this is our to us now have a look at the headlines this hour egypt braces for a fresh wave of massive protests sparked by people's anger at president mubarak's latest refusal to step down that's despite him valid some power to the vice president omar suleiman in a televised address. a territorial dispute between moscow and tokyo flares up again as your prize foreign minister visits russia for talks a day earlier he reiterated his country's claim to be karylle islands which have been officially russia's since the end of world war two. and sweden is under fire for its controversial wiretapping laws as the most far reaching eavesdropping in

europe. the country's close cooperation with the us suggests it was adopted under american pressure. well next joy march of andrews in his search for the a russian spirit and the british capital. the hundreds of thousands of us living in great britain said. take a look at recent history. lets see how this really. is a magnet for many. seems that

come fishies. to. find just how much. he. has several in fact. one thing is for sure russians are simply making their mark on the british. thames. just. think well. you can if. it's celebrations in the city street. the steel new style. several. times everything.

i'm trying to jam trips to. a different past things from here one of my states explained to me here. starting in russia i think. it's a wonderful. may sue me for clients that's right said just a little when i think you're going to be the one i love my wife. wrong in this well ok let's say that i buy that yes they can think about that they might try. styles what they do they know what they want and. they go off trail and we will work very well together. to love ashton. paddy and have their i. have met them that. night that the

ideal maybe might even. more move russians actually moving to the u.k. every year the ones in a calling the campus of london grads and in fact many experts say that rushing about that this is the crux of the bruising british economy. some might be afraid the relationship is such emerging markets others take the bull by the horns and cherished in a new opportunities include tracks they bring. playwrights and i can schools have been very popular around the world for decades and the british capital is no exception very strong pays off in performed on one stage by both russian and british these 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. smaller fridge companies they put on

a russian play. it's. so certain in terms of search there is refuted about forest recently the shelf is hosted a performance staged by the prominent russian director say you are special titled the marriage the play is a comedy by the outstanding writer nikolai gogol britain almost two centuries ago. remains popular still today performed by thieves come from moscow if it was cost the states a festival called russian classics of the mexico 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 before the ocean itself proceeds 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. tradition in london it's always been and. i just happens to coincide with christmas. but i think that it is. now is

saying very serious. that she take time to look at the paintings and we need to make a decision about what they want answers to collections competing party to the sound system event 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 through a 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. spirit option that we sell all from the eighteenth century right up to the present day so for example in this auction we have nineteenth century rights twentieth century right up space contemporary. one of my favorite questions says that she this time by the water's edge which is a fantastic probably eighteen ninety's through

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 i became the head of the department in london in one to one and i believe it became the international head main set of the five seven years ago and it seems that russian art has exploded here in london al 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 could grit interest in russia. and we got in the ninety's especially well i presume there were many restrictions about was 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 can 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 the russian but to say that it's only russian to buy a russian or to be totally wrong you still have sort of strong buyers who are not russian who are interested by russian all out 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 bods what are we talking about. everything you when you're talking about. the nineteenth century it can be twenty century. one thousand century early twentieth century. we used to say

can we stop to say. but. everything. to the particular spot so. when the sun. has never seen. every day. to the british. it's a great place. just. have a revolution. is one of you actually

used to allegedly. has dozens of different flavors of the great. a c. menu. drinks makes me shake in fiction . absolutely delicious. from taking the newspapers to making major moves within the fashion art scenes it appears the russians are now thirteen everyone's lives in the u.k. while some are skeptical of these new foreign businessmen and women of disney brace 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 closed to many european cities that you think comes on our next moscow house or series we should be visiting demands here and historical city of paris exploring it through the

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resort and spa. in israel. egypt braces for a fresh wave of protests sparked by people. address . a territorial dispute between moscow and tokyo flares up again as japan's foreign minister visits russia for talks a day earlier he reiterated his country's going to be karylle islands which have been officially russia since the end of world war two. and sweden is under fire for its controversial wiretapping laws as the most far reaching eavesdropping plot in europe or weeks cables on the country's close cooperation with the us suggest it was adopted under american pressure. well those were the headlines and now it's

time for sports with. never mind i hear you're going to have a busy weekend that's why it's while everyone will be relaxing after working really hard the whole week i'll be covering a freestyle skiing events right here in moscow and i'll be here in the studio well you're more than welcome to come you know if you make some time for that but stay with me for now as the latest in sport is coming up in just a. hello and welcome to sport on our team coming to you from the russian capital with me on crossfire plenty of sporting action coming your way in this bulletin including. ice hockey euro tour. swedish games opener against finland. would be in the told a different form others are. looking at head to euro twenty valve qualifier against

armenia national football coach speaks exclusively to r.t. . sick no illness rules three time grand slam champion maria sharapova out of the paris open. let's start with the news that russia's quest for a third euro hawkins who are crowned in four years remains very much on track the red machine winning their opening fixture of the l.g. swedish games against england in the moscow region it was holding in the first tell me some three hours shot on the next on power play goal the russians were quick to equalize through alexander after opening the second so all the pendulum swung dramatically in the holes they were russia dominating proceedings to eventually finish the stage three one up and were far from finished an early third period goal for russia looked to put to bed by that storm defends making it for three however

that just because charges would have the final say they came up by three to russia with the team's all hands. again up scoring the empty netter the odds shortening on another european cycle for ice hockey is top ranked. we did pretty well actually we gave our all to play a kind of hockey that suits the russian national team's highest standards my line partner and scored two goals i'm very proud of him. we were in full control of the game in one lead speaks for itself but those two states could cause some problems for us to go shoot lee we didn't lose concentration and had their day and. well if you lost by the i enjoyed the game the atmosphere was great here it was nice to get such huge support from the home crowd and the most important thing is that we won and made her fans happy. so. staying with team russia but we're also

football where the national team is preparing for its euro twenty twelve qualifier against armenia on march the twenty six head coach dick advocaat spoke exclusively with our correspondent richard vande portrayed following his side's loss in a friendly against iran in. i'm also a little bit is opposed to some players to get a chance to show something and i was those quiet please was that bad but overall the good thing is what i said we lost terribles no good but something does that does very important for us we have to do is give them a new yeah i mean i mean you know coming up in march it's not a lot of time tell my game are you happy things are going. to happy because normally you have to win against iran but you can see that some place has the problems to overcome the fitnesses you can see that the didn't a lot of plays a very very tired but also when you play. russian season leverett even well about

a month or so so i mean there's no question i was delicious there to be there but also just i mean this is the experiment where for preaching bizarre talks about russia playing craps and qatar in march i mean is you happy with this kind of arrangement going to a useful country to play friendly of everybody's playing so we can play as well but we can to do this by you go otherwise you can better train because where we can learn more about training don't we go by parts against different opponent she would have been helpful to play a possible skillful team a better team or probably around. though i think even the dude did ok i mean if you're if you win because you did well in school the team say we're going to expect because i'm a move so in that way there was some. some things what is the same as a mania so in that way i'm happy i'm happy that three you can see that we can do it this way we have to be in a total different form otherwise you have no chance that ok thanks so much nic thank you. after heading teams and the united states and his native netherlands

route good as has begun on his next adventure in russia the former european footballer of the year touching down in the country's chechen republic to take over premier league side f.c. terek. last 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 lankan ambitions no 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 for a man by your that's all go international joint madrid last week after a disappointing two years spell at manchester city although his new side lie a full seven points off premier league leaders barcelona the rangers striker says that in manager josie marino they've got the right man to catch up with the champions you know how to talk to people. which talk to people to mykonos on what's

he 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 want you to do so for me it's very easy to work with me joe would tell you straight from beginning i want to i want you to do does does d.c. the yellow jersey has changed i want to use once again in cycling sewer of katara mark renshaw has taken the overall lead from his australian compadre heinrich hostler the penultimate stage from was. approved much less wednesday compared to wednesday's leg renshaw was some four seconds behind hostler and he maintained a solid base before saving a burst for what it really mattered a fierce sprint finish effort see the twenty eight year old between time champion. and this year's frequent danielle banality needs to make up six seconds during the final stage. to tennis now where there is more bad news for maria sharapova fans

the injury blighted three time grand slam champion is set to miss that paris open with the flu bug shed parrot it picked up the virus while in moscow last weekend lining out for her country in that that called former world number one stating she wanted to play in france and her supporters sharapova has had a stealth career with injury missing nine months in two thousand and nine and two thousand and eight with a shoulder tear the siberian they have all sold to miami and charleston events in the nation. and set out a montreal tournament with. some good news at last for injured formula one driver robert bolton now out of intensive care almost a week after a career threatening accident in the guru it's a great. scene here at the unveiling of the lotus renault challenger four twenty eleven crashed during a rally event on sunday he then underwent seven hours of surgery to try and save the use of his severely damaged right hand it's now believed the twenty six year

old will recover sufficiently to drive again but this season remains very much a doubt. there is russian patrol has been transferred to the accident and emergency unit at corona hospital in the grid. it's a goal for now where rory mcilroy is in control after the opening round of the dubai desert classic the northern irish star leaving the big names behind on the day getting off to blistering start approach shots like this on the eighth seed it's one to one year old finish with just this single bogey and. the world's top three golfers in order least westwards martin kaymer and woods fail to impress westwood and cambridge trail the leader by four shots while tiger is six back second place garcia lies two strokes behind mcelroy as thomas.

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 there especially with the conditions that we had on the back nine i felt as if i did really well and it's a great start to turn. and finally just over a week now before cricket world cup champions australia begin their title defense skipper ricky ponting who is still recovering from a broken finger saw his side lose the ashes for a second straight time last month a massive disappointment of the year's biggest tournaments. pretty fresh. a month from the saw and so on i was looking forward to getting back into it again into back into proper training 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 gauze play the last few weeks have been pretty difficult decision as well as i have been very satisfied. that's all for now but i will be back with another all day less than two hours from now you can also view comments and rate some of our stories on you tube

just type in r.t. sport news and you'll find us thanks for staying with r.t. . well. bringing you the latest in science and technology from the realm of russia. we dump the future covered well when 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 chemical city whether it's a sonic boom so factoring in marine mammals or it's the burning oil field syria and iraq or it's destroyed. 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 warm to protect. 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.

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