this is our seeing the u.k. government style tough measures in response to the street may have its all more than one thousand seven hundred arrests but i expect severe proposed steps could make the situation even worse. pressure rallies against the rising cost of living are expected around israel with ten camps having already been in the streets or a month now but african refugees living in tents permanently claim the israelis don't understand what the lack of social justice really is. under

a court has allowed two americans to see former u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld over allegations of torture the men claim they were illegally in prisons and beaten by u.s. troops while working as private security contractors in iraq. are next on special report on russia's far east where echoes of the soviet era mix for traditions that a centuries old stay with us. sharing of time zone will strain the situation just a few kilometers from the chinese border post isn't exactly a short shot from moscow possibly just mind a bit of jetlag you're going to enjoy one of the most charms of cities in russia's far east.

the risk is the region's administrative samhsa homes more than half a million people and a place that really sparkles in the summer. tourist some locals come out in force to enjoy the city's wide and picturesque whereas and down by the river saw it there are plenty of places to work on your town. and for the nature. very close to. now apparently this is one of these in the whole of russia is four hours in the wild now in eastern tradition the opening of the lotus flower petals the. expansion of the soul so i'm hoping that my trip is going to be as well and i was going to start my journey down on the riverbank just over one hundred fifty years ago. it links russia with china and. it's

a great way to see the city and. constantine is a lifelong. resident and he offered to take me out on his yacht. helping out. trains young sailors and we had a couple of shipmates for the ride. so hopefully we'll go. it wasn't long before we were doing it. and as the guys fixed up the rigging i took the rudder. actually this is pretty easy perfect weather beautiful calm water great day just messing around in boats this is the eleventh longest river in the world but we were heading out to fall just enough to enjoy the water and get some great city views. but that's not the best way to get snow this river i can't think of one better. it

was trying to head back to dry land and for me to really start discovering how bars . if you want to find out about history there's one place that you have to visit this is the museum of regional law and it's the biggest and the most visited museum in the whole of the country's far east. a hundred nations thousand people step into this building every year and they get to enjoy a huge collection of exhibits from lloyd local river residents to back in time. one of the things that sets this place apart from most russian museums is that you can interact with the exhibits and today we've got some guests who come from even further east to see what like used to be like here in the far east of russia these schoolchildren a visiting from japan and the museum store immediately have been taking part in some nineteenth century village chores and once they've checked out all the old

it's time to really get into the swing of things. this is a way to learn about the prosperity of just gave you this place just the right color will the say that's a problem lori said rush. the kids to carry on the party and headed down to meet a fellow reuben the museum's director who offered to give me a personal tour and he has his own theory on why the region's ecosystem is so diverse. legend has it that when god was creating the world he planted the tiger and tropics. when he arrived here he only had a handful of seeds to toss around but he did have a bit of everything so we have a wide variety of plants in these parts from plain trees italian as to grapes and the same can be said about our fauna. this collection of local wildlife is a very popular exhibits and includes one of the most famous and rare animals and

russian poachers are one of the main reasons why they are more target here is so terribly endangered but there is a place not too far from a bar which is doing its bit trying make sure the species doesn't live. tree is about an hour's drive from the city limits refuge for injured or phenomenal from the local region has. the world. its role in oh and by edward krugel of who's been taking in lost souls for the best part of twenty years and he took me to meet some of the park's most recent arrivals. these are himalayan bears hopefully we'll be able to release them next spring but we need to feed them up first and. everyone has looked after more than two hundred beds over the years and despite a lack of funds most of us and savoy being separated from their mothers the babies are only just a few months old they were rescued in winter here because they were bigger bears

a very popular hunter's trophies for peace in china as well so it's very close. and these are the unfortunate ones who are left behind. as you can see for just five months old. but the zoo's most famous resident is considerably bigger. one of the rarest cats left on the entire planet and. twenty years old and still. coming to say. hello. quite. i'm so tempted to try and. he's got my teeth. i was born here was a baby in the early nineties and he's been here ever since he's the sanctuaries only permanent residence and disappoint being positively ancient for

a tiger there's still plenty of life in him. beyond the biggest cats on the planet and way more than three hundred kilos but their numbers are under serious threats and it's estimated there are only around four hundred fifty left in russia's wilderness. but mall is doing his best to improve the chances he's raised and released almost a dozen young cubs but before he does they need special training is a little bit of this well unfortunately the lure of the. jungle being what it is these little guys are actually used when they have wild tigers here to train them how to hunt because this would be a has an forester and he would like is natural prey and there are a few large saw gets wondering around here. so here also some rather i'm willing students of tiger school he's too little there as well. very

useful when you're learning how to hunt. fortunately for bugs there are no one else like is in residence of the moment so if the law continues to hold the running away from will be a few curious words. but they're a vital part of making sure we continue for some reason. back in the city has been invited to see a different sort of conservation projects involving four wheels rather than four bags seeing cars like this is enough to bring back a few bad memories of frustrated instructors and the old mind of folks because this is where people who come to take their driving tests but the ministry of transport here isn't just concerned with getting new drivers started they're also responsible

for getting some of the city's vintage automobiles. back out of it. but it's not just the direct santolina zero is passionate about he's got one of the largest collections of models in eastern russia and i think that's very true here i've got cars of all makes including those that were made in the one nine hundred thirty s. here you see four makes and military vehicles and one of those military models was waiting for us in the carriage downstairs. this old truck delivered letters during the second world war and the mechanics have been trying to get it back on the road so i think this one is almost. see. the magic touch. one of the most. surreal russian classic.

ok. it's work. the old post truck drives again. but trucks are just the tip of the iceberg. and it's always restoring the most ninety classic russian and foreign coals some of the success stories saw it. from vintage folders to ukrainian beatles most of these cause if you see the launch day on national holidays with special festivals but i was going to get a chance to take a couple of soviet specials the first. four i mean one of these things with me if you're going to. come down turn because this is going to be the hardest steering. i've ever encountered. you must have had to hit the gym to keep it under control

but only one of these big powerful walvis was just a dream for most of us this is back in the one nine hundred sixty s. . but it seems that all communist culp's weren't quite so. this may be the best police cut ever invented offroad it was one of the least careful for many people were smart oh. ok. so i figured out the gearbox of this train must reach it was a lot easier to drive one would have mostly been pushing that would have made all the bad guys. you know so i wouldn't be fifty's rushing police but. we have the smallest. impossibly funniest car with which to catch criminals i'm not sure if it would be a good thing i know because either they just sort of stop and follow the law ping

that you were trying to catch them in this poll they'd run to cross because they wouldn't want to be seen dead. i decided that if i didn't want to permanently a couple of circuits in my mini most beach would have to suffice but that wasn't going to be my last job on the bench. it's. just so.

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your me alone to play all the rules is all well and good but sometimes you just feel a need for speed and there's a place in a forest where you really can come and put some rubber. your aim is to drive carefully first to sir cause you hear me even in primary concerns you know what campbell has been involved with racing for twenty five years and then runs the street club which takes part in competitions all over the russian far east he's already trained several local champions including his son misha who offered to show me the ropes assuming i could fit in the car of course. but three big. james sent up a little bit but. this is an axiom so we go karts but after a handy push towards. problems some young students but this is a school that takes dedication and money mostly because of italian chef season

japanese engines because simple dollars they can shift. races regularly more than two hundred kilometers an hour it's a serious adrenaline rush. are you ok. i'll tell you what that is all some fun but is a little bit difficult when you're eating. his dust here. it was time to take things a little easier and i went off to find a man with a rather more sedate hobby. looks like these guys over here have gone in for some double glazing in one of the old buildings but. i know someone is going to be able to make good use of an old windowsill like this. but the muses reclaimed pieces to repair and refurbish musical instruments and we were going to give an old guitar a new lease of life. my siberian stone pine window sill was going to become

a brand new sounding board. so these have got to fit together perfectly can make the front door. and once the planks have been playing down the old sounding board has to be removed because it provides a contact that's. sorting through your head so. you could play it's. a bit cool see you destroying it's all good looking and deems other instruments the results would be well worth it and also because of the old boards i went to work on one of his handmade sense pieces. fortunately putting everything together can take up to the team wanted to show me exactly one of his creations how to wolf. never thought that an old couple window frames sensor.

i don't even see one conservation sense in a bar of soap but it's not just land mammals that i get to get helping hands here. from fifteen years ago there were hundreds of tons of sturgeon included in the animal river but the fish is now critically endangered a cameo is a valuable delicacy and poaching and overfishing have seen their numbers decline to such an extent that only two i don't specimens were documented to have been cool in this area in two thousand and nine. is a situation that the genius the fish from is trying to change. in his work is a breeding young animal sturgeon and colluder in captivity and then returning them to the walls so this is the war they keep the food for the fish looks like particularly lovely stuff. combination all insects alone. would flow in the and some tiny cost nations are really very delicious we

understood. that. the fish in these tanks are only a few months old but a full grown kaluga can live as long as a human way up to a time. easy for saying boy about two thousand of these babies been in here and you can see the pretty lively. now there anyway about thirty to forty grams plus the perfect sowing is to give them a real shot at survival in the river i think i can probably safely say that this may be the only time in my life i'm ever going to see a fish vacuum cleaner and this is what is transposing our kaluga sturgeon into the fact that we can then release it into the river later. it's like a quick death it leaves a mess we've reached our quota it was time to dry from citigroup's. so i'm writing style here because we're just about to head off to the river and hopefully give the space new lease of life releasing hundreds of leases of water at once can be

a bit tricky though i may have to do a little with the side rescue work. so this is these so slow it's a breed of fish very soon we'll be taking them out on to the boats. they will find the right spot in the river so they can begin. the phones only been operating since two thousand and eight but they plan to breed up to three million fish a year which should give the kaluga and the animal sturgeon a good chance of swimming in these waters in the decades to come. it's amazing to think that just a few years this little guy could be a few metres wide a few hundred kilos in weight and hopefully we've given him the best chance of making it because of this size hopefully he'll survive for amazing good luck. he really did feel that we were helping to regenerate the river that's been supporting the people of this region since time immemorial. before i left

a bar of sky i was going to meet some people whose ancestors had lived this way for millennia. syria has been home to the indigenous nano which in their language means people for thousands of years and by the sounds of it. i think they're prepared for some kind of. they're around twelve thousand annoying living in russia and they're the largest of the indigenous tribes it's a widespread community but every year people come back for a summer party of music and dance but it does take quite a bit of. hopefully we will actually need this but just in case it doesn't rain. i said be able to keep everything nice and dry so the festival goes off without a hitch. everyone pitches in to help from the moment to the very.

top what's your name you know james i'm not. so very friendly here which is nice. this kind of event gets everyone excited and they don't hold back only entertainment. the way. today we're going to feed the spirit of fine. this spirit is the master find his name is put down i don't have tree that. will have a torch perception where we're going to feed the spirits of water. today there will also be a dragon as the dragons estancia have been borat from the chinese but it's not true that they're an ancient political culture to. most of them this.

is going to be one of the big sins pieces of tonight's bossy. serial can bring it out so it doesn't fall down everything really see how the nominee celebrate the culture. as soon as we've finished people still to arrive or settle down to watch a game of chalk pot which looks like a particularly dangerous splendor volleyball in the cross. and then it was time for jolt city. and. this is what the festival is really all about so it's for the next generation no need to get together and practice their citizens and their ancestors have been carrying on for centuries it's a village celebration and i knew everyone in the community to get together and really celebrate their culture the worst may be

a long way from moscow but it's worth the effort to get here is out close to russia's forest has a rich history and a community that cares about the city and the future of its advantages. takes fifteen to twenty million years for the planet to recover from a major extinction event but the planet has time we don't. it's been going on for months twenty twenty five years and since it's been moved to eco terrorist before there was even islamic fundamentalist terrorist in this country nine eleven happened the bush administration could not find any terrorists because the feds couldn't find any real terrorists they decided to take these young people who were accused of properties advertise and label them as terrorists someone he'll destroy

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