well here's a quick look at the stories we're covering for you on our t.v. egyptian leader hosni mubarak once again disappoint his people by refusing to step down but promising to have some power to his vice president however some believe it will be washington who will have the final say in the barak successor. dispute between moscow and tokyo flares up again as foreign minister business russia for talks a day earlier he reiterated his country's claim to be karylle islands which have been officially russia since the end of world war two. and the sweden is under fire for its controversial topic. the most far reaching

eavesdropping plot in europe. on the country's close cooperation with the u.s. suggesting it was adopted under american pressure. well up next join margin andrews in his search for the russian spirit and the british capital. for hundreds of thousands of us living in great britain such. as let's take a look at recent history. let's see how life is thrilling it. is a magnet for many. scenes that

come fishies. to any new name. just how much. culture has several in fact. noticeable one thing is for sure christians are simply making their mark on the british capital. on thames but. just. think well. you can if. it's celebrations of the seventh anniversary. of the steel new style. several. times everything.

i'm trying to trips to. the past means you're going to like straights it might mean you're. working in russia i think. it's a wonderful. they sue me for clients frank said just a little but i think you're going to be the one of my life. now wrong in this well because. i buy that yet i'm taking everything. that they might my. sense of style what they do they know what they want and. they go off trail and we will work very well together. to love russian. everybody and many of the russian. they are good have i met them that. night the idea. of

a man. with more move russians actually moving to the u.k. every year the ones in the calling to london grads and in fact many experts say that russians about that this is the crux of the bruising british i mean. some might be afraid the relationship is such emerging markets others take the bull by the horns and cherish the new opportunities include trucks they bring. russian playwrights and i can schools have been very popular around the world for decades and the british capital is no exception various russian pays off performed on the stage used by both russian. companies. whenever there is a play on. usually trickles there is no doubt almost immediately when the national trust theatre does it or any private company or even the smaller french companies if they put on a russian play. it's. so certain in terms of search there is

a huge forest there recently the show feels it has had a performance staged by the prominent christian director so you are special titled the marriage the play is a comedy by the outstanding writer nikolai gogol britain almost two centuries ago. reduction remains popular still today performed by thieves come from moscow if it was cost the city it's a festival called russian classics of the theater in great britain. one of the oldest most famous opera system five houses chrissy's which was founded in london in the seventeenth sixty's and sell week twice a year for the ocean itself christie's organizes. to give collectors a better chance to examine to learn more about the art pieces on offer to dish and they've always been to. say tradition in london it's always been and. i just happened to coincide with chris. but i think that is. to say

now is saying very serious election that she take time. and we need to make a decision about what they want and that collection of previous policy for the south is also live at the b.b.c. get a. living aboard including artists and descendants from autistic families as well as collectors of the latest ocean chrissy's to door more than three hundred lots of russian fine art including paintings imperial porcelain jewelry and furniture which are sold for almost fifty million pounds twenty four million dollars in total. we're quite agree. that we still are in the eighteenth century right up to the present day so for example in this auction we have nineteenth century rights twentieth century rights based on contemporary. one of my favorite western says that she this levittown which by the horses which is a fantastic probably eighteen ninety's from

a private collection here and it's really really special saying it chrissie let's meet this week's guest. thank you very much for your time but tell me about your position here at chris's position the. the international head of the russian department kristi's. thirty two worked at christies twenty five years ago in the russian department became the head of the department in london in one to one and i believe it became the international head i mean sort of the five seven years ago and it seems that russian art has exploded here in london and paris and new york recently well i think it's the great paradox about russian audience has always been present in the old market. yes you have kind of a boom in the field which started five six years ago but you need to keep in mind

that you do very straight in a very strange way to second boom you already had the boom in the late eighty's about nine hundred eighty nine at the time of the perestroika people who could great interest in russia. and we got in the ninety's especially well i presume there were many restrictions about why are you could take in and out of russia or the u.s. is ours it was that well you're putting your finger on something that was interesting that. at christie's or thing even in a certain way even with all the auction houses we saw significant put it this way russian of arts around europe around the states that in fact not in russia. and people buy russian or in europe and in a certain way bring it back to russia but we're not sourcing this. in russia which explains why us specialists are pretty busy in the russian field

sort of travelling around europe or the states and when you're traveling who is by not the main by is always al dowd the russian but to say that it's only russian to buy russian of it will be totally wrong you still have sort of strong buyers who are not russian who are interested by russian all it's far more difficult for them to. to be. put it this way during the auction but very much present i mean you have to keep in mind that the meat up to the ninety's the. russian bottles what are we talking about. everything you when you're talking about. the nineteenth century twenty century. one thousand century early twentieth century. we used.

to say. but. everything well. it's so. has never seemed so popular. every day. to the british. is a great place. just. we have here. is one of you actually used to allegedly. has dozens of different flavors of the great.

tasty menu. drinks makes me shake in fiction. absolutely the missus. taking of a nice papers to make a major moves within the fashion art scenes appears the russians are now fixing everyone's lives in the u.k. while some are skeptical of these new foreign businessmen and women of the senate race the collaboration and opportunity it brings seems russians and the amazing culture they offer are in london to stay. not just here russia is now closer to many european cities that you think at least on our next moscow our special series we should be visiting durham and historical city of paris exploring it through the

prism of russian influence while listeners begin to understand the well through history of the largest country in the world better or worse is love the fact that all things european shows no signs of the pacing. of nature and discover its beauty. sleep. communicate with the wild and. test yourself and become free. see what nature can give you.

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gyptian. once again disappoints people by refusing to step down promising to have some power to his vice president. who will have the final say in. tauriel dispute between moscow and tokyo flares up again as your pads foreign minister visits russia for talks a day earlier he reiterated his country's claim to be cool realized once which had been officially russia since the end of world war two. and sweden is under fire for its controversial wiretapping law as the most far reaching eavesdropping plan in europe weeks cables on the country's close cooperation with the us suggests it was adopted under american pressure. i'll be back in about fifteen minutes time but

first sports news. good to have you with us this is sports today i'm you know these are some of the stories we're covering this hour. zero from one russia lose to iran in their first match of twenty eleven. parisienne france's superb record against brazil continues out of the blue. boys and another international friends. on six notes elice rules three time grand slam champion maria sharapova part of the policy . let's start with the news though that russia's quest for a third euro hockey in four years remains very much on track the red machine winning the opening fixture of the l.g. swedish games against finland in the moscow region after

a title to reap the pendulum swung dramatically in the hosts favor in the second team russia dominating proceedings to eventually finish the stage three one up but this is far from finished third period goal for russia looked to have put the tie to bed foxed on the fins making it four three however charges to have the final say in game ending five three russia short not another european title for these top ranked people. it's been a less than stellar start to the new football year for russia dick advocaat smen losing in their opening game of twenty eleven against iran but richard vaughan portrait reports the result wasn't the only newsworthy story of the night. this could be seen as the start of a new era for russian football it's the first time a national team has played a friendly match of a neutral venue i would be has been very well received by dick of the cats and the rest of the russian national football team of

a facility here are absolutely second to none while the temperature has been very mild in the low to mid twenty's which makes a very refreshing change for most of russia which is covered by a blanket of snow of a moment. the only thing lacking was spectators have imagine played in dubai as was originally supposed to be the plan b. attendance figure would have been much higher nevertheless interest in the match has been high such as the large ex-pat russian population in the u.a.e. is the only or no will but enough that i don't know exactly will influence the choice of the city but if the game was played in don't buy we would have had more russian spectators to support our national side. nevertheless a couple of thousand russian fans still managed to make the game the majority travelling from all around the emirates. i don't know how many russian fans have come to the game to support all footballers maybe couple thousand there are much more iranian fans here but that's just the i feel at home now there are so many russians here russian flags everywhere we are all in high spirits and hope that our

players will not let us down or. iran will russia's opponents and the reigning football federation have actually paid their russian counterparts a sum reaching into hundreds of thousands of dollars to play this game venue chosen to host the matches b u e two to warm climates of both countries having large export populations here however for the majority of fans who are watching russia play for the first time there was little to cheer about the chances of being at a premium the second half sort of weary looking russian side the majority of which are still in pre-season ahead of the new russian campaign feel to create many scoring opportunities while iran would still have undeserved victory in stoppages. time you could see that some players didn't have the filters was needed to play against you was to do things. because you will is coming out of the go for. a good preparation. is the period. between those three weeks but it's no excuse i think

this game did observe. but those who are in the last we have seen. still some players before. maybe this is football team may return to the gulf region sooner rather than later as it's rumored because the cut signage will play friendly in qatar in late march it's been a successful experiment by the russian football union to play a friendly mansion a neutral venue for the first time was also given thousands of fans the opportunity to watch russia play live had never previously had by chance but unfortunately they didn't get the result they wanted as russia slipped to one nil defeat after violate iran goal richard pombo played the united arab emirates now elsewhere on a busy night of footballing action france to their great record against brazil beating the summer boys one nil in paris a dreadful challenge by turning those on cover resulted in the visitors being reduced to ten men five minutes before the break the referee left with no other

option but to use the red ball benzema his revenge though on fifty four minutes great work from jeremy menace on the right wing setting the real madrid man off for the easiest of finishes one nil the final score france about beat brazil more than twice as many times in head to head meeting. the problems for last year's world cup finalists and i'm told in the netherlands seeing off austria courtesy of some stunning football the other run here getting the ball rolling right through the former first night it was probably the knights who were brilliant build up auction on the way to number two every game i fell a the gristle recipient the end of it all a couple of shirts second half penalty thanks for. elsewhere the team that beat the dutch in the world cup final last july spain overcame colombia thanks to a late silva goal lionel messi the bragging rights over. as argentina

two one came from behind to record their first win of the year in copenhagen denmark to all germany couldn't be separated dortmund scotland children of an ardent whose boss nations cup wild brushes next to euro two thousand and twelve qualifying opponents armenia well they didn't have a great evening losing at home to georgia. after having teams in the united states on his native netherlands ruud helots has begun his next adventure in russia the former european football are all of the year touching down in the country chechen republic to take over a premier league side f.c. turk. carrick are very strong team they work diligently and so far i don't see any weak points they have a strong soul and great potential there is no reason to go to a team lacking ambition though one should move forward very cautiously only a few people in the netherlands knew about the last month now and the whole country

knows about us. it's a new start as well from money for the togo international and join real madrid last week after a disappointing to your spell chester city now although his new side lie a full seven points off league are leaders barcelona the rangy striker sais that in monitored. that got the right man to catch the champions up. you know how to talk to people if you go to talk to people to make you know some was you want from you and you don't always important to have the money joe who is to you what you what your specific you know what's he wanted to do so for me he's very easy to work with when i tell you from the get me i want to do this i want you to do does does. more bad news for maria sharapova fams the injury blighted three time grand slam champion is set to miss the parlous open with a flu bug she partly picked off the virus while in moscow last weekend lining up for her country in the fade up the former world number one stating she wanted to

play in front. of her supporters drop of a house have a stalled career with injury missing nine months and buys an eight zero nine with a shoulder tear a siberian native also withdrew from miami and trolls. ten rushing for her right elbow ensenada montreal tournaments with a foot injury. but there has been some good news at last for injured formula one driver robert qubits the pole of intensive care five days after a career threatening accident and the girl. who gets a scene here at the on feeling of challenger for twenty seven crashed during a rally event on sunday event underwent seven hours of surgery to try and save the use of a severely damaged right so i believe the twenty six year old will recover sufficiently to drive again but this season doesn't mean. whose partner is russian vitaly petrov has been transferred to the accident emergency unit at sumter krone hospital

and. ok that brings us on to golf for rory mcilroy isn't control after the opening round by desert classic the northern irish star leaving the big names behind on the day getting off to a blistering starts approach shots like this on the seeing the twenty one year old finish with just a single bogey on eight birdies the world's top three golfers in order martin kaymer i googled one of the old fields from the press west wing kaymer three a leader by four shots while tiger he's six bok second place sergio garcia lies two strokes behind those thomas aiken offset africa i probably could have been a little bit lower but you know i'll take sixty five any time i step out on this golf course and here especially with the conditions that we had on the back nine felt as if i did really well and it's a great start to turn just over a week now before cricket world cup champions australia begin their title defense

skipper ricky ponting who still recovering from a broken finger so his side lose the ashes for a second straight time last month a massive disappointment head of the year's biggest tournament. pretty fresh. a month from the saw a long. looking forward to getting back into it again into back into proper trying and then more importantly back into international cricket as i said it's been a wall between between games for me and sitting back watching the gods play the last few weeks have been pretty difficult decision as well as they have been very satisfying. and that wraps up the sport for this hour i'll see you soon world weather though it's coming up in just a tick. culture is that so much i was about to fail and those i lived in a lot give a real example i was told even under the first car and spoke russian people all around the world demonstrate time and again they want freedom and democratic

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