members of this community gather on a mountain that they say sacred to see that man who claims to be the modern christ .

a week before going to siberia we visited the belgorod region to meet lugo flood talking a form of a syrian follower she's one of very few former members of the sect willing to talk about her experience. and i first heard about it when i was in st petersburg they showed a film that affected me deeply and i cried so hard you wouldn't believe what the film was about humility and pride and it really worked in my mind but it didn't say anything about him being christ accept it as an ecovillage but the spiritual side is destructive is a u.f.o. enthusiasts and it occurred to him sometimes that he was the second coming to. you both explains how she finally came to join the community she worked as a physiotherapist there she gives confused accounts as if we looked in to discuss the hardest part of her own personal heartbreak when she left the community in the siberian tiger seven years ago a daughter to chose to stay behind yep all i bought this house for my daughter she

wasn't married then she left her first husband and had nowhere to live so i thought i should keep. this can be a living room this could be a kitchen. the air here is so beautiful and of course i'm waiting for my daughter and her family. tatiana lives in the so called dorm coaster that's what vissarion followers call the sacred mountain where only the most devout members may live it's a kind of a monastery where they celebrate a major religious event the fusion with the teacher it takes place every year on the eighteenth of august and we hope to to tend. i know.

tanya. well tell me how you were my little grandson. i wanted to ask you why don't you mayfair all of you leave you alone bring all the kids and come alone and help if you ask me to be a ball boy i don't like i don't like. being cut off i know all. of. this is petra power of the largest village in the area largely populated by followers of the sorry on this church of the last testament. we were to spend two days here before going to the mountain to see the man known as the teacher almost everyone in petra is a member of the religious community meat fish and poultry are strictly forbidden

here only dr terry and food is allowed although milk and eggs once banned have recently been accepted it's easy to tell the followers from the village locals by their appearance and dress. i remember them walking around there is if in some kind of world the women wore long beautiful dresses they seem to glide through the village with the blessed eyes and smiles and of course i could see there was something not quite right with their minds. but there were people from garia from it to the america from germany. tom clark a student from britain has stopped by this place on his way from australia well

should i should i expect. that would be nice. because i'm curious. it's impossible to reach the mountain needed first time visitors especially journalists and foreigners have to meet one of the syrians closest associates led to new delhi cuff for an introductory meeting. with. talk about syria no. matter what you don't think that he's god is just the representative god is god's word on the right yes of the word of god on earth is he a reincarnation of jesus knows yes ok person was really hard for me because why are you saying it's christ that makes

a lot of enemies and things and i was looking looking deeper i couldn't find the answer and i did after a while and then i don't want to have the answer to these questions because no one here knows no one can got to say yes he's the christ it's just a belief christ. originally from belgium guert who's lived here for ten years was the first person we met in petra probably. he married here and as he puts it himself found peace of mind i was travelling before i was always looking for plus there because of the one thing because i wanted the family and i want to clean things in my own i want to clean air clean nature green water earth. at first garrett worked as a carpenter but two years ago he contract it and so full light as from a tick bite. his hands were partially paralyzed and he lost flexibility in his

wrist. garrett had to give up woodworking he and his wife have three children who all live in the village. talking is going to st petersburg to visit the grandchildren from her daughter's first marriage they stayed with their father after thirty on the left for siberia she also wants to see the man who helped her through the psychological effects of her life with the sari on community we went to learn more of her inside story about the sect and what motivated her to join the new religion. at first i had no idea it was a sect i went there to work and when i finally arrived on the mountain i started to see things more clearly. i began to understand it it was a sect and not just an orthodox community.

this is the main church for the community and petra powell of. were invited to attend a wedding performed by one of the brotherhood priests. i don't think these people just get. to move to clean air and they're here for the to turn to have the same opinion as i have i don't know exactly in the same room and

i'm sure it's connect them to teacher. of the choir but are there was a room especially on the mountain when you hear the bells ring and you have to stand still and listen. to what they did it wasn't physical work well providing for the family. even growing vegetables that was considered important. the crucial thing was to bake with the teacher said he's go. on and do the people who believe that. or society as we know is coming to some kind of end. the size as we now know it whether we believe it or not that ship that can carry on the way it does now. they said there will be a great flood and i wouldn't be able to return. ashamed to say it now i believed it

but i was confused by what they said it was you can take any aspect of human life and society and it doesn't matter what you look at you can clearly see that the process of destruction is underway. i had to save my grandchildren well they would die that's what made me tell my daughter come here come here i used the exact words that had said to me. you know i thought it was pretty interesting the fact that so many people have made the effort to move out and their lives i mean you know it's going to be quite a hard thing to do and i don't know i want to know outcomes are in fact i want to say why do so many people believe it. tom. if you want to ask the teacher anything. i mean you can write it down tonight in

question format. let me translate. if the teacher considers them. maybe you will have a chance to meet him along with the other guys so. give it some thought. some questions. wealthy british style. markets find. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two kinds of reports. according to

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next settlement. is just ten kilometers away it was in the early one nine hundred ninety s. that many followers started to come here from all over the former soviet union now there are nearly five thousand. they also bear apartments in big cities to settle here after following their teacher to siberia since then a local house prices have rocketed several times over from petra public a village it's sixty kilometers to the sacred mountain. she would use needle today anyone who wants to come here is very well come on up anyone can come and buy a plot of land and build a house but there's no question about that across. the road from petra pall of qur'an through the taiga there's no electricity in the remote final village before the mountain the road ends at a small car park. from here followers must begin their climb to the dawn cloister

where they will be part of the ritual fusion with their teacher they have to walk through four kilometers of thick mud and slush. of film crew was given special dispensation and headed for the mountain only only a vehicle able to travel and headed to this quagmire a swamp buggy. will finally arrive in the wooden gates of the dong cloister where visitors are greeted by the local guards the followers have a unique style of genuflection before passing through the gate adding a circle to symbolize they unity of all religions.

yeah i tried to convince her to try to prove that it was a sect but it's dangerous that she had to leave it was a study she had lost her mind she just wouldn't listen. in the left of this aryan brotherhood in two thousand and five as a true christian she regrets her years spent in siberia and still feels guilty about bringing her daughter into what she began to realize was a cult. she owned

a studio flat in st petersburg she sold that to settle down in siberia she met her second husband. another child with him. we met on the day we arrived at the mountain she and her husband were taking part in a liturgy at the sacred symbols at the heart of the settlement it seemed they had already heard of our early a meeting with you bush they were clearly not keen to talk to us. i really don't know why don't you come in for tea or something. we accepted her invitation left the camera running and went into the house the couple did not want to be filmed. tiana and her new family live in a much bigger house than the one in belgrade that lou board has bought for her.

thank god i have a house that's big enough for more than just tatiana. there are people who sold the city flats and now they have nowhere to go some have even cut of all contact with relatives and have no want to go back to i mean. i have two grown up children they have been here they leave with their father. how can a woman especially a mother who abandoned two children. when they were just six and ten and a half years old say she is happy. i feel comfortable here i know there are many good people in other places but people find special things that are important to them i'm not here for the nature but because of the way people treat each other. people here in the don't course to come from diverse backgrounds adrian castro is a physicist who lives on the mountain with his wife and three children he was

always interested in the esoteric. secret of. your time scuba i'm from cuba a socialist country where that sort of thing is banned but i was still interested in the one nine hundred ninety s. i was a student at hopkins state university i studied physics and mathematics in those days was so young traveled around the soviet union or you. or your they held meetings in big holes and people came to listen to his teaching or looking over to you that's how i found out about his message your. religion and faith shouldn't just be decoration in your life it should be your life where. i think that's why we came here to be a part of life in the community like that where we try to live in harmony with nature grow our own vegetables and to produce our own food.

for. the summer grind above all and we try to make our life for the community as if it was one big family and that's the most important thing. as a faithful member of the community adrian must open up his own home for the night to guess who will attend the festival. here. at five o'clock in the evening the faithful begin to make their way to fusion valley on the mountain where exactly seven pm they will it last set eyes on the man they have made the journey to see.

at first glance the procession might resemble a well directed performance every say stone reveals just how serious the civil end is for each one of the followers. down. and. down. from. and lead the second meant to unite us with the spirits unites us with christ. was our teacher so be it was.

as the fusion begins followers try to achieve a spiritual connection with this area that teacher. can see and he used to say that he had god's energy running through him. and that through the fusion he was sending that holy energy to his fellow is. so that they would be perfect so much as spiritually. and physically. right.

the following day we hear that the sari on has agreed to meet tom clarke a british tourist and for his questions we were invited to that meeting as well accompanied by eight. well when i came here i i just thought i was coming and see everything and i spoke to yesterday and he asked me. if i wanted to have some questions for. maybe i'd get a chance to meet him so there's a prospect i'd be very interested. by that but it would be interesting i mean that's really why i came you know to see what he's all about. this area and agree to meet us in the house his most trusted apostle. the.

political leader. we get ready in a room overlooking this aryans mansion and wait for his appearance. his nvidia's house is appear much bigger and more luxurious than any of the other homes here on the mountain. and the man who calls himself god's envoy on earth turns out to be quite down to earth. he willingly and all of his foreign guests questions. the teacher must not return in the same body. when the time comes for him to say something. he must be reborn into the same life experience as the people around him . and is there any reason why. you even

arrived. in russia in the russian language. because conditions here are the most favorable some of the psychological state of society you physical condition of the earth because during this period surface will undergo significant changes i came here to lay the foundations for the salvation of mankind and this was the most suitable place. after her trip to st petersburg you both travel to the town of dead just outside moscow. she's come to meet father on the twenty biggest if he works to rehabilitate people

who have been cast off from society. bless you my child you know are you let me give you a hug. here was achieved all the goals that you blessed really. churches in siberia and a death or a refuge. how is the sect. the members bad really he once helped you worf to find her own path after leaving the sect. inevitably she also wanted to talk about her daughter tatiana. she got married and had a baby and then came to st petersburg. we met and we went to church to baptize the child. at first she seemed quite positive about it but in the end she left. without even saying goodbye to me or the children.

people that came to you what kind of physical state where they. of course the thing is they were all mentally ill. they had developed a variety of psychological problems that very often sadly ended with. complete isolation from society is never ever good for people. it is a. i still to save my daughter. safer in ways that only you know i. know you think she will come back i know it and i will wait. even if it means i must wait. until my dying day.

on june sixteenth one thousand forty one we had a graduation party at school and the war broke out. the shops were always full of goods. but in september leningrad was blocked. one day mom went and saw that all the shelves were empty. in november they bombed the warehouses it was the main storage place for all the food in the city people eating the earth because it had small traces of

sugar in it i tried to eat it as well but i couldn't. look at that was incredibly heavy bombing. it was a direct hit on that very shelter and everyone was buried underneath. all of them went dead. the. gentleman i guess you all know why. did you feel. you've got a few hundred a day come across it honestly. this is a good school for this cause we've got people coming in with criminals

we've got people from it who knows where in the world this is a united states. i'm very told by the way you go to sure that i was worried that they'd be in the know. to live on mars you know. so we picked up things like. we know they're coming from the middle east concentration. concentration tree journey we've got it was the one not even one of the schools the fact that. a stranger.

today's headlines and a roundup of the week's top stories hundreds of policemen are allowed to leave the besieged convention center in kiev meanwhile the president's offer to opposition leaders to head the government is left hanging in the air and that intensifying riots across the country's west. syria's government and the opposition hold their first talks since the start of the civil war it's been her altered by diplomats as a major step forward. to seeing that stand have to leave and we have to live we can't give up as bullets fly overhead we visit a maternity unit in syria where mothers and doctors have chosen life in the face of the destruction that surrounds them.