the palm of your. question. here in moscow with the twenty four hours a day top stories this hour the observer mission in syria comes under attack in damascus. news crew which has also caught up in the trouble. convicted of trafficking and facing twenty five years in a maximum security u.s. jail russian businessmen who calls the case against them a witch hunt in an exclusive interview with. protesters attempt. new financial chaos in the euro zone. and hopes of finding survivors from the plane crash in indonesia fade as the rescue

team discovers the first victims from the fatal russian superjet demo flight. fifty minutes. and they take you to a spectacular locations near the kremlin in the heart of the russian capital. hello and welcome the sun is shining and it's a beautiful day on this week's program we're taking a look at cultural outlaws around the kremlin with a history dating back centuries the whole area is a walking open at museum and the capital has certainly see that amounts to is times over the past few hundred years and from stories to legends google every area and corner here is full of interesting facts and figures there are a few cities worldwide that resonates with history and culture the way moscow does

whether you find yourself and meiring st basil's cathedral or the ancient walls of the kremlin you can spend hours gazing at the various sites here. delve a little deeper away from the typical tourist spots and you'll be amazed at the stories that each building an area of the city has. the. first of the bolshoi it must go on its keep bridge it's a concrete arch bridge that spans the most riveting and can expose shadow i think a street with red square immediately east of the kremlin built in one nine hundred thirty seven the bridge has a total width of forty metres aides call lanes. with approach ramps is five hundred and fifty four meters. is pretty extreme or the way on the left of the some of the best views in russia and it's be points are used by all russian and international television channels. and we now pass the

department store goom the building built between eighteen nineteen eighty and ninety three features an interesting combination of elements of russian medieval architecture and a steel framework and glass roof a similar style to the great nineteenth century train stations of london. today this. hundred forty two metre long building boasts a luxurious shopping arcade although it's not cheap so maybe it's best to stick to cultural excursions instead. passing the reconstructed orthodox cathedral of our lady of khazan at the bottom of red square we passed through the resurrection gates is here next to the tacky tourist stalls and just in front of the iberian chapel but you can find a bronze plaque on the cobbled floor that gets lots of attention from locals and tourists one thing here is a small coin. ok and here we have it the famous spots are closed my eyes make a wish for the coin. carrier i hope it comes true as the spot from where all

distances from moscow are measured apparently it's good luck to throw a coin of your shoulder. so for everything is beautiful. i'm still trying to figure out exactly where things are and where i have to see people have been friendly it doesn't seem to have a really small center like a really big area would be a big grounds. and by beautiful the buildings are amazing is my first day in the city and i already love it moscow is beautiful splendid in grand. proving all angles need more translates as guest house is a large buildings to couple of minutes walk from the kremlin from the fourteenth century the area was the epicenter of trade in moscow with merchants around the world arriving to the spot the building we see now is a result of a major research ration that took place in the one nine hundred ninety s.

making it a large business trade and cultural center to host numerous events each month. they stop we take a brief to the top left hand side of the kremlin for many years the splendid palace of white stone the stands on the concourse ski hill has a maze people and this. considered to be one of the most peaceful buildings in the russian capital the situation of the building is rather unorthodox two says the main entrance is from a side street and not from the facade which you can see here move ring around the corner take a look at this pretty courtyard this building was erected between seventy eighty four and seven hundred eighty six by the russian nobleman short rapacious often interesting enough it was also used as a meeting place for various charities of the dark of spain most noble and margarita very striking building a match to reality it was once moscow's first public library in the nineteenth century and today the palaces current owner is the russian state library i wonder

what it looks like inside let's find out. moving inside it's almost like going back in time the interiors all bright historic and grand. just shook this room wow you can imagine the space being used for large parties instead it was used for bookworms although it looks like a bull when the space was actually used as a library for most of its time. and looking through the window in the second floor here i think this room might have one of the best views in russia. the building is believed to have been designed by famous washing architect of a city version of no documented evidence of his involvement with the house exists however as the records of question of projects were lost in a fire at the moscow town planning archives. two books now and let's take a look at one of the libraries here today the right wing of the pasco house houses

the my scripts the palm and while it's left wing houses the music department and maps apartments of the russian state library. it's rather strange to hold a book which is hundreds of years old this is called scripts he is in great condition i wonder why people held it before me. even more interesting is that the depths of the area underneath the passage of house is said to be one of the several possible locations of the legendary library of ivan the terrible now that is something i would like to see. moving on and the new. as it's known in russian is a contemporary central exhibition hall the venue houses dozens of various displays annually that interest me enough the building was not meant as a cultural venue in the first place in eight hundred eighty eight the structure was erected as the first power plant in the center of moscow but it was abandoned

shortly to become. vast modern gallery a century later. to our next location now and not all the museums around in the kremlin are dedicated to history and art those who are interested in nature to need to travel further from the city center as well as moscow's oldest and largest is among school museum is located just a short walk through red square this museum of the moscow state university was founded in seven hundred ninety one and since then gather funds that make it in the first ten of such collections in the world she teaches display represents all kinds of animals like groom we inhabit our planet it's easy and comprehensive to walk around the museum as the displays organized in a systematic order so that visitors can explore various species from single celled organisms to began a mess like the one behind my back. don't

be surprised if you see many students while walking around the kremlin as the building across the street from the midwest square is home to the faculty of journalism of the moscow state university. the university bears the name of the outstanding scientists of the eighteenth century the north off. known as the old university building the main complex was moved to spring hills area in the middle of the twentieth century and now it's the future journalists who are lucky to study right in the heart of moscow. our final location on the edge square is the moscow aka logical museum. the physical changes between mediæval moscow to the modern day capital are quite significant in the various models situated in the museum you can see buildings and street plans for the various stages in history all of the main differences is the

existence of a river which once used to lie along. the top side of the kremlin where moscow was rebuilt after the fire of eighteen twelve the league lin i recall was confined to an underground tunnel several years later and the bridge was buried interesting stuff like a visual history book at the museum here you can see for yourselves how the city's changing cityscape came into effect the museum opened in ninety nine to seven i was located seven meters underground on the exact spot where a large archeological digs took place during the night to ninety's the main space is sensitive around this part reconstruction of the old seventeenth century bridge which you can see here and through in the excavations a whole range of other items such as metal coins and household objects were also found many of which you can also see on display here inside the museum. the team involved in the projects managed to lay bets foundations of stone buildings in the

eighteen months and centuries they also discovered cobbled on wooden streets as well as chambers and other structures. allowed to discover traces of the handicraft industry and to reconstruct the life of people who inhabited this district centuries ago none of these small touring mannish square not many people realise that they are walking on top of a museum but nevertheless venue is popular and there are even more visitors during weekends when we have experienced interactive educational events. whether it is through its beauty or grotesqueness may be up for debate but what can be denied is that moscow inspires and has done for hundreds of years as a city almost eight hundred seventy years old moscow has many reminders of extra massive past and for visitors and even locals it's quite often the small and intricate sights and locations that make up the cultural thread work of the city.

yes the kremlin might be the powerhouse and provide the fabulous photo opportunities but it's. the areas around key member marks which also hold by two stories to the makeup of the city. well you'll certainly be impressed with the long lists of cultural ahmad's around the area of the kremlin that's in the show all well fortunately that so that's how we have left on this week's program i'll see you again at the same time next week i will be taking a look i various and stayman spots around here so until then for me and the rest the same from another square here about an hour.

the people of the united states and their friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder is a regime has an active program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons and let there be no doubt about we know for a fact there are limits there. this were just being carried out in the direction of dr david kay respected scientist and former u.n. inspector was leading the weapons search in iraq we are determined to take this apart you have a tremendous a group of dedicated american men and women involved in this with the best assets of the intelligence community can provide. data cheney is not going to be done with this for quite some time david kay wants more time and he says it could take another six to nine months to make a definitive finding ministration is asking congress for hundreds of millions more six hundred million dollars to fund a continuing search have not yet found shiny pointy things that i would call a weapon before we can draw from conclusions we need to let the iraq survey group

complete its work. we were all wrong probably in my judgment. and that is most disturbing. sometimes the true patriot takes the unpopular course but helps their country of origin stakes and even if they come this way at least for patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels and i think these are scoundrels they have no argument now they have no defense for what they did the country is in a terrible international security situation but i think it's perilous so they're attacking the patriotism of other.

top stories this hour here on t.v. the un's observer mission in syria comes under attack in a damascus suburb with all t's news crew which followed the monitors also caught up in the trouble. convicted of illegal arms trafficking and facing twenty five years in a maximum security u.s. jail but russian businessman victor boot calls the case against him a witch hunt and an exclusive interview with. plus austerity and a flare is again in this in his protest as attempt to storm a local tax office while they're looking greece spodes new financial chaos in the euro zone. and hopes of finding survivors from a plane crash in indonesia fade as a rescue team discovers the first victims from the fatal russian superjet demo

flight. i'll be back with more news stories in full for you will be off and the sports update. thank you joining us this is sports today plenty head including this. big name game of russian manager dick advocaat announces his provisional twenty six months squad for this summer's european football championships in poland spring. complaints following a surprise the fee to compute fernando verdasco rafael nadal threatens not to return to madrid masters on less the rim prudence made to the surface. in poulter on martin large lead the way after the first round all the players' championship. world's best to battle for the biggest payday. let's start with

football where russia monitor dick advocaat has named his provisional twenty six month squad for this summer's european football championships there are two on cup players in the lineup. joya from. grown ups from city rivals to the men included for the very first time although there is no call up for former everton dean off the final score of twenty three will be confirmed at the end of the month. now for more on the squad announcement i was joined earlier by our sport correspondent richard from port fleet who shared his thoughts on the main talking point. living idea billett dean of has been really an ever present in the russian squads for the last five six years that really is a major surprise he came back to russia to play first class at moscow after leaving everton really to get big magix perience because he's on the bench for so long at everton but really i mean he's been hampered by a few injuries spoke to him about a month ago he was still hopeful of making the squad but i can't decide not to go

for. dimitar to be in ski who's got a memorable goal against benevolence four years ago of european championships he's been left out as well that's a bit of a surprise well but again he's been hampered by major injury problems but said only you know it's not too predictable because gone for mainly going on experience a lot of the names that were in austria and switzerland four years ago have made the cut again a lot is going to hinge obviously on under sharp in his forms really picked up since he left ass and he's had a really a nightmare first of the season when he was in london but his forms of girls had picked up a bit as he moved to st petersburg to play for but its actual form for the national side has been pretty good even in the autumn when he was having those massive struggles in the emirates stadium that i think is going to be all about a shot in very good players very underrated players like you get nice of. of players he needs and really start of the champions league but because they are playing a full in russia perhaps not as well known as they would be if they were playing.

elsewhere in europe. moving on to controversy on the tennis courts were. threatened not to return to the madrid masters next season after complaining about the quality of the new courts play specialist nidal surfing a surprise third round defeat to come out here from london for us go he went on six three three six seven five were number nineteen for just whoever has never beaten his fellow countrymen and thirteen previous meetings and not pattern looks set to continue with leading five two in the decisive third set for us to go then strung together five consecutive games to take it seven five leaving that through his earliest board exhibit eight years off it was a set of things continue as they are there would be one less tournament in his calendar next year stating that the change to a blue court surface was a bad decision. to such worries for roger federer the swiss easing into the quarterfinals with

a straight sets win over france's richard gask a six three six to the comfortable scoreline the world's top golfers meanwhile are this weekend competing for the biggest prize in this sport's ian poulter and martin lard they are the men to catch of the players championship following round one nine point five million dollars worth of prize money for grabs at sawgrass poulter was sitting top of the leaderboard for most of the opening day after a run of four birdies around the turn difficult bunker shot coming up setting up another in the sixteen he finished with a seven under sixty five u.s. base scott large finished they tied the poulter he was the only peer not to register a bogey this big push for birdie on the second setting the tone for his day it was not such a good idea for tiger woods though a round of seventy four means he's tied for one hundredth place and now is in real danger of missing the cut out of p.g.a. event for only the one time it was. by distance score you know hit. you know three decent shots in there and it's got some of the worst lies you know

and the best shot i had all day was on three and it up in a spot where i really couldn't play from so it's. it was frustrating and you know my good shots and the bad spots and i was about shots and up in a war spots a ball where this year's brick at n.b.a. sensation jeremy lin continues to recover from his knee injury while pondering his future at the miami heat eliminated lynas new york knicks in the first round of the playoffs this year on the twenty three year old is now scheduled to become a free agent in the summer even during the downtime to learn a lot he was going to be. learn a lot. as a person and remind us first. to be a part of this to be a part of. the organization. that

. the newly reelected russian president has sent out a warning shot ahead of the twenty fourteen winter olympics vladimir putin and warning local construction companies not to inflate prices or lag behind schedule for the sochi games the head of state arriving in the region for personal inspection tour and friday a day after local authorities reportedly for a terrorist plot in the russian resort city in saying he wants companies to stick to their submitted budget figures but government fines likely for those who do not sufficiently the international olympic committee also praised russian security forces following the storm which stockpiles of weapons in the neighboring region are up. and finally the longest russian season football season in history comes to a close this week but let's not look back at the strikes which made the difference last weekend empanelled that run forty three it is goals who are time. legislature

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