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resets to being the best team or another ice breaker joining the. remaining duck and that's. also in the program among the stories to choose the we mark the birds and fish around the globe spot conspiracy and apocalyptic theories as some say science is struggling to come up with the answers. europe's

asylum policies under fire last year's string of telling to rest sparks accusations that lacks checks are to blame for the spread of an extremist threat. and we report from iraq where people driven from the house as part of war make the landfill sites their home and their livelihood. this is r t it's eight pm now you're a moscow welcome if you choose georgia she watching our news review of the week with me kevin zero in first extreme weather is hampering attempts to rescue two ships stranded in freezing waters off russia's far east coast for the past week a second ice breaker is now less than ten miles away from the first break in which was unable to free the vessels by itself more than three hundred people on board the two boats tonight are sort of firth is calling the rescue mission for us now

live sarah very good evening to you this rescue is into its eleventh day now is no problems seem to keep cropping up how is the operation progressing tonight one of those saying. well this maritime john they're continuing to play out today and you've really got a feel for the queen on board days remaining t. shirts. the eleventh day now hopefully the end possibly now in sight the icebreaker crusted is that position now just to recap what's been happening even the polls week we saw these three original ships calling for rescue in december thirtieth then at the beginning of this week another two ships got stuck in the ice we've seen two ice breakers the admiral marker of the guys and working very hard in extremely tough conditions to free up the ships like now manage to get three of them to safety the last of which was the science research first though that they freed up on friday and since then the other icebreakers been working for the

weekend to try and free up the remaining two but in incredibly tough conditions and they've not been able to do and they're in there now waiting for the ice breaker crossing which is nearing that position and hopefully then the combined effort to work through to clear through this really thick. eight meters thick in some places and get the ship freed up so what is the latest on where it will finally be over for these hundreds of people that are stranded. well we've heard some reports saying that it's probably the earliest a lot of the get them freed up would would be cheese day we've heard from the head of the fishing federal fishing agency just recently that the taping for breakthrough in the early hours of tomorrow morning at the crossing of the reaches they shed i went to the other icebreaker stop breaking up this ice that's around but they all working in an extremely tough conditions icebreaker everybody had

their work cut out for the we've had go full swing set to ninety kilometers an hour the incredibly thick ice he said and poor visibility you know if i from the constant one of the stranded ships to the rescue operation the timing of it coming to an end it's really very dependent on whether these conditions eased up or indeed was. everything depends on the weather when the wind comes down the rescue operation would become quicker right now the cross an icebreaker is on its way here we have enough water and food supplies that can last for four months. then the combined will be able to break up. they've been in contact they've got plenty of supplies aboard not being in any particular danger but it may be a load rescue operation and it. was well following what happens there are a further reporting and bringing us up to date thank you very much time. now spring

pounced on by conspiracy theorists it's puzzled scientists and it stirred up a media frenzy the alarming trend of unexplained mass animal deaths in different parts of the globe and still got everyone guessing tonight it all started on new year's eve with reports of black birds falling from the sky in the american state of arkansas then there were flocks of birds dying in sweden and italy and finally millions of dead fish from brazil to new zealand have triggered some fevered online speculation experts have suggested range of explanations from a changing climate of parasites and poisoning conspiracy theorists a secret government experiments could be behind the deaths with some even claiming it's a sign of looming mageddon for baker blogger gurley schechter told us media hype is taking the focus away from the real scientific causes. when one set of incidents happens followed by another set followed by a third said suddenly it becomes a trend then it becomes a much bigger story in the media but it's still sort of

a mystery it may be that each example is actually specific to a particular local set of circumstances we don't know they're calling it. you know for a flock of birds coming up with new catchy words new ad lives and the like obviously it's 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 know alarmist headlines followed by a few examples which then. you know lead to sober conclusions about the dramatic events then there's no follow up for so you know if we really never find out what really happened and this is we 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 chitta lation for the public and yet it could be a very serious danny schechter from new york coming up in the program tonight the

misplaced hope of immigrants in the u.s. . 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 ambition to work with the greatest possible but in reality getting a green cards only the start of the adventure which ends up making many people long for the life they left back home to report coming up plus. balancing aged mysticism with a modern technology i'm john thomas and coming up on r t we explore the world of the siberian sharman. before those stories though tonight security is being tied to britain's main transport hubs amid fears of an attack by terrorists on european countries authorities say they foiled several serious attempts and that the wave of recent arrests is proof that they're coping. can offer ports next from austria

where the e.u.'s asylum policies have come under fire for letting potential terrorists walk straight through europe from. 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 network recruiting extremists and planning attacks in the heartland of the european union and 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 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. he was more successful in getting the locals to share. his with a really big population become unity with. the. 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 for suspect. terror plot with his wife and children really appear to be leading an ordinary way if 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 while in chechnya now 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 the green bar she has one of the most liberal asylum policies in the european union and last year alone the country received. 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 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 is to 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 asylum 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 it's occurences of liberal asylum policies of some of its member states still lie ahead . vienna austria. thousands of immigrants head to the united states every year in search of a better way of life the u.s. government attracts newcomers through official visa lotteries granting the green cards but is there a list or reports next for many people the quest for the american dream can turn out to be a grim reality. in the united states and here in new york every year countless people play the lottery. entering for

a chance to win. a mega million dollar fantasy and 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 on one german 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 is due to the artists we have to start from scratch from zero once we got here two years of struggling with joblessness after finding their education in nepal doesn't count in the u.s.

setbacks they never expected this we didn't know people used to say you're educated it will be easy america is a big country with a lot of facilities life will be better but in reality everything the food in. us to hire. experts who work on immigration issues a lottery winners really are given no resources from the government that invited them here and the struggles of jimena and her family are not unique for most people we have encountered it's been very difficult they reflect a group of immigrants who come to the u.s. not because of a job lined up or a family sponsoring them but for many because of the vision of what they can achieve they really have that american dream of coming to the u.s. they know that they've invested in their education and they think that the united states is the place to put that skills those degrees and that ambition to work with the greatest possible return. when many find is maybe something though 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 that highly qualified and. 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. study two out of five foreign educated immigrants are either in a situation or unemployed all together it in 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 first hand argue the government should help more eighty think it's the state department's responsibility and i think that the

united states is going to lose out relative to other countries have taken that step possibly losing out to countries such as canada and germany unless they make sure of winning the lottery actually pays off more and mr r. t. new york. from the image of the american dream at risk into a dream community in denmark facing the threat of being destroyed so you will feel how the free thinking state of christiania is coming under pressure from the danish government in just a few minutes on this channel. but back to the present we're defending its record in the iraq war the us is quick to point to the tens of billions of dollars in spending on reconstruction but between rampant corruption and gross inefficiency poverty stricken iraqis say they see little side of improvement of the lives it means many are forced to do whatever they can describe bias about stoudemire found. 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 threatens 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 her reward for carting forty pounds of trash around two dollars and fifty cents behind me sits acres of 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 in iraq you would live in a shack made from garbage people who have to do it for you and change so we could see if it's iraq is still a wonderful place by god if you will treat him is gone and we have

a new government but 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 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 gnomes 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. 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 so how can it fulfill a dream when they leave in fear i can't accomplish anything nothing good security it's really want to go back home if there is no work we only need security that's it iraq remains a very dangerous place where kidnappings and murders are part of daily life for these families living on a trash heap is still better than living with sunni neighbors back home but until that is possible until american reconstruction dollars reach the quarter of iraq's population that lives in poverty children like fatima will continue to collect trash in order to survive sebastian meyer r t in baghdad well the stories also online on our home page are tonight you may want to let us know what you think about it it's just a few clicks away and we also call these stories online for you too it may look

like a scene from a hollywood blockbuster but the training of russian special forces is very real it takes a lot of blood sweat and years of experience to earn the suspects now as red beret find out how they do it more about that at r.t. dot com tonight. cops on camera find out why the us police are trying to stop being filmed by the public after a number of scandals have come to light again r.t. dot com is the place to be if you want to find. for centuries people have dreamed about a life govern not by money and power but by ideas of peace and freedom well one neighborhood in copenhagen sees its residents living according to those ideals but now that utopian community faces being raised to the ground if the locals don't compromise on the principles of his radical explains

a bit more. i get 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 informing military barracks their aim was to do this is cited 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 year 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 newell's 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 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 christine who 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 corner there should be some kind of surprise unfortunately the biggest surprise right now comes from the city authorities who want to swing the axe is 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 profiteering 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 christina and you can't sell it on because we don't want to 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 many years to build up i'm ready to give it up if it has to be a rights against the privatization idea as i don't want chrissy either to privatize 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 the proper fight it even goes carty christine you copenhagen denmark. let

me take you through some major world news headlines tonight a u.s. congresswoman is in a critical condition after being shot in the head in a bloody rampage outside a supermarket in the state of arizona a gunman opened fire in a public meeting held by democrat gabrielle giffords killing six and injuring twelve others one of her aides was among the dead as well as a nine year old girl in a district judge the twenty two year old suspect is now in custody or therapies and looking for a possible accomplice. tens of thousands of people have marched in pakistan in support of the country's blasphemy laws which make insulting islam going to france punishable by death it comes just a week after the murder of the governor of punjab for speaking in favor of repealing the laws protesters are also said to show to slogans in support of the killing critics say the laws are used to justify the persecution of minorities while others are concerned with the growing fundamentalist movement that. voting is underway in southern sudan in

a weeklong referendum the could see one of africa's poorest and most troubled nation split into the christian dominated south is expected to vote for independence from the mainly muslim north deadly clashes of mar the run up to the weeklong ballot votes part of a two thousand and five peace deal which ended decades of civil war that claimed two million lives and displaced nearly twice as many others. they're seen as a mystical connection between humans in the spiritual world indeed in some places in the past sharpens were involved in almost all aspects of life from healing the sick to ensuring a good harvest well now in times of financial crisis the range is or is in demand as ever as well artie shaw thomas has been to meet 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 that he 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 shaman 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 practiced the faith were persecuted now there are only three recognized sharman living in all of the. 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 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 aged mysticism as 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 loose 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're trying to shame a. 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 couture for centuries but it's. made us some protect what it created the spiral in the middle is a symbol of fire that made the warmth of the fire in your name protect 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 quit your shine thomas party is coming up to twenty seven minutes past eight moscow time thanks for being with us sports ahead of about a quarter of an hour tonight with her tell us she's got the latest f.a. cup scores in action including a big one played out in manchester you're watching r t this sunday evening the ninth of december with me kevin now in the headlines for you in a very short.