with a uniform and a gun. very strong very courageous. but empty. i don't know if he human being of sane mind gets used to killing. me if i never got used to killing.

rescue is underway off russia's far east coast icebreaker strive to save hundreds on all the last of the five vessels i became stranded over a week ago. the end is almost incites this very long and drawn out so we'll bring you all the details in just a moment. also among the week's main knees the unexplained mass deaths of birds and fish around the world fueled by the prophecies some experts are saying social media

refusing to sign. a string of terror arrests across europe raises concern in news that checks letting extremists in. and the immigrants who live in america as well these are the only good thing to green cards even bread a little help. here watching on t.v. and our weekly news review 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 five vessels that became stuck more than a week ago when they became trapped in the ice let's get more on the rescue mission

from tom hanks and tom when we expect there would deal to finish. well kerry at the moment two russian icebreakers are hard at work in the icy waters off russia's far eastern coast the first of them they had more than a car off has been there for some days now the second is just about to arrive and those two are the ships that are going to be needed to try and smash the ice around this last remaining ship a resupply ship that was the last of the ships three ships docked there on the thirtieth of december last year currently the second of those ships which is a freighter is being towed away from the scene that's expected to be brought to safety retailer to very soon and then after that the two icebreakers will go about extracting the last of these ships now this is been ongoing for some days now as you say why are the rescue operations taking so long. with these waters in the

sea our hearts in russia's far east are known to be dangerous places for ships in the winter this winter more so than many because of the very unusually low temperatures about minus seventeen and very high winds which have combined to create very thick ice and ice that formed very fast some places it got eight meters and some particular chunks of ice have been as much as twenty five meters thick so that's what made these ships stuck in the first place and it's also the reason that these rescue operations have been taking so long but a time do we have any news from the crew on board the ship themselves. yes earlier on our team to get in contact with the captain of the third ship this resupply ship which has three hundred people on board it obviously fears were that perhaps that the supplies might be running low or that the ship might be in more

serious trouble those fears did not materialize the ship is not unknowns in immediate danger as we heard earlier on from the captain himself. 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 twenty five miles away we have enough water and food supplies that can last us for four months. so there we heard that the ship is in no immediate danger but just these three hundred sailors very eager now for these two ice breakers hopefully to punt to the ice around it and start towing it out so that they can get on with their job in seas that are not covered in ice indeed tom keep us updated their parties are tom barton reporting thank you. from moscow this is our table later in the program we report from iraq's slums. to scavenge for

a new leader life in junkyards untouched by the billions of dollars being pumped into the country's construction. and wearing just on the population but boy struggling to feed their families despite israel's claims it was easy in. a series of mysterious mass animal deaths around the baffling scientists and stone speculation the first incident to be there was when black birds began for them from the sky can stake a vulcan soul a new year's eve and look so sweetly it's only as weather as it is a fish from brazil to new zealand to get some far fetched online guesswork theories over the coals range from pollution to signaling the beginning of the end but filmmaker and blogger. media sensation isn't taking the focus away from finding the real causes behind the mystery. when one set of incidents happens followed by

another set followed by a third set 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 flock of birds coming up with new catchy words new ad lives and the like obviously it's it's 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 in attention of the media maybe even the amnesia of the media refusal to speak to the people who are most in the know

because all of this is sort of tittle asian for the public and yet it could be a very serious. 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 foiled several serious attempts and that the wave of recent arrests is proof that coping as it were to school for ports from austria people wondering how terror suspects are managing to 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 brain behind work we couldn't extremists in plotting attacks in the heartland of the european union an ethnic chechen was detained at the airport in vienna as he

returned from a pilgrimage to mecca news about the incident went around the world all the 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. 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 christopher has been personally following this case or md with only a voice recorder in no t.v. crew he was more successful in getting the locals to share. his with a really big population become unity with if chechens 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 arrested because of a suspect. terror plot with his wife and children

really appear to be leading an ordinary life one of the most striking facts about this latest case is that the suspect has no hands he claims he lost the after being caught up in violence in chechnya now investigators are looking into or no other version whether his hands were all off while handling explosives this is raising questions austrians hell well asylum seekers are checked before getting the green late last year 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 is becoming increasingly hard to find out who is who we want to know from the government in how many cases they actually did background checks to make sure that this people are not 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 belgium germany and the netherlands all suspected of recruiting so-called jihad just candidates in financing terrorist organizations it can be here in one and it can be in any other town in europe in an effort to get more information of asylum seekers the e.u. is now 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 lie ahead. r g vienna austria. ages old rituals surviving amid

a modern lifestyle. balancing agent mysticism with a modern technology i'm sure on thomasson coming up on our t.v. we explore the world of the siberian sharman. the u.s. is pumping billions of dollars into regenerating iraq with thousands they're still living below the poverty line many have yet to see any improvement living standards . reports some are forced to live in dumping grounds scavenging through waste just a few dollars. at seven am every morning fatima crouch is outside her house and along with her sister and cousins begins to sort through garbage displaced from southern iraq that 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 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 homes over two thousand people live on baghdad's landfill. making their homes out of the garbage that the rest of the city throws away there's no running water or electricity and certainly no access to medical treatment if someone gets sick they have to be taken to hospital the same way they get drinking water by donkey cart can you believe in iraq you would live in a shack made from garbage people who threw the chain so we could see if it's iraq is still a wonderful place leased by god if you will treat humans gone 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 though is the sectarian violence they 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 you know the american occupation turned iraq into a battlefield as well as showing 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 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 i leave in fear i can't accomplish anything nothing good security for

everyone 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 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 rexx population that lives in poverty children like fatima will continue to collect trash in order to survive sebastian mire r t in baghdad while the us piles billions abroad it said leaving little in the u.s. for those who choose to make america the new home thousands of immigrants who have secured the sought after green card finding they're being sidelined on this tour explains their education experience is being ignored condemning them to a life of them paid work. in the united states and here in new york every year countless people play the lottery. and touring for

a chance to win for a mega million dollar fantasy believing a few dollars and a dream could buy them turn 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 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 prize is not cash but green cards and this startling experience was due to a lot of 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 it was getting the incident . best 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 image 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 war with the greatest possible return. when many find is maybe some familiarity of

an ethnic neighborhood like this one that has southeast asian music restaurants and fashion what many struggle with is finding economic opportunities that are any better than what they had in their home country or even finding jobs that allow them to survive here we're seeing a lot of the downward mobility of for immigrants and often very highly qualified goods. finding foreign degrees and 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 foreign educated immigrants are either in this situation or unemployed all together it's an american dream they want to wake up from if you've got if we had known this we wouldn't have come life was much easier in my country people who see their plight firsthand argue the government should help more i do

think it's the 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. where you can check out for more on the stories we're covering as well as blogs if you're from our country which is what's also just a click away. reduce government subsidies for you to receive tourists from just trust landscape sightseers breaks so it's. also our israeli army secrets that are suffering from some share information should social network sites tell us with.

it's now two years since israel's military offensive on gaza and life is still no better for its residents israel is easing the blockade of the region but unemployment is still around forty percent forcing people into innovative ways to make a living artie's points nepal's. a group of gaza women are breaking new ground literally . they've signed up to work as ditch diggers to help support their families the red line and the work is very hard and life is even hiding these women of a family's breadwinners and with two out of three people unemployed in gaza the burden of responsibility on their shoulders is heavier and the shovels in the hands of the only my family has no one to take care of ones and we need money and that's why i'm forced to dig. three hundred women have signed up their dig holes for water

reservoirs on farms in gaza and the pay little more than fifteen dollars a day hard work for private construction game and better than my has been tested provide for two families seen people if i don't do this work and what will i be left with probably not very much which is often the fate of thousands of gazans left disabled from israeli operations they too have no choice but to work in order to survive aid miller i have a family of twelve to feed and there is no other way for me to meet go living besides using this route with a moderate regimes that are to sell ice cream. they survived by selling cigarettes sweets and mobile phones mahu up a wider makes a living repairing watchers look at them with got hope i found this job i prayed for it and it feeds the non-handicapped people have trouble finding drop in gaza today at the end of december it was two years since the last israel gaza war since

then border controls in and out of gaza have been eased and more goods allowed to pass through but many gazans complain it's done precious little to improve their lives in the next few months the number of trucks going into gaza is expected to reach four hundred four times what it was two years ago but gazans still cannot cross into israel and their economy remains idle. poorness yeah atiq israel. not date now on some of today's news a u.s. congresswoman seriously being shot in the head outside a grocery store in the state of arizona six others were killed in the rampage as democratic governor giffords was meeting them to as she said in a critical condition that one of her aides was killed in the college is known as the world police arrested a twenty two year old man over the shooting. voting is underway in southern sudan

a referendum that could see one of the africa's poorest and most troubled nation split into the christian dominated south is widely expected to choose independence from the mainly eastern more deadly clashes have mala the run up to the week old ballot vote is part of a two thousand and five peace deal which decades of civil war that claimed two million lives and displaced twice as many others. two frenchmen abducted had been killed by their captors after attempts to rescue them failed them with found dead in clashes between security forces on the quay got these hostages was seized on friday from a bar in the camp and by four. no group has admitted the crime but there's speculation that and al qaeda offshoot was behind it. police in mexico have found fifteen the headless corpse is outside a shopping center in the resort town of acapulco they were among more than two

dozen bodies found hundred signs were left there by indicating the deaths were related to rival drug gang turf wars victims were on men in their twenty's. shamans are seen as the mystical messengers between people and the spirits in ancient times they were in charge of almost all aspects of life from healing the sick to ensuring a good harvest and they're still around today despite the macho organization john thomas has been to meet some of them in russia's far east. oh. from the ceremonial rhythm of the drama. to ancient rituals and traditions. the belief in the power of the shaman is very much a part of the equity in way of life that she put it there so that our ancestors always had a very powerful shaman around the law to protected them gave them blessings and ensured security and safety in all circumstances and every day life at a hand on

a journey and a tool. a showman is someone who acts as an intermediary between the spiritual and earthly worlds relying heavily on nature to get his message across when russian orthodox christianity moved eastward and then later with the soviet union shamanism was banned those that practice the faith were persecuted now there are only three recognized shaman living in all of you want to live through wealth i help people find faith in the fact that their wishes will be fulfilled their family relations in conflicts at work will be fixed when a person has this faith he can do anything i live in a time of crisis and my mission is to help people in this troublesome time every shonen has his own mission. to head certain posts with the engine symbols of the sharman adorning them standing right next to power lines from the modern world there's a contrast between the modern technology and age old missis ism is

a problem for the sherman. real shamans live far away from big cities and small villages because contemporary cities with computers cars cell phones and the constant russian distract from the true unity with nature and the spirits i myself am from a far northern region she ganske lucy trying to make the best of it all life is a delicate balancing act for the cuttin people. where in interesting people when we're in trouble we do three different things at the same time we turn to show. eamonn we pray you know church and we make use of modern medicine a unique way of keeping a tradition that has been part of your code for centuries but even if you tried to maybe some protect what it created the spiral in the middle is a symbol of fire may the warmth of the fire in your name to take you and may your three spirits be united the spirit of the womb the spirit of man and the spirits of the earth in your good year sean thomas r.t.

. georgia's capital it centuries of history is currently undergoing a make over while the authorities are trying to see more european style city because say it's wiping out the city's heritage next hour sarah ferguson looks behind you for someone's discovering how the superficial renovations put in their own town think of destruction. on our top story shortly are they going.

sergeant of the israeli defense forces. during his service scorched the street fight. to fly in from the colonel of the chilean armed forces participated in keeping down a military revolt. sergeant in the us army. trying to become an american by getting pardon me. franks and reasons differ but one thing brings them together.