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this is. welcome to the program. but for many immigrants it remains just hundreds of thousands go to the u.s. each year looking for a better future for their family. often they're highly qualified but as a list of found out they end up in 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 and believing a few dollars and a dream could buy them so 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 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 the jackpot with permanent residency the prize is not cash but green cards and this startling experience is due to a lot of we had 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 we didn't know people used to say you're educated it will be easy america's a big country with a lot of facilities life will be better but in reality it was

a thing the fit in. us 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 us they know that they've invested in their education and they 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 no year already have an ethnic neighborhood like this one that has southeast asian music restaurants and fashion 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 goods . finding foreign degrees and 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 the 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 must they make sure of winning the lottery actually pays off lauren lyster our new york. there is plenty

more to come this hour including a rubbish existence we report from iraq how many children forced to make a living from rifling through all the people's discarded trash. activists in georgia out of the state of the media and to freedom of speech in the country join the so yes under threat they come under heavy pressure to have a pro-government agenda in their reporting this country would. markets itself as a free and open democracy parties want 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 element in how lonely their struggle is not the problem is that society is so intimidated by the authorities people aren't ready to react the right way to l'isle ations of human rights. one of these alleged violations happened to join in one is. one of the coding brothers of trinity t v an independent regional

station that isn't afraid to criticize government policy they claim he was stopped by police on patrol and 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 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're not for the government you're considered against news service and there is no independent media there is either pro-government or opposition media we have no media source in

georgia which has its own policy is a 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 they can totally controlled by the new authorities meaning those trying to follow an independent line here on an ever narrower path it's a hazy day the georgian capital really missed you can 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 from martin r.t. to b.c. . but us is pumping billions of dollars into the region. rating iraq but with thousands still living under the poverty line many say they're just yet to see

a difference in the standards of living and as artie's sebastian mayor 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 six acres of back that'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 it's an iraqi would live in a shack made from garbage people who threw the chain so we could see if it's iraq is still a wonderful place at least by god the old regime is gone and we have a new government but look at her situation much reliving and shocks america spending fifty three billion dollars on the reconstruction effort in iraq but the residents of our haven't seen a dime of it but they have seen no 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 failure of the iraq economy this is having a terrible impact on the ground both socially 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 they fulfill a dream when they leave in fear i can't accomplish anything nothing good security it's really want to go back home there's no work 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 on a still better than living with sunni neighbors back home. but until that is possible until american reconstruction dollars reach the quarter of a population that lives in poverty children will continue to collect trash in order

to survive sebastian mire r t in baghdad. it's now or ten minutes past the hour. it's christmas day. all across the world. as we report on this holy day is mocked in russia. after it was resurrected from the square and it was ignored by the official. there has been success in the massive rescue operation to free three ships stuck in ice for a week one of the vessels has been freed and is now being escorted to warmer waters the rescue though is being hampered by strong winds and. is trying to free the two remaining vessels officials say the people on board. they have plenty of supplies a more powerful icebreaker is on its way to help with the rescue operations it's expected to reach the ships late on saturday alexander from the federal fishing

agency says the rescue mission is far from plain sailing. the weather has got worse a chilling snowstorm. 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 admirable car of will 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. now we have managed to get hold of one of the captains of the stranded ships over the phone and. told r.t. that there's nothing to be worried about at the time being. the situation on board ship is perfectly normal cruise feeling well and will patiently waiting for the.

ice breaker to pull us out of here there's nothing threatening the crew go this ship itself it is even the water around this so we're not in any danger of being crushed by the ice or anything that this ship's been see for twenty years and we've been through situations like this before it's nothing extraordinary for any of us. or the family of alleged russian arms dealer viktor booth have spoken of that alfredo to the way they were treated on arrival in the united states his wife claims they were question for hours and treated like terrorists for no apparent reason r.t. spoke to outside j.f.k. airport after she was released. most of them have to travel. but they've clearly been waiting for us so that we can't spend 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 switch off my cell phone and didn't allow me to get in touch with the russian consul in til this interrogation or question in session whatever you call it was a that there was a person that you mentioned just himself is

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 that she 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 that 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. the boot is currently in custody after being extradited from thailand he was arrested in two thousand and eight during a sting operation by u.s. authorities after two and a half years behind bars and buying he was handed over to the u.s. where he faces a number of charges those include conspiring to supply arms through 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 a russian citizen who they hope will have a fair trial brute's a pretrial hearings are set to begin next week. now we're just approaching the hour here in moscow you with take a look now at some of the headlines from around the world the taliban has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing which killed at least seventeen in afghanistan's. twenty three were injured the blast happened at a busy. on the country's border with pakistan. morning authorities say the bomber was targeting a police official who was inside the building. he was the defense secretary robert gates has announced a seventy eight billion dollars. budget over the next five years a reduction is included administrative costs as well. one hundred billion dollars. republicans in congress are expected to

oppose the. forces would increase the number of. over the next year that's according to the country's navy chief despite south korean media reports that. both downgraded the defense of the yellow sea the north has also called for unconditional talks with the south. korean island. killed four people the north claims the attack was in response to south korean military exercises in the area. planned in germany were found last month and local officials say they should have come to light much sooner it follows the closure of almost five thousand farms across the country after the chemicals were discovered in eggs from chickens in western germany it's been reported that contaminated feed had been fed to livestock

for months before the docks. while they remember to take a look at our website for the stories we're covering on air and much more in some of the. it is christmas day. while

much of the world. he. explains why the. the. thirteen days later the difference in dates is because russian christmas is 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 gravitation changed it all they simply moved the christmas tree on to new years they moved the gifts on to new years they moved south across to new ears and they banned christmas sergei's 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 what we could learn the shows on christmas eve go to church and never decorator 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 poor god and not for santa. their family has traveled a lot they've 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 the food the first star appears in the night sky marking the birth of christ

a strict diet through 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 full to a similar fleet today this 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 town or burning them then two apartments

descript x. here it's the other way around since that is integration of the soviet union almost twenty thousand churches have opened up the real shippers that's around three churches a day and with the country's musina i think this leading by example it's clear the christian tradition now and. our national run is here with the business news. a welcome to our business program i'm sure on n.p.r. 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 however sighs that things could change for the better in two thousand and eleven r.t.

correspondent tim a fake isaac has more. one of the biggest discovered natural gas fields in the world the stockmen fields hidden deep in the bering sea line estimated three point nine trillion cubic meters of natural gas despite being discovered two decades ago the gas still remains untouched these combined of these two factors that it is number one it is arctic and number two it is offshore makes is. globally unique i don't think there is. there is if they don't with such a tough weather such a tough environment conditions 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 up with french 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 from has what it takes to get from has. enough power to. propose and to push with the development plan that gets from considers to be the right one but it's more about the actual demand and. the returns of 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 oil prices went back up gas from will start now to two can see just talk 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 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 begins and what type of pipeline to use but in the midst of all these control over seas the head 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 timothy across the business or most of. the stock markets now and russia the bosses are close to the eleventh of january for the russian new year holiday break european stocks are mixed this hour as investors awaits us labor market data to 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. the north stream aging project manager for germany eight hundred fifty kilometers of pipes have already been laid out of a total of twelve hundred kilometers the plan for the offshore pipeline is to build two parallel legs each with 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 car production has generally seen a rebound from the recent economic downturn this accelerating growth however should see some historical changes on the global as well as the russian auto market but 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 it's projected to supply six percent of the global market in the coming twelve months and other factor for the growth in the domestic sacked and was due to the government's cash for clunkers program that last the way for increased consumer spending however for the thousandth time the majority of vehicles produced will not be domestic brands which is a lot as involved as instead russians will be making renos full time gangs and ford's stock that at the rate of 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 very increase 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 half a century coproduction 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 haul the growth in production in the come from the bric countries and six percent coming from russia manufacturers continue to view russia as a particularly attractive market call 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 yes might in the question of business. and that's where by.