instead of the way we've come to realize stop the performances which fascinate big audiences in some petersburg. oh and in foreign cities you somehow don't strike as much of a chord with our own soldiers. are just saying on stage soldiers sleep in the audience this is how military units have always responded to the musical concerts time and time again. be able to win over the younger audience of today or have these weapons lost their power has the time for the soldiers to admit defeat we play material most of them but songs about love for the motherland and sacrifice though they don't seem to appeal to the modern audience. young people especially soldiers. they seem to need a different rhythm now. singer alexander will soon turn eighty he has served in the musical army for most of his life he's convinced that because fashion changes all the time you can never keep up with it but he sure that the old tunes will still young hearts. present i don't think that any of these modern hits can compare to songs like the farewell of slave younker so. often find if you go when the trumpet sounds you don't

twenty summit in st petersburg we look at how the upcoming event is being overshadowed by the russia u.s. dispute over edward snowden. it is nine am in the russian capital you're watching r.t.l. marina josh welcome to the program and age it at least three people have been killed in overnight clashes as backers and opponents of ousted president mohamed morsi held rallies across the country that's after the military war and supporters of morsi as muslim brotherhood against stoking further unrest and disrupting the transition to a new government troops in cairo fired tear gas to force back thousands of protesters on their way to the presidential palace to demand morsi is reinstatement meanwhile on top rear square in the city center crowds gathered to voice their support for what they see as a revolution and to rally behind the new interim government but as political activists sara said told us their feeling of victory may be short lived. here and millions and millions of people in this do you know why this army will come back again a low bar to say all. with mubarak's corruption right n

twenty summit in st petersburg if russia grants the former n.s.a. contractor adverse note an asylum but than there were even reports that two u.s. or republican lawmakers hops adjusted to change the location of the upcoming g. twenty summit and not so hold it in russia basically in order to crush russia or to oxford ice adverse notice now meanwhile there is still of course time until these summit kicks off in st petersburg iran a month and a half and a redo seems that those economists who have gathered here in moscow house put politic aside and really are discussing some major quite challenging economic issues now in particular the g. twenty back quite a fundamental rethinking of the rules on top saying multinational companies basically to fight those loopholes so will we at times those companies are using to avoid billions of dollars and the taxes now as a group of leading economies are sad that the current system does not work especially for those companies which trade online now companies in the spotlight for using this legal but at times quite c

petersburg is known as the venice of the north. founded in 793 by saint peter the great, it was built to a rival the canals of venice. capital to the moscow, and the city entered into a long period of decline. in jordan as the bombardment. after the fall of the soviet union, the city will from hibernation. -- will from hibernation. hibernation. but behind the facade, the toll of nearly a century of neglect hidden from view. in these once grand and now faded entrances, with many of the city's pour. crowded into apartments now coveted by russia's new rich and aspiring middle class. galina. she lives in a beautiful, but dilapidated building along the innks of the nevsky river, one of the most prestigious parts of town. like many, she obtained her apartment when property was privatized amid speculation and property wars. this is the story of galina and her neighbors, poor people under constant instigation of schemers. >> [speaking foreign language] >> in this communal apartments on millionaires street lives irina. >> [speaking russian

he's even considering staying here in st petersburg.is the focus if he were to offer me an extension of my contract. i'd probably agree with the prospects here it gets people he might have somewhere to live and you can have quite a good life on the salary of a more. simple classical program was arranged in one nine hundred twenty eight the chorus the orchestra or the ballet all these elements had a patriotic touch to them on top of that we had to show our great culture sure but we have to change we began to take up new modern dances and that's led to a new kind of vocal and instrumental in song. we have a realist particular show for foreigners it's quite different it was our own soldiers for them we play songs for this for george numbers things like that leave their morale and make them think at the same time we want to make them relax for a beat to forget about their military service for a little while. and i got the lyrics for a new song the also says he wants to be a kind of retsina so quite soon we're going to do the from an arab so

this is a special program created for tourists in st petersburg no anthem no war songs no modern tricks only the tried and tested hits that have been popular for decades russian audiences bored with them were as foreign as who've never seen russian soldiers on stage before surrender to their charm one small life not x. adults absolutely amazing amazing. since we travel a lot to all sorts of countries we can usually see that people approach our concerts with a measure of suspicion but after a while they start to warm up we can feel that the audience opens up people begin to accept us when we get to the end of the first section the very final number in the first half of the concert we can already feel them but the audience is on our side the songs and. write the scene. first for you and i putting pictures. on our reporters twitter. and instagram. to be in the lead in la. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't k

petersburg -- st. svidanya, st. petersburg. the rides at the head of the convoy.five hours later, we reach helsinki. everything is going to plan. great.ther is the group is having great fun. we are all enjoying the baltic sea air. havee ferry to germany, we more than 24 hours to get to know each other better. vladimir says they might be bikers, but that they wanted to do something meaningful, not just drive around. "our grandfathers drove tanks to germany. we are writing motorbikes," he says. vladimir says his father was in a german concentration camp. "i'm dedicating the strip to him," he says. they are very hospitable. "i'm dedicating this trip to him," he says. they are very hospitable. they invite me to join them. has an official dining room and an informal one. many of the bikers are traveling to germany for very personal reasons. memories of world war ii are still very much alive in most families. "i was an only child," he tells us. "my father was a young man when he fought in the war. his worst experience was with a german tanker tank. he was badly wounded,

petersburg. in the mother of god cathedral downtown. >> with members of his congregation, the russian orthodox priest is planning to visit the resting place of soldiers killed or wounded in action. this woman wants to know what happens to her great uncle. he was last heard of in germany. he says he is frequently confronted with tales of suffering and ill fortune. >> people, the most incredible war stories. when i look in their faces i can feel the great burden of responsibility that i carry. >> for now, the priest is responsible for the 40 people who will accompany him to germany. part of them are bikers and the other half are members of his congregation, men and women. packedgage is so tightly he wonders if they will find anything. >> he expects to reach the border on time if they set off at 10:00, but this is a long trip and you never know. >> i hope that the weather is great. i have never been to europe, this is exciting. >> this will be fine. thee is surprised by goodbye -- and says that they

part of some major proper aeration for the upcoming g twenty summit that will take place in st petersburg this september and actually it is the last official meeting between the members of the g. twenty stays before the summit kicks off in awesome and that meeting really outlined the jondo for this summit but on the other hand still it really seems that the summit is increasingly being used as a bargaining chip in international politics now there were some rumors and speculations they had u.s. president barack obama will not be able to meet with president putin and moscow though early add that such a meeting was announced to take place around the time of the annual g twenty summit in st petersburg now white house press secretary jay carney declined repeatedly to comment on president barack obama's plans to visit russia however later he outlined the president intends to travel to russia for the g. twenty summits but refused to comment further and he also acknowledged that he's being deliberately vague on that issue and there were also other reports that two u.s. republican lawmakers hobbes

is a very popular blogger in russia he is especially popular in large cities like moscow and st petersburg and of course in the social media such as twitter and live journal he's extremely adept at using these social media for his advantage but as has been shown by studies and even by people here on the street he's not so well known in russia's regions he's just a person that a lot of people here have not even heard about until the trial has actually commenced here some months ago so this is a situation that we're looking at right now and of course we're still waiting for the judge to was to finish reading the. at this point absolutely well while we were talking to you and getting your obviates were in fact looking at live pictures from the courthouse there and you can in fact just could see the volume there for now thank you so much for this and as he says we continue to wait for the sentence to be announced we can have someone else in the studio now with. host of crosstalk well peter as we are waiting let's now analyze a situation and my first question to you is the verdict really came a

was a very fine round according to the deal signed two years ago this shipyard in st petersburg will play a vital role in the fabrication of vessels the section built here will soon had to france for completion before making the return journey to enter the service in russia's navy although there's no champagne available to celebrate here today because a bottle of it was just smashed on the new ship or rather on this section of a new ship it's still a big day for a big ship as long as the mistral class warships have enough capacity to carry sixteen helicopters up to forty tanks or armored vehicles and around six hundred troops and a range of around forty thousand kilometers they will end over a single trip around the entire globe and what's even maybe more important it is a multipurpose vessel if. this ship is like a swiss knife it can be used both for military and civilian purposes it's a hospital it's a command point it's an assault ship and it's a headquarters it would be great for each of our four fleets to have the ship however the purchase of the two ships is not without its cri

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petersburg florida. from april, 2001 mr. maker presents his thoughts on the revitalization of the cities and argues against the large government to solve local problems and what he believes no area of the city is underserved. >> not all parts of the city are going to be the same. you have some neighborhoods that have large houses and that's okay and other parts of apartment complexes and that's okay too but there are some things we should all have in common in the neighborhoods. they should be places when children can grow up safely where they feel comfortable walking next door going down to see their friend down the street, where the infrastructure looks okay on the streets and sidewalks, where there are not drug dealers hanging out on the street corner or prostitutes down the street. that is and how you and i would want to have to our children grow up and i know we don't want any of our children to have to grow up in places like that. they should vigorous restored on the street and a bank. they should have the general amen

not seen st petersburg. well up next we have the story of a surgeon who was forced to work on the side of terrorists that's after the break here to. south carolina's playing around with the idea of using shame plates which are license plates that can display special messages the department of motor vehicles would have complete access to all these plates and be able to display text on them like suspended uninsured amber alert or stolen you know i actually don't mind the idea of using shame as a punishment i guess it could be a real deterrent to have drunken loser written over the license plate of someone who drinks and drives in fact drug driving plates have been in place in some states for a while but the problem is that more often than not shame penalties aren't a v. punishment for a crime but just a bonus one in my native ohio you can go to jail for three to thirty days and have your license suspended for one to three years for driving which is a brutal punishment in a country where everyone drives to work

petersburg summit in september. >> he also said an increase in consumption tax is likely to go ahead amid signs of economic recovery. aso said he'll announce the decision in fall. he added the tax hike will probably come into force next spring. >>> party leaders in japan have made their appeal for voter support on saturday on the eve of the country's upper house election. the focus of the vote will be whether the ruling coalition of the liberal democratic party and new komeita can put an end to the divided diet by securing a majority in the opposition-controlled chamber. prime minister shinzo abe told an audience that his ldp-led government has improved the economy during its six months in office. he said the previous democrat-led government had failed to achieve that over three years in office. democratic party president banri kaieda said the prime minister's economic policies may look good at the moment but he said they're actually risky. he pointed to the potential surge in the yield on government bonds. candidates from nine parties are running in the election. the groups qualifie

in september, the g-20 meetings in petersburg, mr. president, should you go to petersburg russia for the g-20 summit if they give snowden asylum and don't change their policy toward syria? my advice is i wouldn't go to petersburg, i would ask for a change of venue. >>> all right. strong comments from senator lindsey graham. thank you for joining us today. >> thank you. >>> in orlando word news, he's been as hard to kill as rasputin, but it seems luck may have run out for al shiri. web sites clay that a u.s. drone took him out sometime after the first week of april. the thing is the u.s. already had him once. he was a prisoner at guantanamo, but then he promptly disobeyed his conditions, and they rose to number two. al shirri did manage to survive some -- >>> supporters around the world feel like they're getting the gift. according to his daughter, his health is improving. mandela has been hospitalized since last month. at one point even put on life support, but his family says he's gaining energy and strength and could go hominy day n

is how teleportation is accomplished the sixth international maritime differentia was held in st petersburg earlier this month to a flying start with an aerobatic display from the russian knights and a chart suggest from thirty one countries the show not only gave participants demonstrate the latest in naval technology on dry land under sea but also get down to serious business. the russian government submitted a bill to the stadium on the twenty eighth of june a radical reorganization of the bush an academy of sciences which was founded in seventeen twenty four and currently unites four hundred eighty three institutions employing around ninety five thousand people the two main proposals of the bill are for the russian academy of sciences to incorporate the russian academy of agricultural sciences and the russian credit me of medical sciences transferring control over the guy's ations financial assets of property to specifically created state agency giving the scientists more time to spending a lot of the bill is designed to improve the efficiency of the organization they encourage putting

the popularity of course is the rather large in large cities like mosul in st petersburg and of course on the internet but in the in regions for example with here and here of i think virtually unknown people haven't started figuring out who he is until the trial actually got underway and the people became interested. so nobody has become popular through the exposition of these of these says scandals and sort of became a poster boy for the for the opposition of course there are various the border is up for also here present at his trial he himself has just arrived to rather mild applause from his supporters for camping out in front of the courthouse despite the tour and chilled out for that we seem to be having here at the moment of course everybody's bracing themselves for the verdict which we are about to hear. while nonetheless we see a crowd of people outside the courthouse so this case must've attracted some attention tell us more about that. we do know that finding is being accused of participating in a corruption in an embezzlement scheme involving him. and several other people t

the sixth international maritime differentia was held in st petersburg earlier this month to a flying start with an aerobatic display from the russian knights and a chart suggest from thirty one countries the show not only gave participants to demonstrate the latest in naval technology on dry land under sea but also get down to serious business. the russian government submitted a bill to the state team on the twenty eighth of june visiting a radical reorganization of the bush an academy of sciences which was founded in seven hundred twenty four and currently unites four hundred eighty three institutions employing around ninety five thousand people remain proposers of the bill for the russian academy of sciences to the russian academy of agricultural sciences and the russian credit me of medical sciences transferring control over the. financial assets of property to specifically created state agency giving the scientists more time to spending a large bill is designed to improve the efficiency of the organization encourage putting scientists to join and stimulate will research but it wa

how teleportation was accomplished the sixth international maritime defense show was held in st petersburg earlier this month the event got off to a flying start with an aerobatic display from the russian knights and a chart suggest from thirty one countries the show not only gave participants jump changed demonstrate the latest in naval technology on dry land under sea but also get down to serious business. the russian government submitted a bill to the state team on the twenty eighth of june visiting a radical reorganization of the bush an academy of sciences which was. and in seventeen twenty four and currently unites four hundred eighty three institutions employing around ninety five thousand people the two main proposals of the bill are for the russian academy of sciences to incorporate the russian academy of agricultural sciences and the russian credit me of medical sciences transferring control over the. financial assets of property to specifically created state agency giving the scientists more time to spending a lot of the bill is designed to improve the efficiency of the organiza