it's. top stories for you revolution hangover latest clashes in egypt between protesters and. security forces one dead and hundreds injured in the run up from the president. also headlining from a campaign for the rights of the far right is incented from the comfort side who is next leader. with. russia's republican doug a stop victims of a deadly twin bombing which killed. over one hundred suspected international links. next. to the kremlin the public good to see very often and

meet some of the people whose unseen efforts keep the wails of russian power. from a bird's eye view the oddly shaped triangle formed by moscow's kremlin could be seen as the heart of. a small state within a state these red walls seven protecting moscow's kremlin for more than five centuries. to even idea of its size so we decided to actually go around it before going inside we must start right here at this basket our time your watch.

extended over the kremlin walls is over two kilometers and if you want to go around it you better go real fast because the winters in russia are really cold it's minus ten today. and the first kremlin was built out of woods poured out a couple of times before being rebuilt in white stowed. three hundred years later the walls in a tower square faced off with a famous red rake but if you actually pulled away the red brick you would see a wall as whites as a bridal gown and some of those walls are almost six meters thick. right here on the red square was a depend moat filled with water and together with

a ring of twenty towers it made the kremlin and inaccessible fortress known around the world. stop the watch now the target log worse to witness it took us twenty seven minutes to go around the kremlin walls but what was behind them well join me on a journey to the heart of the kremlin to places him from the tourist he going to meet some real criminal insiders although they may not be the usual news makers you see on t.v. . so that you're going to meet true kremlin scholar this man is practically saturated with kremlin history so good to that of the day that and finally we meet good to see you sir couldn't ask a gate is the major passage into the kremlin and traditionally it has always been open for arriving visitors during the day since the time of ivan the terrible sars

an emperor has used it when visiting moscow anyone entering the gates take off their high note to all of the savior of smaller whose image can be seen above the gate. and tearing through games on horseback was prohibition a legend has it that when napoleon passed through the gate in moscow in eight hundred twelve the winds tore his famous by calling from his head confront the cedar. one thousand nine hundred forty five hero of the soviet union marshall d. will give. both worlds in one moment he entered dressed square through spassky gate to receive the first victory day parade on horseback and wearing his service cap. after getting e-mail so when did the i can appear here the icon has been here since the sixteenth century but disappeared during the soviet era it was only

a year ago that the stores discovered the icon under a layer of plaster while examining the may story on this tower thanks to them it was saved. in the name of the father. and the holy spirit. is busking the gate was open for passage until the late ninety's but motor transport to and from the kremlin disturbed tourists walking along the red square and the kremlin walls and with the new millennium came the decision to close the gate. now it opens only on special occasions during the ninth of may fixture a day parade for example or on inauguration day to receive the presidential motorcade. the only other visitor to pass through the gate is a giant christmas tree put up earlier celebrations. that could you lead me

through those gates no but we can enter the kremlin through the private entrance a secret entrance for a closed circle is just around the corner. was very easy to get inside the kremlin together with you. as for me i've always wanted to get to the kremlin clock and especially to the bells what was it seems a child i always stood outside looking at the clock and i thought a magician lived there who manage the clock and also when the bells rang i was simply rooted to the ground. can i get inside was more to the us but you're not dressed warmly enough there's a strong wind up there i have this very cold i think you'll have to put on something warmer. this boss could tell where the heart of the kremlin's defensive line was and to support that any offensive would come from the southeast and that the tower would be to first attacked as a result of house trifle and artillery units in the mid seventeenth century spassky

tower was the first to bear of the two had eight eagle emblem of russia during soviet times they were all with when the five pointed star struck. but the towers true jam as its chimes its clock face has a six meters diameter the rim numerals and clock hands are all gold plated a total of twenty eight kilograms of gold is needed just to coat them. inside this bass guitar right now we're going to meet a true tower wizard she can those are of knows all about how to keep time in the tower oh sissoko. so good to meet you so one thirty clock appear in the tower. we see today has been here since they seem fifty two. clocks appeared on the spot sky tower during the time of zometa heil romanov let me tell you more about them at the top but i'm following you. to reach the clock one

has to climb nine floors of spiral stairs. hear the clock your stern steadily waking every fifteen minutes to signal the bells to strike every quarter hour for one big hit on the hours and. if you'd like to do know the purpose of the bells ringing previously when few people had watches the chimes informed everyone of the toy. previously the clock course operated manually but since nine hundred thirty seven three electric motors to go over everything else has been preserved in its original form. our clock is the oldest one in here up. can you see the pointer at the end.

this point to regulate the speed of the clocks motion if the clock blocks behind it increases the speed if it's fast pointer slows it down so they do lag behind where you never notice it because once it starts to pick up specialists quickly eliminate the problem acting like an ambulance so far we haven't noticed it but we're close to revealing that's right. this is an ancient bell ringing here a mechanism for setting up melodies at this hour it's almost two and a half meters in diameter and what is missing it's sing the national anthem of russia. yes yes. they'll strike the melody of russia's national anthem every six hours cables run from the drum below to the very top where the chime in the bell tower. well here are the bells yes we're in the bell tower. if you look at it don't see it still has

a wooden ceiling. forty eight bells hang here in imperial times but were lost during the soviet era today the chimes sings the russian anthem with ten bells and a few metal beats up here attempts stories of the ground it's always very windy. we've got to go now because the main bells in us are rigging and we are risking the carrying death and also it's very cold so we're getting out of here. skating from the noises of the bells just a few minutes later i find myself near the kremlin central square where people are preparing for especially that so right now we're only cathedral square where a giant fir tree is being decorated for newer celebrations these streets tents

between the palaces a warship and the palaces of the stars and can just tell you something one hundred years old which basically means that it was born when the last star was still alive . one can see that this russian christmas tree has won a very demanding seasonal beauty pageant. gardener spend several months searching moscow regions for the right candidate at least thirty meters tall pyramid shaped and displaying ample slowly each once these criteria is where match the judges ignored the weight and the huge shacks he is especially ordered for this christmas tree and it's scary to straight into the kremlin. it's not there any more mirrors high it's like twenty times my height and in no time this tree is going to be wearing at the apartments or walls jewelry and decorations about two thousand. one

thousand five hundred meters of garland that's like almost enough to surround the kremlin into. the trees decorations from top to bottom to begin with the large star of bethlehem on top of it is a quarter of the size of the rubbish stars atop the kremlin towers but during the holiday season it is the most important one of all. though they look oversized the ornaments are light kremlin old timers believe that if you have a chance to hang at least one piece onto the tree and make a wish it is balanced to come true. so now we're going to talk to any fellow just like me decorate this great believe you or your tree. i wonder how long it's going to store need us so sergey for how long have you been decorating christmas trees. well this is the first time that i'm just curious in this tree for the past four years i've been working with christmas trees at cathedral square if you so who

decides how to decorate a christmas tree which is a design project is drawn up to clearly define how to handle these decorations by the way the total weights of the decorated christmas tree is thirty tonnes and four hundred kilos. well if this size of the tree is any indicator the presence under is also promised much. to a substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of the regimentation over most of the nations of europe. and the shadow is encroaching a little different. in the early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the former sleepy empire that the united

states is trying to build it's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million a more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around the world. we don't have a foreign bases in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in our bases are fine there are the noises i want noise and doesn't bother us at all because they're all bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for these people. since the end of world war two the spaces i've been . working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions any of thing else you get everything you needed.

the next point of my journey is the grand kremlin palace usually it is divinia for important state ceremonies mostly dignitaries are invited here but in the past children were also received thousands of them came to celebrate the new year's festivities. the tradition never reaching holidays for children in the kremlin they expected to more than fifty years the first reception was the new ground kremlin palaces largest whole st georges in one nine hundred fifty fool. them the giant

christmas tree most tracks directly up the stairs through their front door without much thought for the ancient interior over sixty meters deep st george's hall is the size of a football page a giant fir tree used to be mounted right here and this massively have the object is to be dragged across this park here floor that was originally late in eight hundred forty five. when it's scraped that chandelier each one weighing three tons by the way and it's tinkling produced an almost surreal eerie chime also large nails were hammered into this four to six this huge christmas tree the kids who danced and sang in this hall where were asked not to shuffle because it would void in the floor nevertheless the interior was heavily damaged even i was asked to come in with soft indoor shoes and i tried my best. these wrongs honor the memory of heroes who received the order of st george for their courage and this is

a blow move on a second generation home custodian is also a fine but a fighter to preserve the homes reconstruction stood one has changed after the reconstruction but i but i still support the park it has definitely changed do you suppose most become a data point hard to brownish to make it bright. it's very rare is that in two percent of the park it has survived since eight hundred forty five when it was laid . there's a percent of the flooring was replays during restoration in one thousand sixty eight thousand nine hundred sixty nine it took almost a year to restore. the. children's parties were moved to a new building in the early sixty's the kremlin palace of congress and built on the shelf it's obvious that this building is from the soviet era and it stands in stark contrast with the kremlin's architectural character the palace used to be

a key side for communist forums and now it's the most prestigious musical venue in this country and also a stage for the world's greatest artists show as now or staying elton john tina turner they've all been here. right now her souls are underway in the state kremlin palace for a new year's performance for thousands of kids. inside we have an appointment with a kremlin oldtimer children's writer alexander could get the script to the very first children's new york party in one thousand fifty three listen when i think we've broken the soviet tradition of staging performances here at the kremlin before about which color shots the tree would light up then kids would be shown to play with the revolution we speak. with them and change the plot for what it was about a boy toy out of his current situation so in the story he sent him to

a different time. but on one occasion when i came to the new year policy there was no coverage on the floor i also had just gone with the roof it turned out to the during the show some of the children had wet themselves on the carpet out of fear too that to be washed and hung out to draw off to. our days they were your performances are more predictable but still barely colorful nevertheless. by tradition at the end of the show the main character of the new year celebrations makes his grand entrance was that the. children always leave kremlin with gifts however the greatest drama is after the show when parents surround the new year straight to pick the children up who risk to disperse like ants in kremlin inner sanctum. she so how did you like this show

was it a kid did it give you a shock. for it so now it's about time to find out where one can even hear it when the kitchen. it is not far on the fifth floor of the state criminal palace and we're on our way to meet with a sam kremlin chef foot. high you know sophie you got us there is to meet you say are there new chef there once talking about just what's here so this is the road where we prepare most of you are the prettiest girls or do for. rich to boards i can show you all short let's go what's over there and shoes are not secure and that's where we lose you put their hearts so many cools. it with you it's so if you fake people that so you're the chef and you're thirty five a choice are they scared of you. you did yeah. so this is

where all the sugar since take place on the we've been. so good and they want to show you where i have the privilege to world rules and. that's usually you told me the kitchens are in the basement you can have promised me to teach how to cook when i present favorite dishes. and i want you to make some kind of for me with the european touch i won't lose russian produce any make you turn your french. but this stuff. is mixed with vegetables and salad greens then on to the world so closer down shaping them by hand is part. i don't think i'm doing a very good job closing it. says recent russian presidents prefer healthy food and smaller portions to cram in shefford meats that do need to be resist physically

fond of fish and seafood for example lobster salad put in also prefers fish or meat in the kitchen they told us that she loves unsophisticated dishes like bread to preparing them. refuses local delicacies on a business trips so when someone in the countryside street scene with pickles cucumbers also a traditional russian delicacy his security officers break into a cold sweat as a room only you are very carefully checked before it reaches the presidential mouth . so when you when you prepare for the person you have like secret service guy you do that with goggles x. raying your food it's a good complicated they call him and take it simple words of. just some basic and that is make sure that most news. in this full of v.a. people. alcohol is served only on festive occasions and need to be

a little on holidays they prefer beer and wine but he's yeltsin was a lover of liquors and cognac secretary of state of the soviet union and. personally promoted vodka at international receptions thanks to him push skyrocketed. with prepared cream sauce with parmesan cheese to go with ravioli i guess i can say that i can feed the president now are you going to have some. it's ordeals. i only live in crumlin this is so good. after lunch and there is an order perhaps in stars spread from us i decided first to acquaint myself with those who watch over the peace and quiet in the kremlin. a whole regiment of young soldiers live here guarding the kremlin and the president. the ballots. the

presidential regiment is rehearsing a performance with weapons denise and kim are not only soldiers but also honor guards they protected to both the unknown soldier at the eternal flame ok i thought you can please show me some special tricks is that i can teach you if you want all right let's do it like a pro commander is. going to unfold the bayonet. let me show you the superman then the lead up to the shoulder. to the foot hold the carbine with the right term i'm not going to cut myself and i know you won't cut yourself and i'm told that. almost now shoulder the weapon show but lifted up your hold with your left. arm holding it be careful it should not lean on the left shoulder. this is the position in which we start the honor guard on the fourth. young men between

eighteen and twenty or selected across the country for the presidential regiment. one can see that they are russia's elite in perfect health was a good background and professional appearance. for the guards there we handsome young men of similar hates are chosen so that they look like twins. for their emergency situations when people break the existing growth for example if people step over the chain we warn them with this kind of signal where they're going with signal and tapping the rifle on the ground the public immediately understands what this noise means and don't go any further. than most frequent violators of the roofs are young girls that always try to flirt with the guards. but this is to no avail the guards are not allowed to move never mind smile. so here's your signature move it is about. the leg about seventy eighty degrees

move the body forward and put the full foot on the ground this makes the food you step with your bent a little. quick march. first you're doing it well you can join our company in a couple of months. to the rights. it's time for the guys to prepare for the changing of the guard but i couldn't miss a chance to take a look at their uniform wardrobe. when it is cold we wear ceremonial overcoats the overcoats are very warm with a strong color of. course you can when the temperature is twenty degrees below zero we were warmer uniform called the because. it is made of dense fabric plus it has very warm fur it feels hot and it even when it's minus twenty.

third journey into the heart of kremlin is coming to an end thanks time for me to move behind the kremlin walls so i can make it for the changing of the parts so the guards are changing every hour daily from eight am to eight pm these guys and the weather beat minus thirty winter torrential rain outrages hits in the summer but the most hard part of course is to stand there motionless no matter what but hey that's the price you pay to leave rent free inside the kremlin.

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