when the mogels came from persia to north india they saw the story telling and thought it was a beautiful art form. they were not engaged with the story but saw the beauty in the footwork and hand movement. they brought the dancers into their courts. they were a form of entertainment. so, i want you to put your imagination caps on. we will go from the forest into a beautiful mogel palace. there are velvet carpets and peacocks walking around. there are beautiful paintings and everyone all of you, the audience have come to enjoy the court and the king sits on his thrown in the corner twirling his mustache and he called for his dancers and they come to the room. you are here to be entertained by them. this is called taught. taught is a highly stylized tuning of the mind and body together. you will see very fast turns ending in sharp stances and things with our eyes and eye brows and our neck, our hands. and you will also hear a language, which you might have heard. this is the language of our dance. it tells us what to do with our feet and our bodies and there is a lot of mask going on. you

the persian gulf was one pathway to bring e equipment through the back channel through persia through the mountains picked up by a the russians by tehran. and a much smaller percentage were involved with trading missions with there and and saudi arabia. but our 60,000 uniformed troops left the supply delivery business to rush up. those small numbers of the advisers stuck around for decades and that is what represented america pez influence as a prolonged role in the gulf. >>host: i always think of the british of involvement in the middle east. how did they step back? >>guest: with regard to the gulf of brits arrived in the 1800 representing their quest to provide order on the flanks to the imperial interest of india. the southern coast of the gulf was called the piru coast. constantly feuding tribes would feud with one another spilling out of the seaboard approach to in the and resulted in the tax on india. so the british found themselves pooled into the gulf during the 1800's. not to colonize it to maintain order. they did with the relatively small amount of military force. but you a

. >> picnics in persia -- a photographer explores the quiet defiance of everyday life. "stop these suicidal policies" -- that was the message from one spanish union leader as millions joint strikes this morning across southern europe. >> it is being called a european day of action and solidarity, and its target is the austerity that is sweeping the region. >> unions say the spending cuts and tax hikes are condemning their countries two years of recession and massive unemployment. >> in a moment, we will get the reaction from brussels and go live to madrid, but first, this report. >> protesters have come to vent their anger, and from early on, by a police in spain were braced for a long day -- riot police in spain were braced for a long day. unemployment stands at 25% in spain, the highest in the european union. every week brings fresh job cuts, and frustration is growing. spain's economy is set to shrink by another 1.5% this year. there were similar scenes in several metro stations where hundreds of protesters face rows of officers. metro services have been largely susp

represented one pathway the united states could send lease equipment through a back channel, through persia and iraq or iran, through the mountains, and were picked up by the russians north of tehran. and for a second reason, a much smaller percentage of personnel were involved in training missions, in both iran and saudi arabia. but whereas after the end of world war ii, our 60,000 uniformed and civilian troops left the supply delivery business to russia, they left the gulf, those small number of advisors in saudi arabia and in iran stuck around for decades, and it's that role that really represented america's influence that stemmed from world war ii, the pro longed war in the gulf. >> host: professor, i think of the british when i think of the involvement in the middle east. when and how did they step back their involvement? >> guest: well, with regard to the gulf, the brits arrived in the 1800s. and it represented their quest to provide order to a part of -- on the flanks to their imperial interests in india. the southern coast of the gulf had been called in the 1800s, the pirate coast,

persia's financial strains at the moment they are in a bit of a sticky situation a lot of that is being caused by the dwindling demand from the likes of europe and the u.s. they did say back in february that they were selling one point five billion euros of equivalents just under one point nine billion dollars in a cost cutting programs they've also have the banking and the credit of that business actually rescued by the government as well as that they had to close a factory just outside paris and as a result had to slash eight thousand jobs as a result so now a days we see russian railways coming in like the white knight to save the day but you know even a few years back you wouldn't expect european companies to be even trading with russia now time to change you know definitely and you know like i say europe is in the midst of a financial crisis at the moment and at the end of the day dimitri russia are always they have the money to be able to take advantage really of these vulnerable companies that are looking to sell these lucrative deals to them and as i say they have the money to d

looking for bargains in the finding them because russia railways is buying this logistics company from persia situ and it's supposed to be cheap i'll tell you all about that in a couple of minutes after the break thank you. parents versus social workers docu nabby pm last stop you can't meet me in that time kidnapping children have become a prize used to fight full why does the law or threaten families of the social order to see me in the form of a her right of willful minimal me faith in what they have any kind of suspicion about the world will think of your children are often a just better at bringing up kids than their own mom and dad and from what we have an industry that is so. concentrated on the other for trade children. the. chance to be soon much brighter if you move on son from phones to impressions. from stunts on t.v. dot com. wealthy british style. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons or the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on r t. how to warm welcome to business our team with me to ma

vulnerable also they're buying up these lucrative companies to good prices so the end of the day as far as persia is concerned they've got to pay their staff and as far as these russian state owned companies are concerned they want to diversify they water expands and they want to look good as far as their balance sheet is concerned to. least for the time being looks like a win win situation there katie pavlich thank you very much well let's move over to the markets now consumer confidence in the u. . u.s. is at the highest level in five years but apparently that's not enough to impress investors stateside u.s. markets are hesitant as to how to react to a broader i.m.f. a deal for financial targets for greece we've been talking about earlier on r.t. now some analysts say the deal may not be more than just another short term fix and it seems a deal on the other hand could make greece much less of a risk factor for at least the next couple of months so european markets managed some gains at the close as you can see there frankfurt putting on half a percent and here in russia equities traded actually

recently beaten fellows have beer and said you brought to me on friday while on wednesday alexandre persia organized and equalise embrace as i haven't done twice came from behind to beat cars excited by reese. we need to sherman reckon up to speed on the last needed to matter. so that was the pick of the action on the ice let's look at the best of the rest. on monday barcelona star little resi landed yet another accolade as the twenty five year old received his second golden boot for being europe's top scorer after netting a record fifty rally goes last season. while on tuesday joe wilfred salo produced this one the save on route to edge and fellow frenchmen julien benneteau six two four six seven six in the second round of the paris small stands before bowing out in the last eight to eventual champion talbot fair. when. the wednesday goalkeeper was red carded after the final whistle and later denied a call up for ukraine probably a shortstop that sort of got a late punched an opponent in the face a number one completely losing its despite his side beating votes last three two in the last

. >> the bahai faith began in 1844 in what is now iran; it was then persia when a young man who took the name of the bab declared that he was the one who had been sent to prepare the way for the promised one of all ages. the promised one that all people and all religions had been waiting for. he said that, that would come about by 1863 and that he was, primarily though he started his own religion called the bÁbi faith, his primary mission was to prepare the way for, as he said "he whom god shall make manifest." in 1863 after the bab has been executed by firing squad in 1850, bahÁ'u'llah whose original name was mirza hoseyn 'ali, declared that he was the one promised by the bab. he did this in the city of baghdad, after he had been sent out of tehran, which was his home and banished to baghdad. after he declared that he was the one the bab had promised and all the religions of the past had promised, he was banished again to what was constantinople, now istanbul. he was banished still further to other places in a further attempt by the government and the clergy to eliminate the followe

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persia wasn't the world's first super power, remember, in antiquity whereas in saudi arabia you havemily that is not synonymous with the arabian peninsula, doesn't include yemen and all these states. it is tenuous. syria is a yugoslav sector with sectarian interests. egypt has geographic asset. libya is a vague geographical expression between aaa ten ya in the northwest that has always been oriented toward greater carthage and tunisia and benghazi and others in the northeast which has been toward alexandria. iran has always been, because iran is natural as a state, it's developed rich institutions and bureaucracies over the centuries, and therefore it can project power. there will always be an iranian state. syria can collapse, libya can collapse. iran may go through regime change, but they'll always be a strong persian state. >> what does that tell you about u.s. policy toward iran? >> what it tells me is that our grand strategy has to be how do we engage in a dialogue with iran. what is the path toward that. is it fighting a war with them over nuclear weapons? is it not fighting a