seven thirty in moscow thank you for joining us here's a quick recap of your headlines pakistan cuts a nato supply routes and demands the u.s. vacated space after an alliance airstrike kills dozens of pakistani soldiers made a way to mix it was highly likely to have been responsible for the killings the u.s. commander in afghanistan promises a full investigation into the incident. fresh clashes in cairo as the death toll rises to forty two protesters on time square say they will now take the future in

their own hands and form their own government demonstrators are venting their anger at military rule and say they are far from being satisfied to have a freshly appointed prime minister. and the world's biggest and most expensive rover mission to mars has been launched by nasa the device is loaded with russian equipment that will make it possible to detect water on the planet's surface that could allow mankind to finally determine if there's ever been life on the red planet. next thirty travels through the barren russian step to discover. and find out more about europe's only buddhist republic.

yes 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 young sandlot. illness and means dignity loss really means small. studio that i was away from my homeland for years studying in india at the way these are my first holidays and my display coincide with the festival to be held in europe's largest buddhist temple and. the essence of that i will need to trolls and the only the entire length of all steps to get there. be to you me and the long and interesting journey known as the wide path lies ahead of me.

is the step region in the south of european russia. five centuries ago no magic tribes the serbs and ganga's khan's army brought their horses and sheep clear from mongolia they were called the oil rods. in the seventeenth century they were renamed comics after swearing an oath of allegiance. to the tsar alexei ramon of. however they reserve the right to practice a religion of their choice. this loan poke a 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 tibet would grow into a whole grove but only one poplar survived the rigorous climate. the secret to its long life remains on. these cull 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. it can make such a kept up show manic beliefs in the spirits of nature since ancient times. that i'm stressed as learned about buddhism all roaming mongolia steps.

after so the ritual of making offering still our homeland and our home when i was a child my parents before them the ritual and so did their parents. it is a haven right but it has parallels with bush's and. it has been formally cheering in the spring and in autumn. in austin will make offerings to the fire we ask for a mild winter so that nobody suffers not even the animals. and of course we say we're just breast over at war and natural calamities across the world. one sacred personality of cow 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 shockey a moonie buddha this sixty three metre tall building and kalmykia has capital l. a star can be seen from any point in the city. the grand temple can accommodate a huge number of people oppressive hisses and grand festivals it attracts tourists and put ists from all over the world come meet us company. tibetan monks from the good med monastery in india have come to come here to attend an international festival. several days before the opening ceremony they begin creating a sound one dollar one of the sacred traditions of put his teachings. the sound is a palace that may serve as a temporary abode or an enlightened petty. colored marble sound as applied to the

canvas from a cone shaped to this tibetan form of spiritual art is widely recognized across the world. and interviewed you too good to be among dollar of thirty million one tacky day it seems i 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 they're going to accumulate merits trying to achieve a young man talking state of compassion and like sentiments and i'll try to help all living creatures in my homeland and across the world the truth is stated. when i was a child each time i looked at the map i thought my home and was too tiny but now is seats a vast country with endless steps. that is i think people's way of life primarily

depends on where they live eat this type is the best place for nomads. only kids can make it is such a big country that call of it rests against the seat. amazingly it means that cal makes you spend nearly all their time on the plane a particular catching fish. then a good say hello can i go with you sure jump on. kalmykia southeast of all the delta close to the town of like. a narrow channel links the silty lowlands overgrown with bull rushes to the caspian sea. hopes with homemade wooden cabins out in the open water fisherman 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 water levels they form underwater sandbags and thick sediment. long life boats like this one are the best form of transport and 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 from a border coat of low sides and keep his balance. these are small fry so we release them. even this one is too small. this is no good either. on wawrinka grocery or. this 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 and county kids north west is of great interest to ornithologists. the overflow and manage river empties into lake manage good deal 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 coming here it 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 that one reason is that they will not be disturbed long nesting and secondly the nature reserve is going to buy ranges or yes as with. one of the most remarkable animals of kalmykia is the sidebar until its trunk white nose is a distinguishing feature of the stocky resident and the steps research has haven't yet figured out its function pretty pretty cool there are three theories concerning it one says the nose filters like the dry dust kicked up by the heard. others say that it is an excellent cooling system that helps fend off the scorching sun the

third suggests the decider uses this kind of nose make a peculiar blaring sound during mating. aleksandr but my of what his sight 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 sidebar antelopes of what is richer as 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 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 i say 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 norwegian route and the fact that the saga 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 so far they have only drawn policeman ery findings to keep the room. with two days to go before the ground potest first of all 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 town pools and comically. seventeen year old alina by

a goes to an ordinary secular school in alice stark whenever 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 lemon tarkas soundman dollar. in accordance with tradition people walk around the palace clockwise for 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 custom among dollar will be destroyed in a ceremony will conclude the festival. of eels and my journey is in its third day. with burgess traditions and all prayers at any time in any place even on the moon and 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 calixto 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. science technology innovation called in these developments from around russia we've got the future covered. the international borders first of all and cal making here has brought together tourists and worshippers from india mongolia thailand and other countries barrie because it is an american doctor and a 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 these 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 present taurus to like even during preparations for ground festivals. it is the most sacred place and europe's

only put history public on the main attraction of kalmykia as capital some are brought by religion all those a curious to see it's magnificent teria traditionally nearly all visitors walk around the temple clockwise to pay their respects to the cold a nine meter statue of the shock your money buddha. 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 folded my hands said prayer several times and bowed to the small figurine of the buddha was to stay any color makers free to enter the majestic temple as a philosophy and lifestyle this could ism is enter twined with the history and ethnicity of our people. to

me it was once easy to lose one's way in the stirrup 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 do anything about it. to be if you don't take your time out there in the stir you may get lost. for good and what is a war after all domestic animals like cows and sheep and camels and them to somehow find their way back to their pens. to hump camels have helped man survive in this past region for centuries extreme heat and freezing cold cannot stop them. grazing on green pastures is not vital all these councils 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 have 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 there for milk and meat and can easily survive in this environment for 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 cow mix and trusted the drug to poison the young men horses are scared of camels if a man bridled his horse in front of the herd of camels he would rest assured that his steed would not let him down in 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. count mick settled down a long time ago but in every village here a craftsman specializing in whip making can still be found. geed nanda share of learned the handicraft from his father he teaches the art of whip reading 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 also not on the heart of the traditional cowboy is an important part of comic attire for my mother urged me to keep my care of my my side even when i went to bed in fourteen thirty seven governors are gone cagey instructively all routes are ancestors to first turn their caps with the red tassel as a mark of distinction from other tribes to. hide the timing 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 warrior nomads would make sure their most important weapon was in order a robust whip malia georgie receives the bulk of the quest for whips from both professional jockeys and local shepherds. through long haul 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 arguments and. there is a saying in kalmykia a man would only put his with a side to prove his skill and unarmed called but. 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 when contestants need to force any parts 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 today it is a national sport practiced mostly by professional judo west and both freestyle

classics restless. after the end of the bout when i was required to perform a dance otherwise the audience will not recognise his victory such is the comic tradition. i. am. i was born in this time and lived there for fifteen years. in there i like it here mostly because it's my home town. but otherwise i feel uncomfortable in the city gym crowns and motor vehicles. if that world is alien to me and people and are always in a hurry. it is and that constant desire for a good house car job or 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 that. the monks from various countries attending the festival offer their prayers. young ten blood 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. and. 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 feel in attendance understand. but this doesn't end ordinary told wrists and taken part in the ritual in their own fashion. it's. candlelight and dusk signals the start of the festivals most colorful part with everybody offering light to the good of. this ceremony has been organized by monks from toilet. paper lanterns they brought from home a lifted by the hot sap produced by the flames. and nobody can launch one

such mountain singlehanded the edges i do in such a way the act involves as many people as possible. anybody that monitors a mountain is paying homage to the shock your mood put it on cleansing their karma the dark negative energy so as to reach spiritual bottoms it's. played with a very very happy but it's also most jews are 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.