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a hotel in thailand. ambassador to the hotel. the. entire. group which is a good girl how would. she ever. agree but no degree some immigrants hit a dead end in the land of opportunity as doctors and engineers end up sweeping floors in the u.s. to. the wife of alleged russian. faces tough questioning by new york immigration husband is awaiting trial. speaks with all of them in an exclusive interview all the details from new york ahead in the program. this hour stuck at the bottom of the heap america's billion dollar rebuilding the

poorest iraqis behind forcing them to make. the news from russia and around the world this is our t. here in moscow 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 all it seems that's why qualified doctors and teachers often end up driving cabs or cleaning floors if they're lucky as this report. in the united states and here in new york every year countless people play the lottery. and touring for a chance to win or 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 the jackpot with permanent residency the prizes not cash but green cards and this startling experience is due to what we had to start from scratch from zero once we got here two years of struggling with joblessness after finding their education in nepal doesn't count in the u.s. setbacks they never expected this we didn't know people used to say you're educated

it will be easy america is a big country with a lot of facilities life will be better but in reality everything the food 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 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 though you're already an ethnic neighborhood like this one that has southeast asian music

restaurants and fashion what many struggle with is finding the 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. 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 as 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 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 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 are to new york staying in new york where the wife of alleged russian arms dealer victimhood says she and her children were detained for hours and questioned on arrival to the u.s. but it's 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 i started chatting and it has the latest now. 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 held by u.s. officials and al the boot was questioned and they were scooped up by officials as soon as they stepped off the airplane and really asked calculus questions 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 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 in thailand back in two thousand and eight and for those two years the united states was demanding that he be extradited tight courts did refuse twice to do this however the extradition. 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 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. 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. 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 and 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 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 contact he has with the outside world is with members of his defense team as well as members of the russian consulate. it was artie's anastacia chicken reporting from new york well coming up a little later in the program for you here on r.t. the story that ruffled some feathers birds falling out of the sky around the world but whether it's a media frenzy or an apocalypse in the making. russia's far east a search and rescue operation is underway for

a fishing boat with the eleven crew on board we're hearing that the vessel sent a distress signal on friday before all contact was lost when in the same region two russian ships remain trapped in ice a powerful icebreaker is on its way to help rescue the vessels and there are more than three hundred people on board the ships but officials say they're not in danger and have enough supplies and rescue is being hampered by extreme weather conditions and xander from the federal fishing agency says the mission is far from plain sailing. the weather has gotten worse chilling 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 see how long the admirable car of will take to get back to the remaining two ships the path forged by the ice breaker through the ice closers back up quickly and this makes the risky operation even more difficult. to right 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. reports for some of those driven from their homes by sectarian violence life is literally rubbish. at seven am every morning fatima crabtree's 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 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 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 that from iraq he would live in a shack made from garbage people who. 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 haven't seen a dime of it but they have seen no 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 gnomes family moved to the landfill and has been living there ever since too afraid and too poor to return home you know 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 i fulfill a dream when they 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 rex population lives in poverty children like fatima will continue to collect

trash in order to survive sebastian meyer party in baghdad. just to remind you this plenty more news views and analysis on our website is r.t. dot com online all the time here's some of what you'll find there right now if you log on twenty five years after the world's worst nuclear disaster could grown near the radioactive site really end up on european dinner tables and. down but not l.t. may have suffered his first defeat but find out when the russian fighter dubbed the last emperor will step back in the ring those stories of r.t. dot com. when dead black birds started falling from the sky in the american state of arkansas it was blamed on festive fireworks since then a series of mass animal deaths worldwide have triggered speculation online that the incidents are more sinister filmmaker and blogger danny schechter told me a little earlier that the media shouldn't treat the events as merely a coincidence. when one set of incidents happens followed by another set followed

by a third said suddenly it becomes a trend then it becomes a much bigger story in the media but it's still sort of a mystery it may be that each example is actually specific to a particular local set of circumstances we don't know they're calling it. you know for a flock of birds coming up with new catchy words new ad lives and the like obviously it's it's just something that intrigues audiences even if there isn't a lot of explanation it seems to be a pattern of this sort of thing where you have alarmist headlines followed by a few examples which then you know lead to sober conclusions about the dramatic events and then there's no follow up for so you know if we really never find out what really happened and this is the inattention of the media maybe even the amnesia of the media a refusal to speak to the people who are most in the know because all of this is

sort of tittle ation for the public and yet it could be a very serious. talk in millenia now let's turn our attention to some other world news making headlines this hour in a world of a test ocean county canonical feed in germany showed levels of the toxic chemical dioxin at seventy seven times above the legal limit of five thousand farms have already been closed to the chemical was found in eggs produced in the north west of the country none of them are now able to make deliveries of their produce some quick today reportedly been exported to britain the netherlands. truckin stand down a suicide bombers killed at least seventeen people and injured more than twenty others in the southern part of the country the blast happened in a crowded public bathhouse with people getting ready for prints officials say the attacker was targeting a police commander who was inside the building to claim responsibility. thousands of southern sudanese living in the north are heading home to vote in sunday's referendum on whether the self. become independent international envoys including

the former south african president and the full u.n. secretary general are in the region to monitor the situation and for news of the deal six years ago it ended two decades of self civil. brings up state for the moment i'll be back. with an update of our main news stories for you but in the meantime. here with a look at where. in the russian capital for you next.

hour. 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 and 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 subject this week's program the department store which we see here is one

of the most glamorous places to buy clothes in russia. built between eighty ninety and one thousand nine hundred three located next to red square came one of the few stores in the soviet union that was not plagued by shortages of consumer goods today well it's all about expensive designer clothes first it's into one of my favorite shops paul smith example of such design is that of open stores in russia his moscow shop opened in two thousand and six muscovites and visit his. eccentric approach to the classical british style. and. now although the stalls in cuba are generally expensive january is the best time to come shopping here you'll find terrific bargains during the sales and western designers such as paul smith can. be for example amazing clothes discounted prices striped fabrics smith's trademarks and those russians who can afford it have already joined

the army of those already wearing. his goods on sale in dozens of countries. it was a huge step forward as well as a large event for the capital's fashion. store has been open for five years now so paul smith himself attended the opening of a special fashion show was organized with a cation and moving from boom to our next clothing location let's take a look at this week's entertainment news. the two hundred fifty fifth season at the bolshoi theatre has finished with the magical performance of the ballet the notes. cracka states to peaceful music by tchaikovsky performance premiered at the bolshoi in one nine hundred sixty six and since then it's become the most popular show to see over the festive period. the ballet is a must see the perfect fairy tale treat the two thousand and eleven. this

year has been announced as the year of italy in russia many events featuring the country's culture of being staged in moscow throughout the year a festival called the winter garden of arts has already taken place dedicated to the italian city body the event featured an art exhibition and showed concert by both russian and italian musicians and many of the performances bringing the cultures of two countries closer together. to women's close now but in a much lower price. than english. different to the moscow fashion scene it's. designer clothes that have been put to the back of the. present bra size is simply. fashions second hand old and decrepit not. amazing with amazing price

tags. january sales. were out. of our first shop was opened over fifteen years ago the one we're in now is open just two years we get clothes from celebrities and less known people like their owners are tired of having them in their wardrobe we have very sales and discounts and only sell branded products from the world's top designers. second breath is among a group of small companies that understands moscow's aspiring the. classes from vintage dresses to private school purses this is what my school needs more of and some retail industry insiders aim to change just that. located in the back streets just off the river this place isn't easy to find but what's a gem is a must the code look as if they're brand new the collection is impressive the prices are low cost that's the original price sounds good to me if i only did.

sume one of the largest and most successful department stores in russia some food is all gone is of moscow for the next minute it's nice to shop to be seen after it's about chic and stylish prada gucci and dean g. code school a lovely to meet you there to meet you so tell me about your position here in through i'm a fashion their fashion director is the person who choosing the brands that was to be in the store late this is the most popular latest collection i have dole and. tell my bias. what to buy how to buy now i know it soon as one of the best apartments souls in moscow but how would you explain the complex to somebody who doesn't know what it is in its international department or in more school. it's in the center of moscow it's been

all stored in building. and always had a very patient with a cool while it's a close and good service so. company mercury took it over around six years ago i decided to do that in a park in a store was because of everybody else but they know they have to come to sort of a clothing industry has changed dramatically over the past decade. yes of course because you know. we have more and more stores more different with more brands that will bring all over the world and of course you know twenty years ago we wouldn't even need to have anything like this today. russians international love me everybody here. our customers have a great base. within for them the best. design is the

showcase the. question there's and this is the bell up a lot the last two years and we. know what does the russian design is and they explain beer you know we're looking at each season one wanted for in russia in this. space would then here and we. will be supportive of them and you also have many western design. showcase excuse me here. we have american designers in this we have any designers that. you know this season that they. have some good it with asian everybody talks about i am the first one to run and get them for the ball on the floor that was limited me but they make it to a very much. various international design

a showcase the clothes that suit many of which are exclusively by percent of stool american brand recently launched his collection off here the top model naomi campbell attending the event now moscow's fashionistas can join the label spans monkey research as nicole kidman janet jackson and brooke shields a controversial subjects in fashion many say that such glamorous coach wraps and hats on the city's. russian with two months living in america. we all know that it's the biggest and the most important story here so for me. it's an hour's agree. to be able to bring my collection of very creative this wonderful department for me so i just feel very much excitement and to come back to the face of my company that really big city was crushing. not to spend a fortune on clothes even the most democratic brand sometimes give my clients a chance to explore design

a fashion plate swedish company a.t.m.'s works with several top designers to create special collections and the latest collaboration with one of the world's oldest fashion houses was a huge success london's signature styles but with h. and m. price tags sold out within a day in moscow it's now called the sales in russia extraordinary. signature is one of the best known designers in russia like ship storm bars located in moscow as trendiest electrical flame along such critiques as battery and even tone cement charles has developed his own style mixing traditional russian patterns with contemporary culture in his designs the well known red black and yellow compacts into a centuries old as well as prince of servia symbols on t. shirts and i closely associated with its name. there are several discount stores in. vintage here is one example of discounts

between seventy and ninety there are. brilliant to get credit card. calvin klein the clothes in here are cheap although from tasteless live the jackets to bright pink or green jumpers if you do you have to search for the perfect dog in the eyes of the business i like to shop because there's a wide range of brands on sale here and you can find various clothes from casual to classic. isn't fashion heaven the high prices might put many off but still with many recent designers new shops and malls. hoping all the time things are changing here. if you're looking for something a little special i think with good research of local stores up and coming designers and new boutiques the city has a lot to offer. as a true sign of an evolving country recent crisis or not the fashion world in moscow is simmering with excitement but don't wait till.