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world wide news live from moscow this is artsy for the millions of immigrants that dream of a better life in america the green card symbolizes entrance to a. and 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 long list of reports. in the united states and here in new york every year countless people play the lottery. and train for a chance to win or a mega million dollar fantasy believing a few dollars and a dream could buy them to and 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 jackpot with permanent residency the prize is not cash but green cards and this startling experience is due to what if 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 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 was a thing they didn't know. 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 encountered 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 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 the year already have 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 this 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'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 don't think it's a soup department's 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 all the legit russian

arms dealer vic to boot so is that she her family would. unquestioned on arrival in the u.s. boots family travel to new york where he's being held in custody while he awaits trial let's get more details on this now from other stuff you're talking to who is live for us in new york so give us more details here about how she was treated because we're hearing now from a she was quite poorly true. when she arrived at j.f.k. airport more details what are you. well really it's interesting that the family of victor boot arrived to new york for the first time since his extradition from thailand took place two months ago and we did speak exclusively with his wife all aboot outside the airport after they were held inside the airport for over two and a half hours and she did really seem quite traumatized by the experience she was telling us how her self her teenage daughter and victor boots mother who is over seventy years old were questioned by us were held by u.s. officials and alibi was questioned for over two and

a half hours all of their belongings were gone through by u.s. officials they were scooped up by officials as soon as they stepped off the airplane and really asked calculus questions including whether or not all of booth thinks that her things and knows that her husband is a terrorist take a listen to how she described this situation 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 and 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. it's important to note that the russian vice

consul was present at the airport to greet all aboot and her family members and try to reach her on her cell phone several times but she did not pick up the phone she later told us that she was told by u.s. officials at the airport that she was not allowed to speak to the russian vice consul even though this of course did raise questions since a russian citizen should be entitled to have the members of the consulate present especially when they're working with this particular family specifically on this case let's talk about. his pretrial hearings are supposed to begin next week in new york. absolutely roy these are technical hearings that lead up to the pretrial hearings and they're expected to kick off come monday of course picture boot was extradited to the united states two months ago and was initially arrested upon the request of the united states and thailand back in two thousand and eight and for those two years the united states was demanding that he be extradited

courts did refuse twice to do this however the extradition did eventually take place in november and it's interesting to note that this extradition has been raising a lot of questions in terms of how exactly was conducted among them is the fact that viktor boots case continues to remain in a thai court of appeals which technically means that he is still his case is still being considered in thailand and he should be there for that but he's here in the u.s. and of course here dubbed the merchant of death by the media as well as some officials surprisingly even though he has just recently been charged he has been charged of course with things like international arms dealing conspiring to kill american citizens and conspiring to cooperate with groups team terrorist in the united states and russian officials have said that they want to make sure that his human rights are really followed for now victor boot is being held in solitary confinement with a prison cell with no. no windows and while he awaits trial all of his spouse told

us that she doubts that his trial will be fair take a listen. 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 a 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. allude also told us that she intends to remain in new york in the united states until she gets to meet with her husband to something which is out of the question for now since he is in solitary confinement and the only people he meets with and the only contact he has with the outside world is with members of his defense team as well as members of the russian consulate so for now we're waiting monday when the first technical procedures kick off in a court in downtown manhattan and things will go from there but it really looks like for the next several months this trial is not bound to get started or who will

be sure to check in with you on monday. talk about life in new york thank you. well still ahead for you this hour here on out c on the scrapheap we follow the plight of the poor of the rockies a stop at the bottom of the pile on. christmas day things like this memory already we'll be telling you while the. day. one of three vessels stuck in ice off russia's far eastern coast is now free but the two others are still awaiting rescue. is returning to the second ship to tow it to safe waters and a more powerful icebreaker is on his way to help rescue the third vessel which needs a bigger pass 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 sailing. the weather has got worse chilling snowstorm and 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 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 of survival and as sebastian maya reports for some of those driven from their 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 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 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. 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 garbage people who threw the chain so we could see that iraq is still a wonderful place at least by god if you were 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 i 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 gnomes family moved to the landfill and has been living there ever since too afraid and 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. 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 will even fear i can't accomplish anything nothing good security if we 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 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 fatima will continue to collect trash in order to survive sebastian meyer forty in baghdad it's now or just approaching the quarter minute mark of the hour here in moscow you are with r.t. and there's plenty more news views and analysis on our website that's r.t. dot com and here are some of what you'll find online right now twenty five years

after the world's worst nuclear disaster could a food grown near the radioactive site really end up on european dinner tables and . not out he may have suffered his first defeat but find out when the russian fighter the last emperor will step back in the ring. now let's get to some other world news in brief 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 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 course remains unclear. a suicide bomber has killed at. seventeen people and injured more than twenty in southern afghanistan the blast happened in

a crowded public bothell us where people were getting ready for press officials say the attacker was targeting a police commander who was inside the building the taliban has claimed responsibility. britain's a security alert has been raised to its second highest level across the country more people police will be stationed at airports and a public transport hubs officials 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 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 less in russia days all three of the elevated in the west and it's january the seventh christmas day is mark now in the center of most chaotic christmas and you can see the lovely colored stools that people have been coming to visit we've all say has an ice age

that the children have been able to play out all day they've been having a lot of fun. just so you can see here that is such a traditional part of the winter celebrations the never really you might actually they would say this is my favorite one head of the. lovely everything 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 and say last night they had 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 big traditional christmas meal 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 dates is because russian christmas falls 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 the cost to new ears then 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 what we could learn their shows on christmas eve go to church and never decorated 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 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 spiritual thing russians believe you can start you first to do it before the first star appears in the night sky marking the birth of christ a strict diet food 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 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 summit thousands of other churches full to a similar fleet 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 burning them then two apartments descript x. carrots and the other way around since that is integration of the soviet union almost twenty thousand churches have opened up a warship that's around three churches

a day and with the country's new senior think this eating by example it's clear in the christian tradition now. aren't. rushing christmas actually holding. a holiday. the holiday runs from january to january the time people have already and the holiday spirit and enjoying this occasion mocking christmas with these festivities. if you surf. now ten minutes from now we discuss the future of the world's energy supplies that's in cross talk but first the business news is on his way. well welcome to our business program armstrong. the 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 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 partner or friends to

tao and the region stat oil in two thousand and eight to have a goal of 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 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 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 all prices went back up the ass from 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 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 just 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 across the 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. your stream agent 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 deliveries 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 there's excel orating 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 in 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 last the way for increased consumer spending however for the first time the majority of vehicles produced will not be domestic brands which is latin vulgate us instead russians will be making renos full time 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. going to take over the center of the production in the world but also india brazil russia will also play the cards with predicting during 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 might in the question of business. balance or business update for this hour you can always find more business stories on.