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but. it was. green card read life we report of how immigrants walking to the us find a lack of opportunity and government help leading many to realize they were better off back home. muzzling the media georgians mourn for free speech which they say has been killed off by government intolerance to criticism and independent reporting. millions of russians celebrate an orthodox christmas holiday season in the country still jingling all the way.

to coming to live from moscow with memory joshie they go in search of the american dream but for many migrants it 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're highly qualified but as artie's lauren lyster found down and up a 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. and train for a chance to win for a mega million dollar fantasy believing a few dollars and a dream could buy them for the life of 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 had my name is owen 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 yesterday of 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 did 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 soup 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 mr new york. well there's plenty more to come as our

here in our teen on the way rubbish existence we report from our own names over and there are forced to make a living from wrestling through other people's discarded trash. and activists in georgia who have the state of the media and freedom of speech in the country journalists say it's under threat of the come under heavy pressure to have a pro-government jam in their reporting and this in a country which markets itself as a free open democracy when 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 coding brothers of trinity t.v. an independent regional station but isn't afraid to criticize government policy

they claim he was stopped by police on patrol and then beaten it pushed us which 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 is balanced and is not subordinate

to any party in the form on boards monads 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 passes and became totally controlled tibet in your thought is meeting 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 sauza as they are still living under the poverty line many say there are yet to see a difference to standards of living as artists the best of 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 most family is too poor to center the 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 are. 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 from iraq he would live in a shack made from garbage people who looked for the fuel and change so we could see that iraq is still a wonderful place at least by god if you will treat him 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 that 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 in too poor to return home you know as 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

defeat 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 to fulfill a dream will even fear i can't accomplish anything nothing but security if you really want to go back home if there is no work we only need security that's it iraq 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 rex population lives in poverty children like you continue to collect trash in order to survive sebastian meyer or tea in baghdad. now it's

christmas day for orthodox believers all across the world stage thirty has been reporting this whole days marked in russia almost two decades after he was resurrected from soviet times when it was ignored by the official calendar. and to russia's far east now there's been success in a massive rescue operation to free three ships stuck in the ice for a week while the vessels has been freed and is now being escorted to warmer waters for rescue is being hampered by snow and strong winds in the selling bay the icebreaker is trying to free of the two remaining vessels and officials say the people on board are not in danger as they have plenty of supplies a more powerful eyes breaker is on its way to help while the rescue operations and it's expected to reach the ships late on saturday victor civilian from the federal fishing agency says the rescue mission is far from plain sailing.

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 risky operation even more difficult because. our family of alleged russian arms dealer viktor boyd have spoken of their outrage at the way they were treated on arrival in the us his wife claims they were questioned for hours and treated like terrorists for no apparent reason r.t. spoke to outside j.f.k. airport after she was released. they've clearly been waiting for us that we had spent two hours in some strange premises they turned our

luggage upside down and took away all the personal things from my bag they told me just switched off my cell phone and didn't get in touch with the russian consul in till this interrogation or questioning session whatever you call it was a that there was a person that 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 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 my presence and 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 had yet proven that he was a terrorist or somehow linked to terrorism. that there was currently in custody after being extradited from thailand he was arrested in two thousand and eight jorja 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.

wirth who faces a number of charges that was 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 citizens who they hope will have a fair trial pretrial hearings are set to begin next week. else take a look at some other stories from around the world and u.s. fans 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 it follows the one hundred billion dollars internal savings which were previously announced republicans in congress are expected to fiercely oppose the plans. at least seventeen people have been killed in a suicide bombing at a busy bath house in afghanistan's kind of our province twenty three people were

injured the blast happened in a town of the country's border with pakistan as crowds gathered for morning prayers authorities say the bomber was targeting a police official who was inside the building. so and pyongyang have downgraded there to fans of alert according to south korean media north korean units that have been on special standby now appear to be on routine operations and pyongyang also says it's ready for unconditional talks with the south to allay fears of conflict on the peninsula and tension is a high over shelling of a south korean island in the vam which killed four people in the north claims the attack was in response to south korean military exercises in the area. water wells in the flood ravaged city of rockhampton have reached a peak and are starting to recede but more rain has been forecast for the we can residents remaining in the town have completely surrounded their homes with

sandbags across queensland hundreds of homes are underwater with more than two hundred thousand people affected and the total cost of the disaster has been estimated up to five billion dollars. almost five thousand farms been shut down across germany following a scare over a day ox and 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 oxygen level that exceeded legal levels in ags was found away december cause of the contamination remains unclear. and saudi arabia has obtained a vulture found on its countryside saying the bird spying for israel was found wearing a g.p.s. log or at a leg attributing it to the university of tennessee and israel ecologists is that manning the bird is released saying it's probably part of the study on migration movements the israeli foreign ministry has dismissed the accusations. now

remember to take a look at our web site for the stories we're covering and there are more here are some of what you'll find there right now at our team dot com. moscow is famed pushkin museum have announced a series of dazzling exhibitions for the coming year to whet the appetite of art and fashion lovers with highlights including salvador dali and christiane your. death in venice well now you can be buried there to yarra was once reserved only for residents of magic city of canals and all the details are available at r.t. dot com. it's christmas day for orthodox russians with church services family celebrations happening nationwide while much of the world may have packed up its tinsel and

turkey explains why the seasonal spirit lingers on. the. thirteen days later the difference in dates is because russian christmas bills 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 year's they moved south across to new 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 learn the ashes on christmas eve go to church and never decorate a for a 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 solemnly as it is back home definitely less capitalistic 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 it's spiritual thing russians believe you can start your festive dinner before the first star appears in the night sky marking the birth of christ

a strict diet for 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 these child of emigrants is happy to be back in a country which has returned to its roots in the west churches are causing down. they don't know what to do with their buildings they cannot grade them they cannot maintain them they are selling them their ten thirty two apartments and.

carrots and the other way around since that is integration of the soviet union almost twenty thousand churches have opened up a warship because that's around three churches a day and with the country's new senior think this leading by example it's clear the christian tradition now outweighs the communist want x. integrate your martini. as sa now for a business of date was fair on it. hello welcome to our business program i'm sure archeology global car production has generally seen a rebound from a recent economic downturn this accelerating growth however should see some historical changes on the global as well as the russian auto market medina culture has the story. just ten years ago the production in the developing countries

accounted for just twenty percent of global output twenty eleven it's expected to reach parity russia is one of the principal drivers in that trend it's projected to supply six percent of the global market in the coming twelve months another factor for the growth in the domestic sector was due to the government's cash for clunkers program that lag the way for increased consumer spending however for the first time the majority of vehicles produced will not be as domestic brands just as involved as instead russians will be making renos full time gangs and fought back 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 factors for increased consumer spending. world corry 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 in the next five years we're predicting ridiculous amounts of growth in china it really is going to take over a century of co-production in the world but also india brazil and russia will also play the part of growth we're predicting to do in the next five years over the next five years. the growth in production come from the bric countries and six percent coming from russia manufacturers continue to view russia as a particularly attractive market car ownership is 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 and with its population advantage is slated to capture the top spot from germany within few years mind you no question our business. let's look at the stock markets now in russia the bourses are closed on

the eleventh of january for the russian new year holiday break european stocks have fallen involves our trading on farther as investors await us labor market data do later in the session. and seventy percent of the first line of the north stream gas pipeline which will connect russia and germany across the baltic sea bed has been laid that's according to georg no og north stream aging project manager for germany eight hundred fifty kilometers of pipes have already been laid out of the total length of twelve hundred kilometers the plan for the offshore pipeline is to build two parallel legs is with capacity of twenty seven and a half billion cubic metres per year with the first gas livery scheduled for late two thousand allowed. when finished it will be the longest subsidy pipeline in the world. and the 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 numerous attempts by various companies there are signs however that things could change for the better in two thousand and eleven r.t. correspondent tim if a crash 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 us. globally unique i don't think there is. there is such a tough weather such a tough environment conditions as stop one but it does have its advantages the field is located significantly closer to its main consumer europe russia's gas

giant gazprom partnered with french to tao and there we can start 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 from has what it takes gas 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 stockmen 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 all prices went back up gas from the start now to consider

stalk mine 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 its complex program by more than one hundred billion rubles for two thousand and eleven another major issue. as 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. 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 those hopes are inflated most expect only a modest pick up in demand over the next five years and little reason to accelerate the pace of development timofey across super business r.t. moscow.