if. you're watching r.t. it's hard for look at the main international headlines now greece is the new finance minister takes office with a hard task of convincing people to accept further austerity cuts as the second wave of bailouts cast a shadow of the future of the euro said nations like turkey only a desperate situation now and i'll have your rethink. president get of criticizes the states' role in the russian economy and slums corruption threaten

the country's development speaking at the international economic forum in st petersburg statements commitment to modernization and pledged to drastic measures to create a better investment climate. from the e.u. plans a third set of tougher sanctions against syria as a crackdown on protesters continues pointedly claiming at least sixteen lives on friday and some experts warn the sanctions could be paving the way for libya scholar intervention. next trip to a tourist hot spot in russia's south in our special report. 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 present all region you'll find long sandy beaches and hundreds of kilometers a beautiful coastline literally millions of people flock here for their holidays

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. locals say that 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's supposed to represent the hopes dreams and beautiful beaches. and it's a stunning place the resorts of frame 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 hiking. 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 i also it's an excuse to this affair. up here you can find the black seas equivalent. although admittedly this is a little more retro. going to the most technologically advanced royd its own. equipment there is a big pole. just. five minutes to get to the top and if. managed to cling on to her and for a tribute. this is the highest braai on them saw a black sea coast metres above the sea level. it's incredible. little bit when the. tourist stores will arrive here in april when the season can continue into oct.

attractions in the area are geared to appeal to the whole family i wanted 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 for a multiculturalism this is probably a pretty good place to start. to farm boy names here this is simply called old park specially it's not very old it'll take a walk around and you'll soon get the picture. well who needs a foreign holiday when you can come here the pyramids of egypt. temples of ancient greece. and even a roman billion one of less time than it takes you. architect alexander. back in two thousand and four with an ambitious plan in mind.

we were out to get together many cultures within the now space for east west caucasus 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 designs all the way to modern architecture. alexander has areas that it takes more than ten different cultures it wasn't long after we paid our respects to zeus that we found ourselves in ancient egypt. it may be a little smaller than the pyramid of giza but it's based on and it's certainly boasting some fine acoustics. going to some gold roll was listening he could have been so impressed with all

singing as it probably began to rain. it was a perfect moment lou to head indoors and visit the park's medieval town and there's a bird's eye view of the grounds. oh here we are james this is our territory that is that you're stuck with as 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 you got the force of. balance if your fortune has something to do with was. 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 me about coming to the coast is mattel's they have suppressed 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 . and sam. will work from the stir. so

again his crew will muscle an oyster farmers they've been breeding the tasty mollusks for three years but they're already proving very popular. that yes i can show you that as far as r.c. franson is concerned this is a budding market. traditionally people here hate shish kebab and fish and now there's a great demand for seafood the not only locally but also in moscow st petersburg and elsewhere there were no shellfish an oyster is in the menu of our restaurants only local people like to coca shellfish for a very long time. so those poll know how examiner is an oyster deliberate and once they've arrived at the beds his job begins. the boats all. 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 know the fun of dirty jobs it's probably easy for you each fall pretty much guarantees you a sea water shower sliced fingers and plenty of on welcome guests. little crowds in there as well as get the stuff is about all. of you always does themselves can be surprisingly heart of poems. 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. as hidden among them. it's more like. finding a bit of a needle in a haystack. again his crew off though this still huge demand for fresh mussels locally and in moscow and there's definitely no szell to treat them. so this is going to be one of the beast seafood buffy's you have a lightly the c b going to run one hundred twenty muscles

a few invading 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 the 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 aphrodesiac you don't get that 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 mussels among the smartest of cold screeches somewhere where there's intelligent animals pointing. out when you're behind a black sea and tough to find. them. fellow. here is

a story. about the some of. say hello to zurich and see you know three beautiful. they've been living in before me here of the dolphinarium for moving ten years and. meet down to a falling out. but probably the best quickest way to make friends i think. this one is. that there is the best way to get quickly beds. and to share their breakfast. with the ladies clamoring for something bigger goes. they go. in a row the fights i've won the. rivalry since.

leaving are in or around two hundred fifty kilos and zurich tips the scales are over three hundred but fortunately there's plenty of food for everyone. so the girls eat sixteen kilos of pay for their names or it goes 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. seems as long as there's a reward on offer look first you sure to have your tractors attention and then you throw it. you know maybe. an excess that could come on.

the box. we filled the hole over. at the height of the season hundreds of people come to see zorak and his girlfriends every day and practice and certainly made perfect. i get the feeling he's the slower. this is the first straw i might have the chance to get up close and personal with. james to get ready to take . and it was best i could possibly imagine.

going to be one of the most amazing experiences. of school kids it's across much of it doesn't mean that nothing ever will. be good amazing food. although i could do the less. gracefully exit. and a beast way. look at my gym and. thankfully peached don't thin is a rare song it's along the black sea coast but you can find quite a few on welcome. 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

trash can be another man's treasure for in this case a woman's treasure first. oh he runs away from polypropylene sachs production and somewhat else. you can see waste from shoes production just like he was. polished ellen and used sax seven years ago 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 discarded litter is a common sight nina has opened the white horse gallery to try and draw attention to the damage the waste is doing to the local area their voice it's always a pain just 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 the litter i want them to remember my beloved lexie and the fish it will 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 fantastic there isn't there let's make a fish ok come on we're making a little addition for name is 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 the fairmont gun take a look it's not clear if it's a fish yet but now we're going to shape it look here is the tail. and now we're going to color it and it will become absolutely fabulous and start with. pride and that's right. yes. and no you should shake it

a little bit to let the paint spread says that in a month sort of thing only let me run them let me point forward. sure what breed of fish we were creating but it was pretty colorful and once the finishing touches had been added it was ready to take its place in the gallery forwards and you would go chains and here is here to make this work now you have your own face in the back seat of that's right into the sea find a nice place behind hopes you have a happy life. it's amazing to think that you can transform this rubbish into something really rather beautiful and hopefully the people who see it or people think a little bit more before they chuck away that exploits that. we're taking a look at that sculpture of the black sea reminded me of another thing that i haven't quite have the time for us. i've been so busy here in the coastal was speaking about my favorite thing to the sea. and it is up here.

for the full sun we've got it for the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctica and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization sean thomas discovers what makes antarctica so special and attractive. and

for the. expedition to the bottom of the earth. so far on my trip i have a chance to meet a few of the black seas merida but i've heard that up there in the hills there were plenty more troy. at least most it's not this isn't just an ordinary zoo it's a rescue under its own sun or injured before. is enjoying her early morning ball. more than sixty different species with head keeper. and sally still working here three years ago because i was a hunter it seems like. let's go milo. this is the himalayan bandit don't you want to see how long you want to have fun and once. he's only ten months old growing like a weed. now but when he gets bigger. he's going to

be about a hundred. but i think he's. great i'm having fun and biting everything in his meat. every careful. that's been my. thing bellew's a handful or actually meet his friends next door. isn't him on being baby. with a speech of recent. has around three hundred animals and they've set up a nursery for their baby p. cats and why can't we all get along in my case. my genes the mercies of becoming a delicious treat and just a few months ago i welcomed one of the world's rarest animals this little is adam a baby. and the son of two confiscates and i guess so he really is

a little miracle 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 a bit of a killer and i'm hoping he's going to be gentle with me. here who've been rescued from poachers or from circuses but some come from rather more unusual backgrounds. this is grigori he lived with her grandmother in no one to see it 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 brought to bear here in a car without any cage just using a leash she caught a big delicious cake for him that grandmother is just too old to look after him. just as in a bad living in a granny flat now in the. big spare room. i've never

seen one man have such a bond of trust with so many different creatures it was like being around a real life. and the hopes of the thousands of visitors who come to the park take a new appreciation of the animals away with them. for a visit to the supposed minor cuts and bruises i figured it was time to visit one of the black sea dates to rest attractions and maybe get myself something to eat. one thing you learn quite quickly about the russians is a bay love their bread whether it's brown growing it pretty much comes with everything we just call it strains in the two years i've been traveling around this country i've never seen one of those. it's a router of a mill that was growing flour in this area more than a century ago i'm with the help of a few modern improvements it's back in business. the history of this company is fairly typical of russia. as in eight hundred ninety five it was nationalized in

one thousand eight hundred. 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 here 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 just 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 will still running day. which moves these two parts up into the grinding stone. and we get. the same way and produce one hundred. and making it is a really simple process say. they did.

and now follow me. here here's a receiving bunker more of this week here. now in the process of how ready underway plenty of needing a baking later time for snow. ok so i've heard of a ploughman's lunch but i'm guessing this is a miller. and some fresh bread and they were there i. use mill maybe an example of the region's recent history but they're all relics along the shoreline that take back to antiquity. this is the city of gold your career 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 the city on the east coast

the greeks who settled here names their city after samarium 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 paper. i bet it would have been one of the most popular places back in the days of good because it's the remains of an ancient winery people who crossed the grapes here then would have come down these roads and into these enormous buckets. still year. down here. unfortunately. all we've got now of course is rain water ok back in the day which would have held the equivalent of probably hours and more holes. have been long since deserted of 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 about so many people who make. these only grapes i believe yes and this is a very important sort of you. and his family are almost ready to start making the latest batch of their famous street so. so much depending on the year stretch they will set you back around fifty dollars but this first batch of grapes went distant from. when they're used to my father. oh yes. they wines. because when young is bringing in the harvest he likes to have a few friends. of the old tradition. celebrates.

its there was a pretty big power of grapes to cross so it seemed to take the. post to get everyone stomping away in a nice uniform rhythm but lumia greeks slipping around on fifty kilos of grapes takes some doing. and i was about to get my reward from them being a foot. so i think. we definitely deserve a drink thank you very much. yes this is good. she was six continue the thing i wanted to take a stroll across another of the reasons why months before i called my plane back to

moscow. when it's this windy even plenty of warning want to keep it warm. moist say because what caused his son max run a.t.v. tours along with jeans here. i'm off to 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 it may not boast the infrastructure of some of the famous mediterranean resorts with months of sunshine and relatively low prices and no troublesome these are its use 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 really water russia has to offer.

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