice-breaking ships, perhaps as many as 40. >> how many ice-breakers do we have? >> i believe one -- >> 1.5 -- >> 1.5. >> reporter: russias race is ahead of the u.s. in the arctic, a sobering illustration of putins broader ambitions. >> for vladimir putin, the arctic is a prestige project. it demonstrates russian histor...