something you know i have a ten year old you know so so so so so we're both teenagers. we will become adults when our kids become adults and we're going to become grandfathers then we then we feel ok i got comics and. then what about the tent you staging it i mean stage you're in the kremlin grand palace but but the turned the arches miss i mean the tent the sadness fear i mean i mean like being us i think it's a different type of feeling for the other so this show is made for. a big immense impact on the audience the ten is more intimate experience and it's a difference we've brought we've brought the tensions 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 art 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 soup is just to me and i mean it's not a circus i mean so if you go to the shows or you want to call it and. it's more a show like so alas a vegas thing yeah well let's call it a bust i think it's going to think it's going to affect he you debt he brought mcdonald's to music you know you did in the head 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 that in a certain sort of what is it a new sort of

a family business oh 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 don't do anything of 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 there's no you're in. together at last and in school the only here here is 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 you a little 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 doesn't 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 just not the right

guy and he keeps on doing that all the time that's what fathers are going to do that you're for their side. 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 to get you said only new york and 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 into us ok so there's lots of things to do so you're trying to market my kid 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 and sever. the. that you're creating he is it is a lot different from the canadian citizen because it's abramovich is not just a bit from 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. certainly 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 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 we speak all right. as you speak so that we're going to stay. i think that we're just valving to see where the opportunity is here and we're not quite sure where it is 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 ready in the next go but it would you be looking at it and at a building having the circus i mean i have made new location it might be an existing building it might be new building there might be a partnership so you will need something to examine somewhere to put it it's not going to be a tent and won't be a tent. 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 than any place in the world it's 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 to learn. at least. 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 and it's not assumed this is the office and this is the other night yeah and they're the ones that drive the business which is great so isn't 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 everyone's unpredictable and really what's predictable is the u.s. predictable is france predictable is the u.k. predictable of the nice yes exactly that is why i want to go if i only predict nothing is predictable and actually if you go to be unpredictable have fun while being unpredictable will you would you recommend. to your friends to come do business here absolutely would you take the responsibility think 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 that what by you they have bought me lunch here yes because lunch is

a must go i like five times. mr president 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 personal business last question i should ask it i've heard of a special program served distillates 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 one of the largest issues in this country is. teenage. problems in russia you're going to see 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 very different way. circus arts is difficult and so it gives people some focus it is working and then the circus works really well to brazil it's worked and africa so

it's it's the you know i mean i make 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 train riders 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 be was nice 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 quade cowan vice chairman for service in a rush and 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 during this time just drop me a line alderman i pad. are you and that's can spot light interact we will be back with more face time comments on what's going on down side brush up until then stay on our team and take care thank you.

all roads lead to terrible problem pressure grows on the regime in syria with fears that if it falls the nation's key ally iran could be left stranded and propelled into action. giving a voice to lafayette's russian minorities the baltic states votes on whether the language spoken by a third of its population should earn an official status. and the idea of euro unity strong despite the region's crumbling finances as some e.u. schools are accused of brainwashing children to believe the project is infallible.

thanks for being with us for cock here in moscow i'm karen tara with crisis law damascus feeling the squeeze from within the country and abroad its crucial ally in the region is also feeling the strain experts warn that the collapse of the syrian regime would be a devastating blow to iran making tough extremely isolated and compelled to act artie's laura smith reports. 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 to really is all through regime change which seems to be the direction of travel now that would definitely weaken iran at all roads in the middle east right now do seem to lead back to tehran experts are calling the last thing deployed and hope that bring down throw it rainy and ask that and replacing it with the opposition because we've already said they did talk to nancy terror on foreign policy for life thank you korea iran is a very 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 iran's influence in the region could weigh in

all cornered iran could bite perhaps accelerating the nuclear program prospects are easing 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 will make iran even more protective or more dangerous it's a knife edge situation and one which grows more. carious is events in syria worse than the us even says israel could attack iran in a matter of months the possibility of a conflict between major western powers and iran becoming a between the world's major powers arise storm clouds are massing over the region reports of emerge that the qataris and saudis are already funding arming and

covertly operating with the syrian opposition iran looks increasingly isolated with a hostile israel perilously close to me r.t. london. as washington and its allies take sides in the syrian conflict piling pressure on the government moscow and beijing are trying to mediate and then go she added solution china's envoy isn't damascus for talks calling on all sides in the conflict to halt violence and start dialogue the chinese effort follows up on months of attempts by russia to bring the warring sides together but with reports of ongoing violence the opposition refuses to talk unless the president assad steps down political science professor joseph chang says u.s. dominance in the region as forcing some world powers on to the defensive. this major factor as you know wolf of course is the. author of the idea of some kind of just mean mobile illusion throughout the hour oh well in the middle east and in

north africa obviously the conservative countries in the region press china they do not want to see food as their jesmyn lucian beijing believes big united states has been exerting pressure on the middle east without respect paying the interest or russia and china and that is against the idea of multi-player larry and this is a matter of a lack of respect for the incidence of major powers night russia and china china certainly ones to. you to and the below is influence in the middle east region which is of strategic importance to china and china increasingly believes that the disapprove of how it has growth or interest and these interest subi respect it must go and beijing's position on the syrian conflict has been

roundly criticized by much of the international community. 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 plater on r t we ask people in new york if they are actions of the two countries have made them feel afraid. lotfi a is set to decide whether russian should become the country's second official language authorities claim it threatens national integrity despite russians making up a third of the population and as alex a reports this referendum is just the first step to ending decades long discrimination. valente from a lot of years russian minority says his country's government has gone too far having lived in lot of all his life it was only recently that he managed to exchange a temporary residence permit to a full passport but now this father of three faces another hurdle for his family

this time and that his children and their education. school schools sixty percent of the lessons must be taught. but excuse me chemistry biology and physics it's difficult to get even a new ruling which. 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 a second state language something radical right wing parties call a threat to national integrity to fit into this world is against our constitution which says life is i'm on a national state and always be it explicit our society which has to have one solid

foundation if you want to it to be like russia. going to russia and leave us be. at least three quarters of a million people must vote yes for a constitutional change to take place but with 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 a lot of it 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. handling of the russian community that should be changed give the human rights suspect of stateless children being born in libya. the 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 something 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 alley and passports and grant citizenship to those who are living with it 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 positive votes let's. see reports. in latvia. there are flags fireworks and scenes of jubilation on the streets of libya the country marked the first anniversary of the uprising that toppled colonel gadhafi but a year on it's the militia that's in charge of almost every aspect of life the national transitional council is accused of being weak and unable to control them

there are also reports of torture and abuse against the remaining duffing loyalists and while libya's leaders say they are willing to integrate the militias into the security services jim brann from stop the war coalition says for now these are just empty words. the chair of the national transitional council that was the body that was particularly by act by night during the seven months of bombing what he said in . almost as a new message. he said libya faced the prospect either of violent suppression of the militias or as he said civil war and break up you can hear a lot of a lot of libyans saying well we didn't get rid of gadhafi in order to have this voice comes across nothing has happened they were supposed to integrate the militias into the supposed national army in the supposed national police force and

just by the very limited newspaper reports you see that very very few people have joined that you have this creation of a federation of the western militias a few days ago one hundred militias in the west of 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. alone minutes past the hour you're with are coming up in the next few minutes as helping living becomes more fashionable russia's organic farming looks to catch up with independent online shops and to challenge supermarkets apprenticing. does the afghan president talks peace with the taliban we ask what needs to be done and decades of war and term. greece is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy the future of bailed out portugal is uncertain and the single currency itself could be in trouble the ranks of people writing off the eurozone and even the european project itself are only swelling in

number so perhaps that's why the message for a united europe is being pushed on an all new platform but classroom tests are sillier reports. but what do you know about your country and the capital is a room. would. be. a spanish french. and i would be told these youngsters are attending one of the fourteen european schools that are primarily to educate children of e.u. stuff we are the only system which is able to provide education in twenty three different languages you know the more europe is united in their city and that's what we leave every day in the 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 story i'd vision of the e.u. a comment from a european commission representative at an education fair appears to support at that point we will never leave people of both the value of their new baby. not nearly enough we. think prejudice is. missing. there's now a push to export concepts from the european school model into national curriculum is a plan outlined 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 should not get involved in dictating what individual schools teach you know we don't want the european money wasted on pouring out. pouring out to you propaganda 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 why it's a good thing that the aim is more information not not. you know sort of brainwashing exercise that's not what we're told among the objectives of the european school are to encourage the european and global perspective and approach the emergence of a european identity from an early age but the question is what does it stop being education and start being a propaganda when the suggestion is being. a better europe is automatically more europe than i have a problem with that as do angry m e p's he say that targeting youngsters and their

education with a potentially one sided political view may just be a little too said mr jess are cilia r.t. brussels. later our finance guru max kind of brings you his assessment on the health of the global economy the kaiser report asks what google is trying to achieve by offering you five dollars in exchange for your search history. you see forty acres and a mule you know they give you five bucks to spy on you and i would be surprised if you have people from overseas rushing to america to get five dollars from google people in greece for people in greece five dollars twenty five dollars that's a whole six months of pay and it shows you the whole neo feudal system ok now these economies these the rich people the rich communities are those who are doing the spying who get paid to spy on you google is one of the biggest corporations in the world because they spy on you you are poor because you take whatever dregs whatever bread and circuses they trickle down to you you'll take whatever you get

you'll accept the being spied on they think of the average first says they're getting free twenty five dollars zero zero zero to three twenty five dollars never for a moment considering that the apparatus that allows them to get that twenty five dollars is disenfranchise them so horribly that the u.s. competitiveness is crashing in the standard of living is crashing there's no health care there but you got your free twenty five dollars. more for max kaiser and stacy herbert and their take on the latest financial headlines in just over an hour here on our. some other news making headlines around the globe this hour police in senegal have fired tear gas and crowds of protesters who hurled stones and set of barricades in response the demonstrations were against current president abdoulaye wade running for a third term as head of state the constitution allows for only two stretches in office but a court cleared him to run again as he took office before the term limit was put in

place at least four people have died in the protests since the on last week and last month. benedict is a. when to twenty two new cardinals at the vatican the main role of the elite club of catholic figureheads is to advise the current pope and choose his successor the ceremony has been clouded by embarrassing leaks of internal documents alleging corruption among top clerics and murder plot. the funeral of pop icon whitney houston takes place in newark new jersey later on saturday a service will be held at the church where she sang in the choir as a child started to pay their respects on friday leaving flowers and balloons on the church steps a six time grammy award winner was found dead in a bath tub at a beverly hills hotel last week. there's more land in russia than in any country in the world but people especially in big cities struggle to find fresh fun.