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watching r t let's now have a look at our top stories for this hour anger grows across britain and france as ordinary workers are made to bear the brunt of savage blood. cuts french business leaders in turn accuse the people of not pulling their weight in tackling the recession and saying it's time for riders to get back to work. drugs officials from russia tried to work with the u.s. to wipe out after more room production but the two countries don't see eye to eye on how to do it as america all he wants to focus on the taliban controlled poppy fields. and a russia is counting every water north south east west end up at second census since the collapse of the soviet union the nationwide q. and a session reaches all crowd to get it up to date portrait of the country's

people and nations and that story travel to russia's once close a military city kid off which is a time capsule of a lot of soviet times less than a thousand kilometers northeast of moscow the city of carroll's it's a regional capital home to the million people and if you like places that combine the historical with the modern this is the town for you. the first gloom isn't exactly. it was a closed military city until the fall of the soviet union and parts of the town still feel like they belong in a bygone era but the city is developing its transport hub outside investment is starting to improve facilities here and amongst the buildings you can still find a few done in the rough. place i'm about to visit is a real pure old institution it's one of the oldest buildings in the whole city and

for more than two centuries it's been the center of the region's printing industry . books newspapers calendars magazines if you need paper they'll princes and they get through moving forty tons every week. there's been a press here since seventeen months to a living have some of the latest technology available there are still a few relics of a bygone age so i love this the fact that you get the. bits of history combined with. something that i guess would be about nineteen right with something that is spread out of the twenty first century. and in the mix room is a machine that might easily have used it days it serves for all the different it's . taken to mean the right entry in the beach we didn't. strain to think of machines like this result as printing is itself and the hundreds of years

ago oppressed it was like this one might have produced the first take. a good book bible this one is producing packaging for delicious nothing three. but why dismissed it just will still use. see if i can. make this one work without destroying much of it. fortunately as watchful supervision i managed to escape with all my fingers intact and i headed into the modern heart of the factory . it takes six min the good twenty minutes to get this machine up and once it starts it really knows how to shift. that is. i think i remember reading that story by press. one thousand and. five and. the rest.

of. the newspaper had a section that appetizing some life music in the local park. and it seemed like a perfect place to meet my going to the city this park is named. so it was built and. unleashed on the first. one to see. enemies a second school teacher a born and bred curious point and she knows this town inside out. from this place you can see the monastery you can see the bell tower in the church and there's also a sense in which people. there are areas of the city that are less picturesque carol has a real problem with its roads which is supposed to be some of the worst in russia and the overwhelming color on the streets is a steely gray change has been slow but i assume is that life here is starting to

improve i think became even better we have a new things here we have new plants like. new. year's is. everything is different. and as a teacher she's very proud of their education system we have a lot of universities here and those in her study here can find a good job. is going to be to her school to see the facilities for myself and also to attend one of the most solemn ceremonies of the year if you're a seven year old but it's another when i was little before of going to growed up school was a pretty scary but here in russia they have a ceremony that's supposed to make everyone feel welcome. and you get to wear some pretty cool. this is well the first years officially begin.

to give the various classes a chance to show their proud mums and dads routine. thank you. for this moment the little ones being welcomed into the school they run the foreign exchange program here and several students from across the globe have come to experience a russian way of life and improve their language skills. the count gets the milky way it was but it has to be the other way because those bells with feet but then i need to find them this one is broken so to speak we seem to end up with no link. each student comes for an academic year and after the ceremony i dropped in on a group of americans and germans having a russian lessons. there is recovered yesterday here and this is. everybody this is a russian less emotional troy do this in russian. james journalist is must be

they're encouraged to try and immerse themselves as much as possible although of course every new city has its challenges. you find that that's helping your russian more the fact that you had your forced to communicate in russian and that you know sisters and one speaks no english and one speak some english so they need things communicated it's really helpful to have a sister you can communicate and translate but for everyday things like learning the words used to make. me go to walk and we go to cafes and i'm going to do homework but in my city it's not a city it's a village and there's two thousand people and there's nothing there is nothing phil here is cafes here's the cinema he's a square so that's better i think living in this right leg so close to sunny other people it's easier to find groups there are interested in so in that respect i

think it's. it's amazing for young people. and i think it's necessary at every city for. the first and foremost they have to study and is determined that when they do go home they'll have had the full russian experience as an it is it an economic program so the main objective of the course is learning the language but it's not only the language that's we were in but also the calls from traditions of the country this thing whether or not they go home speaking like natives the guys are certainly going to be loaded down with souvenirs and you can get much more authentically care of them the. toys. lydia and her daughter a carrying on the tradition that started in the neighboring village of m goes back more than four hundred years from brightly colored milkmaids to a huge variety of animals each piece is handmade and i was about to learn some of

their secrets and then we're going to put the reason why toys were made locally. was that there were many rich missions in quito where you what they decorated the homes with such toy is that the people in didn't cover didn't have enough money to buy toys for their children even just three so they supplied their children with toys made locally at the same time wealthier people decorated their homes with toy horses cows and the lie. yet upon you and i was put to work on some bird life so i have a good. thing is that the we do it's now and here and then glue it. and it'll surgery here. look at this we take a piece of clay eat. and do like this. that's a duck that might actually swim.

like countless this stuff about celebrities like stuff getting put is here i mean it's must try it's real temperature for four days and yeah he did yeah right so i felt this is a long process it's the you have to leave in drawing room temperature for more days it was the end well then i took enough and p.t. and then they go in the oven and they bake but of course that's really just the start of the piece has been fired you've gone by delicate brush work to take care of so i get the bat with the bottle like well the bear with about. it tell us better. and just as painting wipes i don't mind must piece will be joining any sales catalogue but lydia has had some serious v.i.p.'s walk through her doors looks like have been walking in some pretty famous footsteps because the ladies made this run with prison but that was. but i think i hope that only that i get to

make amazing duck and. curios dem to toys may have been around for centuries but the fur trade here has been going on far longer. the area is rich in mink fox and even introduced raccoon and the local culling to factory has been making the most of it. it was founded in one nine hundred ninety one and has gained a reputation for international collections and its bespoke clothing. for this we were everything star says. this is the sign with a pencil and a piece of paper he draws models jackets coats hats. the factory employs around a hundred people who take care of the various stages of production and once the government starts to take shape it's time for the embroidery. we make the sign on lever yes so they can broad picture on it so clever.

compared to the western world there's little stigma attached to wearing fur in russia and the shuba coat is still a part of most women's wardrobe although if you want to pick up one of these designs you'll need very deep pockets so i guess this would be the really exclusive stuff this second is made from ship skin. so a short cut it ships skin and the lining. and here is a long will and ship skin. in broidery made out of a lever. but how much would this set you back. eight hundred dollars ok now this one is really unusual but it does seem. like this whereas this fall i'm going to start us to hunt and make claims llama and this is why i read quite unusual and they are quite expensive. but with the latest coming in from. cross the country it seems that there are people willing to pay the

high prices and a new campaign for the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi is likely to give even more publicity her production is always going to be controversial but in russia it's just a fact of life when the temperatures plunge outcome the supers but if you want a new one all that's going to cost you. but if you don't happen to have several thousand dollars just lying around there are always other ways to make money like digging for a. big wad carries a metal detector unspayed with him everywhere he goes and it seems clear off has a few prime spots for very treasure. now you might not believe it but where we're standing there used to be a village now it was abandoned forty years ago but it was actually here centuries and edward and his friends think they're still alive if you think we're finding

here. but it turns out the metal detecting here can be a rover has a disproof fashion. at the really bad only crap there are any bets. that get there. fortunately our furry friends kept their distance and we were able to start hunting everyone's been searching spots like bees for more than a decade and he's had quite a few impressive discoveries. found a medal it was made in sixty two one by the russian craftsmen. find is not a surprise in england there are a lot of such medals as how it appeared here and there is a mystery but. it wasn't long before we came on something on selves.

because to cope. with dreams of hidden riches running through my head i decided to have a go myself although it didn't quite work out like that. it's like a baby buzzing in your ear. i have not the slightest clue what that is. well this is excellent i've got like parts of the fence. but i'm from. an accordion it ran like a coin i might be able to make something in about a year. or more. but then the metal detector started going crazy and i was sure we were on to something big. it's a basin. well big it was valuable it was not what we might not have ended up millionaires but it had been a real adventure coming out with that one out and he left me with a few keepsakes to take home a stranger then about just

a couple of searching and found things from three different eras of the village. in century belt buckle this coin for the last two years of imperial russia thirty finally a little soviet. army jacket button. with some pretty good treasure hunting for one thing. and it was time for me to go and see what else i could dig up about life in the care of reaching. culture is that so much going on there's a huge music issue on the market as the western powers do their best to isolate the islamic republic iran itself has demonstrated it remains a key player in the greater middle east. its the secret incursion into the country. it's the invasion by means of. tradition the language. this is the best deal copied could be

done. and culture. the thing is. the the have. are still unaware of what's going on in the. last year. like this i don't know anything about the last. two people of how to abandon the trappings of the twenty first century could you imagine living your life as if it was ten o nine rather than two thousand and nine well in cure of as a man who's done just that. looks like it could be straight out of a grimm fairy. even looks like it might be home to some enormous which

fortunately for me the which wasn't home but just around the corner little did i know i was about to bump into a medieval blacksmith. the man is the head of one of the most popular historical societies and he considers himself a modern day viking. we for chair it's our little smithy and a house this meadow belongs to our club we arrange holidays we can rest and even sleep here sometimes we spend the weekends people in our club make different decorations and weapons we just have fun for example actually throwing. every viking needs to prepare for a day's pillaging with some weapons practice and down to a fine art. on the other

hand this may require a few more lessons and worse in the middle. ok the man's not a man to tolerate this he invites belong to his training group where they recreate historical. for the. nation ok. ok ok. james the destroyer is here to crush your menfolk and drink much of your. own fortunately it turns out that fighting with what feels the equivalent of

a small color on your body is really quite hard. to do this all day. yeah i am the head of the team yeah i am yes. i am james incredibly tired. as i change back into my civvies i decided it was time to let some of the people round my head it off was one of carol's most popular and unusual sports this is bundy a combination of football and ice hockey that was apparently invented by the british in the nineteenth century who sadly like many of our sports were not very good at it but the russians and supposedly have the top ten teams in the world. is one of them. the game is played on a field the size of a football pitch uses a round plastic pool. there's minimal physical contact as this is

a school that requires primarily skill and agility definitely better that i start. you can really see why. a game that takes the best of ice hockey out of football who catches people's imagination and i haven't even seen anyone try ronaldo. and the people here love their team open images can attract up to ten thousand spectators even in the dead of winter but those who prefer to watch this from the comfort of their armchair will be seeing this. votes. this is an expert to tell you who runs a couple of best restaurants and the man i was very keen to meet. for russia almost twenty years ago and he's been educating pilots here ever since the chance to help make some of my favorite silence was too good to pass up. thank you very much. started up a pizzeria in moscow in the early nineties but after his daughter was born he

decided to move out of the big city and as his wife's from kiro it seemed like the obvious choice. and how the russian reacted to her having a real italian restaurant here was a surprise for. disability. every. year. first time. you know. after school. after. playing for a rich people and after a few finishing touches i was ready to try it for myself. you know. that's what i was waiting. for. but it's something to look

back. really thick. from the best restaurants in europe but there were a couple of other things i wanted to see to go. home normally i don't pitch lifts with strange men on motorcycles honest but this is one of russia's most unusual clubs although to find it you needed someone in the know. oh i had been expecting to be dropped off at some level. so i was a little surprised when i opened the door to the chip which was my new friend hinting i should play for my soul. maybe the local vicar could shed some light something else. i'm sorry i think i was told that this was actually a bikers club. bit of a mistake. yes hello i'll explain everything to you wait

a moment i'll be back ok. ok well this is the. priest. who will explain that we will that means. let's go. but then he was revealed as i met father alexander cure of his very own biker priest he's the founder of the city's motorcycle club although admittedly not exactly hell's angels hello lou. alexander took me outside to introduce me to some fellow club members including my old friend. as well as writing the group also meet to restore old bikes well i think this one's going to take some serious work so this was a real russian classic about forty five years ago the. because equivalent to the

italian vesper seen better days but little bit of russian history. this certainly isn't your typical politics club but your old scripts to reuters have become part of the landscape united by love on the road. it looks like you. are off to spread the word one last time this year but as for me i think i'm going to enjoy the rest of care of focus. it was almost time for me to leave the city but i always like to check out a bit of the local music scene on my travels although in the basement of the johnston face it wasn't quite what i can expect. these are the shakes it's a little slice of nineteen fifties america in northeastern russia and one of the most popular but. not all came over here really that.

he was a long while living in cairo. ok i have stated that i wasn't expecting to come here. that is all thank you i please or how do you guys going to play kind of fifty's fifty's country and all the rock n roll well you know we've been playing this music. for almost seventeen seventeen years. we got to know about it from our parents who are also big fans great fans saw this music and elvis presley and bill haley so that's how it happened this is about as authentic as i've seen. well you're right. the fact is that we are the only group the only band around and i think that the popularity of this music and of our band depends on this fact once or twice a month we go out sat our region and rock the house today but thankfully.

no crowd was getting the benefits and never old was in the mood for a concert. to scratch under the surface to get the best care of the first close you might be reminded of a great provincial soviet town but it's the people that really give this city its color and they're some of the most vibrant and diverse that i've had the pleasure of meeting.