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. and he's had commissioned all across the city including. this is a monument to happiness he looks like this. well 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 see here. picture.

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 parts of forty years and shows no sign of slowing down. europe and here they call him the. it's always difficult. 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 as well. i think you have been rather proud. before you became an artist who was an actor and you can feel the drummer in his sculpture you 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. not that if your this is for you. is one of those that you like. take it. truly quite funny have no actually been skits for stephanie go to is right. and oh it's not the only thing that galvanizes people around here from 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. play big project is called fridays on that occasion very cheerful people get to get any of them only meant to the russian writer which stands here on the. people there's been a lot of debates over what it should be here at all. merry making people come shit each friday to sing down this or declaiming point train though think here. 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 russian.

come rain or shine check on fridays always bring out the crowds and after the music stops everyone gives the writer a percentage of. this chuckle fridays aren't exciting enough for you you can also hire a boat for a river cruise across the tome although you might want to avoid the one with fifty teenagers on it's. these are freshers attempts polytechnic 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 students union. university tradition.

of the social beach economic year and the union reps from fellow students i'm calling 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. in the first two years of comps management faculty already. pressures in a whole different way so i picked up so. much 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. 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 the university of scrushy. sounds i studied 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. six of them 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 after year round. but the people here are very friendly. people always rushing around all the time 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 and 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 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 typed letters i'll read you one of them a letter to the chief of tomsk special n.k.v.d. department secret an urchin at a thompson 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 repression but by far the most affecting of the cells themselves it's difficult to imagine terrifying it would have been to have been in 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 confused people 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 lines.

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 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 forest for 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 rough. equivalent. thing but this used to be wild branches that later recovered only the good ones were left here here. right. this tree has been inoculated 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 samplings healthy up to about thirty people work 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 that 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 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 cedar being with four to five meters tall

produces its first cone and twenty five thirty years there are some nut bearing strain myself but what if 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 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 in this sort of how do you keep your head so. why is a fed. with. loads very

loud. that. they can breed. and once they've been elected it's time to start putting everything together. they say well these people in scrubs but. i didn't see the fill 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 it so i think it's time to put this magic to the test. both wonderful things like. this great color as well.

through. the filter and is being held in that. truce. taste just like water. thankfully there were no unpleasant side effects clearly refresh headed home 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 in seventy years. this is such a dirty job we're going to look more like more human is going to make kids for this two hundred kilos of chemically treated robot coming down on to this assembly line

every ten minutes i mean it 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 to below them left here. you should clearly zero it doesn't it but there are about forty ladies here but pool one shoe can be properly made there's no slacking they make thirty five every five minutes or so to keep. on one soul to finish. they're ready to be shipped off to the shops. wondering around factories i was definitely ready for some fresh air. to small.

roots this is f.c. told siberia using the premiership football team until pride and joy. be packed with household names but they hold their own against russia's best and they don't even mind london journalists turning up to train with them. train but see for yourselves right i said be interesting you 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. it's. ok. 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 yuri it's easy to see that

this is a city that really. 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 old. tournaments attract fans from thirty three say here in town including yours. and each of our games gets twelve to thirteen thousand spectators. on the next noon i was going to be one of them so this is what saturdays will made for perfect weather and healthy food 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 giving them a really hard time about how you say it but it was really has been

a game of. somewhat dominating the first period and now most of us seem to come out really hard still nil nil labatt and that holding out just lets hope the best of the law 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 and against the mexican waves the fun was simply. milne ill the boards are all but it does leave home ten points above the relegation zone so i guess these guys i think i'm 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 even if 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. place was good. so this is. it's the oldest restaurant and supposedly the very best so. i'm going to see little fuss about. the coffee. and 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 to pop a day. on 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. siberian sterlite is very popular here today we're going to make smoke stirling but prepared for cookie first. but never tried to 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 park. a week site

see into just a morning can you. well 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 seat in front i really didn't want to ems and there are some pretty amazing piece to.

go that's so. absolutely 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. bush. 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 the vote that.

this is not a production but. that we should see everybody is sure to see the pretty trees because they have no idea about the hardships that face. they wanted. to do since. the army the life of the use of the enemy is the most precious thing in the world. uses of self-sacrifice and terrorism with those who understand it fully but you have to live a. real life stories from would need to. be true nineteen forty five don't. police in the carriages capital bishkek clash with anti-government demonstrators

accused by the country's interim leader of trying to organize a coup live ammunition has been fired while protests leaders have been arrested. wildfires continue raging across central russia during the biggest heat wave on record leaving at least fifteen people dead thousands remain homeless with whole villages turned into a ghost town. and five british citizens extradited to greece to face trial over the stabbing of a man in crete accuse their government of turning its back on them critics say the european arrest warrant system under which they've been transferred allows them to be sent for trial abroad with minimal evidence. next mass keyser and stacy herbert take a look at how some american financier is maybe dragging the u.s. into a quote zombie economy that's coming your way up in the kaiser report that's next on our team.

don once again for the kaiser report i'm max kaiser and the wall street journal confirmed what we've been saying on this show for months that the flay ssion is the bogeyman yes credit collapse and money supply is throwing the world into a deflationary spiral and now the question is what's next but let's talk a little bit more about some zombies and some vampires and some walking dead people stacey herbert stacey herbert talk to us about what's going on out there well max you mentioned deflation and of course japan is the deflationary king they've had a lost decade which has gone on now for about twenty one years first headline is from there tokyo's oldest man had been dead for thirty years.