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well. science technology innovation all the moves developments around russia we've got this huge earth covered. on the back here with our marina josh these are the top stories and the low in relations following a nato air strike which killed more than twenty of its soldiers pakistan says it all now play no part in the international meeting on building a secure against and as lama bottas also said permanently foes of vital military supplies were territory. britain warns iran of serious consequences after angry protesters stormed the u.k. embassy complex this follows london's decision to impose more sanctions on the
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country over its nuclear program. ballots are cast over egypt parliamentary elections as protesters continue their demand for the military rulers to step down a record number of hopefuls have turned up to vote for change in the country for the first time since president mubarak was toppled. possible serbs persist with putting up roadblocks along executive board despite nato forces clamping down with tear gas and rubber bullets protesters have been mounting barricades for months to the fire and authorities imposing a trade ban with serbia. and now we take you to a cold bit in slow which lies almost completely to the north of the arctic circle experience the unique climatic conditions and be awestruck by the white nights of summer and the days of darkness of the winter that's in our special report coming up next in our.
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the call of the ninja is a land of extreme weather long nights here in moscow the tundra stand side by side with think impossible forests the first settlements appeared him more than ten thousand years ago and disparate tribes and ethnic groups blended with a perfectly divine landscape which is in stark contrast to any other place in this country. like in centuries past today most of the peninsula responsibly populated there are no roads for hundreds of kilometers. most people get to the remember that just by helicopter by sea all by cool. so. most of the color peninsula lies on low hills
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here you also find mountains and valleys covered with thick woodland and death of the tundra this small region of stark natural diversity attracts tourists from across the world the form bike is the most popular means of transport here for the tourists. roads are few and far between around here an accord is the best bet when it comes to traveling over such terrain but if it were quad bike will take you to places that no other car can reach or be with me. because the peninsula makes up the movement and lies within the arctic circle to the north it's washed by the barents sea while in the south it's met by the white see the region is known as the gateway to the arctic. this is the starting point of most sightseeing routes around the collar peninsula tim a favorite goes in has been in the business of taking tourists to more lands nature
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reserves for many years. it from here we will set out from the main lines of the cola peninsula to this read me and read about sheep in insular as they are the farthest temps in the northwest of our country you know our way lies beyond them. numerous military bases was stationed in the barents sea during the cold war after the collapse of the i incurred in these places became open for tourists today it's possible to see the maneuvers of the nuclear submarines. bats were this country's best kept secret is our nuclear undersea fleet is based there. but you can feast your eyes upon all kinds of submarines that regularly surface and could have a bay that are protected by patrol boats. on
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the other side of the color peninsula the baazigar river empties into the white city. the village of vance ago is situated on both sides of the asteroid fifteen kilometers from the same tides raise the water in the river to a height of up to ten meters and increase its salt content. the high tide makes it impossible to bridge the river so a motor boat serves as the local taxi service. once a week off the docks priest father mitra fun takes a ferry to meet his flock and hold services in a church on the opposite bank. this is where the first russian settlements appeared on the color peninsula through the british the original settlers were coast well as. they made their homes on these
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banks and mingled with local karelian and indigenous laplanders early here we have a mixture of populations. fishing has always been the main source of income for local people salmon was caught in the river and the rest from the same small boats manned by three or four fishermen were able to stand up to the heavy seas but in truth back then only half the fishermen survived beyond the age of forty two anyone going to sea in the north must know before hand that they might never be coming back they might simply vanish into eternity a strong gust of wind might bring heavy snow with it with the result that they wouldn't be able to see a thing. in other words they feel that facing the sea is like facing god the riches of this land used to be the breeding ground of numerous rivalries. in the seas fish is of course in great demand. early settlers built seaside hamlets on the
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collar peninsula before they started making their homes in villages they lived here throughout the year waiting for the summer fishing season to start alexander coming off ski and his son have reconstructed a fisherman's settlement typical of the ones that existed in the late nineteenth century on the white sea coast. we have put it all up where it used to stand we have been trying to be as historically accurate as we can as for what is left of the old nets we don't even touch them. today alexander takes visitors on a tour of his open and museum guests can stay at his place for several days alexander treats them to fish caught only a short while ago and tells them about the life of the coast well it's one hundred years ago an exact replica of a bone features a collection of objects found here and in of a settlement. they made with the help of specially treated pine or birch roots.
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but basically a boat is made of words joined together with birch ropes going through holes in the boards that's what the coast well there is needed birch for. birch bark is used to make backpacks shoes baskets in kitchen where you can boil water in a kettle made of birch bark. the easiest way is to put hot stones from a bonfire in it. a coast to well as family had to struggle to survive in the rigors of the country's finals but although they spend half their lives at sea they never learn to swim anyone who ended up in the water even in summer died of exposure within just ten minutes. let me share and i also have the white sea coast is a remarkable area for learning something interesting truly it's a magic place. here you can marvel at the infinite diversity of the natural
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environment. the humble nature of the north hides a captivating beauty which never fails to attract tourists. each year many people return to go over the same routes once more. and in spite of the rigorous living conditions there are some who are even willing to move here. because everybody who travels with us knows how much i love this hard. to move things dream is to purchase a house and a small plot around it with a high wind swept water side it's always cold here but timothy and his son leo need keep coming back. you know but it is a divine place because of the wind the cold weather and the ocean not to mention i
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new island over there these lands are amazing. meanwhile sixty kilometers south of the arctic tundra lies a totally different landscape but quickly the body since there is or is it behind these technical installations. we always have to unlock the gate before answering it but. now we'll open it like this. there is a boy there is there is territories under lock and key and as you can see the gate is quite massive now we can go in this way please when the reserve was being created in one thousand nine hundred two most of the military installations built soon after world war two had become obsolete or fallen into decay what was once a border guard tower was renovated and handed over to the reserve now on
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a fall or just use the former military installation for scientific purposes if you agree with her she told her is a fantastic view of the plans re were the entire reserve and the marshes we gave them. the reserves visitors and tourists are welcome to see all that and take pictures most of the reserve territory is covered with marshes there are ideal for bird rookeries in spring and autumn when thousands of migrating birds stop over to rest as it turns out studying the composition of the bugs helps retrace the biological history of the region russian scientists take pete samples for tests. deposits are the best sources of information studying their layers makes it possible to estimate the rate of peat accumulation but this is also important if we are to understand the dynamic development of the natural environment because these
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settlements are chronicle of nature. the unique feature of the reserve is that it covers the territory of three countries. the natural environment is uniform on both sides of the river russia is on the eastern bank norway and finland of the west russian and finnish scientists spend most of their time collecting biological material which is later studied in norwegian laboratories monitoring and conservation fender's very important to cross and nature of course just. have contravened ok understand nature and are going to stand important issues for conservation it's of course very important to to do started across the cross complements because they are irrelevant in a biological so. practically speaking the scientists work in the same nature reserve but on different sides of a narrow river they need to go through border control just to see one another the
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joke is that bears are free to cross the border whenever they like without having to undergo checks and even leave marks on the border posts. i had to go should a ten year old boy. we train him out of jail we as officers developed the orders for them to kill. we never explained to them why it's ok. most people at the point of looking down in time to pull the trigger became conscientious objectors. and i don't remember squeezing the trigger and i am i don't remember seeing him go down all i remember is that we shot him. on the other side are soldiers too and soldiers do it's all we do and they're trying to kill us we're trying to kill them and that's just the ugly face
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a war. there . is nothing honorable and. i went to the war zone and i started seeing how i need to check. in on a way to do their they're not of a rival and kill another person that's why i'm applying for concerts and all of. the. assets that the phone watches show every single day. and waiting for you to stumble. i saw a man with a video camera so i moved over and he phoned me some us up with something to him
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exit. to pick the best song at. the arab. us moments gives the largest city within the optic circle it's also the largest ice free port in the north. situated around the bay in the barents sea the sea itself is sometimes covered with thin ice during severe winters but the bay always stays ice free. the world's first nuclear powered icebreaker was called learning and was launched from movements going one hundred fifty seven today it's a floating museum by a pier at the city's perth with the help of the icebreaker fleet it was possible to explore the russian arctic early around the time spent sailing was limited only by
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the amount of food aboard. during winter the crew would stay on the ship for several months the onboard clinic regularly perform surgeries the unique for that time. no expense was spared on the fine timber interior of the first nuclear icebreaker. hours can be spent wandering around the boat looking inside the cabins of the crew who maintains the nuclear reactors the open bridge overlooks the pores and the beautiful bay of motor mount. the deputy. in ancient times all the local nobility used to come here young people first settled them or amongst fountains of years ago this odd looking manmade structure that weighs many tons is at least ten thousand years old it's known as a megalith faced with stones along the perimeter it's reminiscent of britain's stonehenge one said you thought that the time they would sit on this stone in front
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of the structure that was supposed to attract spirits and gods as eyewitnesses here they swore an oath with this initiation ceremony complete the war they were now fully entitled to rule with such leaders were not respected at all if they never came here. in one month there are a total of fifty four megaliths when viewed from above they form a regular parabola around the bay ancient people are thought to have had a purpose and arranging these structures this way it's believed that local tribes thought these stones had the power to protect them from the sea. we are in the northern sector of the stone the stones that were supposed to protect. the people who those words didn't know what they were doing they raised their hand against one of the few sacred things that still remain in this land this means that the silent guardians. can no longer defend themselves. thousands
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of years from now archaeologists might well regard the inscriptions as priceless treasures for now though they've yet to decipher the meaning of these mysterious lines discovered in the wilderness one hundred kilometers to the north more months . graffitti in caves and shelters that may have been used by ancient people is another point on the tourist itinerary mapped out by tim a favor goshen scientist calls such drawings petroglyphs but what they mean is still a mystery you. if you could show us the petroglyphs found here so far are about five thousand years old on average these ones were discovered by a navy man in one nine hundred forty three he then told scientists about them the scientists then officially record of them right after world war two. to the failures born and raised on the call of nature he knows this area all too well at the beginning of the year two thousand tim of
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a move to moscow today every year as a tour guide he brings visitors to his hometown. well as have villages here. that when you visit them you're surprised by the fact that even in such a remote gold for second place these people still don't want to leave you know a professor living there. it was the first russian settlement on the common peninsula it's first mentioned in records dating from the early fifteenth century the church of the assumption dating back to the seventeenth century is the oldest structure surviving to this day it was built without a single male although fasteners are made of wood only axes would used to fashion the logs even the ends of the logs were chopped off rather than sawn off of course will show you this method affects the structure of the wood would be anything that might damage it such as or the like is not allowed to seep into it on.
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the church fell into decay in soviet times and its head father metro fan has made every effort to have it renovated services will eventually resume here until then worshipers use a nearby church that was built a hundred years later. but also in a way in the mode all of my immediate family has served in the navy my great grandfather and my brother my father was a submarine and i served in the navy for twenty six years as a commanding officer but i've been a monk for eleven years. twenty kilometers down the wasicka river lies a local anomaly it's the arctic desert. larry cuz a culver's devoted his life to combat in the invading desert according to his theory the land was originally at the bottom of a seed thousands of years ago the sea receded and grass and trees grew on the form a sea bed. but now through
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a thin layer of soil the sand is returning it scattered around by the wind falling on village homes and the river and destroying the pine forest and other vegetation . would raise pines were ruined by the shifting sand on your part but some trees managed to escape the onslaught they are in very good condition now there. are new orchards for a fourth of february in the third year of. one of the most common theories blames the appearance of the cause and desert on farming numerous herds of animals ate the grass away and churned up the ground with their hooves all that made the soil so thin that it allowed the sand to filter through. this is one of the unique trees still standing here. the upper part of the roots shows the sand level that was here when the forest was still around it was this high so. the wind has since shifted
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a sand layer of about one and a half meters high towards the river store and with. that he has a call for spend years developing technology to monitor the advance of the cause and desert his work has now yielded positive results the sand advance towards the forest is now in check eighty hectares of soil have been recalled of ated the most pressing task now is saving the river and the village only four streets of houses remain on the riverbank although there were six hundred years ago. this is back to the main task is coming up with a way to grow a forest shelter belt. is the way to prevent sand from choking up the river. but we have spent five years developing various technologies and introduced one of the best methods in the sector was a huge involves growing pines together with her bases vegetation and. in spite of
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the scientists achievements villages continue to abandon their homes because they are gradually becoming covered with sand for tourists it's ruining the landscape for the locals it's a disaster. another strange phenomenon here is the wild horses which are not frightened of humans trailblazers originally brought common russian horses along with stocky one from. over the years the two bred together resulting in these grey handsome animals with a distinctive stripe running down their spines. this new breed boasts the impressive build of their russian ancestors and the ability to find food on the snow thanks to their you could heritage. wild horses are another thing that people of heard about it but have never seen them as for the barents sea there's a lot of magic in it.
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the riband cheap and in is tim a photo goes ins favor a tourist destination this time he's accompanied by his fourteen year old son. clearing obstacles is all part of the tour a touch of activity in an otherwise meditative journey. it's rare that you find a car i'd hear the terrain around is so rugged even a four by four can't get to some places on the upside this means up the peninsula has so far been spared the rush of people attracted by rich fishing areas and the splendors of the landscape. and a small cliff three kilometers off shore covered with grass and malls across commemorating ford and say that stands here several years ago to my face and is
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some may and it found a slab on the side that when they cleaned off the moss they saw or it was covered with inscriptions. on the messages were made by sailors waiting for storms and. they were to write about how long they waited how many times they returned here and when some of the inscriptions give details of why they came here . inscriptions written in dozens of languages were left by russians danes swedes and many others hundreds of years separate one inscription from another. the call of peninsula has always attracted attention but to date its fierce weather and long winter nights the prevented people from discovering its true beauty the rest still many secrets to reveal.
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