i mean volgograd what else is going on around here but i'm peter schmeichel and i'm here to find out. the city used to be cold standing ground. but it was renamed in one thousand nine hundred eighty one to volgograd why because of the river vulcan and so far i've been to three other cities on the balkans and all of those places the river was frozen solid this is first time i see water so i've decided to take a boat trip and at the same time i can see. the neck and if since they come from the water so yeah we're passing the stadium now. stephen from the water looks fantastic and i was here many many years ago just to didn't look like that at all for the way they've done the whole riverside here i can just imagine. how great it will be for amongst all the sea and the fans to come and watch the game against. the spin the floor years since i last i skied almost wanted to see how it was from an ice hockey team that's what i'm going to have to do it just. like a lot of these guys are and they skate like the ministry but. i have to admit that ice hockey is up there even as the climate is a y

this is volgograd arena and it's one of the true stadiums in the world cup that i've acted competed in when i played here it looked a lot different completely demolished and they've built this. to turn the page a little bit so with a calling to feature the rules of facing north south west and east other than that the pitch is exactly where you used to be. in the world cup it's going to be four games played in here and the first of them is tunisia versus spangler and they're preparing for that game today they're having mock trials with that means the first time they have people in the stadium they've got all the stewards out in the orange less thousands of people are getting into the volgograd arena for the first time today so all the systems a test that you could just sense but the world cup is edging closer and closer. i'm involved with what else is going on around here but i'm peter schmeichel and i'm here to find out. the city used to be called standing ground. but it was renamed in one thousand nine hundred eighty one to volgograd why because of the river volker and so far i've bee

i mean volgograd what else is going on around here but i'm peter schmeichel and i'm here to find out. it's been the years since i last i skied almost wanted to see how it was from an ice hockey team that's what i'm going to have to do it just. as you just see i'm not able to skate i leave that to all of these guys these are speeding. the ice hockey wasn't a great success for me so i found a driving range of come out here it's again a little bit of silva specked back and i'd recommend it now in between games come out here. you've got to brace yourself though it's a bit of a bumpy ride but once your head's nice. ok i'm about fifty. well back at the top of the out. war in remembrance today marks the seventy third anniversary of victory in europe over fascism this is one of the most important dates on the russian calendar but can't be said of the europeans and americans we discussed how that complicated team used to question view of the world to this day. would you like to. milton's i would say i'm not american but americans helped out really. world war two cures the depression farce the

revolution of course and also the anniversary of the victory in the battle of stalingrad modern day volgograd of course in southern russia that was one of the key battles of the great patriotic war one of the the biggest the most bloody battles which really was a turning point not only on the eastern front in the russian fight against nazi germany but overall in the second world war my great grandfather for them died also on the battles under stalin rather so very poignant they personally for myself here as well it's very much else about the military to volunteers you said then it is the guest was saying numerous new hardware on display from drones for the first time ever to on manned vehicles robotic vehicles of course a new aircraft and tanks as well but really it's about the people here there's less and less veterans from world war two attending very sadly every year of course but they have the place of honor as you can be able to see you know t.v. screens there in livio piece sector it's all about them of course today and later there will be a pro a procession of of other people or family

fun to be also have to say that then candidate and now presidents don't know it's trump has been volgograd many times so i think it's you know hearing this criticism from some conservatives sort of hypocritical. and we've got time to show one more clip from the dinner. putting kalyan on your show. all she does is allow right if you don't give her a platform she has nowhere to live. there's of course the long that she was supposed to be an advocate for women but it turns out she's about as helpful to women as an empty box a tampon. or i mean you know. just there we got about ten seconds we just ask you this what does this tell us though about the issues that matter in america in the media covering those are they getting covered at all. well they are getting coverage but it's telling us that the only you know the society in the us ass is polarized and still find it it's also the case with the media landscape i would wish that people would be talking about the event within our association and snorts on twitter i think a lot of people would agree with you alexander phenomena in washington than