guest in the studio today is the victor is essential guitarist very charles though and composer and my personal friend victor welcome back welcome back to the show victor victor when you started talking about your current interests to suit you i know that to. hey you're interested in celtic music it's amazing that when we were young generation of those rock musicians tended to turn to indian music george harrison john mcloughlin many many others are today's rock musicians there's into ritchie blackmore ritchie blackmore and many others play celtic music what brought it to celtic music. you know stairway to how many by led zeppelin was influenced by celtic ballots all english ballots originated from there yes that is so i realize that to be able to play this music really well once you know celtic music simply bought a ticket to arlen and flew there i came back with two bags of discs and musical instruments in then i started studying it you know there are a lot of young people in russia who not only imitate their looks by wearing kilts their soul to clubs where they dance and learn about celtic use tree it was very interesting for me to learn about carol

victor. the device helps victor communicate by touching a series of buttons that are made up of familiar voicesnds. >> he's able to tell you what he wants in choices. could be as simple as a choice of food. really opens up you know a world for him and for us. >> now the app costs just $7. more than 100 people have already down loaded it. and a version for android based phones is in the works. >>> this is amazing. in texas a teenage boy who has a sickness that left him with virtually no immune system is now able to go to school via robot. it's great to actually hear, see and participate with what's going on in his classroom and interact with his friends. the technology costs about $5,000. >>> time now 5:56. in just a couple hours from now an oakland school will celebrate its national award. anita seed elementary on east 27th street just one of two california schools to get this very special honor. education experts are giving the school high marks for getting children and low income neighborhoods ready for high school. the ceremony this morning begins at 8:30. congratulations to them. >> yeah. m

when little of the canal came across victor's story she tried to help him and. offered victor a house which here accepted at first it was a warm gas he did house with a power supply and then returned he did help out with manual labor but he decided not to stay because i think he just had been urged to be back in the forest. conventional living just doesn't suit he's clearly extremely self-sufficient but he does rely on healthy and equipment supplies and you're going to need you know for the first time in my life i have a home my own home i feel happy here i'm a lone wolf if you like. your lungs the trees and the snow you picked is found a way of life that he enjoying. the ne i ask that now other people respect that. so if there was a legion. i'll be back with the headlines shortly but first a bit for e.u. membership and bridging relations with. top twenty seven down with the country's president boris tadic to him more about belgrade's road towards europe the challenges the nation faces. but is that the church serbian president thank you very much for being with us today about

when you pull of the look you know came across victor's story she tried to help pen. we offered victor a house which here accepted at first it was a warm gas he did house with a power supply and then returned he did help out with manual labor but he decided not to stay i think he just had been urged to be back in the forest. conventional living just doesn't see he's clearly extremely self-sufficient but he does rely on healthy and equipment supplies and you you know for the first time in my life i have a home my own home i feel happy here i'm a lone wolf if you like. your lungs the trees in the snow you think he's found a way of life that he and julie. here only ask that now other people respect. so if they are to. america's most popular mountain resort of aspen could soon be welcoming a high profile pair of skiers president dmitri medvedev has agreed to hit the slopes with now former california governor arnold schwarzenegger the two exchanged messages on the social networking site twitter and decided to fix the time to go skiing together dimitri medvedev is known as a lover of the spo

when you pull of the look you know came across victor's story she tried to help her and. we offered victor a house which here accepted at first it was a warm gas you do have house with a power supply and then return he did help out with manual labor but he decided not to stay and i think he just had been urged to be back in the forest. conventional living just doesn't see he's clearly extremely self-sufficient but he does rely on help to feed and equipment supplies. you know for the first time in my life i have a home my own home if you happy here i'm a lone wolf if you like. the monks the trees and the snow has found a way of life that he enjoys. he any of that now other people respect the. surf. and find out why some experts think the world health organization is downplaying the magnitude of india's malaria problem to. have been killed and a counter terror operation in russia's southern republic of dagestan. sorry for this mismatch while the man refused to surrender when special forces encircled the private house they were hiding in on the outskirts of the capital maha to go on nearby bu

when you pull of the came across victor's story she tried to help her and. we offered victor a house which here accepted at first it was a warm gas heater of house with a power supply and then return he did help out with manual labor but he decided not to stay i think he just had been urged to be back in the forest. conventional living just doesn't suit fix he's clearly extremely self-sufficient but he does rely on healthy and equipment supplies and you know you know for the first time in my life i have a home my own home i feel happy here i'm a lone wolf if you like. here amongst the trees and the snow you pick has found a way of life that he enjoys he any asked that now other people respect. so if there are to a legion. while our website is just a click away to keep you up to date here's a taste of what waiting for you online right now. georgia sends over one hundred policeman to disperse some twenty. veterans on the hunger strike and what they claim is neglect by the government. not rock n roll the u.s. army is under fire but using their soldiers music for them to come out

victor boot there is no osama bin ladin no al qaida no problems in afghanistan no problems in iraq there is only victor boot the evil man is a russian cargo dealing businessman chased by the u.s. for a decade upon the request of america he was arrested in thailand two years ago after thai courts twice found him not guilty of any crimes he was still extradited to the u.s. this november to face one conspiring to kill united states nationals to conspiring to kill united states officers and employees three conspiring to use an acquire anti-aircraft missiles and for conspiring to provide material support to the far already dubbed an international arms trafficker by the u.s. victorboot is being held in a new york prison even though victor boots trial date has not even been set yet the man has spent almost two months in this jail in downtown manhattan in solitary confinement his only contact with the outside world consists of meetings with his defense team as well as once a week check ups from the russian consulate having arrived to the u.s. to support their relative family has already received a far from warm welcome in the states his wife paula was held at the airport for almost three hours with the immigration officer asked me if i knew my husband was a terrorist while accusations are flying case oh. legally remains in thailand. according to boots thai and russian lawyers his case to this moment remains in a thai court meaning there was no official decision of an extradition this has been reason the question of whether the us broke laws in whisking him away onto its soil . has not committed any criminal activity and has not been found guilty neither in the us

victor boot. don't think for a second that victor wood is actually going to go home after proving his innocence in the new york chord is absolutely ridiculous he's not going to be a fair trial he's going to get a life sentence that is absolutely not one shred of evidence on big trouble there is nothing on victor board at all he was never an arms merchant he was not a merchant of death what he is is a transporter who actually remained in africa after being a translator become stayed in the soviet union basically fell apart and disappeared into oblivion and he remained there becoming a very well known and successful transport of merchandise so you have to understand the end game is russia then game is not there to would if they didn't have a terrible day would have simply invented another tool because again if you create a new one world government a one world company limited to one of these powerful organizations above the government level for control what you need to do is you need to control the nations who can actually stand in your way and there is only one nation who has the power to withstand you know this onslaught and that is russia. investigative journalist daniel estulin with his own perspective on the viktor group case the case of maria a failed asylum seeker in norway has brought th

victor mizzen political analyst from moscow state university victor thank you for being with us now how significant are these amendments made by the russian side to the treaty. well i think definitely this was the magic week old man called the last year probably of the three old. nuclear offensive on for the first doctor to read you to be a soldier when you. cheated on the money if you were in the bush administration. or united states i think it's very important that we have been given full legal document which casts all nuclear arsenals at the same time for us very important to branches of a disability for nuclear deterrence and hold what's very important because there's been you three gear that reflects the new reality of that knowledge russia is free to do you find this drug. and there are real competition all faiths to try to teach you've got fanciful says. well victor is a russian and american sides made these amendments to the start treaty the question is won't disaffect the essence of the treaty in other words how is it possible to implement it if the parties have different interpretations. why i don't think that them to predation are so different fortunately for the first time to thaw the republic bought all this on the floor against three d. which is the rather strange but i think it's. a bomb there and in most of the administration and basically i don't thing by the both so much i mean of it three d. it's. i think if we. go there broach basically the. same. i want. the. big seller is a very. war. in the document which. has adopted basically they both centered on three major. united states should be free to develop its a.b.m. . system and i think it's. because it's very important that the system isn't limited to the. united states is not going to have more. ground based. on the reserve and it's very important for russia as i said. to get. back

extradition of victor boot to the united states is one of the key elements among them a trial date for now has been set for september twelfth if found guilty by the u.s. federal court victor boot could face up to a life sentence behind bars and r.t. new york. well the powers involved in the latest talks with iran over its nuclear program say they're disappointed with the outcome us foreign policy chief baroness ashton says iran isn't cooperating enough and will remain under u.n. sanctions and then further talks are planned tehran says any agreement must include its rights to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes but there remain the international concerns it's trying to develop a nuclear weapon a challenge the country denies russia's deputy foreign minister sergei volkov says deal was reached in the game wasn't a total failure. i wouldn't agree that these talks for you i think it was an important opportunity that was used by both parties to move. forward i would say i'm encouraged by the outcome but to put it squarely disappointed would be you know we're statement my hope is that after the stumble round. the ring in part will consider in a very serious manner. it is. the s

extradition of victor boot to the united states is one of the key elements among them a trial date for now has been set for september twelfth if found guilty by the u.s. federal court victor boot could face up to a life sentence behind bars and parties. on the way nuclear talks and stalemate. the latest round of the. rounds atomic program have you had no breakthrough and why russia still thinks progress can be made. protesters took to the streets of the day is norwegians lend support to a russian born in legal immigrant to the ballots to be deported when i am let me who was once a name norwegian of the year has lived in the country for decades but failed in her bid for asylum and as more and it reports a case has drawn cool from human rights groups to norway to change its immigration policy. the clock is ticking for many as her supporters gather in central oslo for what may be the last time to protest her deportation from the country she's learnt to call home as things stand i merely could be sent to russia within days leaving behind her friends the land she grew up in but this is no longer just about money with her book illegal norwegian and her activism she's managed to

extradition of victor boot to the united states is one of the key elements among them a trial date for now has been set for september twelfth if found guilty by the u.s. federal court victor boot could face up to a life sentence behind bars. r.t. you. know hundreds of no wages have been showing against what they say is the unfair treatment of asylum seekers and illegal immigrants it's been highlighted by the threats to support a russian born all for his lift this since she was a child and was even awarded norwegian of the year as war and that reports. of these cases the country facing up to it's been reluctant to touch before. the clock is ticking for many as her supporters gather in central oslo for what may be the last time to protest her deportation from the country she's learnt to call home as things stand i merely could be sent to russia within days leaving behind her friends the land she grew up in but this is no longer just about money with her book illegal norwegian and her activism she's managed to draw attention to the plight of all people struggling to stay in norway those without papers have no access to work education or health care and can't even get married

extradition of victor boot to the united states is one of the key elements among them a trial date for now has been set for september twelfth if found guilty by the u.s. federal court victor boot could face up to a life sentence behind bars and. you're. a wealth of background and analysis on the story on our web site of course there's plenty of new. equipment but what else is online now america is left scratching its head as they're expensive but all popular gallops down the mission. may not be contributing as a lot to the for its contribution to the rule. that takes us down. and it could be the coolest day ever visit no one there is tons of value used to create the fairy tale cultures that kept solve a zero temperatures find out more about this winter wonderland on our website so. now will power is could the disappointment of the latest talks over iran's controversial nuclear program negotiations in istanbul failed to reach any agreement or even set a deadline for future discussions these foreign policy chief says iran isn't call poor. singha now and will remain under strict u.n. sanctions but a round president must without with either says he expects positive results fr

extradition of victor boot to the united states is one of the key elements among them a trial date for now has been set for september twelfth if found guilty by the u.s. federal court victor boot could face up to a life sentence behind bars and. you. for a long running story this one if you want to find out more about it with the wealth of. the whole story on our web site. america's left scratching his head there is they're expensive popular afghanistan continues and while india may not be as much cash to the cause it seems its contribution to the nation is leaving a. new report. on the cost of ukraine. more than he or she could choose after swallowing a mobile phone pull. through. but you can find out more. world powers could mask the disappointment of the outcome of the latest talks over iran's controversial nuclear program negotiations in istanbul failed to reach any agreement or even set a deadline for future discussions the east foreign policy chief says iran isn't cooperating enough on the whole. the strict u.n. sanctions but iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad says he expects positive results from any further talks to run insists it will not freeze its uranium enr

victor." host: victor. go ahead. caller: tea party, independents, socialism, activism, whatever you can bring up, are there any americans left? this is primarily one of my concerns. i would like to see a category instead of people calling in a republican or a democrat or an independent. i would like to see in your category, "americans." i could solve health care. sin -- sincerely i can. there is no need of all the time -- of all this talk of republicans and independentents and 60 votes or whatever the case may be. i am a little bit nervous, but i can assure you, i can solve health care for every american from the president down to a street cleaner. if anybody is really interested and who is truly an american who loves his flag, loves his country, it can be done. host: let's move on to leewood kansas. go aheed, roger. caller: i have a slight correction. it was dr. ralph bunch who was the first african-american to win the nobel peace prize. >> you are correct. thank you very much for that. caller: the top story, in my

extradition of victor boot to the united states is one of the key elements among them a trial date for now has been set for september twelfth if found guilty by the u.s. federal court victor boot could face up to a life sentence behind bars and as. you. and i want to catch up with a background of the story we have a wealth of it and analysis to all about the whole rather long running big. website . also plenty more lined up as well as we came for you americans left scratching its head as their explosive put unpopular afghanistan mission continues we report while india may not be contributing as much cash to the cause its contribution to the war struck nation is leaving a bitter taste right now in u.s. my. life plus being a provocative crazy and zero has bitten off more than he could chew after swallowing a female visitor creech became depressed last refused to call r t dot com. hundreds of norwegians will be showing their anger against what they see as the unfair treatment of asylum seekers an illegal immigrants it's been highlighted by a threat to deport a russian born author who's lived there since she was a child and was even awarded for being a model citizen. reports

pretrial hearings for victor boot kickoff in manhattan this week but legal experts say it will be months until the start of the trial if found guilty by the u.s. federal court victor boot could face up to a life sentence behind bars and as they say churkin are forty new york. to ron insists it will never stop enriching uranium the strong words came from iran's envoy to the un's atomic watchdog for the latest round of talks about the country's nuclear program. so tony says that his country's atomic projects now completely self-sufficient and enrichment will continue even if iran comes under military attack the country's already enjoying four sets of un sanctions rounds currently taking part in close talks with six world powers in istanbul or so tony told us that r.t. that to run it shouldn't be bearing any international pressure in the first place. all the sanctions imposed on us by the un illegitimate we were obliged to allow inspections of our reactors and we did the international atomic energy agency found nothing wrong with our nuclear program and the inspections were going on but then the u.s. britain france and germany pressured the i.a.e.a. and the security

victor would get such components the answer is obviously russia the evil nation the evil empire will supply it to him and that's the predicament that victor would find themselves with right now but again there is zero evidence whatsoever of his guild and just to show you how little america has victor borge when he was arrested allegedly for trying to sell our short term missiles to the fark terrorists who are basically your da undercover agents since boots arrest in thailand too and have now almost three years ago in march of two thousand and eight american government has made no attempt whatsoever to actually find this. missiles now if you going after the merchant of death victor would wouldn't you want out proof of his actions of course you would except in this case american government knew from the very beginning victor would did not come to thailand to sell weapons of mass destruction or shorter missiles he came to sell these last two airplanes because he was spending less and broke and this is why you will see the thailand and obviously there's something they will do everything in their power to keep from public's attention danios be good to have in the program tonight no much has been said about this and i know you could talk a lot more about it as well but daniel estrin inv

victor's freedom and i hope common sense will prevail in court because it's very hard with all the propaganda against victor and the american media. and professionalism in court on a difficult fight with the kind of image of victor that has been created here and i doubt the court will be unbiased told us that she intends to remain in the united states in new york until she gets a meeting with her husband something that really doesn't seem like possible at the moment since he's in solitary confinement and needs to be moved to another cell for that to happen for now he's only meeting with members of his defense team as well as members of the russian consulate. this is coming july from the russian capital still ahead for you this hour on the scrapheap we follow the plight of the poorest iraqis stuck at the bottom of the pile. in the last christmas day probably feeling like in the memory already looking telling you what. is the day of the rest of celebrate the. story still to come but first one of the three vessel stuck in ice off the russia's far eastern coast is now free but the two others are still awaiting rescue the icebreaker i've been on the cut off is returning to the second ship to tow it to safe waters and

victor's dad is a computer science professor. he created an app called verbal victor with the help of some of his students. this device actually helps victoro communicate by touching several buttons made up of familiar voices and familiar sounds. a version for android based phones is also being developed. >>> here's something else in texas a teenage boy who's got a sickness that's left him with virtually no immune system is now able to go to school by way of a robot. that one right there. he says it's great to actually hear, see and participate with his friends and classmates. this technology is known as vego. it costs about $5,000. >>> in just about an hour an oakland school will celebrate its national award. the elementary on east 27th street is just one of two california schools to receive the national title of distinguished schools. education experts are giving the school high marks for getting children in low income neighborhoods ready for high school. this morning's ceremony begins at 8:30. >>> bravo. proud of them. we're also proud of the fact that we want to let you know you can soon watch ktvu morning news even earlier. we're expa

victor boot the evil man upon the request of u.s. officials victor lute was arrested in thailand in two thousand and eight after two years of fighting for freedom in a thai court and found not guilty twice was snatched up by american officials and taken to the u.s. with sirens and an airplane in the middle of the night building all the hype of a hollywood blockbuster but curiously booth's case technically remains in thailand according to russian lawyers his case to this moment remains in a tight cord with your well being there was no official decision of an extradition meanwhile an international arms trafficker by america picture is in solitary confinement in the cotton prison his wife was held at the airport for almost three hours upon her arrival to the big apple the first glimpse of viktor friday's technical hearings i don't think he's in the best state i'm worried about his health both physical and mental the family home as the case against it was probably because what happened to him a kidnapping yeah. i can accept the possibility that victor boot might have some information that might be of. interest to someone but why is it that other countries don't just think to themselves that there is someone who has some interesting information and why don't those governments just drag those people onto their territory defense team file motions questioning how and why the man was brought to the us as well as whether or not recordings used against picture were obtained in accordance with the thai law picture booth stands confident that he is the victim of a propaganda war launched in america says innocence the defense team now has forty five days to present for motions to the judge the i'm awful most i'll be extradition of big trouble to the united states is one of the key elements among them a trial date for now has been set for september twelfth if found guilty by the u.s. federal court victor boot could face up to a life sentence behind bars. on the way a nuclear talks end in stone mates. latest round. of progress have yielded no

victor's freedom and i hope common sense will prevail in court because it's very hard with all the propaganda against victor in the american media but i do that for a normal proceedings and professionalism in court because it's difficult to fight with the kind of image of victor that has been created here and i doubt the court will be unbiased also told us that she intends to remain in new york in the united states until she gets to meet with her husband to something which is out of the question for now since he's in solitary confinement and the only contact he has with the outside world is with members of his defense team as well as members of the russian consulate. still ahead for you this hour on the scrapheap we follow the plight of the poorest iraqis stuck at the bottom of the pile and. in the last minute they probably like that memory already we're going to tell you what. the day the rest of the break but. one of three vessels stuck in ice off russia's far eastern coast is now free but the two others are still awaiting rescue the icebreaker is returning to the second ship to tow it to safe waters a more powerful icebreaker is on its way to help rescue the third vessel which needs a bigger path through the ice to get around more than three hundred people

victor's freedom and to win i hope common sense will prevail in court because it's very hard with all the propaganda against victor in the american media but i do hope for normal proceedings and professionalism in court because it's difficult to fight with the kind of image of victor that has been created here and i doubt the court will be unbiased. well roy told us that she intends to remain in the united states in new york until she gets a meeting with her husband something that really doesn't seem possible at the moment since he's in solitary confinement and needs to be moved to another cell for that to happen for now he's only meeting with members of his defense team as well as members of the russian consulate once a week and for now the latest is that on monday technical pretrial hearings will kick off here in new york and that's the latest authors and i started talking about life in new york thank you. well still ahead for you this hour here on on the scrapheap we followed the plight of the poorest iraqis at the bottom of the pile. seems like a memory already but. it's a day. one of three vessels stuck in. is now free but the. awaiting rescue at this point. is returning to the second ship to safe water was a more powerful icebreaker is on its way to help res

victor boot the evil man upon the request of u.s. officials victor boot was arrested in thailand in two thousand and eight after two years of fighting for freedom in a tie court and found not guilty twice who was snatched up by american officials and taken to the u.s. with sirens and an airplane in the middle of the night building all the hype of a hollywood blockbuster but curiously boots case technically remains in thailand according to boots thai and russian lawyers his case to this moment remains in a thai court would you mean there was no official decision of an extradition meanwhile dubbed an international arms trafficker by america if your boot is in solitaire. he confinement in a manhattan prison his wife who was held at the airport for almost three hours upon her arrival to the big apple got the first glimpse of victort friday's technical hearings but i don't think he's in the best state i'm worried about his health both physical and mental the family believes the case against it was fabricated because what happened to him kidnapping yeah. i can accept the possibility that victor boot might have some information that might be of interest to someone but why is it that other countries don't just think to themselves that there is someone who has some interesting information and why don't those governments just drag those people onto their territory defense team is set to file motions questioning how and why the man was brought to the u.s. as well as whether or not recordings used against a picture were obtained in accordance with the thai law picture but stands confident that he is the victim of a propaganda war launched in america and maintains his innocence the defense team now has forty five days to present for motions to judge him awfulness of the extradition of a tribute to the united states is on

victor's freedom and to win i hope common sense will prevail in court because it's very hard with all the propaganda against victor in the american media but i do hope for a normal proceedings and professionalism in court because it's difficult to fight with the kind of image of victor that has been created here and i doubt the court will be unbiased also told us that she intends to remain in new york in the united states until she gets to meet with her husband to something which is out of the question for now since he's in solitary confinement and the only contact he has with the outside world is with members of his defense team as well as members of the russian consulate. that was going to start your reporting from new york. coming up this christmas celebrations across russia. in the last spent the day probably themes like you didn't memory already telling you what. is the day of the break but. that's still to come for you but first when black birds started falling from the sky in the american state of arkansas the problem was blamed on festive follow works when bird started dying thousands of miles away in sweden and italy triggered some far fetched online speculation that nature itself was sick and most pessimistic suggested it could even be the harbinger of som

victor's freedom and to win i hope common sense will prevail in court because it's very hard with all the propaganda against victor in the american media but i do hope for a normal proceedings and professionalism in court because it's difficult to fight with the kind of image of victor that has been created here and i doubt the court will be unbiased all aboot also told us that she intends to remain in new york in the united states until she gets to meet with her husband to something which is out of the question for now since he is in solitary confinement and the only contact he has with the outside world is with members of his defense team as well as members of the russian consulate that was artie's on associate you're going to reporting from new york. coming up later in the program of the story that has ruffled some feathers. birds falling out of the sky around the world we look at whether it's a media frenzy or an apocalypse in the making. in russia's far east a search and rescue operation is underway for a fishing boat with eleven crew on board the vessel sent a distress signal on friday before all contact was lost in the same region two russian ships remain trapped in ice a powerful icebreaker is on the way to help rescue the vessels there are more than three h

victor's freedom and to win i hope common sense will prevail in court because it's very hard with all the propaganda against victor in the american media but i do hope for a normal proceedings and professionalism in court because it's difficult to fight with the kind of image of victor that has been created here and i doubt the court will be unbiased. allude also told us that she intends to remain in new york in the united states until she gets to meet with her husband to something which is out of the question for now since he is in solitary confinement and the only people he meets with and the only contact he has with the outside world is with members of his defense team as well as members of the russian consulate so for now we're waiting monday when the first technical procedures kick off in a court in downtown manhattan and things will go from there but it really looks like for the next several months this trial is not bound to get started or who will be sure to check in with you on monday. talk about life in new york thank you. well still ahead for you this hour here on out c on the scrapheap we follow the plight of the poor of the rockies a stop at the bottom of the pile on. christmas day things like this memory already we'll be telling you while the. day. one

pretrial hearings for victor boot kickoff in manhattan this week but legal experts say it will be months until the start of the trial if found guilty by the u.s. federal court victor boot could face up to a life sentence behind bars and forty new york. let's go back to our top story now the presidents of russia and afghanistan are holding a joint news conference right now after that meeting here in moscow where that's listening to that. most of the colleagues ladies and gentlemen of the press. but it really should be to go what if we had our talks we get with the new president of these latin pretty public of afghanistan that question the russian side dish of course this is not the first time we meet we had the war met more than once prior to that both in russia and abroad. but this is the first official visit by mr karzai to our country and this is a very important event to us and i mentioned this at the deer beginning of our talks to mr president i expect that these talks that are not over yet russia will help us bring our relationship to a whole new level. today we had an exchange of views on our bilateral relations. we discussed the situation in afghanistan and

victor is essential guitarist very charles though and composer and my personal friend victor welcome back to often back to the show. when you started talking about your current interest to sort of you i know that today you're interested in celtic music it's amazing that when we were young generation of those rock musicians tended to. turn to indian music george harrison john mcloughlin with many many others today's rock musicians there's into ritchie blackmore ritchie blackmore and many others play celtic music what brought you to celtic music. well you know stairway to heaven by led zeppelin was influenced by celtic ballots all english ballots originated from there yes that is so i realize that to be able to play this music really well once you know celtic music i simply bought a ticket to arlen and flew there i came back with two bags of discs and musical instruments in then i started studying it you know there are a lot of young people in russia who not only imitate their lukes by wearing kilts their soul to clubs where they dance and learn about celtic use tree it was very interesting for me to learn about caroline and european harpers we have in russia but the border transition actually originates from europe or carolyn in our rich harpers were considered the best among european musicians before their music was superseded by church music alike and beat home and so i realised i didn't know anything about celtic music and i thought it would help me to learn about it then again i felt like we didn't have enough of that type of music in russia so i decided to play the music i felt will accept the celtic culture is quite popular in russia's nets the same tactics day as though with the national holiday here of course a lot of people say that celtic music is very reminiscent of ethnic russian songs do you think that's true i think that's my point it's a lot like the russian ethnic songs of all the saying is korsakoff simplified russian ethnic music in the nineteenth century by releasing at collections of the two hundred most popular ethnic songs he simplified down the old music that still leaves on in russia in the r. hong go screeching for exe. sample he's passed on from generation to generation that music sounds a lot like the celtic tunes of all in orthodox priest once showed me an old russian troops the head a celtic cross may have something to do with the viking reign in russia or something else but where were the influence might come from east near celtic music sounds a lot like oriental music too there is also a legend that says if it landed sever existed and plants in music was similar to celtic music because this celtic tone system was given to the druids by giants the children of atlanteans it's hard to check with the legend is true but the story is beautiful if it is true that will explain why everybody loves music so much i keep hearing stories about you you're a legendary person and not only in russia i've heard among other things that you have several dozen guitars if not several hundred not several hundreds more like several dozen i've heard that the world's leading guitar makers consider it an honor to send you a guitar for your birthday each here is out to well they didn't do it when i just started out but after i had made certain achievements and started happening and they made it does especially for you it's very nice of them is it true that one of the guitar makers that there is a russian and that he's making it does for you yes it's true a russian guitar maker by the name. does work at fender and then one of his guitars is a prison for my fiftieth birthday touring my concert at the ground it's beautiful and very expensive we have the guitar right here in us to play it at concerts it's called indorsement many guitar companies coppery it with musicians must be profitable since our market is quite big and companies want popular musicians to play their instruments as the same as rockets and tennis players yes i think they're considered as when we were younger some of our idols like jimmy page and so on played gibson guitars others played fender when we were following god it was important to us what guitar brands our favorite position is preferred. good to know you're playing gibson's fenders there you've been as does this mean you have no principles i have principles but i'm not the narrow i really can't be pigeonholed when i play a piece that i want to sound fed into see like for example against pollen is using jeeps and guitar when i need to refine sounds the group can glass to home. g.g. kaleb or mark knopfler i use a fender stratocaster besides that i have a soul to cart that i bought in germany i go there to buy acoustic instruments because i play the classical guitar to both a metal and nylon strings i even have a pedal steel guitar any ukulele i play this one by certain songs on a ukulele i did that at my kremlin concerts with a famous ballerina all of these instruments are there like beans to me that i used to paint a lot of different beautiful pictures so your answer to the question of what's better fender or gibson who leave was your answer is everything good for you your name and peace loving man seriously no guitar is a simple instrument as great but it is simple do you think it's possible to make a perfectly good car one that you would be able to take with you on tour instead of the five you carry around now is such a guitar possible to make or do they have to be different have you ever thought about it you know they have to be different that's the thing guitar does not play itself and there is no instrument that you can pick up and just start playing everyone wants a guitar like that but it doesn't exist a guitar is an extension of the guitar player this secret is that you have to murray to the instrument and please yourself as much as you play the guitar the strings when you put them on sure if interest become an extension of your hand that's how you gain it huge power to influence the audience you depends on the guitarists personality his culture he. thinks he's you know purity to his knowledge and many other personal qualities even his physical condition all of these things affect stage presence and whether the musician is able to perform well on stage. that wait a minute to say that all great musicians well you said just the guitarists of this kind it alone uses since. all these people who have lots of fans. even to say that they're all people of high moral standards they're all good people just dedicated to music. you know many ways yes they're all outstanding people there is no doubt about that. there are no bad people among them. when a person like that comes on stage is negative charisma will make you want to watch but only for certain times there are people like that of course but the general rule is that when i'm pure person performance she's someone who doesn't like what they do you or doesn't like people perform their performance does not turn out very well people don't notice that but it's true i believe the genius and villainy are incompatible i'm not the first person to say that there is a certain steer a type regarding rock star behavior rock stars drink and to but they do it in order to give all they have to music they want to serve music and serve their audience they destroy themselves doing that so we can condemn musicians or taking drugs. so you're justifying them but it is a fad that drugs help make music they help you be more creative to go to another dimension so you don't condemn drugs and rock music this has already happened that's how a lot of musical styles were invented look at jimi hendrix and psychedelic music. of course. condemn those people to do because russia and the whole world are promoting healthy lifestyle. you know when you grew up your realize until you mean to say that musicians have already taken what they could from the drugs is a thing in the past now you hear some relief so musicians changes the grow up and they grew to understand that if they keep on taking drugs who are smoking you know there was a greed football team in russia called star cool a lot of musicians play for that team and i'm very happy that i started playing football that was twelve years ago i quit smoking and kicked my bad habits the lot of people come to our concerts also we organize charity games giving the money to sick children i know that you know we and other countries have similar projects but i you realize that i was at the next stage that stage was in the past the music stayed and now i have to stay fit if i want to give concerts and reach out to people with my music and i'm not the only one like that russia this insurance company that insured your hands for half a million dollars and that you play football you know it's a true story but i did that a long time ago you know last century i was the first russian musician i believe to have his hands insured for half a million dollars but that was only for a year and the contract was actually quite elaborate i was not allowed to engage in mountain climbing and gliding or other dangerous sports you can stick your fingers into the sockets yes that would avoid the contract if i see about spicy videos by say about it on the thank you very much for being with us it was a great pleasure thank you just a reminder that my guest today was guitarist and composer victor thank you. thank you for being live with us in the spotlight and just to remind you been watching spotlight on our t.v. that is in. famous russian musician composer and guitar hero two i was out was with us on this show. take care.

. >> safer: to band member victor goines, who's also from new orleans, the attention marsalis gets is no surprise. >> victoroines: he was always a standout from the rest, i will say. >> safer: a musical standout who sets the pace for the band in another way, as well. >> jackson: he works harder than anybody i know. no question. ♪ ♪ >> safer: a jam session with local musicians starts at dusk and goes well into the night. and any time, anywhere, band members give master classes in the fine art of swing. ♪ ♪ at the band's hotel, a young musician named shaula ortega shows up with her husband and baby. she wants ted nash to show her how to coax that distinctive jazz sound out of her horn. ♪ ♪ they repair to the hotel bar, other band members join in, and soon, she's bending the blue notes just like the pros. ♪ ♪ >> nash: it's so beautiful to travel, because we get to mix with people. maybe at a point when we would normally be getting kind of worn out and our batteries run down, i mean, i think we get kind of recharged a little bit from the energy of the people. >> safer: in a havana restaurant, to the accompanime