so there you go without have a look now at the main stories we're covering. be incumbent prime minister claims victory in kosovo his first parliamentary vote since the you know that the pendants from soup to three years ago but unprecedented poverty corruption and ethnic strife on every of the divided nation. a new russian ad campaign turns to horrifying images of substance abuse to battle the country's addiction problem and unborn babies and children to do it these are just some of the shocking scenes used

to get a message across. american activists accuse the u.s. of people who see as washington demands the release of political prisoners who keeps its own under lock and key on them as you know. he's been on death row for almost three decades many say he's innocent. but next the intrepid james brown expose russia's caucasus state. i've heard great things about 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 on your short hop away from moscow just two hours by plane or frame by its towering mountains the region is home to more than seven hundred thousand people just on the software based on body count counts the areas of minister to the center of the city as capital city. and russian flag of cast 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. these two gentlemen to play a game of noddy which is the most popular board game in the caucuses some sort of like a cross between backgammon and draw. and it looks like. i knew it was 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 i think excuse me could you tell me where you bought your shuttles in the shop. in the shop of the ladies pointed me in the direction of zeleny his workshop she and her colleagues make handmade a setian scholz following a design that's been popular here for centuries. and first we examine 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. to make these. so who better to teach me. something. useful of everything you know. 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. now it's fine good. it was becoming more. drop ten so i left to tidy up after me and moved on to the next stage. was now that you can see the ground work has been pretty. neat it's possible to embroider this.

each unique can sell for up to one hundred fifty dollars but it seems that's not all that silliness company makes. well what these women here makes the dolls and she dresses them all in national costume. was like walking into a little girl's dream. these dolls are all individually decorated and have costumes from the set and other parts of the caucuses 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 through each one of these could be a collector's item i'm just wondering if we might find a couple of life size of versions of these two anyway. with gift buying suited 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 north a city is 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 ranger. we were meeting up with a group of one of the rangers 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 some of the makeshift here we've got. some ski poles and then the ropes that you would take with you on a normal mountain area expedition and this is what they're using to make this makeshift stretcher. and one subject in a secure he's going to be moved. through

and then once we have touched him. the point of the front here. and also to help those. help get him across hopefully safely. but of course the rescuers have got to make it to the other side too. writes. 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 to day visiting the mountains during the season it's essential that new rangers are prepared for everything. to make sure all victim is secure coast. 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.

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

there are some very famous residents. so i'm going in search of the legendary. these. clinics but never hurts. to the truth especially kasian mountain gotos made their home here for thousands of years . by hunters for their meat and their huge horns they're also smart 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 skill i had just in case i was ever around here on

a very different sort of expedition. so there's no getting away from it if you're going hunting you need to be able to handle one of these as the closest i've ever got to following live rounds has been a game so it's going to show me how to do it. right. then right now. i have never really mixed so understandably i was eager to learn how to best not to accidentally kill myself. bystander. this is a most in rifle seven point six two caliber real bullets and fire you must aim at first pressing the button to the shoulder. between the eye and the scope should be some seven centimeters. into the sights look if not. then pull the trigger slowly. and fire you probably we still think 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 and with that sniper scope surely my plastic didn't stand a chance. on this program this one i am recording. is going to get right into a shoulder. so i don't dislike ac and then squeeze the trigger. and all throughout build up. i completely miss who. the bottle is still alive but you know what they say if it first you don't succeed. ok. yeah second never saw

a story down the middle. oh no you actually did that. look it's moving that's not fake that's real. come down unfortunately that was pretty much as good as it got but i did manage to hit one other thing before we ran out of bullets. and concrete pillars stern dead. on the mountain goats live to fight another day. 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 off the set here 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 a rather 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. fifty different families are buried here in the east to. three 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 and the behavior to the richer 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 had 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 two. don't go says a fascinating insight into the region's whole sure stream but i can't say i was sorry to leave it behind and i was ready for some slightly less chilling the settee and adventures. to live not only next to the border with gaza and egypt but also on the border of peace and war. they are responsible not only for themselves. but also for their loved one. they are ready to take any risk.

street. this is a cable from the u.s. embassy in colombo to talk about here an apparent june seventh incident of extrajudicial executions the military reported to the press that on that day that killed nine guerrillas and found that the best occasion by instructs young couldn't you know and there strongly suggest however that the nine were executed by the army and then dressed in military fatigues. explain how you know this kind of phenomenon where bodies are dressed up as guerrillas and presented as killed in action and this and this idea that you need to produce bodies actually encouraged paramilitary collaboration this is

a cia document central intelligence agency they knew about these activities they knew they were happening they knew about links to paramilitary groups and yet. usa continue to. wealthy british style. markets why not scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports. you could easily spend days sightseeing in the acetylene wilderness but i needed to get back to the capsule body counts and that meant i needed a taxi. amazingly even up here in the mountains in a coke zero can still get pretty good phone reception cause that doesn't help if

like me you've forgotten the charge of the thing but it's even stuck out here in the middle of nowhere that might not be such a big problem. at least if you know where to find an enterprising local engineer to use you know i was definitely a first of a. plug in the middle of the outfits. we have like. using metal salvaged from an old mine i'm a little help from mother nature action has built his own hydroelectric power station it supplies him in a few lucky neighbors with free electricity and he can crank up the voltage when it he likes the 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. in the house as well. unfortunately it turns out that a taxi will even pick you up out here for the right price. as i was ready to check out a different kind of power. there's always been a strong relationship in the caucuses between him and his horse. here it's no different but only the very best roy to get a chance to join the trip. once again please don't bend your knees to legs tied. i like charges of before 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 could see why people would flock to see them perform but what exactly does it take to become a stunt rider. each person has their own story and 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 is the biggest. she's my favorite student she came here after finishing high school school and she's with us yes. now we'll try to shape the course of every horseman. but i mean straight legs sit down softly what you want and james. like a process. i guess i'm a mother i 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 ox. question is if. everything's fine it's impossible to. get to the doing a press. make it seem so i settle for a quick pattern. isn't this. rushing around and leaping out of your saddle. i can't imagine people paying to watch it but it suits me just but i think now go go go a funny. straight legs us line don't bend your name. let's define your

and i like to prepare for that make 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 his old traditional tailors that's been supplying drawing screens guests for the best part of twenty eight. courses how they're going to stick to. each costume is made to order and the detail ispat. the graffiti in these days and ask them graphic national. grandmothers is used to sweep such a golden embroidered bush and wear this costumes as you do when. ever they

like these was the end of august it was one of the integral part of the cost you know we've been used to make centuries is mad. it goes yes yes to me. and there's one other accessory that's always included there's a team at it before opening the wedding when the groom should lead a flank around brights head with three times is in five to five and bottom of the first. but the one that cleans it as much give the bears to seven healthy boys and one healthy girl but those same length and then she takes it up but this authenticity doesn't come cheap and oligarchs data wants me down the hall in hundred a. thousand dollars old a creation. of the final stroke class isn't it beautiful very beautiful well i was in the market for a slightly cheaper option but i was still getting the royal treatment would you not

only measures. to name brown. but i'll warn. you this is the way you quickly find out the horrible tree about how much weight you put on or how many and you said to me does you put them in your dentures or russia. or really just apparently that's because the good of me that it's fifty one . and the slave is sixty. one just has to become my wife or that's what bonus. with all my measurements recorded is older than her ladies got to work in 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 had arrived john allen's wedding we still had a while before we would you to go and pick up shawna. 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 hasn't even made her appearance yet this is just the three parties and that's my kind of wedding. and assessors monte means a lot of food kind of lots of toasts. the first ones to do and. the second is to some. number three through ten are a bit of a blur. 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 joan his 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

much respect to the members of the prince family sees officially welcomed us all as a friend. but that doesn't mean that our old relatives are just going to let us leave. this is one way of keeping the bride from being married so 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. and the girl said get out of the way. and that is the equivalent of a full session. 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 has been a constant mix of food don'ts and solemn ceremony but amazingly alon and joan a happy man once but then i noticed that they both slipped out of the main hall. so it goes against all. but brides on our group are actually in the same room well the same day of their wedding that is pretty unusual as they call 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 prove such and would innes on the don'ts right.

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 want who way you're from come here. and i guarantee you'll feel like you're a. me please please please please. if you see the feel the. atmosphere.

culture is the same i often taxpayers' money i mean i seriously have a real nice re-establish minor change to the lisbon treaty that minor change is a guarantee financial bailout of weaker members is this widget amazing moral.

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