a report on our. culture is that so much of it is really making a lot of people here you look at japan's in the world's only disaster hits a major economic and trading power the forces of globalization polish the. computer live from the russian capital twenty four hours a day this is r.t. top stories this hour despite libya's government saying it's stopping military operations there are reports the fighting is continuing france the u.k. and other countries are preparing to enforce a no fly zone over libya after receiving u.n. security council backing. in a race against time to prevent a radiation leak from possible meltdown of the paralyzed because shima power plant a team of workers are risking their lives to try to cool the overheating reactors at the facility stricken by a massive earthquake and tsunami

a week ago. and beyond japan's shores a panic is spreading faster than radiation people in russia's far east stock up on preventive medicine to stop eating fish which they think could be contaminated with people aboard they're putting their health and the region's economy at risk. with another update for you in about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime we had to paris we're not in andrew's explores russian romance in the city of stay with us for. hello and welcome to one of the most loved and this is cities in the world powers

basically great for love of the culture and architecture here and throughout the centuries as many russians emigrate it's across the cultural links within the circumference becomes stronger and stronger today paris is part of russian history and culture and that's what i'll be exploring in the space program paris has always held a special attraction for russians many have believed for centuries it is the cultural center. and with breasts making architecture a perfumed wine in style if she's thinking maybe some truth in that. it's nothing clue tacky seaven is. it is the emperor piece the great streets of france seven hundred seventeen in the front gates was the since been a constant stream of russian immigrants. moving inside this is the same in style and gradually. taking the room is

magnificent chandeliers and models he weighs the one the reason to do is often use the much patience. i'm using and an educational institute i want to welcome as one of the most prestigious universities. next up we've arrived at the famous old golf university found it here twelve hundred fifty seven yes. it's be popular with our students for centuries very famous person artists writers politicians graduates of all sorts here and stay there around one thousand freshman students in higher education in paris. illusion of this we can stand case for me as we move to vice chancellor of the state. there are three thank you very much for your time that's held me so but has

a long history with russia students yes. well you you can consider that peter to greet was the first question student in paris because he came just to see the grave of the show you you know visually you had the well known no prime minister in the seventeenth century was buried here after the his his death and peter the great was. and perhaps you know the well known sentence when he said i would have given to you the half my empire just to have such a minister as you're aware so he was a great america and then you have. the story of many well known russian writers or. scientists coming to paris in the nineteenth century. and then you have a new twentieth century very fascinating history because on the one side you have

many russian immigrates of the twenty's just coming to paris and studying in dissolve all the teaching and the sorbonne and on the other side you always had prominent representatives of the soviet union coming to paris eisenstein in one thousand nine hundred eighty just to speak about. russian cinema and you had a pleasant person in common in one thousand nine hundred seventy three which of gorbachev came. and held the big speech with a wide audience listening to him in nineteen eighty nine so this is a symbol also for four four five a russian i would say wonderful is the vicinity thank you very much but i think you actually missed. the river seine mantic and it should rest isn't the worst and without doubt the city's most opulent the decorated bridge

every connected with russia. this bridge was named after the rest of alexander. bell to the end of the nineteenth century it was erected to symbolize the positive relationship between france and russia and at the same time as an exchange of stone bridge was erected incentives back distracted by french workers. building destructions resulted in a very low forty meter bridge and with its golden sculptures of cherries and nymphs it really is something russia and france should be proud of. taking a look at other places not connected to russia catherine look at her and she'll meaning nimble robots in english the oldest cooperate in paris is not typed dating back to eight hundred sixty back then it was outside the city area why must she be here so many artistic musical literary folk gathered at the venue songs reciting

the new words loudly discussing arts and having fun there must be has been preserved at the venue with people coming here to listen to and sing traditional french songs thinking back centuries ago sitting at wooden tables into the surfaces of which initials being cast for decades the venue is very popular with russian tourists become heat security against a french culture just as nothingness artistic compatriots used to experience. a lot of for whom. the little bit of the place where is the. pianist or if they're rich they're the you know to go hear hear. if everything make everybody who was going here. know where he was there is a this place you know. i read that when he was young and more school used to play piano in the ghetto. because

without foundation just outside cassidy teachers created by jumping out and if i wanted to become rich welcomes a limited number of young man as every year to practice my new craft starting with an eye on a metal workshop the art of university aims to pass in the tradition of moral and spiritual values such as cross we can shatter tradition and housework and there's one man with christian roots within the foundation community. for chillis both for that isn't all it's repulsive it's all just a curiosity a study in france it's always five years old to have a french education but i have preserved my russian as well in my family so we speak both french and russian. here. the area of money and i think and christ has for decades been popular among russians gatherings of artists musicians and writers to each place in various cafes in this city one such

venue is cafe clarity on which was established the beginning of the twentieth century. popular as a meeting place for intellectuals it's how to speak has attracted many famous guests including russian artist alexander young love who was inspired to create the . next stop the delight of classical music as we arrive at the segue rachmaninoff russian conservatory stopped by to the most illustrious persist of them to real russia. on track man of. the county teaches many nice klinsmann. to students of various levels and ages it also regularly holds concerts by prestigious musicians from across the globe.

the rock and service was founded in the light twenties after the successful second season is rachmaninoff itself as the first president and for decades this house has provided a cultural link what impression and your peers are so casing it's how it's highlighting you composers this is the old this cultural organization which was created in one thousand nine hundred twenty five to twenty three by all the immigrants coming after. and as you know. no russian can live without. music or culture. and it was. it the place which was going to. the governor all russians in immigration.

from the dozens of photographs of the use of various french and russian musicians you can see how important this building has been and continues to be thousands of performers. one final location the artists paint house side as you hear the soft suiting sounds of the french canadian. and it's not a muscle is it a famous russian song then to get the meaning victory day in the forms of moscow played center by the defeat of the nazis in ninety five but. legend has it that two russian somebody has visited a cafe here there was cervix treme fans an athlete shouted out the word is the meaning fast in russian locals believe that's how he threw company received this name wow i love it a lot of my favorite places in the world it's a bit of

a stick was to get to the wall so it's well worth the effort from the kids and cozy cafe bar so the beguiling after a same the whole area was extremely popular with russian immigrants and still is the russian tourists today. in crystal clear weather like this because help push up and powers enough to my day of exploration the connection and strong bond between france and russia is only two of these. when the russians have such an association with the city from being involved with university education and creating difficult bridges to opening famous music service was russia has certainly made its mark here in these stop in city.

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top stories this hour on r.t.e. despite libya's government saying it's stopping military operations there are reports that pointing is continuing problems the u.k. and other countries are preparing to enforce a no fly zone over libya after receiving a u.n. security council backing. japan is in a race against time to prevent a radiation leak and possible meltdown at the paralyzed plant workers are risking their lives to try to clear the overheating reactors at the facility spreading by a massive earthquake and tsunami a week ago. and beyond repair and shores panic is spreading thoughts and radiation people of russian far east for preventive medicines and stop eating fish which they

think could be contaminated you can actually putting their health and the region's economy at risk. more news from me coming up in just about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime kate is next with the nation's schools. hello welcome to the sports news and here are the headlines. one more time to spare children team sky have another chance to make the garden cup semifinals it travels to atlanta. more last night brothel spots like tools porto in the europa league quarter finals after they used i actually. lies to all chelsea will face manchester united in the quarter finals of the champions league and. i saw the first. in action against just outside moscow as they bid

to reach the goal in cup semifinals time so osprey two up in the best of seven series so a win will see them through and they are in the driver's seat in this one. on target the scot early in the second period last atlanta must be desperate to please that one crash course in deciding game in some. google map and spartak moscow have drawn porto in the quarter finals of the europa league meeting i.x. trail on thursday night the remaining russian representatives will go to the pool these powerhouse for the first leg on april the seventh as their rivals in moscow a week later the overall we're not will face their way out at sea trying to be in the semifinals while in the other matches brought out with me tonight right here on feet out p.s.v. eindhoven. well russian side still needs and says also in action on thursday night if they fail to progress need one soon now it's time to have c twenty in the second leg of their last sixteen time when sat through to august sets of players will

bounce out of respect was a need to go get his loved one of his wife was killed in a car crash just hours before he called. that because in gold elsewhere to scar loss to want to also to go out three one hundred s. much as we had spa. i ax three one in moscow last talk to me to come up and tell us and one after that right by alex sink the red and white east into the quarter finals. and if so good if we win the second half as we did in the first it would have been a perfect game but in the last thirty minutes one can understand as i think the score is three nil i actually just core four which is virtually impossible that's the reason i think we all level will be relaxed a bit when i actually create three or four opportunities good you can really want to keep and all score as well as i did. but i'm. afraid lost the game in the first forty five minutes people thought it played quite. well and much better than last week but i think we were. aggressive enough the first

of we didn't anticipate. enough. else where they are but i went through with aggregate wins over violated isn't paris tangible respectively it was a bad night for british clubs liverpool were knocked out by portuguese side. draw rain just last p.s.v. eindhoven and time not managed to sit in finals rather sundin ikea area about twenty percent off after thirty six minutes aleksandar kolarov city one there but they still lost two one out of it so frustration from not out of restaurant cheney will not stop the demand that the russian coach knew the cmin didn't want his place . more preferences through tall and old hands of the draw and i just want to give credit to my players to play such a team as manchester city is a great challenge. for this i think that torturing them

play as we scored on their course because we played well. but he did concede any chance of combat. my writing that level yesterday was a much better. well meanwhile the draw for the champions league quarter finals was also made this friday morning with a picture that i see in chelsea taking on lance denies it just to have home advantage for the first leg the winner of this quarter final of play whoever wins a clash between spending champions into milan and shocker elsewhere barcelona was crying out that shankar that's the winner that one facing other realm of red or top man in the semifinals the first lady will be played on the fifth and sixth of april the return leg so we place. has about a football here is also have resigned their former keep a ns lehmann until the end of the season to easily goalkeeping crisis at the club the forty one year old have written was just a few months ago but the former germany number one has agreed to come back to the

gunners played for five years until two thousand and eight injuries to the squad hartnell's manuel almunia was asked not only think. it will triumph was for the rest of us because you. go through six weeks you have mono and you know through six weeks you have. of course for the rest of the season. so we have no problem of any experience we do in the premier league match why i decided. to call them up only when you know. of course to give us some experience well meanwhile master united defender rio ferdinand could be out for the rest of the season with a calf injury is asked to united's problems at the back with fellow center half the money of it also out for saturday's league game at home to bolton while manager sir alex ferguson will start serving for spiking touchline ban no surprise it was a bit downbeat. soldiers for the part when i. saw him for the different us

and. we always have been zero for a few weeks. or not. it was a short term. interest to me started training. it was for me as i was going to. do work and maybe give them some part of the season. as those two games are among eight taking place in the english premier league on saturday so none host a london dobby against relegation threatened west ham in the lunchtime kick off spurs all know how after reaching the champions league quarter finals leap from chelsea into force with this third loss and runners struggling aston villa hosts second bottom goals in the middle and darby of as a north west job between black and black hole strike place newcastle not bottom wigan take on seventeenth place burning up in a placement battle and either to bottom for them in the late game one on sunday

fourth place chelsea host branch to city in a battle for the third automatic place just two points separate the sides chelsea proclaiming pound while earlier at sunderland welcomed liverpool with both sides targeting a europa league spot next season. and elsewhere feels the chiefs set blatter faces a fight to stay in charge of football's world governing body after a football chief mohammed bin hammam has confirmed he will stand against blatter in the presidency elections this summer my mother has been touted as a potential successor of his influence how can start when the right to host the twenty twenty two world cup he believes he can get enough votes to end lots of thirteen year reign expose the football world to back his bid. and by being a. woodworker in it with me here i could be bothered of my over. the care in that. this is very.

tennis now on top seed ruff found out only just made its way to the semifinals at indian wells after a real tussle i guess evoke all of it called action taken the first set seven five for adults swept through the second to level the match but the decider was tight with no doubt just claiming it on a tie break so which the semifinals dollars after his first title in five months is that i mightn't outrage the argentine and see the move over the timing greater retired the strain find myself. not on the inside while the one caroline wozniacki he's also soon to the last for her opponent victoria azarenka also retired with a hip injury early in the first says russian. play of us anson for a place in the final after getting past china's tripod three sets. and finally triumphs never fade and on friday england's allan wells and daley thompson both struck gold at their nine hundred eighty olympics we're back in the russian capital

the place where they made history robert vadra now has moved. the nineteen eighty million big mascot. in floyd away the games are over although the big tourist going by the efforts. three years later and julian winners from the canadian police with a. great britain's own wills and do nancy respectively claim gold in the one hundred meters ever because back in one thousand nine hundred eighty just three engines separated wells from the pyrenees favorite cuba syria loaded in a full finish well enough it was standing here looking at looking at the scoreboard wondering who had won because it came up in russian initially sure it was only when it came up in english well if i let it be when it came on the russian my name very

similar and. it was when i realized that what it said it was only it was on it up point one thousand and thirty nine hundred eighty games as the world record holder and undisputed favorite and big gold four years later in los angeles and again arguably one of the greatest efforts in history for the people but. very focused i do not look in here just. to do my work and i don't remember i don't remember too much about about the competition just each one just trying to do it as as well as i possibly can one foot hundred days london will host the next summer olympics with both wealth and damson looking forward to see the new generation of british olympic make history just like the deal is possible i think i think we will be a lot of inspiration from the olympics when you don't buy a garden so to speak and i think that can inspire

a lot of the police to to better things to be a things i think the russia will do very well. and will be the. party my skill. and that's of course i think that. will. bring you the latest in science technology from the ground. we've got the future covered.

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