welcome back here's a quick look at all the top stories we're covering here on r t police crap dolls and as you call for of protestors across america fail to stop their spread as authorities leave demonstrators in the heart of the occupy movement out in the cold police have confiscated power generators and gas heaters from protesters camped out in new york as temperatures hit subzero. a stern warning from the arab league that's calling on syria to stop the bloodshed as dozens of civilian deaths are reported in fresh anti government crackdowns in the lead syria committee is due for another round of crisis talks with the baskets. and history repeating itself and the man who built the biggest financial pyramid in russian history may be back to his old tricks after serving time for robbing millions of their savings all this time his sights are set on investors in ukraine

. moscow's world beating bolshoi theatre is back to its glory but it was no mean feat technology helped it explains how they did it along with more of tomorrow's innovations to stay with us in our city. hello and welcome just as the leaves here are starting to change color we on technology are changing things around as well in this episode will be highlighting some of the biggest developments in russian science and technology from just the past few weeks. our first stop this month takes us to the annual forum hosted by ruth's nano russia's leading nano technology company and many of its partners are showing off all the latest developments both big and small i just gathering in

moscow at the end of october there are new products ranging from a nano printer that can create images on water to the newest innovations in nano medicine and cutting edge energy production there's even a friendly robot to answer all the participants questions as well as the so-called futurists or who equipped with id bring us one step closer to a world free from long checkout lines there's plenty to please the eye here at the roof nanotech forum for us the star of the show is this much hyped plastic logic one hundred company execs hope that this winter device will eventually replace traditional school textbooks this sixteen ounce device can replace the huge stack of text as well as the entire library's worth of books several regional governments have already started trials in schools around russia. as in the. start of this project with. original the company was formed to bridge.

building the first. place the koreans for three and. right now we are together with. the russian the purpose we create the. regions which are suitable for this. this will be the largest transfer from the world. because there was this reader. and also some just production of other voices based on political trends but until that plant is counted running the new devices will be built here at plastic logic's existing production facility certainly the most important breakthrough in this electronic reader is a breakable plastic backplane traditionally electronic books and tablets are fitted

with a glass back screen which approach of breaking relatively easily the first generation of pinball displays have been made from stainless steel oil companies so-called plastic paper technology this electronic book is lighter and more durable than ever . but one of the possibilities for using this in the classroom. has. paper for example the more. the more the. more you can the more you know in the home library if you knew this particular the worse books for six and so on so great so this is the clear advantage other advantages that you come and course there has been some criticism that a black and white display may not be the best to use for school textbooks you know for something like the history of art black and white isn't the best and what do you think about that question of course work and why screen is not the best option and in case of some subjects like biology or brain it would be clear of course

greenstone the book and this is different at the end. and so on the question in case of education we understood that there was just in this book because in this case this complete paper. which means a much easier to read and so much more so for the. boy or a schoolgirl who read this to us but ruth nano isn't the only russian company coming out with an innovative new digital leader. given the fact that the country is home to one of the most literate avid reading populations the market for more traditional a trolley books is certainly an attractive one on the moscow metro you're sure to find one of your fellow passengers putting open his or her trusty reader and in russia there's a good chance that one of them was made by drexler on a company offers traditional readers with cheaper but breakable glass backstreets is about to launch its own fully assembled legal but the latest plastic backplane

technology and considering where the consumer markets heading this little reader could make a big splash and what's the future of the e-books market in your opinion. first of all it's a growing market it's the fastest growing segments in the auto industry with a hundred percent annual increase over the last three years and this year alone we expect more than a million e-book devices to be sold in russia in terms of trends flexibility is definitely the one and we will continue to produce flexible displays that. will be used in educational institutions and therefore the displays launch not compact because it needs to comply with standards when you've got them we're all for a genuinely compact reader which has a flexible body as well as display. our target audience is a broad one any kind of consumer can use it that it will be for sale for everyone.

and it's. going to be. what the market seems to have spoken regarding general the readers there's no shortage of different approaches to integrating digital technology in the classroom the latest trend here seems to be high tech tablets which have raised from the expensive name brands to the remarkably cheap. in recent weeks there's been one piece of news in the world of science that has the potential to change how we understand just about everything around us. from our. little faster than light could this be the biggest development in physics since einstein's day well it's all relative. here into russian scientists are doing their part to find out if that little particle actually does go as fast as it appears but these tiny particles lack in size they make up for it with their

potential to explain the yet unknown. force neutrinos play a crucial role in the theory of the evolution of the universe. because. certain stages this particle could become the main vehicle for transporting energy from an object. still not completely understood but much of what we do know about neutrinos comes from this research center here. for nuclear problems back in the fifty's italian. moved to do the research neutrinos during his life he was responsible for some of the biggest theoretical breakthroughs in the field of neutrino physics as a result and this. has remained at the center of the discipline to this very day.

takes part in many international experiments that involve studying. the work on discovering and measuring new known characteristics. as heavy lifting is done at institutes in russia in france none of their work would be possible without the european organization for nuclear research from the facilities underground here billions of particles are created several times a day using the super proton synchrotron the accelerator protons are sent along a tunnel where many turn into muonic neutrinos particles are then focused into a beam that since them from the earth directed at the detector seven hundred thirty kilometers away thirteen hundred tons of text. is made up of one hundred fifty thousand motion film plates the unexpected discovery about neutrinos speed may have

grabbed the headlines but it's actually just a side experiment under most circumstances neutrinos travel in a straight line when they break down and observe lepton and a few other particles the crucial thing here is that the moon breaks off straight from the path of the neutrino in two thousand and ten however they finally saw what they were looking for. a decade. the say that i'm the one left appears not directly from the path of the one of the tree no that little gap or kid the physicist at opera believe show that a movie or nickname treadle oscillated into a towel on that one which then gave rise to a towel lepton then decayed into the moon lepton among other things i will buy this is important for understanding of the fundamental basis of our existence as fairly mysterious that the universe has a bulge in this way i mean that the reason mass and almost no answer neutrino physics could give us a clue and help to explain this fact so long as the neutrino remains so important

and so mysterious business is like those here in will keep tolling away trying to peel back our ignorance sliver plus sliver for the time being these scientists have more than enough on their plate whether it be trying to find further evidence of neutrino oscillation or checking and double checking the surprising results in grand sasso if these neutrinos are found to be able to break the universal speed limit it could lead to a major rethinking of many aspects of modern physics. dependent experiments proving that neutrinos speed is faster than the speed of light. is our conception of the world after now that everything was based on this sumption and that the speed of light is the top the last and c. that nature has devised to communicate a signal that it's difficult to predict how science will change. but the main thing to do now is to make sure initial results have been correct.

but leaving all that high minded particle physics stuff behind for now we've come back down to earth. and are focusing on an innovative russian solution to the problem of pesticide related pollution. or they're more often closely associated with industrial agriculture in pigs farming pesticides are just as much of a threat in cities and that's what a group of russian environmentalist got together to highlight here in gorky park in the middle of september under the new soil cleansing product to build right here in russia these green advocates hope to breathe new life into a once changing ground in more ways than one. amongst other facts the substance cuts the level of toxic elements in the soil and at the same time plant growth and can be used to seize treatment with shoots emerging much earlier it produces a general wholesome effect that balances out the soil when we conduct our cleanup

operations we take samples to identify contaminants and concentration levels and then pick the right dose and application right the science behind this product didn't appear overnight russian biologists ten years the right bacteria strain that would attack a wide range of harmful pesticides the same time remaining affective against all of them the effort to come up with the right science spearheaded here at moscow state university those responsible for this breakthrough product called have received more wards in the powder with water activates the destructor bacteria. immediately attacks the remaining effects of harmful pesticides in a matter of weeks ninety eight percent of the remnants of the bug killing poisons are gone. quite complicated applying it to your lawn is surprisingly simple just now we're sprinkling a special solution over the contaminated plot of land it's

a biological substance consisting of activated cells of strains of bacteria to structures it's been designed to destroy granite chloride pesticides this pesticide type. is now on the un list of toxic contaminants that are banned from use this year russia rectified the u.n. sponsored stockholm convention on persistent organic pollutants under the treaty there's a list of twenty substances that are considered hazardous and now genocide chills about eight hundred one thousand of them in russia some two hundred thousand tons of pesticides are still stored especially refuse dumps almost the same amount is buried under the ground in many russian regions the roster friesian out-i region moscow region and of our own issue region. are people aware of the risks of using pesticides. we see that people are not indifferent that they want to make a difference and i believe it will soon become more popular as interest in

a greener planet grows by zero russia will be there to help foster such beliefs at their office in moscow they're trying to raise awareness actually using social networking sites they've even craze a comic to bring their message to a wider younger audience and this miniature graphic novel little movie greek is one of the jailers of pesticides which leads her to a life of science to try and break her hold on earth of course her efforts run up against powerful forces determined to stop her and all her green activists dreaming of a planet free from dangerous pesticides right approach it for nothing is based on very simple things that every person can understand sony adjoins at it will help us restore the environmental balance on the planet thanks to bio russia and for not places such as gorky park and moscow state universities but tentacle gardens are becoming cleaner and cleaner green awareness is on the rise in russia but lately there's been something else on a lot of people's minds. the

talk of the town lately here in moscow has been that of the bolshoi theater is grand reopening the russian engineers responsible for this massive undertaking have leaned on the latest technology to make this world renowned performance hope bigger and better than ever. after six long years of waiting russia's most famous theater is opening its doors to the public again at the end of october despite some early setbacks both engineers and r. does it have been working around the clock to get moscow's iconic theater ready in time for its much anticipated reopening crystal chandelier or glistening again the interior is more respondent than it's ever been when visitors come in for their first look they're sure to be amazed by all the work that's gone into the renovation and those concerns the biggest of tests down to the smallest detail

those behind all the changes are certain that thanks to both ancient methods and new technology seeing the show at the new bolshoi will be like nothing you've ever experienced before the acoustics have been vastly improved and noble innovations in theater technology will allow directors to do things only dreamed of until now sure this place of great is what everyone's talking about now but it certainly hasn't been the bolshoi's first facelift the original theatre called the bolshoi imperial burned down in eighteen zero five twenty years later the bolshoi patrol seat was built in its place the theater got its distinctive main facade and named after rid of ations ahead of a coronation of alexander the second the current restoration work is to correct damage done over the previous eighty years. were under way back in two thousand and five well the project was ambitious enough to start with nobody had any idea just how big of a job ahead once they got down to business it was discovered that the damage the

theater was much greater than previously thought white cracks were discovered through the walls and the building had been reduced to mere rubble engineers say the building was seventy five percent unstable. of. the beginning none of the builders or restorers had an idea of the amount of work that eventually needed to be done just because they got the opportunity to assess the state of the walls in the foundation only in two thousand and five after the theatre had been closed the walls were about to collapse and it was decided to put the building on a thousand piles of steel pillars that held it up in the air the builders have to remove the remaining foundation blocks piece by piece the substructure was incapable of holding the building anymore it was in such a critical condition that the theater would have easily collapsed the replacement of the substructure took three years it was then apparent that the problems could have been solved only by implementing complex engineering projects. in two thousand and nine suman group became the largest shareholder in the firm responsible for the

massive project soon as the main task was to sort through all the problems that had arisen and get work back on schedule based on the progress from the past few years it's clear the company was more than up to the task e.g. statues have been restored to their original chlorine the famous a polished quadriga that adorns the entrance was repaired for the first time in over one hundred years the fears historic bells were given new luster thirty five of them including one t.d. back to the early sixteen hundreds were forced to back up to the theaters unparalleled belltower. massive amounts of gold was put in place by skilled russian artisans specially trained experts were brought in from all over the country to apply over three thousand square feet of gold in the interior a certain shimmer all but lost decades ago the gilding was late using a particularly russian tactic dating back to medieval times involving a white clay and get this vodka the bolshoi it was made over from head to toe with

nothing left untouched the final project demanded tons of metal stone rebar and concrete to put the whole building back on firm footing. but the ring of patients were just concrete and steel. after years of neglect beautiful fabrics that were once the pride of the bolshoi had to be replaced the size the glimmering gold leaf through out the most noticeable update is the redone plush interior here in the renamed coral hall embroidered cloth panels had been badly damaged over the years a major work was needed to give these textiles a new lease on life. however some fabric items had to be completely remade from scratch for the biggest of these jobs the bolshoi looked about four hundred miles southeast of moscow a historic russian textile company was tasked with the gargantuan feat of totally recreating one of the bolshoi's most prized possessions. textile mill in the kinzer

region skilled workers but they're no house and you need machinery to the test they might not employ the absolutely this technology they lose here are matchless in their ability to produce large scale high quality fabrics one hundred fifty years of the mills experience were needed to totally reconstruct one of the grandest objects of the theater because roy does a college training and that was a task only source project liber on. the obligatory but initially the bush recession sent the following requirements and pretension contract is the fabric can't be twenty metres wide and should not contain any scenes we took part in the ten there was also a german company mounted competitors who offered a fabric made of two pieces stitched together by some hidden in conspicuous being the bolshoi theatre of tacky refused saying it had to be a single fabric of top notch quality without any seams the other reason he won the

tent was that this is a unique type of aluminum there were six of them made in the world and only two is still up and running one here in sewers and the other in the us. thanks to the know how and machinery here and source their fifteen hundred pound dollar. kerns proudly welcome spectators to the theater for the first time since eight hundred ninety six the original curtain which depicts the triumphant arrival of medieval military leaders and has had to be taken down over a century ago due to wear and tear artisans remaking the f a curtain nothing more than two surviving documents of the original go off one was an archival photograph the other hand painted edging dating back to eight hundred fifty nine artists labors on the curtain only possible because of the skill textile workers. have to be worked by hand even the slightest mistake means that machines have to be shut down and work has to be done to correct the error of this beautifully redone

curtain is one improvement that will be apparent to everyone the audience while it may not be evident straight away out here on the backside of the theater is actually into real part of what is easily the bolshoi the biggest new technological improvement the innovation starts out on the streets of the northern facade of the theater from here specially designed trucks can bring all the necessary stage equipment including seem decorations lifts are able to move the heavy loads back and forth between storage and the backstage area individually neck and eye sections of the floor music every part of the stage can be adjusted to fit the director's needs movable force easily get the props and prepared sets in the front with the need to be and the orchestra pit can also be adapted to allow for new pieces like those from wagner to be performed for the very first time new lighting apparatus

have been installed bringing the bolshoi to the forefront of theater production in terms of both technology and size. contemporary architecture standards it's just the theaters production space must be four times larger than the space. and there are makeup and storage rooms and other backstage facilities such proportions are required for a theater to be able to stage twenty first century performances to stay at the cutting edge of theater related technologies in fact before the bolshoi theater closed in two thousand and five this proportion had been one to one now the reconstructed theater will boast a one to four proportion which made this possible first and foremost it's due to the unique engineering that's all the theatre expanded detailed list square now when walking across to the square you should always keep in mind that you're treading on the roof of a six story building that's twenty point five meters deep under your feet an orchestra is having a rehearsal chamber concert is underway. this hidden gym is

a literally right under the noses of people on the square in front of the theater the now named beethoven hall this completely new space begins the bolshoi's performers not only an additional place to rehearse but a totally new states to host concerts thanks to new innovations and powerful motor driven jacks there's no limit to what this hall can allow some of the chain of the draw consists of linked plates it's a so-called leaf chain connected by axles. each plate is linked to the axles the third axle well you can have a look from this angle functions as a lot for the plates. and when passing through the gear unit the leaf chain can change its position from vertical to horizontal there's a metal unit and side where you can collapse insert safe mine. this is

a great tool to be used for tiny spaces and you don't need to drill any holes. the platforms work starts actually here you turn the engines on the first one behind me and the second in front of their. they start to work some on santa's sleigh and through a system of gear boxes and drive shafts the transferred the torque to all the chains which begin to go up old at the same time it was in this unique space that those deers in chains will power five separate four segments which can each be raised and lowered as needed this newfound flexibility allows the bolshoi to accommodate a large orchestra of full ampitheater all numerous rows of seats masterfully combining beauty and utility now with everything in place this and all the other stages are ready to host any number of events like never before the bolshoi has the ability to change things around to fit the exact requirements of each performance

and that would give an even the most seasoned theatre fans a new reason to head to a show so as the next time and until then enjoy the ride. those who are fascinated with history. to those who have a sweet to. those who can't live without the sky. and of course to the nature lovers this magnificent land offers its treasures. between earth and the sky. on our.

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