ever try to have a meaningful discussion with someone about politics i try every day it's pretty pretty bad to be honest so you never going to know where they were even if they did you would know. we don't always. hear but do you think common sense takes over a little bit ok we don't know deep space but our moon think we would know. a little look up there. for things like some people are listening to what's being said and i thinking for themselves let's just hope they catch the much more subtle inaccuracy parted with by the media every day. in the us an increasing number of people are struggling to make ends meet supporting their own needs or for that matter the needs of an entire family is proving to be a growing challenge and authorities more important i reports those who can't get

food stamps are looking down every avenue for nourishment. the number of people on food stamps has reached an all time high more and more people are going hungry and one in three americans live in or near poverty and suffering hungry in this land of plenty. in this land of plenty roughly two point seven million tons of food is reportedly raised and grown each year the same country that loves so much to consume calories. also loves to waste that. this is a way geo and although it is a dumpster diver instead of paying for food he wrote midges through garbage bags on the streets of new york city and there's another if you were tons of medical food is thrown out and i never thought of the people here this is

a reason reason to go the twenty seven year old musician makes his way from the bakery to the telly there's heart here which probably comes from a hot food bar relying on supermarket trash for his essential vitamins you know without opening the bag i can see that as an orange power for. carson and some of the greens wheat and those crowding around g.o.c. is that in a country where more than forty million people struggle daily to get enough food millions of meals are literally being wasted is this food as you can see is still perfectly edible and there's no sense that it should be wasted thrown away. otherwise it would end up. on top of the landfill somewhere and has to be the thirty to fifty percent of u.s. food produced for consumption ends up at landfills each year that comes at an annual cost of one billion dollars simultaneously food prices continue to rise

leaving millions more on line at soup kitchens and ultimately searching through trash getting beaten or a documentary die follows filmmaker jeremy seifert and his friends in the back alleys and rubbish piles of los angeles as thousands of dollars worth of edible food is salvaged it's a result of our excess we are a wealthy country and we have excess and so we is. really necessarily a byproduct of excess and it's a bad habit of sort of the oil rich as it were amid america's expanding climate of food waste critics say the country's overall carelessness causes ripple effects around the world it is a global market and our overconsumption directly impacts the hungry and the poor in other countries us taking more than we need and wasting it affects

the prices of food affects the availability of food so yeah i guess it was writing to me because there was a sense of outrage and justice of the greatest something of a paradox society could find both by we still consumption and an ongoing struggle to make ends meet and it got my senses the first thing that goes through so the question is why pay for that which you can get for free. r.t. new york. and plenty more stories available for you online twenty four seventh's here's a bit of what's waiting for him there on our web site parts of the country. russia's currency ballet troupe is rounding off its u.s. tour to learn more about the triumph and form an echo of our arts and culture section online plus. an international team of scientists has suspended its study of a deadly mutation of the h five n one bird flu virus about the body count.

now a look at what else is making news around the world we begin in nigeria where the death toll after a series of coordinated gun and bomb attacks has climbed to more than one hundred fifty people the radical islamist second broken heart has claimed responsibility for targeting different locations including police stations and the reason of police headquarters the group which is behind a string of bombings in the region recently claims the attacks are in response to authorities refusal to release their prisoners their members from prisoner. nearly two dozen occupy protesters have been arrested in san francisco after demonstrations turned violent several were rescued after refusing to break from

their human chain locking the headquarters of wells fargo bank some demonstrators also threw furniture off a hotel rooftop organizers said the protest coincided with the u.s. supreme court's decision two years ago to remove limits on how much money corporations could donate to political campaigns. or the yemeni parliament has approved immunity for from prosecution for president ali abdullah saleh who is due to leave. for the u.s. to seek medical treatment and he's been accused of suppressing protests and killing yemeni people however those working under the president could still face legal action sallade will formally hand over power next month after thirty three years as rula and is expected to return to oman after a spare. russian city of sochi is the host city of the next winter olympics and it's making safety the main priority heavy snow is usually good news for skiers

and snowboarders can also spell danger for the thrill seekers. join those keeping the mountain peaks clear about the righteous. sochi avalanche hunters seven explosives and cannons on their side. their mission to keep the mountain peaks clear and see. it's been snowing heavily in sochi this weekend for a good new person but what may seem is just snow to most of us can provide prize last day it's a local avalon chanters. avalanche team surveys every new concrete any of the resort they say russians love to push the boundaries and many skiers like riding off the beaten track. is the team's lead expert uses computers and weather stations to monitor the snow fall but being a local who's been living in the caucasus mountains for over forty years the man says there is more to his job than that. is

a living being it has its own life you just have to learn how to understand it and this in turn is only possible if you spend your life with it at times the snow can turn nasty if there's more than twenty centimeters chances are high it's going to slide for real proves the clues are easy to discover. well you know if the cattle are thirty by thirty centimeter call and i told one and we hit it with a shovel exactly ten times very slightly as the cold falls apart at some point it means the snow is too soft and it will collapse the morning survey is over so now it's time for snow angels to send to their headquarters and pass on the good news. for sure calling dispatch over. there no threats were given permission to lead the terrorists to start the cable cars. in february and march this resort will host international ski competitions bringing new challenges for the avalanche team ahead

of the two thousand and fourteen winter games when the venue faces its ultimate test learning to tame the wide beast will be more important than ever done as well or ski our team sochi. and i'll be back with the recap of our top stories in just a few minutes they were too. big to. move. again.

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seen over the. next. the sun sets early in siberia a dusk by year in chino one of the most celebrated and experienced shamans east of lake baikal 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 the spirit penetrating by his body is expected to help the shaman deal with people's issues as well as heal them when the shaman becomes aware of the onset of the state trance he puts on a cap that covers his eyes the cap protects the sharman 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 horns on top chum and say that a soon as the invoked spirit makes its appearance in the form of a cloud the horns help guide the spirit into the shamans bought it. as a drumbeat quickens the nervous tension of the people gathered in the year quickly begins to peak then the drama promptly falls silent sharman pulls to the floor and begins spinning on it this means the spirit has entered his body video cameras to switch off filming a strawman in this state poses a threat to him and his audience. work at the russian academy of sciences is drawing to a close valentino had a ton of

a head of the unit for the study of shannon ism is inspecting the new exhibits 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. question out all the way it show money creature else d fernery depending on the ethnicity of the shell means or do here each ethnic group has its own separate tension of the spirits or in this particular case the spirit penetrates the shermans body in a somewhat unusual way equipage already i told peter in some the shallowness mind undergoes a change which is the result of deep emotion you are quick a moment in there as he saw as it were and sublimate is energizing powers the market out of the soul leaves the body at some point to make room for the spirit to froth will not abide with them but he's as though the spirit occupies the shermans

body while he still makes it out. among. sherman's are a rare or unusual sight and a major industrial city the urals even so sherman by the name of children come as managed to balance sherman as a life in the big city is the latest representative of the planet sharman stunning seven generations for centuries siberians have become shamans when called upon by the spirits apart from his spiritual activities children come from just his music in the morning he goes to his small studio and simple. are not performing his duties sharma at the entrance to the small backyard there is an over centuries of the spirits who are regarded as the local mostest church again traced to the office of the gifts chairman is highly valued support. to me is a friend of job he's a soloist of the local opera house it took a two man

a great deal of effort and time before they found a unique musical naish 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 multum sounds. as the national day of it when you find yourself in a trance during a bridge will you suffer spiritually so to speak. after that the music helps me withdrawal from that state. i can't set sharman ism and music apart i can't focus only on music or shamanism alone. i distance myself from music each time i perform a ritual and vice versa and. 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 are it means violin quite often this instrument is referred to simply as the horses fiddle each violin bears a horse's head symbolizing that the instrument is a living creature the strings are traditionally made a forced tail to strings symbolized in and yon manhood and womanhood for that reason one of them is made of the hair of a stallion the hair of a mess is used to make the other two strings produce a unique comedy legend has it that once upon a time there was an invincible epic iraq had a wind horse and he fell asleep enemies choctaw office horses wings and when the schools died the hero commemorated using his head as skin and bones to make the first mornin as soon as he started playing instruments he recognized the voice of his horse as they strung their songs on

a morning for among those moody out seem to billions dedicate to their beloved students. go again no throat singing begins here in the diaphragm. each time i try to produce the sound i strain my belly to send it upwards zouk i make my vocal chords vibrate a little. with the result is something like a rorschach. i believe but sharma's were the first to practice don't say here's a moment it's because this sort of sound boards off evil spirits which are trying to take control of sick people. by using chin off regularly host his patients in his little house situated close to the shamans yet many of them live hundreds of kilometers away. here was wrong there isn't much health in the end

and in general there is something wrong with my life and he was also named. when were you born nine hundred sixty three have you had headaches yes when you first feel them not lonely go as far as i can tell. when we x. rayed last last spring please give me any number between zero and twelve six should your fourth and fifth vertebrae. or your body's cold energies blocked by the next boat sailed over the. floor just as your kidneys and although your region is organs are not in the best shape only ever seen . that to begin with you need to have your neck bone fixed in the x. ray photograph of it together with the descriptions. i've brought some thoughts kind kept at home like you told me to do. ok i'll have

a look where the where was your mother gone somewhere in the coupon region. or you know were there any priests among your forefathers and the maternal line. and they were cossacks convicts i think they were churchgoers anyway i would just say that men in the maternal early. yes they die earlier than women do i suppose. your great grandmother lost an icon protesting your plans mails you wish to discuss the matter with a priest which is like the i suggest you have the i can restore and consecrated you go and. it will help you in your life which of course the one going at the right time to believe in all that i am telling you that if you keep that i can in your household your son my father 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 of his weighs heavily on the men of a body at clam for many years the rituals principle target is a seventeen year old boy the youngest of the clans males according to the sham the spirits imposed the curse and mongolia and one of the boy's ancestors broke a holy birch tree many years ago. bush trees cut down beforehand to paint put in the ground near the shannons as a sign of peoples request for a given us for several hours these people will perform sophisticated rituals but if a student in the trees with ribbons and sacred objects wetted in milk and fumigated with fragrant juniper smoke oklahoma take off their cap go down on the knees to the sound of the drum beat. what a source to share their own clockwise. run around the trees and stand behind them.

to run around the trees three times. and. what you're doing now circle to come three times. i'm going to go down on a nice here. from pick up the grass from the ground put it in the cup and drink it on. people dig up the birch trees and again praise of 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 bonfires and stepped all the so-called white food like bread cakes cookies butter cheese is tossed into

the fire and milk and vodka to a considered offerings to the spirits of the flames of another bonfire lick bush trees decorated with multi colored ribbons all this has to be reduced to ashes for the spirits of the meek people quest you figure you fill your foot a frog. to have extraordinary skill that's what they need to display as super sensitive reaction and enormous powers to influence people that the big question is how they do it the scientists may 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 in a slow inches dense i call it just i can say that most of these things have a psychotherapeutic of facts. in this sense and shannon is an excellent psychologist. and psychotherapist. being a traditional sharma in

a city is a difficult task sometimes children come jokingly refers to himself as a degraded shaba 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 set up in the forest. before entering the forest as sherman pauses before but st just supposed to protect his glade from troopers only with the news that you can just walk past this place you should give the spirits a high duck it's a blue scarf that takes your wishes and prayers to the sky salmon ism is not entirely need if religion and chill happens that's why i made a point of looking for such places you play it when i was performing a ritual this birds told me to come here this birch tree has four trunks sharing one of bricks is the holiest and most revered place as for the birch tree alongst to a higher world. although the shamanic ritual continues well into the night

by year in chino 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 egg in six steps can be bitterly cold. smiling the whole of the and 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 eight as well with my first group was submit i woman who lived here in the against districts of this a little she suggested me to eight style rituals which no one else practiced at the time with after she died i went to mongolia where i found another group. it was some time later that spirits began entering me. the fact is that each generation of my ancestors included telling the chairmans even all the way back to

the twelfth generation of paternal relatives. and so the spirits began entering me to see whether i had a mark identifying me as a sham and or. he is. by in chino 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 will turn relatives have been buried they both are shamans years and started to from charmin ism and farming together is not an easy task viii 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 in now has more than one hundred fifty sheep goats by years even playing with the idea of buying a felt making machine by year's 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 set get a traditional briac tethering post news indicates that this land has an owner. asked. its technology innovation all the extreme elements from around russia we've got the future covered . today. the game flared up. to him in. canada.

a grand gathering by year's followers is scheduled for noon if kenny bill mcreynolds lives near the border with china and has covered three hundred kilometers in order to see his booty. i revealed some callum's when i was still a child but i thought everybody could do what i could 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 bloody at sherman's they also suggested i find a guru for myself that time i didn't have an idea who shall i want to work 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 but i thought i must respond to the call of my ancestors for the sake of the children and their future you know it was my turn to go.