pro-tobacco sake of the other headlines bill clinton america's biggest creditor china rushes out of washington as you know open economy at risk but not reach an agreement it's dead in check. poland prepares to present its own perspective of what caused the plane president kaczynski to corruption west coast near. libyan rebels mourn their commander gunned down hours on families and that ties to

his regime were called into question. the nato onus is extra troops from the border between me and possible running balance outbreaks of a controversial export ban. coming up next moscow out crew heads to russia's northern capital to sample what's on offer in some places but including attainments can food and accommodation. hello to you i welcome to st petersburg on this week's program i'll be exploring

their various locales are restaurants in the city with new venues opening every single week it's certainly an exciting time to grow in the glorious summer weather i'm a late evening life and it's one true party town on that night it's time for me to check into my hotel holiday. depending on your budget the city offers a vast choice of her tells ranging from comfortable small hotels are star. today i'm checking into the south east coast bridge her towel when you arrive know to the hotel will take your passport and your fish registration for you this is standard practice so do worry i think for a few hours. straight popularly tourists and business people from all over the world provide excellent service wonderful furnishings and most of today's communities. staying here will be an experience you'll never forget. we have a very noisy mixture of course the most coming from the summer top level politicians. to manage friends of international companies plenty of tourists from

russia finland all over europe. if you're visiting the former capital on a budget but she does hotel accommodation insipidus but i can be found and hold a soviet era hotels some of which are for economy cost rooms as well as more comfortable renovated interior is. such a circus and it's time for me to go up to my room even though such rooms are more expensive sometimes. carmen's all suites can work out cheaper especially when charged a room instead of a person wherever you decide to stay to your masseuse research for deals and offers on the internet. through inexpensive breakfast buffets and how many times you might need taxis for example because often you'd be surprised the high end hotels come on come cheaper in the long run. out of more than three hundred rooms there are various luxury apartments and suites like this one here perfect for families and celebrity entourages they come with several connecting bedrooms and

a large living room with kids from the seventy's so whenever you're bored of eating out don't worry as you can always make the good old trusses carry here instead. of time to eat and we've arrived at status or opened in two thousand and seven this one teacher is one of the brightest newcomers on st petersburg's restaurant scene question national study of how many new features various cuisine we offer singapore or italian japanese and russian dishes in our vegetarian meals as well and also wide variety of tasty beautiful dizzier things simple. booking is advised if you want to eat here soft sofas in pillows easy lounge music an ambience these two people and some petersburg's cool just sky this is the ideal place for dinner after a busy day of sightseeing. now it's time for me to travel through is. gorgeous a burial thing i love about the city is all the good locations if you do your

research take a look on the internet all the local guys you'll find some incredible places new restaurants are popping up every week and teressa here i think has the best location in the city just look at the stunning because i could be drawn behind us and just spend a dollar you can see the church of the stills lot of go by i'm sure you know that's what a sells and cause at solitaire it's absolute hearts like. wow. absolutely beautiful. city known for its revolutions over the last ten years there's been a different type of uprising that's on the restaurant and hotel scene times have changed in the former capital now offer some of the best food in russia and he discussed it with an influence and development simply dispense cultural scene let's meet this week's cast. give to me. so you're the general manager here

at the hotel yes i have been here like since january ok i'll leave in some petersburg and from in russia you know for four years but i came here in the internal. edition of the thing that this is my thing so so so every every morning when i wake up i can't wait to. start my day so i think that different hotels and restaurants are opening every single week in the city at the moment you know this is the spirit is booming because like when i came here like four years ago they were basically the few feist store hold those in the mortgage but now we are getting more and more not only five stores but also also all those in some other segments four or four older hold of travelers who wants to come it was perfect so now it's currently white nights show you must see a huge influx of tourists coming to the city. the greatest actually now and

it's still what background like i'm from from finland from hills and you have exactly the same thing but they have done so great job with the white nights here so i don't understand why people chose some piece of fruit instead of feels like it's just because upon theme. but the great job well done great great great p.r. actions marketing acts and this is this is the time of the year to come here if you want to enjoy some. it was just beautiful lies are all you know so i regarding cultural activities it seems that the list is absolutely endless from pizza hoff to captains palace to boat trips it's amazing yes that's true but on the other hand i would love to say the there are no younger generation who comes to experience life here experience nightlife. they don't even need those excuses that there is a bus next to that next to the whole boat so they just want to see how the life goes here they rather go for clapping you know this is the great city also it's

good for all worst most top so while it's wonderful it's great to meet you all the best of luck with your time paradise out thank you it was nice to meet you too. moving on and what other hotels and restaurants i was mentioning in sim petersburg the backpack is there are some great places to stay in the north the capital which would burn a hole in your pocket location hostile situated in the heart of the city of his wonderful views of our square from its windows bring prices here started just six hundred rubles that's roughly around twenty dollars and nights the concepts hostel as they call it also both contemporary design and a friendly and international atmosphere not only will be given a bed for the night but as the hostel supports many artistic projects bill's offer advice is the most it can happen in the news and events in the city. livable scrammed one of our projects is a like asian hostel guide it's

a nontraditional city guys featuring the most interesting places in the city in our humble opinion and includes information on where to downs eat or shop and there are all kinds of places from flea markets to concerts stores from two to five star places the celebs i used. when visiting look around for many of the city shots and many of them you'll find because the restaurants the flow meeting wolf is so cool living room restaurants. interiors of it several holes in terraced are indeed very holy and if you're traveling with children there's even a special room for them. next up the new bar called twenty two thirty inspired with travelling around the world it's young and enthusiastic owners can create a fashionable place for lunch and also cocktails after dark. the bombing at the venue make amazing drinks and there's also a sweet shop here ten macaroons it's a great place. when we were rocking on the interior is we wanted the venue to

represent room and family comfort for example the silver was brought from the flagships now boutique in paris it took a long time to proceed the owner to sell a time she didn't understand what i needed the old one down so far for what we believe in our energy and philosophy and furnishings a history of the dorm we have bought and cafe is located in a soviet building of the same name meaning consumer services center its interiors with old furniture resembles the atmosphere of an apartment in the times of the u.s.s.r. during the day there are dishes of russian and european cuisine on the menu well at nights the venue turns into the last busy nightclub. next up and we've arrived at our final location the w. hotel. launch in one thousand nine hundred eight branson is expanding with over fifty hotels and resorts around the world. if you're looking for stylish accommodation all fine better than the trust to double your best hotel recently and

already it's full of the who's who of st petersburg i high as jack says in taurus with just one hundred thirty seven rooms the service is in ecuador out personal if you do stay here but i do recommend that you bring your credit card. as well as a spectacular rooftop bar and the bliss pool in star hotel boasts a restaurant called mix. it invites guests to enjoy calorie masterpieces island to cast the most of french cooking in the world records meant for the number of michelin stars then. the same duesberg is amazing cultural historic and grounds to try our best to harmonize the cuisine with to see the spirits through to be top quality and at the same time reasonably tries to be the best of all of this to see that the us defense of the north is a great city for dining out with restaurants to suit every pocket from humble backpack is to a list celebrities as for humiliation simplest most hotels range

from grand historic properties to budgets many hotels and wherever that may be in st petersburg it's ultimately the wealth of culture and history that will amaze you and most of that is true for a. very nice so where do you sleep eat all visit here and say give us back this city will never fail to disappoint and that's all the time we have on this week's program sal see you again at the same time next week for more adventures about the former russian capitol hill that for me and the rest of the crew from the peaceful about once they're going to read i thought out.

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violent outbreaks of controversial export. sports news coming right up now with andrew and manchester city have finally got their man evan that's right one for your fantasy team kerry has joined the premier league club believing he's going to bring things there the latest on that class is the end of the road for the usa coach for bradley. hello welcome to the sport here on r.t. and these are the headlines. down below manchester city complete the signing of argentina sensations where. while the u.s. coach bob bradley after five years in charge. and they mean for the games we take a look at one russian girl three making the limping take back some of. the first

manchester city have completed the signing of argentina strike where zero from athletico madrid the twenty three year old signed a five year deal saying he believes he is joining the club that will be fighting for trophies every year city are thought to have paid around sixty two million dollars for the tackle who scored one hundred to go from three hundred thirty four games. he's also netted thirteen times for his country in twenty nine games diego maradona's son in law incidentally is expected to be a man city squad for the pre-season double in super cup tournament this weekend. russia's spot at moscow have added some dutch steel to their suspect midfield neverland's international. donning his new red and white jersey after transferring from i.x. at any signing undergoing his first public training session already looking well versed in high rushes most successful club do things i despise sitting a full thirteen points off the top spot midway through the premier league season

the zoo comes to spar with things that can only up with the club winning three of the last four games the twenty eight year old who played in last year's world cup final saying thought here is a step up from his native land for the. big. dogs they want to buy me and the oldest. i think two more. get more interesting to play for. i get to see if you would agree. with a lot of people from all of our work. good stories about sports or about the world should. more be. to different. i think a levels more than all that any more russian minnows i will only have given themselves a fighting chance of playing in this season's or europa league they drew one one at home with kazakh side at colby in the third qualifying round the competition in the second to see

a russian football and i've not yet played in europe and have not played in europe for ten years they went behind in just eleven minutes after malik many will open for the visitors but twenty one year old. would have thought a second half equaliser the second leg is next week. and another football use for bradley has been five as the coach of the u.s. eighty after five years in charge of polish the team's loss to mexico in the final of the gold cup although bradley's already record isn't all bad with forty three wins twenty five draws and just twelve defeats during his reign he also led to the last sixteen of the twenty ten world cup bradley's replacement is expected to be announced before an exhibition match between the usa and mexico on aug tenth largent seem to have a fifty six year old hundredth of bell is there you go to the foremost studio and his manager taking over from sergio but instead he resigned after the failure on the corporate america in the copper america in argentina. meanwhile thirty four

will make a final decision on goal line technology in march next year with president sepp blatter saying if approved it could be used at the brazil world cup in twenty fourteen and then in leagues around the world. it is possible that the international will decide. they cannot be introduced. two thousand and fourteen i believe this is the case then. all the national associations or leagues they will have the right to use is it knowledge this would be a new approach for the book club to dance on. the. ballots which the gulf where former masters champ in trouble in one is only finding some form after missing the cut in his last six torments he leads after the first day of the greenbrier classic in west virginia a south african has a one shot lead after carving

a six under par sixty four he hasn't been the same place since rest surgery a couple of years ago that that the brought from thursday a group of five players are behind him including they had a nice chip in. while at the india as you're seeing shines islands for major stars at the moment eight under par on sixty three that round first round equalling his lowest ever round of his career and gives him a two shortly ride in the big guns u.s. open champion down clark is six shots back in u.s. open champion rory mcilroy is seven off the pace although he did produce the shot of the day here saving par on the fourteenth from the rough and they expect around the trees a lot graeme mcdowell is known for its back and patrick harrington is ten of the lake that has been more successful rusher at the world championships the country which dominated the synchronized section last week claiming his first gold in this

win discipline at the games and to see winning the women's fifty meter backstroke fastest qualifies they were carrying his speed into the final to see off the nearest challenge of. japan and the european champion in the fifty one hundred meters i touched the wall in a time of twenty seven point seven nine seconds american missy franklin took the bronze while before that ryan lochte broke his own world record in the winning of the two hundred meter individual medley the american moving ahead of the patrick michael phelps after the butterfly leg current to victory in fifty four seconds and proving by a tenth of a second felt right behind him in second with another big name garrett laszlo's here. a lot smarter world records it's time to take forty six bands last year. the upcoming world championships in paris is also an important event for him big hope for the head of the london games russia's beer caldwell is hoping to

accumulate enough points in order to travel next year caught up with her and hometown assuming. one better call it was just a child her mother wanted her to go to a dancing school or take up knitting and then broidery but by her own admission she's always been a sort of its own boy and lots of fight it was already all be as though as she would become a professional athlete none of the one of her daughters having nothing to do with combat sports and sent her to track and field instead. of empty trunk when i was sixteen i met a girl who was a wrestler and she took me to a wrestling club for the first time i went there secretly for a month and my parents had no idea my mom was shocked when she found out she thought this can't be the right sports for women but i managed to turn her around when i started winning that our goal is currently ranked number seventeen in the world according to the international judith interation and it should prove her medal world championship in paris she stands

a good chance of representing russia in the under sixty three kilogram category and picks none of those names if we try to be among the top fourteen in the ratings in every way category in order to be able to go to the olympic games and i think that each of us can win the rights of the in london and each has a chance to win a medal at the games our positions in the ratings are stable. each country will be represented by only one athlete in every weight category at the summer games that's seven for men and seven for women russia has its eyes and getting a place in all fourteen and its arguments in paris will set apart the winners and losers. of the world championships in august will be a test in stage for our efforts and we'll have an entire year before the olympics in london where we hope to win medals the recent european championships have shown that we have a strong national team and a letter from august the twenty third russia's finest have six days to make good on those promises before getting fighting fit for london towards its wealth. ramana

koester of r.t. . now the gongs which will be hunted down by all the world's top athletes during next summer's olympic games have been unveiled the medals which weigh in and around four hundred grams are among the biggest and heaviest of any summer olympics the friend of each one shows images of night greek goddess of victory at the last games in beijing china topped the charts with fifty one goals more than double that of the place russia with the u.s. in second with the most medals in all hundred ten metalwork designer david what kinsey created the medals for next year's event stating he's pleased with that. absolutely coincidence looked like a great job i mean i don't think it could be done. and i did my best it's come up. and finally the car is lewis hamilton says pole position will be crucial for this weekend's one carrying grand prix by the british going for his second win in

a row after a triumph in germany but says being quickest in qualifying will probably determine the outcome of sunday's dress this is a very. good as constantly telling we don't really have many stories between each corner to get up behind someone and so it does look more much more like monaco in a sense but i think this is a track where you need to be improper addition and need to disappear and so we haven't had a pole business in this year so. this weekend is to get our first four on the first practice session for the hungarian grand prix gets underway a little later on that is it for me for the moment i'm back here with more sport in just under two hours. hungry for the full story we've got it for us has the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on our teeth.

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