market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's conjure for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cons a report on r t. l oh yeah i mailed gloria ft of chemo i'm seventeen and i live in the compassionate district of st petersburg this is my entrance. hello. this is my district. football field it's my old school in my nine storey apartment block. so this is where i live.

i used to take drugs and drink like a fish i skipped school and was a real hooligan i stayed out all night and well you know. listen to me watch superstar you come here sit down and have a chat well all right guys i don't know what we can do about this scene it hasn't come together yet and full of holes please let's rehearse the final scene. down my . right action. or concept is play simple we're circus a poorly constructed and we break down stereotypes about kids from disadvantaged backgrounds. in school also the circus is a modern circus stuff by socially disadvantaged kids.

yeah just about five years. ago i did ok thank you. guys we need to buy cloths. when you to meet all the guests and think about their accommodation like everyone should be comfortable. then we should finish the staging and we heard it all it's a pity we don't have thirty six hours in a day then we have plenty of time for everything that fills. our words we're putting on the flying kids festival for the sixth time i thought we

needed an event that would stir everyone up a bit of silver star or something to make people eager to work till midnight painting the building and solving administrative problems across a festival seemed a good idea so 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 recog so you know what that is they wrote anyone they mad on the road and. join 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. last weekend here but it also has 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 they are easy going boys and girls very assertive. to teach them from scratch you first have to stab a 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 to find most of our kids in st petersburg crisis centers you know that number will get us inside our ward 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 and get him on one popcorn get to be right to. the police brought me here i played football in tennis at first then i

heard about the circus because i didn't take it seriously but came to have a look anyway until i saw kids who were really doing something so i decided to try and i really liked it even brought my sister and two friends here but it will. not be to look at the audience my life is pointless. for and sure it's fine it's fine as our play on don't ruin your own act. here problem you guys remember your places and that and hour you're 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 the phone 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 it's. own will be what's typical in street culture isn't acceptable at the xcel a 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 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 what i guess is the kids and to this room they turn into actors that he's not children anymore the professionals who play a role in the performance i always tell them they should leave their problems behind that door did some way during rehearsals we were let me 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 because it's like a kid might be banned from the next week her still 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 imagined 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 missed her stop i looked into her eyes plucked up the courage and spoke to her it's like 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 in 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. why should my more time. than that. 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 last acrobatic things. i came here for the project some assumed because we met five years ago.

you know superstitious about it and i was very impressed by the project by the children in the state and i own two or nurse and. my running to say done cameron bianco you going to your back. there was there were. those moves so to something. i've worked with a lot before but they were all like normal more than also normal there's kids here but it's 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 easier in 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. that. you know the notion that

you lose and i want to be just so on our show volunteers from germany have been coming here almost since the beginning of a long stream a 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. 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 ration is for the festival and accommodation for the guests. will be plenty of workshops and performances outside the various teams will perform inside the tent. there will be a team from france and our friends from finland and the last good team will also be here we. will be there two. days 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 we'll try well both calling us yes they are let's get to work on the let's start filming. over. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy schreck albus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been hijacked why handful of transnational

corporations they will profit by destroying what our founding fathers one school class i'm tom mark and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem. rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing america have a good job ready to join the movement then walk a little bit. when

they don't have anything to do but i often put on street performances i do it alone or call the guys and we perform together. i enjoy it people watch an environment sometimes they give money but it's not about. well i know one thing i have told him something and if god forbid anything happens to him or his family or he has financial difficulties he can go on the street with his hands and living with his act and they'll be no shame in. yes i believe everything you do comes back to you if you heard someone or did something bad it will come back to me i caused a lot of trouble i broke into apartments and stole things from people. so 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 i just stood up every time so that they could knock me down of course they didn't me and beat me badly. so everything comes back like a boomerang it's. been i think in two thousand and seven and then we have mad. sammy gemini. places and. every time we speak that we should need to

say do projects together. i meant don't sell a circus in london seven years ago and this is the sixth time i'm at the festival here in st petersburg and. can. keep. the biggest difference between cell service and 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 of social service in general it's more like the circus being taken in to. come to god and so

different institutions but here it's different when children come here and they become like a family so in that way it's very different. because they asked want to leave you gave when i look at the audience i think the old look so nice so much to get them up to me i think about twenty percent of them have no idea what the oakleigh circus was so it's a yellow applies to almost every performance by explaining what kind of circus we are before the performance tomorrow i'll do the same in the us goes with. the horse also the thing about us today i don't know i don't doubt for a home i did not for any of the plays let's just to sit up on the roof and say you think. you feel sorry for. a really long.

i'm going to go back to germany in africa waits and it's already like so close and i would really love to stay near them with a long. because i really got so long the kids and. people. when they were kid i would teach children. it's only for training and then they go home after training day stained suitcase and so i speak with them i play with them i'm much closer to a better. way they've been to me. yeah it's quite far away from the sick and that's what yeah annoys me the markets and i have such a long way to the six to the city center. billy's come here every day. every hour three police cars go around the block and pick up

drug addicts. that's. the way in terms of drug trafficking. people here killed here you can't go outside after ten without a knife or a gun and i've got my friends so i'm not worried. ok i think after the army all move away to sochi maybe with i'm sort of on the water i'll have a rest then come back earn some money and go to europe for a good bit of open to new york that's where you would hope and i just need to serve in the army and everything will work out fine i'm sure of it. show you a trick. used by shop these guys already have some experienced users but the circus world introduces them to completely different experiences and values and they're tearing them apart. well today kids have had

a taste of success. they've come to grips with their own body see a player who is that machine they have the 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 they have to make a choice they want can you go and they can either go out with this experience and these muscles and become fugs 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 to. say. good luck to everyone. so what do you wish me nothing what do you wish for and so would i should love. what do you wish me this lack of love yes indeed luck is what i believe.

humoring once in winter in a small bookshop i run across postcards by alexander it's. a look through them and so something gentle kind of open to everyone. who has a set of postcards called a walk with my nephew. my guardian but 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. even 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 still 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 an average of four months 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 a trick. your own children and teenagers need adrenaline to do all it's crucial for them if they're to face danger. and more they can find it out on the street or hear the circus the choices they're saying. thank. you. much for some of our graduates who know like cordwood have become skinheads and dogs turn into great to look 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 alexei. i was at the festival. do you know how much you missed because that

has it what didn't you come. to z's alexei. my mom's at work and dad's asleep is just back from work and minds. you can see that i that i really enjoyed the festival which. it was magic and for me it was much more than just a festival which. all in all it was cool.

yes i was a new alert animation scripts scare me a little bit. you know there is breaking news tonight and we are continuing to follow the breaking news a new. alexander's family cry tears of joy and a great things out there that has bred dark and a quart of water on the ground alive is a story made for the movies playing out in real life. i know c.n.n. the amazon b c news have taken some slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's closer to the truth of the might think. it's because one whole attention in the

mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on you look. at our team news we have a different press. because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not like dammit i'm not ok. you guys stick to the jokes i will hand over the stuff that i've got to.

i suspect. over my shoulder doing the job did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioning the constitution. that's because a free and open prize is critical to our democracy right call. them again i'm sorry and on this show we would be a live picture of what's actually going to go into the world simply go beyond identifying the problem to try to fix rational debate a real discussion critical issues facing america have a number of them ready to join the movement and then welcome the third. along charbonneau washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big.