thousand people and it's a real mismatch. it's one of the only cities in russia that's based on a grid system and the downtown area has some beautiful european influenced. but the further you rolaids the more soviet and industrial it becomes. this is a great way to see the city. friends on the only bike isn't. the roads. motorcycle team is based we hold the trans. federation team is made up of more than thirty minutes and the training is just over here. most of the team are away to competition but there are still plenty of people out for a quiet day of risk from. here and there and having fun. and it's

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. take that society. over again. ok so i might not be a natural rebel without a cause but there are some people who do live rather unconventional lives. probably to say the recycling projects around russia still in their infancy but. around here. you know exactly what to do. there are certain. things might. take on here. near who just can't stop building

a more expensive bricks but there are plenty of alternatives just lying around. many bottles if you pull it up over the years you know mineral water beer and the like i had difficulty getting rid of them so i thought i might as well use them for a good purpose so if first thing i made was a bathroom a nice and warm place. and as time went by and all the projects talking. like this portal talent for instance from the inside it maybe 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 is my swimming pool has a double purpose which interspersed all children swim in the water and then it's used to watering plants and then we'll fill the swimming pool up again throwing ball out a way towards the orbits. 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 in. it takes seven to eight people to collect these bottles even a plaque with everyone who. 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 if you want to try and with a few quick tips from i was well on my way to an architectural triumph. always hard work in the hot sun makes a man thirsty. that. i don't have to stay and help or how to finish this project but i can at least help contribute to the building materials.

woodring on the job is encouraged. 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. suffered imo. from both. to martial artist does. 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 a bilious sister by his son year. he's a black belt of course. an intensive course. quickly in here.

has been teaching since nine hundred ninety four 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. 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 are

almost no russians working. different treatments. he was particularly effective. this is supposed to be great for you. happens to be one of the most things ever experience. just relax and hope. it does get better than. still counting down the fifteen minutes i have to wait.

for. christmas eve. to get. such a small close and was capable of inflicting so much pain and i was only off way through the treatment. right on happy with the second. but both gentle and refreshing the first because now my back feels like he's had an encounter with a tyke. understandably i was a little nervous as i climbed on to my next plinth but my instructor soon me completely relaxed. at least until i noticed him getting out a light. very moment to moment.

because i would never do anything with him. 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 that most kids sucked up into little. things. with my body chewed up 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 monuments unfortunately most of them are high up on the hills

which means if i'm going to see them. i've got a bit of a track ahead of. them of course i picked 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 flare. 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 sorry that obviously helps you but also the others who are coming to follow in your footsteps and of course never head stop a bit of 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 at one of the park's most spectacular points. by a was a buddhist who's been showing people around here for more than ten years and he knows. his most sacred places. this is a holy place and among its 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 supposed to impart some wisdom to me. it's good to stay. 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 all 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 it actually marks the entrance to paradise. who is left for me to do. is take a climb up the stairway to heaven. kohat as a cold drink. your lucky enough to have the spirit speak to you or not there's definitely a special energy about our. incredible

views and natural monoliths make this a memorable trip and i was looking forward to seeing more of the region's produce treasures. the cultures that so much i can tell you the lottery winners of the world cup to the second empire in disarray rupert murdoch and his immense media assets run for investigation in what has been called voicemail is just. elmo national park is an amazing experience for both hikers and pilgrims alike but buddhist center can be found in the region buddhism 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 wellbeing

that they're concerned with here they've also got a pretty serious academic program to. this done sometime police home to around two hundred monks and lay students and there's always a good argument to be. teaching process you know course of such discussions the students learn the philosophic truth of buddhism. your game is the senior monk here and also to give me a tour of the impressive temple grounds. it was built back in the late eighteenth 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. as 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 language is an arts they focus heavily on tibetan sciences to get. one grade to board the science five for the sciences and you can teach to fit in that. plane the types of paul's past. there are lots of different ones. what might your polls tell you. how paul's kidney appalls different. and i have to be at work a certain rate for fifteen years ok. so perhaps the most important lesson is concentration on buddhist my dear and they have some extremely well travelled professors. and the listeners.

he can from. his. former thank you. his thing. is for. the monastery and now he teaches. what language is he writes. it's a person is not what it should be high decided it was time to get by 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 questions for the monks apparently one of the favorites is simply how is it. who i am. 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 archery. but this is bowman ship style and that's a little different. be all she's a mage gauteng tall gets on the grounds and there are some fairly complicated rules . despite the fact that it looks like a ridiculously accurate one he just has one point because he's not from there. each participant stands on the twenty or thirty meters back and gets up to thirty two shots if you knock the wind out of the target zone it's two points any of us only one. it's a technique that takes years to master when in. a bit of a. robin hood problem with the let's let's give it a shot. she. made from birch bark and they have kevlar

strings so not much chance of those snapping you know her in my ear is the most experienced doctor 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. a little white. one point. where if i get one of these people. trust me. i decided to quit while i was ahead anyway compared to some of the other

competitors i wasn't really dressed for the occasion. it was time to start exploring some more of the local wilderness nowadays none of this territory is off limits but i was heading to a place that just twenty years ago i would have been allowed anywhere near. there are 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 it is the largest uranium mine in the whole of russia and it fuels one of the country's nuclear. i was about to head four hundred meters down into the. mine which produces eighty percent of the country's uranium. from this.

day. you seem to constantly be. monday tracked down several levels. of this. report. 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 but then didn't.

come down into a void like this. when you're dealing with one of the most potentially lethal substances on the planet i think i want to be putting. the only thing you're really likely to suffer from down here is dust inhalation but in the four thousand tons of coal the whole of the pit every day there's six tons of concentrated highly radioactive uranium to sobering fools. probably. 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 its 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 scrubbing. it's just. a bit of elbow grease this is. a chef leave us shining away there will be the envy of all my next gloria wedding. coming up very soon.

ok i'm probably unlikely to ever attend the wedding but dream a 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 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. but 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. speciality the liver but. it just because the meat which is still warm but it's. from with freshness here. sealed the liver it was time for the second leg. so the meat now that it's been cooked is now wrapped in the fat and then we go back and cook it again this is a very special treat. to all exceptionally primal men meat and thought to. be doing it thousands of them. i feel truly only to have been able to share this experience with dreamer and her relatives. an authentic piece of berea family life the few westerners ever have a chance to be a part of. and it was a perfect time and it's

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editors. more trouble for the eurozone as the irish economy slides further central bankers fear italy and spain may be heading for their own financial abyss brussels is concerned that it won't have enough cash in its euro bailout fund to meet italy's debt analysts say as europe's fourth largest economy italy's too big to fail but that it has a worse debt problem than either portugal or ireland. next cross talk host people of ellen guess discuss the repercussions of the phone hacking scandal that's gripping britain. and you can. see. a low in welcome to cross talk on people about an empire in disarray rupert murdoch and his immense media assets are under investigation in what is being called

voicemail gate is this scandal all about murdoch and his sleazy business practices or a media that no longer serves the public good. can . the cross-talk media today i'm joined by tony pedersen in dallas he's a professor and bell distinguished chair in journalism at southern methodist university in los angeles we cross the fattiest russell he's a historian and the author of a renegade history of the united states and in oxford we go to shawn powers he's an assistant professor at georgia state university all right gentlemen this is crosstalk that means you can jump in anytime you want i always go to the person has to go early is for this program so i'm going to go to you thaddeus here and looking at what's happening to them the murdoch media empire and every hour that passes more revelations are coming out and it looks very very ugly does any of this surprise you and do you think it's going to be this is just the tip of the iceberg because.