to st petersburg it's coming your way 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 paws here boast 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 started here at the breath taking jordan staircase full of lies and gleaming with gilding a mere is the same case extends for the flu shots of the winter palace its golden

white system designed as a 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 impressive to saw it 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 them to the natives and held by the trench of century the heavens as 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 the present is the same thing. you can only dream about and it's absolutely fabulous since i two for one 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 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 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 riches glory days it's not just the senses of the exhibits immolating brushes imperial past also the rundown of the hermitage treasures would be complete without mentioning the museum stealing collection of western european art which states with thirteenth century onwards michelangelo manet matisse.

whose of parts history. the whole on the first floor was designed in an eclectic stop 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 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 all that form part of this elaborate fine piece of tissue with mechanisms that set them in motion today so it's one of the few with 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 and that is. a you can 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 date back to the fourth millennium b.c. gold became popular area in the black sea. and of course it's high and abundance of gemstones the spot behind the splendor of york courts. precious stones were only on ladies' clothes in russia. dignitaries with gold and diamonds only in russia russian painting sculpture at a. prehistoric period to the early twentieth century is displayed in hundreds of poles if you do visit. or group. calls.

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 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 beautiful. personification of maternal love. left in the world to me at. my. very famous voice beauty. challenged. in my books textbooks at school. for the first time. one of the best even if you are not an awful 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 are she said petersburg is so. thing 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 count shot a full boat to peterhof the journey takes twenty minutes and is much faster than travelling by car or train you can see on final destination you normally 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 put to rest because the journey time down considerably. here we are. just in was it about it because of 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 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 pledge taking sides in russia. the passing party 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 little pieces ground to impress elizabeth who was of the expansion of the grand rapids. peterhof was ravaged virtually destroyed by the german troops during the second world war it was whether 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 is the grandkids with dozens of water jets greatly missed breathtaking view surrounded by impressive gold statues at the center the famous some sin 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. contains the enormous pipes origine 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 really beautiful actually more so than we thought looking at photographs that we saw people again definitely worth a visit beautiful beautiful and it shows

a lot of russian history i like it i think it's. complete it was built more than three hundred years ago and it's just awesome and i love the alleyways and the and all the parks and fountains. and for example the sea is not just because it's very very. spectacular parkland piece of health is remarkable for the shia variety of styles encompassed in features a walk 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 . remember to bring your camera and also note that the transmission is not included when you pay if you harder for john to. come rain or shine the trip to the venice of 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 grandkids skase fountain in pisa holds st petersburg's constant involves reconstruction a says the late adolf. as you can see the stare we tell has come to life and for those who come to see the magic of the new of the council i suggest you come here quickly to school is an. absolutely spectacular one of forty 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 and the rest of the crew from pizza health by now.

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the people of the united states and our 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 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 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 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 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 standoff was handled. hundreds of thousands of israelis returned to the streets across the country agard by the high cost of living in an affordable housing prices some protestors comparing the demonstrations to those that happen in neighboring egypt calling for widespread reforms to ease social inequality. in. america suffer as its biggest 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. full 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. 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 racer 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 length 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 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 i'm not alexander i'm going call for swift minutes

to know it's enough to make that eager i can fire to their post to me remain unbeaten for a ninth straight game and reflected on week 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 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 eurasia ahead of their home game against tone when they beat to a first off goal for alexander could make off and then in late strike from nuthatch video of angie stay forced to keep up the pressure on the lead leaders was told lingering tosspot twenty seven year old joins from chelsea on a four year deal and fixed by next week's game. that's. an impressive five game winning streak came to an abrupt end for third place tonight my mosco as

a goalie in charge set out to about a three one win. that back among today's eighty second minute when i saw stuff move out of the bottom two with a one no 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 movers 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 years a cassette of his lead lock zero two 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 and josie close they are also managed the national team 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 will tame the haze more confidence. because when the game sat down challenge some scenes in the beach of course yes the stars asia

too. 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 on 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 basel sporting lisbon and spain's molokai to live on to another new arrival is the nigerian international twenty four year old winger bix or a 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 sleighs in the champions league or in the europa league play more and more to face players a lot of the nice 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 with a nice person yes i know i know him. for it was four years ago and. it was a test i think that took me into training he says he's the same he wants. it's. you also when the game. signing is spanish. who joins the club from sporting lisbon it's twenty six year old started. 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 if they spar mock england you castle and olympiakos from greece however

much these 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 should help the team achieve that goal. now it's just a week to go 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. in this season is important because. this game. is that. we want to win. back the team in this moment.

ready to play a. like may be in two months because we. already faced megaliths there feel that they're 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 costs 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 new minister is still saying a couple more players but that's. we get this always a real clubs or never is buy and that's that is.

important word in this 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 it's exactly that stadium that you can through and penalty for and the media capitalized on some poor defending to double the amount thirteen minutes bhansali then netted right alza third soon after the break off the only source of confusion going into a strike was then replaced by christiane i one els i didn't wait long last time based on the. formula. heading benson up by de grace within just three minutes in my eyes chinese style spanish cup holders will take on champion's boss alone in the first leg of the super cup showdown vote about next sunday and coach there's 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 morning once more players. because i would lose i'm happy with the short score that i have with the good singers. in athletics and i'm behind john 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 two metres of thirty six centimeters at his first attempt at the diamond move meeting in london last three years ago a similar jump is with me for saying no to take gold at the beijing olympics

elsewhere two americans triumphed in this once good world record holder you saying vote sitting out also takes blew away the field in the men's team and the meters while commenting that 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 actions in countering all clans to retain the bledisloe cup the traditional hot up before the game julie boosted the whole nation's merong robots donated from an awful deed and path with a have not lost a test to australia since nineteen eighty six and new zealand where seventeen zero up at half time fitness and won none they have been mail-o. meter and six of any so you've got to put the match beyond that forty minutes into the second half we 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 that two winners and two in the trying nations following that opening success against a depleted south africa last week. well. 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 nation's people but not to the officials after a drunken brawl with the team manager maimed was a story sliced off to being once again expelled from the team and behavior the twenty six year old punched her boss who had 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 track of the national team four years ago beating up a coach. and that's all from the sports desk. in

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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 i know for double housing prices in. the us suffer as if the biggest single loss of life in the afghan conflict as a nato helicopter is reportedly down by the taliban. seven am in moscow i met très a 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 nine hundred seventeen standard and poor's dropped america's ranking one notch to double a plus this comes after a last minute deal earlier this week narrowly avoided the country going into default s. and p. says the spending cuts agreed by congress are way.