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let's. talk about you watching our team coming to you live from moscow these are the top stories of the longest standing occupy movements kansas cleared by police in los angeles with hundreds of protesters arrested in the process the move comes after the vision ordered put an end to a two month operation with similar rates taking place across the country. diplomatic meltdown britain orders already envoys to leave the country within forty eight hours down to the closure of iran's embassy in london in response to the ransacking of the u.k.'s mission ends iran several e.u.
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countries including germany and france have also recalled their ambassadors from iraq. telling taxpayers of five against plans which could cost the country billions of euros the middle of its economic crisis the. nation a chance to tackle its two trillion euro dad and adjust to the new prime minister. and i would take you to the edge of the arctic circle in a far north of russia to experience the white nights of summer and the days of winter darkness on a cold peninsula that's an hour special report next year on our. i am. the cause of an inch is a land of extreme weather long nights here in moscow the tundra stand side by side could think impossible forests and the first settlements appeared here more than
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ten thousand his ago disparate tribes and ethnic groups blended with a perfectly divine landscape which is in stark contrast to any other place in this country. that one can sentries possible today most of the conventional response the population there are no roads for hundreds of kilometers. most people get to the remember that is by helicopter i see a bike or. so on most of the kind of an inch of allies on low hills here you also find mountains and valleys covered with ink woodland and desert the tundra and this small region of stark natural diversity attracts tourists from across the world the form bike is
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the most popular means of transport here for the tourists. at the roads are few and far between around here an accord is the best bet when it comes to traveling over such turion but if the quad bike will take you to places that no other car can reach you will hear. an engine that makes up the. rise within the arctic circle to the north it's washed by the barents sea while in the south it's met white sea is known as the gateway to the arctic. major reserves for many years. from here we will set out from the main lands of the coral a peninsula to this readily and rebuts you commensal as they are the farthest tips in the northwest of our country norway lies beyond them.
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and humorous military bases was stationed in the barents sea during the cold war after the collapse of the island curtain these places became open for tourists today it's possible to see the maneuvers of the nuclear submarines. and that's where 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 include of oil bay that are protected by patrol boats. on the other side of the call open in the baazigar river empties into the bright city. the village of wasicka is situated on both sides of the asteroid fifteen kilometers from the sea tides raise the water in the river to
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a height of up to ten meters and increase its salt content. at. 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 metafont takes a ferry to meet his flock and hold services in a church on the opposite bank of. this is where the first russian settlements appeared on the color peninsula through the british the regional settlers were coast well as. they made their homes on these banks and mingled with local karelians 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
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manned by three or four fisherman 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 a year but will anyone going to see 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 the riches of this land used to be the breeding ground of numerous rivalries. in the seas fish is of course in great demand. only settlers built seaside hamburg's on the collar potential 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
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a fisherman's settlement typical of the ones that existed in the late nineteenth century on the white city coast. we have put it all awkward used to stand we have been trying to be as historically accurate as we can or 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 pond features a collection of objects found here and in other settlements. they made with the help of specially treated pine or birch roots. 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 the birch bark is used
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to make backpacks shoes baskets in kitchen where you can boil water in a kettle made of birch bark. only if 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 finals 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. the midget and i washed of the white sea coast is a remarkable area for learning something interesting truly it's a magic place is. here you can marvel at the infinite diversity of the natural environment.
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the bundle 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 one small. hand 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 around it with a high wind swept water side it's always cold here the timothy and his son leo need keep coming back. you know whether it is a divine place because of the winds 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 which i didn't since there is or is it behind these
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technical installations. we always have to unlock the gate before answering it but. now we'll open it up like this. there's the there is there is territories on the long 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 fall into decay what was once a border guard tower was renovated and handed over to the reserve now all mythologies to use the form of military installation for scientific purposes. it offers a fantastic view of the cause rebirth of the entire reserve and the marshes leave. the reserve visitors and tourists are welcome to see all that and take pictures.
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and 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 a peek samples for tests. ok 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. 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
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spend most of their time collecting biological material which is later studied in norwegian of our trees monitoring or in conservation from for very imperfect across from nature of course doesn't. have a concrete wall to understand nature and are not understand important issues for conservation it's of course very important to try to do start if across cross conscious limits because they are irrelevant in the biological so. 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 the joke is that bears afraid to cross the border whenever they like without having to undergo checks and even leave marks on the border posts.
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i had a brush with a ten year old boy. we use our system veliki it was. never explained to him by itself and. most people at the point of looking down in time to pull the trigger became conscientious objectors. remember we sent you to. see you both and i remember said we shot him it's. etc soldiers. and soldiers to the soul and you're trying to kill us we're trying to kill them that's just how we face a war. let you see if you see.
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another. i went to the war zone and i started seeing now i need to change. the way to do everything up at the right person that's why i'm applying for concerts. oh. least some sleep. he loses the least some tests.
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let's. moments it's the largest city within the arctic circle it's also the largest ice free port of the north moments it's 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. of the world's first nuclear powered icebreaker was called lemon and was launched from movements 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 ice breaker fleet it was possible to explore the russian arctic only around the time spent sailing was limited only by the amount of food a group during winter the crew would stay on the ship the several months the
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onboard clinic regularly performed surgeries the beginning 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 course and the beautiful bay of more about. the deputy. coroner in ancient times all the local nobility used to come here when the people first settled their modern ones fastens of years ago this odd 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 stone and once ideal thought at the time they would sit on this stone in front of the structure that was supposed to attract spirits and gods as eyewitnesses clearly swore an oath with this initiation ceremony completes the war and they were now
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fully entitled to rule with such leaders were not respected at all if they never came here. in moments there are a total of fifty four megaliths when viewed from above they form a regular parabola around the back eight ancient people of four to have had a purpose and arranging these structures this way it's believed the local tribes thought these stones had the power to protect them from the sea. we are in the northern sector of the stone parabola the stones that were supposed to protect more months 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 woman can no longer defend themselves. 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
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mysterious lines discovered in the wilderness a hundred kilometers to the north of mormons what graffiti in caves and shelters that may have been used by ancient people is another point on the tourist itinerary mapped out by tina fey we're goetia scientists call such drawings petroglyphs but what they mean is still a mystery you. can be sure but 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 recorded them right after world war two and were. to play has been raised on the call of the ninja he knows this area all too well at the beginning of the year two thousand to move a move to moscow today every year as a tour guide he brings visitors to his home. coast weller's have
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villages here. so when you visit them you're surprised by the fact that even in such a remote god for second place people still don't want to leave the bigger fair living where you. know it was the first russian settlement on the comet an inch of its first mention records dating from the early fifteenth century the church of the assumption dating back to the seventeenth century is the oldest structures of five am to this day it was built without a single nail over 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 the consulship this method affects the structure of the word anything that might damage it such as morris chair or the like is not allowed to seep into it from. the church fell into decay in soviet times and its head father mitra fun has made every effort to
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have it renovated services will eventually resume here until then worshipers use a nearby church that was built a hundred years later. they were 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 i've been a month for eleven years. twenty kilometers down the river mines a local anomaly it's the arctic desert. larry has 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 former seabed. but now from 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
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. for rays pines were ruined by this shifting sand. but some trees manage to escape the onslaught of the coral and they are in very good condition now they are going to mean for the three new or three or fourth of ordinary with their fear and. one of the most common theories claims the appearance of the cause a man desert and farming numerous herds of animals ate the grass away and churned up the ground with the hooves all that made the soil so thin that it allowed the sand to filter through with it this is one of the unique trees still standing here . the upper part of the roots shows the sea and 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. from. there
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because a call for spent years developing technology to monitor the advance of the cause a man 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 for streets of houses remaining on the riverbank although there were six hundred years ago. this is. the main task is coming up with a way to grow a forest shelter built good here was the we to prevent sand from choking up the river. and we have spent five years developing various technologies and introduced one of the best methods in the sector. it involves growing pines together with herbaceous vegetation and. in spite of the scientists achievements
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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 stock you'd want from your committee. 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 heritage. bush wild horses are another thing the people of heard about it but have never seen them as for the bear and see there's a lot of magic in it.
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the banshee peninsula is tim a failed to go zones favorite 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 out here the terrain around is so rugged that even a four by four can't get to some places on the up side this means that the peninsula has so far been spared the rush of people attracted by rich fishing areas and the splendors of the landscape. and a k.f. island a small cliff three kilometers off shore covered with grass and miles across commemorating foreign sales stands hit several years ago to my face and is some layered it found a slab on the side. when they cleaned off the moss they saw it was covered with inscriptions. on the messages were made by sailors waiting for
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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. call a peninsula has always attracted attention but sedating its fierce weather and the long winter nights have prevented people from discovering its true beauty the rest still many secrets to reveal.
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wealthy british style. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy which makes cars or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our cheek. as russians pick for parliament who are the main contenders in the race for juma seats party leader vladimir putin he swapped seats with dmitri medvedev in two thousand and eight and may do so again in twenty twelve after madrid proposed putin
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for the presidency current campaign slogan the future is dos priority needs modernization suckling inequality fighting corruption maximizing russia's impact in international affairs criticized as a monolith that's too slow to react to social change. for being home to the tons of logic and dimitri medvedev hunted russia election two thousand and eleven on the march.
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