in broadcasting live and direct from the heart of moscow this is our team i'm sean thomas and take a look at tonight's cuts and tight khadafi forces continue their onslaught on loyalist towns but its origin discovers in tripoli some are living in fear of those who supposedly liberated the country the presidents of the council claim civilians have been arrested for merely expressing pro get off the field. and in the other big stories of the week the u.s. launches its european missile defense plan says the three countries that signed up to host parts of the system russia strongly objects to the proposed the deployment calling it a threat to national security. agreement to disagree and

london in moscow put aside their political differences to focus on business during the first visit by a british prime minister to russia in six years the contracts worth tens of millions of dollars were signed during game cameron's one day trip to the russian capital. and in kosovo ethnic tension is rising up listing a seems to border checkpoints to enforce a ban on imports from serbia the move has sparked outrage with local ethnic serbs who claim their rights are being violated by kosovar albanians. next we discover russia's southern region of cross nadar as our very own explored james brown brings you a taste of the local food and customs. it's always a pleasure to visit the room south of russia and present a school to be one of its finest cities. founded on the river at the end of

the eighteenth century excluded from a small outpost to a modern administrative capital. and as soon as you write this one lady you really need to go and see. this. catherine and she is the patron saint the president i. am legend has it that if you come into a monument and stand on this circle then you come under the same protection of the time you are. who is really to get sight see the lord stalls with a bird's eye view. now this is president famous water it's one of many constructions remaining by famous russian engineer bolivian

machine called and it's still one of the best places taken. is often referred to as russia's thomas edison because of the quality of his invention need hyper beloit towers like this although off to fifty years of disuse it is starting to get a little rusty curry. the great. it may no longer be because of those tulips building but for a panoramic view there are a few better places. for climbing made me hungry but luckily just a place to go. i've always loved visiting the local markets the some of the liveliest places you can find in the city and full of these great sights smells and all these different colors but of course it does help if you have someone who can give you a profit soul. and i had a lunch date with an explicit. rules to do. the

most mission since well i'm looking forward to a little trip around the market to have the fruits if you can steal things from the trauma oh yeah i can. see this post thank you. for the welcome. you can yell. all summer. could you came from china to study medicine and over the last six years she's only in love with the place. and this one is becoming fluent in the language she's also got into the local food some of the delicacies here just annoys me an acquired taste. i'm sure those who have never seen it. what because. the cool watermelon. show. which will pick the right ok that's just me i'm doing yeah i. saw.

them do feel that there are some things that should be left as nature intended. this case but it's a definite so definitely an acquired taste. and should be just certainly get used to crossing the tone in fact she's sent from the new home she's thinking of staying on offer she graduates the thing that people are very kind. and i can just say that i found myself because. about different stories. you know you jeems species yeah for those who could see your eyes going to the yeah i think a very alike cakes so let's men go to buy so you're going to get these yeah right we think you have so much for showing me around malone come down it's been a great question and i'm a watermelon though i can't get pleasure from it and i think. the list could be due

to enjoying the chocolate fix when i headed back outside the weather had cleared up my mind that there was something special going on in the middle of town i just needed to get much. of a change or to go it is around here somewhere you know what they say if in doubt most recently spent. most of the puzzles. and growing most of all you know for us yes begin with i do yes we will leave to you thank you very much to displace police a. bit of his crew some of those cops get to clean up the streets and chant for the environment at the same time i've never seen cars like these for the police and rochelle day a new project yes and soon you will all want to see. what these three. is with police departments. and

program security jewels to the homes of friends even frame all things program. if you call as i like to call it for us well we have the tools. the streets and squares. on these calls it would be cool. to pull a jeep green. economy. well as you get a window in the back of a police tone this is definitely the way to go to see it. again. thank you very much. you know that's what i call a public service. i've been dropped off in the city's central square and looked like the show was about to begin. to original.

these men are x. and without their ancestors krasnodar wouldn't exist the land here was originally given to them by empress catherine the great in the late eighteenth century i mean still nineteen twenty six he was named account arena which means catherine's gift. because maxwell noticed fearsome fighters and brilliant swordsman and its reputation they still build on today. your enemy is very dead i think. you don't have to have blood to be trained by these guys but it certainly seems to help you coordination. i guess life that are three once more. very good. perhaps my own weapon might transform my fencing skills. so of course

is absolutely part of the make up. somewhere else in the city where you can find. a my trainer was happy to point me in the right direction. underlay has been working as a blacksmith since he was a teenager and is the only person in the city who makes damascus steel a material that's created some of the world's finest so will. the push to start with you bring several different kinds of steel together. the pieces are in a certain way under welded together at high temperatures to go as soon as it turns white hot this means of the temperature is just right however once that happens you

can begin to flatten it out just make sure you've got plenty of energy. hammering. to compress the layers of all in and steel and it's. a bit of a hit mr brooks. of damascus steel. assuming i can. get it. in the right place. and you have to be accurate over and over again just like that. policy is just over six times and having to do that all day. it's an exhausting process but fortunately i'm dreaming has a machine that will do the next most of hard work for you. as this. is where. to get. the whole city would like

a. lot this out of this game i think. you need to do it several side of the poles once metal gets cold and get brittle. unfortunately can lead to cracks it seems this chunk of damascus steel was going to have to be recycled fortunately andre has another developed specimen. this is. a solid metal with most of it just calories in the edge. and hopes of getting the right. of the blades. and we just have one last round of heating in hammering to go. one final but. while. it is. painfully hot.

way to get the right temperature. barring the shouting. hey you have it. a blade. for a cause that we're. most famous soldiers with cavalry bottles of old may be consigned to the history books the people of president on still share a lot of speeds and. the sun's out crowds coming in. on a day at the races especially when i get to meet some of the stalls. here where the ladies. first. know just there is head trainer at present hippodrome might arrive for the strongs of the victory column one of the most

important leaks in the city's racing calendar. number seven said what do you think do you like it you get me on a bit of a break until the next race is began an idea. i had an excellent suggestion on how to spend the time. this is rubik's cube an eight year old stallion who was going to be my riot for the morning but had a few lessons on my trips around russia but so far i've only managed to judge a ring trumps get rubik up to a counter. well yes for about thirty seconds and then he decided he'd much rather be doing his own thing. now while it was for all the lost a good boy. here is still a bit of a puzzle to me. i hope at least i have better luck as a spectator and i grabbed the programme and headed back to the track but things

didn't exactly go my way. come on. come on over it's well. it's a really good start i managed to pick last place a few races in and the victory count was turning into a bit of a personal defeat but then one of my fellow punters gave me a tip. yes. number three. but i lost. and with that so two year old man named diamond stumps had scored me a bull's eye now that turned out alright in the end i got a ride back the winner along even a few rubles to the good. with my blood susan my bank balance spent i decided to quit while i was ahead but the only thing you can write sneering krasnow dumb you're a bit of

a speed freak and just down the road. if . he is leave. you. to.

see. wealthy british rolls it is no time to write. an article to. market so why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports on r.t. . is the cuban river it's the longest in the northern caucasus so you really comes across in a dollar and paid a visit but you can just take a walk along the wall to size all. you can get snow it's something a little bit speedy. here is one of the instructors here

a president asked powerboat school he's an eight time russian champion and in charge of getting the next generation to follow in his wake. we have got lots of young sportsmen here and international class boats that can go up to one hundred sixty kilometers an hour. we try to stimulate the children's capacity for work and our members take part in both european and world championships. it seemed like i was in good hands although i did need some more appropriate clothing. more racing season in a wet suit sort of things to come. and once i'd go in my life vest it was time to

take my seat. ok i trust you completely. my life in this very small and snug contraption. with just a gas pedal and no brakes to worry about it did seem pretty easy to draw it and there was at least one quick way to slow down. this little safety line is it tends to be quite helpful to buy pullets. about things go slow and leave it. this. would. come with a quick push from the bank it was over and once you're out of money these things you want to come.

for you really really said or were you tell yourself because that is incredible who who could be a new drivers have to go through a rather unusual club ritual. but heck. bonewits to finish off the russians edition of the more. i was about to attend crossing the dolls most still strong laden event of the year . it's pretty sad to say that the gym and i have never been back legs plus there are people who can teach their own body weights in a day and lift the equivalent of around five big men and if you can do that maybe you can compete in the us in some some competition.

and i think. everyone here. is one of the guys in charge of it all. or if you want. us to be. good reason why it was james believe that you one of the founders of some sort of already feel you not me. to founder of this concious if you're at the right place because these are the strongest doesn't present. you get a seat with the owner ok. you know. so the game has been training in some sense jim i'm taking calls and there

are events for almost twenty years and the toughest guys in the south of russia are here to show what they can do. what i am one of the things i love about strong men called to since they get some credit crazy stuff like that i think that's true that's true this let's just way this gentleman is going to. lift up much so yes do you know the weight of the cycle i think it's one hundred feet below one hundred fifty yeah how much do you weigh. you see these began this is fall it just falls over the starts the go for had a fee of forty kilos just me that's why i saw them oh she's going to help this gentleman. you know just be sure to come back and. we want stoners always bolds to muscles for next and if the competitors have a little trouble with the point they could still make up for it in the toughest.

little house and beautiful places for a relaxing stroll. just over half a century ago this area was nothing but gross and maybe the old potato allotments until this man came along. turned it into almost as a beautiful botanical gardens right in the center of president and i'm off to meet an old friend of his. sunna has been a professor at the local university for more than forty years and has literally see in the gardens grow from nothing to what they are today. he says that it's done in a regularly i wouldn't pattern like the english style. but they're all of different heights as you can see and you can find every conceivable form of plants life. in fact there are more than seventy different rare breeds in the gardens and susana

was happy to show me some of her favorites. can you feel it. that's right it smells nice. there around twenty full time staff here but they can always do with one hand and that meant so i got to put my own tiny sapling in the ground. this this little a pool tree is one of more than forty thousand trees that have all been floated by hand and hopefully in a few decades to come out come it'll still be here giving say to the president of the locals. and. unfortunately my time in the city was coming to an end but there was one group of

local heroes i really wanted to meet. the people here love the combine river which runs right through the president but it can also be a dangerous place there up to five accidents a day on the water during the summer season but that's what class of those river rescue service is here for. oh i was here to see what sort of challenges i face. yes once i changed into my official rescue ranger gear we were ready to head on to the river. and now this is a typical day we're on patrol but you only want to do is go down the cuban river all the way to places where bedding is allowed and most importantly where it's not allowed to. shoot the problem is that there is a very strong current in the kugan river and swimming can be very dangerous. some people try to do it when they're under the influence of alcohol or. teenagers over

there for instance but as the boat drove past they seem to change their minds pretty quickly. so you guys are they're just hard to put a place for. these two and his colleagues normally patrol the forty kilometer stretch but state the public role playing the use of the river. of course it never hurts to issue a gentle reminder to everyone having a nice time don't go swimming don't go. see and nobody's going swimming pool see how impressed they are with all authority . mind you there were one or two people who did look like they were getting ready to hold themselves it. usually victims. so from being very cautious but things were about to get interesting.

well everyone's been doing very well behaved out on the river today but for guys who still needs train which means they need a victim. class mustn't. it's a little difficult to do a good impression of a drowning man in a highly buoyant soups but i did try my best and that river was no. no no. it's cold outside. but fortunately i was just washing around for a minute or two before i was free to safety. another soul saved by the close knit. rescue service.

but definitely recommend the drysuit. most people. i was happy to be out of the ocean but i was genuinely sad to be leaving crescent. outside of moscow and st petersburg is the most modern and well maintained city i've seen in russia and one i think i could genuinely living with you looking at the beautiful books some people call schools in action just genuine call such culture and hospitality house adult sybil.

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