she's totally. friendly. dynamic. to friends. in our to you live from moscow where it's seven thirty pm the week's top stories the american spring spreads across the country with demonstrators demanding an end to social inequality and corporations and abuse of power over the u.s. government is often arms against the protesters fight washington's board of revolutions overseas and. this week the u.s. led war in afghanistan passed its ten year mark with victory over the taliban and the pullout of foreign troops still a long way from reality and. police and demonstrators clashing in the streets of

athens after the i am out ultimatum to the country to make cuts or face collapse and that's after greece admitted fairly to reduce its deficit in the agreed level despite a relentless i'll start to try. and the woman promoted by western media as a victim of bashar al assad's regime in syria says she's alive and well raising concerns that fabricated stories are being used in a bid to topple the country's leadership. next thirty takes you to explore a deeply spiritual part of siberia where sean is half 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 of oh people here believe in miracles just as much as they do in the palace of science. this is

a land where time seems to have come to a standstill. twenty six thousand square kilometers of mountains rivers and virgin forests. humans are a rare sight. there kinski district is situated in gori at his southwest close to the border with india. is one of russia's most owsley populated areas. only five thousand people live in the valley overshadowed by the cyan mountains. most of them a soil their pneumatic ancestors simple to hear hundreds of years ago. there is just one road that leads to the far away region which is only commissioned in one nine hundred ninety three however numerous mountain streams of them flooded making

travel impossible. before setting out on the journey locals turned to shamans for help. there were now . but most on the coast once to see his brother who tends a herd of yaks in the mountains going to go with the one of. the one of them that although i think. he believes the show manic ritual will hold off any dangerous journey in the long trip. this is the right place for rituals as you can see three rivers meet here. ok the number three symbolizes life spirituality and power on. here rituals weekly purify people water absorbs bad energy to produce

a sense of calm and gives an order of protection. ahead with city. at the other end of the short distance from the republic's capital. several men are about to be ordained the shaman. thanks. 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. were nomadic people and therefore the initiations used to be held where the community happened to be at the time but today there's a process of globalization going on where we've set up a religious organization of shamans this is where the initiations are before man oh . yes. forest is an entrepreneur he will be among the

initiated it will be the most important day of his life. stories knows there's 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 were allowed boris to attend the sort of by herman festival of shamans. on the way to the festival a novice shaman explains what his ancestors religion means to the people what the periods always trusted their ancestors each clan had a patron saint the cousin of

a shaman of various worship only their ancestors and we pray for periods and everyone else living here not just for ourselves and our prayers we are still good fortune and wealth of. the sort of ahem festival is held in the funny fingers plateau of. last night's people gathered around the sculpture in the form of the hair and pointing to the sky. the monument is believed to have been erected by ancient inhabitants of this land. is what they do look like five fingers sticking out of the ground. the other promised 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.

of evil guinn's keep doubts he is a major boost ministry monks roy's early in the newly. has to be up for the first prayer at seven am. in the middle of the last year of the month lead a reclusive life and barely venture outside. the monasteries one hundred seventy inhabitants for a very strict daily routine. only lunch and prayers interrupt the activities at the buddhist monastery. there is a buddhist university and that's nearly two hundred monks attend it. and when i think life is very simple there are several months to a room but you're going because all of the students from the university live in this small building this is my bed because there are your students also live here and i if. there was also room for the teacher. and 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 not a normal. 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 he decided to take it up exchanging is shut in turmoil for the crimson robe of a monk. this whole point of my post i became disenchanted with conventional life i realised that it would get me nowhere. that is when i decided to take the spiritual path. but the layman buddhism is just a religion would you want to thump it 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 what you know what. evil. is

considered one of the keys spiritual centers 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. each of the drums contains thousands of sheets of paper prayers inscribed on them it is believed if you spin a drum once you have to read all the prayers in it its simple method may improve your karma which believe i think the chances of reincarnation. but i call the world's deepest lake local tribes worshiped it long before the arrival of russian colonists.

guinea clip because it is in the tourist trade a popular business here. has explored every nook on the shores of the great lake. bug was in bay one of the most beautiful spots around by co. it is famous for its sandy beaches and a spectacular view of the same news peninsula. now that said it just from here you get a good view of the st knows peninsula and mt markoff with its snowy top. the snow is still there even though it is the month of june now. the beach is about thirty kilometers long. it's the longest beach on michael. shannon so right here live this time give gainey has organized a tool he would say a group of young tourists to the most sacred and mystical sites in the vicinity of

by cold. the starting point is near the st louis peninsula as land is covered in tall mountains and thick forests. in the old days at revered it is one of the most sacred sites rituals were formed on the peninsula and the most respected shamans were buried here. this place is charged with enormous energy. people's strength throughout the journey. such excursions are becoming increasingly popular tourist learn to choose routes that pass through the so-called places of spiritual energy many of them can be found in. another point of interest is in the valley of puck was in river the area is often called a 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 berga mongols when have is the valley in ancient times. legend has it that they are whom the spirits of the wind. this is a wind swept place. locals used to think that the eagles flying over the valley were in fact the souls of shamans. in the zero kinski district on the other side of. budmouth on the cough is going up to see his brother on his way he will pass by a sacred place. whenever a bad mum pulses boy he stops some bios to get a full pleading to his ancestors to grant him good luck during his long journey.

meanwhile but must grow the bullets and his wife treating yak skins. 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 do this. hundred things are of better quality. as soon as they stretch the skin and suspend it from steaks i make a small fire to smoke it thoroughly. they put fur cones and juniper into the fire. this gives yak skin the necessary firmness and. good for the skin to get

a good calorie i just smoked for thirty minutes. then it was turned on questions not from the other side. as a result the skin turns orange. hasn't seen his brother a hole for a 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 passes 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. pull out all six local spirits for help and offers them a sacrifice in the form of several drops of fresh milk.

observe nature and discover its beauty. communicate with the wild and learn. test yourself and become free. see what nature can give you the. world couldn't. bring you the latest in science and technology from around for sure . we've got the future covered. eventual cough this is evil inskeep outside almost every month. tragedy

struck his family two years ago when his daughter was seriously injured after a husband shot her in a fit of jealousy. polio washed the bullet entered her temple exited from the back of her head and i mean a lot of doctors told me the injury was fatal come and she might die within minutes from what i was nothing my wife and i could do about them i sent my wife to hospital expecting at bringing the body back and i thought i just got over it or. even had never been a follower of goodison but he visited eve again skipped out sime on the advice of a woman he knew. there he was advised to pray in front of the un decaying body of dashi daughter show it in a body at buddhist lama. several bullets lamas gathered over a mountainous plateau name 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 exempt on that they. have been in the cedar sarcophagus was at a depth of one point three meters a gift for the body of those she does really to give of it was in a lotus position where it was examined on september eleventh for a medical physiologists myself and on top of this lady's attended the ceremony killable a lot of his body showed no signs of decomposition therefore there was a sense that he had just fallen asleep sure. besides his body was warm its temperature was thirty six point six degrees just it's just different. local scientists couldn't work out why it had not decomposed so the body was sent to moscow for further analysis. the findings of that investigation were unexpected like a little like a moscow scientists found no sign of surgery on the man's body after analyzing

samples of hair and nails a mask or three which are they confirmed that both belong to a living man president roger which unlike. if he gives body was brought to evil. in a transparent sarcophagus. 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 the so-called imperishable lama but those thirty minutes changed his life forever. for you i was there when the long was brought into the temple i was told to ask him questions and just communicate with him he responded with a nod and facial expression. they are not going thought i had at the time was this if i just want my daughter to be a lawyer whatever happens. with the knowledge of me and instantly i knew she

wouldn't die i really thought i was going mad at you every day my daughter suddenly came out of a coma when i was here and with that i was at one pm not the doctor 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. the number of visitors coming to the temple housing the imperishable body has since been limited now access to cash. is restricted eight times a year. visitors are allowed to enter the temple during major buddhist holiday. all the participants have gathered for the through about one festival. for the

first time boris is going to pray together with revered shamans. on the behalf of all booty outs twenty men will plead to local spirits and their own ancestors to grant them good luck and wealth. like all shamans morris has gone through the hardships of a 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 been in his clan he turned to a teacher that's when his spiritual and human elements merged into harmony. every shaman almost wear a special ritual robe each element of it is charged with particular symbolism. kind of what you take this cap for example. it's underneath the shamans crown. this thing overshadows designs why is that is because the spirits descending from

above the not supposed to see humanoids joy can scare them away. at the beginning of the ritual the shamans some of the 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 finger sculpture is somewhat higher than where we are even have believed since the olden days that when you pray by this stern 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 traveling around but he actually has holy places when you arrive at the highlights of their itinerary the temple of the buddhist call this young. earth with a glow and welcome. let us go to the temple. first of all you need to walk around the temple entered to pray and only then will we go to the still i don't have to come. this is pretty actually a second most popular place for pilgrimage after the evil. young she

is regarded as the pincian saint of motherhood and children she's one of the most revered go to says ingreat. many women come here in the hope of increasing their fertility. with 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 good as him she would have said no with them and the problem was that she was already forty and had no success in getting pregnant like i did but after she visited younge in my in this holy place she gave birth to a daughter now the girl is one year old and their thing work. anyone wishing to. help must take a narrow path up the hill. legend has it that the republic's current chief buddhist was meditating when the goddess young shima 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. now it is time for the travelers to appeal to the good just got us some of the summer love of all else with you should make your personal please most i'm seriously icing on the bottom of your heart and how you do it either on 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 when the cough is apparent 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 under a rock in the composition and valley of volcanoes a sum of fifty kilometers from where they lost a ruptured ten or twelve thousand years ago there was some hope it. would last the long trip comes to an end. meets his younger brother who laps. they will spend several weeks together tending the hurt. the soil it's hoped that this valley tucked away in the mountains will allow them to maintain the way of life and it down from their ancestors. lives his 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 yak since. just like my father and grandfather did my

family sells meat and milk for a living 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 five fingered stone sculpture. to start with they also local spirits to accept their prayers and gifts. the ceremony is accompanied by the constant drumming of tambourines the temporariness the shaman's principal instrument that allows him to move between the human world and the spirit world. the critical moment arrives when the shamans take turns in going into a state of trunks. like. but he adds

believe at such moments shaman's a no longer themselves their bodies have been taken over by the spirits of their ancestors. all right there's a huge. which. at first you feel dizzy then you'll vision is blood and you become lost in thought you live in 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 their prez he did. the next year will be a good one for the land where time has come to a standstill.