moscow is bracing for its biggest protests in decades a stand of thousands of people are preparing to demonstrate against the results of last sunday's parliamentary election thousands of police have been deployed on the streets of the russian capital opposition protests are already taking place in the country's far east where hundreds turned out in la he will stop. a split in europe as britain becomes the odd one out to reject the e.u. treaty changes among all the other twenty six members to get the continent's debt crisis underway so the u.k.

will be left out of a path on fiscal union introducing tough budget controls and punishment for overspending nations. israeli airstrikes on gaza massive unemployment in the region drive palestinians to seize opportunities in a war torn levy israel prevents palestinians from crossing the border to find work there. for them brings you up to date here in our team now with the winter upon us artie's moscow our team checks out how to have fun in the freezing cold. she's telling her. family. dynamic. friends but. my couch.

hello and welcome on this week's program we'll be taking a look at various activities you can enjoy over the festive period that's right christmas is just a few weeks away and there's a real magical the spirit in moscow over the new year period i want it to start something good all i skating here on red sprite. open for three months until the beginning of march one of the best things about coming here is the story. the impressive breadcrumb the moves down the opposite the ice rink while the colorful and in terms of the sixteenth century symbols cathedral can be seen at one and a magnificent site. as it's known in mission has been set up by the company that

runs the elegant shopping arcade on the east side of the square. skate away and enjoy the moment surrounded by sensational history and stunning architecture. towards where you see. place you'll. love it since we are. right now we're right here and we can skate. i think is the best experience. yes you can get because it's like being you know fairy tale you have all these amazing i dig dirt and just feel like you know tell me that. this can't wait i especially like the old russian songs here the ones my grandma used to listen to when she was my age i'm. beginning to advance people of all levels can come here i'm not doing too badly.

oh well practice makes perfect i suppose. if i'm on the ice. and give safety tips be prepared and will no doubt be more proficient. many tourists don't have the chance to skate every winter. either way popular with muscovites. it seems. is the ideal christmas day out relax into the festive music and those calories. to enjoy christmas shopping experience while moving to our next location it's time to get your wallets ready. i personally love. the shops and

stores here. any christmas. traditional. christmas all the. various christmas markets is located next to red square just opposite the bolshoi theater and it's a great place to bring family and friends it's open until the tenth of january from . warm. quite chilly. temperatures today. is known for its freezing weather. take note when visiting any attraction outside here you can see a range of christmas decorations folk can see crafts an art a closely connected with local history and an old russia would has been an essential part of everyday life. also known as the nesting dolls is arguably one of the most popular russian souvenirs here it's been redesigned to look like a christmas tree inside

a miniature some to close. for the christmas and most cool we have ever watched his from us and we got to hear the market everything is beautiful the trees are really nice and the people are friendly. christmas states can be confusing in russia. christmas day falls on the seventh of january the reason is because the orthodox church still follows the old julian calendar which is currently thirteen days behind the gregorian calendar used in western countries. from the nine hundred seventeen revolution until the fall of communism christmas as a whole had a rather tenuous status in the soviet union although the holiday was officially frowned upon many and surprising people turned it into a new year's festival. with western influence missing such russian tradition this has created a month long celebration in the capital there are many religious services held in

the russian capital during the festive period regarding buildings the christ the savior cathedral here is one highlight. is an overall height of one hundred five meters is the two most orthodox church in the world and can hold up to ten thousand people. it's a beautiful place to visit over the christmas holidays the brightly decorated in serious and soothing festive music welcomes visitors the old carols a sung mass is given and people reflect them pray for a healthy and successful year had the. this is an extremely busy period when it comes to accommodation in the capital from party planning to special events moscow's five star like asians plan such festivities well ahead like all hotels in major cities. christmas program is very expensive. it's an exciting time for us here obviously we have the weather we have the location. is normally snowy around christmas time so the environment it's

pretty much close to perfect i would say we run a lot of activities in the hotel very busy with corporate events obviously through the through the whole december and as we move towards christmas time we have all the traditional family events like brunch news parties and so on. what other christmas activities are worth mentioning in moscow apart from red square there's another impressive skating rink a moscow historical goopy park the park has been completely renovated to share and now it boasts the largest rink in new york you can skate on its fifteen thousand square meters of ice until midnight every night there are many other festive winter beaches in the park such as hockey rinks. ski tracks and an ice labyrinth to children. if it's not tacky souvenirs you want but rather design a christmas decorations moscow's luxurious department store is the ideal place to shop annually a spectacular festive bizarre set up on the ground floor thousands of sparking toys

and fix it music all around just make sure not to be carried away as you might end up bankrupt before the holidays even begin. a green fur tree with its distinctive scent reminiscent of the christmas period is one of the main with symbols in russia in many families it's a tradition to buy a real treat instead of an artificial attempt not to harm the environment make sure to purchase a tree from authorized companies to sell trees that have been. especially great for christmas and not illegally chopped down you can choose from a range of dutch or russian factories and pine trees you can even all of them online and have a tree to live it. finally there are dozens of hotels and restaurants and the special christmas menus for those who want a five star canary delight head to the ritz carlton hotel throughout december a special fisted menu created by the french chef is offered to the guests the

dinner of three courses costs three thousand two hundred roubles per person that's around one hundred dollars to the restaurant. final location now in moscow to some may seem to be a grey city of concrete and towering glass but there are several places where you can still find traditional batches and chapels the perfect winter wonderland. although one problem at the moment is that it's built cold enough the snow keeps on melting december slush is not nice. but in a few weeks as always i'm sure that will be resolved as the skies will clear and temperatures will plummet the typical i see my list of. the calmest. is a unique way says not far from the city center it was the summer residence of the sauces the time of ivan the terrible today it is vast parkland offering

a selection of activities. inside the crate person is busy visitors are told about life as it was in russia. but you can see blacksmiths working it's hot and relentless work as well as describing old fashioned take meek's stuff also introduce you to the various christmas traditions and customs of russia. kindness is there is a history of fashion times sought your. christmas time for paris could turn to the fairy tale residence upon the resonance of rational times one of the main highlights here is a trickle right through the pretty parkland the museum is out of his exciting vista programs including his writing intrigue his. honest abreast as well as in one post carriages sleighs and on that note it's into the carriage and off we go to.

the russian soul comes into its own joy winter don't be afraid of the cold wrap up warm and enjoy the amazing when to activities inside or out the soviets may have tried to ban christmas festivities but now they are back in full force bigger and better than ever before. so get the champagne ready and let's make this christmas wherever you are one to remember. rob but so far well unfortunately that's all that's how we have left on this week's program about christmas holidays here in the russian capital i'll see you again at the same time next week it's over for me and the rest of the team but i forgot the.

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free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free media dog r.t. dot com. moscow is bracing for its biggest protests in decades us has a for. thousands of people are preparing to demonstrate against the results of last sunday's parliamentary election these are the latest pictures from the streets of the russian capital are thousands of police have been deployed and you can see protests from the country's far east where hundreds turned out and bodies are still . in europe as britain becomes the odd one out to reject the e.u. treaty changes among all the other twenty six members to get the continent's debt crisis underway so the u.k. will be left out of impact on fiscal union introducing tough budget controls and

punishments for overspending nations. that really are strage in gaza and a massive unemployment in the region dr prosimians to seek opportunities in a war torn israel prevents palestinians from crossing the border to find work there . so we have lines here on our back at the top of the hour with more in the meantime here's the sports news with. good to have you with us this is sports and a plenty ahead over the next ten minutes or so including. i can even end kazakstan we meet up with a man who's more than left his mark on the kontinental hockey league ice cap and. take two hundred forty seven it's the biggest football rivalry in the club game on the first game of the poem early this season between the big names themselves

barcelona and reality. boardgames a competition billed as the olympics of the mind gets its inaugural start in china . more not coming up but we start with ice hockey where the care chelles reaming champion solid have dominated our blunt in a rematch of last year's finals five different players scoring goals for the side for a confidence boosting win away in the moscow region actually drawing first blood before selling allies and then went through on all before entering the final period when the visitors did their damage with three goals coming up to the fifty minute mark some about though just about holding on to a top ten spot this year but have rallied off three straight wins the five one victory a huge boost ahead of another classic conquerable hockey league rivalry sullivan take on twice champions at bars on some. rock tour meanwhile

continued to be this season surprise package be a top three overall table with thirty one games played the men from china pinsky closely followed by one of the pre-season favorites and petersburg. namo i could easily swap third and fourth vault just one point separating the russians from reaching their moscow contra parts while. guard and i'm sure the top six overall. one man who's played plenty of times against all those teams kevin dolman is the focus of our profile series this week the canadian captain of the us the has been busy blazing a trail in the cage shell since he first arrived in kazakhstan in two thousand and eight to robert for down even more. this man's name is karen delman he's a canadian gunner in europe's strongest league the kid chill the three year old defenseman captains baristas do not easily beat many forwards in scoring influence he was born

of all three kids all star games and will make his fourth at the end of january twentieth will enjoy him because of sight in two thousand and eight down one was quick to stebbins his knee in the league the canadiens twenty goals and assists within his dad this isn't breaking the silver the russians help us sort of scoring position and bring you here the chills there's the plans for the war definitely have to after my first year when i didn't have a contract during that first year few changes reached out to my agents and i even i think a few team reaches to reshow to bury some and try to get me to leave very. very the year i had there the french are. no one on the team and the management was a tough tough decision i couldn't leave and then they made me captain and all that just everything went well and it fit well and it was calm to want to and really i

really enjoyed here. moving to the capital of physics then just like you leap in the dark this was a tough decision to make for doma and his family however it didn't take them long to find out what a star not really looks like the city which was named the best in the c.i.s. by the international passably of capitals and cities into until eleven i think one of the biggest things that i'm sure more most north americans all agree with me is when you hear russia are like kazakstan or whatever and you hear horror stories like it's really rough mean and as so when we got over here when i got over here it's nothing like that everyone is friendly everyone tries to help you know and it's just the same as back zero zero zero. something but it was really modern more really like back home it was easy to adjust and then i just started stace on the forum told it was nice and i went from there and now we love it here and

hopefully we can stay here for the rest of my career. in new environment is always a challenge but the sporting continued and the issue is even more important it doesn't do you still want to look looking players moving to europe to get used to bigger ice rinks where we're given gentlemen is quite a different story the canadian clear is a real potential game the europeans the hockey that is the same i mean in the end the only difference is that the service is a little bit there. so you don't get the physical this is not it is not as there as it is back home in the n.h.l. the small i service you know going to his russian i think that's that's not really what help my game but the bigger i service did because i like to read plays and jump in the open i saw that i was a big difference for us to mix success over here them and he's one of seven north americans with four c. that is this snow leopards exabyte which often gives them the edge that's the way

boris can call their pulls in a purely hockey way north american hostile europeans and it's all it's hockey and everyone yeah dog gels together there's major peons over there russians and everyone there all over the place so hockey is a salmon and it's just we like to bring that that aggressive grit and body checking in and it intimidates players some players but for most the most part i mean it's hockey you know you're going to get her ears you know you can't be afraid of that or. just look very much. robert bruno bertie. it is the game millions of football fans throughout the world are we having for the first al classico of the season the reality who taught the spanish table currently by three points take on nearest challengers and reaming champions on of course their biggest rivals barcelona later on saturday the pervert league giants have made one hundred sixty two times in their national championship but

tonight's hosts ryall holding the bragging rights with five wins more the ever looked imperious so far this year their. lives for three was this in a way too easy on the last week in december a new charges for just one defeat in fourteen games are now though helping himself to an incredible seventeen goals to date but so has this man world player of the year see the origin time on his teammates will enter the tie in confident mood being able to boast seven wins one draw in just three defeats against los collecting co since manager pep guardiola took over the capital on its there's a clear leader at the top of the world championship at the halfway stage. four strokes ahead of the field at the final golfing event of the season the spaniard brilliant display included an eagle on the last hole putting him further in front of new challenger peter hudson of sweden with robert rock on remark or roy five shots behind northern irish man

a michael roy must win the event to have any chance of claiming the european money title ahead of luke donald the englishman himself needs a top nine finish to become the first ever player to secure the order of merit kron on both sides of the atlantic he's eight strokes off the summit sitting twelfth in the u.a.e. . i think just personally in terms of my mental approach for the next couple days i was it was huge it was a struggle today i've been making a few kind of uncharacteristic mistakes i'm not sure what that. is down to maybe just you know the situation of what's at stake this week but to make three birdies that. will make lunch and make the next two days a little easier let's talk russia's women have won bronze at their home european championships confidently seeing off denmark on a thirteen seven scoreline on friday russia were beaten by scotland in extra end in

the semifinals meaning a danish test for the last podium spot head the two thousand and six european champions in russia who lost the opening in stride leading by one point denmark did come close to levelling in the penultimate end but the russian showed their dominance by controlling the last in five nil leaving their final score being seven . only the country's second ever piece of silverware meanwhile sweden will face the sport's heavyweight scotland on saturday. i don't think the game turned out to be very tight we were confident how to stay focused and concentrate on the result and you'll be so really happy to win the bronze medal. e.c. made them on their denmark is a very experienced team and we expected them to fight until the end we kept in mind that we should battle even if the equalized we followed the plan and we won.

finally ever wanted to take part in a major sports tournament but maybe didn't quite have the athletic prowess for its well maybe you can take a look at this interesting the first ever world mind games a battlefield for intellectuals as their tester with a chess bridge many other activities beijing here the city which host the two thousand. for brains this time with a traditional opening ceremony to set the stage chess go bridge draw off g the five activities the competitors knowing on the normal gold would put them on the fast track to celebrityhood the games are televised certainly adding to the pressure russian chess world champion alexandra costin uke stating it is a great platform for her sport to gain works and maybe even become an olympic discipline in the future. and i chess very much and i've been playing chess is age of five so it's a biggest part of my life and i'm always been dreaming of

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