seven thirty here in moscow you're watching r t thank you for joining us and let's take a recap of the headlines u.n. monitors come thirty two children among the dead in the western syrian town where activists claim government troops have massacred more than one thousand people earlier this week a un report accused both the region and the rebels both human rights violations. prime minister dmitry medvedev takes charge of the united russia party and once you clear out those who discredited but also remolding it with the online era get up was also calling both close and dozens of the country's opposition and competition the organizations top posts. and destroying dissent with the elections ahead

the georgia regime still got no appetite for oppositions views journalists this date is still being pressured a year after government forces violently disbursed independence days of reading. next on our travel to a village in one of the hospice environments on the planet to take a look at how locals use animals not just as the why when the tiger but to get together for reindeer races stay with us for that. the republicans be a coup here lies the of ink some special no might come of. it is situation four thousand four hundred kilometers from moscow in two thousand kilometers from alaska . yes come here. what's wrong with him the. take a look at his hoof has also fallen. short of that yes he can't get

much food from under the snow because of the pain in his leg he's lost weight and needs a vet he will. get out of the contact base right away. to. the nearest villages have to steer one hundred kilometers away think forest is all around there are no roads c.b. radio is the only means of communication here but go a common 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.

romance sim video of left a cook's clue how to steer few hours after news of the crippled reindeer came through a man is always ready for a long journey even though his car doesn't have a jack wrench sure 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 they wanted me to bring some basic supplies with me. but i wish i was there all there's no other way to reach them. the reindeer herd isn't even medicine. hunters and horse herders also need some goods but 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 knew not to come 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. highway or hi how is the journey what about the rain there that's 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 rain day will be specially carried by truck a long trek compact snow would injure their hooves. we are taking

them to a festival and how to steer it there will take part in reindeer team races i myself have trained one of the pairs but i trained them in a forest glade where the snow is usually softer than 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 they didn't take him long to get accustomed to tyga life in a can see 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 is studded with potholes frost and lumps of snow all of them are dangerous for reindeer but the biggest problem is keeping them 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 a coin to challenge for example it could take you ten twenty twenty four hours to

cover five hundred kilometers. yes. those planning a trip to you 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 wayfarer's agree on when to depart by phone beforehand even travelling with strangers is better than going it alone romanist lucky his close friend if jenny has agreed to join him on his journey. this small chapel on the hill is the best place for a meeting point with. her colas of how i. now find out how things going. and 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. of which there are lots of rock paintings in the crews here but they haven't yet been studied properly of. the rocks are 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 to pick is 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 my need for some 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 that unary and because they always smell of hay they keep the bison in 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 the cubs keep away from them they roam by themselves or in small groups but there is a dawn one among them his name is jaska 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 a vehicle stuck in the snow. below hi can you help your sure no problem i might 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 tractor 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 men who are good to us reindeer like you. 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 reindeer 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 a last suit and their employers removed new employees will grow in the spring they will harden during the autumn just in time the rainy day races.

we come on come on. the look of your look at them go. stop told 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 get me have

driven for hours with them to baltics for the reindeer. what do you think would be able to get any further helmets off. much after he gammoned we're crossing the river there are no roads anywhere near here all 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 speed. 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 but for the time being we're driving over hard. and now in our. in winter the ice on the lennar with a two and a half metres take 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 young could sort of god it is a sacred place shamans perform their rituals here. victor maxime off comes from a family of shamans while performing a purification ritual he appeals to a benevolent dad see alkis 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 pillars 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 sun. to treat the white created 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 the folk instrument called the how most. eerie are. they it could believe that energy from the center of the earth flows out of the linear pillows village elders say this is where the spirits

like to congregate as for sherman's it is their long standing belief that this place reconciles good and evil and life and death.

well i was 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. but 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 him. 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 strange to them and this set back has not. come on get rid of some of the snow from still messing around with you. this 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 emanation with you yes but not much.

to give something to the dogs. get 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 cook but this time it's late. eat. and the canary got 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 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 with 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. the government assigns quotas to natives living in the country's north allowing them to hunt for muskrat sable and squirrel he took one of his 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 saying goes the big hunt and sunrise one and the same.

a frozen some hangs over how to steal 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 a celebration parade it is good as it is their most important day of the year in accordance with an old ever think 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 luring trade accompanies the merry making.

a glass down to baltics for the ailing reindeer arrive at how to steer from the a could scale nearly twenty four hours after the news of its illness came through though may see her you good to see you did you get it. yes here this should be given before everything else all instructions of. the first minute of journey twenty four hours in all that's ok you made a long time. frame to her the jeweler stamper copy of makes haste it's important for him to get to camp before sunset it's a long way off. and . meanwhile festivities are in full swing to steer rain to hers entire families

flock here from every know much camp and so in your county they want to know who's hurt his back. still going. to parse the course there's a tricky turn there. although in the counties in town he can see his little door so 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 a canteen when the mountain range in a race to victory makes the manageable for the final round the festival's main

event. well done i did my best. to mr happy because this is my first when the general round is about to start i'll try 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 tygart whatever is needed for survival out here is loaded on to the sleighs reduced down nose to today's a day of festivities his size 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 the antibiotics let's give him a quick deals you got here pretty quickly. curtis often doubles vets in winter camps they spend more time with reindeer than they do with people they know all the symptoms and can immediately diagnose range to illnesses hers can also tell exactly how much medicine a range in needs the problem however is that sometimes they run short on medical

supplies it's lucky if deliveries arrive on time. it'll be ok just relax careful. there we go. over thinks of the smallest native ethnic group in the cutest south they have a head to the same simple proverb 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.