six thirty am in moscow the zero g. you have lied dropping the dollar china again raises the possibility of a new global reserve currency after a walk in lets us read it rating slip standard and poor's downgraded america's prized aaa status after losing confidence in the way the latest debt ceiling crisis was handled. hundreds of thousands of israelis returned to the streets across the country angered by the high cost of living on affordable housing prices so the protesters compare the demonstrations to those that have been in neighboring egypt

as they call for widespread reforms to ease social inequality. in america suffers its biggest single loss of life in the afghan conflict as a nato helicopters are 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. explores a place that's fit for a queen in his final summertime trip to st petersburg that's coming your way next. hello and welcome to the program on this the show 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 was here a post that is great million items in five historic buildings this is once a trip inside his bag he will not miss out on. mrs journey starts us here at the bridge taking jordan stand case full of lies and gleaming with gilding emir is said case extends for the family shite of the winter palace its golden white city designed his retreat base of course will follow. you can see here the location of the home it's mostly places on palace where the buildings filmed in principle saw an indictment of the leverage a built in the eighteenth century by the italian architecture strelley it became the home of the truman show a salute to the throne and since he was six to over the centuries the powers who are larger than a season in various new buildings. ices approaches and related

until by the trench of century the heavens hans is one of the largest museums in the world. i see your a lot of this museum from what i have read but this goes far beyond all my expectations is incredible is the same thing. that you can only dream about aids absolutely bad since like two for one they are in the building all together it's just you and this museum is intended. we had a great tour guide and she showed us just a small piece of 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 you know if they're still like. the palace boasts almost two thousand windows and over a thousand elegantly and large decorated pools and rooms many of which are open to the public. is this to make is that to see the exhibits in the home as far as we

have to move to twenty five miles perhaps even move fascinating at least for those interested in riches glory days if not just washington says all the exhibits illuminating brushes imperial past also the rundown of the hemispheres treasures to be complete without mentioning the museum still in collection of western europe which states with thirteenth century onwards michelangelo money goes matisse on its watch collection is like the who's who of oz history. really a hole on the first floor was designed in an eclectic style by and with a second start in eighteen fifty eight in serious here are just breasts aching 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 as you will hematologist most famous exhibits the figures of the peacock cuckoo and the form part of this elaborate fine piece of the chain with

mechanisms that set them in motion today so it's one of the few of its size still in working condition. 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 came back ten year alligators may even see the famous school room a collection of antiquities including a large number of gold artifacts. bracelets rings earrings and male and female clothing decorations position saws lived surrounded by wealth and luxury the earliest looks in the gold ring here take back to the fourth millennium b.c. gold in russia became particular virus siberia and the black sea the wealth includes of course it's an abundance of gemstones least for behind the splendor of other you work in courts while your precious stones were only on ladies' clothes in

russia men rivaled women self the. dignitaries are still there with gold and diamonds only in russia russia or western painting sculpture are applied only prehistoric period to the early twentieth century is displayed in hundreds of holes if you do visit. or a group guided tour to have the toys he calls information overload. all you guys can do several languages is room is given a number which you press when entering you'd simply be lost without a guide of some sort in the hermit's harsh 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 of the artist lived in forty eight to the image shows a beautiful little child but a son's occasion of maternal love there are only twelve works of there not a left in the world today we have in this museum i it isn't titled madonna leaps out and it's very famous voice allegan sing beauty and it was

a challenge i remember later after my. textbooks to school and i was really impressed when i searched for the first time after ten years ago. that exists that i jam all jams this museum and one of the best in the world even if you are not an author level story and will only be impressed with how mr marsh has on offer as a museum and a grand palace and one a visit to the state hematology said petersburg it's. i think you will never forget . leaving the hermitage now let's continue our journey across the street to the riverside next to the hermitage and you'll see very spent stands and a large jetty this is where we'll catch you off guard a full boat to peterhof the journey takes twenty minutes and as much from student traveling by car or train you can see on final decision here and only have to travel around the entire coastline to get to the world part in a state taking

a boat or fast wonderfalls the area called pretty good for us because the journey time down considerably. here we are. just in was it worth it if it's about the state museum reserve 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 polishes in all ramey involved each year more than four million tourists visit peterhof on the earlier is named one of the wonders of russia when you plan your visit here make sure you cover the whole day just thoroughly enjoy it this is silly. in my opinion this is one of the most pushed to the sides in russia. and how some part it pays off often referred to as the russian aside. the french palace was the inspiration

for a piece of the great designer 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 grandiose and priscilla's a bit because of the expansion of the grand palace. peterhof was ravaged and to actually destroyed by the german troops during the second world war it was where the one of the first to be resurrected and i saw the work of military engineers in one. thousand volunteers the state's major structure has been fully restored by nine hundred forty seven the most famous downfall someone peterhof if the grandkids stayed here with dozens of water jets straight in this breathtaking view surrounded by impressive go through the center south the famous some some found it 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 small policies contains the enormous pipes originally wooden the feet the fountains most businesses 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 again definitely worth a visit to see full beautiful and it shows a lot of russian history i like it i think it's spectacular how good it was built here more than three hundred years ago and it's just so awesome and i love the alleyways in the end to all the parks and amazing council. in potsdam for example to see it's not just because of years it's very nice it's very nice to spectacular parkland piece of house is remarkable for the shia variety of styles encompassed in its layout and features a walk around the gardens is

a must every visitor. representing the two centuries of european socratic fashion executed to the highest standards beautiful is like an encyclopedia of design. remember to bring your camera and also know that the force of mission is not included when you pay if you harder for johnny. come rain or shine a trip to the venice of the north would be something you'll never forget. from your goosebumps. first time you enter the hematologist dazzling staircase to releasing the rainbows created by the greatest skates transitting peace host st petersburg's consent involves reconstruction a says unlike a dog. as you can see the state's help has come to life and for those who come to see the magic of the new the council i suggest you come here quickly to see is an. absolutely spectacular one of course me that's all it's how we have france or the

most peaceful attractions here in st petersburg i'll see you again at the same time next weeks and sell them for me either as the crew from peterhof by now. it used to be an ideal place for a holiday or good old changed in a moment. the wounds of war are still visible. the republic is not only relieved but also shaping the future.

the people of the states and our friends and allies. not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that's threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder is a regime as an act of program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons and let there be no doubt about we know for a fact that there are that. this work has been carried out in the direction of dr david kay respected scientist and former u.n. inspector was leading the weapon 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 six hundred million dollars to fund a continuing search have not yet failed 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 the 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 but i think it's perilous so they're attacking the patriotism of others. dropping the dollar to china again raises the possibility of a new global reserve currency after russia and 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 standoff was handled. 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 protestors comparing the demonstrations to those that have been in neighboring egypt calling for widespread reforms to ease social inequality in. america suffer as it's because single loss of life in the afghan conflict as

a nato helicopter is reportedly down by the taliban and thirty u.s. troops including some from the same unit that killed osama bin laden died along with seven afghan soldiers. four news coming your way in less than a quarter hour sports is next stay with us. hello and welcome to the sports news and here are the headlines. some of the table clash champions in a narrow the gap to lead astray scattered to points with ha no victory in the moscow region and the russian premier league. while finding form a little bit high jump champion and there is still not when is the latest diamond league meeting if you stop a trance and go into the world championships. and please forgive me disgrace speedskating superstar one lang apologizes to the people of china for

a drunken punch up with a team manager. first a football and defending champions in each have narrowed the gap to leaders to suggest two points after beating the moscow side to know in the russian premier league two goals within one second half minutes did the damage alexander cocksure got open after fifty four minutes but they pinpoint. before and shocking and not alexander and call for swift and needed to know it's a team that eager i can fail to they opposed to me remain unbeaten for a ninth straight game and reflected in the second defeat of the season and the only man. maybe it's looking a little bit bigger than than they deserve but anyway they use their jersey as we did and so it's always there when they go it will with three points we. we took a way to keep playing with it. while elsewhere and he unveiled a russian midfielder eurasia ahead of their home game against tone and they beat

thanks to my first off going from alexander could make off and then in late strike from my faction idea of and just a force to keep up the pressure on the lead leaders were told we were in tosspot not twenty seven year old joins from chelsea on a four year deal and fixed by next week's game that's one time moscow. and elsewhere an impressive five game winning streak came to an abrupt end for third place to my most guys as a goalie in charge of serve help to about a three one where on earth like that graph the modis eighty second minute when i saw stuff move out of the bottom two with a nominal victory and struggling valda despite having too many stands out in the last seven minutes. while in the meantime locking my teeth have been one of the big moves this since the transfer window opened on august first for new players i've joined the six place moscow's side which is now managed by yours a conservative who has led luck zero to three victories from three matches so far as for monk cause a reverent pause. the railway men have become the forty eight year old portuguese

specialist ninth club in his coaching career besides the club circuit josie cosier also managed the national team only showing up during the twentieth and eight a world cup qualifiers where he defeated the likes of romania austria and the faroe islands but these moments the team will tame a haze more confidence. because when the games are childish some scenes in the beach of course yes the stars are too. but i seen. the first scene is easy mind now let's get to the acquisitions forward to lead it i said all the twenty two year old they were great international joins look at once heat from live on say in the spanish league we played go to naches for his country's national team and scored five goals in the process over his relatively short professional career he's played for five teams including manchester city basel sporting lisbon and spain's molokai live on tape another new arrival is the nigerian international twenty four

year old banger fixer of the nap was also somewhat of a club helper and interment 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 europe are coming over to me recently to participate so you know in different clubs here and also you know when a close plays and in iraq a collapse plays in the champions league or a new europa league player admits of bass players a lot of the knesset west hands he made money while the caution also join looking at the during the summer traffic period the portuguese defenders trophies include the french cup in two thousand and six and the netherlands title in two thousand and seven written as posing as a no i don't mean sorry stories are growing. as a test i think that the key into training is if you decide you want. pray for peace

from where he was an order game along with the latest signing in spanish we feel they're all there is up there who joins that lot from sporting lisbon twenty six year old started in our goals where he played for five years scoring five goals and winning the spanish super cop in the process in an interview with looking at these official website zapatero admitted that he had offers from four spanish clubs as well as if they spawn england's you castle and only back from greece however it looks much the offer outweighed the rest mainly because of the new head coaches josie coast zeros personal involvement. it's all a committee are yet to lose a match or even concede a goal under josie close a year olds 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 ramon koester of artsy moscow. just weeks before the start of the new english premier league season

managed to city manager watson man cheney admits his side still unsightly fish as they prepare to face local rivals manchester united in the traditional couldn't raise a canadian shield on sunday. their first official maitreya in this season is important because. it is a game c.v. and i think it is a dad be we want to win i think like united. but i don't think that the team in these moments. on their present are ready to play. like beam to mouth because we are already here. the first year with a megastar and the fact that there will be married. meanwhile united held an open training session as old trafford on saturday the three new signings winger ashley young goalkeeper doubted the fad and defender phil jones will to pass 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 mysterious surface to save a couple more players but that's. we get this always a real clubs or never is by and. that is. important word in this regard is. well in the meantime it was a one way street for a while madrid in the final game of our pre-season tour of china the spanish giants pummels local side tianjin tied six nil at the it's a proper stadium that got open through and penalty for and failed the media capitalized eyes and poor defending a double or two minutes don't fall again and that is ray aus the third soon after the break after a sense of confusion got a match. strike isn't replaced by christiane i realised i didn't wait long last and

stana was blanco's for not. having as i'm up by de grace within just three minutes into chinese style the spanish cup holders will take on champion's boss alone in the first leg of the super cup showed up and learn about next sunday and coach there's a merino explained why he doesn't want any new players in his team. but it seems . competitive everybody feels a part of it everybody must be ready to play and at the same time they are young boys from the second team they know they have a chance so i hope to morrow i don't really again morning or once more players because i don't want the players i'm happy with the short score they have we do good sings and we the bad sings. in athletics olympic

high jump champion and raced 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 two metres of thirty six centimeters at his first attempt at the diamond league meeting in london last three years ago a similar jump just with the seven off to take gold at the beijing olympics else where two americans triumph in the sprints group world record holder you saying bolt sitting out also takes you away the field in the mainstream media is carmelita jeter was peerless in the women's one hundred meters and knocked up a second straight victory in a timely. wearing on and with just over a month to go until the rugby world cup in new zealand down causing it fifteen points as the all blacks comfortably against australia thirty points to fourteen in

the try and asians encounter nortons to retain the bledisloe cup the traditional have got before the game june boosted the home nations from around the world that dominated fun lafferty's and park and have not lost a test to australia since night in may for six and new zealand west seventeen zero up at half time with a transfer my nonna in the cabin melonie and says inventing the right to put the match beyond fourteen minutes into the second half night with conrad smith for a spectacular run to make it twenty five seven to me i honestly and rocky elsom did get on the scoreboard for the wallabies in the second period but the visitors never looked at getting back interest is in a match winners and two in the tri nations following their 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 gangbang has apologized to her and my. people but not to the officials after

a drunken brawl without some manager a man who was a story sliced off of being once again expelled from the team and behavior twenty six year old punched her boss who reprimanded for a late night during a training camp a short track star is a four time olympic champion but has a poor record of violence at work she was also keep tabs of the national team four years ago using up a coach. and that's all from a sports desk i think. i'm

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