i leave and now on. the second time i love it here especially. is very beautiful misty prospect in st petersburg's main avenue as one of the best known streets in russia i suppose you could control the prospect street in london. the area is full of restaurants shops museums and historical sites the main point has to be this magnificent. two hundred years ago it was closed by the. museum of cool services. and today the area in front of it is one of the city's main points tourist spots. the church of the spilled blood is located off the main

streets here to be compete the same back. on the site. the second was assassinated. in his memory. in this week's program to show you some alternative sites excursions. to the cities. very popular with international tourists. seven hundred rubles that's roughly around twenty five. similar projects to. visit people. to thirty feet. interested in history literature. connected to the city's most famous. theme. jack.

for example legend has it actually cost died in simply this bug in eighty ninety three not because of color but because he famously said his last simply was larger than his entire life hours later. he stands. in the ring shows the body of the fish installed the figure for species burned by conspires after he was poisoned shot and drowned. the pharmacy isn't for the faint but the light hearted tourists among us i think it's a perfect escape an alternative in statement after being subjected to hours inside the city's palaces. the welcome to the terrorism same piece back and interactive museum dedicated to the myths and legends of the city the last book it's cool it's a see through a labyrinth of that same rooms where you come up close and personal to terrifying exhibits a witness ghost the characters of the past that is disputed and peter the great.

so what other alternative activities can you enjoy it said petersburg the ford museum of dreams located in the st petersburg institute of psychoanalysis i've been in one thousand nine hundred nine to mark the one hundred years since for its famous book of the interpretations of dreams was published there are two holes exploring the psychologist's theories the so-called light school splays historical facts and figures where the guide explains freud's work while the dark hall is a collection of at first sight meaningless things to guide suggests the visitors should perceive the display in accordance with their own experience fancies and desires. there's a museum in the northern capital which celebrates the rich history of the world still a strange vodka display cover such a result of history in russia starting from the eleventh century when it was originally called red wine exposed drinking traditions and. rituals.

during peter the greats when many votes could drink in traditions were established and many of them exist to this day for example this item sheerest call should be illegal gold blood which was a prototype for a ritual of penalty shots for being late to a party the amount of which one had to drink from the goblet was fixed and totaled to one litter i guess too late to be just bulls danced badly broken large to drink . thousands of exhibits amazing broken bottles spanning centuries there are also several unusual items on display which include even phones can for cause metal should drink in space after you're done with exploring the items in glass cabinets invites to focus in a room which contains over two hundred various machines and next door to the museum is a restaurant called russian folk room number one which of course traditional russian hussein. and if you have a special occasion insipidus bird will just look top notch in the city where

professionals will take care of your stone or dozens of stylists make artists and cosmetologists which are constantly upgrading their skills and you were top schools for professionals of the industry will help you look your best. the celebrated phenomenon of the white knights a source of much pleasure in petersburg as the cool businesses it's an exciting time to visit the city it's not a little bewildered ring in regards to your personal time clock and discuss the culture in the city with its insider let's meet this week's guests laura lovely to meet you so your firm brylin that you've been living here. so we try to promote the culture of cooperation between finland and russia. very useful it seems that some petersburg is a completely different city in the winter than it is. tell me about some of the

activities that you enjoy you know what. first of all people act totally differently during the summertime people are rushing people. to go out into time they're just trying to get home as soon as possible so people go hang out in the parks in the restaurants terrorists if you had any visitors already any tourists coming to the city where would you recommend that they want to visit they had to. pause fortress which is on the other side really beautiful especially this really really nice. church bell. ringing and take a walk around around downtown because it's missing the architecture is amazing and beautiful well what if the weather is bad because you know one that can be a rainy day can be sunny it's a bit temperamental little bit like yeah well you recommend. something inside. of there's this amazing traditional old russian vodka room called.

have a glass of water which costs twenty roubles as far as i remember. going to you're not into drinking all. the museums. there's a whole range of different. churches and cathedrals all of that. you want to party to. immerse yourself with historical sites considered cultural capital st petersburg reflects the country's extrude we state. there are various ways to see the city by speedboat rollerblading bicycles you can hire them privately or take part in group guided tours either where you can see all the major sites such as the pizza. for those who crave adrenaline filled activities there are

a few other suggestions too like this next form of transport. welcome to the world of the phones to the furious responses of the family sixty patients around the city on line functional and we were told that there are many people who dream of once riding a bike and another around our city is popular destination for tourists so we decided to combine these two facts and to show our city to those who fancy riding a bike from your perspective or experience bikers can give you a tour and not only tell you about the main most popular landmarks but also provide an unusual tour showing some hidden gems of st petersburg which you won't find in a guidebook. on the move to pull it off we are going.

to last about two hours the money's gone from three thousand miles to the group that's around one hundred twenty dollars that's who started this initiative of a group of bikers who decided that many people should push racing for cities towns tourists interests can be combined one. is you will see a city in the city to see you. to some a motorbike from still school might be too much for me such an adrenaline filled excursion sums up the city in the summer exciting and simply take. what i mean credible i experience a spectacular view. as i love the survey. on this week's program from st petersburg i'll see you at the same time next week until then for me.

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let's get going with boxing where the next new heavyweight champion of the world will he'll either from russia or pakistan and alexander prevent. to clash on august

twenty seventh for vladimir klitschko as vacated w b a cron to score securing the belts the last weekend from david haye in doing so he became known as super a champion of the w.b. a division because it could technically take years for klitschko at you defended three other titles needing to be fought over as well but that. will do battle. brother telling touching base in the russian capital this week to show off. the hole between them the younger sibling stating he'd like to organize a party in either his home kiev or. the stadium. where the absolute champions and doesn't matter how many belts are out there or other bills you know we have super championship belts and other interim chambers of both we didn't choose. the diversion we're going to be champions and we'll see

who's in the challenger and i'll see who's my challenger in the next couple of weeks so i'll make sure who is the guy who was going to be staged. ok let's talk football the cup america where chile have maintained their position as group c. leaders coming from behind to draw one one with your ago-i both sides who had numerous chances in the first off but neither could convert them who swore it was the guilty here and then what would have unquestionably being the strangest goal of the chairman to date was just the by kept up by the euro why crossbar a remarkable effort on the moment why did eventually seize the initiative ten minutes after the break patience the key for this one story is in no rush before setting up a thorough perera who can least also for one nil but chile where to leave empty handed them to secure funding danger man how alexis sunshades here within easy danger much too close in your eye.

the champions on top of group c. then but only because of goal scored peru thirst surprise partners at the summit following a shock when over mexico it was a good rare oh with the only goal of the game eighty two minutes enough to slide from the mix in the fans room in chilly thus leaving the table with four points from two. at least most help clear house cold of the day after almost two decades on the big stage fabio cannavaro announcing his retirement from football at the age of thirty seven june to a lingering knee injury the defender played in four cups coupling italy to the title in two thousand and six he i'm off the top of one hundred thirty six instructional caps before retiring from the national scene i year ago kind of our own was also named fifa world player of the year in zero six becoming the only defender to ever be awarded the accolade the neapolitan play for a total of six teams during his club career including two stents with eventis and

three seasons with real madrid where he won two league titles kind of r.-o. finishing his playing career with awfully dubai. i will not take over the club's technical advice. red bull are showing no signs of letting go of their formula one stranglehold over all leader sebastian vettel second only to teammate mark webber in british g.p. qualifying made some inclement weather but you were then to start at one and two in the grid in a repeat of last year's results where one here last season on edge vettel i thought this time around to put himself into prime decision to repeat the achievement history and seemingly in sync with the silverstone circuit he also dominated practice a day ago a perforation keeping things tight with the two time champion fernando alonso and sleep and must say writes on the heels of all the red hot red bulls jenson button who trails vettel by seventy seven points in the overall standings will start from fifth form. cycling's most prestigious event meanwhile has entered the martens for

the first time this season rudi alberto costa of portugal ascending to the finish line ahead of the competition on stage eight of the tour de france the twenty four year old showing his climbing progress to hand his movie star team their first ever stage when the event all rounder philip gilberto one of the future break from a group in the final two kilometer climb that earned him a second place on the effort also propels the belgian to first in the points classification condell evans he was third were first told me while finished sixteenth but that's still good enough to hold on to the overall leaders yellow jersey for another all day. baseball is still reeling from thursday's shock death of a fun during a texas rangers game with the oakland athletics thirty nine year old shannon stone falling over the railings in front of a song after attempting to catch a ball tossed into the stands by rangers player josh hamilton the tragedy deeply

affecting the team and its president. it hits aside our roots of who we are. we're about making memories. about family entertainment and last night we had a father and son at the game. and had a very tragic and it's on them and it just. drives it to the core of what we are about and the memories of that we tried to make in this game. street euro back on the map in southern hemisphere rugby's biggest club competition the queensland reds winning their first ever super fifteen title beating new zealand powerhouse that canterbury crusaders the reds finished next to last back in two thousand and nine but an amazing turnaround story was there for the taking on suffered a seven time champion two seaters though displaying their pedigree early on museum and international carter making it five. the twenty nine rule without

a penalty in the second half for a ten six lead be on drugs though will get me to tonight's saving the day i score tied to somehow turning sixty five metres to win the contest i think i'm still so in the stream team takes the shipper with the title for the first time in seven years i think to thank. possible where china is first n.b.a. star yao ming has announced his retirement they shoot in rocket center quitting the game after eight seasons in the world's top league that thirty year old has suffered numerous foot ankle injuries throughout his career and was forced to miss the entire two thousand and nine season he also played only five times last year the rockets getting past the first line playoffs just once during his state never reaching the n.b.a. finals however yeah i was a hero back home the two point two nine meter shanghai native is an eight time all

star no less on this massively help in promoting his sport in asia. and staying on the hardwood where c.s.k. have unveiled a man they hope can turn around their structuring form over the past couple of seasons serb theo doll sitch agreeing a three year contract in moscow this week the twenty four year old is regarded as one of the best point guards in europe richard from port reports is delighted to have signed up with the army men. after last season's disappointments well since count didn't even make it out of the group stages of the euro league the only men have shown they're looking to get right back to the top ahead of a new campaign twenty four year old serbian point guard me last year the us each has been made to play to join the moscow iron states and a former olympian says it was an easy decision in the time when. i believe in the same time was. the. best player in the whole damn.

i was. enjoying watching it. and from that time. to be one of my favorite teams wasn't so difficult to. go and says to the dosage is rated as one of the best plays in europe while the twenty four he still has a space years ahead of him part of the reason he's so highly rated is his versatility where you can play a point guard all shooting guard so oddly the circle starts in a playmaking role given that sam is counting on going to be offering veteran american john robert holden a new contract until the dosage is eager to make his mark on the new season gets under way this year we've built a great team. all big teams and he's one of biggest in europe. we do. believe we can be a true true blue. two dosage one b.v.

only serve one serious cause roster he'll be joining good friend may not crease stage who signed to be on him in just a couple of weeks ago wanted all six says his fellow countryman played a big role in persuading him to join sas camp yeah. we was all together and he was close also. school and i say oh we. this is also more for my wish because i believe this is this is the best choice for me. of course of course to push me to live with a little go final pieces of a jigsaw are being put into place with the new year league season due to get underway in mid october however the signing of tiered dosage sends out a signal to the rest of europe that serious car determined to once again become one of the top clubs on the continent richard i'm hopefully don't see moscow. that wraps up the sport for this our world weather though is coming up in just

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let's take a look at your top stories three georgian photojournalists including president personal photographer have been charged with spying for russia after being arrested on thursday our correspondent peter all over reports. initially there were four photojournalists arrested on thursday one of those has now been released without charge over the three that remain in custody are all pool reporters meaning that they had very close quarters contact with the president of georgia mikheil saakashvili we are hearing this one of those who is in custody has confessed on video to having been a spy to be sending information to moscow and in enough video confession he is implicated one of those three during custody now with regard to the third member of the team he's believed to be on a hunger strike denying any charges against him though the reason they will charge this comes after their personal hard drives we see stunned detailed mopsa of the

presidential compound and presidential goings on the the the daily schedule of mikheil saakashvili was found on that hard drive this resulted in the charges being leveled against them now they will remain in custody until september when they will face a closed doors trial while russia is accused of being a little quick on the draw when it comes to labeling people spies they say that there isn't enough evidence to link these people to to moscow and says that the russians aren't the only people that think that russia has jumped the gun a few times on labeling people spice up to go with the judges are so quick to speak to anyone i guess is just their level of democracy remember and that has been noticed not just by russia but by various key international organizations like the u.n. just to be sold fifteen people arrested on you know challenges no nine of those were found guilty just last week and hunted down.