communications with the want to. test yourself and become free. of nature can give you. nine thirty am in moscow we're looking back at the week's top stories here on our t.v. no withdrawal from wall street anti-bank protesters hardening their resolve as the movement grows nationwide becoming difficult for the government to ignore heavy handed police tactics against the rally are seen more people joining the demonstrations. the u.s. led war in afghanistan enters decade two with the white house dashing hopes of a total pullout saying cia and special forces may be there to stay as the violence reaches a peak with twenty i love in the coming of the deadliest year yet. russia and china

vetoed a u.n. resolution on syria calling for political dialogue instead of. president assad's regime meanwhile the syrian government says terrorist groups are active in the country and targeting military leaders and intellectuals. and a slew of fresh credit rating cuts hit europe spain italy and british banks take a huge hit from investors they're increasingly worried that greece's debt contagion may have spread too widely for the ballots to be affected. up next r.v. takes you to explore a deeply spiritual part of siberia rather shame and still have the power to inspire . this is a place where people still believe in spirits and turn to shamans for advice. at the same time good ism here is widely practiced oh people here believe in

miracles just as much as they do in the palace of science. this is a land where trying seems to have come to a standstill. twenty six thousand square kilometers of mountains rivers and forests. humans are a rare sight. there can ski district is situated in gori at his southwest close to the border with. is one of russia's most owsley populated areas. only five thousand people live in a valley overshadowed by the cyan mountains. most of them a soil there pneumatic ancestors simple here hundreds of years ago. there is just one road that leads to the far away region just only commissioned in one nine

hundred ninety three however numerous mountain streams of them flooded making travel impossible. before setting out on the journey the locals turned shamans for help. there were now. but most on the coast wants to see his brother who tends a herd of yaks in the man's going to go with the ones on the road to. run off and the only thing left he believes a shamanic ritual will ward off any dangers joining them on the trip. question even though for them this is the right place for rituals as you can see three rivers meet here. the number three symbolizes life spirituality and power. here rituals quickly purify people water absorbs bad energy to produce

a sense of calm and gives an order of protection. to be. at the other end of the sure distance from republics capital. several men are about to be ordained to shamans. thank. the ritual three days would be shamans almost entirely deprived of sleep and food. they will go into a state of trance to appeal to the spirits of their ancestors. just so. when nomadic people and therefore the initiations used to be held with the community happened to be at the time but today there's a process of globalisation going on where we've set up a religious organization to shamans this is where the initiations of the format oh . yes. is an entrepreneur will be among the

initiated it will be the most important day of his life. stories knows there has been several outstanding shamans among his ancestors so he has no other choice but to become one himself. after the ritual he will be a healer and a voice and a teacher for many. only people who have suffered from disease can be shamans called shaman sickness which clan is supposed to have a mind of semantic succession the ability to talk with the spirits is hundred down from generation generation to. the initiation ceremony went off without a hitch the spirits of allow boris to attend a sort of a harem festival of shamans. on the way to the festival the novice shaman explains what his ancestors religion means to the people what the burials always trusted

their ancestors each clan had a patron saint the customs of a shaman the various worship only their ancestors and we pray for burials of everyone else living it not just for ourselves and our prayers we hospital good fortune and wealth with. the sort of ahem festival is held in the five fingers plateau of last night's people gathered around a sculpture in the form of a hand pointing to the sky. the monument is believed to have been erected by ancient inhabitants of this land. they do look like by thinkers sticking out of the ground what people think the other promise located somewhere in mongolia and early summer shamans began their rituals with a plea for people's well being i come here for the sake of my family's prosperity.

and evil guinn's keep outside is a major boost ministry monks roy's early in the newly. has to be up for the first prayer at seven am. or the. last year of the monks lead a reclusive life and barely venture outside. the ministry's one hundred seventy inhabitants follow a very strict daily routine. of only lunch and prayers interrupts the activities at the buddhist monastery. there is a buddhist university in the back nearly two hundred monks attend it. and when a stick life is very simple there are several monks to a room but cuba because all students from the university live in this small building this is my bed third year students also live here and i of course. there

was also room for the teacher. i found it difficult to adapt to the monasteries austere way of life but you get used to it with the passage of time and the routine becomes part of your life i'm not alone with that. differs from his fellow students in many ways most monks begin practicing buddhism from a young age. so it was well into his thirty's before we decided to take it up exchanging is shut down turmoil for the crimson robe of a monk. i became disenchanted with conventional life i realized that it would get me nowhere. that is when i decided to take a spiritual path. but the layman buddhism is just a religion would you want to thumper for people who want to move forward and study the teaching in earnest it is a boundless science. and it's almost impossible to comprehend all of it even if you

spend a lifetime studying you know what. is considered one of the keys spiritual senses of contemporary buddhism in russia. hundreds of pilgrims come here every day. to begin with they go through a special ritual they need to spin the drums as they make several rounds of the day . each of the drums contains thousands of sheets of paper prayers inscribed only. it is believed if you spin a drum once you have to read all the prayers in it is simple method may improve your karma which could just believe i think the chances of reincarnation. but i called the world's deepest lake local tribes worshiped it long before the arrival of russian colonists. to.

give guinea cliff a call is in the tourist trade a popular business here. has explored every nook on the shores of the great lake. bugaboos in bay one of the most beautiful spots around by coal. it is famous for its sandy beaches and a spectacular view of the same name as peninsula. how much of it just kind of from here you get a good view of the st nose peninsula and mount our call for that snowy top. the snow is still there even though it is the month of june now as well as the beach is about thirty kilometers long. is the longest beach on pike help. this time give gainey has organized a tool he would say

a group of young tourists to the most sacred a mystical sights in the vicinity of like oh. the starting point is near the same nose peninsula this land is covered in tall mountains and thick forests. in the old days we had three advantages one of the most sacred sites rituals were performed on the peninsula and the most respected shamans were buried here in this place is charged with enormous energy it gives people strength throughout the journey. such excursions are becoming increasingly popular tourist like to choose routes that pass through the so-called places of spiritual energy many of them can be found in body as here. another point of interest is in the valley of bugs in river the area is often called the sin vince keystone council because of its resemblance to the gothic architecture of medieval europe.

one theory suggests that the mountains were the last outpost of the burger mongols when had it is the valley in ancient times. legend has it that they are whom the spirits of the wind. yes this is a wind swept place. locals used to think that the eagles flying over the valley were in fact the souls of shame and here. in the air pinski district on the other side of beauty out here but madonna cough is going up to see his brother on his way he will pass by a sacred place. whenever a bad mom pulses boy he stops some bones to it full pleading to his ancestors to grant him good luck during his long journey.

meanwhile brother and his wife are treating yak skin it's. soil so use them to make clothing footwear and harnesses. this technique is miles of years old local still prefer who made things. my mother taught me the skill. that's how my parents always did it as a hundred things are of better quality. as soon as they stretch the skin and suspend it from steaks and make a small fire to smoke it thoroughly. and put first cones and juniper into the fire

. this gives yet skin the necessary firmness and color good for the skin to get a good calorie it is smoked for thirty minutes. then it is turned over night from the other side. as a result the skin turns orange. hasn't seen his brother the hole for the year. like that ancestors so it spend most of their lives in temporary camps in winter they go downhill to be closer to the rivers. in summer they use the pulses to reach post just up in the mountains. there are no roads here. to get here his elder brother will have to cross several fast flowing mountain streams. all six local spirits for help and offers them a sacrifice in the form of several drops of fresh milk.

wealthy british scientists seinfeld's sometimes. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports on r.t. . well. bringing you the latest in science technology from around russia. we've got the future covered. eventual cove is evil inskeep that same almost every month. tragedy struck his family two years ago when his daughter was seriously injured after

a husband was shot in a fit of jealousy. polio washed the bullet entered her temple exited from the back of her head but i mean all but for the doctors told me the injury was fatal couldn't she might die within minutes from mark but i was nothing my wife and i could do about seven percent my wife the hospital expecting her to bring the body back hair which is a lot of it. even had never been a follower of judaism but he visited evil going skeet out sign on the advice of a woman he knew. there he was a voice to pray in front of the un became forty five does she daughter show it to a buddy at a buddhist lama. several good islam has gathered over a mountainous plateau in a land would day in september two thousand and two. they were looking for the resting place of eighty kilos because seventy five years ago he himself requested

that he should be exuma on that date. who had been in the cedars sarcophagus was at a depth of one point two meters a cure for the body of death she totally guillot she was in a lotus position for it was examined on september eleventh for a medical physiologists myself and of totus ladies attended the ceremony killable alarmist body showed no signs of decomposition it was a sense that he had just fallen asleep. beside his body was warm its temperature was thirty six point six degrees just prior to trista surest. local scientists couldn't work out why the law had not decomposed so the body was sent to moscow for further analysis. the findings of that investigation were unexpected like get a check and moscow scientists found no sign of surgery on the man's body after analyzing samples of hair and nails most costly which are they confirmed that those

belonged to a living man by the director which unlike the. guild's body was brought to evoke that sand in a transparent so called for guess. this unique footage was filmed a year later. after that journalists were not allowed to take pictures of the un decaying body. eventual cough only spent about half an hour face to face with this so-called imperishable lama but those thirty minutes changed his life forever. but really i was there when the long was brought into the temple and i was told also can questions and just communicate with him and he responded with a nod and facial expression was. a nagging thought i had at the time was this if i just want my daughter to be a lawyer whatever happens and i'm with which he nodded at me and instantly i knew

she wouldn't i really thought i was going mad at you and i was reading my daughter suddenly came out of a coma when i was here and with that i was at one pm. little just said it had been a very close shave and she must have been born under a lucky star. news of the miraculous recovery of events spread quickly across and beyond. graham's flocked to evil inskeep that's. the number of visitors coming to the temple housing the imperishable body has since been limited now access to cash and go to show it is restricted to a trying say year. visitors are allowed to enter the temple during major buddhist holiday. all the participants have gathered for the through festival. for the first time boris is going to pray

together with revered shamans. on the behalf of all good reacts twenty men will plead to local spirits and their own ancestors to grant them good luck and wealth. like all shamans orus has gone through the hardships of the shamans life he suffered from disease he found no place for himself either in society or in his inner self when he found out the powerful shamans had him in his clan he turned to the teacher and that's when his spiritual and human elements merged into harmony. every shaman must wear a special ritual robe each element of it is charged with particular symbolism. rather want to take this cap for example. it's underneath the shamans crown. this thing over show is designed i think is that because the spear is descending from above and not supposed to see humanoids joy they can scare them away. at the

beginning of the ritual the shamans summon local spirits to offer them gifts sweets and vodka the ritual has remained unchanged over scores of generations similar sounds reverberated over the five fingers plateau a thousand years ago. as you can see the fire fingered sculpture is somewhat higher than where we are what people have believed since the olden days that when you pray by this stirred a sculpture pleads with the supreme gods and the father of the eternal blue sky on your behalf asking them to grow on you well being and good luck in all your undertakings. within. the next stop for the cyclist's is a stone garden. large rocks going back to the ice age scattered over

a vast area. locals regard the place as something more than just the land. they believe spirits live here. every traveler is supposed to make a symbolic sacrifice a few drops of milk all small change. the cyclists travelling around body as he is holy places on iraq over the highlight of their itinerary the temple of the buddhist god this young. blow and welcome. let us go to the temple. first of all you need to walk around the temple enter to pray and only then will we go to the stone. this is his second most popular place for pilgrimage of the evil good that.

is regarded as the painter and saint of motherhood and children she's one of the most revered go to ces in bre-x. here many women come here in the hope of increasing their fertility. there was one case in point is a woman from a neighboring village she was an atheist i think if they had asked her three years ago if she had faith in any religion including buddhism she would have said no the problem was that she was already forty and had no success in getting pregnant like i did but after she visited in this holy place she gave birth to a daughter now the girl is one year old and there was a good. anyone wishing to ski n.-g. mutha help must take a narrow path up the hill. legend has it that the republic's current chief buddhist was meditating when the goddess yang humor appeared before him. she told him to look for her image in this valley. several months later monks discovered

a stone bearing the image of a dancing girl. and now it is time for the travellers to appeal to the buddhist goddess someone some alone of all else there with you should make your personal please most him seriously i think from the bottom of your heart and how you do it you don't your knees lying on the ground or standing makes no difference as long as you have faith in her. way. in the or kinski district. is about to complete his journey but one last obstacle is in his way. the remains of an ancient love

a plane from two extinct volcanoes stretch for seventy kilometers of scorched earth and rural didn't come through the valley of volcanoes the sum of fifty kilometers from here they lost the right to ten or twelve thousand years ago you lost sleep. but lost the long trip comes to an end. meets his younger brother who lacked. a will spend several weeks together tending the hurt. and soil it's hoped that this valley tucked away in the mountains will allow them to maintain the way of life handed down from their ancestors. lived here since i was a child that was the point of moving elsewhere i came back from my stint in the army and have been tending accents. just like my father and grandfather did my

family sells maids and milk for a living me and quite enough sometimes i go hunting i don't think i need anything more. when the sun reaches its zenith twenty shamans begin praying together by the funny fingered stone sculpture. to start with they also local spirits to accept their present gifts. the ceremony is accompanied by the constant drumming of tambourines the temporariness the shaman's principle instrument that allows him to move between the human world and the spirit world and. the critical moment arrives when the shamans take turns in going into a state of trunks. trashcan. but he adds

believe that such moments shaman's a no longer themselves their bodies have been taken over by the spirits of their ancestors. shoulder there's a huge. which. at first you feel dizzy then you'll vision is blood and you become lost in thought and you with your eyes you see the people around you but you better remember what's gone on before i can't explain it to you when you go into a state of trance you ask your ancestors to use you as a medium to talk to others. with. their ritual culminates in a symbolic sacrifice to the sky. young trees are tossed into a bone fide to make smoke. when the fire goes out and eagle appears over the five fingers platter.

the sacrifice has been accepted and that pres he did. the next year will be a good one for the land where troy has come to a standstill.