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 the steel gates lavish in both this impressive location is the residence of the russian ambassador kensington palace gardens with the most expensive and elite addresses in the british capital. for two graphs a possum busters in public figures grace to lose in 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 harrington 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 rouble which is actually a fifty times cheaper

a good price for both every year the u.k. consulate 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 who enter in the same 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 cultural heritage is extremely. popular here to keep them around the world never the russian theater's russian troop for. all right. it always attracts.

a bigger man than a big number of friends and or do. it's not all about him see parties illegal drugs and the g.o.p. just said partying in dreams like this many young middle class machines live in london and that brings us to do speak scares. me a little bit why do you think russians love london so much so don't stay to say. that all 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 were really detracted by all that and you were from magazine so i presume that you were out every single hour to different events and functions that's through

a lot of what's the social scene like russians don't seem to congregate just in one place if you go to no boy if you go to if you go to new house you will hear russians russian speech so it will 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 now going to shoreditch hanging out in soho they prefer their friends be cool rather than wealthy or or mix both lovely well as i recently visited would like to thank you. because scene of russia and the former soviet republics is not all about bush and pancakes why not try something new and right in the heart of london's money boom destroy and buckle some accounts in the name of the big. the city in his biggest

opened in two thousand and eight 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 flavors of especially stamp has extended a mission in stylish interiors to 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 through generations these recipes it has been possible for generations of family. my mother raised so when she's very much in control in the kitchen she makes sure that every single thing is that not quite into the recipe and she's very household in the kitchen just to make sure that every single thing is just a tool and all the rest of. the russians of russian author of huge success worldwide and particularly in the british capital with the base alone achieving almost one hundred 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 often interest among bidders 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 gallant condemned skin suit team. that becomes very international so we have a wide range of international clowns for those artists but for pure russian artist by russian i always get very excited about anything russian sells but to be honest i think the most exciting thing i'm ever so. much and we so did new york and it made me incredibly price of sixty million dollars.

moving outside now and some experts say the russian market in london has kept many companies alive for the past five years. 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. new russian custom is. why the british capital while. the treasury a very famously london grad school. grad because so many wealthy russians have moved. most of the. russians have moved here as well as the lifestyle of. the history.

the schools. the families. and i think that's. just sad she brought me to just scrap well this is just. the russians. big houses. down the street. and you have. houses here least fifty. 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. or the part of the ruling elite. like. moving to a final location tour. and albert museum that simply exhibition on the influential

russian artistic director sergei the eggless he founded one of the most exciting dance companies of the twentieth century. douglas imaginatively combine dance music and art to create its own theater his dramatic performances transforms dance reawakening interest symbolic 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 posters an impressive collection so where did they get all the exhibit items from

what i think the remarkable thing is actually two thirds of the chariot come from the bay and they obviously have a museum like this is very helpful because there are so many different apartments that 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 this wonderful wealth a consummate collaborator jackalopes works with stravinsky chanel casso 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 go to one of your nearest museums theaters concert halls and you'll see that russia is closer than you think fortunately 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. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from the realms. we've dumped a huge earth covered. 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 lure a budding citizen. and can performance really revolutionized the penitentiary system. prison. one one deals with war for us to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that are done not just human damage but damage to the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage done by aerial bombs by napalm boy chemicals that whether it's our sonic boom say tractor mammals or it's the burning oil field syria or iraq or destroyed coral reefs in the pacific for landing purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that there shall be taken in war to protect the involved against widespread long term and severe damage the united

states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions of protocol one has taken exception to that. wealthy british style seinfeld's in. the. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports. in some pieces but ati's available in grants to tell your grand hotel emerald. leave the club school to turn photo in the big old. green gym if she permits say a strong gym in scheme would go twenty two looking. for. protests

to tens of thousands of law and the main square calling on the president to step down on what they've dubbed the final friday. a major political figures in the west bank and demonstrates is of trying to be chips in the dead even to criticism they're taking sides in an eternal are promising. all true nationalist movements proves hard for ukrainian origins. is a trick of the hearing states has been there all the way refuse to give up their ideas. and stop replying to patriotism and flout the central civil liberties with the renewal of the patriot time allowing me a limited spying on a. small scenes with. hello

there you're watching the sport and these are the headlines. others make at home debut in the fed cup after being chosen for the eight in singles against france. plus the stunning cricket is if you will pay in a british court charged with match fixing. because of practices while it's taken england the eighteen days of the six nights. but first maria sharapova will make her home fed cup debut tomorrow as she was picked to play in the singles for russia's tie with france the world number thirteen takes on really matters are no wild in the other match that long a close knit solver goes up against at least corn a rich or poor fleet has more. it's taken some time but finally maria sharapova

will make her long awaited home debut for russia and the twenty three year old has been hampered by shoulder injuries over the last couple of years a take on the genie resign oh the two players will know each other very well having met in the second round of last month's australian open up about one in straight saints meanwhile the wall number thirteen is just happy to finally play for a country again it's such a different tool of everything you know we're used to playing an individual sport and you know and this gives us an opportunity to play as a team and you know to really support our country even though we support on a daily basis we really get together as a team and you know support each other go out there and and try to beat the other team second my chances for atlanta couldn't solve or take on my lazy courtenay the pyramid only once three years ago in rome where i'm out of sorts because it's over was defeated in straight sets and the russian expects a tough encounter on saturday so i have a great team you were very excited to play with each other in the team and pretty excited to play moscow something or come forward to this tie both of our best

friends for starters be underdogs against the russian side because teams to form a good number one silk and satin i'm sure. it's all been publishing i mean even handy with the racquets strange tennis is in a period of transition from the times of i'm really raise money mary pierce could call me the french have a chance i would be treating the time as a cup final even when they don't play on this deal they're really good then of course in the paper we are less than than them but you know we never know what can happen in fed cup then the safe we're trial best if it play our best tennis of course we can win but on the paper and they are really really good team and it's kind of a final for us like if we win against russia it's going to be easier then it's been a while since the two teams last made back in two thousand and five course when russia beat the french at roland garros to win the trophy however before band they'd met six times in a row the french will have fond memories of playing a villain big stadium. that's baby russia here in two thousand and three on their

way to sealing the last fed cup title but the olds a stance against the french this time around but over the next couple of days they'll be looking to reproduce some of those heroic space showed eight years ago richard i'm hopefully dotty in moscow. well there's more international sport in russia this weekend about four of the kilometers outside moscow the latest leg of the cross-country skiing world cup is being held and it's been a goal for russia on the first day. getting it in the men's confines his seat finishing in a time of just over twenty seven minutes legend yet french. and modest money while the overall even in the women's well you know troop. level course is the only one in russia capable of staging such an event and it has quite a history as constantine picked up off the. winter snow is now hard to find in russia so one would think into a deal please 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 whom

international standard competition this sport sounds are in germany is the only course in the world's biggest country able to host a stage of the cross-country skiing the most prestigious around the next one is on friday and we use when. we go to 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 we could well and we'll keep on improving everything here. the history of the center started more than thirty five years ago skiers use this place for many years but that petered out in the late eighty's and the venue was eventually reckon 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 are. naturally require that winter there was abnormally warm 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 eyes from. will laid out there. on the course and that was a success that event made our veiny 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 powerful hurricane to destroy ninety five percent of trees here in durham in the last summer however the sports center quickly recover it and build the biggest stick off 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 volga not far from rubin's one of the oldest cities on the river the sports center is surrounded by a charming countryside. they only left now expand spirit not only for athletes but

all suspected rivers they can watch races unfold in the seven thousand seater stereo and on the track up to twenty five thousand people can witness the action or that was easy to which resists on our drinks because they're all very calm about the speak the just laugh to be close to the course and see all the action themselves and their every year loads of bands back then when you know what this weekend flowers and plants will be treated to now the world cup to determine the very which is on the friday will come out with a new one shooting range in the five blind hopefully guaranteeing this venue will be on the screen for many years to come because our. region. and other news three pakistan cricketers have been charged with corruption by the british crown prosecution service pakistan captain sam one but along with mohammad amir i met a safe or seen here will appear in court on march the seventeenth along with their agent. he's the key to accepting money from a third party to arrange for

a place to bowl no balls against england during the lord's test last summer the men deny wrongdoing and have also been the focus of a separate investigation by the international cricket council the findings of which will be revealed on saturday. european rugby fans can rejoice the continent's top competition the six nations gets under way tonight but the sizzling clash in cardiff wales hosting england and what looks like one of the most open tournament in years the wealthy are chronically out of form failing to win any of their previous seven tests and their last six nations crime in two thousand and ten when they beat england in there before going on to secure the grand slam that was some time ago and the welsh and desperate to get off with good stuff. it is time we started what it. could be called a lot but a. lot of the first good was explosions because. you get them. but you would in the first game and it can be a really inspiring and you know they should have you know the team will move it

forward which obviously it did in two thousand i. france high scotland and italy and a tight island and the other fixtures on saturday finally there is no use talking in the k h l tonight because of the whole star game taking place tomorrow in some pages big so with perfect timing to look back at the highlights from what you know and take.

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of tunnels and clubs cairo's main square calling on the president to step down on what they dubbed final friday and these are live pictures we're seeing from the streets of cairo. some major political figures in the west bank demonstrators trying to oust the egyptian leader leaving it to criticism they're taking sides in an internal uprising. roosevelts ultra nationalist movements produced in ukraine you know forty's nazi collaborators stripped of their harries states and still come on the boil following . of sacrificing freedom for patriotism u.s. lawmakers and the denying is said to the civil liberties with the renewal of the

patriot act allowing near on limited spying on states and it's. a very warm welcome this is live from moscow with me on its head by some estimates in egypt over a million people have packed into cairo's main square and surrounding area for what's been labeled final friday it's the latest show of force to try and make president hosni mubarak leave office when it's the eleventh day of the mass uprising in the country which has been accompanied by a wave of violent clashes between pro and anti government protesters and these are live pictures from cairo central time of year square where now civil trials and staying put refusing to leave until the president sounds down with immediate effect and will shortly be crossing lived.