romanians want their president out protest against corruption and low wages turned off with hundreds arrested and dozens injured in clashes with police. and the top stories now we travel to siberia and meet the shamans who have been keeping ancient beliefs alive for centuries how special report is next. the sun's early in siberia a dusk by year in chino one of the most celebrated and experienced shamans east of lake by count begins his shamanic rituals today's ritual is designed to invoke the spirits healing abilities and thank them for their powers at one point during the ritual a spirit penetrating by his body is expected to help the shaman deal with people's issues as well as heal them is when a shaman becomes aware of the onset of the state of trance he puts on a cap that covers his eyes the cap protects the shaman from evil spirits and safeguards the onlookers according to popular belief ordinary people are not

supposed to see the shamans eyes at such moments because this might cause them harm then the shamans crown comes into play this headgear is fashioned out of iron and has holmes on top chum and say that as soon as the invoked spirit makes its appearance in the form of a cloud the horns help guide the spirit into the shamans body. as a drumbeat quickens the nervous tension of the people gathered in the year quickly begins to peak then the drum abruptly falls silent the shaman fulls to the floor and begin spinning on it this means the spirit has entered his body video camera switched off filming a shaman in this state poses a threat to him and his audience. work at the russian academy of. sciences is drawing to a close up valentino had

a ton of a head of the unit for the study of sherman ism is inspecting the new exhibit displayed at the institute's ethnographic museum they have been supplied by scientists returning from this year's field expeditions valentino has spent years studying humans extrasensory and extra sensitive potential. for part of an hour on the way it. d. for a dependent on the ethnicity of the shell or do here each ethnic group has its own interpretation of the spirit is. in this particular case the spirit penetrates the shunts body in a somewhat unusual way that what it already i told peter in the shell man's mind undergoes a change which is the result of deep immersion eve cock with him i mean there as he saw as it were and sublimate energizing powers the miot of the soul leaves the body at some point to make room for the spirit of god but then watch the keys as

though the spirit occupies the body while his solely at the video is still some other. shermans or a rare or unusual sight in chile a major industrial city in the urals even so sherman by the name of should get income has managed to balance sherman ism with life in the big city he is the latest representative of the clan of sherman's spawning seven generations for centuries siberians have become shamans when called upon by the spirits apart from his spiritual activities to again come practice his music in the morning he goes to his small studio in central chile where not performing his duties as sherman at the entrance to the small backyard there is an over a century for the spirits who are regarded as the local masters to again praise to them and offers them gifts chairman's highly valued support. tamir is

a friend of show again he's a soloist at the local opera house it took the two men a great deal of effort and time before they found a unique musical nisha since then they have been creating a new trend in clubhouse music folk instruments in combination with throat singing against an electronic background the musicians feel it is now too late to develop a taste for folklore and young people consequently they're trying to pave the way for them to traditional music through modern sounds less than national media when you find yourself in a trance during a ritual you suffer spiritually so to speak. after that the music helps me withdrawal from that state. and i can't set sharman ism and music apart i can't focus only on music or shamanism alone as you must i distance myself from music each time i perform a ritual and vice versa. the resulting symbiosis helps me live life to the full

rather than eke out an existence and he's. the modern who is their instrument of choice in the mongolian language modern that means folks who work means violin quite often this instrument is referred to simply as the horses fiddle each violin but as a horse's head symbolizing that the instrument is a living creature the strings are traditionally made of forced tail two strings symbolized in manhood and womanhood for that reason one of them is made of the hair of a stallion the hair of a mare is used to make the other the two strings produce a unique comedy legend has it that once upon a time there was an invincible epic hero who had a wind horse and he fell asleep enemies chopped off his horse's wings the wingless horse died the hero commemorated things like using his hair skin and bones to make the first modern who're as soon as he started playing the instrument. he recognized

the voice of his divorce as they strung their songs on a morning for mungo's movie at some two billions dedicated to their beloved steeds to. go over being their own throat singing begins here in the diaphragm front because each time i try to produce the sound guy strain my belly to send it up boards i make my vocal chords vibrate a little. the result is something like a rorschach in. some i believe that sharpens where the first to practice throat singing on them starts because this sort of sound wards off the evil spirits which are trying to take control of sick people. by year inching off regularly host his patients in his little house situated close to the shamans yet many of them live hundreds of kilometers away. here what's wrong there isn't much health in the end

and in general there is something wrong with my life and he was one till name with lana waters and when were you born nine hundred sixty three have you had headaches yes when did you first feel them not long ago as far as i can tell. when were you x. rayed last last spring please give me any number between zero and twelve six. on the fourth and fifth vertebrae. your body is cold or cheesy don't buy the neck bone should an oval. for. your kidneys and although your general organs are not in the best shape sheen of course but when you get it to begin with you need to have your neck bone fixed next for a photograph of it together with the descriptions. i've brought some. i kept at

home like you told me to do. ok i'll have a look. for a job where was your mother born somewhere in the crib on reachin for you know were there any priests among your forefathers in the maternal line. and they were cossacks convicts i think they were churchgoers anyway. you would just say that men in the maternal early. yes they die earlier than women do. and your great grandmother lost and protecting your clans males when you. discuss the matter with the priest what you. will do i suggest you have the i can reach toward you and consecrated nutrasweet you it will help you in your life which will of course the one born at the right time to believe in all that but i am telling you that if you keep that i can in your household your son might father of

four boys and two girls. by year in chino finishes consulting his patients late at night his followers meanwhile get ready for a ritual to lift the curse that has weighed heavily on the men of a body at clan for many years the rituals principal target is a seventeen year old boy the youngest of the clans males according to the sham the spirits impose the curse and mongolia and one of the boys ancestors broke a holy birch tree many years ago. birch trees cut down before have been put in the ground near the shamans yet as a sign of peoples request for forgiveness for several hours these people will perform sophisticated rituals festooning the trees with ribbons and sacred objects wetted in milk and fema gated with fragrant juniper smoke. with never take off your cap go down on your knees to the sound of the drum beat.

to turn their own clockwise. run around the trees and stand behind them. run around the trees three times. now circle to come three times. i'm going. down on a nice here. from pick up the grass from the ground put in the cup and drink at home from. people dig up the birch trees and again pray to the spirits asking them to accept their gifts as an atonement for a tree desecrated a long time ago the procession then heads to the sacrificial dom fires and step all the so-called white food like bread cakes cookies butter and cheese is tossed into

the fire milk and vodka two are considered offerings to the spirits the flames of another bonfire lick birch trees decorated with multi colored ribbons all this has to be reduced to ashes but the spirits are to meet people's requests you think of. folks in the shop with the shell monson have to have extraordinary skill that's what they need to display as super sensitive reaction with the end enormous powers to influence people the question is how they do it now that it's in the scientists my have to wreck their brains over the problem for a long time to come the most difficult part of it is explaining it in scientific terms. as an astrology is dan psychologist i can say that most of these things have a psychotherapeutic effect with in this sense any shame one is an excellent psychologist and psychotherapist. being the traditional sharma in

a city is a difficult task sometimes chegg and come jokingly refers to himself as a degraded schama because he can't afford to drop out of the fast tempo of modern day civilization but whenever the opportunity presents itself he heads for the holy glade he set up in the forest. before entering the forest the sherman pauses before but strain. she's supposed to protect his glade from intruders i mean with almost if you can just walk past this place you should give the spirits a hotdog it's a blue scarf that takes your wishes and prayers to the sky and salmon ism is not an entirely native religion and. that's why i made a point of looking for such places you put it when i was performing a ritual this birds told me to come here to do this birch tree has four trunks sharing one root zone that is this is the holiest and most revered place as for the birch tree it belongs to a higher world with little yes no new. although the shamanic ritual continues well

into the night by year inching off gets up early in the morning as always he wants to make sure he has a good supply of firewood before the onset of winter winters in the against steps can be bitterly cold. so i first started seeing my own sisters when i was still a child about the same age as my grandson is now. and i began studying shamanism around one thousand nine hundred eighty s. mode you know my first guru was to become it i woman who lived here in the against district of the slope of life she suggested me to eight old style retrials which no one else practiced at the time what it was after she died i went to mongolia where i found another group. it was some time later that spirits began entering me. russell's the fact is that each generation of my ancestors included tellings the

chairman's even all the way back to the twelfth generation of paternal relatives cars the book and so the spirits began entering me to see whether i had a mark identifying me as a sham and or. he year. by year in chain of is a successful farmer as well as a showman he has spent a lifetime working on a farm when he could afford to buy a plot of land he did so without hesitation it is a place where several generations of maternal relatives have been buried they built a sherman's yurta and started a farm chairman ism and farming together is not an easy task by a has to work hard he can't remember when he last had a day of rest but he considers himself a happy man despite the rigors he now has more than one hundred fifty sheep and goats by year is even playing with the idea of buying a felt making machine by years farm was ravaged several years ago by fire but even

that never stopped him from abandoning the land of his ancestors building a new house took him a lot of effort he set up a said the traditional body up tethering post near his house it indicates that this land has an owner. a grand gathering of by year's followers is scheduled for noon if gainey bill

a cradle of lives near the border with china has covered three hundred kilometers in order to see his good. and i revealed some talent when i was still a child but i thought everybody could do what i could of there when i was thirty three years of age something began tormenting me i decided to give vent to my gift i turned to people i knew priests some lamas the lamas made some calculations and told me that my ancestors were bodhi at sherman's they also suggested i find a guru for myself if they were there at that time i didn't have an idea who shermans were i had only seen some in films i had serious doubts about my future when i came here after all i was a thirty three year old christian russian very thin but i thought i must respond to the call of my ancestors for the sake of the children and their future or you know it was my turn to do the work. today sherman's get together to discuss current issues share plans for the coming week and find out details about the journey

they're going to make soon once the meeting is over they will set out on a journey to a mountain shermans regard as a holy place a ritual will be performed there as always by year in chain off is happy to see his followers all of them have taken different paths before they face the group black shamans communicate with the spirits there to the right of by them aim to lose the tambourine why charmin is established contact with the gods there to the left by their hands rest on ritual canes with bells. by ear inching off was the first to begin reviving shamanism beyond lake baikal after a long period of oblivion during the first russian congress for the study of showmen as i'm playin met with michael hahn a legendary american anthropologist an organizer of the foundation for sure manic studies on it was so impressed by. and later his foundation awarded the siberian sharman the title of living treasure sherman is. now the gathering is over

the shamans are about to set out on a pilgrimage to mount suck an eye they will cover at least a hundred kilometers to lowlands mountain passes and heavy go in forest parts. of by followers has been here before this is one of the most private places to give the guru his shine money powers it has been considered one of the sacraments of barrier chairman ism for a very long time a total cliff bears what looked like to dry and ponds carved out of rock legend insists that shamans will live as long as these ten fingers so that. the legendary female sharman in gym on is buried on the opposite side of the slope of the grave of zarin boar the great showman who went through all nine stages of the initiation procedure is found nearby they say that in the old days such shamans merged with the spirit during the ritual to control the weather travel over long distances here

even levitation of the streets. after a ceremony by here in two aides go to the base of the giant weaker and less experienced chairmans about from here and with good reason this area's spirit is too powerful. and long lost the chelyabinsk shaman to again come has reached the sacred played here in the thick of the forest he has built a set of ritual installations with his own hands and summer time the season packed with show money rituals and stays in a tent just outside the glade for weeks on end. there as receive food in this special place air we light up the bonfire made of a certain number of branches for example is seven layers of branches symbolize the lower world seen it is a ritual to exorcise. the souls of sick people acquire seven such layers. the sick

person uses a spoon to offer the spirits whatever is in the pulley holds in his hands as the sham and sings to invoke them as among the prison. and when there is milk in the bowl the sick person's thoughts are focused on what he could get in return he might as the spirits to get rid of his ailments give them luck or wish him a good journey. or with a new. chum and regard the place where bomb fires a lit is sacred to again comes here in here before the onset of winter to clean it up and remove the ashes left over from the summertime rituals. after the cleansing procedure again spreads a mixture of rice and beads across the clean spot and this way the shaman asks the earth and local spirits to forgive him for the inconvenience before he is about to leave the forest she again collects fir tree branches and carefully covers the on

gone with them the on gone is an image of the tighar as ruler carved out of a pine trunk the symbol of a spirit is supposed to guard the glade against intruders. we see to it that he keeps warm in winter we don't want him to freeze when we want him to stand on guard he never sleeps unlike other spirits they rise to the sky to live there until the arrival of spring is in the. modern day scientists have not given up their quest to understand what happens to shannon's when they're in contact with the spirits they want to know whether shamanism is not some sort of myth created by a group of mentally imbalanced people research was done several years ago with both the institute of neurophysiology and higher nervous activity and the institute for ethnology and anthropology for the russian academy of sciences but it's the so-called neo shamans and. i were involved in those special. garamond says to me you shall months represented and your generation option mannix tradition all in the

mix here is a demonstration of an experiment in the presence of all large audience who work early just to lucy and of these experts start in shamanism represent a number of countries even if someone is my. instruments are attached to the body of the new york the border guard notable they will record the state of his blood vessels he gets us words this is not this somewhat all devised on his hand is a special catch up designed by one of our offices dr skidoo and someone's creative act is an act of affectation that is to say he needs to work himself up into a state of ecstasy. after that all processes inside his brain slow down specially those connected with speech in the situ or the eyes then the brain begins to function in a fashion which is not characteristic of its normal activity in the city in other words the man activates the brain's right hemisphere particularly its frontal lobes

which are responsible for his creative thinking. man's put themselves in a state where they see a pattern of personages they met power to program a law in the existence of such personage as models and picture them in their minds . it's a persona it's must be said that later the person ingests overpower the seans. with it has not been shown say however the key thing is not to love the person and just to gain the upper hand of them their new vehicle that the boy. killed in the shaman chelyabinsk is in for a hectic day he will travel five hundred kilometers to. the site of the ruins of the legendary town across the boundary separating europe asia perform a sham manic ritual near the site of an ancient settlement in recent years. is a must become popular with followers of all the satiric schools they believe that

this is the site of the world's largest geological rupture some are even competent the mountain which again is going to perform the ritual that actually a volcano that erupted millions of years ago but she again takes a skeptical view of those theories he is more interested in the energy generated at the juncture of europe and asia he will try to evoke the local spirits here his hope is that they will help resolve a problem affecting a sick man. on the ritual follows a standard scenario the shaman gradually enters a trance the tambourines rhythmic tempo quickens on the shamans movements become ever more abrupt and church people fall. back on the clock compaq ambala. the tambourine falls silent the shaman rides with convulsions this means that

a spirit has entered him as a rule the showman knows which spirit is invoking what he can expect of it this time however something has gone wrong. it's. blood begins trickling from the shaman's mouth sagging legs hardly supports him has a limp surround the bonfire producing in comprehensible sounds like a beast. somebody has fainted everybody becomes jittery no contact with the spirit is likely to take place today. the tension dies down a few minutes later when a spirit in the shape of a shaman accepts a gift and begins gesturing as he squats near the sick man soon he rules again and vanishes in the dark. soon she again is found lying face down in the snow he has absolutely no idea of

what happened to him only a short while ago. stephen so the ritual has to go on a spade with a hundred full of red hot coals taken from the bonfire is moved close to the shaman's face as the sick man looks on the shaman grabs the coals shoves them into his mouth and choose them and spits them out into the snow how many ailments have been defeated in today's ritual depends on the number of coals to choose by the shaman. through to the four door to again manages to overcome his nephew g. to go to mt show monka to thank the local spirits and pray to the sun mother earth and above all else be eternal blue sky this is how boreal epic literature describes it the eternal blue sky is without beginning or end it moves without the support of limbs it brings peace welfare and happiness to the land below it prevents poor and

disease contains fire and floods it is the lord of the earth and water multiplying on the texans.

well. technology innovation all these developments around russia we've got this huge earth covered. with blood still flowing out of body count growing the arab league reportedly wants to carry on monitoring in syria despite being slammed for being totally ineffective . silence and thrown out iran's english language press t.v. news program gets kicked off british airways for a falling foul of broadcasting laws something the channels dubbed a clear act of censorship. for medians one their president out protest against corruption and low wages turned ugly with hundreds arrested and dozens injured in clashes with police.