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welcome back you are with our t.v. live from moscow the headlines in greece talks of forming a new government failed to reach agreement after last weekend's election with conditions imposed by the e.u. not now growing too big for the country's political parties avon's very membership of the euro zone is now under threat. going demonstrations in support of a mass hunger strike by palestinian prisoners in the forefront with a brutal response from the israeli military clashes have been taking place almost daily since oh were fifteen hundred detainees started to refuse food over their detention without charge and treatment by israel. and the u.s.
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is partially resuming arms sales to upgrade the spy human rights concerns weapons shipments from washington have been frozen since the breakdown in popular unrest state again last year. also the headlines next time to breathe in the fresh spring air of the russian capital with moscow going for a walk around the kremlin. 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 in the capital has certainly seen its small suicide times over the past few hundred years and from stories to legends go every area and
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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 say 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 the most but it's keep bridge it's a concrete bridge that spans the most riveting i can expose shadow i think a street with red square immediately east of the kremlin built in one thousand nine hundred seventy the bridge has a total width of forty meters eight calm lanes and its total length with approach ramps is five hundred and fifty four meters. is pretty extreme or way on the left of the some of the best views in russia and its be points are used by all russian and international television channels. looking up and we
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now past the department store good building built between eighty nine hundred 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 spot so close my eyes make
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a wish for the court. 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 over 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 with a big crowds. and by beautiful the buildings are amazing is how i first day in the city and i already love it moscow is beautiful splendid in grand. proving all angus needmore 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
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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 offense 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 amazed people and is. considered to be one of the most beautiful buildings in the russian capital the situation of the building is rather unorthodox to this is 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 seventy eighty six by the russian nobleman court rapacious coffin 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 matter reality it was once moscow's first public library in the nineteenth
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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 because here is all bright historic and grant. 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 washee 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
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a look at one of the libraries here today the right wing of the pasco house houses the my scripts apartment while it's left wing houses the music department and mumps department 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 passing 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 the interest only enough the building was not meant as
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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 don't need to travel further from the city center as well as moscow's oldest and largest bazaar moscow museum is located just a short walk from the 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 truly 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 be animals like the one behind my back.
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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 the 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 modern day capital are quite
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significant in the various models situated in the museum you can see buildings and street plans for the various stages in history one of the main differences is the existence of a river which once used to lie along. top side of the kremlin where moscow was rebuilt after the fire of eighteen twelve glynn i recall was confined to an underground tunnel several years later and the prosecution's key 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 and was located seven meters underground on the exact spot where a large archeological dig took place during the night the ninety's the main space is sensitive around this part reconstruction of the old seventeenth century bridge which you can see here and during 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
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involved in the projects foundations of stone buildings from the eighteen month centuries they also discovered 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 realize that they are walking on top of a museum but nevertheless venue is popular and there are even more visitors during weekends when we are experienced interactive educational events. whether it is through its beauty or grotesqueness may be up for debate but what can't 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 intricate
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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. also the areas around command mogs which also hold by two stories to the makeup of the city. well you'll sadly be impressed with the long lists of cultural ahmad's around the area of the kremlin about the salt well fortunately that's it that's all we have left on this week's program i'll see you again at the same time next week i will be taking look i various and stayman spots around here say and tell them from me and the rest the same from a nice way here about. wealthy
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ingres talks and forming a new government failed to reach agreement after last weekend's election. conditions imposed by the e.u. and i.m.f. proving to be a hurdle for the country's political parties at this very membership of the euro zone is now under threat. ongoing demonstrations in support of a mass hunger strike by palestinian prisoners pits views in the forefront with the brutal response from the israeli military clashes happen taking place almost daily since over fifteen hundred detainees started to refuse food where they are detention without charge and treatment by israel. and the u.s. is partially resuming arms sales to bahrain despite human rights concerns weapons shipments from washington have been frozen since the crackdown on popular unrest in the gulf states last year. those with
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a headline here on our team sports next with enter farmer. hello there welcome to the sports and these are the headlines super dreams to some oscar reach that you really filed for a twelfth time after a grueling when i was defending champs pinus and i caught. magic mouthing grabs a hat trick is russia being sweden serving three of the world ice hockey championships. and feeling blue cheer out of a crash is on to madrid open quarter finals after losing to serena williams time in a right. let's start there with the basket ball where to score moscow have beaten defending champions planet in i cost to reach the euro league final a thrilling contest for the muscovites win by sixty six points to sixty four and down ball with two minutes to go it was the greeks who were ahead by four after
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a three point five start and i.c.r.c. coverage but alexey shared that then cut the deficit to one i'm a thirty nine seconds left on the clock here the thick nailed the basket to put clear from take attempts from pan and i cross to get even one final shot was snuffed out by the russians who held out to celebrate a hard for victory and they will face a limp in sunday's final olympiacos went head to head with barcelona and a repeat of the twenty ten final and the greek side dominate the early stages and jumped out tonight little league serious new lease hoping the scoring with a three pointer just before half time and imperial course went ahead thirty three twenty nine and richard dorsey's barcelona they battled their way to the final buzzer and never let a limb p.r. course build up considerably however richard dorsey's layer put it in p.r. course ahead by four points with just sixteen seconds left to go and the greek side
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held on to win sixty eight sixty four and n.p.r. course then will take on to discuss. moscow in sunday's final. now you've got him out in a hat trick that's all russia come from behind from three one down to be sweden seven three the world championships the pittsburgh penguins star also got two assists in the way in which puts them top of group russia are also the only decent team left in the championships in other games on friday canada the reigning champions finn and five three united states needed overtime to beat kazakstan three and the czech republic fresh distillate six neal. the new elected russian president to send out a warning ahead of the twenty fourteen winter olympics plenty of putin telling local construction companies not to inflate prices all like behind share a jewel for the sort she games ahead of the state arriving in the region for a personal inspection tour on friday a day after local authorities reportedly followed
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a terrorist plot in the russian resort city putin saying he wants companies to stick to their submitted budget figures with gold in fines likely for those who do not additionally you need to national olympic committee also prayed to curative forces following the discovery of stockpiles of weapons in the neighboring region of a. football manager dick advocaat has named his provisional twenty six man squad for this summer's european football championships thirty one cap plays in the line up might go mad as the way or form lokomotiv moscow. from city rivals number moscow the men included for the first time although there is no call up for former everton man didn't believe yet the end of the final squad of twenty three will be confirmed at the end of the month in the meantime russia will head to a training camp in ten days time had a friendly. with the way in poland before the eurostar on june eighth. now tennis number one never djokovic has threatened to boycott next year's madrid
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open after his shock quarter final exit from issue. tournament he lost in straight sets against fellows. and was again critical of the police which found it hard to keep their grip djokovic eventually losing seven six six three to be fair to tips are of a chair he took the match to the number one and says i'm starting to feel he belongs in the world's top ten. this result is really you know. making me believe that i really belong there because beating good players on the park events is what is being taught all about. but it's still a long it's a long season it's a long where you know you have guys like is there and the porter or. the fish. who are playing just great tennis you know but if i manage to play big on big events i
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am starting to feel more and more that i belong here well i have to show the same sort of form in the semis because there he will meet roger federer who beat david ferrer of spain six six four seed in the wind with the seventh and is on course for his fourth title of the year. by large in time one martin the horrible two semifinal place with victory over an easy win over alexander before pulling off ukraine six three six four with a score there just ten straight picture on clay for. thomas. russia's top seed. losing for the seventh straight time again serena williams the american powering through the opening set six one and even though she started well enough in the second she soon looked second best season six three we see how to do for a place in the final. world number one victoria azarenka has also made the last for the better russian with
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a comeback win over an hour the chinese have taken the first step for a six but as a rank event the next two by the same scoreline will face and need to get advance in the semi. i. never use goal world number one remark roy has failed to make the cut of the players championship in florida while americans that johnson kevin are. halfway lead their johnson got himself into contention by matching the best second round of the day a sixty six this up page of an approach from him kevin now was also on far on the back nine he carded a sixty nine. had a bogey free round tiger woods looked like he might join mcelroy with. the burst of burning soon ended any concern he would miss the cut for a second torn mint in a row he is six strokes awfully short of the day they belong to brian though this was his highlight saying no he's back down.
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can't believe in self now len with sailings where russian funded the european yacht the as a minute europa and is preparing to start the new season is fast becoming a force in the sport despite only being launched two years ago rather than yan caught up with the correct. this has come together to become one of the kind the only yacht in the world to victory under the european flag this image europa two is one of the most searing boots in the world with the sports cream of the cruel. on top of that they are driven by a simple and elegant idea presenting the european continent at its best having grown out of project uniting savannah and italy in one thousand nine hundred ninety five two powerful symbol of common identity for europe in the present and the
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reason i want to meet. the ambassador the at the best technology the best people in the baseball and it's all going to be carrying these ball team ball how likely were we. in this respect his image has been flow this spring it's excellence in every race it can put it in. the super max yacht consider the fastest manhole in the world first broke the waves in twenty town and claimed eleven consecutive wins breaking two course records in heroic is says and. the next year or so a true legend of the sports leading the isn't it good as skipper. return olympic champion and to john america's cup winner john your consume. and europe's both remained unbeatable making one team winning four one euro for that something you
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would never have been feeling and the sport i think is a perfect ambasador and it's a technology often we're just three percent of fourth from it a lot of stronger and be competitive but i like being competitive. another is i'm a dream caster man one of the world's most degraded navigators america's cup and go volution race winner spaniard one dealer he joined the team for the twenty eleven season and claims interaction within the multicultural crew is not a problem but that makes it even stronger that's also one one of the reasons why our training just tore. to make this possible difficulty from having a multinational just not making it difficult to benefit from the team different people on the boat bringing different ideas improve the systems both the actual bad systems and the systems for maneuvering about that it's very much people driven so
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that there are people in. the machine of the century useless. new challenges for this immature up to you are just around the corner with a twenty eleven season opener generally a rolex camp getting underway in june the eighth the best sailors from seven european countries with one goal of fine tuning their skills and magnificent boat in spain near valencia nevertheless artie's crew was not only allowed to join them on board but together once in a lifetime chance. at becoming one of the greatest experiences in my life i'm really becoming the first they were. hold on to the steering wheel probably the best boat in the world. the best in the world takes an intercontinental level of competition and. is a clear vision of the next level for his project establishing a new elite event with the world's best sailing boats representing continents
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progress but unknown r.t. valencia spain and spectacular pictures are lucky robert that is all the sport for now we've got more a bit lighter. would
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