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and in our business program find out whether the north stream gas pipeline is on its way to becoming the longest subsidy pipeline in the world i'll have more on that in our business program in about twenty minutes time. live from moscow this is r.t. welcome to the program. for the millions of immigrants that dream of a better life in america the green card symbolizes entrance to a land of opportunity but winning the lottery for the right to work is not always all it seems that's why qualified doctors and teachers often end up driving cabs or cleaning floors if they're lucky lauren lyster reports. in the united states and here in new york every year countless people play the lottery. and touring 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 gemini 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 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's a big country with a lot of facilities life will be better but in reality it within the foot in the. 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 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 will

yesterday of 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 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 astute departments responsibility and i think that the united states is going to lose out relative to other countries who've taken 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. the wife of alleged russian arms dealer so. he was detained for hours on questioned on arrival in the united states to travel to new york where he is being held in custody while he awaits trial let's get more details now on this from. now with for us live in new york how did say that she was being treated when she did arrive here it's no good at this point. well roy you know it's important to note that this is actually the first time that alibi and family arrived here in new york for the first time ever since his extradition that took place two months ago and as you said the family was held for over two and a half hours by u.s. officials at john f. kennedy airport here in new york and we caught up with all aboot right after they

exited the airport and talked to her and she seemed pretty traumatized by the experience because as soon as she herself her over seventy year old mother and teenage daughter step their feet off the plane they were immediately scooped up by u.s. officials taken to an area where they were asked countless questions and according to alibi they asked her questions such as whether or not she knew her husband was a terrorist take a listen to exactly how she described this experience to us. we had to spend two hours in some strange room they turned our luggage upside down and took personal things from my bag they told me to switch off my cell phone and didn't allow me to get in touch with the russian consul until the interrogation or questioning was over one person introduced himself as a special and to terry agent he said he wanted to talk to me about the purpose of my visit an immigration officer i think also asked me whether i knew my husband was a terrorist and why he had been arrested i said i didn't know why my husband was

being kept in new york because no one has proven he was a terrorist or linked to terrorism. really what's also important to note in this whole ordeal is that the russian vice consul here in new york was present at the airport and he tried to reach olive boot on her cell phone several times throughout the almost three hours that himself and ourselves were waiting for her to appear and she was not picking up her cell phone only leader to tell us that when she was telling us officials that this is this was a member of the consulate trying to reach her they told her just still switch the phone off and wouldn't let him in which procedurally is worth questioning of course because the russian consul should be allowed when something like this takes place and involves a russian citizen. turn our attention to husband. pretrial hearings are set to begin next monday that's correct yes. well yes that is correct troy they are sort of technical procedures leading up to pretrial hearings we don't

know of course yet when exactly the trial itself will kick off some specialists experts including members of the consulate are telling us that it's not likely that the trial will kick off as soon as within several months time now of course it's important to note that victor boot was arrested upon the request of the united states back in two thousand and eight in thailand and for those two years the u.s. was really eager to see him extradited to the united states something that was refused by courts for as many as two times but eventually did take place and the way this extradition was conducted has been raising quite a lot of questions including the fact that viktor boots case remains in a thai court of appeals as we speak right now so technically his court is still in thailand even though the man has been spending the last two months in solitary confinement here in new york in lower manhattan in a prison cell with closed windows while officials continue to try to figure out whether he's dangerous of course he has been charged with very serious issues such

as international arms trafficking as well as conspiring to kill american citizens as well as conspire. to work with a group that is deemed terrorist in the united states and of course victor boot himself has always denied all of these allegations that are being made against him and his wife told us last night that she believes that what is her family's dealing with is a propaganda war and doesn't count on the trial here in new york to be fair to listen to what she told us about that. we came here to fight for victor's freedom and to win i hope common sense will prevail in court because it's very hard with all the propaganda against victor in the american media but i do hope for normal proceedings and professionalism in court because it's difficult to fight with the kind of image of victor that has been created here and i doubt the court will be unbiased. well roy told us that she intends to remain in the united states in new york until she gets a meeting with her husband something that really doesn't seem possible at the

moment since he's in solitary confinement and needs to be moved to another cell for that to happen for now he's only meeting with members of his defense team as well as members of the russian consulate once a week and for now the latest is that on monday technical pretrial hearings will kick off here in new york and that's the latest authors and i started talking about life in new york thank you. well still ahead for you this hour here on on the scrapheap we followed the plight of the poorest iraqis at the bottom of the pile. seems like a memory already but. it's a day. one of three vessels stuck in. is now free but the. awaiting rescue at this point. is returning to the

second ship to safe water was a more powerful icebreaker is on its way to help rescue the third vessel which needs a big 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 and they have enough supplies the rescue is being hampered by extreme weather conditions. from the federal fishing agency says the mission is far from plain sight. the weather has gotten 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 admirable car of will take to get back to the remaining two ships in the path forged by the ice breaker through the ice closes back up quickly and this makes the risky operation even more difficult. in 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. reports for some of those homes by sectarian violence life is literally. 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 at most families 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 sits 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 it's an iraqi would live in a shack made from garbage people who wouldn't and change so we could see that iraq is still a wonderful place blessed by god the old regime is gone and we have a new government but look at our situation we're living in shacks america spending fifty three billion dollars on the reconstruction effort in iraq but the residents of our tired 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 in 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. 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 so how can you 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 on a trash heap is still better than living with sunni neighbors back home but until that is possible and until american reconstruction dollars reached a quarter of iraq's population that lives in poverty children like fatima will

continue to collect trash in order to survive sebastian meyer r t in baghdad. there's always plenty more news views and analysis on our website that's r.t. dot com here's some of what you'll find online right now twenty five years after the world's worst nuclear disaster could food grown in near the radioactive site really end up on european dinner tables. may have suffered his first defeat find out when russian fighter dubbed the last emperor stepped back in the ring. but let's get to some other world news in brief this hour here on r.t. in germany about five thousand farms are being closed following a scare but dioxin contamination scientists found a toxic chemical in eggs produced in the northwest of the country dioxin scare has led to a ban on deliveries to any businesses involved in the production of animal feed

there are 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 bathhouse where 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. and britain's a security alert has been raised to its second highest level of across the country more police will be stationed at airports and public transport hubs it will say the move is a precaution and doesn't mean an attack is imminent. well orthodox christians are celebrating christmas day here in russia the holy day is marked with a lavish church ceremonies and family feasts across the country sarah ferguson and central moscow to see exactly how people they're celebrating. happy christmas for the last ten russia thirteen days after it celebrated in the west and it's january

the seventh the christmas day is marked here now in the center of moscow to christmas and you can see the lovely colored stones that people have been coming to visit we've also had an ice flight that the children have been able to play all day they've been having a lot of fun we got the kids a full ice sculpture so you can see here that a search a traditional who went to celebrate since the never before might actually they would say this is my favorite one head of the absolutely lovely day ever was in having a good time we've also had a concert going on in the background where lots of people have turned out so they've been enjoying that but of course christmas in russia is much more of a tradition a religious celebration say last night they have the midnight mass the christ the savior cathedral where he's number of people and today they'll be lots of people attending the church and getting together with their families for the day

traditional christmas mail it does vary greatly from the way that the west celebrate christmas and my colleague. went to take a closer look at the history of christmas in russia. thirteen days later the difference in deeds is because russian christmas pulls on the seventh of january. julian calendar but it wasn't always this way to give his parents celebrated christmas in much the same way as the rest of the womb on december the twenty feet but the bulls should be crucial changed. they simply moved the christmas tree on to new years they moved the gifts on to new years they moved south across to new years and they banned christmas is a child of the soviet union which slapped a ban not only on freedom of speech but on freedom of faith too it's only after its

collapse in one thousand nine hundred ninety one that christmas was again celebrated publicly i knew. 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 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 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. and it's becoming more and more is 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 produce 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 site. thousands of other churches full to a similar fleet today these child of immigrants 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 ten or thirty two apartments this complex here's the other way around it is integration of the soviet union almost twenty thousand churches have opened up the wall ship that's around three churches a d. and with the country's new senior feed is leading by example it's the christian tradition now. the cleanest want. are. rushing christmas actually calling in the middle of a holiday perry. the holiday runs from january to january the people here already and the holiday spirit and enjoying this occasion mocking christmas with these festivities. ten minutes from now we go bargain hunting in the best takes the russian capital has to offer that's coming up in moscow but first it's

with the business. welcome to our business program. their stock when 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 to say it 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 of toyota with 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 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 gastro 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 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 start now to consider chautauqua 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 up its 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 and most expect only

a modest pick up in demand over the next five years and little reason to accelerate the pace of development in a few 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 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 on 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 another factor for the growth in the domestic sector was due to the government's cash for clunkers program that locked away for increased consumer spending however for the first time the majority of vehicles produced will not be domestic brands which is loggers involved guess instead russians will be making renos full time gangs and food stock 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 projecting ridiculous amounts of growth in china it really is going to take over the century co-production 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 is all 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 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 euro.