the. cheesemonger. omissions feeds. our top stories and the review of the week on r t a battle for the control of key cities resumes in libya with exact resources stepping up their fight recounts for the rebels last stronghold in the west the opposition has suffered aside from coalition forces and thirteen rebels were killed in a friendly fire airstrike. japanese officials say radiation is likely to leak from the fukushima plant for at least several months as workers struggle to stop the

escape of radioactive water three weeks after the devastating quake and tsunami people trying to rebuild their lives feel the government isn't doing enough. and in the largest sense of terror operation here is russian security forces have killed seventeen militants and destroyed their camp in the north caucuses this came on the eve of the first anniversary of the moscow metro bombings that killed thirty eight people. next to go underground to explore russia's hidden cold war catacombs. it's always docking here people who come often face danger people at the gym incarnation trying god it doesn't work and. rage here a long time ago now they played. an eight. and even perform religious rights with all you know is that there is nothing accidental in god's deeds these manmade caves which are

a significant part of russian history attempt to underground. adesa a city in the south of ukraine the film assaulted republic. at the weekend local decus and on an underground expedition. the most comfortable way to get around the depths of the underground maze is by car. these man made case of the world's longest more than two and a half thousand kilometers long which it will show you it doesn't slip to the right or to the left normally i go from that side but if you make your choice this is a shortcut but over there the scenery is more beautiful ok i'll go to the writers. locals call these pits catacombs stones the construction used to be ninety as the

first excavation began some two hundred years ago. pit stretching over some one and a half thousand kilometers of already being mapped each year research is just newly discovered caves the schools of kilometers in length. and leg. scars us no longer there is no. at all said the other end. of this. so many metres that. it was were twenty. the adesa catacombs were homes of partisan basis during world war two members of the underground expedition hope to find one of them the scientists who study caves dispelling ologists found another passage if they map out the newly found corridor . but they can't go any further than 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 it's a bid for the room. the pits all look alike on the water and you can lose your way and time. they have to tread very carefully to avoid kicking up a lime sediment it's next to impossible to find a way back through the muddy river alexander has been able to determine the pits direction and height. and i'm freezing. whomever out that bit of passage to. and will have to look for an alternative route now that will discover another bleached part of the address the catacombs. the main mission minutes from

naval base in russia's far east something two thousand kilometers from odessa russian engineers built the for. it was here at the beginning of the twentieth century advance time it was the biggest and most modern naval military construction in the world. the sutherland vostok defense front line was located at muskie on them the only way to get that was my ferry it was the military alone which knew about the existence and location of many underground hideouts for many years today the island is open for visitors and members from the blood of a stork digger club author the tali dimitri and alexi carrying out scientific expedition on weekends they explore military architecture monuments from different eras the island has them all including fortifications built by the military engineers of the songs as well as soviet underground hideouts is that if you keep

to the maps directions and don't lose your way chances are you'll find those installations the problem go away as a behavior is someway and takes it beyond the woods it was in 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 vision of battery which for a long time had been classified facility it was a key element in blood of all storms defenses 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 eighty two now the force is a museum. it just these guns were cast in the steel works in one nine hundred thirteen. almost sixteen meters long and weigh about fifty tons.

principle if you really want to still capable of firing. complex of underground structures three stories deep lies underneath the tower enough tenant kind of yogi schomberg was the last commander of the boat she left battery now retired he's the museum's carrington and is only too willing to show guests the underground storage of shells and powder. i feel that 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 the. soldiers did their job like clockwork. between shots it took them less than two minutes to

reload the cannon and fire it. it's pushed it a little shell has been loaded the platform goes to the next rock. show you how it's done. through other groups shells of various types are rotating ranks which of them is loaded depends on the orders of commanding officer it would be thought out . if you turn around now you can see a rack containing armor piercing shells. stops first caves were dug in the late nineteenth century. russian military engineers build the world's most powerful fortifications inflatable stalks after the defeat of the russian naval base at fort author in one thousand and five during the war with japan. special care was taken to protect us now 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. worth of occasions of money the same 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 buildings dog with a known as council mind galleries these are the deepest underground votes of the fortress. we visited soldiers would see. that and listening to what was happening on the other sign 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. catacombs counted on the ground in

all directions and the exact opposite of the straight cemented tunnels of. the soft calculus rock allowed the address of mine is to extract stone anywhere new mines are connected to the only ones creating a complicated network of underground passages but the. soul was found in this because of the cancer cures. it still works well it can be used. when you can see how it cuts through limestone you can see how taurus it is. until the one nine hundred seventy s. stone was extracted manually with the help of special some walls but the process became much simpler after a monkey mind invented a special system cutting machine. the average depth of the adesa catacombs is twenty five meters and a million years ago it was actually the seabed remains of shellfish slowly builds under extreme pressure to form a solid but night calculus rock layer after layer i guess as they do business there

on new forests around the desa sooting become be used as building material bridge scandal made in the absence of coal and that the sioux people turn to limestone and began mining it as soon as address was founded and you constructions in the city required more limestone yep. troops there was no instruments to hold the buildings in the desert residential houses and theaters shops and restaurants and even churches. today the vladivostok fortress is abuzz with activity each a scolds attempt to quietly number seven passages. cases have taken a fancy to the central part of the country comfort attention. to

schoolchildren from islam can kill to affect their skills by clearing things they've said. if we know that all grandfathers and grandmothers built a force part of that part of our history or the other. we really come here to scare it. as a rule we skate here when it's just rainier saw it come brush but most of the time the force of the vladivostok fortress quiet. in a peaceful environment of the central russian panzer region hammett monk seeking silence dug out a small cave in a hillside close to the susanne river. that was in one thousand one. later of the 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 service is a. crime you are fifty people can be present at a service in the temple at the same time because that is why the temple is 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 researchers think the church items may have been hidden underground from the bolsheviks. excavators have already dug up and restored an underground cell with homemade monkeys to live. it just now we are coming to a special place in our monastery. the old men will have to sit at the start

he would spend all his time in prayer he would spend ten years here. which is a vis 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. tatiana and then it's geophysicists they hope that special equipment will help them locate underground voids to support the rumors which plane the existence of the secret passages.

wealthy british stock. market. can do. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer were no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report 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 locally because take special care when examining such dangerous sections of the catacombs we ensure the remains of prehistoric animals can be found in the closest kayser to something. more than they claim reserves bones very well with the means of working with the muscles you. look for in the course of the world. red clay is a wonderful preserving agent for such. luck. here. both the. these are fossilized burns. we'll give them to the museum of paleontology. you. address this 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 desert 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 fortune videos we see a very interesting elaboration of the vines but they raise an interesting question if you would this little how has been the subject of debate has come about because of the results of mechanical treatment someone doubt whether this could have been done by ancient people this is highly unlikely there were no humans of any kinds three to five million years ago i don't know yet clay helps the paleontologists make discoveries but it makes life much more difficult for geologists looking for an underground passage in the ministry in the pans of egypt the clay is so thick

that it prevents their instruments from examining cavities hadn't blown. so the geophysicists turned to equipment used for vertical electrical sending. it campaign point underground voids the depths of up to fifteen meters. up already. morning which let's begin from work up as soon as you're ready just let me know. tanya nearly got electric shock. what was the voltage about eight hundred volts i would have thought. scientists gauge the soils electrical conductivity twice they carry on one test where they think the 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 reveal their identify cavities around the monastery.

the new shows and tony the churchwarden the outcome of the tests and suggests that excavation work should continue. the holy fathers however have their own version of the underground ministries layout. according to the book the monastery points eastwards when we accidently turn 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 vault are her shoulders and streaming robes we don't know whether it's a coincidence or providence all we know is that there is nothing accidental. or. these manmade caves attract artists as well as scientists. and the show is

a professional photographer and journalist some years ago she often tell people i'm going to tours of the caves of don't fool tourists it was then that she came up with the idea of an art project to draw public attention to the neglected. after cheney is preparations she began taking pictures of the red think is wearing long clothes and standing against a background of flips and underground galleries of the naval filterless. as a result you get something incompatible one lot of times you have current realities with those grandiose properties common with stupid inscriptions like that one south has been here on the other you have these creatures. so you're just contrasting images the last and the spiritual as opposed to the basic human passion. is now intent to draw attention to another underground object that up until now

only special service officers knew about it. and. the facility consists of several long tunnels and is a former reserve come out a point for the region's leaders. the facility was declassified in the year two thousand and is now completely abandoned. bigger enthusiastic intent to start a cold war museum in these tunnels and they've already called the first exhibit. with. this scary figure it is the will to do is call it warrior it's me and the guys from the deer club who made it as a sort of sawmill of what a long gone age was like tillman in a hazard suits warier nine hundred fifty eight. symbolizes the cold war years a constant readiness for war. very little is known about the

facility to this day. that's why. scrutinize all the equipment and documents they find in the abandoned halls. and. this is a teletype written with some text on it would still work so we'll have to draw it to find out what it. is ribbon is a very important figure helped restore portions of the facility history. names addresses and other figures with a lot to decipher. we've never been past this hatch. let's go. that's. the official blueprints of the facility is still classified so the diggers have to study each room sounds. somewhat dangerous containing worn out electric power lines but that doesn't stop the research is curiosity and they proceed

carefully. as is that there are two rooms there connected by a passage a wooden staircase leading up to it's very old. the bunker was built during the second world war in one nine hundred forty two it was intended for use by the primordial regions of ministration and had all the resources needed to support eighty people over two months. rid of this is obviously the communications room allowing the inhabitants to receive fresh information make decisions and inform people about their decisions this is over territory would be controlled 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

roumanian 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 beds. here is something big or there's a lot of something. let's try to dig. i found out. which one of the partisans were asleep sometimes coins rolled out of their pockets. of the one nine hundred 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 that the partisans used 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 all mine a path to the camp are blocked up undermined sharpshooters carefully protected the main entrance. normally these are gains were made 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 because the barricades it had to be unassailable. so for never seen real life fighting today there frequented by members of a reenactment group response team imitate russian marines. because the

guns here well 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 mine by munitions. believe they tend to filters or is designed for military operations in the first place second grandfather served here some birds as a military spirit and the atmosphere of this place for you. given the people working here one served with me in the same division of the marines. so we've got a lot in common i'm no good. in this exercise the stump alters his soldiers to defend the barracks in a follow way possible which is by. fighting breaks out in the fields on the. whole the russian engineers go for christmas one hundred years ago will be defended against weapons with anti.

i thought this was it would defend this barring from this nice knew full well that they were going to be carted circling because the cargo is exposed to gunfire. it also lead protected by fit concrete. even a flight of stairs stops attackers in that tracks so it's the only good choice if someone appears from next to defend the first safe his feet the best to say even if you crawl all the balls the first thing you'll see is the defenders going 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 and the footsteps and flashing lights of new school as a pound to disturb the quiet darkness of the underground labyrinths fifty years to

come but those who've experienced the excitement of the trailblazers are almost bound to return to the some world again and again.