He would start aug 7th d. W. Music they call me al tangere a. Movie. Where my ancestors were nomads who played in for 20 years i have lived with my own family and the staff herding our cattle. Cut. It up to be able to be specially our music is about mongolian history and our customs these are our never ending sources in the song because the whole school and on. That ever since i was a child i had visionary of the northeast and could sense the spirits of nature. To me through mongolia and its capital with. The stars in the mountainous north of the country will follow the tracks of the trans monk. Early in railways self across the vastness of the step and after about 800 kilometers reach the gobi desert and the buddhist hum our money straight. To it was. A dire one station our 1st stop art from a communist past merges with contemporary adverting. Dark one is the 3rd largest city in mongolia it was built in 1961 with most of support from the former soviet union and its name is no coincidence darkened means blacksmith and reflects the importance of the city for metal and heavy industry. Tourists are rarely seen in this big cities train station. The no frills building was designed for commuters and travelling merchants in the metropolis with its hundreds of thousands of inhabitants. Darshan is a transport hub that connects regional routes with the Trans Mongolian Railway towards alon barter and further onto the chinese border. Anyone taking this train to the capital however should allow plenty of time. The train takes over 7 hours to cover the almost 250 kilometers because of the many stops along the way. Moreover the Railway Infrastructure is not up to european standards. The train attendants where kristi uniforms they are responsible for checking the tickets directly at the carriage door and they take their jobs extremely seriously. In mongolia respect and all thought are important principles that must be observed. Meanwhile its announced over a loudspeaker that it is strictly forbidden to take any moments including dead ones on the journey because the fear of the mongolian delicacy usually harbors flares which are regarded as carriers of the play. Was only about 3000000 people live in mongolia a country more than 4 times the size of germany. Its huge distances and vastness can be sensed through the train window. And you also physically notice mongolias altitude a quarter of the country is between 2003000 meters above sea level. Travel is should therefore allow themselves a little time for climate has ation. It halfway between their han and lumbar the 1st hills of the 20. The mountains begin. To mountain ranges considered the birthplace of the greatest mongolian of all times. Abroad the name genghis khan is mostly associated with conquests brutality and virility but here in mongolia it mainly stands for political savvy. The founder of the mongolian empire is considered to have been a patron of trade education art and culture. Freedom of religion is one of his most important legacies even today christians buddhists muslims and adherents to mongolian shamanism practice their religions peacefully side by side. Sharman islam is the oldest religion in mongolia. While. Ancient symbols such as the swastika or sun we all want to end all supposed to pave the way for the shaman to reach the spirits. This religious decoration which was hijacked by germany as a symbol of the nazis can be found in its original sense as a spiritual symbol of luck everywhere mongolia. But. Not the meaning they are through my transfer as i made contact with the spirits of the mountains on the water. That they have found my ways to be good and just. Therefore they do me the honor of showing me the right path. Mongolian shamanism combines medicine and the worship of nature and ancestors. As sherman is responsible for the welfare of their tribe. Through contacting the spirits and speaking with the voice of the deceased while in trance they try to show their community the right path for the future. Of. The battle of. Pearl where the ancestors really speak through the shelmon remains a question of faith with god like with every religion. But the bus home but on a bus or not everyone can be a sham an advantage if you do not appoint yourself as a shaman and just do something or this would send people on a wrong path and detach the soul from the body all false romanism is therefore even harmful. For all but unfortunately it happens quite often with they will be a genius does that inform with that mistake when. Sacrificial rituals such as the milk sacrifice are meant to appease the gods. For sherman is a balance between man and nature must be preserved and the growing economic interests in mongolia are a dangerous aberration. Marked for higher. Up than at present people are digging in the air of all over they dont even care about sacrificial mounds theyre not respected and theyre not even being rebuilt warranting this maple are drilling digging and destroying things its very difficult everywhere. I want to go i travel through western mongolia and saw that many creeks and rivers there have disappeared that dried up. This is because people do not respect the earth which is probably why we shamans are also there to save nature and at least thats my belief that thats got to soon but only god can. We follow the line further towards. The train is usually the faster and more comfortable choice in mongolia. Roads here are not comparable with asphalt streets in europe vast areas of the country have not yet been developed at all. On the other hand there is a very good chance of meeting her its a free range cattle. Over distances of several kilometers the animals often alone without their nomadic owners search for the best grazing grounds in the barren landscape. They have to build up their body weight as much as possible during the few summer months the hard mongolian winter often begins in august already when the 1st. Snow frequently falls. Due to the so. Travel times among early are very long even on the train the Railway Infrastructure and many of the vehicles are decades old. Despite the beautiful landscape after a good 7 hours ride from dar han to the capital and bus our passengers tend to be pleased to finally arrive. At. The big city lackluster concrete buildings welcome the guests even though cool say you cant help but love mongolia but he can only endure us are. We learn better our Central Station is the largest Railway Station in the country and was opened in the 1938. To this day it remains an important have for national and International Traffic in the heart of mongolia. The train is the most important means of transport in the country not only for tourists and commuters local retailers also use the affordable rail connections to neighboring countries such as russia and china. Has to be touched i. Was. Asked a very long Shopping Trips hundreds of them arrive with new goods in every day. From here they transport their purchases to the shops and kiosks in the capital where they will sell them. Almost half of mongolias population about 1500000 people lives in a land. The Economic Center of this land rich in Natural Resources is currently experiencing an enormous boom. In the metropolis is considered a symbol of a wealthy growth oriented mongolia. In recent years hundreds of thousands of people have come here to try their luck so few have become successful. And yes he is experiencing the greatest rule exodus it has ever seen. Young people in particular dont want to be inferior to the west but they also dont want to be inferior to the asian name this. Field considered traditional nomadic life as a viable future for. The region already talked about that in time the new john good we have a song that deals with rapid Technological Progress and in particular reflects the moment when too much technological optimization has occurred here to you to get back to you good at this point what humans look for a place to slow down and return to nature and the origins of life. This is an Important Message that we want to give to the people he said especially to the Mongolian Youth so they. Get to. Look at most of symmetry in the middle of. The banjo known its a backdrop that symbolizes an entire generation spheres for the future. They selves deal with Environmental Protection unemployment and also the danger. This of Runaway Technology is ation. However they find their musical means and the old legends traditions and characteristics sounds of a mongolian culture. Junkie to give a little of the name john often is closely connected with the history of the horsehead fiddle. National instrument he told his meetings with the. Local mongolians have always said that there was a very kind hearted man who owned a black horse named john not i would say to it since it might mean that when it died one day when he wanted to honor it and built the 1st horse head fiddle and its image was yes. Used its bones the tail and mane and he made. It whenever the longing seized him people but he played on it and he remembered his black horse john on hard money to send him on the way to. The musicians represents a young and confident mongolia internationally as well as members of a young generation who went in search of their own cultural identity and found their place in the world. Gave her. Mom a woman the little. Woman with the mother of all the gear was a. Ball of balm a woman with a of we hope that in the future people will remember our band of joan known for successfully having passed through. Mongolian music onto younger generations in a profound way i took away from this was this a bad negative. In so much of the q that is our wish to him and that is what we hope our musical achievement will be. Offered as it would end with this to get to. The 2nd leg of our journey takes us from the capital on bastar along the Trans Mongolian Railway to the city of chere 250 kilometers away in the heart of the mongolian step. One bottle or Central Station 7 am. A real hero is waiting for the train to chair. Good as dead is the only mongol so far who has travelled into space. Since his space flights in 1981 he has been treated like a superstar in his country. The retired air force Major General was also the countrys minister of defense until 2004. However most mungle see him 1st and foremost as a heroic cosmonaut. Rhythms and then for the 1st place followed by a mongolian was a significant moment for our people and will stay a part of mongolian history as an important event these days young people learn about her from newspapers and magazines from radio and television from their parents relatives and siblings. As a result of mongolians are firmly into their memories. On the. Seeing him. Even in retirement the Major General still has very little free time. He regularly speaks at events on military history about his experiences as a Research Cosmonaut on the soviet so years 39 Space Mission and about his 8 day stay on the sa youth 6 day station good actor just dead to me dean was awarded the title cosmic hero of mongolia to honor his career hes the only living mongolian to hold it. But ill be. Done with anything to go with it but the dream nor will i try not to give myself so much importance. What have i done so far what are my achievements i mean about the job that i dont really think about myself that way or ask those types of questions i have to think about the think its not the sex that matters to me is that i want to remain the same person i was before i went into space i thought of the said. Back then mark spaceship commander and friend buddy mir are xander bridge trying to back off said to me after space travel youll have many new friends but you please dont forget your old once. They get i still think about his words to this day but its not on which is why i want the public to see me as i really yeah. How to get to sing with sally if you want to check. The cosmonaut is a role model for his fellow countryman someone they respect even though they recognize that his feats were idealized in soviet propaganda. His ride on the train has been announced the entire train crew and even the cook know the famous space traveler will be on board. The cook is actually a star chef who was assigned just for this journey. It will be up to him to make a top quality me will in the few square metre kitchen on the wobbling train. Will be serving delicious dumplings and potato salad to the cosmic hero. Dumplings are filled with beef and tasty modern town who should make fantastic dumplings. The chef does not pass up the opportunity to serve his hero the food in the dining car personally. The potato salad served is actually made according to a german recipe. Its a calendar left over from the times of International Friendship between mongolia and east germany. The trans mongolian express takes a good 3 hours to get each share in the province of god his number deep in the mongolian step. Them idiom is no stranger to the city until the early 1990 s. Both soviet and Mongolian Air force bases were located in the region around so the station was strategically important to the retired cosmonaut knows it well. This is why the station staff in by. At their celebrity guest to join them they proudly record this historic moment. Did you know. Nowadays the 72 year old increasingly looks back not only on his achievements but also on his roots as a simple known that. He had not the most of us on the mongols have actually been watching the skies in space from the very early our son was with him if he took our long history shows that weve used celestial bodies to navigate by for thousands of years. Moreover to survive as a pastoral man nomadic people. We have to be able to foresee the vagaries of the weather and thats why the mongolians always directed their gaze and thoughts toward the celestial bodies and so. Hot out long. While the trance Mongolian Railway continues on its meandering course towards the chinese border. We stay a little longer in the wild blooming step the rancher. I. I. I for centuries nomadic castle breeding has been the mainstay of the entire region. Camel herds roam their Natural Environment freely us 2 horses sheep or goats. The step landscape around mount simba about 50 kilometers from church is known for its fertile ground. This is where all tangere al has settled for most of the year the nomads horses live wild. They have to withstand winters with temperatures as low as minus 40 degrees celsius as well as wolves which the horses can severely injured or even kill with one kick. The cattle herders family lives with their horses following the rhythm of nature wearing a watch would be a superb fewest luxury. We get up early and were out all day until dark. We had the cattle and move them from here to there. Since were album all day long we dont need to ask what time it is for us there is morning. Afternoon and the movement of the sun. You always keep an eye on the song after all its the only thing you can keep in view here because its the sun that is always determined whether it is day or night. 6 where. The action songs of the nomads tell of their longing for their beloved homeland the endless expanses of the step and the deep blue mongolian sky. That. While her husband takes care of the horses head in a suit turns the rich milk from their goats and sheep into quark yogas and cheese. These are staple food stealing the summer months. The youngest daughter has still lives with her father and mother her older siblings are already attending school and live with their grandparents in the city. A daily walk to school through the step would be much too obvious and too far. I looked at them differently its not that it is just that we have never really thought about living in the city if we have work to do in the city we take the train as it usually runs at night. That way we are there early in the morning before work starts and then you can get a lot done in a day stefen peeps. I dunno and herders arent interested in material wealth they see possessions as additional ballast but the number and conditions of their animals on the other hand are extremely important to them because they show their diligence and skill. You know one another well we get over 200 kilograms of kashmir a wall sometimes even 300 kilograms from 700. And the money we earn from the wool traders are not to cover all the expenses that come up over the year the hootin the other school fees in order to pay for the 2. 00 or 3 workers who help us. Pay for anything important that crops up in the year of the 2 and we also prepare the meat from our condo to feed ourselves in winter. But we also sell some of it so we live from the immense productivity of animals. Of the. Who are all the mining has dramatically increased and. All sorts of things are being done to the soil which is having a negative effect on the bodies of water and pasture land. With we now get very little water from our wells. Mittimus which is and it hardly rains anymore or someone is it when i look back on my childhood it often rained continuously for 3 or 4 days and i was. In. Mongolia sits on huge deposits of Natural Resources. And around one of the countrys largest and most important centers of mining iron ore and lignite is growing. However mongolian Mining Companies on profiting from the countrys wealth of Raw Materials nearly as much as Big International investors and energy giants. Still the development is good for mongolias railways the next work is growing and jobs are being created. Oh look a little good news so we should. Qana me has a major influence on the expansion and development of the real race and vice versa. Speech and the Mongolian Railway is currently expanding the locomotives and real cars are becoming more advanced or just switching to the rail network and the entire real logistics are currently being revamped so the. Traffic in particular is increasing. So the future of our railways looks really promising so. For the. Most traumatic. Aerials are exposed to neighboring countries china however uses a different gauge of track to mongolia where the network is based on the russian broad gauge that means all the wagons must be reloaded on the chinese border which is a huge additional cost factor. A lot of the locomotive are also of russian origin. One of the or evil. Almost over so there are currently 31. 00 of these russian locomotives in mongolia over the. Chickens which weve been using this one since 2010 when i was going. Up there on polish. Air which. You can call up to 5000. 00 tons and its 2 engines have a total of 7212. 00 horsepower engine. She went through a long trial period and has proven she can survive the long distances and the hard mongolian winters very well or stay with us for. The heavy diesel engines and seemingly endless lines of wagons move effortlessly through the lonely step landscape day and night. Or. Even as darkness falls the station in church stays very busy. As the vital transports have it is growing in parallel with the economy. Mongolias history and therefore that of its railway is closely into words and with that of its russian neighbor. With the founding of the socialist peoples republic of mongolia 921. 00 the soviet union sided with its economically weak. Engineers in moscow designed the lines and forced laborers was sent from russian prison camps to reinforce the mongolian track with has to drive this gigantic project through. The 1111 kilometers of track through the most difficult terrain. Gave mongolia a big boost. It was a Great Success for the soviets to who would do it by the wealth of mineral resources. Vast military considerations also played a major role in if eternal relief action. The chance mongolian rail link from the russian border in the north to china in the south is still the backbone of all the rail traffic in mongolia today. Because of the enormous distances many passenger trains run overnight sleeping cars are the best way to weather the long journey times. Is also on the roofs of the socalled dealer trains most of the passengers on board all mongolian merchants on their way to their chinese neighbors. There they buy goods that are laces sold at a profit in their shops back home. To a large part of the mongolian population now lives from this trade including some women from gun a city in northern central mongolia. About bob. Here we are on a train for 4 days. But if you include all the shopping in beijing or even further away then you get to a total of at least 10 days on the road thingy. Everyone both retailers and wholesalers takes the train to travel between the 2 countries other periods you why. Because the train is safe for people and also for the transport of goods. And you can almost live your life in a train passengers can sleep eat drink and relax onboard on the twelvemonth. Many of the mongolian commercial travellers have come from other professions. But then got to have studied mongolian literature and the 1970 s. And her husband is an artist. Among the being people said just not in 1992 there was a political inversion and we moved to a market economy society. And suddenly it was all if you drink from their cup you also have to follow their customs. A lot was privatized 1st and state owned enterprises were broken up into Small Businesses many people including academics became unemployed and wages were very low. Since then weve become socalled saddlebag. Saddlebag is an old mongolian term referring to nomadic merchants who used to tie they could steal the saddles of their horses and ride off to sell them. It seems the historical reference makes it a bit easier for present commercial travellers to accept their lifes circumstances which are frequently difficult. Even if its hardly had dream job 60 year old boddam got out does not complain. His order. I have no other option. And even if we are only Small Businesses were still important for society for our families our children and our grandchildren. We pay for college rent and food ahead of us and yes more than half of all mongolians finance their lives through Small Businesses 1. 00 of them is me just. From same shand rail station it takes another 5 hours to reach the chinese border. Just how much the landscape has changed only becomes apparent in daylight. To know. The rich green step landscape has given way to the ok colored infinity of the gobi desert. Covering some 1000000 300000 square kilometers it is the largest desert in asia. The desert city of same shell and is about 250 kilometers south east of chair and on the Trans Mongolian Railway almost 40 kilometers further on in the eastern gobi desert we come to harm our monastery which the mongolians also call how marine heat. In the 19th century complex is an imposing incentive for mongolian but as im. Going to marry as a Buddhist Monk who travels on the night train from several times a month. He says its an escape from the confines of the city and that it was only here in this barren and empty expanse that he became aware of the connection between freedom and mongolian identity its true that the word freedom for me means responsibility and if we have freedom we must deal with the responsible in there to the yes im free. But instead of pumping my chest. Im trying to remember that the world is more its sure i consider myself a mongol but i dont consider others as foreigners. And im a Buddhist Monk so i have responsibilities to get with those pictures. And. Every autumn hundreds of pilgrims and believers from all over mongolia meets in hama armaan astray. A ritual book through the stony desert around the monastery grounds is said to drive away bad omens and renew the life energy of each individual. Mongolian buddhists believe the whole energy pools in this atmospheric place. The colorful troop makes its way about 2 kilometers into the desert to a shambhala center. A holy places that refer to the mythical city of the same name where legend says the accumulated knowledge of buddhism will outlast time itself. It is a dance on rocky i was a buddhist lama as important in mongolia as the current dalai lama into bess. He personally chose this place to build a monastery in 1824 over 100 years to come our monastery was one of the most important Buddhist Centers of faith in mongolia. And. It gave it an intimate 930. 00 s. Mongolias communist government turned against but as a monks were condemned as anti stalinist elements thousands were imprisoned all killed and monasteries were destroyed. As of the 1st arrests and executions of buddhists took place on september the 10th 937. 00 of them 6 future generations must learn about it would be that is why on this day we call on the whole world to prevent such evil deeds from happening again to heed the fact that no person should be excluded persecuted or murdered because of his or her beliefs or opinions. When he says hes with them were gathered here today so that these atrocities will never be repeated and its. Good people hostage. It was. Amazing has become part of mongolias intangible Cultural Heritage and buddhists from all over the world celebrate the resurrection of the monastery and their faith in the boundless expenses of the gobi desert. As it. Hammer monastery symbolizes a commitment to freedom and independence for all mongolians. The hope is that its story can teach future generations to look ahead with hope selfconfidence and selfdetermination. And the united the world though my whole lifes journey is dedicated to a happy and Bright Future he did lots more so my train of life that i was traveling towards optimism for everyone everywhere i go on. Our journey through mongolia is joined to a close. There is much more that could be told about us as an old mongolian proverb not seen once is better than had a 1000 times. Enter the conflict zone in these extraordinary times we decided to take the opportunity to focus on the impact that the coronavirus pandemic is having on human rights around the world there are reports of invasive surveillance authoritarian power grabs my guest is the head of Human Rights Watch kenneth roth how many limitations are people willing to accept in order to fight a threat like coronavirus conflicts of. Interest in minutes on w. N n puzzle yourself up i dont know its not easy to go to another country you know nothing about why for i dont do this because we cant stay on venezuela i support that. 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