if you hear the noise of the foundation. of their car stereo to the crotch of. the president about to hear if you hear and you can see why remain you want to tear it all down and start again yeah. yeah yeah meanwhile it's decision day in croatia for people who are now voting on a new accession the outcomes tough to predict as the recent surveys show the issues split the country down the middle saturday police clashed with protesters who tried to pull down any new flag ahead of the referendum if the result is a guess well corrosion will join the block by july of next year if its membership is approved by all twenty seven states investment adviser patrick young says it's easy to understand those opposing the move because croats see how their euro neighbors are facing tough times. but the key consideration here is that when we look at the croatian referendum there's been barely one and p. in the entire parliament who's actually been turning round of publicly saying

anything against the e.u. itself so the fact that we have this amazing groundswell of support at something like forty percent easing credible it demonstrates the fact that the political classes are completely and utterly touch with what the people are thinking and what the people are thinking is quite simple big scene neighbors they've seen similar who are emerging european countries such as themselves people like slovakia slovenia is stony up all coming into the european union they've joined the euro zone and they find it the worst choice and chalice imaginable because slovakia nurses pensioners are not getting paid a third of what they would get paid if they were working in greece and to add insult to injury they're actually paying money to the greeks in order to support their euro zone belike so they see neighboring countries such as hungary i mean the government of hungry for the past two weeks has been vilified by the european union i'm not going to get into the argument to find out whether or not the prime minister is right or wrong now. but certainly people get very very very very on

easy about things that are being sent. patrick yun talking about the e.u. pressure on hungry and on saturday crowds of more than one hundred thousand took to the streets of the capital budapest supporting their government which recently came under fire from the e.u. for passing what brussels thought to be anti-democratic laws but also stalled bell out of talks with the i.m.f. prompting threats of court action this week to hungary and prime minister backed down in the dispute saying the legislation will be changed. parties tom martin is in the region following the latest developments you can check out his twitter feed as well as his personal one for the latest on hungary's dispute with the e.u. as well as the croatian referendum all those updates on line. europe and the u.s. have expressed their willingness to return to talks with iran over the country's controversial nuclear program despite this the e.u. seemingly still set to approve an embargo on iranian oil france even says the time to avoid military intervention is running out as for the u.s.

this week it strengthened its presence in the region sending a second aircraft carrier to the arabian sea it's reportedly planning to sail through the strait of hormuz which iran has threatened to block in response to the sanctions the straits a strategic waterway with that which the majority of oil exports from the gulf to the west passes through brian becker from the anti-war answer coalition says washington may be deliberately escalating the situation to create the pretext for regime change in. the united states government has created an artificial crisis that's first and foremost it's a manufactured crisis iran is complying with the. 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. 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. glacier's between london and tehran took another hit this week iran said a decision to kick its english language news channel press t.v. off british airways was airwaves was a clear example of censorship official reason cited for evoking the channel's license are a breach of broadcasting rules over editorial editorial control and a failure to pay a fine imposed last year press t.v. says it's being silenced for its dissenting views it thinks it's being targeted for its critical coverage of issues ranging from the cost of the british royal wedding to last year's london riots which will receive based offering media analysts things

press t.v. maybe another victim of the ongoing campaigns against the country at a time if this had been separated from geopolitics then you know what this would not have happened some other kind of sanction would have been would have been made and the deal would have been struck so i think the press t.v. has been viewed through geopolitical terms and that is the breakdown of relations between britain and iran at the end of the day i think that most of the criticisms of press t.v. ad been due to its coverage because you know it sees the middle east very differently for example than the mainstream media in britain repeatedly comes up pro israeli groups repeatedly complain about it we know very well that the british government at the very highest level was discussing with the american ambassador how to limit press t.v.'s output in britain so now what we've got is we've got a real limiting of dialogue in the may even british media and i think that's a tragedy and certainly a tragedy at

a time when british relations are at their lowest ebb for a long long period. stay with us here on r t coming your way in the next hour espionage embarrassment for the u.k. as moscow reveals the secret of britain spying stone find out why it took london six years to finally come clean after the kremlin showcases the rock solid evidence that. the u.s. congress has recalled to controversial anti-piracy bills this week after a massive internet blackout and hacker attacks on government websites millions of net users and web giants including we keep pedia and google joining together to stand against the proposed legislation that was called sopa and pipa if the laws had passed they would have allowed top media conglomerates and copyright holders to shut down large parts of the web at the same time the anonymous hacker group retaliated against the shutdown of the file sharing site mega upload it is claimed to have brought down the f.b.i. and white house websites barack brown who's worked with anonymous on various operations believes that the upload mega upload shutdown shows the government can

even take action without the new laws in place. the problem is that the track record of the us and all governments is such that giving them power to do one thing is almost always interpreted by themselves as a means of power. things so and the way that you know the rate on megaupload cards in this opens it shows that even without sopa already in place here they are already arresting and resting the owners of megaupload and shutting it down and in the future a very near future as you'll see there will be a number of other groups that will pop up using more. military not goods situation gets worse and then things will escalate until that point as the notable civil war in the us. let's take a look at some other stories making headlines across the globe in a farewell speech yemen's president ali abdullah saleh apologized for his mistakes and said it's time to hand over power he's leaving yemen to have medical treatment in the u.s. yemen's parliament recently approved immunity from prosecution for

a sollie who's been accused of suppressing protests and ordering the killing of demonstrators he's not expected to return to the country. another bombing on saturday night in the north nigerian state of he has killed eleven people including several police and army personnel patrolling the checkpoint two churches in the area were also attacked the death toll from a series of bombings in kaino on friday now exceeds one hundred seventy continuing to rise the islamist sect boko haram claimed responsibility for the majority of the of the violence plaguing northern nigeria since christmas. presidential hopeful newt gingrich has convincingly won south carolina's republican primary in the u.s. but when it comes as a surprise since gingrich finished last in two other states south carolina is seen as a significant indicator the winner there has won the nomination for the presidential candidacy every year since one nine hundred eighty eight the turn around closing the gap between gingrich and fellow republican candidate mitt romney as both look

to challenge barack obama in the november election. be back with a recap of the week's headlines in a few moments stay with us here on our team. when

can uncomfortable question leads to a grave accusation towards who is more is enough obviously. the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. more it's someone asking him why do you make a secret of it when the powers to be suppress the voice of those who think different culture when you go experiencing very serious problems off of the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three but in the book that was when the problems began piling up. interviews were now off limits to our journalists they were often beason up and humiliated in public and one of the attempt to protect property puts life in real danger in fact we have been deprived of the only means of earning a living and i have gone to the originals of all the papers to be at the little ice the ownership rights on the basis of cause freedom becomes just

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nine thirty pm in moscow these iraqi headlines arab league officials say their observer mission in syria that expired this week will be extended for another month and the number of monitors will also be increased this despite criticism from the syrian opposition that it wants to see the u.n. step in. croatia voting on whether the country should join the e.u. with the issue already sparking protests and violent clashes this as the blood continues being shaken by anti austerity rallies with people in romania now rising

up against their government. tensions around tehran's nuclear program stirred further by e.u. plans to impose an embargo on iranian oil and the us building its warship presence in the region and now it's time to head over to siberia and a spiritual world we follow the drumbeat of the shame in our special report coming up. the sun sets 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 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. cost of an hour although the way it. deferred 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 corporate already i told peter this young man's mind undergoes a change which is the result of deep emotion you quit the moment scenarios 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 of god but then what it is as though the spirit occupies the shermans body while he's solely the video camera. 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 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 valuable support. to me 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 national but of it 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 that is and i can't set sharman ism and music apart i can't focus only on music or shamanism 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 the horse's head symbolizing that the instrument is a living creature the strings are traditionally made of forced 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 take flight using his head skin and bones to make the first modern who were as soon as he started playing the instrument he

recognized the voice of his day a horse as they strung the songs on a morning for mungo's movie at some two billions dedicated to their beloved steve's . godin yeah throat singing begins here in the diaphragm. each time i try to produce the sound i strained my belly to send it up boards 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 throat singing someone themselves because this sort of sound boards off 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

probably more hear what's wrong and there isn't much health in the end and in general there is something wrong with my life and he was not still name with 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 were you 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 or g.'s are blocked by the neck bone it should over the. course of the first was your kidneys and although your genital organs are not in the best shape sheen of. when you get it to begin with you need to have your neck bone fixed you little 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 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 or you would just say that men in the maternal early. yes they die earlier than women do i suppose. if your great grandmother lost an icon protesting your plans miles we. discussed the matter with the priest what you. will do i suggest you have the i can reach toward you and consecrated. tissue q-q. 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 four boys and two girls. by year in chin off finishes consulting his patients later on his followers meanwhile get ready for a ritual to lift the curse which is 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 norma take off your cap go down on your knees to the sound of the drum beat.

what a source 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 went. down on a nice here. pick up the grass from the ground put in the cup and drink it. 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 bonfires 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 bomb fire 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 our folks in the front with the shell monson had 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 this is now 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 it's just an psychologist i can say that most of these things. psychotherapeutic in fact with in this sense any showman is an excellent psychologist and

psychotherapist. being the traditional sharman in a city is a difficult task sometimes children 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 st which is supposed to protect his glade from intruders i mean with the news that 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 entirely native religion and. that's why i made a point of looking for such places you played 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 you know no yes. although the shamanic ritual continues well into the night by using chain 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. a little of that 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 began studying shamanism around one thousand nine hundred eighty eight. 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 retrials which no one else practiced at the time it was after she died i went to mongolia where i found another group. it was sometime later that spirits began entering me. the

fact is that each generation of my ancestors included telling the chairman's 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 on. or. 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 years and started a farm chairman ism and farming together is not an easy task and 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 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 serger a traditional boria tethering post nice house it indicates that this land has an owner. well for the true science technology innovation all the news developments from around russia we've got the future covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

a grand gathering of by year's followers 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 to 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 charmant but they also suggested i find a guru for myself all the 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 but i thought i must respond to the call of my ancestors for the sake of the children and their future.