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welcome back here's a recap of the top stories here on our drop stock at apparel the share a slide continues as europe's markets open down following similar grim freedom in asia and on wall street it's burned by gloomy u.s. economic outlook and deepening if you're a zone debt. president medvedev is urging syria's leader to start reforms and talks with the opposition or else expect a sad future protestors reject a president assad's offer of change as a tax increase on their stronghold. hardline muslims in britain are trying to put
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london under a strict sharia law but critics say it's a political tool to try and split the country. and next it's martin andrews last summer time suzhou warren and st petersburg exploring a place that's fit for a queen that's up next. hello and welcome to the program on this week so i'll be exploring one of the oldest and largest museums in the world and will be taking a day trip to the pizza hut palace with its impressive gardens and fountains founded in seven hundred sixty four by catherine the great to have its post that a great many of the items in five historic buildings this is one day trip in st
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petersburg you cannot miss out on. most visitors journey started here at the breath taking jordan staircase full of lies and gleaming with gilding a mere is the same case extends for the whole shite of the winter palace its golden white system designed his retreat base of course will follow. you can see here the location of the home it's mostly created on palace where the buildings and in principle saw it along the embankment of the liver is a built in the eighteenth century by the italian architecture strelley it became the home of katherine when she ascended to the throne in seven hundred sixty two over the centuries the past in a theatre and various new buildings. ices approaches and to the natives and held by the twentieth century the home is one of the largest museums in the world. a lot of these museums from what i have read but this goes far beyond my expectations using credit is something.
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that you can only dream about and it's absolutely fabulous since i too for want art and the building all together it's just beautiful and it's easy amazing kind of. we had a great tour guide and she showed us just a small piece of it but the small piece we've seen is just incredible we have a private tour and i think it's better we can see a few more things get better understand. things they always ask a lot of. the palace boasts almost two thousand windows and over a thousand elegantly and largest decorated pools and rooms many of which are open to the public. it is estimated that to see the exhibits in the home it's raj you have to move twenty five miles perhaps even a little fascinating at least for those interested in russia's glory days it's not just the senses of the exhibits the brushes imperial past also the rundown
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of the hermitage treasures would be complete without mentioning the museum stimming collection of western european art which dates released thirteenth century onwards michelangelo manet matisse collection is like who's who of arts history. really a hole on the first floor was designed in an eclectic style by and i stuck inside the eight hundred fifty eight in serious here are just breasts taking it all he applies the northern territory of the small helmets and that the main focal point is this amazing peacock clock. from seven hundred ninety seven to the present day the peacock cloak has been one of the hematologist most famous exhibits the figures of a peacock called cool and the form part of this elaborate fine piece of the tin with mechanisms that set them in motion today so it's one of the few of its size still in working condition. see how
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christ everybody was but it's really interesting to see so many people from different places gathered together to see something so unique very very beautiful especially when the captain around it is may even see the famous collection of antiquities including a large number of gold artifacts. bracelets rings and male and female clothing decorations. lived surrounded by wealth and luxury. date back to the fourth millennium b.c. gold became popular area in the black sea the wealth and of course it's high an abundance of gemstones least far behind the splendor of york in courts. of precious stones were only on ladies' clothes in russia. with gold and diamonds only in russia russian painting sculpture and a. prehistoric period to the early twentieth century is displayed in hundreds of
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poles if you do. or a group of school. calls. it's come in several languages this room is given a number which you press when entering you would simply be lost without a guide of some sort in the. one of the highlights of the museum is the collection of paintings by leonardo da vinci called madonna and child it was rumored to be painted in the land where the artist lived in eighty two the image shows a beach. house the personification of maternal love. left in the world to me and. i felt. very famous for its beauty. challenged. often my. textbooks at school. when i searched for the first time.
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one of the best. even if you were not in our story and only be impressed with what the house has on offer as a museum and a grand palace and a visit to the state how much more she said pittsburgh is so. thing you will never forget. leaving the hermitage now let's continue our journey crossing the street to the riverside next to the hermitage and you'll see various boat stands and a large jetty this is where we'll catch a hundredfold boat to peterhof the journey takes twenty minutes and is much faster than travelling by car or train you can see on final destination here in italy have to travel around the entire coastline to get to the world part in a state taking a boat or fast food to the area called the border that's because the journey time down considerably.
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here we are. just in was it over that it's over the state museum reserved peterhof is a big complex which includes the palace of peter the great instrument the alexandria park upper and lower parks and peterhof and also parks and palaces in all around me and. each year more than four million tourists visit peterhof on the area is named one of the wonders of russia when you plan your visit here make sure you've got the whole day just early enjoy it this is silly. in my opinion this is one of the most players taking sides in russia. the past imparted peterhof often referred to as the russian aside. the french palace was the inspiration for peter the great desire to build a similar complex in the suburbs of his new city the window to europe. peter hall which means peace is close in jail it is easy to leap up a little piece of ground to impress elizabeth who will do the expansion of the
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grand palace. peterhof was ravaged virtually destroyed by the german troops during the second world war it was however one of the first to be resurrected and thanks to the work of military engineers never want. thousand volunteers. being fully restored by nine hundred forty seven the most famous founded on someone peterhof if the ground. with dozens of water jets creating this breathtaking view surrounded by impressive gold statues at the center the famous samson fountain resting in the jaws of a lion erected in the seven hundred thirty s. it was built to represent russia's victory over sweet with. the grocer behind the great escape which is once used to small policies contains the endless pipes of bridging the wooden the feet the fountains most visit his stack and when they were told the fountains were only to the use of gravity. it's
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really beautiful actually more so than we thought looking at photographs that we saw people we came definitely worth a visit beautiful beautiful and it shows a lot of russian history i like it i think it's still humble it was built more than three hundred years ago and it's just awesome and i love the alleyways and the and all the pox and fountains. and stuff for example the sea is not just because it's very very nice to spectacular parkland piece of golf is remarkable for the shia variety of styles encompassed its layout in features. around the gardens is a must for every visitor. representing nearly two centuries of european socratic fashion execute to the highest standards peterhof is like an encyclopedia of design
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. remember to bring your camera and also note that the font submission is not included when you pay if you harder for john to. come rain or shine the trip to the north will be something you'll never forget. from your goose bumps the. first time you enter the hematologist dazzling staircase to the sing the rainbow is created by the grand cascades fountain in pisa holds said petersburg constant involves reconstruction associate. as you can see the stairway tell has come to life and for those who happen to see the magic of the council i suggest you come here quickly before even to look. absolutely spectacular one of forcefully that's all the time we have from sir the most peaceful attractions here in st petersburg i'll see you again at the same time next week so until then for me and the rest of the crew from pizza health by now.
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the. last time close of team was in the cool down region where men flock from all over the world to add a few centimeters to their self-confidence. this time our t. goes to the our region. for the gold rush still gets people hyped up. for an ancient try to save its culture. where cranes are protected in the first official nature reserve. to the original. bush a close up party. british stock.
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top stories on our t.v. drama stop in peril the sheriff's live continues as europe's markets open down falling similar grim trading in a thread on wall street it's heard by a gloomy u.s. economic outlook as well as stupid euro zone debt. president medvedev is urging a serious leader to start reforms and talks with the opposition or else expecting sad future protestors reject president assad's offer of change as a tax increase on the their stronghold. hard like muslims in britain are trying to put london under a strict sharia law but critics say it's a political tool to try and to split the country. you know back in the studio with the latest in sports you know could this be the end for one of russia's greatest ever martial artists tell you what's i sincerely hope not six months ago to say the
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future or you. would be finished in m.m.a. it would you know people would laugh at you but that's what's just happened is contract has not been renewed by strikeforce we've got the ins and now it's about in just a second. thanks for joining us this is sports today plenty ahead of the next ten minutes proving all this. crowd control roberto carlos is on the side are fine by the russian football union for disturbances on the early police tactics to it's a neat send peters for. man to catch alan scott should support sixty two to secure the lead after day one of the big money bridgestone invitational. on take your pick with roy and nineteen getting underway tomorrow in the russian premier league get reminded of each and every strike that fall in the net last weekend in our schools
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the word segment. russian premier league team on g helping find over twenty thousand dollars for a violent scenes witnessed during a game last month with this innate these are pictures filmed on a mobile phone from the july twenty fourth and much the russian f.a. stating local police are visiting st petersburg spectators there one of the country's richest football clubs on the will also have to play two games behind closed doors for if similar scenes occur again in the next three months. things are beginning to heat up on the fire some golf course with alan scott claiming a one shot lead after the opening round in ohio the bridgestone invitational also marking the return of tiger woods who didn't disappoint her in his first round in almost three months it was skull through whose score card for the day included eight birdies five of them coming on the back nine including this one on the fifteenth. another straight in jason day one less birdie finishing
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a stroke behind on seven on her sixty three former long time world number one woods meanwhile showed little rust barring the first nine holes before dropping just a single shot. tiger they're still very much in the hunt for the eight and a half million dollar purse for. most improper shots out there in the distance as i was heading off. i had hit the ball like this this was billed to hit the ball but that most flush feeling through the golf ball the speed i had. it was it was paradise dimitri shara food to dean off has proven he's top of the pile at the prestigious rock star bouldering event in austria the russian keeping his best for last to beat a local star fish over in the final head to head buffel sugar reports. strong arms firm muscles a lot of chalk and a vertical obstacle called
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a boulder to climb the rocks are competition four to seven athletes from fourteen countries battling a town to new form and the top six men and women made the finals there they had to climb to boulders one after another through aflat stand advance to the super final to take on a third even more difficult obstacle to six hundred climbing fans from around the world who came to watch the event got to see a world premier the first time ever to compare to this client an identical route at the same time on a super boulder without seeing each other in order to finish on top the athletes had to stand with berth feet on the boulder and press a bus or the super final saw the reigning world champ and move to sugar for dinner for russia taking on reigning world cup holder or stroke killer fisher the local hero missed his last move and had to start from the bottom while his russian opponent used his chance and won had had battle claiming the title in the men's competition there could be because this guy. in my left
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eye left. my side meijer it going right for it and i waited a little bit longer and actually catch the champ in the first right i thought ok that's it i'm going to do it but then this long reaching move was too far for me the first. my big three like ran down the river and didn't know me so it was a big battle. in the women's super fun it was. took on a spin leave and the double will easily be to american. made a mistake and move on to. one of the greatest mixed martial artists of all time is now without a fight contract feud or released from strikeforce following a loss to don henderson which was his third straight defeat you have done a white stating the thirty four we will not get the strike force stunt on organization the a million enco had been with for two years the russians promoter whoever is
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claiming furors contract is with the showtime network and that white can't make such decisions the t.v. network declined to comment on the last emperor's status the million ankle holds a professional record of thirty one wins four losses with one no contest. john isner house gotten off to a good start at the legg mason tennis classic beating fellow american james blake to pick his quarterfinal place up the washington d.c. event the match up between two thousand and two winner blake runner up is never to prove good preparation ahead of this month's u.s. open ground it was there who took the first set on a tie break but blake didn't wait long to strike back securing the second six one over twenty six is nor have the edge in the decisive set sitting thirteen aces no less no overcoming forty six unforced errors to beat blake for the second time in the past fortnight mates thirteen viktor troicki the british. the new zealand rugby team will be the oldest and most experienced yet for the
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twenty eleven world cup a classic bledisloe cup match up against australia tomorrow in the tri nations should prove a good barometer for the battle tested bunch done carter and captain richie mccaw they've got four world player of the year awards between them on their part of a group. whose ages i'm up to a record four hundred thirty three years that beats england's world cup winning squad dad's army in two thousand and three by ten years but all of these though hoping a perv twenty three year olds will gania quade cooper and contra the veteran punch with some fresh air legs new zealand get their world cup campaign underway against tongue on september ninth. just over a month away in our american football players are hard at work making the most out of luck preparation time before september eighth season starts donovan mcnabb one such n.f.l. star working up a sweat in his first training session since being traded to minnesota from washington the quarterback getting his head around the intricacies of a new offense but admits there is work to do everything little mile
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a minute your legs feel so fresh you know you drop is it's a dream if you just have to. practice until you don't start to try to get into the rhythm relax a little bit you know what stood still we have time to work on our chemistry of timing for quarterback to receiver so this is my first day i have an opportunity to roll with all of us so it was a good start but you're still you know a lot we have to clean up the. formula one teams are cooling off their engines on tell a grand prix on august the twenty eighth reigning champion spots in fact will is also a treat in his driver's title with eight races to go but the spike being a full eighty five points behind red bull stablemate mark webber has not given up the five as yet. running second is only one place you can go further you know getting ahead of sebastian which is a huge ask of the moment overseas driving very well very consistently amassed immense amount of points in the early part of chairmanship now it hasn't been as straightforward and easy for him in the last you know races because it's be more
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competitive and let's move back to football finally were a big weekend of russian premier league games lie ahead including leader sask in moscow's clash with second place a neat sin petersburg but now let's get a reminder of all the strikes that mattered last week starting in siberia it's called war. live. live live live
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