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with twenty four hours a day this is r.t. here in moscow top stories not exactly half past the hour a major antiwar march outside the nato summit in chicago turns violent the run a dozen activists in june and many more arrested after clashes with police and. the violence contagion spreads of further into lebanon and deadly street clashes between opponents and supporters of the neighboring syrian regime which the streets of beirut. let me put it in unveils a new cabinet made up of mainly new ministers but some familiar faces make
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a return. but that's it for me and the news team for the moment we'll be back with more for you in half an hour from now in the meantime we take you on a tour russia's you could see a region famous for the cleanest diamonds in the world and some very tough weather the republican here lies the event some special nomad camp of how. it is situated four thousand four hundred kilometers from moscow and two thousand kilometers from alaska. yes yes come here. what's wrong with him. take a look at his hoop is also. yes he can't get much food from under the snow because of the pain in his leg he's lost weight and need to vent he will. get out of the context base right away.
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the nearest villages have to steer one hundred kilometers away i think forest is all around there are no roads c.b. radio is the only means of communication here but go i am in horseshoe. roger having missed me. not even for century. why it's happened the reindeer are sick we need medicine. it's coming but you know ok good.
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romance sim video of left to cook for how to steer few hours after news of the crippled reindeer came through for a man is always ready for a long journey even though his car doesn't have a jack a wrench or even a rope in it he only has a shovel. not what the people began calling me as soon as they knew i was coming out they wanted me to bring some basic supplies with me. but i wished those are all there's no other way to reach them. the reindeer herd is need medicine. hunters and horse herders also need some goods and i think it's going to be a lot of fun. these reindeer also headed for how to steer several days ago the herd left a coup to southern most newmont camp since then herders have led them through thick forest to this small country track where they will meet with friends from a village on the way.
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highway or i how is the journey what other reindeer. are just fine well they're comfortable in the snow so let's not waste any time below them on the truck and get going oh well i'm not sure how they feel it's important that they're counting. turn the wheels to the right. to the right time telling it. the range it will be specially carried by truck a long track compact snow would injure their hooves. we are taking them to a festival and hearty spirit there will take part in reindeer team races i myself have trained one of the pairs but i trained them in
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a forest glade where the snow is usually softer the main thing now is to get there i wonder how they will react to all the people in the village i hope to be able to win at least one round. out of the. ring to hurdle in a can of his twenty one years old he began herding reindeer in the tighar to finishing school he didn't take him long to get accustomed to tyga life in a can't he didn't used to like visiting how to steer but some time ago he fell in love with a local girl indeed himself to the girl's parents and married her all within a week now for the first time in his life he yearns to revisit the village he's not yet seen the two month old daughter. and. it is a long way to how to steer the road has started with potholes frost and lumps of snow all of them are dangerous for reindeer but the biggest problem is keeping them
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calm last year panic stricken reindeer overturned their trailer that's why in a kantian you decide to accompany their charges this time around. travelling long distances alone in your course here is dangerous settlements are few and far between a snowy road is the only guide in this vast expanse but it doesn't take long for harsh weather to obscure it from view but you know. what you could use roads according to challenge for example it could take you ten twenty twenty four hours to cover five hundred kilometers. yes. those planning a trip here could see as remote regions look for would be fellow travelers well in advance they advertise their plans in the press and on local television the
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wayfarer's agree on when to depart by phone beforehand even travelling with strangers is better than going it alone for a man is lucky his close friend if gainey has agreed to join him on his journey. this small chapel on the hill is the best place for a meeting point. a coalition of how i. now find our house things going. on going to take a nap in the back seat. of. the winter road takes them along the ice bound linna river thousands of years ago the ravines on its banks provided shelter. there are lots of rock paintings really curious here but they haven't yet been studied properly of. the rocks
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a crumbling away from erosion causing many paintings to disappear. nobody knows when they were made. most of the rough cart features the elk master of the siberian tiger are another animal depicted as the bison one of the main targets for hunters according to archaeologists primitive humans killed off the last bison you could hear some six thousand years ago scientists have found numerous bones of the magnificent beasts the ancient nomad camps. that. but recently direct descendants of the siberian bison reappeared here in the early twenty first century . these large mammals have an excellent sense of smell bison love to marian because they always smell of hay they keep the bison in
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good health communicate with them and even help with their private lives. well my bison have a matriarchal society there but the main herd is commanded by a wise mother she is always surrounded by young mothers and. keep away from them they roam by themselves or in small groups but there is a dawn one among them his name is yashica he insists on being with the cows. bison returned due to an unprecedented experiment set up by canada's elk island national park it was the first time in history that would bison were exported to a foreign country once and you could hear they managed to enjoy temperatures of minus sixty degrees celsius they easily adapted to life in the tai-chi. remand and you have kenny hit the first obstacle in that journey
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a vehicle stuck in the snow. below hi can you help us sure no problem and i mean the same situation tomorrow we should always help each other. the reindeer herd heads back to help out of stock when to camp virus stream canal during the winter people can only reach this place with snowmobiles in the summer you need a heavy duty truck to nothing else will be able to take you through the thick forest. but is don't gain any profit from rearing forest reindeer in your course here they never stroll to their animals to sell meat no effort is made to ensure the herds continuous growth instead they make a living from hunting. for
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men who are good to us reindeer like here. months but they differ from him in that they are pure at heart some of them are bad tempered and some are happy. but there are also meat animals among them all of them should be treated like children but if you hurt their feelings just once they will hold a grudge against you as long as they live. a sick grain gives the herd is cause for concern now they need to examine the entire herd to satisfy themselves that all the other animals a healthy males alas soon and their employers removed new employees will grow in the spring they will harden during the autumn just in time for rainy day races. if we come on come on. the look of your look at them go.
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stop hold them hold'em. ok good well done. this one strong. wooden weights on the necks of the animals give the herders control without them the beasts would easily escape from their masters and scatter around the woods their things believe that reindeer are guardians of the human soul they also believe that the rain day was a gift from god to humankind by tradition they roam from place to place together with their reindeer be it summer or winter. romanow me of getting have driven for hours with them to baltics for the reindeer. what do you think would be able to get any further it'll be a tough. one just because a gamma were crossing the river there are no roads anywhere near here that all
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those strong winds blowing up all the time even if you try to clears the way the road becomes blocked off within a very short time so we need to go top speeds. and we have to make sure we don't run into a snow drift which. will mean quite a bit of trouble if we don't forge ahead otherwise we'll get stuck in the snow machine for the time being we're driving over hogs. and now in our. in winter the ice on the lenna river is two and a half meters thick it is a lifeline to people living in out of the way villages supplying them with food coal the route opens at the start of winter and last through to the end of may. these are called the land of pillows this is a protected area. few people know that the coots regarded as a sacred place shamans perform their rituals here.
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victor maxime off comes from a family of shamans while performing a purification ritual he appeals to a benevolent dad see. the shaman stands at the site of the gigantic rupture that almost broke the siberian mainland into more than half a billion years ago it was at that time that the fanciful yanna pillas formed. the shaman pleads with the winds to drive all evil to the arctic ocean and clear the skies to reveal the warmth of the summer.
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victor treats the white creator to fermented mare's milk poured from a you cuttin bowl to chatter on to forms his rituals only in the day time victor never uses a tumbler eem because of the belief that it sound attracts both evil as well as good spirits. but some set the stamina pieces dark forces by playing a folk instrument called a. very are very are. they a could believe that energy from the center of the earth flows out of the linear pillows village elders say this is where the spirit like to congregate as for sherman's it is the longstanding belief that this place reconciles good and evil and life and death.
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culture is the same much as i know in which of course you might want to hear me capitalism this is what critics call america's banking system again the world has witnessed the specter of a major financial institution reporting. was
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stuck. with had to give the spades up. because axel is sitting on the snow. and the wall metal causes it to melt. the more the so melts. the deeper the vehicle sinks. so we need to dig some of it out. don't worry that happens all the time. before we ended up stuck in the snow romani of danny had been travelling for almost thirteen hours nonstop more than an hour has been wasted here. not a single vehicle has passed by them in that time remembers thoughts of focused on the ailing reindeer in the village of how to steal. his nerves are strained to the point and this setback has not helped them all and get rid of some of the snow from the still messing around with you. off.
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that is the hay for the horses yes the hay will last for three days make sure you don leave matches behind i hope you got him initially with you yes but not much. he gives something to the dog's. good ninety ivanov expected a package to arrive last night there are no special shops for hunters in the village of bull good luck to where he lives in that he usually orders his ammunition from your cooks but this time it's late.
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eat. and again ninety visitors. how. the people in town of send this i mean ok thanks just on time i was about to go hunting. could skin the hunger last district respectfully called canady. after the famous literary character in james fenimore cooper's novels the to share a thorough knowledge of animal behavior legend circulating in your. outstanding achievement several years ago he single handedly killed seven will was terrorizing the people of remote villages the hunter allows only absolutely trustworthy dogs to accompany him into the tiger. dogs are always helpful but they won't even let
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you freeze to death they would cling to your body to keep you warm in the snow paws of such dogs can cope with any kind of snow no matter whether it's deep or hard they easily run through it. is unlikely to venture into the tiger without dogs by his side you could go there even without a rifle but you better steer clear of the tiger unless dogs go with you. in that he has hunted on the same hunting ground in the tighar all through his adult life he controls the numbers of wild beasts out there on his own huskies smell their prey even through thick snow underwater underwater traps are set up when muskrats gather for a feast we're going to the equipment boils down to nothing more complicated than an ordinary open ended cage it's a nonviolent method nothing sharp no bullets or dogs are involved.
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the government assigns quotas to natives living in the country's north allowing them to hunt for muskrat sable and squirrel it took one of your cooties best hunters just an hour to catch ten muskrats without firing a single shot you take a look at that. but the ammunition he's received from your could come in handy as the you could saying goes the big hunt and sunrise a one in the same. a frozen some hangs over how to steer only dogs seem able to defy the bitter cold. the villages main road is empty early in the morning all of the residents flocked to the river bank. today is
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a celebration for reindeer good as it is their most important day of the year in accordance with an old event custom women give the guests white bread and wave spruce branches to ward off evil spirits. traditional dress is a major especially for this occasion and the guests are treated to the best meat in stock before the start of rain display races people visit the fair laid out on the bank roaring trade accompanies the merry making. a glass down to baltics for the ailing rain arrive at how to steer from here could skip nearly twenty four hours after the news of its illness came through though may see her again good to see you did you get it. yes here this should be given before
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everything else oh instructions of the. first minute of journey twenty four hours in all that's ok you made a long time. will. bring to her the jeweler stan procopio makes haste it's important for him to get to compass for some set it's a long way off. meanwhile festivities are in full swing to steer the reindeer herd as entire families flock here from every nine months camp and so in your county they want to know who's good is best going. on.
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coming up after hours of the course there's a tricky turn there. although in a candy's in town he can see his little daughter it's minus thirty seven degrees celsius so his family stays at home missing out on the chance to congratulate him on his first ever victory. along with his brother hugh gore in the canteen wins the mounted reindeer race to victory makes the manageable for the final round the festival's main event. well done i did my best. for mr happy because this is my first win the general round is about to start i'll try
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to win but reindeer can be difficult to write because at the. normally safety is ensured by sending two snowmobiles on a long trek through the tide whatever is needed for survival out here is loaded on
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to the sleighs down knows that today's a day of festivities he sighs against bothering anyone before he sets off it's a risky journey but he makes it back safely to the moments when to come. i'm back with antibiotics let's give him a quick dose you got here pretty quickly. curtis often double his vets in winter camps they spend more time with brain dead than they do with people they know all the symptoms and can immediately diagnose rainy day illnesses hers can also tell exactly how much medicine arranged in needs the problem however is that sometimes they run short on medical supplies it's lucky if deliveries arrive on time.
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it'll be ok just relax careful. there you go. ovington the smallest native ethnic group in the cooties south they have a head to the same simple calls for centuries if the rain did disappear so poorly of banks. when friends around a sick one feels better i think he will go on living. world
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