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former russian. awaits his sentence after being convicted of stealing billions of dollars worth of oil. for more on one of the world's controversial pieces in russia germany this little word from school board in just a few moments. flying into frustration moscow's freezing rain grounds hundreds of flights leaving thousands of angry passengers feeling abandoned. two years after israel's deadly offensive people in gaza are still struggling to cope with life under siege which they say as.

it is eight am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina josh welcome to the program former russian tycoon. awaiting sentence after being found guilty of a bestselling billions of dollars as a second trial for the acts head of the oil giant hugo's who was once russia's richest man is already serving time over tax evasion and fraud. outside the court of moscow where the judge's rulings will continue to be read today. now when are we likely to hear a what sentence will be. good morning and it's really hard to say at this moment when exactly will be able to hear the exact time you felt about a course. of we'll have to serve in prison since it is expected that the actual sentence itself may take several days to be read as you said this is the second case. of course the russians former richest man in the former head also

used to be one of the biggest oil companies in the world this is the second case including him and last time it took two weeks for the for the judge to read the verdict so it should take some some time but we do already know that he. gave were found guilty of stealing oil from subsidiaries and also of embezzling up to twenty billion u.s. dollars of course this is quite a controversial case and for more on it here's this report prepared earlier by a colleague. once russia's richest men he's now russia's most prominent prisoner coming to the end of it eighteen a sentence for the biggest tax fraud in the country's history he and his partner. which charged to stealing two hundred and eighteen million tons of oil worth twenty

seven billion u.s. dollars from a subsidiary company you can see the verdict has been announced guilty. supporters say he didn't break any laws. or was not to blame because he had a whole team of very experienced lawyers who used to tell him that. everything he did was within the law it was the blame of the laws that had dissolved loopholes and them. rose to great wealth thanks to one of the world's largest non-state oil companies you can see the company grew from a state selloff in the one. the ninety's when government assets were being hived off in often chidi circumstances it soon became russia's fastest growing oil producer but the path to success headed outside to offer that these associates were later found guilty of a number of murders. the thieves place is in prison because he is accused of

stealing tax evasion and fraud with the new charges he faces it's about stealing hundreds of billions his company security chief is in prison for murder. but there has always insisted he is innocent of the fraud charges which put him behind bars ever since his arrest in two thousand and three ignoring his past many in the west believe that he was singled out for prosecution among the billionaire businessmen because of his political ambitions the russian authorities say you can is purely a victim to the economic crimes of its management i think there is a strong effort on the part of many in the media and in the russian liberal media and definitely in the west to to politicize it as much as possible there is no question that. our koskie and the rest of the crowd who participated initiated and was very active in the criminal privatisation of the ninety's are guilty of the

crimes or accused so in that sense i think very few people would fatha khodorkovsky is persecuted for for nothing yes there is a very strong case i thing against him public opinion is divided i think that most of the russian public smile or recollect if you are all those people i call the course and that's why i don't think that i want russian broad public unlike liberals for whom. i can he can find compassion the prosecutors had asked of her that of course he was forty seven served at least six years on top of his current sentence however the reading of the thing is expected to last several days and the sentencing has yet to come down party must go. he or so what's the fans' reaction been to the verdict so far. of course the defense does not agree with the verdict it says that is going to appeal woods and says that

it's not going to succeed in russia it's ready to take the case outside of the country to the european courts of the prosecution so that it's sort of satisfied with the. he says that everything is in order but just to remind you again we're still waiting for the actual sentence. to be announced and it may take several days for that. already grow thanks very much indeed for the subject of work is going off there. now two of moscow's largest airports are working to san people on their way after thousands were stranded by bad weather and one hundred frustrated passengers have reportedly been staging protests and even trying to break through passport control while adama's it away airport a major power outage caused a huge backlog you know cross style correspondent who's following the story for us there now because we know what are the prospects for the passengers right now. tom

are we now lol well flights are getting back on should you my dear the boat with energy power coming back to the capital's lot just abhorrent and the country's worst affected over the weekend one bad weather conditions disrupted paula lines here and most of us witnessed literally freezing rain this applewood was lead by candles only for some fourteen hours it suffered a complete blackout with some eight thousand passengers forced to spend sleepless nights on the outward premises one hundred fifty flights were canceled as of tuesday morning there are complete two reports and how many flights that have luck and how many planes have arrived at. the news agencies and for that one hundred ton flies arrived at the idea of the vents seventy four planes let's be aboard study for all monday afternoon but according to their own light all my

departure and arrival table it seems like when you want late to stop because brooke let me add for overnight there are still thousands of people waiting at the airports and they're complaining. there is no not there's not enough food not enough drinks despite the presence of us of the my dad of us says that they are regularly providing people with drinks and fabric just people say that to get it we already have to stand a queue up from three to four hours and people will still eat at expensive restaurants all the apples not whole of the passengers were provided with hotel bats and a logic complaining of course that they're given no updates not the from the happy would stop no from the representatives of the airline companies they are forced to storm the richest ration desks to get any information on when they could leave the plane and as of monday morning there were not enough generators to provide electricity inside the house and by monday they got more than five of those diesel

generators or is not enough to. get back on track to get all those flies lights back on the shuttle. people have been complaining that even muscovites had to spend nights and hours at the at the airports without any nation on their flights well that's a situation airborne there but. how are other airports in moscow coping with this weather. well many of the flights which were initially. we had to arrive but the idea the word direct to divert it to and sure i'm in another of the capitals largest hops but sure major has now also suffering flight delays despite it had no black collets. seven thousand passengers was stranded on the premises and i called one of my friends who is still waiting for his life and says

no information whatsoever on when we could. buy these muscovites and he's still hesitating whether to keep his ticket back or to wait and whether he believes ben's found his new year of acacia and people even at sure media try to still possible we're just rationed desks and police had to intervene. to log each area somebody insisted to talk to be had all the boards. their news known for someone to stand some four to five hours to get any information and people it sure made us say that the app would stop hiding from people saying that you see huge traffic jams here there are so many cars that the parking lot here remains a huge parking area and all of. what you would regularly see. people just sleep in their cars outside them idea the waiting for any information for any

updates on their flights and they have to stand as i've just said some four to five hours to get any other way they t.v. and the. people as i just saw there are hiding from commuters. not very optimistic prospect for those wanting to travel to days or so corina thanks very much indeed for this update from one of the major moscow airport studier airport i will be crossing back to you for more information there. two other stories now there are vicious traveling conditions of a very different kind in a few minutes here on r.t. . if i was his three hundred years ago i moved to support more local law does this is from the army who are a variety of other crimes the result is the same. the russian close up team follows the czarist exotic rail and south western siberia.

palestinians in gaza are marking two years since a deadly israeli offensive in the territory which killed more than a thousand people in two thousand and eight israel launched a massive air and ground strikes and hamas targets in response to rocket attacks abbas to control the region two thousand and six but television regards it as a terrorist group going israeli blockade means many people living there are struggling to get basic necessities really goods as archie's fall asleep reports palestinians in the region say huge relief can't come soon enough. israelis insist their economic siege on gaza is easing but they can't deny the border and international condemnation is heating up an asian aid convoy but politicians and activists from eighteen countries is on its way to gaza i'm border one hundred eighty people food and medical supplies and a determined core to reach gaza on the second anniversary of the last israel gaza war the convoy dubbed asia to gaza solidarity caravan sits sail from new delhi at

the beginning of december it's trying to do what an aid for teller failed to do in may break the israeli blockade on the coastal strip that earlier attempt left nine activists did since then israel insists things have gotten better there is a humanitarian analysis that we are making on a daily basis which allow us to see a broad picture about the humanitarian conditions and the situation in the. moment but gazans complain life is still unbearable. and israel has limited the number of trucks clothes and shoes coming into gaza and this causes problems with coordination in gaza. last month twenty two international organizations issued a report claiming the easing of the blockade has helped bring in materials only for the u.n. and international building projects ordinary goods they say are still not getting in. our goods have already been detained in israel for three years but the fines are already called the cost of goods and even if through super goods back now

they're not for sale there are spoiled and those goods that are getting in there are too expensive for most people here. the goods that we receive are not of a high quality but we have to buy them because we don't have an alternative. cars have also become a luxury two thousand dollars for an engine well just two hundred dollars for a rather simplistic alternative what can we do there's no fuel for vehicles spare parts inevitably result that it's kind of transportation the donkeys. this is one of the largest cattle markets in gaza and as the economy here plummets it too is struggling to survive. we have no animals and no barley today and even when we have people aren't always here to buy it's been four years since israel imposed siege on gaza to try and break hamas a support and with no sign that life will get better any time soon most gazans have the eyes on the sea and their hope on the next. r.t.

israel russia's deputy minister of foreign affairs alexander have spoke to r.t. after a recent visit to the middle east and he says a coordinated international probe is the best solution for resolving the conflict between israelis and palestinians are good at doing that as the saying goes hope dies last we should have an objective view of the situation we shouldn't fall into despair but we shouldn't be too optimistic the most important thing is to take a scrutinising to the problems and order the peace process and work together including the parties concerned israel and the others towards the solution of these problems and even for choosing our common goal which is i repeat a comprehensive israeli settlements. and i can watch the full interview in around fifteen minutes time here on our team and we are live and interactive at r.t.

dot com here's a taste of what's lined up right now china's eastern promise for europe as being to buy into struggling countries to keep them financially taking over. and out of this world new year party is on the cards of the international space station several of them in fact the details are at r t v dot com. now let's update you on some of the world's other main news this hour in airports east coast states are struggling to return to normal after severe blizzards caused thousands of flights to be called off there's a state of emergency in five states with officials warning people to stay off the roads as the snow deepens and drifts forecasters say more is on the way and the freezing temperatures will continue. nine man have been remanded in britain accused of plotting a christmas terror campaign in the capital it's alleged they were planning

explosions coordinated attacks of banks government buildings and busy shopping areas around central london twelve were arrested in nationwide dawn raids last week but three were released without charge it comes at a time of heightened security over about terrorism across europe. west african leaders are expected to arrive in ivory coast to persuade the incumbent president to step down the wrong bible refuses to leave office since last month's election despite international pressure his rival al assad outtara is recognized by the un as a new leader warns that any attempt to oust him could throw the country back into civil war. hundreds of people have been forced to flee their homes due to flooding and heavy rain across northeastern australia severe floods have shut down around three hundred roads across queensland including two major highways to the state capital brisbane the authorities have declared towns as disaster zones it's predicted that there are several days of rainfall still to come. the russia close up now takes us

to explore more of the country this time heading to south western siberia. and we are in the omsk region located more than two thousand kilometers from moscow the main city which shares the name briefly became russia's capital after the one nine hundred seventy revolution it also held the imperial gold reserves but it's got a checkered reputation a stone barton discovers. two things in particular it is famous for those are the fate of exiles sent here by the czarist regime along a difficult and dangerous road to get here and prison and forced labor once they arrived the other is a rich military to dish and the city has a military academy established here two hundred years ago has provided very famous officers and generals for the russian and the red army and it's those themes of

examining. on the march under guard these men and women are walking one of the longest and probably the loneliest road in the world they reenacting the march into exile made by thousands and czarist russia that will get it succumbs years to go there is some ways winces in tell us a lot of people died on the way this group in the western siberian region of omsk discovered they're living on the only surviving stretch of the original nine thousand kilometers of the siberian exiles track that's had no modern changes made to it. when you come to the track you can vividly picture the convicts on their walk and hear the clinking of their chains you can smell russian history here the story is going to discover that he's descended from some of these exiles and decided to build a museum telling a story he and his reenact has now received as it has from all over the world to show them what it was like with these bodies it's scary to put the shackles on of

course but it's interesting if we don't remember history we will have no future. it's a monument to one of the restructures cruelest chapters. hair was. one of the more notable traditions and also because military professionalism practiced here at the city's cadets college for nearly two hundred years. what was an officer school now gives. always a general education but with the military emphasis this here they created siberia's first cadet corps to prepare officers to protect the territory before that was a course like a military college that's why i think with the successes of those old times. young hopefuls have to pass tough exams to get in here for those that do it's a very different school to the others in arms. giving

a book it's strange to be away from home unusual but when you get used to it it feels like home. military personalities are dotted throughout history the city served as the capital of anticommunist white russian leader admiral kolchak in the civil war from one thousand nine hundred to nine hundred ninety last and residents who live here though the study of the man like the maintenance of this building has remained a taboo right up until the present day or we still receive hate mail saying that he hanged a lot of people and was famous for severe punishment it's all true but it was at a time of civil war both sides were monstrously cruel. it is sadly the theme of cruelty which links so much of amps history to the rest of russia's particularly of exile where they were an apple. if i was here three hundred years ago i may have disappeared my local lord i may have deserted from the army or

a variety of other crimes the result was the same what my fellow prisoners around me i've got a long and very cold walk ahead into exile in siberia with a talk a bit more about this place in history and its place in russia is alexander who lived here all your life so to start with twenty one years through basically how scouse developed really as a city the history around because it's a pretty amazing because it was first established as a fortress to fight off the nomads but then during the. used as a for. as for the political exile and you probably know that's the famous russian writer dostoyevsky it was nice out here for quite some time. also our city was a capital of russia for for a short period of time for a year under the odd no call chalk and it's sometimes called a third capitals the third one after moscow moscow st petersburg and then also sometimes and it's also one of the biggest cities of siberia and one of the most

important important ones ok having lived here all your life you obviously quite proud of the city itself i would you say why would you say it makes you proud and how would you say almost fits in to siberia and in the why of russia well. if you can so i'm scott i should say maybe fifteen years ago you would have you you would have been so nice but it's really developed in the last fifteen years that both state curbs the buildings and right now we have very rich aspects of you know social life and cultural and how famously us common on our festivals going on and i should say. i really am proud of living here yes. ok from one of the people who's lived all the life there we go picture of almost right from its beginnings off until it's modern day.

well that brings us up to date here in our time now for the date with after just a few moments ago a. hello and a very warm welcome to the business program the head of russia's biggest lenders burbank's says he expects the country's inflation to rise to over nine percent next year that's a third more than the central bank's predicted rate six and a half percent for next year. what's says there will be no chances to cut inflation down from its current level of eight and a half percent he also believes russian banks may revise their current credit and deposit rates because of accelerating inflation and the potential tightening of monetary policy by the central bank. does not check the stock market forces here

and wasco fell off to china raised interest rates increasing fears that its economy will slow russia central bank also up the interest rate charged for ruble accounts trading volumes have been light as investors leave early for new year holidays. and in asia japan's nikkei is down almost half a percent as investors took profits from monday's rise in tokyo stocks that's falling asleep on the dow jones in new york hong kong stocks are down after a long holiday weekend fears of high interest raise and other moves on the mainland threatening investors to months land helped local developers shares my work. as time ticks away until the end of the year all those investors still on the market appear to be left with far fewer opportunities investment manager alexander says trading volumes fell sharply days before the long new year break. i don't anticipate any movement i think it will be pretty much the same percent. maybe but

it's all the market is really for the rest of week i would most probably look at bringing sector. overall positive for the big. sensitive sector on the economy recovery and we'll split the next year and maybe for the rest of the week it will be a look a bit better than the market overall but oil rally which saw prices hit a two year high on monday's being weighed down by china's second interest rate hike since october since bros that they manufacture powerhouse and the world's second biggest oil consumer could slow its economic growth as the country tries to reign in inflation even so prices at the pump are taking their own floating me a year and record levels. and most analysts agree that the oil price will remain between eighty and ninety dollars per barrel next year while this would have

a remarkably positive effect on the russian budget in a pre-election here. from merrill lynch says structural reforms are the ones to suffer i think that there are a number of critics i think that they actually from the reform agenda i think that the key reason for russia is that returning to the pre-crisis time when all prices were increasing by double digits i think that we have seen a number of reforms structural in this economy recently and i'm afraid that if we turn to the pre-crisis you have double digit increase in oil prices these positive elements that we have seen in the structural reform agenda my diary that's the business for now but you can get most or a small website r.t. dot com slash business. thank. you.