welcome back to this week's top stories here in our see this period of the arab spring has come to the u.s. so say protests and great wall street greed and economic depression well keep lying to streets of american cities where the authorities have been cracking down on the demonstrations despite washington support for revolutions overseas. twenty three people were killed and one hundred eighty injured as thousands of christian protesters clashed with police in the streets of cairo the riots call among some rising tensions as the country's revolution between radical muslims and christians including at times and churches. and the woman who western media reports there is being butchered by bashar al assad's regime in syria appears on television strangers alive and well forcing an embarrassing u.

turn by the leading outlets they have lined up next take an exciting trip with r.c. to mountainous south central siberia where the world's deepest laid by car is located and where there's strong local beleaguer in the power spirit. this is a place where people still believe in spirits and turn to shamans for advice. at the same time buddhism here is widely praised just oh people here believe in miracles just as much as they do in the palace of sawing. this is a land where time seems to have come to a standstill. twenty six thousand square kilometers of mountains rivers and virgin forests. shimon is

a rare sight. there kinski district is situated in gori at his southwest close to the border with moon. is one of russia's most honestly populated areas. only five thousand people live in a 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 flood it making travel impossible. before setting out on the journey locals turns shamans for help. there were now. but most on the coast wants to see his brother who tends

a herd of yaks troy in the mountains in order to go with one of the all. over the author of the only thing. he believes a sure manic ritual will ward off any dangers joining them on the trip. for him. 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 and purify people water absorbs bad energy to produce a sense of calm and gives an order of protection. ahead of the city. at the other end of a short distance from the republic's capital. several men are about to be ordained a shaman. 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. 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 globalisation going on where we've set up a religious organization of shamans this is where the initiations of before. 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 shaman 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 line 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 will allow boris to attend the sort of a ham festival of shamans. on the way to the festival the novice shaman explains what his ancestors religion means to the people what the periods always trust of their ancestors beach planet a patron saint person of a shaman of various worship only their ancestors and we pray for burials of 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

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. is what they do look like by fingers sticking out of the ground people see the other promise located somewhere in mongolia and early summer shamans began their rituals with the plea for people's well being i come here for the sake of my family. of evil guinn's keep out simon goody as he is a major good ist ministry monks roy's early in the newly. soaked so has to be up for the first prayer at seven am. for the year of the month leading reclusive life can barely venture

outside. the ministry's 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 monks to a room but you're going because all students from the university live in this small building and this is my bed with you there and your students also live here and i of course. 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 the routine becomes part of your life and the normal 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 he decided to take it up exchanging is shutting the turmoil of the crimson robe of a monk. because when you want to post i became disenchanted with conventional life and the need for me to realise 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 find out for people who want to move forward and studied the teaching in earnest it is a boundless science. it is 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 programs come here every day. to begin with they go through a special ritual they need to spin drums as they make several rounds of the day.

each of the drums contains sheets of paper prayers inscribed on. it is believed if you spin a drum once you have to read all the prayers in it is simple method may improve your comma. believe i think the chances of reincarnation. but i call the world's deepest lake a 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. aguas 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. how much of it. from here you get a good view of the st knows peninsula and mt are called with it 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 but you're right that it this time give gainey has organized a tool he would say group of young tourists to the most sacred a mystical sites in the vicinity of by karl. a starting point is near the same nose peninsula as land is covered in tall mountains and thick forests. in the old days 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 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 pa goosing river the area is often called a sin vince keystone council because of its resemblance to the gulf architecture of medieval europe. one theory suggests that the mountains were the last outpost of the berga mongols when have it is the valley in ancient times. legend has it that they are whom to 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 shamans. in the a 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 mom pulses boy he stops and bio's to it a full pleading to his ancestors to grant him good luck during his long journey. meanwhile but must grow the bullets and his wife a treating yak skins. soils use them to make clothing footwear and harnesses. this technique is

piles of years old local still prefer who made thing. my mother taught me to skill. that's how my parents always did it as a home made things or a better quality. as soon as they stretched the skin and suspend it from steaks and make a small fire to smoke it thoroughly. and put firkins and juniper into the fire. this gives yak skin the necessary firmness and color. good for the skin to get a good calorie i just smoked for thirty minutes. then it was turned on the question was not from the other side. as a result the skin turns orange. hasn't seen his brother the whole field 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. pull out all six local spirits for help and offers them a sacrifice in the form of several drops of fresh milk. while. bringing you the latest in science and technology from around

russia. we've got the future covered in the united kingdom all she's available in philly house the land of forty one hotel the old waverly hotel they can also tell the mill stone hotel some large country house holiday inn the full old government house the rembrandt the crimean the chesterfield the montague hotel the royal phone the rubens hotel. eventual cause of this is evil going skeet that some almost every month. tragedy struck his family two years ago when his daughter was seriously injured after a husband the shot in a fit of jealousy. polio washed the bullet entered her temple exited from the back of her head but i mean it was for the doctors told me the

injury was fatal that she might die within minutes from what it was nothing my wife and i could do about it i sent my wife to hospital expecting her to bring the body back here which is gullible. even had never been a follower of buddhism but he visited even that same on the advice of a woman he knew. and there he was a voice to pray in front of the un decaying body of dashi daughter show it to keel over a body at buddhist lama. several buddhist lamas gathered over a mountainous plateau on a 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 date. larval been in the cedars sarcophagus was at a depth of one point clear meters a cure for the body of those she does really think ill of it was in a lotus position. it was examined on september eleventh three medical physiologists

myself and a photo displayed is attend of the ceremony killable the lama's body showed no signs of decomposition in your story there was a sense that he had just fallen asleep. besides he thought he was warm its temperature was thirty six point six degrees perhaps a tryst the 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 i get a chill i could never was a good moscow scientists found no sign of surgery on the man's body have to analyzing samples of hair and nails must coarsely which are they confirmed that most belonged to a living man by the director which unlike. body was brought to evoke that sand in a transparent so called forget. 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 this so-called imperishable lama but those thirty minutes changed his life forever. really i was there when the long i was brought into the temple and i was told to also come questions and just communicate with him he responded with a nod and facial expression was. a nagging thought i had at the time was this you i just want my daughter to be a lawyer whatever happens with which he nodded at me and instantly i knew she wouldn't i really thought i was going mad at you every day my daughter suddenly came out of a coma when i was here with that i was at one pm my fiddle 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 evens door to spread quickly across and beyond. pilgrims flocked to evil against. the number of visitors coming to the temple housing the imperishable body has since been limited now access to show it 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 bush on 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 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 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. like this cap for example. it's underneath the shamans crown. this thing overshadows designs. because the spirits descending from above and not supposed to see humanoids joy 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 acres plateau thousand years ago. as you can see the five finger sculpture is somewhat higher than where we are what people have believed since the olden days that when you pray by this stone 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 undertaking. the next stop for the cyclists is a stone. garden. large rocks going back to be always sage 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 as holy places for any arrive at the highlight of their itinerary the temple of the buddhist goddess ganges. blow and welcome. let's 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 second most popular place for pilgrimage to the evil good. young she is regarded as the pincian saint of motherhood and children she's one of the most revered go to is ingreat. and 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 and yet but after she visited young jamaat in this holy place she gave birth to a daughter now the girl is one year old. anyone wishing to 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 colas young she met 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 dog's ingo. now it is time for the travellers to appeal to the buddhist goddess someone who someone

long of all else with you should make your personal please most sincerely i sing from the bottom of your heart and now 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 o. kinski district when the cough 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 and scorched earth and iraq didn't come but the valuable trainers the sum of fifty kilometers from the last erupted ten or twelve thousand years ago to north. and.

would last the long trip comes to an end but ma meets his younger brother who lives . 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 handed down from them and systems. i've 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 yaks since although 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. of fashion. but he adds believe that at such moments shamans a no longer themselves their bodies have been taken over by the spirits of their ancestors. just short of there's a huge. which. at first you feel dizzy then you'll

vision is blood and you become lost in thought horse when you look at your eyes you see the people around you but you barely remember what's gone on before i can't explain it and 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 time has come to a standstill.