if you just joined us a very warm welcome this is our tea with international news live from our studios here in central moscow time talk all our main news stories this hour the french president is facing opposition to his leading role in the intervention in libya as the situation threatens to descend into a stalemate there is criticism that because of course these actions have been driven by imperial ambition. they've been rebels are holding at least for russian journalists captive meanwhile nato forces see their support suffer after

a botched air strike killed several antigovernment fighters the coalition says it regrets the incident but stopped short of offering a full apology. as u.s. political parties keep bickering over the new budget credit agencies sound the alarm over the country's bad boring habits saying it's a road straight to bankruptcy. for the moment i'll be back with more news for in less than thirty minutes from now the meantime join our team as they continue to discover central russia and this time they travel to the republic of mordovia it's home to some of russia's most accomplished artists. facing the. prospect. seems to come up to your waist and you should follow your friends a voice coach. a trip to the republic of moldova.

just over six hundred kilometers east of moscow it's home to around one hundred thousand people must be some of the fittest in the country. and maybe small when it comes to sports it's definitely a major player. to say that on going on holiday are more likely to head to the beach. but you can't really travel around russia without at least having a go at some winter sports and at least with this one i do get to see some stuff if i have to pull off. a bit of points every day dozens of people have the tracks here some shooting in

cross country skiing from experts absolutely can it's. quite fun we got the right equipment but it has been a very long time since i've struck on some skis. and there was always the promise of some complaints and. no one told me that i was going to have to trek through the forest to reach it. still may be the hardest thing. scandinavian. well. this one much more. but finally i made it over the top down to the top it's. just about.

oh here. we've got some of the. season range. and it was time for annoyance relaxing lloyd to. put the post besides. lie down the. no no on your stomach but one leg here. so he's going out. apparently biathlon also requires unnatural flexibility to spread your legs like him. i was determined that those tiny little targets were not going to get the best of me. yes. i would be idea of a little bit of norwegian blood in me. now this part of biathlon i could definitely get used to. but i think i have to work on one posture. this is where i would.

say they bury her. like a ballerina. on skis it's definitely a useful skills i have with the snow just stick on the ground but i decided i would be better off walking to my first destination. though the horses always had a special place in war davy and culture traditionally more as a beast of burden or a means of transport rather than anything else but. local farm has been doing something. useful and that's all down to animal entrepreneurs aleksei i used to work as a vet but at one point some of my colleagues and i decided to start a farm producing commis which is for men to mares milk we've been operating for just over two years we have eighty horses here. has been a popular drink on the central asian steps for thousands of years but aleksei is

introducing it to a brand new markets he already has a team is here and he's aiming for three hundred. one maize three well behaved. the. king said to him. through a cow respect. i think. you know i've seen a milk cows. goats. hired me horses are a little bit too capricious for that because they have to go to hell so. the techniques back. in the winter the farmer only produces around one hundred liters of milk a day as there's less straw. for the horses unless the monsters but in summer they yield fifty percent of. the animals

a corporation which. incidentally both. lovely and specific job do because if the milk isn't flowing this little one gets to suck a little bit i'm not normally make the milk come as an instinctive response once the milk has been collected it's off to be processed i was tempted to try some but also makes a explain that it's actually a powerful laxative i became rather less keen. fortunately the fermentation process which will bottom out. we should come. to take a look at that. big slab of lovely warm. and then paste and receive. the fresh milk is mixed with some little ready been processed and after sixty minutes it's ready for packaging.

the syrup right so there we go for the finishing touch hopefully. the. one before a very fresh chorus only for a sanitarium or supermarket name. unfortunately it was a case of one down mice you know and to go. oh yes. i've been getting. some peyote all off the news so i think it's time to try one out. healthy. holik. but if you are looking for a real drink the moldova and council surrounds has plenty of the peace options.

such as ladies i sat at my side and this place as well as me. somewhere or me things. already. must impose going to get on the decks i want to swarm of brooklyn goodness. i'm a little does carry. some stuff. i'm feeling much more confident i made my way of the city jail ships like this list . believe me with the d.j. say you could you show me a few tricks. everything's loaded and treat us be just skin this club so there were no actual records to mix but they were about fifty three the insignificant on. this point called the instructions from the this land. management.

the mixing wasn't exactly seamless i needed a guaranteed fulfill a clear. cut. my list so should feel good. enough to take up a comfortable position. thank you. long. hard but because it was like last time a tax cut. that's going to. cost me. it turns out the joy was an aspiring doctor who'd come all the way from sit down to study and surround. and the next day we met up for a walk around the city. so you have twelve presences near. as i would only.

i guess. never give up on anything they go always help us always support and he did a lot to me not only to me from my brother. do a lot i have my dad out and that's why you're here. and i just see this. been based on surrounds for almost four years but he admits that it's taken time to adapt to russian culture but with another two years before he's qualified john's focus is firmly on his studies yeah see since i want to be a doctor the time i came had the paternity. give us everything we got. after finishing and i think help my guys see something that really really will make a difference and these four individuals get a chance to prove himself and do something better for

a living sometimes i get to meet really amazing people much troubles and john was clearly inspired by his time and surrounds it's still a city that not many foreigners have seen but in a few years' time well that's going to change. how you already seen the mordovia has some pretty amazing sports facilities and the stadium is no exception but in twenty eighteen the world cup is coming to russia i like a pasty of seven thousand. because they get a. building to surround six new stadium is already underway and it's going to cost around one hundred eighty million dollars. but with so much at stake for surround sky i thought it was important to get a feel for the playing conditions. oh so we may want to think the cities where it is never to see out of this play.

tarling the russian premier league. your voice all right. if they pull it off this really could put surrender on the map but it's not going to strangers to world class sports facilities here. shortly. culture is the same i definitely think you should be sufficient time to mark latham logic or get logic of humanitarian intervention as would be uprising to stalemate will outside powers find themselves pulled deeper into. disarming saddam hussein. charging of iraqi citizens. this event brings further assurance that the torture chambers and the secret police are gone forever.

tries again every embassy in kabul. cares too much occupied afghanistan. now occupy sales at guantanamo bay. that. is appropriate today in accordance as much as we can if he can even. if a slap some a slap if you can should do nothing so that it shocks especially if it gets slapped but you don't actually break any bones could turn gay should take place that we. want on hold for the senior leadership of. the libya nothing to. really transform. it might not be alone with all russia's top footballers will be playing in

surrounds the some of the country's best cyclists are already here now to hear this weather you're probably thinking who exactly the best conditions in the world to some be exploiting well the local government agreeing with you so they decided to do something rather radical it's. been so slow. but the plates only cupboards full size spirit struck. the center and be opened in early two thousand and ten but it's already home to russia's following astroid history. as we wait a good deal of progress both in the europe and russia a european champion is training here a college who had walked within the olympic champ and is here as well is preparing all sportsman for the two thousand and twelve games. also become incredibly popular

with the local children more than two hundred fifty young riders train here regularly in a moment charge of them or is coached during. before they can become champions they need to learn a few basic skills. how to go there mixing as a kid but that was now a very long time ago. they say you never forget riding a bike but if i was going to take on this track i had one or two technical issues to sort out. all the tighter. careful on the turn. don't fumble too high. gear or the second hump at least. it isn't a bit. amazingly

bloody ok i think i'm probably about. more of a culture buff than a fitness fanatic there's still plenty to see in mordovia. i began my journey with a visit to one of its oldest and most important religious sentence. this is the same john the evangelist smaller stream which houses churches dating back to the beginning of the eighteenth century but it also doubles as a spiritual and physical rehabilitation center. of the ruffian his early in his mid twenty. he's but he's already lived here for several years. his

day begins with early morning prayers but his most important tosk is to supervise the lay brothers who comes to live and work in the ministry. you two gentlemen go to the hotel's backyard your help is needed there you grab the garbage cleats as for you bring some water skis. and many of the helpers here are planning to take monastic fouls but others might say they are looking for a different kind of redemption. i joined this monastery because i was an alcoholic and a drug addict laypeople get subsidies for medical assistance people suffering from all kinds of addictions stay here for long periods of time. they come here just to live and work in this holy place they get treatment for free the monastery's atmosphere and the way of life here help them recover. but it's no easy rowing

in return for their room and board to help us work ten hour days and in the winter weather means a lot of snow shoveling so this is what daily life is like sergei and the other helpers here the faces tend to change on a fairly regular basis the one thing stays the same. material gain so hoping for a more spiritual rewards. a few personal demons as well. prep plays a vital part everyone is expected to attend the morning and evening services a meal times are each accompanied with bible readings. to. pay. for. let's leave it. here.

with my tasks finally complete i headed back to surround the small site scene and to try and find the city's most visited grave site. and this is the man to come see all of his favorite sons and certainly its most famous artist because. the russian rodin his work is still on display in the museum. there is it was born and raised in more jovian before study in moscow and moving to italy and france to refine his technique. in the one nine hundred twenty s. the soviet government sent him abroad as an ambassador for soviet aunts and he spent almost twenty five years living and working in argentina. and it was here that he created his signature hardwood sculptures. to tell the truth moses is one of the most famous works some see it as

a tribute some michelangelo sculpture of the horn moses where others think it takes its inspiration from the more pagan mythological tales perhaps of it his youth. i couldn't decide about it then and i still talk about it now. as he returned to russia in one nine hundred fifty and continued to work up until his death but there's still some debate of what actually kills him. now i've heard of going for iraq before but never actually telling it but the lesson hasn't been one hundred fifty nine trips. he's head of lemons notice here and breathed his last. claiming one victim from beyond the grave. and whether you believe it or not and certainly hasn't hurt the artist's legacy. for more than thirty years local children have learned to make handicrafts here carry on a tradition that they. it's back centuries. nowadays there are around twenty five

children taking classes here and he says one of the most popular toys apparently all of the easiest to make. this. procedure. is preparation. because believe it or not this is going to end up looking like a. he said that look very abstract. fortunately alexander is a patient teacher and several of his students go on to become lost across. what children do here develops their taste for work because the toys reflect true electives ease some of the school's graduates a well known design is as

a matter of fact this school serves as the basis of a development of a trade in objects of us many of our graduates pursue it as a main source of income. my coming was never going to end up in the shops but with a little tweaking from alexander i was pretty happy with my coin flips. yeah. that's a very. clever. it was starting to get late and we were still coins a long way from saran sq but fortunately alexander was able to point me in the direction of the role of the special until so the mornin seems to be pretty amazing

autists but i've heard that they're famous for their hospitality as well and they're supposed to be a place around here where i can get a taste of that hopefully a bed for the know it. all i wasn't expecting it to be quite so busy. that i wouldn't do you guessed what i'm going to take you through a secret model in the retail base against into a chill that will protect you from evil spirits who you make you much healthier and taffy yeah ok let's go i already. know some of them seventy ready. and as you can see it's definitely not your usual hotel welcome it. was.

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definitely say that one davy and b. and b.'s pretty unique come for the moment and can only trouble membership so don't let loose good nights well as they say morning been. my think good and a good night sleep well to skiing and shuffling my way around moldavia this is definitely a place to come if you've got and then she took the. bus you'll soon find a rich faded local culture and a group of welcoming inspiring people to help while away those with disabilities.

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