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refusing to. say. but little help. we are running down the top stories of today this week welcome to the program more than three hundred people were stranded on board a ship in the freezing waters. 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. on the rescue mission. the

operation is now in its final stages or at least approaching them there are two ice breakers currently trying to get ready to tow out the last of these ships on december thirtieth the first ships became stuck there in the ice at the height of the drama there were five ships stuck in the ice two of those managed to get free themselves two of them were towed away and now we're left with just one the largest of the ships with three hundred people on board and it's required these two ice breakers to come together to try and move it the last ship stuck in the ice is a supply ship used to resupply the ships at sea so it's obviously a very big ship one of the other ships being towed away now the will be ready to to start that operation they've been there obviously for over a week now. to all these three hundred crewmembers. there is no immediate danger to them they're in an ok state we managed to talk to the captain earlier and he

told us about his hopes 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. it was the weather that really caused all of this crisis in at the beginning very cold temperatures for the season about minus seventeen degrees and a lot of very high winds have created ice formations very fast and very thick ice which made all the ships get trapped in the first place and then slowed down the rescue efforts. reporting live from moscow this is r.t. later in the program we reported from iraq's slum underprivileged to scavenge for a meager life junkyards untouched by the billions of american dollars being pumped into the country's reconstruction. and a fairy tale at the risk of freethinking

a state of christiania founded in the center of copenhagen is under threat so he's trying to sell the law. a series of mysterious mass animal deaths around the globe have been battling scientists and stirring speculation the first incident to be noticed was when black birds began falling from the sky in the american state of arkansas on new year's eve then flocks of birds dying in sweden and italy as well as millions of fish from brazil to new zealand triggered some far fetched online guesswork theories over the causes a range from pollution to signaling the beginning of the end which filmmaker danny schechter says the media sensationalism is taking the focus away from finding the real scientific causes behind the mysteries. 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 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 rich and then. there is no follow up for so you know we really never find out what really happened and this is me in attention of the media maybe even the amnesia of the media the 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 that britain's major transport hubs it's

the latest in a series of measures with european nations increasingly fearing imminent terror attacks authorities say they foiled several serious attempts and the wave of recent arrests is proof that they're coping but it's obvious that you could it was going to reports from austria people are wondering how terror suspects are managing to walk straight through the front door of the ear. 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. extremists in planning attacks in the heart of the european union an ethnic chechen was detained at the airport in vienna as. to make up news about the incident went around the world 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 has been personally following this case or and with only a voice recorder. he was more successful in getting the locals to share. his with a really big population become unity with chechens so that people are sinking what what what comes next i mean this is just my neighbor he was here with me and i'm now is his arrest and because of 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 while in chechnya well investigators are looking into or no other version whether his hands were all off while handling explosives this is raising questions austrians over hell well asylum seekers are checked before getting the green light as one of the most liberal asylum policies in the european union and 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 this 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 uncertain 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 can't get it in financing terrorist organizations it can be here in one year and it can be in any other town in europe in an effort 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 ahead. vienna austria. and still to come here on r.t. the ages old rituals surviving amid a modern lifestyle. balancing agent mysticism with a modern technology i'm trying to address and coming up on our team we explored the

world of the siberian sharman. the u.s. is pumping billions of dollars into regenerating iraq but with thousands they're still living below the poverty line many of yet see any improvement in living standards as artie's sebastian my reports some are forced to live in dumping grounds scavenging through waste just to earn 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 home 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 it's 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 at least by god the old regime is gone and we have a new government but the situation much reliving and shocks america is 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 the drove them from their home five years ago. we used to live in abu ghraib you know then america came the war increased in iraq people started killing each other and so we fled because we were freed in two thousand and five names family moved to the landfill

and has been living there ever since too afraid and too poor to return home and 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 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 if you really want to go back home there's no work 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 can 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 lives in poverty children like fatima will continue to collect trash in order to survive sebastian meyer r t in baghdad. and while the us piles billions abroad in so leaving little in the u.s. for those who choose to make america then you home thousands of immigrants who secured the sort after green card finding they're being sidelined as lauren lyster explains education and experience is being ignored condemning them to a life of low 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 for 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 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 to we didn't know people used to say you're

educated it will be easy america's a big country with a lot of facilities life will be better but in reality it was a thing that didn't. 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 and counted it's been very difficult they reflect a group of immigrants who come to the u.s. not because of a job lined up or a family sponsoring them but for many because of the vision of what they can achieve they really have that american dream of coming to the u.s. they know that they've invested in their education and they. i think that the united states is the place to put that skills those degrees and that ambition to work with the greatest possible return. when many find is maybe something no year already have 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 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 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 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. this is also you live from moscow will do an update now on some of today's world news u.s. congresswoman seriously wounded after being shot in the head outside a grocery store in the state of arizona six others were killed in that rampage democrat giffords was meeting she was said to be in a critical condition. was killed in the cottage as well as a nine year old girl police have arrested a twenty two year old man over the shooting. and voting is underway in the southern sudan in a weeklong referendum could see one of africa's poorest and most troubled nations split into the christian dominated south is widely expected to choose independence from the mainly muslim north deadly clashes have marred the run up to the weeklong ballot the vote is part of a two thousand and five peace deal which ended decades of civil war that claim two

million lives and displaced nearly twice as many others. police in mexico have found a fifteen headless corpses outside a shopping center in the resort town of acapulco they were among more than two dozen bodies discovered handwritten signs were left nearby indicating the deaths were related to rival drug gang turf wars the victims were all men in their twenty's. well there's a corner of copenhagen where the residents say they're free to live their lives according to their own rules but this particular danish delight is under threat with the state now trying to sell off the land. paid the community 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 squadron forming military barracks their aim was to build

a society from scratch where the only government would be the residents themselves no home ownership no violence it's a co-op community forged by the fifteen hundred strong locals perfect for people like filmmaker mist who has lived in christian yes since it was founded if you have this ability to administer yourselves 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 and welcoming place you could find in denmark possibly in all of europe we 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 moes danes a recent newspaper poll found one hundred fifty thousand copenhagen residents would love to up sticks and settle down in this euro utopia that is such a lot of fairy tale atmosphere here and we have also saying you shouldn't know what's around the next corner there 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. to be possible to build something in the area of course that's the crux of the problem residents pay their taxes to the state and disservice speed to christian yes 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 christina and you can't sell it on because we don't want speculation and interest and money in this place but that's something company you can 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 a frights again it's the privatization ideas i don't want christie added to privatized for now the courts are deciding and although peaceful coexistence and tolerance are two of these communities cornerstones its residents refused to bow to big brother without a proper fight he didn't go christine you copenhagen denmark. you can always check out dot com for more on the stories we're covering as well as blogs and videos from our contributors also whether you're online right now rediscovering how to use beauty creasing numbers of tourists are becoming entranced by the country's

picturesque landscape sightseers replace soldiers from georgia. how israeli army secrets are a click away from more than a shirt on the social network sites but details. georgia's capital with this centuries of history is currently undergoing a make over but while authorities try to turn tbilisi into an ultra modern european style city locals say it's wiping out the city's heritage sarah firth takes a look behind the new facades. to police his old town is undergoing some major changes a government backed construction project aims to revamp the aging architecture they

call it new life for the old town but others have called it a battle for the city's. first century these winding cobbled streets old houses on wooden balconies have delighted visitors and inhabitants but there are signs of construction are everywhere people are worried that it's destroying the town's historical charge. neither architects nor historians work here the people conducting the reconstruction works were simply told to make it look nice the restoration project is pre-fixed stream really controversial but should the housing here is in desperate need of repair but in many cases the government has simply rebuilt tearing down beautiful and often historical structures and putting in their place poor replicas. you know they've just done work to the facade of everything has been done in a slim chance way. past the cash funding the project comes from the international

community but little accountability and poor building control has led to accusations that the money isn't being invested wisely many of the homes now stand empty and uncompleted. being stored to some just below the structures of the hundred that's inside. the houses house has been in his family for ninety years he tells us that it's not just the poor quality building work that's a problem in the modernization boom many of the locals has sold to investors without them the town has lost the local spirit that made it so unique you can't feel it anymore just a few local families. before this area was like a mountain. with so many people who know it's like a museum but despite the criticisms the government adamant they aren't going to stop. we want to do even more criticism is not always acceptable but if it's salute

bruce we accept it meanwhile we're not going to stop the implementation of our projects because of it. the project is attempting to turn to bill e.c. into a modern european style capital because the old makes way to the new many feel that the town's historical heritage is being which east to rubble so if they're artsy georgia shermans 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 are still around today despite the march of modernization sean thomas has pointed out some of them in russia's far east. 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 cuttin way of life to 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 us want to live through wealth or by 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

sharman 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 and mysticism 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. trying to make the best of it all life is a delicate balancing act for the cuttin people. they probably are an interesting people when we're in trouble we do three different things at the same time we turn to a shaman we pray in a church and we make use of modern medicine a unique way of keeping a tradition that has been part of your code for centuries i think even if you don't feel.