syria's conflict spreads further beyond its borders as people flee the violence into neighboring states and fresh clashes between rebels and assad supporters and lebannon have left seven dead and dozens injured. one told them a lawyer say they're being banned from bringing up allegedly torturing inside military tribunals which they are challenging as pretrial hearings for some of the nine eleven suspects prepared to start on thursday. and doors foreign minister exclusively tells r t spanish channel that his country will go as far as the peg to defend its asylum for julian assange. next we take you to some of the most remote villages in russia's north where the ancient wooden churches are a big draw for visitors. can you just quickly tell me if this is all because i can't see without my glasses. something. is there is

such a thing of the. future because. there are two churches the church. and then the 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 wouldn't churchill's. i knew that you know to do a proper book you needed time you don't create

a book in a fortnight. you need a subject when you really believe that obviously i fell in love with the chances they are extraordinary opiates they'd be full of lives. her.

i'm going to read something here that bridget 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 the 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 and 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 arrive to put a name and i can show you our colleagues who it relaxing for in the coach here

in the foreground say we've all had a really good journey it was there was wonderfully some its form of. if you. got any ideas why should i do. such an. temper long to. be with you. fake a said that will not just have a little walk around the church with fashion for

a name it was built they say in sixteen eighteen although this could be summed it can see the roof here is pretty rough and needs a lot of work the timber has a an amazing texture through. this is the big camera anything in the 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 building's falling over. because you're not tipping the camera just lifting the lens.

you. know what i suppose this church might have been building before sixteen eighteen that was the year when the church was registered in the records of the sars archaeological commission and it was dated soley on the strength of a survey among local clergy. who thought it was the st nicholas the miracle worker was the patron saint of all white sea miners 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 of the host of the project since this was obviously used as a 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 egypt 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 i live

a good thing. when you get out did you have a thought. about. what do you mean. your job for good will of the good which your thought. was you know that my point was you know. 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 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 up 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 you need. need this. is right fake

a say when for venturing feeling to try face to face facing a long time face to face search your face frame of the file 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 sure other fish. 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 in 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 the preserving at heritage this is a little moment when it might be possible to make a tiny difference in a tiny one tiny world of good intentions. we're just having a little walk. in the village now you can see 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. memories from around. the. ship. but then you could sort of land 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 church's.

neighbor is quite late. one foot in it. stays seeing this extraordinary village. on the way see. this is the said trip and we've just. had lunch after seeing the church and. the captain. is worried it's getting too ready for us to move along and say we're sitting here

lying on the rocks getting the sleep that we got last night and. that we will be able to continue. well we all will if you feel you just. didn't have to. be getting rougher and rougher fare with. you out of. that. face with. the sunny day with the wind.

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what bush was trying to hear. here take this stick. and now no stance here looks like it's about a metre deep. you would die and 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 writing poetry stick with why do you know perfect work of poetry seems to involve much effort on the part of it's all there in the 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 where the joints are very firm as a result of the fact that the logs way down on each other. but we'll keep you. yearly if gainey is. breaking up with sam if you can. structure it.

given the way this is where the collective farm stored its great if you. pull down soon after the revolution. young people in the country believed in. knowing the devil at that time you know that he had other ideals. ropes would be fixed to the deal so we got crowds of youngsters will pull up to bring the. rate for them because it up to put the church next door was used as a clubhouse throughout the years of soviet government on. that stage. you can just. say.

this if you from the church. the clubhouse was brought into existence as a place where villages could get culture of a specific source in clubhouses professional coach or boat nicky coach or workers were charged with planning activities in the remote village areas including celebrations of the new savior tallent is dunces plays agitation of saving at ideals and atheism and importantly keeping watch over the success and failures of the co hopes. could be just for a quarter of the say how from a short cut to the bay which. bush was a very nice could even give a rift something away. until that is enough for him to turn on the self old maids q.

how are you getting all the fish out of the room i want to. see. him down below the way. that we're going to do.

order. you. three o'clock in the morning and we're looking for some food. we've been up. all night. because they've been singing beatles songs so we've now come down to the beach before we go to sleep for a couple of. as we were on the the island of condo ostroff which was part of the gulag 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 we do like archipelago the network of camps and stretched across a vast territory. started life on this move cluster of before island set in what soldiering it's in right a matter of. three cents a day without the group the crew from the university went off to another church or the white soup i was talking to to. see the people of the church there is being restored.

and when did the chapel disappear so long time yeah sometimes. yeah no one knows exactly. what. are. you. if. you think you. 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 to

any any wreckage or to hear. that we met alexei soutane who's 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 it's looking much cleaner much nicer it's being tied it up but there is still a hell of a lot of work to do or say or some way all along it's like you know if you want. to do. this first you pretty young of the future in your business need this war is just says. you will be in the first eclipse of the species.

which appears to feed and we've only just started when it will be finished is scarce but i'm not doing it alone i couldn't have cut without help from the others you wish for. in fact i might have given up on it if this. if this. if. your. so. say can you just sign. this. it's serious the serious difference is. is her last two years a good saying. faith 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 your goodness gets on the basis. of goodness of 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 under that some health things of all was well down in the past month. just pound back. the landscape in a very very beautiful and that field rusher and i'm just going to. swing the camera around and. say you're. on something opposite side of the bank. this is a serious thing you're actually on its glory crassness.

i mean i'm happy for them to carry this but i see. which of the rushes i prefer. and i am. being.

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