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 more soviet and industrial it becomes. if you don't. this is a great way to see the city. friends on the only bike isn't chip. off 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 at a competition but there were still plenty of people out for a quiet day of rest from. 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. 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 dives. probably to say that recycling projects around russia still in their infancy but. around here. you know exactly what to do. there are. a whole new take on heating. engineer who just can't stop building. and

why bother with expensive bricks when 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 the 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 tower for instance from the inside it may be all counties 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 machine 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 flamingo 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 a new. look coming and. it takes seven to eight people to collect these bottles even a plaque with everyone is. each building normally takes years to complete but he 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 the most i was well on my way to an architectural triumph. but all his hard work in the hot sun makes a man thirsty. that sadly 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 he would ring me 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. shot but imo. from both. to 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 a belief system by his son yet gainey. he's a black belt of course. it's been. an intensive course. but. 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 home but. i wanted to find somewhere in the city to relax and recuperate. from the chinese border and there's a thriving community here. they've also brought their remedies there are

almost no russians working in this chinese medicine. a whole range of different treatments. he was particularly effective and. this is supposed to be great for your circulation and your joint. happens to be one of the most things ever experience. then you just relax and have to do the thing. it does get better the. still counting down the fifteen minutes to wait.

for. christmas eve. good. old boy. who'd have thought such a small person was capable of inflicting so much pain and i was only off way through the treatments. right on happy with the second. but both 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 plinth but my instructor soon had me completely relaxed. at least until i noticed him getting out to like. the very moment of my.

knees 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 whether most kids sucked up into little. pieces. 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 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 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 paw sorry that's obviously helps you but also the others who are coming to follow in your footsteps and of course never head step 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 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 among its name means goddess and one of the goddesses is right here in the rock for much you can answer many questions and you 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 post to impart some wisdom to me. and. stay. but there are

plenty of opportunities to draw on the gods knowledge here dozens of children's 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 at 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. climb up the stairway to heaven. while you lucky enough to have the spirit speaks to you or not there's definitely a special energy about the. incredible views and natural monoliths make this

a memorable trip and i was looking forward to seeing more of the region's biggest treasures. won't come into the future what makes a big splash in the world of high tech business questions in advance science into i can't change products they don't understand all he'll which is he's got the follow russian innovators to easy majors and broad and their big breakthrough back home spotlight on startups on technology update here on. we've got the future covered. 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 of course of such discussions to students learning the philosophic truth of buddhism. your game is the sunni among care to give me a tour of 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 their 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 languages and they focus heavily on tibetan sciences tibetan. one great to board the science five for the sciences and felicity you can teach to fit that. plane the types of paul's past. there are lots of different ones. what might your polls tell you what sort of things. paul's kidney appalls different kinds allow for this true. and we have to be able to work a certain rate for fifteen years ok. so perhaps the most important

lesson is concentration on buddhist thorson i do and they have some extremely well travelled professors. and the listeners. he can from. his. former thank you told. me this thing. yes. i want to study and nowadays he teaches you. what languages he writes and. those moments of passion is not what it should be high decided it was time to get by in the monk's 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. that 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. me. but this is bowman ship style and that's a little different. bianchi is a much go ted talk gets on the grounds and there are some fairly complicated rules . despite the fact that it looks like a ridiculously accurate one he just gives one point because he's not this from that . each participant stands on the twenty or thirty metres back and gets up to thirty two shots if you know the want out of the target zone it's two points any of us only one. it's a technique that takes years to master but when in. a bit of

a. robin hood. with the let's let's give it a shot. all the bozo 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 daughter 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 and about that 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 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 off 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 seams are constantly being. monday trench down several levels. this. really. reached the point where the mining is. this some pretty serious equipment and. 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. supposedly to use any heavy machinery. going to do it. come down to avoid 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 they hold on to the pit every day there's six tons of concentrated highly radioactive uranium to sobering fault. so it's.

probably. mine without any. time when the reason was coming to an end but i still have to souvenirs to pick up in the region. hundreds of years the berea have had a reputation for beautiful ornate weaponry like this antiques overnight 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 of 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 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 welcome. to do what needed to be done and got ready to start cooking. so this is considered to be the biggest. speciality. but. just because the meat which is still warm but. with fresh. then once we'd 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 meet. thousands of them.

truly to have been able to share this experience with to remember and her relatives . an authentic piece of family life the few westerners ever have a chance to be a part of. and it was a perfect time in the. in

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a retreat. once inside the food the bodies were everywhere who are. wearing the white divers continue the task of bringing the bodies of victims to the surface after sunday's sinking of the boulder river cruise ship this as a former captain claims he raised the alarm years ago over the ship's condition. rupert murdoch's bid for the u.k.'s biggest satellite broadcaster b. sky b. crumbles under political pressure as the hacking scandal spreads beyond britain and . more trouble for the eurozone as the irish economy slides for their e.u. central bankers fear italy and spain i may also be heading for their own financial abyss.

news around the clock from around the world six am in moscow i'm mad très a good to have you with us here on r t revelations keep coming out about the ill fated voyage of the sunken pleasure cruiser on the volga river as one former captain says it was quote technically dead long before sunday's tragedy this comes as investigators arrest the director of the company who lease the vessel and the official who certified it as being sea worthy both are charged with providing unsafe services that resulted in death. if found guilty they could face up to ten years in prison more than one hundred people are now confirmed to have died after the ball garia went down in only a matter of minutes in russia's republic of tatar stand twenty three of the bodies were recovered have so far been those of children. and has the latest from the scene just a warning you 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 bokhari 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 boat garia to the surface it will be difficult for all the relatives some 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 ball carrier and why it was on the river in the first place. 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 the.