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feasts and winter fun outside. the news from russia and around the world this is. good to have you with us this hour 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 what it seems that's why 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. and train for a chance to win for a mega million dollar fantasy believing a few dollars and a dream could buy them so for the life

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 jim 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 prizes not cash but green cards and this startling experience is do 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. we didn't know people used to say you're educated it will be easy america is a big country with

a lot of facilities life will be better but in reality it was getting the foot 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 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. 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 some familiarity with 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 altogether it's the american dream they want to wake up from if you got if we had known this we wouldn't have come life was much easier in my country people who see their plight firsthand argue the government should help more i do think it's a 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 lauren lyster our new york. staying in new york where the wife of

a russian to boot says she and her children were detained for hours and question on arrival to the u.s. troops family travel to the city where he's being held in custody while he awaits trial pretrial hearings have been postponed until the end of the month and has the latest. 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 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 held by u.s. officials and alibi was questioned they were scooped up by officials as soon as they stepped off the airplane and really asked calculus questions or take

a listen to how she described this situation to us and we had to spend two hours in some strange room turned our luggage upside down and took her side of 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 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 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 type courts did refuse twice to do this however the extradition do. it eventually take place in november and 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's still his case is still being considered in thailand and he should be there for that but he's here in the us a picture of 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. we

came here to fight for victor's freedom and 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 that 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 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's in solitary confinement 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. still ahead for you this hour on the scrapheap we follow the plight of the poorest iraqis stuck at the bottom of the pile and. in the last minute they probably like that memory already we're going to tell you what. the day the rest of the break but.

one of three vessels stuck in ice off russia's far eastern coast is now free but the two others are still awaiting rescue the icebreaker is returning to the second ship to tow it to safe waters a more powerful icebreaker is on its way to help rescue the third vessel which needs a bigger path through the ice to get around more than three hundred people on board the ships that are still stranded but officials say that not in danger and have enough supplies to rescuers be hampered by extreme weather conditions and xander from the federal agency says the mission is far from plain sailing. the weather has gotten worse shilling snowstorm is settled in with winds of up to twenty meters per second the temperatures well below minus twenty degrees celsius visibility is low it's difficult to say how long the admirable car of will take to get back to the remaining two ships forged by the ice breaker through the ice closes back on shortly and this makes to rescue operation even more difficult. to iraq now

millions are living below the poverty line despite america's billion dollar rebuilding program that they often have to turn to the garbage dump as a means to survive as reports for some of those driven from their homes by sectarian 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 gardening displaced from southern iraq that 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 it's 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 home over two thousand people live on baghdad's landfill it's 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 who can you believe it to be a rock he would live in a shack commute from garbage people who threw the chain so we could see if it's a rock it's still a wonderful place by god if you will tell you she was going on and we have a new government but look at her situation reliving and shocks 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 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 and not 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 zero. socially and economically. experts worry about the children who grow up too poor to give school without an education they're easily preyed on by criminal gangs and terrorist organizations lure them with money and promises of a brighter future. what are going to 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 we only need security that's it iraq remains a very dangerous place where kidnappings and murders are part of daily right for these families living out of trash 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 that will continue to collect trash in order to survive sebastian mire r t in baghdad. just remind you this plenty more news views and analysis on our website it's all t. don't call him his some of what you find online right now twenty five years after the world's worst nuclear disaster could food grown near the radioactive site really end up on european dinner tables and. gone but not out soon if somebody is first to feed the final one to russia pointed down to the last emperor stepped back in the race that's on you don't come. and now some other world news in brief this in germany about five thousand farms are being closed following the scare over dioxin contamination scientists found the

toxic chemical in eggs produced in the northwest of the country the direction scares lead to impanel deliveries to many businesses involved in the production of animal feed kerf is a contamination was spread as the exact cause remains unclear. the suicide bombers killed at least seventeen people and injured more than twenty others in southern afghanistan the blast happened in a crowded public bath house where people were getting ready for prayers officials say the attacker was targeting a police commander who was inside the building the taliban's claimed responsibility . thousands of southern sudanese living in the north are heading home to vote in sunday's referendum on whether the self should become independent international envoys including a full myself african president and a former un secretary general are in the region to monitor the situation referendum was part of the deal six years ago that ended two decades of north south civil war . pakistan's government looks to avoid collapse after

a major party agreed to rejoin the ruling coalition and party walked out on sunday in protest at a fuel price increase and other reforms in theory they said he now wants to show solidarity in the face of the growing extremism the country still trying to recover from the devastating floods in the summer was hit by the assassination of a key regional governors three days ago. orthodox christians are celebrating christmas here in russia the holy day is marked with lavish church ceremonies and family feast across the country not the sarah ferguson central moscow to see exactly how people that celebrating. well it's happy christmas from us and 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 at a 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 sculptures that you can see here the search a traditional who went to celebrate chanson they're really beautiful you know i actually they would say this is my favorite one head. absolutely lovely ever was and 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 up but of course christmas in russia is much more of a traditionally religious celebration 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 the family for the big traditional christmas does vary greatly from the way that the west celebrate christmas and my colleague catching a good traver when taking place in the at the history of christmas in russia. the.

thirteen days really the difference in dates is because russian christmas is on the seventh of january googling the julian calendar but it wasn't always this way so his parents celebrated christmas in much the same way as the rest of the world on december the twenty feet but the bilchik revolution changed it. simply moved the christmas tree on to new year's day move the gifts on to new year's they moved south across to new years and they banned christmas is a child of the soviet you. which slapped a ban not only on freedom of speech and freedom of fleet too it's only after its collapse in one thousand nine hundred ninety one that christmas was again celebrated publicly i do really know what we could learn the shows on christmas eve go to church and never decorate a for a tree for new year it took a while to explain it to our child that

a christmas tree is decorated on christmas only through 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. it's becoming more and more its perch or thing russians believe you can start your quest to do it to the first star appears in the night sky marking the birth of christ a strict diet cruelty 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 side thousands of other churches felt a similar fate 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. they do their buildings they cannot grade them they cannot maintain them they are selling them there are ten or thirty two apartments this capex here it's the other way around it is integration of dissolute union almost twenty thousand churches have opened up. this around three churches and seen the

way the country is seen in this leading. christian tradition now. it's in great trouble aren't. rushing christmas actually pulling. a holiday. the holiday runs. to january the time people had already and the holiday and enjoying this occasion mocking christmas with the festivities. surface reporting there from the heart of moscow well the christmas holidays here in the russian capital also mean its sales time and a little 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. in an hour from now her naughty stay with us because it's time now for all the business news that's with sharon after a short break. zob .

hello welcome to our business program. the stockman 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 to correspondent to us a classic 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 combine these two factors that it is number one it is arctic and number two that is offshore makes this. globally unique i don't think there is. there is such a tough weather such a tougher 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 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 gastro has. enough power to. propose and to push with the development plan that gas from considers to be the right one but it's more about actual demand and. the returns on this project the stock and 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 to

concede just talk one as its next priority project is next for your to forcible project again. but at the same time on the other 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 is logistics there's an ongoing dispute between the partners about how to transport the gas and what type of pipeline to use but in the midst of all these control over seas ahead of stockmen development bubbles of confidence. by two thousand and sixteen we plan to start producing gas there are no problems with the schedule which has been determined by the shareholders. analysts say those hopes are inflated most expect only a modest pick up in demand over the next five years and little reason to accelerate the pace of development timothy cross suit 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 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 it's 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 lacked the way for increased consumer spending however for the first time the majority of vehicles produced will not be domestic brands as involved as instead russians will be making renos full time gangs and fords. 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 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 call on a ship 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 with a few yes might in the question are business.