city. friends on the only bike isn't she. prefers a ride off the roads. motorcycle team is based we call the trans point call motor sports federation the team is made up of more than thirty minutes and the training is just over here. most of the team are away at a competition but there are still plenty of people out for a quiet day of risking. a broken bones here and there and having fun. and if a seven year old can make it around the track in one piece. well once i figured out how to stop the thing from stalling at least. take that society i'm making my own. never again.

ok so i might not be a natural rebel without a cause but there are some people in chief who do live rather unconventional lives . probably to say the recycling projects around russia still in their infancy but i know one man around here. you know exactly what to do. there are thirty. things might do what america. has developed a whole new take on hitting the bottle. retaught engineer who just can't stop building. expensive bricks but there are plenty of alternatives just lying around. many bottles if you boil it up over the years you know mineral water beer and the like you had difficulty getting rid of them so i thought i might as well use them for a good purpose easy job. the first thing i made was a bathroom

a nice and warm place. and as time went by it all the projects crop talk. like this bottle towel for instance from the inside it may be all these version of the lemon more. but up top it's a place for the kids to play and help with the gardening to. his mind swimming pool has a double purpose but you know first your children swim in the water local five minutes used to watering plants and then will fill the swimming pool up again thrilling go on a way to will feel that's the. perfect. projects have made him a bit of a local celebrity and he's always had plenty of fans to bring him supplies luxury luxury village news. and you could keep up with a new. look coming and. it took seventy eight people

to collect these bottles even a plaque or whatever on his. each building normally takes years to complete it isn't slowing down his property empire is next one is an old school 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. always hard work in the hot sun makes a man thirsty. that sadly i don't have to stay and help or how to finish this project but i can at least help contribute to the building materials. on the job is encouraged. but just one of course because my next stop was going to take some serious concentration if i didn't want to end up with a black. shafted imo. from both. martial artist is. this is ten c.

karate club the biggest and most successful in the city so it's run by alexander one of russia's most accomplished karate masters and he's a belief system by his son yet gainey. he's a black belt of course i was in. an intensive course. quickly in here. has been teaching. and estimates he's trained thousand students. percent of the city's population. this is a man who says he wants to. blindfolded. me

a little. to take but. i wanted to find somewhere in the city to relax and recuperate. from the chinese border and there's a thriving community here. they've also brought their relatives there are almost no russians working in this chinese. different treatments. he was particularly effective.

this is supposed to be great for your circulation and your joints. happens to be one of the most things i've ever experience. then you just relax and have to do the thing. it does get better the longer your lawyer but i'm still counting down the fifteen minutes i had to wait. for. christmas eve. to get. through to for such a small close and was capable of inflicting so much pain and i was only off way

through the treatments. right on helping with the second. but both gentle and refreshing the first because it was like he's had an encounter with a tyke. understandably i was a little nervous as i climbed on to my next plinth but my instructor soon had me completely relaxed. at least until i noticed him getting out to light. the very moment on my. knees with him. they may have been using me as a human flaw. but it's also supposed to be great for the secular. compared to those vols this is a walk in the park. for most kids sucked up into little. with

. by centuries of chinese wisdom it was time to seek out some spiritual healing too and that meant getting out of the city. from the capital is one of the areas most beautiful nature spots. so this is the national park it's the biggest national park in the whole region and it's centered around a series of sacred monuments unfortunately most of them are high up on the hills which means if i'm going to see them. i've got a bit of a trek ahead of me. and of course i take one of the hottest days of the year to do . this there's plenty of refreshment available.

the trucks are said to have been here for millennia and each visitor responds to do their bit to keep them flare. 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 paw so that obviously helps you but also the others who are coming to follow in your footsteps and of course never head stuff but have 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 all of all how nice most sacred places.

this is a holy place in the moments name means goddess and one of the goddesses 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. touching my forehead to this rock hopefully it's supposed to impart some wisdom to me. and it's going to. stay. but there are plenty of opportunities to draw on the god's knowledge here dozens of pilgrims journey here almost every day to make offerings will seek guidance in the parks various shrines and most of them are headed for one particular destination. it's been a long hot track but it's finally almost to the end because just behind me is the

holiest sites for the buddhists and the whole of this park it's called the gates cathedral and people believe that it actually marks the entrance to paradise. who is left to me to do. is take a climb up the stairway to heaven. well you lucky enough to have the spirit speak to you all know it's there's definitely a special energy about. incredible views and natural monoliths make this a memorable trip i was looking forward to seeing more of the region treasures.

simply discipline. education. work. with the penitentiary system transform a criminal. life behind bars. is an amazing experience for both and

pilgrims alike. can be found in the region buddhism plays a major role in culture in fact the region is home to the two oldest but it's temples in the whole of the country but it's not just people spiritual wellbeing that they're concerned with here. got a pretty serious academic program to. this done sometime police home to around two hundred monks only students and there's always a good argument to be. teaching process of course or such discussions to students learning the philosophic truth of. your game is the sunni among care to give me a tour of the impressive temple grounds. it was built back in the late eight hundred 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 account to me. as an english teacher who has been working here since one nine hundred ninety four the students study here for five years and as well as languages and they focus heavily on tibetan sciences to get. one grade to board the sciences five for the sciences and you can teach tippett and that's. explain the types of paul's past. there are lots of different ones. tell you what. paul's kid nepal's different some while. others have to be a bit like

a certain rate for fifteen years ok. so perhaps the most important lesson is concentration on buddhist or similar ideas and they have some extremely well travelled professors. class. and the list in the. bottom line. he can from. his. former thank you. good to meet this thing. with. the monastery and now he teaches you. what languages he writes. and it's not what it should be decided it was time to get by on the monks farewell but these deep intellectual close's they do make you think. they may study it for five years but that doesn't mean that the philosophical question for the monks

apparently one of the favorites is simply how is it. who i am. some of it probably would take a lot of time to figure out. 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. but this is bowman ship style and that's a little different. bianchi is a much go to head tall gets on the ground and there are some fairly complicated rules. in the last salt despite the fact that it looks like a ridiculously accurate one he just gets one point because he's not from there. each participant stands either twenty or thirty metres back and gets up to thirty two shots if you know the want 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. i fancy myself as a bit of

a. robin hood probably with you know what let's give it a shot right. bozo made from birch bark and horn and they have kevlar strings so not much chance of those snapping in a hurry my point here is the most experienced don't tour in the village so if i was going to get a lesson from anyone he's the man. in the chair. so . that's a play dress and release. perfect form without an arrow and see how that changes and about that now and then it was finally time to let loose ok so i need to line everything up. little white.

loose one point. where if i get one of these people on the head with it. trust me. i decided to quit while i was ahead anyway compared to some of the other dr competitors i wasn't really dressed for the occasion. it was time to exploring some. limits but i was heading to a place that just twenty years ago i wouldn't. step in this region but in the middle as one place that was closed. for more than twenty years during the soviet union. and it's because of this but is the largest uranium mine in the whole of russia and it fuels. the country. i was about to head four hundred meters down into the. which produces eighty

percent of the countries you. say. you see. this in pretty serious equipment. these drills are used to holes in the wall which is good with explosives it's scooped up and dropped ready for.

the feast of more uranium. to believe that within this is the radioactive material. you. you can't come down into a void like this. when you're dealing with one of the most potentially lethal substances on the planet i think i want to be but it's. the only thing you'll really like me to suffer from down here is dust inhalation butts in the four thousand tons of coal the horrors of the pit every day there's six tons of concentrated highly radioactive uranium to

sobering fault. so it's. probably. mine without any noticeable effects. of the above. my time in the reason was coming to an end but i still have one or two souvenirs to pick up in the region. hundreds of years the burri out of had a reputation for beautiful ornate weaponry like this silver knife but like with any old thing sometimes you need to give it a bit of a touch up and there's a lady around here who really knows how to put the sparkle back into things. as an artist and silversmith and if you want something to look it's best she's the woman you go and see. and i thought i'd check if i could get a discount by helping out with the cleaning. specific script. it's.

a bit of elbow grease this is mostly that for me that's signing away there will be the envy of all of my next gloria wedding. coming up very soon. ok i'm probably unlikely to ever attend. but dreamer did invite me to a family picnic the next day with a bit of a difference. they don't do things when they get together in these parts and dinner today was being supplied. cheap. so this is actually the most important part of the ceremony where you have to do it with your head cut. you make an offering to the four corners of the earth. is to ensure that the soul of the. goes to

a different place and is welcomed in by the spirit and by god i left the guys to do what needed to be done and got ready to start cooking. so this is considered to be the biggest delicacy so particular mongolian speciality the liver but. it just because the meat which is still warm but it's. with freshness here and once we see all the liver it was time for the second leg. so the meat 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 meat and thought i'd. be doing it thousands of and.

i felt truly only to have been able to share this experience with the reamer and her relatives. an authentic piece of berea family life the few westerners ever have a chance to be a part of. and it was a perfect time in the region. the

ground in period truly.

treat. today's top stories in the review of the week. of recovery rescuers are preparing to lift a russian cruise from the bottom of the volga river a matter of minutes last sunday claiming around one hundred thirty nine. looking for answers as to why the ship sunk so fast we'll bring you all the details from the recovery site just. claims another skull. quits is the focus of the film the phone hacking scandal switches to the police. news international c.e.o. . arrested. banking on change libyan rebels now full diplomatic recognition from washington with.

cash crunch america faces. europe's debt crisis. you're watching the weekly with the main headlines of the past week and the latest developments it's been described as the biggest disaster in russia's modern history in the space of just three minutes a pleasure cruise a with two hundred. people onboard went down in the volga river taking over half of its passengers with it nearly a hundred thirty people were killed many of them children a week later the operation to raise the ship from the bottom is underway as tom barton reports the bulgaria is still under the water at the moment behind me you can probably see the tops of two enormous cranes that have been brought up from

further downstream and they're attached to them or is it an enormous cable that goes down and is threaded underneath the ship and that cable is going to be used first of all at the moment divers and the crane teams are in the process of trying to write that will garrett was leaned on his left side and then once they've right to be able to start to lift it up a lot of the complications that divers are facing are due to the way under speed that the ship sank. firstly the fact that it's on its left side will mean that divers will have to go under that left side as it's righted first of all to check that the ship is structurally sound to be ready to be raised and also to try and look for some of the fifteen bodies which have still to be accounted for which still haven't been found then once they start to raise the ship divers are going to have to first of all try and find essentially the hole that let in all the water and on some of the ship once they have found out they'll.