the princess in bangkok radisson photos on called dream which will bring cold officials in tora grande going cold and pacific otoh going cold cold bangkok closer than even called. there it's time to look at our main headlines now here in r.t. new york police are reportedly using tear gas and pepper spray to clear out and corporate protesting new york's zuccotti park raid comes after the occupy activists about heightened action this coming thursday to mark three months since the movement began tents were dismantled earlier at the site open in california. russia arab league for deciding to expel syria and imposing sanctions would spark mass rallies in the troubled country as the pressure piles on the regime syrian

opposition leaders are coming to moscow to secure support for bringing peace of home. and elected bankers and economists take the reins in greece and italy to tackle the ever rising debt levels italian doesn't see his job as a temporary fix and wants to stay in charge until the twenty thirteen election greece is focusing on securing the next plane out. of next we discover more of what russia has to offer but artie's james brown delves into local life and traditions are some aren't. if you're traveling in the russian winter it's always good to head to somewhere well developed and the small 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 right. so 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 unusual buildings the glass fronted 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 from this post to be around one of the of million people down there and hopefully plenty of interesting places to explore as well. now my first stop was a real hidden gem. it's not exactly

a very picturesque place where but i did and they throw this rubber tassie concretes are about to uncover one of some more as they were secrets. during the second world war many soviet governmental institutions as well as most of the foreign embassies moved to samoa this huge chunk was created in one thousand nine hundred eighty two as a backup for stalin and his cabinet. this is a really amazing feat of engineering this this entire bunker goes down was forty meters and they built a space of no it. seems even more incredible to me is that the people have some or apparently didn't even know that this place was. was only in the city when the soviet union was dissolved. and they finally found this structure have been under their feet for almost fifty years. the rumors are that it was built by conflicts who were them executed but nothing was ever confirms

. i'm just kind of the first level here hopefully we'll 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 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 it's. the reinforced steel it. is what the germans would have got through. if they carry. all of the

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 but 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 the 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 sheriff on the map clearly indicates its 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 meticulously 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 got to be this sort of view of 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 the rather unusual ferry service. but larry has been running the operation here since two thousand and seven literally thousands of people comes across the river every month and they all jump into these air cushion hovercrafts and it's made the journey a lot less precarious. before we started using the hovercraft people would try to cross the river by trying or car but sometimes the thin ice cause disastrous accidents so it is the only thing of 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. cross to the lists. to. make. inside like across the ice they want to see me with any passengers but i was very happy to be going solo. we can avoid hitting any excuse that you get. when you don't have customers to look off he's easy to get carried away. the problem with so much fun if i was driving this all the time i'd speak to you like to. drive people to the other side of. this great.

bus going out there was several chilly passengers waiting for a ride so it was time for me to make my exit. now that. is what i call a ferry crossing. but on foot i was ready to check out some of the 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 when you're talking about samoa on the soyuz rocket or 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 mars 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 museum is full of a lot of smaller as space. i'm actually old landing module and i met up with museum director for a guided tour of the premises. summer is the right place for such a museum. because our city has been the local point of base country space engineering for decades here you can see there are manned satellite that has been in outer space. program it is a replica of war to the world renowned cosmology 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. thank you very small when you realize that you're next to something that's not sleep in there among the stars and these spy satellites were part of the

soviet and russian space programs for the best part of forty years and these lenses so powerful that. if you open this up. do that even only a hundred kilometers above the idea which of. these here 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 when i can tell you maybe you sledging did a skiing i probably wouldn't say. bus here in samarra they don't let a small thing like the conditions get in the way of the ground. and designers of this ski resorts have built their own i see no in the whole course. of it so the. best you allude to speak english yeah.

oh melissa constantine james well then let's meet you ok well this is a first for me ok in the snow actually for me to so. what's the idea about today what's going on well it's a golf tournament you know you play golf almost the same rules as the some of you have of course some local rules that. all of us rules are you know couldn't conditions or weather conditions ok so now you're trying to play it nine holes. but always been in the good walk spoiled camp when it came to golf but louder 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 is to set out your ball on the tee ok young then those bits on it so make a position. so prepare yourself to make

a suit and then to break. you out of the head. not exactly in all spaces start and the other was the goal for the non-contact sport. oh. walking wounded. i want to. get out of the way the person playing us off to some soothing tea i was ready to tee off. and as the ladies went on with i decided i'd play a solo round and as long as i wasn't attempting to blow its longest drive the bold decision to head in the right direction. was. easy but this. c.u. ball you feel that way here. is

a game it's always golf now for a perfectly judged. mind you my technique wasn't my first concern. with the temperature down around minus twenty celsius so minus four points i reckon i may have made one of the quickest ice cold frowns in history. right. comes in the only school championship. can they make. and the. james brown who is now going to enjoy. some very well deserved vodkas. in the clubhouse it may have been freezing but some are was turning out to be a lot of fun and i was ready to take a look at another famous russian business

a kohl's this region home. the largest country. to certain places.

where. if you wander around the streets of smart there's one come over you'll see more than any other and that's no surprise because it's dominated the region's manufacturing industry for decades. if you think of the russian car that 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 their story stuff writes. this is the alto boss factory more than seventy thousand employees work within it six hundred hexis and they could use to inhofe thousand new calls every day. ok so when i think of a lot of this that's a classic design is pretty much what props up in my head but it's there it's more

a making something a little more modern. and i was ready to see how it was done. with the right place to. live a few nicely it. doesn't mean that i don't believe that the populace ok so this is where everything begins. so this is where the story you know the part begins we are able well the reason the flood because the one part of the history of us again in the late sixty's and beds we produced more than twenty six millions of cards to print them a list that's really we produced thirteen families. of course. from all the months . on the face of the are two more than possible but we were.

peculiar is one of laws biggest sellers and machines work day and night keeping the production line going. on the line relieved by all of us to give an instrument company a. good looking and well than a very soon the night of the car boarding up to only only two persons are needed here and there is a reason is. totally automated. and once the frameworks assembled it's on to the next pass the operation. now we're going to the next year and it worked up with what i think and the border with force is going to sue me just quality again. and in the neighboring hangar things were moving on quickly. from the wind screams to the engines and the wheels all parts returned 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 law the killing are you ready for the roads. to clean or maybe a very popular color around here in the winter time it can get you everywhere sometimes you just have to try out a more traditional means of transport and i recently strapped on a pair of skis around about the first time in twenty five years that was quite quiet easy reintroduction but here in sonora 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 your extreme right now. what exactly we're going to be doing today we're going to ski your a. river this instant and speed this almost while the rope

and this ok the speed will be. sixty kilometers per hour. maybe one hundred right that sounds terrifying. good ok let's go. in here and his friends of funds are skewering which he is skiing behind animal school in this case a high powered snowmobile. remote from the belly up in this business. yeah right get out of uni of eighty feet in august. because i had my medical insurance up to date. plans one way or another i was going to have to give it a go so i was probably kids you know but i was starting to wish i'd just gone and taken hold across to them. ok you know as that's really. really. hurt is all of your life so please please.

ok i got a good people but. mrs lee there were a couple of false starts but eventually i managed to stay upright. ok i know you like she wasn't out. but. god still might. want you manage 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.

this little elf in the teeth that will. be flying. but if you're trying this for the first time it's special to get over confident. well that's a fairly intense reintroduction. but i think. everything's still intact. the rest but unfortunately my recovery was to be short lived. or still taking from it out there on the ice but apparently my new friend has another thing that he wants me to try something about.

it sounded rather ominous but once again goes a promise i was going to enjoy myself. for although you may think you get so what we think the. course will. but that's ok. ok so simple super with roy it gives you instant flying power. useful to get the ball. and. a little history. ok. turns out the tunnel rat is an acrobatic expert in vertical wind tunnels and i was about to get my first lesson who will. purchase and it was like. all you get is like. these beautiful imagery. you know you're good and happy but you. smiled on it. but

you could die ok here. clearly the secret here is something changes to your body surface area do it 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. who come up often worry. right ok we got into the tunnel. but total terror. maybe not this year. and then it was going to take to the system i was a little worried the market crashed to the floor at any point but remind how good

good company. is such there are hearing a lot. of very. good or a good. one that's a little bit more. true i don't like it better than. the. amount tried made it through a ton of them run it was time to go solar. them despite bouncing off the walls a few times and made it down in one piece. by an amazing experience ok they're about they think they need to do their paranoia but i think we're going to call that one a bellyful i don't know if the superman suit works after all.

they have 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 leeds festival has definitely got to be one of my favorite times in russia because basically it's a weeklong extended version of pancake day but it also is supposed to signify the end of winter and i've heard of the two but some are a traditional make it inhabitants who don't quite so for. now do is to claims that her people with a for. first residents of this area after 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. i think they still have very worked up their muster what it is. they will find a. bottle several most upset because they were hungry but a bit of

a bookie seems to sol the problems. i already had office. i have no idea what is going on i know you. know people. and then the guest of honor arrives this old lady represents muscle units and she's here for a special reason. and then things started to get weird. i. think this is the usual. elements muscly it's personal. i'll. try to have some sort of significant. recipe for people is what i signed up for this guy.

apparently must seem serious here to piece all the bad spirits out of you before the years felt so new. and then you can have a go on with only i guess. the staples that i thank you for it but very obvious. i found once everyone has been cleansed this is yet more daunting to celebrate but finally i managed to sneak off the subject so windsor is right with my americans by only. so i see. i see how with the rope and so. i i definitely earned my pancakes but sadly it was time for me to be leaving some aura. i found a thriving cultural business and scientific center and people that are always ready

to show you a great time.