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a string of terror linked to arrests sponsored his actions the luxe checks of the plane the spread of an extremist threat. from iraq were people driven from their houses by the war make the landfill sites their home and their livelihood. this is r t it's midnight here in moscow now you're most welcome if you just joined us shortening our news review of the week with me kevin owen and first extreme weather is hampering efforts still 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 boats sarah firth is following the rescue mission. the smart time

john they're continuing to play out today and you've really got a feel for the full days remaining t. shirts the eleventh day now hopefully the end possibly now in sight the ice break across in. that position not just to recap what's been happening even the polls 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 two ice breakers the admiral macros and the gazan working very hard in extremely tough conditions to free up the shirts like now manage to get three of them to safety the last of which was the science research vessel 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 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 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 is the cross and obviously reaches they shared and worked at the other icebreaker the start breaking up this ice this is a round but they are working evenings extremely tough conditions as ice breakers have really had their work cut out for the we've had go full sweyn such a 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 to try make 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. right now the cross an icebreaker is on its you have enough water to last you for months so take those across and reaches to the combined. that would be able to break up the ice if he sent the crew on board the ships they've been in

contact they've got plenty of the towards the supplies and poor thing not being in any particular danger but it's a load rescue operation and it's now it's. sort of first reporting has been pounced on by conspiracy theorists spy puzzled scientists salad state of a media frenzy to boot the alarming trend of unexplained mass animal deaths in different parts of the globe still has 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 some fevered online speculation experts have suggested a range of explanations from a changing climate to power sites and poisoning conspiracy theories say maybe secret government experiments could be beyond the death even claiming it's the sun moving on to get filmmaker blogging to be sure to told us made the hypes take the focus away from the real scientific. when one set of

incidents happens followed by another set followed by a third set suddenly it becomes a trend then it becomes a much bigger story in the media but it's still sort of a mystery it may be that each example is actually specific to a particular local set of circumstances we don't know they're calling it. you know flock of birds coming up with new catchy words new ad lives and the like obviously it's it's something that intrigues audiences even if there isn't a lot of explanation it seems to be a pattern of this sort of thing where you have alarmist headlines followed by a few examples which then you know lead to sober conclusions about the dramatic events and then there's no follow up for so you know we really never find out what really happened and this is the in attention of the media. maybe even the amnesia

of the media a 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 just ahead of the program tonight the misplaced hope of immigrants in the united states. they really have that american dream and coming to the us they know that they've invested in their education and they think that the united states is the place to put those two peas in that ambition to work with the greatest possible but in reality getting a green cards only the start of an adventure would gens of making many people long for the life they left back home plus. balancing agent mysticism but the whiff of modern technology i'm sean thomas and coming up on r t we explore the world of the siberian sharman. security is being tightened to 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 piskun off reports next from austria where the e.u. is asylum policies have come under fire for letting potential terrorist walk straight in through europe from coal. 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 streams really none of the locals seem to know much about it. we didn't hear anything about. 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 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. so that people can watch what 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 where questions are austrians hell well asylum seekers are checked before getting the green light as one of the most liberal asylum policies in the european union last year alone the country received. fifteen thousand refugees from across the world with such an inflow of newcomers is becoming increasingly cord to find out who is who we want to know from the government in the 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 and 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 germany and the netherlands all suspected of recruiting so-called jihad is candidates and financing terrorist organizations it can be here. and it can be in any other town in europe in an effort to get more information asylum seekers the e.u. is now making deals with countries of origin including russia but many experts warn with hundreds of thousands of refugees already living in the union because of sequences of policies of some of its member states still 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 newcomers through official visa lotteries granting the green cards but not his loyalists or reports 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. a mega million dollar fantasy believing a few dollars and a dream could buy them ten 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. 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 permanent residency the prize is not cash but green cards and this startling experience was do 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. we didn't know people used to say you're educated it will be easy america is a big country with a lot of facilities life will be better but in reality it would be fit in. yes to. 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 and that ambition to work with the greatest possible return. when they find is maybe something the year of an ethnic neighborhood like this one that has southeast asian music restaurants and fashion that 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 as cab drivers and cashiers according to a study two out of five for educated immigrants are either in a situ. or unemployed altogether if the 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 taking that possibly losing out to countries such as canada and germany unless they make sure of winning the lottery actually pays off more and lyster our teeth new york. well from the image of the american dream of risk to a dream community in denmark facing the threat of being destroyed shortly what do we owe how do we think the state of christiania is coming under pressure from the danish government in just a few minutes here. when defending his record in the iraq war the us is quick to point out to the tens of billions of dollars of spending on reconstruction but between rampant corruption and gross inefficiency poverty stricken iraqis say they see little signs of improvement in their daily lives it means many are forced to do whatever they can describe is r.t.

sebastian myatt found. 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 it's 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 who can you believe it to be a rock he would live in

a shack commute from garbage people who threw the chain so we could see if it's iraq is still a wonderful place by god the old regime 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 out yet haven't seen a dime of it but they have seen no 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 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 if the 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. how do you know fulfill a dream when they leave in fear i can't accomplish anything nothing good security it's really want to go back. there's no work only need security that's correct remains a very dangerous place where kidnappings and murders are part of daily right for these families living on a transient is still better than living with sunni neighbors back home. but until that is possible until american reconstruction dollars reach the quarter of a population that lives in poverty children like that will continue to collect trash in order to survive sebastian mire r t in baghdad. that's one of the

stories we got online on a website. you may want to let us know what you think about it something just a few clicks away also on our website i don't call me. for my love like the same small a blockbuster but the trending of russian special forces is real and it takes blood sweat and years of experience to end the suspense that's red beret and. so on camera find out why the u.s. police are trying to stop being filmed by the public after a number of scandals. place to pay for find out more about the storm. for centuries people have dreamed about a life govern 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 are things are really going to scar explains more 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 question you're a country where things get done by the people for the people it began in one nine hundred seventy one when he isn't free thinkers risk one forming military barracks their aim was to build a society from scratch where the only government would be the residents themselves new home ownership no violence it's a co-op community forged by the fifteen hundred strong locals perfect for people like you to make your news business 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 news 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 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. such a lot of the fairy tale atmosphere here and we have also saying you shouldn't know watching. the next quarter that should be some kind of a surprise unfortunately the biggest surprise right now comes from the city authorities who want to spring 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 be possible to build something in the area of posting that's the crux of the problem residents pay taxes to the state and disservice speed 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 christine yet you can't sell it on because we don't want speculation and interest and money in this place but that something company 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 refuse to bow to

big brother without the proper fight it even goes court t christine you copenhagen denmark if they do you know on a four top world news stories and first off an update on the plane crash in telling about not at least seventy people reported dead now after a plane went down in northwest around some thirty survivors have been taken to hospital the boeing seven to seven domestic flight from to run failed to land there is destination the city of only air and it broke into pieces that follows a number of deadly crashes in iran in recent years with almost two hundred killed in two separate incidents 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. giffords it killed six and nine hundred twelve 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. the polls closed in sudan after the first day of

a weeklong referendum the could see one of africa's poorest and most troubled nation is split into two the christian dominated south of expected to vote for independence from the mainly muslim north deadly clashes of mar the run up to the ballot votes part of the two thousand and five peace deal which ended decades of civil war two million live in displaced nearly thomases many others. in europe rising temperatures have triggered flooding for germany is falling snow and ice overwhelmed river banks emergency services are working to build flood walls and divert water from affected areas to parks and unpopulated loehmann's authorities anticipate more flooding is the norm for continued heavy rainfalls also full cost. the seen by some as a mystical connection between humans and the spiritual world did in some places in the past shamans were involved in almost all aspects of life from healing the sick to ensuring

a good harvest now in times of financial crisis though their ancient queues are in demand as ever. 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 filled with their family relation as 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 you know its troubles in time every shonen has his own reason. 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 sherman. 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. of say trying to make the best of it all life is

a delicate balancing act for the akutan people. we are an interesting people when we are in trouble we do three different things at the same time we turn to shame. we pray you know it will make you some order mattson a unique way of keeping a tradition that has been part of your couture for centuries i think even if it i think you made us some protect what it created to spiral in the middle is a symbol of fire that made the war by anyone and to take away your three spirits being united the spirit of the spirit of man and the spirits of the earth in your critical sean thomas party you want to we are to news channel recently monday morning the time so john you're with me kevin i'll be back with the headlines for you in just a moment i'm also discussing russia's image abroad with a leading french a story into. russia

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