hello this is the r t news channel from moscow one main story dominating libya the arab league's criticized international strikes there after an aerial offensive against gadhafi forces has left dozens dead the libyan leader is promising a long war and says he's opening up weapons declan's for civilians. barack obama says america's role in the military intervention there will be a limited one but as u.s. cruise missiles take a leading role in coalition operations many are drawing comparisons to the

beginning of the two thousand and three iraq. had brushes called on the allied forces to refrain from using indiscriminate force it's stressed it's unacceptable to use the un security council mandate for purposes other than protecting civilians . but keep your best of all the latest developments in libya when the news returns in full in thirty minutes time with me kevin owen now the rough on our travels next in the company of james brown reading a few hundred kilometers south of moscow to check out the historic city of thought on. room issues a russian city on the royals sitting in the ukrainian border in the country's southwest it's a regional capital with a thriving business community and student population. home to nearly one million people it's a place of innovation research and procession. in the last few years an influx of cash has completely modernize the city center and

there are plenty of fashionable mutex and cafes standing alongside burnisher's grendel and locks. and turning over the moves the stunning enunciation cathedral the third largest church in russia finally reopened in two thousand and nine after eleven years of rebuilding with a brand new six term bell calling the city to worship and that was a pretty good advertisement for one local company. oh really the. reason to know that we're going to see what you make here yeah yeah so we have are always well. let's go i will show you that system. and belief spells has certainly made a name for itself our foundry was found in thousand nine hundred ninety nine my father you see this family of them a business. and they are where the biggest but we also ration and so in

the world we produce every year approximately two hundred tons of this global domination has come on the back of entirely traditional bell making techniques. this is our artists over. the cell step of making bows i hear we make the friend back so i can see the scrapes and then pull them all on the fourth and it's most nobel yeah. i feel we make we only peel off all plants. when the thousands gather and that that's the gaps every hour every hour.

some heavy duty safety gear because that furnace is bernie and it will one thousand so serious two thousand found. this some recycling in action for you. to find here of old soviet copper coast that there are shelves made to make a little confusion to the bow making process. this is the most spectacular and certainly the most dangerous part of the whole process this radio crucible is filled with most of the bronze fizzy you can see. it's going to go over here. in the case of the well but. it's funny and position the finer liquid is ready to fly. you can see the soup of copper and in

all this most and bronze being poured into this huge cost it is going to take around about a week to cool down before the whole thing can be taken outside and the next stage of the precious begins. to work is really get to shake things up the tax. office. we've been based. addison seem to say. the. process is still far from over the newborn bell needs to be washed to remove any traces of clay and it's been 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. ok so i don't know i can leave russia's biggest foundry without seeing what its biggest bell sounds like. a live year is really in for a way after all the fire and brimstone it seemed like a good time to clear my head so i ventured down to the riverside to meet another group of local craftsman curtis was historically famous as a ship building city in fact it's where emperor of peter the first built the country's very first navy now those days may be long gone but greatest is love the pope's is still alive and well. even if these british ship builders are working on a slightly smaller scale. eagle has run the city's model boat club for more than fifteen years teaching the next generation how to take to the winds from submarines

to warships there's a huge number of models for the children to work on and with the championship winning replica proudly on display plenty to aspire to it was well. the smallest taking part in a national championship is won the cup you can see over there this model of a calendar which has taken calls into the world championships and to european competition. comes luckily for me and the big kids having to. touch is left to. the books are all remote controls and after a quick lesson from eagle we were out on the open water full steam.

but i guess it's not exactly sailing the board but they also allow for is negotiating the risk canal with christmas justifications. because it's never good to get too complacent about these things i was about to find out. trauma here because he also often has run its difficulties on the move so we have something to rescue mission but thankfully even here in the middle of russia the u.s. navy is a kind to save the day go boys. to get close to. us all through little in effect to nudging it became clear measures were required. so . they were in the minds of america is not enough and yeah. ok boys. stranded ship back to school but

understandably legal and co workers let me loose with any more of their precious books so i went off in search of some of the most robust around the world and the onus is no shortage of this. and it's applied as a sculpture and a new project is too big to strange to take home. apart from the old fantasy forest creature has a workshop full of beautifully crafted pieces from a wild boar table cloth to an eagle embossed coat rack so. but of course each piece has to start somewhere. something like this excludes 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. i was wiggling away on vlad's mera i couldn't help thinking back to the piece i'd seen on the street. we might be able to do something similar. to rejoin have a go one of the biggest culture. lets go. you. the lamp told me some in the woods but when i arrived he was nowhere to be seen. by leaps and walked for what seemed like hours to my mind started playing tricks on me. why

cannot i build useful near isn't cut backs why should other people be able to scull to not me it was in fact live. and now somebody was going to pay. that night. james. let me show you how to do it. it seems lot of narrowly avoided the road to shame so massacre plus the initial chainsaw arts festival was just about to begin. some long run. there's nothing subtle about this form of sculpture and that suited

me down to the ground and once i sliced off a bit here in the plot starting work on freeing the statue from the feature. and it wasn't long before something with a wintry feel to it became to take shape. sort of cool coffee a foil and hopefully you can make out a beautiful family penguin portrait here. for the lessons without will. but with most of the school 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 better than the largest employer in the city that territory is boss and the product may make just about fits. in that. this is the

cross production association surface. and inside this tank six brand new i am one forty eighth's of a line for space. there ukrainian jet plane that's been around since two thousand and seven each one's worth around twenty five million dollars and musses aiming to produce fifty of them by two thousand and thirteen. plus two flats they're going to have to considerably speed up production and that's where these cars coming. into this program is helping to develop a new image of money fracturing system more than fifteen thousand different items need to go into the system and that's information because straight to the production plant. each employee looks off to one station but the new multimillion dollar equipments means they have less to do than ever before. skill idea about sexuality is changing this was a few years ago come out of the machine like rats would have taken around

a hundred hours to make this beautiful piece of flame. but nowadays i've got these big also made three drills. and they can do them in what. i now saw it i got to take a look at the finished school. this is what a brand new claim looks like the seats for business clothes and then sixty in a color me. with a look at the in the case of the exit saw here comes here. but of course the really impressive stuff is in the cockpit so it's on a straight to the captain's chair here. and feel very important the controls but fully inflated it is lights everything yeah great. the planes

have only been in service since two thousand and nine with movement two hundred orders worldwide the people at fast so busy fifteen years ahead of them. so that's what six weeks work the ten people looks like. it's maybe coming to an airstrip they you. may already be flying around russia ready to catch. just yet there was plenty more i want to see in the road before i have a. hunger for the full we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. bringing you the latest in science and technology from around. the future.

you know just quickly about his house all the people. i met artists 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 but it seems quite a few take a trip to the local sports. rights just because i'm going to have a go at the russian game blocks of parenting it requires playing speed listening flexes the nerves of steel. and helps if you can catch bits of. blocks is normally play outside on a huge pitch so this version unfortunately for me is apparently a great deal for. play. play. the game is played in jules verne it's me looked at version of the russian game as

well so this one is more dynamic and interesting than one played out joel as requests you have to. see not to cross between facebook credits and. there were plenty of things i have to remember. the purpose of the game is to score as many points as possible with previously as a supposed to get to the all the end of the movie on that line and come back and do that only if they don't hit the goal. is not supposed to be on the sidelines. team get six shots if you got a rule seems simple enough now i just time to learn what makes a great laptop pinched for. this position you hit it if you stay on the sports. which is very technical i think i may just go for the get it and hope technique but seemingly flexibility may be the key to this game. just to sit on the it is the best heavy but it. is just killing my back. and then like

a coiled spring i unleashed my first shops. but here we go. i just finally took out the referee. is a clean hit you know will be sorry. i'm going to have like no friends but it's good. to see me in a senior officials wasn't the best way to begin my luck the career for my new teammates didn't seem to mind and it wasn't long before i was up to partly. plus two points so i think i might be out because i don't course i'm not sure. i'd leave a blinding speed may does this mean a few years back. the sidesteps know what it was. i wasn't exactly sure what the final school was but the

ghosts at the same time. but. also the close victories of the bulls i decided it wouldn't hurt to get in a little practice i'm trying to get to know my teammates a little better to. money was next to do it once you do i studied architecture and this is interesting it's very interesting i can take in and scotia if you like yeah that'd be great. bruce has an excellent reputation in russia as a university city and the next day i met up with max outside the architectural faculty. and it sounds like studying here is no picnic. well james this is my university it's actually a job that you know the first year was the most difficult one for me it was so many subjects that we had to. study professional stuff he'd. everything related to

construction will play. pretty intense stuff this is a six year cools and students can choose health way through three want to stress lies in architecture or construction. grocers have around twenty people taking lessons in core basics but also getting a chance to put their imaginations into action. the feeling you think about this beauty james magic it is the city's mayor yeah it's where our nation and budgeting builders have a chance to examine materials they might use and down in the department labs you can do just that. so of course if you're involved in construction it is vitally important to know how strong the material you are using are so in the name of science we must sacrifice this block of concrete. and there we went. around a minute later the results were in. wait for words.

were. there you know experiments so you go reading here of four hundred one killer newtons so that means that our concrete can take four times worth of weight discovering russia does physics school's out for the day and walmart's went off for a lot to rematch we have a slightly unusual appointment to keep thirty three so verna's so obviously seems to be home some very clever people but i've been invited to make this one guy who says he's working on something really special. he wants me here in the middle of the. you know. anybody.

as you know. well. no i think. the real magic to say now i'll show you. and apparently it's based around this mysterious black box in the middle of the room. uses water and that's enough. once it's reached its limits. and we're ready to go. james. magic check this out. this is constantine's police cruiser and it's a three g.'s holographic projection. of these abuses of operation just that excites

the creating a myth then special fans and pipes directly with. its image head. into the water. i wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that constantine's took it to the big. so you put together a mist make. a little bit of magic and this is what you get i think. it's going to. i was running out of time in varanus and it was one of the places i still needed to check out but luckily for me doing things quickly isn't a problem for these guys. as one of those reassuringly unchanging things about

russia 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 as a group of people who like to take their lot are. loaded into a super car takes a fair bit of tinkering and that's where equal comes from. we are training for a competition. here you can see our professional racing team. but i think we'd better start with the carriage shall we go. with the your and his friends the serious rally drivers and in order to be competitive need a complete overhaul. if the thing in the car is of a different class. it has very good performance in terms of speed and more of them both with the wheel can be removed in no time. but if the car has an all wheel

drive these russian the five hundred fifty horsepower. even if we take it to european championships and. this is the steering column in case of an accident the wheel touches which helps keep the pilot see. all those reassuring safety features surely even a novice race accomplished. most will come out of a dr who kind of course you can go for that you will need to go through a break training exercise ok less insight. so this looks like your average lot of evil at following driving around moscow for instance any difference is that one will take you about eight seconds to get snow at sixty this want to do it in three point eight. you could probably do the security system is a little silly. and once i was securely behold him it was time for

a quick practice it would. take a lot of. like. sort of use a catch up we're. going to get. someone some go behind the truck i was ready to put my supra laws up to a protest please please . i'm sorry. like this i know that's right. somehow i had taken the lead but then from house of nowhere.

said some nice sunsets with. technology issues. and then finally a long straights loomed ahead of me. ok so i didn't have a look at the lower court the same way again. it would be. but you know go. separately go into. my get back to the last go. my visit my little the gas. it's too small to feel inspired to spending some time in verona sure this is

a truly enterprising city where you can find crawl stone all praising the same way they have hundreds of years alongside academics and engineers using the very latest technology is a city that's in touch with its past and that's moving firmly towards the future. all of. them.