this is a great way to see the city. friends on the only bike isn't. the roads. motorcycle team is based we call the trans. federation the team is made up of more than thirty men and the training is just over here. most of the team are away at a competition but there are still plenty of people out for a quiet day. broken bones here and there and having fun. and if a seven year old can make it around the track in one piece. once i figured out how to stop the thing from stalling at least. i'm making my own. never again.

ok so i might not be a natural rebel without a cause but there are some people in chief who do live rather unconventional lives . probably to say the recycling projects around still in their infancy but. around here. you know exactly what to do with. there are thirty. things might. develop a whole new take on heating the. engineer who just can't stop building. expensive bricks but there are plenty of alternatives just lying around. many bottles if you pulled up over the years you know mineral water. difficulty getting rid of them so i thought i might as well use them for a good. purpose so the first thing i made was a bathroom

a nice and warm place. and as time went by and all the projects crop talking. like this portal tower for instance from the inside it may be all these version of the london more. but up top it's a place for the kids to play and help with the gardening to. some yeah this is my swimming pool has a double purpose but you're into first your children swim in the water and then it's used to watering plants and then we'll fill the swimming pool up again a great little thrilling bow on a way to will feel that's the. perfect. projects have made him a bit of a local celebrity he's always had plenty of fans to bring him supplies luxury luxury village news. and you can keep up with the new. look coming and. it takes seven to eight people to collect these bottles even

a plaque or whatever on his. each building normally takes years to complete it isn't slowing down his property empire his next one is an old chapel and he's always looking for willing volunteers. you want to try and with a few quick tips from the most i was well on my way to an architectural triumph. always hard work in the hot sun makes a man thirsty. that sadly i don't have five years to stay and help me finish this project but i can at least help contribute to the building materials. were drinking on the job as incurred. but just one of course because my next stop was going to take some serious concentration if i didn't want to end up with a block or two. i'd. shot but i'm older i get. from.

two martial artists. this is ten c. karate club the biggest and most successful in the city so it's run by alexander one of russia's most accomplished karate masters and he's able to assist it by his son. he's a black belt of course i was in. an intensive course. quickly in here. has been teaching. and estimates he's trained thousand students. percent of the city's population. this is a man who says he wants to. blindfolded. me

a little. to take but. i wanted to find somewhere in the city to relax and recuperate. from the chinese border and there's a thriving community. they've brought us there almost no russians working. whole range of different treatments. particularly effective and.

this is supposed to be great for you circulation joint. happens to be one of the. things ever experience. then you just relax and have to do the thing. it does get better the longer your lawyer still counting down the fifteen minutes i had to wait. for. the. receipt. to get. through to for such

a small person was capable of inflicting so much pain and i was only off way through the treatment. right on hoping that this. all gentle and refreshing the first because now my back row feels like he's had an encounter with a tyke. understandably i was a little nervous as i climbed on to my next plinths but my instructor soon had me completely relaxed. at least until i noticed him getting out a light. very moment to. moment. because i've never dealt with them. though. they may have been using me as a human flaw. but it's also supposed to be great for the secular. compared to those volatile voyles this is

a walk in the park. not sure most kids sucked up into little. to things. with. by centuries of chinese wisdom it was time to seek out some spiritual healing too and that meant getting out of the city. from the capital is one of the areas most beautiful nature spots. so this is the national park it's the biggest national park in the whole region and it's centered around a series of sacred buddhist monuments unfortunately most of them all high up on the hills which means if i'm going to see them. i've got a bit of a trek ahead of me. and of course i take one of the hottest days of the year to do . this there's plenty of refreshment available.

the trucks are said to have been here for millennia and each visitor responds to do their bit to keep them clear. the piles of stones that you can see here are made by the pilgrims taking the trek up into the hills. it's traditional to remove obstacles from your part so that obviously helps you but also the others who are coming to follow in your footsteps and of course never head stuff but have good karma. it can be easy to get lost here if you don't know where you're going but i was lucky enough to have my guide by year waiting for me and one of the park's most spectacular points. is a buddhist who's been showing people around here for more than ten years and he knows all of all how nice most sacred places.

this is a holy place in the moments name means goddess and one of the goddesses is right here in the rock for much you can answer many questions and one can profit from the knowledge that just touched the rock with your hands and for it. by. touching my forehead to this rock who s'posed to impart some wisdom to me. is the state of. but there are plenty of opportunities to draw on the god's knowledge here dozens of children is journey here almost every day to make offerings will seek guidance in the parks various shrines and most of them are headed for one particular destination. it's been

a long hot track but it's finally almost to the end because just behind me is the holiest sites for the buddhists in the whole of this park it's called the gates cathedral and people believe that that's really marks the entrance to paradise. or. take a climb up the stairway to heaven. then the. more the lucky enough to have the spirit speaks to you or not there's definitely a special energy about our night. incredible views a natural monoliths make this a memorable trip and i was looking forward to seeing more of the region's produce treasures.

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is an amazing experience for both and pilgrims alike but. can be found in the region. plays a major role in culture in fact the region is home to the two oldest but it's temples in the whole of the country but it's not just people spiritual well being that concerned with here. pretty serious academic program. is home to around two hundred monks and students. to be. teaching. a course of such discussions to students learning the philosophic truth of. game is the sunni among. the impressive temple

grounds. it was built back in the late eight hundred seventy s. but fell into disrepair during the soviet union and for the last twenty years you have gagne and his brothers have been helping to restore it to its former glory. but the monks haven't only been rebuilding the temple they've also been restoring their academy. an english teacher who's been working here since one nine hundred ninety four. the students study here for five years and as well as languages and they focus heavily on tibetan sciences. wangel. it's fife the sciences and philosophy teach you can teach tippett and that's to. explain the types of paul's. voices. there are lots of different ones. what might your polls tell you what sort of thing i'll leave you will paul's kid nepal's different kinds some long road.

trip. and all the others have to be at work a certain rate for fifteen years ok. so perhaps the most important lesson is concentration on buddhist or similar ideas and they have some extremely well travelled professors with a few classes. they're listening. to most of that bottom line he came from. his. form he. appeared to me his thing. fall in line he is. going want to study and nowadays he teaches feels she flounced what languages he writes and it's a bit there's more to better than is not what it should be high decided it was time to get by emma on the monks farewell but these deep intellectual close's they do

make you think. they may study it for five years but that doesn't mean that the philosophical question stop for the monks there apparently one of the favorites is simply how is it. who i am. about some of it probably would take a lot of time to figure out. but the people around here don't just like to exercise their minds there's plenty of healthy competition among the villages in this region especially when it comes to our jury. but this is bowman ship style and that's a little different. beyond choosing a mage go to tall gets on the ground and there are some fairly complicated rules. despite the fact that it looks like a ridiculously accurate one he just gets one point because he's not from there. each participant stands either twenty or thirty meters back and gets up to thirty

two shots if you knock the wants out of the target zone hits two points any of us only one. it's a technique that takes years to master but when. i found myself with a bit of a. robin hood problem with the whites let's give it a shot right. all the bows a home made from birch bark and horn and they have kevlar strings so not much chance of those snapping in a hurry my point here is the most experienced don't tour in the village so if i was going to get a lesson from anyone he's the man. in the chair. so . that's a play dress and release. perfect form without an arrow. and see how that changes in about. now and then it was finally time to let loose

ok so i need to line every. little white. loose one point. where if i get one of these people. really. trust me. i decided to quit while i was ahead anyway compared to some of the other doppler competitors i wasn't really dressed for the occasion. it was time to explore. nowadays none of this. but i was heading to a place that just twenty years ago i would have been a. very huge areas of understood step in the region but in the middle there's one place that was closed from the outside world for more than twenty years during the soviet union. it is because of this but is the largest

uranium mine in the whole of russia and it fuels one foot of the country's nuclear power. i was about to head four hundred meters down into the mine which produces eighty percent of the country's uranium. right now. they. say that. you seams are constantly being. monday trench down several levels. this. really. reached the point where the mining for. this some pretty serious equipment. these drills are used to holes in the roll

which is then blasted with explosives and scooped up and dropped ready for collection. a piece of. wood hard to believe that within this is this small piece of radioactive material. and surprisingly to use any heavy machinery didn't going to do a little. come down into a void like this and. when you're dealing with one of the most potentially lethal substances on the planet i think i want to be there for the self but if. the only thing you're really likely

to suffer from down here is dust inhalation but in the four thousand tonnes of. the pit every day there's six tons of concentrated highly radioactive uranium to sobering fault. so it's. probably. mine without any. time in the reason was coming to an end but i still have to souvenirs to pick up in the region. hundreds of years the have had a reputation for beautiful ornate weaponry like this antique silver knife but like with any old thing sometimes you need to give it a bit of a touch up and there's a lady around here who really knows how to put the sparkle back into things.

as an artist and silversmith and if you want something to look it's best she's the woman you go and see. and i thought i'd check if i could get a discount by helping out with the cleaning. specific script. it's just. the case this is. a. shining away there will be the envy of all of my next gloria wedding. coming up very soon. ok i'm probably unlikely to ever attend the wedding but jurymen did invite me to a family picnic the next day with a bit of a difference. they don't do things when they get together in these parts and i did today was being supplied by a law of sheep. so this is the most important. of the ceremony where you have to do it with your head cut. you

make an offering to the four corners of the. is to ensure that the soul of the. goes to a different place and is welcomed in by the spirit and by god i left the guys to do what needed to be done and got ready to start cooking. so this is considered to be the biggest delicacy it's a particular mongolian speciality the liver but. because the meat which is still warm but it's. with freshness here then once we'd sealed the liver it was time for the second layer. so the meat now that it's been cooked is no wrapped in the fat and then we go back and cook it again this is a very special treat. exceptionally primal men meet.

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you live in moscow twenty four hours a day revelations keep coming about the ill fated forage of the sunken pleasure cruiser on the volga river as a former captain says it was technically dead long before sunday's disaster over a hundred people are now officially confirmed to have died after the bulgaria went down in just a matter of minutes in russia's republic of tatarstan twenty three of the bodies recovered so far a children. the latest from the scene of russia's worst boating accident in decades . may find some of the images in this report disturbing. the camp behind me will remain busy throughout the night and into the next day as teams of divers go to and from the platform in the volga above the sunken boat garri a pleasure cruiser they have a difficult job now going into the wreck to try and find the remaining bodies although their task will be soon be coming to an end and it will then fault two ships who have come up the volga to try and set about lifting the sunken bug area

to the surface it will be difficult for all the relatives and survivors who have been waiting on the banks for news of their loved ones and who have now had to accept that they've lost them it will also be an important moment for the increasingly difficult questions that have been emerging about the bulgaria and why it was on the river in the first place yeah you're putting your i became captain of the vessel in two thousand and seven the ship had been renovated for a while before that there were big problems with the engines and power generators repeatedly mention that to the management and even had an argument with them the moment when the ship is raised will indeed be important to answer a lot of those questions and to perhaps provide some kind of finality for the people who have so agonizingly watched this recovery effort but it will do little to take away from the horror of that moment on sunday when they lost so much in such a short space of time. this is the happy scene that should have been the.