it's nice to meet you. beautiful me a little bit of initially i want to show the crime of bad taste. siegfried moved here from germany back in two thousand and six within a few months he was married getting regular work as a translator and he's lived here ever since so what would you say some of your favorite things are about the city it just the russian are should take this all of the houses i will show you some of them and you will visit one of the. monuments right in the cradle this huge 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 it 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 this beautiful old building it was built in the nineteenth century and it was the house of. tradesmen rise to the successful true regional museum what do you think visitors to nizhny novgorod 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. i meant let's check this place up so. i feel ok. so he works at the end ring the country's only f.i.f.a. approved motor sport circuit. all right gents you're at the major model sports venue in the rush of the entering the start as yeah so you've got your eyes and frank how they're all right here to the right building the main building so there's going to be a lot of people going yes sure last summer. though 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 as. rates. were. for the first term is the most challenging one of the biggest number of precious understand that really this race could. barely 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 that was your brain here and you try to slow the shortest possible distance. here you're going to break with this little girl left for the next we'll just do is try to get both refused to go my lap time down which was useful because i had a different type of challenge ahead of you you know apex bridesmaid so if you can do it the way that's right it's ok. to rest of them i think we do.

know. we decided we'd do five laps getting the better of things on the streets of those corners was still proving tricky. point and draw a. safe and secure towns attendant. wasn't going to win me any races so i hit the accelerator. to photo hole and squeeze past this. number the coming take. ok i'm probably not going to make the championships but if i ever get into

a wintry cart chase i'm so shit. but my need for speed was still unfulfilled fortunately down by the banks of the volga there's plenty more where that came from now ever the chance to try out some pretty flawless machines on discovering russia but here in the region they've created a monster piece of marital home design and she's a recalled break. these are a crown a plane it's a cross between a ship and an airplane and they're the fastest commercial amphibious vehicle on the planet. they're designed to effectively fly on 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 this is going to be. 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 for life 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 tax year i had 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 is 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 as me would involve made to look like clay but then it has this 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. base 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 that goes well i think i'd be afraid to click that want to damage it 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 i don't really go in for broad strokes here . small delicate lines and then suddenly it just all came together. is news amazing how your artistic abilities can develop just a little concentration. pointer to them is me no good region has been

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afraid of when it comes to government employees i'll tell you what keeps this presidential candidate up at night. is this another step potentially on a road to road to potentially making nuclear weapons that's right possibly maybe potentially one day in the future iran might be able to create a nuclear weapon and that prospect is enough to have american lawmakers and media beating the drums of war does this nuclear fear mongering remind anyone of the alleged weapons of mass destruction in iraq circa two thousand and three. good evening it's monday february twentieth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for south and you're watching our t.v. . well it was a national day of action today for members of the occupy wall street movement today they spoke out against the private prison industry there's no getting around this

folks this is a big business one often called the prison industrial complex because of the influence and power and the money it makes to keep people behind bars. states that fashion you're looking at video from earlier today in new york where protesters gathered at the lincoln correctional facility in new york city the event was drawn up in oakland where protesters surrounded san quentin of thirteen cities took part and prisoners at a higher state penitentiary about twenty of them are said to have refused food to show solidarity with one another and with the movement so let's talk about today's event with independent journalist ron your colleague hey there anya the u.s. has five per cent of the world's population and twenty five percent of the world's prison population what is the story behind this headline. well the u.s. has a serious math and person region problem we incarcerate more people than any other

country in the world. if specially. in comparison to other industrialized countries we also have really harsh and harsh sentences more punitive scented the term very minor crimes and a lot of the reason that we have such a large amount of our population in prisons has to do with the war on drugs. in one nine hundred eighty we had a pretty stable prison population that was much lower and compared pretty well with the rest but world today that number has quadrupled. and we have about two point three million people possibly more behind bars that doesn't even include the amount of people we have on probation or parole so on that have to do and about sixty percent of those people are in jail for nonviolent offenses mostly drug offenses so you know carrying marijuana on them or you know cocaine or whatever it may be you know small time dealers let's let's talk about this event today again

thirteen different cities around the country took part and here in d.c. protesters actually gathered outside of a wells fargo bank now they wanted to call attention to the fact that wells fargo is a major financer of the g.e.o.s. group which owns and runs the risk correctional institution in north carolina that is where thousands of people from right here in washington are sent to and incarcerated i know you wrote about some of the conditions and this prison and you also sort of mention why it's pretty clear that this is not viewed as a place for rehabilitation talk a little bit about this. well ridge correctional facility is an interesting because it's it's specially it's physically how does d.c. if it's so it's located in within north carolina which is something like two hundred fifty miles outside of d.c. and it's like you said it's run and operated by the geo group which is the nascent nation's second largest private prison operator so in d.c. it's interesting because back in the late ninety's congress passed

a law basically moving taking the you know the responsibility for how the d.c. inmates and moving over to the federal government so that the federal government's responsibility now in that bill there was also a mandate that fifty percent of the prisoners were required to be housed in private prisons so that's why so many inmates and about reversed direction as a lady and as a result residents have a serious problem with the g.o.p. because they run operate and make a profit off of incarcerating d.c. residents and the interesting thing about rivers actually is that river has that built on top of what's north carolina as what was once or carolinas largest fleet plantations so if you think about the d.z. and their population it's about ninety percent or possibly a little bit more than that african-american so you have these thousand one thousand plus african-american v.z. inmates being housed in a facility that's literally built on top of the remnants of where their ancestors

used to slave just one of many ironies here when we talk about the prison population in the united states i think it's interesting that you mentioned that in this bill that was put through several years ago that it was mentioned that. fifty percent of them had to be held in private prisons and. it really is crazy how big of a business is has talked to me running about this relationship between big banks and corporations and the private prison industry where the private prison industry is bunch of different prison but a different. private entities that basically are contracted to do prison work i mean that can include the people who come and do maintenance and that can include prison guards but these private prison operators like the g.e. zero group and like corrections corporation of america which is the country's largest private prison operator are these there is a group of business now businesses that are multi their multibillion dollar businesses that operate various prisons around the country some of these prisons

are to macarthur to basically how federal and state prisoners and those are contracts that are given to them by by the state government or by the federal government and but they are you know the money that they make the population to make the most money from is immigration detention they actually private prisons how about fifty percent. of immigrants if it were detained in the country so that about that mean that includes hundreds of thousands of people just this year if you think about it hundreds of last year almost four hundred thousand immigrants were deported before the deported or detained so that basically each prisoner the detainees give money is money from the government from taxpayer money to these private prison entities. now in a in in terms of these banks that bank well then these are investors so wells fargo happens to be one of the chief investors in the g.o.p. so both partners is basically you know indirectly making money off of you know the geo group making money off of you know how being prisoners in the u.s.

and the g.o.p. possible replant five million shares and while the wells fargo has about three point five million shares in the g.e. a group you can imagine you know they're they are very invested in this idea of incarcerating immigrants and prisoners and whatever that may be seems like it's no accident that this does have the largest prison population in the world here in the u.s. when you think about it i think one statistic i read it costs forty thousand dollars to incarcerate somebody for a year that's more than college tuition and a whole lot more than a lot of american families make ronnie pollack and a pen journalist joining us from fairfax virginia. thanks for having me well today is presidents' day and of course were thick into campaign season with the four remaining g.o.p. candidates crisscrossing the country preparing for another round of primaries arizona and michigan a week from tomorrow and of course super tuesday is on march sixth now over the

weekend g.o.p. presidential hopeful ron paul was in kansas city missouri speaking at union station there to pretty large crowd more than a thousand people and he came out with a pretty strong warning about the direction this country is headed in and we should mention this is video shot on a cell phone you should be able to hear this portion of the speech though. all right so according to ron paul the u.s. is slipping into a fascist system dominated by government and business strong words there from the texas congressman and as usual they were words largely ignored by the mainstream media now in our earlier broadcast i spoke with journalist michael tracey on wrong paul's prediction of the direction our country is headed here's what he had to say . this of this is something that ron paul for quite

a while i think i remember an interview with him in two thousand and seven where he said that you know the state of the country is too soft fascism so i don't think he's trying to say that the united states is on a path to ask. suppression. you know the way that he characterizes the situation i think speaks to a growing apprehension that a lot of people have about the country is headed in i think you know ron paul has gained traction not because he's remarks but because he you know shoots from the hip and some of the that as you say the growing apprehension and some of those concerns have been articulated in the last several months by the occupy wall street movement i wondering michael do you think that paul is sort of reaching out to these people letting them know people who identify themselves as the ninety nine percent versus the one percent you think he's trying to make sure they know he's on their bandwagon. what remarkably if you following the presidential debates of the

fall and into the winter every now and then ron paul will say something you know on his own volition invoking his support for aspects of the i was three movement and he said that he hasn't been to do with the tea party and occupy wall street movement so i think that there's a void that he is feeling pretty remarkable and he's a pretty remarkable unique figure in that sense that you know he can extend an olive branch to both of these movements which you know the mainstream media casts his income in conflict one another i think he he shows that there's a uniting sentiment that's driving them to some extent let's talk about that void that he's feeling i mean talk to me michael about in what way you think ron paul has a short of change the discussion in this country whether he has one primaries or not he's still in there and there were nine and now there are four candidates left he

is still one of them and he has decidedly different opinions about what is most important in this country what do you think his role has been this far. but one of the striking dynamics throughout this primary season is that the televised debate and very important so we're going to those of what kind of holding ron paul the chains are and what is the delegate count is that he's given a national platform on a fairly regular basis and is able to disseminate his views you know before an audience that's you know range from hostile to sympathetic i think is really significant and if you have attended or watched video video from paul's campaign appearance that's what he always mentions basically with that except almost about exception the n.d.a. for example which you know allows for the indefinite detention american civilians we all know and this is something that we never even be remotely discussed if it were if ron paul or someone were excluded from the continents. this is

a van saturday night in kansas city missouri kind of interesting it was at the same time as a more sort of a stablish went republican event it was a fund raising banquet of some kind some heavy hitting republican people there. and were on the street is that quite a few republicans left that fancy banquet to actually go here ron paul speak and to hear his message i want to get your thoughts on ron paul and his place in his own party. well it's very interesting i think in the past few months it's become clear that there are quite a few republicans especially the republicans and skew towards the younger son end of the spectrum who kind of privately support. for reasons of professional image maybe aren't able to be vocal about it who are to you know ruffled feathers by coming out and you know outright dorsey but for a while now there's been kind of murmurings. ron paul is gaining traction among

this younger demographic and you know as a symbol for the fact that his message has been so widely disseminated shows that you know he's getting a lot of traction and this is actually causing a fissure within the republican party that i think it's going to have pretty lasting implications regardless of those contests i mean i think in the future we're going to have. you know ron paul is going to be become a respected figure within the party establishment. even if he's the appears to show now because of the ideological resonance of a lot of what he said a speaking of ideology some of what he says seems very different from some of these candidates that some of what he says has also been around for a really long time certainly one of his most outspoken messages and harshest critics is about the war is that the u.s. is currently involved in was involved in and spends money on and this is also a warning that came decades ago fifty years ago from president dwight d.

eisenhower and his farewell address back in one nine hundred sixty one i want to play a little bit about what he said and then talk about its relevance today. in a counter look government we in the car guard against the acquisition of i don't want it influence whether sought or loans or by the military industrial complex the potential for the dissenters right in this place over exists and will persist. so michael talk a little bit about this message from eisenhower somewhat similar today from ron paul and what it all means in you know for today especially with considering how many people are really just sick of the wars that we've been fighting in for the last ten years. well with the codification of many wishes worst excesses in terms of foreign policy by obama it's become clearer that it's virtually impossible for the american citizenry to signal disapproval of military industrial

complex by way of electoral and i think that's what ron paul was speaking to with his comments of the week and. so. and because you know voting for obama did not really attain any actual practical change and in that regard ron paul's presentation a radically different alternative i think it's gaining a lot of resonance and you know for ron paul to. warn about the dangers of the military just on such a regular basis i think is implanting that idea and the distrust of that institution within a new generation. politically aware and i think again nobody would argue that he is the most different out of all the candidates out there and journalist michael tracey speaking to us about ron paul from long claire new jersey. well it is d.-day

today in brussels belgium where greece is supposed to be finding out whether the several rounds of cuts it's made and some of those financial hoops to jump through have been to be awarded an economic bailout seventeen year old's own members are holding a late night talks to decide if they will indeed hand over the one hundred thirty billion euros or one hundred seventy one billion dollars greece needs to avoid default and we've been waiting for an announcement on this all day and still nothing with some saying as expected the haggling will go on until the last minute the greek prime minister lucas papademos along with greece's finance ministers are also in brussels for this meeting as is our correspondent tess are cilia and she looked a little earlier at what's going on and gives us a look at what's at stake here another crucial meeting is taking place the brussels city of the eurozone finance ministers gather after the last meeting was was called for last what state today the big topic is still peace as it has been for the past .