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tv   Documentary  RT  April 28, 2013 11:29pm-12:00am EDT

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and that does it for me my colleague marina joshie will be in the studio in a little over half an hour but before that we take a look at the daily lives of a syrian refugees who've found a home in one of russia's southern republics that's on away from the bombs right after a short break right here on our. money and ski on may the second to be the money in stevia to which is both a cultural contemporary and technology to serve the auditoriums so join me to almost say honored see on may the second as we bring you the glitz the glamour and the best of the best in the performing arts right here at marines. my name is. i am from syria and i head toward the sea i like a war ends just like i'm going to see my friends and my family. my
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name is to show. i came here because for my children to live in peace and to be killed russian citizens. coming to russia. leave here because why all. my name is that are not to come back to the lovely country when would we. my name is. i'm planning to stay in. your life. until just a year ago would never have thought of leaving damascus and building
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a new house in a small village in a tiny republican russia and the land of his ancestors broke out in the caucuses one hundred fifty years ago his grandfather and hundreds of thousands of a dig is. sent to turkey jordan syria and other countries in the middle east now war has brought a twist of fate. to return to his ancestral home i have many alternative. but i prefer to come here because i believe the big. you may be in the coming twenty s. not now. many syrians came to this village in search of peace and other local people helping rebuild the house. people here told me that this
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house is empty can you accept to live here. for me this is not the end of the war. asked his wife to stay for a while with their children in a rented flat in town he didn't want them to be put off by living in an unfinished house. we pulled this in syria must leave us to be a green facility in syria we like to do to this to lots so we are trying to find this it's freezing here it's not it's a bridge. in syria none so you had everything she could dream of a villa on two floors with a nice looking golden in a damascus suburb she looked after her three children and her husband had a lucrative business but when bombs began to explode in front of their house the couple had to throw it all to the wind and seek refuge where there were no gunshots to frighten the children. this fourth or it's my car. and this is my lever one door. or some fun didn't
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explosion it was my kitchen door broke windows broke very sad because this is the only chair where dreams me i make every step by step. the syrian woman is a hero. she is trying to. trying to protect their families. her house her. hair her syria and everything and she had to under control about everything and we don't have that possibility to do that such we are fighting to save
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everything every time we are talking about. we also crying all the time when i crying so it's not easy for you to forget. you know or. to go see. six months ago husband small house in a village he bought his parents to their ancestors land in russia three months later his elder brother came from damascus with his wife and their four children now they have to eat their meals in shifts the table isn't big enough to accommodate a family of thirteen. you know. finally
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i must leave from there my wife living in america i want to go to. visit but america said no visa but. no problem for me for marcelo. like leaving america people believe in magic and maybe freedom and. peace. for me no i don't think it was. destroying syria and not syria we don't believe hundred percent of. the syrian people are not doing. what. it might or might for. you we always believe that god maybe will give us. because we are seeing god with people who want. a little by.
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michael feels like a boulder living in his younger siblings house unlike his brother he had no strong desire to go to the land of their ancestors he and his wife have become accustomed to this city life. who see what's happening to. people all just fly and just killing each other nobody knows what i love to do with and i left my home go i left my job my friends some family also still there we left our whole
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life. yet you. see his nine year old daughter can speak no the russian she only knows arabic and neither her schoolmates nor her teachers can understand. the adaptation for her was more difficult then for the others she had a hard time kept to herself and said nothing and i do language she would simply sit in silence. to study with older children they two came from syria several months ago the language barrier prevents them from learning a standard curriculum and so a special classroom has been set aside for them now they're learning to language at a time from scratch they'll need. to preserve national culture and for every day
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communication knowing russian will help them achieve a higher education and find a good job in the future. to parents speak a deep because the older generation kept their mother tongue alive within the family younger parents though never suspected that their children would ever need to know their ancestral language until war broke out. when my daughter. told me that the school is big and i'm fraid from the school it's big and the people. just crying every night i don't want to go to school tomorrow. munns a business in syria a logistics company dealing with international commodity deliveries three months before the war began he built a small factory making construction blocks. of. choice i have a choice. like this war. to work or anything. and
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. all the time you. brides and grooms join in the islam and it's the graceful movements symbolize modesty that mission and the beauty of the caucuses the men's role is to demonstrate the people's strength and dignity. we've been to all of the countries where the idea. of jordan syria and turkey they've mostly assimilated with the arab and turkish cultures our performances were discovery the dancers realized that they were really representing a great nation and of great culture and. i . was
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a folk culture festival taking place in the cattle at the time since then she has dreamed of performing folk songs on stage and forging a professional career as a singer. because her singing ambitions had failed back home in damascus a bit had instead gone to university to study graphics. but. when war broke out and syria would decide to move to. russia was our choice we had thought of going to a land of our ancestors before who aren't completely resolved to go until the very start of the war before it could reach our home in damascus. the first time we knew about a beer was during a folk music festival we knew her singing style and her voice she had no special training but when she said she wanted join us we weren't surprised we were very glad to help her and to help her make a living. i believe husband is an economics graduate but like
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most of the syrian men who had to save their families from the horrors of war he added my corp the only job he could find was an odd job man working on a construction site. we don't want to live in a village we want to stay here because there are more job opportunities i need to start studying again to. see if i'm not. doing my best to have as i can. push and i like. i was walking as finance manager. for the creation. his wife
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and son are staying in a michael flood pays the rent from the meager savings he could bring from syria but they'll last no longer than six months. fay left behind a big house in damascus but he can sell it as long as the war continues. you know i started all this better on my husband started economy he knows english french arabic and actually didn't visit us because we learned what war and because we don't all relax in the russian language. with one lung. on someone. all of. whom they offered a home and we don't have to pay our rent or for saving money for us we will go to see what's wrong with kids will. i recall sure feel.
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yes all i want. and seen. a few days ago it's well it was like spring. almost song or. what to do when you actually it was a surprise me because when i moved from the window i saw everything why snowing. and who. i want for my children to live in peace away from war they will learn russian and they will go to school we go to university. they will be no more russian citizens i think we will do. it some other time on week.
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syria and those red lines with allegations damascus has used some kind of chemical weapons u.s. nato and the gulf countries up the ante to break the deadlock in this conflict if that comes to pass what are the possible outcomes. download the official publication to the cell phone choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's if your way from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v.
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anytime anywhere. you know sometimes you see a story. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. to speak to language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about seventy odd p. interviews intriguing stories for you to. see than trying. because it.
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my grandfather was among those the country. now we are returning i'm happy but also worried about what's happening in syria it's where i was born many close friends. spent a lifetime working as a teacher in syria he was even a school principal when he arrived eight months ago the local council of elders asked him to be. example to follow their entrusted with ensuring a spiritual education. compiled and dig a dictionary to preserve the culture and language of the idea. he finished at the
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same time as the war in syria started that's why we weren't able to do more than three installments he's helping people who want to learn the language and at the same time themselves know the arabic language. keeps their family relics safe after one hundred fifty years the family has returned to where they were made. produced all of these items and. everything we have there all of our houses are there we didn't sell anything we brought nothing except. the biggest treasure they had to leave behind several members of the large extended family two year old girl's mother and father still in damascus. my sister came with her daughter three months ago but she had to syria
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because she has a job and her husband's family is there she wants to help them come here her daughter is still with me she's scared every time she hears loud noises she probably thinks it's war and she's afraid the noises scare her. mother works in the syrian section of the united nations' visas are not as easy to come by these days nobody knows how long they may have to wait the couple only see their daughter by skype the line is usually dead by day and by night for a little girl is fast asleep now the toddler often cools on nuffin and husband mommy and daddy. buddy in their own body in the every day she says mother body in the body in a syria or saudia in arabic. by.
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when she was in syria nuffin was a primary school teacher a mother and grandmother taught her how to embroider a traditional a deacon only but when she was a child now trying to make some money she works as a seamstress. sit by keep thinking about the people who are still there and i think about my relatives her mother and her father they're still there they're all still there. very few people could come here. my darling my sweetie how are you there how my sisters and i think ok i wish you good health. welcomes them renner the older brother's wife makes a point of calling her mother in damascus every day today is a special occasion because it's mother's day in syria in this day and usually we visit tears my sisters and my brother come to the home of the family of new
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research or to give out here on the north. island. i never believe something i do for my two three to search for the right. moment fuse because it should also i have. to study you a little bit of that in sr i can't see you. to get in when do you please move during the. free i mean you are in your heart of the water.
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there's a one says yes. to me. that in this self was it weapons and missiles i want the bullets to die because i want to see my friends and my families until i love and everyone because i don't have a lot of things like this. when i do that says i want to to make my lovely country seem to. make their sea lighter. to turn susie happy food.
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starting from the beginning this is much makes me feel lost i mean it's not the place the place a very much i like the area i don't feel strange i find people don't speak at least my native language if nothing lives and i although they learn some. of what you know. my eldest brother doesn't feel ready for a life in the countryside he works on a construction site like his brother. his consulting experience in i.t. and telecommunications spends twenty yes but because he's unable to speak russian he can't find a job not even in a big city like crescent that's why he travels to dubai to make a living but i hope that one day he'll take the children with him we have. to learn must. to leave the good life. in syria.
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if you. want to. you love you. you know i like relieved because there is a kill that. you feel good and all busy in. problem in the preferred. i don't want to come back to syria you know all i want to stay here. i think i will go back soon i will convince him to come back soon i still can't have great dreams here because my heart's still in ca. see.
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my own products like you a car you can drive up to nothing and it's really hard to drive and discard it when you still don't sound good job to buy a good car like in syria. pete . pete. earley lumber sands. learning. new york city. when they can't believe the older. did indignantly.
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on termite's we are on the last. lines around. this town syria. syria. they are minors. this is the first time the two zhang has brought the children here to let them see their new home. they plan to move the family from town after a month or so when the weather is warmer. this is not our room and this is true. but from my home and around the scene. as you see a lot of windows. we will consider this time becoming two years maybe
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a like time off from city life from working at the offices who you work with close to nature. this is who tried this experience we will see maybe we just. wanted the toilets going to be here. here. commander style bods and what's going to be here my mother that shut the door and don't touch anything there are no wiser just a whole oh that's how it's going to be. come here. it's an opportunity to live in peace away from noise away from home away from. fighting. pressure is made to come through the biggest country to war but it is similar to syria it's small pieces of four feet. leisure and nearly fifty's and early sixty's
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and they are. all living in peace this is a big action and all of life so it is not easy to change tools to redo it in a few years i thought this action you can do with one you will notice and reality and. wealthy british scientists sometimes surprise.
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