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 he threw eight million items into five historic buildings this is one day trip in st petersburg he could not miss out on. most visitors journey starts us here at the bridge taking jordan staircase full of lies and gleaming with gilding and nearest stand case extends for the whole shite of the winter palace its golden white system

designed his retreat base of books will follow. you can see here the location of the home it's mostly created on palace where the buildings and in principle saw 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 palace coup larger than a theater and various new buildings. ices approaches and donated until by the twentieth century the hermit's is one of the largest museums in the world. a lot of these museums from what i have read but this goes far beyond all my expectations using the present is something. that you can only dream about and it's absolutely fabulous since i two for one they are in the building all together it's just beautiful and it's easy amazing photos.

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 hard to have to move twenty five miles perhaps even lose fascinating at least for those interested in riches glory days it's not just the senses of the exhibits illuminating brushes imperial past also the rundown of the hermitage treasures would be complete without mentioning the museum stimming collection 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 stop by and i stuck inside 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 time piece of that in 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 happened ten years out it was in may 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 the earliest looks in the gold ring here date back to the fourth millennium b.c. gold in russia became popular liberia and the black sea the wealth and goods of course it's high and abundance of gemstones the spot behind the splendor of york in courts while in your precious stones were only on ladies' clothes in russia men rivaled women in self the. dignitaries studded with gold and diamonds only in russia russian and western painting sculpture applied prehistoric period to the early twentieth century is displayed in hundreds of holes if you do visit. or a group tool to have it's hawes calls information. it's come in several languages is true is given

a number which you press when entering you would simply be lost without a guide of some sort in. one of the highlights of the museum is a collection of paintings by leonardo da vinci called madonna and child it was really to be painted in the land where the artist lived in forty eight to the image shows a beautiful child the personification of maternal love. work so not a left in the world to me at this museum i titled. a famous voice allegan seen beauty and it was a challenge i remember often my books and textbooks at school. when i searched for the first time about. this museum and one of the best in the world even if you are not an art lover story and will only be impressed with what has on offer as a museum and a grand palace unworn a visit to the state how much more she said petersburg is so. you will never forget

. leaving the hermitage now and 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 in 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 partridge for that's because the journey time down considerably. and. here we are. just in it was about it because of the state museum reserved peterhof is a big complex wishing to use the palace of peter the great instrument the alexandria park upper and lower parks and peterhof and also parks and palaces in

all ramey embalm 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 places taking sides in russia. the past in part at peterhof often referred to as the brush it 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. piece of hof which means peace is close in jail it is easy to leap the philippines is 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 never want. thousand volunteers. by nine hundred forty seven the most famous founded on someone peter hall is the grand scale with dozens of water jets straight in this breathtaking view surrounded by impressive gold statues at the center the famous some sand fountain 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 great escape which is once used to. contains the enormous pipes origine 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. it was built more than three

hundred years ago and it's just awesome and i love the alleyways and the. fountains. and for example the sea is not just because it's very very. spectacular parkland piece of hafiz remarkable for the shia variety of styles encompassed its layout and features a walk around the gardens is a must for every visitor. representing nearly two centuries of european socratic fashion execute to the high standards beautiful things like an encyclopedia of design. remember to bring your camera and also note the parts of mission is not included when you pay a few hundred for john to. come rain or shine a trip to the venice of the north to be something you'll never forget. from your

goosebumps the. first time you enter the hematologist dazzling stag case. the rainbow is created by the grandkids skase fountain piece of st petersburg's consent involves reconstruction assistance. as you can see the state's help has come to life and for those who happen to see the magic of the of the council i suggest you come here quickly the school is an. absolutely spectacular one of forty that's all it's how we have from tour the most peaceful attractions here in st petersburg i'll see you again at the same time next week so until then for me either rest of the crew from peterhof by.

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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 has 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 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 six hundred million dollars to fund the 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 and wooden 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 that i think is perilous so they're attacking the patriotism of other. dropping the dollar to china again raises the possibility of a new global reserve currency after washington lets the u.s. credit rating slip standard and poor's downgraded america's prized aaa status after

losing confidence in the way the latest debt ceiling set standoff was handled. hundreds of thousands of israelis returned to the streets across the country angered by the high cost of living and on affordable housing prices some protesters are comparing the demonstrations to those that happened in major at neighboring egypt as they call for widespread reforms to ease social inequality. and america suffers its single biggest loss of life in the afghan conflict as a nato helicopter is reportedly down by the taliban thirty u.s. troops including some from the same unit that killed osama bin laden died along with seven afghan soldiers. for a news bulletin coming your way in less than a quarter hour kate first though with a sports update stay with us. 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 there is still novel wins the latest diamond league meeting with himself a chance of going to the world championships. athens please forgive me disclose 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 open after fifty four minutes with a pinpoint. before and shocking and not alexander and call for swift minutes to know it's in

a team that eager i can fail to their post so they remain unbeaten for a ninth straight game and if it did and would second defeat of the season on the money man. maybe it's looking a little bit bigger than they deserve but anyway they was there just as we did so it's obvious they win they go a hole with three points we we have to keep going to keep training so that. while elsewhere and unveiled a russian midfielder eurasia ahead of their home game against home when they beat thanks to a first off goal alexander could make off and then in late strike from nuthatch video of angie's day forced to keep up the pressure on the latest words told lingering tosspot twenty seven year old joins from chelsea on a four year deal and fixed by next week's game. that's one time. and also an impressive five game winning streak came to an abrupt end for third place tonight my most guys as a goalie in charge of sergei helped of qubani three one win. at that back among

today's eighty second minute when i saw stuff move out of the bottom two with a woman 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 moves 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 just a cassette 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 tea only showing during the twenty ten heat a world cup qualifiers where he defeated the likes of rimini austria and the faroe islands but these moments the team the team may his mark off against. because when the game sat down chadash some scenes in the beach of course yes.

but i seen. the first scene is ease of mind now let's get to the acquisitions forward to leave it i said all the twenty two year old ecuadorian international joins look let's 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 five teams including manchester city boss sporting lisbon and spain's molokai to live on to another new arrival is the nigerian international twenty four year old bangor big sur a big 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 year old are coming over to russian and to to but says bates and more in different clubs and also when a close clayson in europe

a club slays in the champions league or a new 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 that's a nice person yes i know i know him. as far as i go and the. best thing that took me into training is it is the same. we want to pray for. you also when the game. signing is spanish. who joins the club from sporting lisbon it's what his 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 you 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 on. 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 manchester united in the traditional couldn't raise that the community shield on sunday. is important because. we want to win. back the team in this moment.

and i may be in for a month because we are already the first mangoes there to feel that their victim rating. meanwhile united held an open training session as old trafford on saturday the three new signings winger ashley young people got to defy and defended 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 is the right devils aim to stamp their name on top flight title number twenty. but the memories are still saying a couple more players but that's. where you get this always a real clubs are never is by and. that is. important word in this ring there it 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 exit dropping stadium at that open through penalty for the media capitalized on some poor defending to double the money for two minutes then follow it then the net is right alza third soon after the break off a source of confusion going into a strike is then placed by christiane i will say i didn't wait long last time based on the last one cause for not. having bans or not by de grace within just three minutes into my ass chinese style spanish cup holders will take on champions boss and i'm in the first leg of the super cup showdown can't be done about next sunday and coached as 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 they and 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 on my players i'm happy with the short squat i have with a good sings and with the bad things. in athletics olympic high jump champion and race a lot 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 league meeting in london last three years ago a similar jump was pretty much the same no to take gold at the beijing olympics elsewhere two americans triumph in this once good world record holder you saying

bolt sitting out walter takes blew away the field in the men's two hundred meters while commonly 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 a stray a thirty points to fourteen in the trying to asians encounter northlands to retain the bledisloe cup the traditional hot up before the game julie boosted the whole nation's merong group that's dominated from the law for deed and party with a have not lost a test to australia since ninety nine eighty six and new zealand west seventeen zero up at half time with a transfer more known they have been mail-o. meter and city venning so you've got to put the match beyond that forty minutes into the second half of the ring connecting with conrad smith for a spectacular run to make it twenty five seven to me i honestly 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 interest is there in a match two winners and 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 the. people but not to the officials after a drunken brawl with the team 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 out 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 tat of the national team four years ago for beating up a coach. and that's all from the sports desk. which

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credit rating slip. hundreds of thousands of israelis return to the streets across the country angered by the high cost of living and out affordable housing prices. the u.s. suffers its biggest single loss of life in the afghan conflict as a nato helicopter is reportedly downed by the taliban. in moscow i met treasurer good to have you with us here on r t our top story the united states prize aaa credit rating has been cut for the first time since one thousand nine hundred seventeen standard and poor's dropped america's ranking one notch to double a plus this comes alive after a last minute debt deal earlier this week narrowly rescued the country from to fall s. and p. says the spending cuts agreed by congress are one of the.