london grad because so many wealthy russians have moved to london in the last ten years and i think most of the other famous all they go but also a lot of middle class russians have moved here as well i think they like the lifestyle of. the history like the prague this is. like the schools as well so they bring the children the families. and i think that's the main reason why the brides you decided to fight me to just scrap the folk right that well this is. justice quotas otherwise known as red square people certainly russia is a big houses. down the street. and you have most houses here will cost at least fifteen. pounds sterling to buy. it's a very historic square i think most of the russian. boy here because they feel it's part of the british establishment. here in the fall of the ruling elite and that's what they like. moving to a final location at the victoria and albert museum but simply exhibition on the influential russian artistic director saying. he founded one of the most exciting don'ts companies in the twentieth century. imaginatively combine dance music and arts to cre

of the treasury very famously very good book lending proud of the oligarchs who in london yes the london grad because so many wealthy russians have moved to london for the last ten years i think most of the famous all they go but also a lot of middle class russians have moved here as well i think they like the lifestyle of. the history of. the russians like the schools as well so they bring the children the families. and i think that's the main reason why the rights to decide to fight me to scrap to go great well this is just a school which is otherwise known as red square because the russian is a big houses. down the street. down there and you have most poultices houses here will cost at least fifteen. pounds sterling to buy. it's a very historic square of most of the russian. supply here because they feel it's part of the british establishment. wants to buy a house here in the part of the ruling elite and that's really like. moving to a final location at the victoria and albert museum a temporary exhibition on the influential russian artistic director gave the angelus he founded one of

consulate section issues two hundred thousand visas for russians who want to visit london the russian embassy says it supports the russian business while in britain offering assistance wherever possible but how does the embassy help british and russian relations i think the russian culture needs no major. introduction or advertisement here. because russia is a branch of the european christian civilization and i think we share the same. values here in terror and our. perception of the good and bad. life and few will and. there is no such thing as a cultural barrier between the two nations the russian cultural heritage is extremely. popular. and whenever the russian see it or as the russian troop or is he wrong or right. it always attracts . a bigger man than a big number of friends and or didn't it's not you look back and see parties illegal drugs and the g.o.p. just said partying in bream's like this many young middle class machines live in london and that brings us to this week's guess. a little why do you think russians love london so much seven status i guess the level of the peopl

london. russian foreign minister has japan a stance on the far east and korea islands in the pacific ocean which tokyo claims as its own view was made clear during talks with the japanese foreign minister on friday moscow for islands one hundred to russia as part of a company asian agreement at the end of the second what however no formal peace deal has ever been signed between the two countries has the details. no radicalism and three conditions that's the message from russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov right after his meeting with his japanese counterpart if you. when japan adults are radical droege towards the peace treaty with russia which opens regularly and issued by the country's government it's impossible to negotiate these issues i said to mr million here and we're still ready to work on this piece treaty but with no preconditions the dispute between russia and japan over the southern crew islands has been going on for over half a century now and swears up every year during thes

it's very very famously london grad school in london. because so many wealthy russians. is. the. lifestyle of. the history of. the school. the families. and i think that's. just sad too broadly to just scrap people very well this is just a. big houses. down the street. and you have. houses here will cost at least fifteen. pounds sterling to buy. it's a very historic square i think most of the russian. boy here because they feel it's part of the british establishment. or the part of the ruling elite. like. moving to a final location at the victoria and albert museum and simply exhibition only in. until recent artistic director sergei the analyst he founded one of the most exciting dance companies of the twentieth century. douglas imaginatively combine dance music and arts to create theater his dramatic performances transforms dance reawakening interests in ballet across europe and america knowledge of the company's revolutionary ballets filtered through theatre fashion and to daily life including interior design and style all around the world. starts company was created a century

not stop them from working together it has more now from london. we have seen a series of meetings today which have really focused on the positive points in what has become a rocky relationship between russia and the u.k. and because of that a lot of what was talked about were economic ties and trade ties of course trade between russia and the u.k. amounts to around seventeen billion dollars and russia is one of the u.k.'s most important trading partners foreign minister lavrov outlined six priorities for improving the trade relationship he talked about finance he talked about working together in the nano tech sector energy efficiency of course one of these big projects coming up for us here is the end lympics corporation on olympic infrastructure strengthening the small and medium businesses in russia and also including the president environment in general they also talked a bit about modernizing communication links between london and moscow this is obviously a lover off first visit to london in this particular official capacity let's hear what he

visit to london the invitation of the government. relations based on partnership and economic cooperation between our countries on the. greens on. the british prime minister. it's an important element of our communications that's meant to take a. little she. talked about how important u.k. was it's part. of the e.u. i don't partnership but it hasn't dialogue with nato and on improving european security and william hague the british foreign secretary also underlined the importance of that relationship let him. see a patient steady improvement in relations it will take time giant leaps it is a very measured steps this welcome visit an important steady improvement in relations which we initiated on our side when the coalition government came into office. working practical relationship. issues and on global issues it is undoubtedly one of them being trained but it does seem that in the past every attempt has been made to put this relationship back on track it's been deemed railed in some way in the latest example of that is new carting t

me a little bit why do you think russians love london so much so don't stay to say. that all of the people that. they could mix here aristocracy celebrities it was different it wasn't the say that we had in russia. you know you could go to elton john ball here you can do it now probably in moscow but you couldn't do that before so people i guess were really detracted by all that and you were from magazine so i presume that you were out every single hour to different events and functions that's through a lot of what's the social scene like russians don't seem to congregate just in one place if you go to no boy if you go to if you go to new house you will hear russians russian speech so it will be glamorous places i guess for the new generation of russians who grew up around europe the most expensive places are not necessarily the best so you'll see a lot of people you know eventually now going to shoreditch hanging out in soho they prefer their friends be cool rather than wealthy or or mix both lovely well as i recently visited would like to thank you. because scene o

the treasurer very famously wrote the book london ground about the oligarchs who can run. london grad because so many wealthy russians have moved to the last ten years and i think most of the famous all they go but also a lot of. russians have moved here as well i think they like the lifestyle. and the history of. the russians like the schools as well so they bring the children the families. and i think that's the main reason why the rights you just sat you brought me to just scrap both right well this is just a school which is otherwise known as red square because the russian is a big houses. down the street. and you have most of his houses here will cost at least fifteen million pounds sterling to buy. it's a very historic square i think most of the russian. boy here because they feel it's part of the british establishment. wants to buy a house here with us. of the legal age and that's what i like. moving to our final location at the victoria and albert museum that's simply exhibition on the influential russian artistic director sergei the analyst who founded one of the

in london an entire culture has risen several in fact. becoming more noticeable one thing is for sure christians are simply making their mark on the british capital. welcome to belgrade the. one thames bus many truth said in just a few ways and you can hear the amount of russian language spoken to. make amazing things well. i don't think you can defend. itself rationing the seventh anniversary of the glamor special magazine not the steel new style the english london subpool several special language newspapers and . periodicals magazine of the times and everything to try and try to check trips to cut. prices include a focus the simplest things on your one of life's traits it might mean you're thinking about working in russia i think. it's a one. mason making sure clients said frank said yes it was going to be the one thing i love my god i'm. wrong in this well because. i buy that will. take everything out. that there might. be styles what they do they know what they want. and. they go off trail and we will work very well together. to love

london. we were hearing today the closing statements made by base the defense and the prosecution we essentially had summaries of the evidence from the prosecution and from the defense i prosecution has maintained all along and maintained again today that there's no reason why us all shouldn't go to sweden to all articles questions following the news about this payment due to nationalise came out of the court and made a short statement to the media it gives me hope that we can through this particular case. not simply draw attention. to the difficulties and the pressure. that we and other people have been under. but rather. perhaps we have an opportunity. to set a new president. about the abuses of european arrest warrant we had some quite graphic details from the defense about these alleged assaults sort of almost making light of the of these allegations as the prosecution said talking about the sexual encounters that took place with two women in august and we also heard an angry statement by

for the rest of the world will bring london will bring the rest of the world should i say to london and that's why yesterday's somewhat small but i think important announcement of the merger between the london stock exchange and. let me make it the. exchange in the world but there again there is. the fact that both. are very keen on mining stocks and i think as the world goes forward that is a very important issue today's potential announcement of acquisition by the. for the new york. that is hugely significant as it would make them the number one exchange in the world also in europe over derivative trading in equity products which makes them totally preeminence and i think. consolidation. this is the only way forward because the competition from screen based platforms and much cheaper rates commission has actually undermined and also dissolved many of the market share. and they're just beginning to understand the ramifications we need to remember that the pay. probably comes from twenty five percent of the biggest in the world the investment banks and the very large. among those tw

say tradition in london it's always been and. i just happened to coincide with christmas. but i think that it is more. to say now is saying very serious. and that she take time to do things and we need to make a decision about what they want and they collect a pretty party to the sound system event the b.b.c. get a. living aboard including artists and descendants from autistic families as well as collectors of the latest ocean chrissy's to door more than three hundred lots of russian fine art including paintings imperial porcelain jewelry and furniture which are sold for almost fifty million pounds twenty four million dollars in total but actually we're quite a. bit option that we still are in the eighteenth century right up to the present day so for example in this auction we have nineteenth century rights twentieth century right up space contemporary. one of my favorite lessons says that she this levittown which by the horses which is a fantastic probably eighteen nineteen sort of private collection here and it's really really special saying it chrissie let's meet this w

it was the best thing for london, london fashion. >> decayed effect has already been felt. her outfits for her engagement voters have sold out. the london label responsible work -- for a 385 pound a engagement dress sold out of that within 24 hours. all of this due to celebrity clients that helped presales rise by 45%. >> it was amazing for my brand because i did not have any advertising. it helps a lot. became a lot more popular. a lot more people became aware of its existence. >> if you cannot afford 400 pounds for the original engagement dress, the high street is already on the case, and what she wears is already filtering down. you are fashion editor for the "sun." >> the dress is a great imitation, and it is only 14 pounds. dresses, even jewelry having a big impact. sales are up about 30%, and they've got imitation rings, and we all want a piece of that princess style. >> those who benefit most from more loquitur, though, are the bright young things. london's best new designers on display as part of fashion week. -- those who benefit most from royal couture. >> i think

steps towards improving a rocky relationship towards developing a strong partnership i'm here in london to bring you. russia's security is back in the spotlight after fresh violence leaves five people dead in the country's troubled north caucasus region. looking for a better future but accused of bringing other people's lives in the process. of multi-culturalism. seek refuge in your. life from our studios here in central moscow this is r t with twenty four hours a day the revolution in egypt has sparked an avalanche of anti-government protests across the middle east it's a strategically vital region for the u.s. which is now trying to balance its approach to the demonstrations while pushing its own agenda middle east correspondent paula has the latest. in yemen for the foot consecutive day violence broke out between pro and anti-government demonstrators it happened a number of cities a number of people were injured and analysts have gone so far as to say that the next few weeks are critical the president abdullah abdullah saleh who has been in power for more than thirty years we witness

brings us the latest now from outside the hearing in london. sensually what we saw this morning was the judge knocking down these defense argument out of the water essentially one by one he said that our sons had not in fact made himself available for questioning whilst he was in sweden and that our soldiers swedish go ahead misled the court when he said that he had. was unco on contactable and avoided interrogation while he was in sweden he also said that the european arrest warrant had been issued for our soldiers might be disproportionate but it was valid and it was definitely issued with a view to prosecuting ourselves for these charges and he also said that certainly one of the charges that's being brought against these allegations that are being made against student ourselves for sexual assault certainly one of them would constitute rape in the u.k. and all four of them that were extraditable offense is now our source has always maintained his innocence in this case and in fact he says and his defense team say that this is politically mot

more on that reporting there from london where we can all talk to. campaigner from the organization justice for sarge she joins us now live from london as well sharon ward thanks indeed for joining us here on r.t. now we know the verdict we know that you're in the sarge is intending to appeal but how is your organization now planning to help him. well bill we're trying to do as much as we can to support him in the stange and wiki leaks and mainly but you know by trying to have as many protesters as possible all the court hearings are obviously we have a lot of hope high profile supporters like john pilger. are also a lot of other people like me who are all high profile well known people here in london who are trying to get their point across and we have a facebook campaign going and we have twitter so we're just trying to garner as much of course we possibly can going forward the reason why i've been extradited from london to sweden is because of a very serious allegation so how can you be sure of his innocence. well i don't think anyone can be sure

london is a magnet for many. centuries and now it seems that mythical fishies following suit irrespective of any new name is. fine just how much christian culture is imbedded into many. culture has arisen several in fact. becoming more noticeable one thing is machine christians are simply making their mark on the british. welcome to belgravia. on thames but many troops would just just you isn't. hey the amount of russian language spoken today. most amazing things about it well the rest. of it. you can expect. tonight is a celebration of the seventh anniversary of the glamour special magazine the steel new style the english. several special language newspapers english language periodicals magazine the times of everything to try and project trips to cut. prices included was based castings on year one of my states it basically here. to start working in russia. was a wonderful place to make sure clients said frank said show us what's happening here i think it's a wonderful thing i love my life. now. holiday yes i buy

now moscow and london will be hoping to turn a page in the fascist relations russian's foreign minister visits the british capital in france over the last few years have caused diplomatic tension but with a relatively new government there in london there is a hope for a fresh start let's cross live not on tuesday or i mean in london work for the beating or so he left off and his kind about william hague is underway hi laura so the meeting is about halfway through at this point or they could be covering a broad spectrum of subjects economic issues security issues what do you think they're talking about at the moment well that's right there's a there are a broad range of meetings throughout the day in fact today meeting with his counterpart william hague also be meeting with prime minister david cameron but at the moment he's giving a speech at the london school of economics and i understand he's taking questions as we speak he's definitely focusing on the positives i think that the aim of this visit will be to focus on the positives and they are expected to be wide ranging meetings which

there's hope for a fresh start laura reports from london where the meeting of sort of a lover often is kind of part of william hague is currently underway. the aim of this visit will be to focus on those positives and they are expected to be wide ranging meetings which cover a lot of topics among them we are expecting to see some talk about european security talk about economic and visa issues they're also going to be preparing prime minister david cameron's coming a visit to moscow they're going to be talking about russia's cooperation in the european missile defense project russia and russia nato relations oversleep also russia u.k. relations if they get round to that and the situation in the middle east and afghanistan iran's nuclear program these last two will be high points because that has always have always been areas in which russia and the u.k. and the u.s. have cooperated very well russia allows allied forces to use its transport routes in afghanistan for transporting troops and other things and russia has also led negotiations in the past on iran's nuclear ambitions which

coming up, the olympic organizers have the event scheduled for the london games in 2012. the biggest night of the year for the british music industry. >> iran's president has said the apposition protest scene in his country are going nowhere. he vowed to punish the organizers. mahmoud ahmadinejad said enemies were trying to tarnish the iranian nations brilliance. conservative members of the parliament -- to liviu members will be sentenced to death. our correspondent reports from london. >> one day after opposition demonstrators gathered its was the turn to iran to get together. they unleashed a statement blaming the opposition leader for what they mp's call an act of sedition. and number chanted god is great and debt to mousavi. more pictures of monday's protests are coming out. this appears to show a burst of teargas. protesters run away covering their faces. the u.s. government says they should be allowed to demonstrate in peace. >> it is clear iran has and a niece -- has enemies. there is a lot of animosity against the government. the protesters will not achieve their

. >> and in london, i am mike embley. welcome to "bbc world news," broadcast to our viewers on pbs in america, also around the globe. my name is mike embley. coming up later for you -- julian assange calls for his prosecutors to phase calls insemination in london. -- to face cross-examination in london. and a man who murdered his daughter because of her western lifestyle talks to the bbc in his prison cell. and south africa cracks down on the poachers who slaughtered hundreds of animals every year. >> welcome to our special coverage of the continuing anti- government unrest in egypt. in cairo, this has been a remarkable day with the biggest show of anti-mubarak peeling no on the streets of the egyptian capitol. -- anti-mubarak feeling yet on the streets of the egyptian capitol. some are joining the grounds for the first time. there have been similar scenes outside cairo in alexandria and other cities. a few people are still there, and buying be there -- and by being there, they are keeping up the pressure. all this despit

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or not to use or i mean for us live in london thank you. well still to come here on the program on our t.v. just a little bit later how the recent unrest in egypt is causing a domino effect across the middle east you can find out which countries are in the crossfire and what washington and twitter have to do with the violence. russia is taking a new measures in its fight against terrorism in the latest special operations five militants were killed in the northern caucasus region three policemen died and three were injured in the and suing gun battle. has more on this. of terrorists who are surrounded by a local law enforcement a gun battle ensued in which five militants were killed one is supposedly on the run and is being sought after as we speak in the gun battle and this of course is just the latest installment in the on go way battle against terrorism in russia specifically in the volatile caucasus region one of the a suicide blast that was a detonated in a village in the republic of the guest on that was a car that was detonated by a s

in moscow eleven pm in the russian capital and now eight pm in london where a court has ruled in favor of julian assange and his extradition but we can leaks founder is wanted for questioning in connection with sexual assault on occasions during a trip he made to sweden last summer a soldier's lawyers fear he won't receive a fair trial in sweden and risks being handed over to america on espionage charges and is currently investigating his website which was to sway the secret diplomatic wires washington wants him held responsible for leaking classified information and that brings us now the latest from the hearing in london. sensually what we saw this morning was the judge knocking down these defense arguments out of the water essentially one by one he said that assad's had not in fact made himself available for questioning whilst he was in sweden and that our soldiers swedish go ahead mr led the court when he said that he had. was unco on contactable and avoided interrogation while he was in sweden he also said that the european arrest warrant had been issued for us might be disproport

foreign policy monitoring group in london thanks indeed for joining us. shock waves from upheavals in tunisia and egypt spread all across the middle east with opposition protests sweeping through other countries in the region clashes between rival demonstrators are once again gripped yemen in what's now the eighth day of unrest and to govern activists to be using social networks to call for as many people as possible to hit the streets on friday but the model the country's president ali abdullah saleh to step down after more than thirty years in power clashes also erupted in jordan's capital amman where government demonstrators are calling for reforms and abolishing the peace treaty with israel protests turned violent in libya where dozens of people have been killed in recent days in clashes with security forces police reports have used to disperse the crowds we want to meet your people once again gathered in tahrir square to celebrate a week since hosni mubarak huge pressure on him to quit the presidency the military council which runs the country suspen