oil industry which provides eighty percent of export revenues and fifty percent of ron's budget rather is on a downward trajectory how they can get away for two or three years four years five years but after that we're going to be very short of money so is there any economy in very bad shape right now no is the reigning economy headed for very tough times yes how can the iranian nuclear issue be resolved the arena issue can be resolved if both sides find newfound flexibility both sides need to find flexibility on the u.s. side to me it's very important the u.s. stop calling for your it is very important to me that the u.s. stop calling on the iranians to suspend enrichment of uranium iran will enrich or they will have a nuclear program what the u.s. needs to do is try to limit the program need to obtain rights to inspect that program and the u.s. needs iran to it's to explain exactly what it's doing and weaponization the

iranians you do agree to limit on the program they need to be different spectrums and they need to explain what they're doing now that is all by way of saying that an agreement is possible but both sides need to stop saying no to the other side conflict corruption thanks very much for your time it's my pleasure. dramatic example from nurse. courage. and honor. they managed not only to stay alive. but to keep her face isn't souls in inhuman circumstances.

nine hundred days in besieged linen ran through the eyes of the survivors. if a. twelve thirty am in the russian capital thanks for being with us here on our t.v. these are your headlines new details emerge after russian pilots managed to crash land a crippled passenger plane in the republic of komi on tuesday all eighty one people aboard the tupelo one five four had a miraculous escape when it overshot

a remote area strip and came to rest in the middle of a forest. the u.s. army has slammed a former sergeant for planting grenades in the cars of a rockies at checkpoints just for fun he filmed himself and the reaction of drivers and put it all on you tube. and brought in a special envoy to afghanistan has stepped down from his post it sparked speculation that sort of show our group of poles was forced out because of his continued criticism of the military campaign. the siege of st petersburg was one of the darkest chapters of the second world war it lasted for nine hundred long days during which the city lost more than seven hundred thousand people up next we meet the men and women who survived the siege.

this is no ordinary tram it's a rare sight on the streets of st petersburg historians with cunny of a remembers what it was like writing these trams nearly seventy years ago in one hundred forty one german troops encircled the city then called leningrad to isolated from the rest of the country the siege lasted for nine hundred days. leningrad was the country's second most important city off to moscow at the time. nazi leader out all fit into his troops to capture the soviet union's european territories by november nine hundred forty one leningrad was

a priority objective in that plan a. million strong german army hundreds of tanks and thousands of backup were massed against the city. at the same time finnish troops advanced from the notice the nazi advance was halted in september nineteenth. and then enemy troops and already encircle many. a massive bombing campaign was unleashed on leningrad in the ultimate nine hundred forty one. the dyess warehouses one of the first time. the gates of the german asteroids. they housed most of the city's food supplies. all of the warehouses were destroyed that is in all their modern facilities here.

of smoke because she looked out of the window with a flash. and. at first trees caught fire. and then the flames spread to the wooden buildings it's a good deal the fact that fire wiped out government supply of sugar reserves. so there's us the most distressing thing with all the city's population idea later would come here along with many other people together earth and make tea out of interchange leningrad residence hall the destroyed warehouses as a terrible and soon after the air raids food in leningrad was with move its weight in gold. was introduced in the city the front line lay just a few hundred meters from makeshift checkpoints people believed they would be able to hold out hoping that help would soon be on its way everyone was trying to

survive as best they could. the sound of the met. through loud speakers in the streets it became a symbol of the leningrad stage a fast rhythm and. if it slowed it signaled a retreat. by the first wind to leningrad had no heating power to abandon tram stood motionless in the streets the water supply system froze on the pipes inside apartment. people had to get water from a hole in the. carrying the water was a big problem let alone to the sixth floor. because of spilt water quite often they couldn't make it and had to go that. leningrad residents burned anything they could to try and stay warm. folks and furniture went into the stove firewood was very expensive. there were food shortages to residents were issued

with rations affixed. the russians were just a fifth of what they had been at the start of the war. a citizen was entitled to two lumps of bread a day weighing just one hundred twenty five grams each the bread was made from chemical wood pulp and milled wheat dust in order to survive people. and cookies made from wood glue fried with pine tar oil based paint. gets dressed up decorates his jacket with his medals and goes to a nearby school. where he joins other survivors to talk to schoolchildren who are the same age he was during the siege. of their piece of bread the siege survivors bring

a few loaves of bread for the children to see exactly what a daily ration look like. bread weighing a hundred. like schoolchildren everywhere full of curiosity and have a million questions to ask. was it that inspired you during it was most difficult how did to send letters to the front where were the young children considering all the preschool. why did their homes warm. in their houses people used furnace. iron stove. they used all they could. grab residents burned furniture. and newspaper well yeah i myself made the rounds of basements and i would pick up whatever wood i could find what. we warmed ourselves. thank.

you. they kept the faith. and he really does seem to escape i wonder how people could survive on such a tiny piece of. the parents gave it to their kids they could have children. this is a fascist took the life of my father desperate to avenge his death and the destruction of leningrad cannot be i swear i will fight the nazis some help our troops at the front to beat them and i will defend our city. was fourteen years old at the time he says if people wanted to survive in the besieged city they had to force themselves to stay. instead of lying in bed. died because they spent all their time lying in bed by still drinking

a lot of water. they were too weak. so i will cost. in their lives. by november nine hundred forty one people were dying in increasing numbers deaths could strike anywhere at any time many people were so weak that once they fell to the ground outside that homes they never stood back up on top of that winter was setting in the jewish as you walked through snow and i. see someone lying on the ground. at adams the whole row of it was that you couldn't speak. because if you tried to do so even more subtle you yours out a little town boy. but life in the city never came to a standstill the composer dmitri shostakovich was putting the finishing touches to

his seventh symphony to be performed at the heavily damaged concert hall of the leningrad from the moment society and. historians or economy was in the audience. she recalls that many people defied the bombings and went to the concert hall to listen to the classical music. people were everywhere he. but they were in with quiet khulna and they were on the balcony his new hysteria some people who weren't even standing behind this chance those will stay a little that's how bandleader you wanted to hear you. yet it symbolized so we were one of the first victories. in one by leningrad resident that outside. the symphony was heard not only in the concert hall a radio broadcast carried it to the front line of the leningrad front and.

germans in the trenches heard it too. late german soldiers wrote in their diaries the. they've been amazed by the steadfastness of the people he grabbed. the peak of. peak of. the years that. many of the musicians focused were some months from the fronts for that they fell that's what it did at the lush the white marcus truck is full nearly to the show stucco which seemed funny after only a few rehearsals is what they did that i had to give him music was in harmony a lot of them would need this and it was even its have them was a couple this route was known as the road of lines and became the only hope for the

c.p.p. . clumsy big interest in the lake not a good choice of supplies to the city in november nine hundred forty people this and subsequent complaints called sundin to keep illegal. there out of a directed traffic on this vital road. yes because that was the starting point of the road. again on november twenty second two that's nine hundred forty one. where the lifeline that saved so many lives began they often comes here to pay tribute to those who died during the tragedy is. the broken ring road of life kept that ring from ever becoming. from. the tragic. order to ensure a safe passage for the truck. she says that each time she visits this place she

recalls the horror of the first winter spent time to siege. the ice house people looking off to the road while enemy troops attempted to cut. the road of life with several times occasionally the ice cracked sending trucks and that precious cargo to the bottom of the light the largest single mushroom the driver couldn't see the crack because it was covered with snow the truck and its driver went down beneath. him at the tracks headlights were shining beneath the water for a long time after that. such policies have been scouring the logic of lake bed in the past year they found schools of trucks. lifted from the lake bed go to the appropriately named

road of life museum. for these tires were produced in germany in january of one thousand nine hundred thirty three. star sixty three sixty four years under the waters of lake. the museum's director alexander. expeditions. he says lifting many of the objects found takes time. one of the trucks sank with a load of skis for aircraft to land and snow. skis are scattered within a radius of one and a half meters and they're still largely intact six year we'll pull them from the water and they'll be one of the museum's most valuable exhibits. the road of life remained operational for eighteen months during that time over a million people were evacuated from leningrad huge some four hundred thousand tons

of food and other supplies were brought into the besieged city because it knew there was a mushroom that when you're good at twenty thousand people work hard it's easy to move food supplies in the base leningrad buys drugs through zero to this and to evacuate children though it's a little besieged city and the entire country's interior has admitted that although she's in it despite the selfless efforts of those who help deliver them the food supplies that reach the blockaded city were not enough to meet the needs of all of its residents. meanwhile the nazis persisted with the bombardment of leningrad they drop bombs together it's leaflets saying to the bombing today you bury dead tomorrow nobody in the city knew how long the blockade would last.

question was that so much about the taxpayers' money and it is a charade even a lot of people at area economic recovery in the developed world is sluggish at best and there are fears of a double dip recession hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars. fifty. five. in one hundred forty three million people. forty three one in five residents had died of starvation exposure. and. the people of leningrad suffered most during the first winter. but even then many continue to work among the cultivation institute.

and. its offices and seed bank in the city center since it was impossible to evacuate the institute's vast collection of. scientists to protect the unique collection from fast and. located the collection was stored in boxes like these. there is a hole right here. on the other side of the same one. one of the institutes. now. the real story about the heroism of the scientist on the verge of starvation.

seed bank is still a national asset. the collection of eight trillion dollars. there was a lot of. we. barley. lots of. starving people. why. they never thought that they might eat from the seed bank you know. that. the hermitage russia's largest museum of fine arts was ready for evacuation. crates for exhibits and being brought into this building on the embankment of the nevada river at the very start of the rule. and. priority was given to

paintings and objects from the collection of antiques to wagons with paintings and sculptures was sent to the urals but another wagon was left behind as the city became encircled the museum's valuables was stored in its basements. just empty frames hung on the walls of the empty hermitage holds. despite the hardships of the blockade hermitage workers organized lectures and science conferences to inspire the people remaining in the city. and. the. museum director. says that quite often participants were brought in on stretches unable to walk themselves because they were too weak from severe hunger this. is so it's translators and scientists were brought in from the fraud for that was a formidable task conditions were difficult here too people here were saying that

but if need be you could carry them in your arm imagine people coming from the front line though where the city's fate was being decided that's a whole different story. of a historian and a blockade survivor has vivid memories of those events. in the spring of one nine hundred forty two leningrad so far it is announced the start of a seed sowing season they said leningrad residents would have to supply themselves with food to that end. of land to be used as vegetable gardens as well as providing grain people in the city center were given plots in the main square just outside the federal. but. the us. reserves units they brought in was new but i wanted to because nothing. that was it would. these green field. where we grew can bitch is this it would

slow but it south is a good reminder. of how it used to be. the crops lived up to people's expectations people down to reap the harvest in nine hundred forty two somewhat easing the food problem even in such harsh conditions people never lost hope and helped one another to survive during the siege. on the verge of death from starvation when a friend. saved. her you. see you i could hardly get here god didn't make it here on food. sixty years. to survive. using crutches. goodness nina still toying with this little thing it's my

truck you know is it can't you walk without using or my true but driver no it's. just your rope each time they said to this table they talk about how many folk were saved but women recall every single event of the day came to visit only to find that her friend was dying here who. was too weak to go to the shop to. do that you very good margins given they put on my coat and filled them. it's gotten to covered myself with a couple blankets and was ready to die when suddenly i heard somebody watching the four door it was an ina i know you covered yourself with the small blanket and when they go away to the cures that is where we are born hold an entourage and there was . only a few weeks later when they found a job but the kill. i most of

leningrad industrial plants turned out weapons even during the siege. of. this yes they yell and the buzz is this is where i stood guard with the rifle we patronize the so no one could pass with her as they did. when she started the young man a full blood on the legs as she stands at one of the factory shops where she used to but she says production was never halted journey begins of struggle the plant turned out tanks shells and mines at a rate of three million items a month people that work the sixteen to twenty hours a day despite the cold and hunger. say shit i slipped in a sack to a shell close to the warm boil it if it was like living in barracks little i never went home because of the children billboard and it is just that many workers lived

at the factory is doing it. that would. occasionally some of the proceeds cities incompetence must have enough strength to go to the theatre alphabetic speciation day. and. the musical comedy fair take up performances going to they always play to a full house until a shell hit the building. but it didn't bring the cut down completely they just moved buildings and. carried on. commercial good lord girl of. god. oh my lord. oh i don't know little girl. ah god there's no knowing.

the theater oldest actress is one hundred years old this year. they say used to be a beautiful girl it's a series of these photographs speak national you should have seen how beautiful i was. when the phantom was bombed she moved to the frontline to a pedophile sylvia troops giving more than four thousand performances during the war police was so powerful that sometimes the soldiers even asked her to sing more quietly in case the enemy. get the record that one somebody visited this theater tosk me to come to smyrna it was a hospital that anyone did in sick people hope i did everything i do says the boss no applause for you i know what i said when you know how. it was a truly festive occasion in the spring of nine hundred forty two when electricity was restored in leningrad and trams one small ran along its streets and.

vera and others who share a friendship dating back to the blockade marking the end of the tragedy by writing a noble time trying. to run these all tran off the blockade to get. the old tram as a symbol of the siege stirring up many memorable stories. at one time alice. on board a train up when the shelling started i jumped out and fell to the ground and that moment a shell hit the tram blowing it into pieces i was incredibly lucky i just made it out of the transit of. trams on the street signaled to people living under siege. police said to

each other the tram was running again. this must mean we're still alive despite the blockade. we will live. will survive all of us were confident of victory but another winter came along. and. by the end of nine hundred forty two the germans realized they were likely to capture and stepped up their artillery assault of the siege city. to get a soviet army folks from a small section of the. things used for sending supplies to the scene. from the storm got underway the. hundred kilometers from the ground. six. others.