that's based on the grid system and the downtown area has some beautiful european influenced. the more soviet and industrial it becomes. if you don't. this is a great way to see the city. friends on the only bike isn't. the roads. motorcycle team is based we hold the trans. federation 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 was still plenty of people out for a quiet day of risking life and. broken bones here and there and having fun. and if the seven year old can make it around the track in one piece. to stop the thing from stalling at

least. take that society. over again. ok so on might not be a natural rebel without a cause but there are some people who do live rather unconventional lives. probably to say that recycling projects around russia still in their infancy but. around here. you know exactly what to do. there are certain. things might do well i'm a. ski has developed a whole new take on heating the. engineer who just can't stop building. expensive bricks but there are. you have alternatives just lying around.

many bottles if you pull it up over the years you know mineral water beer and the like i had difficulty getting rid of them so i thought i might as well use them for a good purpose so if first thing i made was a bathroom a nice and warm place. and as time went by and all the projects crop talking. like this purple towel for instance from the inside it may be all these version of the linen more. but up top it's a place for the kids to play and help with the gardening too. is my swimming pool has a double purpose but you know the first children swim in the water local five minutes used to watering plants and then will fill the swimming pool up again. oh for. projects have made him a bit of a local celebrity he's always had plenty of fans to bring him supplies luxury

luxury village views. and you can keep up with the new. look coming. it took seventy eight people to collect these bottles even a plaque but everyone has. 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. 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. to martial artists does. this is ten c. karate club the biggest and most successful in the city so it's run by alexander russia's most accomplished karate masters and he's a belief system by his son. he's a black belt of course. and . of 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. i wanted to find somewhere in the city to relax and recuperate. from the chinese border and there's a thriving community. there remedies 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. happens to be one of the. things ever experience. then you just relax and hope. it does get better the longer. but i'm still counting down the fifteen minutes i have to wait. for. christmas eve.

to get. such a small person was capable of inflicting so much pain and i was any off way through the treatment. right on happy with the second. but both gentle and refreshing the first because now my back row feels 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 like. the very moment of 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 volatile volatiles this is a walk in the park. not sure whether most kids sucked up into little. pieces. 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. 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 track ahead of. them of course i picked 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 clear. the 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 never head stop a 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 and 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 about how nice most sacred places. this is a holy place and 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 who posts to impart some wisdom to me. it's good 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 all seek guidance in the parks various shrines and most of them and i 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 in 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 for me to do. is take a climb up the stairway to heaven. there's a cold drink go to the waiting for me then the. more you lucky enough to have the spirit speak to you or not there's definitely a special energy about. incredible views a natural monoliths make this a memorable trip and i was looking forward to seeing more of the region's british

treasures.

brighton. moonbat song from feinstein's passions. these flames totty dot com. is an amazing experience for both and pilgrims alike but. santa can be found in the region. but isn't plays a major role in that culture in fact the region is home to the two oldest but his temples and the whole of the country but it's not just people spiritual wellbeing that they're concerned with here they've also got a pretty serious academic program. this done some time police home to around two hundred monks and lay students and

there's always a good argument to be had. it's a teaching process or do you know of course or such discussions to students learning the philosophic truth all food is. your game is the sunni among care to give me a 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 account to me. as an english teacher who's been working here since one nine hundred ninety four the students study here for five years and as well as languages in office they focus heavily on tibetan sciences to get. one low grade to board the science five for the sciences and

felicity if you can teach to fit in that. he explained the types of paul's. there are lots of different ones. what might your polls tell you what sort of thing. you will paul's kid nepal's different kinds some long run. and all the others have to be able to work 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 they're listening to all feel most of that bottom line he can from. his. former. appeared to me this thing. is.

false of course. and. what language is he. not what it should be high decided it was time to buy the monks farewell but these deep intellectual close's they do make you think. they may study 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. 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. targets on the ground and there are some fairly

complicated rules. this looks like a ridiculously accurate one he just gives one point because he's not from there. each participant stands on the twenty or thirty meters 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 when in rome. robin hood probably with the way to 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 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. was a 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 target. loose the one point. trust me. i decided to quit while i was ahead anyway compared to some of the other competitors i wasn't really dressed for the occasion. it was time to exploring some more of the local wilderness nowadays none of this territory is off limits but i was heading to a place that just twenty years ago i would have been allowed anywhere near. there

are huge areas of understood step in this region but in the middle as 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 of the country's nuclear. i was about to head four hundred meters down into the. mine which produces eighty percent of the country's uranium. they. knew seems a. trench.

this is pretty serious equipment. these drills are used to for holes in the rock which is good with explosives it's scooped up and dropped ready for collection. a piece of lore uranium zero zero zero hard to believe but within this is this small piece of radioactive material. and surprisingly to use any heavy machinery but then didn't going to do a little money of my own. it can't come down to avoid like this.

when you're dealing with one of the most potentially lethal substances on the planet. i want to be but it's. the only thing you'll really like me to suffer from down here is dust inhalation bus in the four thousand tons of coal the whole of the pit every day there's six tons of concentrated highly radioactive uranium to sobering fools. so it's. probably be a radiant mind without any noticeable effects. of the above me a glowing in. my time in the reason was coming to an end but i still have to 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. and sold the smith 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. specifics. a bit of. a. shining away there will be the envy of all of. us. ok i'm probably unlikely to ever attend the wedding but 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 i did today was being supplied by a law of sheep. so this is 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 of the. goes to a different place and is welcomed by the spirits and by god. to do what needed to be done and go ready to start cooking. so this is considered to be the biggest. speciality the liver but. just because the meat which is still warm but.

with freshness here then once we'd sealed the liver it was time for the second leg . so the meats now that it's been cooked has no wraps in the fat and then we go back and cook it again this is a very special treat. exceptionally primal men meet in florida. would be doing it for thousands of years. i felt truly only to have been able to share this experience with to remember and her relatives. an authentic piece of period family life the few westerners ever have a chance to be a part of. and it was a perfect ten minutes of my time in a job i call screen richer.

in india. the move to joint the hotel. the gateway hotel the ground in period truly torturously. you can.

see don't need to go and. read this and the colonel was so told to retreat. a snap cable has forced rescuers to restart the complicated operation to lift the massive bulgaria cruiser that sank a week ago claiming one hundred twenty nine lives. the murdoch media scandal claims another britain's top cop over connections to journalists suspected of bribery and phone hacking former news international chief executive and news of the world editor rebecca brooks has also found herself once again dealing with police behind closed doors but this time under arrest before being released on bail. and rebels have been recognized as the legitimate governing authority in the country by the u.s. and thirty other countries but colonel gadhafi remains defiant and vows that never to leave libya as nato airstrikes continue.

cash crunch as america struggles to raise its debt ceiling in time to avert a default while the euro crisis spreads adding more pressure on the single currency . you are watching r t direct from the heart of moscow from our central studios and glad to have you with us russian emergency crews are to restart efforts to lift of the wreck of a sunken cruiser we. down in the river volga last week killing one hundred twenty nine people including many children a cable snapped during recovery efforts which have had to be restarted the cruiser bulgaria went down in minutes leaving most of the two hundred passengers no chance of escape in one of russia's worst ever shipping disasters artie's tom barton

reports from the site of the catastrophe. as if to demonstrate just how difficult recovering the ball gary is going to be the cable holding it just snapped for the nor mighty bang but crane holding it rocked backwards and the cable whips up against the side of the ship that cable was there to try and support the ship to try and write it before they began lifting the ship with other straps that were later to be put under it it serves to demonstrate just how difficult and dangerous this operation is going to be if there were divers under there they could have been in great danger from the snapping cable had previously been trying to turn the ship around to get it into position in order that they could write the ship and then bring it up to the surface but there's a lot of other complications involved very poor visibility a lot of weight involved and a long a long and lengthy process is going to be needed we were told just recently by a spokesman from the emergencies ministry it's going to take many days before they can begin to even raising start.