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life from moscow for the millions of immigrants the dream of a better life in america the green card symbolizes entrance to a land of opportunity but winning the right to work is not always all it seems qualified doctors and teachers often end up driving cabs or cleaning floors if they're lucky to reports. in the united states and here in new york every year countless people play the lottery. entering for a chance to win. a mega million dollar fantasy 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 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 the case was 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 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 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've 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 mr new york. and iraq millions are living below

the poverty line despite america's billion dollar rebuilding program they often have to turn to the garbage dump as a means to survive as also uses a question by our reports from some of those driven from their homes by terror and violence life is literally rubbish. 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 but most 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 in iraq you would live in a shack made from the garbage people who threw the change so we could see if it's iraq is still a wonderful place 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 only 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 you fulfill a dream when you leave in 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 that's it iraq remains a very dangerous place where kidnappings and murders are part of daily life for these families living on 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 population that lives in poverty children like will continue to collect trash in order to survive sebastian meyer forty in baghdad. with r.t. coming up christmas celebrations across russia. the wife of alleged russian arms dealer victor boot says that she and her family were detained for hours and question on arrival in the united states family came to join him in new york where he's being held in custody we spoke to. after she was released. you know most of them if they travel. 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 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 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 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 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. because of who it is being held in new york after being extradited from thailand last november he was arrested in bangkok

in two thousand and eight during a us sting operation faces a number of charges including supplying weapons to terrorist groups and conspiring to kill american citizens moscow has criticized his extradition and the conditions of his arrest it said russia has not defending him but protecting the rights of its citizen who they hope will have a fair trial pretrial hearings are set to begin next week. well one of the three vessels stuck in ice off russia's far eastern coast is now free for the two others are still awaiting rescue the icebreaker. is returning to the second ship to tow it to safe waters and the all powerful icebreaker is on its way to help rescue the third vessel which needs a bigger part to get through the ice there are more than three hundred people on board the ships that are still stranded but officials say they're not in any danger as they happened off supplies the rescue is being hampered by extreme weather conditions alexandros a value from the federal fishing agency says the mission is far from plain sailing

. the weather has got worse chilling snowstorm a settlin 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 the path forged by the ice breaker to the ice closes back up quickly and this makes the risky operation even more difficult. and there's plenty more news of views and analysis on our web site that's all and here's some of what you'll find online right now twenty five years after the world's worst nuclear disaster could food be grown near the radioactive site and could it really end up on european dinner tables and. down them but not out you may have suffered his first defeat but when the russian fighter dubbed the last emperor will step back in the ring. now let's go to some

other world news in this hour and in germany about five thousand farms have been closed following a scare over dioxin contamination scientists found a toxic chemical in eggs produced in the northwest of the country the docks in the sky has led to a ban on deliveries to any businesses involved in the production of animal feed their fears the contamination will spread as the exact cause remains unclear. a suicide bomber has killed at least seventeen people and injured more than twenty others in southern afghanistan the blast happened in a crowded public bath elsewhere people were getting ready for prayers officials say the attacker was targeting a police commander who was inside the building the taliban has claimed responsibility. anderson's security alert has been raised to its second highest level across the country more police station and the public transport hubs officials say the move is

a precaution and doesn't mean. public opinion. clashed with israeli soldiers while protecting or rather protesting against west bank security comes just a week after a palestinian woman died after being tear gassed by israeli troops demonstrators marched through the barrier in the village but the. thirty six year old protester who died in hospital on saturday. christians christmas day here in russia the holy day is marked with a church ceremony family feasts across the country. as in central moscow to see exactly how the people that have. lived through it. tell me how all russians celebrating their christmas day. love.

playing. in the background. i'm not going to be like this all. day they are. the big celebrate christmas very much. a lot of people. we. serve. they get better with a lot of. people. coming. out at christmas. until like. a pattern of a tape or

a place and look at the history of with. the. thirteen days later the difference in dates is because russian christmas spins on the seventh of january following the owned 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 revolution 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 is 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 and 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 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 god and not for santa. their family has traveled a lot they've lived in canada and in brazil but no where they say screws most recognized soul 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. it's becoming more and more spiritual thing russians believe you can start you festive dinner the food the first star appears in the night sky marking the birth of christ

a strict diet food to doing no animal produce preparing yourself physically but a 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 region 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 site thousands of other churches felt 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 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

discotheques cares and 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 and doing it with the country's new senior thetis eating by example it's clear in the christian tradition now on to release the communist want it's integrate your martini. well the russian christmas. holiday period that runs. the ten. day already. and it's. really. cutting out. aren't well to enjoy the celebrations live in moscow thank you for the christmas

holidays in moscow also i mean it's time little bit later we go bargain hunting in the best boutiques the russian capital has to offer. hello and welcome to the show that was millions around the world are recovering after the recent festivities most russians are celebrating the orthodox christmas this weekend but soon it's back to work for everyone in the colder weather is on its way to moscow but it's not all doom and gloom as january is the best time to go shopping. and most go out of here in about an hour's time but next to the business news with

. welcome to our business program. 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 say 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 combined of 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 of toyota with 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 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 for has. enough power to. propose and to push with the development plan that gazprom 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 oil prices went back up the ass from the start now to consider stalk one as its next priority project as the next priority for small project again. but at the same time on our hand just a month ago gas from has caught its cup its program by more than one hundred billion rubles for two thousand and eleven another major issue is legit. six 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 and most expect only a modest pick up in demand over the next five years and little reason to accelerate

the pace of development timothy cross business r.t. mosco. 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 gaylord no walk north stream major 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 offshore pipeline is to build two parallel legs each was 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 car production has generally seen a rebound from the recent economic downturn this excel writing growth however should see some historical changes on the global as well as russian auto market

within a culture that 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 factors for the growth in the domestic sector was due to the government's cash for clunkers program that lacked the way for increased consumer spending however for the first time the majority of vehicles produced will not be as dramatic brands as large as of all guests 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 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 the center 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 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 might in the question of business. and that's your business update for this hour where you can always find more business stories on our website that's our . business stay with us.

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