back in sixteen sixty three it was founded as a frontier town and 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. will have been called becoming 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. it still is supposed to walk away the evil eye from its maker but according to the ladies here there are certain attributes that are particularly important. now let's take a women's pride brand and tie them under the neck has my little completed dolly and apparently. the larger the breasts of the bill the more love and tenderness he will have in your home quite fortunate to have quite a well in doubt girl. i much finish my needlework my hostess introduced me to the rest of the hardworking family but it seems they have an open house policy him. to. come rushing out to get to see you it's a holiday today and we can celebrate with sin 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 period drama just take a walk through the white house. you know a good puppy dogs is great for wooing the cool but i think that oh mr lemon for probably was used to something a little. i might not have been appropriately dressed but my hostess the leno was kind enough not to comment on dr i'd been introduced to the local smith society she pushed me off to the dots 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 yellin is totally still intact. thank you very much limits you in a glad to see you here again and me too. i'm just outside the gates of your state

there was even some carry a chance. bailable. 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 fall for 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 and on absolutely paul i mean even quite tempted to stop eating some of this snow but 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. tar balls very much. the stuff. they had the right direction. and it turn out i was right. hello believes the coup marcus wareing this yeah this is a spring and 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 useful properties it needs no prior treatment before it goes into food products from serious to what it drifts towards a plant no tom so used to bring it up then. one's own nicholas the second was still on the russian throne this was because production line each bottle filled labelled and sealed by hands before being locked away in

a trunk for delivery across the nation. now is the water 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 plant and the factory bottles are 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 should be rushed. and way better than the local. if you watch the show you'll know just how big

a final things extreme more could be more hot cool than a slim down saw it in the middle of winter. oh my god this is crazy. ok. so it's thirty degrees in here but it is called the council and. maybe splashing around among pens and housewives doesn't exactly count as particularly extreme but if you do have a taste for adventure there are want to places you can't miss. but when this area was nothing but forests there were regular scum between the soldiers of the saw and local and nomadic tribes now of course the further away you could kill your enemy from the better off you were but that. 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 that's 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 though he might be committed. 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 nose but. we miss quite a long way. down a little bit. but after a little practice things started to improve. oh yes oh good shot. i guess in this case it wasn't a robin hood performance but at least i was regularly hitting the target now.

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 one is even more effective spoke 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 but you 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 answer. so now he's looking like a motley band of feiss but. i knew that what strain it was going to come in handy. just greetings and who are you guys we are fighting school israel we're going to do the rounds in the forest there are plenty of bad people hanging out there. you have gay me and his brothers in arms the members of pens is oldest mediæval club for more than eighteen years they've been recreating battles adding to their all marie creating some very fetching constraints and after some intensive soul 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 are they hiding. it was my graze on the to die for my brother. the current search for the train male called the west. and through miraculous of bumps and thirteenth century medicine everyone else was

able to make a full recovery that's going to be some upsides maybe evil 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 ends up american blood on the chance to eat drink and be merry for a while just hoping for a few roll them all state activities around the cold. wealthy british style. market. can. find out what's really happening to the global economy

with mike's concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cons a report on. the grandest nutritious and delicious products on the price of healthy eating. lead to testes toxicity allergenicity immune response lower nutrition and for environmental contamination don't you feel like i brought some consider the experiment each human treatment i had significant differences between the g.m. . at the g.m. . but they weren't treated so well themselves one question means one career you ask one question you could be uncertain and you might or might not be able to publish it but that's been. and i'm here very year. 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 cautioning plenty of things that you can do in doors like this now. 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 there are other forms of. let's do this meet it not in this case a prince of denmark but the undisputed king of pens is russian billiards scene the former champion is head coach of russia's under eighteen believe 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. but it's considered to be much more

difficult than both especially when you're trying to pull off shots like beat. i was going to attempt anything quite flashy but i thought i could at least most of the old breaking. part of the idea is i'm going to hit the ball right bowl. and see what happens. on the knock it in from twenty centimeters stock if you can get that far away from the pocket off to such assess the game itself healthy kids and i was ready to challenge the most but apparently the most had other ideas i'm going to play revive it. it should be fun except it wasn't not one bit. is getting worrying vallium 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 poke 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 tape. 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 rant. i needed cheering up any one place where it wouldn't matter like drive like

a plague. that i've never really gotten used to in rush or is 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. you know if this is your school yes this is a safety driving school. most of them said 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 there's a technique to it. you need to learn to use the handbrake as well as the steering wheel in such situations.

but when you've got problems begin with you keep your left hand on the wheel not sure you know when you are under right and on the handbrake. of course said game made it look incredibly easy but would my chevy be up to the challenge. rushes out 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 he's a patient instructor and i was beginning to get the hang of things. i've got. tougher than you expect. some just big boring drive really used to driving me to.

getting one to turn to tell the truth is the toughest but slow practice i mean he's off the accelerator. it wasn't elegant but it was effective and after a few circuits without incident i was ready. but it's getting a little cumin it's so cold police turn will help you get out of trouble when the car spins out of control them 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. that has no name to start with we need to step on the accelerator and then press the clutch to make a sharp turn. and now we're back to normal. ok

rice we have some dramatic driving music so this. lady. being chased by the top red sea still to. deal. with. a large group. of well done. well as my brain kicks it. i manage to pass the course and you never know when these do but do this point come in handy. now i can dramatically we my way in and out of the moscow traffic police go off to a just the scope of it but i couldn't hit the road back to the capital for i picked up a few keepsakes i mean the pens

a region that means glass. 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 curator particularly historic race with. little james now james you can see this unique connection with both in terms of age and content. is can will be used to study the history of glass blowing in 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. at 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 there's also a lucrative souvenir business and had glass blower on tray was ready to share some secrets with me. on the spirit of it but now i have heard the green word of molten glass that. i'm going to keep a prototype thing. but it doesn't fall off. speed really is of the essence here otherwise the molten blocks quickly falls. shame i'm. broke. this is going 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 pieces baked in the oven to solidify and

a few hours later it's back to the shelves. so any flooding lacking in any flooring but on the right is a patch up but we have one point a realistic and the rabbit. 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 was a 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 theatrical practice abandoning stage curtains making actors before without makeup and encouraging him fires ation and here in his former home a company a following in his footsteps. christmas.

switch the boss. shows here a trend visitors from far afield and often some weeks on the phone. sadly i didn't have time to stay and see one. or had another surprise for. james i have to make a confession i like you and tell actors like you to come. i'm going to show you something must these the to has no parallels in the world may or whole device to it introduced quite unusual thanks so literally which we have here is house production every show takes place here it's mary hole spiritual home she was a different person she's attitude towards life was quite bizarre and he we have to prove it to all the. holds most piece was considered to be his version of gogol's the government inspector and it turned out the natasha's

truth was just one baritone short. of all of it all. out assault on. a. professor without a little bit of discourse on the eve of the russian soul. who proved. it was certainly a memorable and my trip to the plains a region i time travel to the thirteenth nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the space of ten days and maybe 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.

the how would i be sure to tune the hotel hotel while cho his the groom who took the show would hotel and some will be hotel so photo slim hotel evergreens the old hotel telly the grand victoria hotel the prince who turns cold springs resort and spa tied to a hotel while she penned most of the town. the evergreen close in time to eat lunch time to time the full point.

in touch with her tell me touch your room the kitchen a good going how would. she ever. protesters refuse to back down the mountain police brutality. struggles to keep. intact. and to get its people who are working in libya out to safety. planes have been dispatched to the country to ensure the innocent. in the clashes over need the latest information and. also this hour the final steps in and out of this world turning them r.'s five hundred crew from the martian surface for the last time.

or welcome to you live from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching r t with me. thanks for being with us it's two pm here in the russian capital one pm in tripoli libya and libyans are digging their heels in protest in key cities despite the violent response from the police as they tried to curb the anti-government demonstrations world leaders are rounding on libyan authorities calling for an immediate end to the clashes while increasing numbers of protesters are demanding for an end to the forty one year rule of colonel gadhafi hundreds have been killed and over a thousand injured during a week of on rast with reports of airstrikes from the country's own military on monday rumors spread that the libyan leader had fled the trouble later made a brief and defiant t.v. appearance saying he was still in the country one of his songs blamed exiles and outsiders for pushing libya to the brink of civil war and denied the.