in the caucasus reserve aleksei was keen to get going shortly after sunrise and i sleepily wondered down to a nearby street. morning. very misty mountain day. told me to try and wake up. in that. class and a decent cup of tea of course and around here it has to be some of the local brew one thing that the russians and the british certainly share is a great love of tea and here in the sub tropical south the lucky russians actually have the climate that they can grow themselves this is the tea plantation and it would be hard to believe but it's the biggest in the country it's been here since the late one nine hundred forty s. but the whole operation was restored and modernized back in two thousand and six the plants themselves are extremely robust and able to survive winter temperatures which can drop below freezing but they have to be harvested carefully and one man who knows all about that his lady man who's worked in the tea business all his life . with this not. just the tips that the we make green tea from these leaves why don't you try some of the best and very healthy the healthiest

second season the star veterans were testing the local team led by olympic champ down the aleksey and to go in or out of the most the region sergei show. the hosts were also reinforced by gifted kids and players from the russian nation illumines hockey team all together they produce a spectacle display all of those amateurs who will compete for the main price. it's only the second competitive season for the league that all people have played hockey together for decades we just brought them together in organized symbolically the season will culminate in sochi the final festival to be held the olympic arena . it was president putin's idea to start was this leak we met the veterans last year to discuss it we really wanted to bring amateurs from all over the country together and it worked and the prize is great the winning team gets a brand new up to date indoor facility complete with ice cream at the price any team would love to win. but but in your own party still reaching. moscow have been involved in another thriller in the euro league this time beating part of sand in belgrade and ag

seen to be done laura smith aleksey. top story now on the appeal hearing on the russian punk band pussy riot let's not get the latest from the cool from thomas social and bring us up today that. will certainly court has wrapped up before the day and this is coming after you cut that you know some would say of it is the oldest of the three women requested a new lawyer and the court has granted that request which means she needs time to prepare the appropriate documents in the papers in order to let this specific hearing go through what this hearing was supposed to be was an appeals process specifically for the sentence no new evidence or any evidence was to be heard it during this particularly part of the appeals process and now a new lawyer is involved so they need to give that new lawyers some time to step in and get up to speed on a new court date has been set for that hearing that is october tenth now again today. many people here to see inside the courtroom it was packed in fact it spilled out into the corridors of t

offering investment bankers are forced to be unimpressed with the plans of the company's key shareholder aleksei and the share was part of who wants to place his shares now well a company many see goldman sachs quitting as a blow to russia second biggest mobile operator which is planning to sell twenty percent of its stock by over. and over in europe as i was saying it's all. looking also pretty depressing at the bo much of a say versus i'm not impressed with the angle of michael's visit and comments on the austerity in greece and we're waiting for course the book reports in the united states on the state of economic affairs we get to that later we as we get it of course out on the ground the market the euro the world is flat supposed to used to be flat and negative while the russian ruble strong against the euro and the all higher priced. staying with energy you know the energy sector in russia needs one trillion dollars in less than a decade by twenty twenty that's according to russia's new energy minister alexander novak there he is right now in london meeting with investors trying to attract

form a new government effectively ending the current regimes decade long monopoly on power parties aleksei to shift gears been following the vote and the count in b.c. . statement is as sensational as the outcome of the voting may eventually become he already said despite the voting vote counting still continuing that he sparty admits defeat and now will work in opposition but despite that statement there are still growing concerns among the opposition members that the governing forces may still be stalling the outcome of this vote the vote count is going very slowly it's less than three million votes to be counted but ever since the polling stations closed last night less than thirty percent of the votes have been counted so far and also the international ngo called international transparency in georgia reported a very serious violation and even received the footage of mosques to men entering a polling station in georgia taking everybody out from the polling stations and the that enjoy all claims that the result at this particular polling station was altered in the favor of the ruling par

happen given the past record of violent conflict in georgia and say here have to live from tbilisi aleksei many thanks indeed. the syrian crisis is the result of a coherent collective effort by gang of four in states that the message syria's foreign minister laid out for the u.n. general assembly he's trying is that damascus remained open to a political solution to civil war which is ravaging his homeland but it's also he's more in a port now reports that does not hold the u.s. backed rebels and he may fall. well he. spoke at length about the ongoing eighteen month civil war taking place in his country he accused the u.s. france turkey saudi arabia and qatar of inducing and aiding terrorism in his country by those countries actually arming financing and supporting the opposition groups in syria he went on to say that the holes that western countries are making for president bashar al assad to step down is not only provoking more bloodshed in his country but he says it's also a believe an interference into syria's domestic affairs he said success of any international effort in syria would r

aleksei of 30 seconds for rebuttal. >> this is made up. i have a jobs record. this idea to try to trivialize it, talk to the workers who are going to be put out of work because our government is shifting jobs overseas. it is their livelihood. we should take seriously the premise that we send these to washington they should be used to create jobs here. >> 30 seconds. >> i am not sure how this is an integral part of your jobs plan. our deficit has increased. unemployment is on the rise. this is not part of an active jobs plan. and next topic bills was something we all worry about, it taxes. chris keating will ask that question first. >> there is consensus that extending the bush tax cut is a good idea. there is sharp disagreement about whether the what they should benefit as well. how will you keep taxes lower on the wealthiest americans and keep the jobs as a whole? >> i do call for tax cuts for the middle class. i would keep all of the other tax brackets in place. there would be no gain or loss for others. even president obama in 2010 said we should not increas

aleksei of 30 seconds for rebuttal. >> this is made up. i have a jobs record. this idea to try to trivialize it, talk to the workers who are going to be put out of work because our government is shifting jobs overseas. it is their livelihood. we should take seriously the premise that we send these to washington they should be used to create jobs here. >> 30 seconds. >> i am not sure how this is an integral part of your jobs plan. unemployment is on the rise. this is not part of an active jobs plan. chris keating will ask that question first. these are not things that are part of an active jobs plan that will put people back to work. >> thank you. our next topic deals with something we all worry about, taxes. chris will ask that question first. >> there is consensus that extending the bush tax cut is a good idea. there is sharp disagreement about whether the what they should benefit as well. -- whether the wealthy should benefit. how will you keep taxes lower on the wealthiest americans and keep the jobs as a whole? >> i do call for tax cuts for the middle class

aleksei of 30 seconds for rebuttal. >> this is made up. i have a jobs record. this idea to try to trivialize it, talk to the workers who are going to be put out of work because our government is shifting jobs overseas. it is their livelihood. we should take seriously the premise that we send these to washington they should be used to create jobs here. >> 30 seconds. >> i am not sure how this is an integral part of your jobs plan. our deficit has increased. unemployment is on the rise. this is not part of an active jobs plan. and next topic bills was something we all worry about, it taxes. chris keating will ask that question first. >> there is consensus that extending the bush tax cut is a good idea. there is sharp disagreement about whether the what they should benefit as well. how will you keep taxes lower on the wealthiest americans and keep the jobs as a whole? >> i do call for tax cuts for the middle class. i would keep all of the other tax brackets in place. there would be no gain or loss for others. even president obama in 2010 said we should not increas