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he was on the way. to save hundreds on board the vessels that became stranded. maybe in this very difficult draw. bring you all the details in just a moment. in the weeks and nice unexplained mass deaths of birds and fish around the world feels. some experts say

a sensation hungry media is refusing to sign. a string of terror arrests of course raises concerns. background checks extremists in. the immigrants when they're. getting a green card. read it will help to adapt to the. review but first more than three hundred people stranded on board a ship in the freezing waters off russia's far eastern coast are still awaiting rescue it's the last of five vessels that became stuck more than a week ago when they became trapped in the ice. more on the rescue mission. to.

a halt in the. waters off russia's far eastern coast that's the scene. as you can picture it right now they've been working there for a long time now few days to try and free the last two or three ships that became stuck in the ice there on the thirtieth of december last year so they've been there for over a week now one ship has been freed the second is currently being towed out by the first icebreaker which arrived there and the third ship the largest of the three is still stuck in the ice they're going to need a second icebreaker to help pull that out and that is just miles away now so it should be entering the final stages of this rescue operation very shortly conditions have been very difficult this part of the sea the sea of our hearts. as far as the coast is known to be difficult for ships especially in winter but this winter it it's been complicated a lot by the difficult weather conditions high winds very low temperatures for that

for the region minus seventeen has helped to create ice sometimes eight meters thick and some ice chunks up to twenty five meters thick that the ice breakers have had to try and push away through so conditions have been very difficult that's the reason that the center ships got stuck in the first place and that's also the reason that this operation has taken so long the second of the ship is being towed right now the third of the ships has three hundred people on board it's like a floating resupply ship for other ships see a lot of people on board but as we heard from the captain of that ship earlier which our team managed to get in contact with currently have plenty of supplies everything depends on the weather when the wind comes down the rescue operation will become quicker right now the cross an icebreaker is on its way here we have enough water and food supplies that can last us for four months. so it looks like the final stages of this operation should hopefully be able to begin once that icebreaker has finished towing the second ship both will then prepare to try and

smash their way around this third ship to free it from the ice. bottom reporting live from moscow this is r.t. and later in the program we report from iraq's slums the underprivileged forced to scavenge for life in junkyards touched by the billions of dollars being pumped into this country's reconstruction. a series of mysterious mass the no deaths around the globe have been battling scientists and stare and speculation the first incident the latest was when birds began all over the sky state of arkansas on new year's eve in luxor so it to me is what is the fish from brazil seen and triggered some far fetched online guesswork. over the course ranged from pollution to signal in the beginning of the end bonnie based that story is told r.t.

and it's happened before the three best occasions needed. it's impossible to see 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 they followed one after another and that attracted universal attention it's not the first time that the world is observing such phenomena it's happened in other countries to the moment the investigation in arkansas claims or not topsy has revealed the bird suffered from internal bleeding but the research has yet to be completed so we could also be dealing with some new virus so you believe it's another possible explanation but i repeat that full investigation is needed to establish the cause of what's happened and find a scientific explanation for it. security is being tightened britain's major transport hubs is the latest in a series of measures with european nations increasing fearing imminent terror attacks authorities say they've boiled several serious attempts at the wave of

recent arrests is proof that keeping. reports from austria. hell terror suspects walk straight through the front door. like many others small you would be and downs in southern austria seems quiet and peaceful while never judge a book by its cover one of its residents is now under arrest suspected of being the brains behind. recruiting extremists and plotting attacks in the heartland of the european union and the ethnic chechen that's one way it was detained at the airport in vienna as. to mecca news about the incident went around the world or streams really none of the locals seem to know much about it. we didn't hear anything about it. i'm afraid i wasn't for this. i know nothing about it and i don't care some didn't want to be filmed at all but was it really because of

a lack of information. and the deputy chief of one of australia's biggest newspapers has been personally following this case or and with only a voice recorder in he was more successful in getting the locals to share. his with a really big population become unity with. so that people are sinking what what what comes next i mean this is just my neighbor he was here with me and now he has his arrest because of her suspect. terror plot with his wife and children really appear to be leaving an ordinary life one of the most striking facts about this latest case is that the suspect has hence he claims he lost the laughter being caught up in violence in chechnya well investigators are looking into or no other version whether his hands off well handling explosives

this is raising questions all austrians hell well asylum seekers are checked before getting it passed. as one of the most liberal asylum policies in the european union last year alone the country received over fifteen thousand refugees from across the world with such an inflow of newcomers it's becoming increasingly hard to find out who is who we want to know from the government in how many cases they actually did this background checks to make sure that this people are not a criminal or dangerous second in how many cases austria has received. information from the countries of origin. and surge in how many cases asylum seekers actually have been refused the latest arrest is part of a massive police operation targeting an alleged extremist network in late november twenty six people were detained in germany and the netherlands all suspected of

recruiting so-called jihad is to get it in financing terrorist organizations it can be here in. and it can be in any other town in europe. to get more information seekers the e.u. is no making deals with countries of origin including russia but many experts warn with hundreds of thousands of refugees already living in the union because of sequences of policies of some of its member states still and. vienna austria while still ahead this hour the fairytale land that's now at risk. free thinking state of christiana founded in the center of copenhagen is under threat of parties trying to sell off the land. the u.s. is pumping billions of dollars into regenerating the uk but with thousands they're

still living below the poverty line many have yet to see any improvement in the ring standards authorities arrested by reports forced to live in dumping grounds scavenging through waste just to earn a few dollars. at seven am every morning fatma crouches outside her house and along with her sister and cousins begins to sort through garbage displaced from southern iraq that most families too poor to center 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. sense 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 in iraq you would live in a shack made from garbage people hope for their family and change so we could see that iraq is still a wonderful place at least by god if you will treat him is gone and we have a new government but look at our situation we're living in shacks america spending fifty three billion dollars on the reconstruction effort in iraq but the residents of our jet haven't seen a dime of it what they have seen though 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 names family moved to the landfill and has been living there ever since too afraid and too poor to return home you

know the american occupation turned iraq into a battlefield as well as sowing the seeds of political corruption how can americans stand back and watch without intervening in this situation everybody knows about the failure of the iraq economy this is having a terrible impact on the ground 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 it fulfill a dream when they leave in fear i can't accomplish anything nothing good security for everyone to go back home even build there's no work. we only need security that said iraq remains a very dangerous place where kidnappings and murders a part of daily life for these families living out a trash heap is still better than living with sunni neighbors back home but until that is possible and until american reconstruction dollars reach the quarter of

a rexx population that lives in poverty children like five will continue to collect trash in order to survive sebastian meyer or tea in baghdad. while the u.s. piles billions abroad it's leaving that in the u.s. for those who choose to make america their new home thousands of immigrants who secured the sought after green card being sidelined in this too explains their education experience is being ignored condemning them to a life of paid work. in the united states and here in new york every year countless people play the lottery. and train for a chance to win or you will be a mega million dollar fantasy and 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 meet one of them my name is one 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 was due to about us 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 they've put in.

just to hire. experts who work on immigration issues say 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 here already have 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 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 as cab drivers and cashiers according to a study two out of five ford educated immigrants are either in this situation or unemployed all together it's an american dream they want to wake up from if you got if we had known this we wouldn't have come life was much easier in my country people who see their plight firsthand argue the government should help more i do think it's a state department's responsibility and i think that the united see. it's going to lose out relative to other countries have taken that possibly losing out to countries such as canada and germany must they make sure of winning the lottery actually pays off loren mr r. t. new york. now and some of today's world news a u.s.

congressman has been seriously wounded after being shot in the head outside a grocery store in the state of arizona six others were killed in the rampage is democrats got real difference was meeting the voters she said in a critical condition in one of the aides was killed in the car the johnson was in an annual police have arrested a twenty two year old man over the shooting. voting is underway in southern sudan in a referendum that could see one of africa's poorest nations split into the christian dominated south is widely expected to choose independence from the mainly muslim more deadly clashes have marred the run up to the week long about it because it is part of a two thousand and five peace deal which ended decades of civil war paid two million lives displaced nearly twice as many. police in mexico have found the obvious corpses outside a shopping center. there were more than two dozen bodies discovered

a hundred and signs were left by vacating the deaths were invented to rival drug gangs who was. known as. well you might think of the contaminated chernobyl landscape as fertile ground but ukraine is primed to develop parts of it for agriculture scientists are divided some believe crops there due to the radiation caused by the new car disaster twenty five years ago but others say disturbing that that would risk another catastrophe tazer next year sure ski takes up the story. these berries may look ripe and delicious but they're definitely not part of a healthy diet the bush is inside a thirty kilometer chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine and radiation levels are off the scale people do not live here anymore but same cannot be said about flora and fauna some say it is the absence of anthropogenic harm in the church

novel exclusion zone which made nature develop here rapidly after the one nine hundred eighty six fallout in chernobyl the environment suffered badly one strip of forest was burned by radiation and turned red people left the area but mother nature stepped in now chernobyl is home to many species of wild animals and rare plants scientists from slovakia studying most in the area made an incredible discovery a lot of the plant life is immune to radiation. we still don't understand how it's possible plans are able to grow. at the very beginning of the earth when live started the. activity on the surface so. how much problem and millions of hectares of land were left contaminated

a quarter of a sentry on kiev has decided that this soil no longer poses any threat to humans in march twentieth. will launch a plan to get things growing again. we will establish what parts of the contaminated areas could be used for agricultural needs there is a possibility that cultural products will be grown there when we have so much unoccupied land why not use it. those well familiar with chernobyl like the idea. that half a million people work to clean this land of radioactivity now we're being told this is dead land this is not true just look at nature's riches and the exclusions if you were however there are those who worried about what could end up on the dinner table critics fear ukrainian and russian markets could be flooded with radioactive agricultural products and there are legal hurdles. ukraine has

a law regulating any activities in the exclusion zone it says no agricultural product can be drawn on this land and for now experts you know possibility of this law to be changed. the dominant view remains that the nearest save zones from the blonde are still hundreds of kilometers away in northern ukraine and some parts of belarus the dead zone in chernobyl is still deemed too dangerous despite some optimists but the fact is radiation can stick around for anything up to twenty four thousand years. see reporting from chernobyl ukraine. well you can check out. all the stories we're covering as well as blogs on videos from our contributors what's also online right now rediscovering uprisings beauty christine tourists become entranced by country speech. sites safer

places this region. and also how it's one of the secrets click away its troops share more than they should on social network sites all those details that. there's a corner of copenhagen where their western say they're free to live their lives according to their rules but it's under threat by the state now trying to sell off that we paid the community a visit. are you tired of pushing papers around ninety five are you sick of posting to the government telling you what to do well then welcome to. a country where things get done by the people for the people it began in one nine hundred seventy

one when he pees in freethinkers squat in forming military barracks their aim was to do this is cited from scratch where the only government would be the residents themselves new who are ship no violence it's a coup of community forged by the fifteen hundred strong locals perfect for people like filmmaker who has lived in christian year since it was founded if you have this ability to administer yourself then you also got bigger responsibility for your surroundings and that is something which is lost in large cities today for new this is the most peaceful. welcoming place you could find in denmark possibly in all of europe who want to keep up some of the virtues of the village where people know each other and also dependents and feel a responsibility for each other so what's their secret to peaceful coexistence people actually take responsibility for the area themselves they don't expect. an authority or some sort of guy from the from the city to come and take care of

things we would do it ourselves in fact christina seems to be extremely attractive to most danes a recent newspaper poll found one hundred fifty thousand copenhagen residents would love to up sticks and settle down in this euro utopia. such a lot of fairy tale atmosphere here and we have also saying you shouldn't know what's around the next quarter that should be some kind of surprise unfortunately the biggest surprise right now comes from the city authorities who want to string the acts of christine mia the land is owned by the state and the state and the state can't do anything about the land if they want to have more housing there if they want to be possible to build something and yeah for costing that's the crux of the problem residents pay their taxes to the state and a serious pita christian year but they do not own the houses they live in you're not allowed to make any money off your house and here the house is owned by

christina and you live there and rented from kristina and you can't sell it on because we don't want speculation and interest and money in this place but that's something copenhagen city council wants to change by forcing residents either to buy out or move out even if we live in this house which we've used many years to build up i'm ready to give it up if it has to be rights again it's the privatisation ideas i don't want christianity to be privatized for now the courts are deciding and although peaceful coexistence and tolan's are two. this community is cornerstones its residents refused to bow to big brother without a proper fight he didn't. christine you copenhagen denmark. american censors have taken the word out of the classic defense when it was deemed offensive to be the african-american community and critics say the book is a work of art the product of its time. feelings in new york.

a new edition of mark twain's huckleberry finn is being published this time without the n word has political correctness gone too far this week let's talk about that do you think they should be editing it like that. doesn't sound the same no no but what if it was a word that was derogatory towards you. maybe but if it were a word that was offensive to you. i would look at this piece of art. deference no matter what it should stay has there ever been of piece of art that has offended you absolutely. you know i think what about twenty years ago there was a work called piss christ by andres serrano. it was offensive but. i had the right

to create that work and i think it provokes some very good discussions as to what art can do and should do what if they wanted to add the bible to take out all the offensive parts. i'm against all kind of things that you should take out so i think everybody should have their own opinion and they should be able to say what they want yeah i think so what if it was offensive to you i don't listen. that's the way d'etre will think they think it actually adds to the work yes i mean that's what the. temper that's. times was so if there were words that were offensive to this time period should those be included in our literature and reflects what we're about today. yes who should be governing what's offensive to people and what's not there should be no governing and individual should know if they respect themselves respect their parents they would know.