about first out their friends and their eat and drink and have a good time in. the cellar or should watch. meant to pick out. the winter canal is one of the most poetic on it's own st petersburg it was described to alexander pushkin's famous queen of spades novel as a popular meeting place for lovers the area is especially lovely when seen from the water when you sell in a boating costume look on the beach but the frames to been taken out magnificent like something movie sets. moving to an explication and out of sight seeing standing on your feet can take its full circus plus preacher temperature spot and put complexes in russia. opens in two thousand and eight it

brings a new concept in five star hotels to the very center of st petersburg just a few steps from the river palace square and the hermitage popular with locals and visitors this is a chew on therapy it's its best to help or simply to relax the pool with its various hydrotherapy jets is simply to find. some to also post a number of. turkish finish combining dry steam always therapies there's even a single room to shock the senses. it's a maritime color experience she fancied bendo can no fathom the spectacular structure floating on the north shore of the never river is located near the complete fortress often mistaken for an old deserted parish ship instead the wooden ship offers the perfect place to.

is just impressive used. here. with the top floor restaurants and dance floor downstairs the venue is popular with a large party groups and after all your enjoyment. in the gym. can give you a make over. so what other water theme places can you visit in sin petersburg one of the historical symbols of russia's military fleet has been turned into a museum and stands proudly anchored to the city's central embankment. recruits is

one of the associated with the revolution of nine hundred seventeen another warship is beset by thousands of tourists every year. it seems in with the first to raise the red flag on the ship standing for the bullshit power of the cruise itself as witnessed many battles before. the ships of the baltic fleet. when the weather was hot and sunny there are many places in the city where you can enjoy the beautiful sights of downtown st petersburg some day going to some of the territory of the famous pizza empire fortress is a popular destination for those who are craving some some bathing speech time it's not recommended to swim in the waters of the river but it's still a perfect place to enjoy each activities like volleyball in the beautiful historical surroundings. the true bridges of st petersburg one of the main attractions in. city especially during the period. there are around

twenty bridges across the river the show raised during the night ships cruise line is. spectacular for thrilling views especially for tourists which is a must see. must remember the times when the bridges or otherwise could be stuck on a different side to see. why my spirit is the perfect time to decide the encounter so you can stroll along the ridges late at night enjoying the twilight in the buildings the shrinking in the canals and the it's always wonderful there's something much about the city. to discuss the magic of simply described let's meet the streetscape.

three is exactly. the summer of first exactly injuries cities like everybody everybody is on their own. i think one of the main symbols. you know make the city. what makes sense to do is a very special place because it's like. this. like on the one hand it's kind of the start. of the great had tens of thousands of soldiers you know. what you think. this was his purpose it was a quest to make at. rationale like being a piece of hero and

a scientist virgie's i guess they don't want to hear indian place here i mean i think you can walk around some parts of the city and it looks like paris or you could be in most cities and you know they're down with something like it but they also during the summer you know a boat trip is a fantastic way to see politics in petersburg not just in the city but you've got you've got these walls as well and you've got you know actual tour of the fortress behind as they all flyers and like i guess that this is their kind of story stick speciality or something just very when you're trying to see the cd from the weather and like almost the whole season from that water it's not like maybe in budapest or in paris where you can see they're like the sand there and in other places you will see like every meal tents and so on but yet everywhere that you see do it by by blow it up by there you will see amazing amazing pieces of architecture like everywhere and it seems well that there are some sports that take place on the river as well there are the different boats they believe in swimmers was closing my

eyes and and that like that in a perfect point is they didn't do it like in the city chest and they seem to you can reach it by metro and that's it you don't have to have a you know it replied to always somewhere just half an hour or even in the heart of the seat in the end of what race you can do it that is great but it means there's limits to me you know and i enjoy your time here and said this is about me. to my final stop with the rights of the piece from two field trips i want to better wages to the city and a private speedboat. we. navigated to the compound to use two ways on the boat to see the city from the best angles originally there were no bridges crossing the mighty never refer to the house of mystery between foreign spies or the main reasons why some people take this given the name of the venice. this is just brilliant on the architecture here in st petersburg is just divine you can see the lovely home behind us if you fancy a private. so while there are various companies in the city go off the trips around

the never river and the canals the size of both want to depend on the party size they charge by the hour many will include a guided missile but for. the same issues bush wants an incredible city through in the spectacular architecture museums styling history and all reflecting in the shopping mall says if needed is like something out of a fairy tale. having survived a tumultuous history and having changed name several times in media is a cold city of growth and development things here particularly getting better and with around full house and outstanding individual monuments of architecture history and culture the rush is window to the west's remains one of the world's most peaceful locations. while that we've come and that's all the time we have on this week's program about the peaceful waterways i'll say it is but i'll see you again at the same time next

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the scrambles to cut spending as the debt hole sweeping the block threatens to sink italy it's a greatest asset yet worth of chips adverse to keep the wavering currency alive. burdick's misery mounts the f.b.i. looks into whether nine eleven victims phones were tapped to fall out of his employer's british armed forces and out of a multi-billion dollar t.v. takeover. and america's two faced torture tactics rising uproar over the u.s. training and exploring the brutal interrogators while preaching few rights to the rest of the. next one hundred farmer he joins us next in the studio with a few surprises to talk about marina and i'm going to go first take in the open by still one of the tour de france always seeing defending champion alberto contador

slip out of contention even after the first mountain stage and get all the details that in a sec. hello there you're watching the sports and these are the headlines shock at the top twenty year old amateur tom lewis hits a stunning sixty five to share the first round lead at the open standing thomas people. plus sanchez wins the first landing stage of the tour de france in pre-race favorite contador surface. and his russian could be a role that stands he's only in this way round. but we will start with the open golf where twenty year old amateur shares the lead after the first round england's tom lewis hit a five under par sixty five to go joint top of the leaderboard with thomas bjorn the dane him self only playing as a late replacement v.j.

singh lewis was playing in the same group as five time major winner tom watson the man he was named after a made for birdies in a row to set the lowest ever ran by an amateur in the tournament one hundred forty year history an incredible day for him and he couldn't seem to do any wrong. on the sixty five match that of thomas bjorn the forty one year old dane only knew on monday that he was playing at the event after the withdrawal of v.j. singh so bjorn and louis topped the leaderboard but just a shot behind them is a group of three including spain's make him aneath he's alongside americans and it is clever and webb simpson well the shot of the day even though this one from him in there isn't bad it still came from dustin johnson how we won for him the path three sixteenth's eventually ending that day at even par despite being for over one point. fly straight into the cup. but

u.s. open champion and favorite rory mcilroy finished at one i have a normal richmond he's beating to become the youngest open champion since one thousand nine hundred three made a poor start with at the first hours before covering to cardiff seventy one and that's how he was much by luke donald the new world number one and winner at last week's scottish open but the day belonged to the two front runners lewis. all of the week changes were dramatically in the gulf but. try and see if we can do the same tomorrow. a long way to leave in the distro women but you're always going to be police with shooting a good number the first day because you can play your way out of it but you can never win it on the first day but we have to try and carry on from. not a good day though for the favorites in the tour de france defending champion alberto contador losing another fourteen seconds to his rivals as the race and peyronie's

stage twelve eventually being won by spain's samuel sanchez while frenchman thomas for good enough to keep the yellow jersey on bastille day that day featured three steep climbs and it was on the final one the news arden ben sanchez pulled away but while he was lapping it up things weren't so comfortable for defending champ contador he was in a group with his main rivals for the frank schleck attacked and pulled away from them to finish the but contador had little response when the others around him up the pace that evans and the other andy finishing ahead of the saxon bank rider thomas voeckler did enough though to keep the yellow jersey and i great achievement for the french numbers the all day he is one minute and forty nine seconds ahead of frank schleck that i will be looking to hold the jersey for another day as the race continues in the pyrenees as think it evans in himself is a couple of minutes ahead of alberto contador than that said. let's turn to

football and after much speculation about his future tottenham midfielder luka motor which has arrived with his team mates in south africa for a pre-season tour the coronation had said he wanted a move to london rivals chelsea but spurs rejected several big bids from them and manager harry redknapp is determined to keep him at white hart lane which was good news for most of his team. were all friends. you know we've got great teams with a. lot of close we want to keep that together you see the germans grow it is not always for sale so that's great. arsenal meanwhile have arrived in china from a lazier the gunners will play a friendly against local club hangzhou green time before leaving for germany to take on f.c. cologne manager arsene wenger has also been paying tribute to former captain patrick vieira after the thirty five year old frenchman announced his retirement on thursday. she proves you neutral but nobody really poetry grows special because you was such

a. good. to tennis now where for the first time in thirty three years not one seeded player has reached the quarter finals of the miss a day's tournament and stood guard a spaniard one colace for their own no doubt former champion and third seed mikail usually in the second ran the russian looked on course for a quarter final spot when he took the opening set on a tie break eight six with where they had other ideas taking the next two sets by a six two scoreline to progress. another one lightly when it was wildcard lucas cuboid he was up against eighth seed garcia lopez who won the first set six people who bought battled back into the second set by the same scoreline to send a match to decide that and he won that six three to reach the last states. answering marcel stare to come from mr gubb was another wild card an only turned pro last year but that hardly mattered against italian fabio fognini the german had

already pulled off a major upset in the first round when you know that nickel. and pass this round into say seven six six four. i just bought now on the way rally is reaching its climax as drivers age their way towards the finish in sochi this weekend poland's christophe helos is lead to the car section after winning stage five from what i can to stuff a pole he's just over a couple of minutes ahead of frenchmen stuff and still are rushing it as a bit of continues to lead the trucks section he was quick hits during yesterday's seven hundred kilometer route to his second stage win. meanwhile some of the riders for this weekend's may change pain jim many have been checking at the sachsenring course but not on their bikes instead they were invited to get behind the wheel of a hovercraft with varying degrees of success in europe rain hovercraft champion but it was their giving actives some needing the more than others but it is a tricky course to master according to a g.p.

championship need a case of stamina he leads the overall standings by nineteen points and hopes to extend that sunday's race as the season reaches the halfway stage. section very technical very tight in the first half of the circuit in something you know you've got to get your lines right go to make sure the bikes set up world to turn in long corners with this sort of open and only the last part of the track that is really getting fast and flowing so it's a difficult circuit it's not easy you know when you first laps around it everything seems to be going smooth and you know nothing seems to be going wrong but you know once you start trying to get that last little bit out of it in every bit of time you can. make it quite a challenge to get the bike set up here and really you know competitive so. finally after dealing with bitter cold and dodging killer whales to kite surface events of the guinness book of records is the first people ever to surf from russia to alaska across the bering strait richard paul fleet has the story. safely back on dry land

and after almost three years of planning constantine in new guinea finally achieve their dream of kite surfing across one of the most inhospitable stretches of water on the planet the bering straits. but you are back in moscow to tell the press about their adventures of a soon hope to enter the guinness book of records as the first kite surface to complete this amazing feat of bus they really wanted to get our names in the record books and thankfully we managed to cross the bering strait it was also a personal goal for me as to achieve such a future really is something special and enormous constantine in new guinea started back west from the eastern most tip of russia responsibly populated region of short and they would cover a distance of ninety six kilometers to alaska and the united states of america. the pair had been planning their route for months trying to study the various wind patterns and currents that they would encounter along their routes however when

they finally got on the way they were hit by a major problem as they would have to cross the straits without the support they saw the waters were too choppy the boat to be able to set sail involved in a form of guinea had a satellite phone with he with the number of the local coast guard this is the only thing we had to go or to be honest i get goose bumps thinking about what with deeds and i wouldn't recommend anyone to cross the streets without a support boat we had to go and thankfully we managed to achieve it. bigelow would encounter many unexpected encounters along their proposed ninety six kilometer journey the water temperature just one degree above freezing but that was to prove the least of their worries which was that if they just got out we knew there were killer whales in the sea we were constantly on the lookout for them there were other whales as well and i actually had an interesting counter with one where i was surfing alone and about seven metres in front of me a sore

a whale i thought about trying to jump over it but there was not enough time in the endorse straight over him i hope he didn't get hurt in the process because i mean after almost seven hours on the water and the line still intact give me an constantine would finally reach alaska completing one of the greatest challenges in van lives crossing the bering strait bridge from both feet r.t. moscow. are you brave man that is it from the sports desk for the moment i'm back in a couple of us. hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. of nature and discover its beauty in. the. communicate with the wild.

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rest of the world. in our business bill isn't russia's largest lenders burbank is mulling its biggest acquisition abroad ever it's to purchase banks eastern european units for up to one billion dollars more in twenty minutes. eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r.t. drastic spending cuts are on the way to italy yes parliament desperately tries to fend off a spiraling debt crisis and all bodes badly for the euro italy's finance minister even comparing the currencies. troubles to the titanic but as r.t. sarah first reports there is only so much that can be done before the people take power into their own hands. as the clouds gather. and the greek bad luck battle continues dark times could now lie ahead. what everybody

here. is afraid for the future if you think countries like italy looking on increasingly unstable ground can the year i write out this financial storm this is really something quite frightening if indeed it really really goes into big trouble on the financial markets this is certainly a totally new face of this euro crisis new dimension theory fairy tale was all too appealing countries trip save themselves for a bite of the g.c. apple but now many are left regretting taking the bait with that amount. not bad i mean the product. after more than a decade of growth businesses like badasses have been hit hard whilst the central shopping street and athens are still bustling the.