tv Documentary RT April 29, 2013 12:29pm-1:00pm EDT
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citizens. lie namely. that i am ones are similar all coming to russia. leave here because this is my all and. i my name is are not to come back to the lovely country when. my name is osama. i'm planning to stay in russia. to build new life in the. until just a year ago would never have thought of leaving damascus and building a new house in a small village in the tiny republican russia and the land of his ancestors when war broke out in the caucuses one hundred fifty years ago his grandfather and
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hundreds of thousands of of the gays with the port and sent to turkey jordan syria and other countries in the middle east now or has brought a summer to his ancestral home i have many alternatives my brother. i have lived in and i have some. but i prefer to come here because i think that there is a big prospectus maybe in the coming good twenty s. not now. many syrians like to this village in search of peace and other local people helping rebuild the house. people here told me that this house is empty can you accept to live here and. it's ok for me this is not the end of the war. asked his wife to stay for a while with the children in a rented flat and tell him he didn't want them to be put off by living in an unfinished house. we called this in syria must leave us to be
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a green facility in syria we like to do to this to lots. we are trying to find this it's freezing here it's not selfish. in syria nancy had everything she could dream of a villa on two floors with a nice looking gotten into 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 it's. on. this lever all. or. didn't explosion miss my kitchen. broke windows broke very sad because this is the only channel when dreams me you make enemies and banks keep.
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the syrian woman is a hero. she's trying to. trying to protect her probably. her house there. they are there syria and iran and syria too 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. it's not easy for you. so for a good. six
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months ago husband a small house in a leaky village he brought 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 me for marcelo. like leaving american people believe america and maybe
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michael feels like a border 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 lights and just killing each other nobody knows what i love to do with and i left my home go i left my job left my friends some family also still there we left our whole life. yes yes your. nine year old daughter can speak. russian
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she only knows arabic and neither her schoolmates nor her teachers can understand her. the 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 older children they two came from syria several months ago the language barrier prevents them from learning a standard curriculum a special classroom has been set aside for them yet now they're learning two languages at a time from scratch. to preserve national culture and for everyday communication knowing russian will help them achieve a higher education and find a good job in the future. the parents speak again because the older generation kept their mother tongue alive within the family younger parents though never suspected that the children would ever need to know their ancestral language until war broke
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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 instruction books i need to. know i don't have a choice i have a choice. like this no problem going to work or anything. my homeland. i love and. all the time you. brides and grooms join in the islamic and india gay folk dance the young women's
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graceful movements symbolize modesty submission and the beauty of the caucuses the men's role is to demonstrate the people's strength and dignity with them. 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 a great culture. 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 his dream of songs on stage and generational career as a singer. because singing i'm since it failed back home in damascus bill had instead gone to university to study graphics.
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when war broke out in syria we decided to move to again. russia was our choice we had thought of going to the land of our ancestors before but who are to compare resolved to go until the very start of the war before it could reach our home into 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 to 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 most of the syrian men who had to save their families from the horrors of war he added my corp 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
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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. in an organisation for migration. his wife and sons are staying at my called flood pays the rent from the meagre savings he could bring to the area but they'll last no longer than six months. they left behind a big house in damascus but he can sell it was almost continuous. you know i started all this that which are on my husband started because he knows english french arabic and actually it's didn't benefit us it was we learned what
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war. because we don't or we lack the writing language. with one lung. on someone or. someone. who. own they offered a home and we don't have to pay our rent or it's for saving money for us we're going to see what's wrong with killings little man being recalled short field . oh how close this only. if you're in. a few days ago it's well it was like. almost some war. but today when you actually it was
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a surprising because when i moved from the window i saw everything why it was snowing . and who. i was for minute when peace away from war they would learn russian and they would go to school go to university. and they would become russian citizens i think we will do. it some other time. download the official r.t. application to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from our touch if you're away from your television well it just doesn't
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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. in arabic example to follow their entrusted with ensuring a spiritual. compiled and dig a dictionary to preserve the culture and language of the idea. he finished at the same time as the serious 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. as daughter. keeps their family
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relics safe after one hundred fifty years the family has returned to where they were made. craftsman 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 the large extended family two year old girl's mother and father still in damascus. my sister came with her daughter three months ago 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 to scare her. mother works in the syrian section of the united nations visas are not as easy to
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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. mommy and daddy. there were many 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 there and grandmother taught her how to embroider traditional the deacon on it 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 i think about my relatives her mother and her father they're still there
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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 home of new research or to give out. love. and. i never believe that you are you for my two three
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hypersphere to die. my mom diffused because it could also i how. you would resist and you look at other in see your i can't see you there. so that in winter you please move during the. free army you are there i know you're part of the art. because it was c.b.s. . this old army. that built this cell was it
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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 ever look like this. when i see that says i want to to make ford my lovely country seem to. make. life. to turn susie happy food so. peaceful you know 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 a lot of people don't speak my native language if nothing lives and i although they learn some. of what you know.
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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 less and less to call it to leave the good life. the. little. you love you.
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you know i like relieved because there is a cure what. you feel with no all busy. problem in the trafford. i don't want to come back to syria you know 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 syria. still see. my own comrades and i like to call you can drive me nuts and it's really hard to drive and just got released so the town would jump to buy it with a car like in syria. meet. the t.v. meet the.
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luck first and. live. to see. when they can delete the older. did indignantly. on termite's we are on the last. lines around. this town series and very much they are mine. this is the first time but two john has brought the children here to let them see their new home. they plan to move the family from
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town after a month or so when the weather is warmer. but our room and this is true. but from my home. this is. being as you see a lot of windows. all. we will consider this time becoming two years maybe a like time off from city life from working at the office is who you work with close to nature. this is who try this experience we will see maybe we just. want to buy toilets going to be here. here. commando style buds and what's going to be here my mother that
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shut the door and don't touch anything there mama why is it just a hole oh that's how it's going to be. it's an opportunity to live in peace i hear from noise away from where you. are sure is meant to come through the biggest to war but it is similar to syria it's more like pieces for feel relief very clearly these are huge these. all living in peace this is a big action and all of life so it is nothing easy to change all tools to redo it to fuse i thought action you can do with one you know good.
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