why i know what's really happening to the global economy is cause a report on our. first . computer from moscow twenty four hours a day this is r.t. top stories this hour the russian president pledges drastic measures to create a wall the investment climate in the country centralizing power and defeating corruption are among the goals voiced by dmitri medvedev at the international economic forum in some petersburg. no consent no cash u.s. congress members say they'll cut funding for the libya campaign unless the president gets the proper constitutional go ahead and almost ninety days of action without sanction runs out this weekend but the white house claims there's no need

for congressional consent. palestinians are out of pocket after israel holds back millions in tax has left tens of thousands of people without their wages in a move that tel aviv claims is necessary to prevent terrorism. talking about with more news for in less than thirty minutes from now in the meantime we take you to russia's sunny seaside in the sprawling shores of the black sea stay with us for that. if you're taking your first trip to russia you'll probably be more inclined to pack a fur coat rather than a bucket and spade but if you have down south to the president or region you'll find long sandy beaches and hundreds of kilometers a beautiful coastline literally millions of people flock here for several days every year proof that while russia may be famous for its snow and skiing there's plenty of sun sand and see here as well.

this is the longest developed by and it's in europe fourteen kilometers of it and in the middle is this lady a white bra it is supposed to represent the hopes dreams and hopes of reaching. them it's a stunning place the results of praying by the background of the caucasian mountains and on a sunny day the seascapes can rival anything you might find in the greek islands and if you want to see the area in its full glory you just have to jump into a cable car. is the easy way to do it on this hike. straight up and. you get a pretty good view on the way up here but i think i want to go just a little bit higher and also it's an excuse to this affair. up here you can find

the black seas equivalent of the london eye although admittedly this is a little more retro. you know the most technologically advanced royd this one. equipment. is a big. five minutes to get to the top and if. you managed to cling on you're in for a treat. this is the highest brought on the install a black sea coast meters above sea level. discus incredible. little bit windy a bit wobbly. tourist stores will arrive here in april when the season can continue into october. attractions really area are geared to appeal to the whole family i want to check out one of its newest

success stories. people come from all over russia to visit the black sea coast but if you're looking forward to multiculturalism it's probably a pretty good place to start. before i'm going to names here this is simply called old park then surely it's not very old it'll take a walk around and you'll soon get the picture. of the need for one whole day when you can come here you've got the pyramids of egypt and temples of ancient greece. and even a roman billion dollar less time than it takes you. architect alexander alexei of open the park back in two thousand and four with an ambitious plan in mind. we were out to get together many cultures within the narrow space or east west

caucasus or russia. these architectural structures are filled with substance and as you look around you begin to realize that the culture of humankind is a synthesis of many cultures or did it embraces the whole period from ancient design through all the way to modern architecture. alexander has areas that a case it's more than ten different cultures and it wasn't long after we'd paid our respects to zeus that we found ourselves in ancient egypt. it maybe a little smaller than the pyramid of giza but it's based on but it's certainly posting some fine acoustics i'm. going to have some gold roll was listening he could have been too impressed with all singing as it probably began to rain it was a perfect moment mujahedin doors and visit with parks medieval tower and there's

a bird's eye view of the grounds. you know here we are james this is our territory that is that you're still with us that you are am is to build a space where architecture and nature so merge into the harmony where we all want to be more your god which is. bunce if you're fortunate has something to do with. probably a pretty good place to start and if you go there early enough they'll be plenty of fishermen setting off for their morning catch. one of the best things to be about coming to the coast is themselves they have breast seafood so that's why we're on board neptune says going to take it to the place we can collect it from down there . i'm sam. will work from the stir. so game his crew a muscle an oyster farmers they've only been breeding the tasty mollusks for three

years but they're already proving very popular. but yes i can tell you that as far as our seafood on city is concerned about this is a budding market. traditionally people here ate shish kabob sunfish and now there's a great demand for see who are not only locally but also in moscow st petersburg and elsewhere there were no shellfish an oyster is in the menu bar the restaurants only local people like to cook shellfish for a very long time. so those poll know how xander is an oyster diver and once they've arrived at the beds his job begins. the boats on to the boys. were in the right place so the secret. but once everything secure the catch has to be loaded into the robots and that's where the hard work begins if you're not a fan of dirty jobs it's probably easy for you it's all pretty much guarantee easy

was sea water shower. so i still think it is and plenty of on broken guests. little crowds are there as well as get the stuff because about all. of us this themselves can be surprisingly hard to find. so this kind of reading program apparent doesn't yield too many oysters they're quite rare so you see we've got tons and tons of mussels but only one or two oysters hidden among them. it's more like he. might have been a needle in a haystack. gave his crew off the still huge demand for fresh mussels locally i'm good must go and there's definitely no schulze to them. so this is going to be one of the biggest seafood buffy's you have a lightly the sea we've got a lot under twenty muscles are feeling bathing crabs and fish and of course the odd press is that it's not often you get to eat seafood when it's this fresh

unfortunately on an oyster boat there's no shortage of experience because. most of us are ok so. may not be the most romantic setting to try one of nature's great aphrodisiacs you don't give them much fresher than this. not to mention extremely tasty. so i had my long journey over water but i'm not sure that even the most generous marine biologist would count as all muscles among the small taste of cold screeches. that is intelligent animals only to. grow when you're behind a black sea and have to find. them. below . it and here it is or it. is like to some of. say hello to zurich and z.

you know three beautiful bottlenose dolphins they've been living in before me here of the dolphinarium for more than ten years and they've got their banking side of me down to a falling out. but this is probably the best quickest way to make friends i think. this one is greed. is good and theirs is the best way to get quickly threads. having to share their breakfast. with the ladies clamoring for something bigger do. bigger. in a row the fights over won the. rivalry. and. there's little yelling actually seen are in the car around two hundred fifty kilos

and zurich tips the scales over three hundred but fortunately there's plenty of food for everyone. so the girls eat sixteen kilos of pace or they go through a scene. can you imagine how many of these that is yeah i know me is still here recently hungry and that means that he's quite happy to run through his routines as long as there's a reward on offer looking first sure to him to attract his attention and then you throw it. you know maybe. they could come on. oh. ok now we know the.

wait a little bit. of the heart of the season hundreds of people come to see zorak and his girlfriends every day and practices perfect. i get the feeling he's disturbed. by. this is the food the chose to get up close and personal with. james to get ready now take it was better i could possibly imagine. going to be one of the most amazing experiences.

you can get you grow so much of your it doesn't mean that nothing ever will. go this amazing feat. although i could do the less. gracefully exit of. an obese way. look at my gym and. thankfully peached don't thin as a wrestler it's along the black sea coast but you can quantify. unfortunately like many other resorts around the world the black sea coast has its own problems with but as they say sometimes one man's truck can be another man's treasure for in this case a woman's treasure first. she ran to waste from polypropylene

stacks production and some volatiles. here you can see waste from show's production just like you was. for the. polyfill in and used sacks seventy years ago a name in the can for over gave up her practice is a doctor to become an artist and environmentalist. recycling is still rare in russia and the scarlet letter is a common sight nina has opened the white horse gomery to try and draw attention to the damage the waste is doing to the local area there boy it's always a pain to see the earth turn into a garbage can i try to collect some of the rubbish but of course my efforts were in vain the trash was not getting smaller many people just don't understand me i don't know how to explain it to them my idea is to make people remember my work and everything that i have taken care of before their litter i want them to remember my beloved lexie and the fish it'll be great if they begin doing such things even

better than me i mean or offer to give me a quick lesson in how to make plastic stick their let's make a fish ok come on we're making a little addition for his biggest installation a sculpture that's intended to represent the whole of the black sea first let's get rid of unnecessary stuff here is a fair mug on take a look it's not clear if it's a fish yet but now we're going to shape it and look here is the tail. and now we're going to tolerate and it's will become absolutely fabulous starting the start of the. summer and. that's right or yes beautiful i perfectly and no you should shake it a little bit to let the paint spread says having the most about. me round let me paint. the isn't exactly sure what breed of fish we were creating but it was pretty

colorful and once the finishing touches have been added it was ready to take its place in the gallery forward to go change and here is here to make this work you know now you have your own place in the back seat that's right into the sea find a nice place for her hope she'll have a happy life. it's amazing to think we can transform this rubbish and something really rather beautiful and hopefully the people who see it think it will but more chalk away that next plastic bottle. but taking a look at that sculpture of the black sea reminded me of another thing i haven't quite have the time for it's. been so busy here on the coast oil was good about my things. that it is up here. in parts.

culture is that so much about taxpayers' money materialization in the particular area we're always in crisis will be a witness ten years. down the official anti application. i pod touch from the. life on the go. video on demand copies of my old cars is an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question.

so far on my trip or have a chance to meet a few of the black seas marine animals but i've heard that up there in the hills there were plenty more. the least most of the time this isn't just an ordinary zero it's a rescue under retirement center for injured and. was enjoying her early morning bob. some of the more than sixty different species i met up with heads keep a nickel away for a tour and really started working here three years ago because i was a hunter it seems like the animals don't really crunch us. let's go about. this is balloon the himalayan band boulder colorado you want to see how long you want to have fun and once it's only ten months old he's growing like a weed he's a fairly tough now but when he gets to get well it's going to be about a hundred. but i think he's. great i'm having fun and wanting everything

in his reach. every careful months the lens that's my. only think to lose a handful wait to meet his friends next door. isn't a month in baby. with a space of recent births the zoo now has around three hundred animals and they've set up a nursery for their baby cats why can't we all get along in my case. my genes the most the becoming a delicious treat and just a few months ago they welcomed one of the world's rarest animals so this little is adam a baby i want. and the son of two confiscated i guess so he really is a little nearer. and you can already see. it's not going to be too long.

before. he's going to turn into. the world's biggest cat and a bit of a killer and i'm hoping he's going to be temple with me. here have been rescued from poachers or from circus it is that some come from rather more unusual backgrounds. this is grigori he lived with her grandmother in know what i see he was living in a simple flat for a long time is more than ten years old grandmother has brought him here some three years ago she was a very old woman she brought to bear here in a car without any cage just using a leash she cooked a big delicious cake for him that grandmother is just too old to look after him. i'm just realizing a bad living in a granny flat now and he had. big spare room. i've never seen one my house such a bond of trust with so many different creatures it was like being around

a real life talk to. a nickel in hopes that the thousands of visitors who come to the park take a new appreciation of the animals away with them. for a visit to the safari park with minor cuts and bruises i figured it was time to visit one of the black seas more dates tourist attractions and maybe get myself something to eat. one thing you learn quite quickly about the russians is that they love their bread whether it's brown growing it pretty much comes with everything we just want strains in the two years i've been traveling around this country i've never seen one of the others. it's a regular of a mill that was grinding flour in this area more than a century ago and with the help of a few modern improvements it's back in business. yes the history of this company is fairly typical of russia. eight hundred ninety five it was nationalized in one thousand eight came. in the one nine hundred thirty s.

it was really in sickle and hammer and wasn't service until the early one nine hundred sixty s. . a few years ago the original mill was stripped transported and rebuilt and the old gears were given a new lease of life. there are some new parts to this windmill but it really is a timeless bit of engineering vertical axle turn by the wind power and that energy. is then converted down here by these wheels. and this one is part of the original nineteenth century mechanism the wind still running day. which moves these two parts up into the grinding stone. and we get flour the same way it's been produced. and making it is a really simple process the so. they get. now follow me. here is

a receding monk or. this week here. now in the process of how already underway plenty of bleeding and baking it was time for snow. ok so i've heard of a ploughman's lunch but i'm guessing this is a miller's log this milk. and bread and they were. this mill may be an example of the region's recent history but they're all relics along the shoreline that date back to antiquity. this is the ancient city of gold the pier was home to thousands of people until it was destroyed in the third century a.d. and it's one of the best preserved examples. of an eighteen city on the rocks and cursed the greeks to settle here names their city after samarian king and its

ruins cover around forty. it's still possible to wander through the so is of great houses and you can even discover the citizens favorite temple i bet the next would have been one of the most popular places back in the days of the good because it's the remains of an ancient winery people who crossed the grapes here then would have come down these forests and into these enormous buckets they're still yet. down here. unfortunately. all we've got now of course is rain water but back in the day this would have held the equivalent of thousand bottles. have been long since deserted but the descendants of its creek settlers are still in the area and they still have a passion for the great. this is russia's wine country around sixty percent of the crop comes from around this area and on about the people who make some of the best

. these are your grapes i believe yes and this is a very important sort of you. think. it is family are almost ready to start making the latest batch of best they must stress so. it's a much depending on the use of stress they will set you back around fifty dollars but this first batch of grapes went. let me introduce to my father as a go on oh yes the beginning. a once. because when younis is bringing in the harvest he likes to have a few friends or. the old traditional. go to the cellar where it's.

there was a pretty big power of grapes. so he wants to take the plunge. you supposed to get everyone stomping away in a nice uniform rhythm a lumia greek slipping around on fifty kilos of grapes takes some doing. and i was about to get more than mending a foot. and so i think. we definitely deserve a drink thank you very much. yes he misused it well. he was said to continue into the evening but i wanted to take a stroll across a number of the regions landmarks before my plane back to moscow. below. when it's windy even plenty of wind won't keep it warm. moist say views were caused germ his

son mike's and run a.t.v. tours along with the units here. and after tackling the dunes it certainly beats walking back to the hotel. it may have been getting chilly but as a born and bred seaside town boy i was sad to be leaving the black sea coast there may not boast the infrastructure of some of the famous mediterranean resorts but with months of sunshine and relatively low prices and no troublesome visa or is used it is easy to see why millions of russians come here for the summer holidays it's a place to relax bring the family and enjoy the warmest only water that russia has to offer.

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