welcome back this is all she's a weekly the headline. sarkozy or lines the tough race for the top job in france goes into a second round with official results for all showing nikolaus sarkozy just one of the hot the sound behind his main rival the turnout has been unexpectedly high despite fears the electrodes might ignore the vote of time of report unemployment and launching faltering broader economy. the your security council has agreed in a resolution to sign three hundred observers to see where to monitor the french troops in the country but despite the unanimous vote some remain skeptical of the ten day old cease fire with the europe threatening to adopt fresh sanctions against

iran. bahrain has the controversial formula one grand prix motor race sparking a new wave of public protests against the regime in clashes between demonstrators and security forces continued through the week with a brutal crackdown by police leading one to visit their. session minutes that gripped global attention truly on our son tregear he's only interview show on r.t. this week giving voice to those ostracized by the mainstream media the show has sparked a range of reaction from place to hysteria. and next in our special report takes you on a breathtaking. trip to the ice cave in russia zero. a small and ancient russian merchant city sits at the confluence of three rivers. is not quite europe but is not a nation either. constantine's

a native of congo or he heads off to work each day of the same time. cause that in has been conducting independent research for ten years now his profession is out of the ordinary for most people but it's quite natural for those living in the urals it mixes danger with excitement. the city's protected reserve early morning enjoys a few precious moments before being plunged into darkness we have no idea of how constantine how are things at the site everything is alright no problem i'll give you the keys a group of scientists is arriving today and we should check everything carefully ok then. ok. another day begins in this beautiful urals countryside. every day people working at the site after walked ten kilometers back and forth for all passers by it's obligatory to strike the singing star and the more beautiful the cell divides the more likely

a wish is to come true. on the one hand everything seems to have stopped dead here on the other hand a specialist could always see how the cave has changed over time the place is a living organism and an underground parish dies for geologists and researches lying beneath the banks of the silver river and of the depths of the ice melt and hides the pearl of congo or. the ice caves captured the interest of many scientists and it's no wonder the cave is. one of the most beautiful eyes in the world hello hello how are you live the scientists we've been waiting for have arrived this is a complex expedition they'll go into the cave to undertake detailed research if we

let them all go but make sure they all register and a lot of ok then i'm off to meet them give instructions. the purpose of registration is to ensure that everyone makes it out of the cave safely today this group of scientists has some unusual work ahead of them perhaps they'll find a new grocer or come across a unique crystal. according to the scientist estimates the cave is ten to twelve thousand years old. it's the only cave in russia which is equipped with special pods for tourists. the thing in the research is wish for a geographical discovery. you must be very careful when climbing there so that you don't fall down it's slippery there's a lot of ice down there how big is the grotto pretty large it will be exciting for you. if we do not come back in an hour or send someone to find us. the research is

a getting ready to crew to reach the reserved area of the cave and that's off limits to ordinary tourists the entrance to the protected zone is basically a narrow hole so be very careful and cautious old who go first what you feel are closely. fifty grottos have been found inside congo rice cave it's also famous for its seventy underground lakes. as a biologist. today he together with his assistant. checking out the caves flora and fauna their task is to set up some traps and they hope to catch a unique inhabitant of the water. temperature inside the cave varies from freezing to above zero. the further away from the entrance the warmer it gets from minus fifteen degrees celsius that's around five degrees fahrenheit to four degrees

celsius or around thirty nine degrees fahrenheit now look at i found yes yes. this is a winter. he's a frequent cave in how to. look started moving. i won't be surprised if it flies off. for the first time the scientists have a chance to explore the depths of the lakes. this one is called the lake of deception because the water appears to be moving here. what happens is that the rain melt water percolate through the ice mountains and drip into the lakes in different places it gives the illusion of movement. this phenomenon interference. so now we have to put out the bait. and was used. over here. a lot of this kind of sausage we would never. we should be

very careful when putting it out so that we do not lose the trap that's it. it's one hundred twenty one meters long but because water dissolves it's gypsum arches the grottos appearance constantly changes regular measurements are needed here. we definitely need to measure the protruding parts of the plate the results will enable us to predict future growth development so that we can then lay out the safest route for visitors. today geologists are measuring one of the most beautiful grocers the difference in temperature makes a peculiar at the bottom it's freezing while on top it's above zero celsius because of this there are no static types in the growth or only mites reaching from the floor. husband and wife. first met while working at a mine together piece pressurizes in landslides another hazardous activities she is

a mineral surveyor. as a geologist nicholai researches different rocks and looks into their formation and structure his job also involves making laser measurements of caves. or notes down the results to measure the entire grotto they have to record two thousand different points with the help of special equipment if you got it yes good. just let me know whoredom said we are now on top of the rock slide which formed when the roof collapsed over. these rocks will eventually be washed away by underground waters in the cave will cease to exist so this cave is very precious to us today so we will be. oh hello you didn't know lights where ok i'll be there soon to change the bulbs ok rangers are in charge of

safety inside the cave every day long before the tourists arrive they have to check to see if they're going to collapse on the tourist trail to be sure that everything is fine with the lighting antonova general condition of the roof so now everything's fixed the cave is rigorously checked on a daily basis after all one hundred thousand tourists on average visit a cave every year that's twice the population of congo or. loose rock has been scraped off with the help of the speak and i can observe the process of how the slabs moved down which you can look to crack when such movement occurs now i have to strengthen the gypsum block here. a screw threaded panko fastens the loose rock to a solid one behind. is believed to be the safest method for the congress cave. because it ensures that the falling tons of rock stays on the roof and full of the

tourists try to stop the cave has been open to tourists for more than one hundred years and it's not seen a single accident in all that time. when i came here as a student and saw all this space and the way ice is formed i was struck by this beauty this energy power. ten years have passed and the case has become a part of my life as. both how difficult it is to get through here we are almost there. and meanwhile geophysicist your east cost apocrypha nicholai maxim over to have reached the polar group so they boast not only the most bizarre ice crystals but also wise that's lasted for centuries it melts neither in winter nor in summer here one can appreciate the food beauty of ice crystallization. scientists first began using geo radar to take measurements of the ice inside the

cave and it turned out to be very effective. we have to crawl here. down to measure all the year regularities of the ice formations. yuri and nikolai thought that if such a technique was being used to study ice in antarctica then why couldn't it be applied in a cave before that an ordinary fishing ice ax was used to measure the ice who takes a little time to measure a fairly large area with the help of this device scientists learned that in some places the ice is six meters thick. the state of the ice inside it depends on the range of temperatures created by natural ventilation when it's colder on the surface lower temperatures accumulate inside the cave forms there and freezes over the cave the process is controlled by the external environment in other words they came back as

a kind of natural air conditioner. if we do these measurements every year we can understand how freezing and melting happen. and can even make conclusions about climate change. the spill your drivers have never swum in the protected area of the cave before for the first time a team of underwater researchers from the russian geographical society will dive into a barely explored part of congo's treasure trove. still your divers are exploring the so-called arctic ocean a lake in a protected area of the cave. we found out that this underground lake is congo is biggest it's sixty meters long making it twice as big as the last one which we found on the tourist trail of a ship that of a person who is undergone an underwater spill yogic course can work literally anywhere. this includes as rescuers on some can ships. this is the best

training for. this group has already started more than a dozen underground lakes and not just in russia they researched caves all around the world came diving is one of the most dangerous of occupations divers are often unaware of what awaits them underwater but that thrill of discovery is also a stronger force. that there's there's a passage passage over there it's about fifteen metres long and one hundred fifty centimeters tall it's very narrow stones are falling down thank god we found everything we wanted well don't rise. of the cave to over has just made his chance to a graphical discovery it took him three years to prepare for a dive into this way they had to develop the necessary skills in the undiscovered

cave. because even the sea. crisis mistake could cost them their lives. culture is that so much of it an oldish decision or our time at the bar when we got the best sanction of israel movement where does it stand on the question of a two state solution of the palestine israel conflict. of. interests in which bryson if. someone from focused impression is. to find stocks on t.v. don't come. just like you know

times trade booms during the traditional russian holiday of shrove to. which bid farewell to windsor and take some souvenirs so fast. is it because the city of congo is full of talented artists ceramicist and stone covers since the seventeenth century when congo was found it has been a major trading for the last. back in the sixteenth century the conqueror of siberia yarmuk must have if his own they ended up losing their way so the cars like chieftain decided to set up here before heading to siberia he established a settlement of the ice mountain houses were built for his men so they could survive the winter and during that time they discovered a cane under the nose of the annex troops used it as a natural refrigerator. the newly found cave attracted many.

tenting them with its mysterious deads peter the great in self or the map of the cave to be drawn the task was fulfilled in the eighteenth century it was the world's first map of underground crossers in the late nineteenth century congo native alexander litvinenko was the first person to conduct guided tours using them and despite its beauty the cave had many dangers for them didn't scare the german princess victoria of battenburg and her daughter louise some time later louise married a prince and became the queen of sweden is said that this is what she wished for on the singing stone. the map of the cave is constantly being updated nine hundred sixty four saw the first cave planned with photographs but science has made great leaps forward since then. is developing a three d.

model of the underground labyrinth. from the tower grosso into a special program the three d. model makes it possible to clarify the relative positions of the caves and to establish their maximum size analysis of the measurements determine whether a collapse is likely to happen and that's important not only for the cave but also for the city and we should study the course of occasion occurring in place gave it has created such an amazing natural phenomenon that it has become a tourist attraction or because of occasion happening in congo means a lot of money is needed to relocate people to safe places and to build houses on stable earth. according to scientific research two thirds of the city's depressions. the cracks on this building have been growing for several years now the apartment block is supported by a special construction of girders they prevent the walls and ceilings from

collapsing cracks are a sign of cost of education taking place underneath. the common pleas national cathedral there's a large crack here where water leaks in a pass' rots and destruction a wall in the kitchen is wobbling birds mice and hamsters attack us from under the floor they nod the floor and run all over here inside the rooms the walls have been ruined by the damp wall paper simply peels off and there's also a big hole behind his crib. the reason water pipes here. when temperatures drop it's simply freezes through and through here we have stowed minds they speak. and there is another crack on this side as well that you know we first bench to now and then put up and he can hear the thing speak and has already cracked. when this apartment block was constructed

a cast lake was filling up below the land under the building began to subside as if it was sinking into a bottomless chasm tenants were evacuated and scientists were brought in to study the situation. this house is located in a city center. was that cracks appeared because a cavity formed under the house here to resolve the issue scientists were signed to deal with it they researched it for two years there was also became the basis for the new general plan of the city now every building is constructed based on the scientists recommendations. surprisingly seven of the cathedrals in the city stand for despite the fact that they were built long before people knew about cars. in fact the city's merchant history has been largely preserved thanks to cost of education is prohibited from building high rise

buildings in the old city in case cast caverns cause another collapse. is that very cabin which is so convenient for scientists to study. to get from one grocer to another one has to cool sometimes upside down meter by meter off the grocer an experienced spill just leaves the group. you have to crawl sideways thrusting awakes against the wall there will be a lake under your feet three nears the please be very careful so that you do not fall down or drop any equipment. feels at home in the protected area even when the lights are off she sees every little change immediately the protected area was found by accident in one thousand nine hundred thirty five there was an expedition during which a worker found a hole which reveals tunnels and grottoes stretching for three and

a half kilometers along with many lakes these are so-called organ pipes vertical channels that connect caverns with the surface their height can be up to twenty two meters as tall as a seven story building the research team grocers in this. huge pieces of loose gypsum hanging from the ceiling weighing at least five tons the first explorers was so amazed by the beauty of the new cave that they chose to preserve it just as it was. the gypsum crystals are rare in our cave this is one of the places where there are large enough of the most well known cave this type is in mexico oh where they grow fourteen meters high. in our cave they are five centimeters but they're very beautiful. meanwhile uncle continues his research the centuries people have been interested not only in mccain but also in

the things that live there. in the old days people believe there was a mammoth like animal living in a cave feeding on the earth and of the underground kennedys appeared because of it but in reality the cave is home only to a very small and homeless inhabitants because the huge sea of perm used to be here . is just a match they can. feed. the falls into the lake during floods it has no one and is never found on the surface it was named after the caves first. lucky find for nikolai and olga. great. chance to leave yes of course they often die in traps because water gets spoiled there. we have to register it.

but this is a very interesting species if this is the only organism in the perm region which is adjusted to living in a cave. there is a theory to go into the jets of the cave at the beginning of the ice age the cold contributed to it's quicker under the earth. and the best photographer of the czech republic. has come specifically to take pictures of one of the largest of the urals. in the passageway an inscription made in one thousand nine hundred fourteen by princess victoria of battenburg and her daughter louise can be found. when temperatures drop. deeper.

when it gets colder. and there at their largest in march this is how i stretches a hidden away from human eyes beneath congo also so for for the time being to many places over the past twenty years i have been to very dangerous caves. but i would like to say that i am absolutely stunned by what i see here now both as a photographer and as an avid speedier tourist it's fantastic. that. i am the queen of the coal i will lead you through three kingdoms the kingdom of the cold my favorites the kingdom of stone and the kingdom of water. some so totally amazed by the striking beauty in the mystery of congo and ice caves

that even ready to forego the cold and darkness to prove their love one couple would hold hearts as even held their wedding in the case. of the world this is our stone our stone of love do you remember them as you wish when we came into the cave two years ago yes i do can you guess what's to marry me. to call her soon just thrives on. what their medicare guests at least come in here to register your marriage in the cougar five k. . of the coal across it was surnames because the walls in the ceiling resemble a reef but above the guest was built here in nineteen eighty-four was. having chosen one of the most beautiful grocers arena and alexander decided to get married here. was.

the magic of the giant underground lakes and drossos and the frozen poetry of the ice bring peace. into a fantastic world of ancient caves. the practice of guided tours here is almost one hundred years old valentyn rep continues the tradition of the first ghost clinic of he loves the cave as if it were his own home to a dolphin swimming here in search of his beloved mermaid but he failed to find her and turned to stone because of the owner acquired love of everyone searching for love knocks on the dolphin and the dolphin sings and their wishes come true. in the past people used to carry same torches or candles in spotless to light up the cave but by the end of the twentieth century electricity was restored today

a torchlight procession in the cave is only for special occasions and now it's in tribute to alexander clinic of thanks to him tourists can venture underground every day. guided tourists into the cave until his very death even to the point where he was almost blind he connected the past the present and the future it was a constant process and eternal link between the mysterious underground world and the buzz of life outside.

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