gargi dot com. welcome back this is a quick check of the headlines a top syrian official hanes that president assad might be prepared to step down but only as a result of dialogue and if it's the will of the syrian people some media outlets spun the story to suggest assad's resignation could be imminent. u.s. attorneys say they are being banned from talking about torture on some island states military tribunals at gun town of oh the prison that spilled running just paid defense to running despite just played obama's promises to shut it down so they show the legal restrictions as to be discussed at the pretrial hearings of five september eleventh terror suspects to begin later this week. and after

months of protests over a failing economy report on how spain's recession has hit not just its people but its animals too many of the country's horses are condemned to death by their owners who can't afford to keep them. as the headlines here when i'll see up next it will take you to some of the most remote villages in russia's north where ancient wouldn't churches are a big draw for visit. can you just quickly tell me if this is all because i can't see without my glasses. something. is that is such a thankless of the. future because. there are two churches churches. and then the very mention. my name is richard davis i'm an architectural photographer from london.

and i've been traveling in russia for the last ten years on a project photograph wooden church and. i knew that you know to do a proper book you needed time you didn't create a book in a fortnight. you need a subject when you really believe you obviously i fell in love with the chances they are extraordinary openness that beautiful of lives.

i'm going to read something here that richard shots liberated in the sixteenth century here didn't intend to come to russia he was actually looking for the northeast passage there was a big storm of they ended up in the white sea and this is what he he wrote about the churches he said they church is a built of timber in the towers of the churches for the most part are covered with

shingle boards and the jewels of the churches they used to be build some engines so foolish as we do. we just arrived at pura naima i can show you our colleagues who it relaxing for in the coach here in the foreground. they were who had a really good there was there was wonderfully some its form of. if you.

got any ideas why should i do. such an. temper long term. you will. fake a said that will not just have a little walk around the church with flash it for a name it was built they say in sixteen a scene of a this could be summed it can see the roof here is pretty rotten and needs a lot of breath the timber has a an amazing texture through. this

bicameral anything is a hasselblad and it's called output and it's got a rising from which means that you when you take credit growth it doesn't look as though the buildings falling over. because you're not tipping the camera just lifting the lens. you. know what i suppose this church might have been billed even before sixteen eighteen that was the year when the church was registered in the records of the sars archeological commission and it was dated soley on the strength of a survey among local clergy. who thought it is the st nicholas the miracle worker was the patron saint of all white sea mariners and explorers they

certainly needed his protection and indeed had it as they braved the perils of rough seas making their way from village to village the girl knows whom death haunts each time they head out to sea or reconcile it with the thought that they may be unable to come by it or for that reason they have a totally different perception of the face compared to people living far from the shore buildings on the white sea coast are filled with a keen sense of life that's typical of people living in the north. has some more graffiti on the wall more lovers and it might this is a big space. we can see. and on the wall here you can see where there were project is the host of the project so this was obviously used as the club in the cinema during soviet times so i guess there would have been

a big screen with the where the i kind of stuff is was and this is in a pretty bad state as well. we've been to the church when i go trying to find somebody in the village who will maybe tell us something about the history of the church and hopefully find somebody who saw the film. in the church of the nativity . scene they did with redheads go. something. that. they feel like just because you know if i live a good three. minute you. know that i. got up what do you like me. your job a good deal of the good which dropped off for three. weeks but.

you're ok ok. you're. propaganda back then was focused against the church and everything it stood for communists and members of the young communist league were behind the campaign yet this church here was really the only suitable place for clubs people ganske here every weekend and a couple supposed down in one thousand nine hundred three. in the churches is a religious monument obviously but it's also an object of wonder you know it's something that people can look at and. opens their eyes that shows.

what can be achieved by using your imagination and you know hopefully the religious activity will return but it still needs to be and still needs to be saved since the breakup of the soviet union obviously there have been other more important things to do with your money like by ferrari's and expensive watches and things like that but i think i'm hoping that people will wake up to the to the fact that these objects are precious and to me i need this. right fake a say when for venturing feeling to try face to face facing a long time face to face. to see fists very muddy feel a smile for the camera fast. food there's a lot of waiting to do before we can be picked up the sea shore here is very very

shy other folk. thank you. i have a brother who's mentally handicapped and my mother spent her whole life trying to raise money to to support people who were mentally handicapped you know what my mother would do that maybe i feel that i should be doing something to to support something that i think is worthwhile now i could say that my mother was an inspiration because i saw her you know devoting a life to the cause that she had i haven't done that i've devoted my life to you know myself and my family and and other things but you know it was having a heritage that this is a little moment when it might be possible to make

a tiny difference in a tiny one tiny world of good intentions. and . we're just having a little walk. in the village now you can see that the house. and everything there's just one one family in the village at the moment and they're just here for the summer my sign of life very beautiful. through brick and. movements from around. the. ship. but then you could sort of and here you can see st nicholas church. it was built in

the eight hundred twenty s. today it serves as a reminder of the fate of many other russian wooden churches. back in the old days churches were form of spiritual support not only for the villages but also the whole surrounding area people used to flock to them on sundays and major holidays. it's fair to say that now the villages are dying in much the same way as the churches. the church neighborhood is quite late. one full in its. stay seeing this extraordinary village very beautiful.

on the way sea. this is the said trip and we've just. had lunch after seeing the church and. captain. is worried that it's getting too would be first to move say we're sitting here lying on the rocks getting the sleep that we had last night and. that we will be able to continue.

we'll me if you feel you can just feel safe. in the fifteen. feet getting rougher and rougher stay with me here. and you out with. that. face. it's a few feet any day with the wind. wealthy british style. that's not on. the. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports.

this trial here. here take this stick. and them go no stones here looks like it's about a metre deep. you will find here we see examples of early and late architecture standing side by side belfry serves as a connection between these two times it's all in harmony with the village. that

raises the idea on the bus through a building a wooden church is like writings poetry stick with what do you know perfect work of poetry seems to involve much effort on the part of it's also brought in fact each verse takes a good deal of effort and so does each one of the logs that go into a wooden church that was good at first but i wouldn't churches are said to have no nails in them this is not a figure of speech it's simply the most convenient way of building a wooden church with the joints are very firm as a result of the fact that the logs way down on each other. you know. what will keep out of you. if gainey is. for you to be. a spirit while

sam. instruction is. given away this is where the collective farm stored its great one. soon after the revolution. young people in the country believed in god nor in the devil of the time you know that he had other ideals. ropes will be fixed to the day crowds of youngsters will pull of them to bring the domes down where you are the road for them because it up. your church next door was used as a club house throughout the years of soviet government you. see. you can just. say.

this is the view from the church. the clubhouse was brought into existence is a place where villages could get culture specific sought in clubhouses professional coach or a bought nicky coach or workers were charged with planning activities in the remote village areas including celebrations of the new savior at holidays dances plays agitation of soviet ideals and atheism and importantly keeping watch over excess in the failures of the cold. could be just to over the course room of the say how from a short cut to the bay which. bush wasn't very pleased could even do a rift something away close. to the business for him to turn ok self-proclaimed.

you're going on this to a room to everyone else. to see. him and you know you know the way to sort of be able to do good in.

a low low low key. if. your mom was. good in the own. learn to. show you go you know move oh my gosh. you. sure it's three o'clock in the morning and we're looking for some food. we've been up. all night. because we've been singing beautiful songs so we've now come down to the beach before we go to sleep for a couple of hours. as we're on the the island of condo ostroff which was part of the i thought i'd read something on the bolshoi

sort of x.p. the main island of this white sea archipelago there is a fortified monastery it was founded in four hundred twenty nine until the nineteenth century this was the only official state prison in russia and house many important religious and historical figures these magnificent built for the glory of god witnessed monstrous events over hundreds of years they do like archipelago the network of camps and stretched across a vast territory. started life from this cluster of before island stepped in what soldiering it's in right a matter of. three cents a day without the pick from the university went off to another church or the white suited. to a chance of seeing the people of the chester is being restored.

and when did the chapel disappear. along time yes sometimes. yeah no one knows exactly. what. happened. can. as you can see it's an absolutely wonderful church it's huge and and when i first came here it was in

a terrible state and nobody seemed to be really interested in in restoring it or do any any work to hear. that we met alexei sixteen whose mother is from the village and he's very involved in trying to restore the village and raise raise funds to going inside you can see that they are getting things you know is looking much cleaner much nicer it's being tied it up but there is still a hell of a lot of work to do for spirit somewhere all along if i feel like you. who i think it will miss you pretty young for the fishing it was this need this war was just. this is the. trigger school. you the would be the first eclipse of the species.

myself caprice the feeder that we've only just started when it will be finished is and i want to guess but i'm not doing it alone i couldn't have cut without help from the other usual. in fact i might have given up on it if this. if this. if. through the fear so. say can you just sign. this. it's serious serious differences in. her last years a good saying. face with deeds is death make a high needs not should we need to finish the job if only for the sake of those kids sitting on the benches you when you have called as a book or a maid if they see we're trying to do something to restore all this ever lost in treasure.

but you're good with us kids on the basis. of goodies i'm only doing what i think is right i'm not out to pursue any special goals just what i think is right. i'm sure some will say that i'm doing this without god's blessing. well if i think it's right i know that somehow things of all was well thought out in the past month . just pound back. dominates the landscape in a very very beautiful and not filled rush hour and i'm just going to. swing the camera around and. say you. got something opposite side of the bank.

this is sam serious thing you're rushing on its glory. crassness. i mean i'm happy for them to carry this but i see. which flushes i prefer. i am. being.

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