the weather was perfect and soon i was getting a comic view of a nearby family although it can be a little hard to concentrate with all the gadgets on display. i was with one of the best major surrogate has been flying for over twenty years and for against the mujahideen in afghanistan i could've been in safer hands we had a blow to the ground for a closer look. and offer a quick tour across the river i was ready to head back to work to see some of the crops for myself. i was visiting one of the region's largest agricultural firms thomas who just finished raking in a huge harvest some flowers roisin grain all flourished it but before they can be sold they have to be checked for quality of the lab bills take samples of the crop and run a series of tests to check the moisture protein and gluten content. if they pass

then they're ready to be loaded on to the trucks although in some cases that process can be pretty labor intensive. german feel like if i see a losing battle there are over four thousand tons of this warehouse alone waiting to be shipped off clients around the rough stuff reason and there's one company. that takes in a particularly big order. because rust old is home to the largest sunflower oil producer in the whole of your. uterus here produces thirty million bottles of oil every month from two hundred thousand hectares of some plants if you seed survive another quality control check there unloaded into the factory to be processed. displaced. says. that this is about as. yes a yes. just two guys

controlling the whole. thing has these pipes and funnel shell and divide the seeds into different categories which has been pummeled and prints to various grades of oil. going to bottles and saves a significant amount of space and they've been attached to the production line for the grand finale. so upset i fell from the fact. the sunflower seeds end up in one of almost one million both of the boil but this factory says that every single day if you sit down for a burger and fries it processed pretty likely it was consumed. when dealing with industrial scale you need some pretty serious equipment for most of them don't cut it to. grow so much as the largest supplier of agricultural machinery in russia and sells to almost fifty countries around the world. they build bales and trucks is

with wheels bigger than me but that particularly proud of that combine harvesters. essentially this is the end of the production line. not safe to be here without a helmet ok. safety first people. each machine to stage a built in is checked over hundreds of times just to make sure my competition is what keeps me. here this is it would bring a profit to divert both prosecco would say every single hour you're sucking twenty times the rise. in probes this. month coast with every new combine really needs is a good ten stroke. business to come. by your step. of the. the uses of russian made machine and these machines

certainly don't lack for creature comforts that uses the transmission pierce the steering wheel and just moves you for a cigarette. a legend in your fridge. the serializer in the fridge you could live in the state i feel so here i once i had a brand new combine all of this stuff and they were about to give me. three hundred . twenty. break it. was a little late in the year to go out to the fields but luckily they got pretty wide roads around here and there weren't any police around to observe my highly illegal u. turns. my maybe massive but it's surprisingly easy to drive and i arrived back at the depo with everything and everyone still intact. the people overall still may be

surrounded by the latest technology but they're also still in touch with the past and no more so than the area's cossack population. the don't cos x. will run away serfs who set a little aside the river here hundreds of years ago baseball neurons society and gained a reputation as super horsemen and fierce fighters playing significant roles in russia's military campaigns up until the twentieth century. they also adopted traditions from the countries they visited and i've been invited to the village of star each of us colonel thin to coffee ceremony. of a sit down for coffee every day at eleven o'clock it's a tradition that dates back to the turkish wars of the seventeenth century where the cossacks brought back turkish puppets along with the new tech is why and it's been a big social occasion have a sense. you get it was not simply in me i. ask you a chill get together over coffee. says want to discuss matters of interest because

it's never drank on their own they always invite you to send out the friendship. and you don't just drink plain coffee it's always served with whipped milk mark. extremely nice whatever it is going to get some. things to come around ten of em as delicious pancakes i was ready to see what else was going on in the village i didn't have to look foam. and his friends are. around russia but they're all so happy to train new students providing my wearing the proper gear of course. right i don't. feel i'm missing there is the bit we don't have time for. rowing lessons by now that i was confident that nothing could possibly go wrong assuming it's only wasn't going to make me copy his protege i'm told he was once in the presidential guard

and he's following in the footsteps of a proud line of course. but these guys were the best in the whole of the world and if he'd had them he could have told they were an inspiring sight and moments later i was ready to get into the saddle. so this is tomahawk. i don't mean a racing horse and he's going to be the horse that i'm training on today quite as one of the all. time on a horse. but eventually but only was happy to let me without him holding the reins. but. they go third lesson think i'm getting a little bit more confident in these guys. maybe i'll make a horseman one day but running around in traditional costume was most enough for my trainer. the real cause acts have to be on. this

weapon is very sure it's going to kill people just because until it was clear let's put it on your shoulder and shoot straight. with those encouraging words in my is i began to practice. among a large powerful animal with a really quite dangerous weapon. i'm safe. i'm still alive. this this is a good day this is definitely a good day i don't want to move at all really that. i felt i should leave the plates my more experienced colleagues were just getting started and things were about to heat up. of course would get involved in the fall and jumping. in general was never an equal involved in the battles today. that's to stand here direct. is very good. except i'm.

not one dramatic enough about a few human fence posts. i'm willing to it was risking full moon just his duty his wife was wanting the. well it seemed safe enough and they did give me back my soul to make me feel better this may be the most stupid thing i have ever done. but alright it's. funny this is what real. and they tell me that these are a bit of a crazy bunch apparently clear to me by some distance but i have my own eyes closed too tightly to notice. other than my stripes and for sure the truth i have a special reward for that i. don't want to go to and i think i have. to give you my legs get that feeling. no you're stuck.

well he's going to address the long line to you. here oh i think i need a stiff drink. on to the cossacks. it was definitely time for a well deserved break and luckily the house just the place to get away from it all . the don't deliver on the cossacks. every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join us for technology update on our keep. hungry for the full story we've got it first had the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news make us.

more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china corporations are today. if trading with cause sex doesn't inspire a love of horses in years nothing will but most of it's also one of the few places in russia where you can see them in the wilds. just a few hundred kilometers away from the city is the real stop ski major reserve. almost sixty years ago some domestic horses were left on the island and began to breed hundreds of foals later this isolated treeless colony is home to the largest

herd of wild horses in the world. amazing size it used to have. of cow even camels i've seen in russia never anything like this a great. wild horse. wonder if we can get a little bit closer. in fact the horses are used to humans members of the public who frequent visitors along with the park rangers who come to study the horses behavior numbers and foliage levels on the island and if you approach them with a tempting treat you might get closer to the new dad hopeful. one thing about spending a day on a freezing oil and his you tend to work up an appetite but with no restaurants for more than a hundred kilometers in any direction if you want to eat out here you'd better catch it yourself. or james in the corner saying that you know it is jamieson when you were approaching the prototype as it was the biggest and rushed off of the jumper approaching the crayfish station.

right finishing. a fish the real delicacy in the clear water here provides perfect conditions to find them. so apparently this is the best spots on the river to see if we can find some fresh crayfish so we've got to go check the nets and hopefully. have enough for a bit of the crayfish are a local delicacy and fishermen like me share regularly lay traps to catch them i'm not can be a bit of mischief. ok but. you need to bait the traps first of all. i'm all for sea and fresh and generally unpleasant bass is the more likely the crayfish will come looking. for hopefully. although you can't expect to get looking away.

from good. lost a big one and sometimes you get the old one just want to accept the inevitable. hugging the day life. letting go amiss. we had a few more hits and misses but eventually the trade was full. of stories. it's. a feast fit for a king. any question is. the best way to cook them. but so. many things. needed a bit of help if i was going to prepare these guys properly and finance i needed to make a speedy trip back into the city. there's very little i like more in this world

than fresh shellfish and you don't really get much fresh seafood. so i've heard that there's one place in the city that they really know how to cook this is rostrums best seafood restaurant appropriately enough fried fish. stores which. my friends very well thank you i have some wonderful fresh crayfish and i think that you all the gentleman to show me how to do a proper crayfish boil yes well you know. i'm really looking forward to this. rich guy who's been working in real stall for almost ten years and cooking for more than thirty he's passionate about fresh fish and an expert when it comes to the local cross station and we were going to make a favorite. board cream go from there also because leaving cool ways the nice waterways the water the

clean water he said that and this is the run from the. yes and this is the video nice he's not the problem you are making in the home when you. well stretched it was busy at the stove i was put to work chopping vegetables for the book. although we had to keep an eye on the old crayfish trying to launch a daring escape. it's a very very nice and once everything was boiling away it was time to add the main ingredients. of all russian crayfish protection meat is doing this which is too graphic for network television. set back soon with the regular program. fresco. local crayfish now. obviously i'm going to diggin him but you've got to do these things properly so according to local tradition.

i must wash everything down with a cold beer. when i was very hot sometimes. i decided to take a stroll to walk off my meal but it seems to be quite difficult to do slow and relaxing in rostov on don even if you're a change. this is not a scene you see every day children cause. because you are deadly weapons but it seems. to you that it's a. good thing. for us was a school so what do you guys doing. the agency ethic children students studios preparing for the shootings stunt school for kids the children here are all budding

actors and dad devils believe their entire poem is have trained more than three hundred children in the past two years and they've got some pretty serious skills behind the wheel even if they do need to sit on a cushion. i didn't get my life and still owes twenty three. seconds. reach the pedals. and now we're going to. get honest with. the with the head trainer how exciting on the radio is in full control of the car and she's going to move the stone to. find this done to teach since i'm a student she told me that i could already drive a little bit even national and started to teach me at the police ten. course i told him eleven year old with my driving skills and the stump lesson. for

the school teacher. let's do this. the brake pedal and switch to reader. first brake. tapenade and drive backwards. and then just to do that you. have to be very quick. couple of less than perfect attempts but i was confident of becoming a qualified getaway driver. never take me alive.

through it with such an expert instructor how could i not succeed. and be in the driver's. thank you teacher very lesson ladies and gentlemen coming soon to a cinema you that's supposed to. watch out for this one but not every girl grows up wanting to be a racing driver him i mean restaurants future trade business is also a big. injury to have been based here for twenty years and they've got nearly three hundred models on the books in the past ten years they've produced one miss universe three miss rushes and in two thousand and nine one mrs wells. victoria

wrote a true sky won the title in toyland on the phones not stop bringing since she's married with an eight year old son and it seems that all this new attention has been keeping her away for too long from the men in her life. than my husband understands me but she has told me i should take her best from the people who have been displaying so much interest. i think. he just wants me home again. victoria's husband's lost his image elite again and when she's not waiting for close ups she's inspiring the next generation of rostov models. big tourist says the agency doubles as a finishing school and of the girls are taught how to kids acting in performance skills too in hopes that tons on the catwalk which definitely helps fuel dress ways may do to start off to please the girls who pairing fashion friday i think four months of the local hotel where they show up some of the latest designs it's

a chance to gain experience on a real stage and each one to recap by store and finish they were joined by a couple of local celebrities including the boring me cool just grandma universe and of cool stick toward the self. does best. very much redefines the phrase yummy mummy. let's congratulate once again pretty woman victoria chin sky. high some unrestored was almost done but there was one place i have to see before i left and it's time to move one of the most important periods in the region's history. the last. this is our most valuable item it's eighty six tiger germans first used in fighting here at rotterdam and. it weighs six tons two hundred tanks right in our soldiers very much. their mom is the owner

of rough storms museum of military history and he's collected a huge selection of world war two memorabilia and vehicles it's a real labor of love for him and a group of dedicated friends. while still played a huge part in the second world war there was a key point twice and was the scene of some intense fighting the second time it took the defenders seven months to force the germans out. must soon this all these machines are assembled by military enthusiasm about the guys put together the tanks missile parts that have been found discarded on the battlefield so that they come here to do the job on their days off they restored tanks to their original using drawings so it does need a very painstaking work. almost all of the vehicles are in working order and they used in film and television recreate. it belongs to the division and fought near

rostov people wrote some inscriptions here. and here is the number and some stars i should explain that. this is a soviet like tank and it may be easy to maneuver but it's definitely not easy to get into. the future whatever might be a ride on the soul. someone still crammed inside you give my dear how terrifying it would have been to have to drive this towards the enemy. but you shot yourself in one of these and it's almost like your back in world war two. was so many in the thick of the action but fortunately i wasn't taking on the much of the german army unloaded we even had sailors fighting for us on the battlefield.

and even though we lost a few brave men along the way the enemy never stood a chance. i can honestly say i don't think i've ever had such an adrenaline fuelled week in my life. as a city that's going places that sound with a thriving business in agricultural climates and people would like to live life at high speed. nineteen thirty eight england and france try to reason with hitler germany demands forgotten land and gets its way they all thought they had created a safety net for themselves nineteen thirty nine the whole of europe is and dolphin war efforts to establish a system of collective security in one nine hundred thirty eight failed and it's still on the agenda. the lessons to be learned from the munich agreement on r t.

top stories from the week moscow's mer is almost two decades in charge the president says he lost trust in the capital's leading. rusher eyes a rising sun in the east with a major oil pipeline to china helping to clear the way for future big deals with its biggest trading partner. and the double edged sword of afghanistan's deadly drugs crop of virus destroys swathes of opium poppies with hello when prices keep officials addict.

hello it's a pm sunday night here in moscow this is r t i'm kevin owen with a roundup of the top stories from the week. long serving mayo was shown the door by the president this last week to be to medvedev said he lost confidence in your food worked eighteen years as the capital's chief. leaves behind a controversial legacy loved by some but hated by others as i. explained. i decided to dismiss the mayor of moscow the decree i resigned states that this president have lost trust in your. once deprived of power the phone support to the top was hard to come by a challenge it's obvious the professional relations between the president and moscow men had worsened meanwhile the man is subordinate to the president and not the other way around certain steps should have been taken to return the situation back to normal so where did it all go wrong i got.