to a. new city and your hotel has a message for you to. thank you. but there are literally dozens of. i'm going to go for a walk. founded over four hundred years ago. but this is also a very modern town with a real passion. a leg is one of most popular sculptures and he's had commissioned all across the city including the facts and content to. this is a monument to happiness as he looks like this it's

a wolf who ate well lived well and now he's happy this is a favorite toy of kids created. most of the very light hearted and one of his favorite pieces is based on that favorite. the story of the baby in the cabbage patch this is true. yes. but see here. picture. i'm down by the river. one of russia's most famous playwrights. made famous by the city's most famous. yes. this is a famous monument to be. treated

it. has been. faces for the best parts of forty years and shows no sign of slowing down he said exhibitions oh. around russia and europe and here they call him the thompson miracle. it's always difficult to express what you feel moving through a gallery like this because everything is so different you get these really wild flights of fantasy here and then these incredibly detailed realistic looking portraits really loving portraits almost of the great theater masters and not only the russian ones as well pleased to see that there's even mr shakespeare here as well i think you've been rather proud. before you became an artist who was an actor and you can feel the drummer 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 time i've ever been a model. this is for you. is one of those the to 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 galvanizes people around here school so has a thriving music scenes and every week during the summer locals meets up nearly on to use riverside statue for a bit of a knees up. to play this nice big project is called chappo 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. there's been a lot of debates over what it should be here a tall building merry making people come here each friday to sing down this or

declaiming point train. and there are plenty of unusual styles on display and 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 russian. responded. come rain or shine check on fridays always bring out the crowds and after the music stops everyone gives the launch a couple send us. this trickle fridays on tech savvy enough for you you can also hire a photo for the clues across the tome although you might want to avoid the one with fifty teenagers on it's. these are freshers attempts to pull

a technique university they just finished their first day of college and nothing stops by this. ok. been a pretty long time. thank you very much. i met up with the good guys from tom's students union to take a university tradition. of the social beach economic year the union reps from fellow students and collect them in a time capsule. hopes and dreams. for five years right. and. they wonder how many of these go back. to see what's happened.

in the first two years of thompson management cycle she 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 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 tomsk russia well it's a simple story 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 wasn't invited to come back and i've been here ever since. and so that's five years now. since living is a 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 a very young city we have twenty percent the population of. six universities under a very vibrant atmosphere which is. of course it's a different culture of course the climate is pretty harsh off the around yeah especially here 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 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 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 a 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 now 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 typed 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 eagerly from poland in one nine hundred thirty two. visitors move 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 other frightened people and then you'd have to watch that door close now 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 light.

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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 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 own pine cones the seeds in here they 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 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 forests for seeds before 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 while branches that later recovered only the good ones were left here here. right. this tree has been inoculated for fifteen times 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 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 samplings but sergei says that securing the stone pine trees future is going to be a long and expensive process the little mild cedar being with four to five meters tall produces its first cone and twenty five thirty years there are some nut bearing straying 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. the filters are 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. in this sort of. keep your head. why as a fed chief. with. loads of very loud. talk about. looking great. and once they've been elected it's time to start putting everything together. one of the. scrubs but. i'll add it to the bill so 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 people putting. so i think it's time to put this budget to the test so. full of wonderful things like. this great color as well. through the filter. is being held in that. moment of truth.

thankfully there were no unpleasant side effects. from one of the most innovative companies one of its oldest. boots and galoshes one of 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 they're going more like more human is 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 kids in the ensuing to below them left school says here. you should clearly zero it doesn't it but there are about forty ladies here but pool one shoe can be properly made and there's no slacking they make thirty five every five minutes or so to keep. on one sort of finishing touch. they're ready to be shipped off to the shops. wondering around factories i was definitely ready for some fresh air. to small mind wants and. this is f.c. told siberia's only 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. 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 in goal. i guess it must be like reflexes. ok. they 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. 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. here in winter as well as the summertime when 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 towns including yours. 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 the other pretty spectacular wrong as 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 how you say it but it was really has been a game of two dogs hit 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 odd live i love this shot. of the leg of the leg goal leg of the bags and we pleaded

for the players just couldn't find the targets and after a frustrating ninety minutes against the mexican waves the final whistle blew. the board's role but it does leave tome 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 is what you want leaving the stadium please be attentive and cautious it'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 i'm going to see little fuss about. the coffee.

and amazing choice but these prices i think this coffee. can afford. another way. my son. i was thinking more of washing dishes but spine amazing coincidence it turned out they was short in the chef to day. own the finishing touch. it was probably kids had the knives came out and i was ready to have a go at making a real siberian favorite which was 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 thought was out of the way it was tons

of perk up the fish with a few extra ingredients. so these are some. siberian herb's and spices just give the fish a rub with these. and once everything was prepared it was time to get cooking stuff. dougal 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. a week site see into just a morning can you. oh maybe you can. 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 seats in front i really didn't want it to end and there is some pretty amazing piece to. go that's so. absolutely story with. ah. 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. vote for bush. but he always adds by one vote for kerry for kerry so the people that are going to be validating this machine can stand there all day long and vote for somebody and it will be right every time but the guy can walk up here and if he hits the right buttons. they can flip vote that he. says.

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qantas peter the first kind of sure can pinsky switzer told clothes new home built in learning about scott golden apple boutique hotel. relentless fives claimed dozens of lives in russia as a record breaking heat wave shows no sign of letting out. and join me on the bennetts in the moscow region where firefighters all managing to control the blaze the smoke is still choking the atmosphere and spreading to the city. blushing president last year's summer residence the hold an emergency meeting on fire fighting in kremlin. and in other news this hour you asked imposes more new sanctions on iran severing ties with the organization suspected of terrorist links as a group of intelligence experts write to president obama saying that israel may strike against iran within weeks.

news from russia and around the world this is all see with me your leisure probably all over thanks for joining us one hundred fifty thousand firefighters are battling brushes was wildfires in decades the blazes have already left four people dead meanwhile there and most thick with smoke as fires approach the capital from the south contamination is now seven times normal levels making a dangerous have been for health that people say doctors advise everyone to stay indoors while visibility of roads dropped at times to as low as twenty meter is this small has descended into the metro to the temperatures in the subway are almost as whole as above ground breaking the all time underground record of thirty four degrees but even this is still better in some places outside the suffocating

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