like the venice of the north as they cost and i think it's just amazing you can take a party boat down the river and they can all spend the night time it's raining nice and if you want to be a little bit more to do something more special you can actually order both for itself just for your friends and scud there and eat and drink and have a good time it's absolutely a reseller pushing for the watch. a lot of. these. places. make it to sixty minutes and. looked out. the winter canal is one of the most poetic coolest of old st petersburg it was described to alexander pushkin's famous queen of spades mobile and is a popular meeting place for lovers the area is especially lovely when seen from the water when you sell in a boating costume on the beach boat march the frames that went to come out magnificent like something as movie sets. moving to an

exploitation and house of sight seeing standing on your feet consuming take it's full circus plus preacher temperature spot implant 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 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. turkish russian or finnish combining dry steam in a way sterile piece there's even a single room to show consensus. in the summertime color experience she fancies. this spectacular structure.

is located near. us often taken from a pirate ship instead the wooden ship offers the perfect place to relax. is just impressive. 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 st petersburg one of the historical symbols of russia's military fleet has been turned into a museum and stands proud to the city's central embodiment. is one to be associated with the revolution of nine hundred seventeen another warship is besieged by thousands of tourists every year. it seemed 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 the beach to 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 and beach time it's not. the. place to enjoy. life

in the beautiful historical surroundings. traditions in the city especially during the period. there are around twenty bridges across the river the show raised during the night ships cruise line is. a spectacular racetrack 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 of the city. the white knights period is the perfect time to visit milton capital you can stroll along the rivers late at night enjoying the twilight in the buildings the flexing

in the canals and the it's always wonderful there's something magical about the city. to discuss the magic of simpsons but let's meet the streets just. beneath you. three is exactly the. difference between the summer and the first exactly inner you see these like everybody everybody is on their own. it's. everybody's. you know make the city. and whether it's really what makes sense just very special place because it's like. this. like on the one hand it's a kind of historical style. on the other hand it's like going to this time i mean

what they're now peter the great had 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 or as a quest to make a business rationale like being a piece of hero and a scientist virgie's i guess they don't want to be embraced plus 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 you know they're down with something like you 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 off as well and you've got you know actual tour of the fortress behind as they all fires and like i guess that this is the kind of artistic speciality or something just very plenty of time to see this t.v. from the weather and like almost the whole scene here from the water yet it's not like maybe in budapest or in paris where the you can see they're like the sand there and in other places you will see like every meal ten times i want to see it everywhere if you do it by my boat by ferry you will see amazing amazing pieces of

architecture and are 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 was close enough also last time and that like that and the perfect point is they didn't do it like going to see chest and they said 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 tough an hour or even into hard just to see to me and that's what trace you can do it. is great but it makes there's limits to you enjoy your time here and said this is about. my final shot with the right time the embodiment of the piece from peatross i want to bet you went to the city in a private speedboat. we. navigated you to come out to you two ways on the boat you see the city from the best angles originally there were no bridges crossing the mighty never refer to the contrary between fire expired those were. the main

reasons why some petersburg was given the name the face off until. this is just the architecture in st petersburg is justified and you can see that. behind us but he found say a private toll well there are various companies in the city to offer trips around the never on the size of. the size. of. st petersburg was an incredible sixty three when the spectacular architecture museums styling history and the reflecting in the shopping mall says it is like something out of a fairy tale. having survived a tumultuous history and having changed name several times as a coastal city of growth and development. here partly. and with around. outstanding individual monuments of architecture history and culture no one to rush to the wishes of the world's most peaceful locations.

while that would have meant. the peaceful waterways i'll say it is but i'll see you again at the same time next week and tell them for me and the rest of the crew chaps from out. of the war and going the way of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. something might be going off by mistake.

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dot com. top stories this hour dotty over thirty countries including the u.s. officially recognize the libyan rebel council as the 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 be you 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 a bailout. the u.k. phone hacking scandal gathers pace forcing the chief executive of the group owned by the murdoch empire to quit i mean 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. and i'll be back with a news bulletin in full for in about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime the

latest with kate. hello welcome to the sports roundup this friday evening and these are the top stories one shot leaders darren clarke and nick is clever hold a two way tie at the top of the leaderboard after a second low scoring tight at the british open. while biking victory early tour de france leader talk whose whole third of norway with a stage thirteen in the mountains as local hero thomas voeckler retains the overly . familiar rivals twice russian champions are being drawn 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 under par round of sixty eight to take a joint one shot lead at the british open 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 global was aiming to build on his opening round of sixty six and could have ended day two as the out right leader if it's something siegel chance at the seventh hole he had to settle for a birdie out of the seventy two leaving at four and a par while five to open champion tom watson there he goes down early marker with a hole in one of the six of the sixty one year old needed replaced as the drop into the hole joint first round leader tom lewis hit two bogeys on his front nine and a good chip at the ninth saw him save half late you saw him finish a one under par. and leading the way along with governor was clark the northern irishman hit an eagle and five birdies including this at the eighteenth post another sixty eight four hundred overall mountain climber also produced another consistent performance staying in contention with a steady round of sixty nine. while spine to get into human as it was to day two shots of the lead as it finished

a one sinking this long birdie putts at the six before finishing on three under. at the morning headlines of a belong to. quite the stuff danger made off but you know i played nicely for today as and. pretty good but a long way to go with the forecast that we got for the weekend you know got thirty six holes in tough conditions and you know it's could be anything anything can happen i'm going to get to. where and when the weather or anything. cycling now in stage thirteen of the tour de france proved to be a stroke of good fortune for former too early to talk of the norwegian who had been sporting the yellow jersey for the best part of the previous week it was funny the first across the finish line on this tour with a late surge tonight jeremy roy to his maiden stage victory the frenchman actually had to settle for third in the end after also putting behind compacted that did one cutie while yet another local favorite thomas first let's stay to the overall lead

after finishing almost nine minutes behind in the collison. football now and two time former russian champions rubin khazal have been drawn against ukrainian runners up dynamo kiev for the third qualifying round of the champions league which is a double header the first night she later this month the draw has been announced at u.a.b. headquarters in geneva pitting against each other the two top clubs from the former soviet union for the second time in three years maybe even dynamo also met twice in the group stages in two thousand and nine ukrainian outfit won the home tight three one while holding go to burn but it's meant to a goal of straw in cars on neither of the two sides progress though losing out to group winners barcelona and eventual champions into milan. while the giant asked no way to get the next round due to be held next month however their next game is a friendly as the gunners and they are shouting included travel to china they'll play a local team hangzhou greentown on saturday and have held an open training session to provide a treat for their asian founds hundreds of supporters came to watch are also

calling i don't want to wait sunny and i was ready to never leave the club. now it is two years to go before russia's first summer at university games the ancient city of khazan has landed another major coup also stage the world aquatics championships in twenty fifteen the couple of the toughest on republic beat off competition from hong kong and got laura however the mexican city will take up the baton from two years later this year's edition is all set to kick off in shanghai. i also asked today because al is now a true sporting stronghold with the likes of football side rubin and double ice hockey chaldeans i pass provided to us to glory for the region as a source a beating to be one of the host then used during russia's twenty one team football world cup. matches sports now and fast improving italian marco simoncelli has stated early claim for his maiden motor g.p. victory there to see the honda man dominating both three practices on friday ahead

of the german grand prix the afternoon session was a little pasear than the one in the morning sim and charlie looks on course to clinch his third of the season. goes to a podium finish the first ever get to the top echelon. reigning world champion holding the reins of the second fastest on the day on his yellow hard drives are rounded off the top three times. 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 that week to settle for a local twelve place begin the day. now after dealing with basic hold and dodging killer whales to kite surface event of the guinness book of records as the first people ever to surf from russia to alaska across the bering strait which is of course feat as well. safely back on dry land and after almost three years of planning constantine in new guinea finally achieved their dream of kite surfing

across one of the most inhospitable stretches of the planet's 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 great service to complete this amazing feat of our leisure as they did if we really wanted to get our names in the record books and thankfully we managed to cross the bering straits it was also a personal goal for me as to choose such a feature really is something special of the. constraint gene in new guinea stance of bankwest 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 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 streets without to support their

soul as 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 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. but joe would encounter many unexpected encounters along their proposed ninety six kilometer journey of water temperature but just one degree above freezing but that was to prove the least of their worries when we're sure 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 i was surfing alone and about seven meters in front of me i saw 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 i mean

after almost seven hours on the water and the line still intact guinea and constantine would finally reach alaska completing one of the greatest challenges in vail lives in crossing the bering strait richard pombo fleet 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 there seem to be no limits as well champion kayaker sound has taken us to the extreme and explore the remotest parts of the globe all to risk his life on the tuttles rivers on earth rushed off of 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 sutton has been looking for the ultimate challenge the twenty two he's there in an extreme car i can roll champion and he set out on

a global journey to find the toughest waterway the reason the so-called riva god the world renowned niagara falls could spell certain death for so sense quest 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 hand 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 coach arguably the most modern river in russia called the bosh house filled with obstacles it has a dark history of claim in people's lives but luckily for sam go in down the bosh talismans only a life changing experience pinnacle moment for from 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 terms negotiated in the. sand moved on to iceland geysers are the first thing that may pop into mind but after this trip waterfall should be the other one some of them higher than an eight story building so free falling off them and heat in the water again is not dissimilar to a car crash and survived and is what gives these man this sawed off to thrills minds come to in your brains reset and all those emotions of that you've just conquered that goal come through it's. you know at the risk it definitely was smaller than the rewards and the ruble was just so great it may seem worthwhile if that wasn't enough send ventured further into the mexican jungle and it is dead 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 at 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. on t. . incredible stuff well that's the thing i think. hungry for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on.

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live in moscow with you 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 that libyan contact group convening in turkey is also words colonel gadhafi to give up going to church has more now 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 and leave the up by washington. who has studied in the u.s. for years he has talked to the u.s. so he's quite well connected with the united states but how it often comes with

strings attached and some say the leader an 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 certain people to power the west supports the rebels of 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 know his. two thousand says he estimates one thousand we had is are among the rebels in libya one believe in rebel commander has openly admitted his fighters have to leave and even a u.s. military study three years ago said leave us made of 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 doesn't seem to care as long as they have someone loyal very empowered to deal with . dr franklin a director of an organization called americans concerned for middle.