party down the river and make our special night time it's raining nice and if you want to be a little bit more to do something more special you can ask a order about spirits out just for friends and scud there and eat and drink and have a good time in. the cellar fishing for their guts watch. and . looked out. the winter canals one of the most poetic coolest old st petersburg it was described to alexander pushkin's famous queen of space mobile 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 book the frames they want to come out magnificent like something movie sets. moving to the next

location and out of sight seeing standing on your feet consuming take it's full circus plus preacher temperature spot complete complex is 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 she one therapy it's it's best whether you're here to help or simply to relax the pool with its various hydrotherapy jets is simply to find. some to also post a number of soreness and turkish brush you know finish buying dry steam away staircase there's even a single room to shock the senses. it's a maritime color experience you fancy then took no further this spectacular structure floating on the north shore of the new. is located near the complete

fortress often taken for the pirate ship instead the wooden ship offers the perfect place to relax. is just impressive use the. space. with a top floor restaurant and dance floor downstairs 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 st 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. cruiser is one to be 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 rent 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 beautiful sights of downtown st petersburg some day during. the territory of the famous pizza empire fortress is a popular destination for those who are craving some some bathing beach time it's not recommended to swim in the waters of the river but it's still a perfect place to enjoy. in the beautiful historical surroundings.

traditions in the city especially during the period. there are around twenty bridges across the river which show raised during the night to get ships and cruise line is. the spectacular racetrack for thrilling views especially for tourists is a must see. but to be must remember the time to the bridges or otherwise could be stuck on a different side of the city. the white nights period is the perfect time to discern the libyan capital you can stroll along the rivers late at night enjoying the twilight in the buildings the shifting in the canals on the it's always wonderful there's something magical about

the city. to discuss the magic of simply described that's meet the streets just. beneath you to your original. three is exactly. the summer the first step is injuries cd is like everybody everybody is on their own. it's. everybody's. as it were the main symbols of the. make the city come alive and it's really what makes sense just very special place because it's like. this. as really like on the one hand it's kind of historic close to. the great high. tens of thousands of soldiers you know build all the canals and

waterways in the city what you think his what's been his purpose was his purpose it was a quest to make a business rationale like being a piece of hero and sandwiches virgie's i guess they don't want to be in 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 in europe they're down with something like that but they also join the summer you know a boat trip is a fantastic way to see parts of st 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 those yale fires and like i guess that this is their kind of story stick speciality centers very when you're trying to see these t.v. from the weather and like almost the whole scene here from that water yeah it's not like maybe in budapest or in paris somewhere in the you can see there like the sand there and in other places you will see like every meal ten times what i see it everywhere if you do it by by boat by ferry 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 you believe in swimmers waves close up also biased and and they're like that in the perfect point is that you can do it like in this city chest and this you do 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 you can do it is great with me there's limits to me you enjoy your time here and said it is about being back. to my final stop with the right time team but many of the piece from two field trips i want to buy your way through to the city and a private speedboat. we. navigate into the canals we 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 fire expired those were the main reasons why some petersburg was given the names of the various. this is just the

architecture here in st petersburg is justified and you can see that. behind us but he found say a private boat sold well there are various companies in the city to offer trips around the never on the size of boat one of the party size they charge by the hour many will include god in the fight. to st petersburg was an incredible sixty three when the spectacular architecture museums stunning history i know reflecting in the shopping mall says it is like something out of a fairy tale. having survived a tumultuous history and having changed names several times the media is a cold city of growth and development. here partly. and with around. outstanding individual monuments of architecture history and culture no wonder rushes into the woods remains one of the world's most peaceful locations. while that we comment

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on the dot com. top stories this hour on t.v. over thirty countries including the u.s. officially recognize the libyan rebel council as the legitimate governing authority reiterating earlier calls for get daffy to give up power recognition will allow washington to sponsor libyan rebels with money from frozen assets. u.k. phone hacking scandal gathers pace forcing the chief executive of the group owned by the murdoch empire to quit meanwhile questions arise as to why it's taken so long to confront the crisis despite knowing about many of the allegations for years . people took to the streets to protest against looming cuts in italy the latest country to be hit by the financial crisis that says the parliament approves a key austerity budget and attempt to avert a bailout. i'll be back with more of those stories in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime sports next with kate.

hello welcome to the sports news and these other headlines times at the top daryn quietly it's a two way tie at the top of the leaderboard as a nip and tuck day two continues of the british open. while vikings victory early tour de france needed to talk yourself of norway win stage thirteen in the mountains as local hero thomas voeckler retains the overall lead. and familiar rivals twice russian champions ribena draw against dunaway kiev in the third qualifying round of the champions league. let's start with goal for northern ireland's darren clarke is part of a two way tie for the lead on four on the par on the second day of the british open with joint overnight leader thomas bjorn a shot behind with one hole left to play while tom lewis finished on one under well carded

a solid two under par sixty eight for second day running and is now tied for the overall lead the former u.s. open champion lucas glover joined overnight leader thomas bjorn has fallen one shots behind. while the shot of the day belongs to veteran tom watson the american seen a stunning holy one hour three six but his talk with the man of the moment. they're quite the stuff dreams are made of but. if your english is pretty good but. i'm going to go with look for the car so we got to we can you know got thirty six holes in tough conditions and you know it's could be anybody anything can happen i'm going to get to. work when the weather any links. i have to cycling and stage thirteen of the tour de france proved to be a stroke of good fortune for a former tour leader torre who solved the no way jim had been sporting the yellow jersey for the best part of the previous week was finally the first inch line on the stool coming off

a late surge tonight jeremy boy is stage victory the frenchman actually had to settle for third in the end after also for behind him back at the big money pretty well yet another local favorite thomas bertrand stayed in the overall lead off the pension almost nine minutes behind in the palace and. football now and two time former russian champions rubin kazan have been drawn against ukrainian runners up dynamo kiev for the third quarter final round of the champions league which is a double header in the first match of two later this month the draw has been announced at your way to headquarters in geneva sitting against each other the two top clubs from the former soviet union for the second time in three years remain and dynamo also met twice in the group stages in two thousand and nine ukrainian outfit won the home tie three one while holding government but the it was meant to a goalless draw in cars on neither of the two sides progressed though losing out to two group winners boss alona eventual champions into milan. while english john haas

know are waiting in the next round due to be held next month however their next game is a friendly as the gunners have travelled to china they'll play a local team hangs you green time on saturday. that's before taking to the bench the arsenal stars including robin van persie delighted the hunt for the store which chinese funs more than one hundred supporters were lucky enough to have their photo taken with their idols and also to get the photograph. now it's just two years to go before russia's first summer university games the ancient city of cazan has landed another major coup will also stage the world aquatics championships in twenty fifteen the capital of the toughest on republic beat off competition from hong kong in guadalajara however the mexican city will take up the baton from prison two years later this year's edition is all sets to kick off in shanghai on some today because that is now a true sporting stronghold with the likes of football side rubin and double ice hockey champions and boss providing domestic glory for the region design is also

beating to be one of the hottest day news during russia's twenty eight team football world cup. but sports now in russia's insurance race the souk way rally is reaching its climax as the drivers edge their way towards the finish in the seaside resort of sochi poland's krzysztof leads the car section after winning stage five which goes from ask the crown to. use just over a couple of minutes ahead of frenchman stefan that the house will want russian and they can beat off continues to lead to the truck section he was quickest during friday's seven hundred kilometer route to claim his second stage win. i mean what italy's marco simoncelli has topped the time sheets in both practice sessions for the german moto g.p. cases sterno was second with reigning champion jorge lorenzo third but ahead of friday's practice some of the riders checked out the sex and course i'm not on that bike instead they were invited to get behind the wheel of a hovercraft with varying degrees of success european hovercraft champion above bad

it was giving them tips some more than others but it's a tricky course to master according to botha g.p. championship leader casey stoner history and leaves the overall standings by nineteen points and hopes to extend that sunday's race as the season reaches the hall for stage. section meetings very technical very tight in the first half of the circuit in something you know you've got to get your lines right we've got to make sure the bike set up world to turn in long corners with this sort of open and 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. now after dealing with bitter cold and starting killer whales to quite surface event of the guinness book of records as the first people ever to surf from russia to alaska across the bering strait it's about portrayed as more. 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 strait. 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 their ship as 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 in your last constantine in new guinea stance of back west from the eastern most tip of russia responsibly populated region of georgia 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 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 streets without to support their soul as the waters were too choppy for the boat to be able to set sail and roll in the form of guinea had a settled fold with he with the number of the local coast guard this is the only thing we had to go to be honest i get goose bumps thinking about what we did and i wouldn't recommend anyone to cross the streets without a support boat we had a girl and thankfully we managed to achieve it. but joe would encounter many unexpected encounters along their proposed ninety six kilometer journey the water temperature but just one degree above freezing but that was to prove the least of their worries whatever that if they just got out and 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 i was surfing alone and about seven meters in front of me sore a whale or thought about trying to jump over it but there was not enough time in the end of street over him i hope he didn't get hurt in the process because. after

almost seven hours on the water and the line still intact it guinea and constantine would finally reach alaska completing one of the greatest challenges in van lives in crossing the bering strait which aboard fleet r.t. moscow. and if that wasn't enough of a thrill on the water how much further would you go to make your dreams come true well for one man there seem to be no limits as world champion kayaker samsung has taken this to the extreme and explored the remotest parts of the globe all to risk his life on the deadliest reverse on earth because rich off has the story. all is calm and quiet it looks like paradise on earth but seems like these are rather an exception for a whitewater kayaker grueling rapids and plunge waterfalls are what these adrenaline junkies are after and the best of them all the young and very new zealander sems sutton has been looking for the ultimate challenge the twenty two

he's the reigning extreme car i can roll champion and he set out on a global journey to find the toughest waterway the reason the so-called river god the world renowned niagara falls could spell certain death for so sam squares began in siberia russia were just faced with huge amounts of water and you're looking down these rivers in your faces the wall of water you can't even see where you're going you can't see any of your teammates because you're down in the hollow and it's just like pedaling against god's hair and you know it's just out there trying to take it down and you just got to be strong and get through it not to want to settle for anything in between salmon kowtows arguably the most modern river in russia called the bush house filled with obstacles it has a dark history of claim in people's lives but luckily for sam going down the bus callus meant only a life changing experience a pinnacle moment for for the whole expression you're looking down at the river and all of these emotions come up from within and you're just thinking about friends

that you'd lost in the river and what's really important to you in life you know and at that stage you just see life in pure clarity with all the treacherous turns negotiated in the. sand moved on to iceland geysers are the first thing that may pop into mind but after these three waterfalls should be the other one some of them are higher than an eight story building so free falling off them and heating the water again is not dissimilar to a car crash and survived and is what gives these man this sort off to thrills minds come to in your brains reset and all those emotions of what you've just conquered that goal come through it's. it's all worth it you know the risk it differently was smaller than the rewards and the ruble this just so great to base it with if that wasn't enough some ventured further into the mexican jungle and it is there that the new zealander found his river god the shocking blue waters of the ark was to

provide in the cascades of his dreams some even discovered a waterfall that had never been carved on before and should be happy at least for now but more death defying adventures are sure to come. off our t. . advising and that's all the sport. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on.

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over thirty countries including the u.s. officially recognized the libyan rebel council as the legitimate governing authority bridge rating only calls for gadhafi and his family to give up power. as the u.k. phone hacking scandal puts the future of the murdoch media empire at risk questions arise as to why it's taken so long for action to be taken despite police knowing about many of the allegations for years. public outrage in italy the latest e.u. country to be hit by the financial crisis as its parliament approves an austerity budget in a bid to stave off the threat of a bailout. and burbank is experiments in europe making one of a kind acquisition by of russian banks will have all the details for you in business in twenty minutes.

with news and comment from around the world this is r t live in moscow with twenty four hours a day the u.s. along with more than thirty other nations has decided to recognize libya's rebels as the legitimate government of the country the libyan contact group convening in turkey has also urged colonel gadhafi to give up power and has more from washington . hillary clinton has announced washington now accepts the transitional national council as a legitimate government governing authority of the libyan people and diplomatic recognition of the council means that the u.s. will be able to fund the opposition with some of the more than thirty billion dollars in khadafi regime assets that are frozen in american banks but it's not only that the obama administration has provided overwhelming military and political support for this transitional council the head of the council has recently traveled to washington showed his gratitude asked for more support analysts say it's no

surprise that he's being propelled to power in levy a by washington. has studied in the u.s. for years he has talked to the us so he's quite well connected with the united states but help often comes with strings attached and some say the leading opposition leader is sure to get instructions from washington on how to return the favor so to say but some experts also point out that in an attempt to propane certain people to proper the west supports the rebels and the rebels are not a homogenous group there are all kinds of people there are some radical elements as well a former jihadist who we now see. in two thousand says he estimates one thousand we had is are among the rebels in libya one lead in rebel commander has fully admitted his fighters have to leave and even a u.s. military study three years ago said previously about the second largest group of jihadist seen in the world right after saudi arabia so analysts say the support for this very diverse group which is the libyan rebels could backfire but washington.