this is our. area headlines the plane crash into russia's western siberia kills thirty one off to be aircraft went down just minutes after takeoff twelve did survive the accident possibly thanks to the attempted emergency landing technical failure or a build up of ice on the french italian made aircraft are among the possible causes being investigated. the international envoy to syria kofi annan is due to report on the progress of his peace plan the friends of syria group that reportedly decided

to fund opposition fighters it's criticized by russia undermining u.n. backed peace efforts. and the much anticipated reform a loosening up of registration for political parties in russia meets a controversial response some opposition leaders fear the legislation prompted by mass protests will result in too many factions bidding for power. and it's time now for a special report here on the latest in our discovering russia series an overview of the rather peculiar winter sports one can try and enjoy here this is art. with the winter olympics coming to sochi in twenty fourteen it won't be long before the always of the world are trained on russia's snow easters but thankfully you don't have to be in a limping athlete to make the most of the country's points. and i think it's fair to say you haven't had the real russian experience until you've lived through one

of their winter snows comes up to knees and bone chilling temperatures that last for months at a time but if you travel around a little you'll find that one thing the russians do really well it's so fun when it's freezing. cold winters turn your average trip to the peace to find sure the journey is going to spam you three thousand kilometers to say keep the race trucks and cars to russia to the streets of some theory. with some books like clappers. my friends i would never leave for example the losses by with my celebrity insults so high until the spring. but there are a great variety is to say i see the backs up.

this busy gary just full of only speedway competitors men who think nothing of racing round frozen tracks at one hundred thirty kilometers an hour with no brakes and i was being shown around by russia's best three so unseen world champion genteel even of. this is make a law that ok so this is this is danielle steve these are the guys who actually won the world championship because they're good at that but. so this. is your bike. was no more the. and it's time as a something to hold these spikes so. sick of this. ok there's the downsides facing some places like. the old stone houses. but danielle is trying to make sure he doesn't pick up any

new ones. and i think currently i'm the only a russian athletes who wear this kind of gear some pretty serious protection they need just in case saying it's like a full suit of armor plus extras. it was turning a lot of police announce on the track and for me to take my place in the stands. so the colors. but. it's just the back side of. the race follows the same rules as some of speedway full outside to cook wants money looks of things i wouldn't mind betting against a live. wire no. way to cover it up yeah. it's not

just the speedway right it's going to be want in the winter. now i would of course but in conditions like these driving it would be tough enough in itself but it seems that there's always a way to make it a little bit challenging and locked away in a tally actually garrincha two point because on a one wheeled monster. persecutor hello. i'm alexey to me and this is your famous yes it's our uni motto we're preparing for the competition you want to help we're planning to load it of course we can't. do that and over this alex a is a unit moto rider a firm believer that one wheel is better than two and the design of this highly international creation. so i don't think lives are always pretty fully.

moules q customs people though this is their custom made russian bike with the japanese essentially. the wheel is from the norm. in these big. deal. he had lied comes from india. and there is also a part that used to belong to a singular soon machine. it's into the boy schooled megalopolis which translates as mega slip up to two hundred kilos she's not all that comfortable to deal with. so this is. the legacy. to go negative last. championship lot of it. just go to win. or if. we're ready to head off some megalopolis let it out and i'll get to see what she can do. to the

stadium. to tallahassee to the championships everyone is loving the bills is a machine. like the road has become a wide range of shapes and sizes individuality is certainly the name of the game he notes employ with the like a way to compete is one wheel propulsion system this is the first ever my students are focused on schools found a way for us to see. what is unique is that this is not twenty one year odyssey to come into this and the

sport was originally invented for the people of the world this is not a money man's sport this is for people who are creative who can take an idea from inside their mind build that into a machine and then have the guts to get on it and ride it but everybody can do that it doesn't matter if you young old men women children there is a class for everyone money will not win this war creativity and ingenuity will. in the most places not so i'm sure along with some serious speech and i'll make a lot of that certainly hold its own. but you're looking for a role the more genteel way to spend a winter we've come to to. think. better days out than a trip to the track and here in russia they've got their own style of racing which takes a bit more power than. any of. this

stuff foam prepares forces pacifically for the troika it's a uniquely russian form of racing that they stuck to the time of catherine the great and uses three horses honest alongside each other to pull to sway. the stable usable of trucks was a powerful elegant breed and it was time to get them ready for their big day. go boy. oh razor go for us. a senior statesman of the stables. the most experienced. they have. believed horse of a sledge. everything is prepared as it would have been back in the eighteenth

century complete with the bells that told everyone the troika was on its way. you can see why this would be some specter three. in full flow together. three. truthful triplets presently. and i was about to get a taste of what they could do now this is what i call riding in style i was adrift and alexander. are ready to go i were off to the races. and suddenly i'm a delinquent to travel just mature well on. the

minus of the dumps where the horses certainly house and once they go to the racetrack a really nice alexandra eaten his trainers have been winning titles for the best part of twenty years earlier was no surprise to see them surge through to take another trophy to the stables. was one of russia's more ancient methods of winter transport it was time for me to try one of the newest under load it was invented far away in new zealand it's become a common sight the country ski resorts. in most sports you need certain skills to succeed nimble footwork brute strength mind but seemingly in this next one just coming to gravity will do the trick. it's the gun it's the. morning hello hello. it's on my choice will be three hours if i can barely contain juries no

injuries ok let's don't assume you haven't had a launch breakfast it probably is but it's just in case our instructor was on hand to give me some safety tips. ok so there are two spheres the inside spirit has a dam it's are of two meters the outside one measures three point two meters you will be fastened at six points some of the straps will keep your hands and feet in place others will hold your body in check your job is to spread out your weight of overall six passengers so if you're ready let's go i'm ready but i think so. right. oh. it. was very comfy. feel so secure.

and ready to roll that hill hey. it seems hopelessly turning head over heels convergys scores a range of emotions that i thought were ready as i'll ever be. bloody the. truth. probably be. a good. book that. was all about ok i'm going to add one small cabbage what i said before a strong stomach is definitely an advantage. just make sure the call is close by because you might have trouble walking a straight line for a while and going only need a little while. seasick. there hasn't been anything yet on keeping. it is to get the

maximum political impact. before source material is what helps keep journalism honest we. we wanted to visit. something up. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so appalling you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and here see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. download the official antti application show i phone on pod touch from the i choose ops to. lunch life on the go.

video on demand qualities in mind bold causes an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the job com. most are running down a hill in a giant plastic hole i was hoping that my next meal would be wrong the whole states runs on the frozen lakes of the country southwest not slowing down any more. now i'm here to say he'll get one of the newest and fastest growing winter sports in russia combined skiing snowboarding windsurfing some one of these this is so-called sing along not the last of. tommy assy brings together some of the best riders from all across the country for his on the all events. a race across the ice the house passed his final two hundred kilometers an hour.

push. good you were going to give me a very quick basic introduction she says coach so we have all our new bonus little all. the mentally ill wind and little are going to be good friends at least . and even a little cause takes a lot of preparation. for starting and. have to first understand where the wind but from where. from here we have. pulled the guys. here. with my anchor including c.e.o. . to take it up found some snow. when you just have to let the lines out after one or two full stops on the way. all of my must be you know like you driving as. good as keeping you

in the air is easier said than done through. all of that. yeah let me. get. more. i'm trash. i do i salute you i was great fun i tell you what though economizing that's you doing something which is going to slowly me across the snow with it fortunately this time i don't have to but i'm just about maintaining it the moment i think and that's when. most notable attach but. this will do me i'm going to leave the actual racing to eagle here and see. how far he go with this very. well i practiced eagle once to get ready for the serious business of the day and i joined him for his final preparations. special about the. discipline you get.

in russia for the president here and once the wind really begins to blow conditions start to get very tough. best of luck thank you finish. and as his competitors started to move away eagle was ready to go. to line up to take his place in the start it's a very funny style because those who got any whistles will klaxons or anything but i'm reliably informed he's about to head off. to see what time he makes them. the riders make two loops of the ice for a thirty kilometer race skiis travel far more quickly than the snowboarders so it looked like we might be in for once in the points. here is for that one i do it.

all the way. a number of judges keep track of each race timing the riders as they pass through the checkpoints and after a very chilly last i saw regal heading for the finish line. i couldn't make a winter sports program without a visit to siberia russia's mole just i'm coldest region in fact to get some chilly head coaches have to warm up the pools so players don't get injured they live here in cameroon but it's no footy that brings the crowds out here it's a whole different ball game. to syria i say hi james already going well yeah we're ahead. again good

groove yet very loud. at the stadium can hold up to fifty thousand five and it's easy to get drawn into the speed and dynamism of the game if you like you have. a penalty say they get. their case in but here i was. to. play school. so we're going to ruin it. and it's not just a fan favorite in siberia. i just board has always been popular all across russia but i'm somebody of skin cream or yale the way t.v. can trace west including our hahnville skin the mormons on the y.c. coast in other words people really enjoy this open air game all over russia

i can understand why it was delicious flying in from both ends the final straw and the seven sixth who's boss and it sends out that you've got to be a prior to this again. no skates generally equals me on the full fairly quickly but there is a bit more of a fun friendly version of bunny the you can play using these i'm not is what we're all here. i have to go out today. i just need to meet up the second week of the supply could. be good anyone can play bambi all you need is stick some felt goods ok. what's most important is that you played with passion look a suit ok you got your boots and will supply you with a stick. you might as well troy your self. righteous donkey to your opponent with

this decay of jealousy and it's also forbidden to push your opponent for you so let's go now this is a game that they play outside and so on period so it's important to have the right after. caylee's. friendly unimposing such as me. going to put me on my back so. it seems my team mates and sets my natural goal scoring ability and i was sent off function attack i was just having small problems with my turning circle. so this is why i stay on your feet. ballance. when will. you send me away and. if i was in hindsight it was probably a very small tactic. and

there were a few crunching tackles going into. possibly michaels abusing wasn't the most telling but off the fifteen minutes that felt like an out my team ended up on top of. the base of the most. history fish. three. points no east new snow to see was almost as a man's and i have one brother most famous still trying. to. follow. that will go. on i think of gold fake images of some groups sung bunkers. but

today i've gone some mara snowdrifts and whites but they don't let a small thing like winter get in the way of the round. back in tallahassee they've built their own bicycles so there's a little cool mix of some calling to day. so many competition minicon because we have four poles and war. two we could do. as many fans as we want ok and see who comes out of some sort for the ice cold championship by always being in the good nick spoils camp when it traps golf punts and eliezer came plant and he promised to give me a few tips. for annoying all and thank you for those with great expertise i think this is obviously the. club for this distance you know what she dimitri and. always what your doors agrees on the different in russian.

or the winds knowing the right thing to shops was not my biggest obstacle had a. nice fluid sling. he only cut it. down on only applying to. look that's one. price so yeah i think this is what we call being in the rough. as it is that it's it is somewhere. in the galley deep deep in a snowdrift. the meal was coming no such problems as he hits one sweet shots. oh very nice. ok so i can understand some a goal for nice weather business on the links but when you think is a freezing cold. it's about you know minus total fifty in the school of.

the whole scene missing goals you know and. so. wants to be whole window we get. to socialize and maybe have a drink after the goal and i can relate to yes yes we're late as many holes as we can and does from the studio went to catch up with the competition i started to get the hang of things clocks at least i hadn't brought the action simply. kookery into the white. see what. appear to haunt. them pretty hard to the lawyer was really. the with the temperature close to minus fifteen celsius the console was too worried about my

signature i was ready to finish my rounds and head back to the conference. and the clown floored a magnificent squad room. think you can only get better than that. the winter in russia can certainly be brutal but if you're happy to give the outdoors a trawick there's no shortage of things that will keep you entertained through the frosty moments whether you're taking parts or just relaxing unless it has to work with the end of the day spring is never not forgotten.