live from moscow this is our t. top stories now at half past the hour in the russian capital pakistan has decided to boycott crucial talks on afghanistan's future next week in a bid to cut back on corporation with washington and ready strained ties sunk to a new low water a recent nato air strike on an army checkpoint killed twenty four pakistani soldiers. britain grinds to a halt as public sector workers walkout over pensions in the country's biggest strike for generations some two million people are taking part nationwide thousands of schools and offices are closed off for those are being forced to focus on in

large and. written orders the iranian embassy in london to close the diplomatic rift deepens after violent protesters stormed the british compound in toronto the u.k. reacted to the siege by pulling out its own embassy staff from. a record number of egyptians turn up to cast their vote in parliamentary elections that come here demonstrators police skeptical saying the poll is meaningless if a powerless parliament is ruled by the military one of the stories of the developments in less than half an hour with me here in r.t. in the meantime we take you to russia's far north west it's a place with a unique climate stunning stunning architecture and also fascinating culture that's our special report for you next on r.t. . and. i am. pissed because an engine is

a land of extreme weather long nights here moscow the tundra stunned silence i think impossible forests the first sentiments of it here more than ten thousand years ago the 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 conventional response people play to the roads for hundreds of kilometers. most people get to the remember the just by helicopter i see michael. so most of the kind of an inch about lies on low hills here you also find mountains and valleys covered with thick woodland and death of

a tundra and this small region of stark and natural diversity attracts tourists from across the world the film 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 what of the quad bike will take you to places that no other car can reach. the colored insulation. and lies within the arctic circle to the north it's washed by the barents sea what in the south it's met by the whites in the region is known as the gateway to the arctic. this is the starting point of most sightseeing routes around the call the peninsula timofey and ocean has been in the business of taking tourists to moments when nature reserves of the many years. from here we will set out from the main lines of the coral

a peninsula to this readily and rebut she peninsulas they are the farthest tips in the northwest of our country and norway lies beyond them. numerous military bases was stationed in the barents sea during the cold war after the collapse of the iron curtain these places became open for tourists today it's possible to see the maneuvers of the nuclear submarines. that i'm very sorry about swerd this country's best kept secret is are you clear 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 the other side of the call a peninsula the wasicka river empties into the white city. the village of wasicka

is situated on both sides of the asteroid fifteen kilometers from the same tide raise the water in the desert or the heights 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 orthodox priest father met for fun takes a ferry to meet his flock and hold services in a church on the opposite bank. one of them this is where the first russian settlements appeared on the cooler peninsula through the village the original settlers were coast well as. they made their homes on these banks and mingled with local karelians and indigenous laplanders really good here we have

a mixture of population of. fishing has always been the main source of income for local people salmon was caught in the river of the rest from the sea. small boats manned by three or four fisherman were able to stand up to the heavy seas but in truth back bad only heart of vision and survived beyond the age of forty. anyone going to sea in the north must know beforehand 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 as the riches of this land used to be the breeding ground of numerous rivalries. in the seas fish is of course in great demand. the settlers build seaside hamburg's on the 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 scared as some have reconstructed a fisherman settlement typical of the ones that existed in the late nineteenth century on the white sea coast. it here we have put it all upward 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 other settlements. they made with the help of specially treated pine or birch roots. of a sickly abode is made up words joined together with birch ropes going through

holes in the boards that's what the coast well there is needed birch for the 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 well as family had to struggle to survive in the rigors of the country's finest but although they spend half their lives at sea they never learned 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 environment.

the humble nature of the north hides a calculating 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. everybody who travels with us knows how much i love this heart. timothy's dream is to purchase a house and a small plot surrounded with a high wind swept water side it's always cold here but i'm a failed his son leo need keep coming back. you know what if it is a divine place because of the wind the cold weather and the ocean not to mention i knew island over there these lands are amazing.

meanwhile sixty kilometers south of the arctic tundra lies a totally different landscape but i didn't since there is or is it behind these tactical installations. we always have to unlock the gate before entering it. but now we open it like this. there's there is there is territories under lock and key and as you can see the gate is quite massive and 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 i become obsolete or for an interview kay what was once a border guard tower was renovated and handed over to the reserve now on apologists you must perform a military installation for scientific purposes and you're going with her feet on

first ever antarctica view of the bands river and the entire reserve and the marshes believe. the result of visitors and tourists are welcome to see all that and take pictures most of the reserve territory is covered with marsh it's their 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 peat 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 settlements are chronicle of nature. the unique feature of the reserve is that it covers the territory of three countries. a

natural environment is uniform on both sides of the river russia is on the eastern bank norway in finland and the west russian and finnish scientists spend most of their time collecting biological material which is later studied in norwegian poetry's monitoring or and conservation from for very important because in nature of course doesn't. have contravened to understand nature and. not understand important issues for conservation it's of course very important to to do started across cross conflict because they are irrelevant in a biological. practically speaking as 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 a joke is that there's a free to cross the border whenever they like without having to undergo checks and even leave marks on the border posts.

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keep the a. disco cool moments it's the largest city within the arctic circle it's also the largest ice free port in the us the nonskid situated around the bend in the barents sea the sea itself is sometimes covered with thin ice during severe winters of the bay always stays ice free. one. of the world's first nuclear powered icebreaker was called lenin and was launched from advanced in one nine hundred fifty seven today it's a floating museum by a peer of the city's perth with the help of the icebreaker fleet it was possible to explore the russian arctic only around the time spent sailing was limited only by the amount of food over. during winter the crew would stay on the ship the several

months the onboard clinic regularly performed surgeries the unique for that time. no expense was spared on the find him the interior of the first nuclear icebreaker . hours can be spent laundering around the boat looking inside the cabins of the crew who maintains the nuclear reactors the open bridge overlooks the course and the beautiful bay of more than others. so that is. early on in the ancient times all the little nobility used to come here young people first settled there moments fountains of years ago this old looking man made 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 once ideals there was a time when they would sit on this stone in front of the structure that was supposed to track spirits and gods as eyewitnesses here they swore an oath with

this initiation ceremony complete the war and 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 day ancient people of thought to have had a purpose and arranging the structures this way it's believed the local tribes thought these stones have the power to protect them from the sea. here we are in the northern sector of the stone parabola the stones that were supposed to protect more months than the people who it's those words didn't know what they were doing they raise their hand against one of the few sacred things that still remain in this land this means that the silent guardians on one month and no longer defend themselves with. thousands 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 a hundred kilometers to the north or more advanced walk or affinity and caves and shelters that may have been used by ancient people as another point on the tourist itinerary mapped out by tina fey were goshen scientists call such drawings triplets but what they mean is still a mystery you've. shared with petra bliss 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 recorded them right after world war two there were. two players born and raised on the call of the ninja he knows this area all too well at the beginning of the year two thousand timothy a move to moscow today every year as a tool of god he brings visitors to his home. to coast weller's have

villages here. so 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 who you. know was the first russian settlement on the common in china 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 structures of five into this day it was built without a single male over fasteners are made of wood only axes with used to fashion the logs even the ends of the logs were chopped off rather than sawn off accomplish this method affects the structure of the word would receive anything that might damage it such a small or the like is not allowed to seep into it them. the church fell into decay in soviet times and its head father mitra fun 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. the apocalypse in a way in the middle 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 i've been a monk for eleven years. twenty kilometers down the wasicka river mines a local anomaly it's the arctic desert. larry has a call for us devoted his life to come out in the invading deserts according to his theory the land was originally at the bottom of a seed thousands of years ago the seed receded and grass some trees grew in the form of some. but now for a thin layer of soil the sound is returning and scattered around by the ruling on

village homes on the river and destroying the pine forest and other vegetation. these pines were ruined by the shifting sand that are new but some trees managed to escape the onslaught they are in very good condition now they are going to mean for the three. or for mary with. one of the most common fairies blames the appearance of the cause a man deserts on farming numerous herds of animals ate the grass away and churned up the ground all the heat over made the soil so thin that it allowed the sand the fruits of fruit with and this is one of the unique trees still standing here. in the upper part of the roots shows the scene level that was here when the forest was still around it was this high. the wind has since shifted a sand layer of about one and a half meters high towards the river. bank

as a call for spent years developing technology to monitor the advance of the prison and desert. his work has now yielded positive results the sand advance towards the forest is now in check eighty hectares of sorts being recovered abated 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. the main task is coming up with a way to grow our forests shelter built. that we should 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 herbaceous vegetation and. in spite of 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 their computer 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 jacket heritage. wild horses are another thing that people of heard about it but have never seen them as for the bear and see there's a lot of magic in it.

the banshee peninsula is tim a favor goes in 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 odd here the terrain around is so rugged even a four by four can't get to some places on the up side this means up the conventual a house so far been spared the rush of people attracted by rich fishing areas on the splendors of a landscape in the cave and a chaotic a small cliff three kilometers off killing coming week last week across commemorating fulton say that stands here several years ago to my face and is some live it found a slab on the side. when they conduct the mosque 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 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 suppose it's fia's weather and the long winter nights prevented people from discovering its true community. there are still many secrets to reveal.

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