a big immense impact on the audience the ten is more intimate experience and it's a difference we brought we brought attention was to moscow twice and the show and i think there's a room for it there's room for both in the city you mentioned one a couple of minutes ago that it's not exactly a circus not exactly a show is that something so so so you wouldn't call it a circus you know you you mean you say that it's something different and so it's somewhere in between so you have to show what i mean if you think of the evolution of entertainment that's happening around the world this is a show that crosses theater it crosses rock n roll it crosses dance are circus arts so it is a new genre and if you pigeonhole it into something specific then you're going to lose the essence of it so so so the name syrup is just in the way i mean it's not a circus i mean so if you're going to the shows or you want to call it because it's more a show like so alas a vegas thing yeah well let's call it

a busker thing and let's go. it's about effect debt he brought mcdonald's to music you know you did a and i was one of the one of the first guy so you got to get amber going to remember going to it then i will if i were you i would have brought pizza had but you preferred to bring coca-cola so you know about your business and then i think you. know now you're switching to the a cirque du soleil has it is it a new sort of family business so well it's interesting you know everyone always argues with their fathers yeah and so for my long time dad always had leverage on me because i was coca-cola and he was mcdonald's and he would you know i always said you know you're not doing enough job and after i left coca-cola he said would you like to do something together and so they had a search just like daniel maher and he came to us and said you know you guys know russia pretty well would you like to get involved and i said you know i'd like to work on my dad i think that would be fun and we're doing that and we're getting along great i'll be in town tomorrow for the opening so it's there's no you're in it to get. and in schools only here here's what happens when the father says you

know right so son how are ticket sales but when you push a little harder every day he's just calling me a little and he does nothing but he pushes his son which is a mistake but he did this he ever approve of anything you do oh absolutely i don't mind doesn't he does it if my watch is the show me and here he was and i watched the show well well well i think you have to quit you know you. are not the right guy. you keep something there all the time that's what fathers are going to do that your book or something. because because he or what he's doing on his own is skiing and playing tennis and he does both better than me already has a way he can prove that he can just win and i mean ok now do you expect get you set only new york in moscow people it's a brand do you expect people people from the europe from other countries coming to moscow to see the show and i would hope so you know we've spoken to the mayor about

this and about promoting it overseas there's our partners master card has a deal with their float right now in europe i have several hundred people coming in from around the world for the gala so i think it's important to kind of move the perception of moscow as a as a economic tourist locations interest ok so there's lots of things to do so you're trying to market market this thing is happening like in europe so come and see i mean like i think so i think it's really important to do that you know we do we our partners are vogue and others and so it's really important to moscow is a wonderful place to be on february in february. that you're creating he is it is a lot different from the canadian citizen because it's a brunch it's not just a before it's a separate but i think you know what when we started we said that's sort of a company that's beyond human or aerial and it's a little different to get business done here twenty five percent. i'm seventy five

and so we have a lot of autonomy and a lot of chance to move and do things slightly different and we've done that in a couple years so we pick i think we've become the largest live entertainment company in russia in less than two years you are planning out for it by two thousand and fifteen but tweeting a permanent sudeshna in moscow what will that mean having your own building completely burning bridges with canada absolutely not no i don't know where that would be we have seventy years of diplomatic relationships between canada and russia that have been celebrated as i'm sure you know right. over that if you speak so that we're going to stay. i think that we're just evolving to see where the opportunity is here and we're not quite sure where it is it will be with some partner but we've had we've sold about a million it'll be about a million tickets and in russia in less than twenty eight months twenty nine months and so we think the market is ready and it will be running the next bit would you be looking at it and at a building having the circus i mean they have made their location it might be an

existing building and i think new building there might be a partnership so you will need something something somewhere to put it's not going to be a tent and won't be a ten k. well how difficult a year to today to make because you know you have experience doing business. in the soviet union this now in russia how how do you how different it how difficult is it you said it's fun and you said the weather the fed receipts you well but but in general everyone in the west talks about how difficult this place is to do business and if you fly in and fly out then any place in the world is difficult to do business you have to understand the culture learn the language trust people build relationships it can't be a commercial transaction it has to be relationship driven and if that happens then it's great but if you want to come here and just do business make money it's not the place for you i would buy we have to speak someone we learn we should lead.

commission itself and the symbolism but you do have a home in london so so are you going to move to moscow i'm not sure i'm with my kids on a barge in london right now and so i fly back and forth i have an amazing team here twenty five twenty five russians that are incredible and young and i dress as it is not a suit this is the office and the other men yeah yeah and they're the ones that drive the business which is great so is it easy to do business here i think if you have a belief in this country that it's easy to do business if you do not believe in the country don't waste your time leave and faith is good but many people many people i talk to in the studio talk about predictability this is the rush is one of the it's fun but one of the fun aspects of russia is the unpredictability and this is risky for businesses but every was unpredictable and really what's predictable is the u.s. predictable is france predictable is the u.k. predictable of the race yes exactly where to go is i only predicting nothing is

predictable and actually if you're going to be unpredictable have fun while being unpredictable. would you recommend. to your friends to come do business here absolutely would you take the responsibility. this is a place to do business i would have taken the responsibility for self and my friends to do that and they have i think been successful here did. they do their work buy you lunch they have bought me lunch yes because lunch is a must go on like five times. i think and they did it by myself but i would i would recommend it if you have the right attitude and you're willing to invest the time and energy and it's a place of business last question i should ask it i've heard of a special program sort of just lay supporting young children it was difficult social situations it wasn't about me it's called cirque du monde cirque du monde so it's not the sort social circus and you know one of the largest issues in this country is. teenage. problems you're going to

observe and so when you bring in circus arts to help those young adults it works fairly well so we've started one program in awe stricken and we're going to be doing several around the country in the next in the next several years just to get involved in the community a very different way. circus arts is difficult and so it gives people some focus it is working and then you'll see it as works really well to brazil it's worked and africa so it's it's the you know i mean i think it gives it gives people. a skill a skill and with that skill you can go on and feel good about yourself trade a trade and there's nothing wrong with the trade winners and you know whether it's juggling or fixing a car yeah and i don't think that we have enough trades out there anymore thank you thank you thank you very much for being with us to see it was fun and this was a pleasure as usual to see you in the studio and just to remind you that my guest on the show today with quake alan vice chairman of service and

a russian back that's it for now from all of us here if you want to have your say on spotlight perhaps someone in monte think actually doing this time just drop me a line alvin up at. are you and that's the spotlight interact we will be back with more faith and common fun what's going on down so i brush up until then stay on our team and take care thank you.

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at a national maneuver as the u.s. and its allies play hardball over syria russia and china push for a diplomatic solution all while iran looks on nervously at its struggling ally. lobby holding a referendum on whether russia should be an official language in a state were a third of the population battles just to be accepted. european impartiality comes under scrutiny as a number of schools are accused of brainwashing your values into children in the name of diversity.

watching ninety live from moscow i'm marina joshua came to the program crisis a lot syria finds itself caught between two very different diplomatic efforts as the u.s. and its allies piled pressure on the government russia and china trying to mediate and go she had a solution one of the eighteen stop diplomats is in damascus meeting members of the ruling elite and the opposition of the chinese effort follows up on months of attempts by moscow to bring the warring sides together but the rebels refuse to talk unless president asad gives up power violence is escalating almost daily now was dozens reportedly killed over the past twenty four hours political science professor joseph kang says u.s. dominance in the region is forcing some world powers on to the defense of. major factors you know wolf of course. the idea of some kind of just mean. throughout the world in the middle east and north africa. obviously the

conservative countries in the region trust china they do not want to see. jesmyn. beijing the big unite that has been exerting pressure on the middle east. don't respect thing the interests of russia and china and that is beginnings the idea of most of the polarity and this is a matter of a lack of respect for the interests of major power was nigh russia and china china certainly wants to. you to. be below is influence in the middle east region which is of strategic importance to china and china increasingly thieves that the this approach will power it has grove all interests and these interests to be respected as a masochist feels

a squeeze from within syria and abroad its closest allies are also growing increasingly nervous experts warn that if the syrian regime falls iran will feel isolated and compelled to act laura smith has a story. iran's military is put through its paces but how long will this carry on being a drill as the conflict in syria gets bloodier by the day western powers range against president assad ally iran the strategic position looks increasingly shaky which some suggest is no coincidence there is a proxy conflict between israel and its western allies and iran which basically only has one ally in the region which is the syrian republic so if you can get syria away from iran either through a diplomatic deal which they're trying for many years all through regime change which seems to be the direction of travel now that would definitely weaken iran and all roads in the middle east right now do seem to lead back to tehran experts are

calling this classic divide and conquer bring down throw a radian ask that and replace it with the opposition figures we've already said they did talk to nancy terror on foreign policy neutralizing korea iran is most powerful ally since the iran iraq war iran and syria have developed all sorts of ties cultural and economic included but crucially iran uses syria as a conduit for support for hezbollah in lebanon and how mass in the palestinian authority both declared foreign terrorist organizations by the u.s. state department take that away and do runs into its in the region could where you're cornered iran could bite perhaps accelerating the nuclear program process some raising its. interference perceived interference in other countries in the region press bahrain probs lebanon perhaps palestinian territories. and that will

be the way that iran will react so you can make a case for suggestion that the removal of assad well make iran even more protective or even more dangerous it's a knife edge situation and one which worries moved. harry if there's events in real world that the u.s. is going to says israel could attack iran in a matter of months the possibility all conflict between major western powers and iran becoming a between the world's major powers is almost a right storm clouds over the region reports that the qatari and saudis are already funding. operating with the syrian opposition iran looks increasingly isolated with israel in the north. where we are closely following developments in syria on our website as well so log on to r.t. dot com to get all the latest updates and here's what else you'll find right now.

joining forces pakistan pledges to support iran of the u.s. launches a military attack against the islamic republic get more information online. also this cyber war goes on you know on a group assault half a dozen u.s. federal government websites within the past week to express their anger at an anti-piracy law. law is holding a national referendum soudan on saturday on whether russian should become a second official language but it's unlikely to succeed even though the russian minority which makes up the sword of the population are feeling ever more discriminated against and the place they call home are reports from. the lady from la to the russian minority says his country's government has gone too

far having lived in law to be all his life it was only recently that he managed to exchange a temporary residence permit to a passport but now this father of three faces another hurdle for his family this time and that his children and their education was a pass through legislation that in the school schools sixty percent of the lessons must be taught in latvian language but excuse me chemistry biology and physics it's difficult to get it even in your own language and it does create a lot of problems for the students at the moment and of course it lowers their results it was the threat that these schools where at least some lessons are taught in their native russian would be closed down for good that scared the russian minority which constitutes one third of the country's population they initiated a referendum on making russian law to be a second state language something radical right wing parties call

a threat to national integrity to fit into this voter's against our constitution which says life is a man a national state and always be it as it splits our society which has to have one solid foundation but if you don't live to it to be like russia then lion not going to russia and leave us be them. at least three quarters of a million people must vote yes for a constitutional change to take place but with the support predicted to be just half that seems to be unlikely the outcome however could have been different if another three hundred twenty thousand residents were allowed to vote those are ethnic russians who spare and grandparents came here after nine hundred forty five they were denied citizenship after largely became independent and are still carrying allien passports the newly appointed council of europe's commissioner for human rights believes the vote will not solve the discrimination problem and that its readers handling of the russian community that should be changed because the

human rights suspect of stateless children being born in latvia. clear norms in the convention on the rights of the child that every child has a right to citizenship from birth regulating language use in the private sphere this also has human rights implications raise issues of proportionality here i think that things should be reviewed though it is widely accepted here that the russian language referendum will fail the russian minority hopes that the vote will bring their struggle out of the shadows and force the government to at least open a dialogue about these russians are contemplating another vote to introduce changes into the citizenship law that is to abolish the so-called alien brass boards and grant citizenship to those who are living without and many say in this case they have a good chance of succeeding as they would only need a little more than two hundred thousand dollars of their votes let's. see reporting from riga in latvia. let's not take a look at some of the stories from around the world riot police in senegal fired

tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters after the country's opposition define a government ban and held a demonstration calling for the president to step down street battles between police and demonstrators continues through the night in the capital jakarta leaving several people injured president of july wade is campaigning for a third term in office in next week's election. a man who saadi was carrying out a suicide bombing in washington has been arrested i mean al khalifa he was attempting to detonate a fake explosive vest given to him by undercover f.b.i. officers he allegedly believed the officers were members of al qaida the moroccan national have been under surveillance by the u.s. government for about a year. six trillion dollars worth of counterfeit u.s. bonds have been seized in italy carried the false date of nine hundred thirty four and were transported from hong kong to do work in two thousand and seven where they were transferred to swiss trust prosecutors say it appeared the suspects intended to sell up eight people have been arrested and charged with making financial

operations using fake bonds as a guarantee. in believe us thousands of people have been left homeless after overflowing rivers flood of more than half of the country's districts around alert was issued and the army deployed to help you back away the most soon season which started in january has already claimed seven lives and caused a surge in infectious diseases. oh shit i was still as we at this hour are trading a supermarket for the farm health conscious shoppers across russia are filling their cupboards and down its food straight from the growers. pies.

it's all designed to keep you close in your own small world as a prison. you know you leave somebody in there for a couple hours like in a stress positions. you have this fear of the unknown in this stress sort of building and. i've seen interrogations go on ten twelve hours they chose songs i remember from marilyn manson the current slayer to songs would be angel of death and raining blood to kill the enemy going through war coming up here into iraq to baghdad. johnny pulled the body sort of for just the rock n roll band it was fitting for the job we were doing.

the movie. financial crisis immigration under attack and member nations at each other's throats there doesn't appear a lot to recommend the e.u. to the europeans of the future unless you can plant the seeds of support early and some schools are exposing their pupils to evaluate very young are just as are still

your reports and accusations of brainwashing. what do you know about your country the capital is aroma some lived with a pizza. a spanish french english and everybody told these youngsters are attending one of the fourteen year period schools set up primarily to educate children of e.u. stuff the only system which is able to provide education in twenty three different languages. of europe is united in their city and that's what will leave every day in a european school but outside the classroom reality says otherwise for now differences seem to transcend unity critics along accuse the e.u. of brainwashing children through education paraphernalia that they claim promote

a stormy eyed vision of the e.u. a comment from a european commission representative at an education fair appears to support that point but you will never succeed to convince people about the us being members here can you if you do not really enough with your young. people that the prejudice is that our missile was still there there is no push to export concepts from the european school model international curriculums apply now live in a two thousand and eleven report and later adopted by parliament. the european parliament repeats its request to the member states to promote the inclusion of the specific subject on the background goals and functioning of the european union and its institutions which will help young people feel more involved in the process of european integration school curricula responsibility of individual member states to tailor to their own needs and their own classrooms you should not get involved in dictating what individual schools teach you know we don't want to say european

money wasted on pouring out it's pouring out to probably you. god there into our schools we see as part of our role to explain to citizens regardless of age how this thing works why we have the european union wants a good thing but the aim is more information. not con of propaganda or you know sort of brainwashing exercise that's not what we're told among the objectives of the european school are to encourage a european and global perspective and to promote the emergence of a european identity from an early age but the question is what does it stop being education and start being. as do agri any piece he say that targeting youngsters and their education with a potentially one sided political view may just be a little too said mr tests are cilia r.t. brussels. and libya fireworks were placed gunshots as a country marks a year since the start of the uprising that toppled mommer khadafi by the anniversary comes at

a time of continuing instability hundreds of armed militias are roaming the country and the national transitional council appears on able to control them there is also evidence of the torture and abuse of the remaining khadafi supporters and while he as leaders say they are willing to integrate the militias into security services jim brown from stop the war coalition says for now these are just empty words. of the national transitional council that with the body that was particularly backed by night during some months of homing what he said in benghazi almost i think message. he said that to face the prospect of either violent suppression of the militias or as he said civil war and break up you can turn off. your green sign only. you know that i have heard that voice comes across nothing has happened.