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welcome back this is a check of the headlines that. thousands have turned out across the israel demanding the resignation of prime minister binyamin netanyahu in problems has switched some observers say the demonstrations which have swelled they are while they scare. another plan to have already u.s. debt default fails as the republican controlled house of representatives rejects a bill proposed by the democrats frantic for hunting continues to try to reach a deal before tuesday's deadline with president obama urging congress to come to an agreement. to assess the veterans have gathered for their annual march in a stand yet but it's once again. outrage among activists who say turning

a blind eye to such meetings can lead to more tragedies similar to what happened in the old way. as the headlines up next here on r.c. the travels to the tourist friendly city of st petersburg with a guide to the top hotels and restaurants that. hello to you. on this week's program i'll be exploring the various hotels and restaurants in the city with new venues opening every single week it's certainly an exciting time. throw in the glorious summer where i'm

a late evening life and it's one crew party town it's time for me to check into my hotel. depending on your budget. of her tells ranging from comfortable small hotels to. today i'm checking into the fridge her towel when you arrive at the hotel we'll take your passports and do your fish registration for you. to do with if they keep for a few hours. very popular with tourists and business people from all over the world provides excellent service wonderful furnishings and the most up to date. staying here will be an experience you will never forget. we have a very noisy make sure coming through the summer and. their management of international companies plenty of tourists from. all over europe. if

you're visiting the capital on a budget that she does hotel accommodation insipidus can be found at whole the soviet era hotels some of which classrooms as well as more comfortable renovated interior is. for me to go 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. expensive breakfast buffets and how many times you might need taxis for example because often you'd be surprised the high end hotels 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 facilities so whenever you're bored of eating out don't worry as you can always make the good old trusted carry here. time to

eat and we've arrived at. opened in two thousand and seven this one teacher is one of the brightest newcomers petersburg's restaurant scene question national study oh man you features various cuisine. italian japanese and russian dishes you are vegetarian meals as well and also a wide variety of tasty beautiful does there are things that are. looking for is advise if you want to eat here soft sofas in pillows easy lounge music an ambience beach for people and simply 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 travel through it. gorgeous a burial and a good 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 because i could be behind us and just by the down the road you can see the church of the spilt blood of. solitaire at subzero temps 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 in 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 guest. you can let me bring us to me so you are the general manager here at the hotel yes been here like since january.

in some petersburg and from in russia now for four years but i came here in. i definitely think 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. like when i came here like four years ago they were basically the few feist store hold us in the market but now we are getting more and more not only five stores but they also also hold those in some other segments for ford for all the old of trouble or swans to come to be this so now it's currently white nights and surely you must see a huge influx of tourists coming to the city. is the greatest actually knowing it's still what bankrolled i come from from finland from hills and we have exactly the same thing but they have done so great job with the white knights here so so so

i don't understand that white people chose some petersburg instead of heels and it's just because of fame i say that but the great job well done great great great p.r. marketing acts and this is this is the time of the year to come here if you want to enjoy. with the speed of fall. i'm regarding cultural activities it seems that the list is absolutely endless from the hoff to captains palace to boat trips it's amazing yes that's true but on the other hand i would love to say that the there are no younger generation who comes to experience life here experience like life. they don't even need those excuses that there's a palace next is that next to the whole don't they just want to see how the life goes here they rather go for clapping you know this is the great city also for that it's good for all worst most all so while it's wonderful it's great to meet you all

the best of luck with your time here at the top thank you it was nice to meet you too. moving on and what other hotels and restaurants i was mentioning in sim petersburg the backpackers there are some great places to stay in the northern 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 in prices here just six hundred rubles that's roughly around twenty dollars and night the concepts hostel as they call it also boasts 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 they also offer advice to the most people happily venusian events in the city. one of our projects is unlike asian hostel guide it's a nontraditional city 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 but that's the rights i use. 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. the interiors of it several holes in terraced are indeed very homey and if you're traveling with children there's even a special room for them. next up the new ball cooled twenty two thirteen inspired with travelling around the world it's jungle if you just owners can create a fashionable place to lunches 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. one more wrecking on the interior is if you wanted the venue to represent warmth and family comfort for example the sofa was brought from the flagships now boutique

in paris it took a long time to proceed their owner to sell a time she didn't understand what i needed the old one down so 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 a loud and busy nightclub. next up when we've arrived at our final location the w. hotel. launched 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 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 jetsetting tourists with

just one hundred thirty seven rooms the service is impeccable 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 pool and spa the hotel boasts a restaurant cool makes. it invites guests to enjoy killing every muscle pieces by linda casts the most of french cooking in the world records meant for the number of michelin stars then. 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 of the same time reasonably priced to either of us dollars just as it does. the families 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 simplistic hotels range from grand historic properties to budget many hotels and wherever that may be insipidus

back it's ultimately the wealth of culture and history that will amaze you and most of that is for free. very light so wherever you sleep eat all visit here in st petersburg this is you 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 read. about for. twenty years ago in the largest country in the. suitcase it took.

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thousands have turned out across eight zero demanding the resignation of prime minister benjamin netanyahu in protest which some observers say mirrored the demonstrations which have swept the arab world this is yet. another plan to avoid a us dead default trail that the republican controlled house of representatives rejects a bill becomes proposed by the democrats take back room continues to try to reach a deal before tuesday's deadline with president obama urging congress to come to an agreement. veterans have gathered for their annual march but it's once again caused outrage among activists who say turning a blind eye to such meetings can lead to trudge to simulate toward happened in no way. i'll be back with our news bulletin in full in just fifteen minutes time from now. with kate and football.

and i will do this for two years and these are the headlines. top tussles in form and she wins three million former champions rybin in one of three top flight battles in the russian particularly. while red bull flying sebastian vettel edges out lewis hamilton in qualifying for the hunter gather to go on please take his eight pole position of the season. and tell him to touch we careful giving up his goggles he's not feeling the pressure off to becoming the n.h.l.'s highest paid goaltender. and we start with football where in form and you have leapfrog rubin into four spot following a shock three nil trancing of the twice former champions on their home turf in cars on the first off was

a tentative affair and then six minutes after the interval brazil legend about the call us and a long range free kick a gold mine that said it was guilty of a howler as idea of off then midway through the second half of this process found the head of alexander could equal the stones the unfortunately ticked off the spurs top flight goal in almost three years and things went from bad to worse for being. a stoppage time penalty this is not how to retake the spot kick but he actually netted both attempts to create the three no scoreline undies following into raptures. so i don't really miss strides down to fifth in the standings with spaza moscow two points further back only a disappointing one one draw against because of the disney theory now that it's an exciting at least some of the sponsors had to see of a fifty second finish equaliser. wall in the early kick off at a one one never at home thanks to another gold in the ground after the into gold.

speculative leavening that solve a free kick was inexplicably fumbled by such as you caught me up as a lot of was left with a simple tap in that proved to be the difference having winning on the road in this liberia. well in the meantime someone else who has rejected a lucrative bid from free spending on e.g. the into milan and cameron striker has turned down a record twenty million euros a year which would have made him the world's highest paid player instead of the thirty year old opted to stay it into to give himself the chance of competing for what could be a fifth champions league title. now there are two weeks ago until the start of the new premier league season in england and asked no manager asked an event guest says he wants to quickly resolve the future of his captain says fabregas the midfielder is missing from the gunness walker this weekend everett's cup which will also involves a genius harrison from a. red bulls watch the twenty four year old absence has increased speculation he

could be on his way to barcelona. because. at the moment. he's coming back from injuries not settled with dos you know that all the speculation of. his position and has to be sorted out soon and staying in england and liverpool captain steven gerrard he sets to be out until september the time because of an infection in his more in the thirty one year old midfielder is now on antibiotics and should be in hospital for several days going surgery had ended gerrard season in march but he was expected to return to the start of the new campaign or he could also miss england's two you are twenty twelve when it was against borg area and wales as well as premier league fixtures against arsenal and bolton. moving on to formula one where defending champion sebastian vettel edged out lewis hamilton in qualifying for the hungaroring wrong prix to take his eight pole position of the season last

week's home ice in germany was a disappointment for vettel. the world champion finished outside the page and for the first time this year but let me just really broke a curfew on working overnights to overhaul veterans car and changes helps me get back on top edging hamilton by less than two tenths of a second the second metallik jenson button lines up third headed for i sleep a master point by fernando alonso for the first time this season has been in hungary mark webber starting six. we changed a lot on the car overnight and the boys were working pretty hard. and i didn't get much sleep but third thing you know if we have a result like this today. i think is the best way to to say things so i'm very happy and as i said i've got the confidence back today i felt much more comfortable in the car and here now looking forward to tomorrow in tennis russia's top ranked man mikhail youzhny has failed to reach his first final of the season after world

number fourteen was yet again not tired in the last four this time at the swiss open his name was seeded thirteenth but was broken in the first game i spotted last longer than others and trailed a five one record when hours play he did put one great back then still conceded the opening set six three yet he battled back to take the second by the same scoreline an early break gave him a two lovely lead into the side i don't know there's another six great games to go to the way in which case number five and i play competitive and under the asco in the final. athletics now and two time olympic pole vault champion elena by ever so she is on course to reclaim her world title in south korea next month after the russian won gold at the latest diamond league meeting in stockholm the world record holder four meters and seventy six and meters. of germans schlegel back and american dream for sir isn't by ever written last week's

disappointment. and she may find it. meanwhile the same boat cruise to victory in the men's two hundred meters in a time of twenty point zero three seconds lindsey edwards from panama was second with jamaica's ainslie white inserts and is coming back from a twenty one month drugs ban was the sure merit in the men's four hundred meters the american was happy with his second place finish jamaican jermaine gonzalez christopher brown from the bahamas completed the podium while carmelita jeter still dominates the women's one hundred meters the american one in eleven point one five seconds it was a strong headwind. in rugby union defending champions new zealand time their biggest ever winning margin over the springboks on home turf as they thrashed south africa forty points to seven in the tri nations in wellington when the corey jane made his case to be included in the all blacks world cup squad scoring a stunning try in the thirty third minute help give the host an eighteen seven off

time lead. he then added another try five minutes after the break that girls would also went over twice to new zealand and if it's right profit and clean slate well done calls are also we claimed the all time test point record for england's jonny wilkinson converted a penalty his first of ten points for south africa the result was their second defeat of this year's trying nations having also moss to australia new zealand will face next weekend in oakland. and finally much is expected of ice hockey player because golf after the russian became the n.h.l.'s highest ever paid goaltender however the thirty one year old believes he's up to the challenge and looking forward to joining his new team the philadelphia flyers. they all feel it's very very successful i've been using. the heaviest stability

video in the shipyard they have all the speech highs and. goal in hockey perspective he always wants to win lose stanley cup or compete for the stanley cup i like this idea they spend the money they give it to the players everything they want they want you know they need it is all. personal feeling it's a hard media but i think i'm ready for the to deal with the media with a pressure point i signed a contract with understanding all consequences is could be you know it's time i'm ready for d.c. and i want to be a guy who want to carry this team because i bring the phoenix coastwise to the playoffs but we're going to have a success so it's partially my fault too you know special this year. you know since. it's nothing so new for me.

when i play i don't think of all the money and when you specially yeah when you signed a big contract it's nice you you know your family your children the security no way you can or a locks and just forget it because you know professional sports so. you can be filled with. carting church you know a god. didn't ever think of copying you know a few kids saying things like i'm old shots to give you more. natural logs there is. more kind of a freedom to play in. the in the media of nine easy one day where just starting all come over to the united

states i was making for. different country right. but i would differ. so. if you want to buy some food you can you can buy what you can but already know you you can you can get whatever you like right. compared to the so you at union and probably someplace was not ready for this you know. to some place to get. soup discipline right now is there you can see. the states players. why they came here. the latest. for us and right now playing in a chill day have

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