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the houses by the wall make the landfill sites their home and their livelihood. this is r t it's ten pm now here in moscow welcome if you just joined us money is kevin zero in with the top stories that shape the week for marty and extreme weather is hampering tonight attempts to rescue two ships stranded for over a week in freezing waters off russia's far east coast a second ice breaker is no 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 stranded boat sparty sarah first been following the rescue mission. this maritime john they're continuing to play out today and you've really got

a feel for the clean full days remaining t. shirts the eleventh day now safely the end possibly now in sight the ice break across in. that position not just to recap what's been happening even the paul's week we saw these three original ships calling for rescue in december thirtieth that at the beginning of this week another two ships go stuck in the ice we've seen icebreakers the admiral micros and the guys in working very hard in extremely tough conditions to free up these ships like now managed to get three of them to safety the last of which was the science research first so 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 ice breaker 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 federal fishing agency just recently that taping for breakthrough in the early hours of tomorrow morning at the crossing of the reaches station i worked at the other icebreaker to start breaking up this ice that's around but they all working evenings extremely tough conditions as ice breakers have really had their work cut out for the we've had joe fulls when such a ninety kilometers an hour the incredibly thick ice and poor visibility you know it's a 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 would come quicker right now the crush an icebreaker is on its way here we have enough water and food well it could last two to four months so there's a cost to me and the combine i thought would be able to break up the high seas he said the crew on board the ships have been in contact they've got plenty of food

and water supplies and board so they've not been in any particular danger but it's certainly been a long road rescue operation and it's the end now is in sight. yes of course will keep you very much posted on our website i'm here on the english news channel as well now it's been pounced on by conspiracy theorists this puzzled scientists and it stirred up a media frenzy the alarming trend of unexplained mass animal deaths in different parts of the globe has still got everyone guessing it all started on new year's eve with reports of blood falling from the sky in the american state of our console then there were flocks of birds dying in sweden and italy and finally millions of dead fish from brazil to new zealand it triggered some fevered online speculation experts have suggested a range of explanations from a changing climate to parasites or poisoning conspiracy theories say secret government experiments could be behind the deaths some even claiming it's a sign of looming armageddon filmmaker blogger danny schechter spoke to

a c says media hype is taking the focus away from the real scientific tools. 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 a flock of birds coming up with new catchy words new headlights 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 the refusal to speak to the people who are most in the know because all of this is sort of titillation for the public and yet it could be a very serious. talking to us there from new york now still to come in the program the misplaced hope of immigrants in the u.s. . the english have what american dream coming to the u.s. they know that they've invested in their education and they think that the united states is the slaves to put that place to be and that intuition to work with the greatest possible. but in reality getting a green card only the start of a friendship which ends up making many people longing for the life they left back home paul coming up also. balancing internet mysticism with modern technology armstrong thomas and coming up on r t we explore the world of the siberian shawmut. security has been talking to britain's main transport hubs are

made 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. can off next reports from austria where the easy asylum policies of come under fire for letting potential terrorists walk straight in through europe's front door. like many other 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 he returned from a pilgrimage to mecca news about the incident went around the world. 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 armed with only a voice recorder and no t.v. crew he was more successful in getting the locals to share. his with a really big population become unity with us so that people can watch what comes next i mean this is just my neighbor he was here with me and i'm now has his arrested 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. he claims he lost the after

being caught up in while. investigators are looking into or no other version whether his hands off while handling explosives this is raising questions austrians hell well asylum seekers are checked before getting the green light has one of the most liberal asylum policies in the european union last year alone the country. fifteen thousand refugees from across the world with such an inflow of newcomers is becoming increasingly chord to find out who is who we want to know from the government in how many cases 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 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 germany and the netherlands all suspected of recruiting so-called the hardest candidates 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 of asylum seekers the e.u. is now making deals with countries of origin including russia but many experts warn that hundreds of thousands of refugees already living in the union become sequences of the policies of some of its member states still lie ahead. vienna austria. thousands of immigrants head to the u.s. every year in search of a better way of life the u.s. government attracts new comers through official visa lotteries granting the green cards result is lower and lyster reports next for many people the quest for the

american dream can turn into 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 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 i meet one of them. 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 prizes not cash but green cards and this startling

experience was 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. 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 that in. just a thought i mean by 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. i think that the united states is the place to put that skills those degrees and that ambition to work with the greatest possible. when they find is maybe something though yesterday of an ethnic neighborhood like this one that has southeast asian music restaurants and fashion 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 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 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. from the image of the american dream to a dream community in denmark facing the threat of being destroyed the white house briefing state of christiania is coming under pressure from the danish government it's in a few minutes tonight. when defending its record in the iraq war the u.s. 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 the daily lives that means many are forced

to do whatever they can to scrape by sebastian my phone. at seven am every morning fatima crouch is outside her house and along with her sister and cousins begins to sort through gardening 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 it's 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 the shock me from garbage people who threw the chain so we could see if it's iraq is still a wonderful place by god if you alter your team is 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 haven't seen a dime of what they have seen is the sectarian violence that drove them from their home five years ago. we used to live in abu ghraib you know when america came to 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 not only are we going to be patient turned iraq into a battlefield as well as showing the seeds of political corruption how can americans stand back and watch without intervening is the situation everybody knows

about the failure of the iraq economy this is having a terrible impact on the ground. socially and economically what 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 surely hope will know how to fulfill a dream when they leave in fear i can't accomplish anything nothing but security for everyone to go back. there is no work we only need security that's it erect remains a very dangerous place where kidnappings and murders a part of daily right for the shia families living out of trash is still better than living with sunni neighbors back home. but until that is possible until american reconstruction dollars reached a quarter of a rexx population and lives in poverty children like patrick will continue to collect trash in order to survive sebastian meyer r t in baghdad. a

story as well on our home page out. along with war stories as it was a chance for you to tell us what you think about what you see on the common button by the stories you see there also online tonight it may look like a scene from a hollywood blockbuster but the training of russian special forces is a very very real and it takes plugs and years of experience and it spends months in red beret find out more about that on our web site i don't see don't call him call solve calibra find out why the u.s. police are trying to stop being filmed by the public right now for a number of scandals come to light. for centuries people have dreamed about

a life governed not by money and power but by ideas of peace and freedom while one neighborhood in copenhagen sees residents living according to those ideals but now that utopian community faces being raised to the ground if locals don't compromise on their principles. explains it will. i am tired of pushing papers around ninety five are you sick of posting to the government telling you what to do well then welcome to question you 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 a filmmaker knows best or 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 news this is the most peaceful and welcoming place you could find in denmark possibly in all of europe who want to keep up some of the virtues of the village where people know each other and also dependents and feel a responsibility for each other so what's their secret to peaceful coexistence people actually take responsibility for the area themselves they don't expect. an authority or some sort of guy from the from the city to come and take care of things we would do it ourselves in fact christine he 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 year old 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 that should be some kind of surprise unfortunately

the biggest surprise right now comes from the city authorities who want to spring the acts of christian 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 being the crux of the problem residence peter taxes to the street and to sirius b. to christine yet 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 with years to build up i'm ready to give it up if it has to be a rights against the profits or sation 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 refuse to bow to big brother without the proper fight it in english court t christine you copenhagen denmark develop a new story tonight to start our world news update a plane with some one hundred passengers and crew on board crushed in northwest iran the far as news agency reporting that at least fifty people have survived and have been no dead confirmed as yet it's understood the plane was a boeing seven to seven and it took off from toronto was near its destination the city of on the air but failed to land because of fog and heavy snow there's been a number of deadly crashes in iran in recent years with almost two hundred people in two separate incidents just last july. the 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 on

a public meeting held by democratic gabrielle giffords it killed six and twelve others one of her aides was among the dead as well as a nine year old girl and a district judge a twenty two year old suspect is now in custody while authorities are looking for a possible accomplice mourning. the polls are closed in. so dan after the first day of a weeklong referendum that 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 man to 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 our lives and last place nearly twice as many others. in europe rising temperatures have triggered flooding throw germany as falling snow and ice overwhelmed river banks the emergency services are working to build flood walls and divert water from affected areas to parks and unpopulated lol and authorities anticipate more flooding as well as a warm spell continues and more heavy rains also forecast.

this in by some as a mystical connection between humans and the spiritual world indeed in some places in the past shermans were involved in almost all aspects of life from healing the sick to ensuring a good harvest now in times of financial crisis their ancient user is in demand as ever r.t. sean 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 put it all and sisters always had a very powerful shaman around the law to protect to give them blessings and ensured security and safety in all circumstances in every day life at a hand on a journey and. 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. i help people find faith in the fact that their wishes will be fulfilled me their family relations in conflicts that 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 these troubles in 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 mysticism is a problem for the sharman. real shamans live far away from big cities and small

villages because contemporary cities with computers cars and cell phones and the constant russia distract from the true unity with nature and the spirits that i myself am from a far northern region. trying to make the best of it all life is a delicate balancing act for the cuttin people. we are an interesting people when we are in trouble we do three different things at the same time we turn to show. we pray you know church it will make you some order mattson a unique way of keeping a tradition that has been part of your cooch here for centuries thank you even if you made it some protect what it created the spiral in the middle is a symbol of finally made a war by anyone and to take away your three spirits being united the spirit of the spirit of man and the spirits of the. in your critical sean thomas party. you're watching r t the sunday in the ninth of january with me kevin i want to

discuss russia's image abroad of eating french a story and shortly tonight so in a few moments in fact another bout with headlines as well. wealthy british style like. by the time i had to go out of. market why not gumbo.