stone citadel was built from fifteen hundred to fifteen eleven but most of its original buildings were destroyed during the soviet union nowadays it houses news news local government but it's still an imposing place to walk right in the heart of the city. these monuments and architecture have earned a place on eunice caus one hundred cities of the world of great cultural and historical value and secret had one more striking example for me. please have a look at his beautiful old building it was built in the nineteenth century and it was the house of. tradesmen rise from the successful to the regional museum what do you think visitors to news the north court can expect. they can expect. a very friendly. with. sights. and that's hospitality also applies to one of ms nice most cutting edge

attractions. so finally i could back up corner and turn with complete precision and that meant i was ready to head to a brand new just the landmark. so i think we've probably got the worst conditions you could possibly have for driving it's a day to be inside or at the very least walk but here in this new road there is a place where you can burn rubber. whatever the weather. you're looking for me and i think. let's check this place out. my photo ok. so he works at the end ring the country's only f.i.f.a. approved motor sport circuit. you're

at the major model sports venue in russia entering the start as a ring yeah so you've got your eyes and frank how they're all right here to the riot building the main building so there's going to be a lot of people then yes some of. our openings and you've still got things to build some wintry techniques. ok and now while they're after practicing here they were driving away safer on the roads and this sort of thing you'll you'll be teaching me a few tricks as well the. brakes. were. the first turn is the most challenging one of the biggest number of precious understand that really this place could. barely see a thing that was looping going just be able to get a feel for the bus again was able to give me a few good tips because your brain here and you try to slow the shortest possible

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a cushion of air just above the water's surface and were originally developed under a cloak of secrecy in the one nine hundred sixty s. but after the soviet union collapsed so did the project and it's only recently that small of versions have been built here in the news new region by rubin and his company and the aqua glowing five is their pride and joy motion picture of a star in. the body of the. see how light. takes a five liter misstate is engine runs on petrol and she's designed as an art market water taxi. so here we have it a fully functional i could glide five because. the fact that this river is frozen won't matter a jot we're still going to be able to fly. and he can see he even looks like a plane cockpit inside here as well so i think for

a change i'm going to take a break from driving and just relax for this one. once my pilot was in it was time to sit back enjoy the ride and wait for the speedometer to reach the magic number. so we just crossed the one hundred kilometer an hour barrier and now we have liftoff. literally we're flying across the ice now. and that was just the start we moved post one hundred seventy kilometers an hour and despite the speed it was still an incredibly smooth trip if you do happen to have a spare half million dollars lying around but highly recommend. called believe i was already flowing just a couple of centimeters above this river. that is a pretty special taxi ride sadly i was going to have to hit the roads again if i wanted to get back to moscow. but i still wanted to pick up some authentic nice new

souvenirs and for those there's really only one place to go. sadly i haven't been elevated to the aristocracy but i think the grandest gift shop that i've ever seen because this region is the birthplace of one of russia's most famous and lavish painting styles and it has souvenirs fit for a king. this is whole folk art it was developed here in the seventeenth century and almost four hundred years on the industry is still thriving. the style takes simple items then paints them to give them an appearance of great value and my going oksana was ready to show me how it was done. so this is actually it would involve made to look like clay but then it has the special oil applied to it which shines it up and then the ladies here it's on this album in them almost ready to be fired . but first to go through one more process.

this. sitting face method to go. is a serious business the factory employs nearly sixteen hundred people and customers will pay a high price for their work and there's almost no limit to what they'll paint. some great custom jobs they've got as well i think i'd be afraid to click that one of damage if i wasn't in the market for a laptop but i did want something original to take home so it's on offer to help me in a little d.i.y. project. some. tips i was working with the traditional colors of red and black but they don't really go in for broad strokes here a lot of small delicate lines and then suddenly it just all came together.

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we must guard against that you're not going to get into a weather storm or known by the military industrial complex the warning of dwight d. eisenhower spoken more than fifty years ago is being reverberated today this time by ron paul who says the us is on a dangerous path toward fascism we'll tell you what keeps this presidential candidate up at night. there's a wise old greek prova that the person who. becomes the slave of who he borrows from and on your mark get set bail out european ministers are meeting in

belgium to plug the holes in greece's economy what's at stake and what does it mean for your finances we'll explore. this another step potentially on the road to road to potentially making nuclear weapons and iran's nuclear potential has lawmakers and media outlets crying wolf how we've seen this story before isn't this the equivalent of iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction and is fear enough to send us into yet another war. good afternoon it's monday february twentieth four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine and you're watching our team. well on this president's day let's begin with the presidential race in full swing now as candidates prepare for another round of primaries arizona and michigan

a week from tomorrow and of course super tuesday on march sixth the weekend g.o.p. presidential hopeful ron paul was in kansas city missouri speaking at union station there to a crowd of more than a thousand people he came out with a pretty strong warning about the direction this country is headed and this is amateur video so i warn you that you should be able to hear what he says. strong words there of course from the texas congressman and as usual their words largely ignored by the mainstream media so we thought we'd take some time to talk about this in depth and i've got lou rockwell in auburn alabama to help us dissect what this means lou is the chairman of the log ludwig von mises institute and also the author of the left the right and the state. hey there are your thoughts lou

about whether or not this is a case that the country is headed down into a path of fascism oh it seems to be clearly true ron is that is the truth teller as usual because we have remembered typically of fascism fascist or just epithets but if that is an actual political philosophy it's an actual economic philosophy from an economic standpoint as ron pointed out it's a combination of big corporations and big government working together against the rest of society to illegitimately profit then you have militarism belligerent nationalism demonization of the other muslims and the american kids today and the welfare state and perpetual war so is america slipping into a fascist state the movie think of fascism as just being an historical philosophy of franco and mussolini and hitler and or theon salazar and roosevelt i would add too by the way think of us think of it as being from the past but it's

not from the past it really sort of says the philosophy that's pretty much taken over the world i mean most countries have a fascist aspect of them of this corporatism and we see goldman sachs appointing the prime minister of greece and the prime minister of italy i mean this is a fascist that's a fascist act not so you have it's not have that's a law. it's not just a philosophy from the past so as you say it's also sort of philosophy and ideology that many i think in both parties and of course in the media would call fringe or radical using the word fascist this is usually a word that is something many are supposed to point out the emperor has no clothes i mean does the word itself is something i think many people find derogatory but i'm going to allude to one of them do you think this message is resonating with regular americans those who don't consider themselves friends or radical just people worried about the direction that this country is taking they probably would not use the word but i think more and more. people are so rightly worried about the

suppression of civil liberties in this country the fact that the president claims the right to kill anybody american or non american if he thinks they're a bad guy to the military arrest them we haven't had this stuff since lincoln the military arrest you put you into a secret military prison you're talking to us about the national defense authorization i mean this is you know they're openly they're openly claiming and enacting fascist powers things that we think of as more more appropriate for mussolini and but we only have to look at the room whether it's obama or the republicans i might add this is not just a democratic thing you see the president in league with the big firms on wall street and the big banks as ron i was points out it's not the middle class of the poor got bailed out it's the big banks the big wall street firms this is an aspect of corporatism of the corporate state where again this is what mussolini invented baby way back. in the twenty's and really the the teens of the of the last century

in the progressive era fascism is an outgrowth of the progressive era and it's a it's a horrible philosophy and unfortunately. much more robust than socialism socialism always had was always an economic basket case fascism because that aspect of capitalism is less of a basket case and therefore the government has more resources to do it to do it so dirty deeds with the weather internally against the people against other people in other countries in this pic spanning the american empire we see this of course right around russia i mean the u.s. has always wanted to encircle russia now there and now they're really stepping it up and they want to encircle the whole world u.s. sees itself as the global government and going right along with that is idiology of militarism of going to belligerent nationalism welfarism warfare ism it's a very unpleasant brew it's a which is brew and i think it's a and when they talk about this of course another one of ron paul's most outspoken messages and harshest critics is about the. wars that the u.s.

is involved in and spends money on and this is of course a warning that came decades ago also from president dwight d. eisenhower in his farewell address back in one thousand sixty one i want to play just a little bit about what he said and then talk about its relevance today. in the councils of government we must car guard against the acquisition of government that influence whether sought or loans on by the military industrial complex the potential for the disastrous rise of this place power exists and will persist all right lou to what extent is this military industrial complex strong enough to remain as it is i mean when you think about americans and you look at polls people are sick of war and the ron paul school of thought continues to pick up steam that the government should not be involved in or finance these wars i mean do you think eisenhower's fear which arguably has happened sustain. well of course it's exactly right i mean there are probably three big interest groups about the corporate state

that are in league with the government now the wall street banking complex you have the big pharma medical complex but not talked about much is the military industrial complex these are the people who profit wildly profit from war they love a war that promote war there's also a security aspect to this because of the department of homeland security but war is about the most profitable thing for any of the institutions connected to the government and these people they want to increase their profits and they do so by promoting war and instigating wars they work with the government we see now you know the run up against syria and the run up against especially iran they'd like all these countries destroyed and turned into and to new colonies or to dependencies and i think other countries are. head of this pakistan even saudi arabia if we look at some of the plans that have been discussed to totally take over the middle east all and have the us empire run it. it's

a very alarming thing it's all too real i would argue it was it had been all too real by the time i was in our gave a speech really we never got rid of it from world war two because they started up the cold war almost immediately after the war as a justification for keeping the whole thing in operation keeping the money flowing to the favored clients of the us government and creating a world empire and i think that ron paul even argued in this speech saturday night that that it's not just been going on for fifty years that it has been going on for one hundred years as a side note lou this speech that he gave at union station in kansas city saturday night was the same time as another sort of more establishment republican event it was a fundraising banquet of some kind and we're down the street is that some republicans are actually left the banquet to go to ron paul's rally to hear his message your thoughts on ron paul and his place sort of in his own party and the role you think that his messages have played in the campaign as

a whole. well of course as you know the establishment want to want to stop him out they don't like him they fear him they're right to fear him by the way because of his appeal to young people and americans of all ages if you look at the pupils that were taken last summer show that young people here to ron paul most of all for his views on war and peace that is the powerful issue for the young and also since this is one of the reasons he's here he's brought back into the discussion not only such things as the federal reserve but the permanent warfare of state and a lot of americans who may not have been just accepted the propaganda they hear from the media and from the government so this time now they're starting to think well wait a minute why are we starting another war nother multi-trillion dollar expenditure in iran not to say the murder of a humongous number of people how many we have they murdered in iraq a million perhaps we'd we don't know for sure so there are this is happening also in syria libya yemen i mean it's all. they have worldwide objectives i

think they're all i think there's a lot of is resonating as i think you're absolutely right his messages which he's been kind of spouting out for the last several years decades even are starting to resonate more and more we rockwell chairman of the losing about one mrs institute also author of the book the left the right and the state well it is d.-day in brussels belgium where greece will find out whether several rounds of cuts it's made and some of those financial hoops it jump through have been enough to be awarded an economic bailout seventeen euro zone members will decide if they'll hand over the one hundred thirty billion euro or one hundred seventy one billion dollars that greece needs to avoid default the greek prime minister lucas papademos along with greece's finance ministers are also in brussels for this meeting as art as is r t correspondent has our silly a who brings us a look at what's at stake. another crucial meeting is taking place in the brussels

city as the eurozone finance ministers gather after their last meeting was was called for last wednesday to today the big topic is still nice as it has been for the past two weeks now and the big question is will the priest be able to secure them or hundred thirty billion euros of bailout from its international buffers the second such move off the country on the back of the bonds of those watching the situation a greek default is still a possibility so we can see an exit from the euro zone over some peters have been trying very hard to make a positive picture to all of this including german chancellor to look forward to whether of course what will count is the solution of the answer that they will perceptive come up with at the end of today's meeting all of these efforts to scramble to put together a solution for to the greek crisis is to meet the deadline of march twenty five hundred deaths and like us to make fourteen point five b. if it works and it's not able to do so it will be technically difficult. and that

was has our silly r t correspondent in brussels and as has mentioned the deciding factors here revolve around how much greece is willing to cut back there of already of course been a few rounds of austerity measures and the country will be asked to continue to hold back even more and spending on hiring for government jobs officials say it's the only way to move ahead but what about the people of greece how have their lives been impacted and what did they think about today's meetings. greaves looks at that aspect of the story. voting for morse there is something a dubbed by greece's caretaker prime minister has a moment of historic responsibility a notion some especially the greek population feel has been lost on euro zone leaders one where i feel disappointed and sad because these measures were imposed on actually foreigners and we didn't have a say as a greek people. which there is a wise old greek proverb that a person who borrows and borrows becomes

a slave of who he borrows from an uptick sickness after passing more unpopular cuts greek politicians are told that brussels i am berlin perspire in the decision on another bailout that and questions over greece is place in the euro that the country's finance minister to talk they were toying with the nation's future this is by no means the first set of austerity measures to be imposed on greece but with a significant amount of coalition m.p.'s choosing to say no it does mark a shift in thinking among governing politicians willing to share the grievances of the public and offer them an alternative if the greek economy is not through stubbornness that doesn't go down the alley of development that eventually greece we at some point will bankrupt. in that case what will happen is that all of the assets of this country will actually pass in the hands of the. all the funders in total forty three m.p.'s in the ruling coalition chose to say no to morris their

take it even among those in favor may remain hostile to the euro zone's message and how it's being delivered i think it was such type of messages brussels are helping to european forces in greece. and all of the austerity measures don't solve the problem they make it worse we need development we need development for the survival of the greek economy is going to be among both the british public utilities and they still using these are two that. well if we cure this will people as we see. them solve this situation because it's rewarding groups cover way to hide the way they're really since last sunday's mass demonstrations and continuing uproar sent a message to those in athens of brussels but the voting through austerity may have been an historic moment as one likely to put the nation's problems to bed meaning rather than be resigned to the past scenes of anger are likely to be part of

greece's future. greece assy athens. well another big international story we're following in many ways has become all more domestic and least the part of the story much of the mainstream media and many lawmakers would like you to believe i'm talking about iran and its suppose that involvement in recent planned attacks at israeli embassies and about iran's threat against israel and to the united states about the supposin development of its nuclear program for non peaceful purposes despite the lack of any concrete evidence now in this regard facts that are being blatantly ignored and about millions of people who are being deceived as a result take a look. defiant iran taunting the west iran is calling it a major achievement its nuclear program scientists have loaded nuclear fuel rods into the core of a research reactor tehran is fueling its centrifuges with nuclear fuel and that is stoking fears that the rogue state is indeed one step closer to an atomic bomb is

this another step potentially on the roans road to potentially making nuclear weapons it is certainly a step down the road towards a nuclear weapon escalating nuclear tensions with iran this morning president mahmoud ahmadinejad is shown supposedly loading nuclear fuel rods into the tehran research reactor but it is a huge source of pride for iran but should it be a source of worry for the west around has blue stick missiles with a range of about one thousand miles obviously putting israel well within reach this is a ron doubling down on moving down the path towards a nuclear weapon now something may sound a little familiar to you if you rewind about ten years replace nuclear weapons with weapons of mass destruction replace iran with iraq there are actually some eerie similarities here and joining me to discuss this is david swanson he is the author of.