home to more than a million people. oldest cities. founded in seventeen sixteen homes has been transformed from a frontier outpost to a bustling administrative center transport hub and. interest second largest city east of the urals and it's a picturesque regional capital and i was going to begin my trip with a visit to one of its oldest buildings. this is one that you will hear almost all rust and sounds and angst is no exception but search for old welcome people to worship every day are going to see how they bring. significance church dates back to. and since the fall of the soviet union they've been due to. the last five years and i deem it has been.

this is. also in charge of training the next generation of musical talents. skills will be seriously force learners so and since you asked me to join us for a joint i have to be able to keep time. this is the place for the bellringer. coming in one small bells should be operated with the right hand of lymphoma here but only. like this. one so i have a little training from the maestro i was ready for a solo effort. just helps everyone else is in his way to.

training and practice you need to make it sound good but suddenly you're off your legs or thought to work independently i don't know maybe oh my way to being a complete company over this. big opening bell is that it gives you a great view of the sissy homes cars a real potential mix there on the bow and neoclassical building standing beside the latest soviet additions and you can while away a good few hours taking it all i am trying to say man's hand alienated too many of the churches parishioners voices i believe town for a while just to be on the safe side so i headed out to a place where a bit of a company is nothing new.

if you're trying to work out which came first the chicken or the egg this might not be a bad place to start. what did they. take away from the parents this is a quail egg they are very good for your health even. look at health closer to thirty years so here we have a guinea egg. and hen's egg with humor through a goose egg. the biggest one that i know ostrich egg boundary breeds in cells but around the region and he took me to see the latest arrivals. these are new born guinea fowl chicks and their eggs are hatched in not a piece to be converted fridge to however it works it's effective because they're not short of company. quails one of andre's biggest sellers and he's got more than

a hundred in this. these cryo spend most of their lives indoors but there's a pretty big house in the fresh air to well i'm counting. guinea fowl turkeys. a ducks fall apparently they're holding twenty different species on this. from the very small. the family think i knew if i wanted to make the phone store attractions i'd better be bearing gifts. you might not expect by african all speeches in the middle of siberia but. i'm his girls are surprisingly well adapted to the climate here you can get down to minus twenty five celsius or minus thirteen far in height and they don't mind because as long as golf is good it's ladies to keep him company he's pretty happy. but well betide anyone else who gets close to them. is going to

get jealous. doesn't like the girlfriend. she quite like he's like thing their way from a woman a. story they were. not wanting to tangle with a two metre plus possessive boyfriend beat a hasty retreat but i've been told there was a place nearby where i could find one or two more exotic guests and on. a personal this place looks like a quiet typical russian village but just down the road they've got something that the whole area is proud of. the big rivers who is one of the region's most popular tourist attractions. of space filled with lawyers leopards and llamas. very there was a russian little zoo that could if this place back in one thousand nine hundred three this was just

a zoo for the village school but it became so popular and people brought more and more animals that it just kept growing and then they've got llamas they've got one hundred fifty thousand visitors every year. and considering there's only twelve thousand people in the whole village tourists can see more than two thousand and a means including a polo and a family a mammal tiger is. the big rivers most famous resident is their very own rich. whole. core there's a hell of a smile to greet you isn't it believed that this is one of the most dangerous animals in africa but many here is only here in siberia and a very hungry hippo here is he's twenty four. and he sits out the cold weather in siberia in his own luxury and swimming pool. is one of the screeching biggest attractions but i knew there was a place back in town where small really is beautiful it was

a movie here we have an insect artwork or flies and mosquitoes come i many many insects. and it was a micro artist with an incredible collection of miniature masterpieces but it says micro money is scripts that have really made an atoll his name this is the prayer our father in different languages russian english french and german he owns the guinness record for the world's smallest printed book and has a library of many classics. but when you're dealing with things this small that can be difficult to keep hold of. this is the problem of course. it's incredibly delicate nor can it only is entirely self-taught it's not easy when you can lose an entire sculpture just point breathing too hard and miniature aunts requires miniature tools. i never thought i'd find myself carving on the to speak

but. the technique is so precise i can feel myself not breathing because i was so worried about my hands shaking and destroying utterly in one false move. how i literally dozens were such an amazing decision i really don't. mean you have learnt it all by myself no one taught me how to do with someone there is no such place in the world where you can learn it you have to devote a lifetime to creating such instruments and then it was time to practice some very tiny handwriting. this takes quite a lot of concentration but remote completely it appears. to be working and there's always room on the mantel piece for something this size so i think that's pretty well off the

lessons from the master i got my own personalized of what cursive in there and because it's always good to have something to read. probably the smallest version of the complete works of shakespeare ever created. swedish you have made about two hundred different books and different languages of the russian english german and french commuter car. concentration it was time for. in the city's rhythm some of its most popular spots. we might be a long way from the city here and all but it doesn't mean we don't have a beach and when the weather's been taught everyone comes here to chill. but if you're looking for some tunes there's plenty of and also to. give voice oh oh oh. oh oh oh oh oh oh you guys how your concerts.

here we've got a concert nearby here so what was going on at the beach there is so many people there's a lot of people today because today claim. and there will be a lot of fire a little music a lot of drama music and we. are the main attraction. of course we have a. drum it's very loud drum. corps yeah we made. that would be awesome so we go we go ok. he runs his friends normally play the jumbos of the local clubs but today the performing of the system i'm giving listens to. this whole set. taken from.

the plane that i've played oh cool. house i'm going to do this first strike. going on right. on. the room and do. think i'm kind of. open right. right and. left and don't. you know right. right. right and. left hand.

oh. ok first lesson ok let's play it. straight we go into the jungle ok west african rhythm ok. and it seems it expects students to progress quickly. the boys were ready for a full session i was just trying to keep still. very good. fun and it really knew the stuff to me that after a while you'll see how to get into your blood. it was a spectacular way to finish the first hole says of my visit to a school i do receive in spoken with some incredibly talented people i knew i still

had to meet someone who was used to performing on a much bigger stage. but i. struggle with the idea australia i do know the. there's no way thank you see the film on screen yeah if you want to have sex go and have sex.

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the libs. well you can most big cities people love the sports but it isn't football that brings the fans out. the weather may be great now but this is siberia and this is

ice hockey country the local heroes. and their captain is one of the greatest players who have a ripped off a helmet and started repeatedly punching another in the face. ice hockey game between two of russia's biggest k h l teams had to be abandoned after a fight broke out between the players only three and a half minutes into the game between. six hundred and thirty seven minutes in penalties but it wouldn't be enough to cool the hot tempers so the game was called off before it even begun in two thousand and eight. he just completed an eighty year career in the n.h.l. and broken plenty of restaurants along the way. the legend is a movie used but i'm watching one trade now. stanley cup winning the world champion

olympic champion in the small measure of being the highest point school in n.h.l. history for. now he's a captain and if anyone has the pedigree to help him recapture the glory days of two thousand and four when they won the cage shell championship it's this month. now i'm going to throw into. the sports i know the best apparently in his prime the speed and goal scoring ability of cristiana rinaldo with the strength of the presence of former england rugby captain martin. he was back. to do so apparently on ten million dollars a year so his time literally is are all the precious so if i was going to find out about his loans they would have to do it fast. but he signed with two thousand and eleven and. so in terms of motivation for someone like you is achieved everything there is to achieve you know he will keep striving i mean there

must be a temptation to say ok well. you know i love the game. going to love the game i want to play. you know. the fun. like a family. you know. how do you feel progress since you've been here you know the through the. season and the fans will be hoping he'll still be a member of the family for a few seasons to come. home six position alongside the busy ways of the t. shirt and bridges have made it an important pools for generations and the arrival

of the trans-siberian railway back in the eighty ninety s. was the start of a major economic. trade isn't. a new buildings went up across the city and expanded so rapidly that by nine hundred ten visitors began describing as the chicago of siberia. a century old it's still a major transport hub. have been joined by an international airport and people here love to fly. these massive helicopters legends of russian aviation they've been ferrying people and goods across the world's space the more than thirty years but here and owns you don't just have to look at them you can learn to fly one this is the only known to. mussel civilian helicopter training school in russia and some of the country's most experienced pilots teach yury has been flying for over thirty years and is one of the chief instructors. successful candidates learn how to pilot

me helicopters full of the world's most famous brands it's a three year course and there's a lot to take in. through. the network one. that's just the beginning. so this old technology is still a great training tool but i think it's time that we took a look at the twenty first said. this is a state of the me one seven one flight simulator capable of recreating almost any potential weather condition or emergency situation. even real the sound of the world is about this. one of the pilots are going to rack up one hundred hours of flight time eighty in the real thing and twenty in here.

in fact it's so much like the real thing if you get a bit carried away. with a bit of rest. in the middle of your flight. this is really. the hour it seemed like we were going to have a smooth flight and then my instructor victor asked me to take the controls. five minutes. already on the. lazy. monday thousand other ninety nine point nine hours. eventually we go down in one piece although that was very little to do with me. so. the simulator reckon i should be ready for the real thing. speed helicopter training only and. it was almost time for me to leave but i still

wanted to see more of the region so i headed off for a bit of a trek now i do like a good stroll in the countryside but when you do it in siberia you can go for a very long time without seeing anybody at all and i've finally come to a road. i'm hoping that maybe someone is going to be able to let me write. i think. it's best to be in something that can handle the terrain. ok. so. let's go. ahead. and he and his friends were mission to draw it to the very center of the

region he was happy for me to him as a. working mom if you want you can. see. the wheels although it was still a bit of a bumpy ride. heading in the right direction.

for the a couple of. one. just go around them. some of the guys. because you feel that this could end badly ok it's only the beginning of a guy like me he'd say oh jackass with a lot going to the rescue attempt. i mean that's a risk a rope. it was very useful so this is what happened when wrong. but hopefully we should be able to save up or trapped comrades. and if you're not going to wade through all that. we had

a slight technical states with the rescue to. yuri had a special american made two belts which he reckoned would be a little bit more successful. on the third attempt. to see that this rescue rope is very special. at the risk of him i mean stretches and never tears apart you can drive a car with no problem with us going to save the day. and as the sun began to set we'll close to the nation. according to the g.p.s. we will run this nation very soon. we. are a lot. of villages with thinking it's all convoy pulled up next to the houses but we were almost there and it was time to get the facts out. very important moment if

you're right. my whole visit been a hell of a journey i've met some incredibly gifted and friendly people and had some real fun and. still get somewhere here it's not a fairy nondescript but we're right in the front of the on the screen and we're claiming it in the name of a four by four club. never ceases to amaze me and if you come to you guarantee to have an extension.

as many would be in celebrating the country's declared liberation questions remain over whether the price they paid in the form of lost lives and ruin of the structure and was too high. public bickering but no breakthrough in the search for a solution to the used debt crisis at a summit in brussels hits the buffers while the french and british leaders argue

over the euro's future. plus we visit what was once the world's largest nuclear test site has a stand which still bears the scars of its atomic legacy the spy the program's closure twenty years ago. telling them of the russian capital you're watching our joshua welcome to the program it was a blood stained image which marked the end of the call of the old regime but which some fear also hints at a bloody future the graphic footage of colonel gadhafi is demise and questions over his death continue to cause controversy that as levy is entering rulers rushed to call for a celebration of what they call the country's final liberation.