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there's been another explosion in the city of volgograd this one happening on a trolley bus that was passing by a market during the monday morning rush hour at least ten people confirmed dead investigators are at the scene of the second tragedy to strike the city in twenty four hours they suspect it could have been another act of terrorism connected to the suicide bombing at the main train station there that happened yesterday that explosion left sixteen people dead and scores injured stay with us here on our team as we get more information on the incidents in the city in russia south well after a short break we visit a norwegian arctic island for glimpse at a life there and if you're watching us from the u.k. it's often written see what's going underground stay with us.

spitzbergen is the starting point for expeditions to the north pole a little over a thousand kilometers away. is next to no sunlight each day was a little light remains continues today. in just ten days the sun will stop rising above the horizon altogether. along ought to know it will begin. like it is on the mainland in the middle of the night. which will just. the locals say there are three four seasons here day night and snowmobile season. people on the island because of the harsh environment but

a very small few have chosen to live here. yes. be careful. to. go. to great at the norwegian town of. special ceremony. for many years ago was declared terra nullius all belong to nobody it wasn't until nine hundred twenty that the islands became norwegian territory but even. today they enjoy

a unique status. in any country that signed the spitzbergen treaty can freely engage in commercial activity here no visa was needed to visit the island and there were no customs or border posts anyone on the planet can come and settle on the occupier to go there's just one condition they must be self-sufficient. some. place is so special because the little people came here and they really didn't know all right already they are because i think ok and already are closer to north korea. and other people all it's to have a friendly and old scooters and everything about. hundred times better change very fast like. this is could be very bad. if you're.

about to sell some five hundred people live on the island but knowing the number of beds is more of a challenge there are at least three thousand certainly more than the wrong people . you know. i don't like to call my own and just here we. are right well it's a very rough i'm sure. everyone. there have you ever come a little over. hiring a rifle here is as easy as hiring a scooter but if a bag gets shot the investigation into whether it was really killed in self defense is a sorrow as it would be from a. bill and it is indeed an unusual place shops provide special lockers where customers can store their guns while shopping and while deer amble freely in the streets. there is

a distinct russian spirit in this small norwegian tell'd only two countries currently maintain their presence on the island russia and norway. the reason why america american high here is that are. going to grow up and because they have a russian there yeah absolutely and in fact you these people took an interest in the russian language for a reason they often visit the town of balanced budget for decades the neighboring towns have shared visits for sporting events. we may be different in many aspects but i'm sure everyone's happy to have a neighbor pool you see there are no other neighbors around here. and we've had a lot of enjoyable meetings in baron's burg. fucked

up now you're leaving for work yes you have a regular working day of course not it's a holiday today a holiday there are no holidays in the mind two years ago came to spitzbergen alone to see how it would work out. many people can't bear being separated from their relatives. is not everyone manages to move their families here. you can not everyone can cope with the atmosphere in this arctic night. he left his wife and three children at home. we didn't feel anything for the first six months. then mum started missing dad. and so did we. well he wasn't there we could only talk on skype he had to call me every day as

soon as he was home from work. knowing that he was safely back from the mine was the most important thing for me. two months ago the last move to balance berg. i'd like to spend at least ten years here i want to settle properly and save enough money to buy flats for my kids. i do your homework yet a bit. but. i haven't seen you for ages so does it feel better having a family with you or do you need to ask you must feel more like a real man yes. in the past barrens bug was always a male domain not a place for women with children. men still account for the majority of the population. there are no old or socially disadvantaged people

here. every inhabitant of the island has to be young and healthy enough to be able to work. and my grandfather worked here and nine hundred fifty six such as he spent two years on this island and dad always dreamed of going where his own father had worked at the show came in two thousand and eight with my mom and in two thousand and nine my wife and i came here to you know i think that i'm the head of the tourist agency and the hotel administrator that's part of my job description. some of them was just although it's my wife's job to deal with the mail that rests on my shoulders too. difficult so why not during tourist season i also work as a guide. you know and when we have excursions i work in the souvenir shop in the morning i teach english at the local school which is why i'm not in the office.

there's only one employer in. cold as a russian state owned company everything in the village the houses shops and canteen old belong to the. people can only get tibetans but once every two months. both cooks they decide to change after a wedding anniversary stephanie has brought her two children to be with her husband . has come alone.

her husband that's a first. year ago another woman came on her own she left pretty soon though. she was an accountant. usually it's the other way around. well after their husbands men try to find jobs for their wives on the island. new arrivals gather beside the personal department. stephanie brings her children with her. there's no one else to babysit because everyone is at work. also owns a productive mine the parents. everyone has to attend a briefing when they first get here. there is going to work at a sauna. she'll start as soon as her children are going to kindergarten but first

we have to get used to the new home. movies in britain the kids started whimpering and i decided to leave so we wouldn't disturb anyone. it's always dark outside so i'm constantly sleepy and my eyes hurt but i'll get used to it. other people cope somehow so will i will wait for the light i hope will settle here well like the place. i think. now the main thing is for the kids to adapt to the climate and be healthy. the first contract is usually for six months the second for two years on average people have spent four to five years in barren spoke but there seems to be changing workers or nell spending longer periods of time here renting furnished apartments and so the arctic cold trust is renovating many of the houses and was there a t.v.

set yes so there it's so nice just great. everyone loves this place it's nice and tidy. new residents meet up at the home supply store everyone has a log shopping list. because through a small pan. or a bucket. i think our first two paychecks will be spent entirely on the household number one two and the third one as well there's no cash on balance budget in two thousand and eleven there was an attempt to introduce a local currency called the bone but norwegians were unhappy about the idea of bank notes circulating on soil with the russian federation printed on them. it's rumored

that to avoid conflict the government's decided not to use any money at all and no more bank cards to work here either the shops only accept a special internal card which is given to all up to coles employees everyone sets their own credit limit and the balance is a ventilated ducted from salaries. it's easy squire laying money away because there is nothing to spend it on no rest trends or days cuz i'm sure that if we do you manage to leave here for some time it will be closer to each other this just goes to sleep my uncle told me about people living there has been so why is four other men and women. it must be an island of temptation here. such a pall mall the twenty fourth jena olympics what's this place like and the line is

is so special as the russian resort prepares to welcome the world power of the games shaping the city's present and future what more sochi will bring yet this is the moment they're reporting from a very cold snowy windy mountainous stuff yet beyond the olympics what to say. on our team. the year that was two thousand and thirteen and what has made it memorable we ask in this edition of prasar fully excelled in who disappointed us what stories captured our attention because of hope or due to despair.

go to kindergarten my daughter asks me does none it's still duck where we going to be it will always be dark now i tell her the sun has gone to sleep she says i want to go home i don't want to live by the sea she thought it would be warm and sunny. through no four hundred thirty people in bennett's book including a hundred and thirty women and fifty five children no one is born on the island it's against the rules that pregnant women must return to the mainland. spitzbergen children never catch colds the virus come survive here. it's only the newly arrived to bring infections to the island. that's why chilled. when you're always quarantined for the first ten days when i can't go to school or kindergarten. sometimes though children just can't adjust to the climate. their parents either

have to send them away or leave them for good it's too cold to go outside so the kids wrap up to play in an unheated hole where they can exercise without being exposed to the elements even though the temperature is almost the same as outside the kids are protected from the biting arctic wind. ok. ok well. thank.

you again heavy i know i'm not. the only. and his brother is in the first year but all the students sit together in one classroom irrespective of age. the teacher gives each student individual assignments and then checks them separately. after classes the children stay in school there's nowhere else to go and the teachers always try hard to find new ways to entertain them. you know. it was useless i realised why running small difficulty here is what the ad pressure on the island is higher than on the mainland and it's not difficult to breathe. you're the worst of them all but you sometimes i ask myself if a normal life would make it easier for him in the future when. i still don't really

know. that i'm not sure if we've made the right choice. although the spitsbergen coal reserves are being depleted to continue mining is a matter of principle a presence on the go is a political imperative for both russia and norway. the mind works around the clock so the adults work in shifts they often leave as early as six in the morning leaving dunhill to wake the younger kids. but also when the alarm clock goes off. i wake marine or in the silly they want to stay in bed with us still duck live where we go and they ask. brush marina's teeth i

mean obviously does his own. style you can i put the kettle on and dress them. over or when i grow up i'll move to the mainland and go to university. all. i want to be an interpreter. to make good money. but it's always good to know a foreign language. the most important event in autumn is the annual sports competition. people from the norwegian to. visit the russian to attend. it's a tradition that dates back many years some say it began as the nine hundred thirty s. when both norway and the then soviet union was still new to the occupy lego. the

norwegians told their neighbors their traditional game called. we never even seen a stick before when we started playing we didn't know the rules and we were constantly asking questions now we've got the hang of it how one wants. to do this. but i think we're on equal ground we're good at volleyball and always win at basketball we're about even in football and as for chess we've got a new player who will bring us victory. all the competitions are held symbol to flee.

winning is a matter of both countries especially when it comes to football and bundy. only twice in the competitions history as the better team based in the norwegians at the national game. the second time was last year but fortune wasn't to smile on them this time. the football had the fans on the edge of their seats with the team's neck and neck. as. the russians proved victorious. the last two games. and they played with and walnuts as well. there's my

boy. did you know the done he did clever boy. surprisingly the basketball game is the most dramatic. the norwegians are less than happy with the referee and one spectator is quite indignant. i don't know much. do we need a ref at all no referee you can do without a raf while you are afraid let him do it while you do it let him referee give him a whistle. go over there. there'll be two of you go on. to referees take to the court. the people of spitzbergen do know how to compromise. there are more than forty different ethnicities living together on the island northern life demands tolerance and cooperation if it's. to be survived. thank you

. right now. the sporting event is one of the very few opportunities people have to socialize and meet up especially during the long arctic night. you work here. and you just hit it. working off. it's all my good ok and table tennis are football football football ok. it was good but you got one. making ambitious plans to

develop its own tourist industry. the abandoned mining town. will be home to the new russian tourists. and there are no people there so it's kind of like a ghost town there was one guy named toby. he tried to go for a hike so. it took him by two weeks and he had had to get. picked up by a fisherman because he had no more food left so i think you should only do it if you have a yeah. but it can only be reached in daylight and the devil is already of. a when the poland and snowmobile season begins the alcatel of those russian six will be teeming with people her.

tourists used to stay like watching us locals picking up the kids from school the guide probably tells them where the natives used every room that is we have to say hi and smile when we go to work or come home shopping or just walk and they're gone yeah that's it we stay right back. but that won't happen until the poland and the northern sun has risen again. from now people only venture away from the settlement for emergencies perhaps to repair vital and hard to reach equipment no one leaves the village without a very good reason. that usually people only leave the village to admired the beauty of spitzbergen aren't but what can they see at night for nothing . there's absolutely nothing to see. during the long polar night

the residents tend to live ordinary workaday lives. new arrivals are given time to get their bearings but today is oldest first day at work. i was anxious. to do everything on time. but i managed it fine the husband and he starts work tomorrow he's here and they'll to support his wife we're going to spend at least two years here but we'll have to see how it goes to here is a long time maybe six months will do it. before starting to work independently there will shadow a colleague for a few days. i have a boyfriend. but i'm not sure she'll come here.

stephanie children couldn't start at kindergarten because one of them has a cold only time will tell if he can cope with the climate i was. playing marine who behave. well i don't like it and tomorrow you go to kindergarten no yes. and let's proceed see if you. just. that the weather is awful look how strong the wind days and it's so dark. and it will stay. until the next day begins.

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breaking news on r t another powerful explosion in volgograd this one on a trolley bus at least ten people confirmed dead it's been less than a day since a suicide bomber killed at least six or killed sixteen people at the city railway station. ten am in moscow i met reza bring you today's breaking news here on our another explosion in the city of volgograd less than twenty four hours it happened on a trolley bus this time as it passed by a market during the monday morning rush hour at least ten people confirmed dead in this blast this less than twenty four.