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good to have you with us here on r t these are your headlines the thai government set to discuss the fate of alleged russian arms smuggler facing extradition to the u.s. this comes after a bangkok or dismisses new charges against the businessman effectively removing the main obstacle to his extradition to the u.s. on charges of terrorism and money laundering if convicted he faces life in prison. we can't allow ourselves to be out communicated by our enemies. of us international broadcasting calls for more cash to battle rising media voices around the world

according to the broadcasting board of governors america's voice drowned out by independent foreign media its head has come in for criticism for what's been labeled as his cold war perspective. and. fresh u.s. demands for data sharing critics say america is violating the personal privacy of travelers washington is hoping to get access to fingerprints d.n.a. samples and banking details members of the european parliament argue the measures will help in the fight on terror. up next our special report this time we meet folks who are getting back to basics find out why they're turning their backs on the bright lights of the big city to be at one with nature stay with us. out in the countryside every day hard work is far more valuable than creature comforts here the people have no use for the latest high tech handheld devices consume a crazes. they build what they call ecological settlements to live in harmony with

the natural environment so well they simply escaping big city life for a short break or are they fully rejecting modern civilization ecological settlements a refuge for misfits and down costs or a place for the independent and strong minded of these people moving to be the economic crisis or to escape from themselves. that is already committed early on some is an important time for a few that's when he begins collecting honey from his forty bee hives as he pulls out each heavy honeycomb he suggests that bees may be in nature's original eco settlers. i mean bees are very rational creatures that's what is

amazing about them and that's why i adore them besides they're very useful creatures they don't harm nature in any way whatsoever nature blossoms with the arrival of. eighty years ago fielder who's a former engineer and several of his friends were given a one hundred hectare plot of land one hundred forty kilometers southwest of moscow they divided it into one hundred equal parts they offered the land to anyone willing to adhere to special conditions takers were expected to live in the settlement permanently. we follow these rules there is a ban on pesticides and manmade fancies of trees every one of us must plant trees we are dead set against smoking and alcohol. banned in public places. the name of the settlement means no. the maybe no biblical flood but dozens of

people have flocked here from big cities only a few plots of land are still vacant. hello . we shifted i'm doing i was a go on. maxine from moscow is one of the most recent newcomers he wants to take advantage of the warm weather to finish building a house he spent a good deal of time and effort preparing for his move to come check his boss had allowed him to report to work in moscow only twice a month he also convinced his wife and children that it was much easier to work outside the. i grew up in a village. in my apartment there wasn't enough space for me. to my windows trees all around and lots of. people crammed.

things before the country. seems wife is a doctor by trade after she came here it took her a while to get used to the daily manual work the really the show centers in the settlement electricity only came here a couple of years ago residents are frequently found baking their own bread. when life gets tough i take comfort from the floor to the see if i was working in moscow i'd spend three hours going to work and back. i spend as much time. out in the open. this bakery village in scotland begins work at home. it's in an old fishing village near findhorn scotland's north sea coast and is one of the world's oldest and most famous eco settlements the people here. it's autumn and time for the harvest.

it's very important to grow our own food so that we don't have to buy it from overseas so that we know that the food trevitt so much but that it's really fresh food and. elliot sank speed is happy to see the bumper crop strictly speaking growing tomatoes is not his every day job he's in charge of the generation next project organizing programs for young eco settlers. and he had maintains that life without physical work is impossible in the village. to my body of different. people rufus it can be really engage in a different word so i looked. at some of the vegetables that he had gathered this

morning we'll end up in the community center kitchen where the center. meat products are strictly in this kitchen. for use in pounds and salads. with. schools of settlers of the community center and the cooks finish preparing the food for dinner. everybody is expected to join in the coming. of. the history of what is now a well known community goes back forty seven years peter. came with

a friend mclean to live in a trailer near the village. when their efforts to grow vegetables succeeded others followed. campaigners for the eco friendly lifestyle began arriving at findhorn from around the world during the one nine hundred seventy s. the community grew from twenty to one hundred fifty members. as we come through this landscape here we start to move into what we call a poem a culture a garden. garden is the same thing as co-creating with nature working with nature one of the reasons why i came to is because of meditational focus the spiritual progress but also working with nature. gibson was one of the first settlers. he's lived in. his. his house is one of the

eco village is an attraction it's made from whiskey barrels we were looking for would particularly wood to use and which is very hot and whiskey barrel wood the hard wood is great. right now the water to speak. and that's the way to get. inside the whiskey barrel everything is just as simple and ecologically pure as it is outside as a village venture and craig is in charge of several ecological projects we live very simply we still live quite simply but it was not difficult was really wonderful because we were. not working for money. and doing everything just for the collective. nice climate nice people we're not trying to create something alternative we're trying to demonstrate

a different style of living and we see ourselves more. so we are almost a little town. moscow one of the biggest cities in europe concrete and glass towers are cropping up in the capital the brand new financial center housing both russian and foreign firms. and with. i think it's ok on the how. shall we draw conclusions regarding chile i mean school should we tie that in with kazakhstan. this workspace is on the top floor of one of moscow's skyscrapers but the head of the firm with this prestigious office space doesn't care much about the view from his desk he has done in stellar golf the man considered to be russia's first millionaire in the early one nine hundred ninety s. he also set up the first russian commodity exchange. but things took an unexpected

turn seven years ago when his business went bust sterling of himself also went bankrupt when he was forced to sell off his apartment he took an extreme measure and resolved to leave moscow for a place without central heating running water or electricity. i said to my wife i had lost my job and money and we could no longer own our apartment and we had to go somewhere else immediately after with. my daily routine is like this i get up at six in the morning to tend the cattle then i have the right first and go to moscow my eldest son stays behind to look after the household i visit the big bad city to formulate anti-crisis measures and

mechanism. of the start of the financial meltdown was asked to head a private and secret service center but even after moving into his huge office in moscow he never even toyed with the idea of returning to the capital permanently. thank god we have no apartment in moscow this coffin of an apartment no matter how spacious it might be is a far cry from my house here is my home and this is what i call life. but now only gets to spend weekends in his out of this world settlement. next seems daughter a computer expert living in ca jack is fresh from a horse ride the neighbor breeds horses. look at the we she says and she's beautiful. sea of bills that pulls. most of the

one hundred settlers have opted for country life because of their children. they believe raising them outside town is easier to refuse to temptations in the countryside. in the evening maxime's wife daughter go to what is locally known as the common home tonight is indian dances night. that. is a newcomer to come check she teaches the inhabitants indian say and tells them about the country's culture. most local residents have volunteered jobs be a teaching. school children. when they came here for the first time people asked me to tell them about indian dances and

demonstrate some of them. a good deal of interest on the part of flo called residence and they even asked me to teach them and i greet. indian songs bring another day to a close. this one has been filled with many activities from work in the vegetable gardens to learning new skills. people hear. the low traffic jams supermarket queues old t.v. set but they have to rise early to get the day's chores completed.

this place makes sam. but another is it sparkles and unexplainable interest from. a place where supernatural things are happening. on our t.v. . a warm summer is a rare occurrence in this part of scotland but this summer has yielded a bumper harvest in the findhorn eco village. the tomatoes squashes and cabbage is a packed into possum boxes. some of them go to local settlers who pay for their vegetables of those a sold in this shop. phoenix is the only shop in the settlement it's items are

targeted mostly at visits and guests but settlers also come in buying here. karen bowles dropped in to buy fresh squashes. but instead of paying in pounds she uses the local currency called the eco the exchange rate stays the same one equals one pound it was seventy years ago to support local businesses. in order to keep the money. and also. means that money doesn't leak out into other places it keeps. the people in findhorn proud of their recycling system the water is purified with a special device called the living machine. from here under ground.

the next step is that. this is a first place. into the time and that kills the bacteria that was previously. this small facility purified water used here bacteria and other microorganisms purify it in several phases hey you can see the bubbles in the water and condition is the. end of the process. after this process in which. we come to the car if you look into the wood. and this is the final tank cleaning from this point the water goes underground. which runs it up the wrong way under the foundation. the end result is crystal clear. in the pond you can see with maybe there.

generally speaking a very simple principle. green technology is used. to maintain that people must not take from nature than she can. for the chemical fertilizers and not used whenever possible. we just wanted to have as many renewable features as possible so that you could see them you know. turbines complement solar panels or the wood stove or whatever else . electricity generated in this way. but willing to pay because they know computers are powered. this was a community wind project we also wanted to involve the community and after they

were wrecked we had groups of young community artists and school children decorate all three turbans and this was a school project about the ecological footprint. it's daybreak in the russian village of jacques. revisits the. indian the day before but today she is the teacher and she's taking a geography global oh that's was the right. how would you describe the race a region that. strayed. two years ago and has forty to teachers have always been in good supply the children. themselves. children cheerful generous and then else when they want to learn things i'm happy to see that. i get the desired response from them that's your back if you will.

this. recently. last winter nina was living in a small. room. who. came here last july the grass was very high here. the first thing that we did. and when leave here until december. and into that barn we carried it with this film and did the same inside to make the barn warm. but the and then my husband found bricks and plants. and he used them to make a stone. alexi and his wife nina lived in this tiny bomb until the summer. alexy who was

a successful photographer then began building his family a new home in the spring. gave birth to their second child now the house is almost complete alexian lien say they found happiness. we don't do what we don't want to do of course forcing people to do what they dislike is no good it's old. your expectations much what you see in the new place you adapt to the situation naturally and you do what you want to do. people feel much more comfortable here to have an apartment and money and job or a business where everything was ok with that and yet they decided to come here they're successful here too as for escapism it doesn't work out well as a rule. yes it's me. i

know i haven't sacked him to the urals as for the money it goes to. government telephone barely stops ringing even on saturday mornings as an entrepreneur whose business was ruined years ago sterling of seize the financial crisis as the best time for spreading the economic lessons that land. this crisis offers a big opportunity for one thing urban people are losing jobs nobody needs this is a powerful stimulus for them to move to other places and if this city sewage system goes down that it compel people to move in no time the government dislikes the term eco settler he calls himself a peasant and hates progress more than even the most radical greens and feels that scientific progress does nothing but harm and maintains that people should go back to their roots living as he does just like in days gone by the food should come

from your own vegetable garden. just log them and eat them. laurie we don't use any cameco to grow them. come on try it. even has an eco solution to making a nice without a freezer. this is all free only a short time ago i had always dreamt of making a realized box and that's the right time for a big chunks of meat to be stored here. the freezer is on one side of the fridge bought all jars and canned food are kept on the other one a freeze comes around i crammed into this place. the eyes down there last for a whole year. according to government people should eat at home with their families and say prayers to he believes the best way to beat the crisis is to reject innovation and revert to time tested practices. well any

novelty is the work of the devil everything that is old has been tested for thousands of years people used to leave quite well they just gave birth to children and multiplied through they quarreled and went to war but came to terms in the end but now a great discoveries by dan scientists. suicide for all of us. back home in scotland what was once a closed community has become an education center that's over fifty years old many international organizations hold seminars hear. these issues and guests visit to open to learn from the experience. of visitors coming to the findhorn eco village this time it's a focus everyone's invited to see the show. another object of pride in finland is the large concert hall which is filled to capacity this is.

not asked to perform at the theatre settlement one hundred forty kilometers from moscow strangers are now treated with suspicion on one occasion house was burned down and there's been dead or is it others visitors need permission to come to. the . field or found offers a simple explanation a community of settlers is a convenient arrangement but everyone's responsible for their own livelihood. you must leave something behind in this world planting hundreds or thousands of trees bringing more happiness into this world that would be a good outcome from my life that's the case i'll be happy to do it with. other has numerous followers all over russia. settlements have sprung up in siberia

and in the far east the recession has prompted people to leave the town behind and move closer to nature. and that now people understand. bank balances can be easily lost but if you found a place under the sun. you can stay afloat. show biz that instead sixty minutes of insults read into these presentations high

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