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  • Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
  • Snow storms have hit central Russia this week, including the capital Moscow, where nearly half the January norm fell in just one day. The BBC's Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg braved the cold to see how the authorities have been coping with all that snow.
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  • @atall633
    @atall633 8 років тому +861

    I can't belive my eyes, BBC showed Russia without stupid propoganda. Clap clap clap.

    • @ASBlueful
      @ASBlueful 8 років тому +30

      +Belarusian Partizan What stupid propaganda? Since when is BBC a propaganda channel?

    • @ASBlueful
      @ASBlueful 8 років тому +14

      *****
      I am serious. I don't think that you can call the BBC a "propaganda channel"? Arguments?

    • @dominic4619
      @dominic4619 8 років тому +27

      +Belarusian Partizan If BBC is propoganda when what would one call russian media? Implication being that russian media is 1000 times more propoganda than even the worst of western media. With a name like that I suspect that you are just a troll.

    • @ReekieReels
      @ReekieReels 8 років тому +1

      +Belarusian Partizan They had the internet in Belarus?

    • @johndavid8949
      @johndavid8949 8 років тому

      +Belarusian Partizan He's a British spy...

  • @landedhoaxer
    @landedhoaxer 8 років тому +897

    Russia also has A LOT of vodka.

    • @nikolayshut7214
      @nikolayshut7214 8 років тому +11

      You right, i drink two bottles every day;)

    • @jonesnj07
      @jonesnj07 8 років тому

      +Nikolay Shut' well we all have to have sensible limits ;)

    • @golddinar6736
      @golddinar6736 8 років тому +5

      +landedhoaxer it does...is the biggest threat to russia

    • @dimitry5631
      @dimitry5631 8 років тому +10

      +landedhoaxer No more than in other countries. Why do not you have listed Matryoshka and balalaika? 21 century and you think in stereotypes.

    • @alanbart3073
      @alanbart3073 8 років тому +2

      +Dimitry 56 Why didn't you listed matryoshka, balalaika and BEARS))) THESE STEREOTYPES ARE FROM the 18 century

  • @paulkelly4027
    @paulkelly4027 7 років тому +362

    This is the first ever positive story BBC has ever done on Russia woo am sure it was a mistake..

    • @StelzCat
      @StelzCat 6 років тому +8

      Though it's only 94 seconds long.

    • @jem2779
      @jem2779 6 років тому +9

      I guess the reporter is already fired, lol.

  • @ethanmayo399
    @ethanmayo399 6 років тому +32

    "Dumping it's load"

  • @locojambo
    @locojambo 6 років тому +43

    If London got 1% of that snow the whole of the U.K. would be in chaos

    • @lewist7576
      @lewist7576 6 років тому +1

      Haha but only in London, most high ground areas in Northern England and Scotland get lots of snow every year.

    • @locojambo
      @locojambo 6 років тому +1

      Lewis T I know we’ll have it for weeks then London gets half a day then it’s all over the news

    • @fixedgearforlife
      @fixedgearforlife 6 років тому

      Next is 2%, and all of the U.K. is paralyzed.

  • @dinoflame9696
    @dinoflame9696 6 років тому +18

    I'm no "snowologist", but I'm pretty sure that's how you remove snow from the highway, in more or less any winter country.

  • @antonv.
    @antonv. 6 років тому +6

    That's cool

  • @alexandre92099
    @alexandre92099 7 років тому +366

    no propaganda what

    • @tarapapi
      @tarapapi 6 років тому +3

      a bit of propaganda is needed to keep patriotism and faith in the motherland

    • @calculator5909
      @calculator5909 6 років тому

      Takumi Fujiwara ikr

    • @serg68ful
      @serg68ful 6 років тому

      Takumi Fujiwara see topic

  • @hellowjp
    @hellowjp 8 років тому +228

    Is this new to the British? These machines are used in North America every winter...

    • @xponen
      @xponen 8 років тому +11

      +hellowjp , places by the sea have less extreme temperature. The sea bring warmth from the tropics.

    • @hellowjp
      @hellowjp 8 років тому +31

      +xponen Not so simple. Canada's east coast has the most snow out of all the provinces.

    • @ReekieReels
      @ReekieReels 8 років тому +8

      +hellowjp Pah! We have man snow in Britain. It snows, being an island a warm wind rolls in from the sea, the snow melts, and becomes ice, then more snow falls, the same happens, and on and on, couldn't be scooped up like that very easily. Wish we had weather that wasn't fucking depressing. 80% of our annual days are overcast too, wish I lived in Canada ;)

    • @jonesnj07
      @jonesnj07 8 років тому +10

      +hellowjp it's not new, but Britain doesn't have much snow it hasn't snowed below Scotland once this year , so on the rare winter that we do have more than 3 inches everything goes tits up because understandably the government doesn't wan't to spend millions buying these machines that may not be used for years at a time, it;s quite funny really.

    • @RoccosVideos
      @RoccosVideos 8 років тому +2

      +hellowjp Well it doesn't snow much there so it wouldn't make much sense to invest in them. Where in North America are you from? I can reassure you when I lived in Louisiana they didn't have any plows there either. I'm originally from New England though where we have many.

  • @押し車氏
    @押し車氏 7 років тому +135

    one snowflake causes the british to have a mental breakdown ,but others countries are soo productive and relaxed about such things

    • @paianis
      @paianis 6 років тому

      We only get snow maybe once or twice a year.

    • @guestkid9976
      @guestkid9976 6 років тому

      XD, one snowflake also causes "sjw" facists to have a mental breakdown

    • @senpaipimp2207
      @senpaipimp2207 6 років тому +1

      GUESTKID9976 VIDEOS where'd he mention politics? Stick to the video subject or get out.

    • @RickDeckardMemories
      @RickDeckardMemories 6 років тому +1

      Relaxed? 15000 pieces of dedicated snow-clearing/removal machinery!!!
      Like others here had said, it's a matter of choice of municipal investment. A few years ago I heard that NYC only has about 400 dedicated pieces of machinery to deal with snow. Although I am pretty sure that doesn't include municipal garbage trucks which are equipped with plows and switched to exclusive snow duty for the duration of snow removal. Because in NYC some Winters are very mild - I personally remember a couple with just 3-5 inches for the entire season. But when it snows a lot, you can see that NYC struggles to clean up.

    • @nomad8286
      @nomad8286 6 років тому +1

      Ash U. It's getting colder? What planet did you come from? So in Russia and in Moscow has ALWAYS been! Several warm winters in a row do not matter. winter temperature is - 15, -20. -25 degrees is the usual thing in our latitudes. Climate in Moscow is CONTINENTAL Annual sum of temperatures up to 50 degrees. From 10 to 28 December 1978, it was -38 and -42 Celsius. Further to the East. the Volga and the Ural mountains the climate is "extreme CONTINENTAL". The sum of temperatures up to 100 degrees. All the talk about" warming " is a lie.

  • @Jakelc
    @Jakelc Рік тому +1

    In Canada we make a big mountain of it which becomes all black and dirty, lasting well into the summer before finally melting away

  • @stephenn6657
    @stephenn6657 6 років тому

    The golden hands machine is awsome.
    Well played BBC, well played.

  • @rayhanes1347
    @rayhanes1347 6 років тому +292

    This is what you get when your tax dollars are put to work. Why doesn't every major city that has snow have this?

    • @jaredlangley6924
      @jaredlangley6924 6 років тому +45

      We do in the U.S in the Northern States...

    • @yaz2928
      @yaz2928 6 років тому +61

      ray hanes Come to Canada, we do it better than Russians and are the best. We're even nice enough to send our vehicules to northern US states when they get little snow storms.

    • @rayhanes1347
      @rayhanes1347 6 років тому +7

      Wolf
      You see my avatar? I wouldn't stay in Canada for more than a week.

    • @fupopanda
      @fupopanda 6 років тому +37

      ray hanes. Canada doesnt want the likes of you anyways. Empty gun head.

    • @benlawton5420
      @benlawton5420 6 років тому +12

      (ray hanes) No one is scared.

  • @pokebreeder2517
    @pokebreeder2517 4 роки тому

    good to see they not only plow the snow off the roads but also get rid of the road side snow drifts which can litterally become ice walls if water and freezing temps freeze it

  • @billcosbyeatsbabies9947
    @billcosbyeatsbabies9947 8 років тому

    hmm... interesting. That "lorri dumping its load" was something.

  • @madmaxv161
    @madmaxv161 8 років тому +9

    "but thats not the end of the story" hahaha, BBC are funny..

  • @jestofreestone1
    @jestofreestone1 6 років тому

    “Cleaned throughly”. Yeah. Right...

  • @martinkeatings7126
    @martinkeatings7126 6 років тому

    They also dont use gas heatings in homes normally in moscow. They pump hot water from the power stations out to homes and on its return journey it is still warm and is pumped in pipes upnder road surfaces to melt the snow.

  • @kostyanimusf2241
    @kostyanimusf2241 8 років тому +46

    Это неполный репортаж, не показали потом как растопленным снегом иы устраиваем наводнения в европе по секретным подземным трубам

    • @postgradsibstud9321
      @postgradsibstud9321 6 років тому +3

      Страдаешь тут только ты,лол))))

  • @mertellabrown6785
    @mertellabrown6785 6 років тому

    That's pretty neat.

  • @lordkrythic6246
    @lordkrythic6246 6 років тому

    1:12 I think we can all relate to this.

  • @Paul_Sergeyev
    @Paul_Sergeyev 4 роки тому +3

    Holy cow, your russian pronounciation is unusually good. It's cool to see that you've got the job done to the ed end learned to pronounce those words right, unlike most.

    • @davidevans3227
      @davidevans3227 2 роки тому

      it's Steve Rosenberg i think, he's a rather good journalist and bbc russian analyst..
      and plays the piano??

  • @walsh9354
    @walsh9354 8 років тому

    Seems to easy for a person that fall into that. I don't think they heavily salt their roads either

  • @ninjapirate123
    @ninjapirate123 Місяць тому

    I never experienced snow ever in my life, not even during winter

  • @domesday1535
    @domesday1535 6 років тому +2

    As a Canadian this makes me laugh my ass off. How do they get rid of ALL THE SNOW??? This quantity of snow should cause chaos!

  • @osvaldo4696
    @osvaldo4696 6 років тому

    They should send it to the Caspian Sea so that it doesn’t dry out

  • @Daero1
    @Daero1 6 років тому

    It's like this in new england too, you just gotta push that shit back

  • @lijie6431
    @lijie6431 6 років тому

    This brought a tear to the eye 👁 of Bernie during his honeymoon in Moscow.

  • @privateryan1357
    @privateryan1357 6 років тому

    0:45 That elevator looks like me when I eat pizza 🍕

  • @pryderacing8056
    @pryderacing8056 6 років тому

    That's pretty dope

  • @MRTN13
    @MRTN13 6 років тому

    That Golden Hand machine is brilliant! I need that for all my money

  • @robertnicholas5442
    @robertnicholas5442 6 років тому

    It also has a lot of vodka

  • @Horridius
    @Horridius 6 років тому

    good lord that truck lowering its box at the end needs to be greased lol

  • @karamiddleton2920
    @karamiddleton2920 3 роки тому

    Old video, but fascinating.

  • @kasparssarnovskis9539
    @kasparssarnovskis9539 8 років тому

    Was that the longest FUCKING gear-grind at the end?

  • @jimdevilbiss9125
    @jimdevilbiss9125 6 років тому

    In my town we had years ago a loader just like the one shown. Much faster and much more economical than the present use of front end loaders. Also did not close the street of this much

  • @Foxtucky
    @Foxtucky 6 років тому

    Hahaha they put you on a where does the snow go story in Russia hahaha

  • @leloodallasmultipass
    @leloodallasmultipass 6 років тому

    why do i get the feeling that mincer is often quite red?

  • @rejvaik00
    @rejvaik00 6 років тому

    Salt. Lots and lots of salt. Colorado in the US does the same thing.

  • @shmookins
    @shmookins 6 років тому

    I love those golden hands. I want to play with one.

  • @brandona801
    @brandona801 6 років тому

    1:14 “Dumping its load into a bunker”
    Lol

  • @fakeapplestore4710
    @fakeapplestore4710 6 років тому

    Amazing

  • @antonslavik4907
    @antonslavik4907 2 роки тому

    0:41 TNO reference?!

  • @masterbard
    @masterbard 6 років тому

    I was expecting something more interesting like the snow is compressed into small ice cubes to put into your vodka but then I remembered nobody puts ice on their vodka.

  • @jod125
    @jod125 6 років тому

    Why do they mix relatively clean snow, with sewage if you're just gonna put it in the river?

  • @jaredhall4812
    @jaredhall4812 6 років тому

    in canada we just push the snow off to the side of the road

  • @irwin770
    @irwin770 6 років тому

    Ah it goes back to the river

  • @louiscypher7090
    @louiscypher7090 6 років тому

    And to think I was expecting some modern marvel of technology.

  • @hyppolitedumoulen4736
    @hyppolitedumoulen4736 8 років тому

    It is only one day (( special show for BBC ((

  • @buxbux40
    @buxbux40 Рік тому

    wish athens was as snowy as this...

  • @BRAVOACTUAL
    @BRAVOACTUAL 8 років тому

    95% sure that Montreal and Toronto do the same thing... When TO has snow that is.

    • @BRAVOACTUAL
      @BRAVOACTUAL 8 років тому

      ***** TO is +20 degrees right now...

    • @BRAVOACTUAL
      @BRAVOACTUAL 8 років тому

      ***** And you think that's too cold?!?!?!

    • @BRAVOACTUAL
      @BRAVOACTUAL 8 років тому

      ***** Pfft. That's shorts weather ffs.

    • @BRAVOACTUAL
      @BRAVOACTUAL 8 років тому

      ***** Top end of Muskoka for me. Born and raised.

    • @BRAVOACTUAL
      @BRAVOACTUAL 8 років тому

      ***** ???? Helluva lot better than TO could ever hope to be.

  • @kyle7412
    @kyle7412 6 років тому

    Rip snow

  • @tylerdurden4608
    @tylerdurden4608 4 роки тому

    First BBC video that is not Propaganda

  • @ilyafilru
    @ilyafilru Рік тому

    They used to just dump it in the river

  • @LivvyHackett
    @LivvyHackett 6 років тому

    1:12 really didn't mean to laugh but I did

  • @insidethecourt
    @insidethecourt 6 років тому

    Why is it mixed with sewage water before being cleaned?… why not just straight cleaned…

  • @CaptainAhab-kh3yn
    @CaptainAhab-kh3yn 6 років тому

    Simply genius. Very cool machine. I would call it the "Snow crab." Flushing the sewer lines with snow. (water)

  • @diegoperez2090
    @diegoperez2090 6 років тому

    Good report with only exception of "Cleaned thoroughly". There are thousands of jokes in Russia about how polluted Moscow River is.

  • @lifeisgood070
    @lifeisgood070 6 років тому

    Do they salt their roads too?

  • @ishikawa1338
    @ishikawa1338 6 років тому

    That golden hand is inefficient as fuck...

  • @RnBCutz
    @RnBCutz 6 років тому

    Its called Mr Plow

  • @agathaking4255
    @agathaking4255 6 років тому

    Oh...I thought they would call Putin to stare at the snow until it melts

  • @captain-obvious-speaks
    @captain-obvious-speaks 6 років тому

    Russia, I would also say, has a little bit of land. Not much. But just a smidge.

  • @ToonandBBfan
    @ToonandBBfan 6 років тому

    OR Sergei could roll his MiG-29 out the hangar and apply full afterburner

  • @qwerty-vl4ee
    @qwerty-vl4ee 6 років тому

    Last year I saw them actually burn the snow;\
    They would have these furnaces where they dump the snow into and it evaporates.
    clever shit

  • @thomaschung7511
    @thomaschung7511 6 років тому

    chaps that's simple: comrade knocks on door. hands bloke a shovel. says, "dig or you vwill be shot."

  • @-soaponarope-1261
    @-soaponarope-1261 6 років тому

    Ohhh....ok

  • @habibsyed9190
    @habibsyed9190 6 років тому

    Now I may die in peace.

  • @theo.c.2165
    @theo.c.2165 6 років тому

    They should try and repurpose the snow a make it a viable source of pure drinking water, or atleast turn it ice cubes for all their vodka.

  • @brandonhendrixson2372
    @brandonhendrixson2372 6 років тому

    Very cool

  • @hussein8722
    @hussein8722 6 років тому

    He forgot the 4th abundant thing, Vodka

  • @jacqueline5621
    @jacqueline5621 3 роки тому +5

    Russia has awesome technology and very nice people.

    • @07Blackbeard
      @07Blackbeard Рік тому

      Yeah, very nice imperialist Invaders.

  • @gamingsucks9337
    @gamingsucks9337 6 років тому

    Nice pun

  • @stevewebber3410
    @stevewebber3410 6 років тому

    This is what we should do in the 🇬🇧

  • @Netryon
    @Netryon 9 місяців тому

    Hopefully all the street lights were updated Primal Council Xenothreat to the car bulbs. This buildings are like Intermedix and Transunion couldn't rent anything here. I don't know - watchdogs players can't really do anything to hack these - that's why they best for a progress denial and this could be that sign you can make semiconductors at Molėtai, but not here because you see all of that again on the road A8.

  • @papajohn9146
    @papajohn9146 6 років тому +1

    I thought they would make snow cones and eat it

  • @mobspeak
    @mobspeak 6 років тому

    This guy really has the inside scoop.

  • @wildcard9010
    @wildcard9010 6 років тому

    Dumps its load

  • @bertreynolds8146
    @bertreynolds8146 6 років тому

    The story of the missing snow

  • @CTF768
    @CTF768 6 років тому

    In Russia, you do not get rid of snow.
    Snow gets rid of you.

  • @BlackBirdMax
    @BlackBirdMax 6 років тому

    I bet you a lot more than snow goes into that shredder... Just saying.

  • @rileyjensen5257
    @rileyjensen5257 8 років тому

    They do it the same way us Canadians do it

  • @jasonoreilly2795
    @jasonoreilly2795 6 років тому

    Bit of an anti-climax.
    Thought they were gona ship it out to countries that 'needed' it

  • @thasyamaha
    @thasyamaha 6 років тому

    Imagine how many bodies that have been dumped there by criminals.

  • @colonelstriker2519
    @colonelstriker2519 6 років тому

    They use MiG-15 jet engines

  • @sidewinderaf1862
    @sidewinderaf1862 6 років тому

    i thought that they just spill vodka all over the road to melt it

  • @gorrokasali305
    @gorrokasali305 6 років тому

    How depressing.

  • @jurascipakre9200
    @jurascipakre9200 6 років тому

    Russia's number 1 export: ice cubes

  • @wickedone1874
    @wickedone1874 6 років тому

    Anyone else see the sniper at 0:01? I didnt either till he took a shot

  • @joncastillian8389
    @joncastillian8389 6 років тому

    Québec and Russia, the snow bros

  • @maxfactor4209
    @maxfactor4209 6 років тому

    I hate winter :((((((

  • @yahya2231
    @yahya2231 6 років тому

    What do you mean? Ww2

  • @jonobrien7024
    @jonobrien7024 6 років тому

    if you ever need to get rid of a body in moscow just put it in a snow truck lol

  • @MarCel-ml3dr
    @MarCel-ml3dr 6 років тому

    I thought it is some sort of metaphor for Russia warming relations with the west... and then, it's just bbc being amazed with handling car traffic in winter.

  • @oconnell88
    @oconnell88 4 роки тому

    So basically it’s the normal water cycle of the earth

  • @marktaylor7373
    @marktaylor7373 6 років тому

    I didnt want to see a lorri dumping it load but oh well

  • @kelvinnyenza5742
    @kelvinnyenza5742 7 років тому

    I prefer VOA more than BBC

  • @sgpc750
    @sgpc750 6 років тому

    I thought it got turned into soup

  • @martinpro88
    @martinpro88 6 років тому

    Moscow doesn't have to get rid of snow,snow will do the job getting rid of Moscow. lol

  • @a.g.719
    @a.g.719 6 років тому

    awsmmmmmm....