resting the owners of no doubt moat and shutting it down and the future of very near future and there will be a number of other groups that are using the. military not roads situation gets worse going to grass roots and also throwing the notable civil war on us. and if you want to give your opinion on the protests that have washington viewing or read up on the anonymous hacktivist group there's plenty more on our website r.t. top. the battle over a scotland sovereignty is heating up in the u.k. was the scots being told they may hold an independence referendum only a fly in and gives its blessing comes as the british government fearful of losing north sea well reserves unleashes a barrage of rhetoric against a bit as arches laura smith reports london's desperation is playing into the hands

of scottish nationalists. britain a three hundred year old union that once ruled the waves and half the known world but on home soil the country's closer than ever to a messy divorce. this is the man who wants scotland to go it alone nationalist party leader alex salmond's promising scots will get a say on being single but london wants to call the shots and get it done and just is. very strange they don't want to talk about the substance i sometimes feel when i listen to them it's not a referendum they want it's a never ending question that have a debate and its people our country together. why would scotland want to separate itself from a britain that's still among the world's richest economies scotland always retained its own distinct national identity and the f.n.

piece feels it's almost time to take that one step further it hopes a yes vote from the scottish people would mean a lot and would gain control over its own north sea oil and gas and represents the international stage but it doesn't want to hold a referendum until two thousand and fourteen and that delay is letting london ramp up the scare stories telling scotland it'll have to pay the price such as the billions of pounds british taxpayers spent keeping scottish banks alive that it would have to find its own currency and lose thousands of jobs when the navy heads south not that it seems to pull the scots who see their country as having been strangled for long enough i don't think it's any of this business if we present a strong enough case to be independent then see that he can argue against the sharks shocked i think a shutter i don't think you should have an easy the fires of. scots have never

taken kind. plea to hearing stern words from the mother of all parliaments down in london but for the nationalists it's a boost to the lackluster thirty percent support for a split in. the initiative but it's completely backfired because i. think. in the last seven days. so you're up to now the u.k. and scotland's key players will continue to cross swords stake alex salmond is a reputation built on restoring a proud scotland for prime minister cameron has the potential to become the man who let the united kingdom come apart laurie smith r.t. edinburgh. on a sour and we report on another political scandal the u.k. got involved in this time it's an international well. british screen about spying

on russia meaning the country used a fake rock to sleep on the kremlin that's happened sixty years of stony silence. crowds have stormed had quaters of lidia's ruling ashleigh friends ishall council and the revolutionary hub of benghazi they were protesting the slow pace of reform and the current direction of the new authorities the demonstrators threw stones and little bars and the building breaking windows damaging the car of painting some chairmen come to me and then founded anger and the level of compensation to the city from the interim leaders put injury sustained in their efforts to oust market after radio host and author of stealing land then believes the crowds are unhappy with a new government serving as puppets of the rights. of the real will be seen in washington using their proxies city. probably wherever. it is a leader is exactly the same thing it america sets up

a mirror is charging well these are asians. it will be a war the question but if. you go was it a challenge to his operation to be. a general hero was number two number three was the comedian general that america read the reasoning for our use of libya. in a resistance against nato and it gives the m.t.c. government they want the country again i expect protracted violence the west the major media to ignore it but before too a lot of it will be impossible to ignore. well this week russia has seen a build up of political debate where the country's fifth presidential election looming artie's a really good look at how rival camps and candidates are lining out ahead of the vote with what important setting out his vision for the country as he eyes

a return to the top job. with just under fifty days before the march presidential election and major campaign is still simmering in the candidate's headquarters it's to put undecided to lose his powers of persuasion on the electorate and nonpublic speaker for change he's decided to be more scholarly picking out the pen for the first and series of articles outlining his vision for the future of russia what he used. to call it built. the gravitation away from. well i spent a welcoming political dialogue and the strengthening of civil society russia putin however said people should concentrate on just what candidates are promising to do rather than the theater of personalities we need extended dialogue about priorities about long term choices national perspective and development this article is an invitation to such dialogue it's important to say that prime minister has never

been a course ability of establishing such a day and i just recall him from his red letters and this is what is making people take the initiative into their own hands this week some of the most prominent participants december's post-election protest moves together to form the league of constituents so they all know where she is tremendous a new public mood has blossomed people are showing the desire to make an educated post to know where the balls are going to standing the country needs competitive politics those behind them are quick to point out they're not going to turn into a political party but do go to become a major support group for anyone wanting to make a difference with their vote i didn't as your logical activists are nothing without this type of unity found public support there to help boost them are the key to public support is the media and not become something found himself to regard all criticising one of russia's most popular radio stations and called moscow having to

promise for enough coverage. the prime minister told its editor in chief. to disgorge since you don't get mad when you cover me with liquid crap from. the government the opposition and the rector of all seem to realize they have to think fast and act quickly in order to get the ball rolling for the presidential elections just around the corner so they're hunched down with something like that for years the political life in russia and roaring in will go go r.t. . hundreds of occupy activists rallied in front of washington's capitol hill on tuesday voicing their anger over the overwhelming influence of corporations on u.s. lawmakers protest was authorized to take place on the capital's west lawn but anyone who's stuck has stepped outside of that sanctioned piece of land was arrested by police the rally signified a new wave of occupy protests as it happened in the very heart of the u.s. capital and turned into a street march for the white house as the final destination it reflects nationwide

anger at congress which has seen its approval rating slumped to an all time low forty's who the latest polls next hour to talk soon man who knows all about the lobbying behind the scenes of capitol hill anyone had to serve time in jail for his involvement in it here's a preview of the problems the average citizen here is not engaged i want to play and when you're able to bring your money and influence members of congress to vote on things that are not good for the country and not good for the general interest because somebody with special interests is pushing right that's where the problem starts if you're a congressman and i give you a contribution and i want something from you that contribution made by the corps abroad but it is a bright at the end of the day. and just a few minutes we travel to siberia to learn more about the lives of the local shamans who they are and what they believe in that after

a short break and updates on the top stories of the week. you are. long. island latour.

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read. below the story or medium. to large tom. welcome back here with r g years over the top stories of the week the arab league is set to decide whether to give the go ahead to another month of their monitoring mission in syria while the opposition wants the u.n. security council to give up. more studios the internet erupts in a few world over plans to expand i'm glad censorship striking about what the internet why blackouts and massive hacking attacks led israel and the us

top tactics over a possible cause of the gulf as they gather forces that iran's borders while the arabs while in bargo hold return ron's alleged nuclear ambitions all right now we have siberia and a spiritual world as we follow the drumbeat off the shaman our special report that's coming up next. the sun sets early in siberia a dusk by year in chino one of the most celebrated and experienced shamans east of lake. begins his shop tools 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 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 horns 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 falls 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. cost of an hour although the way it. rituals different dependent on the ethnicity of the shell means or do here each ethnic group has its own interpretation of the spirit. or in this particular case the spirit penetrates the shuns body in a somewhat unusual way the quick political way i told peter in the showman's mind undergoes a change which is the result of a deep immersion you quit the moment there as he saw as it were and sublimate his energizing powers the market of the soul leaves the body at some point to make room

for the spirit in the garden but then what it is as though the spirit occupies the body while he's solely at the video from other. shermans are 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 as a 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 to 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 valuable support. to mere 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 meech 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 mountains sounds less than the national media that 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 it isn't like can't set sharman ism and music apart i can't focus only on music or sharman is i'm alone and. 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 by as a horse's head symbolizing that the instrument is a living creature the strings are traditionally made to force tail two strings symbolize guinn and yon 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 takes like using his head skin and bones to make the first modern who are as soon as he started playing the instrument he recognized

the voice of his divorce as they strung the songs on a morning for mungo's movie at some two billions dedicated to their beloved students asked. go do you know 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. he. somehow i believe that sherman's were the first to practice don't sing a song on the experts because this sort of sound boards off evil spirits which are trying to take control of sick people usually. 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 probably more hear what's wrong and there isn't

much help in the end and in general there is something wrong with my life amy was watching the game smith lana winters 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 we x. rayed last last spring please give me any number between zero and twelve six should you look at what was on the fourth and fifth vertebrae. all of your body's cold energies blocked by the neck bone or should it over full. force and it was me just as your kidneys and although your region is organs are not in the best shape sheen of. when you get to begin with you need to have your neck bone fixed you'll in the x. ray photograph of it together with the descriptions. i've brought some balticon kept

at home like you told me to do. ok i'll have a look. for a job where was your mother bone somewhere in the crowd beyond reach in the us 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 early as and women do i suppose. if your great grandmother lost an i can protect in your clans males you will. discuss the matter with the priest which is. called the i suggest you have the i can restored and consecrated you to speak you it will help you in your life which 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 later on 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 sharpens 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 beforehand have been put in the ground near the shamans year as a sign of peoples request for forgiveness for several hours these people will perform sophisticated rituals by festooning the trees with ribbons and sacred objects wetted in milk and female gaited with fragrant juniper smoke. with never take off their cap go down on your knees to the sound of the drum beat.

to turn their own clockwise. i run around the trees and stand behind them. have to. run around the trees three times. now circle to come three times. i want to. cut down on a nice here. take up the grass from the ground put in the cup and drink it on. 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 bum fires and step all

the so-called white food like bread cakes cookies butter and cheese is tossed into the fire milk and vodka to a considered offerings to the spirits the flames of another bonfire lick but trees decorated with multi colored ribbons all this has to be reduced to ashes of the spirit so to meet people's requests you think of our deeds or folks with the shell monson have 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 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 yemo go about it as an astrology is dense i call it just i can say that most of these things have a psychotherapeutic in fact. in this sense any showman is an excellent psychologist

of yours and psychotherapist. being the traditional schama in a city. it's 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 clay he set up in the forest. before entering the forest the shaman pauses before but st which is supposed to protect his glade from intruders in the middle mist 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 play it when i was performing a ritual this bird told me to come here this birch tree has four trunks sharing one root is this is the holiest and most revered place as for the birch tree it belongs

to a higher world with little yes no meaning. although the shamanic ritual continues well into the night by year in chin 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. smiling a little of that with which i first started seeing my own sisters when i was still a child about the same age as my grandson is now. and i'm against audience shamanism around one thousand nine hundred eighty eight as well with my first guru was to become it i woman who lived here in the against district with us a little like she suggested me to eight old style rituals which no one else practiced at the time it was. after she died i went to mongolia where i found another group. it was some time later that spirits began entering me. souls the fact is that each generation of my ancestors included talented chairmans even all

the way back to the twelfth generation of paternal relatives cars the local and so the spirits began entering me to see whether i had a mark identifying me as a sham and or lead. me that he is year. by year in chin off as 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 shaman's you hurt and started a farm charmin 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 serger a traditional boria tethering post name his house it indicates that this land has an owner.

a grand gathering of by year's follow us is scheduled for noon. lives near the border with china has covered three hundred kilometers in order to seize good. and i revealed some talent when i was still a child but i thought everybody could do what i could but 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 both shamans but they also suggested i find a guru for myself at the time i didn't have an idea who shamans 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 but i thought i must respond to the call of my ancestors for the sake of the children and their future.