tv [untitled] January 9, 2011 5:30am-6:00am EST
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royal marriage. could be on pro tools holiday encircled the kids' holiday inn holiday inn ski drove the really emotional to meridian country club civility sure to come this piece of the first book called sure can pinsky switzer told close me hold me close come golden couple beauty coaches. be watching out in the headlines for you know the rescue is underway off russia's far east coast where the ice breakers struggle to save the last via vessel that came stuck in the ice last week hundreds of people on board the supply ship once it proved whether might speed up the operation. on the week's major news unexplained
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mass deaths of birds and fish around the world was a few of the prophecies but some experts say a sensation hungry media is refusing to that sons explain the phenomenon. written this writing it's transport security fare in an imminent terrorist attack on the streets of terrorism to rest so you are concerned that news corp background checks not to extremists in. planned immigrants who want america's poor piece of the truth say the green card is moving their bread they end up paying rent paid jobs because they talk to home refuses to recognize their education or experience. coming up next we take you to southwestern siberia for a tour of the diverse and striking chemical region.
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the camera region is one of russia's great mineral deposits based in southwestern siberia it's stuffed with coal and iron ore 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 firefight 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 we wanted to see a real scene of siberian winter i guess this would be about as picture perfect as you get. but before we go in here.
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i get to say hello welcome to the nature reserve tomsk a piece an accent and decode into all custom we're treating you with a box cutter welcome to. the show. right. because some sign to hold me off a little bit. and what is. it well come to my residence don't scare peace in your. eyes. this is fall the 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
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have to work all year round because there's a lot of kids really like they're waiting to see you. yeah they are. apparently if you're going to be a guest of the frost you need to pack you don't think she just a show. you know she will really hope. i keep telling myself. that you. will do will be soon to be me and 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 employed gained a foothold in this region a little more than four hundred years ago but people have been living in this area
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for thousands of years and they've left their mark the locals call these drawings of the river to. see the. kids. go. hunting see this alongside the animals you 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. there's six thousand new human history on these rocks you just take
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a look at the landscape. and you can think this is view. 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 tick. it's not difficult to see that this is a pretty heavily industrialize 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 that there'd be no city here at all. the mining industry really took off for the beginning of the last century and developed during the soviet union now adays the region supplies around sixty percent of the country's coal and unsurprisingly they're rather proud of it. the original mining museum has pluck some old equipment
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from all of kemmer of his pits but without. it might not exist at all. or mind so. very strong taking a break. this museum or. that he has a great i dream about this museum again until ninety i have both a bicycle. and go for a camera left to amsterdam the whole and. yes and so on going off my three to seven thousand scale in a slow room on the street or. i want to make a museum or at hill nowadays the museum is one of the town's most popular tourist attractions and they've even built their own replicas show. welcome to our museum. there's
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a new exhibition of lights in right mind this and. as a commission 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 i think this is a commitment exhibition so the exhibition focus is only going to be in hundreds i mean has a selection of old mining safety gear i'm tools so this is i guess there is only twentieth century yes you can see a special box for all you see. and special instruments and if you were low in the. rye there's. very old. some pretty often sick i guess from back in
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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 a hundred years on the coal industry is still the region's largest exports but not all the fuel here ends up on the final. igor smirnoff has a much more creative use for it he claims he's the only coal sculptor in the world it's amazing to think you can create something as fine 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 makes bets in that he'd never be able to make a sculpture out of coal. 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
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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 and i'm pretty sure that ego is going to have to do a little reconstructive surgery. look at he's looking at you good. i think it's. a little bit of tidying up. he's not blind but he might need glasses i think. ok my. eager showing off his work around siberia but his biggest fans closer to home. my daughter arranged for me to exhibit my works at a fair in chemical bond and a whole bunch of coal miners thanked me they shook hands with me and i realized that people appreciated my work as somebody who needed it and that what i was doing
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was interesting. and in this region a minus approval counts for a lot cole is camera of his life blood on the vast majority of it is found in one specific place. as you can see i'm about to take a pretty job first time and i'm not just anyone this is the biggest one in the whole of the country eight million tonnes of coal comes out of the ground here every single year. but before i could make my way to the show i still had some equipment pick up. pick up two 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 a pitch.
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here. two hundred fifty meters. and. this is the. same there's more than half a billion tons of coal down here that's enough to last another seventy years but we had a long way to get to the lake to 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. it's great to see something so it takes the coal out of the sea to the conveyor belt. like
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a black hole. to cut a slice is eighty centimeters of coal at a time and once one side has been thoroughly excavated the whole operation. moves forward. because you know you go it's all eccentric. you could say if you example a 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. 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. tough so give up and just see the tough
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job people speak about the day at the coalface going to see. the boat. it was time for me to hit the showers but the cold was just beginning its journey and its mixed destination was a business that's essential to the camera of the region as the mining industry itself. wealthy british. guys. can find out what's really happening to the global economy. headline news into. defense forces. during his service scorched a street fight. participate
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a journey from coal county to steel city. is one of the fifteen logies 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 guyin and from that you can get steel. this is a real river of and it runs down into a series of huge cold rooms ready for the mix stage of the premises. and this is where this steel is for the most and to go and mixes with the spirit the human the could but see here i don't know lights up like guy fawkes night. but like you they
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give you these really. say this but. oxygen is added and after a while the steel is ready to speak. calls and sliced up. things by holmes here yeah braz each one of these red hot steel slabs weighs around twenty tons i want to move in mind off but laid out here it's a clue they could be packed up and sent off to the heavy industry clients around the cut in 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 play bridge 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
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in the country and many believe it's all down to head trainer andre. this is. all far. right there's no so nice to meet you. so this is the good disco you want to win streak i think so. a little so listening to him from will surprise the guys in much of it's before. i don't 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 sport they play outside in siberia in the winter. wish me luck. looks like it might move i sort of. possibly. james his the
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stick and the team playing for the whites ok i'm with the whites the big much here . it's the to start with i was a little hit and miss but after running around for a while mike. deadly accuracy he says became apparent. on mill to the wall right there in the region. of a feature. but if you want to play this game you'll definitely have to work on your cardio pole just on the go between the sticks. really reminds you of school you know. it was clear i was a natural for well you have to try and impress the manager think who. you are. so what do you think of that coach that was fine great girl
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where are you treat your. 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 are they will not hear things change and now let's try to do that now let's do it direct ceiling assured me around the factory school gave me a quick lesson in biscuit making. disability and competently like a bit of the feeling. we need. to start off with yes. that is the let's put it here at this second grade and here it's less of fame we should add a little bit here. a little this which i guess is some. stuff
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. to keep. this is sweet. production on a massive scale they make nine million of these little wafers here every single day . and this reminds me of my very first job when you swear back into the factory and. finally after all these new graduates into the chocolate fountain. it may be home to the region's most modern factories but no 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
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in the last hundred fifty years and over here might just be the most famous building. of the whole system. in a scene fifty seven after a long courtship the famous russian writer federal dostoyevsky married his great love and first wife maria asya 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 this mess i just 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 cosmic scale 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. before an dostoyevsky's house have
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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 four hour drive from the 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. so. annoyed troy and snowboarding once before in russia months if i was going to get the most out of this trip i thought i'd better have a slightly more reliable means of getting around. me that it is cool just up
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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. it's going to look. good because i'm the head of the tourist office. we're getting to see all the sights. and the mountains they're 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 it 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. silly to the boat and. you take a look at where we get to be pretty obvious well the coolest place the powerball.
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the very top of the mountain is most by a huge steel cross and it's the best view of them all. now this is what i call living the high life we're about fifteen hundred meters up over there you can see the outside region and over here. we've got the crabs we are 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 the 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 the nearly thirty years until we pull 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
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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 went hunting and fishing there were very little blacksmith men in 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 look at section. delivery has been visiting this cave since he was a boy every winter the water forms on the style of toilets and stuff like mines that can last well into the summer. 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 have formed over here
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a short sea have a legend about this place they talk about a shadowy figure called the my. master of the mountain he's supposed to be eight feet toward harry sounds remarkably like big for to me. but. he's supposed to live in this cave if you see him. very good luck served. up my 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 from diverse region with a heart of coal. download the official ante up location to your i phone or i pod touch from the top story.
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