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 inching 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 their main tool is the tambourine why charmin 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 shamanism by e.m.'s with michael hahn a legendary american anthropologist and organizer of the foundation for sure manic studies on it was so impressed by his talent that later his foundation awarded the

siberian sherman the title of living treasure sherman is. now at the gathering is over the shermans are about to set out on a pilgrimage to mount such an eye they will cover at least a hundred kilometers to lowlands mountain passes and heavy going forest parts. known of by followers has been here before this is one of the most private places that give the guru his shine money powers it has been considered one of the sacraments of boria shamanism for a very long time atoll cliff bears what looked like to dry and ponds carved out of rock legend insists shermans will live as long as these ten fingers so that. the legendary female sharman in jim on is buried on the opposite side of the slope the grave of czar in bor the great showman who went through all nine stages of the initiation procedure. is found by they say that in the old days such shamans merged

with the spirit during a ritual to control the weather travel over long distances here even levitate five hundred over the streets. after a sermon by hearing to 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 his reach the sacred plate here in the thick of a forest he's built a set of ritual installations with his own hands and some of time the season packed with chamonix rituals church again stays in a tent just outside the glade for weeks on end. and parents receive food in this special place here we light up the bonfire made of a certain number of branches for example seven layers of branches symbolize the lower world scene it is just

a ritual to exercise the souls of sick people were choir seven such layers. the sick person uses a spoon to offer the spirits whatever is in the pulley holds in his hands as the shaman sings to invoke them. to prison. but when there is milk in the bowl the sick person's thoughts are focused on what he could get in return he might ask 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 bump lies a lid 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 in this way the shaman asks the earth and local spirits to forgive him for the inconvenience but for years 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 played 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 even though 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 the russian academy of sciences the buddhist certainly shelly the so-called neo shamans and urban shamans were involved in those special

experiments to me you shall months represented and your generation option mannix tradition all in the mix the humor is a demonstration of an experiment in the presence of a large audience just what you'd see these experts start as shamanism represent a number of countries giving him some money as my. instruments are attached to the body of the new year shomer the border guard or they will record the state of his blood vessels this is not this somewhat all devised on his and is a special catch up designed by one of our offices dr skin go on from month to month 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 especially those connected with speech yes in the situation. then the brain begins function in a fashion which is not characteristic of its normal activity in the city d.s.d.

in other words the man activates the brain's right hemisphere particularly its frontal lobes which are responsible for his creative thinking. showmance put themselves in a state where they see a pattern of personages they met to program along when they exist and saw such personage as models and picture them in their mind's eye or it's a persona. it's must be said later the person ingests overpower the châlons. with it has not shown say however the key thing is not to love the person is to gain the upper hand on them they are new york and that the boy. children become the showman 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 from asia perform a shamanic ritual near the site of an ancient settlement in recent years are

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. down the ritual follows a standard scenario the shaman gradually enters a trance the tambourines rhythmic tempo quickens and the shamans movements become ever more abrupt. people phoning home. mom back. home. from.

the tambourine falls silent the shaman rides with convulsions this means that a spirit has entered him as a rule the shaman knows which spirit is invoking what he can expect of it this time however something has gone wrong. blood begins trickling from the shaman's mouth is sagging legs hardly supports him has a limp surround the bonfire producing in comprehensible sounds all ruling 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 rose again and vanishes in the dark.

suit again is found lying face down in the snow he has absolutely no idea of what happened to him only a short while ago. you just see even 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 shamans face as the sick man looks on the shaman grabs the coals shows them into his mouth and choose them and spits them out into the snows how many ailments have been defeated in today's ritual depends on the number of coals to choose by the showman. through to before door to again manages to overcome his method to go to mt show monk up to thank the local spirits 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 wealth and happiness to the land below to prevent school and disease and tames fire and floods which is the mode of earth and water multiplying on the texas.

the arab league to decide whether to give the go ahead to another month mission in syria while the opposition wants the u.n. security council to get involved. pushed to the edge the internet erupts in a fewer over plans to expand the web censorship striking back with internet wide blackouts and massive attacks on. israel and the us talk tactics over a possible conflict in the gulf they got a hint that iran's borders all of this while the e.u. prepares its oil embargo over to iran's alleged nuclear ambition. and in

romania public anger spills over hundreds arrested dozens injured as police quell violence amid a massive ongoing anti government protest. you're watching the weekly on r.t. with me rory sushi we're featuring the top stories of the week and today's main headlines and we'll start with syria where the arab league is fact finding mission there is a waiting for the green light to continue its monitoring activities for another month the decision is due to come later on sunday as the observers report comes under scrutiny at the league's gathering in cairo it's all about harsh criticism from opposition groups which say the observer mission has failed to curb the bloodshed in the latest flare up at least fourteen have reportedly been killed in

a roadside bomb attack on of carrying prisoners in the northwest of the country sarah ferguson. joined the observers as they visited a town near the syrian capital damascus now controlled by opposition forces. but the arab league observers delegation is in car at the moment presenting their findings that despite the arab league observers mission mandate having finished you can see they continue to travel around the country to look at what's going on been seen as further evidence by some people that this mission is to continue possibly for another month one of the observers i spoke to earlier off camera when i asked whether they would be staying here longer whether the mission would be extended he said it looked like it would be this is the area that you see the so-called free syrian army take control of and in the past few days a temporary cease fire between the government forces and free syrian army sweeping

into the city to see what's been happening certainly it's an area extremely divided on one side you've got the government in control the other side the free syrian army the arab league observers have been meeting some of the government officials here in downtown in the china stuff to see exactly what it is has been happening in the city where the children have been showing us some of the bullet casings that they found around the area all the houses in this part you can see the destruction from the fighting this big bang all of. them are. in this area it was extremely concerning the people who were still living her to extremely dangerous situation is not really clear who exactly is in charge being killing hate and that makes the situation very very dangerous indeed this is the remains of one of the houses that civilians say thank you were targeted by security forces people here in the states is never done a chance saying

a cooling phrase or the she meant cost of the conflict in syria has been devastatingly high and absolutely essential for everyone right now is to find some . in the resolution that this is. not a done. and opposition activists from syria's national council have formally os the arab league to refer the crisis to you and but beirut based political science professor eugene debs boost believes the regime is strong enough to withstand the opposition's attempts to topple it is opposed to a lot of the other arab regimes which were caught off guard by the arab spring syria has been preparing for this for decades they knew when they came to power that they were minority government and they knew they had to expect this sooner or later i would say that she. is nor surprise that it took so long for this rebellion to take place so they're very well prepared their power structures are intact it's

crumbling on the edges slightly but i would say from a pure power perspective syria's regime is not threatened but both sides would recognize each other i.e. the best government recognize the opposition in the west recognize that the bath regime is here to stay at least for the foreseeable future i think we have a chance at some serious negotiations. you without your life from moscow coming up just a little bit later in the program here when the rose tinted glasses of revolution give way to a crystal clear view of reality egypt gets a new political face with islamic parties dominating the recently elected parliament sparking concerns of the country will now become a diplomatic headache for the west. you can also check out our website all come from all first hand reports from countries where arab spring euphoria quickly gave way to disillusionment and outright pessimism.

it's good to have you with us today this week saw more clouds gathering over the standoff surrounding iran u.s. and israeli officials held closed talks on friday regarding of a tense situation ongoing in the persian gulf while the exact contents were not disclosed the u.s. was expected to have urged israel not to rush an attack on iran while washington tries to garner additional global support against tehran before that israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu urged the e.u. to embark on iranian oil as quickly as possible all of this over toronto alleged nuclear weapons program meanwhile iran has been threatening to block a key trade route out of the potion gulf if sanctions are imposed on its own exports the u.s. has been amassing forces in the region as of late with thousands of troops sent to

israel for war games and to watch a strike groups arriving in the arabian sea brian becker from the anti war coalition says washington has escalated the situation to create a pretext for regime change in iran. the united states government has created in artificial crisis that's first and foremost it's a manufactured crisis iran is complying with the i.a.e.a. iran does not have a nuclear weapon iran is not threaten its neighbors iran has not started a war with any of its neighbors israel on the other hand has hundreds of nuclear weapons and unlike the run refuses to sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty does not allow. inspectors into its country so there's not really a nuclear menace or a nuclear danger from iran and so what is the cause what's the cause of the crisis of the artificial crisis the real goal is the united states government has embarked

on a course of extreme economic aggression against iran with the hope that by creating economic suffering economic isolation economic misery that part of the population will rise up or become disenfranchised with the government so that the u.s. can do as it has in history carry out regime change. and with regional tensions simmering people are on edge not only in iran but also in israel and reports many there are expecting a ward any moment and some experts say covertly warfare is already well underway. from this rather spartan recording studio in jerusalem one israeli jew has been reaching out to people in iran for fifty two years ties between tel aviv in tehran off a bit in but it's never stopped menasha amir from reading the news in farsi every night and hosting a weekly show for listeners in the persian world to share the views he thinks around a million rain ians tune in and the topic they most want to talk about the possibility

of a foreign attack on iran and they are very much afraid that the iranian nuclear installations will be bombed by a foreign powers where they're israel or the united states or any other country but it's not only the rain ians who are suspicious of israel or america taking action people here in israel sense something's in the air you can see signs of wink and nod from israeli officials when talking about it israel is signaling to the world. if the world doesn't do anything if the wall doesn't call for more fierce actions for more crippling sanctions quoting the secretary of state clinton then israel would take the initiative and strike along some wonder if israel hasn't already declared an unofficial want to ren but suspicions raced further after the assassination of another iranian nuclear scientist earlier this month while on his way to work putting everything together it is clear that whoever it is but if

someone or somebody or some agency is very successful in infiltrating understanding and last sabotaging the iranian nuclear project the attack is the latest in a series of mysterious accidents linked to iran's nuclear program two aircraft accidents in the space of three years scientists disappearing equipment damaged and computer viruses unleashed and the fingers pointing at israel. and the united states this is a very respectable grammar notion but. iran has many enemies. is as good as mine and it's not beyond imagination adding fuel to the fire the plan for israel and the united states to conduct their biggest joint military drill before the end of the year it would see thousands of american troops deployed in israel for when it's the

most blatant sign that in attacks coming but no one in israel will come on record and say there is a covert war on iran all talk of an israeli strike is limited to the airwaves policia r.t. jerusalem and if sanctions sabotage and military buildup weren't enough near its borders yet another front has opened up for the embattled islamic republic tehran's english language news channel gets the boot from british airways patience with this alternative stance runs those details coming your way in just a few minutes here on our team. this week romania has had some of its biggest protests in years outraged with pay cuts and corruption people gathered in the streets of book arrest to call on the country's president to step down along friday hundreds were arrested dozens injured as police used tear gas to disperse the crowds from book arrest parties points. night and day they

come to scream their defiance biting austerity and the feeling the government isn't listening have spilled over into anger even violence. our youth has no future they have no jobs. moti water is sixty she's worked all her life in a textile factory in book arrest but now she is forced to pay for her social security out of her small pension. they need to give us a fair pension and not tell us they're borrowing the money because they don't have it. is not just here for herself her son left romania but it's illegal to try and find work young rumanians feel trapped and directing most of their anger at the president try and assess coup protesters accuse him of trampling over democracy and presiding over a political elite riddled with corruption. who wants to descend down down with

disaster as our parents left us with a heritage and we are leaving our children with just debt an international monetary fund loan in two thousand and nine came with tough conditions the remaining in government has tried to force its financial house into water budget and benefit cuts slashed pay pension freezes falling living standards but some say it's the people who are now being forced to pay for the mistakes of the few who steered the country to economic disaster. this was done at the expense of there were many in state and now those who hadn't been guilty for this situation hadn't even profited from it had to pay for those who had profited. if the government blames international economic conditions however for the country's worst let's not forget that we're in the eye of the storm of an economic european storm all around us unfortunately is a mighty tempest with economic consequence is that inevitably affect us to just not

good enough so the opposition who argue of course that they could do better every day discourage inefficient government stays in power is a day last for rumania or jews used to shorten the period as much as we can once fast as we can by fair elections with many of them accepting there is no escape economically politics for them offers the only hope of change and that leads straight back out onto the streets. these. days. there was terror to. the president about to be here and you can remain you want to tear it all down and start again. and there were similar scenes of violence in croatia as you're prepared to vote in a referendum people there are right now the polls are voting on whether the country

should join the european union and earlier survey suggested over forty percent of the population are against the move on saturday police clashed with anti e.u. protesters in the country's capital at least three were arrested also reports of injuries taking place scuffles started when demonstrators tried to remove an e.u. flag from the center of the city. well it is time botanist and croatia now following their referendum and gauging the public mood you can check out our teams at twitter feed as well as a personal one does have some rather skeptical comments about even membership coming from people in the street. well politicians say the population just isn't informed enough about the opportunities that you know offers that get those latest updates on the. from an organized internet wide a blackout to some of the biggest hacker attacks on top media and u.s.

government websites this week so an unprecedented internet revolt of a new web censorship legislation the anonymous group was retaliating against the f.b.i. shut down a file sharing website mega upload and brought down the web science of the department of justice and universal music thousands of websites saying clued in wikipedia joined together to stand against the proposed legislation dubbed the people the laws of pasta would allow top media conglomerates copyright holders to shut down the whole swaths of the web pulitzer prize winning political cartoonist to mark fiore believes it's all part of a show put on by and in affective government what i see is the congress in the united states is largely a do nothing congress in the face of economic calamity and this is really in their attempts to say hey we're doing some about the economy we're going after all this online pirating which really you know is not as big of

a problem is they're making it out to be so you know yes it's terrible but i think they would do a hell of a lot better if they went after offshoring jobs you know things that really made a difference in the economy you know in a more large scale so i think a lot of this is grandstanding and it will continue to happen i mean there's there are going to be government attempts at blocking the internet or controlling the internet you know so now to infinity you know it's always going to be in attendance but that's what issues like this and movements like this and you know people coming out to speak out against this are important. and if you want to give your opinion on the protest that had washington reeling all read up on the anonymous activist group there's plenty more details on all of that and our website r.t. dot com.