most popular. and he's had commissioned all across the city including. to. live well and now he's happy this is a favorite toy of kids. most of the very light hearted and one of his favorite pieces. favorite. the baby in the capital which is a true. picture . and. one of russia's most famous playwrights. made famous by the city's most famous.

this is a. great 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 always difficult to express what you feel moving through. these incredibly. thick looking portraits. portraits of the great. and not only the russian ones as well i was pleased to see that there's even mr shakespeare here as well. i think you've been rather proud of that. before he

became an artist he was an actor and you can feel the drama in his sculpture looking around his workshop is a weird and wonderful experience and even offered to give me something to remember him by. it's definitely the first on the motive of the been a model. this is for you. is one of those that feel like. take it. truly quite funny have no actually be a sketch for stephanie go to is right. and oh it's not the only thing that delvin eyes as people around here school so has a thriving music scene and every week during the summer locals meets up nearly on to use riverside statue for a bit of a nice up. play. project it's called

fridays on that occasion very cheerful people get together near them all you meant to the russian writer which stands here on base and. there's been a lot of debates over what it should be here a tall. merry making people come each friday to sing down this or declaiming point. and there are plenty of unusual styles on display natalia has created a whole set of songs inspired by the culture of the coup like a two thousand year old indigenous russian. 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 on tax cuts. enough for

you you can also hire a float for a recluse across the top. although you might want to avoid the one with fifty teenagers honest. these are freshers attempts polytechnic university they just finished their first day of college. and still. sat. in a pretty long day. thank you very much. i met up with the good guys from tom's students union to take most of the university tradition go with. the slogan be checking to make you the union reps from fellow students and collect them in a time capsule. full of hopes and dreams. for five years right.

and. they wonder how many of these go back. to see what's happened. six hours in the first two years of comps management faculty already. pressures in a whole different way so pick up so. much time looking at the future business leaders. 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 brits 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 you look at the us we can see that every european country except. have signed up to it we will be discussing the future of russian 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 at the university of. 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 invited to

come back and i've been here ever since. and so that's five years now. six of them is a great city and it's constantly changing and you can see the. the wonderful architecture that we have here. being such an old. city it's also a very young city we have twenty percent the population of. six universities under a very vibrant. inventing it's of course it's a different culture of course the climate is pretty harsh 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 top six 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 underneath the stones this park is now a memorial to them and i'm going to visit the first museum in russia 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 much 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 confused people then you'd have to watch that door close though you might never see anyone you know loved again. being cooped up here is

a chilling experience and i was definitely ready to head back up to the lines. culture is that so much about the taxpayers' money and it is a chic the people at area reality t.v. want to be popular and commercially lucrative but just how realistic are these programs are they be ultimate. one of the key elements of democracy which is so uncomfortable for me a forty years. who pays for the news. how dependent business independent media. and who is behind the t.v. story. georgian media fiction and reality on t.v. in indonesia algy's available in the ground shirts and media hotel the ritz carlton

hotel a little hotel to tell me the millennium hotel in china you can see on t.v. and since hotel macau rocks hotel macau grand lido hotel macau divination marco resort hotel decided to sell tiago new mccullum love hotel and when results might come beverly plaza hotel macau riviera hotel macau cintra hotel macau. with more than half a million people tomsk is a lively and 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 it's the siberian stone pine tree they 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 used in the

source is 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 trying to make sure that the species continues to survive. so again 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 the seeds 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 a rush. equivalent. you know. what this used to be while branches that later recovered only the good ones were left here

here. right. this tree has been inoculated for fifteen time outs for. 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 were kids 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 a lots of little pickles so i'm 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 i 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 with four to five meters tall produces its first cone and twenty five thirty years there are some not bearing straying but if you get a 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 tom which might be about to make its back is in serious money. with 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. how do you keep your head. why

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

through. the truce. thankfully there were no unpleasant side effects. 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 until seventy years. this is such

a dirty job they're going. to make kids but there's two hundred kilos of chemically treated robot coming down to this assembly line every ten minutes i mean just gets everywhere. it's tough and intensive work the factory turns 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 ensuing left school shoes here. but there are about forty ladies who. can be made this. they make thirty five every five minutes so to keep. on one soul the finishing touches of the ready to be shipped off to the shops.

factories i was definitely. ready for some fresh air. to swirl manuel into. this is f c told siberia as the premiership football team until just pride and joy . be 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. train 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 played football they always wanted me to go and go . i guess it must be my cat like reflexes. it's. ok. to have. 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 in 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 siberian town including it. and each of our games gets twelve to thirteen thousand spectators. and 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 had a 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 and giving them a really hard time about how you say it but it was really has been a game of two holds here somewhat dominating the first period and now moscow seemed to come out really hard still nil nil nil of the night holding out just let's hope the best of the law i love this shot. of the leg of the leg gold leg of the bags and we pleaded with the players just couldn't find the targets and after a frustrating ninety minutes against the mexican waves the final was simply. no nail in the boards or 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 bonding over on dre i'll shove in and roman abramovich pushing me but here 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 the same. it's the oldest restaurant and supposedly the very best so honestly little fuss is about. the coffee. and amazing choice but at these prices i think this coffee. can afford. and let's listen the other way. my son. was thinking more of washing dishes but spine amazing coincidence it turned out they was short in the chef to pop a day. on the finishing touch. and i already

own so it was probably kids who dug into 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 still it before but it's from the sturgeon family and the rivers around thompson full of them. once the missi thought 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 stuff. just. beautiful smoked siberian stir. it was almost fun 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 in 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 piece to.

pass. god that's so. how's the story with. i just finished one flights but it was time for me to head to the airport for another. 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. wealthy british style.

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raging fires scorching heat and suffocating small gold for a. great old record breaking temperatures. and join me all the bennetts in the moscow region with five pauses all managing to control a blaze the smoke is still choking the atmosphere and spreading to the city. and russian president left his summer residence to hold an emergency meeting on fire fighting in kremlin. and other news washington puts more economic and political pressure on terror wrong tightening sanctions and blocking iranian organizations want to be aiding terrorists. and coming up in business that day as the period around in russia devastate production we'll be looking at the impact it's been

having across the world join us in twenty minutes time. live from our headquarters in central moscow this is our team with me i need to now way it's six pm here in the russian capital and our top story at least forty eight people have died as russia was sweltering in the worst heat wave in decades the air in moscow is thick with smoke from wildfires and more blazes keep springing up our correspondent ivor bennett is just outside the capital with more. all morning on the early hours of this afternoon just in the woods behind me there was a fire raging and the firefighters were struggling to control it but in the last couple of hours they have managed to put it out for the time being because the conditions here simply just so dry far as a spreading very very quickly and unpredictably earlier we had

a look at the fire it didn't seem too troublesome from where we sort of the flames were just coming up to around knee height but suddenly out of nowhere they fled up to well over two meters and that's the sort of challenge these firefighters the faces as they put out one part then another part springs up very very quickly we did actually have to move the position we were broadcasting from because we were very close to the woods and the fire we were off the road and the fire crew came over to us and said we're in a very dangerous position because the fire could sweep towards us in a matter of seconds and caught us off and as you can see the small here in the smoke is very very thick the air is very very heavy and you can taste the smoke here if you're outside for more than just a few minutes in fact it is quite know was a thing in fact that taste of smoke and there's a gray blanket over the sky you can't really see the sun. you can tell there's no clouds you can just make out the sun but it's the smoke so thick it's not managing to cost any shadows and moscow region is one of twelve regions worst hit in the whole of russia and this morning at the satellite imagery suggested there were

around eight hundred fires across the country four hundred of which has.