five thirty am in the russian capital good to have you with us here on our t.v.'s here at headline twenty nine injured more than one hundred twenty detained after rallies in memory of a football fan erupt into violence in moscow and st petersburg authorities say russian ultra nationalist groups hijacked the peaceful gathering. torture of poverty and reports of police brutality some critics say the u.s. has tainted human rights record clashes with its promise is a recently published un report highlights the shortcomings of american domestic

policy. kosovo will head to the polls on sunday for the self-proclaimed republic's first parliamentary elections as the serbian minority struggles for equality there many serbs say they'll stay away from the polls that they claim are unfair and pointless. join our own travel guide james brown on his exploration across russia's republic of north. i know great things about a north setting you're alone in the people are supposed to be amazingly friendly the scenery breathtaking and the food never ending and it's only a short hop away from moscow just two hours by plane or frame by its towering mountains the region is time to move and seven hundred thousand people just on the software based on body count counts the area's administrative center and the city is capital city. in russian blood a kind of caste means ruler of the caucasus and the city is decorated with monuments to its proud military history and its culture past and present.

this is going to be my favorite sculpture and buddy kavkaz these two gentlemen to play a game of noddy which is the most popular board game in the caucuses so sort of like a cross between backgammon and draw. and it looks like. the new one is going to have a busy trip and i wanted to make sure that i picked up a few souvenirs before i set off into the mountains all i needed was a couple of local girls to provide some gift inspiration if you think excuse me could you tell me where you bought your shuttles in the shop over there in the shop with the ladies pointed me in the direction of the salinas workshop she and her colleagues make handmade a setian scholz following a design that's been popular here for centuries. and first we examine all the

museum exhibits and till we alter that all our artists on the basis of what we've got to make the kitchen an individual pattern is sketched out and then handed over to most a seamstress to begin and it's a painstaking process two months work. so who better to teach me to find something. useful in that place everything. but that doesn't mean the needle was going to go where it was supposed to go yes she did it i'm getting the feeling that i probably should have paid more attention to my gran when she was. having a hard time now it's fine good. it was becoming more. drop ten so i left told her to tidy up after me and moved on to the next stage. was now that she can see the ground work has been prepared. it's possible to

embroider this. each soul is unique and can sell for up to one hundred fifty dollars but it seems that's not all that salinas company makes. oh i thought of these when he makes the dolls and she dresses them all by national costume. was like walking into a little girl's dream worlds these dolls are all individually decorated and have costumes from a set and other parts of the caucasus and if you don't have a doll's house to put them in some will be just as happy on the teapot. but this is much more than just a souvenir shop each one of these could be a collector's item i'm just wondering if we might find a couple of life size versions of these two anyway. with gift buying sorted i was ready to head into the mountains and the region has plenty of dedicated volunteers to make sure you have a safe trip. you only have to see these amazing views to understand how popular

a sport rock climbing is in this area but of course it can also be extremely dangerous which is why the city has mountain rescue teams are always in business. so he's been working here for more than ten years and promised to show me what it takes to be in a city in ranger. we were meeting up with a group of one of the ranges taking their final practical exams in the winter rescuers have to deal with an accident every single day and that can often mean carrying a victim over treacherous terrain. so you can see it's really the of the makeshift here we've got. some ski poles and then the ropes that you would take with you on a normal amount of area expedition and this is what they using to make this makeshift stretcher. and victim is secure he's going to be moved. through and then once we have touched him. the point man at the front here. and

i'll see you help us. to help get him across hopefully safely. but of course the rescuers have got to make it to the other side too. right. let's see. but getting a man across a canyon is one of the simplest tasks of the rescue ranger and there are plenty of other obstacles in their way with a room two thousand tourists a day visiting the mountains during the season it's essential that new ranges are prepared for everything. you need to make sure all victim is secure of coast. of the stretch on the cliff of course it's vital that the injured party gets a smoother ride as possible and that was where i came in. kind of human.

scrapes against the wall. and. i really had the easy job. and i certainly needed a bit of help getting him out of the last out. rights. get zero zero zero. zero. zero zero. zero. zero because. you can see the amount of hard work that these guys have to put in to become rescue ranges could be tough. who are feeling prepared for any other launch the rangers and headed on into the mountains one of my favorite parts of any trip is checking out the local wildlife and i've heard in the peaks here

there are some very famous residents. so i'm going in search of the legendary. these. never hurts. to the especially in mountain gotos made their home here for thousands of years. by hunters for their meat and their huge horns. enough to keep plenty of distance between them and. a pretty coming these mountain goats it's hunting season and they haven't moved from the top of those mountains. sadly it seemed that that was as close to the torah as we were going to get but there was another. just in case i was ever around here on

a very different sort of expedition. there's no getting away from it if you're going hunting you need to be able to handle one of these the closest i've ever got to hollering live rounds has been a game so it's going to show me how to do it. right. now right now. i have never really mixed so understandably i was eager to learn how to best not to expend killing myself. but. this is a most in rifle seven point six two caliber real bullets to fire you must aim at first pressing the button to the shoulder. between the eye and the scope should be some seven centimeters. take him into the sights. then pull the trigger slowly. and fire you probably we still think where you're waiting . so patiently explain the process apparently my rifle

dates back to before the second world war so it was about destroyed and twisted as a firearm could be with the scope surely my plastic didn't stand a chance. on this program this one i am recording. it's going to get right into shoulder. so i don't dislike ac and then squeeze the trigger. and then after all that build up. i completely miss who. yeah the book is still alive but you know what they say if at first you don't succeed or. ok. yeah second never sought to strike down the middle

you know a total you actually did not look good looks. look it's moving that's not fake fox real you want to come down unfortunately that was pretty much as good as it going but i did manage to hit one other thing before we ran out of bullets. so there. i'm concrete pillars stern dead. on the mountain goats live to fight another day ever. feeling confident that i would now survive any tourist sneak attacks i left saw and carried on hiking into the hills and when i reached an ancient watchtower i knew i was close to one of the region's most memorable sights. the views here and of the seventy are almost endlessly beautiful but if you come up

to the mountains and search for a while you can find a seemingly innocent looking place with the since. this place is called dark gulfs all leaders grange and it's a somber as it sounds. is a local journalist and told me a little about its history. this so-called town of the dead is one of the largest nicopolis is in europe in russia. around fifty different families are buried here in the east some three most four hundred years until the end of the eighteenth century living plague victims were brought here by their families and simply left to die. each building belong to a different family than the behavior to the rich if you were. to draw a windy climate has kept the bones here in excellent condition some even have tufts of hair still clinging to the scalp. but you just come forget how they got here.

i can understand that you have to separate the infected from the healthy but i can't think of anything more terrifying being brought here sick placed among the bodies of your relatives alive and already in your own too. don't go says a fascinating insight into the region's cos history. i was sorry to leave it behind and i was ready for some slightly less chilling.

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you could easily spend days sightseeing in the acetylene wilderness but i needed to get back to the capsule valley cash cows and that meant i needed a taxi. amazingly even up here in the mountains in the coaxes it can still get pretty good phone reception because that doesn't help if like me you've forgotten to charge the thing it's even stuck out here in the middle of nowhere that might not be such a big problem. at least if you know when to find an enterprising local engineer to use you know it was definitely. a plug in the middle of the outfits. we have like. using metal salvaged from an old mine and a little help from mother nature action has built his own hydroelectric power station and supplies him in

a few lucky neighbors with free electricity and he can crank up the voltage when he likes this sluice gates. can regulate how much water comes out anyone thought. the water flows down the channel and through a two and a half ton turbine which turns an axle and supplies power to the generator meaning actual constantly has more than three hundred volts of electricity on top. how's that for a one man engineering project produces enough electricity his. own work that crane and power another twenty one the houses as well. unfortunately it turns out that a taxi will even pick you up out here for the right price. i'm going to have this i was ready to check out a different kind of power. there's always been a strong relationship in the caucasus between his horse and here in the set here it's no different but only the very best roy to get

a chance to join the troop. once again place you don't bend your knees to your legs tight. i like chargers are performed all of the rusher in europe there's no easy ride in this company. i feel good. the ground. underneath the whole troop exuding glamour and danger i can't see why people flock to see them perform but what exactly does it take to become a stunt rider. each person has their own story that if you come to a theater above all else i love animals after all i was born in the year of the horse i like whole says this one is i like my with. my it is the biggest.

she's my favorite student she came here after finishing high school school and now she's with us yes. now we'll try to show you the grip course of every horseman. but i mean straight legs sit down softly with your turn james. like a process. i guess some of that get off put in writing a few times in my travels around russia so obviously i was moved and ready to take the next step. apparently a full year is the troops most compliant horse perfect for some how much acrobatics . that's a question is it. right. time everything's fun it's impossible to fall from that it turns out the doing a press up on a horse is not quite as effortless as alex riders make it seem so i settle for a quick trial to run the pattern much more my style. isn't this civil law or

any of this rushing around and leaping out of your saddle. i can't imagine people paying to watch it but it suits me to spot but i think now go go go a funny. straight legs us line don't bend your name. or let's define your anomic to prepare for that makes spectacular i'm back in town i have another appointment time needed to keep. so that should give you an idea of how friendly the people are here in a setting i've only been there a few days and i've already been invited to a wedding unfortunately my best suit is languishing in a wardrobe back in moscow which means that if i want to look at fault i mean somehow. this is the house of design a traditional tailors that's been supplying bryant's great guests for the best part

of twenty eight. courses have there are a few steps. each costume is made to order and the detail ispat. the graffiti in these days and ask them graphic nationals to let them all a grandma this is used to sweep such golden embroidered loose and wear this costumes and do when. ever they like to use is at the end of a question was one of the integral part of the cost you women used to make centuries is mad. it doesn't yes to make wondrous. machine and there's one other accessory that's always included these are. the four opening in the wedding the groom should lead a blanket around brights head with three times is in five to five and bottom of the first but the wrong that cleans it as much give the bears to seven healthy boys and one healthy girl but those same lead and then she takes it up but this authenticity

doesn't come cheap and oligarch's daughter wants me down the aisle in hundred a. thousand dollars old the creation. of the final stroke isn't it beautiful very beautiful but i was in the market for a slightly cheaper option but i was still getting the royal treatment would you not only as a measures. name. but i'll warn. this is the way you quickly find out the horrible truth about how much weight you put on or how many inches said to me to put on your adventures around russia. or be able to compare let's go is the good of me that it's fifty one. and the sleeve is six so. this one just has to become my wife also what bonus. with all my measurements recorded is older ladies got to work on

a few days later i was ready to try on my new outfits but it's going to finish adjusting my bullets belt. and the finishing touch to this amazing outfit. and i think i'm ready for some don't. finally the big day has arrived john and alan's wedding we still had a while before we would see to go and pick up shauna. people arrived it became increasingly obvious that i was the only person wearing traditional dress and they were expecting over a thousand guests. so you might think the reception was already begun but you'd be wrong because the point doesn't even made her appearance yet this is just the pre-processing now that's my kind of wedding. gown and assessors monte means a lot of food and a lot of toasts. the first ones to do and. the sections to some.

number three through town are a bit of a blood. and it's only then that the guests are invited to meet the lady of the day . she might have already said hello to a few hundred people but jonas days are only just beginning. as this is one of the most for the whole city entire ceremony of the bride is introduced to be oldest and most respected members of the prince family sees officially welcomed us all as a friend. but that doesn't mean that their old relatives are just going to let her leave. this is one way of keeping the bride from being married apparently all these guys have to hold her back in order to get them to leave the broader needs to pay for the privilege. to some good old fashioned broidery because we're ready. so the ransom has been paid.

for the girl said get out of the way. and that is the equivalent of a little secession. giveaway of the brides. another round of crazy drawing and horn honking later we were back at the groom's party and it was time for john to be formally unveiled. the whole day have been a constant mix of food and solemn ceremony but amazingly alone and shown a happy man once but then i noticed that they both slipped out of the main hall. so it goes against all. brides and our group are actually in the same original the same day of their wedding but it's pretty unusual is that all the way from each other. i list the happy couple to it but

by then my outfit of the trying to do little attention and i can say i was surprised when i was told to cruise my such in one of innes on the docks from. here exceeded all my expectations from the beauty of its mountains to the hospitality of its people it's a place i really didn't want to leave it doesn't matter who you all who way you're from come here. and i guarantee you'll feel like you're a. we'll

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