four hundred children of migrant workers claiming they threaten the jewish character of the state. a storm in the melting pot recent violence against immigrants in the u.s. bronx fears over a new era of racial hatred. in the u.k. thousands of eastern european guest workers struggle to survive in the streets while waiting for new regulations which will broaden their right. also a growing number of russians are choosing cheap copies or real luxury brands but psychologist caution buying stakes can lead to living a fake wife. was in the top stories here in our so we back at the top of the hour with more updates coming up next though in our special series james brown continues he's journey across russia the time he's in the southern region. no i'll be the first to admit to making films and traveling around russia is a great way to earn a living. on the road can get

a little tiring so when i heard that there was an area of the country where rest and relaxation is the number one priority would seem to take place to visit. the stabber pool region in the north caucasus is home to the cool cajun mineral waters results a series of wells and spawns that have been soothing the aches and pains of russians for over two hundred years million people come here on holiday each year and when you take a walk through some of its beautiful cities it's not difficult to see why. aren't is certainly the order of the day here artists paint and sell their works in the town center while the most strenuous activity you're likely to see is a hard fought game of chess and just in case you do accidentally over exert yourself relief is just a short walk away. really is the lifeblood of this region all the resorts there

have been built up around mineral springs and pride and joy is this one. spring now this world goes down around about six meters i literally thousands of people come here every single day to have a taste. the spring is set to the nineteenth century gothic building where dozens of taps of the different varieties of water so whether you like your pick me up cold salty you also feel rich this place has them all so for the princely sum of about ten cents i have my cup and i get to try out some of this famous water well supposedly this is a bit of a cure all for everything to go to dickie tell me this is what you need if you're just feeling under the weather this will sort you out and apparently.

but. isn't the only way to a new year in the region because big business here is not what you put into your body. and. i have to take a trip. taking a ride out how. this is a completely. new. properties. of the park. is really famous. except. where it's kept in the series of. the six people. and that means a lot in fact. just.

the basement is filled with which raised the temperature of forty three degrees celsius four hundred it's the ideal temperature health benefits. that. would just be a waste. to take the recycling pretty seriously is already treatment. three times so. grateful. ready to go in some other lucky that's more like the sound about. i was hoping that i'd be lucky enough to get a fresh batch for my mother both but either way it was time to see what all the

fuss was about. so this is the place apparently where all the magic buttons this wonderful medicinal mud is sparse to sort out your intestinal problems improve your circulation and generally leave you feeling like a new mom so purely in the interests of science you understand i'm willing to get down and dirty. those of you with a weak disposition should definitely look away and down. please today like these keep your head down. that's right. this. will certainly be the strangest. of big companies. by

a middle aged that. isn't taught. but you have plenty of time to get over the initial shock because you'll wrapped up for over a quarter of an hour. of denying for ten minutes with that. say . it does feel good. to smell it because it does but this is full of. facts so. it's giving people. can see why a. possible way. of like. yourself with a good will of the best thing you can do is take the rest of the day off. to fly some.

in favor of something. in the country.

never short of spectacular with all the space in this region it's hardly surprising there are a few old airdromes around now this plane is grounded but i am going to meet

a few magnificent men and they're admittedly a little smaller flying machine. friends meet here every weekend to fly their remote controlled planes against these beautiful backdrops. fifteen to twenty people who regularly come to take to the air here there are plenty of colorful planes on display. no you can see. they do special. for you all right. why. is it just sort of floats like a. sometimes they do encounter a little unexpected turbulence. and then. you get the occasional little accident. but everything's ok. it's a mindset. you should leave the other pilots won't put you off and your letter

introduced me to one of the tops lines. so how long does it take you to get good. every day. we have an absolutely perfect day for it and it wasn't long before you learned it was sending her extremely expensive into the yeah. just to crash it. trying to. tear this thing to. help me i mean. it's still in. some. vision we got the plane down in one piece. it was going to say a long time for me to become a decent pilot. prevented me from the way to enjoy the stump speech and stuff that's. one thing you find out about being in the caucuses you're never too far

from a spectacular view but even up here there's an even better way to see it properly and i'm going to meet a man who's going to help me see it yeah. but to me say you're going to be my paragliding instructor this was another first for me but it has been doing this for almost ten years and was able to give me plenty of helpful hints. just wrong wrong wrong wrong. before i think i can manage. to stop. ok. on with my full.

right ok even if it's. posterity i'll be recording the whole event. in-flight entertainment. the moon. says had been firmly attached and the alien had stuck an altimeter on my shoulder and we were ready to take off. running. once you feel those first currents pick you up this is an amazing experience i can see for hundreds of kilometers in all directions and the view of the cities below the mountains in the distance is really. i didn't want to come down.

margaret burglary from breaking news. i tell you a lot so i'm in here in the cold business style that is as silly of me really hundred percent recommend not anybody who harbor a per year but if your instructor is working alone be prepared for a long trek back up to the comm. it was the easy bit. oh this is all. who. will lotions potions fresh air and exercise always getting a really was feeling good i knew that there were plenty more healthy options that the star of whole region still how to often. culture is that so much about the taxpayers' money mentoring is a shiny people lot of people at area reality t.v. want to be popular in commercially lucrative but just how realistic are these

programs are they the ultimate for. their childhood was overshadowed by this tragedy. they still feel the fear they faced. and remember every second of this nightmare. it will remain in their memories and hearts forever. the town and using so. innocent. a little angels on augustine. i had the chance to take it in from the air and now i was looking forward to seeing more of the stabber polar region from the ground the city of peter gorski is one of the most popular destinations for tourists and has some of the most memorable monuments and architecture in the region and if you're looking to spend more time in the

countryside they've got that covered too. famous for their mountains but there are also as you can see some pretty picturesque parks here so i was thinking more would be more refined and civilized than just a gentle bike ride into the forest although it's a leg and his friends weren't exactly looking to take it easy. this is an extreme sport. it's like snowboarding in winter in summer it's the bicycle. it helps me to be in good shape i want enough adrenaline to keep me going i don't want blood in my veins to become stale. boy i was quite happy for my blood to stay exactly the way it was but it wasn't long before i found myself heading off the beaten track and out of the saddle now i want to go most things but i think this next part. i'm going to sit out. because the boys want to try out

a little high flying biking. just another relax and in the countryside then if you're looking to test yourself the terrain here can be a real challenge the forest floor is steep and fast and there are plenty of rocky outcrops to negotiate well somebody on the fence more you'll think you couldn't have a better spot for that is bouncing back and the riders and spectators and like. to civilization it was ready for a bit of culture and i knew that in case there was a role the special concert being planned in the local film on it. oh it's very good back to back to when i was seven years old. my. mom has been a professional organist for more than twenty years and she's one of an exclusive

club because she's so rare spent alone or is in high demand she performs in europe and fills concerts here twice a month patrons pay an average of forty dollars a ticket a high some compared to the average salary in the region. and when people are shelling out serious money they expect everything to be perfect. for some pretty serious work i must tune an instrument of this saw is. possible maybe if you want to you can try while i'm trying of course if he or. she try. to negotiate there's not there's not one i think it's possible that you can because you have yes this would be interesting. to see how they have a million euro instrument well extremely carefully it seems. and the manner in changing the vibrations of the pipes here by touching these

little lever. he moves it up the pitch goes down and he moves it down. there are more than seven hundred pipes here and this precious little room to maneuver. did his job perfectly and there was just time for test everything else with a little j.s. bach. this . isn't the only rare instrument you can find in the region no one is particularly important for a prominent ethnic minority. is one of around twenty five thousand people of greek descent in the region and he's been making law as in his workshop since before the

second world war it's an instrument that's been part of greek culture for thousands of years this part is the humble the coldest the pet we've got to make holes a little too. he was introduced to the lawyer as a teenager when his uncle married into a greek family and he made his first one back in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight but now he's the last of his kind in russian. holding. place. but. each lawyer is made up of several different boards and takes a week or more of solid work before it's ready and his instruments praised by the highest authorities. this course here is made of fred with four years ago i took it to athens and showed it a contest to only risk represented germany from turkey so i represented russia what

the president i want to prize micheline may be the last of russia's lion makers but its future here seems secure he already has orders from young children who are starting out as musicians and there are still plenty of his friends around to teach the. music. played. and although we were sparing the crockery i didn't get a chance at least to practice the language. now if i get this right. so you. sadly i couldn't stay to enjoy the past my time was running now it's in the stabber polar region and there were some particularly fine four legged friends i wanted to meet. me think we could see what your business is.

with and see your champion. the locals have always been excellent horsemen here and dimitri is in charge of one of the oldest stud farms in the country. they've been breeding pure blood arabian horses here for over one hundred twenty years and stallions in these stables have been particularly prolific. male breeding horses are kept. twenty of them have photos of the arab horses in the region. takes place right here and can cost several thousand dollars a time and one horse who is always in demand. he's owned by prime minister vladimir putin and is the proud dad of twenty five foals in the last year alone no wonder he needs a good rubdown. is probably tired from

producing. each of the horses gets time every day in the exercise yard where visitors can watch them run around them treat them with a sugar cube assuming they're in the right mood. me i was really hoping i'd get a chance to ride one and dimitri told me that i was an ideal can do this was definitely the biggest ever written. impeccably behaved. this is what it feels like to sit on a real the he so. very nicely or swift deportation. or immigration haven't

come calling so i'm keeping my fingers crossed. two weeks in the standard polar region it was nearly time to head back to moscow it definitely been an adventure but little did i knew i had seen anything as. the. health industry you can see there are plenty of people. that brings them from all over russia just call it. exactly what that means it's supposedly a mixture of orienteering cross-country running in climbing and i have to expect to quite literally show me the ropes i need chains about me because this is my favorite mc stream sport you can probably see. the local team had just beaten ten others to become national champions and my safety

gear will be very tight we headed off to the first obstacle. get. very. good down and up the of the signs. hold the rope i understood we were taking on something different entirely. no i got it wrong we're not going to be going down and up. just going to go. down despite the fact that it was clearly safe and vova was able to zip across like a monkey having to entrust my life to a couple of bits of metal was not very comforting who genuinely genuinely really quite frightened of doing this. taking leaps of

faith. it's a good start. this is. this is. true. it's not scary. despite a few anxious moments i managed to make it to be of the size. you're surprised how much. proud of. that was just the beginning. everything in sport tourism is down against the clock and it wasn't long before we

were up and running again. i knew i wasn't just going to get away with an easy rope swing the final challenge was to scale a cliff face apparently the goal is to pick lee's iest roots with the symbol from where i was standing. of course they were both at the top before i even got started . to have made it out without injury or problem in about twenty five seconds. this will stop me falling. could be any more easy or pleasant tribes. things began pretty well but a foothold seemed to disappear and i was stuck for eight years but with a bit of a helping hand i was able to get up to the top.

i think. i actually fall off at this point. muscles and have a new i had i tell you what i feel like a challenge has definitely here but. one word of advice you need to be a bit more sporty than i am if you going to do sport tours. well you just want to relax so you're looking for a place to get fit the stabber pole region should take all the boxes with it's miraculous minerals hotels and spawns cool enough adventurous pool to satisfy even a hardcore adrenaline junkie it's easy to see why this is still russia's most popular holiday sport.

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