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tv   Documentary  RT  April 29, 2013 6:29am-7:00am EDT

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kill russian citizens. because. my name is or not. to the lovely. i'm planning to stay in russia. to build a new life in russia here. until just a year ago would never have thought of leaving damascus and building a new house in a small village in a tiny republican russia and the land of his ancestors when war broke out in the caucuses one hundred fifty years ago his grandfather and hundreds of thousands of a
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degrees and sent to keep jordan syria and other countries in the middle east now has brought a twist of fate. to return to his ancestral home i have. my brother. but i prefer to come here because i believe that there is a big prospect in the economy. maybe in the coming twenty s. not now. many syrians like i came to this village in search of peace they and other local people helping rebuild the house. people here told me that this house is empty can you accept to live here. for me this is not the end of the war.
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we pulled this in syria must lead us to be a green facility in syria we like to do to this to lots so we are trying to find this. reasoning here it's not selfish. in syria nancy 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 sound didn't explosion miss my kitchen door broke windows broke would be very sad because
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this is the only channel where dreams me me me me me and banks came. to. the syrian woman is a hero. she is trying to. trying to protect her closely. her husband larry. they are there syria and iran and syria to under control about everything and we don't have that possibility to do that much we are fighting to save 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
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are. to go see you. 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. 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
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me for marcelo. like leaving an american people believe america and maybe freedom and. peace. for me no i don't think it was. destroying. beyond belief hundred percent of. the syrian people are not doing. what. michael my friend you will always believe that god maybe will give us a better life because we are seeing god with people who want to complete our life.
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feels like a blow to 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. to see what's happening to. people all just life and just killing each other nobody knows why i left and i left my home go i left my job my friends some family also still there we left our whole life.
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yet you thought these nine year old daughter can speak. russian she only knows arabic and neither her schoolmates nor her teachers can understand her. adaptation for her was more difficult then for the others she had a hard time kept to herself and said nothing in our language she would simply sit in silence. to study with older children to 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 two languages at a time from scratch they'll need the tongue to preserve national culture and for every day communication knowing russian will help them achieve a higher education and find a good job in the future. to parents speak of deep because the older generation
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kept their mother tongue alive within the family younger parents though never suspected that the child 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. mum's 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 i need to. know i don't have a choice i have a choice. like this war no problem going to work or anything.
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and. all the time you. hear. brides and grooms join in the islam a gay folk dance the young women's graceful movements symbolize modesty submission and the beauty of the caucuses the men's role is to demonstrate the people's strength and dignity well. we've been to all of the countries where the id diaspora settles 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 ten years ago visited my cup from syria there was a folk culture festival taking place in the capital at the time since then she has dreamed of. performing folk songs on stage and forging a professional career as
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a singer because her singing ambitions had failed back home in damascus a bit how did stead gone to university to study graphics. when war broke out in syria we decided to move to. russia was our choice of course we had thought of going to the land of our ancestors before but who aren't completely resolved to go until the very start of the war before it could reach our home into mass. 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. husband is an economics graduate but
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like 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 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 too. i'm not. doing. as i can. push and i like. i was walking. for. his wife staying in a michael. pays the rent from the meager savings he could bring from syria but they
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are no longer than six months. they left behind a big house in damascus but he can sell it as long as ten years so. you know i started all this better on my husband started becoming like he knows english french arabic and actually it's didn't benefit us because we learned what war. because we don't or we're lacking the russian language. with one lung. on someone or. someone. who. own they offered a home we don't have to pay our rent or for saving money for us we will go to see what's wrong with kids little red being recalled short field. produce hours we're going to be. yes only. and seen.
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a few days ago it's well it was like spring. almost so or. what to do when you actually it was a surprise me because when i moved from the window i saw everything why agents knowing. who. i was for my children to live in peace away from war they would learn russian and they would go to school we go to university. they will become russian citizens i think we will do. it some other time on week.
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well. i think going down of the sun and good morning we will remember that we will be there.
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the international airport in the very heart of moscow. for he said my grandfather was among those driven from the country after caucasian
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war now we are returning i'm happy but also worried about what's happening in syria . and why i have 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. a big example to follow there entrusted with ensuring a spiritual education. compiled and dig a dictionary to preserve the culture and language of the. ones he finished at the 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
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at the same time themselves know the arabic language. as daughter. keeps their family relics safe after one hundred fifty years the family has returned to where they were made. produced all of these items by hand. 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 in syria was several members of their 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 go back to syria 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.
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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 calls on nuffin and her husband mommy and daddy. there were nobody in the every day she says mother body in the body in a syria or saudia in arabic. but. by. when she was in syria nuffin was a primary school teacher a mother and grandmother taught her how to embroider traditional the 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
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there 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. home i mean you don't resort to give out. their. last.
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and. i never believe i leave for my choosing hypersphere to die. my mom diffused because it could also i how. you would resist and you would have never been seen here i can't see you. so that in winter you please move during the. free out of me you are you know your heart of the water. because it was c.b.s.
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. this old army. that think this self was it let's listen i want the votes today because i want to see my friends and my family's. lawyer love and everyone because i don't have a lot of things like this. when i see that says i want to to make ford my lovely country seated she is she make your seat lighter. to turn susie abby forward so. we're starting from the beginning this is much makes me feel lost i mean it's not the place to place a very much i like the area i don't feel strange i find
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a lot of people don't speak at least my native language if nothing less and i already learned some russian words. so 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 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 the children must learn must to call it to. good life as a. little. of the. little. you love you.
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you know i like really because there is a cure that. you'll feel good and all busy in the. problem in the preferred. i don't want to come back to theory 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 c. . still see. my own cards and i like you because you can drive me nuts it's really hard to drive and discard it when you still don't sound good jumped by a good car like in syria. pete
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. pete. actually looks like her son. leo aren't you. when they can't believe the older. did indignantly. on termites we are on the last. lines around. this town syria. very very much they are mine.
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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. you know our route and this is true. but from my home town this is. as you see a lot of windows. we will consider this time becoming two years maybe a like time off from city life from working at the offices who work where clause to nature. says will try this experience we will see maybe we just. want to buy toilets going to be here.
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here. commander style bods and what's going to be here my mother that shut the door and don't touch anything there mama why is it 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. russia is meant to come through the biggest country to war but it is similar to syria it's small as a piece of four feet relieved. nearly fifty's and early sixty's. all living in peace this is a big action and all of life so it is not easy to change tools but you do it in a few years i thought this action you can do with one of the.
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but. i felt. that speech. which i. took. a lot of good
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will. come out of a lot of a little. welcome to teal one i hear you can feel at home. there are three choices in life the first is to work in a mckillop go to live on a miserable way like a slave. for a second just to jump the wall and catch the american dream for most of their cars and lose their lives or. the other choice is to become
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a number of an organisation and get inside the growing trade. to buy something i will never forget. we're going to move you did a fine paid for what i've done i was never stopped paying.
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