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greencard brad why we're here for and how immigrants flocking to the u.s. by a lack of opportunity in government help realize they were better off back home. muzzling the media georgians more of the free speech which they say has killed off by government intolerance to criticism and independent reporting. and millions of russian celebrate orthodox christmas while the holiday season in the country still jingling all the way. in our business program find out what the

global car production rebound will mean for the russian auto market i'll have that and more in about twenty minutes time. and you're watching r t coming to you live from moscow marina josh welcome to the program now they go in search of the american dream but for many immigrants of remains just that hundreds of thousands go to the u.s. each year looking for a better job in a better future for their family often they are highly qualified but as artie's lauren lyster found out they end up in the low paid work to try and make ends meet . in the united states and here in new york every year countless people play the lottery. entering for a chance to win or a mega million dollar fantasy believing

a few dollars and a dream could buy them so for their life a ticket that could change their lives every year more than ten million people also play a different kind of lottery and fifty thousand when i meet one of them my name is owner and her husband teenage son and seven year old daughter you see here. are immigrants from nepal they entered and won the united states diversity visa lottery this lottery is a congressional mandate it's supposed to be an opportunity for people to come to america from countries with historically low rates of immigration jackpot with permanent residency the prize is not cash but green cards and this startling experience is due to a lot of we have to start from scratch from zero once we got here two years of struggling with joblessness after finding their education in nepal doesn't count in the u.s. setbacks they never expected this to we didn't know people used to say you're

educated it will be easy america is a big country with a lot of facilities life will be better but in reality everything the incident. yes to hire. experts who work on immigration issues a lottery winners really are given no resources from the government that invited them here and the struggles of jimena and her family are not unique for most people we have and counted it's been very difficult they reflect a group of immigrants who come to the u.s. not because of a job lined up or a family sponsoring them but for many because of the vision of what they can achieve they really have that american dream of coming to the u.s. they know that they've invested in their education and they. i think that the united states is the place to put that skills those degrees and that ambition to work with the greatest possible return. when many find is maybe something though

here already an ethnic neighborhood like this one that has southeast asian music restaurants and fashion what many struggle with is finding economic opportunities that are any better than what they had in their home country or even finding jobs that allow them to survive here we're seeing a lot of the downward mobility of immigrants and often very highly qualified and. finding foreign degrees an experience don't count for many u.s. employers these immigrants end up taking anything it means engineers and business managers and up his cab drivers and cashiers according to a study two out of five ford educated immigrants are either in this situation or unemployed all together it's an american dream they want to wake up from if you got if we had known this we wouldn't have come life was much easier in my country people who see their plight firsthand argue the government should help more i do think it's a state department's responsibility and i think that the united states is going to lose out relative to other countries taking that step possibly losing out to

countries such as canada and germany unless they make sure winning the lottery actually pays off more and lyster new york. and there's twenty more to come this hour for you here in r.t. and on their way a rubbish existence we report from iraq of how many children there are forced to make a living from riffling through other people's just part of trash. activists in georgia have had out of the state of the media and freedom of speech in the country journalists say it's under threat and that they come under heavy pressure to have a pro-government janda in their reporting this is a country which markets itself as a free and open democracy artist on board and went to see for himself. the death of free georgian media that's the message of this mock up funeral being held in tbilisi and the mourners amending how lonely their struggle is. the problem is that

society is so intimidated by the authorities people aren't ready to react the right of human rights one of these alleged violations happened to join in and is really one of the coning brothers of trail at e t v an independent regional station that isn't afraid to criticize government policy they claim he was stopped by police on patrol and then beaten it clips they don't like criticism they want us to cover news which is good for the government's p.r. and they don't want to answer harsh questions or meet the population's needs. trinity's owners also claim that one of its camera crews was beaten while covering the removal of stalin statue from the georgian town of gori earlier this year but not all media outlets in the country agree that free speech is under threat i don't don't get it when they're saying about this lack of freedom of speech in georgia we all know that there are two television stations here in georgia which are strictly

strictly positive that say government critics is precisely the problem if you are not for the government you are considered against it news service and there is no independent media there is either pro governmental or opposition media we have no media source in georgia which has its own pulse here is balance and is not subordinate to any party in the form on woodsmen as that this situation arrived with the new government of mikhail saakashvili it was about all those who came to power after the rose revolution loudly speaking about freedom of speech human rights and democracy started tightening the screws very quickly the whole georgian t.v. industry quickly changed basses and became totally controlled by the new authorities meaning that those trying to follow an independent line here on an ever narrow. it's a hazy day the georgian capital be diminished you could make out the city's telecoms tower through which most of the region's telecom signals pass but like the mist the fear is that media freedom here is becoming harder to see joe matson r.t.

to be seen. and the us is pumping billions of dollars into regenerating iraq but with thousands they are still living under the poverty line many say they are yet to see a difference to standards of living and as artists are best in my reports some are forced to live in dumping grounds scavenging through waste just to earn a daily wage. at seven am every morning fatima crouch is outside her house and along with her sister and cousins begins to sort through garbage displaced from southern iraq that miss family is too poor to send her to school and so she works eight hours a day sorting through baghdad's landfill collecting plastic and metal that will be shipped abroad for recycling a reward for carting forty pounds of trash around two dollars and fifty cents behind me says acres of baghdad's trash to many this is just waste but for the families here this is not only their livelihood but also their homes over two

thousand people live on baghdad's landfill. making their homes out of the garbage that the rest of the city throws away there's no running water or electricity and certainly no access to medical treatment if someone gets sick they have to be taken to hospital the same way they get drinking water by donkey cart can you believe that in iraq you would live in a shack made from the garbage people who worked for the feel and change so we could see that iraq is still a wonderful place at least by god the old regime is gone and we have a new government but the situation was reliving in shacks america spending fifty three billion dollars on the reconstruction effort in iraq but the residents of our jet haven't seen a dime of it what they have seen though is the sectarian violence the drove them from their home five years ago. we used to live in abu ghraib you know then america came the war increased in iraq people started killing each other and so we fled because we were freed in two thousand and five names family moved to the landfill

and has been living there ever since too afraid and too poor to return home you know the american occupation turned iraq into a battlefield as well as sowing the seeds of political corruption how can americans stand back and watch without intervening in this situation everybody knows about the fate of the iraqi economy is foreign to seventy if not ninety percent of what he used to be this is having. terrible in fact on the ground and economically experts worry about the children who grow up too poor to go to school without an education and they're easily preyed on by criminal gangs and terrorist organizations who lure them with money and promises of a brighter future. how can a dream will even fear i can't accomplish anything nothing good security if you really want to go back home if there is no work we only need security. erect remains a very dangerous place where kidnappings and murders are part of daily life for these families living out a trash heap is still better than living with sunni neighbors back home but until

that is possible until american reconstruction dollars reach the quarter of a rexx population that lives in poverty children will continue to collect trash in order to survive sebastian meyer or a t.v. in baghdad now it's christmas day for us it's believers all across the world and stay with r.t. as we reported how this whole day's march almost a decade after he was resurrected from saudi times when i was ignored by the official calendar. to russia's far east now where rescue efforts are continuing in the operation to free the two remaining ships which have been stuck in icy waters for about a week and i breaker has managed to pull the third one out and hand it over to another icebreaker which will escort it to warmer waters telling is being hampered by bad weather conditions in sally and bay including snow and strong winds admiral the car has on its way for the remaining two vessels which have over three hundred

people trapped on board they say they are not in danger and that they have enough food and drink supplies a third more powerful icebreaker is on its way to help with the rescue operations expected to reach the ships late on saturday victor civilian from the federal fishing agency says the rescue mission is far from plain sailing. beulah's the weather has got worse a chilling snowstorm is settled in with winds of up to twenty meters per second the temperatures well below minus twenty degrees celsius visibility is low it's difficult to see how long the admiral mccarville take to get back to the remaining two ships it might take eight or ten hours the path forged by the ice breaker through the ice closes back up quickly and this makes the risk to operation even more difficult it was well thought of getting the family of alleged russian arms dealer viktor aboard have spoken outrage at the way they were treated in the u.s.

and victor butts wife claims they were questioned for hours and treated like terrorists for no apparent reason r.t. spoke to alabama outside j.f.k. airport after she was released. they've clearly been waiting for us that he had spent two hours in some strange premises they tend upside down and took away all the personal things from my bag they told me just which of my cell phone and didn't allow me to get in touch with the russian consulate until this interrogation or question in session what i thought you call it was a that there was a person there who introduced himself as a special anti terror agent he told me he wanted to talk to me about the purpose of my visit and my plans and intentions here he had a long list of questions which he wanted to ask however i told him that i was waiting for a russian embassy representative my lawyer and an interpreter that i would talk to him only in their presence an immigration officer i think also asked me whether i

knew that my husband was a terrorist and why i had been arrested i answered that i didn't know why my husband was being kept in new york because no one has yet proven that he was a terrorist or somehow linked to terrorism with. victor borge is currently in custody after being extradited from thailand and he was arrested in two thousand and eight during a sting operation by u.s. authorities after two and a half years behind bars in bangkok he was handed over to the u.s. where he faces a number of charges and those include conspiring to supply arms to terrorist groups moscow has criticized his extradition and the conditions of his arrest it said russia is not defending him but protecting the rights of russian citizen who they hope will have a say or trial both pretrial hearings are set to begin next week. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and u.s. defense secretary robert gates has announced a seventy a billion dollar cut from the pentagon's budget over the next five years the reductions include slashing administrative personnel costs as well as scrapping

weapon systems and it follows the one hundred billion dollar internal savings which were previously and now republicans in congress are expected to fiercely opposed plans. so am pyongyang have downgraded their defense of alert according to south korean media north korean units that have been on special standby now appeared to be on routine operations gang also says it's ready for unconditional talks with the south to allay fears of conflict on the peninsula tension is a high over pyongyang shelling of a south korean island in a vampyr which killed four people and the north claims the attack was in response to south korean military exercises in the area. and water levels in the flood ravaged australian city of rockhampton have reached a peak and are starting to recede but more rain has been forecast for the weekend residents remaining in the town have completely surrounded the your homes with

sandbags across queensland hundreds of homes are underwater with more than two hundred thousand people affected the total cost of the disaster has been estimated at two five billion u.s. dollars. almost five thousand farms have been shut down across germany following a scare over a day off some contamination which can cause cancer officials in eleven states ban deliveries to any businesses involved in the production of the animal feed at the center of the scare at the oxen level of that exceeded legal levels in was found a late december and the cause of the contamination remains unclear. saudi arabia has detained a vulture found in its countryside saying the bird is spying for israel it was wearing a g.p.s. long girl and a lab brings literally beating it to the university of tel aviv and israeli colleges does the manning of the bird is releasing is probably part of a study on migration movements the israeli foreign ministry has dismissed the

accusations. now remember it's take a look at our web site for the stories we're covering an area and a lot more here are some what you'll find there right now at r.t. dot com. moscow famed pushkin museum has announced a series of dazzling exhibitions for the coming year to whet the appetite of a part of passion lovers with highlights including salvador dali and christiane dior. and death in venice well now it can be buried there too daughter was once reserved only for residents of the romantic city off canals and all the details are available. and it's christmas day for orthodox russians with church services and family

celebrations happening nationwide while much of the world may have packed up its tensile in turkey. explains why the seasonal spirit lingers on. the. thirteen days later the difference in dates is because of russian christmas films on the seventh of january following the old julian calendar but it wasn't always this way sergei's parents celebrated christmas in much the same way as the rest of the world on december the twenty feet but the bullshit revolution changed it all they simply moved the christmas tree on to new years they moved the gifts on to a new years they moved south across to in your ears and they banned christmas sugi as a child of the soviet union which slapped a ban not only on freedom of speech and freedom of faith too it's only after its

collapse in one thousand nine hundred ninety one that christmas was again celebrated publicly i don't really know whether we could plan their shows on christmas eve go to church and never decorator fir tree for new year it took a while to explain it to our child that a christmas tree is that great on christmas only for god and not for santa. their family has traveled a lot they lived in canada and in brazil but no where they say screw is most recognized so slowly as it is back home definitely less scepter stick because christmas in the west today i believe is essentially buying gifts having a good time while in russia. and it's becoming more and more is spiritual thing russians believe you can start you first to do the food the first star appears in the night sky marking the birth of christ

a strict diet food two days no animal produced preparing yourself physically for the special event on christmas night vigils are held in thousands of churches across russia but the main service takes place here at christ the savior cathedral which is symbolic because just like christmas itself it saw a rebirth only after the collapse of the soviet union religion is the opium of the people the communist leaders declared and leveled to the ground the country's main cathedral for many years there was a swimming pool on the summit thousands of other churches felt a similar fate today this child of emigrants is happy to be back in a country which has returned to its roots in the west churches are closing down. they don't know what to do with their buildings they cannot grade them they cannot maintain them they are selling them their town or burning them then two apartments

. here it's the other way around since that is integration of the soviet union almost twenty thousand churches have opened up the rule shippers that's around three churches a day and with the country's new senior think this eating by example it's clear the christian tradition now outweighs the communist want x. integrate your martini. as time now for a business of day. hello welcome to our business program i'm sure on a qian there's stockmen gas field is home to one of the world's largest natural gas deposits in the world and was discovered twenty years ago but production has yet to start despite the numerous attempts by various companies there are signs however that things could change for the better in two thousand and eleven argy

correspondent tim a fake last year has more. one of the biggest discovered natural gas fields in the world the stockmen fields hidden deep in the bering sea lion estimated three point nine trillion cubic meters of natural gas despite being discovered two decades ago the gas still remains untouched these combine these two factors that it is number one it is arctic and number two it is offshore makes this. globally unique i don't think there is. there is a such a tough weather such a tough environment conditions a stock one but it does have its advantages the field is located significantly closer to its main consumer europe russia's gas giant gazprom partnered up with friends to tao and norwegian stat oil in two thousand and eight to have a go at developing the fields various attempts have been made since the ninety's by both russian and foreign companies but no significant progress was made however

analysts say this time gas room has what it takes for has. enough power to. propose and to push with the development plan that gas from considers to be the right one but it's more about actual demand and. the returns on this project the stockman project is heavily tied to the global oil prices low prices in two thousand and ten were one of the reasons that the project was virtually put on hold due to low profitability however by the end of the year oil prices went back up gas from start now to consider stalk one as its next priority project as the next priority possible project again. but at the same time on our hand just a month ago gas from has caught up its program by more than one hundred billion

rubles for two thousand and eleven another major issue. logistics there's an ongoing dispute between the partners about how to transport the gas and what type of pipeline to use but in the midst of all these control over seas ahead of stockmen development bubbles of confidence i think if not they wouldn't by two thousand and sixteen we plan to start producing gas there are no problems with the schedule which has been determined by the shareholders. analysts say. there inflated spent only a modest peek at the next five years a little reason to accelerate the pace of development and if you close your business. now let's take a look at the markets in russia the forces are close to eleventh of january for the russian new year holiday break meanwhile is in markets were mixed on friday with weakness in the resource sector and caution ahead of us non-farm payroll data weighing out some markets. european stocks have fallen in volatile trading on

friday as investors await us labor market data do later in the session. and seventy percent of the first line of the nordstrom gas pipeline which will connect russia and germany across the baltic sea bed has been laid that's according to georg no arc north stream aging project manager for germany eight hundred fifty kilometers of pipes have already been laid out of a total length of twelve hundred kilometers the plan for the pipeline is to build two parallel legs each with a capacity of twenty seven and a half billion cubic metres per year with the first gas delivery scheduled for late two thousand and eleven when finished it will be the longest subsidy pipeline in the world. and global copper duction has generally seen a rebound from the recent economic downturn this excel reading growth however

should see some historical changes on the global as well as the russian auto market . has the story. just ten years ago the production in the developing countries accounted for just twenty percent of global output twenty eleven is expected to reach parity russia is one of the principal drivers of that trend is projected to supply six percent of the global market in the coming twelve months and other factor for the growth in the domestic sector was due to the government's cash for clunkers program that locked the way for increased consumer spending however for the first time the majority of vehicles produced will not be as domestic brands just as in vulgus instead russians will be making renos full time gangs and foods like that the growth of the economy as a whole drives the market the further development of bank loan programs and the recent car utilization campaign run by the state have been the fact is for increased consumer spending world car sales have accelerated an impressive nineteen

percent in two thousand and ten rebounding strongly from the financial crisis the growth was driven mainly by the bric countries brazil russia india and china analysts believe china will take over the global center of car production and the next five years we're predicting ridiculous amounts of growth in china it really is going to take over a century of competition in the world but also india brazil and russia will also play the part of growth with predicting that during the next five years over the next five years the whole of the growth in production in the world comes from the bric countries and six percent coming from russia manufacturers continue to view russia as a particularly attractive market call want to ship a still relatively low compared to the developed markets in the west but the market has quickly been playing catch up and is now the second largest in europe.