as a new message. he said to face the prospect of violent suppression of the militias or as he said civil war and break up you can hear a lot of pollution in saying no we didn't get rid of gadhafi you know that this voice comes across nothing has happened when you supposed to integrate missions into the supposed national supposed national police force and just by the very limited newspaper reports you can see that very very few people do and you have this creation of a federation of the western militias a few days ago one hundred militias in the western libya and that really does seem to be a step on the road to the breakup of libya into at least two parts west and east if not more american and afghan officials are in secret peace talks with the taliban according to president hamid karzai the afghan leader described the negotiations as a breakthrough in attempts to end the war that's dragged on for more than ten years

but artie's military contributor says karzai continues to avoid the real issues but standing between afghanistan and prosperity i mean interview to a wall street journal was the most important public relations event for the president of afghanistan it was rather strange when mr karzai during this interview quoted unwittingly the former president go but you're referring to afghanistan as the believing. in full display of correctness mr karzai was carefully spared. they are serene two most important challenges facing afghanistan right now that is their rampant corruption. there is suffocating the country.

and their narco aggression. leading factors there could precipitate the implosion of five then a stand from within. that we shall bers who think they're buying organic food from russia supermarket shelves may need to think again but vague standards for labeling products buyers often don't know what they're getting but farmers are making a change for the better paving the way for russia to become a provider of organic food for the rest of the world that are reports. the feast for the eyes but not necessarily for your stomach and many would be shocked to find out what exactly makes its way onto our plates. if only people knew what their sausage is made of or how they yogurt was bottled they would be very upset and would stop buying anything at all of the shops but. perhaps that's why there is a growing demand among people in russia's main cities gannett products

unfortunately for them russian shops have little to offer what is sold is eco and bio friendly is often far from it your product is even by a group of us have found a niche in the market think starboard environment and you fashion quite healthy lifestyle however there are no legal standards also defied labeling schemes for organic produce in russia. so individual farmers define it in their own way but it's really on every farmer's own conscience. alexander is a computer programmer who turned to working the land what started as a hobby is now a mini industry with several farms in the moscow region covering livestock fish vegetables and. he's even aiming for his first harvest of black caviar first urges he breeds not far away from moscow if you're ever on the big business simply can't afford to produce ecologically clean product of the years past decides to boost

growth and lower the cost of everything i do is pure without a drop of chemicals related to this new market in moscow had said and ambitious task to offer its customers and unprecedented range of eco products what started as an attempt to bring organic food to the masses turned out to be almost impossible in reality no russian farmers can produce all this let alone in quantities needed for a large city so anything truly eco and bio friendly remains a luxury only a few people in russia can afford. despite soaring prices for anything organic individual farmers find it hard to make their businesses profitable beaten by the supermarkets with their cheap processed food by the sec even founded and online all getting store trying to help small pharma survive and at the same time improve the quality of life while food conscious customers just like came. initially we simply

wanted healthy stuff for our families and friends now we handpick each person involved in the production of meat or bread that we sell so that we know where the food has come from and the business is growing but. some go as far as saying russia with its plenty of land could eventually become an organic food basket for the whole world a very few europe in one thousand nine hundred eighteen russia fed half of the world and we could easily get back to that but the state needs to start investing in agriculture. and while city dwellers are only starting to go back to their roots milledge is in russia's most organic far away corners are probably unaware of the treasures they could offer and russian klondyke to be discovered. r.t. scary. russia and china angered a large section of the international community when they jointly vetoed a u.n. security council resolution condemning president assad's regime in syria and it's just the most recent example of the two standing largely all their own in the

international arena so artie's resident in new york laurie harshness went to ask people whether the two countries should be feared and why. if you believe the news media you should fear china and russia this week let's talk about why if they wanted to china could wipe out the u.s. in probably three minutes but anyone with an atomic bomb could true so why china in particular chinese people are very dangerous why what has made you think bad have you ever been personally threatened by a chinese person no so why do you feel that way they know kung fu i don't think were in the good of relationship with them so should we fear them is that going to make relations better and we should fear them i think they should fear of i think there's a legitimate concerns about human rights there and i think we need to pay attention

to what are their legitimate human rights issues everywhere don't we have them here in the us sure i think a different scale there but yes we do have another places when there's there was stuff to find out so well that is this stuff to find out so well that will screw nobody's going to give us a minute would be but we're participating in that why is it their fault because they're acting smartly. it's hard to resist last year i was in china i wasn't scared at all so i don't think you should be i don't think we should run our country like china or russia but i think there are some ideas and some kind of plans they have that help their economy so maybe we can learn from a so that's more amul aiding and looking up to rather than fearing but we're taught to fear them why do you think that it is because fear keeps you in control if you are afraid it's easier to be manipulated by somebody telling you to do something rather than questioning what they say everybody is freak scared today because the

new than old the media makes people scare them specially in america why china and russia in particular are we made to feel scared because they're very powerful that's what we think ultimately they're going to be a part of the growth picture and they need us as much as we need them so why are people scared of that why are they painted in this horrible picture it's always the same so maybe we should get to know them invite them over for coffee like that whether or not you believe the world should fear china and russia the bottom line to me is the old adage those who live in glass houses should never throw a stone. and later this hour learn more about the magic of cirque du soleil the latest spectacular show as our how it is currently in moscow only the second city in the world to welcome it formed in the eighty's by two street artists cirque de soleil has evolved over the years into

a unique makes up performance art and professional acrobatics and contortionists and just a few minutes interview show spotlight talks to cry cohen the man who first brought the renowned company to russia about what the crowds can expect this time. that's coming right after a recap of our top stories here on our team. you

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own thanks for being with us on half past the hour here's a quick recap of your headlines china is joining russia's push for a negotiated solution in syria one of beijing's top diplomats is in damascus calling on all sides to cease fire and sit down for talks but security forces have reportedly fired on protesters in the capital. labia holds a referendum on whether russian should be an official language the motion which is likely to fail was put forward by the russian minority which represents

a third of the population but complains of state discrimination. european impartiality is under scrutiny out a number of schools accused of brainwashing your own values into children they claim to teach multiculturalism but tight control of the curriculum raises questions about how much propaganda is being taught. and next following talks to craig cullen a man who brought the world famous cirque du soleil shows to russia. well . science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

hello again oh welcome to the spotlight they interviewed on our t.v. and now bernard and today my guest is craig. superglue so they is back in russia with a brand new is out of college. it runs in one of moscow's largest venues the grand kremlin palace which we acquired a serious mexico last summer as our come up premiered in new york in the radio city hall and was a warmly welcome by the public something even call it the best suited to sell a show ever so what makes arthritis so unique we're asking the man who brought the famous service company to russia founder and vice chairman of citigroup sun a russian bank craig called. the world famous circuit you so late was founded in the nineteen eighties by two street artists give money birthday and danielle good to hear what they came up with was

a very special kind of entertainment circus theater and street before men's all together in the most impressive way the combination of all it's proved a success eventually leading to the canadian entertainment company audiences worldwide cirque de soleil has expanded dramatically since its creation it has received a bunch of international awards and has performed on the world's most prestigious stages right now its brand new show this arcana is on at the stade gremlin palace moscow is only the second city in the world to welcome the latest installment along with new york's radio city music hall the largest show cirque du soleil has ever traveled with zar can cost fifty seventy then u.s. dollars to produce people. from all over the country flock to the very heart of russia's capital to enjoy the fairy tale spirit that canadian company has brought

about. great t.v. have thank you for coming by well first of all is it true did did do you believe that dot com is the greatest show that sort of this so they ever had then what makes it unique what should we expect what surprises i think why it's a great show here is because of the venue there's a venue because the venue so that we could gather any real happening in the inside the kremlin well i think happiness on a grand kremlin is a great show. really right but i think the combination of the show which is a fifty seven million dollars production seventy five artists one hundred people backstage and eight hundred people working the whole the whole kremlin combined with that theater which is the biggest leader in europe and the only two places in the world could take a radio city music hall in the kremlin that's what makes it a great show you actually are fantastic as a matter of fact you mentioned anything happening inside the kremlin well actually

to to to be great well probably so this it mean that it's hard to get access to get the permission to doing it and side the actual kremlin walls wasn't right. i've been doing business here for twenty years so i know and i think ultimately the way you know it's i don't think business anywhere in the world is easy i think it's just different here you have to build relationships do what you say you're going to do there is a lot of paperwork mounds and mounds and mounds of paperwork so i have a hard it's hard but you know anything worth doing is takes a lot of work this but i think it's fun and it's fun as well as that is staged by one of quebec's most respected opera directors flounce. yes and the music was written by australian nick little mormon who used to work with john and i said so this is a big it's a rock opera it's a type of rock opera it's not your classic rock opera why classic is jesus christ

superstar which is a great rock which is a classic it is different it's different it's not god's for this and you know this is based off circus arts with incredible theater incredible design great music it's an invented language so yeah i spent on towson something like that so everyone understands it no one understands and and it's it's what makes the essence of searches so they work in the mental languages it's something like you you have a link where you know that you have a linguist stuff i don't care what you well well well but when they i had a guy who invented it they did brussels is like i won't do it but if i want to see chess that is you're like yeah i don't like that this is a little bit more bizarre. you mentioned seventy five or just seventy five is how many of them are russians thirty percent thirty percent right the russians are a strong contingent in this show mainly mainly acrobats about how important is russian talent for for the suit is silly and it and for western circus in general

because i'd be las vegas a couple of times on circus i mean you get your heart of the russians moment from the sofa. and out of it you ensure sure all russians so important fulfill for the circus is so important they have incredible training coming out of the gymnastic program of the circus program and they're the best in the world in trap the bond theme in hand balancing and so for circus arts they're the best and that's why there's such a large contingency of russians and ukrainians and kazakhstan is in search of a world wide in this show specifically the coming home so they're excited so since so the russian circus it's sort of law like the bolshoi ballet i mean it's a brand and some of them some somebody from from the moscow circus cook and you can just walk into a circus whatever the reason that we did we had military all say here i am and then they have the yard and it's not that simple i mean it's not that easy there's

a huge database and there's lots of culture lots of competition but in general the russians are superior talent too because of this other because of the sporting background or where they are mature as circus i think it's a combination i think it's a sporting background and i think it's the discipline i think it's their ability to always continue to get better and once like enter sort of so they move from sports to artists and so it's the blend of the two which is being a sportsman and an artist that's what the really really was special really great i'll be frank with you of never being in the suit. because i'm a kid was too small i don't i look like sure that you get a shot at sag thank you but. i've seen it i've seen on television and a friend of mine went to went to see it live i think last year in moscow and he said well it's not a circus anymore he said the less used before it's it's like a show you know it's like a like a more like

a musical so now you're talking about acrobats once more so is the acrobatic thing still in the center that i think is the d.n.a. of sort of a it started. it is because what i see on television it's usually fantastic acrobatics but people say it looks more like a show like a musical now i think it's everything it's a new genre so it has at the center is obviously acrobats which is the wow moments where your hands start to sweat your palms your hands and sweat but the sets are incredible in the show and they look amazing at the chroma theater just just really beautiful and you'll see that you know shortly how different is it staging a circus on stage i mean a circus is something in the middle when people all around and he have a stage you have backstage you have all that it is easy is it a lot different it's different and i think one of the thing was the same in new york city right it was the same in new york city one of the things that's why the show is a very expensive show because you have to fill an enormous stage with

a lot of activity and it's very very different so the audience is slightly larger than a traditional circus and the ceiling is low where is the ceiling is actually very high and the room and yes and it's incredibly high end and so that's why that's why we did it when we started to whatever and said oh you can never do it at home and later that was one of the reasons because we know it was a great stage the show was specially created for new york city and moskos why why was moscow chosen the only other city say new york to save the show and then another because it was the only place where you can find the the building i mean this well that's that's one of the reasons but not the only reasons the only two large large stages in the world that could fit a show this big yes that's it really yeah absolutely we'll go outdoors outdoors what we. are so you want. to be low i mean you can do that instance some of that but we don't do a lot we don't do a lot of shows in the doors like that that's number one number two is. the

business that we set up here you know so it's a special business and we want to bring some plane to russia that the russian audiences deserve and i. i think they did the big there's a great audience here i think they're very well educated in arts and entertainment and so for the artists it's a wonderful place to perform is the show exactly the same in moscow than in your city i mean it's the same thing it's very very similar some of that but it's a bit different because of because of this stage only because of the staging a slightly different the acts are very similar but in general the show is almost identical and it has that same high end quality that we had in new york when we start the cast this is the same cat here and there that i mean the artists here and there there's been some minor changes but the quality of the cast of the same and they're excited to to open up on us on set and how many.

shows are you going to stage in moscow i mean did you have a number do you know were actually performing eighty times eighty so we had a new york you had we had more than eighty or so a lot more than a but two actually. every night after the mondays perform in the kremlin theater three minutes in the credits are we took that here every night no one else is in it what do what if putin or medvedev won something let me in the congress party and there's a recent. story that i think scares me but you know we have a well because you know the crew palace actually was built and actually used to the first i was there as i don't remember the congress it was i mean it's fairly brazen after all that i would say you know basically it of course is the president's theater and the president wants to use it or he can use of leader we would help entertain maybe some of his party yes. but you know it's. i don't think that's going to happen if it does what will do with it so if the

ruling russian elite once the place they're welcoming and i think there's other theater you know we're there we are just. are you planning to stage a kind of elsewhere only moscow new york that's moscow that's. positive yeah yeah and i don't think you know this is the one time it's coming to moscow and you know the odds of it coming back are going to be you know it will continue and new york for a couple of years but it's it was done for these two citizens who says vice chairman of the. russian french spotlight will be back should we after the break so stay with us we'll continue this interview no.

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cultures of resistance on our team. welcome back to spotlight nerve and just a reminder that my guest on the show today is quake and vice chairman served russian. creek. i'll continue stick to the subject of my family going to caesar's just like it's my son is taking care of my son is twelve and one of the interviews you said that maybe maybe i'm mistaken some of your guys said that this is not a con that is an adult show well not not an adult show but mainly for adults right now i mean there is a true it's like when you see adults mainly i mean what's the what's the age for from which you you i would say if you look at the russian circus which is targeted

at you know two families and it has been for a very very long time circus so it was always targeted to an adult population own and from the very beginning a very big as it was going to be as a kind it's about in general and so when you say i don't know if you mean you mean like starting where fifteen twenty thirty when you become an adult well what when how are you going what i'm not yet and i mean and i don't if you ask me i think you know what we're starting at sixteen above and this is not as you have there any reason other than it is. an art form that was developed for ten percent of our audience are children children is like below sixteen like like but yeah it was not really belong to a sixteen and the non-users are ok teenagers are fine i think you know at twelve years old or to eleven or ten is far below ten i don't i don't think it's a good use of people's money to i just think you're a hundred percent of adults because you're going to because your kid is also twelve or ten.