:00:04. > :00:10.Vincent Tabak begins a life sentence for the murder of his
:00:10. > :00:14.neighbour, Joanna Yeates. After the verdict, police reveal how Tabak
:00:14. > :00:18.lived a lie to try to cover his tracks. Joanna's family say they
:00:18. > :00:25.never doubted she had been murdered. The police say her killer was
:00:25. > :00:30.clever and cunning. Vincent Tabak is an intelligent and manipulative
:00:30. > :00:34.man, a man who killed Jo and then had the presence of mind to dispose
:00:34. > :00:37.of the body and evidence linking him to her flat. We'll be looking
:00:37. > :00:40.at how the police built their case against Vincent Tabak.
:00:40. > :00:43.Also tonight: Royal succession moving with the times. Commonwealth
:00:43. > :00:52.leaders say daughters should get the same rights to the throne as
:00:52. > :00:55.sons. Put simply, if the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were to have a
:00:55. > :00:59.little girl, that girl would one day the Queen.
:00:59. > :01:03.The boardroom bonanza: How company directors' pay jumped by almost 50%
:01:03. > :01:13.last year, despite the downturn. And the painstaking and expensive
:01:13. > :01:19.
:01:19. > :01:24.task of restoring Moscow's Bolshoi Coming up, Chelsea pay for their
:01:24. > :01:34.misconduct last weekend while the John Terry continues. And Chelsea
:01:34. > :01:46.
:01:46. > :01:49.are fined for failing to control Good evening. A Dutch engineer,
:01:49. > :01:51.Vincent Tabak, is beginning a life sentence tonight after a jury found
:01:51. > :01:58.him guilty of murdering his neighbour, Joanna Yeates, in her
:01:58. > :02:02.flat in Bristol. Her body was found on Christmas Day last year. Today,
:02:02. > :02:04.police revealed how DNA found on her helped convict him. Detectives
:02:04. > :02:10.called Tabak cunning and manipulative and said it took
:02:10. > :02:13.months of painstaking police work to bring him to justice. Joanna
:02:13. > :02:18.Yeates's family said they regretted that he wouldn't face the death
:02:18. > :02:23.penalty. Jon Kay is in Bristol tonight.
:02:23. > :02:28.From the moment Jo Yeates was reported missing from her flat last
:02:28. > :02:31.Christmas, this became one of the most closely followed and high-
:02:31. > :02:35.profile criminal investigations in recent years. The police received
:02:36. > :02:41.more than 3,000 phone calls from members of the public, and took
:02:41. > :02:45.more than 1,000 potential witness statements, but tonight, one man,
:02:45. > :02:47.Vincent Tabak, is in prison beginning a life sentence and we
:02:47. > :02:52.can finally give you more information that the jury wasn't
:02:52. > :02:58.told about his life. Standing in the shadows, the quiet
:02:58. > :03:03.neighbour nobody suspected. And when Vincent Tabak returned from
:03:03. > :03:08.his Christmas holiday abroad, he thought he had got away with murder.
:03:08. > :03:14.Two weeks earlier, he had used his car to dump the body of July they
:03:14. > :03:20.Yates after killing her in the Victorian mansion block where they
:03:20. > :03:26.lived -- to dump the body of Jo Yeates. He rented the flat on the
:03:26. > :03:30.left with his girlfriend, Tanja Morson. Jo Yeates leave to in the
:03:30. > :03:35.flat on the right with her boyfriend, Greg Reardon. On 17th
:03:35. > :03:39.December, they were both home alone. Jo's parents chose not to be in
:03:39. > :03:43.court for the verdict but they now know that their daughter was
:03:43. > :03:48.murdered by her next-door neighbour, strangled by a man who had viewed
:03:48. > :03:52.internet pornography featuring violence towards women. We so miss
:03:52. > :03:57.hearing her happy voice. family's statement was read by a
:03:57. > :04:03.police officer. We saw no emotion or remorse or regret for what he
:04:03. > :04:09.did to Jo. We felt that all emotion expressed by him was false. All we
:04:09. > :04:13.heard were words of self pity. For us, it is with regret that capital
:04:13. > :04:17.punishment is not a possible option for his sentence. The best we can
:04:17. > :04:22.hope for him is that he spent the rest of his life incarcerated,
:04:22. > :04:26.where his life is a living hell. Yeates had been out for drinks
:04:26. > :04:31.after work and then walked home, stopping on the way to buy pizza.
:04:31. > :04:37.Only Vincent Tabak knows what happened then but within minutes of
:04:37. > :04:42.her getting home, he was in her flat and she was dead. He told the
:04:42. > :04:46.court he had misread the signals, that he had gone to kiss Miss
:04:46. > :04:51.Yeates and when she screamed, he had held her neck to stop the noise,
:04:51. > :04:55.but the jury decided he had killed her intentionally, that it was a
:04:55. > :05:01.sexually motivated murder. As he sentenced Tabak to life
:05:01. > :05:05.imprisonment, the judge described him as very dangerous. Vincent
:05:05. > :05:09.Tabak is an intelligent and manipulative man. A man who killed
:05:09. > :05:14.Jo and then had the presence of mind to dispose of the body and
:05:14. > :05:18.evidence linking him to her flat. Even Tabak's own legal team
:05:18. > :05:23.described his behaviour after the killing as disgusting. He put her
:05:23. > :05:29.body in the boot of his car and went shopping for beer and crisps.
:05:29. > :05:34.The prosecution said that was a deliberate attempt by a calculating
:05:34. > :05:39.man to create an alibi. While her parents and boyfriend made
:05:39. > :05:44.desperate appeals, her murderer went on holiday. Vincent Tabak
:05:44. > :05:48.headed back to Holland to spend New Year with his family, but secretly
:05:48. > :05:55.he was constantly checking the internet to see if his victim's
:05:55. > :06:00.body had been found, working out how he might evade justice. It was
:06:00. > :06:05.the discovery of Jo Yeates's body at a snowy roadside on Christmas
:06:05. > :06:10.morning that gave the investigation even greater resonance. And at the
:06:10. > :06:16.scene, detectives found DNA material, which led to the arrest
:06:16. > :06:22.of Vincent Tabak. His arrest was met with a shot in the small Dutch
:06:22. > :06:29.town where Vincent Tabak was remembered as a shy, academic --
:06:29. > :06:34.met with shock. I said, Vincent?! He isn't able to do that, no, no. I
:06:34. > :06:38.couldn't believe it. But the Dutchman, who received a PhD in
:06:38. > :06:42.human behaviour, had a secret double life. On his computer,
:06:42. > :06:51.detectives found internet images of men with their hands around women's
:06:51. > :06:55.next, of women tied up in car boots. -- Women's necks. His phone had
:06:55. > :07:00.been used to court escort agencies during work trips away from home.
:07:00. > :07:04.None of that evidence was put to the jury in this case. The judge
:07:04. > :07:09.says it was inadmissible because it was not directly linked to this
:07:09. > :07:11.question of murder, but we know from the police denied that they do
:07:11. > :07:18.intend to question Vincent Tabak about some of the material they
:07:18. > :07:21.have found. -- we know from the police tonight.
:07:21. > :07:24.Centuries of royal tradition are to be overturned after agreement at
:07:24. > :07:27.the Commonwealth leaders summit that the rules on girls succeeding
:07:27. > :07:30.to the throne should change. It means any first-born daughter of
:07:30. > :07:33.Prince William would become Queen, even if she later had a younger
:07:33. > :07:38.brother. The ban on the monarch and their heirs marrying Roman
:07:38. > :07:42.Catholics will also be lifted. From Perth, Nicholas Witchell reports.
:07:42. > :07:45.She is a monarch who has probably never been more respected and is
:07:45. > :07:51.very nearly 60 years into one of the most successful reigns in
:07:51. > :07:54.British history. And yet the coronation in 1953 of Elizabeth II
:07:54. > :07:57.would never have happened if she'd had a younger brother, because for
:07:57. > :08:05.more than a thousand years, the daughters of monarchs have always
:08:05. > :08:08.had to give way to sons, regardless of age. But now that is to change,
:08:08. > :08:15.and for once, the Queen revealed what she thought about equality for
:08:15. > :08:24.women at the opening of the Commonwealth Leaders' Summit.
:08:24. > :08:27.theme this year is women as agents of change. It reminds us of the
:08:27. > :08:31.potential in our societies that is yet to be fully unlocked, and it
:08:31. > :08:40.encourages us to find ways to allow girls and women to play their full
:08:40. > :08:45.part. This is why the politicians are finally changing the laws of
:08:45. > :08:48.succession. The marriage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton and
:08:48. > :08:50.the prospect of them having children, but changes such as these
:08:50. > :08:58.require the agreement of 15 other countries, the realms where the
:08:58. > :09:03.British monarch is also head of state. There, Prime Ministers met
:09:03. > :09:10.and came to a decision. I'm very pleased to say that we've reached a
:09:10. > :09:13.unanimous agreement on two changes to the rules of succession. First,
:09:13. > :09:18.we will end the male primogenital rule so that in future the order of
:09:18. > :09:21.succession should be determined simply by the order of birth.
:09:21. > :09:24.other proposed change would affect people in the line of succession
:09:24. > :09:27.like Prince Harry. They'd no longer be barred from marrying Roman
:09:27. > :09:33.Catholics, but it's the potential impact on Prince William and his
:09:33. > :09:36.wife David Cameron highlighted. simply, if the Duke and Duchess of
:09:37. > :09:43.Cambridge were to have a little girl, that girl would one day be
:09:43. > :09:45.our Queen. One important thing to note: The changes wouldn't be
:09:45. > :09:51.retrospective, so Princess Anne won't move up the line of
:09:51. > :09:58.succession, but it is historic. It has to be said the changes are
:09:58. > :10:00.complicated. In Britain alone, the centuries old Bill of Rights and
:10:00. > :10:08.Settlement will have to be amended, but potentially, they will change
:10:08. > :10:10.the future face of the monarchy. At the Commonwealth Summit, David
:10:10. > :10:13.Cameron also turned his attention to the economic problems across
:10:13. > :10:19.Europe saying he felt a little more optimistic following yesterday's
:10:19. > :10:22.deal to tackle the debt crisis. But he warned the City of London was
:10:22. > :10:29.coming under constant attack from directives from Brussels. He's been
:10:29. > :10:32.speaking to our Political Editor, Nick Robinson.
:10:32. > :10:35.The Right Honourable David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United
:10:35. > :10:40.Kingdom. An X-Factor entrance for the Prime
:10:40. > :10:47.Minister at the Commonwealth Summit and every other leader.... Prime
:10:47. > :10:49.minister of Tonga,... President of Nigeria... Prime Minister of Canada.
:10:49. > :10:52.There are 54 countries in this organisation, covering six
:10:52. > :10:57.continents and a third of the world's population, but it has just
:10:57. > :11:07.one real star. Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, head of the
:11:07. > :11:12.
:11:12. > :11:15.The Queen calls the Commonwealth she heads "the first worldwide web".
:11:15. > :11:20.It brings together wealthy liberal Democracies with countries that are
:11:20. > :11:24.much less wealthy and much less liberal and democratic too. They're
:11:24. > :11:27.here to see if they can agree on some things that do bind them
:11:27. > :11:33.together - other, that is, than history and Her Majesty. The
:11:33. > :11:39.Queen's visit to Australia is big news here. But the Commonwealth
:11:39. > :11:42.Summit certainly didn't -- isn't. As thousands of miles away, Europe,
:11:42. > :11:45.and the crisis which all the leaders at this summit no could
:11:45. > :11:48.still damage their economies. After a meeting with his Australian host,
:11:48. > :11:53.the Prime Minister told me he was feeling a little more optimistic
:11:53. > :11:57.about the economy than he had been. The eurozone situation is a little
:11:57. > :12:00.better than it was. That was clearly having a chilling effect on
:12:00. > :12:04.Britain, so the more progress they make, the better for us. This is
:12:04. > :12:09.all about confidence. People may now say it is time for the British
:12:09. > :12:12.Government to take British measures to get the economy growing again.
:12:12. > :12:16.Oh, I accept we have to have the most active growth programme we
:12:16. > :12:20.possibly could. That is in addition to dealing with our debts and our
:12:20. > :12:23.deficit, which absolutely has to be done. David Cameron came here from
:12:23. > :12:27.Brussels. He's worried that when the 17 eurozone countries pull
:12:28. > :12:33.together, they may act against Britain's interests. The City of
:12:33. > :12:37.London is, he says, under constant attack from EU directives. Look,
:12:37. > :12:40.all countries in Europe pursue their national interests. Would the
:12:40. > :12:46.French and the Germans like a larger share of financial services
:12:46. > :12:49.in Paris and Frankfurt? Of course. I want to make sure we keep them in
:12:49. > :12:53.London. That's why we fight very, very hard for our national
:12:53. > :12:56.interests, for jobs, for businesses, for investment. That is what we do
:12:56. > :13:01.in the European Union. The Prime Minister will be in Australia for
:13:01. > :13:05.less than 40 hours. Less time than it takes to fly here and fly back.
:13:05. > :13:15.Next week there is another summit of the G20 in France. Its agenda?
:13:15. > :13:19.
:13:19. > :13:21.Colonel Gaddafi's son has had in direct contact with the
:13:21. > :13:25.International Criminal Court about his possible surrender, according
:13:25. > :13:30.to its prosecutors. Saif Al-Islam, who is on the run following his
:13:30. > :13:34.father's death, is wanted for crimes against humanity. The ICC
:13:34. > :13:37.chief prosecutor said he would get a fair trial if he surrenders.
:13:37. > :13:40.A man employed by the Roman Catholic Church in Plymouth to
:13:40. > :13:44.safeguard children has been jailed for 12 months for making,
:13:44. > :13:50.possessing and distributing images of child sexual abuse. Christopher
:13:50. > :13:54.Jarvis, 49, had more than 4000 images, some on a church supplied
:13:54. > :13:58.laptop. A slap in the face for millions of
:13:59. > :14:01.British workers on ordinary incomes. That is how the Deputy Prime
:14:01. > :14:05.Minister reacted to new figures showing that the directors of top
:14:05. > :14:09.companies enjoyed a 49% increase in their total pay packages over the
:14:09. > :14:15.last year. The study found that FTSE 100 bosses took home an
:14:15. > :14:20.average of �2.7 million. Today, they defended their pay. Hugh Pym
:14:20. > :14:24.has been looking at the figures. For many workers there is the
:14:24. > :14:28.biggest squeeze on spending power in decades, with low pay rises and
:14:28. > :14:31.higher inflation. Demonstrators have come to the heart of the City
:14:31. > :14:36.of London to protest against the financial system, and now we learn
:14:36. > :14:40.that directors of big companies have seen a pay boost of 49%,
:14:40. > :14:44.including share awards over the last year. Government and
:14:44. > :14:49.opposition were quick to condemn. think it will strike most people as
:14:49. > :14:53.a slap in the face for millions of ordinary British men and women who
:14:53. > :14:56.are struggling to make ends meet. When people are struggling, when
:14:56. > :15:00.the middle is being squeezed, people seeing living standards fall,
:15:00. > :15:03.people will think it is just not fair for those at the top to be
:15:03. > :15:07.seeing on a wave rewards not related to the wealth they have
:15:07. > :15:12.created. In the first year of the new millennium, the median pay
:15:12. > :15:17.package for the leading detectives of top 100 companies was just under
:15:17. > :15:22.�900,000. Median earnings for full- time workers were just under 19,000.
:15:22. > :15:27.By this year, the figure for bosses had soared to 2.7 million, up more
:15:28. > :15:32.than 200%. While the figure for workers, around 26.5, had gone up
:15:32. > :15:37.around 40%. And the index of 100 leading shares is lower than 11
:15:37. > :15:42.years ago, although there have been ups and downs in between. So how do
:15:42. > :15:46.British boardroom chiefs defend their pay deals? The man who runs
:15:46. > :15:52.the advertising giant WPP took a 17% increase last year. He says in
:15:52. > :15:56.previous years, when things did not go well, his pay fell. You have to
:15:56. > :15:59.look at fixed pay, and have to look at incentives, short-term and long-
:15:59. > :16:04.term, and the Investment I continued to making the company and
:16:04. > :16:08.have done for 26 years. Go back to 2009, there was a substantial
:16:08. > :16:14.reduction. Companies are owned by shareholders and many of them are
:16:14. > :16:17.in the City of London, the big financial institutions. In the past,
:16:17. > :16:21.they have been criticised for not intervening over the issue of
:16:21. > :16:25.directors' pay, but the Government cannot force them to act, or go
:16:25. > :16:29.into battle against boardrooms. Ministers have launched a review
:16:29. > :16:32.with the aim of linking pay more closely to performance. But
:16:32. > :16:37.criticism of big companies over the salaries for bosses, and their
:16:37. > :16:45.bonuses, is nothing new. They have shrugged it off before and this
:16:45. > :16:50.time it may be no different. Coming up:
:16:50. > :16:56.The Bolshoi back in business - a gala performance at its grand
:16:56. > :17:01.reopening in Moscow. India gets a taste of the world's
:17:01. > :17:03.most expensive sport this weekend when it hosts its first ever
:17:03. > :17:08.Formula One Grand Prix. Promoters hope that the event will banish
:17:08. > :17:13.memories of the corruption that marred last year's, north games.
:17:13. > :17:17.The new racetrack and stadium cost �250 million to build. It might not
:17:17. > :17:21.seem much, given that India is now the world's 9th largest economy,
:17:21. > :17:24.but with more than a third of its population living in poverty, some
:17:24. > :17:33.fear that the Grand Prix is just another sign of the gulf between
:17:33. > :17:40.rich and poor. The spin machine is in overdrive.
:17:40. > :17:44.Formula One cars racing through the centre of Delhi. Promoting it as
:17:44. > :17:48.the new sport for a rise in India and its burgeoning middle classes.
:17:48. > :17:53.There is a brand new track and stadium, built on time and on
:17:53. > :17:56.budget. The organisers hope it will erase memories of last year's
:17:56. > :18:01.chaotic Commonwealth Games here. The seats have been selling fast,
:18:01. > :18:06.but even the cheapest are way beyond the pockets of most Indians.
:18:06. > :18:09.India is in the fast lane - that is the message here, ready to host the
:18:09. > :18:17.world's most expensive sport. But is it a sign that India is pulling
:18:17. > :18:21.ahead, or just its wealthy elite? Just the other side of the track,
:18:21. > :18:29.it is a world away from the high- octane glamour and speed of Formula
:18:29. > :18:33.One. Some have done well, getting compensation from the racetrack for
:18:34. > :18:39.their farm land. They have gone on a spending spree on new cars and
:18:39. > :18:49.houses. Can everyone who has received compensation for the track
:18:49. > :18:50.
:18:50. > :18:56.put up their hands? But it is a lottery. Those with land do really
:18:56. > :19:00.well, those without get nothing. With the land gone, this farm
:19:01. > :19:10.labour now has no worker. He cannot afford to send his children to
:19:11. > :19:13.
:19:13. > :19:16.school. He says he wishes Formula One had never come to India. But
:19:16. > :19:21.preparations for the multi-million- dollar race are now in top gear,
:19:21. > :19:25.with the owner of India's Grand Prix team saying the country is now
:19:25. > :19:29.in the big league. I don't know why the international media keeps
:19:29. > :19:34.focusing on the poor part of India. Sure, we have poverty, but why
:19:34. > :19:38.don't you focus on what in the actually house? A large middle
:19:38. > :19:44.class, perhaps this but perhaps the size of Europe. A growing per
:19:44. > :19:49.capita income. An aspirational population, very successful. And
:19:49. > :19:53.the market is large enough. country is roaring ahead in many
:19:54. > :20:01.ways. The danger is that it is becoming more and more two Indias,
:20:01. > :20:04.with one being left ever further behind.
:20:04. > :20:08.Ireland's former culture minister is on course to win the Irish
:20:08. > :20:12.presidential election. Michael D Higgins, Labour Party veteran and
:20:12. > :20:17.poet, has won more than 40% of the vote, according to the first
:20:17. > :20:20.official count. Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness came third.
:20:20. > :20:23.The Brown -- the Crown Prosecution Service has asked for more evidence
:20:23. > :20:26.over allegations that the Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, tried to
:20:27. > :20:30.avoid a speeding ticket. Prosecutors have been examining
:20:30. > :20:35.claims that he asked his ex-wife to accept that all the points on his
:20:35. > :20:41.behalf. He has strongly denied the allegations. -- to accept penalty
:20:41. > :20:44.points. Investors in Britain are still
:20:44. > :20:48.digesting the latest deal saved the euro. Many eyes are turning towards
:20:48. > :20:51.China to see whether it will support the EU bail out fund. Today
:20:51. > :20:55.the head of that fund was in Beijing, hoping to persuade
:20:55. > :21:01.investors. If you are looking for money, this
:21:01. > :21:05.is where you find it, Beijing. The economy is booming, cash to spend.
:21:05. > :21:12.So is seeking investment capital, it is to communist China that
:21:12. > :21:17.Europe is turning in its hour of need. The head of Europe's bail out
:21:17. > :21:23.fund is here to persuade China to invest in Europe. In my experience,
:21:23. > :21:29.talking to the Chinese authorities, they are interested in finding
:21:29. > :21:33.attractive, solid, safe investment opportunities. Vast export
:21:33. > :21:36.industries selling to the world drive the Chinese economy. Some say
:21:36. > :21:43.the policy of fixing its exchange rate to keep products cheap is
:21:43. > :21:47.unfair. But it earns China huge amounts of cash. A surplus of $540
:21:47. > :21:51.million every day in the first half of this year, making China's pile
:21:51. > :21:57.of foreign exchange a gigantic 3.2 trillion dollars, about half of
:21:57. > :22:06.which, 1.6 trillion, is invested in America. And about a quarter, $800
:22:06. > :22:10.billion, is thought to be held in euros. This man's bank invested $30
:22:10. > :22:17.billion last year, much in Africa. Europe is not China's only option,
:22:17. > :22:22.he says. China has many other choices. We have to weigh each of
:22:22. > :22:26.these choices. Europe is one of those choices. Today, China's
:22:26. > :22:32.leaders were hinting that they will want concessions if they loan money
:22:32. > :22:35.to Europe. There should be less old prejudice, said China's vice
:22:35. > :22:39.Foreign Minister. That may mean opening European markets more to
:22:39. > :22:43.China, or not criticising it for having a cheap currency. Other
:22:43. > :22:47.demands might be that Europe stops criticising China on human rights,
:22:47. > :22:53.or that it lifts the arms embargo in place since the Tiananmen
:22:53. > :22:56.massacre. Certainly, China feels in a powerful position. Europe needs
:22:56. > :23:04.capital for its government and to return to growth. China has plenty
:23:04. > :23:07.of money. After six years of painstaking
:23:07. > :23:12.restoration, the red curtain went up for the first time since 2005
:23:12. > :23:16.tonight at Russia's world famous Bolshoi Theatre. But returning it
:23:16. > :23:23.to its 19th century imperial splendour has come up quite a price.
:23:23. > :23:29.Daniel Sandford was there for the Bolshoi's grand reopening.
:23:29. > :23:33.It was the Moscow must have ticket of the year, a gala concert to mark
:23:33. > :23:39.the reopening of the city's famous old theatre, where there has been
:23:39. > :23:43.no performance since July 2005. Tonight's concert is the end of a
:23:43. > :23:48.six-year battle to bring the Bolshoi Theatre back to its glory
:23:48. > :23:55.from the time of the tsars. The renovation has cost over half a
:23:55. > :23:59.billion pounds. Moscow's elite was there, among them, former President
:23:59. > :24:05.Mikhail Gorbachev, and the outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev. Many of
:24:05. > :24:08.the Bolshoi's ballet stars were on display, including a principal
:24:08. > :24:18.dancer Maria Alexandra Burke. Between final rehearsals, she gave
:24:18. > :24:22.me a tour of the painstakingly renovated building.
:24:22. > :24:27.TRANSLATION: We all know we have to keep the history and traditions of
:24:27. > :24:35.this place, so this is a very happy moment for us. I have even got
:24:35. > :24:40.tears in my eyes. I am so happy. During the renovation, all of the
:24:40. > :24:44.Soviet emblems, like the hammer and sickle, were removed. And, as ever
:24:44. > :24:48.in modern Russia, the eye-watering cost of the building work brought
:24:48. > :24:55.allegations of corruption. But there was traditional craftsmanship,
:24:55. > :25:00.too. The gold leaf was polished using vodka and squirrels tales.
:25:00. > :25:06.This colour lithograph, made in 1856, shows the theatre in the
:25:06. > :25:10.years are Alexander II was crowned. -- in the year that Tsar Alexander
:25:10. > :25:13.II was Crown. Since then, it has seen Communist Party rallies and
:25:13. > :25:17.survive the Second World War but has managed to keep its reputation
:25:17. > :25:21.as the home of world-class ballet. Some dancers have complained that
:25:21. > :25:24.the restoration has taken the soul out of the theatre, but the
:25:24. > :25:33.resurgent Russian state is hoping it will stand alongside the other
:25:33. > :25:40.great ballet and opera houses in New York, Paris, London and Milan.