money inflows russian economic growth has been slower than expected in two thousand and ten while inflation has been higher and the ruble hasn't appreciated as much as it could given the current oil prices but economists believe the country is well placed deutsche bank for instance predict g.d.p. growth of five percent in two thousand and eleven significant ruble appreciation and higher capital inflows that's a lovely quarter business artane. and that's for updates on this hour where you can always find more business stories on our website that's our dot com slash business stay with us.

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outnumber obama's democrats experts warned the change could make life more difficult for the president his party has lost its majority on capitol hill for the first time in two years. and palestinians in the west bank started naming streets after their fallen heroes but critics say the scheme is laurie fine people with blood on their hands one st's been named after an infamous bomber killed dozens of israelis. let's join our team as we travel to the camera region in western siberia and find out how the main city there has become one of the country's major industrial and educational. the camera region is one of russia's great mineral deposits based in southwestern siberia it's stuffed with coal and oil which supplies heavy industry around the

country but it's there's plenty of whites to go with the black the region also borders some stunning mountain ranges and is a mecca for the snow and scale of this but with temperatures dropping sometimes to minus thirty five celsius or minus thirty one fahrenheit in the winter make sure you wrap up with. one good thing about traveling in these kind of extreme temperatures as you can expect some real sudbury in hospitality and one camera of a nature reserve definitely lays out the welcome you wanted to see a real scene of siberian winter i guess this would be about as picture perfect as you get. before we go in here. get to say hello welcome to the nature reserve tomsk a piece an accent and decode into all a custom we're treating you with boxcutters welcome. to the

show. rice. because some signs a whole me off a little bit. but if. you missed it welcome to my residence don't scare peace in your. eyes. this is father frost who did models in russian might give it away but he's russia's equivalent of santa claus there are no right. here but we do have a pencil at. this. school so i think you have to work all year round because there's a lot of kids really like they're waiting to see.

apparently if you're going to be a guest of the frost you need to pack you don't think she has a shooting you know she really. i keep telling myself. that you. will do will be soon to be me when i get my presence here pretty. soon feel like i've been a good boy this year. i actually did have a serious reason for visiting this reserve and it was down on the stones below. the russian gained a foothold in this region a little more than four hundred years ago but people have been living in this area for thousands of years and they've left their mark the locals call these drawings come drawing of the river to. see that.

we can't. go. hunting see this alongside the animals she can make out ships and bronze age symbols of the song which was worship body ancient indigenous tribes their unique painting of cameras past. and they bring thousands of visitors here every year don't believe. six thousand knew he would history. these rocks but then you just take a look at the landscape here. and you can think this is new. really hasn't changed much. but this kind of peace and tranquility

is the exception rather than the rule and once you step into the city itself you can find what really makes this place take. it's not difficult to see that this is a pretty heavily industrial zone but there's one industry that stands head and shoulders above the rest here they call this region russia's cold basin and without but that you know city here at all. the mining industry really took off for the beginning of the last century and developed during the soviet union nowadays the region supplies around sixty percent of the country's coal and on surprisingly they're rather proud of it. the real mining museum has pluck some old equipment from all of kemmer of his pits but with me here it might not exist at all yes. or mind. very strong.

this museum or. that he has a great i dream about this museum again until ninety i have lost bicycle. and go for a camera left to amsterdam the whole and. yes and so long gone off my. seven thousand skeletor slalom. i want to make museum red hill nowadays the museum is one of the towns most popular tourist attractions. they've even built their own replicas soft. welcome to our museum. there's a new here exhibition utilites in right mind. and there's a sense of mission was built approximately three or four years ago it's really a popular place for canada with children but yes. yes we're going to sell it so

that our rights have to get into the spirit because i didn't. ok. there is a bit of a necessity if you are as tall as about david. definitely better to be sure and here i think this is a commitment. so the exhibition focus is only going to hundreds i mean has a selection of old mining safety gear i'm tools so this is i guess they're really twentieth century yes you can see our special box for all you see. and special instruments and if you want. the ride there's some very old. surreal thirty six i guess from back in the day. it's even possible to watch footage from the pits back in one thousand nine hundred sixteen and the conditions the men had to endure on the ground. almost two hundred years old in the coal

industry is still the region's largest exports but not all the fuel here ends up on the phone. igor smirnoff has a much more creative use for it he claims he's the only coal sculpts in the world it's amazing to think you can create something as foreign and detailed as this out of such a fragile and the tourist difficult tiriel to work with but without a little incentive from a friend none of these might be here at all one of the goals mates bets in that he'd never be able to make a sculpture of cole. he didn't put too much money on. his work ranges from fantasy pieces to portraits of the saints and he's quite happy to give lessons to. do less work on a design. this is such a tricky material to work with the coal is coated with a special glue to stop it shattering but with every stroke of the chisel i was

afraid i was going to chop the bear's head off pretty sure the eagle is going to have to do a little reconstructive surgery. look at it he's looking at you good. i think it's. a little bit of tidying up. he's not blind he might need glasses i think ok me. he has shown off his work around siberia but his biggest fans closer to home. it is my daughter arranged for me to exhibit my works at a fair in came out of bondage and a whole bunch of coal miners thanked me they shook hands with me and i realised that people appreciated my work because somebody needed it and that what i was doing was interesting. and in this region the miners approval counts for a lot of coal is camera of his life blood and the vast majority of it is found in

one specific place. oh as you can see i'm pretty. i'm not just anyone this is the biggest one in the whole of the country eight million tons of ground here every single year. but before i could make my way to the show i still had some equipment pick up. pretty essential bits of kit. and of course light. and once everything was properly attached we were ready to head to the lift and literally take the plunge. this is the pitch.

here. two hundred fifty needs to. be considered. and. this is the. there's more than half a billion tons of coal down here that's enough to last another seventy years but we have a long way to get to the latest see. the miners work six shifts in tights cramped conditions but they're using some of the most sophisticated equipment in the world and it's so simple to understand anyone can operate it. this is. something that takes the coal out of the safety of the conveyor belt. like a black hole. because a slice is eighty centimeters of time and once one side has been thoroughly

excavated the whole operation. loose forward. because you know it's all exciting. for us that you could say if your example of crack. it only takes two hours to dig out a train load of coal i once it's been cut from the old to convey it takes it straight to the factory. and occasionally it's a quick way out for a time at minus. twenty weeks now minus one. i don't even down the pit for a short time but there's no avoiding the water in the cloying dust and it was a relief to get back out into the sunshine. stuff so get up and just see a tough job people speak about a day at the coalface want to see how did they know that all of. it was time for me to hit the showers but the co was just beginning its journey and its mixed

estimation was a business that's essential to the camera of a region as the mining industry itself. altera. in the backyard i've not landed we will not allow i'm not trying to prop up and then spread all over the country. virtually all terrorists today are muslim do we have the right to make such provoking of statements and the muslim schools have the right to. new york city on our. sergeant of the israeli defense forces. during his service scorched

a street fight. if i even found the colonel of the chilean armed forces participated in keeping down a military revolt. sergeant in the us army. trying to become an american might get in part in the. ranks and reasons differ but one thing brings them together once they disobey. just a couple of hundred kilometers from kemmerer of a is no because midst and it's a journey from coal county to steel city. is one of the fifteen largest steel mills in the world and has russia's lowest production costs. everything is watched over from an air conditioned control room but down on the

factory floor things really start to heat up there's no problem with the siberian winter if you work in a place like this now this should give you an idea of what this region is really all about the ground here is full of iron ore and coal and if you put those two together a hell of a lot of heat you get to go on from that you can get steel. this is a real river of and it runs down into a series of huge cold returns ready for the mix stage of the premises. and this is what this feel is. the most and to go and mixes with the spark the you and the could but see here i don't know lights up like guy fawkes night. quite likely they give you these really. say you don't just buy. oxygen is added and after a while the steel is ready to be cooled down cost and sliced up.

things by homes here in. yeah braz each one of these red hot steel slabs weighs around twenty tons i want to move in mind off but it's a clue they can then be packed so i sent off to the heavy industry clients around the country and around the. this is definitely reason whether people call and play on us but you won't catch them at the football stadium on a saturday afternoon because the coal basins flavor of sports is a whole different. this is the home of the who's boss banditti it's a cross between football and always silky and it's hugely popular. so the top team in the country and many believe it's all down to head trainer andre. this is. good business so nice to meet you. so this is the good discount you would have

ninety eight game win streak i think so. so listening to him some will surprise the guys that much of it's before. that. go sideways boy. but even if you're not surprised there's always a game going on around here somewhere. really well this should be interesting bundy a spool they play outside in siberia in the winter. wish me luck. this looks like it might move i sort of started possibly. james his mystic and the team playing for the whites ok i'm with the whites the big much. the to start with i was a little hit and miss but after running around for a while mike deadly accuracy soon became apparent.

one mill to the wall i want their children. who are featured in a. bus if you want to play this game you'll definitely have to work on your cardio just have a go between to stick. those really reminds you of school you know who's put me in . it was clear i was a natural fool it's well you have to try and impress the manager think oh whoa. so what do you think of that coach that was fine great girl where are you treating . physical exercise it was definitely saw him for an unhealthy snack. and it turns out that this region produces some of the country's favorites. this is the home of the k.g.b.

biscuit factory and if you're munching on a chocolate or just a cake in russia the chances they were made here things change and now let's try to do that by ourselves let's do it direct to you lynn assured me around the factory fool them gave me a quick lesson in biscuit making. believe he had counted simply to help make a bit of the feeling. we need. to start off with yes . that is the let's put it here at this second ingredient here is less of fame we should add a little bit here. a little this which i guess is some kind of. cheekily stuff. is. to keep everything and. this is sweet production on a massive scale they make nine million of these little wife is here every single

day. this reminds me of my very first job when you swear back into this thing that. finally after all these new graduates into the chocolate fountain. to be so. it may be home to the region's most modern factories but not because now it's also retains a strong link with its past and walking through some of the city suburbs can be like taking a trip back in time. the street is a real snapshot of no because netscape history things really haven't changed here in the last hundred fifty years and over here might just be the most famous building. in the whole city. in a scene fifty seven after a long courtship the famous russian writer federal ski married his great love and

first wife maria. in this city they lived here in this house for just twenty two days and now it's a museum and a monument to the people of business. and this the writer and his wife took a romantic stroll they might well have come to look over the city from its old military fort. where this fortress was built around two hundred years ago the old city of course knit school still a popular rating point for bandits and also an important trading route so these guns were designed to keep the caravans moving and the raiders out. the fort and skis house have a steady stream of visitors but most of the tourists here have a different destination in mind. so the cosmos region is a place of heavy industry but once you get past all the coal in the eye and you don't have to come too far and you've got yourself

a little mini version of the alps. a foreign withdrawing from them because minsk and you're into perfect ski conditions and some of the region's most beautiful. apparently the most spectacular views are at the top of the green mountain just just up here and it's really only one way to get. now all true and snowboarding once before in russia months if i was going to get the most times of this trip i thought i'd better have a slightly more reliable means of getting around. me that it is cool just up here and fortunately i've got a friend who's going to be able to show me around a little bit better and he's got a rather special little snowmobile it's going to look. because i'm the head of the tourist office. getting to see all sights.

and the mountains they are all very beautiful places. but it was ok. if you want to get around up here this is by far the quickest and easiest way to do is. now being on the back of a snowmobile is all well and good. but really i couldn't wait to take the controls myself. who is a travel. ciliates in the bodo. you take a look at where we get a city pretty obvious well the coolest place the powerful. the very top of the mountain is most by a huge steel cross and it's the best view of the mold. now this is what i call living the high life where about fifty two hundred metres up over there you can see the outside region and over here. you've got the crowds me all

screeching is well it's such a clear and perfect day you can see you're out a thousand kilometers in all directions. i didn't have long left in the camera region but there was still time to meet a bit of a local celebrity before i went home. but larry has been the local sheriff if i'm nearly thirty years until the pool to snowmobile back in two thousand and five he used to patrol this whole territory on skis. he's from the short sea troy indigenous people who've lived in the mountains and forest here for more than a thousand years. was is here we are james this is the most beautiful landscape in these parts is called. there's a river down there only about two hundred metres from here is called the met us is distinguished by its clean water people used to live beyond the fields there were foreigners in the time very many cattle was not far from stock breeding local

people when hunting and fishing they were very little blacksmith many of the tribes were nomads shifting from one place to another. and valarie took me to see one of the most stunning pieces of the region's natural architecture. realty has been visiting this cave since he was a boy every winter the water forms on the style of toilets and stuff like minds that can last well into the someone. but that's not the only surprise that could be in store from home suspect. family there's more to this cave than just these beautiful stock types that are formed over here a short sea have a legend about this place they talk about a shadowy figure called the my. auster of the mountain his first three were eight feet tall and hairy sounds remarkably like big for today. but. he's supposed to live in this cave if you see here. very good luck served.

up high militia. the master of the mountain was keeping himself to himself and it was time for me to make my way out of this strange and diverse region with a heart of coal.