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villagers and in my country in spring an investigation by the afghan parliament claims as many as twenty other soldiers may have been involved in the killings flatly contradicted washington's version of events. and dozens are arrested in new york as the occupy wall street movement marks six months since it made its stand against corporate greed and injustice in america police moved in to careers a comedy park after an activist refused to stop its intense and believe the year. and coming up we head to the unique urals as we guide you through the russian city of perm that's in our special report coming up next right here on our team. a two hour flight east of moscow will land you in a city called. it's one of russia's most populous is minister of capitals and then just real in cultural center of the european urals. lying on the banks of the comma river it's home to almost one million people and as you take

a walk around it's easy to see that this is a russian city trying to create an impression. quickly making a name for itself in the contemporary art world and the generous local governments grant means there's something colorful crunchy or just colossal around almost every color. and right here in the center of the city you can find the highlights of its concern for real projects. that is fifty under loads making up a cyrillic letter. and the city's artistic pedigree has been furthering haunts by the new contemporary art museum it's been open since two thousand and nine and houses of the rise here unusual and striking exhibits. now among the paintings here of the form of this little sculpture.

quite impressive bunch of criminals that. i'm ahead of perms public art program naleo believes that the changes are adding to the city's reputation. broom today is in the vanguard of cultural and social issues which affects not only these particular region you must also the country as a whole this is very important. and it's not just professional artists that are being showcased here. these six hundred snowmen are all part of a city wide projects designed to get the people more involved in arts and they've all been made under great states. by the local schools. and freezing temperatures and no barrier to a good time and i see playgrounds are filled with the young and the young at heart

. i personally do not only is playing. well i have a stroll through perms winter wonderland but it seems to me that there's one. very important guy who still missing. all the cross is the no alone j.m. was nice to me i'm glad to see you here and perm thank you very much it always hurts that you are quite an unusual for the frost is a true yes i'm a real dyed in the wool father frost complete with a real clear persevered yes i did like to show you some of my winter tricks would

be brilliant so ruling. and it's clear from the beginning that live is no more than a response or. plays into the way he luscious fittest of the frost i definitely wouldn't want to be on his milton list. so now i get to find out my remote news coordinates it is a sixty nine year old. probably not but we'll see yeah this is great but. blimey. we. like keeping me a little help from. the frosts so.

bring. me. the u.k. i didn't break anything now. thankful that i hadn't done any permanent damage i left level to his acrobatics and headed back out into the streets it was time for a little souvenir hunting there are many things more strongly associated with russia than a bear and although you might not see too many running around the streets of perm that doesn't mean you can't find them if you know what to do. if you go down to one particular workshop you're sure of a big surprise. now these are the sort of bears you really wouldn't mind running and see and hear in their maker is a bit of a superstar because sees the winner of a golden george equivalent. of a teddy bear. look at all of his designs have been cleaning up an international competitions for several years now from her postcard bears to her jeans characters

she's amassed an impressive collection of her own. some of natasha's there's a real antiques including one that's supposed to have belonged to sonic louis the second she used to be it told me to turn to teddy's when a scottish friend water some plans to make back loading now she can put together a new furry friend in around ten hours and she's a pretty good teacher too so let her see his kindly offered to show me the arts of making your own body parts are going to see. if i can get this little guy to look a little bit more cuddly. culture a quick tutorial on stuffing my first began to look far more healthy and i was ready for something a little more delicate. or that was easier said than done. often

fail. and then there was the question of how to get them in the right position and how do you with your. looks brutal but it's been calls because i'm promising. nine has. come quite tricky. but eventually after some minor brain surgery we were ready for the finishing touch on then oh boy. probably according to the test it's only when the eyes go in that the bear actually becomes a bear so. i don't know what to think and may not be an oscar winner. but i think it's quite possible. i was finally ready to explore some of the perm region and i started in the southeast in the picture a city of congo back in the eighteenth century congo was considered to be the

capital will be urals and it was one of the most important stops along the trade route to siberia but it was a hundred years later with the birth of it's a favorite son but it really reached the tate a. neat alexei good can the man who became russia's most famous tea importer and. boy lovely god is going to tell me a little bit about his life. hello jeans our couture earned the title of the t. capital of the russian empire thanks to the merchant aleksey group in his talent was responsible for the fact that t. was no longer an exotic about bridge it was something accessible to all aleksey was adopted at the pioneer i discover all sorts of. hymns achievements transformed congo and as old as museum is devoted to his life and work it seemed only right to

sample his wares well in this case i think we do need to have a copy of his honor so vulgar you would surely drink to good just. because of course james let's go for it and with course. just below the main exhibition hall is a replica of a nineteenth century russian tea house burned although the brew itself became more affordable and can start on everyone was able to help their team with all the trimmings. sugar was expensive so much so that ordinary people could not afford it. in this case they drank tea all gazing at the sugar elms of sugar was suspended from the ceiling teetering greece will just look at the sugar while sucking on the bottom it's food their brains want to think in their tea was sweet some of all was also becoming more and more widespread and tea drinking

part and parcel of each meal covers like this one more places to take your time and whether you were a merchant striking a deal or just friends enjoying allegedly discussion well it seems they have the right idea to me back in the nineteenth century a fine couple an excellent company you want to come. t.v. h. a global we know you are doing t.v. here but if you if you believe the judge it was time to return to the present but down on the congo river far more ancient tradition was taking place. i arrived in time for the russian orthodox celebration of a picnic the festival commemorates jesus his baptism and dozens of people were gathering by a hole in the ice to observe the site to following up to watch this where you.

will see the crowd coming in here on the mass with as many containers as they can carry because off to the water's been blessed the russian orthodox people believe that it's become incorruptible and they'll take all this war so home with them to bless themselves their families and their houses. it was a bit of a scramble but at least for now everyone was staying drawing and i headed off to watch the festivals culmination and one of converse most famous landmarks. this is got to be the region's natural highlights i'm in the congo cave and it's the only ice cave in russia that's quit for tourist expeditions and these beautiful crystals hang from the walls all year round because i've spent some nations system acts like

an actual freezer winning the ice near its entrance never folds and stuff like tights and starwood might step right at ceilings and floors. it's amazingly beautiful but. it is no slick rick. became was first documented back in the nineteenth century and it's been a joy to tourist attraction for well over a hundred years. it can be pretty cramped in places but as you move further back the ice receives the landscape starts to change the whole cave extends almost six kilometers on the ground and this should give you an idea of some of the variations of the size of the cross this one is massive compared to the pole across the whistle right at the beginning and also it's much much warmer it's probably about plus two here and back at the start was around minus twelve.

hundred. riches attempt of almost sixty meters and it's here at the bottom that you find it's underground lakes and just for tonight a crowd of the faithful. so once the basis for this here everyone queues up for a quick swash of holy water and a blessing from the priest. and for the bravest believers that's the signal to take the plunge. freefall dips into the lake to all of the holy trinity and wash away all their sins from the past year. now and go they are most respects for guys like this but. purely for health and safety reasons you understand i should not be immersing my whole body in this

freezing water so i think i'm going to try and appear fanie lights. and the movie will take care of a parking fine something like that. i made my way out of the cave away from. the city maybe a beautifully preserved part of the region's industrial past but i was ready to take a trip into the countryside to a place with a mysterious taste. if . you.

have a place called. a first glance perhaps just another piece of poem region country saw it but apparently you can have close encounters here with much more than just nature. bushin of area fifty one drawing sources eighteen encounters and unusual goings on have been reported here and i want to see if there was anything to it. going to look for extra terrestrials around. that. i believe. i've got the most experienced.

strange things happen in the lead come it's supposed to have its own equivalents of the you triangle some even believe that it's a gateway to a parallel universe and valarie a nickel i believe they can prove it is not what it seems. pretty tricky. but. this part is supposed to be the most. anomalous zone so something weird is going to happen it's very likely to happen right here. and nikolai has an instrument he thinks shows up discrepancies in the areas energy fields through the first. i have a few devices with me. but check this out this one is interesting because it detects things we can't normally see. there's a pulsing signal. try scanning around.

as you go kind of like a pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop. which gets a lot. when i move up. much of the total very there is infrared radiation here it may affect the operation of appliances and even the human body when you take a photo sometimes fears appear. there is an anomaly here for sure we can hear it. there was certainly something strange afoot and the larry had yet more tales of the unexpected for me. several years ago i came across strange markings in the snow this is what they looked like. snow was only here in this place it seemed to have evaporated there was no snow here. so i saw two squares and something looking like this before. you haven't moved i think this

was left by a u.f.o. i barely noticed the i was passing but the sun had already started to set if i was going to see something malev they had to happen fast. so i've encountered parallel universes energy anomalies and even lot of susan time but i still haven't found any of these pesky aliens. and must be some way to do it. take me to your leader. well i don't know what happened next i seem to have some strange unexplained memory loss aliens or no i needed to head north and the three hundred twenty kilometer drive or a switch teleportation will take you to one of the area's most populous cities and a genuine industrial powerhouse this place is called sole accounts and it may be the most important city in the whole of the perm region they call it russia salt

cellar and it's been supplying the vital minerals of the country for more than six hundred years. the city lies on the karma river and its name translates to salt of the common it's pretty clearly famous for its potassium chloride which is reforms and sold as fertilizer and a trip through the city shows how the process has changed over time. he's building is a third tribute to a boy of all ages they date back to the eighteen a.c.s. and then the oldest standing soul factory left in russia. all of this is original equipment and this poor hole goes down to adapt the war most two hundred meters they found the down there the salt water had a higher concentration and they would pump it out and take it to the furnace house the next stage in the process. the salt was obtained by of operation i wanted boiled from this great great basin here it would have been put at the top ready for

the next batch and then it would all been transported by hand and bags like this this one was supposed to be just for the ladies are concerned about fifty kilos they made in those days. well this will give you a better idea of what the poor watch looks like this one was drilled in one thousand nine hundred six and was actually under another old factory which is still flowing and nowadays people basically come and use it as some sort of tonic pennies must be very good for the skin. refreshing. but times are most definitely changed. now a days

of course the salt production is a bit more sophisticated so alexander annoying are about. the lowest cost and some point in the world. some give a little bit on this on we're going down about four hundred twenty five meters me the right to take about three minutes. away from it. but don't tell. me. this is rudnick showoff number four and i can sound around one point three million tons of oil from it every month. as we moved on wood it was easy to make out the different leds present on the mines with. its belief the devil deposits of an ancient cd that flowed through the. and around two hundred fifty million years ago and they have some seriously heavy equipment to collect them. and this massive drilling machine

is the softs workhorse it weighs about one hundred tons and excavates almost thirty meters down each scene every shift and i'm going to get the chance to put it into action right now is not a. client. there we get to see. them once it gets going it needs to be emptied pretty quickly. so our transport vehicle is coming up here to the drilling the c. . and then a second. that is going to come down and we should see about the civil war. going into the back here. just it's everywhere. here now that.

there's money to follow. the north has forced their into again. and we have. becomes a trade now. killian's musician. deal. with a good. marriage transplanted to the factory her side. despite its massive output it's believed this mine contains enough salts to last another forty years and there is store room is to make sure the production continues around the clock bucks for. alexander and the boys the shift was nearly finished i can't get over this year saw ease and scale of this story and it's about

twenty metres high and almost two hundred metres long it's like something out of a hollywood horror movie i keep thinking that something's going to jump out at me from the shadows but just thinking about the scale of the work that must be required to fill this with all makes me tired so i think on that note it's probably time for a well earned cuppa tea. and after the journey back to the capital per who thought i deserved a point to eat to. one of my favorite things about travelling around ross's the big gives me a chance to try out all the different local cuisines i don't like she went to day like today it's the perfect excuse to eat something hot as fuck right. now this is a city of the my own heart because palm is famous for its pointers and i'm going to learn how to make one. zero zero zero stop watch can we cook today i can

teach you how to cook our embassy contiki you better be great because very much. i will. translate as you see pious tiny supposedly to much the short terms of daylight's there are wings of favorite. ok. it's ok to have a good time with a rolling pin. and then the contents is a bit so we've got minutes chicken breast with some with some young ins in there as well and a bit of crete going to make up after that. each has a generous dollop the edges of sealed and crimped into a shape. that reminded me of what. life west country roots hope here.

used to live in with the cities or the states in the past. three years each one is handmade and has the reputation of being the best in the city the restaurant serves them to around fifty guests tonight. guess the best bit now frying them in lots of oil. which makes for better. and also just a couple of minutes there ready to be placed it up and served with this special so what's the appropriate poem treat it the whole thing was just his and so for some mustard in the nigga. of course the proof of the force acoustic you really need to. think i'm going to be packing on the wings for insulation movies.

there's no doubt that if you're visiting russia the region has a great deal to offer a thriving capital that's making an autistic statement natural highlights and an industrial sense that it's still going strong off to six hundred years. for the n that it just in case.