pretty twenty four hours a day this is r t live in the russian capital top stories this hour one of russia's richest men says if not me then who is he said she cites on the prime minister's position become a lot of interest big politics as head of a liberal pro-business party and to become the second largest after putin's united russia in the upcoming parliamentary election. dozens die in terrible wings in afghanistan as barack obama promises to follow through with the decision to withdraw one third of u.s. troops from the country the white house is acting against the advice and top

military commanders who want a much smaller troop reduction in. london is accused of harboring foreign fugitives after it was revealed the egyptian finance minister is living openly in britain despite a thirty year jail sentence back home he said which was guarded was convicted of corruption and power abuse for personal profit but fled. with another update for in fifteen minutes when the mean time out is not in andrew's walks the same streets as lenin in the russian capital moscow art is next stay with us. hello and welcome to the show on this week's program i'll be exploring that is life

in moscow of all straight leaders change the course of the straight and starting off the red square next to the magnificent moscow kremlin tony martin andrews as we take a look at his epic journey and visit various landmarks associated with his life at . the main names associated with russia only eight hundred seventy s. let me in she choses to name living in nineteen i want as one of the leading political figures and revolutionary think of the twentieth century a change the world's. most of money will she take over of power in russia in nineteen seventeen the communist party and legitimacy to class free equal life for an attempted form of marxism. what is the soviet leaders like to see today. for the developments in syria who feel that you. might say their mission those guys are really able to take

a philosophy and turn it in if they turn it into something the whole society could use and think it was well intentioned to be getting paychecks disco music on the national arena this man was to idealise for his time and he's still idealist now i think is completely out of the truck to keep him in there and you know carry him in the ground and using the real soon. he turns everything upside down. there's nothing else to say. he was in london the father of the so you're. right and then changed. and there were friends here for the younger generations you can say that the image of the bolshevik leader has turned into a retro almost certainly. not helped by tacky c veneers pop star t. shirts and cheesy as it seems now but lennon's achievements are equally celebrated and mourned and the good and bad in his life both acknowledge the one of the days

of thousands of people queuing up to see his and dom for eight hundred square foot regarding locations it's still the main association millions house with him. in this program we were real many other places not because of the bullshit leader which says he was a fool in front of his life although moscow was in the capital for most of the previous century lenin had to make it the administrative center of the country. because of german threats let them move the ball straight party from separators buy off at regret as it was called in march nineteenth eighteen red square mcclellan what's become a landmarks in his life and will become his final resting place originally i wouldn't say in the stone that most of them which we see the highlights today was opened in nineteen thirty and still open for public viewing recent rumors that suggested by his body might be removed elsewhere. even if that happens no matter what your political background it is clear that lenin was an exceptional

human being even if you don't like the ideology he stood for lenin moved into the most are common in nineteen eighteen legend has it not he took both his wife and the cup style and his alleged lover french born revolutionary innocent ottomans with him. was a hot new reality i'm an ashtray we head towards the national hunt now the last two decades of the access to many many locations previously closed and even a new moon and us a soft museums have. roses hotels monkeys it seems the russian capital is now open to all well almost if you want an example of a consequence how from the last century this is perfect bills in lingerie free by the famed russian archetypes from the advent of the national hotels in historic landmark for more than a century before the revolution hotel hosted foreign diplomats. will see business

tycoons leading the famous after months of these international has proclaimed the first house of the soviets became a residence of the bullshit government's top communist leaders our main point of interest is really one of seven the bright splash interior serves the location well antique furniture high ceilings and a sense of history leaders in the room one hundred and seventy here and right in the only house where the best use of the capital but it's also packed full of history accommodating the ball straight party this with inside the law itself was famously home to lenin and his wife the two weeks and last nights in ac and the hotel has been renovated since but still want a result isin the mains this grounds of the twentieth century that's with us. you can gaze across the kremlin and much of his cars pass. today this ring costs thousands of dollars

a minute i'm not quite sure many would be too impressed with the price i the same rights for everyone needs a little of those the surgeon general's hotel is historically connections with linen and the bullshit go home and is still of interest for many and only those interested do not necessarily need to get a room you can apply for a special tour as the department of cultural heritage is most school such exclusions are organized twice a year. moving on and what other most locations connect with him and his life. then is often. uncomment is now on historical exhibits in detail representing the atmosphere in which he lived and watched for several years the regional cabinet was opened to the public in one nine hundred fifty five became of the most visited museums in the country but as it was located in the kremlin the same building where the actual russian government president was in the ninety nineties it was decided to move the cabinet to the state not in such complex game gokey. fifty thousand

stock items have been moved including and that is clogged but still shows the time when he met a group the last time. a couple of items which relate to lennon's work represent the period for ninety eight jeans and nine hundred twenty three for the personal belongings from the collection which we used by lenin in his everyday life but older than that some of them were used by several generations of the union or family and date back to eighteen forty two while visiting red square you often see lenin lookalikes snapping tourists. taking the role playing act as various men to try to manage. and even nicholas the second and for one hundred rubles that's around three dollars you can have a cheesy reminder of your time in moscow or lenin is especially popular among foreigners but i have to say they are more stringent it comes to money but they understand lenin so it's just like everything else in this world. monuments to

lenin are not only examples of studied art but they're also one of the main symbols of an era says the launching twenty's thousands of monuments were erected in almost every city a small town of the west saw in the school and there were dozens of sculptures of the whole street leading a refuge in the city squares in front of mistreated buildings and you can still see many of them at least. one of moscow's most luxurious hotels in a city sense that was once a stage for lebanese speech is a metropole hotel built in the beginning of the twentieth century. also became a base for the bolshevik government many leaders lived and worked in the metropol and it was often visited by many when he addressed his associates in the monkey twenties it started functioning as a hotel again for decades its roots are only available from russian and international celebrities and politicians now anyone can stay at the historic hotel but remember it does come to the price of one thing that. the hotel

has been preserved in its original look despite all the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century this whole here today is the same as it was a nine hundred eighteen when the bullshit government had its meetings here but its deputies smoked a lot so when restoration right was carried out in the nineteen ages all to spawn doubt that the painted walls instant gloss were already small damaged which they had to clean to restore their original decorations but then is life work some theories are still studied by hundreds of institutions around the world school is evaluate the ideology of communism nectar is discussed his political influence and researches look at the past big impact on the us a song or the magical organized. actually around the country for almost six years certainly has his legacy still visible in all parts of russia.

for the twentieth century history of russia that's for sure. ten kilometers south of moscow here we are our final location estate. this past green outer space belong to various from the eighteenth century ending up in the position of deny the most of the widow of the famous. patron. the serbian government. in exile or his property was nationalized and became. a winter garden here is breathtaking it's really something. thanks to b. c. and the notes the dutch and surrounding grounds are open to the public today but only for organized tours the house is filled with lennon's possessions he can see everything from gifts given to men in his wheelchair areas clothes and his four thousand election. in may nineteenth twenty three he followed medical advice and left the moscow kremlin to go it was here is

a frail man only in his early fifty's vladimir image in the north and spent his final years as september nineteenth eighteen associate me to recuperate it here after an assassination attempt and he spent i mean chris amounts of time exactly as his health deteriorated over the coming years finally living in some retirement he died in this actual bad on the twenty first of january ninety twenty four. after the instant the complex was renamed girl keep them in the state officially became a museum in one hundred thirty eight and was a place of pilgrimage for services and right up to the fall of the eye and curtain from viewing his death mask here to visiting his involved in the red square we're talking about historians tourists or modern day communists the epic achievements of lenin still have a cult following and all the places connected with his life and legacy are espoused amazing as the journey that was not his life was

a beautiful building well unfortunately that's what how we have on this week's program i'll see you again of the same time next week so until then for me and the rest of the crew from london's spectacular. day children play war in the old she's made. much enjoy nine hundred forty one these walls really first careful announcing troops on their way to moscow and. the tears and restless were dying one by one under siege the sun without water.

in the last shelter an unnamed soldier left a few simple words farewell motherland i'm dying but i'm not surrendering. twenty years ago the largest country in. certain places of. us had been you can look at each began a journey. where did it take. place. to come. to an invasion cluster in the center of stuff curious one city has revolutionary ideas for the automotive industry to record and interest itself in

fiction straight out of software to make free shuttle street from the building blocks from russia's first nationwide fortress network to installing toxicology up to. leave the future air coverage. bookstores are not see one of russia's richest men says if not me then who is he sets his sights on the prime minister's position to become a pocket of answers for big politics as head of a liberal pro-business party and to become the second largest after putin's united russia in the upcoming parliamentary election. dozens die in terror bombings in afghanistan as barack obama promises to follow through with the decision to withdraw one third of u.s. troops from the country the white house is acting against the advice of top military commanders who want a much smaller troop reduction. london is accused of harboring foreign fugitives after it was revealed the expo gyptian finance minister is living openly in britain

despite a thirty year jail sentence back home use of the trees god he was convicted of corruption and abuse for personal profit but flame. but it was more in the stores for less than fifteen minutes money time natasha is here with the latest action in the world of sport. hello and welcome you're watching the sports news here on r t the headlines. overconsume is a run at wimbledon the former champion beating. except in the third stage. i made a career win for ben spies the american capitalizes on marcus him on shelley's in early crash to claim the dutch know the grand prix. and also spinning not swimming apparel french riders are involved in an unusual accident of my accord with their bikes performing a bizarre downs after colliding. tennis first off i made it up over continues

a quest for a second wimbledon title of citizens of the last sixteen after seeing off a couple of our set up was taken to a break in her previous management british hopeful laura robson bob noyce at the time of the forward clash on her way to the russian with some powerful shots up after a six two six three victory. could as much expectations as maybe. some of the i think you said i haven't. crossed the forest. for a few years. at this point. and hopefully this theory can go a step further and even more. and should of us with organs as they watched closely not only in england but also here in the russian capital recently retired star and olympic champion going to meet several believes that she could win in london this year even though she was last major title count it came at the australian open

three years ago. when building was maria's first grand slam title back in two thousand and four i think she likes to play on grass and has a good chance of winning this tournament this season and of course will be supporting her and the only russian man there usually like now. namesake and off course for am very curious guy had a much tougher opponent in the form of defending champion sorry not williams and was unable to find an answer here and called losing six three six two elsewhere world number one caroline was not he's through with a win over little known. of all the strain there and joining us now in the last sixteen of them and he creates a book over the top seeded explain next. hour that brings us to the men's side of action where mikhail youzhny has booked the place in the last sixteen after three to nicolas almagro in four sets next hour for the russian is roger federer his wisdom an eighteen throughout his encounter with arjun time veterans of the time down there dick they'll pull troops on gulf air and cool but also through biography

of seated problem solving was not found by and see the tall image and earlier defending champion rafael nadal successfully won his match against israel which was suspended from the day before. i think so that. for a sort of. brotherhood which i'm sort of i want to play for the boy so. the russian olympic committee has been marking its centennial this week and most of it is in moscow for the international olympic day which was on thursday and spent in part out of went along to the celebrations absolution at the stadium. russia has a massive olympic tradition there's been many ups and downs throughout the past century for spores in the country but the biggest achievement is behalf that the russian olympic committee has not been going for one hundred years and delusion

hysteria and that hosted the moscow olympics in one thousand eight hundred became the center of sold relations marking the fact the national and the champions and famous athletes turn up giving everyone the chance to talk to some top sports stars . i think an event such as this one should be held every year as it is an important occasion for all the current former and future russian olympians and of the population see that the athletes give it their all during the games the exposure will increase regardless of the results. i consider this special day to be a personal holiday for me since i mingle and pick champion i'm going to employ of the olympic committee our main goal is to simply expose as many children as possible to sports for a healthier future generation. there was always something to be improved at the governing body of the russian olympic movement but it has helped to raise a lot of champions and wants an athlete takes part in the olympics and then

olympian forever. that adding a few everything i do now is connected with sport and that's a great i spend more than twenty years in sport and i don't want to let it go i feel some responsibility and i have to give something back and many people have a lot of effort into making an olympic champion out of me what is the fact that for some of the athletes who arrived at the round i still aiming for olympic gold and with the sochi olympics in mind and washington national hockey player might seem like an ideal of this announcement of the pointy end i was in until i believe you know as russia's new head coach. this. that's the fourth or fifth year one for himself. and the medals. it look like people who are disappointed by what was a real festival of sport with thirty five different activities to try out there was

something for everyone russia is going to host many significant sports events like the world student games in cuz i mean twenty thirteen the next year it's the winter such olympics and then of course the world cup in twenty gene and a lot is being done to make sports more popular among youth and this event is a big part of the program lots of children here enjoying themselves and hopefully many future sports stars are going the same but out of our team must go. and i meant i'm the ministry of sportster as my new policy should straightly punish any sport federation failing to prepare athletes properly for international competitions that's according to president nature made very definitive part in a meeting of the sports council in ca's sign and the head of state believes the sanctions should be tough. the sports ministry must watch particular programs very closely into equal corresponding measures if they are not properly

the ministry could go as far as just spend a professional licenses of certain sports federations and you could even take them away permanently but i'm a bit of football news now and the black and blue half of milan have welcomed their fourth manager within twelve months and john carroll gets very near the man hoping to become a fixture ever since zero the fifty three year old knows the game well having been groomed the big event as youth systems here in the start of his playing career gets very late. as juno managing the thousand six finishing fifth in siri in two thousand and nine and surfaced second behind city rivals a sum a long season with manager and they are now out of their promptly stepping down to take over as schools and directors well we've pouring sunshine around in france. now the russian women's basketball team have made it into the quarterfinals of the european championships in poland after winning the penultimate game of the second group stage. school of beating the czech republic sixty nine to fifty five russia's

player all part of great britain next in the final group game on monday. has been a double success for a bull in qualifying ahead of the european grand prix in bali on sale with sébastien with sell and mark webber securing the first two spots on the grade for ariz for now the all loans are posted only the fourth week is time on the day despite winning friday's practice in style his teammates believe them also will start right behind him from fifth while lewis hamilton was third fastest from. russia and reno was a tiny bit short settle for eleventh place only so battell now hoping to hold on to his advantage in sunday's response as it's a tricky trick. it's a tricky circuit there's so many corners we've got twenty five before we you know cross the line again and especially in qualifying to get every single corner right this is very very difficult so to get the perfect lap in this is quite tough but i think my first run was was quite good i was very happy and mark of the three in the second run. meanwhile saturday was a race day for the latest moto g.p.

stopping elson in the netherlands with american ben spies winning his maiden full life race with some help from his rivals though and opening less crash involving world champion jorge lorenzo to mark the season challenge among all this profile in the yamaha rider to top spot spies opened up a full second advantage of the keystone and never moved back the nation head of the australian and on travel his heels are instead still know though extended his overall a double around so to twenty eight points. it's special because this track is a track or group watching all my heroes race on forever and with this weekend being the fiftieth anniversary for yamaha i don't know how it all came together i had a friend over from the states and. the special colors here decimal the way the weather was maybe it was just for all of them for a reason and we were able to do it today with the race was the race of the stuff in some ways and he's in some ways. now staying with not

a sport crashes which run to have a life aside to them to have a collisions frequently causing injuries the following emmett's a bike crash though thankfully only resulted in a few lofts for the spectators the money track has seen a special role for adding moments as a formal side for formula one fringe crockery though no form of one accident ever came close to the wanted befell teammate cereal and some may come here the pair losing control of their eyes during its off but i'm damned were unable to regain it after the ensuing incident by going out for a spin without taking the ride is a long causing a massive amount of frustration for both man everyone thought that you were getting a kick out of the situation as the power fell further and further down the standings come yet however i was able to regroup from prostration and managed to qualify for the final of the finish and seventeen. now that was useful coming up next is the weather stay with our team.

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