but most central moscow studios this sees r.t. international these are all top stories of peaceful protests and a rough response us police move in to arrest occupy activists a big thing they can put in your park ahead of the un to call her movements two month anniversary but of course now over rule the decision saying the protesters have a right to return with tents in. moscow steps up its efforts to mediate a diplomatic deal in syria hosting members of the country's opposition and urging them to hold talks with the government becomes a day of violence reportedly claimed nearly one hundred lives in syria including scores of the regime's troops. british firms

a lot of food spoiled libya's rich oil and gas reserves who have lucrative contracts on also from the national transitional government foreign investors have been queuing the brink of awards of war since the ousting of former dictator in one market duffy. thanks to discover more of what russia's got to offer with artie's james brown who delves into the local life and traditions of the somalia region find out why hosted many foreign embassies during the second world war all revealed next. 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 lee fifteen hour train ride. well 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 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 view point to take my first look at the city from this post to be around one of 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 but i did and they throw this rubber tassie concretes oh

that's one cut the one of some more as they have secrets. during the second world war many soviet governmental institutions as well as most of the foreign embassies were moved to some are a huge bunker was created in one thousand nine hundred two as a backup for stalin and his cabinet. is a really amazing feat of engineering this this entire bunker goes down almost forty meters and they built a space on. seems even more incredible to me is that the people that 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 huge structure have been under their feet for almost fifty years. the rumors are that it was built by conflicts who would have executed it but nothing was ever confirms. just kind of the first level here hopefully you'll be able to get

inside. sources bellowed most 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 the equipment was installed when the bunker was still under construction it has not been replaced since then but it's still operational if 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 go through. if they are making. rusty.

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 the sheriff 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 meticulously prepared 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 benefit to venturing out on

days as cold as these it's got to be this sort of view the mighty volga river and 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 the 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 truck or car but sometimes the thin ice caused disastrous accidents so it is the only safe 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. crofts to the lists. that. make. up the 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 to it is easy to get carried away. i think the problem with so much if i was driving this all is i might speak sense i do like to. drive people to the other side. is great. 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 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 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 they made right here in the city. one of the proudest parts of summer is history and include the launch vehicle stalk the carried the first man into space and now some of the city's cosmic achievements are on display to the public. this news is full of a lot of summer as space memorabilia. i'm actually old landing module and i

met up with museum director yelena for a guided tour of the premises. some are is the right place for such a museum. because our a city has been the local point of place country space engineering for decades here you can see there are manned satellite that has been in outer space. it is a replica of war to the world renowned cosmonaut in eureka guarin used during his space missions. there are around six hundred different exhibits the 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're next to something that's not sleep in out there among the stars and these spy satellites what parts of the soviet and russian space programs are 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 what you're. losing 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 rush when i can tell you maybe sledging a bit of skiing i probably wouldn't say. bus here in samoa they don't let a small thing like the conditions get in the way of the route. and designers of this ski resorts have built their own i see not a whole course. with me so the. best bits you alluded speak english yes. but i'm of the school instance james that lets me. ok well this is a first for me in the snow actually from it's 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 some of you have some local rules and. all of us rules are. conditions where the conditions are right now ok so now you're trying to play in nine holes. well it 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 up your ball on the tee ok yeah then those but i know so make up position. so prepare yourself to make a suit and then to make this move. you are the head.

not exactly in all species starts the mother was the goal for the non-contact sport . oh. walking wounded. get out of the way the person playing us off to some soothing tea i was ready to tee off. as the ladies went on when i decided i'd play a solo round and as long as i wasn't attempting the loans the longest drive i bolted seemed to head in the right direction. on this. c.u. ball. here. game it's always cold now for.

when you my technique wasn't my first concern. with temperature john around minus twenty celsius so minus four points i reckon i may have made one of the quickest ice cold frowns in history. right. now comes in for the i schools. can they make. and. who is now going to enjoy. some very well deserved because. 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 the calls this region home. run completely a ghost town. squandered money. abandon

. what is now. more than sixty square kilometers an environmental devastation and those who are still surprisingly alive i'm finding we're just. getting bad out here but not saying hardly any birds or else you know. you know i don't know what's going on here. concrete monarchy. twenty years ago this country. to certain places. where did it take. if you wander

around the streets of somalia 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 the decades. if you think of the old 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 started right over there. this is the alps obama's factory more than seventy thousand employees work within it six hundred hexis making juice to inhofe thousand new calls every day. ok so when i think of a lot of this that's a classic this is pretty much what props up in my head but it's periods mara they're making something a little more modern. and i was ready to see how it was done.

in the right place to. relieve a few nicely. i would be about the fabulous ok so this is where everything begins i get so this is madness the only home they keep me we are in the war then the missing the flop of a little more than part of the history of the must begin in the late sixty's and. and that's why we produced more than we need six millions of cards to print them a list silly we produced thirteen families of course they're from old clothes and the one. on the base of the art two more than possible that one of the few. the cleaner is one of the longest biggest sellers and machines work day and night keeping production line going. on the price high you really are about to give it to

the german company to come up good if you say well then the presumed the night of the car boarding that's only only two persons needed here and there is the brazenness. so he automated it. and once the frameworks assembled it's on to the next pass the operation. now we're going to one stage you know and the north of the border ok and then the border with forces there we just we just polities again. and in the neighboring higher things we're 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. so i offer to sixteen hundred pieces of metal but only four hours on the production line my brand new lot of. money for the roads.

to clean and maybe a very popular color around here in the winter time if can't 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 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 to extreme right now what exactly we're going to be doing today we're going to skijoring on the river this instant and the speed that's almost while the rope and this skewer ok this beauty will be good for me in sixty kilometers. we be one hundred right

that sounds terrifying. good like you let go. of his friends a funds of skewering which apparently is scheme behind animals all in this case a high powered snowmobile. romo makes in the belly up in this doesn't mean. yeah right get out of uni really fear or just. because i have my medical insurance up today. but one way or another i was going to have to give it a go so i was probably could say no but i was starting to wish i'd just gone and taken the home across to get. videos actually. he was already. there it is all a very good life so please please. god i got a good book by. a missing leader were

a couple of false starts but eventually i managed to stay off right. ok i know you like sir if you was around. but still be. proud of still more. what 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. a nice little all for the peace that will be deployed.

but if you are trying this for the first time it's best not to get overconfident. oh. well. well that's a fairly intense reintroduction to stay but i think. every thinks that it's that. curious he's me and i just have a little rest buzz unfortunately my recovery has to be short lived. or i'm still thinking from my session out there on the ice but apparently my new friend has another thing that he wants me to try something about sending me into a tunnel. it sounded rather ominous but once again goes a promise i was going to enjoy myself. for that i may say so you get

so. he would have plenty. of course will. be ok self discipline those super words screw it gives you instant flying power. useful i think you got it. and too. little history will tell it's ok. turns out the tunnel rats is an acrobatic expert in vertical wind tunnels and i was about to get my first lesson who will. fortunately. these beautiful imagery. if you are good and happy to look it. smiled on it. how you could tell i'm here.

partly to see could hear a subtle 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 a five hundred horsepower engine enough to even get someone like me off the ground . good fellow. right ok we're into the tunnel. but tara. was clear. and then it was time to take to the air i was a little worried the market crashed to the floors any point but remained had a good grip on me.

like a little bit more. through. it . and tried made it through a tandem run it was time to go solo. them despite bouncing off the walls a few times i made it down in one piece. and then they say spirits ok they're about thirty something needs to do their part of me but i think i'm going to call that one the bellyful i didn't know it was superman certain words 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 weeklong extended version of pancake day but it also is supposed to signify the end of winter and i have to bust some or if additional naked inhabitants i don't quite so for. now just a claims to have people with a. 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. that's still very worked up there for what it is. i. thought everyone was upset because they were hungry but a bit of a bookie seemed to solve the problems. i already had office.

i have no idea what was going on none of 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. element of the massively successful. i'll. try to have some sort of significance a. recipe the result i signed up for this. apparently mustn't series hits piece all the bad spirits out of you before the year starts anew. and then you can have a go play with both i guess. the staples that i

thank you for you but sorry i'll be about it. i found once everyone has been cleansed is yes mortal sin to celebrate but finally i managed to sneak off the subject so windsor is rank with i am not kids i'm finally home. so i was eight. i should have been the robot and so. i i just really 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. the

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