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the bolshies back in six years later lovers to wait for moscow's landmark the return bill its first moments after sixty years of massive service. cloud the polls showing that the crowd they gathered watching the big bang for the gold it gets under way everyone enjoying the tightening of the evening they can ignite. it and also in the program this hour far as nato packs up its libya mission would help kill colonel gadhafi is key son could blow the whistle on deals the west wants to bury if he gets his day in court. and let in greece it was a mistake the french president doesn't hold back on his beleaguered euro colleagues of three leaders sign off another massive rescue deal.
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hello it's eight pm friday night here in moscow you're watching r.t. with me and first tonight is taken six years of refer to delays drama and scandal but moscow's legendary bolshoi theatre is finally banned super back into the limelight that is a country over and serve further both join the spectacle tonight hope to speak with both of them during late is looking suitably lovely tonight as well be the first to a crowd it's not every day course you can get access to an event like this as the glitz and glamor looking from inside the picture for us indeed kevin all the tickets for the first three opening gala concert were exclusively available only it would be obvious that the russian president so no secrets were on sale for these weeknight and we were of course happy to be among the few to. reopen restored bullshit from inside. and believe. send glamour and it's truly impressive as
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russia's landmark theater has been renovated according to the original vision of the jars hammer and sickles across the theater were placed with the regional and blooms of the room on of dynasty all the main amp love the double headed eagle is above the doris box home beast big night is the russian president who's watching the opening night gala concert from those seats well and the red and gold curtain raised for the first time in six years and it has rebuilt renovation which was very expensive it cost over seven hundred million dollars it was supervised and sponsored by the russian state supervised by the kremlin but the big reopening teller features oprah great such as not tell you this is a new treat for us to ski as well as the principal soloists and dancers of the ball should belling cruising the thallium or simple at the get a little present the history of the main bolshoi theatre it through the ages and it will feature excerpts staged by the best choreographers and directors of the
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bolshoi theatre and the list of those invited on these big night is also very impressive among the guests are mikhail gorbachev we also saw vice president oprah zille here has of the last color theater the oprah covent garden we were lucky to catch up with a few of those celebrities invited to the opening night at the bolshoi theater among them telling actress money could be lucia and here's what she had to say when her first impression from her first visit to the bolshoi. so. the first hour here on. earth it's night night since i've. moved on let's. hear another story. and. the next thing that i love was the russian church at the same
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time that i've been here for russia and the makeup of the russian that some people the supposed. so a truly impressive read comp it's inventive for russian theatre lovers and it's no surprise that hundred of your is hundred of yes i was ready to watch the opening night gala concert in the cold which is broadcast live now in china television screens and stood outside of the renovated restored. you're very lucky to be in the let's go out so that i was the sort of. bolshoi theater i say what about the millions of lovers the ballet lovers who didn't get a ticket to the show how they're being catered for tonight. well the crowds have been gathering and we've been watching the film is this is they get under way got knocked on at the moment and everyone's been really enjoying being able to be part of this big gaping night we've had people down thing along to the need to be
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speaking to the crowds as well and they've been telling us just what a special place the post-race has in their hearts it really is wild for now let me answer national gathering here people from all over the world you can solve the most guy have played out as well a lot of the russian people the young and the old everyone really enjoy being able to take part and this is but. i think it's a simple yes cup a draw for classic them so i'm corey grow from the time go so i respect so much of this kind of. two of the pleasure to see this monument alive again yes i'm very happy to be here during the opening call by showing the history of my heart country and if the three of my life and i'm very clear that i can participate in this. bellicose i think it's a really is an institution is absolutely steeped in history and the people living
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telling us just how excited they are to be able to have it back and looking forward to the ground breaking performances the kosher ways renowned for its being good in the process restoration. everyone hate me. and i. think that everyone is enjoying this spectacular getting under way. right now for everyone to. be a part of the boat and it being what it does not putting on a. huge night for moscow and for russia records focusing on this big event sarah firth thank you very much out side the bolshoi theater in a bit before the show inside lucky enough to be inside of the opening night thank
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you. let's take a look now and see what else we're covering today goes back stage on the ground to bring you the story of the bolshoi a little bit later in the hour i can tell you it's part of our technology update and seeing pictures from. inside the newly renovated theater that will take a little bit earlier six years it's pretty in the making there it had been in the dark for six years but now as you can see it's packed with full glittering glory chandeliers shining once again huge sums of been spent on it and the structural work and intricate tailing the frescoes and vast quantities of gold leaf will be replaced with vodka polished with squid. only the best for the bolshoi ballet we have our special program ancient technology to take you behind the scenes that goes on here seventeen thirty g.m.t. . the legacy that survived the russian
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revolution and. the movie showing is by looking more splendid than it did for century. grand the core of czarist time this does bring the audience again after a six year refit. a long awaited resurrection of the ball joint theater on the marquee. let's take a look at some other news now today it is still colonel gadhafi is most influential son saif al islam has fled to new jarrett is looking to hand himself over to the war crimes court prosecutors say they're in talks to bring him in but what's keeping western leaders nervous is that saif could then spill the beans maybe on recent thought gee deals they made with his father i bet it explains. to some moammar gadhafi was
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a man too much secrets which will supposedly be buried with him i think that there were tremendous sizer relief all over capitals in western europe this is somebody who cut all sorts of deals with the french but also the british and the italians and to a certain extent the americans as well i think they did not want him put on trial for any research and i don't not miss lightish bit surprised that he was captured alive if you very quickly ended up dead look at that he's returning from diplomatic exile was spectacular hugs and shakes and kisses from the heads of countries which denounced him at that he's now silenced but the suspicion around those who laid out the welcome mat is far from buried i don't feel totally his gritty you see. but the. dealing with him is constant and it. will go away and
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precisely because that is the answer situation was fishing or probably cruel tricks it nurture ironically it was to wish big givers that were true veterans then british prime minister tony blair was instrumental in get them peace rehabilitation bringing him in from the cold in two thousand and seven a play didn't leave empty handed trade between flourished so did the cozy relationship it was six more secret meetings after clare left office his people denying they were about releasing the lock the palma abdel baset on the gravity or britain would lose its lucrative libyan deals i regret myself enormously that gadhafi was put should he should have been said to the international criminal court put on trial for steroids and questions for all the terrible things he did and if it davidge the contemporary world lose all previous regimes and leave his tough. we need to know. what is dark day with. some details of the
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murky dealings have already emerged claiming the reputation of one of britain's leading universities the london school of economics agreed a contract to get out the regime worth over two million pounds to educate hundreds this future civil servants the director was forced to resign and now the university of tripoli is demanding the money back french leader nicolas sarkozy was never shy in greeting good daffy even letting him pitches tend to nearly say palace apparently for bankrolling sarkozy's party to the presidency so says this man the one who could still tell all the cause he had ever had sarkozy must give back the money he took from libya to finance his electoral campaign we funded and we have all the details and are ready to reveal everything. saif al islam gadhafi son and key right hand man reportedly ready to surrender to the war crimes court site
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is going to have low information on now i think was so huge that tony blair intervened formed to help him get his dodgy ph d. degree from the london school of economics when a lot of degree apparently was plagiarized there's a lot of things that have gone on so you fogarty knows about psychedelic he's wanted to answer for is own actions in libya's drawn out battle for control but it's what he could reveal about the diplomatic deals with his father it's keeping the western power players waiting are going it r.t. london it has agreed to ship out of libya by monday after the un decided to cancel the alliances mandate russia's envoy to the world body says they should pay their way now to an independent post gadhafi country. i would hope that indeed a new chapter is being opened in libya and the libyan people will be able to take advantage of the new situation to build a new libya they desire. the u.s.
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led lines has been bombing libya since march and are you would resolution to protect civilians occurred only ten thousand strikes one of the last two which of course stopped the convoy carrying colonel gadhafi allowing him to be captured and then killed but the intervention doesn't end there qatar's now proposing to head international operations in libya once nato pulls out though it claims it's already deployed hundreds of troops on a support mission to the country that moves not been sanctioned by the u.n. which is yet to respond to katter's offer. up ahead this hour on r t the freedom of selective speech when giorgio will be the chief say speaking up means being hounded out to seek asylum when the government doesn't like what you say. it's. the french president's going for greece saying let's in the beleaguered country join the euro was a mistake speaking of emergency in brussels summit nicolas sarkozy said greek membership of a currency club has pushed europe to the brink e.u. leaders decided thursday to half greece's private sector debt to one hundred
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billion euros after banks agreed to write off fifty percent of what they're owed european banks must also have a bigger cash pile to guard against another crisis while the emergency bailout fund will be expanded to one trillion euros now to get there europe's hoping to attract investment from asia the bailout fund chiefs perswaded rather a visit to china to try to persuade beijing to chip in but economists say the e.u. has little choice but to turn to. chris. that march so we have to seek help i think it will be involved in some degree for the european market is the major market i knew of course about the possible defaults china needs to make sure that it doesn't lose money because of the turbulence in. europe. georgia works hard to maintain a positive image of
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a country that welcomes free speech and open mind but that's not the experience of local media there many of whom feel a hand on the shoulder saying the wrong things tom pardonable recently you know those who make the news in georgia have been becoming the news john doe nine a tertiary leader with the founder of an opposition t.v. station applied for french political asylum just days before nicolas sarkozy arrived on a visit but he was disappointed. i contacted the french embassy and i was sure my problem would be resolved quickly but i was mistaken they didn't make an appointment and i've had no news from them if they don't contact me in the near future i'm determined to go to other embassies. clearly t.v. is a small station in the north of georgia john doe and his staff say it's mikhail saakashvili s government has pushed him to apply for asylum he says they're putting pressure on
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him because of his channel's criticism of policy and to show an opposition views as well as those of the government or the body of the family we have to work on difficult conditions as we cannot get any comment at all from officials when a government official gives a press conference reporters from other channels are allowed inside to do their job but your letter reporters are denied entry where clearly being discriminated against. the georgian government strenuously denies the claims but others doubt his sincerity some brand don't burn our tax relief asylum request or publicize the stunt that mysterious insists of the daughter north or if these are after him because because of what he is channel. and something by the record in recent years he's not the only one in two thousand and nine the widow of former georgian president appealed to germany's angela merkel for asylum and numerous others have left the country trialists he has need of the resources nor the audience to
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seriously compete with large pro-government channels but john doe's say's he's sure about the government's reasons. it's because we're an opposition station they want us to give in and work for them to promote their message but i can't stoop to that . and this is the symbolism of the frustration felt by mr knowledge to nashville and his fellow opposition media a mock funeral lamenting as they put it the death of georgian free media. party. he suspects not been charged in the murder case of russian journalist anna politkovskaya or mali getting higher for me from chechnya i was charged on friday with being one of the reporters killers investigators alleged. he was part of a group contracted to kill the journalist in july two thousand and six and as promised a reward for the murder suspect denies the charges politkovskaya as murder was linked to her work as an investigative journalist she was shot in october two
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thousand and six outsider apartment block. russia's richest woman could end up on the world's most wanted list and interpol could be arsed to bring her in for questioning about how she got her brilliance and liberty is the wife of disgraced moscow may your english golf for investigators want to talk to him too and they're threatening his arrest if he doesn't turn up in office got the details. forbes in two thousand and ten you know about that in there was the world's third richest woman her estimated total wealth was around three billion u.s. dollars her former company in back or to go on some of the most are tracked if construction projects in the city one billion about the husband was moscow's meer impressive and attractive projects like this entirely new residential block in the city but it seems in now these days of glory are going to the past since both even the market in the n.b.a. are wanted for questioning in connection with
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a very high profile embezzlement case the story was. the bank of moscow received around half a billion years dollars from the city's budget this was at the peak of the economic crisis and it gave a lot when we were over four hundred million years dollars to a small unknown company shortly after this deal about the same amount of money appeared on you don't know about the most personal bank account at the moment because it is outside of russia and by to the field to show up at the questioning sessions in february in march and in april and now authorities say that he may get interpol involved in the situation to get here in moscow for questioning again about putin is currently reported to be in london you people school in austria they've been informing the authorities that they can't show at these questioning
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sessions because of that through their representatives to the authorities say this still doesn't make it legal but according to the latest reports from you people sports lawyer he is planning to attend questioning session on the fifteenth of november here in moscow. elsewhere around the world this could actually see a first trouble has erupted after the country's first ever for the election results troops fired into the air and used tear gas to disperse angry crowds after one party's winning candidates were disqualified they gathered in the town sparked newsies uprising which then set off a chain of revolts across the arab world is the most part the security forty one percent parliament six floodwaters people close to the central bangkok tonight with officials desperate for ineffective ways to try to hold back the worst in decades the capital's already undergoing a mass evacuation ahead of this weekend's seasonal high tide as well as water heading down from the country's flood drenched plains a disaster has claimed over three hundred seventy lives since august and affected
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millions of others. syrian security forces have clashed with anti-government activists leaving thirty seven people reportedly dead people headed on to the streets after friday prayers to again demonstrate against president. syrian opposition figures are now calling for a protective no fly zone in the country the u.n. estimates the months of government crackdowns and killed three thousand people. germans are being taught lessons about islam in schools as part of the government's drive to integrate its religious communities it was meant to educate about muslim life but actually having an adverse effect on people's towards extremism as our correspondent dana bushell reports next it's another multicultural division splitting the country. the typical german school. teacher is preaching hate christians who go to discos drink alcohol and have a boyfriend they perform evil deeds christians and jews says i believe in the
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qur'an before it destroys your faces germany started islam clauses in its schools all sorts you think the religion spreads peace you won't find. a phrase a sentence of koran which tells the kill bill was you have to persecute. their members of other allegiance when you. find them hit them muslims admits the close is a fall from suv tensions the relations between zero officials and is that me a minute is i'm not saying it should real is a code of conduct in arab states where punishments can include. and storing campaign as war muslim youths are trying to spread shari'a across europe they catch them they bury a class of people. with more rights than the nonbelievers and the nonbelievers can
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be treated like pigs and young muslim i'll say how. be higher then. that is not possible therefore we must install the sharia everywhere followers like perino the christian parents he's converted to islam every muslim here must swap german laws for sure real he says and chop of hands still an adulterous and flawed homosexuals germany's policy of islam opposition may not be going to plan muslim students are leaving europe schools radicalized by their lessons this move by authorities is well meaning but it may be producing a generous. of its truest who detest the west and see immigrant parties a sea surge in popularity in frankfurt almost hall for residents of foreign the free voters group is getting elected with this message for muslims integrate all
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leave our country more young men but also young women. who were born in germany go to extremists government efforts were made to heal conflict with germany's three million muslims see the country splitting apart it's a pro and anti islam camps you push your r.t. frankfurt's. and i support coming up short in this hour with rich girl the lakers games in the russian premier league and that while the world's most famous boxers isn't quite ready either to have clubs yet when we talk about find out shortly we've caught up with the latest business tonight. banks kavanagh still as climbed a few places in the league of world financial centers but it's still languishing mid table in order to promote the capital to start of the division the government
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has called on the help of specialist advisors over hasn't liking it. top investment bankers have been meeting president it's better to share there is a price of how to turn moscow into international financial center most agree that russia is fundamentally attractive the state of the economy is relatively healthy and a government that's is not thing compared to the european and american levels bazza investors unanimously agreed that the biggest problem is low in force meant and a lack of trust in the system the rule of law. here is so poor. it's perceived as being somewhat. that it is just during. the low world you know when we go out and talk to people ok well the system knows this so our cars
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here are we here it was. because you know. if you do the right thing. you're going to get money. who's a problem you must solve methods have reminded investors that the steps were being taken he highlighted the merger of russia's two main stock exchanges the r.t.s. and to my six and creation all be unified to cruises the posit there is a system which will make trading more transparent and weaker the working group responsible for the project says financial services in moscow may be brought up to the international standards in about three years part of reorganizing the city's infrastructure to speed up traffic and make life more comfy and whole businesses is a longer process which may take up to a day kate. look at the markets or u.s. markets correcting slightly after a very bullish session on day the dow is down by
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a notch but it's still heading for the best. monthly gain in twenty four years. european markets are also down slightly up the close in london but the dax the finishes up just point one percent banks were showing strong performance in the session to lose most of the gains by the end of the session however h.s.b.c. is one of the biggest carriers in london. here in russia the markets saw their best week in two years to end on a positive note to the r.t.s. overall gained ten and a half percent in just five sessions my sixty five and a half percent the difference here is the juice of the strengthening of the ruble if you remember the my six is trading in roubles the r.t.s. in dollars if we take a look at the main movers on the nice x. most energy majors are up with ross near gaining one and sent this out at the close
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rather i should say not as nickel is down two percent as the company misses the deadline for a share buyback of russia's top lenders burbank handed down by just a notch the company's head said the bag would be ready to privatized seven point six percent of its shares if the share price reaches one hundred roubles still quite a long way to go back. kevin is next with the headlines are not in the news they were.
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