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protests across the globe rage on for a second day as muslims vent their anger over a movie made in the u.s. that mocks islam protests have been spreading to new countries and continents with clashes even happening in sydney australia. washington strongly condemns the film in an effort to contain the scandal but opinion polls show that anti-u.s. has been simmering for years. russian opposition groups marched through moscow after a summer low numbers fell short of previous turnouts despite public sector workers joining in for the first time. up next our special report on how the city of sochi is gearing up for the winter olympics in
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a little more than two years time don't go away. it will be the middle of winter but come february twenty fourth scene one russian city will be the hottest destination in the world. tourists from across the globe will be heading to the black sea city of sochi for the start of the winter olympic games. more than ten billion dollars is being spent. on the ideas of the games will leave an economic cultural and environmental legacy that was just benefits sochi russia as a whole. and i wanted to see for myself how things were taking shape. if you're heading down here in the summer. to travel.
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makes a very nice change to be able to travel around like this because here in the sub tropical south t. shirt and shorts is pretty much all you need i'm in sochi a city in europe the host of the twenty fourth when. the city's coastline extends an amazing one hundred forty five kilometers along the black sea i'm always going to need some local help to get to know it properly and who better. thank you very much my name is probably. your friends for. a man who likes his sunshine moved here several years ago from siberia and to see some significant changes take place. so. two thousand and seven. game. it must
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be almost a completely different city or so she said difference you keep trying to solve because. you know we have totally infrastructure we have. we have almost finished on the big where you can see the big coastal cluster where . we use and sometimes move you have a feeling that. the fear of there one night when you would be spending most of my time around the olympics but first i wanted to see more of the city itself and pavel was happy to give me a tool and a history lesson this looks like a wealthy man's playground around here this is such a scene for what. actually this place was one big swam it used to be the twentieth century and the native people were living off in the mountains because.
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they fear to stay up here here and so on the twentieth century. but the gursky has put here small fish which is. a mosquito so yes. no malaria since nine hundred fifty no one was. so she's warm climate has led to a city full of lush greenery and even russia's most famous old bolshevik gets a tropical setting lead in the lung the palm trees wonder if people would ever have such an exotic ceci. but much of the city's other old detection has a classical touch. this time i was cold so it was sick you can see it looks like bath and and it is widespread all over the idea was that people need to
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be held in. to rest in palaces so it was like a real palace. it might be known internationally for the lympics but for decades sochi has been russia's favorite seaside resort. tourists still flock to the beaches here every summer and new hotels are popping up all over the place to cope with the expected increase in demand. you're always guaranteed to get down here but speed the weather can be very unpredictable. you've got to be prepared for it. through a quick getaway. and this was no wooden
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restoril fortunately the almost black funnel stayed well out to sea but i was sucked and decided it might not be a bad idea to head away from the beaches and up into the mountains. you might think that a city on the sea would have all the fish that it could handle but it seems in sochi there's always room for a bowl and they've been following these beautiful rainbow trout. centuries. this is russia's largest trout phone with more than eighty head of land two hundred separate homes and some of the richest residents. still the frenzy. that. the seven hundred. alongside the rainbow trout the farm also has pools full of
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flashing amber trout and the famous blue. see someone would swim into mountain rivers to spawn. they can hardly be observed because they rush to the surface snatch the food and dive to the bottom. they are just as trout. forty eight teeth in the form of hooks. there are teeth even on their tongues and gills. should you let them buy two fingers right. stick your hands in there is the sound advice there wouldn't it will heal over only a couple of weeks later the form produces more than eight hundred tons of fish every year as his daily guided tours but if you're more of a four legged form there's plenty of that nearby. you won't be able to ski up in the mountains at this time of year but there's still an amazing place to visit i'm standing right on the edge of his national reserve and i'm off to meet some of the
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local. alexei has been running the sanctuary for more than a decade but the history of the reserve here dates back to the nine hundred twenty s. . the initial purpose was to preserve the bison but later the nature reserve was intrusted with broader functions to preserve other animals as well as the natural environment the nature reserve occupies an area of three hundred forty thousand hectares. these include links road deer and the famous bison as well as eagles and goats with some very impressive headgear. if you like to get up close and personal with the wildlife as one animal that's definitely the star of the show a little. oscar here is
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a male red deer. yeah it's. just me. or will fly. and in return for a few carrots the red deer is more than happy to gracie with his presents a bit of a provence. missis. a pull from the friendly wildlife it's also impossible to notice the stunning mountains here in the nature reserve and climbing isn't the only way to enjoy them . easy. so we decided to ramp it up a notch. and in. about to literally explore its depths. the.
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canyon is a popular sport in sochi and combines hiking jumping and swimming and once we had all safety briefing it was time to get into the. basically. through the cracks and any way you can take advantage of any handy rocks tree branches along the way. lovely stuff. has been leading groups here for more than ten years but i was happy to take a quick break and catch up with him. coming a little. because it's quite an intensive school and. it depends. on what
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is special about this. because this is one of the. places where we learn. another legion ski is filled with respect. killa scenery. he wasn't wrong about the jumping. exactly this. reversed. the whole route was a real adventure and around an hour later. and a bit battered at the bottom. late. louis.
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think just about everything exactly. fun. looking forward to going to the subway. once a joy though it was time to head back into sochi to take advantage of the good weather and do a little high rise so it seems now i'm a seaside town boy myself so i've been on the old fairground ride and see. here saw it entertainment but here in salt sea the people are promising to combine the two to something rather spectacular. this is the grand opening of billard just ferris wheel in russia and eighty meter high monster to celebrates they've decided to have a massive multi-ethnic choir sing the national anthem on it well it certainly beats a ribbon cutting. the choir belted out their anthem with gusto and if you don't
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mind a bit of a shaky ride the reward at the top is truly spectacular. to go through a quite ridiculously heavy rainstorm to get clear skies but i think that view. download the official ati application cellphone choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's t.v. is not required to watch all its hear all you need is your mobile device to watch our team any time.
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idea of just how close together it's all is from the stadiums themselves to the infrastructure that surrounds them everything is within walking distance and it means that it's pretty easy for me to take a tour of the facilities this is the busiest construction sites in the country with more than fifty thousand people working around the clock and i want to start off in its biggest stadium. this really is the jewel in the crown of the whole lympics project the site of the opening and closing ceremonies a future world cup football stadium and a place where the all the unusual name right say or so this is the feast stadium it's not the fish stadium but fished the last letter ok you name up the mountain right. most beautiful mountain because and that's why they call it the beast if you see the arch you have to watch in the dark and they are like moment
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and not far from the stadium easy to see and you come to the site you see to know from the sea to them. alongside the fish there are five of the stadiums all within a few minutes walk the bolshoi stone in the shi'a where the hockey will be held the adler arena for speed skating the iceberg for figure skating the ice cube for curling. you see how the venue is our to each other we need five minutes to go from one venue to another bring the it's the most olympic park in the world during the winter games for sure. because the territory is just two hundred fifty six hectares and. everyone knows. this territory and that was of course one of the real unique selling point it's very unique you see games and near the sea sure this is. me and tennis seventy.
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seven minutes past the mountains yes. i walked into the iceberg arena to see how the interior was taking shape but it seems the workers here have everything under control even if they do have to work from some pretty precarious positions but that doesn't mean they're not looking for new recruits. well the games might still be a few months away but as you can see this is a project that's going to take some finishing but i think they can probably use all the help they could get. and sorties transport infrastructure is also getting a major overhaul. if you're going to invite the people of the world to your city you need to make sure that they can all get there and that is where this comes in sochi is new three hundred million
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dollars ports by twenty fourteen i think it could be processing up to four thousand people every hour. it's taken over two decades to get this airport running after initial building was abandoned back in one thousand nine hundred nine but new owners came in and transformed it and since may two thousand and ten such airport has been open for business direct to sergei says they're on track for the olympics . major of course it's already. normal that everything is in place but still we need to do something before the. major focus is not on their construction on all the efficient operation. the airport is a striking symbol of. but just outside the city is an area which has barely changed in the linea. this is one of the highlights of the caucuses national
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reserve this unique subtropical forest which dates back ten to twelve million and the context of that history of you is just a baby it's over a thousand years old and still alive and kicking. and there are plenty more where that one came from and i headed to me to say to tell me all about them. the reserve staff aims to preserve oh listen enable the visitors to come into contact with the wild in its natural state for years this place has remained intact trees here have neither been felled nor burned it will continue to preserve them. but even though she never destroyed bees trees before says of nature have no such qualms. take a look at that tree over there it probably fell down because of the wind or maybe
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because of an earthquake we are in an area where small earthquakes often happens. when. you can be dangerous. but the today. aside from the natural places of interest there's also a manmade relic here that's left over from the don't cage's. have scaled the fortress. i think that these walls date back to around about the seventh century a.d. and could have been built by the native people who used to inhabit this area was obviously used for defense but who actually built it nobody knows for sure. this may be the most spectacular piece of tropical sochi but it's far from the only part the climate here means that lush greenery flourishes almost everywhere and that includes the city center and i met up with pavel for the rest of my city too so
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this is a review our park which was made. nineteenth century by mr hooper fresh and aristocrats who wanted to make wine. and so all this territory was are grown with. grapes what with grapes you know for wine and here is found that the grapes are to exit from wine are to say that you know yes and here scott's all the grapes and he has put here tropical trees so this is mr hu and this is where we have this yes this white. pavel's work for the upcoming games has already seen him take part in almost a dozen different major events but it seems he fell into it rather watch out why did you decide to become a woman. actually i. didn't know why all the volunteers and i was strolling the place where they reflected and my
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friends asked me to go there and they didn't know what was going on when i came there and i understand finally that i am a woman here my first two rooms. have this event and this was the thing which has changed my life. now i can't imagine my life without won't you know. sort of a very positive accident you have. and with such a glowing recommendation i wanted to find out what pavel's program was all about ok james now i'm going to take you to a place where you will become a real fantastic volunteer sense. all the participants here a young intelligent and speak at least one foreign language. when they're working they're supposed to personify the limbic ideals of excellence friendship and respect. the friendship you enjoyed in the other groups as well.
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the role playing gives the volunteers a chance to bond but also an opportunity to practice the situations they might encounter on the job including some very demanding customers imagine that this is brooke this is a limpia world this is in for desk and this is a sign we have no tickets no where would be no you know i'd like two tickets for the ski jumping please who are very sorry but we have no tickets. and. haven't. sorry this pick and wish you. all with us for that we did. ask my colleague
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ok with that kind of self control it certainly won't pavel on your team ice cold. i think you're. absolutely. so she knows the hospitality is all important and with hundreds of thousands of visitors expected in twenty fourteen the city is working towards becoming accessible for all. alongside the winter olympics sochi is also hosting the twenty four team power lympics games and that. some significant changes for the city's disabled. a few years ago buses like this didn't exist in sochi but thanks to the games and campaigns from people like the leg more and more disabled facilities are being put into place. the leg.
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of what we're doing is helping as experts helping the administration to tackle some of those many important issues when we give advice we advise on where something should be built how to avoid more mistakes. that includes being able to take advantage of one of sorties most simple pleasures a day at the beach and we met up with the legs friend rima to see what's been done and what's still going on. but it's these tracks they've been around for more than three years. there are many facilities on the beach and they've given disabled people much easier access to cafes to restaurants and other places. beaches are expected to be made available in the same way as each season passes. and fortunately it's just as easy
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to get off the sands as it is to get on them. one of the other great things about these facilities is that when the weather changes on a sixpence it does a little too often here it means that everybody is able to get under cover before the storm breaks so i'm going to go with these guys see if we can keep dry. whatever the weather is a city that's built for tourism and the pact with souvenir shops and a whole variety of entertainment. you might spend your summer days sleeping on the beach in sochi but once the sun goes down here the city wakes up. balmy some a night and plenty of high spirited holiday makers i mean this is a city that goes twenty four hours a day and if you're looking to check out the local music scene you won't be short
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of options. leave russia's biggest seaside resort without checking out the nightlife reliably informed that this place . what a lot later on it does give me. please . a multitude of ingredients later very colorful drink was ready i didn't see exactly what went into it but this isn't the look because. of the. bright blue with blue cherry. terribly manly but it is quite something.
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the drinks might be very modern but the music here is pure old fashioned rock n roll bands like the cocktails and slaps it up. normally i'll be heading home to around now but there's so much more going on around sochi but i'm going to stay on to find out more about russia's olympic city and its region and quite frankly there are far worse places to spend your summer.
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