members of congress. to. greet for the. we've got. the biggest issues get the cuban voice ceased to face with the news makers. british french and u.s. warships converge on libya preparing to launch a decisive strike on her forces and libya's internal affairs here is jeanne claims it's maintaining a ceasefire while the rebels say they're still being bombarded. in washington accused of cherry picking where it intervenes rapidly mobilising for libya while innocent civilians die and other nations torn by internal strife. radiation arrests grow in japan struggles to save its crippled nuclear site eighty days after the nation was overwhelmed by the powerful earthquake and tsunami. up next r.t. james brown travels five hundred kilometers south of moscow to check out the

historic city of verona stay with us for about. room this is a russian city on the growing. city of ukrainian border in the country's southwest it's a regional capital with a thriving business community and student population. comes in nearly one million people it's a place of innovation research and close mission. in the last few years an influx of cash has completely made most the city center and there are plenty of fashionable new boutiques and cafes standing alongside british is grendel a box. towering over the mood was the stunning annunciation cathedral the third largest church in russia finally reopened in two thousand and knowing after eleven years of rebuilding with a brand new six trumbo calling the city to worship and that was

a pretty good advertisement for one local company. oh really. it's a reason to follow the good see what you make yeah yeah so we have always well. let's go i was just. and belief has certainly made a name for itself our foundry was found in one thousand nine hundred ninety one my father you see this family became a business. and so they are where the biggest really nothing russia and so in the world we produce every year about four hundred two hundred tons of this global domination has come on the back of entirely traditional bell making techniques. now this is our watches so. this is step of my can bells i hear will make the difference back so i can see the scrapes and them put them all on the fourths

of the poles go belly up. i fear we make we only your call plans. when the things get i am sad that's me gaps every hour every hour valuable. some heavy duty safety because that furnace has been a little one thousand so serious nearly two thousand found. this summer is certainly in action for. the bank here of old soviet kopek hope that there are still some means to make a little contribute to the filmmaking process. this

is the most spectacular and certainly the most dangerous part of the whole process this revolt crucible is filled with mold some groans busy you can see. it's going to go to hear. them in their faces them well but. it's funny and position the finery liquid is ready to fly. you can see the soup of copper and gold this most in bronze being pulled into this huge cost it is going to take a round about a week to cool down before the whole thing can be taken outside and the next stage of the process begins. to work is really get to shake things up a bit. we've embraced.

him. this yeah yeah this is a. the. process is still full from over the newborn bell needs to be washed to remove any traces of clay and is then sand blasted and polished to give it a much surface. finish the other finished products ready to begin their journeys to churches and temples across the globe including one six hundred fifty kilos monster. case right there can leave russia's biggest foundry that seeing what its biggest bell sounds like. leader is really in for were after all the fire and brimstone it seemed like

a good time to clear my head so i ventured down to the ridge assigned to meet another group of local craftsman ernest was historically famous as a ship building city in fact it's where i am for a piece of the first bill the country's very first navy now those days may be long gone but burnishes love the pope's is still alive and well. even if these baroda ship builders are working on a slightly smaller scale. eagle has run the city's model post club for more than fifteen years teaching the next generation to take to the will to waste from submarines to walsh it has a huge number of models for the children to work on and with the championship winning replica proudly on display plenty to aspire to as well. the smallest taken part in a national championship is won the cup that you can see over there this model of a cannon boat has taken part in two world championships and to european competition . i'm so luckily for me is that none of the kids have

a go to. coming. from both. left. the books are all remote controls and after a quick lesson from eagle we were out on the open water full steam ahead. for i guess it's all exactly sailing before but they also allow for is negotiating the risk now with christmas job efficiently. because it's never good to get too complacent about these things i was about to find out trauma here because he also loved us from its difficulties on the move so we have to move to rescue mission but thankfully even here in the middle of russia the u.s. navy is on hard to save the day go boys. to get close

a. softer a little in a factual nudging it became clear that more drastic measures will require. so sometimes. even the lies in america is not enough and you are the same i was in zero. ok boys. my stranded ship back to school but understandably eagle and co workers let me loose with any more of their precious books so i went off in search of some of the robust time they watch and the honest business will to some. source which is a blood is a sculptor and call themselves and no project is too big or too strange to take home. apart from the old fantasy

forest creature flat has a workshop full of beautifully crafted pieces from a wild boar table clock to an eagle embossed coat track so once two. different. written. but of course each piece has to start somewhere. something like this like foods perfect play with power tools love it. when i was going to give me a quick course in woodwork when i warm and that meant getting hold of a chisel. that i was wiggling away on vlad's mera i couldn't help thinking back to the piece i'd seen out on the street. we might be able to do something similar. to rejoin i would

go on to bigger sculpture. let's go to show you you thought. the lamp told me to meet him out in the woods but when i arrived he was nowhere to be seen. by looks and walks for it seemed like hours my mind started playing tricks on me. why couldn't the i build useful near isn't cover x. why should other people be able to scull to not me it was in fact. and now somebody was going to pay.

james. let me show you how to do it. it seems lot of narrowly avoided the road to shame so massacre. of or an extreme so off the stubble was just about to get. some long run. there's nothing subtle about this form of sculpture and mount suited me down to the grounds on one side slice of the behavior of the plant starting work on freeing the statue from the tree trunk and it was long before something with a wintry feel so it becomes take shrink. circle coffee at five and hopefully you can make out a beautiful family penguin portrait here. lessons without.

with. leaving glad to put the finishing touches to our run talk to friends i headed back into the city to visit some more crossman working on a slightly larger scale. one company bigger is better than the longest employer in the city the territory is boss and the product they make just about fits. in that. this is the cross production association us or official. inside this time six brand new i am one forty eight a fine for space. there ukrainian jet plane that's been around since two thousand and seven each one is worth around twenty five million dollars and muscle is aiming to produce fifty of them by two thousand and thirteen. plus designs they're going

to have to consider release speed on production and that's when these cars come and . each of these programs are helping to develop a new summated money fracturing system more than fifteen thousand different items need to go into the system a mass information goes straight to the production plant. each employee looks off to one station for the new multi-million dollar equipment means they have less to do than ever before. still idea about sec no if he is changing this laws a few years ago i'm out of a machine right bass would have taken around a hundred hours to make this beautiful piece of playing. but nowadays i've got these big automated drills. and they can do them in sweats. and i saw it i go to take a look at the finished article. this

is what a brand new claim looks like the seats the business clothes and then sixty in economy. i thought this should be in the case of the exits all here and here. but of course the really impressive stuff is in the cockpits right on a straight into the captain's chair here. and feel very important the controls but hopefully i can find it. like everything yeah great. the planes have only been in service since two thousand and nine but with move and two hundred orders worldwide the people of fast so busy few years ahead of them. so that's what six weeks work for ten thousand people that like one day in order for rates may be coming to an asterisk the year. the am one forty eight may already be flying around russia but i wasn't ready to catch

a lift back to moscow just yet there was plenty more i wanted to see in the row next before i had it's the. hungry for the full stop we've got it first the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. you know just quickly about veronica's household the people. i met industrialists and taking a look at both large and small businesses and there's a real energy that everyone seems to share. so i was wondering how do people blow off steam here. it seems cause if you take

a trip to the local schools for. whites just because i'm going to have a go at the game a black power to me it requires playing speed listening reflexes and nerves of steel. it helps if you can catch bits of. the times normally play outside on a huge pitch the this version unfortunately for me is apparently a great deal for. play. the game is played in joules various me looked efficient of the russian game as well so this one is more dynamic and interesting than when played out. it seemed like a cross between facebook crickets and. there were plenty flings i have to remember . the target of the game is to score as many points as possible with previously as a supposed to get to the audience beyond that line and come back to that only if they

don't have to build. is not supposed to be on the sidelines. team gets six shots. through seems simple enough now i just have to learn what makes a great lots of pinch hitter. in this position you hit as you stay on the sports ok which is very technical and become a just go for be it in hope technique but seemingly flexibility may be the key to this game. here just listed on the this is the best heavy duty is it is ok it's just killing my back. and then like a coiled spring i unleashed my first shot. but here we go. i just finally took out the referee. is a clean hit you know what i'm sorry. i'm going to have like you know fred but i

didn't. see any amazing the officials wasn't the best way to begin my luck's a career but my new teammates didn't seem to mind and it wasn't long before i was up. early. plus two points but i think i might go out because i got court i'm not sure. to be the blinding speed may have desist me a few years back. sidesteps know what it was. but wasn't exactly sure what the final school was the same topic . but. also the close victory i decided it wouldn't hurt to get in a little practice i'm trying to get to know my teammates a little better too. money was mixing up was good it was you i studied architecture

and this is interesting it's very interesting i can take an excursion if you like. bruce has an excellent reputation in russia as a university city and the next day i met up with max outside of the architectural faculty. and it sounds like studying here is no picnic. well james this is my university yeah this is actually. the first year was the most difficult one to many subjects that we had to. study professional still feeds. everything related to construction will be. pretty intense stuff this is a six year course and students can choose halfway through three want to specialize in architecture or construction. grocers have around twenty people taking lessons and basics but also getting a chance to put their imagination into action. but feel just think about this

beauty james there's the city is it yeah it's where our nation and bulging builders have a chance to examine materials they might use and down in the department labs you can do just that. so you're involved in construction it is vitally important to know how strong the material your using oh so in the name of science we must sacrifice this block of concrete. and that we went. around a minute later the results were in. wait for it. then you love experiments so you go reading here of four hundred one killer newton so that means that more concrete can take forty times worth of weight discovering what it does for six schools out for the day and while much went off for a lot salary much i mean the slightly unusual appointments keep thirty three so

this seems to be home some very clever people but i've been avoiding this one guy who says. god knows why he wants me here in the middle of the night. of. anybody. constantly. as. i think. i'll show you. and apparently it's based around this mysterious black in the middle of the room.

that's enough. reached its limits. press the. james. magic check this out. this is some scenes please these are and it's a three d. holographic projection. these abuses of. creating a mist special. i

wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be constantly to get to the big. puts together missed me. a little bit. and this is what you get i'm thinking that i'm not the only person. that's going to. i was running out of time and then there was one other place i still needed to check out but luckily for me doing things quickly isn't a problem for these guys. as one of those reassuring unchanging things about russia but decades it's been chugging down the nation's roads doing nothing very spectacular but that's not particularly exciting so here in the road there's a group of people who like to take their lot. into a super bowl takes a fair bit of tinkering and that's where eagle comes. we are training for

competition. here you can see our professional racing team. but i think we'd better start with the carriage shall we go. in his friends the serious rally drivers to be competitive need a complete overhaul. everything in the world is cars of a different class which was thought of as a very good performance in terms of speed over the. wheel can be removed in no time . but it was a car has an all wheel drive and these thousand five hundred fifty horsepower. even if we take it to european championships and the rover. this is the steering column in case of an accident the wheel touches which helps keep the pilot safe and. who'll those be assuring safety features surely even a novice race a counsellor. most will come out of

a drive is of course you can go for that you will need to go through a brake training exercise ok lesson site. so this looks like your average lot of evil it fall in driving around most if for instance the difference is that one will take you about eight seconds to get snow sixty that's when we do it in three point. probably do the security system is a little still a. little some security buckled him it was time for a quick purchase goods. bought it like a. side lisa cad software. on one single thing in the truck i was ready to put my super large up to

a profit just please please . like this. and i tried to. somehow i had taken the lead but then from out of nowhere. sensible sunsets. to technology issues.

and then finally a long straight solution to head of me. ok so i did well never look at a low point the same way again. it would be. but you know. that really got into. my get back to the last. thing i might visit the gas. it's difficult to feel inspired to spend some time in verona sure this is a truly i'm surprising city where you can find crawl spend all praising the same way they have hundreds of years alongside academics and engineers using the very latest technology it's a city that's in touch with its polls and that's moving firmly towards the future.