right action. in our concept is pretty 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. at five so. they go 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 her role it's a pity we don't have thirty six hours in a day then we'd 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 it was worth it just to learn. 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 that they wrote anyone they mad on the role and. all that well 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. but. 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 much they are easy going boys and girls very assertive little boys were 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 the disorders. we take new students once every three years we find most of

our kids in st petersburg crisis centers. you know back now but it will get us inside and then i want 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 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 kids who were really doing something so i decided to try and i really liked it even brought my sister into friends here but that's just. not beating it was look at the audience sees my life is pointless. mourning sure it's fine it's fine as a 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 grow up 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. there's nothing more expressive. as there is facing a 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 excellent 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. 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. at the board i'm talking about drugs. i took the wrong road and i thought i could leave it just as easily for them 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 said is the kids enter this room they turn into actors he's got but 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 were when we talk about what's happening in

their lives after the rehearsal but when you're on stage you have to work well there are certain rules and penalties because it's like a kid might be banned from the next week her so 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 saw a girl and we were just looking at each other for half an hour she mr stop i looked into her eyes plucked up the courage and spoke to her so 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 i 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 things. but. i came here for the project and some assume first 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 want to learn russian language. my writing to say them came in bianco you cry me your badge and. there was there was a. postman so. i've worked with a lot before but they were all like normal kept more than also normal they are here but it's r.k. 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

and when they hear it's almost. the only time you get to know it that they react different than other kids sometimes. oh they don't want anything they really don't want to see if them to do things. that. you know the notion that english and i want to be distressed homeowners volunteers from germany have been coming here almost since the beginning of their street 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 emmy's helping with smaller kids to. we her source and. christina doesn't only help with classes but with 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 team that from france and our friends from finland and the most 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 yes well try well. yes they are let's get to work on the let's start filming.

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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 to go. i enjoy it. and sometimes they give money but it's not about. well i know one thing i have taught 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 on

a living with his act and they'll be no shame in. yes i believe everything you do comes back to you if you hurt someone or did something bad it will come back to me it will cost a lot of trouble i broke into apartments and stole things from people. i was once going home from school when a guy approached me and ordered me to give him my phone when 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 met. many. many. different places and. every time we speak that we should 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. 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 budget and social circles in general it's more like a 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. than our day as what to do when i look at the audience i think the old look so nice so much to give them a bit of me i think about twenty percent of them have no idea what to open a circus was sold to yell applies to almost every performance by explaining what kind of circus we are before the performance tomorrow i'll do the same for the ones goes with.

the horse also the thing about this today i don't know i don't know it from home i did not from any of the plays it's just to set up on the road so you think. you feel sort of free i really love. i'm going to go back to jim and meet him a free weights and it's already like so close and i would really love to stay near them. long because i really got so long i can't stand. people. when they were killed 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. of. 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 is on move away to sochi maybe with i'm sort of on the road i'll have a rest then come back earn some money and go to europe for a good bit of what did you we're here with open arms i just need to serve in the army and everything will work out fine i'm sure of it. show you

a trick. used 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 c. ock that machine they have the energy and well developed muscles now so if they suddenly realize that they are strong and can use the strength on the street. it was this machine 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. i'll tell you one thing i'm very scared whatever you may think i'm not actually very scared are you scared. and that's a good luck to everyone. so what do you wish me nothing says what do you wish for and so what they should love. what do you wish me good luck with your love yes indeed luck is what i need.

yeah the morning once in winter in a small bookshop i run across postcards by alexander it's. a look through them and so something gentle kind open to everyone. is a set of post-cards codes i woke up 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 smaller than 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 and everywhere for 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 it in your own children and teenagers need adrenaline to do all it's crucial for them if they're to face danger. all more they can find it out on the street or hear the circus the choices they're saying. thank.

you lest some of our graduates who know like cordwood have become skinheads and dogs will turn into great to look people eager to think and develop and make up most of the 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's asleep alexei. i was at the festival. do you know how much you missed because they. didn't you come. my mums at work and dad's asleep is just back from work and minds. you can see that i that i really enjoyed the festival. it was magic and for me it was much more than just a festival which. all in all 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 callet bank on which there was a deposit of plutonium left by security test which caused the dispersion of radium you clyde's 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 meters down. tests a never ending legacy. largest consumer of the season i see it with me in the country is the federal government to simply say this property of the united states government. is the united states' privilege and it was going public has to realize you can't just buy. your own just throw it away this is a problem for instance belongs to the united states environmental protection agency and i found this on a dump site here this here is not a waste of the. producers of these and that's what i think should be able to collect these i believe that vision responsible for the products from cradle to

grave. fatal to mexico department of mental health property all sucked american corporate all but also belongs to the washington metro area transit authority properties of a dentist aids pay trend and trademark office. why is the price of gold so high demand global demand do you think oldest money. know the value of the only place we have to live of the water that we need to survive it's not compared to i mean gold we're not going to eat gold we're not going to bait with gold. we're not going to drink up what clearly is and is in a desperate economic situation absolutely right what we're wrong to do is say therefore any kind of economic development from the outside is going to be

a benefit their only purpose is to extract as much money as possible to feed into the global financial system. with me or a part of the geo political economic system that's extremely or split to do. first of all is a question whether mining should even be carried out altogether can it be done in a way which doesn't destroy people's lives resources environment and so on you know those are pretty serious questions mining is not a what a moment problem it's happening in asia in africa and south america in central america in mexico and it's even happening in kenya not in the united states.

an e.u. commissioner tweeted integration talks with ukraine have been put on hold and kiev wants official confirmation of this and there are still thousands of pro and anti-government protesters on the streets of the ukrainian capital. the american people would want to react. toward the people of ukraine. u.s. senator john mccain joining other american and the politicians who are putting their full support behind the ukrainian opposition. also this week syria is shaken by another wave of atrocities with this rebel forces said to have massacred dozens of civilians in the latest in this series of attacks. on desire linda said to exit its three year long program the prime minister saying sids.