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 paws here by standing through eight million items in five historic buildings this is one day trip in st petersburg you cannot miss out on. most visitors journey started here at the bridge taking jordan staircase full of lies and gleaming with gilding a mere is to say 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 leverage 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 to the natives and held by the twentieth century the heavens hans 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. 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 and it's incredible we had a great tour guide. and she showed us just a small piece of

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 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 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 walking distances all the exhibits eliminating russia's imperial past also the rundown 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 parts 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 aching it occupies the northern territory of the small habits 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 all that 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. 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 very very beautiful especially when it keeps up turn around it is made me even see the famous collection of antiquities including a large number of gold artifacts bracelets rings earrings and. male and female

clothing decorations. lived surrounded by wealth and luxury. here dates back to the fourth millennium b.c. gold in russia became popular area in the black sea the wealth and goods of course it's high and abundance of gemstones the spot behind the splendor of other york in courts while in your precious stones were only on ladies' clothes in russia men rivaled women in self to. dignitaries with gold and diamonds only in russia russian or western painting sculpture applied prehistoric period to the early twentieth century is displayed in hundreds of holes if you do. or a group of. helmets hawes recalls information. guides 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 fourteen eighty two the image shows a beat. the personification of maternal love. not a left in the world and in this museum i felt. very famous voice see beauty and it was a challenge i remember from my. textbooks at school. for the first time. one of the best. even if you were not in our story and only be impressed with what has on offer as a museum and a grand palace in 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 can show how to for 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 in and we have to travel around the entire coastline to get to the world part in a state taking a boat or fast wonderful to the area called to advance because the journey time down considerably. here we are. just in was it over the 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.

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 passing part of 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 your. peace hall which means peace is close in jail it is easy to leap up a little piece of 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 one of the first to be resurrected and thanks to the work of military engineers and over one thousand volunteers. the

structure has been fully restored by nine hundred forty seven the most famous founded on someone peterhof if the ground. 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. the grocer behind the grand scale 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's spectacular it was built more than

three hundred years ago and it's just. a lot of the alleyways and the and all the parks and fountains. in. the sea 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 every visitor. representing nearly two centuries of european socratic fashion executed to the highest standards peterhof is like an encyclopedia of design. remember to bring your camera and also note the font submission is not included when you pay if you harder for john to. come rain or shine a trip to the venice of the north will be something you'll never forget. the first time you enter the hematologist dazzling. stagg case with the sing the rainbow is

created by the grandkids skase founded in peace hall school st petersburg consent and vos reconstruction associate adolph. as you can see the stanley tells us comes to life and for those who come to see the magic of the of the council i suggest you come here quickly this is a consulate. absolutely spectacular one of four city that's all it's how we have from sir the most beautiful 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 peterhof by now.

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the people 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 his regime as an active program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons and let there be no doubt about it we know for a fact that there are limits there. this we're 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 you 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 on six hundred 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 caress that helps their country of origin stakes and even if they come this way at least from tonight 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 and i think it's perilous so they're attacking the patriotism of other. dropping the dollar again raised the possibility of a new global reserve currency after washington lets the u.s.

credit rating slip standard and poor's downgraded the u.s. prized aaa status after losing confidence in the way the latest debt ceiling standoff and. hundreds of thousands of israelis returned to the streets across the country agard by the high cost of living and on affordable housing prices some protesters are comparing the demonstrations to those that happened in major neighboring egypt as they call for widespread reforms social inequality. and the u.s. suffers its biggest single loss of life in the afghan conflict as a nato helicopters reportedly down by the taliban thirty u.s. troops including some of the same unit that killed osama bin laden died along with seven afghan soldiers. the news bulletin coming your way in fifteen minutes first though kate with sports.

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 and recent novel wins the latest diamond league meeting to give himself a chance of going to the world championships. avon's please forgive me disclose speedskating superstar one lang apologizes to the people of china for a drunken punch up with the team manager. first a football and defending champions and have narrowed the gap to leaders ties can suggest two points off to beating the moscow side to know in the russian premier league two goals within one second haul of minutes did the damage alexander open after fifty four minutes of the pinpoint. before and shocking and not alexander and

call for swift minutes to know it's a team that eager i can fire to the near post to me remain unbeaten for a ninth straight day and if it did i would second defeat of the season on the money man. maybe it's looking a little bit bigger than they deserve but anyway they use their chairs as we did and so it's always there when they go home with three points where we have to keep going keep playing so that's. what elsewhere and unveiled a russian midfielder you ahead of their home game against home and they beat to a first off goal for alexander could make off and then in late strike a match the idea of angie stay forced to keep up the pressure on the needy dissuades told lingering tall spalls twenty seven year old joins from chelsea on a four year deal and fixed by next week's game. it's one time. also an impressive five game winning streak came to an abrupt end for third place tonight my moscow as a goalie in charge of sergei helped give

a three one win. 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 looking mighty for have been one of the big move this since the transfer window opened on august the first for new players have joined to the six base moscow's side which is now managed by years 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 she only showing 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 the team the has more confidence. because when the game sat down challenge some scenes in the beach of course yes the stars asia

to. the far seeing is ease of mind now this gets the acquisitions forward to leave it i said all the twenty two year old ecuadorian international joins look on see from live on in the spanish league 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 fight scenes including manchester city basel sporting lisbon and spain's molokai to live on to another new arrival is the nigerian international twenty four year old bangor fixer of the not 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 plays from a communal votes in russian and two to participate so you know in different clubs here and also you know when a close plays and in europe

a close plays in the champions league or in the europa league player it motivates players a lot of the knesset west hands he made man who held a caution also joined looking at sea during the summer transfer period the portuguese defender's trophies include the french cup in two thousand and six and the netherlands sides all in two thousand and seven let and i was pushing as i know i know in the forest four years ago and. it was a test that took me into training is it is the same you want to. but. you also when the game. signing is spanish. who joins the from sporting lisbon it's what a six year old started in. where he played for five years scoring five goals and winning the spanish super cop in the process in an interview with official website zapatero admitted that he had offers from four spanish clubs as well as. england's

u. castle and only back from greece however. outweighed the rest mainly because of the new head coach his. personal involvement. are yet to lose a match or even concede a goal under. the management team is now ready to reach new heights in the remainder of the season and should help the team achieve that goal. just two weeks ago before the start of the new english premier league season managed to city manager out about a month cheney admits his side still on tightly fish as they prepare to face local rivals match tonight and in the traditional curtain raiser at the community shield on sunday. this is important because. we want to win. back the team in this moment.

like it may be in your mouth because we are already the face there with mangoes fair to feel that there will be people ready. meanwhile united held an open training session as old trafford on saturday the three new signings winger ashley young goalkeeper double death 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 stamp their name on top flight title number twenty. but the enemies still say the cup or more players. that we get this always a real clubs are never is by and that's that is. important

when it's ring that is. well in the meantime it was a one way street for a while 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 recent record stadium at that open through and penalty for the media capitalized on some poor defending to double the amount thirteen minutes on follow it then netted right alza third soon after the break only source of confusion by half empty sky was then replaced by christiane i well they didn't wait long last time based on a. formula. heading as a not back to brace within just three minutes in my eyes chinese style spanish cup holders will take on champion's boss and i'm in the first leg of the super cup showdown vote about next sunday and coach has a merino 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 want more players i'm happy with the short squat i have with the good sings and with the bad things. in athletics i am behind 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 is now in the last major event ahead of it the twenty six year old cleared two metres of thirty six centimeters at his first attempt at the diamond league meeting in london last three years ago a similar jump has pretty much the same north to take gold at the beijing olympics elsewhere two americans triumph in this once good world record holder you same boat

sitting out walton takes blew away the field in the men's two hundred meters while commentator jeter was peerless in the women's one hundred meters which knocked out his 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 in the trying to asians encounter northlands to retain the bledisloe cup the traditional had up before the game julie boosted the whole nation's merong group that's dominated from the offer deed in prague with a have not lost a test to australia since nineteen eighty six and new zealand were seventeen zero up at half time if it turns from one not they have been mail-o. meter and city of any city run to put the match beyond fourteen minutes into the second half they bring connecting with conrad smith for

a spectacular run tonight twenty five seven to me i on me and rocky elsom did get on the scoreboard through all of this in the second period but the visitors never looked at getting back into this new zealand and now two winners from two in the trying nations following that opening success against a depleted south africa last week. and finally sorry seems to be the hardest word for a short tempered chinese speed skater the country's greatest winter olympian wang wang has apologized to her and. people but not to the officials after a drunken brawl with the two manager menke was a story sliced off to being once again expelled from the team behavior the twenty six year old punched her boss who have 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

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