and he's had commissioned all across the city including. two. looks like this wolf lived well and now he's happy this is a favorite toy of kids we created. most of the legs were very light hearted and one of his favorite pieces. favorite. the story of the baby in the cabbage patch this is true. yes. but. here. picture. one of russia's most famous playwrights. made famous by the city's most famous living.

it it. has been called faces for the best poets of forty years and shows no sign of slowing down. europe and here they call him the. it's difficult to express what you feel. he's incredibly. thick looking portraits. portraits of the great. and not only the russian ones as well pleased to see that there's even mr shakespeare here well. i think you have been rather proud. before you became an

artist early on so you was an actor and you can feel the drummer in his sculpture looking around his workshop is a weird and wonderful experience and he even offered to give me something to remember him by. stephanie the first time i've ever been a model. this is for you. is one of those that feel like. take it. truly quite funny have no sketch for stephanie go that is right. and oh it's not the only thing that galvanizes people around here school so has a thriving music scenes and every week during the summer locals meets up nearly on tues riverside start shooting for a bit of a nice up. to play this nice big project fridays on that occasion very cheerful people get to get any of them all you meant

to the russian writer which stands here on base and bad people there's been a lot of debates about what it should be here at all. merry making people come here each friday to sing down this or declaiming point train. and there are plenty of unusual styles on display it's all he has created a whole set of songs inspired by the culture of the couloir people a two thousand year old indigenous refer. back to. respond. come rain or shine shekel fridays always bring out the crowds and after the music stops everyone gives the likes of a percentage of. this trickle fridays aren't exciting enough for

you you can also hire a boat for river cruise across the top. although you might want to avoid the one with fifty teenagers on it's. these are freshers attempts polytechnic university they've just finished their first day of college and nothing stops by this. ok. been a pretty long day. thank you very much. i met up with the good guys troops home school students union to take a university tradition go with. the union reps from students and collect them in a time capsule. of hopes and dreams. for five years.

and. they wonder how many of these guys are back in twenty. six hours and the first years of thompson management faculty already. pressures in a whole different way so the last. time you look at the future business. but as all students know the fun and games can't last forever and the next day i

went to take a look at the more serious side of university life with a fellow brit who's made his home. peter has been teaching here since two thousand and four legs and he's a senior lecturer at the faculty of foreign languages today's topic was all about how teaching and examination methods are about to change across europe. if we look at the bologna process we can see that every european country except. have signed up to it we will be discussing the future of cation next week thanks for your attention. this is going to be a first and probably i don't think your support comes and becomes a lecture to university and. sound so i study russian university and then in two thousand and four i came here as a language assistance i like to so much that's after i graduated i was an adviser

to come back and i've been here ever since. and so that's five years now. since. the great city and it's constantly changing and you can see the show you see in the wonderful architecture that we have here. being such an old. city it's also very young city we have twenty percent of the population of. six universities under a very vibrant atmosphere which is inventing itself of course it's a different culture of course the climate is pretty harsh off the around. but the people here are very friendly. people always rushing around. very nice people so this is the real rush for the. phrase often in my trips around russia and this really is a city full of characters i wanted to find more about tom's history there's one place here which deals with the city's time.

stalin's great terror of the nineteenth literally thousands of people were imprisoned and killed in thompson many of them lie buried amid the stones this park is now a memorial to them and i'm going to visit the first museum in russia the dedicated itself to covering the political repressions. this building was a jail for the k.g.b. predecessors the n.k.v.d. and even known sixty years after the last prisoner walked out of here it's still clawing and claustrophobic. more than fifteen thousand people post through these walls between one hundred twenty three and one hundred forty nine ten thousand of them never went home. the museum is filled with photographs papers and authentic memorabilia including letters where people gave up their own friends and neighbors as. well which could mean that these are the folders for denunciations you can

see written letters and type letters i'll read you one of them a letter to the chief of tomsk special n.k.v.d. department secret and urgent smiles at the tomsk pencil factory there is someone named simeon coble born in one thousand and nine of belorussian origin was ok middle legally from poland in one nine hundred thirty two. visitors moved through a series of different rooms showing exactly what went on during the political repressions but by far the most affecting of the cells themselves it's difficult to imagine terrifying it would have been to prison to have been taken out of your home in the middle of the night probably with little or no idea of why you were being arrested and then throw them here with up to twenty of frightened people then you'd have to watch that door close knowing you might never see anyone you loved again.

being cooped up here is a chilling experience and i was definitely ready to head back up to the lines. wealthy british. market. can't. find out what's really happening to the global economy. no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser report. every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and bring the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. knology update on our jeep.

with more than half a million people. in the bustling city but if you're looking for a little peace and quiet the countryside is just a short drive away. if you wanted a symbol of siberia this would probably be the siberian stone pine tree there used to be millions of these in the forests but now its numbers are declining ironically because of its iron pine cones the seeds in here are.

sweets and literally thousands of people come and gather them up every summer and sell them and it means that the tree is having trouble reproducing naturally but here in this garden center that's trying to make sure that the species continues to survive. so he has been running this nursery for almost a decade the idea is to sell people their own trees so that future generations will have no need to raid the forest for seeds to move for the stone pines numbers can start to recover he's brought different varieties here from across the country and beyond and even created some of his own. so this. was a kind of a rush. equivalent. you know. what this used to be wild branches that later recovered only the good ones were left here here. right. this tree has been an ark lated for fifteen time outs but here.

the samplings grow incredibly slowly just a few centimeters each year but they can keep on going for centuries most of the trees here are still very young but it's a full time job making sure they reach their full potential fairly intensive work keeping these tiny little saplings healthy up to about thirty people work here during the high season and of course there are a lot of we have got to come out these ladies have a better idea because on the bottom of the alerts a little prickles going to end up with some small hands hopefully should help the trees take the pain see the size of this. was as big as the tree itself and massive really prickly and they want to come out. more and more people are coming here to buy their own saplings but says that securing the stone pine trees future is going to be a long and expensive process. little mild cedar being four to five metres tall

produces its first cone and twenty five thirty years there are some nut bearing strain myself but if the bug finding investors is difficult. this is because the project would only payoff decades from now. so that's not been a problem for another new business and which might be about to make its back is in serious money. filters and nothing new but this local company believes they've come up with a product that's the first in the world to remove one hundred percent of harmful microorganisms and with more than a billion people still drinking contaminated water every day around the world there's a huge market out. there. what do you keep your head so. why is the fed. with. loads of

very loud. that. and once they've been elected it's time to start putting everything together. they say well these people in scrubs but. i'm not going to try to. make one hundred percent. but the big question is of course does it actually was. well anyway to find out. you know they say the proof of the pudding is so i think it's time to put this magic to the test so. full of wonderful things like. sound ammonia and of course it's great color as well.

through the. lens of truth. thankfully there were no one pleasant side effects clearly refresh from one of the most innovative companies one of its oldest. one in the same thing but it turns out that in russia at least they're very different and they've been making them into seventy years. this is such a dirty job we're going to. make kids but there's two hundred kilos of

chemically treated robot coming down into this assembly line every ten minutes i mean just gets everywhere. it's tough and intensive work the side street sends out three million pairs of shoes a year and twelve hundred steaming boots at a time come out of the vulcanizing oven ready for the linings. to the moment i'm putting together the i'm so into below them left school says here. you should feel easy to do it doesn't it but there are about forty ladies here to can be properly made and there's no slacking they make thirty five every five minutes or so to keep up. and one soul the finishing touches are going on it's the ready to be shipped off to the shops. wondering around factories i was definitely. ready for some fresh air. to swirl manuel into.

this is f c told siberia is in the premiership football team i'm told pride and joy . exactly packed with household names but they hold their own against russia's best and they don't even mind random journalists turning up to train with them. but see for yourselves right i said be interesting i must be a little bit of school in a way for some reason whenever i play football they always want me to go and go. i guess it must be my cat like reflexes how. it's. ok. i had. to let the coach score a few goals just to keep him happy but obviously really i had everything under control. when i said i never play for england. mr capello i'll be waiting for your cool but speaking to the manager yuri it's easy to

see that this is a city that really. here in winter as well as the summertime when the up to two hundred fifty teams take part in the winter tournaments ball is played by people as young as seven at the all the way up to sixty year olds tomsk tournaments attract fans from thirty three safe area in town including yours. and each of our games gets twelve to thirteen thousand spectators used. on the next us noon i was going to be one of them so this is what saturdays will made for perfect weather and healthy foods and premiership football. but the seats on the other pretty spectacular rise in russian football climbing from division two to the premier league and yes and this weekend they were taking on the capitalist must by law i'm i'm giving them a really hard time about to say it but it was really has been

a game of to call someone dominating the first period and now must seem to come out really hard still nil nil labatt and that holding out just lets hope the best of the live i love this shot. of the leg leg goal leg of the bags and we pleaded with the players just couldn't find the targets and after a frustrating ninety minutes on a good c. mexican waves the final whistle blowing. new nail the boards are all but it does leave home ten points above the relegation zone so i guess these guys are going to have the legal the chance to do a little international. shove in and roman abramovich. that you want leaving the stadium please be attentive and cautious there's nothing like watching other people exercise to work up an appetite and there was one place in tomsk i had

to visit before i left even chekhov said. this place was good. so this is. it's the oldest restaurant and supposedly the very best so. honestly little fuss is about. to come. an amazing choice. at these prices i think this coffee. can afford. and this is another way that my son. was thinking more of washing dishes but spine amazing coincidence it turned out they was short in the chef department but day. on the finishing touch. it was probably kids are done with the knives came out and i was ready to have

a go at making a real siberian favorite. siberian sterlite is very popular here today we're going to make smoke stirling but prepared for cookie first. but never tried stir it before but it's from the sturgeon family and the rivers around thompson full of them. once the missi part was out of the way it was tons of perk up the fish with a few extra ingredients. so these are some. siberian herbs and spices just give the fish a rub with these. and once everything was prepared it was time to get cooking it's. just. beautiful smoked siberian stir. it was almost time for me to

leave toms and it was still so much i wanted to see but you can't play. the week sightseeing into just a morning can you. well maybe you can. but never been in a hang glider before. you feel as if you might drop out at any moment but one side unpeeled my knuckles from the seat in front i really didn't want to ems and there are some pretty amazing beasts.

that they. got that so. i was doing the story with. our. force of. i just finished one flights but it was time for me to head to the airport for another. comes because all the benefits of the big city but it's still small enough that you only have to be here a few days and you start to feel at home it's a warm eclectic place and i was going to miss. the first.

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market why not. why not what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. for. fighting the forces of nature a state of emergency is declared in thirteen bridges across russia while last cruise covered in six small days of raging wildfires continue to spread despite the combined efforts have been measured to set and the army. flanking on the pressure the u.s. imposes nor new sanctions against iran after a weekend warning that unarmed turned against the country remains an option a film doesn't stop at sea raymond which meant program but russia says current you

want sanctions and resolutions in iran do not allow for military intervention. civil rights groups and these rogue these that government of racism saying that the new normal specifically aid to think that the lives of other arabs and minority groups. international news life this is also you with me thanks for joining it's a state of emergency has been declared in thirteen of russian regions as forest fires continue to rage in a record heat wave which shows no sign of. ending forty people have died in the flames and over three thousand have been left homeless the vast urban sprawl of moscow is now shrouded in a blanket of thick smog i don't know the car is in the heart of the capital while

peter order is outside the city as an airbase where fire has caused serious damage . we have heard from the military and they've confirmed that there was a fire however saying that this fire took place not where the. equipment was worth so much money where these airplanes were but in a place where hardware and vehicles were being stored over the stands at the moment no journalists being able to get in to actually to see what has been destroyed by those fires all around russia many places that people just can't go to try and find out what is happening because the the fires are so severe also in central russian there's an ongoing military firefighting operation to try and make sure that the flames don't get too close to a major new chiller facility in that area. the situation and set off remains tense we are still working there there is enough machinery and people in the region and we are bringing in more firefighting squads with high tech equipment that.