delve into the cultural scene here and you see how many areas russia has been a huge influence over the years in the past bush and the west may have battled it out with that cultural and political wars but now many believe it's a time when both all working together to celebrate each other's success first we enter in a series building situated in nazi hellgate lavishing both this impressive location is the residence of the russian ambassador kensington palace gardens for the most expensive and elite addresses in the british capital. for two graphs a possum busters in public figures grace to lose an extravagant gifts from various leaders and dignitaries adorn the rooms. wow absolutely breathtaking the soviet embassy moved into this building in one nine hundred twenty nine also known as heron to the house it was one of the few venues in the area the bravely use the number thirteen but scared of anything another interesting fact is that they just pay one pound a year for the rent here but on the flip side of that the british embassy residence

in moscow pays just one ruble which is actually fifty times cheaper a good price for both every year the u.k. consular section issues two hundred thousand visas for russians who want to visit london the russian embassy says it supports the russian business while in britain offering assistance wherever possible but how does the embassy help british and russian relations i think the russian culture needs no major. introduction or advertisement here. because russia is a branch of the european christian civilization and i think we share the same. values here in terror and our. perception of the good and bad. life and few will and. there is no such thing as a cultural barrier between the two nations the russian. heritage is extremely.

popular here to keep them around to remember the russian see it as a russian troop or is he wrong or right. it always attracts. a bigger man than a big number of friends and or do. its not look back and see parties illegal drugs and the g.o.p. just said partying in dreams like this many young middle class machinist lives in london and that brings us to this week scares. me a little why do you think russians love london so much so don't stay to say guess the level of the people that. they could mix here aristocracy celebrities it was different it wasn't the say that we had in russia. you know you could go to elton john ball here you can do it now probably in moscow but you couldn't do that before

so people i guess they're really detracted by all that and you work for a magazine so i presume that you out every single hour to different events and functions that's through a lot a lot of what's the old russian social scene like russians don't seem to congregate just in one place if you go to nobu if you go to if you go to new how you hear russians russian speech so it would be glamorous places i guess for the new generation of russians who grew up around europe the most expensive places are not necessarily the best so you'll see a lot of people you know eventually going to shoreditch hanging out in soho they prefer their friends be cool rather than ballsy or or mix both lovely well is that it's really sad to see a tip would like to thank you. to the scene of russia and the felicity. the public's is not all about bush and pancakes why not

try something new and right in the heart of london's malabo restaurant and buckle some accounts in the name of the beetle city in his pakistan open in two thousand and ten and already has gained a reputation a must visit venue he specializes in central asian cuisine offering its international guess a chance to taste the exotic flavius of the stamp because extend i'm not in stylish interiors today kitchens glass where you can see chefs at work making delicious bread in clay ovens and pulling needles into shape following the recipes which you've been passed down to generations these recipes has been passed on. and my mother is very much in control in the kitchen she makes sure that every single thing is that according to the recipe and she's very household in the kitchen just to make sure that every single thing is just a tool of. the oceans of russian author she had success

worldwide particularly in the british capital with the base alone achieving almost one of the two dollars in sales in the last decade several options are held in london every year featuring various recent pieces from different periods all of which are an interest among the biggest recent sales highlights of nineteenth and twentieth century russian paintings icons and other works of art including family having generated a frenzy of excitement among the collecting she is a predominately the market for russian painting. but interesting enough when the artists leave russia. especially after the revolution is such a. team. that becomes very international so we have a wide range of international clowns for those artists but for pure russian artists by russian i always get very excited about anything russian sells but to be honest i think the most exciting thing i've seen ever. bridge. in new york and it made me

incredibly price sixty million dollars. moving outside now and some experts say the recession we did see a market in london has kept many companies alive for the past five years for new wealthy russians the famous london square as an elite central areas of the capital are the places to live in the places to be seen over the past twenty years thousands of wealthy russians have moved to london with large houses in the sense that fetching millions of pounds many local a safe agents have welcomed the new russian custom is. why the british capital well that's why. the treasurer very famously wrote the book london ground about the oligarchs who can run. london grad because so many wealthy russians have moved to the last ten years and i think most of the famous all they

go but also a lot of. russians have moved here as well i think they like the lifestyle. and the history of. the russians like the schools as well so they bring the children the families. and i think that's the main reason why the rights you just sat you brought me to just scrap both right well this is just a school which is otherwise known as red square because the russian is a big houses. down the street. and you have most of his houses here will cost at least fifteen million pounds sterling to buy. it's a very historic square i think most of the russian. boy here because they feel it's part of the british establishment. wants to buy a house here with us. of the legal age and that's what i like.

moving to our final location at the victoria and albert museum that's simply exhibition on the influential russian artistic director sergei the analyst who founded one of the most exciting dance companies of the twentieth century. douglas imaginatively combine dance music and art to create theater his dramatic performances transformed dance reawakening interests in ballet across europe and america knowledge of the company's revolutionary ballets filtered through theatre fashion and to daily life including interior design and style all around the world . starts company was created a century ago in the productions of various ballets revolutionize twentieth century arts and still continue to influence cultural activity today celebrating the company's keep period of activity this major exhibition reveals jackalopes

influence on twentieth century arts design and fashion and includes hundreds of objects including giant theater costs original costumes set designs props and posts is an impressive collection so where did they get all the exhibit items from what i think the remarkable thing is actually two thirds in the chariot come from the bay and they obviously have a museum like this is very helpful because there are so many different apartments but we do have a wonderful department of performance here and so the cloths and the cost shoes basically come from those. six cost the rest. and we have this is wonderful well for a consummate collaborator jacqueline works with stravinsky chanel picasso and the jean ski just like many past and present russian artists whose work is celebrated and studied all over the world russian culture is staggering in many ways and in most major cities around the world you can now find out for yourselves. one of your

nearest museums to it is consider holes and you'll see that russia is closer than you think well unfortunately that's all that's how we have on this week's program i'll see the same time next week for more cultural adventures around the british capital until then for me and the rest of the team here at the victoria and albert museum bye bye for now. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. observe nature and discover its beauty.

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a sensational comeback to be told they were down for their all but eventually won the match six four elsewhere skull moved into the second spot in the western conference after rushing. for a nail. in football to have a car says he's likely to opt for a tried and trusted chew up from russia's friendly against iran next week good at the act and roman pavlyuchenko a set to get the not headed to make you do weekend from side other than hard which is that despite that we can stop form so that the public can play in the top european leagues by striking showing the simple in the season to stay on top of the respectively. meanwhile liverpool's new striker luis suarez says life in the english premiership is how he expected it to be the year of quine scoring in his debut and the reds to know when i was stuck on wednesday night he was officially unveiled in front of the media at anfield on thursday along with liverpool's other new attacker andy carroll suarez saying he will have to adapt to the style of play

in england while carroll was happy he could. live up to his fifty six million dollar price tag. it's exactly what i managed it would be like it's what i expected from watching games back in the netherlands which in the games from england on television it's a tough strong league it's hard to grade a big unit is in chance of some goal but i think i'll learn to adapt it's a type of game i'm looking forward to doing my best to adapt. it was a lot of money. i'm going to. do what i need to prove. the money was worth it really only. increase the chances of being in the flow from the. well level for travel to fourth place chelsea at the weekend that was safe and i torres make his debut for the blues against his former club reds boss kenny dalglish says he was sad to see the spaniard leave the club but were not well

on the parts the football club knows that everything he possibly could. there was an a b. c. he moved on. the screen for someone else so it's something we all love with. the most important thing for us that are two people have come in. the course of three or. i think that's enough when you see of another two hundred well also this weekend league leaders manchester united are way bottom side walls while second place arsenal who are five points off the top travel to newcastle with gunners boss awesome venga believing the premiership title it's still within reach. i believe it's quite open the stone to all performances and stone to a consistency. control and that we have a good chance because you have quality we have turned right nobody denies but we have his words prove that you would. great to goodness you could conceive or to

a new play be something special you know with team but coming old from game to game and that's why i believe you know what changes now and tell us maria sharapova will play for her country for the first time in three years this weekend she is part of the russian team that will face france in the first round of the fed cup in moscow the free time major winner is currently training in the capital with his nets over and to see a public and in our stuff and they're hoping to win the world crown for russia for a fifth time under their favorites on paper for the tykerb sitting third in the world standings while france a nine in the rankings a russian to cambodia's to place in the top twenty rather than public chunk of a caucus this over twenty one of the french team i mean the top fifty. let's move to winter sports where such is preparing for its first real test in alpine skiing ahead of the winter olympics in two thousand and fourteen it will stage the russian cup on february the eighth and a week later the european cup more than two hundred twenty skiers will participate

in the first big alpine ski event in russia it is finally snowing in sochi so the slope will be laid out with both artificial and natural snow and the official say that everything is ready. ready to host this event at the highest level their appeal comparability first international event and we've asked my eyes on arse and slopes to do into games i hope everyone who loses the competition law see that we're heading in the right direction to the best winter olympics ever. meanwhile this weekend the cross country world cup comes to russia there's only one venue in the country which can stage such an event in the historic course in yaroslavl is enjoying something of a revival with more is constantine but top off. winter snow is never hard to find in russia so one would think it's an ideal place for cross-country skiing however it's actually not that easy to find an ideal landscape not to mention facilities for all the demands of an international standard competition these sports sands are

indeterminate is the only course in the world's biggest country able to host a stage of the cross-country skiing the most prestigious of and the next one is on friday. we got the license for holding the world cup as we did serves all the demands apart from the track there's a big list of facilities this year it'll be the fifth time we hosted well and we'll keep on improving everything here. the history of the center study more than thirty five years ago skiers use this place for many years but there really aren't in the late eighty's and the venue was eventually reckoned structed in two thousand and one hosting its first world cup six years later although that the man turned out to be a real challenge for ghanaians or. letter to require that we enter there was an abnormal war in several stages in europe were canceled and here it was seven degrees above the are there january and we didn't have snow machines in their time because it was

hard to imagine winter without snow here nevertheless we decided to use our eyes from. will laid out the ice on the course and that was a success that event made our way of famous around the globe. however that's not the only obstacle organizers have faced through the years it took just six seconds for a four hurricane to destroy ninety five percent of trees here in. the sports center quickly recover it and build the biggest ward in the world. it might look strange but the towering structure has made it into the guinness book of world records and has become a famous landmark on the course located on the ball game not far from rubin's one of the oldest cities on the river this sports center is surrounded by a charming countryside the only left no experience beer the band who not only for athletes but all suspected they can watch races unfold in the seven thousand seater

stereo and along the track up to twenty five thousand people can witness the action or that was you know it's easy to watch races on our drags because they're all very calm speak these are slav to be close to the course and see all the action themselves and their every year lots of bands beg their way and you know this weekend flowers of clowns will be treated to now the world cup stage at every area which is undergoing plenty of freddy will of man with a new biathlon shooting range in the five blind hopefully guaranteeing this venue will be on the screen for many years to come because they are yaroslavl region. and preparations are underway to for the biggest sporting event in america super bowl forty five although rare subzero temperatures in texas are causing green bay and pittsburgh some problems green bay taking up residence at a local high school in arlington as the snow storms raged outside the packers enter sunday's clash as favorites but haven't raised

a lot of the vince lombardi trophy since one thousand nine hundred ninety seven and whether or not they light up the cowboys stadium will depend a lot on this man a make or rogers. everybody i've talked to this week this is a former player it's pointless games talked about. the brats and getting over the first few plays of observable. i'm hopeful that. there will be an issue with me but i'm sure they'll be a lot of excitement and. a little bit nervous maybe starting to get training next door to them at the university ground at the sport's most successful team the pittsburgh stay. the record six super bowls quarterback ben roethlisberger has been in startling form recently with a third super bowl ring very much within his sights while coach mike tomlin led them to the latest title. and he's hungry for more i'm very conscious of the legacy that is the pittsburgh steelers i simply want to do it. you know that drives me on a daily basis. i got course big respect for. this job before

me and all i want to do. the job in terms of a bold understand it is the pittsburgh steelers fun you know where there's also been affecting go sure a painter the only man to break seventy joining a blustery day at the cats this is south african managing a round of sixty nine which was three and not put same a shot ahead of defending champion robert callus and richard finch and. so that is all the sport we've got more. so with. cultures that so much. on. the rise of the middle east with this big calculator changes occurring in egypt what will become of these really gyptian peace treaty negotiated. this is not

a theatrical set. this is a real correctional facility. is there any cultural life behind us. could transform a criminal into a lower body citizen. and can performance really revolutionized the penitentiary system. prison.

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be tough and brave final friday as the streets of cairo and. in chaos. while the u.s. calls for a smooth transition of power in egypt many point to the hypocrisy of its decades long backing and financial problems of mubarak's regime. plus nationalism and vandalism intensify in some parts of ukraine as the authority stripped wartime nazi collaborators of their national hero titles awarded by the previous president. as u.s. lawmakers rush to expand the patriot act and before it runs out many say it represents a growing violation of civil liberties under the pretext of fighting terrorism.

you're watching our t.v. live from moscow with me marina joshie egypt is braced for another day of turmoil as opposition supporters take to the streets in the latest attempt to force president hosni mubarak out of office. well now you're looking at the live pictures coming to us from the capital cairo and tahir square there were massive crowds as you can see have already gathered demanding that president mubarak stands down with immediate effect and it's the eleventh day of the unrest and protesters say they want to gather about a million people calling it the final friday o'gara correspond to the ground their policy or she has more from cairo. we're hearing people calling today a final side a theory find a distant nation inside a of course all the focus and all the world's attention is on cairo today the plan is for protesters who've been can tell to this square for the last week and a half to march to the presidential palace now it is questionable.