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emerald. turned. to gold. to vote on whether to split from the north given millions of refugees hope they'll be able to come back. or whether cause five thousand black birds. inside a story that's making. the skies rain dead fish across the world.

and in the line of young recruits. to protect their country takes an exclusive look at russia's special forces in training. news from russia and around the well this is. good to have you with us. millions of sudanese are preparing to vote in a referendum the could see one of africa's poorest and most troubled nations split into two countries in the vote that starts on sunday the christian dominated self is one expected to choose independence from the mainly. the weeklong being held. part of a peace deal which and the decades of civil war in two thousand and five potential

remains in the region with just on saturday nine people killed in an attack on south sudanese soldiers the civil conflict claimed two million lives and displaced four million people thousands of those sought refuge in israel a place considered an enemy state by the sudanese government policies paula samir met some of the refugees to ask about their hopes for the upcoming historic vote. the road to freedom is long and its role wasn't their first choice egypt was but as the thousands of refugees fleeing sudan found themselves under assault in cairo by a police force trying to clean up the streets the decision to cross over into israel seemed a logical one. is near from here in israel. and a drawer. and christian but the journey was long sometimes on foot sometimes paying bedouins to drive them you have to cross the

border and coming to the israeli border without mesure that sort of not to see you otherwise you would be something shooting and made actually three years ago with his wife and four children he watched friends and family die along the way some were shot some died of hunger. and then. who have weapons on and with this but it's all doesn't really know what to do with these refugees last year alone eighteen thousand arrived just from sudan and eritrea is always a party to the convention on the status of refugees which means a constant way fiji's back home if this would risk their lives but keeping them here is becoming more and more difficult. benjamin korean works as a cleaner in a hotel and struggles to make ends meet my life. how can i

walking. or. i didn't go to my unit. to rain hours and thousands of sudanese share his story poor homes no jobs little money and it's too dangerous to go back to sudan sudan government is again israel is really. coming. up using our anime or our. if you're going to northern sudan you would be and sudanese leaders have said as much if the authorities would release that the northern government of sudan finds out that the person has sought asylum in israel this person would be in in serious risk of persecution southern sudan is holding a referendum on whether to separate from the north and become an independent state if the final stage of the peace agreement that ended up twenty two years of rule many of them have has spurred from being in israel for such

a long time with no rights whatsoever people realize that they don't really have a future here and people are also all homesick and benjamin moore not sure what to do home beckons despite the risks if those islands are down to is pre-dawn i will decide to go back to my own. policy or r.t. southern israel. when thousands of turtle doves fell from the sky in italy it became one of the latest examples of a series of unexplained mass animal deaths across the globe some of the more outlandish speculation is suggested it could be the first signs of the end of the world artie's catarina server takes a look to see if there really is something fishy going on or if it is just media hype. sing a song of suspense one where the end is nigh as thousands of black birds fell out of the sky and when the birds were found the news began to sing the end of days conspiracy does have

a catchy ring. at first it was just arkansas grabbing the world's attention and louisiana followed suit and your brush filled some feathers with mysterious avian deaths in sweden experts attempted to calm the public by suggesting the birds got scared of fireworks who are flew into trees and cars because of bad weather and we know is that fireworks or weather could not cause five thousand black birds to have a liquefied insides that's what the fish and wildlife veterinarian sad they've never seen anything like it now we're seeing the same polarization of the insides of black birds they are dad when they hit the ground they are dying in the night while they're roosting in trees but then one hundred thousand dead fish. that seem to have opened the floodgates i think the media is by and large not a portion or actually underestimate you know serious it is so i believe there are

multiple causes but basically means that the entire planet is an uproar that we have a toxic release of gases and changes in the oceanic currents that means the entire well current system is no destructive for those not very impressed with the scientific explanation there's always the religious one fanatic bloggers have once again started flooding the world wide web with end of days posts and the international media storm for news during the slow post christmas month of january is having a field day and you are asked to call sooner rather than later context. for you cannot even get down the road without running over hundreds it was that bad with more and more mr. deaths around the world fish in brazil australia and new zealand crabs in the u.k. the frenzy is growing and the headlines scream a clock on. these fish stories looks set to continue stealing the media spotlight

at least until scientists have had a chance to examine the dead animals or you know the world comes to an end whichever of course happens first. catherine as our r.t. moscow miami based that lewis told me that these types of events have happened before and a thorough investigation is needed. it's impossible to say for sure what's happened to the birds and fish until proper investigations are held in fact i don't believe that these events are interlinked before world one after another and that attracted universal attention it's not the first time that the world is observing such phenomena it's happens in other countries too of the moment the investigation in arkansas claims or not topsy has revealed the bird suffered from internal bleeding but the research is yet to be completed we could also be dealing with some new virus so you'd leave us another possible explanation but i repeat that full

investigation is needed to establish the cause of what's happening and find a scientific explanation for it. while still ahead this hour an hour to communist bogeyman get a new lease of life partners of socialism attract new admirers and financial crisis hit america also. to gain access to the training of russia's elite special forces that's what they have to go through in a few minutes from now. more than three hundred people stranded on board a ship in the icy waters off russia's far eastern coast are still awaiting rescue it's the last of three vessels that became stuck more than a week ago extreme weather conditions have been hampering the operation officials say the people on board are in immediate danger and have enough supplies more powerful icebreaker is expected to arrive within several hours to help with the rescue of the still stranded ship which needs a bigger path through the ice to get out the second vessel is currently being towed

to safety by the icebreaker admiral carter. u.s. is set to increase military intelligence and financial support to pakistan to stabilize the troubled region the washington post reports and that's despite ongoing frustration the pakistani authorities aren't doing enough to combat insurgency washington is also sending fourteen hundred more soldiers to support nato forces in afghanistan when ati's military contributor says what matters is how this fresh batch of troops is used. the latest tech tical shift that is supposed to happen in afghanistan it's an additional beef up of u.s. marines in the southern part of the contrary they're going to the latest data the u.s. marine corps is expected to beef up its deployment the question is who cares whether it's going to be just the same static twenty thousand for just another one thousand marines the kershner difference is to what purpose real this additional marines

serve the key issue here is that helmand province is a u.s. marines sanctuary and it could make or break they new military campaign in southern afghanistan and define the future of afghanistan itself and the future of the u.s. military presence in afghanistan and beyond if american marines will again be used and abused in fully cordons we have the policy of safeguarding the drug lords and their slaves in helmand province then they will be remembered in afghanistan in generations to come as the most expensive suckers of the exploit of the drug and warlords in afghanistan who are deployed to safeguard yet another record breaking opium harvest in hell manned and beyond. now some other

international news in brief this hour a congresswoman has been critically wounded and at least six others killed by gunman in the u.s. state of arizona the shooting took place during a public appearance by democratic gabrielle giffords at a store in the city of tucson and she was shot in the head at a point blank range and is now said to be in a critical condition so maybe you know others have also been wounded and police say the suspected attacker is in custody. u.s. authorities of all of the messaging web site twitter to hand over personal details of people linked to wiki leaks the district court in virginia wants all account information including user names phone numbers addresses and payment details the leaks founder julian assange ownership and an icelandic among them u.s. a criminal investigation is looking at a symes involvement in the leaking of thousands of classified documents. pyongyang says it wants to reopen two way talks to solve

a soon as possible to settle the situation on the korean peninsula the north offered to start negotiations without preconditions this month it's the second such proposal from pyongyang this week this was the first one as insincere relations between the two koreas abruptly deteriorated after the shelling of a south korean island in november but never people dead each side blames the other for firing first. in terms of rising unemployment and poverty in the united states the idea of social equality is beginning to seem appealing to some so much so that the work of marx engels and even lenin is going through a resurgence. when to meet a few of america's socialists. the very first sentence of the congress manifesto in . a specter hangs over europe the structure of communism like. in modern day us the specter of communism hangs over the bottom or brick building on the west side of downtown new york city the rock from started out actually as the new york marks of school in one nine hundred seventy five here communism is certainly no bogeyman

and it's poster philosopher so to speak is revered. and i wanted to be around other more and it's just a talk with all the marxists in the u.s. that may sound a little taboo even unpatriotic to the average joe but these days amid rising poverty and inequality in the country more and more people are joining in the discussion certainly since the kind of the economic crisis where the financial crisis kind of hit home and a lot of people realized you know there are some systemic problems we saw a huge increase in influx of traffic here people opening their eyes to a different view here people's histories poster projects wherever you look you can see a chapter of events not found in history books they don't realize that haiti was the first free black republic in the western hemisphere you know and historically they've been punished because of it. choose

a door and behind it you may find any number of leftist social movements left out of mainstream news here again. these carolers are urging a boycott of israel because of its policies towards palestine and the building of illegal settlements in the west bank partly because for a few not only this great nation sure. it was a hero i think that was behind another door you could hear the discourse left out of many american colleges i failed that it was just an amazing wealth of knowledge that i had never been exposed to. people also just play poker with the side of political analysis you don't hear on cable the whole struggle. you know the immigration story. is cause that kept. us though we're at the marxist school the people we've spoken to here are calling

for any kind of proletariat revolution no violent political uprising but everywhere you look the history in the philosophy of communism is here you can see all of the works of marx engels over here is lenin even here the writings of joseph stalin and the version of monopoly that they play is called class struggle to prepare for life in a capitalist america where the object is to win the revolution of workers when it socialism capitalists when it's barbarism talking to people around the brics forum it seems many are trying to implement the change they're studying without uttering that yes or see as in communism word now it's more positive to say progressive or less whatever you want to call it they are actively trying to solve the problems and inequality they see in the country which is an attempt to make change but maybe right now it's not in terms of a revolution but of working from within which you can call any number of things but

probably not petri arctic lauren lyster r t new york. for more news on this is. right now europe sees a spike in the number of arrests of terror suspects raising questions with a poor background check some of your son and see who's to blame. for dogs about mystical messages between you and spirits in traditional shamanism lives on in some remote parts of russia for more story and all those had to come. the official ante up location of your i phone i pod touch from the top still. life on the go. video. tease my world calls and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the

dot com. russia's special forces are on the front line of protecting their country from terrorism home and abroad only the fittest the strongest and the best k'naan the right to wear the spetsnaz crimson beret autism or if a national went to meet the latest recruits hoping to receive that honor. i it may look like a scene from a hollywood blockbuster but the special forces are very real. these young soldiers part of the country's internal forces are preparing to meet and his friends their country may face the history of special units all sprits not in the russian army goes back centuries but tactics and techniques have evolved dependent on the key challenge of the time but these guys have always been the lead and in the twenty first century they are on the front line of the fight against terror

a siege hostage taking for these youngsters these are life like scenarios from training. none have get taken part in a real operation. day by day they learn how to act effectively face to face with an enemy which is exhausting both physically and mentally but for many facing their own fears remains the hardest thing we. said to belong to the elite but of course i am a human and argue about fears to cope with them is every soldier's number one most challenging turn. left turn in colonel and draper guy if he's here to help the young boys deal with that. the order of courage was terrorising chechnya and crimson bury the top space not only similar to america's green beret he knows how to take control of human nature was a part of many sportsmen come to us and fails only twenty percent managed to prove

deserve it as a truce but it's not soldier which is a fusion of physical insurance and what may be even more important emotional maturity. countering terrorism is a spats not spatiality but they could be sent to any kind of emergency if it's freshness the country's security in mid december when the russian capital was hit by a wave of. violent nationalist riots spetznaz soldiers were on standby close by. you may say that's no joke the special forces the police we don't agree there is the order and we have to carry it out as well as we can that's it. you are. all of these young soldiers a conscript immediately. many say they'll stay for longer sign a contract and continue as professionals in the least. very notion atif.

well that brings up to date for the moment i'll be back with a look at our main news stories in about ten minutes from now but first altie talks to a renowned french historian who explains why russia has so often misunderstood in the west. and then got it done call structure of history and humanity one of the secretary of the french science academy and the woman who predicted the breakup of the soviet

union in nine hundred seventy eight in her book the collapse of an empire is here with us today. thank you very much my dum-dum course for your time. and your recent book between two walls you talk about russia can we presume from the title do you think russia still hasn't found its place in the wall. the use of since was looking is not exactly what the book says that russia has made these kind of decision but over the past ten years it's been pursuing two different paths rather than one word what i've been trying to explain is that after the soviet union disintegrated russia rushed to your door but as you have does not offer a warm welcome it's just a beginning of this century a russia's foreign policy has been focusing on two directions rather than on one on the one hand which fall courses on the west all the other hand because it was joe graphical position so decided to position itself as an asian country as quickly as

it gives it a greater priest and influence in the world has been pursuing this policy for more than ten years now and has broad great success as out of the twentieth century russia's international reputation around the world was not very good but now after the past decade it's obvious that it's been reckon it's a big change russia has taken a very important step forward and in my pin in this presidency is irreversible you know russia has become a world power at the fair probably beginning third in your introduction you raised the question of whether russia should be fear of it do you mean that being pirogue russia and the soviet union which you were used to be afraid of and you are still alive. to think that gave up on this there not only in europe with the collapse of the soviet union it was not anticipated it happened overnight many countries

primarily love to solve it influence the eastern european countries and countries that used to be part of the soffit union but are now into balance states did not understand russia and are afraid of it as eastern european countries have become e.u. members have showed it here is and passed them on to the law saying that russia used to be an empire so why should seize. being an empire and can't be trusted now that is in the past has been forgotten by now people have already interested in it russia is missing its own path but time has shown the georgia for example which has always been saying that it wants to save itself for russia that's why it's what it takes us nato to feel that russia will dominate georgia again and york i think that says fears originate from some kind of misunderstanding of the break up of the soviet union because it was so sudden that no one could adjust themselves to the mediately all the european and priors have collapsed but the collateral after

decades of preparation you were in russia itself was not ready but there was no you don't believe in russia's imperial ambitions to write i don't believe it or i'd rather say there is some kind of innocent algeria but that's a completely different saying what a country can forget overnight that it used to be a powerful empire but russia has common sense despite the fact that some russians say it used to be so good and that is a shame is forgotten about it for a still russian people and specifical is an hour ahead of common sense and there to stand too well that is so far and it's russia's future is allowed to be an empire but rather to build up its reputation and eloquence via subtle our rather than by force. this will be it for you why does europe yet russia now. a russia is needed because the entire history of international relations is moving away from europe it's played out in asia even as

a us city country is refocusing its foreign policy on asia so you're aware of the huge current that will plays a big role located here in asia or latin america but that's a geo question now what is the current state of european asian relation of this europe is of no interest asia. it will view europe as a landmass and tweezers to pacific oceans russia is your of a not a whole picture there was an alliance here then we can say europe reaches the pacific for this is the reason europe flees russia and i'm not sure if russian is europe but europe at the moment of need for russia is one of them cause so worth my time and on course at one point you predicted the collapse of the soviet union and you knew forecasts for more than russia. that's the fear now i don't email address it's just so when i was writing about the soviet union i didn't see it as

a full cost or a look at it again and saw so many there negative elements that i couldn't help but ask myself how long will it last i don't make forecasts as a rule historian discover i look at the past and try to figure out what's happening in the present i think russia has come a long way over the past twenty years it is having some difficulties as countries do it's not easy it is to use democracy capitalism it to western europe centuries to do that or it's doing it within twenty years isn't so easy i think russia is following the path it chose in ninety nine to one there have been ups and downs but i don't see any discourse you know unity so i think if we can become about russia's future it's starting to look the more and more like you know my country as i was before if somebody asked you to describe more than russia in just three words what would those words be.