the grand imperial truly. brotherson the. retreat. broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow r t glad to have you with us let's get right to our headlines now as rebels in libya try to push westwards towards the capital tripoli there are conflicting reports just how far they. opposition claims of control. have been dismissed by reports on the ground which say the city is still held by government forces who have been putting up heavy resistance. russia's foreign minister says the international coalition is taking part in the civil war in libya acting beyond the limits of what's been allowed for

the un resolution sergey lavrov has also expressed concerns about the protection of civilians which was the reason for the sole goal of the mission at the u.n. security council. russian authorities have arrested two suspects in connection with the january bombing at moscow's airport in which thirty seven died seventeen killed in the special operation by three different russian federal agencies in the southern republican leadership. plant in northern japan are trying to dispose of radioactive water after officials warned the surrounding sea water and soil are contaminated elsewhere. becoming overwhelmed by the massive number of tsunami and earthquake victims in need of a burial with the death toll estimated at ten thousand so far and more stillness. next explores the largest underground church in russia and secret world war two catacombs our special report next. it's

always darkest people who come in all things to. make him incarnate god it doesn't work and. rage him a long time ago now they played. and even perform religious rites. we know is that there is nothing accidental in god's deeds these manmade cade's which are a significant part of russian history atop to an underground. adesa a city in the south of ukraine the film assaulted republic. at the weekend local dave has set out on an underground expedition. the most

comfortable way to get around the depths of the underground maze because by car. these manmade caves are the world's longest more than two and a half thousand kilometers and what it will show you it doesn't slip to the right over to the left normally i go from that side but if you make your choice this is a short because but over there the scenery is more beautiful ok or go to the right . locals call these pits catacombs stone for construction used to be mine kid the first excavation began some two hundred years ago. the pits stretching over some one and a half thousand kilometers have already been mapped each year researches chart a new nie discovered caves the schools of kilometers in length. and leg the scottish no longer there is no. hold the title of the site the other end of the arch. how many meters there. were

twenty ok thanks. the adesa catechumens were home to parties and bases during world war two members of the underground expedition hope to find one of them the scientists who study caves known especially ologists found another passage did they map out the newly found corridor. but they can't go any further to the pits of flooded they can only continue with the help of diving equipment. the water is too muddy we can't see anything where is the clear deep water is a bit further on us. the pits all look alike on the water and you can lose your way in one time. they have to tread very carefully to avoid kicking up the line sediment it's next to impossible to find a way back through the muddy water. alexander has been able to determine the pits

direction and height. of. the videos i'm freezing. khushboo member out that bit of passage to. we'll have to look for an alternative route now that will discover another bleach bottle of the adesa catacombs. vladivostok the main russian military naval base in russia's far east some eight thousand kilometers from odessa russian engineers built the fortress here at the beginning of the twentieth century than time it was the biggest and most modern naval military construction in the world. the southerland of us don't defense frontline was located at muskie island the only

way to get there was by ferry it was the military alone which knew about the existence and location. of many underground hideouts for many theaters today the island is open for visitors and members from the blood of a stork digger club author to tally dimitri and alexi carrying out scientific expeditions on weekends they explore military architecture monuments from different eras the island has them all including fortifications built by the military engineers of the song as well as soviet underground hideouts. if you keep to the maps directions and don't lose your way chances are you'll find those installations the problem is that they're hidden somewhere in the case beyond the woods it would take more than one attempt to find them on. the ferry to the village of god knows you're on the island of russkie reaches its destination in forty minutes the diggers came here to take a look at a unique fortification the vanishing of battery which for a long time had been

a classified facility it was a key element in blood of all stocks defenses for the purpose of these guns was to protect the city from sea and land assaults their range of fire was thirty five kilometers they were never actually used for military purposes and the last salvo for training was fired in one thousand nine hundred two now the fourth is a museum. steel works in one thousand nine hundred thirteen. sixteen. and weigh about fifty tons. principle if you really want to. complex of underground structures three stories deep underneath the tower. was the last commander of the battery now retired he's the museums and is only too

willing to show guests the underground storage of shells and. this is the third under ground floor located underneath of the tower it's sixteen meters deep the room was used to store shelves and here the shelves. each shell weighs nearly five hundred kilos a mechanical winch operated by two soldiers was needed to lift them. the soldiers did their job. between shots it took them less than two minutes to reload the cannon and fire as it has been loaded the platform to the next rack i'll show you how it's done. shells of various types are rotating racks which of them is loaded depends on the orders of the commanding officer. if you turn around now you can see around containing armor piercing shells.

first caves were dug in the late nineteenth century. russian military engineers built the most powerful fortifications in after the defeat of the russian naval base. in one thousand and five with japan. special care was taken to protect personnel from shells the votes were reinforced with for me to think concrete underground passages were also built between the caves. the fortifications cost seventy three tons of gold which equated at the time to approximately two hundred million dollars. to refer to the cations of the saying every fortification has its unique layout depending on a particular district. the fortifications have been built of the highest points. the garrison of such fortifications could defend independently each holding out for

two months of the most vulnerable parts of the fortification where the enemy could dig underneath the build of dug what are known as counter mine galleries these are the deepest underground vaults of the fortress. soldiers would sit in these. listening to what was happening on the other sonic the what if they heard someone digging underneath the force these were extended that way everything would collapse because of the explosion rendering this part of the fortress impenetrable to the enemy. the adesa catechumens scattered underground in all directions and the exact opposite of the straight cemented tunnels of lot of us dog the soft rock allowed the a decimal and as to extract stone anyway new mines were often connected to the old ones creating a complicated network of underground passages with the but there's not this soul was found in this because of the cancer cures. it still works well it can be used.

dark what you can see how it cuts through limestone you can see how that is. until the one nine hundred seventy s. stone was extracted manually with the help of special souls but the process became simpler after a local miner invented a special stem cutting machine. the average depth of the adesa catacombs is twenty five meters but a million years ago it was actually the sea bed the remains of shellfish slowly built under extreme pressure to form a solid but light calcareous rock layer after layer i guess as they did business in their own new forests around the desa will suit him become be used as building material. be made in the absence of coal and that soupy will turn to limestone and again mining it as soon as it does was founded and you constructions in the city are required more limestone yet.

stone is used for almost all of the buildings in the residential houses and theatres shops and restaurants and even churches. today the vladivostok fortress is abuzz with activity each day scolds tear up the quiet for number seven is passages. going to have taken a fancy to the central park underground for vacation. to schoolchildren in this last can kill to effect their skills by caring they've sent . it now we know that our grandfathers and grandmothers built the forts but a big part of our history and. we really come here to scale. it as a rule risqué here when it's just rainier saw it. but most of the time the faults of the vladivostok fortress a quiet. in the peaceful environment of the central russian panzer region monk

seeking silence dug out a small cave in a hillside close to the river. that was in one thousand one. later other monks turned the cave into russia's largest underground church. in soviet times the structure was almost destroyed and buried but in two thousand and five excavations began. later a senior priest restored the church and now services a. fifty people can be present at a service in the temple at the same time because that is why the temples considered the biggest underground temple in russia. the temples history is full of mysteries. according to the legend the cave was the

beginning of several underground passages which lead far beyond the monastery territory the passages have not been found and excavation is still ongoing research is think that church items may have been hidden underground from the bolsheviks. excavators have already dug up and restored an underground cell when a homemade monkey's to live. so. now we are coming to a special place in our monastery. the old men will have to sit at this spot he would spend all his time in prayer he would spend ten years here. this is the window he was handed food through from the male monastery on the ground the entrance would be sealed up he would talk only to god and spend ten years here praying.

and then it's geophysicists they hope that special equipment will help them locate underground voids to support the rumors which claim the existence of the secret passages. culture is that so much different there is a huge decision by the market to be a within the arab awakening a one off detour for the maintenance of western military and political intervention in the arab world. wealthy british style. markets why now scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports on. the adesa catacombs the world's largest manmade underground structure people extracting building stone here for over two centuries often found natural underground cavities filled with clay work

was immediately halted in such places because of fears they could collapse local bakers take special care when examining such dangerous sections of the catacombs. the remains of prehistoric animals can be found in the case of a desk you could go to more than they. claim preserves bones very well. but this will have a look for in the course of the wood. red brown clay is a wonderful preserving agent for such bones. will. look across here of. course at the costliest knees of fossilized bones. we'll give them to the museum of paleontology. addresses museum of paleontology is one of the best known museums across the former soviet union nearly

one third of its exhibits feature objects found in the catacombs scientists discovered that thousands of years ago the area of what is now a death was inhabited by desert animals such as hyenas and camels there's also a unique exhibit two perfectly intact ostrich eggs they date back to the third century b.c. but the museum boasts even more valuable finds. this which is. very interesting elaboration of the bearings but they ways interesting question is. this little how has been the subject of debate how did it come about was it the result of mechanical treatment someone doubt whether this could have been done by ancient people this is highly unlikely there were no humans of any kind of three to five million years the guy. play helps the paleontologists make discoveries but it makes life much more difficult for geologists looking for an

underground passage in the monastery in the pens a region the clay is so thick that it prevents their instruments from examining cavities hidden below. so the geophysicists turned to equipment used for vertical electrical sanding. it compeyson point underground voids a depth of up to fifteen metres. up already. let's begin. as soon as you're ready just. turn your nearly go electric shock. what was the voltage about eight hundred volts i would have thought. scientists gauge the electrical conductivity twice they carry out one test where they think a tunnel might be located the other is where they don't expect to find any tunnels this is to help make the results more accurate the tests revealed. cavities around

the monastery. the new shows and tony the churchwarden the outcome of the tests and suggests that excavation work should continue. however have their own version of the underground ministries layout. according to the book. the monastery points east words when we accidentally turned the book upside down the underground monastery revealed an image of the holy mother of god. the two entrances look like her legs. the baby's head. is the head of our lady the church and burial are her shoulders and streaming robes we don't know whether it's a coincidence or providence. is that there is nothing accidental. these manmade caves attract artists as well as scientists. is

a professional photographer and journalist some years ago she often to people on guided tours of the caves of the. us it was then that she came up with the idea of an art project to draw public attention to the neglected. after two years preparations she began taking pictures of red figures wearing long clothes and standing against the background of forts and underground galleries of the naval fleet. as a result you get something incompatible. you have current realities with those grandiose just discovered with stupid inscriptions like so in sao has been here on the other you have these creatures. so you get contrasting images and the spiritual as opposed to basic human passions. is now intend

to draw attention to another underground object that up until now only special service officers knew about. the facility consists of several long tunnels and is a former reserve command point for the region's leaders. the facility was declassified in the year two thousand and is now completely abandoned. digger enthusiastic intent to start a cold war museum in these tunnels and they've already got the first exhibit. with . this scary figure it is the will to do. me and the guys from the deer club who made it as a sort of sawmill of water along on a it was like joe montana has it suits. you symbolizes the cold war years

a constant readiness for war. very little is known about the facility to this day. that's why. all the equipment and documents they find in the abandoned. ribbon with some text on it still work so we'll have to draw it to find out what it. is ribbon is a very important they can help restore the facilities history. names addresses and other figures we've got a lot to decipher. we've never been past this hatch. let's go. the official blueprints of the facility is still classified so the diggers have to study each room themselves. some dangerous containing worn out electric power lines

but that doesn't stop the research is curiosity and they proceed carefully. and there are two rooms there connected by a passage a wooden staircase leading up it's a very old. the bunker was built during the second world war in one thousand nine hundred two it was intended for use by the primordial regions administration and had all the resources needed to support people over two months. obviously the communications are allowing the inhabitants to receive fresh information make decisions and inform people about their decisions this is over territory would be controls fortunately there was never a real war in these parts so the object was not needed. by contrast severe fighting used to rage in the adesa caves explorers are still finding parties and bases down

there. world war two resistance fighters operating here for to get german and romanian troops a group of diggers has found the camp ace of one of the potters and units black dust is all that's left of the straw that used to come one of the bands. here is something big there's a lot of something. i found. sleep sometimes coins rolled out of their pockets. one thousand twenty two. says here once again. the diggers take every object they find to the small museum the cartridges and small coins will be added to the collection. these are the weapons. they represent the types of armaments you would usually find underground. the

germans were aware of the location of the camps but they never ventured into the depths of the stone mines the only exit to the surface was three kilometers from the partisans base camp. to the camp were blocked up undermined sharpshooters carefully protected the main entrance. normally these barricades were manned by two fighters they were on duty for two hours at a time and it was pitch black here an untrained man found it very difficult to sit here under such conditions very often the partisans saw the light when somebody approached the barricades from the entrances and they targeted it is just not the barricades it had to be unassailably. have never seen real life fighting but today there frequented by members of a reenactment group response team imitate russian marines. is that.

do you read me. the role players submachine guns and pistols are exact replicas of real weapons the only difference is that small plastic balls are used instead of live ammunition. and the filters are designed for military operations in the first place second grandfather served here. as a military spirit and the atmosphere of this place for you. the people working here won't serve with me in the same division of the marines. so we've got a lot in common i'm no good. in this exercise. his soldiers to defend the barracks in a follow way part of which is by. fighting breaks out in the fields on the. russian engine is no fortress small one hundred years ago still be

defended against weapons with simply losses. focus is going to defend this firing from this nation know full well that the circle of work because the corridor is exposed to gun fire. protected by thick concrete. even a flight of stairs stops attackers in that tracks. if someone appears from that the defendant first sees his feet to say even if you crawl in all the balls of the first film you'll see the defenders go in are. several assault attempts have ended in failure the blood of a stock fortress has proved once again that it cannot be conquered. people have a special fascination with manmade caves the footsteps and flashlights of new

explorers a pound to disturb the quiet darkness of the underground labyrinths for years to come but those who've experienced the excitement of the trailblazers are almost bound to return to this some world again and again.