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video on demand. and. the palm of your. dot com. added another great feeling. also among the stories that shape the week mass deaths of them fish around the globe spot conspiracy and apocalyptic theories some say science is struggling to come up with the answers. europe's asylum policies on the fire at last year's string of terror alerts and rest. of the lack

of the blame for the spread of an extremist threat. report from iraq where people driven from their houses by the war make landfill sites their home library. this is r t it's nine pm now here in moscow welcome if you just joined us you're watching our news review of the week with me kevin owen and first extreme weather is hampering attempts to rescue two ships stranded for over a week now in freezing waters off russia's far east coast a second icebreaker is now less than ten miles away from the first one which was unable to free the vessels by itself more than three hundred people are on board the two boats of the sarah firth is following the rescue mission. this maritime john they're continuing to play out today and you've really got

a feel for the queen on both days remaining t. shirts the eleventh day now hatefully the end possibly now in sight as the ice breaker crosses in. that position not just to recap what's been happening eight of the poles we saw these three original ships calling for rescue in december thirtieth and then at the beginning of this week another two ships go stuck in the ice we've seen two ice breakers the admin macros and the guys and working very hard in extremely tough conditions to free up these 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 a 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 icebreaker crossing which is nearing that position we've heard some reports saying that it's probably the earliest i'll actually get them freed up would would be

cheese day we've heard from the head of the fishing fishing agency just recently that the taping for breakthrough in the early hours of tomorrow morning at the crossing of the sea reaches day shift i worked with the other icebreaker that said stop breaking up this ice this is a round but they are working evenings extremely tough conditions ice breakers have really had their work cut out for the full swing set to ninety kilometers an hour the incredibly thick ice and poor visibility no third from the constant one of the stranded ships that 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 will 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 so there's a cost to me just and the combine. that we'll be able to break up this he said the crew on board the ships they've been in contact they've got plenty of feed all of

the supplies on board not being in any particular danger but it's a low rescue operation and it's the end now is in. post as well of how they get on and keep you updated as well sarah firth reporting there now it's been pounced on by conspiracy theorists since puzzled scientists and stirred up a media frenzy to boot they alarming trend of unexplained mass animal deaths in different parts of the globe and still got everyone guessing 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 triggered something even online speculation experts suggesting a range of explanations from a changing climate may be parasites or poisoning conspiracy theorists having their say too saying secret government experiments maybe could be behind the deaths and some even claiming it's. my army base vet. told us though

that a thorough investigation is needed. it's impossible to see for sure what's happened to the birds and fish until proper investigation is or how old in fact i don't believe that these events are interlinked if he falls one after another and that attracted universal attention it's not the first time that the world is observing such phenomena it's happens in other countries to the moment fear investigation or consumer claims are not top she has revealed the bird suffered from internal bleeding but the research is yet to be completed so we could also be dealing with some new virus or so into it is another possible explanation but i repeat stipulation is needed to establish the cause of what's happened and find a scientific explanation for it. coming up in the program the misplaced hope of immigrants in the united states. 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. in that ambition to work with the greatest possible but in reality getting a green cards only the start of an adventure which ends up making many people longing for the life they left behind back home plus. people do not live here anymore but same cannot be said about flora and fauna. we look at ukraine's controversial plans to turn the church of real disaster into farm. securities being tossed into britain's main transport hubs amid fears of an attack by terrorists on european countries authorities say they have foiled several serious attempts and that the wave of recent arrests is proof that they're coping artie's ago police can offer ports next from austria where the ears

asylum policies have come under fire for letting potential terrorists walk straight in through europe's 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 a nice network recruiting extremists and plotting attacks in the heartland of the european union and ethnic chechen as for me it was detained at the airport in vienna. 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 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 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 hence he claims he lost the after being caught up in whilst in chechnya well investigators are looking into or no other version whether his hands off while handling explosives this is raising questions all austrians hell well asylum seekers are checked before getting the green light

has 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 their countries of origin. and search 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 and 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. and it can be in any other town

in europe in an effort to get more information asylum seekers the e.u. is no meeting deals with the countries of origin including russia but many experts warn with hundreds of thousands of refugees already living in the union because it's occurrences of illegal asylum policies of some of its member states still ahead. r t vienna austria. thousands of immigrants head to the united states every year in search of a better way of life the u.s. government of trucks newcomer's through official visa lotteries granting green cards but as lauren vista reports for the 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. and train for a chance to win or a mega million dollar fantasy 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 i meet one of them my name is on 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 is due to a lot of 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 the case was 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 everything the food in the. u.s. 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 and counted as. being 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 they find is maybe some familiarity with an

ethnic neighborhood like this one that has southeast asia and 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 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 his 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'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 a 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 more and mr new york. we're back on the streets of the big apple to find out what people there think about. classic novel. big attitude to make it more politically correct. that seems to break my bones but names remember so no name is ever but offense. two years on because you know what you have to be emotionally disturbed to have any me tell you. more about it soon but right now when 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 sign of improvement to their daily lives it means many are forced to do whatever they can describe by as r.t.

sebastian meyer found out. 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 her reward for carting forty pounds of trash around two dollars and fifty cents behind me six acres of 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 that in iraq you would live in a shack made from the garbage people who worked for the filament and change so we could see that iraq is still a wonderful place blessed by god the old regime 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 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 in too poor to return home that 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 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 but security if you really want to go back home even though all 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 fatma will continue to collect trash in order to survive sebastian mire r t in baghdad. the

site of the world's biggest civilian nuclear disaster and chinoy has largely been a no go zone for almost twenty five years but now ukraine is planning to make use of the land there which is still fertile despite years of radiation by using it for agriculture the shot proposals have led to a clash now between experts over the safety implications as artie's alexia jet ski reports 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 noble exclusion zone which made nature develop here rapidly. after the 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 blonde life is immune to radiation. we still don't understand how it. plans to grow. at the very beginning of the earth when life started. on the surface so. much problem and the millions of hectares of land were left contaminated a quarter of a century 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 works to clean this land of radioactivity now we're being told this is did land this is not true just look at nature's riches in the exclusions. 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. ski art see reporting from chernobyl ukraine very interesting to hear your views on that story it is on our website tonight r.t. dot com do you think that jumping the gun there as a let us know you can always hit the comment discussion but of all the stories you see on our website it's just a click away also there tonight it's online at r.t. dot com it may look like a scene from our hollywood blockbuster but the training of russia's special forces is very real it takes blood sweat and years of experience to earn a space now as read there are a fine of more about that tonight online. also caught on camera while the us

police are trying to stop being filmed by the public after a number of scandals have come to light lately again that's on our website. and. developing news story tonight in from the iranian news agency we're hearing in a rainy and plain with some one hundred passengers and crew on board has crashed in the country's northwest is going from the fires news agency reporting that at least fifty people have survived that's what we're hearing so far no dead have been confirmed so maybe a little bit of good news out of this what appears to be a tragedy the around the airplane was on route from the capital tehran to the city of all romania the country's civil fleet is in poor condition with old planes and a lack of maintenance there's been a number of deadly crashes there in recent years almost two hundred people were

killed in two separate incidents last july's just to bring you up there again on that headline coming through from iran to night and rain in plane with some one hundred passengers or crew aboard we're hearing has crashed in the country's northwest at least fifty survived no dead have been confirmed. we'll bring you more on that as we get it now let me update you on some other world news stories in brief 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 at a public meeting held by democrat gabrielle giffords it killed six and injured twelve others one of her aides was among the dead as well as a nine year old girl and a district judge the twenty two year old suspect is now in custody while authorities are looking for a possible accomplice for world news from us ballots in sudan have closed after the first day of a weeklong referendum the could see one of africa's poorest and most troubled nations split into two the christian dominated south is expected to vote for

independence from the mainly muslim north deadly clashes of mar the run up to the ballot vote 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. rising temperatures have triggered flooding throughout germany as thawing snow and ice overwhelm river banks emergency services are working to try to build up flood walls and divert water from affected areas to parks in unpopulated lowlands authorities anticipate more flooding as the warm spell continues while heavy rainfall is also forecast. twenty four minutes past nine here in moscow this sunday night american censors have taken the n word out of the new edition of the classic novel huckleberry finn critics of the movie say the book is a work of art though and a product of its time and therefore shouldn't be changed by what people in new york think about that.

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 no you don't sound so it. doesn't sound the same no no but what if it was a word that was derogatory towards you. and maybe what if it were a word that was offensive to you. i would look at this of a piece of art so some mark of 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 his christ by andre serrano. it was offensive on bread serrano had the right to create that work and i think it provokes some very good discussions as to what or 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 dutch people think they think it actually adds to the work yes i mean that's what the. term for the 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 what's right and wrong but don't you think people are going to have different points of view on what's up. and to them what's not yes but that's why i just bring it down to if you

do respect yourself and respect other people it all comes out in the end you think people will naturally be an offensive to each other. will they necessarily know should they yes sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never harm so no name has ever been offensive to you because you know what you have to be emotionally disturbed to have any meaning offend you and there's something a little more deeper than in me. so it's ok for anyone to call anyone anything. it depends on how you say it is the pens on in the context that you use the word whether or not you believe the n word should be taken out of huckleberry finn the bottom line is we should consider have homogenous and boring the world would be if we take political correctness to five. more from the resident next week that just ahead tonight we bring you a special report about soldiers who deliberately disobey.