indeed a few women did deliver their babies right here in the hermitage. so the volunteers had to be ready to do whatever was needed to react quickly and keep smiling while helping us to resolve all possible situations. but first the volunteers were not well received at the museum how much is veterans sort of the new generation wanted to take away their jobs after only a few years to stuff members became more friendly. how are you. first of all please. because we are. very important why. it's. a. chronology is about comparing the trees studying them can reveal a lot of information about the state of the environment the tree grew in and its age. francis infelicitous to work out how. to have. put it out of the water. that it's so. wrong and. show any rings. it's. more useful to do it was. recently begun taking photographs. descriptions. ancient greeks found on the north coast. they've measured the whole sarcophagus as well as every tiny detail you can see. so many decorative elements every single decoration that needed to be measured photographed. most impor

the hermitage and to see the. good public feel of this research. which i would have no idea that there were so many shelves and shelves of all these different i. think most people wouldn't even. know about what was going on behind. sometimes thank the volunteers by giving them free tours for example a tour is a new storage facility in the old village region. museum was once moved there but there's a million items. alone just being attentive that is russia's interest comes through in the second. so john certainly. there was a visit by the turkish ambassador to st petersburg with diplomatic guess and one of those gifts is this tent it's all around us it's like we're inside the museum exhibit. this is i mean a fifth of it the rest is still rolled up and stored away to tend his way to launch because it covers about a hundred square meters. along with a new storage facility. will soon be offering the museum of modern not. this building is the left wing of the general headquarters built by karl rossi in the early nineteenth century before the revolution

the hermitage as an international and. institution and its famous world why people are yes very jealous that i get to have this opportunity to see what the most of the public wouldn't be able to see. i don't think too many people have ever seen me or even heard of me but i am one of the oldest guardians of the herman taj who knows what could have become of the exhibits if not for me and my friends all. biota balance on is never late for work but she isn't an employee here at the hermitage or a good iona is a volunteer from england and we stand in the entrance we have seats healthy and they're passing through t.v. and ten styles we have to tell them to take off the outdoor plating that caisson jackets and put them in the fake family and and just on to any general questions that they may have about an uneasy about west finds them out still guy. and excursion. in london iona studies russian culture different from russia recommended that she worked at the petersburg built into. the system of the us a yes and that's pretty nice

cats are very important inhabitants the winter palace and the state hermitage. they've lived in the old winter palace since the times of peter the great when he brought the first cats from holland a bit later his daughter elizabeth just special de craye for cats to be bred in what is now modern day. fifty cats were then brought from. since the seventeen forties those cats descendants have lived in the winter palace they've been provided with food in return for keeping the exhibits say. we are also volunteers of sorts we work for food and that serena she is also a volunteer gives us food and medicine and takes care of us i don't quite understand why she does it. matter of course her name is so if you call. if you patter here she's going to. hear. right here. where often asked we can't you know a favorite little of our favorite is the one that is the saddest the one who is sick at that moment we give them all the same love and care when they get well we have another favorite who is less happy than the others. and with that you will hear little girl my beauty let's

behind the scenes of the hermitage see. welcome back not going to a local drugstore may increase and we become a thing of the past for many americans health insurance companies are helping giant pharmacy corporations drive out the competition even people with little choice and support from. pharmaceuticals in the u.s. a major moneymaker huge drug store chains are popping up on every street corner with multiple locations and endless services when reid is writing aid whichever the big ones not that i prefer them but it's just that they're the only option we're from new jersey so we go to c.v.s. . one in new york doing read but mostly c.v.s. competition for mom and pop shops is steeper than ever and police is liable where rent alone is sky high small neighborhood pharmacies are all but it stands for the city overflowing the joint chains like this one the town drugstore symbolically was always at the center of american culture and american wife it now has the big chains move in only the prices tend to go up but they squeeze the

i was about three years old or maybe less when i first came to the hermitage i remember the impression but everything here is alive in a sort of fairy tale and when i touch the feet of the atlantis i felt that they were allowing for an only statues of ancient gods based seemed alive to me to maybe they were just frozen in the moment but they were still living and probably still working some of their miracles.

up next here on out see the hermitage palace in some pages but before when some polish of the russians comes into focus with some furry feline stuff a special report in just a moment. a fairly dickinson university study has revealed a twenty nine percent of americans think that a revolution will just happen in america but needs to be done in order to protect individual liberty if respondents consider themselves conservative than that number is bumped up to forty four percent that's nearly half also fox news found out that since nine eleven the percent of americans willing to sacrifice their personal freedom to reduce the threat of terrorism is an all low this number might sound trivial but it only takes a tiny percent of the population actually start a revolution i mean how many communists were in russia at the start of nine hundred seventeen and how many were there at the end revolution may sound like a nice thing to a growing number of people but the media wrongly portrays revolution as some fun video game battle where freedom fighters toppled a statue of the dictator and then democr

behind the scenes of the hermitage see. modern russia was built on coal. fuel for its factories. code for its steel. coolers it more than heat for its people. join me james brown to meet them and spend their lives underground and work in one of the world's most dangerous professions. would you. hearts of coal on o.t. . welcome back here are with our team now in america the familiar face of your trusted local pharmacist is rapidly becoming extinct the personal treatment from small community drug stores is finding itself bulldozed by the giant chains at its heart are the pharmaceutical majors and insurance firms have teamed up to stifle the competition as i see it now reports. pharmaceuticals in the us a major moneymaker. huge drug store chains are popping up on every street corner with multiple locations and list services when reid is writing whichever the big ones not that i prefer them but it's just that they're the only option from new jersey so we go to c.v.s. . one in new york doing read but mostly c.v.s. competition for mom and pop shops is steeper than ever in places like t

behind the scenes of the hermitage see. technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've. covered. more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china corporations are today. and this is the best time to come here before opening hours to hear all this silence you can feel that the holes and everything in them if they are waiting for this day. i was about three years old or maybe less was when i first came to the hermitage i remember the impression that everything here is alive and i'm in a sort of fairy tale and when i touch the feet of the atlantis i felt that they were alive and all these statues of ancient gods base seemed alive to me too maybe they were just frozen in the moment but they were still living i'm probably still working some of their miracles.

behind the scenes of the hermitage a nazi. hold it. hold it. i live. the good speak. to. her. i wish i. could mislead you good. live. in a. little my bottom a little. do we speak your language anybody will not advance. your music programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you breaking news a little tentative angles kidney's stories. are you here. to try to alter the spanish find out more visit. tito is comb. the prized privacy of swiss banks may soon fall victim to the new tax fraud hunt as finance ministers attempt to impose the unions and data sharing rules on one member states. a diplomatic marathon of assyria can. there may be some countries unstinting for the rebels but aspires to to stick suggesting that support directly leads to more deaths. crumbling infrastructure unreliable services and a tangled web of bureaucracy and corruption and despite the country's oil rich millions of iraqis still suffer every day from poor living conditions and a lack of basic necessities.

behind the scenes of the hermitage see. dangerous experiments on prisoners they want to make money and they have to use healthy guinea pigs in the regular society they're not able to use prisoners i mean more they wish they could. drug tests on human guinea pigs. paid to deadly pills he didn't pass away he was killed. he didn't pass away they let him die. is pharmacy really about helping people. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought. i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture.

they had many parties or evening dinners or things here at the hermitage. they entertained people and they appreciated those fine things too. they acquired a good deal of silver. they would have been used for an evening party where probably some very highly liquored up punch was served. this kind of dual image of her as country lady, she wasn't that exactly. i think it was more about her comfort in the big city than it was about her actual appearance or clothing. rachael was not a fan of anything that took andrew jackson away from the hermitage. i think he knew pretty well that she would have preferred him just to stay home and be plantation owner andrew jackson. this is the earliest letter we have that jackson wrote to rachael and it was written in 1796 when he was in east tennessee on business and it read to her, my dearest heart. i sit down to write to you, i'm absent and my heart rest with you. when i shall restore to your arms domestic sweetness with you the dear companion of my life. never to be separated from you again during this fluctuating life. t

behind the scenes at the hermitage oddity. if you. mean. it's the same corruption that affects the louisiana happens on a larger scale and washed. through all comes from texas oklahoma louisiana the political structure the economic structure of those states are so done by well wishers where the number one issues. one thing that is unique about the museum is where tiny state politically we have single digits in terms of electoral votes but we have an incredible influence on on the national political scene the senate is the most now apportioned body in the world you have two senators from each state you have two senators from louisiana and two senators from california the california if it was a nation would be the seventh largest nation in the world and louisiana is not close to that. the senate say only legislative assembly in the world that has a super majority to get things done they need sixty votes to get things done so it only takes a few senators to stop the initiative of the house of representatives. the senate has the power to veto a

behind the scenes of the hermitage on r.t. . more news today in harlem says once again flared up. and these are the images cold world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations are on the day. dangerous experiments on prisoners they want to make money and they have to use healthy guinea pigs in the regular society they're not able to use prisoners i mean more they wish they could. drug tests on human guinea pigs. paid to paul deadly pills he didn't pass away he was killed. he didn't pass away they let him down. is pharmacy really about paying people. welcome were all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're talking about the benghazi affair. ok we're going to go to you said something about what you've said in the past but i'd like to before that point out or ask a question how many terrorists like like this kind were in libya before this happened before regime change. well i think when hillary clinton and her advisors decided to bomb and to bomb libya and depots the. gadhafi that there were relatively few terrorists there now it's teeming wit

behind the scenes of the hermitage on r.t. . more news today. these are the images from. canada. giant corporations are the day. please. welcome back to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle we're discussing the war in syria. ok i'd like to go back to you and talk about israel in all this i mean ok we had a cold war what for forty years the israelis and syria and you know it's it's been there and they've been able to manage it but now we have the case where syria could disappear is that good or bad for israel. i think it's very bad for israel first of all the golan front. enjoyed a cease fire since nine hundred seventy four the people were not killing each other there was a war in lebanon it was a bloody war israel lost about nine hundred people there which for a small country is a lot of our family lost friends bought at the same time there was a semblance of balance and there was an address when v. syrians from israel's perspective got out of line israeli planes could go in and buzz the presidential palace or destroy a nuclear reactor that president assad was

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behind the scenes at the hermitage see. lol. now we have more where the air comes later of negs we talk to him about the role of options and high frequency trading. you mention apple there are five thousand different options on apple now how does h f t now play into the options market. well they're just decimating. the average person to analyze prices for moving the decision you know a lot of times people say well your burdens direct fees and you get the benefit of that that's not foreign you know on people base their decision or selling more than what. some people actually want any analyze prices and do economic forecasts that has become really expensive because all is well there's no way it's in crisis they have to you have sealed you have to work with this really outside the scope of many academic it's right it's almost like electronic tradeable are not tradeable spam it moving on by law and exchange is supposed to execute a trade at the best available price among all the exchanges and it's called the national best bit offer

numerous refugees from going conflict well you have today here in r t and up next we had to the hermitage museum in saying that his work to reveal one of its best kept secrets and the way. the illusion of safety trumping you're right seems to be the main political theme of post nine eleven america and notice pushing the keep you safe at any cost more than new york billionaire mayor michael bloomberg who recently had to defend his stop and frisk strategy after giving a speech to police brass stop and frisk is the practice of just being able to search anyone in new york at any time for any reason with your hands stop practice has been in place since two thousand and two but thankfully was finally recently found to be unconstitutional by a federal judge you know the fourth amendment all the talk about no unlawful search and seizure seems pretty clear to me why did this take so long to figure out bloomberg despite that silly constitution thing stands firm with this policy declaring if you end street stops looking for guns they will be more guns on the street and more people will be killed it'

behind the scenes at the hermitage a nutty. news secret laboratory was able to build the new rules most sophisticated robot fortunately doesn't sound anything tunes mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and we're going this is why you should care only dot com. the guantanamo bay hunger strike enters its one hundredth day the number of inmates refusing food is increasing and the use of force feeding has been condemned r.t. has extensive coverage of the ongoing situation at the camp. a million dollars a year plus bonuses russia security service releases purported phone conversations detailing what the alleged cia agent arrested in moscow was offering his potential recruit. and from recession for a second time since two thousand and eight with some economists dubbing it as the eurozone as a ticking time bomb issue is the latest blow to president hollande after a tough first year in office.

behind the scenes of the hermitage see. from moscow this is a france has entered recession for the second time in five years and the numbers come as president francois hollande marks one year in office which some have labeled as a disaster. reports there are doubts over the whole euro zone's ability to manage its crisis economy. i we're looking at a cafe culture here in paris still continuing looking calmer wherever this is a far cry a contrast to the other images that we've seen across the country such as protests against president francois launch the first son of verse three as president has there seeing him as not having done enough for the economy or those and a steady protest now the a french finance minister had come out saying that this contraction that we're seeing now is a result of the overall depressed environment that france finds itself in its neighbors in the euro zone area however it is still a blow to our fund swollen to what dan has been seeing a lot of criticism for the policies that are in place and also

behind the scenes of the hermitage on r.t. . live. you're watching us here live from moscow welcome back the french economy has slipped back into recession after being dragged further into europe's financial troubles and the poor figures are stacking up against president all alone and his ratings have slumped with a record speed. reports now on how the financial woes in europe second largest economy has raised fears over the whole eurozone i we're looking at a cafe culture here in paris still continuing looking call however this is a far cry a contrast to the other images that we've seen across the country such as protests against president francois lawns the first set of versa really as president has there seeing him as not having done enough for the economy or those add to your sister a sturdy protest now the a french finance minister had come out saying that this contraction that we're seeing now is a result of the overall depressed environment that france finds itself at its neighbors in the euro zone area however it is still a bl

behind the scenes of the hermitage on o.t. . the. science technology innovation all the least of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. welcome back here with l.t. . now the booming a digital currency the bitcoin that may be disqualified from the financial race before it even starts running u.s. authorities of seize the account of the operator that allows users to convert us dollars into bit coin and back again let's take a look at how bit coins differ from the cash we're used to the bitcoin system is developed unknown program back in two thousand and nine but ballooned only recently following the banking crisis in cyprus now users must first download the virtual world it onto a computer or mobile device they don't get an address for their wallets and can transfer bit coins to the wallet over another user for a small charge and without banking mediators the whole transfer process is encrypted to prevent the money from being stolen the currency can only exchange for hard cash or used in a growing number of stores th

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behind the scenes of the hermitage. cold. steel. cold and heat. cold. good to proceed anything like that. pakistan's elections took place last week resulting in the water sharif of the pakistan muslim league returning to leave the country as prime minister for a third time after being exiled so now that the elections are over the world's watching to see it sharif leadership will work to cut us his puppet strings in the deadly drone wars in the country here to give us some more insight on the ground in pakistan of the vote protests and u.s. pakistani relations moving forward as our teams on the. things that largely calmed down since the elections with the majority of the people here really excited about the vote turnout was at a record sixty percent and we did see people really enthusiastic about it in the streets but there was violence although in a country of one hundred eighty to one hundred ninety million roughly twenty nine people were killed on voting day now in this city qur'an cheap more voting problems than elsewhere in pakistan different partie

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behind the scenes of the hermitage on r.t. . oh. please. welcome back to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're talking about the benghazi affair. ok we had to go to you raymond said something about what you've said in the past but i'd like to before that point out or ask a question how many terrorists like a like this kind were in libya before this happened before regime change. well i think when hillary clinton and her advisors decided to bomb and to bomb libya and depots the. khadafi that there were relatively few terrorists there now it's teeming with terrorism reminds me of iraq there were very few terrorists there before we attacked iraq now it's caning with terrorists but getting back to raymond's point here you know i have never accused george bush of letting nine eleven happen i have accused him of incompetence you know just a month before nine eleven he was warned by my colleagues in the cia osama bin laden determined to attack within the united states and he did absolutely nothing so at best

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behind the scenes at the hermitage see. really. complexity of this oil spill was not something you just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil this is a huge step backwards for the marker sea it's a step forward. corrects it is toxic as it looked like spraying and. it was it was not a picture that either the government or b.p. really wanted to have out there i don't want dispersants to be the agent. of this. and we're back with patty lovera of the assistant director of food and water watch and r.t. correspondent megan lopez only last we're talking about the month and the protection act now months and to r.t. owns fifty percent of the world the market do you think th