provides excellent service wonderful furnishings and the most up to date communities. staying here will be an experience you will never forget. we have a very noisy mixture of costumers coming through the summer. to the management 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 can be found at all the soviet era hotels some of which are for economy class rooms as well as more comfortable renovated interiors. and it's time for me to go up to my room even though such rooms are more expensive sometimes apartments or suites can work out cheaper especially when charged a room instead of a person wherever you decide to stay do your math research for deals and office on the internet. in expensive breakfast buffets and how many times you might need taxis for example because often you'd be surprised the high end hotels cheaper in

the long run. out of more than three hundred rooms there are various luxury apartments and suites like this one 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 trusted carry. time to eat and we've arrived at. opened in two thousand and seven this one teacher is one of the brightest newcomer on st petersburg's restaurant scene. national study domania features various cuisine. italian japanese and russian dishes you know vegetarian meals as well and also a wide variety of tasty beautiful desisting. is advised if you want to eat here soft sofas in pillows easy lounge music an ambience. and simpy does beg

school just sky this is the ideal place for dinner after a busy day of sightseeing. now it's time for me to try out the serious. 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 popping up every week and teressa here i think has the best location in the city just look at the stunning cathedral behind us and despite the down the road you can see the church of the scales blood. and. solitaire it's absolute types like. wow. absolutely beautiful. a city known for its revolutions over the last ten years there's been a different type of uprising that of the restaurant and hotel scene times have

changed and the former capital now offer some of the best food and lodgings in russia and to discuss the western influence and development of simply dispense cultural scene let's meet this week's cast. me very nice to me so you are the general manager here at the hotel yes been here like since january ok all lived in in some petersburg and from in russia now for four years but i came here in. a different of the things that this is my thing so so so every every morning when i wake up i can't wait to. start my day so it seems that the different hotels and restaurants are opening every single week in the city at the moment you know this is just booming because like when i came here like four years ago they were basically just a few feist store hold us in the morgue it but now we are getting more and more not only for the store but they also also hold those in some. or ford for all the

old of travelers who wants to be this so now it's currently white knight surely you must see a huge influx of tourists coming to the city. greatest actually yeah. i come from from finland from hills and exactly the same thing but they have to show up with the white knights here so so so i don't understand that white people chose instead of hills and it's just because of the theme. say that but the great job well done great great great p.r. marketing this is this is the time of the year to come here if you want to enjoy something with this beautiful. i'm regarding cultural activities it seems that is absolutely. trips it's amazing that's true but on the other hand i would love to say that the. younger generation who comes to experience

life here and experience life. they don't even need those excuses that there's a next is next to the whole they just want to see how the life goes here they rather go for clapping you know this is a great city also for that to be for all worse. so it's wonderful it's great to be you. thank you that's nice to meet you too. moving on and what other hotels and restaurants i was mentioning in sim petersburg to bangkok is there are some great places to stay in the capital which would burn a hole in your pocket location hostel situated in the heart of the city of his wonderful views a palace square from its windows prices here just six hundred roubles that's roughly around twenty don't miss. the concepts as they call it also both contempt and a friendly and international. atmosphere not only will he be given

a bed for the night but as the hospital supports many other soup projects they also offer advice on the most they've been happening venusian events in the city. one of our projects is a like asian hostel guide it's a nontraditional city guide featuring the most interesting places in the city in our humble opinion and includes information on where to downs eat our shop and there are all kinds of places from flea markets to concepts stores from two to five star places so i'd say yes. when visiting look around for many of the city's yards and many of them you'll find cozy restaurants diplo meeting wolf is a so-called living room restaurant here is about several halls and terrace are indeed very homey and if you're traveling with children there's even a special room for them. next up a new book called twenty two thirty am inspired with traveling around the world it's jungle if you just own is created a fashionable place and also cocktails after dark. the bombing at the venue make

amazing drinks and there's also a sweet shop here ten microbrew the takeaway place. when we were writing on the interior is we wanted the venue to represent and family comfort for example the sofa was brought from the flagship 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 of furnishings but history. the dorm we too bought and cafe is located in a soviet building of the same name meaning consumer services center it's 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 while at nights the venue turns into allow a busy night club. next up. we've arrived at our final

location the w. hotel. in one thousand nine hundred eight the brand has since expanded with over fifty hotels and resorts around the world. if you're looking for stylish accommodation call find better than the trust to double your best hotel recently and already it's packed full of the who's who of st petersburg high as jack said for us with just one hundred thirty seven rooms the service is. 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 and spa the hotel boasts a restaurant cool makes it invites guests to enjoy killing every muscle pieces by linda cass the master of french cooking and the world records man for the number of michelin stars. st petersburg is amazing cultural historic and grand and we should try our best to harmonize the cuisine with the city's

spirits through to be top quality and at the same time reasonably priced the best dollars or thirty. the fullness 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 accommodation simplest most hotels range from grand historic properties to budget many hotels and wherever that may be inside petersburg it's ultimately the wealth of culture and history that will amaze you and most of that is for free. very nice so wherever you sleep eat or visit here in st petersburg 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 around the former russian capital until then for me and the rest of the crew from the beautiful and balance of the never ever.

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they've been given the truth and the truth is there and reluctantly admits its responsibility for last year's plane crash and then the big killed the nation's president but the report released on friday still tries to shift some blame to. spain's a credit rating faces a possible downgrade as the greek debt continues to fuel is near is saying stablemates instability it comes in germany refuses to sideline check on from. rival policies of the us continued to wrestling with the debt deadlock because they

choose day deadline looms meanwhile the washington is biggest lead to find out who is rapidly losing its patience. now is a compound it's rather a protest against poor living conditions some already drawing comparisons with the top prize the prince who rejects the ousted in february. i deal with a sports team down with gates. welcome to the latest polls and we have the top story. from strength to strength fresh from his german promptly triumph lewis hamilton sets the pace in practice for sunday's race hungary. while not a jew real merry go round object to the point. as the new coach while the usa company the ball probably. wants tiger back in the formal world number one woods is

set to return to golf today next week after three months into a break. first to formula one and mclaren's lewis hamilton was the fastest boast of friday's practices for the one daring grand prix the british ferrari's fernando alonso tyrant. team mate jenson button and the red bull's mark webber and sebastian vettel while hamilton believes attaining pole position in saturday's qualifying will prove crucial for the actual race. this is it is very difficult to make a disconsolate call for turning didn't really have many straights between each corner to get up behind someone and so it is a little more much more like monaco in a sense but i think this is a track where you need to be in population and need to disappear and so we haven't had a probation this year so i know my view this weekend is to get our first full. football now and some u.s.o. could become the world's highest earning player if the ins malana cameroon striker

joins brazil legend roberto carlos at free spending russian side that year old is contracted to syria into until twenty fourteen and house said he doesn't have any plans to leave but the african star has still emerged as the top target for the club in the southern russian region but have a stun was purchased by billionaire superman can last year this year and the men from nashville prepared to scratch twenty million euros a year on since wages. well elsewhere was actually a defensive midfielder david is a who has been taking part in his first public training session for the moscow side since transferring from my x. spots i've got carney thirteen points off the top spot in the premier league however the red wines are in a basic form after winning three of the last four games once the twenty eight year old wildcat runner up the same says footballing russia is a step up from his native holland. for the two games. we want to buy me and. hold it for i think two months. i get

more interesting to play football i get a good conversation with a trainer. with a lot of people from whom are aware and good stories about start talking about the worship. more. the babies are going to do differently a she's here i think the level is more hard general and. saying with a vote in argentina have appointed a new national coach as fifty six year old as a hundred or so bad takes over from said so far one of the copper liberty doris's coach of the studio answers two years ago after playing career that included stints at sheffield united and leaves in england he had been set to take charge of al-jazeera unwanted arab emirates for baptista's exit last week after argentina to hosting event last year ago i in the quarter final of the copper america was less those have not won that's one of them since one thousand nine hundred ninety three and the last two world cups of anything quarter final defeat by germany and though

the country's olympic team did win gold after two thousand and four and two thousand and one gains. well meanwhile bob bradley has been fired as the coach of the u.s. national team after five years in charge this follows the team's loss to mexico in the final of the gold cup bradley's overall record actually reads pretty well with forty three wins twenty five draws in just twelve defeats during his reign he also led the team to the last sixteen of the twenty seven world cup in south africa bradley's replacement is expected to be announced before an exhibition match between the usa and mexico on august the tense. well meanwhile you ventus of clinch their second win in three days at the pre-season world football challenge event of the beating she won built in north carolina it took only twelve minutes for the italian side to take the lead. lap dancing after a mistake on defendant joining the gallon hundred one milk was how it finished bass i've yet to score in this ornament after also going to three nil by rail madrid and

the next place pass alone up until this the third while it's we're number two for you they are also a big club america africa. and elsewhere manchester united are looking forward to the chance of getting one back over barcelona after being comprehensively beaten by the catalan side in the champions league final the two sides will meet again in a friendly on saturday the boss that may choose to field a younger stars and united could follow suit. they played by on me here so they put all the employers. to their own the power they were fantastic if i thought they were. on saturday i would put all my own you're going to be fascinating game i would like to play against. trump once again and we because radio stories. is a very painful. you know when i play a good thing like that i just want to be the team because for the moment the best team in the world and. or. player is difficult to accept because you want to be

the best team in the war that's why you just want to play again to go to and make sure you beat them. and next week tiger woods will resume his hunt for his first gulf in title in almost two years the former wild number one is set to make his comeback from injury at the bridgestone invitational in ohio this week tiger's first tournament since may when he withdrew from the first round of the players championship with leg injuries and went on to miss by the u.s. and british opens the americans last triumph came at the b.m.w. championship in september two thousand and nine and here since late june twenty first in the world rankings the thirty five year old will also unveil his new caddy on the second his long time partner steve williams last week. moving on to rugby and with the world cup starting in just six weeks his new zealand are aiming for good performances in the tri nations as they prepare to take on saturday in the first game of this season's tournament on saturday israel and will be missing

several key players who are either being rested or out injured flyhalf doncaster has been recalled in one of four changed to the side that thrashed fiji in the last outing south africa who lost their right not to australia also depleted sus they skate scenes a chance for new faces to shine in the run up to the world cup. this competition with the whole squad syria wants to make the most of the charts but to do that here today but even that's what are you. when people come to sit in the chain for guys that often do their job well every time and i mean i to my future i does and these guys get an opportunity so i get it. and they finish with myself here because gallup became the n.h.l.'s highest paid goaltender when he joined the philadelphia flyers this summer the russian is currently on holiday in his home country. reports still that such a one year old found the time to pass on his skills to a new generation of netminders. it isn't very often that you get to see any of his

ghaleb in russia and this is unlikely to change him in a future he signed a nine year fifty one million dollars contract with the philadelphia flyers in the us saying the pressure will certainly be on the russian he says he'll be up to the tasca we have a great team talented team and have experienced guard you have a great line of defense who are the fastest players. and i hope i'm missing the bees i hope that's why i came to feel like to help this team win the stanley cup because they are long. since the seventy four yeah and what are already thirty years probably thirty one but it's goal of should be entering his prime he has no intention to hang up his skates at the moment but he does have one eye on the future the prize netminder set up a goaltending summer camp for budding youngsters in moscow and his hometown of chile after being on the volga river but its goal of say is this is something he'd like to continue when he eventually retires it shows my idea but we'll see you know

it's a long way to go it's knowing more nine more years i signed a contract and i hope that my d.m. my mind and i hope it's some. it's come true. the next generation of goaltenders took the chance to learn the tricks of a train from one of the world's past maxime whose fifteen in trouble two hundred fifty columbus. this from his home city of young assad will take part in the coaching clinic and he hopes one day to make it into the big leagues himself assures the summit that it's really important for me to be able to learn from someone like as a great goalie and i'm sure he can pass on some great tips. when it comes to coaching for his goal of has endless infusions him and is willing to pass on his secrets for hours to both are interested unlike in north america the concept of coaching clinics given by professionals at the peak of their powers is still

a relatively new concept in russia. however philadelphia met mind wants to change this and united states. pretty much every respect player who respect himself hockey schools and because they worry about their hockey and they. help the kids to develop themselves you know they do a model good advice to how to play hockey and how to. handle the bog the bands and to win defenseman or forward dore gold it's it's very popular i don't know i don't know why. not so many camps here in russia i wonder about this little bit because we where so playing n.h.l. we have so much to give to give give it to the kids because we know something can we got to share even proved to be a fantastic experience for kids like

a chance to be coached by want to be heroes as for his goal of we've got just as much enjoyment out of a day he'll have a few more weeks back home before heading off activists trades on up a new chapter in his hockey career when the new n.h.l. season gets underway in october which of ample lead r.t. moscow. and that's often supposed. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on.

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a club schoolteacher circles photo in the big gold circus or told. the pundits say yes rule. twenty two look you think of school. they've been given the truth and the truth is. poland reluctantly admitted to being chief he was the school for the plane crash that killed the nation's president. so tries to shift some blame to russia. we should have had greece from the euro zone longer bill the greek in drain away his own spain the country's credit rating has the president's new as a stablemate since to been seen many refuses to sideline checks on i tunes junk souls a. deadline tuesday but still no sign of

a decision in the midwest dead style arrival policy express the lave us and we should americans that big a splendid china loses its patience. on the square root of civil unrest thousands in israel's public says demolishing better living conditions with concerns that mayer is the prize to the soul of egypt's new. bus inequity marc. and the week deep in the red as investors follow the global uncertainty over the u.s. debt resolution will have a look at the figures in our business bulletin and. a very warm welcome to this is r.t. live from moscow poland's investigation into the presidential plane crash last year

says the tragedy was caused by its crew but it has also partly pained russia for the catastrophe which killed like and dozens of. the results already triggering cracks among pain is leading political strasser. has more now from warsaw. was certainly the main highlight of this press conference was that all and openly admitted that its crew of the crew of the airplane was the one to blame for the tragic plane crash which killed most of the country's political elite ninety six people including other presidential couples. in april of last year but still there was some controversy in that because many circumstantial evidence was named in some experts believe that this report was used by the commission in some sense to. criticize russia and to shift some part of the blame on to russia this is what some experts have to say about that accident was a simple one type of accident that followed a mistake of a type which has happened countless times before.