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three thirty pm in moscow these are your r t headlines ten thousand canadians rally against a new law banning on sanction protests as the government grows desperate to end months of relentless student demonstrations. you want observers in syria pointed human rights violations from both the regime and the rebels saying that peace plans crumbling while in neighboring lebanon shock waves of unrest are being felt for a second week running. in egypt early result see the country torn between islamize candidate and a former mubarak era official in the first round of the race for the presidency
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sparking fears the country could again fall under hardline. coming up we travel to a village one of the harshest environments on the planet and take a look at how locals use adam was not just to survive on the tiger but get together for reindeer races stay with us. the republican. some special nomad camp. it is situated full thousand four hundred kilometers from moscow in two thousand kilometers from alaska. yes come here. what's wrong with him the. move up and take a look but he 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 needs a vet to. get out of the context based right away. the
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nearest villages have to steer one hundred kilometers away thick forest is all around there are no roads c.b. radio is the only means of communication here but go home and horseshoe. roger haven't missed me. not even for century. why it's happened the reindeer are sick we need medicine. it's coming but yeah ok good.
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romance sim video of left to cook scratch a stiff 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 the 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 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 isn't even medicine. hunters and horse herders also need some goods and i think it's going to be a lot of fun. these reindeer also had it for how to steer several days ago the herd left you could choose southernmost 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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hi there. 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 there can. be 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
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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 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 years to revisit the village he's not yet seen that 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 a company that 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 and you know just like. you could use roads are quite to challenge for example it could take you ten twenty twenty four hours to cover. five hundred kilometers. 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
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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 coalition 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. 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 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 that an area because they always smell of hay they keep the bison in good health communicate with them and even help with their private lives.
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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 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
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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 who 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
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men who are good to us reindeer like here. months but they differ from them 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 and if you hurt their feelings just once they will hold a grudge against you as long as they live. a sick grained 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 reindeer braces. we come on come on. the look of your look at him go.
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stop told i'm told i'm. ok good well done. this one strong. wooden weights on the necks of the animals give the herd as 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 ailments off. just b.c. gamma and we're crossing the river there are no roads anywhere near here well those
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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 for the time being we're driving over. and now in ours. 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 young could struggle to there's a sacred place shamans perform their rituals here.
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normal. victim maxime off comes from a family of shamans while performing a purification ritual he appeals to a benevolent death 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 pillars were formed . the shaman pleads with the winds to drive all evil to the arctic ocean and clear the skies to reveal the womb for the summer.
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to treat the white created to fermented men as milk pulled from a u. kuti in both the child on the forms is rituals only in the daytime think to never uses a tumbler eem because of the belief that it sound attracts both evil as well as good spirits. or some set the salmon a piece is dark forces by playing a folk instrument called a. very are. believe that energy from the center of the earth flows out of the pillows village elders say this is where the spirits like to congregate as for shamans it is the longstanding belief that this place reconciles good and evil and life and death are .
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on the snow. and then the wall metal causes it to melt. and 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 they ended up stuck in the snow romance of guinea have been traveling 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 minute and this setback has not helped c'mon get rid of some of the snow from still messing around with you ah. ah
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. this is the hay for the horses yes the hay will last for three days make sure you don't believe matches behind i hope you got em initially with you yes but not much . use something to the dogs. 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 the canady got visitors. 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 were 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.
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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 he 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 you could come in handy as the saying goes the big hunt and sunrise one and 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 parade in the hood 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 rain arrive at how to steer from the a could skip nearly twenty four hours after the news of its illness came through the amaze her you are good to see here did you get it. yes here this should be given before everything else all instructions of. the first minute of journey twenty four hours
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in all that's ok you made a long time. it will. bring to her the jewel stand procopio makes haste it's important for him to get to campus for sunset 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 parts of the course there's a tricky turn there. although in the 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 when 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 to win but reindeer can be difficult to write because at the.
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that. 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 to the sleighs down knows that today's
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a day of festivities his size against bothering anyone before he sets off is 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 purrs 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. it'll be ok just relax careful.
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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. there
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