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this is r.t. live here in moscow with you twenty four hours a day top stories police sweep through the occupy los angeles camp arresting almost three hundred after they and eviction order but the movement that started more than two months ago is only gaining momentum picking up support from the other side of the barricades. moscow says it can grow because of an serbs russian passports but will provide any aid necessary this comes after thousands of a plea for citizenship to escape discrimination and hostility from ethnic albanians . in iran faces further isolation as e.u.
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foreign ministers agree on more sanctions it follows a mob attack on the british embassy in tehran that prompted london to order all iranian envoys to leave within forty eight hours. brings up to date for the moment i'll be back with more news for in this and half an hour from now in the meantime we take you to russia's far north west it's a place with a unique climate stunning architecture and fascinating culch. the call of the ninja is a land of extreme weather long nights here in moscow the tundra stand side by side think impossible forests of the first settlements of the and him within 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
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country. like in centuries possible today most of the financial responses often later today there are no roads for hundreds of kilometers. most people get to the remote villages by helicopter i see old michael. most of because of an inch of lies on low hills here you also find mountains and valleys covered with ink woodland and death of a tundra and this small region of stark natural diversity attracts tourists from across the world a 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
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to traveling over such terrain but if the quad bike will take you to places that no other car can reach. we call it an initial or make some 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 c. the region is known as the gateway to the arctic. this is the starting point of most sightseeing routes around the call of an inch a similar fate who goes in has been in the business of taking tourists to mormons major reserves for many years. from here we will set out from the mainland of the coral a peninsula to misread me and get back she can interest they are the farthest tips in the northwest of our country norway lies beyond them. and numerous 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
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today it's possible to see the maneuvers of the nuclear submarines. bat'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 a of bay that are protected by patrol boats. on the other side of the color peninsula the boss of the river and toots into the bright city. the village advice ago is situated on both sides of the asteroid fifteen kilometers from the same tide raise the water in the river to the height of up to ten meters and increase its salt content.
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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 bottom of profound 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 cole a peninsula. 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 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 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 to equal
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anyone going to sea in the north must know before hand or they might never be coming back they might simply vanish into eternity is 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. and the seas fish is of course in great demand. early settlers built seaside hamlets 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 ski and his son have reconstructed a fisherman settlement typical of the ones that existed in the late nineteenth century on the white sea coast. we have put it all up we're used to
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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 barn 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 to make backpacks shoes baskets in kitchen where you can boil water in a kettle made of birch bark. oh yes the easiest way is the put hot stones from
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a bonfire in it. a coast well as family had to struggle to survive in the rigors of the country's farming. 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 mission and i wash of the white sea coast is a remarkable area for learning something interesting truly it's a magic place the air you can marvel at the infinite diversity of the natural 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 groups once a month. and in spite of the rigorous living conditions there are some who are even
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willing to move here. everybody who travels with us knows how much i love this house. to mcveigh's dream is to purchase a house and a small plot surrounded 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 new island over there these lands are amazing. meanwhile sixty kilometers south of the arctic tundra lies a totally different landscape by the me since there is or is behind these tactical installations. we always have to unlock the gate before answering it
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but. now we'll open it like this. 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 fall into decay what was once a border guard tower was renovated and handed over to the reserve now on apologists use the form of military installation for scientific purposes and your first evans asked to give you all the cons rebore the entire reserve and the martians he. reserved 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
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in spring and autumn when thousands of migrating birds stop over to rest as it turns out studying the composition of the bogs 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 this is also important if we are to understand the dynamic development of the natural environment because these settlements are chronicle of nature. and 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 in finland of the west russian and finnish scientists spend most of their time collecting biological material which is later studied in norwegian poetry's monitoring or in conservation
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felt very important to cross in nature of course just. have. to understand major and i. can understand important issues for conservation it's of course very important to to do started across across conflicts 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 the joke is that baz afraid to cross the border whenever they like without having to undergo checks and even leave marks on the border posts. wealthy british style. sometimes let.
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phil lesh it would be silly to brighton if you move the sun from dallas to the pressure of the sun. he starts on t.v. dot com. i had to go through ten year old boy. to train him out of jail we as oscar's developed the orders for them to feel. 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. i don't remember squeezing the trigger man i don't remember seeing him go down all i remember is that we shot at him. if so. it's. the other side are soldiers to unsolder to assault and
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they're trying to kill us we're trying to kill them and that's just the ugly face a war. nothing on politically. i went to the war zone and i started seeing how i need to change. in the only way to do they're not going to arrive and filling out a person that's why i'm applying for concerts and their love. oh oh oh oh. oh oh oh. moments is the largest city within the arctic circle it's also the largest ice free port in the north. is situated around of a in the barents sea the sea itself is
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sometimes covered with thin ice during severe winters of the bay always stays ice free. of the world's first nuclear powered icebreaker was called lemon and was launched from advanced in one nine hundred fifty seven today it's a floating museum by a peer of the city's proved with the help of the ice breaker fleas it was possible to explore the russian arctic only around the time spent sailing was limited only by the amount of food approved 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 fine timber interior of the first nuclear icebreaker. hours can be spent wondering around the boat looking inside the cabins of the crew who maintained the nuclear reactors the open bridge overlooks the course and the beautiful bay of motor mounts. so they're pretty. early on in
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ancient times all the local nobility used to come here. people first settled them 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 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 cheerless sworn oath with this initiation ceremony complete their work and they were now fully entitled to rule with us leaders were not respected at all if they never came here or belin. in moments there are a total of fifty four megaliths when viewed from above they form a regular parabola around the back ancient people afford to have had a purpose and arranging the structures this way it's believed the local tribes thought these stones had the power to protect them from the sea when we are in the
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northern sector of the stone parabola 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 mysterious lines discovered in the wilderness one hundred kilometers to the north of more months. were fijian caves and shelters that may have been used by ancient people is another point on the tourist itinerary mapped out by tim if they were goshen scientists call such drawings petroglyphs but what they mean is still a mystery you. can't be sure but petroglyphs found here so far are about five
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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 was written. to the sailors born and raised on the call of an inch of the you know space area all to 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. he wants to coast weller's have villages here. when you visit them you're surprised by the fact that even in such a remote god for second place these people still don't want to leave you know a professor living there you. know it was the first russian settlement on the qana peninsula its first mentioned in records dating from the early fifteenth century the church of the assumption dating back to the seventeenth century is the oldest
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structure surviving to this day it was built without a single male over fasteners are made of wood only axes wood used to fashion the logs even the ends of the logs were chopped off rather than someone off accomplish this method affects the structure of the wood would you see 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 fund 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. they were in the moat 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 monk for eleven years. twenty kilometers down the
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wasicka 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 through a thin layer of soil the sand is returning it scattered around by the wind fulling on village homes and the river and destroying the pine forest and other vegetation . with you would you please pines were ruined by this shifting sand. but some trees managed to escape the onslaught they are in very good condition now they are putting in for the new orchard or fourth of february for the. 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
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up the ground with their hooves all that made the soil so thin that it allowed the sand to filter through what they did 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. there isn't fair the wind has since shifted a sand layer of about one and a half meters high towards the river. from. there because a call for spent 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 and eighty hectares of soil have been recovered debated 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
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is. the main task is coming up with a way to grow a forest shelter built with burning wood he was happy that we should prevent sand from choking up the river. till. we have spent five years developing various technologies and introduced one of the best methods in the sector we get involved 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 stumpy want from your committee or over the years the two bred together resulting in these grey handsome animals with
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a distinctive stripe running down their spines. his new breed boasts the impressive build of their russian ancestors and the ability to find food on the snow thanks to their good heritage. 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. the banshee peninsular is tim a favor goes ins favorite tourist destination this time he's accompanied by his fourteen year old son. clearing obstacles his old pastor told 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 even a four by four can't get to some places on the upside this means out the house so
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far been spared the rush of people attracted by rich fishing areas and the splendors of the landscape. taking the nikkei of five and a small cliff three kilometers off shore covered with grass and miles from across commemorating ford and say that stands here several years ago to my face and is some live 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 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.
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the call of peninsula has always attracted attention but surveyed its famous weather and the long winter nights of preventing people from discovering its true beauty the rest still many secrets to reveal. wealthy british scientists on. such. a market why not. come to find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cars are there are no holds barred look at the global financial
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