good to have you with us this is all to you live here in moscow top stories now this hour thousands of angry egyptians refused to leave town here square as calls continue for the end of military rule that all reports live ammunition is being fought in protest of egypt's military rulers have made some concessions for demonstrations by bringing forth a date for transferring power to civilians next summer. moscow slams the u.s. for punishing iran over nuclear suspicions saying sanctions contradict international law and home features you can kind of also announce they are cutting ties with iran's banks. and three crew members plucked i think firmly back on the

ground after six months and all that russian american and japanese space travel of landed on bits of classic stuff on a russian soyuz capsule. but i'll be back with more news for you less than half an hour from now the meantime join us for an amazing journey to the only to this nation in europe coming here. i. guess what i have two names. 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. built in illness and means dignity loss really means small it. did more than i was away from my homeland for years studying in india if i may do so my first holidays things were just they coincide with the festival to be held in europe's largest buddhist temple and. the essence of the i will need to cross nearly the entire length of our steps to get there. did you me and a long and interesting journey known as the wide path lies ahead of me.

is the step preacher in the south of european russia. five centuries ago nomadic tribes that served in ganga's khan's army brought their horses and sheep hear from mongolia they were called the oil rods. in the seventeenth century they were renamed comics after swearing an oath of allegiance. still the czar likes a reminder of. however they reserve the right to practice a religion of their choice. this lone polka 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 a comic turned buddhist monk planted it one hundred fifty years ago. his hope was that the seeds he had brought from sabbat would grow into a whole grove but only one poplar survived the rigorous climate. the secret to its

long life remains under. these cal making women are singing one of the world's most famous put his mantras in the shade of a tree the oldest even symbol. the words are in the historical indian language of sanskrit. the count makes of cups upshaw manic beliefs and the spirits of nature since ancient times. their ancestors learned about buddhism all roaming mongolia steps. after so the ritual of making offerings to allah homelands and our home when i was a child my parents informed the ritual and so did their parents. it is a heathen right but it has parallels with buddhism. and has been formally cheering

in the spring and in autumn. in also make offerings to the fire we ask for a mild winter so that we know which is sufferers not even the animals. and of course we say we just prayers to avert war and natural calamitous across the world . one sacred personality of cow made 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 shockey a moony buddha this sixty three metre tall building and comically as capital alice stark can be seen from any point in the city.

of the grand temple can accommodate a huge number of people the press ever says and grand festivals it attracts tourists and put ists from all over the world coming yes coming. tibet and monks from the good med monastery in india 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 his teachings. the sandman dollar is a palace that may serve as a temporary abode for an enlightened petty. colored marble sound as applied to the canvas for a cone shaped chain this tibetan form of spiritual art is widely recognized across the world. and then after getting good they will be among dollar of thirty million

one turkey day incidents i'd love to see people attending the festival being motivated by the prospect of coming face to face with them dollars i'm going to see them on dollar bill say i'm going to accumulate merits try to achieve a yemen talky state of compassion underlying sentiment and i'll try to help all living creatures in my homeland and across the world and shoot the suspect. when i was a child each time i looked at the map i thought my home and was too tiny but now i seats a vast country with endless steps. that is i think people's way of life primarily depends on where they live even the step is the best place for nomads. go make it come make it is such a great country the core of it rests against the sea. and mazing like it means that

cal makes it spend nearly all their time on the plane are pretty good at catching fish. then it gets a pull over and i go we're sure jump on. kalmykia southeast of all the delta close to the town of lagaan a narrow channel links the silty lowlands overgrown with bull rushes to the caspian sea. boats with homemade wooden cabins about in the open water fisherman live here during 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 and thick sediment. long life boats like this one of the best form of transport and

these hazardous parts. the fisherman have a hard job to account make net is shaped like a long round chest with several meshes made of fine metal netting. quite often the nets capture sea weed as well as fish. only someone with a good deal of experience came from aboard a coat of low sides and keep its balance. these are small fry so we release them. even this one is too small. this is no good either. on watering doors or your. car is ok i'll keep it by my two or three hundred kilo load of fish is a good carriage it will fetch a handsome price that the market one section of

the black earth nature reserve in county kids north west is of great interest to ornithologists. the overflow and mannix 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 marshland is a protected area of comic here and has been given international status birds reign supreme 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 a distance they can be spotted only with the help of good optical instrumentals. what you also see for why the 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 the rangers are here this is 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 research has haven't yet figured out its function and he put it there are three theories concerning it and this one says the nose filters like the dried dust 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 cider uses this kind of nose to make a peculiar glaring sound during mating. aleksandr but my of what she's psycho until it's 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 antelopes of what it is richer as someone working here i know that seigel is 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 what we call new yorker is always kicking a ball and overturning it it kicks up a fuss because he thinks we don't give him enough food what was said here on the other hand is a well behaved animal entering his pen and feeding him is no problem at all a small seigel herd lives and breeds in a special enclosure under human protection. each year scores of healthy adults are released into the wild with regard to the more we can avoid the fact purpose sigler

has not been thoroughly studied yet is simply because it's hard to cap's this animal. only recently have researchers started taking an interest in the antelope but when so far they have only drawn policeman ery findings quickly through the youth. with two days to go before the ground buddhist festival in alice starr 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 l a start but ever she has time to spare she comes to the temple to help the monks in france has 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 had made amends what i did my caramel has become clean. little better in months put the finishing touches on the young un tarkas soundman 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 connoisseurs terms such works symbolic obstructionism. to worship those among dollar is sacred and is only open to view on rare occasions. in accordance with buddhist custom among dollar will be destroyed in a ceremony that will complete the festival. of

deals in my journeys in its third day the use of the burgess traditions and all prayers at any time in any place even on the moon which meditation is best done out in the open. i have no problem with the sloan. yes it's a haven symbol rather than a buddhist object of worship but how it has been able to survive the calyx step is a mystery to me. as a rule i pray at sunset was sake of all living creatures the ones who make each day be more fortunate for them than the lost.

world or the trees. or in more mouths to feed but where will the food come from can science provide the answers to the future of food under the microscope. we've got the future covered. the international buddhist festival in kalmykia has brought together tourists and worship has from india mongolia thailand and other countries. barrie because it is an american doctor personal physician to his holiness the dalai lama he lives in the indian town of sala 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 call me. buddhism 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 where do they turn their lives are 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. for example is open to worship isn't taurus to like even jewing preparations for ground festivals. it is the most sacred place and europe's only put is for public and the main attraction of coming as capital some are

brought there by religion all those a curious to see it's magnificent tyria traditionally nearly all visitors walk around the temple clockwise to pay their respects to the cold a nine meter statue of the shockey a moonie buddha. so that's our religion was frowned upon in soviet times i was just a little boy back then 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 the buddha after today any color makers free to enter the majestic temple as a philosophy and lifestyle this code ism is enter twined with a history and ethnicity of our people. to me it was once easy to lose one's wain as to locals like saying that people there are going to die the devil. actually sometimes you realize that you are going

around in circles but you can do anything about it. to be if you don't take your time out there in the step you may get lost. but the most miserable after all domestic animals like cows and sheep and camels either do somehow find their way back to their parents. to hump camels have helped man survive in this sparse region for centuries extreme heat and freezing cold cannot stop them. grazing on green pastures is not vital always 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 are lived side by side with us

ever since the appearance of the first comic settlements were the best animals from an economic point of view people can live off their for milk and meats 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 all says 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 say's the to whip is the nomads best friend. account mick settled down a long time ago but in every village here

a craftsman specializing in rip making can still be found. geed nanda show 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 and line with an old cow make custom he hardly ever takes off his cap and then an awful lot on the heart of the traditional cows 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 governors are gone i ga and started the all routes are ancestors to first in their caps with 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 south of 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 gloria nomads would 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 a long while cattle raising nomads used whips mainly to keep cattle moving and ensure the calmer 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 with has for example having an engine.

there is a saying in kalmykia a man would only put his with a side to proof is still in unarmed combat. on weekends many people leave towns and villages to attend local fairs traditional wrestling fights and the regular feature such events. the rules are simple to win contestants need to force any part of their opponent's body to the ground going for the legs is not allowed but the competent are allowed to grab the trousers of the south. up until the eighteenth century kalmuck wrestling with a rigorous martial arts fight has frequently caused heavy injuries to one another i would say 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 with

dogs otherwise the audience will not recognise his victory such as the comic tradition. from. it is i was born in this time and lived there for fifteen years. in rome i like it here mostly because it's my home town. but otherwise i feel uncomfortable in a city jammed with crowds and motor vehicles. if that world is alien to me the american 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 in a world. where i believe therefore that such places are perfectly ok sions for temples so that people can find spiritual balance there.

the monks from various countries attending the festival offer their prayers. young tembe loved oyo has undertaken a long journey for the opportunity to join the. chorus of voices reading out buddhist texts 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 and meant welfare and peace of mind for everybody taking part. in the. attempt is made whole is packed to capacity during prayer as the monks recite

theirs and it's a batson language that feel in attendance understand. but this doesn't end ordinary told wrists and taken part in the ritual in their own fashion. it's. the candlelight and dusk signals the start of the festivals most colorful part with everybody offering light to the boredom. this ceremony has been organized by monks from thailand. the people around him as they got from home a lifted by the hotseat produced by the flames. and nobody can move from one such mountain singlehanded the edges i do in such

a way to both as many people as possible. anybody that moans as a mountain is paying homage to the shock your movie put it on cleansing their common 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.

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