scientific council should have the last word i think it should work the same way scientific councils work in america there is a review process the rule of the decisions of that review are then forwarded to a final council that passes on them in the end almost always almost invariably they approve the decision made at a lower level but i think what you are suggesting would be very well placed in such a process thank you sir thank you very much it was a great privilege having you on the show my thanks and just to remind you that my guest in the studio today was roger carbury cochairman of skull coast scientific and technical counts and that's it for now from all of us here if you want to have your say on spotlight have someone in mind who you think i should intervene next time to drop me a line at al green our past are you and let's keep the show interactive we'll be back with more first hand comments on was going on and outside russia until then stay on r.t. and take care thank you.

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you're watching on t.v. it's great to have you with us the headline. we took a punch in bold new french senator paul says it's in the contents of the will to raise the retirement age from sixty to sixty two the days of nationwide strikes including bouquets of oil refineries bush lead to fuel shortages across the country the final budget by lawmakers and president sarkozy's radical plan is next week but he did say it's not time to fix. the you are sick we have got to start as the world's greatest menace says no it's called consensus with the two on how to combat it demanding more action from nato in kolbeinsson trafficking as russia is the number one victim of that good rock steady trickle. down in the russian republic of

cutting about cari of police have come to medicines among at least ten of the surrounded and just now mind at least one policeman and one gunman have a break and died in the operation talking behind. while the truck but its closes. the headlines up next to a travel nine hundred kilometers from moscow to russia's once closed military city of camera which so preserves echoes of its legacy less than a thousand kilometers northeast of moscow lies the city of care of its regional capital a million people and if you like places that combine the historical with the modern this is the town for you. 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 and 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 more than forty tons every week. there's been a press here since seventeen months and 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 the modern era of 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

there's a machine that might easily have used it days it serves for all the different it's . taken to mean the right interim which we didn't. strain to think of machines like this or is old as printing is itself in the hundreds of years ago the press 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. pick this one 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. to the right thing by three

things ready set free by press. one thousand and. five and. the rest. of. the newspaper had a section advertising some life music in the local talk. and it seemed like a perfect place to make my going to the city this park is named. so it was built and. unleashed on the first. like in. one thousand. enemies a second school teacher a born and bred curious boy 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. 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'm just saying is that life here is starting to improve i think became better we have a new things here we have new plants like the plants and we have. a new hospital. we have new stores. everything is different. and as a teacher she's very proud of their education system we have a lot of universities here and those women who study here they can find a good job. is invited me to 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 their formal education. gives the various classes a chance to show their proud mums and dads with the routines. thank. you this morning the little ones being welcomed into the school they run the foreign exchange program here and several students from across the glue have come to experience a russian way of life and improve their language skills. they count gifts the milky way with which is has to be the other way because those spells with feet but then i need to find them this one is broken so to speak we seem to end up with no look.

each student comes for an academic year after the ceremony i dropped in on a group of americans and germans having a russian lessons. there as we have 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 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 work 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 so here is cafes here's a cinema here's a square so that's better i think living in this heat regulated so close to seventy other people it's easier to fire. her and so in that respect i think in most cases for young people. i don't think it's necessary. recently for. the first and foremost they had to study and is determined that when they do go home they'll have had the full russian experience as an it isn't an economic program so the main objective of the course is learning the language but it's not only the language that we were in but also because from traditions of the country this to 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 these toys. lydia and her daughter

a carrying on the local 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. the reason why toys were made locally. was that there were many rich merchants in quito where you what they decorated homes with such toy is that the people in didn't cover didn't have enough money to buy toys for their children. so they supplied their children with toys made locally at the same time last year people decorated their homes with toy horses cows and the like. young teams thrown 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 we'll do it.

this year and it will surgery here. we take a piece of clay eat. and do like this. that's a duck that might actually swim. but countless this. stuff is here 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 live in drawing room temperature for more days it was the end well then i turned enough in p.h.p. 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 got a delicate brush work to take care of so i get the bear with the bottle like well the bear with a better tell us better. just to paint in white i don't

mind most peace will be joining any sales catalogue but lydia has had some serious v.i.p.'s walk through her doors were sort of walking in some pretty famous footsteps because the ladies say this run with prison but that was. but i think i got better deal only did i get to make an amazing duck but i also got a. cure alls dim could toys may have been around for centuries but the first trade here has been going on far longer. the area is rich in mink fox and even introduced raccoon and the local clinker 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 paper he truly was a lot all's chekist coats hats for the factory employees 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 level 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 don't need very deep pockets so i guess this would be the pretty 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 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 hull and make claims llama and this is why wreck quite unusual and they're quite expensive. but with autos coming in from across the country it seems that there are people willing to pay the high prices and a new campaign for the twenty four team winter olympics in sochi is likely to give chilling can even more cup the city for production is always going to be controversial but in russia it's just a fact of life when the temperatures plunge out come the schubas but if you want a new one. well 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 forward. carries a metal detector unspayed with him everywhere he goes and it seems cure all has a few prime spots for buried treasure. and i

believe it but where we're standing there used to be a village now it was abandoned forty years ago but it was actually centuries. and his friends think they're still like if you think we're finding here. that's. the metal detecting here can be a rover has to disprove 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 to one by the russian craftsman because such a find is not a surprise in england there are a lot of such medals how he did appear to. be some mystery.

it wasn't long before we came on something also. 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. though this. 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 rang like a calling. to make something in about a year. 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 my label it was not what we might 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 with stranger than about just a couple of searching and found things from three different eras of the village. and century belt buckle this coin from the last years of imperial russia thirteen finally a little soviet. army jacket button. 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 of the internet 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 key player in the greater

middle east. it's the secret incursion into the country. it's the invasion by means of. tradition the language surely you fifty thirsty compete could be. and culture. the thing is that the had to do. are still unaware of what's going on in the. last . thing 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 care of there's

a man who's done just that. looks like it could be straight out of a grim 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. 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 just a few more lessons in the middle. it the man's not a man to tolerate this he invites belong to his training group when they recreate historical battles. for the. nation ok. ok ok.

james the destroyer is here to crush your menfolk and drink much of your. confusion it turns out that fighting with what feels the equivalent of a small color on your body is really quite how these guys used to do this all day. yeah i am the head of the team yes 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 carroll's most popular and unusual schools 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 but

the russians and supposedly have the top ten teams in the world. is one of them. the game is played on the field the size of a football pitch uses around plastic pool. is minimal physical contact as this is a school that requires primarily skill and agility generally better that i start. you can really see why a game that. the best of ice hockey out of football to capture people's imagination and i haven't even seen anyone try ronaldo style dive yet. and the people here love their team over them matches can attract up to ten thousand spectators even in the dead of winter but those who prefer to watch the sport from the comfort of their armchair will be seeing this much. but. this is an expert to tell you who runs a couple of. months and 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 please to me 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 yes war. this restaurant and the the russians reacted to her having a real italian restaurant here was a surprise for. disability. restaurant they have. every dish. here. for the. first time and the local. you know. after was after home after. players and for rich people and after

a few finishing touches i was ready to try it for myself. that's what i was waiting. but it's something look that good smell like. real thick grass image that will bring i think you know. from the best restaurant but there were a couple of things i wanted to see to go. home normally i don't hate slips with strange men on motorcycles honest but this is one of russia's most unusual clubs point it needed someone in the know. i had been expecting to be dropped off at some level. so i was a little surprised when i opened the door to which was my new friend hinting i should pray 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 bike his club. bit of a mistake. yes hello i'll explain everything to you wait a moment i'll be back ok. this is. a priest. we'll explain that we were all the. time. let's go. but then all was revealed as i met father alexander. very own by caprice he's the founder of the city's motorcycle club although admittedly not exactly hell's angels hello lou. took me outside and introduced me to some fellow club members including my old friend. as well as

writing the group also me 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 of his equivalent to the italian vesper seen better days the little bit of russian history. this certainly isn't your typical blanket club but your old scripts to reuters have become part of the landscape you noted by love of going on the road. so it looks like. we're off to spread the bike a words one last time this year but as for me they are going to enjoy the rest of care of. me. 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 i'm one of most popular but. not all came over here really that. he was a long while living in cairo. ok i have to say that i wasn't expecting to come here. that is also thank you i suppose or how did you guys get into playing 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 year old. 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 his wealth and it's obscene. well you're right. the fact is that we are

the only group the only band around. i think that the popularity of this music and of our band depends on this fact once or twice a month we go outside our region and rock the house i think. it was getting the benefits and the room was in the mood for a concert. to scratch under the surface to get the best care of. you might be reminded of a great provincial soviet but it's the people that really give this city its color and there's some of the most vibrant to us that i've had the pleasure of meeting.