broadcasting live from mars studios and so from moscow this is our theater let's get a look at our top headlines poles and the russians united in grief as it has been a year since president like kaczynski and ninety five other members of the polish political elite died in a plane crash in western russia commemoration services have been held in somalia and scattered to the side of the disaster and. colonel gadhafi forces have launched a major often civil against a rebel held city of. vieques fears me proving to their most easterly point in

three weeks african leaders are meanwhile meeting in a martini a to try to broker a peace deal and plan to travel spring ghazi to meet rebels there and to tripoli to meet with government representatives. and 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 through void over repeat replacing the dollar as a reserve currency and of the increased role of emerging markets are among the main topics. now another chance to discover more of russia and this time james brown travels to the republic of more though via home to some of russia's most accomplished artists. facing the russian. prospect. plunges well below zero the snow seems to come up to your waist. full of your friends a voice coach but

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. when it comes to sports it's definitely a major player. say that if i'm going on holiday i'm more likely to head to the beach. but you can't really travel around without at least having a go at some winter sports and. i do get to see some stuff if i have to pull off.

a bit of points. every day dozens of people head out to the tracks here for some shooting in cross-country skiing from experts to absolute beginners. i finally got the right equipment but it has been a very long time since i've struck on some skis. and it was always the promise of some plates and. no one told me that i was going to strike through the forest to reach it. still may be the hardest thing. scandinavian.

this one much more. and finally i made it over the top down to the top it's. just about. oh here. we've got through the. season range. and it was time for a noise relaxing leuchter. proposed besides. fly down the. no no on your stomach but one leg here why. so he's going out. apparently it also requires unnatural flexibility to spread your legs like a. bus i was determined that those tiny little toll gates were not going to get the best of me. yet. idea of

a little bit of norwegian blood in me. now this part of biathlon could definitely get used to. but i think i have to work on my posture. i guess this is where i would do the right thing they let me hear. oh. it's definitely a useful skill to how good the snow just stick 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 and more davey and 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 mensa members know. we have 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. one ways through the world behaves. looking said now. carol in that respect. i think. you know i've seen a milk cow. goats. parrot me horses are a little bit too capricious for that because they have. the technique back. in the winter the fall money produces around one hundred liters of milk

a day because there's less straws for the horses and less to monster but in summer they yield fifty percent of all. the animals a corporation. i suggested we fold here. lovely and specific job because if the mayor's milk isn't flowing it's a little one gets to suck a little bit i'm not normally will make the milk come as an instinctive response once the milk has been collected itself to be processed i was tempted to try some but over time like say explain that it's actually a powerful laxative i became rather less keen. fortunately the fermentation process sort of bottles. which you don't pull right through you. take a look at that. big tub of lovely warm. feeling in. and then paste in the head. the fresh milk is mixed with some little ready been

processed and after sixty minutes it's ready for packaging. the syrup rice so they were there for the finishing touch hopefully. one before a very fresh coolness ready for a sanitarium or supermarket me. unfortunately it was a case of one down might you know i'm to go. oh yes. i've been feeling this milk champagne up all afternoon so i think it's time to try one out. healthy and modelled holik. give us

a. call. but if you are looking for a real drink the more dough via the council surrounds has plenty of the pieces should. be slow but. i miss rice as well as me. because inside somewhere or me things. already. must similes going to get on the facts i want to warm up folks like us. a little does carry. some stuff. i'm feeling much more confident i made my way of the city jail shit for much of this list. you leave me with the d.j. can you show me a few tricks is. everything's loaded on st crispin's disc in this club so there were no actual records to mix but they were about fifty three to one saying look

i'm going to. at this point hold their instructions for just this last. minute. the mixing wasn't exactly seamless i needed a guaranteed fulfill a quick. cut to my list so she could get an adult to take up a comfortable position. thank you. mom. i did but it's not hers but last time i caught him. i guess you know. there was a major. it turns out the jones was an aspiring doctor who'd come all the way from st john studying surrounds.

and the next day we met up for a walk around the city. as i'm an only child. i guess i'll. never give up on anything they go always help us all with what he did a lot to me you know not only to me and my brother. do a lot i have my dad out you know and that's why you're here. and i just see this. been based in surrounds for almost four years but he admits that it's taken time to adapt to russian culture but with another two years before his quota finds john's focus is firmly on his studies yeah you see since i want to be a doctor the time i came he had the opportunity to give us everything. we got after finishing help see him do something really really well make

a difference in the individual get a chance to prove himself and to 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 all that's going to change. that we've 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 and a capacity of seventy thousand. to take it a. building for 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. we may see the

world through facilities barak is never to see out of his play. so i really mean russian friendly i beg. your voice all right. if we pull off this really could put saran scum a map but it's not going to strangers to world class sports facilities here. brooke. chosen from among many. he was given a clear cut mission. a mission he successfully accomplished. and became the first ever met again outer space. hero of the soviet union one of the best known persons in the whole world. all his thoughts

were focused on flight. could he ever think that his life's work would cost him his life. what happened in those few seconds. and what secrets these sealed barrels still hold. your regard any. one r.g.b. . color. space is the backbone of our national security there is no substitute and there is no alternative to military comes from space. bombs on target little time palin took special about unless will easier able to deliver through space ship or machine. better. company crammed down the film the fact look our current book.

and we must. be. several hundred. years of investment in the peaceful uses of outer space. obviously incredible investment from the united states and from the european union and canada other countries like this club is stuff is completely in jeopardy if we start putting we have been seen outer space. it might not be long before russia's top footballers will be playing in surrounds but some of the country's best cyclists are already here now looking at this weather you're probably thinking not exactly the best conditions in the world

exploiting well the local government agreed with you so they decided to do something rather practical about. the old first place only covered its full size feel extract. the center and be opened in early two thousand and ten but it's already home to russia's finest reuters. who weighed a good deal of progress both in the europe and russia a european champion is training here a college within the olympic champion is here as well is preparing our 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 moment charge them all is coach yury. before they can become champions they

need to learn a few basic skills through balancing. how to go to be a mixing as a kid but that was now a very long time ago. they say you never forget riding your point but if i was going to take on this track i have one or two technical issues sorted out. all the tighter. careful on the turn. don't jump all too high. up. here in the second hump at least. that is it a bit more. amazingly

. ok i think i'm probably about twenty and there. are a lot. more of a culture buff than a fitness fanatic there's still plenty to see and. i began my journey with a visit to one of its oldest and most important religious sentence. this is the st 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 rufin is early in his mid twenty's. yes 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 late brothers who come to live and work in the ministry. you two gentlemen go to the hotels backyards your help is needed there grab the garbage police as for you go and bring some water skis so. many of the helpers here are planning to take monastic found us but others might say 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 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 days and in the winter weather means

a lot of snow shoveling so this is what daily life is like again the other helpers here the faces tend to change on a fairly regular basis the one thing stays the same none of them are here for material gain they're all hoping for more spiritual rewards. the humans as well. plays a vital part everyone is expected to attend early morning and evening services a meal times or each accompanied with bible readings. or getting a taste of the. let's leave it. in here. with my tasks finally

complete i headed back to surround for some more sightseeing and to try and find the city's most visited grave site. and this is the theory of more though he is favorite son and certainly its most famous artist and a cool step of the russian road and his work is still on display in the local museum. parazit was born and raised in more jovian 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 a green waters a number of the 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 sculpture of moses is one of his most famous works some see it as a tribute to michael angelo sculpture of the horned moses or others think it takes its inspiration from the more pagan mythological tales perhaps averts his youth and

more via 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 killed him. now i've heard it going for you before but never actually going by it but the legend has it that in one nine hundred fifty nine trips. put his head on lennon's nose here and breathed his last. claiming one victim from the on the tray. 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 the day. nowadays there are around twenty five children taking classes here and he also has one of the most popular toys apparently one of the

easiest to make. his preparation. he says that look very abstract. fortunately alexander is a patient teacher and several of his students are going to come 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 quiet. play. it was starting to get late and we was still a long way from surround sc unfortunately alexander was able to point me in the direction of a rather special hotel. so the moon 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 around here where i get a taste of that and hopefully for the know it here. although i wasn't expecting it

to be quite so busy. with your guest tomorrow oh i'm going to take you through a secret motel in the regional peace again sion three chill will protest to you from evil spirits who you think you might shall set and taffy ok let's go by radio who juggles of the of the family reading. the. will of the that. was. the as you can see and stephanie nor your usual hotel welcome it. was was the. the was it.

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tribal membership site on that merits not well as they say more. i think good and a good night's sleep don't ski i'm shuffling my way around moldavia this is definitely a place to come if you've got energy to. bounce you'll also find a rich local culture and a group of welcoming inspiring people to help while away those winter believes.

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