hello this is out see the latest headlines of the week's top stories is kevin oh is he with you on the half hour syria's rebels fight to retake control of aleppo with the help of the western financial backing while the arab league puts its emergency get together on hold it has been due to discuss a replacement for peace envoy kofi annan and. egypt's president orders the country's powerful defense minister and the chief of staff to resign that's out of the all the c.v. it comes amid a crackdown in the increasingly volatile sinai region which killed seven suspected militants. and members of the russian female punk group pussy riot await their

verdict after the anti putin stunt in the country's main cathedral in a trial has divided the nation prosecutors are demanding three years jail for the woman with the final decision expected next friday. next for the next thirty minutes we travel to eastern siberia to meet the people whose ancestry traces back tens of thousands of years enjoy. the republic of t.v. is situated in eastern siberia it is asia's geographic center this is a land of unusual landscapes and ancient traditions to lies a country of mountains they cover eighty percent of its territory. the people who lived here long ago were nomads they came up with an alternative form of music called throat singing which imitates the sounds of nature. the most common style is cool so many.

scientists say tyrannies are among siberia's most ancient peoples their ancestors are believed to have settled there thirty thousand years ago. that the good. a good ending sean cook a u.s. citizen drives an old soviet car the key nicknamed it the russian tank for its reliability both on and off road sean allegedly came to t.v. eight years ago to study the local phenomenon of threads he ended up staying in because it. turns out that i really like it here and then my nowhere and. next thing i know marionette got resealed and. i fell in love with my wife and my great. magister turned them holding. them back and now.

sean is very attached to his car and he uses it constantly he got used to long drives as a postman his previous life in the united states are you happy to see where. the years since sean quote came to t.v. have been event. he got married and father three children he was also was at the title of teves people's artist and started building a house for himself and his family. she was killed is situated in the very heart of asia. elizabeth gordon often visits its main square three years ago she came here from australia to collect material for a thesis on winning stroup singing in t.v. with standing here in the square up in the very center of cars though one of my favorite places to come and meet with friends. go to the theatre productions and

concert. at the at the main theatre here come here every day to walk around the prayer wheel as in the buddhist tradition. it's such a beautiful place here. because ils population is one hundred thousand the city is constantly growing a new houses of being built for the newcomers a new words. elizabeth has found a new home and a new life here she's been living in the house of the stephen family for several years. you know. elizabeth shares the same room with a t.v. one sister anita who is thirteen years old they were behaving like real sisters having real arguments sometimes westley dishes vote today you wish i wish yeah i wish you. were handling me know where you ira were

and well if i have to wash the dishes then you wash the floor here it's girls come here to have some tea. every evening the family gets together over a cup of tea for elizabeth who before only drink coffee became a new favorite tradition this is my given family who i live with into my mom are here my my. my little brother year. and my thirteen year old sister anita i also have a similar family in australia mother father of course older sister and my brother is the same age as me here. tonight's tea party is all about elizabeth's expedition the next morning she will set out on a trip where she hopes to take in the picturesque scenery of teves west and meet

musicians who share her interest in throat singing the family gives us some advice . because ill is a young city no more than one hundred years old but there are ancient burial sites dotted all around it here the people are able to draw on some unknown force the locals believe this energy comes from the fact the two rivers meet the mali n.s.a. and the bolshoi n.s.a. come together to form the great yenisei one of siberia's biggest waterways teevan as have many legends about it. the mistress of the river is a beautiful young lady who rides a white horse made of water. we want to make a sculpture in her image. so that we can honor our great provider the n.s.a. god needed thirty. year old but chill day is head of the tube an institute of humanitarian research today he's walking towards an image of t.v.

on hunters in search of prey captured by an ancient artist thousands of years ago scientists have found such stone petroglyphs all across t.v. especially around its capital. this is kills the oldest historical landmark through its seven or eight thousand years old. the important thing about it is the picture of hunters featuring deer and go. the whole there are more than four hundred such stone notes in kill alone. several kilometers from kill lies and back valley the old river bed of the n.s.a. is nearby. archaeologists ating a burial mound on top of a high hill they have found many graves dating back to the bronze age those graves belonged to a simple people that most of the. excavation work has revealed structures with

sophisticated geometry and very interesting burial techniques. some of the elements could be described in modern architectural terms such as arches bracing and masonry and. all of them are a very good quality but the. scientists say the burial ground was unsealed many years ago it may have been done to make room for a new site but i don't want to go most burials and mounds and i've been pillaged either in ancient times or by successive generations of impoverished people. they've dug them up to try and get to the valuables. all the musicians of t.v. .

approach the horses. the shepherds have picked horses for the musicians but the animals still aren't used to the noise produced by the band. even if horses hoping

to train beforehand when they spend too many months on a pasture they become out of touch with humans once the musicians last through the horses the next thing to do is to introduce them to musical sounds gently at first like a. good boy well done. he remembers me. it takes the horses half an hour to get used to the sound produced by the band. it's difficult to ride a horse and play a musical instrument at the same time and there's a problem also with breeding and of course the horse can throw you on the ground but today everything actually seems to be ok. ready to three four. and. as the musicians ride out of the enclosure the drumbeat echoes throughout the valley.

because while this is a great year for the time being sure his family lives in a year a drilling made of thick felt it is the kind used by nomads his wife used to live here before meeting her future husband said larner says sean has changed his family's eating habits american cuisine now holds pride of place in this. my house band has introduced traditional american food notably spicy chili to. sean quirk as an amateur builder he hammers nails and plasters walls he's very excited to move from his small jerked to a bigger building where there's more space for the kids he jokingly calls it the house that sean built well we have here is the. what we call the russian

dream we've got a nice little log house made of siberian large wood which is going to be. stand for centuries and doesn't rot doesn't go anywhere so we'll be done with this in a little while. been nice russian home to stay in the winter now we have over here next door to the. russian dream we have a place we call the tube and dream this is a year two which is a very high technology developed over thousands of years by the tube and another nomadic people for developing and climate and this year it's about fifty years old and it was given to me by my father in law right now it just looks like a pile of wood a trailer some boards but this is going to be where we have the the roof so to vince go america. sure needs to finish building his house to full the oem such a winter so he's put up the walls and set the window frames.

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starts on t.v. dot com. fifty kilometers west of kill the great yenisei makes its way past mountains in the

eighth century b.c. we get troops used to have an observation post high up the cliffs nothing but a pile of flat looks is left now elizabeth will take pictures during her expedition and send them back to australia. from the east and saw if you can see things dozens of kilometers away from under it's easy to spot anything sailing down the n.s.a. river. trillian research elizabeth gordon and other members of the expedition to reach to remote shepherd county in tv's west . among the guests this time are elizabeth's friends from a group or singers called the daughters of. shiny. hello nice to meet. their hostess who they are by lack is a legend in these parts among other things she is the last surviving soldier from

the t.v. people's army that fought in world war two in accordance with local tradition the inhabitants of a shepherd camp treat visitors to tea and chat with them nomads always treasure a contact with visitors as it is their way of hearing the news. club's go back to granny would like to give you a present by singing a traditional t.v. one song for you. the unique thing about the daughters of t.v. work is that the young women use their throop singing technique during their performances they also play traditional instruments. i have lived here in this valley since i was a child before myself very rare visitors here i'm happy to have you here it's

a great present for someone as old as me it makes me very happy. translated from the t.v. in language this mountain towering over the shepherd camp is called mt heavenly back several years ago the dalai lama came here he declared that the mountain is a sacred symbol for the entire buddhist world. elizabeth is modeled by the landscape she sees here scenery he is very different to anything that i have ever seen before and over many people think that it is a very big and very. environment i think i think the stock in this over it is actually very very beautiful. temple was the final destination on the t.v. as west. for many years the complex of monasteries

was regarded as a vivid example of this construction in the region. the temple was destroyed in one nine hundred thirty seven the height of a soviet campaign against religion. the surviving of the temple mean as much to teevan as the wailing wall means to jews. visitors walk around the temple several times. they offer prayers. many people in t.v. buddhists but they worship the ancient practice of. sharman ism in the same time the shamans claim they have interrogated their gift from their ancestors just like their fathers and grandfathers they communicate with the spirits of the four this

displaces john's with great energy that offers us you bring strong protection. and gives good luck. there is an old who is a famous sculptor in t.v. but she believes she is cursed and needs the supremes sharman to help restore her artistic talent. bobo. let the blue sky is the golden some the silver moon in the stars give us an internal protection. and let your life be as white as milk. follows a shaman ism say that there ritual is an offering to ancestral spirits. the spirits of believe to help people of the request of sean's as

a token of gratitude for the food offered to the sacrificial bonfire. the sharman asked to remove the curse and make the recess feel better. and there are. interesting. my eyes now see more clearly in. the act of the suspects and all of them. remove the curse. on me. after the show monica ritual artist or rissa norbu returns to the bank of the n.s.a. . the he or she hopes to find the light semiprecious stone but she wants to use to make a figurine of a particular teevan hero. this is it.

now i'm going to make a dancer out of it. the ricin norbu began practicing handicraft several years ago the practice is believed to be an all male occupation . the research believes that female craftsman are better at capturing the facial expressions on the figurines than many. new course of the i have a sense that i get help from someone that's how i feel about it from the outset i have no idea how the phases or something will end up and but as soon as i'm on track things take care of themselves. because the mood. today is just another busy day for sean he's been driving home from a rehearsal with the local orchestra. but still this day is a very special one here. and that's good news for the. place

today sure has finally received an important paper his residence permit. god graduations you made it all to thank your i've got the residence permit now. sean's friends also came to congratulate them eight they have supported him for a long time along with his family but now sean can visit his relatives from the united states without any problems soon he will obtain his russian passport. eldar turned him no shorn quite well they share the same hobby throat singing but at the moment al dar is hoping sean built his house. the lot of work to be done making the roof and floor and they also need to take care of all this like in tar paper. for sure children this unfinished construction means more fun and more

material to play with. many sites and t.v. are considered sacred. one of them is the elgin black mountains a million is say fifty kilometers from kill their worship by throat singers. that's why sean cook the american who has learned teevan songs and the members of the world famous ethnic band che guilt chin including his friend tom din have come here. with the usual first thing that goes on about the same vision in.

their music is full of life the sounds of nature spreading across the pristine lands of the tivo reaching into the oldest stephen tradition to find an inner harmony a person needs to build a temple raise a family i'm singing a song. on the planet i mean it. really shook. my parents really truly honestly believe that.

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