this is r.t. moscow and tonight the bolshoi is back moscow's landmarks here it is finally reopened staging its first round performance in six years after a massive refurbished. as nato packs up its libyan mission that helped kill colonel gadhafi his key son could now blow the whistle on deals the west wants to bury if he gets his day in court. letting greece it was a mistake the french president doesn't hold back of his beleaguered euro colleague three leaders sign off another massive rescue to. hello it's eleven pm friday night here in moscow you're watching r.t. international live from moscow with me kevin owen and first is taken six years of

refer bushman delays drama and scandal but moscow's legendary bolshoi theatre is finally bounced back into the limelight nearly two thousand people took their seats for an exclusive performance earlier on tonight many who cover the outside take a look as well. as a. no one was going to miss out on the excitement of the ground. and they were able to watch the performances pull costal t. big screen so everyone come out to watch everything obvious spectacular and me that's simply not made all the more special of course because everyone was able to be involved it was huge amount of people putting out we were speaking to some of the people in the crowd they were telling us just how special the bolshoi theater is to the i think it's a simple yes perfect role for. i'm from the time go so i respect. this kind of. love the pleasure to see this.

alive again yes i'm very happy to be here during the opening call by showing the history of my country and it's the thrill of my life and i'm very sad i can participate in this everything has been a very special evening in devotion with a supposed deeds in history in places but still a good cause and it provided a means of getting high culture at affordable prices to people and we see in the performances tonight taking us through the ages of the boastfully production we cut production fragments of production from nine hundred fifty eight moments of the code to the more famous ones like cyclops peaceful unlike what we saw the poster a prima ballerina. of the taking to the stage breath taking to watch out in this beautiful as it's like a chilly evening in most everyone just really glad to be involved in it the focus is well of course treading the bulls the first time in six years it's been a long time in the coming but it's certainly the way to the end of the evening on

the big screen we had tributes from some of the late great performers of the bolshoi they were talking about the very trepidation for the former entering the postilion performing but also exhilaration of it as well and we felt some of. the race should not be just really. the post of the doing of course but it always. really captured the imagination. so we captured a good show it was one of the lucky few to make it inside the bolshoi for the performance she tells how the ground see it had made its way back to the forefront of russia's cultural stage. there were fishley no tickets printed for this first opening night calico inserts and precious tickets for invitations for the wealthy and well connected only were exclusively available through the office of the president so yes indeed we were very lucky to be among the first to get the beams of the right of a to restore its bolshoi and as the curtain went up for the first time in six years

it would build to have renovation that ranks as the most meticulous and expansive indicators history and it was impressive because in the first place it was renovated according to the original vision of the tsar so but the room on a dynasty all hammer and sickle emblems were replaced with the original symbol of terrorist russia the double have it's an eagle no detail was considered as streaks pansy were challenging. as far as the silk decorations that were made in special workshop by a number of among cinemas kimono st there are like eight specialists in the whole world who can do that kind of work. canales were imported from the swedes alps so indeed very expensive meticulous work as well the show itself it featured some of the best excerpts from russia's belly and oprah and it featured pieces directed by the best choreographers and the best musicians and the least of

those invited to come to russia to come to the bolshoi on this first night was very impressive among the guests we saw the whole goodbye chill he has of the last skull of peter began on oprah house covent garden i was so in the thirty five down the way here as shortly before the gala concert started we caught up with tell a naturist when he could be lucci it was her first time at the bolshoi theater but not the first time in russia. since. like. let's. just. see i thought was kind of rushed to. see a time out here by russia and. i think

that some people this is. actually impressive red carpet event top russian for russian peter lovers and you know it's the curtain came down to cheers off brothel from outside could be heard ringing inside the renovated restored. it can turn a good show over a correspondent there were poll shows glittering reopening performances taken as pow's than we've got an encore online for you still don't worry about that extracts from the much anticipated first night or on our website out to go home also on our you tube channel the illegal a concert performances pose some of the world's leading opera singers and internationally acclaimed ballet artists if like me you couldn't get your hands in those exclusive tickets not to worry we've got a front row seat for you with our t. dot com right now. the legacy that survived the russian revolution and the man. who

most surely is by looking more splendid than a day in trouble for a century. the grand the core of czarist times this does ling the audience again after a six year refit. a long awaited resurrection of the more joy theater on the marquee. of the main news stories no it's not it's the old colonel gadhafi is most influential son saif al islam has fled to nice where and 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 side could then spill the beans on the recent dodgy deals they made with his father he's either bennett explains. to some moammar gadhafi was a man too much secrets which will supposedly be buried with him i think that there were tremendous sighs of relief all over capitals in western

europe this is somebody who cut all sorts of deals with the french but also the the british and the italians and to a certain extent the americans as well i think they did not want to put on trial for any research and i don't not miss lightest that surprised that he was captured alive if you very quickly ended up getting a daffy's return from diplomatic exile was spectacular hugs handshakes and kisses from the heads of countries which denounced him it half is now silenced by the suspicion around those who laid out the welcome mat is far from buried. i don't feel as history seems with. dealing with his construct an aggressor to. go away or seriously think that this is a situation as fish would probably grew a tree sit near ironically lead to a situation regular receiver who produced then british prime minister tony blair

was instrumental in get happens rehabilitation bringing him in from the cold in two thousand and seven the play didn't lead empty handed trade between flourished so did a cozy relationship it was six more secret meetings off the player left off base his people knowing they were about releasing them luckily pramod apple pass it on the granny or britain would lose its lucrative libyan deals i regret myself it obviously did get back it was put should he should have been said to the international criminal court put on trial and forced all it's questions for all the terrible things he did and if it garbage the contemporary world leaders who are previous regimes lead is tough and we need to do. what is started it out day with by people some details of the murky dealings have already emerged claiming the reputation of one of britain's leading universities the london

school of economics agreed to contract the bigger that the regime worth over two million pounds to educate hundreds is cheap to civil servants the director here 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 data even letting him pitches a tent in the alley safe palace apparently for bankrolling sarkozy's path to the presidency so says this man the one who could still tell all the course he 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 and. sign i get that he son and key right hand man reportedly ready to surrender to the war crimes court saif is going to have low information and i think we're so used to tony blair intervening formed to help him get his dodgy ph d. degree from the london school of economics when. he was plagiarized there's

a lot of things that have gone on so you fogarty knows about saif gadhafi is wanted to answer for his own actions in libya is drawn out battle for control but it's what he could reveal about the diplomatic deals with his father is keeping the western power players sweating after bennett r.t. london. and he has agreed to ship out of libya by monday after the un decided to cancel the alliances mandate questions envoy to the world body says this should bed pave the way to an independent country. indeed a new chapter is being altered. for the libyan people will be able to take advantage of the new situation to build a new levy of the. u.s. led bombing libya since march under a u.n. resolution to protect civilians and carried out nearly ten thousand air strikes one of the last of which stopped

a convoy carrying colonel gadhafi allow him to be captured and their subsequent be killed but the intervention doesn't end there proposing to head international operations in libya once nato pulls out claims it's already deployed hundreds of troops on a support mission to the country and that move not being sanctioned by the u.n. which has yet to respond to katter's offer. staying in the region to an opposition activists urging protesters to rally for a no fly zone over the country thirty seven people have reportedly been killed by security forces in friday's anti-government protests with u.n. figures suggesting over three thousand have died since troubles began seven months ago let's talk more about the situation now two former u.s. diplomat in the region john graham graham thanks ever so much being an r.t. international we appreciate your time can we start with syria first of all this idea has come forward know of a no fly zone think this one through i mean there's no air threat from military planes towards civilians so why ask for a no fly zone. well first of all i think everyone should speak speak more clearly

on this they're not asking for a no fly zone or a reality any more than they were in libya they're asking for close air support because of a terribly different thing we all know what happened in libya we were their leader would be in there to institute a no fly zone to protect civilians and very quickly within days the mission became one of change so when people call for a no fly zone in syria they're really calling for close air support as you know the syrian assad is not using his work right it's to kill the protesters he's using his army for some help from helicopters so what will work what might work in syria would be close air support which is a much more dodgy thing and it's much more difficult it's much more sophisticated and there are many more risks so let me just get this straight do you think it's all heading towards any time soon a libya like scenario in syria. i don't know and i'll tell you

there are many reasons why it won't come to that and one of the big is the sheer geography remember in libya you have basically a huge desert with a few cities dotted along the coastline so you need to work rains had a fairly easy time and they didn't identifying troops and armor and taking them out syria of course is a much more organized country that is far smaller and so the possibility of civilian casualties in syria is enormously greater that it was a libya and that must be a serious concern for anyone thinking of users who you know flies are talking of casualties more deaths reported deaths these protests earlier on today another thirty seven to add to that three thousand plus fatalities now in syria what is the number have to go to get bigots who we thought there's a world response to end the syria crisis. good question and it isn't just the

writing casualty is the protests are continuing. and the political condemnations and the. sanctions that it is refuted clearly aren't working. and a third factor which would move toward a no fly zone or a close combat support effort would be that the opposition groups in syria are finally coalescing in the beginning if there were so many different groups some of them fighting each other and would give great positive anyone for example nato to institute a no fly zone now they're coalescing there's a new were they call it a syrian national council there is there some cohesion and so they have someone to work with so there are there are factors plus and minus so let's take a minute now to libya and reflect on not a bit nato is wrapping up there its second general called the operation quote one of the most successful in nato history is that something you agree with him said the u.s.

embassy in libya do you think it was the right way forward and at the end of the day was a success. i do i don't i think he was exaggerating and it was a relatively small operation and i think the. first during the entire cold war were far more significant scores from a whole point of view not that of your country. but i think that without nato as intervention there would be still be a bloody war going on in libya possibly even a civil war. and certainly nato intervention in the beginning saved thousands of civilian lives especially around and ghazi. also you know what a new life to nato and nato now has demonstrated that even though there were many imperfections and what it did it really does have now will be the power to affect. military solutions if only in

small and relatively unimportant places like libya syria so where is libya going to go do you think in a nutshell. i'm optimistic again i've been in the diplomat for long enough to be quite cynical about these things but the people in the transitional council seem to be living up to their words. they are have managed to keep the whole thing from becoming a tribal war. they've appointed some relatively good people who seem to be taking the right steps forward so i'm optimistic that they will in fact after a bumpy ride within a year or so we might see a relatively stable forward looking government in libya john we're a bit tight for time i will get your expert thoughts on what's happening in gatherings there in tahrir square again when huge public anger at the military rule is a matter of god is the old regime in different clothes where's that going to go. i think it's quite natural that the protesters in tahrir square angry at the military

because the military have done some things for example continuing to arrest on protesters some heavy handed take makes the protesters don't much like it all but the fact is that the military has not stepped in and provided at least the six months of breathing space and this delicate jockeying period that we're seeing now with political parties being formed campaigns begun the tensions being dealt with between christians cops and muslims between the muslim brotherhood and the secularists all this could have erupted into yet more violence without the army so well i understand the strong feelings of the protesters understand their frustrations i think probably history will regard this six months of army rule as a necessary evil that simply has to take place in order to allow the elections of a democracy we all hope will happen at the end of this year and next year john gray

really good to have you on a team to nationals like former u.s. diplomats in libya as you thank you you thank. the french president is going for greece saying letting the police could come through join the euro was a mistake speaking of the emergency in brussels summit nicolas sarkozy said greek membership of the currency clubs pushed europe to the break and your leaders decided on thursday the hard greece's private sector debt to one hundred billion euros are the banks going to write off fifty percent of what they're owed european banks was also a bigger cash pile we've been told to guard against another crisis while the emergency bailout fund is going to be expanded no to one trillion euros to hit that mark for europe's hoping to attract investment from asia velo fund chief and they've been to china to try to persuade beijing to step in and chip in although officials don't seem to want political scientist in paris told me that that's because europe still in too much of a mess. if greece goes now i mean in economically recently there is small country

it's only two point five percent of the on me and start so europe it's a vibrant greece but in terms of symbols it would be a disaster so they want you greek to keep greece within the euro zone and within europe but europe. is still short sighted because it was scary to programs for everyone and it's not going to solve the crisis in the long term if you ask the chinese to save europe or you are the chinese to become the new and insure it in money our so this is something very serious and the whole thing the look on not pledging the central bank in europe function as a central bank but we know it's to be us in japan or even in britain so you've got all this not you don't have a central bank they can tell their markets we are in our decisions and at the same time yeah but it's there it's a program so it's a very very bad recipe and asking china to help your person i don't think the

chinese will do. it is not going to throw good money after bad just save europe just because of europe if the chinese helped it would be. for their advantage. course here works hard to maintain a positive image for a country that welcomes free speech and open minds but that's not the experience of local media there many of whom feel a hand on their shoulder for saying the wrong things i think reports of them recently those who make the news in georgia have been becoming the news john doe not. 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. trilogy 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 him because of his channel's criticism of policy and for showing the opposition views as well as those of the government but he is the we have to work on difficult conditions as we cannot get any comments at all from officials when a government official gives a press conference reporters from other channels are allowed inside to do their job but still it are reporters are denied entry we are clearly being discriminated against. the georgian government strenuously denies the claims but others doubt his sincerity some brown john boehner a tough police asylum request a public that is stunned but really serious consistent with gotten off or if these are after him just because of what he is channel. i don't mean by the record 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 a numerous others have left the country korea letty has need of the resources nor the audience to seriously compete with the 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 nonis trash villi and his fellow opposition media a mock funeral the mentoring as they put it the death of georgian free media. tamaki party. elsewhere in the world tonight using grief to chin is the of the troubles are up to the country's first democratic 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 that sparked a disease uprising which then set off a chain of revolts across the arab world is a missed party ennahda forty one percent of parliamentary seats. floodwaters creeping closer to central bangkok tonight with officials desperate to try to find innovative ways to hold back the worst decades the capital's already undergoing a mass evacuation ahead of this weekend seasonal high tide as well as water then heading down to meet it from the country's flood drenched plains a disaster has claimed over three hundred seventy lives know since august this affected millions of others. syrian security forces and the mention of clash with anti-government activists left thirty seven people reportedly dead people had to go to the streets again after friday prayers to again demonstrate against president assad's regime syrian opposition figures are now calling for a protective no fly zone in the country the u.n.

estimates the months of government crackdowns of killed three thousand people. more coarsely conundrums for germany did so you part is in cross talk little bit later this hour when the panel asked which has the higher price killing or saving the euro coming up our business and i were to meet three. of those unabomber country business starts in moscow as climbed a few places in the league of the world's financial censors but it's still languishing in order to promote the capital to the top of the division the government has called on the help of specialist advisers as such i'm going to reports. top of beslan bankers have been waiting president it's better to share their is why i said how to turn moscow into international financial sense and most agree that russia is fundamentally attractive the state of the economy is a relatively healthy and a government that's is not pink compared to the european and american levels but

investors unanimously agreed that the biggest problem is lloyd for cement and a lack of trust in the system the rule of law. here is so we're. perceived as being too lax. yet it is just curious how the low world medvedev reminded investors that the steps were being taken he highlighted the merger of russia's two main stock exchanges the r.t.s. and the my six and creation all be unified to groups is the posit there is system which will make trading more transparent and squeak her good group responsible for the project says financial services in moscow may be brought up to the international standards in about three years but the real organizing the city's infrastructure to speed up traffic and make life more comfy and for businesses is

a longer process which may take up to a day kate. or let's take a look at the markets shares in europe are moving between gains and losses on friday off to day's rally banks did show strong performance in the morning but they reversed by the close a lloyd's is top loser in london down five point two percent commerce bank is four point three percent lower in frankfurt here in russia the market saw the best week in two years and ended on a positive note he also has a rule against ten and a half percent in five sessions the nice x five an office and higher that's because of the strengthening group therefore the difference let's take a look at how shares were performing. in the my six most energy majors were up with was near gaining one and a half percent at the closed door as they called down two percent as the company missed the deadline for a share buyback and russia's top lenders burbank is down a notch the company's head said the bank would be ready for the privatization of seven point six percent of its shares if the share price reaches around one hundred

. disney is to become the largest foreign investor in the russian media markets and company has agreed to buy a forty nine percent stake in the country's free to air television channel seventeen the deal is worth around three hundred million dollars seventy will be rebranded as the disney channel which will be able to reach seventy five percent of russia's small u.s. disney has long been hoping to cash in on the russian t.v. market early wanted to buy half of the country's holding media one which controls thirty regional t.v. stations however that deal was blocked by russia's anti monopoly service kind of action are seen the headlines to say. if. you mean to. the.

to the limits. it's. to. pick up. if it's.