russian cossacks are here again marching towards paris. really but it comes from a family of cossacks and he's learned to sing the old version of the. when his horse became lingering the journey vassily had to trail behind the procession he still believes the question of who won the battle is relevant. but you would say the battle ended in a draw but it was an honorable droll there's no doubt the french emerged victorious they did over ride the battlefield and whoever sees the battlefield was the victor but even if it was a victory it was a costly one. to ensure that good morning well over. at least for. the excitement and grandeur of paris has still a long way in the future for the cause like so just beginning to get ready for the journey. and it all started here exactly one year ago. hats on. bacilli is making ready to ride his horse is called. good boy come over here for a ride. a horse is just like a member of the family they often joke at the horses are even more dead than their wives and children. need to talk to him all the time you

the excitement of paris is still a long way in the future. just beginning to get ready for the journey. and it all started here exactly one year ago. hats on. bacilli is making ready to ride his horse is called. good boy come over here for a ride now. just like a member of the family they often joke at the horses are even more dead than their wives and children. need to talk to him all the time you see he's just like a toddler he sees the world the same way. from all over the area have come to take part in the journey none of them has their own horse they haven't even seen their purebred until now. but still tamed only a short while ago refused even to allow anyone to enter his stable. his head greatest concern is to keep his head out of harm's way if he lets me do that means he likes and trusts me. with two separate. leading up to the continental journey consisted of nothing but intense training under the cossacks used to stay in summer camps to learn riding tricks and how to shoot. on horseback. don't. sit up straight carry yourself better.

to reenact an epic parade through paris. come a complete triumph. with people's admiration for two hundred.

the before and now here i am in paris it's fantastic a dream come true. and right next to the eiffel tower the cossacks met a few russian speaking french months one full five minutes and. of course adopted many french practices off their return to russia in eight hundred fourteen women spill two point fitting blouses to triumph launches were built in the cossack town of no bitch a cask that stole shaped streets were laid out in the paris model one of the how mitts was even the powers. yes. of. course x. will be cossacks on the eiffel tower all anywhere else once kosek start to sing as just no stopping the. earth oh it's awful over your head at that up things up looking like i think that you're shit out. the journey has come to an end alexei never said seth green is his horse for the last time before setting off home. let me have your leg but you need to brush you easy now bubble that good boy. the noble beasts will with holes boxes. will travel with those by coach he's in high spirits because he won't be homesick for much longer but his joy is monitored b

such a long way to paris it might be difficult to travel on horseback there. on the fifteenth day of the journey the cossacks have made it to poland in two weeks they've covered the same distance as russian troops did during this two month long pursuit of napoleon. in december eight hundred twelve napoleon into the russia with a fifty thousand strong elite but he left with only fifteen hundred. frostbitten troops. was now a foregone conclusion. is more than a cossack he's also a historian and writer his latest book will tell the story of this journey is keeping a diary. is a once in a lifetime chance i couldn't turn it down. you know the love. you know your dog. will be enough the french one nearly every battle but as the russian army increased in number it was quite apparent that the french would win by the time napoleon was retreating to poland has only had almost run out of artillery provisions and even forces. buzz off it's mine you've got yours finish it you i like vassileva rennick i like saying of a sense of does not hail from the dawn area even though

in paris, i could see what was chic in what was not. one time i was working and was arriving at an industry job, and i was wearing boots. they looked at me and said, [unintelligible] as a reproach. i thought, ha ha, very funny. [laughter] but it was beautiful, which can be true but it can be awful, too, a beige. it is not because it is beige, but it could be the absolute beauty, no. it depends how it is done, how it is made, how it looks like. so i was like, let's say, killing the french fashion. i should say france in general. so absolute. it has to be like that. things that i did not feel like. i think it's time i was going, i felt really in love with london. i felt more freedom. when i was going there, it gave me -- [unintelligible] sending like, yes, go on to do the things you feel are good. because it is very conservative in paris. >> only you had come to san francisco. >> yes. >> i can only imagine what you would have produced. [applause] >> that is true. >> here is this good little boy who is be heading classically and is very ch

they entered paris on june 16, i think. the government in paris led to the south.they were practically in a different city every day. and churchill hoped and pleaded with the french to continue fighting. both countries have pledged, one to another, that they would not drop out of the war and make a separate peace, unless they were released from this pledge by the other. the french began to think that they would want to make a separate peace, and they began to talk to the british about this. churchill said no, we can't release you from that pledge. we want you to keep fighting all the way down to the mediterranean, if you have to. and if you have to across the mediterranean, keep fighting from north africa. and a big part of the reason was that the french fleet was a very, very large fleet. many battleships to it was the fourth largest navy in the world. and churchill was very worried that if france was conquered, then hitler would see these the french fleet. and the arithmetic was if you put the german fleet, which was considerable. they had the bismarck coming alo

for shopping, head to the madison avenue of paris.hen grab your walking shoes and head to the champs-elysees. it's a great way to work off a meal. speaking of food, don't forget to buy a real baguette sandwich or a crepe on the street. soon, you'll feel like a native. cnn, paris. try running four.ning a restaurant is hard, fortunately we've got ink. it gives us 5x the rewards on our internet, phone charges and cable, plus at office supply stores. rewards we put right back into our business. this is the only thing we've ever wanted to do and ink helps us do it. make your mark with ink from chase. gives you a low $18.50 monthly plan premium... and select generic hypertension drugs available for only a penny... so you can focus on what really matters. call humana at 1-800-808-4003. >>> we want to continue our conversation we started before the break with lawrence krauss, a theoretical physicist. we're talking about ice being found on mercury. glad you're back with us. according to nasa, there could be as much as 1 million metric tons of

one million euros worth of holiday spirit paris shines bright with festive lights while millions of french people battling poverty are left in the dark across the cross country. from putin's return to the kremlin to bursts of public dissent a look at how the changes on russia's political scene in twenty twelve will be remembered by those who covered them here in r.t. . twenty four hours a day you're watching our. the international peace envoy for syria says there are only two directions for the conflict a political process all hell and russia's foreign minister at a meeting with me in moscow said the syrian opposition is refusal to talk with the government only paves the way for further bloodshed but. the spin off has been following the talks for us now so what exactly do circular of and. see as a solution to serious crisis and what's the main stumbling block. of the main stumbling block at the moment is that neither side of this conflict is the willing to compromise the rebels say that our side has to go i thought himself says he's not going anywhere he's protecting his country moscow say

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seems to have taken place in paris. >> you say in the book what was i if not part of a couple.nger part of mrs. richard holbrooke. >> i don't think i would have discovered really who i am and my strength if i can say that if i had just sailed through life as mrs. holbrooke. >> kati, what do you hope readers will get from this book? >> that there is life after loss. here's the lesson. live every day and please be sure to tell the people that you love that you love them because you really can't count on anything and that shouldn't make us uneasy. it should make us embrace life fully as i now try to do. >> in the book, marton also writes quite a bit about her first husband and the father of her two children peter jennings and their tempestuous relationship they had. she talks about her struggles including her infidelities. >> i saw a piece of kati and nelson mandela in there as well. >> we know nelson has gone to hospital apparently for routine testing but she tells a glorious story. she was with mandela who she calls the greatest statesman in the world when clinton was going thro

so how many hours a day would you be studying mime in paris? you find that funny, don't you? >> jimmy: i don't know why. >> i don't either. where else would you study mime? >> jimmy: you learn it all in two weeks, it's like, okay, number one, be quiet. number two, you got to put white stuff on your face. >> no, see, you're all wrong right away. >> jimmy: am i really? no white stuff on the face? >> no, no. >> jimmy: what kind of mime was this? >> well, i'll tell you, it was -- okay, i mean i can give you an obscure reference, but you know film, right? >> jimmy: barely. i know "king kong." that for me is the top of the heap. >> then you're not going to get this reference. >> jimmy: maybe there will be one person in the audience who gets it. >> okay, i studied with the man who developed this technique with another great artist by the name of jean-louis barrault. do you know him? >> jimmy: oh, yes. >> they did a film called "children of paradise," which was a classic french film. >> jimmy: okay. >> and that if you look at that, you'll get an idea o

plus the pricey paris christmas lights why are the crowds but for millions of french in poverty there are dark days ahead. hello good to have you company you're watching our live from moscow with me andrey farm. now looking to rejuvenate the un's peace plan for syria international envoy lakhdar brahimi is holding talks with russian foreign minister sergei lavrov in moscow the push for a truce comes as the war reaches fever pitch with terrorist attacks and street battles taking a heavy toll on the syrian people r.t. . has the story. while they are breaking news coming to moscow after meeting with president assad earlier this week in damascus very little details have been released about its outcome but brought himself has been saying that he had a positive feeling and good things were happening there was speculation that they were discussing a peaceful transition of power involving the creation of a transitional government which could include both sides on the guards looked with the u.n. backed peace plan or russia's chief diplomat or also earlier this week met with senior syrian diplom

but next russian cossacks reenact their historic march towards paris during the napoleonic wars. well for the. science technology innovation called the list of melons from around russia we've got the future covered. parents versus social workers docu napping laptop claiming that kidnapping children have become prizes to fight full why does the law threaten families the social for it to see in the form of the right of local minimal faith in what they have any kind of suspicion about the well being of the of your children are often a just better at bringing up kids than their own mom and dad. from what we have an industry that is so. concentrated on the other for trade children. and lines of three arms length apart for word march. on an ordinary autumn morning in the provincial french town of montrose life is taking its usual laid back course but today the townsfolk are in for a surprise russian cossack troops from the napoleonic wars have returned it's a great day. the likes of these men have not been seen here for the past two hundred yes it's almost as though a full parade has t

thus the pricey paris christmas lights while the crowds for millions of french in poverty there are dark days ahead. from moscow twenty four hours a day this is. the situation in syria will only deteriorate unless a peace process is pursued by all sides say both the international envoy brahimi and the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov after meeting in moscow where the two pointed out the geneva agreement earlier this year only suitable platform for a long and difficult journey to peace going off is following developments for us now you go what was the main message that. well both the international envoy on syria and russia's foreign minister were very united in the idea that there could be only a diplomatic solution to the conflict in syria without any foreign military intervention and based on the agreements reached by world powers in geneva last summer was basically called both sides to simultaneously and immediately put their weapons down and start a political process actually according to brahimi syria has only two alternatives either a syrian led political process or hell. what

analysts say if i go to you first in paris if there is a hierarchy of events or ideas of the year that's about to end what would they be for you. well it's got to be the presidential election for us because that was really sort of the great thing marking the. political year and the fact that because you were sent home by the voters so i would say that's the biggest thing this year john how about you but what's because i was going to say to you do you think two thousand and twelve droned along. did go along for a lot of unfortunate people in pakistan and yemen and elsewhere they're not too happy with the u.s. drone program there but i think probably you know my realm is foreign policy and i think unfortunately syria has been the headliner in two thousand and twelve it's been getting much much worse and you know impending doom all the way a lot along one thing that was probably beneficial is that i think this year iran was a lot less. on the front burner is than last year last year was was a lot more teetering on the edge of possible war in the sure sort of calmed down so that was at least

to reenact an epic parade through paris. can make complete. with people's admiration for two hundred. all oh oh. oh. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard welcome to the big picture. welcome back to our weekly news review. the newly elected to kuwaiti parliament has been called into question the shiite minority grabbed the biggest type of seats but the opposition boycotted the bought it the ruling one of his decision to amend the voting rules you see tough enough reports. polls are closed doors olds are in but the battle over kuwait's political future has only just begun as expected the new parliament is largely consisting of folks who are considered to be closely allied with the ruling power but that is because the opposition didn't front any candidates in a boycott of the vote they've even questioned the outcome before the last ballot was ca

to reenact an epic parade through paris. can they complete triumph. with people's admiration for two hundred. zero. zero. zero. to fourteen in the morning here in moscow glad to have you with us. some footage has emerged apparently showing syrian rebels executing loyalists while their victims that pleaded for their lives now quick warning some of the images you're about to see are. quite graphic one of the gunmen is heard referencing an al-qaeda linked group behind several terrorist attacks in the country this comes as the opposition fighters claim new advances in their drive towards the capital damascus in the meantime authorities say they have restored all internet and phone services after a two day nationwide communications blackout news analyst patrick henningsen says the information blockade benefits those backing the rebel militias we have a massive problem again with syria and we've had this problem from the beginning which is the skewing of information coming out of the country the syrian observatory for human rights who is responsible for a l

paris, december 1866. homer arrived for an extended visit and to see prisoners from the front and another of his civil war paintings that had been selected for showing at the universal exsition. enjoying the celrity of an artist whose work was well-received, he made the trip profit drawing parisian enes for harper's. homer must have been intrigued by the changes underway in french art and by what he saw in the galleries. with friends, he made several excursions into the countryside near paris, where he developed an eye for the light that would soon appear in his own paintings. after 11 months, he was ready to return to america. he had gone to france as an illustrator, but he came home determined to be an artist. through his friends, homer was probably also introduced to the work of barbizon painters and other contemporary french artists, such as manet, whose work, in all likelihood, homer would have sought out while in paris. after his return from france, homer's subjects and the style of his work make cle

can take that person ok so all right let's we're going to arrange it only as we're going to go in paris she hasn't said a word on the program yet rachel jump in. you know it appears that there's some ignorance here with respect to self defense technology that currently exists i walk around here in paris and i and i have a very very sane high tech very effective method of self defense and here it is right here and this is a. device that allows me to deploy a capsaicin gel at a distance of about thirteen feet with airbag technology at one hundred eighty kilometers an hour with a diameter of about two feet and if so if i wanted to incapacitate somebody who was threatening me in any in any way this would do the trick and it's thirty nine euro and you can buy it you know it's it's legal you can walk into a store that sells these and here in france and buy them and it's made in switzerland and this is i would argue just as effective as a gun and the benefit is that when you pull this out on somebody who happens to have a gun they're not going to see it as a gun the first question is going to

a dream of the elegance of paris. and i remember that i propose -- it was the last new bid of coutoure that arrived. i thought to propose -- [unintelligible] why don't you take one designer like vivian westwood or others to make one season, one coutoure collection? >> you should call some up immediately and suggest the deal. >> [laughs] that is true. each one to make their own collection should not be back. a very attractive idea. >> as you do not want to talk about art, we will not say your work is art. let's be very vulgar and talk about money. [laughter] it is extraordinary what you have produced in coutoure. does that make any money? quick to be honest, what we produce in coutoure does not make money but it does include money. i must say, i am very proud of that. when i started to do coutoure, after a lot of stories that may be issued do another job, i said, ok, i will do my own collection. i started and never stopped after. on boat one, one woman, done all in lace in the exhibition. it starts like, ok, i did not

after that, it will be returned to the main holdings in paris. among the first visitors are a former state railways employee and his wife. now they don't have to make an extra trip to paris just to see a rembrandt. >> everything is wonderful. all the paintings and with it are displayed -- and the way they are displayed. >> it is great. i never thought it would be like this. it is unique. >> for people here, going to museums is not something that is part of everyday life. we want to change that. we want to show them how a museum can be. we want them to come back again. and we think we are succeeding. >> organizers hope works like this one by leonardo da vinci will also help attract tourists, who might not otherwise be inclined to venture to the region. those who, are allowed to get close to the art, much to visitors -- those who come are allowed to get close to the art, much to visitors' delight. >> it is so beautiful. and that they hope that war will spread and bring more people -- >> they hope that word will spread and bring more people to lens.

he met pablo picasso in paris. the ideas underpinning works like picasso's figure carrying a stone began to filter into moore's sensibility, emerging as the four-piece composition. alberto giacometti was also an influence. the swiss sculptor was exploring an abstract style - part biology, part geometry - in works like woman. moore responded with a carved, abstracted head. he continued to explore surrealism and its exploration of what lay beyond the boundaries of logic and reason. moore joined the loose association of british artists who were influenced by surrealism. he showed works in the international surrealist exhibition of 1936 in london. but he was not quite a card-carrying surrealist. henry moore took from the continental avant-garde of his day whatever he liked the look of, and he played with it visually and turned it around to his own ends. in the '20s and '30s, he is at the experimental learning phase of his career. he is a major artist all his life - so even when he's learning, he produces major work. bu