the very first wooden buildings went up right here. in fact much of the region still consists of forests and if you're interested in seeing some of its best preserved historical sites you just need to head out to the countryside. back in the early nineteenth century these grounds were the home of the famous russian poet mikhail told now you can see it's all very picture post-cards but that doesn't mean that it's extremely killie. find somewhere to get out of the cold. is widely regarded as russia's second greatest poets off to alexander pushkin and he lived on this estate until he was twelve years old nowadays are preserved as a museum to his life and times and that means you're going to bump into plenty of contemporary characters conditional having trouble getting quite good at this stuff and it these little rag dolls were given as presents for birthdays christenings and weddings and each one has our own individual outfit. each goal is supposed to ward

away the evil eye from its maker but according to the ladies here there are certain attributes that are particularly important we don't know let's take a women's pride to breath here and tie them under the neck has my little completed dolly and apparently. the larger the breasts of the dill the more love and tenderness you will have in your home quite fortunate to have quite a well in doubt girl here is what i'm watching once i finish my needlework my hostess introduced me to the rest of her hardworking family but it seems they have an open house policy here. no. one will come rushing out to get to see you it's a holiday today and we can celebrate with thin and soon a few more guests turned up for some fun and games. this year traditional my

friends our altars. they certainly go out of their way to make you feel welcome and if you're looking for some more period drama just take a walk through the white house. you know a good puppy dogs is great for winning the cold war but i think that oh mr lemon for probably was used to something a little while ago. i might not have been appropriately dressed but my hostess to leno was kind enough not to comment on dr i'd been introduced to the locals my society she pushed me off to the docks for i knew the poor mr letterman told had met his end in a jewel so i was definitely on my best behavior and fortunately i was able to finish my waltz with my dignity and the illness totally still intact. thank you very much lennox you're going to get to see here again and me too. i'm just outside the gates of your state there was even some area transport available. so

sadly it's time to get back to the twenty first century but at least looking leave the nineteenth in an authentic fashion. to the whole. unfortunately for me i'm like calls horses get tired and i was dropped off still a fair distance from penza it was time to get hiking. up and walking for ages on absolutely paul from even quite tempted to start eating some of this snow so hopefully i think i might be able to find something better than that around here. luck i think this might be the place. coast. like. also very much. the stuff.

they have the right direction. and it turned out i was right. hello believes the bring this yeah this is. a fall in the bucket springs for the current have a drink please show. you some ground want to source was discovered almost a hundred years ago and it's been here ever since. this water has many visceral properties it needs no prior treatment before it goes into food products from serious to what it drifts towards a plant neukom so used to bring it up there. is only the second was still on the russian throne this was because production line each bottle filled labelled and sealed by her before being locked away in a trunk the delivery across the nation. nowadays the water is still sold throughout

russia it's just produced a thousand times faster. it only takes around twenty seconds for the water to flow through to the plants and the factory buckles up ten million liters of it every month and it seems they've branched out into one or two other products as well. ok this is what i'm talking about the soda tasted. wonderful bit of this. is too many oh the hell. they make six thousand bottles an hour. refresh them responsibilities i was soon back in pens but i had a serious sugar rush. and way better than at the local. if you watch the show you'll know just how big a final these things extreme so what could be more homeschooled honestly i don't

saw it in the middle of winter. oh my god this gets crazy. ok. so it's thirty degrees in here political because well. maybe splashing around among pens and housewives doesn't exactly count as particularly extreme but if you do have a taste for adventure they're all want two places you can visit. but when this area was nothing but forests there were regular scum between the soldiers of the saw and local and nomadic tribes from and now of course the further away you could kill your enemy from the better off you were but it took practice. and the art of dealing death from a distance is still alive and well. dimitri is the chief instructor at this medieval style shooting club. james this is an older weapon

a sling is more like it in the past they were made out of wood and this is a modern version of loading up a catapult me back to a misspent youth but it did take me a while to get my eye in just in case you do a find yourself in the forest with a catapult on a bed does walk out in front of you probably best to leave him alone. always ready to try out something a little bigger and dimitri and i moved on to the archery range although i swear the sights were awful nice but. we miss quite a long way down a little bit. but after a little practice things started to improve. oh yes good shots. second i guess in this case it wasn't a robin hood performance but at least i was regularly hitting the target now. it's nicely done jim you're quick learner but we have

a more powerful weapon for you the final test was still to come on this weapon i'd only ever seen in movies in museums and it's a pretty deadly piece of equipment this is this one is even more effective crossbow can be fully loaded well before it's used. but anyone with a loaded weapon can hide an ambush waiting for an enemy or wild animals the weapon is used for hunting and fighting it is still popular to this day so to me and. so it was only appropriate that we had some authentic forest game to a much. wild boar take down one of these and it just so happens that we have. to have a go at ok one poor friend see if we can. or could sandwiches for everybody but of course you should make sure that your prey is really dead first i think i've definitely found my weapon of choice so i've learned

how to enrage a poor fake bear and kill a poor fake pig. i'm ready for war. now i just need to find some people who might be able to make use of my new found skills when i go about doing that and and so. so now he's looking like a motley band of feiss. i knew that was trying he was going to come in and they. just greetings and he you guys we are fighting school israel we're going to do the rounds in the forest and there are plenty of bad people hanging out there you gave me and his brothers in arms the members of pens as oldest mediæval club for more than eighteen years they've been recreating bottles adding to their all marie and creating some very fetching constraints and off to some intensive sword fighting we were ready to head out on patrol gentlemen are you ready yes let's do this

apparently there were rumors of toxins in the forest where were they hiding. parts of. it was my graze on the to die for my brother. who parents are going to train male called the west. that's lucky. and through miraculous of bumps as in thirteenth century medicine everyone else was able to make a full recovery there's going to be some upsides of medieval warfare. but i guess

if you're going to get stabbed and beaten up and covered in mud this is what makes it all worth it. my friends glory to russia. it had been a pretty intense start so much troubles and pens and american blood and the chance to eat drink and be merry for a while was just hoping for a few role of the more sedate activities around the corner. culture is that so much of the taxpayers' money i mean i seriously am a real mystery to the global arms business is booming you more arms not less in jayne's or the world security obviously events in the middle east are top hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers on.

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after spending a fair bit of my time in penza getting went cold and out of breath i was more than ready to visit somewhere which got me out of the snow. so when you're dealing with a long winter course you need plenty of things that you can do in doors like this now. pool i know pretty much all the rules too. even though not all that great for that but the russians. have got their own version but they're all the fun. of let's do this meets competent not in this case a prince of denmark but the undisputed king of pens is russian billion seen the

former champion as head coach of russia's under eighteen billion team and he's had plenty of success. over the past four years they have achieved impressive results some of them take part in national and international competitions also teach kids here. the game takes elements from both snoop and pool but it's considered to be much more difficult than both especially when you're trying to pull off shots like the. one we're going to attempt anything quite that flashy but i thought i could at least most of the old breaking. coverage of the ideas i'm going to hit the bottom right hand hole. and see what happens. and the knock it in from twenty cent of the stock if you can get that far away from the pocket of the such excess the game itself healthy is

a mind was ready to challenge the most but apparently the most had other ideas i'm going to play with. it should be fun except it wasn't not one bit. this is getting worrying value moved around the table like a seasoned pro and i was left trying to remember exactly what i was supposed to be aiming at. ok so you can use the red ball to pot the white ball but you can also use the white ball to put the white balls and the white will spot the red balls but then you have to take away a white ball. i was getting seriously behind and obviously with my level of skill it had to be the full table. why why would you create a game where the pockets are obviously too small for the boards. and then with horrible inevitability as over. time.

i think i just got hostiles. with my ego severely bruised i slunk out of the club and back to my brain all. i needed cheering up any one place where it wouldn't matter if i drove like a plane. that i've never really gotten used to in russia driving conditions like me on the road just snowy and icy it makes it really difficult to control the car. to get a little extreme condition fresh. this is your school yes this is a safety driving school. most of them so gay is a professional race and founder of pens a safety driving school and if you want to know how to handle your car in winter.

games now i'm going to show you how you can stop your car from so. getting it for you there's a technique to it. you need to learn to use the handbrake as well as the steering wheel in such situations. and that's when you could probably begin with you keep your left hand on the wheel not sure you will come when you are under right times on the handbrake. of course again made it look incredibly easy but would my chevy a nine be up to the challenge. was not on your turn now. it's time to run the traffic on gauntlet.

admittedly we did up facing the wrong way a couple of times but sick is a patient instruction and i was beginning to get the hang of things. i got. tougher than you expect at least. some just big boring drive really used to driving me to god's. getting one to turn to tell them is the toughest but still practice i mean he's off the accelerator and can i get to the gate. it wasn't elegant but it was effective and after a few circuits without incident i was ready for ball. but it's getting a little you know it's a so-called policed will help you get out of trouble for what i should you know when the car spins out of control like it's a driver freezes up and just holds on to the wheel waiting for the car to stop but

there is a way out you do you simply put the car into reverse drive back quickly and turn the wheel. with the ball. to start with we need to step on the accelerator then press the clutch to make a sharp turn. now we're back to normal. rice we have some dramatic driving music for this. lady. being chased by the top. nearly. rude. well done. ones my brain kicks in. i manage to post clips and you never know when these do but do

this point in time. now i can dramatically wean my way in and out of the moscow traffic please go off to me. but i couldn't hit the road back to the capital for i picked up a few keepsakes i'm in the pens a region that means. he's bought it be a little pricier than your average but this region is famous for its lead crystal and this museum has a collection that goes back all the two hundred. into the. particularly historic space. you can see because you make connections with both in terms of age and content. is can be used to study the history of russia and the rest of the world. although it

originated in the late eighteenth century it is still being replenished and of course. before it can be transformed into something beautiful the rule materials need to be assembled. out of this mixture it will make crystals it is melted to under one thousand four hundred fifty celsius. although the work is here a famed for making valuable pieces of art that's also a lucrative souvenir business and had glass blower on tray was ready to share some secrets with me. still it so i did. not have the green for the whole thing that. i'm going to keep a very tight thing. that it doesn't pull off. speed really is of the essence here otherwise the most and blow off quickly falls out of shape.

oh. well i'm reliably informed that this is going to turn out to be a bunny rabbit. maybe andre can do a little bit of rescue work. once the body actually looks like a rabbit the designers can add on finishing touches and then the piece is baked in the oven to solidify and a few hours later it's back to the shelves. so i can be slightly lacking in a glass blowing challenge but on the right is a patch on pasta coming up one might be realistic and to wrap it. more time in things it was a bus stop but i was still hoping to catch a little more culture before i went on the legend of one man still dominates the local fare to see. this house was the childhood home of one of the real greats of russian theatre was of lot more hold revolutionize the way people thought about

acting and stage direction in russia and the early soviet union and his techniques are still practiced today. hold move sharply away from classical. optional practice abandoning stage curtains making actors perform without makeup and encouraging employees ation and here in his former home a company a following in his footsteps. christmas panto. switch the boss to use it on the. shows here attract visitors from far afield and often sell out weeks of the books was sadly i didn't have to understand c one the tasha had another surprise for me james i have to make a confession i like you and tell actors like you to come on i'm going to show you something asked the city to has no parallels in the world mere hole devised it

introduced quite unusual thinks so literally what we have here is house production every show takes place here it's mary holds personal home she was a different person she's attitude towards life was quite bizarre and here we have to prove it. holds most piece was considered to be his version of gogol's the government inspector and it turned out the natasha's troops were just one baritone short. oh. oh there's. a. problem here too with a little bit of discourse on the pave the russian soul. approved. it was certainly a memorable and my trip to the panzer region by time travel to the thirteenth

nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the space of ten days and made it back in one piece if you're a fan of history nature or simply want some top class entertainment this is a great place to visit. download the official placation chobani phone i pod touch from the q stops to. life on the go. video on demand parties money food costs and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the dot com.

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ten am here in moscow this is r.t. thanks for joining us now we begin libya where the country could be on the verge of civil war well that's the warning from the son of libyan leader colonel moammar gadhafi as he blamed opposition groups and outsiders for instigating violent protests bloodshed continues as the army is reported to be use of a live ammunition against demonstrators demanding an end to the forty one year rule of colonel gadhafi. international organizations have put the death toll at over two hundred in a tell of ours national address say fall islam gadhafi has said only fourteen people died also dismissive reports that his father fled the country meanwhile the unjust continues to spread further through the region with protests in yemen buckling and block zero.