sherman's 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 their main tool is 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 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 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 for its parts. known of by his 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 berea shamanism 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 czar in bor the great chairman 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 hollerin over the streets. after a ceremony by here and. two aides go to the base of the giant. less experienced

chairmans about from here and with good reason this area's spirit is too powerful. and long lost the shaman to organ come has reached 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 show money 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 seem 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 preserve idaho.

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 sheer 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 beans across the clean spot in 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 blade against intruders. we see to it that he

keeps warm a 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 at both the institute of neurophysiology and higher nervous activity and the institute for ethnology and anthropology at the russian academy of sciences but it's only shelley the so-called neo shamans and urban shamans were involved in those special experiments you know me you shall months represented and your generation option an extradition hole in the mix did you raise a demonstration of an experiment in the presence of a large audience just the lucy of these experts start in shamanism represent

a number of countries. instruments are attached to the body of the new year shomer the border they will record the state of his blood vessels this is now this somewhat all devised in his hand is a special catch up designed by one of our offices dr ski 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 to 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 rationally and. 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 am 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 does not say however the key thing is not to love the personages to gain the upper hand of them they are new york and that the boy. children 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 follow. the rules of. our own 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 could. 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 a 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 showman. to the four door to again manages to overcome his nephew 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 that prevents school and disease and tames fire and floods which is the mode of the water multiplying with it since.

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am. i. roundup of the week's top stories in today's headlines the arab league calls on syrian president bashar all of saud to surrender some of his powers to his vice president and form a national unity government with the opposition this comes as the league extends its observer mission despite a lack of progress in ending almost a year of violence. early results show croatia has voted in favor of joining the european union this comes as yet another member of the financially stricken union rumania rises up against its governments and certain measures. and other stories that shape this week tension over iran's nuclear program reaches new highs as the

e.u. debates an oil embargo and the u.s. up to its military presence in the region. thank you for being with us on karen six o'clock here in moscow the arab league is demanding a series of reforms in syria to stabilize the country in the wake of almost a year of violent uprising and has called on president assad to cede some of his powers to the vice president as well as work towards a formation of a national unity government arab league official says that their monitors will continue to implement a peace plan in the country despite saudi arabia withdrawing in contingency and as r.t. surf earth reports there's a desperate need for mediation in the raging conflict. crucially was also expected to happen is that they are going to be bolstering this mission by increasing the

numbers and also by providing training by the u.n. to these officials now we've actually been following them for the past five days and was become extremely clear is that certainly what is needed now it is more facilitation of dialogue between all these different groups that you see now in the country between the opposition between the government and one of the major questions has been raised the end of this particular mandate was just how successful the mission had been in sort of advancing the situation here in the country certainly that's where the u.n. training is going to come and play a very pivotal role because what's desperately needed in the country right now are people who are very experienced a conflict resolution to stop promoting genuine dialogue now between all the many different sides nuclear really was the need to bridge these widening gaps than in the town of zabadani we actually visited there yesterday with is that if he

remained in the country this is the area that you see in the so-called free syrian army take control of and in the last few days a temporary ceasefire because between the government forces and free syrian army so we've seen inside the city to see what's being happening certainly it's an area extremely divided on one side you've got the government in control on the other side the free syrian army but it's actually an actual fight very very difficult to know exactly who is in charge of the people's houses that we were showing in the city center had been absolutely devastated by the fighting with the children who have been showing us some of the bullet casings that they've found around the area all the houses in this part you can see the destruction from the fighting that's been going on out there to see very similar to this that. with extremely concerning the people who are still living heard extremely dangerous situation it's not really

clear who exactly is in charge think killing hate and that makes the situation very very dangerous and this shooting across the conflict in syria has been devastatingly right absolutely essential for everyone right now is to find some kind of resolution the president of the invited. meanwhile the opposition the syrian national council says it plans to press the u.n. security council for intervention in the country where thousands have died in the arrest the council believes arab league observers have been useless at ending hostilities and insists that foreign involvement is the only way out but as artie's maria financial reports there are doubts about the opposition leaders motives holly towed from the syrian national council the country's main official opposition body says making the people's voice louder and bring in an end to the violence is what the essence she was created for our main goal is to help the syrian people there

present them and their international community in order to reach this syrian people's freedom and although it's been run by the paris based exile. the absence he has been recognized as the country's lee determined government by the new libyan authorities and supported by some and nato countries which has made some down to the council's innocent intentions with regards to libya the promise that nato made to the national transitional council perspective leaders was that they be given a major seat at the table in a new libya so there is power brokering going on behind the scenes and i absolutely wager that the same thing is happening with syria they've either been bought off financially or they've been. promised a major role in a new syrian regime libya's national transitional council and the syrian national

council and it's not just their names they have in common supported and sponsored from abroad think he writes opposition forces and their major goal is to overthrow the regime but there is a difference to the absences huts courters are not in damascus but here in istanbul we are not talking about democratic regime if i go to syria well we have. you know we have to be executed there howlett says he spent fifteen years in jail in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's just because his father supported the opposition he claims nothing has changed since then and the oppression has to stop but how is another matter claiming they're only going to rely on political and diplomatic pressure the asson see to is now copper age in with the free syrian army fighters who have defected from a star's military in was a clear shift from the essences initial entirely known armed peaceful stance to the

cows who also sees humanitarian corridors and buffer zones as options to protect civilians in syria even though these might mean foreign troops arriving this is a top is the ball carriers operation where this year that gas has been used throughout yes and that jeddah they need to watch it because they don't want they want to destabilize syria because they want syria to be part of nato or at least lead to label the opposition claims is just a matter of time before the joint africa sooner or later will force president assad out his attorneys to stay but the question remains exactly how long should these people have to wait for the bloodshed to stop and how many of them will actually see the end of it. turkey. dr marna shall be says one thing the observer mission to see. area has accomplished is to show the abuses that have been committed by both sides. i think it's time in syria for dialogue and the

president president assad has created the platform for such dialogue in the same time the arab league has declared that extension for the monitors mission the arab monitors mission in syria the arab monitors mission is as your report just stated a few minutes ago that it's lacking manpower it's lacking equipment it's lacking training it needs more time to actually build a comprehensive report on what's there however the first report the trillium in a report has been leaked to the media and i have i have had access to parts of this report this report shows that. there are some grave violations on both sides. the opposition or what the so-called syrian free army you have been also using heavy gunfire against civilians it's time that the opposition showed face. shows

a positive sign because it is of the interest of no one of no one's interests that need to steps in they will be destruction they will be chaos as was the case in libya and as we have seen recently in libya things are not really turning into the beautiful democracy that everybody was dreaming off and the same will happen in syria. coming up later in the program of the ballot for scotland software to find out how monday and has switched its p.r. machine into full throttle in an apparent effort to suppress scotland's growing clamor for independence. and the power of the internet interaction a massive on line backlash over u.s. plans to expand web censorship leads to the suspension of funding anti-piracy loss . and now developments in libya the deputy head of the country's national transitional council has announced his resignation as

a series of protests against the new government continue. has been accused of being an opportunist who switched allegiances from the gadhafi regime as the uprising kicked off on saturday crowds of protesters stormed the n.c.c. headquarters in benghazi angered by the way the council was handling the country's assets demonstrators threw stones and metal bars at the building breaking windows and damaging the car of the n.t.s.b. head abdul joe neel mass rallies have been raging for weeks and been considered the cradle of the revolution that toppled. took on child on a spokesman for british civilians for peace in libya says the council is failing to unite the country. the gadhafi regime could control the whole of libya could find peace amongst all the tribes the new regime cannot even control something in one town or one area i mean they turn libya into a war and if the hunting of black skins selling off the oil and natural resources and to nato and now the thieves that is the rebels they all falling out with each

other they can even be paid by their own masters in what they have done which is actually perform regime change on behalf of the former colonial east of libya now if you don't want to believe what gadhafi said about what was going to happen after the regime fell and everything that i would say that he said has come to pass then listen to you probably about to resign if he's not assassinated like the military head of the thought the units had said libya is a. danger of descending into a bottomless pit so really this is the chief of freedom and democracy by nato it's all become very clear people of syria and the people of lebanon and the people of the global south have to see what's happening in libya is coming to them if they're not able to defend themselves and stop this ruling western aggression against other countries in the global south vote counting is underway in croatia as historic referendum on joining the e.u. zagreb signed an e.u. accession treaty last year and it could become the union's twenty eighth member by july two thousand and thirteen if all member states ratify the deal. is incur

a share for us. sixty six percent of the population who did vote voted for the four croatia to join you about thirty three percent against that's not as much as was predicted even a couple of years ago it was about seventy eight percent in favor so there has been a slight away from london but it seems most likely that the will now go ahead to join the e.u. next july a lot of the more conservative element of society here feel very passionately that they do not want to join another union they see brussels is essentially another belgrade as far as they're concerned that could rule from a fun you have to bear in mind when you look when you're talking about croatia it's past especially in these last twenty years since the end of communism in the former yugoslavia croatia has fought very hard for the independence it has now but

a group of protesters who felt extremely strongly that the that this referendum in the the e.u. access ssion would essentially hand away would hundred way croatia's independence to the e.u. it was their central message of course is this this is very strong debate that will go on about what the economic consequences are for joining the e.u. for pro asia a lot of strong feelings about the e.u. have been felt here in pro aisha they've also been felt in other countries just a few days ago i was in remain here this is the second poorest country tree in the moment and they have been the largest protests there since remaining the fall of communism. night and day they come to scream their defiance fighting austerity and the feeling the government isn't listening have spilled over into

anger even violence was our youth has no few. they have no jobs. motive water is sixty she's worked all her life in a textile factory in book arrest but now she's 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 her mania 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 who 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 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 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 stayed the country to economic disaster. this was done at the expense of there are many in state and now those who hadn't been guilty for their situation they didn't even profited from it had to pay for those who had profited. 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 europeans still around us unfortunately is a mighty tempest with economic consequence is that inevitably affect us to just not good enough say the opposition who argue of course that they could do better or more every day discourage inefficient government stays in power is

a day north for rumania or jews used to shorten the period as much as we can as we come by stern elections with many of them accepting there was no escape economically politics for them was the only hope of change and that leads straight back out onto the streets. what should. the president about to see here and you can see what made you want to tear it all down and start again. europe and the u.s. have expressed their willingness to return to dialogue with iran over its nuclear program but despite that the e.u. seems about set to approve an unprecedented embargo on iranian oil france says tougher sanctions are the only way to avoid military action with

a us in its turn has strengthened its presence in the region by 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 sanctions the same way as a strategic passage for the majority of oil exports from the gulf to the west brian becker from the anti-war answer coalition says washington is deliberately escalating the situation to create a pretext for regime change in iran. the united states government has created an artificial crisis that's first and foremost it's a manufactured crisis aronne is complying with the i.a.e.a. iran does not have a nuclear weapon iran is not threatening 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 in to its cause.