in india oh she's available in the movie goer to join the hotels the home of villas the gateway hotel the grand imperial truly the taj was the bush coromandel you can oh well so till the close richard to see don't need to go and. read this and the colonel was hotel to retreat. and just join is a very warm welcome to life here in moscow top stories this hour over thirty countries including the u.s. officially recognize the libyan rebel council as the legitimate governing authority richard heene earlier calls for get back to to give up power recognition of washington's response to libyan rebels with money from the get that piece of frozen assets. people take to the streets to protest against looming cuts in italy the latest e.u. country to be hit by the financial crisis that's as the parliament approves

a key austerity budget in a bid to stave off the threat of pain out. in the u.k. phone hacking scandal gathers pace forcing the chief executive of the group known by the murdoch empire to quit meanwhile questions arise as to why it's taken so long to confront the crisis despite police knowing about many of the allegations for years. well i'll be back with more news stories in less than fifteen minutes from now with an update for you in the meantime the sports update is with kate that will be a little later after that but in the meantime our magic top of russia's northern capital.

hello and welcome to the program i was at the sheriff from st petersburg will be exploring its less canals and ever river and there is what it's all schools also known as the venice of the north a little ways on the focal points of the city join the summer months are a great way to see the whole become so. many of simply displaced churches cathedrals and museums are visible from the inside the canal trip to the store to stay in the city may be an ideal way to sign up enjoying a visit. to see the great grand vision of the city was to create a windows to your. from a swampy scarcely populated region the area became a fine european capital. saw expensive the construction of the largest houses on the face of the countless channels cutting through the city such great architects as first truly and sincerely hope for the dream to life six years later and as you can see in the smoke of modern day st petersburg the old ways and bridges still

dominates the northern capital perched on the banks of the never river you can see how the city is something very special crisscrossed by canals. to recreate the whole atmosphere of a lake in venice of the north as they call centers for i think it's just amazing you can take a party bolt down the river and they can all spend the night time explaining eyes and if you want to feel a bit more to do something more special you can actually order both for yourself sister friends and scout out there and eat and drink and have a good time if you're of the cellar or should prevail because. well what. he. meant to say. out. there with the canal is one of the most poetic corners of all c.p.s. but he was described as the christians famous queen of spades novel is

a popular meeting place for lovers the area is especially lovely when seen from the water when you sell an opposing costume look on the beach but the frames they've been taken out magnificent like something decent. moving to an explication and house of sight seeing standing on your feet take its full six plus preacher town priest and spot include complex's in russia. opens in two thousand and eight it brings new concepts 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 age she run therapy that's it's test whether you're here to help or simply to relax the pool with its various hydrotherapy jets is simply to find. something also close a number of soreness ambani is turkish brush you know fish can find dry steam away

staircase there's even a single room to shock the senses. it's a maritime color experience she fancied bendo can now fathom this spectacular structure floating on the north shore of the never river is located near the peter and paul fortress often mistaken for an old deserted pirate ship instead the wooden ship gulf is the perfect place to relax next to the common waters. next up with iraq. three cheers for the fly. this. restaurant. is just these impressive views of the never. and the one thing i would recommend here if you could have that space. with a top floor restaurant and dance floor downstairs the venue is popular with

a large party groups and after all your enjoyment when i burn off you will deny in the gym you call it 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 proud anchors to the city's central improvements the overall recruits that is want to be associated with the revolution of nine hundred seventeen another warship is besieged by thousands of tourists every year. to see men with first to raise the recommended supply on their ship standing for the bullshit power of the cruise itself as witnessed many battles before i think of the main military 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 while some day during the summer the territory of the famous peace employer fortress is a popular the summation of those who are craving some some dating and beach time it's not recommended to swim in the waters of the river but it's still a perfect place to enjoy the show to be teased like full in the beautiful historical surroundings. the true bridges of st petersburg one of the main attractions in the city especially during the white knight period. there are around twenty bridges across the never live show raised during the night you could watch a lot ships. and cruise line is the spectacular racetrack she's been thrilling views especially much if you're a street is the major lake is a must see. must be well you must remember the times when the bridge is all green otherwise you're just stuck on a different side of the city. and

why my spirit is the perfect time to visit military council you can stroll along the ridges makes it much enjoying each one as in the buildings reflecting in the canals on the it's always wonderful to something much about the city. to discuss the magic of simply despite it's nice the streets. less eleven to me you name me you know your originally from kid off where you've been living here for three years yeah exactly that's why you must see a huge difference in the city between the summer and the words of the person stephanie is in are you see these like you know everybody's made when everybody is on the look at their own stores and now in santa maria it's reglan that's an israeli strike mean everybody's smiling trying to smile. yes that's it i think one of the main symbols of the summer all the canals and waterways in the river behind us they really you know make the city come a lawyer's price and what it's really what what makes sense it is very special

place the presence right there business and our friends i have also read this quieter than your comments here as well like on the one hand it's it right up kind of historical stuff on the other hand it's like you say this i mean what they're wealthy to the great how tens of thousands of soldiers you know build all the canals and waterways in the city while getting his what's the his this was his famous name where is a western made recess rationale like being a piece of europe and some pieces virgie's i guess and then watched here again place here i mean i think you can walk around some parts of the city and it looks like. saw you know you could be in most cities you know they're down or something like that they also during the summer you know a boat trip is a fantastic way to see positive is by 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 gale force and like i guess that this is the kind of stories that speciality just sent because they're when you're trying to see the c.v. from the weather and like almost the whole city from that was there yeah it's not

like maybe in budapest or in paris somewhere you can see again like the center and in other places you will see like every field in some spots i see it everywhere if you do it by my boat of ice there you will see amazing amazing pieces of architecture like art everywhere and it seems well that there are some sports that take place on the river as well there are different boats they believe in swimmers were closing out of salt mines and and they're like that and the pressure point is they defended it's like going to see t h s n b c two you can reach it by metro and that's it you don't have to have that you know it's reply to our somewhere just tough an hour or even harder to see to the end of what race you've been doing a great. business to meet you and enjoy your time here and said this is about me. to my final stop who writes contemplate most of the piece from two field trips the one a better way to see the city in a private speedboat. we. know you seem to come out of the music plays on the place

you see the city from the spangles originally there were no bridges crossing the much and never refer to the two story between various parts those were the main reasons why some people's lives even the names of the vanished off in the. wild this is just brilliant on the architecture here in st petersburg is just divine you can see the lovely home which was behind us but you can see it probably told well there are various companies in the city called the trips around the never river on the canals the size of plate what does it depend on the part the size they charge by the hour many will include god to tell you. st petersburg was an incredible city during the spectacular architecture museums still in history i know reflecting in the shocking what is it is like something out of a fairy tale. piece of body to most recent history and how he changed names several times it really is a cold city of growth and development things here part slowly getting better

come around full house and outstanding individual monuments of architecture history and culture no wonder rush is window to the what remains of the world's most peaceful locations. the wall that we have and that's all the time we have on the streets pergola by the peaceful waterways i'll say it is but i'll see you again at the same time next week and sell them for me and the rest of the crew shall come out. with the end of the boer war and going away of the soviet union many people thought

that nuclear weapons disappeared. in the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake especially of sounds of the nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. focus of a difference to using a desert three it all as an accurate record you know if you keep spending a trillion dollars a year on weapons of venture you're going to blow everybody up you you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see it people don't wake up to move through weapons or build the new. that represents all of the firepower of the second world war. this. is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today. culture is the same old spears claim to him it will be a currency crisis european finance ministers central bankers and politicians remain

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russia would be so much brighter if you leave out some new front finest impressions . rescreened starts on t.v. dot com. top stories this hour r.t. over thirty countries including the us officially recognized the libyan rebel council as the legitimate governing authority iterating earlier calls for gadhafi to give up power the recognition would allow washington to sponsor libyan rebels with money from gadhafi has frozen assets. and people take to the streets to protest against looming cuts in italy the latest e.u. country to be hit by the financial crisis as the parliament approves a key austerity budget in a bid to stave off the threat of a bailout. the u.k. phone hacking scandal gathers pace forcing the chief executive of the group owned by the murdoch empire to quit and all questions arise as to why it's taken so long

to confront the crisis despite police knowing about many of the allegations for years. i'll be back with a news bulletin in full force in about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime the latest with kate. hello and welcome to the sports roundup this friday evening and these are the top stories one shot leaders darren clarke and lucas caught hold a two way tie at the top of the leaderboard after a second low scoring play of the british open. while biking victory early tour de france leader tore through soft of norway with a stage thirteen in the mountains as local hero teams fought for change the overall lead. the media rivals twice russian champions ribena a draw against dynamo kiev in the third qualifying round of the champions league.

the first to go off and darren clarke has fired his second straight two hundred are round of sixty eight to take a joint one shot lead at the british open at the halfway stage along with two thousand and nine u.s. open champion lucas glover while a host of names looks set to miss the cut on a low scoring day american glover was aiming to build on his opening round of sixty six and could have ended a day to rest the out right leader if you'd like to see equal chance at the seventh hole he had to settle reverting to the seventy two leaving at four in the park while parked i reckon champion tom watson there it goes down an early marker with a hole in one six of the sixty one year old needed replaced as the drop into the hole joint first round leader ahmed said tom lewis hit two bogeys on his front nine and a good chip at the ninth saw him save par late broke you saw him finish a one under par. and leading the way along with bubba was clark the northern irishman hit an eagle and five birdies including this at the eighteenth post another sixty eight for the overall mountain climber also produced another

consistent performance staying in contention with a steady round of sixty nine. long run to go human if they tell you which of the leaders in finished i won sinking their. a long birdie putt at the six for finishing on three under. but the morning's headlines were they belong to clark . dreams are made of good. cheer and is pretty good but. i'm going to go with you to look at so we have to we're going to go through six controlled conditions and. that's because the only bit anything can happen i'm going to go to. work whether anyone. so i can go and stage thirteen as the tour de france proved to be a stroke of good fortune for former to me the talk of the norwegian had been sporting the yellow jersey for the best part of the previous week was finally the first of the finish line on this tour a late surge jeremy roy has made

a statement from the bench and actually had to settle for third in the end after also putting behind compassionate that it won t. t. for a while yet another local fabric thomas first stated the overall lead after finishing almost nine minutes behind the collison. total now and two time former russian champions ruben kazai have been drawn against ukrainian runners up dynamo kiev for the third qualifying round of the champions league which is a double header first not just to later this month but no one has been announced that you would have horses in geneva beating against each other the two top clubs from the former soviet union the second time in three years will be even dynamo also met twice in the group stages in two thousand and nine ukrainian outfit won the home title three one holding the it's meant to a goal of straw in cars on neither of the two sides progress though losing out to a group with his boss the loner eventual champions in tamil and. i thought you asked the way to get the next round due to be held next month however then exclaim

is a friendly as the guys and they are shouting included travel to china local team hangzhou greentown constants a day and have held an open training session to provide a treat for the duration founds hundreds of supporters came to watch are also calling on the phone to wait some in our street to never leave this life. now it is two years to go before russia's first summit university games the ancient city of khazan has landed another major coup were also staged the world aquatics championships in twenty fifteen a couple of the toughest one republic the talk of edition from hong kong what love horror however the mexican city will take up the baton from his own two years later this year's edition is all set to kick off in shanghai on saturday because now is now a true sporting stronghold with the likes of football side rubin and the ice hockey champions act bus riding to nest in glory the region design is also beating to be one of the host then used three matches twenty eight team football world cup.

motorsports now and fast improving italian my person in chile has straight and early claim for his maiden voyage in g.p. victory but to see any honda man dominated both free practices on friday the head of the german grand prix the afternoon session was a little pasear than the one in the morning when charlie looks on course to clinch his first pole of the season. goes to a podium finish even as ever the introduction of. reigning world champion who barely ran so the second fastest on the day on his yamaha and david rose are rounded off the top three times and wrestling with teammate and stunning leader casey stoner history in doing well despite coming off his bike at the corner however also crashing out the seven time former champion valentino rossi would need to settle for a low top place not because the day. that article basic holton killer whales two quite surface events of the guinness book of records as

the first other to surf from russia to alaska across the bering strait which has more. safely back on dry land and after almost three years of planning constantine a new guinea finally achieve their dream of kite surfing across one of the most inhospitable stretches of water on the planet but bering straits. that 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 surfers to complete this unleashing fleet for the leisure class they really wanted to get our names in the record books and thankfully we managed to cross the street and it was also personal for me as to choose such a feature really is something special and enormous konstantin a new guinea start of bankwest from the eastern most tip of russia and responsibly populated region of short current and they would cover a distance of ninety six kilometers to alaska and the united states of america.

pair had been planning their route for months trying to study the various wind patterns and currents 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 a support that's all the water is too choppy the boat to be able to set sail. for you've given a cigarette filled with you with a number of the local co's god this is the only thing we had to go to be honest i get goosebumps thinking about words with deeds and i wouldn't recommend anyone to cross the streets with arctic air support boat we had a girl and thankfully we managed to achieve it. would encounter many unexpected encounters along their proposed ninety six kilometer journey the water temperature just one degree above freezing but bad was to prove lisa bear worries which was that if it is 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

encounter with one i was surfing along 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 in the endorse a string to him who couldn't get hurt in the process because i. got over seven hours on the water and their lives still intact given contente look finally reach alaska completing one of the greatest challenges in their lives in crossing the bering strait richmond r.t. moscow. well 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 that seems to be no limits as well child. has taken to the extreme and explore the remotest parts of the globe also risk of life on the titles rivers on earth you can't rush off of the story. all is calm and quiet it looks like paradise on earth but seas like these are rather an exception for whites want to kayak on in rapids and plunge waterfalls are what these adrenaline junkies are

after and the best of them all the young and very new zealander some sutton has been looking for the ultimate challenge the twenty two he's the reigning extreme kayak and will champion and he set out on a global johnny to find the toughest waterway the reason the so-called really gods the world renowned niagara falls could spell certain death for so since quest began in siberia russia we're just faced with huge amounts of water and you're looking down these rivers and if faces the wall of water you can't even see where you're going you can't see any of your team mates because you're down in the hollow and it's just like pedaling against god's hand you know it's just out there trying to take it down and you just gotta be strong and get through it and not want to settle for anything in between sam and coach was arguably the most modern river in russia called the bunch of house filled with obstacles it has a dark history of claiming people's lives but luckily for sam go and on the bus

council and only a life changing experience pedicle moment for the whole expression you're looking down at the river all of these emotions come from within and you're just thinking about friends that you'd lost in the river and then what's really important to you in life you know it at that stage you just see life and pure clarity with all the treacherous terms negotiators in the sense sam moved on to iceland geysers are the first thing that we call consumer loans but after these three waterfall should be the other one some of them higher than an eight story building so free fall off them and heap in the water again is not dissimilar to a car crash and survived and is what gives these man this softer thrills what sort of minds come to their brains reset and all those emotions that oh but you just can't get that goal come through it's. you know the risk i definitely was smaller than the reward in the room was just so great i base it with if that wasn't an

obscene venture 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 a more defined adventure is sure to come and build a show for our team. incredible stuff well that's the thing i think. hungry for the false look we've got it fixed the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on the party.

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