tv Documentary RT May 5, 2013 2:29am-3:01am EDT
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no power whatsoever it will be their chance to shine light on the issue which the mainstream media has been keeping quiet for years you know you'd think people would be outraged over segregation what happens to russians and russian speakers it's just not cool or hip or trendy or convenient enough for the mainstream media to take notice but that's just my opinion. i am from. the war in syria i like to. just go to see my friends. my name is.
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i came here because i want for my children to live in peace and to be killed russian citizens. and that i am ones are. coming to russia. here because my all and. i my name is are not to come back to the lovely country wind. my name is osama. i'm planning to stay in russia to build a new life here. 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 the tiny republican russia and the land of his ancestors when war broke out in the caucasus one hundred fifty years ago his grandfather and hundreds of thousands of a dog 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. my brother. 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. told me that this house is and. to leave. this is
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not the war. his wife to stay for awhile 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 like we do to this to go clubs so we are trying to find this it's freezing here it's not selfish. 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 sound didn't
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explosion miss my kitchen door broke windows broke very sad because this is the only channel where dreams me me me can be stamped by scan. the syrian woman is a hero. she's trying to. trying to protect their families. her house her. career her syria and everything and she had 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
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crying so if it's not easy for you to forget. you are. to go see. six months ago. a small house in a dk 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
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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 the american people believe may be freed and. peace. for me no i don't think it was. destroying syria and not see it we don't believe hundred percent of. the syrian people are not doing. what causing abide by the might for. you we 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. who see what's happening to. people just fight 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. see as nine year old daughter can speak. russian she only knows arabic and neither her schoolmates nor her teachers can understand her. the 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. and has 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 two languages at a time from scratch. and he turn to preserve national culture and for everyday communication
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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 mother tongue alive within the family younger parents 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. is. 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 the. choice i have a choice. like this war. to work or anything. i
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love and. all the time. 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 of men's role is to demonstrate the people's strength and dignity. to all of the countries where the 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
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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. 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 bill had instead gone to university to study graphics. when war broke out in syria we decided to move again. 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 mask. 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
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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 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 as finance manager.
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for me creation. his wife and some just staying in a michael plot the summer pays the rent from the meager savings he could bring from syria but they'll last longer than six months fay left behind a big house in damascus but he can't sell it as long as the war continues. you know i started all this better. my husband started economy he knows english french arabic and actually didn't visit us was we learned what war. because we don't or we lack the russian language you. want and what. they offered a home we don't have to pay our rent or for saving money for us
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we will go to see what's wrong with things we'll. recall sure. and. few days ago it's it was like. almost some were. to do. actually it was a surprise me because when i looked from the window i saw everything why knowing. who. i want for my children to live in peace away from war they would learn russian and they would go to school go to university. they will become russian citizens i think we will do. it some other time.
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my grandfather was among those driven from the country. 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. 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
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asked him to be. in arabic example to follow their entrusted with ensuring a spiritual education. have compiled an arabic dig a dictionary to preserve the culture and language of the idea. 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 a degree language and at the same time themselves know the arabic language. as daughter and often 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
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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 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 enough in a toast and mommy and daddy.
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buddy in 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 traditional the deacon on the boats 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 are i think ok i wish you
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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 very day usually do you visit tear my sisters and my brother in. the home of the family you received or to give out any noise very. loud. and. i never leave you i leave for my to this room too scared to die. my mom diffused because it could also i have. you are a sister you are the brother in syria i can't see you. so that in winter
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you please move during the. free out of me you out in that i know your heart of the art. because it was c.b.s. . is it me. 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.
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when i do that says i want to to make forward my lovely country sea to. make their sea lighter. to turn susie happy food. peaceful you know starting from the beginning this is what's makes me feel 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 at least my native language if nothing less 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.
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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. to there must. to leave the good life. in sydney are. you. planning. your lunar new. year. you know i like relieved because there is a kill that. you feel good and all busy nor. a problem in the trafford. i don't want to come back to syria you know i want to stay here.
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i think i will go back so 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 car it's like you a car you can drive it nothing it's really hard to drive and discard it when you still though it's not that good job to buy it with a car like in syria. pete. pete.
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actually looks like their son. learning. to see. when they can't believe the older and older. missed it entirely. on two minds we are on the last. lines around. this town series and very 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 town after a month or so when the weather is warmer. this
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is not our room and this is true. but from. the same. thing 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 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 moment i think that shut the door and don't touch anything there are no lines or just a hole oh that's how it's going to be. come here. it's an
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opportunity to work in peace away from noise away from homes away from. fighting. pressure is made to come through the biggest country to war but it is similar to syria it's small as a beast. four feet. nearly fifty's and early thirty's and they are. all living in this this is a big action and all of them are so it is not easy to change or to redo it in a few years i thought this action you can do with one you will notice a new reality.
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huge area covered. breaking news here on this morning a second reported israeli air strike on syria in less than forty eight hours supposedly targets of. syrian state t.v. claims twelve missiles. thank you for joining us here today a very busy sunday morning i hope you can stay with us for the breaking news here on the program. let's get straight to a syrian state t.v. has said that israel syria overnight has been confirmed by a u.s. official that the strike supposedly targeted a military were so.
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