joys be victories the violence the gateway to the ground imperial trilogy the torturously push coromandel hotel choice richard good to see don't need to go and. read this and the colonel was so told to retreat. today's top stories and the review of the week from r.t. rescuers are preparing to lift the russian cruiser from the bottom of the volga river where it sank in a matter of minutes last sunday claiming around one hundred thirty lives it's hoped the operation will provide answers as to why the catastrophe happened. britain's top cop quits is the focus of the fury over the phone hacking scandal surrounding the u.k. press which is to the police comes former news international senior rebecca brooks was arrested earlier in the day. libyan rebels now have full diplomatic recognition

from washington and with access to colonel gadhafi assets frozen in the u.s. meanwhile nato has intensified attacks on the capital tripoli in an effort to oust the libyan leader never to leave. class intercontinental cash crunch as america faces up to the possibility of default europe's debt crisis contagion piles more pressure on the euro the u.s. congress needs to raise the debt ceiling to avoid financial disaster what it's really is on the verge of leaving a painter. lobby back here with more on those stories in less than thirty minutes from now in the meantime we take you into the heart of siberia where east meets west. michael skinner region deep in the siberian far east is one of russia's newest territories formed in two thousand and eight and brought together the chips on the

arguing boria regions and with it a striking mix of asian and european culture. traveling around you can find buddhist temples spooling national parks and remote villages that still practice traditions to date back a thousand years but if you're flying here and blending in the regions vibrant capital. whenever you're a new place of course the best way to get to know it is to have a local show you around and i know one lady here has promised to serve me a bit of what life is like in the fast lane. ok. sure is home to just over three hundred thousand people and it's a real mismatch of styles 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 architecture but the further you ride the more soviet and industrial it becomes.

if you don't mind your bugging your teeth this is a great way to see the city but stanislaw her and her friends on the only point is interesting. because these guys prefer to ride off the roads. motorcycle team is based we call the trans by cole motor sports federation the team is made up of more than thirty mins and the training course is just over here. most of the team are aware of the competition but there were still plenty of people out for a quiet day of risking life and limb. with a broken bones here and there and having fun. and if a seven year old can make you around the track in one piece come the whole right. well once i figured out how to stop the thing from stalling at least for. right i

got society making my own. never again. ok so on why not be a natural rebel without a cause there are some people in chief who do live rather unconventional lives. probably to say the recycling projects around russia are still in their infancy but i know around here. you know exactly what to do with those party things and there are certain. things might be what i'm arkady. good deal should ski has developed a whole new take on hitting the bottle. the engineer who just can't stop building and why bother with expensive bricks when there are plenty of alternatives just lying around. so many bottles if you boil it up over the years you know that

mineral water and beer and the like you had difficulty getting rid of them so i thought i might as well use them for a good purpose to the first thing i made was a bathroom a nice and warm place. and as time went by all the projects cross-talk. like this portal tower for instance from the inside it may be all these version of the lenin mausoleum. but it's a place for the kids to play and help with the gardening too. and yeah here's my swimming pool has a double purpose mature into first children's from in the water vocal fry and then it's used for watering plants and then we'll fill this rolling pool up again they're great all feeling go out a way to with your best of both. 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. country look coming up at the it took seven to eight people to collect these bottles even a plaque you know what everyone has brought up. each building normally takes years to complete it 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 i was well on my way to an architectural triumph. but always hold work in the hot sun makes a man thirsty. sadly i don't have to stay and help on how to finish this project but i can at least help contribute to the building materials. on the job. but just one of course because my next stop was going to take some serious concentration. didn't want to end up with a black. eyed. sap. from.

the martial artist is. this is ten c. karate club the biggest and most successful in the city. one of russia's most accomplished karate masters and he's able to assist it by his son yet again he's only a first black belt so of course i was in for an easy ride. somehow . it's been course a while since our throw to roundhouse kick in anger here again in an intensive refresher course. just quickly in here to get cracks over the head. has been teaching here since nine hundred ninety four and estimates he's trained thousand students. percent of the city's population. this is

a man who says he wants to attack his with his always blindfolded. when he offered me a little. play instruction. that you want to take home as a servant. so there is no excuse me not to become a lean mean fighting machine. was just not good i wanted to find somewhere in the city to relax and recuperate. a few hundred kilometers from the chinese border and there's a thriving chinese community here along with. they've also brought their relatives there are almost no russians working in this chinese medicine center and there are a whole range of different treatments. he was particularly

effective and he was on the ground most of. this is supposed to be great for your circulation and your joints. it also happens to be one of the most things ever experience it's. just relax and do the thing. it does get better the lawyer the club still counting down the fifteen minute silence awaits. his will. receive. this new good. old boy.

who to fool such a small person was capable of inflicting so much pain i was on health way through the treatments. right on hoping that the second procedures with a bit more gentle and refreshing the first because now my back row feels like it's happening count of the time. understandably i was a little nervous as i climbed on to my next plinth but my instructor on dre soon had me completely relaxed. ready for some relief at least until i noticed i'm guessing out the likes of. the very moment of moment. because of never go through he's with them but. this is a work show. they may have been using me as

a human flown by but it's also supposed to be great for the secular nation and compared to those volatile voyles this is a walk in the park we're not sure that most kids sucked up into little clubs boils book will tell you all being certain for years with one. of those two things combined they cause what she very well ok andre the boy. 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. i'm not far from the capitol is one of the areas most beautiful nature schools. service and the national park it's the biggest national park in the whole region and it's centered around a series of sacred buddhist monuments unfortunately most of them are high up on the hills which means i'm going to see them. i've got a bit of a track ahead of. them of course i picked one of the hottest days of the year to do

. he says plenty of refreshment available. trucks are said to have been here for millennia and each visit their response to that bit to keep them clear. these 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 path so that obviously helps you but also the others who are coming to follow in your footsteps and of course you never had that 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 at 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. his most sacred places. this is a holy place and the moments name means golders and one of the goddess is right here in the rock for much you can answer many questions and one can profit from the knowledge that just touched the rock with your hands and for it. by. causing my forehead this rock hopefully it's supposed. to me. stay. but there are plenty of opportunities to draw on the god's knowledge here dozens of children is journey here almost every day to make offerings will seek guidance in the park's 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. who. is taking a climb up the stairway to heaven. kohat as a cold drink of the waiting room here then the. more you look enough to have the spirits speak to you or not there's definitely a special energy about our. incredible views in natural monoliths make this a memorable trip and i was looking forward to seeing more of the region's british treasures.

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arche. national park is an amazing experience for both hikers and pilgrims a light. sensor can be found in the region. plays a major role in culture in fact the region is home to the two oldest temples in the whole of the country but it's not just people spiritual wellbeing that we're concerned with here i've also got a pretty serious academic. stance and sample is home to around two hundred monks and lay students and there's always a good argument to be house. for so such discussions to students learning the philosophic truth of. your game is the senior monk here and it's given. your tour of the impressive temple grounds. it was built back in

the late eighteenth 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 the temple they've also been restoring their academy. by emergency eva is an english teacher who's been working here since nine hundred ninety four a student study here for five years and as well as languages an arts they focus heavily on tibetan science as you get to math and this is one of the great oblivious sciences fife for the sciences and for most of it you can teach tippett and that's to. explain the types of parts are passed by voices. there are lots of different levels is what your pulse tell you're thinking of or i'll leave all paul's kid nepal's different kinds some long balls

right this. true. and will has his computer work a certain rate for fifteen years ok. perhaps the most impatient lessons concentration but it's also my dears and they have some extremely well child professors from a few classes. off the list listen to this teacher will feel both of. them are taking from me and. his. form are you. kidding me he's. not in the words. i want to study and now these he teaches for those who follow what languages he writes with a bit. more inspection is not what it should be high decided it was time to buy him in the monk's farewell but these deep intellectual close's they do make you think.

well they may study it five years but that doesn't mean that the philosophical questions for the monks there apparently one of the favorites is simply how is it. who i am. some of the probably would take a life time figure. 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 archery. but this is bowman ship style and that's a little different. be all she's a much go to heads home gets on the grounds and there are some fairly complicated rules. by. this point because it looks like a ridiculously accurate one he just gets one point because he's not this and that. each participant stands either twenty or thirty metres back and get some thirty two

shots if you knock the whites 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 fancy myself as a bit of a. robin hood. let's give it a shot right. all the bozo made from birch bark and horn and they have kevlar strings so not much chance of those you know my point here is the most experienced don't share in the village so if i was going to get a lesson from anyone he's the man. in the chair. for the. draft and release. perfect form without sorrow. see how that changes and about it and then it was finally time to let loose ok so i need

a. little white target. the one point. where if i get one of these put it on the head would you think. you can trust me. i decided to quit while i was ahead anyway compared to some of the other top of competitors i wasn't really dressed for the occasion. it was time to stones exploring some more of the local wilderness nowadays none of this territory is off limits but i was having to replace the just twenty years ago i would have been allowed anywhere near. their huge areas of understood stacked in this region but in the middle there's one place that was closed from the outside world for more than twenty years during the soviet union. and it's because of this but it is the largest uranium mine in the whole of russia and it fuels one third of the country's

nuclear power. i was about to head four hundred meters down into the. mine which produces eighty percent of the country's uranium. they. knew seams are constantly being. monday trenchtown levels. this. is a pretty serious quipping. these drills are used to holes in the rock which is then

blasted with explosives and scooped up and dropped ready for. a piece of more uranium or. hard to believe that within this is this small piece of radioactive material. unsurprisingly. use any heavy machinery. well you can't come down into a void like this and. of course. when you're dealing with one of the most offensively people substances on the planet i think i want to be there for the self-pity. the only thing you really like me to suffer from down here is just inhalation but in the four thousand tonnes of all the

horrors of the pit every day there's six tons of concentrated highly radioactive uranium to sobering fools. so survive but probably you radiate mind without any noticeable effects. of the above bits me of laying in . my time is about kills good reason was coming to an ems but i still had wanted some souvenirs to pick up in the uk in gloria region. hundreds of you had a reputation for beautiful and ornate weaponry like this and seek silver knife here but like with any old thing sometimes you need to give it a touch up and there's a lady around here i really noticed how to put the sparkle back into things. as an artist and so the smith and if you want something to look it's best she's the

woman you go and see. oh i thought i'd check if i could get discounts on helping out with the cleaning. specific scrubbing he does. the bit of. a shift lever signing away there will be the envy of all. ok i'm probably unlikely to ever attend the wedding but dreamer did invite me to family picnic the next day with a bit of a difference. they don't do things by holes when they get together in these parts and i did today was being supplied by a lawyer sheet. so this is actually the most important part of the ceremony where you have to do it with your head covered. you make an offering to the four corners of the earth.

is to ensure that the soul. goes to a different place and is welcomed in by the spirit. i left to do what needed to be done and got ready to start cooking. so this is considered to be the biggest delicacy of. liver i'm not leak. it just because the meat which is still warm. from with freshness here then once we had sealed delivered it was time for the second layer. so the meats 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. exceptionally primal men meet in

florida. it's doing its best to be. truly omitted to have been able to share this experience with to remember and her relatives. an authentic piece of a real family life the few westerners ever have a chance to feel whole self. and it was a perfect ten minutes of my time and those of michael steele richer.

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