Rare glimpse of volcanic activity on remote Kamchatka peninsula

DAY SHOTS 1. Various of molten lava flowing in area of Plosky Tolbachik volcano 2. Wide of volcanologist, wearing protective clothing, taking sample from flowing lava 3. Close-up of lava 4. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Yuri Demyanchuk, Institute of Volcanology, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski: AUDIO AS INCOMING “We are standing next to a peripheral breach of Plosky Tolbachik. Its eruption started on November the 26th and is still continuing. The hot materials have erupted to the height of up to one hundred