theatre crosses rock and roll 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 syrup is just in the room 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 bust i think it's going to it's about affect you debt he brought mcdonald's to music you know you did in the head now was one of the one of the first guy so you got to get amber going to remember going to keys to even then i will if i were you i would want 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 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 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 in 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 so you're in it 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 me a little he does nothing but he pushes his son which is interesting 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 this show me and here he was and i watched the show well well well i think you have to quit you know you're just going to have the right guy. you keep something there all the time that's what fathers are going to do that you're under saddam. because because he what he's doing on his own he's skiing and playing

tennis and he does both better than me already has and 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 our 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. move the perception of moscow as a as an economic tourist location isn't to us ok so there's lots of things to do so you're trying to market. this 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 cyber. that you're

creating is it is a lot different from the canadian citizen because it's abramovich is 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 and 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 with lots of that are being celebrated as we speak out right. to 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 running the next go but it would you be looking at it and 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 to examine somewhere to put it it's not going to be a tent and won't be a tent ok well how difficult a year to today to make because you know you have experience doing business. in the soviet union yes 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 that 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 the language at least. but you do have a home in london so so i go to. 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 dressed as if not assume this is the office and this is the other night 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 there's good but many people many people out. 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 unpredictable and i really mean what's predictable is the u.s. predictable is france predictable is the u.k. predictable of the nice yes exactly so there's a lot more to go if i only predict nothing is predictable and actually if you're going 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. 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 here yes because lunch is a must go on 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 place of business last question i should ask it i've heard of a special program served 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 know how you know it may 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 being with us this year give us a 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 the 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 it's me this time just drop me a line alderman i pad out here are you and that's can spot light interact we will be back with more faith and common fun what's going on down side brush up until then stay on our team and take care thank you.

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

us. all roads lead to tehran 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 russian minority the baltic states votes on whether the language spoken by a third of its population should official status. and the idea of euro unity hold strong despite the region's crumbling finances. schools accused of brainwashing children to believe the project is infallible top stories.

international news and comment live from moscow this is. where the crisis locked damascus feeling the squeeze from within the country and abroad its crucial ally in the region is also suffering the strain and experts warn that the collapse of the syrian regime would be a devastating blow to iran making iran extremely isolated and compelled to act on 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's 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 the 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 how sad and replacing it with the opposition because you've already said they did talk to nancy tehran and foreign policy for life thank you korea iran is the 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 iran's influence in the region could weigh in all cornered in 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 even 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 but the possibility of a conflict between major western powers and iran becoming a conflict between the world's major powers is almost a rising 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. r.t. london. the e.u. states are calling for creating humanitarian corridors in syria which some fear could open the door to foreign intervention but asia times correspondent pepe escobar says it's already under way. there is already a foreign military intervention going on don't forget that nato they have a command and control center in her type province so than turkey so very close to the thirty syrian border this is a conduit for intelligence going back and forth across borders weapons of course and these weapons are financed basically by to go cooperation else especially the saudis but specially the qataris were actively involved with intelligence as well and with more on its arse and trainers on the ground plus they have another conduit

through the lebanese border the syrian national council for instance they are supported directly by nicholas such goes in david cameron by the turkish government and by the qataris and there's also the free syrian army which even that i would see by analysts in europe see that it's not really any it's not an army it's a bunch of the realist infiltrated by people feel. that we've salafi jihadists so the foreign interference is already there now this is a super shadow war build with the civil war which the only people who will lose in all this are this so-called syrian people that once in a while our muster pieces of the democracy or mediocrities like coming on suckers you refer to. asia times correspondent pascoe by talking to us from bangkok that.

latvia 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 an ex he had to shift the reports this referendum is just the first step to ending decades long discrimination. the lady 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 in latin 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 vote is against our constitution which says life is a man a national state and always be it it splits our society which has to have one solid foundation if you are not to it to be like russia has been lying going to russia that 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 people will do for regaining independence because. more. in the huge bulk of people who know aliens also voted for in amendment and afterwards. and it's a fraud it's a problem. it's a problem of mutual trust it's a problem of relations between the state and the minorities 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 give the human rights suspect of stateless children being born in latvia. clear norms in the convention on the rights of the child 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 i think 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 a lot of years russians are contemplating another vote to introduce changes into the citizenship law that is to abolish the so-called allien passports and grant citizenship to those who are living without 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 reporting from riga in latvia. if he were that he would live here in moscow with you twenty four hours a day still to come in the next few minutes as healthy living becomes more fashionable russia's organic farming looks to cash in independent shops aiming to challenge supermarkets supremacies. chinese people are very dangerous why

what is me do you think have you ever been personally threatened by a chinese parent that you know so why do you feel that way. they know full well moscow and beijing is voices grew louder in the international arena we also people on the streets of new york if there is good reason to fear the two countries. but first greece is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy the future of 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 a number so perhaps that's why the message for a united europe is being pushed on an all new platform the classroom. has this report. but what do you know about your country and the capital is aroma. with. the.

spanish french and english. these youngsters are attending one of the fourteen european schools set up primarily to educate children of e.u. stuff the only system which able to provide education in twenty three different languages you know the more europe is united in our city and that's what we believe 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 par for a nail year 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 at that point anything that will succeed with the flow of new members here you know early enough when you're young. you're right this is.

what there's now a push to export concepts from the european school model international curriculums 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 how this thing work why we have the european union why it's

a good thing the aim is more information not not. propaganda sort of brainwashing exercise that's not what we're told among the objectives of the european school are to encourage 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 then 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 sinister just are cilia r.t. brussels. there were flags fireworks and scenes of jubilation on the streets of libya as the country marked the first anniversary of the uprising that toppled colonel gadhafi but a year on it's the militia that is in charge of almost every aspect of life the national transitional council has accused of being able to control them but also

reports of torture and abuse against the remaining gadhafi loyalists libya's leaders say they're willing to integrate the militias into the security services but antiwar activist jim brown 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 join in 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. tens of thousands of people have been running across russia to support prime minister putin's political cause and his bid for presidency next month in the premier's natives in petersburg some sixty thousand people gathered in the center of the city they chanted slogans and brandished russian flags and banners in support of a number of the city's prominent citizens also addressed the crowds the demonstrators spoke out against social disorder and a revolution in the country saying they wanted a strong and stable russia the country also a source of all mass rallies against the current leadership of the last december's parliamentary elections which protesters claim with tens of thousands are expected to gather again to call for fair elections at the end of february. turned out to

update your some other news making headlines around the world this hour police in senegal a tear gas that crowds of protesters who told stones and set up barricades in response to the demonstrations war against the current president of. running for a third term as head of state 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 unrest began last month. pope benedict has appointed 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 its successor almost a quarter of cardinals are now from italy decreasing the chance that the next pope could be from another country a situation that israel's accusations of bias so many have been clouded by embarrassing leaks of internal documents alleging corruption among top clerics.

and we're now bring you live pictures from newark new jersey where friends and family are gathering to say their last goodbyes to. the funeral services being 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 the six time grammy award winner was found dead in a bathtub of beverly hills hotel last week. there's more learned in russia than in any other country in the world but people especially in big cities struggle to find fresh farm produce however the supremacy of supermarkets and big businesses could soon be over as a growing up type for gaelic products means more and more people are taking up farming but there's still a long way to go as artie's done a pretty go over reports. the feast for the eyes but not necessarily for your stomach many would be shocked to find out what exactly makes its way onto our plate number of a rebel.