yeah just about five years. ago i did ok thank you. guys we need to buy cloths. when you two need all the guests can think about their accommodation like everyone should be comfortable. then we should finish the staging and we heard it all kicks a pity we don't have thirty six hours in a day then we have plenty of time for everything that fills. our with we're putting on the flying kids festival for the sixth time i thought we needed an event that would stir everyone up out of service or something to make people eager to work till midnight painting the building and solving administrative problems across a festival seemed a good idea well but also just the one. life

conditions were tough that life was hard because a man's life was worthless murder and violence were considered very good things have you ever heard the word. so you know what that is they wrote to anyone they mad on the road. or will that will after i had joined my school i was skipping classes for six months. i was dating a girl then and had no desire at all to study i just wanted to go out with her. so i had to repeat a year then i came here i think i'll finish this year and then try to join a circus school.

strain your legs. push with your arms. and your but it also works is made up of kids from socially disadvantaged groups of people their self-esteem is usually love and they don't have any relevant physical skills. i've almost done three because some of these guys sniff glue but they were very our child they are easy going boys and girls the very assertive little boys were to teach them from scratch you first have to start a shit report with them because if they're not willing to listen it will all be in vain to begin with one more time. your bell is sticking out. this wasn't my idea it was a berlin university student as to it sure and who brought it to st petersburg.

actually the concept behind the absolute circus was her graduation project. and the university students can go anywhere in the world to set up a project that was how the circus was created. our children come from disadvantaged backgrounds their children with various behavior problems and disorders. we take new students once every three years we find most of our kids in st petersburg crisis centers you know back nobody would get us inside and there are wards social workers bring them to us sometimes our friends call and say we know who he done and he's just what you need come in he had him on one popcorn get it right it's just minutes the police brought me here and i played football and tennis at first and then i heard about the circus because i didn't take it seriously but came to have a look anyway until i saw the kids who were really doing something so i decided to try and i really liked it even brought my sister into friends here but it will.

not be typical look at the audience sees my life is pointless. for you it's fine it's fine as our play on don't ruin your own act. see how poor you guys remember your places i've got and are you running like a little rat like a rat if you want to go back and it should be like. this girl has just turned my life upside down and you're like hey dude should we go somewhere watch alone bomb bomb bomb. and the more expressive. that you are is facing the dilemma now

i think you'll struggle with it for a couple of years he has to choose between behaviors its. own will be what's typical in street culture isn't acceptable and the circus and the other is fine for us but wouldn't be tolerated on the street he has to adopt one of them it's a difficult choice but it's important for him to make it. and it's not that i broke i think i wanted it myself. because we always choose what we identified this song i allowed myself to be weak. would be more. of a i'm talking about drugs. i took the wrong road and i thought i could leave it just as easily. go i was a fool. then i made a choice because i saw that these people really wanted to help and i was turning my

back on them it's bad. or bad about that horrid idea since the kids enter this room they turn into actors that they're not children anymore but professionals who play a role in the performance i always tell them they should leave their problems behind that door during rehearsals we work when we talk about what's happening in their lives after the rehearsal but when you're on stage you have to work there are certain rules and penalties and the. like a kid might be banned from the next week her soul as a punishment if he steals from other kids it's most likely he'll be excluded from the circus. if he starts taking drugs again and comes here while he's high then the door will be closed to him. i play a street cleaner who's in love with a waitress. in one of the scenes i imagine that my dream is the

girl i'm in love with. it was different in real life i was writing on the metro and so a girl and we were just looking at each other for half an hour she mr stop him looked into her eyes plucked up the courage and spoke to her souls we've been going out for three months now. and the circus i've gained lots of experience that i couldn't get anywhere else and never had that before. people offer you

a lot and you choose whether or not you accept it you just have to listen to older people who work with you then everything will be fine. no i should my more time. and. i really wanted to go to russia and get to know what's happening here and i really wanted to help the kids because. i really like gymnastics and circus and the los acrobatic things. i came here for the project some a surprise because we met five years ago. you know superstitious about it and i was very impressed by the progress by the children in the state and i own two or nursling. my relatives say dumb cameron. but i can see some of the rows there were. both moved so sue.

i've worked with a lot before but they were all like normal kept more than also normal their skin yeah but it's ok sometimes it's difficult but in the meantime when they're here you don't really know that they're different that they come from i don't know or difficult family is when they hear it's a little different the moment sometimes you get to know it that they react different than other kids sometimes. oh if they don't want anything they really don't want to say you can't if them to do things. a little too many lives and i. just don't want to show volunteers from germany have been coming here almost since the beginning of the stream me helpful because every time they bring a breath of fresh air and new stories the stories often they take on

a lot of responsibilities to me it's just. now we have two volunteers christina and evelyn and he's helping with smaller kids. during rehearsals. christina doesn't only help with classes but with oracle ration is for the festival and accommodation for the guests. will be playing the workshops and performances outside the various teams will perform inside the tent. there will be a tunnel from france and our friends from finland and the last good team will also be here we. will be there to be today will be very busy. we're getting ready for the festival look we have cool new t. shirts let's go to the tent now. are you taking pictures let me see so are you afraid. just a little of course to. take down with the event yes well try well.

yes they are let's get to work let's start filming. i think all things considered the criticism of mandela. on the part of many to sit around and franchise algorithms is that a lot of the problems the germy was talking about have not gone away income inequality has increased. racial segregation is not the law but it is the facto president would mandela deny this i rather suspect that he would not that's a very sensitive issue i have noticed that western mainstream media absolutely doesn't want to talk about that but that is an issue in post apartheid south that i think is great legacy is not so much on the economy because as we've been saying this to the last to be there and in some respects it's even worse but at the end of

the one nine hundred eighty s. when apartheid was at its very worst very few people ever thought they could be a peaceful transition and i think what he has done. at the expense of the economy perhaps was that he has brought about a degree of reconciliation and i think that is his great contribution to south africa. right. first. and i think you're. on our reporters. on.

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when i don't have anything to do i often put on street performances i do it alone or call the guys and we perform together. people watch an environment and sometimes they did money but it's not about. the no one thing i have told him something and if god forbid anything happens to him or his family or he has financial difficulties here he can go on the street with his acts and living with his act and there'll be no shame in that but it's there. yes i believe everything you do comes back to you if you heard some one hundred. it will come back to me i caused

a lot of trouble i broke into apartments and stole things from people oh. yeah i was once going home from school when a guy approached me and ordered me to give him my phone i refused and he hit me in the face hit him back and we started fighting then two of his friends joined the fight and i just stood up every time so that they could knock me down of course they didn't beat me badly. so everything comes. it's. done i think in two thousand and seven and then we have seen.

sammy gemini i know in different places and. every time we speak that yes we should meet we should do projects together. i meant don't solicit this in london seven years ago and this is the sixth time i'm at the festival in st petersburg. because difference between us. they're just on the ones that i know in europe is

the fact that they have a very tight group it's small and they're very committed to the project the social circles in general it's more like a circus being taken in to. kindergarten. to different institutions but here it's different and the children come here and they become like a family so in that way it's very different. because they ask what to do when you gave when i look at the audience i think the old look so nice so much to give them up to me i think about twenty percent of them have no idea what the okla circus was for a whole to yell if i stood almost every performance by explaining what kind of circus we are before the performance tomorrow i'll do the same pretty much goes with. the horse also think about us today i don't know i don't doubt for a home i did not for any other place it's just to sit up on the roof and say you.

just like and you feel so free and i really love mom. i'm going to go back to jim and meet him after he wakes and it's already like so close and i would really love to stay near them longer because i really got so long with the kids and the. people. with my work and i would teach children. yes it's only for training in the new go home after training day stained sucrose and so i speak with them i play with them i'm much closer to them. way in the van to me. yeah it's quite far away from the sick and that's one of them here in noise made the mars the next. and such a long way to the six to the city center.

police come here every day. every hour three police cars go around the block and pick up drug addicts. the way in terms of drug trafficking. people get killed here you can't go outside after ten without a knife or a gun but i've got my friends so i'm not worried. i think after the army moves away to sochi maybe within sort of i'll have a rest then come back earn some money and go to europe for a good bit of what. i just need to serve in the army and everything will work out fine i'm sure of it. show you a trick. these guys already have some experience

but the circus world introduces them to completely different experiences and values and they're tearing them apart. what the kids have had a taste of success. they've come to grips with their own body see a way to establishing a band of energy and well developed muscles now. suddenly realize that they are strong and can use the strength on the street so. it was this mission that's that's what triggers an internal conflict in you which is getting through it is really difficult for them to use it you may have to make a choice they want can you go and they can either go out with this experience and these muscles and become funds in the street or develop themselves as artists which .

this is my audience you know i'll tell you one thing i'm very scared whatever you may think i'm actually very scared are you scared. and that's a good luck to everyone. so what do you wish me luck think so what do you wish they should love. do you wish me good luck with luck yes indeed luck is what i.

good morning once in winter in a small bookshop i run across postcards by alexander. a look through them and saw something gentle kind open to everyone. who is a set of postcards called a walk with my nephew. my guy and i instantly decided that i would adapt it into an interesting absoute little story consisting of several episodes human. thought that i was looking at the nephew thinking it will like get such a boy no one in the group will match it to be a very strange character and that's when he started working with a group of special kids something i came to our classes mostly children with down syndrome. and one day the door opened and in came anton that was two years

ago and he was even small then he's now national he wore a cute cap with ears like a bears and i think glasses show is the final piece of the puzzle. oh oh. i don't like to write on the star so i could see he would develop it's the most important thing for us at the moment but it's even more important than school. he spends nights and days here he knows every character has lines in every will promise and practices at home every day.

right here my heart misses a beat when they discover they can actually do something when they've just learned a difficult trick and try to perform at. their own children and teenagers need adrenaline to do all it's crucial for them if they're to face danger possible. and more they can find it out on the street or hear the circus the choice is theirs. thanks. much but some of our graduates who and all i could would have become skinheads of

dogs turn into regular people eager to think and develop and make up most of what some of our kids choose a different destiny is incredibly important to me to want to meet or. thank. you. hello i'm on my way back from the festival that just ended. i'm going into my apartment. ted to sleep

a lick say. i was at the festival. do you know how much you missed because they. didn't you come. this is alexei. my mum's at work and dad's asleep is just back from work right. you can see that i that i really enjoyed the festival because. it was magic and for me it was much more than just a festival. oh no it was cool.

they look like bounty islands where the local can enjoy the sun and the ocean. but what was buried here years ago. means these people are suffering the consequences. how much more poison lies on the ground. behind this zone there is what we call the collette bank on which there is a deposit of plutonium left by security test which caused the dispersion of radio nuclides despite previous cleaning efforts there remains a deposit of a little less than two kilos of plutonium stuck in the rock and the coral reef about ten metres down. a never ending legacy.

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