some from feinstein. stance on t.v. dot com. good have you with us this hour this is r.t. life in moscow top stories now moscow blames syria's increasing international isolation on the west and plans to bring about regime change the arab league has turned its back on president assad with the u.s. and its allies calling for tougher action to bring him down. and turning up the heat to the u.s. and china exchanged tough language over trading currency issues as the apec summit comes to a close in hawaii talks of a pacific free trade area dominated the gathering with russia said to be the next coached. a crew of three heads into orbit on a russian soyuz rocket which is not the only way to reach the international space

station the first manned mission almost three months since a similar rocket crashed shortly after liftoff. when i discovered with james brown as he delves into the local life and traditions of the summer a region. if you're traveling in the russian winter it's always good to head to somewhere well developed under some our region definitely fits the bill the capital is the seventh largest city in the country and can lay claim to being one of the most important business and cultural centers in european russia it's also one of the most picturesque boasting the largest central square in europe and along beautiful embankment alongside the volga river it's a ninety minute flight from moscow or if you prefer the scenic route you can take a leisure li fifteen hour train ride.

but that was a long journey and there's nothing like coming into minus twenty so wake you up but i mean some are one of the biggest cities in the whole russia. and i was also in one of its largest and most time usual buildings the glass front a train station was completed in two thousand and eight and it's one of the highest places in town so this isn't a bad viewpoint to take my first look at the city of rome supposed to be around one of the million people down there and hopefully plenty of interesting places to explore as well. and my first stop was a real hidden gem. it's not exactly a very picturesque place here but underneath all this rather tassie concretes are about to uncover one of some more as they did some quests. during the second world war many soviet governmental institutions as well as most of the foreign embassies

moved to some mara this huge chunk was created in one thousand nine hundred two has a back up to stalin and his cabinet. is a really amazing feat of engineering this this entire bunker goes down almost forty metres and they built a space on it. seems even more incredible to me is that the people of some are apparently in the know that this place was. was only in one scene in one city when the soviet union was dissolved. and they finally found this huge structure had been under their feet for almost fifty years. the rumors are that it was built by conflicts who were then executed but nothing was ever confirmed. so just kind of the first level here hopefully we're going to get some. sort of hello it's nice to me. and one man who knows all about the place is my guide anatoly even after all this

time the power systems are still working. here you find life support systems and the equipment was installed when the bunker was still under construction it has not been replaced since then but it's still operational it works automatically it's russian made equipment the bunker was built to house up to six hundred people and they had some pretty effective defenses. right this is over. a reinforced steel it this is what the germans would go through. if they were over here making their. rusty off. the bunker now doubles as a museum with various classrooms holding its old equipment geiger counters gas masks and first aid kits are all on display at the most interesting area is right

down in the depths. it's an eerie experience entering this huge conference room and imagining the plans that might have been made here. the central table is laid out for the generals and politicians and stenographers are off to the right and stalin himself would have sat under the huge map of the head of the room for the majority of the soviet union's existence some are was renamed if on the map clearly indicates that strategic position safely away from the german front lines it was never confirmed that uncle joe ever set foot here but the designers had obviously been told to particular sleep prepare just in case nothing like a little megalomania to start the day but i was very happy to make my way back to the surface and take in some fresh air there's one real benefits of venturing out on days as cold as these it's going to be this sort of view the mighty volga river in all its frozen glory where the river here is covered in ice for at least three

months of the year and it was always a real pain to get across until some local businessmen opened up a rather unusual ferry service. but larry has been running the operation here since two thousand and seven literally thousands of people come to cross the river every month and they all jump into these air conditioned hovercrafts and it's made the journey a lot less precarious. before we started using a hovercraft people would try to cross the river by trying or car sometimes the thin ice caused disastrous accidents so it is the only thing if method. but now it only takes ten minutes and costs around one euro to make the journey safely and the bus itself is surprisingly easy to control. adds. to the list.

make. inside like. they want to see me with any passengers so i was very happy to be going so. we can be an excuse to get. up when you don't have customers some acosta easy easy to get carried away. the problem with so much fun if i was driving this all the time i just be tempted to. drive people to the other side of. this great. bus by now there were several chilly passengers waiting for a ride so it was time for me to make my exit. but now that. is what i call a very graphic. on foot so i

was ready to check out some of somalia's other attractions i'm one of them is quite literally out of this world. if you're talking about the soviets all the russian space program and you're talking about samoa and the soyuz rocket of seventy percent of the world space flight school use these rockets and then made right here in the city. one of the proudest parts of some are us history and include the launch vehicle struck the carried the first man into space and now some of the city's cosmic achievements are on display to the public. this is full of a lot of some more as space. i'm next to an old landing module and i met up with museum director for a guided tour of the premises persons that summer is the right place for such

a museum. workers are a city has been the local point of this country's space engineering for decades here you can see there a man satellite that has been in outer space. program about it is a replica of quartz the world renowned cosmonaut yuri gagarin used during his space missions. there are around six hundred different exhibits that date back to the beginning of space exploration including some of the most advanced technology of the cold war. makes me feel very small when you realize that you are not for something without sleep in out there among the stars and these spy satellites are part of the soviet and russian space programs the best part of forty years and these lenses so powerful that. if i open this up i do that even if only a hundred kilometers above the head to be able to reach. the museum is definitely

one of the city's cultural highlights but if you're also a winter sports fun you won't be disappointed either ok so if your smee fun things to do in the russian winter i can tell you maybe sledging a bit of skiing i probably wouldn't say go. bust here in samoa they don't let a small thing like the conditions get in the way of the rounds. and designers of this ski resorts have built their own i see not a whole course. with me so the player. versus your best leads you allude to thinking that yes. poem of this constant change i am glad that let me. ok well this is a first for me ok in the snow that's it for me to so. what's the idea about stay what's going on while it's a golf ball and then hell you play golf almost the same rules as some of you have

of course some local rules that. all of us rules are in accordance with conditions of weather conditions and it's now ok so now you're trying to play it nine holes. oh it always been in the good walk spoiled camp when it came to gold but blood it was obviously a dab hand and she said she could give me a few pointers. what do we need to do so the first thing you have to set up a ball on the c. ok yeah those but to make a position. so. to make us and them so making. oh. you are the head. not exactly in all species starts the mother was the goal for the non-contact sport. oh.

walking wounded want to get out of the way of the person playing bass to some soothing tea i was ready to tee off. and as the ladies went on with one of them i decided i'd play a solo round and as long as i wasn't attempting to blow its longest drive the ball seemed to head in the right direction. is a sure but i still miss. going to. see the ball you feel that way here. is a game that's always cold. for a perfectly judge. mind you my technique wasn't my first concern. with the temperature down around minus twenty celsius so minus four fahrenheit i reckon i may have made one of the quickest ice cold frowns in history

. right. now comes the ice still championship. can he make. and the. championship goes to james brown who is now going to enjoy some very well this is because. in the clubhouse it may have been freezing but some are it was turning out to be a lot of fun and i was ready to take a look at another famous russian business but coles this region home. culture is the same ocean going to huge musician and find the market is it deja vu all over again united nations nuclear watchdog the i.a.e.a.

claims they knew me for it iran is moving ever closer. wealthy british style. market. why not what's really happening to the global economy max cons are. the global financial headlines because the report. if you wander around the streets of samarra there's one car that you'll see more than any other and that's no surprise because it's dominated the region's manufacturing industry the decades. if you think of the old russian car but you can't help but think of the older they've been going up and down the country's

roads for almost half a century and the story of royce. this is the. seventy thousand employees work within it six hundred hexis to make it used to inhofe thousand new calls every day. ok so when i think of a lot of this let's say classic design is pretty much what props up in my head but it's mara making something a little more modern. and i was ready to see how it was done. in the right place through. a few nicely if there was a piano i would be a populace ok so this is where everything begins. so this rebel's told me all

the hard beginning we anymore well then get me some not a little more than i. i think the story of the boss began in the late sixty's and that's when we produced more than we need to anyone so hard to put into them a list of silly we produce fourteen finalists of ours. from whole cloth in a month. on the basis of b r two more than possible that one of the few. cleaner is one of the longest biggest sellers and machines work day and night keeping production line going to low because you really need by all of us given the german company to come up with it is the world in a place in the mind of the cardboard it's only only two persons on needed here and there is the corporation is. automation. and once the frameworks assembled it's on to the next past deliberation. however when the next day job ended two

worth a gamble with the body ok and the border with boris is the one for the sweetest quality that the kid. found in a neighboring hangar things were moving on quickly. from the wind screams to the engines and the wheels all parts are attached separately and it's remarkably fast operation. and what do you get for your seven thousand euro price tag something like this. the sixteen hundred pieces of metal but only four hours on the production line my brand new blog. is ready for the roads. to clean a maybe a very popular color around here in the winter time it can get you everywhere sometimes you just have to try out some more traditional means of transport and i recently strapped on a pair of skis around about the first time in twenty five years no that was quite

quiet these e reintroduction but here in samarra i decided i'm going to ramp. things up a little bit. so i'm guessing it but even some are like to do things a little bit extreme yes you are got the extreme right now what exactly are we going to be doing today we're going to ski your. this is and speed this almost while the rope and this ok this food will be good for me in sixty kilometers per hour. maybe one hundred and right that sounds terrifying. good ok let's go. in here and his friends a funds of yours which apparently is skiing behind animals all in this case a high powered snowmobile. remember if you look belly up in this doesn't it. yeah right get out to me of any fear or just. because i had my medical

insurance up to date. bus one way or another i was going to have to give it a go so i was properly kitted up and i was starting to wish i'd just gone and taken home a craft again. benito's. spirit is all of your life so please please. come i gotta go. i miss and leave there were a couple of false starts but eventually i managed to stay all right. ok i know you like sir if you are. still. i'm still might. want you managed to control your balance this is an amazing

experience and soon i was ready to join the going for a group effort. and we're ready to rock. all fifty feet that will do people. but if you are trying this for the first time it's best not to get overconfident. oh. well. well that's a fairly and reintroduction to. but i think.

everything started back. rest person unfortunately my recovery was to be short lived. or still aching from my session out there on the ice but apparently my new friend has another thing that he wants me to try something about. tunnel runs. it sounded rather ominous but once again it goes a promise i was going to enjoy myself. that i may see you get so what you would have landed. ok so simple no super super words screw it gives you instant flying power. and useful i've got it. and. well here's the basic

feel it's ok turns out that a tunnel rat is an acrobatic expert in vertical wind tunnels and i was about to get my first lesson. correspond with. your mother like. you that is like really. beautiful imagery. you know you are good and happy people like you. smiled down at this. time of year. tightly the secret here is something changes to your body surface area doing right and you should rise and fall safely and if you train enough eventually you can do stuff like this the wind speed is apparently more than two hundred kilometers an hour and it's powered by five hundred horsepower engine enough to even get someone like me off the ground.

good for a long haul for words. ok we're into the tunnel. but tara. maybe not for us. and then it was time to take to the air i was a little worried the market crashed to the floor to any point but remained had a good grip on me. there are a lot. of very. little. was a little bit more. through my own or get there. they've. made it through a ton of them run it was time to go search for. them despite bouncing off the walls

a few times i made it sound in one piece. spirits ok there are about thousand think needs to do their part and they but i think i'm going to call that one the bellyful i know it consumer insert works after all. it had been a lot of fun but some are a was beginning to tie me out so i thought i'd end my trip with a little self-indulgence a muslim it's a festival has definitely got to be one of my favorite times in russia because basically it's a week long extended version of pancake day but it also is supposed to signify the end of winter and i've heard over the years but some or a few additional naked inhabitants put on quite a show for. now just

a claims to have people with a. first residents of this area also they battled with bashkirian nomads back in the eighteenth century. and it seems they still like to expend some serious energy to get themselves in the mood for a feast. that this guy very worked up there must be what it is. they will find that i was also wrong was upset because they were hungry but a bit of a bookie seems to solve all the problems. really are not here. i have no idea what was going on number two. zero zero six zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero people. and then the guest of honor arrives this old lady represents mussing it's and she's here for

a special reason. and then things started to get weird i. think this is the news you have been telling us and it's a personal. how. it's going to have some sort of significance i. have to be people as i am a son of this. apparently man mustn't series his speech all the bad spirits out of you before the year starts a new. and then you can have a go full with both i just witnessed it is that i thank you for it but sorry i'll be about it. i found once everyone has been cleansed is yes mortal sin to celebrate our finally i managed to sneak off the subject so windsor is right whistler oh i am not kids but i only have.

so i was eight. i should have been the robot and so. i just honestly earned my pancakes but sadly it was time for me to be leaving so mara. i found a thriving cultural business and scientific center compete all that are always ready to show you a great time. well . science technology innovation all the ways the bell of minutes from around russia we've got the future covered.

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