nine thirty pm moscow time to saturday night think ninth of april thanks for being with us these the top stories coming greece commemoration ceremonies take place in western russia the year after the plane crash that killed the polish president and many of the country's political elite. a group of african leaders headed to libya to try and ease the conflict between the government and rebels meantime nato draws ever more fire over blunders in its military operation that. the top financial

minds gather in an iconic american town to discuss what went wrong with the world's economy and where it needs to go to avoid a repeat of placing the dollar as a reserve currency and the increased role of emerging markets are among the main topics. and a chance to discover russia some more this time james brown travels the republic of more home to some of russia's most accomplished artists coming. prospect. seems to come up to your waist. coat. 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.

may be small when it comes to speak it's definitely a major player. holiday are more likely to head to the beach. but you can already travel around without at least having a go at some winter sports. i do get to see some stuff. a bit. every day dozens of people head out to the tracks here some shooting and cross country skiing from experts to absolute beginners. i finally got the right equipment but i have been a very long time since i've struck on some skis.

and there was always the promise of some. 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. but. this one much more. but finally i made it over the top right down to the told it's. just about oil. oh here fur we've got some of the. season raves.

and it was time for a noise relaxing lloyd to. put a post besides. lie down the. no no on your stomach but one leg here why. he's going out. apparently biathlon also requires unnatural flexibility to spread your legs like a. bus i was determined of those tiny little tollgates were not going to get the best of me. yes. but i would be idea of a little bit of no we've had blood in me. now this ball of biathlon i could definitely get used to. but i think i have to work on my posture. this is where i would. say they're here.

it's definitely a useful skill to have with the snow on the ground but i decided i would be better off walking to my first destination. though the horse has always had a special place in culture traditionally more as a beast of burden or a means of transport than anything else but. one local farm has been doing something. and that's all down to animal launch premier aleksei i used to work as a vet but i have one point some of my colleagues and i decided to start a farm producing chromos 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 market he already has a team is here and he's aiming for three hundred. days story well behaved.

we have been into the. milking said no. to a cow in that respect. i think. it's seen a milk. go it's. apparently horses are a little bit too capricious for that because that's also. the technique. in the winter the farm only produces around a hundred liters of milk a day because there's less straw. as for the who says i'm best i'm honest but in summer we'll fifty percent of. the animals a corporation has called us. and say that this little hole here has a. lovely and specific job to be because if the mayor's milk isn't flowing this

little one gets to suck a little bit and not normally make the will 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 in the fermentation process which will bottom out. richard on full right to you. take a look at that. big slab of lovely warm milk. in. them and place him in the head. the fresh milk is mixed with some little ready been processed and off to sixty minutes it's ready for packaging. the civil rights so there we. have the finishing touch hopefully. the. one before a very fresh coolness of the for

a sanitarium or supermarket need. unfortunately was a case of one down mice you know and to go. oh it's. a feeling this milk champagne not all off noon so i think it's time to try one out. healthy. holik. could be best. but if you are looking for a real drink the more dove you and capital ceramics has plenty of the pieces options. such as make you slow but. like i miss spice as well as being a club site somewhere for me things.

i am already. must impose going to get on the decks i want to swarm a book like goodness. i'm a little does cards. up stuff. i'm feeling much more confident i made my way over to t.j. we'll shift some of this list. leaving with the d.j. could you show me a few tricks is. everything's loaded on three u.s.b. disc in this club so there were no actual records to mix but they were about fifty three the insignificant going to. this point hold their instructions from and this led. to. the mixing was in exactly seamless i needed a guaranteed flotilla a clear. cut to my list

of currently good. enough to take up a comfortable position. thank you for a. long. hard but requires my class time on my part. but. i guess you don't. let us know. it turns out the joy was an aspiring doctor who'd come all the way from st don't study and surrender. and the next day we met for a week around the city. twelve brothers and sisters near. as i'm an only child. i guess i'll. never give up on anything to go always help us all with what he did

a lot to me not only to me through my brother. do a lot to have my dad out you know and that's why you're here yeah that's way and i guess this. been based it's run it's 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 here because what i said give us everything we got we got after finishing well i think helped my guys see and do something really really well to make a difference and the 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 in 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 would have

seen the mordovia had some pretty amazing sports facilities and the stadium is no exception but it's wednesday eighteen the world cup is coming to russia and the capacity of seven thousand. because they get a. building to surround six new stadium is already underway and it's going be to cost around one hundred eighty million dollars. but with so much at stake the surrounded sky thought it was important to get a feel for the playing conditions. oh so we may want to think the city's forest is never to see other places play. so i really mean russia friendly i beg. your voice all right. if we pull off this really could put surrender on the map but it's not quite the

strangest world class sports facilities here. brooke. space is above our national security there is no subs and there is no. military space. bombs on target time bellman. level of the us will. go through space should. get better. on the field as our current threat. and

we must. be. several hundred. years of investment in the peaceful uses of outer space. on this incredible investment from the united states and from the european union in canada and their countries like this this is completely in jeopardy if we start putting weapons in outer space. that. it might not be long before russia's top footballers will be playing in surat school but some of the country's best cyclists are already here now looking at this

weather you're probably thinking who exactly the best conditions in the world do some exploiting well the local government agreed with you so they decided to do so . the article about. it's so cold but the plates only cupboards full size feet of obstructing. the center in the open the nearly two thousand and ten but it's already home to russia's following this reuters. as we wade a good deal of progress both in the europe and russia a european champion is training here i call it had walked within the olympic champion 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 and the man in charge of them all is coach

touring. all over for they can become champions they need to learn a few basic skills from pouncing. i had a good beer 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 jump a too high. look . here in the second house at least. that is it a bit more.

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

late brothers and come to live and work in the ministry. you two gentlemen go to the hotels backyard your help is needed there grab the garbage police as for you go and bring some water as. many of the helpers here are planning to take monastic flowers but others like so ok i'm looking for a different kind of redemption. i joined this monastery because i was an alcoholic and a drug addict people 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 monasteries atmosphere and the way of life here help them recover. but it's no easy rowing and return for their room and board to help us work ten hour day it's time in the winter weather

means a lot of snow shoveling so this is what daily life is like again the other is here the faces tend to change on a fairly regular basis the one thing stays the same. material gain hoping for a more spiritual rewards. the personal demons as well. plays a vital part everyone is expected to attend the morning and evening services a meal times are each accompanied with bible readings. based. begin here. with my tasks when we complete i headed back to

surround for some more sightseeing and to try and find the city's most visited gravesite. this is the come see all of moore though he is favorite sons and certainly its most famous artist the cool step of the russian road there is work still on display in the local museum. there is it was born and raised and more jovial before studying in moscow and moving to italy and france to refine his technique. in the one nine hundred twenty is the soviet government sent him abroad as an ambassador of the soviet aunts and he spent almost twenty five years living and working in argentina. and he was here but he created his signature hardwood sculptures this to tell her a nose is one of his most famous works some see it as a tribute to michelangelo sculpture of the horned moses were others think it takes its inspiration from the more pagan mythological tales perhaps of it as you can

more do they couldn't decide about it then and they 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 over what actually kills him. now i've heard of going for before but never actually telling it but the lesson hasn't been one hundred fifty nine trips. on lennon's nose here and breathed his last. claiming to be on the gray. and whether you believe it or not it certainly hasn't hurt the artist's legacy. for more than thirty years local children who have learned to make hundred crafts here carry on a tradition that dates back centuries. now a days there are around twenty five children taking classes here on horses one of

the most popular toys apparently all of the easiest to make. painstaking procedure. is preparation. of course believe it or not. he said that look very abstract. fortunately alexander is a patient teacher and several of his students have gone to become boss to call some of the. work children do here develops the taste for work because the toys reflect rule activities some of the school's graduates so well known designers as a matter of fact this school serves as the basis of a development of

a trade in objects of art many of them 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 effort. not so bad as the super quick with. some very. plain. it was starting to get late and we were still quite a long way from surrounds but fortunately alexander was able to point me in the direction of a rather special hotel. so the mornin seems to be pretty amazing all to spot i've heard that they're famous for their hospitality as well and they're supposed to be

a place right here where i can get a taste of that hopefully a bed for the night here. although i wasn't expecting it to be quite so busy. i'm still not good with guest tomorrow the i'm going to take you through a secret my toe in the reach show you the hidden things sanctioned reach ill will protect you from evil spirits who you i mean q my child and taffy ok let's go i already. have in the reading this is the. end of the. wasn't. the most you can see and stephanie nor your usual hotel welcome it. was. was the it. was

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they say they want to be pretty unique come for the money it's given already tribal membership site on that let's not as they say more. i think good good night's sleep. i'm shuffling my way around moldavia this is definitely a place to com if you've got them and she took the. bus you'll also find a rich local culture and a group of welcoming inspiring people to help while away those winter blues.

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