welcome back to watching our team here's a look at the top stories more trouble has broken out in cairo words here gas has been fired against thousands of egyptians occupying top for years where the first houses are demanding an end to the country's military rule the swat a fierce crackdown by security forces that's claimed thirty three life so far. russia lashes out on a new u.s. sanctions against iran's financial and energy sectors calling down acceptable and not aligned with international law washington is ramping up the pressure on iran warning that increasingly aggressive measures are to follow. greece as fighting

against the tide as its new government rushes to impose more as therapy on a people in order to secure another rescue well meanwhile italy continues to slide deeper into debt as a new prime minister starts his first we can office. and after six months on the international space station a cosmopolitan two astronaut safely return to earth before the russian spacecraft three other space avenger earth will remain on the ice chest for another four months. well up next join our team for an amazing journey to the only tibetan buddhist nation in europe called makiya temples were destroyed there during the saddam era and buddhism went into decline but in a new age of tolerance the staff region is enjoying a religious renascence. yes

but i have two names that my parents made me say get. it that's when i was fifteen years old i was accepted as a buddhist monastery just took my vows. my teacher gave me a new name you don't turn law joy you don't go into means dignity laundry means small it. did what i was away from my home and four years studying in india at the make these are my first holidays things but this play coincides with a festival to be held in europe's largest buddhist temple. the worth of that i will need to cross nearly the entire length of our steps to get there. and junia along

an interesting journey known as the wife path lies ahead of me. here is the step region in the south of european russia. five centuries ago nomadic tribes that served in ganga's khan's army brought their horses and sheep pier from mongolia they were called the oil rods. in the seventeenth century they were renamed comix after swearing an oath of allegiance. to the czar alexei ramon of. however they reserve the right to practice a religion of their choice. this alone poplar tree

in the step is a sacred place for all comics. legend has it that a man by the name of but can back she comic turned just a monk planted it one hundred fifty years ago. his hope was that the seeds he had brought from tibet would grow into a whole grove but only one poplar survived the rigorous climate. the secret to its long life remains on. these cal making women are singing one of the world's most famous put his mantras the shade of a tree the oldest even symbol. the words are in the historical indian language of sanskrit. the count next of kept up shall manic beliefs in the spirits of nature since anxious times. their ancestors

learned about buddhism all roaming mongolia steps and. i first saw the ritual of making offerings to allah homelands and our home when i was a child my parents confirm the ritual and so did their parents. it is a heathen rights but it has parallels with buddhism. and is performed each year in early spring and in autumn. in autumn we make offerings to the fire we ask for a mild winter so that nobody suffers not even the animals. and of course with a buddhist prayers to avert war and natural calamities across the world. one sacred personality of count make history is so gun. he is known by many titles the white old man the master and protector of the step and the patron saint

of nomads. even though his teachings are rooted in sharman as a statue of him stands outside europe's largest buddhist temple called the golden abode of the shock your moonie buddha this sixty three metre tall building in kalmykia has capital l. a star can be seen from any point in the city. of the grand temple can accommodate a huge number of people for prayer services and grand festivals is a trucks tourists and buddhists from all over the world coming yes company. tibet and monks from the good med monastery in india have come to come here to attend an international festival. several days before the opening ceremony and

begin creating a sound mandela one of the sacred traditions of put as tensions. the sound is a palace that may serve as a temporary abode for an enlightened day. colored marble sand is applied to the canvas through a cone shaped chain. this tibetan form of spiritual art is widely recognized across the world. and interviewed you too good to be a mom dollar of thirteen million tuckey date students i'd love to see people attending the festival being motivated by the prospect of coming face to face with a mandela like i'm going to see the mandela they'll say north of there but i'm going to accumulate merits i'll try to achieve a yemen saki state of compassion i'm reluctant and i'll try to help all living creatures in my homeland and across the world achieve the stars.

when i was a child each time i looked at the map i thought my home and was too tiny but now i see to vast country with endless steps. because i think people's way of life primarily depends on where they live and the stamp is the best place for nomads. comac it was coming here is such a big country that all of its rests against the sea. but amazingly it means that cal makes it spend nearly all their time on the plane a particular catching fish. then a good day hello can i go with you sure jump on. the mickey is southeast of all the delta close to the town of lagaan a narrow channel lynx the solti lowlands overgrown with all rushes to the caspian sea. copes with homemade wooden cabins bob about in the

open water. fishermen live hedger in the summer and autumn they spend five months a year at sea many miles from family and friends. strong arabs and flows in the caspian sea make for drastic changes in water level they form underwater sandbags on thick sediment long life boats like this one of the best form of transport in these hazardous parts. the fisherman have a hard job to do a cow make net is shaped like a long round chest with several meshes made of fine metal netting. quite often the nets catch seaweed as well as fish. only someone with a good deal of experience can become a border post with low sides and keep its balance. of. order

these are small fry so we release them. even this one is too small world and this is no good either. on the. doors or your. car is ok i'll keep it by my a two or three hundred kilo load of fish is a good carriage it will fetch a handsome price at the market one section of the black earth nature reserve and county kids northwest is of great interest to ornithologists. the overflow and manage river empties into lake manage good below there are no fisherman here because the water contains so much salt that fish cannot survive in it. this marshall and is a protected area of coming here it has been given international status birds range supremum here. the archipelago was

a stopping point on the ground migration path for birds halfway between europe and asia. dozens of species gather here in the autumn any attempt to approach them will fail. the birds know only too well how to keep at a distance they can be spotted only with the help of good optical instruments. i suppose if a lot of birds stop over here is the way it is one reason is that they will not be disturbed while nesting and secondly the nature reserve is going to buy rangers for years as with. one of the most remarkable animals of kalmykia is the sidebar until its trunk quite knows its a distinguishing feature of the stocky resident of the steps researchers haven't yet figured out its function and he put it there are three theories concerning at

of no one says the nose filters like the dried ghost kicked up by the herd. others say that it is an excellent cooling system that helps fend off the scorching sun. the third suggests that the cider uses this kind of nose make a peculiar blaring sound during mating with. alexander but meyer of watches and celebs on the step for several hours a day he works for the republic's wildlife research institute which is situated well away from populated areas the institute is focused on protecting the european population of saigon to hopes. well with it it is richer by someone working here i know that saggers have different tempers just as humans do some of them are more agile than others i would say one of them here is too energetic we call him yorker

he is always kicking the ball and overturning it it kicks up a fuss because he thinks we don't give him enough food what i say here on the other hand is a well behaved animal entering his pen and feeding him no problem at all a small sidebar herd lives in breeds in a special enclosure under human protection each year scores of healthy adults are released into the wild to go on what we can regroup and the fact that the seder has not been thoroughly studied yet is simply because it's hard to catch this animal. only recently have researchers started taking an interest in the antelope but when so far they have only drawn pollution ery findings but. with two days to go before the grand buddhist festival in alice star volunteers are preparing the temples interior for the rituals they are even entrusted with the honor of filling the boarders bowl of arms. after the festival these twelve canonic

images of the founder of put ism will be sent to small rural temples and comically . seventeen year old alina by a goes to an ordinary secular school in alice star but ever she has time to spare she comes to the temple to help the monks. three friends have brought me here i was ashamed for something i did in the past but not anymore i have a sense that by giving a helping hand here i have made demands who aided my caramel has become clean. it's a bet in months put the finishing touches on the yamantaka sandman dollar. in accordance with tradition people walk around the palace clockwise from the whole process is believed to give as many blessings to people as the number of grains of

sand that went into its creation. out converses terms such works symbolic obstructionism to worshippers the mundo is sacred and is only open to view on rare occasions. in accordance with buddhist custom among darla will be destroyed in a ceremony that will complete the festival. deals in my journeys and it's the day. of the buddhist traditions and all prayers at any time in any place even on the move and meditation is best done out in the open. i have no problem with the sloan poplar yes it's a haven symbol rather than a buddhist object of worship but how it has been able to survive the calixto is a mystery to me. which as a rule i pray at sunset of the sake of all living creatures and to make each day be

more fortunate for them than the last. the international buddhist festival in kalmykia has brought together tourists and

suppose from india mongolia thailand and other countries. very cousin is an american doctor personal physician to his holiness the dalai lama he lives in the indian town. where he gives medical assistance to the needy. there the locals call him by the name venerable this is not barry's first visit to kill me. the good is him in comic is different than buddhism in other parts of the world you know during his very difficult seventy years it was they nearly lost their culture completely and now they're reviving it and you can feel this revival for example i go to japan a lot in there they have a buddhist culture a buddhist history and many of the people say they're buddhist but when you ask them much about buddhism they don't know anything and you ask them nor do they turn their lives or in trouble and usually they turn to work or money but here they turn

to the temple to the buddha to the teachers and that's a big difference. a temple is open to worship has and told us to like even jewing preparations for ground festivals. it is the most sacred place in europe's only buddhist republic and the main attraction of comique is capital. some are brought here by religion others a curious to see its magnificent tyria traditionally nearly all visitors walk around the temple clockwise to pay their respects to goldeneye meet a statue of the shock your money border. religion was frowned upon in soviet times i was just a little boy back then when my grandmother taught me how to pray in secret in candlelight i fold my hands said prayer several times and bowed to the small figurine of computer after

a day any color makers free to enter the majestic temple as a philosophy and lifestyle of good ism is intertwined with the history and ethnicity of our people. steeply was in season two was once wayne as to locals like saying that people there are going to buy the devil. actually sometimes you realize that you're going around in circles but you can't do anything about it. to be if you don't take your time out there in the stir you may get lost. but i don't want to lose a war after all domestic animals like cows and sheep and camels either do somehow find their way back to their pens. to hump camels have helped man survive in the sparse region for centuries extreme heat and freezing cold cannot stop them. grazing on green pastures is not vital

all these camels need is wormwood and thorny plants which are found in step. camels are not put off by brackish filthy water they can even do without it for several days. of camels that lived side by side with us ever since the appearance of the first comic settlements are the best animals from an economic point of view people can live off there for milk and meat and can easily survive in this environment. shepherds used to bring camels close to their camps for the night this was so they didn't have to search for them the following morning or comics and trusted the drug to poison young men horses are scared of camels if a man bridled his horse in front of a herd of camels he would rest assured that his steed would not let him down and battle it has been

a long time since comics last went to war but the tradition of boys being sent to herd camels into enclosures lives on. an old cow mick proverb sais that a whip is the nomads best friend. a cow mick settled down a long time ago but in every village here a craftsman specializing in whip making can still be found though geed nanda share of learned the handicraft from his father he teaches the art of wit braiding at the local school in his spare time he works at his courtyard workshop in line with an old cow make custom he hardly ever takes off his cap and then i thought i know how to model a traditional couch is an important part of comic attire for my mother urged me to keep my cab by my side even when i went to bed in fourteen thirty seven governor to are gone i g.

and started the all routes are ancestors to first in their caps for the red tassel as a mark of distinction from other tribes to. hide tiring is an important part of the whip making process today like hundreds of years ago cows milk is used to soften the skins the hides are kept in a warm place for several days afterwards the hair is completely removed and cut only strong elastic hides are used for making whips georgie is in the habit of making whips at sunset at dusk in the old days warrior nomads who make sure their most important weapon was in order a robust whip called the malia georgie receives the bulk of the quest for whips from both professional jockeys and local shepherds. through long

all cattle raising nomads used whips mainly to keep cattle moving ensure the comic which is different in that it consists of several sections making it more effective because on the also it looks like a braid rather than a pattern something that the cows are whip has for example. there is a saying in kalmykia a man would only put his with a side the proof is still in an arm called but. on weekends many people leave towns and villages to attend local fairs traditional wrestling fights a regular feature such events. the rules are simple when contestants need to force any part of their opponent's body to the ground going for the legs is not allowed but the combatants are allowed to grab the trousers of the south. up until the eighteenth century cow mick wrestling was

a rigorous martial art fight as frequently caused heavy injuries to one another i today it is a national sport practiced mostly by professional judo west and both freestyle classes restless. after the end of the bout when i was required to perform at dogs otherwise the audience will not recognise his victory such as the helmet edition. i . am. it is i was born in the us dollar and lived there for fifteen years. in the right i like it here mostly because it's my hometown. but otherwise i feel uncomfortable in the city gym with crowds and know to be for years. at that world is alien to me and with the people and are always in a hurry. it is and that constant desire for

a good house car job food and clothes makes many ignore their inner worlds. in the brain i believe therefore that such places are perfectly ok sions for temples so that people can find spiritual balance that. monks from various countries attending the festival offer that prayers. young ten blood oyo has undertaken a long journey for the opportunity to join the. chorus of voices reading output is text is interlaced with the sound of tibetan drums cymbals and trumpets.

it is all part of a sacred ritual to remove obstacles in the way of spiritual development and light a moment welfare and peace of mind for everybody taking part. in the. attempt is made whole is packed to capacity during prayers the monks recite theirs and it's a batson language that few in attendance understand. but this doesn't end ordinary tourists from taking part in the ritual in their own fashion. it's. candlelight at dusk signals the start of the festivals most colorful with everybody offering lights to the buddha.

this ceremony has been organized by monks from thailand. the papal lantern was they brought from home a lifted by the hot sap produced by the flames. and nobody can launch one such a lump sum single handed designed in such a way that the act involves for as many people as possible. anybody that munches a mountain is paying homage to the shock. and cleansing that calm the dark negative energy so as to reach spiritual balance it's. played with a very very happy but it's not so much due to the wonderful ceremony. it was indeed a beautiful event but i was truly happy when i saw and felt a multitude of people praying for peace around the world. you know.