just. dear mom i'm sorry that i had to do this i've been in so much pain in the past year that i can't take it anymore the stomach and chest pains have been getting worse and no doctor has been able to help me please know that i'll finally be at peace and with no more pain i wish i could have had a life with it was a bit always pictured her being my wife and mother to my kids i love you all see

you all in heaven when your time comes i'm going to meet jesus christ. thousands of u.s. troops in iraq received one of these drugs a drug called lariam and it may have prevented many soldiers from getting sick the question is whether or not soldiers were adequately warned about its rare side effects serious life changing side effects. in some petersburg she's available in hotels a story a. hotel a trip to soto a true school toto. see how this visit.

you're watching t.v. and here are the headlines for this hour confidential u.s. military fall show commanders in iraq knew of hundreds of civilian deaths and that iraq retreats torture of detainees exposure comes from over four hundred thousand documents revealed by the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks. the french refused to quit their protests or repent your reform even though senators voted to raise the retirement age on friday massive protests are also won the way in britain as resentment gross against the deep discounts for generations and the college half a million jobs. archeologists who are racing ahead of russia's a limpid resort of sochi builders have uncovered an eighth century temple and are

shifting part of the side to preserve the ancient treasure. next to travel to russia's once close a military city of kid off which is a time capsule of long gone soviet times. less than a thousand kilometers northeast of moscow the city of care of its regional capital the million people and if you like places that combine the historic. this is the town for you. first 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 amongst the buildings you can still find a few dawns in the rough. place i'm about to visit is

a real 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 princes and they get through more than forty tons every week. there's been a press here since seventy nine t. to 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 with. something that i guess would be about. right with something that is straight out of the twenty first century. and in the next room is a machine that might easily have used it now a days it's a rather different. take it is interesting because we didn't.

strain to think of machines like this result as printing is itself in the hundreds of years ago the press was like this one might have produced the first shakespeare a good book bible this one is producing packaging for delicious nothing three. why dismiss to do this will still use and see if i can. make this one work without destroying my other. 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 warmed up and once it starts it really knows how to shift. the frantic five hundred fifty three i pressed. one thousand now. it's only. the right to.

make sure the newspaper had a section advertising city life music in the local park and it seemed like a perfect place to meet my going to the city this party is mean i think some of us . so it was built and i'm here in a maze on the first. like in. one thousand see shoes. and there's a second school teacher a born and bred cures point and she knows this town inside out. from this phrase you can see this interference monastery you can see the bell tower in the church and there's also a sense in where people get water. 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 better we have a new things here we have new plants like the plants and we have. a new. we have news story it's just it's. 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 and they can find a good job. as an invited me 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 supposed to make everyone feel welcome. and you get to wear some pretty cool. this is well the first years officially begin the formal education.

gives the various classes a chance to show their proud mums and dads. 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. the countess the milky way it was but it has to be the other way the cows spell sweet sweet but then i need to find another than this one is broken so to speak we seem to end up with no milk. 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 we have yesterday here this is.

everybody this is a russian lesson muscle troy do this in russian. 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. following the bus hoping you're rushing more the fact that you had your forced to communicate like 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 who can communicate and translate but frary things like learning the words to use to make kettle point our. walks and we go to cafes and i'm going to do homework but in my city it's not the city it's a village and there's two thousand people and there's nothing there is nothing so here is cafes here's the cinema here's the square so that's better i think led me to sleep right to live so close to sunny other people it's easier to find groups

and clothes that are interested in so i merits i think in most places for your people but i don't think it's necessary at every city for a new and first and foremost they here to study has determined that when they do go home they live have the full russian experience as an it is it and 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 because from traditions of the country this to me whether or not they go home speaking like natives would go is a certainly going to be loaded down with souvenirs and you can get much more times of clique you're off than the. toys. lydia and her daughter a carrying on a little tradition that started in the neighboring village of discover i'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 you the reason why toys were made locally to mordor here was that there were many rich merchants in quito thought of for you what they decorated their homes with such a toy is that in the people in didn't cover didn't have enough money to buy toys for their children e even just three 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 lie. young teens produce on you and i was put to work on some bird life so i have got to try a duck i think is the with which now and here and then do it. soon it will surgery here. look at how much we take a piece of clay each. and do like this. that's

a duck that might actually swim. i don't really. like countless less thought about it. but it is here and it's must dry it's room temperature for four days and you're stupid you're right. it is a long process it's the you have to leave in drawing room temperature for more days it was the end well done it in enough and p.t. and then they go in the oven and they bake but of course that's really just the start half of the piece has been fired you've gone by delicate brush work to take care of so i get the bat with a bottle like. well the bear with the band. tell us better. and decide to paint in white i don't mind must peace will be joining any sales catalogue but lydia has had some serious v.i.p.'s walk through her doors all of sudden walking in some pretty famous footsteps because the ladies made this run

with president medvedev it was really. 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 starts this. this is the sign with a pencil and a piece of paper he truly was. all jackets coats hats from 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 don't need very deep pockets so i guess this would be the really exclusive stuff this second is made from soup skin. so a short cut it's chip skin and the lining and lighting and here is a long will and ship skin. in broidery made on a lever. about how much would this set you back. eight hundred dollars ok this one is really unusual to have a seem. like this but where's this for i'm going to start us to hunt and place lima so this is why red quite unusual and they're quite expensive. but with otis 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 get 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 to know. 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 forward. carries a metal detector unspayed with him everywhere he goes and it seems clear off has a few prime spots for barry treasure. and i believe it but where we're standing they used to be a village now it was abandoned forty years ago but it was actually centuries and

edward and his friends think they're still life if you think we're finding here. but it turns out the metal detecting here can be rather hazardous profession. at the really bad only there are any bets. that get there. fortunately our furry friends kept their distance and we were able to start hunting . at once 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 by the russian craftsman. find is not a surprise in england there are a lot of such medals how it appeared. to be some mystery that. 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 you. know this. i have no. clue what that is. well this is excellent. but i'm from an accordion. 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 not have ended up millionaires but it had been a real adventure coming out with it and he left me with

a few keepsakes to take home and strains and then just a couple of searching found things from three different eras of the village. from the last years of imperial russia and. finally a little soviet. army jacket button. some pretty good treasure hunting for. when it was time for me to go and see what i could dig up about life in the region . hungry for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. it's the

secret incursion into the country. it's the invasion by means of. tradition the language until you run the thirsty compete. culture. the thing is that the had the danes are still unaware of what's going on in their land. why do you. think i don't know anything about alaska the great deal on our cheek. to 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. this place 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. man is the head of one of the most popular historical societies and he considers himself a viking. we for chair it's our little smithy and the 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.

every viking needs to prepare for a day's pillaging with some weapons practice and remember that down to a fine art. on the other hand may require a few more lessons middle. ok the man's not a man to tolerate this he invited me along to his training group where they recreate historical. mission ok. ok ok. i am.

james the destroyer is here to crush your menfolk and drink much of your. confusion turns out that fighting with what feels like the equivalent of a small color on your body is really quite how these guys used to do this all day. yes 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 tongues and that some of the people round my head it off was one of carroll'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 and. there's 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 and football catches people's imagination 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. from the comfort of their armchair will be seeing this as advocates. this is a mix matter totally in who runs a couple of. women 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 salads 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. we call. this restaurant and how all of the russian reacted to her having a real italian restaurant here was a surprise for. disability. restaurant. every. year. for the. first time. you know. after school after call after. players reach people and after

a few finishing touches i was ready to try it for myself. you know. that's what i was waiting. but it's something to look back. really thick gretz in it that will bring i think you know. from the best restaurants in europe but there were a couple of other things i wanted to see before moscow. normally i don't pitch lifts with strange men on motorcycles honest but this is one of russia's most unusual clubs although to point 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 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. i'll explain everything to you. back ok. ok well this is. dropped off. so i. met a priest who said. we'll explain exactly what all that means and in the meantime. all was revealed as i met father alexander. priest he's the founder of the city's motorcycle club. not exactly hell's angels hello lou. i was on the 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. equivalent to the italian vesper seen better days little bit of russian history. this certainly isn't your typical biker the cure olds christian writers have become part of the landscape. on the roads. it looks like. are off to spread the word. this year but as for me i think i'm going to join the rest of care of. 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 just half a point when i can expect. piece

of the shakes it's a little slice of nine hundred fifty. most popular bands. that came over here. he was along well. carol. ok. thank you how did you guys get into playing fifty's. fifty's country and all the rock n roll well you know we've been playing this music i mean rockabilly and country western 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 his wealth and it's i've seen. well you're right. the fact is that we're the only group the only band around and i think that

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