tv Documentary RT April 30, 2013 9:29am-10:00am EDT
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download the official publication to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch all it see anytime anywhere. my name is off long. i am from syria and i head the war in syria. to war ends just i don't go to see my friends on my c.v. . my name is to show. i came here because i want for my children to live in
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peace and to be killed russian citizens. why named. him ones or some all coming to russia. leave here because why all. my name is it or not to come back to the lovely country when the war do we. my name is osama. i'm planning to stay in russia. to build new life here. 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
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war 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 of my brothers. i have to. have some. but i prefer to come here because i believe that there is a big prospectus in the economy. maybe in the coming tween teens not now. many syrians like i came to this village in search of peace and other local people helping rebuild the house. people he told me that this house is and he can you accept to leave. for me this is not the war. asked his wife to stay for a while with the children in
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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 really be a green facility in syria would you like me to list lots. we are trying to find this. reasoning here it's not set. in syria nancy had everything she could dream of a villa on two floors with a nice looking gotten 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 bomb didn't explosion miss my kitchen. broke windows broke the very sad because
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this is the only channel where dreams me to make ends meet and thanks came. to. the syrian woman is a hero. she's trying to. trying to take care of her leave. her house there. they are there syria and iran and syria. 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 why crying could not even. but you still so far get. your.
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fix months ago husband a small house in the 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.
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visit but america said no visa but. no problem for me for marcelo. like leaving american people believe. 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 no housing abide by you 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 live. in syria.
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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. who see what's happening to. people just light and just killing each other nobody knows what. and i left my house my go i left my job my friends some family also still there we left our whole life.
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yet you know his nine year old daughter can speak nor russian she only knows arabic and neither her schoolmates nor her teachers can understand her. adaptation for her was more difficult than 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 are 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 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 because the older generation kept their
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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. 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. the. choice i have a choice. like this war. to work or anything. i
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love and. all the time you. know. brides and grooms join in the islam and the doogie folk dance the young women's graceful movements symbolize modesty submission and the beauty of the courses of men's role is to demonstrate the people's strength and dignity well. being to all of the countries where the id diaspora settles jordan syria and turkey they have 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 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
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dreamed of perform. state forging a professional career as a singer because her singing ambitions had failed back home in damascus bill had instead gone to university to study graphics. when war broke out and syria decided to move to again. russia was our choices 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 two thousand. 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 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 too. i'm not. doing. as i can. push and i like. i was walking. in and. for me creation. his wife staying in a michael. pays the rent from the meager savings he could bring from syria but no
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longer than six months. they left behind a big house in damascus but he can sell it as long as to be a continuous. you know i started all this better on my husband started economy he knows english french arabic and actually it's didn't benefit us because we learned what war. because we don't already lacking the russian language. on someone or. someone. who shot 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 there to see what's lou we can still. recall sure feels. like produce
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our. oh how close this also works well what's the plan doing. a few days ago it's it was like it's. almost song or. what to do when you actually it was a surprising because when i moved from being joyce so everything why it was snowing . and who. i want 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 would become russian citizens i think we will do. it some other time and we.
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for said my grandfather was among those driven from the country after the caucasian war now we are returning i'm happy but also worried about what's happening in syria it's where i was born and where i have many close friends yet oh oh oh oh oh. oh. oh i've done my scars 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 on him up in arabic means example to follow their entrusted with ensuring a spiritual education. i have compiled an arabic i dig a dictionary to preserve the culture and language of the idea. is a cordial he finished at the same time as the war in syria started that's why we
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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 relics safe after one hundred fifty years the family has returned to where they were made cook asian craftsman produced all of these items by hand. everything we have is there all of our houses are there we didn't sell anything we brought nothing except for them. the biggest treasure they had to leave behind in syria was several members of their large extended family this 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
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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 calls on nuffin and her husband mommy and daddy. buddy into their own body 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 mother and grandmother taught her how to embroider
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traditional or do you know why but then 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 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 in. the home of the family of you all talk about. their. last.
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and. i never believe that you are you for my two dream hypersphere to die. my mom would refuse because it could also i how. you would resist and you would have never been seen here i can't see you there. to get in when do you please. don't they. feel free i mean you are you know you're part of the being the are.
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because it was sylvia. this old army. that think this self was it with every song i want the votes to die 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 listen to it says i want to make ford my lovely country seem to. make your c.v. lighter. to turn susie had before it was.
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you know starting from the beginning this is much makes me feel lost i mean it's not the place of place a very much i like the area i don't feel strange i find a lot of people don't speak at least my native language if nothing listed by all of them some. want to 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 because 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 do it to leave the good life. as a. city i love. you in.
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your love you. you know i like really because there is a kilt and you feel good and all busy no 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 you because you can drive nothing and it's really hard
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series. very very much they are mine. this is the first time the two john 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. but our room this is true this is from. the scene. in which. 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
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who you work with close to nature. this will try this experience we will see maybe we just. go to bed toilets going to be here. here. commander style buds and what's going to be here moment i think that shut the door and don't touch anything there are no lines or just a whole oh that's how it's going to be. it's an opportunity to work in peace away from noise away from home or if. fighting. pressure is made to come through the biggest country to war but it is similar to syria it's more like pieces for feel very clearly these. and it is and they are. all living in peace this is
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