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 seventeen sixty four by catherine the great to have its post that in three million items in five historic buildings this is one day trip in st petersburg you cannot miss out on. most visitors journey starts us here at the british taking jordan staircase full of lies and gleaming with gilding the nearest stand case extends for the flea shite of the winter palace its golden white system designed his retreat base of course will follow. you can see the location of the

home it's mostly created on palace where the buildings and in principle saw along the embankment of the lever 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 pascua larger than a theater and various new buildings. ices approaches and donated until by the transit century the hermit's is one of the largest museums in the world. a lot of this museum from what i have read but this goes far beyond all my expectations using credible is the same thing. that you can only dream about and it's absolutely fabulous since i two for one they are in the building all together and it's just beautiful and this museum is incredible we have a great tour guides and. she showed us just

a small piece of it but a 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 have to like. the palace bows 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 hard to have to move twenty five miles perhaps even move 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 of the hermitage treasures would be complete without mentioning the museum still in collections of western european art which states with thirteenth century onwards michelangelo manet matisse. of parts history. really a hole on the first floor was designed in an eclectic style by and they stuck

inside the eight hundred fifty eight in serious here are just breasts taking it occupies 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 the symbol of the hematologist most famous exhibits the figures of a peacock called cool and all that form part of this elaborate fine piece of the chain with mechanisms that set them in motion today's it's one of the few of its size still in working condition. to see how fast everybody was but it's really interesting to see so many people from different places gathered together to see something so unique. is a beautiful especially when the captain around it is made a you can see the famous room a collection of antiquities including a large number of gold artifacts bracelets rings earrings and mailings. clothing

decorations. lived surrounded by wealth and luxury. here date back to the fourth millennium b.c. gold in russia became popular bierria and 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 men rivaled women in self to. dignitaries studded with gold and diamonds only in russia. or western painting sculpture applied prehistoric period to the early twentieth century is displayed in hundreds of holes if you do visit. or a group tour. he calls information. 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 forty eight to the image shows a beat. personification of maternal love. left in the world today only in this museum i titled. a famous scene. and it was a challenge i remember from my. textbooks at school. when i searched for the first time. this museum and one of the best even if you were not in our story and will only be impressed with what the house has on offer as a museum and a grand palace in war and a visit to the state how much more she said petersburg is something you will never forget. leaving the hermitage now and let's

continue our journey crossing the street to the river side next to the hermitage and you'll see very spent 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 they are the only 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 petard for us because the journey time down considerably. here we are. just in it was about it because of the state museum reserve 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 ramey and. each year more than four million tourists visit peterhof on the earth 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 planes taking sides in russia. the passing part of peterhof often referred to as the brushing 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 your. peace hall which means peace is close in jail it is easy to leap up little pieces ground to impress elizabeth who was of the expansion of the grand palace. peterhof was ravaged virtually destroyed by the german troops during the second world war it was where the one of the first to be resurrected and thanks to the work of military engineers and over one thousand volunteers most of the state's major. structure has been fully restored by nine hundred forty seven the most

famous founded on someone peterhof is the grandkids with dozens of water jets greatly missed breathtaking view surrounded by impressive gold statues at the center the famous some sin found resting in the jaws of a lion erected in the seven hundred thirty s. it was built to represent russia's victory over sweden with. the grocer behind the great escape which is once used. contains the enormous pipes originally wooden the feet the fountains most visitors a stack and when they were told the fountains were only to the use of gravity. it's 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. was built more than three

hundred years ago and it's just. a lot of the alleyways in the and all the parks and fountains. for example to see is not just because it's very very. spectacular parkland piece of golf is remarkable for the shia variety of styles encompassed in features. around the gardens is a must for every visitor. representing nearly two centuries of european socratic fashion execute to the highest standards beautiful is like an encyclopedia of design. remember to bring your camera and also note that the front 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. the first time you enter the hematologist dazzling staircase. to win the sing the rainbow is created by the

grandkids skase founded in peace hall for st petersburg consent and vos reconstruction a says the lake. as you can see the state's health has come to life and for those who come to see the magic of the new the council i suggest you come here quickly the school is an. absolutely spectacular one of forcefully that's all it's how 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 i'll address the crew from pisa health by for now.

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of the united states and their friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder is a regime as an active program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons and let there be no doubt about we know for a fact that there are weapons there. this were just being carried out into the direction of dr david kay respected scientist and former u.n. inspector was leading the weapons search in iraq we are determined to take this apart we have a tremendous a group of dedicated american men and women involved in this with the best assets of the intelligence community can provide. data cheney is not going to be done with this for quite some time david kay wants more time and he says it could take another six to nine months to make a definitive finding ministration is asking congress for hundreds of millions more million dollars to fund a continuing search have not yet found shiny pointy things that i would call

a weapon before we can draw from conclusions we need to let the iraq survey group complete its work. we were all wrong probably in my judgment. and that is most disturbing. sometimes the true patriots takes the unpopular course but helps their country and wooden stakes and even if they come this way at least patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels and i think these are scoundrels they have no argument now they have no defense for what they did the country is in a terrible international security situation that i think is perilous so they're attacking the patriotism of other. sources are not the start of them pauses stripped to the u.s. and its highest credit. infuriating the country's lenders with china suggesting

it's time to find a new reserve currency to replace the dollar. two hundred thousand people have gathered on the streets of israel and another round of unprecedented anti-government mass protests and some of the already compared to countries plight to that of revolutionary egypt. nato helicopters being downed an eastern afghanistan killing thirteen u.s. special forces personnel and seven afghan soldiers with the taliban claiming responsibility the biggest single american law since the military operation started . news bulletin in full is coming your way in just fifteen minutes from now before that locates here with the latest sport. hello and welcome to the sports news and here are the headlines. top of the table clash champions in a narrow the gap to lead astray scott to two points with

a two no victory in the moscow region and the russian premier league. while finding form a little bit high jump champion andresen novel wins the latest diamond league meeting to get himself a chance of going to the world championships. alex please forgive me a disgrace speedskating superstar one lang apologizes to the people of china for a drunken punch up with the team manager. says to football and defending champions and have narrowed the gap to leaders to suggest two points after beating the moscow side to no in the russian premier league two goals within one second haul of minutes did the damage alexander opened up to fifty four minutes with a pinpoint. before and shocking unmarked alexander and call for swift minutes to know it's enough to make that eager i can say it to their post to me remain unbeaten for a ninth straight game and if it did and week second defeat of the season on the

money men. maybe it's looking a little bit bigger than they deserve but anyway they was there just as we did and so it's obvious that when they go home with three points we we have to keep going keep training so that's. what elsewhere and he unveiled a russian midfielder eurasia ahead of their home game against home when they beat thanks to a first off goal on alexander could make off and then in late strike from my faction idea of angie's day forced to keep up the pressure on the latest once told me one tall spalls twenty seven year old joins from chelsea on a four year deal in food supply next week's game. it's one time. where an impressive five game winning streak came to an abrupt end for third place tonight my moscow as a goalie in charge said help give qubani three one win on home turf at that black communities eighty second minute when i saw stuff move out of the bottom two with a one zero victory and struggling valda despite having too many sent off in the

last seven minutes. while in the meantime real committee for have been one of the big move this since the transfer window opened on august the first for new players have joined the six base moscow's side which is now managed by jews they could set a has led to three victories from three matches so far as from one closer every ports. the railway men have become the forty eight year old portuguese specialist ninth club in his coaching career besides the club circuit josie close they are also managed the national team only during the twenty ten feet a world cup qualifiers where he defeated the likes of rimini austria and the faroe islands but these moments the team have attained the haze more confidence. because when the game sat around challenge some teams in the beach of course yes the sides asia to. the far scene is ease of mind now this gets the

acquisitions forward to lead it i said all the twenty two year old ecuadorean international joins look let's see from live on say in the spanish league up he played thirty two matches for his country's national team and scored five goals in the process over his relatively short professional career he's played full five teams including manchester city sporting lisbon and spain's molokai to live on to another new arrival is the nigerian international twenty four year old winger fixer of been up was also somewhat of a club hopper and injure milan player he spent the last two seasons on loan first for molokai in spain and the following year at west ham in the english premier league you can see a lot of players from a year old are coming over to russia today to support says bates and more and different clubs here and also you know when a close plays in in europe and the globe plays in the champions league or in the europa league play more and more diverse players a lot of business west hands he made man who held

a caution also joined looking at sea during the summer transfer period the portuguese defenders trophies include the french cup in two thousand and six and the netherlands sides all in two thousand and seven that's when i was posting as. i know in the forest four years ago and. it was a test to think that dignity and training is if you just say you want to. you also when the game. signing is spanish. who joins the from sporting lisbon it's twenty six year old started. where he played for five years scoring five goals and winning the spanish super gop in the process in an interview with official website zapatero admitted that he had offers from four spanish clubs as well as if they spar mock england you castle and olympiakos from greece however offer outweighed the rest mainly because of the new head coach his. personal

involvement. are yet to lose a match or even concede a goal and. the management team is now ready to reach new heights in the remainder of the season and that should help the team achieve that goal. just two weeks ago before the start of the new english premier league season match to city manager about a month cheney admits his side still on tightly fish as they prepare to face local rivals manchester united in the traditional couldn't raise that the community shield on sunday. is involved. in this game. we want to win. but the team in this moment. like it may be in two months because we had already defaced their way.

to feel that their very. own meanwhile united held an open training session as old trafford on saturday the three new signings when ashley young goalkeeper that the defender and defender phil jones all took cos these three might not be the song title of this summer's transfer targets for manager sir alex ferguson who says he might further strengthen his side for the new season as the red devils aim to stop the name on top flight title number twenty. but the memories there is still saying a couple more players but that's where you get this always a real clubs are never is by and that's that is. important when it's written there it is. well in the mean time it was a one way street for rail madrid in the final game of that pre-season tour of china the spanish giants pummels local side to tianjin tied six mil at the exit dropping

stadium at that unconstrained and penalty for the media capitalized on some poor defending the double and fourteen minutes on follow it then the net is right alza third soon after the break off the only source of confusion. spike is then replaced by christiane i will say i didn't wait long last time based on the west bank i was for not. having bans are not bad to brace with and yes free minutes finish off my ass chinese style the spanish cup holders will take on champion's boss and i'm in the first leg of the super cup showdown can't be done about next sunday and coached as a marine you know explained why he doesn't want any new players in his team. that would seeing. competitive everybody feels part of it everybody must be ready to play and at the same time the young boys from the second team they

know they have a chance so i hope to morrow i don't really again mourning the ones more players. because i don't lose i'm happy with the short score that i have with a good saying it's about six. in athletics and in the high jump champion and i still love could be going to next month's world championships in sas career after all the russian has so far failed to qualify for the showpiece tournament but has now won the last major event ahead of it the twenty six year old cleared to meet as a thirty six centimeters at his first attempt at the diamond move meeting in london last three years ago a similar jump has pretty much said no to take gold at the beijing olympics elsewhere two americans triumphed in this once good world record holder you same boat sitting out walter takes blew away the field in the men's two hundred meters while commenting jeter was peerless in the women's one hundred meters she knocked

out a second straight victory in a timely. moving on and with just over a month to go until the rugby world cup in new zealand down caught a kick fifteen points as the all blacks comfortably beat australia thirty points to fourteen and they're trying to asians in countering all clans to retain the bledisloe cup the traditional had up before the game julie boosted the home nations more on the robots donated from the offer deed and part of the have not lost a test to australia since nineteen eighty six and new zealand where seventeen zero up at half time with a transfer mind numbing and kevin melo mayor and city of any city want to put the match beyond that forty minutes into the second half bring connecting with conrad smith for a spectacular run to make it twenty five seven to me i on me and rocky elsom did get on the school board through all of this in the second period but the visitors

never looked at getting back into this new zealand and that two winners and two in the trying nations following that opening success against a depleted south africa last week. finally sorry seems to be the hardest word for a short tempered chinese speed skater the country's greatest winter imputing wang meng has apologized to the nation's people but not to the officials after a drunken brawl with the team manager manga was a story sliced off to being once again expelled from the team behavior the twenty six year old punched her boss who've reprimanded for a late night during a training camp the short track star is a four time olympic champion but has a poor record of violence at work she was also keep track of the national team four years ago beating up a coach. and that's all from the sports desk. wealthy

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strips the u.s. credit rating countries lend us with china already saying it's time to find a new reserve currency to replace the dollar. another round of mass protests people running against the government compared to countries. revolutionary egypt. thirty one u.s. special forces soldiers die after the helicopter was reportedly hits in a rocket attack in eastern afghanistan it's the worst single loss of american troops in the conflict and comes. with draw. international news in common this is in moscow just one am here in the russian capital the united states prize top aaa credit rating has been cut for the first time since one thousand nine hundred seventeen standard and poor's has dropped america's ranking to double a plus this.