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around the world around the clock. criticism from the west over the. trial has been met with. the. international community should stay out. after being found guilty of billions of dollars. well washington has said that such a verdict will horn russia's image when it comes to human rights germany has said that this will be a step back for russia in terms of modernization well according to the russian foreign ministry this is an attempt to apply pressure on the court and moscow is

now calling on the united states and on the european union not to intervene this issue rests with the competence of the judicial system of the russian federation. any it down to exert pressure upon the cross are unacceptable. in his recent interview with the heads of the leading russian t.v. channel. the russian president has underscored that nobody has the right to fear with the followers of the poor the foreign ministry has also outlines is that the crimes that mean about a costly and only different already been found guilty off are considered to be severe or fences in many western countries including the united states where people found guilty of these crimes even fees a life in prison or would to live on this in

a receiver lies contrary cool decides whether a person is guilty or innocent not public opinion on my smita the verdict says that her course and level to fight guilty so there should be no other opinion unless it's overruled by the supreme authority whatever the west is saying russia is a legal state so there's no reason to suggest the court's decision was carried out on depression the defense says that it does not agree with the verdict they are ready to appeal it in russia if they don't succeed here they say that they're ready to take this case to the european court they're also preparing to make a public appeal to the president after the sentence is announced the judge says that the prosecution has provided more than enough evidence and claims the. so far the trial has been going by the book the second day of the hearing of the verdict is now over but it was still haven't heard the actual sentence the time was that of course again his former associate plot to leave egypt will have to serve in jail

they were found guilty on monday off for stealing oil from so-called companies and also off embezzling billions of u.s. dollars he was already involved in another case and back then it took two weeks for the sentence to be else but this time the defense seems optimistic that we may hear the sentence in the near future. but the judge is reading out what the court considers to be the evidence against because. from the information we've got we understand that the court plans to finish reading the verdict this year it was just a reminder you used to be one of the world's biggest private oil companies headed back then. at that time russia's richest men and all this makes this trial in this case one of the most controversial in russia for more on this here's this report by my 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 copy of it which charged with stealing two hundred and eighteen million tons of oil seven down from a subsidiary company you can see in that it has been announced. the 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 ucas the company grew from a state selloff in the one nine hundred 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 is associates were later found guilty of a number of murders. the thieves place is in prison. is accused of stealing tax evasion and fraud with the new charges he faces it's about stealing hundreds of billions his company's security chief is in prison for murder. at their core ski has always insisted he's 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 cause and the rest of the crowd who participated initiated and was very active in the criminal privatization of the ninety's are guilty of the crimes they're accused of so in that sense i think very few people would fatha carter crossly is persecuted for nothing yes there is a very strong case i thing against him being in is divided i think that most of russia probably it's well i recollect if you're all those people. and that's why i don't think that a man. brought public unlike liberals for whom. he can find compassion the prosecutors had asked of her that of course he who is forty seven served at least six years on top of this current sentence however the reading of the verdict is expected to last several days and the sentencing has yet to come . over r.t.

moscow. thousands of passengers stranded in moscow's main airports are growing increasingly frustrated bad weather over the weekend temporarily shut down dumb idea of an airport and the delay of some flight and sound cancellation of others has left many struggling to get on to planes some travelers on able to complete complete their journey have reportedly been staging protests and even fighting with airport personnel. reports from domodedovo airport. this is how one of most easiest tops looks like power is back on and flies are getting back on should you like the idea of the app which was worse hit by bad weather conditions over the weekend when a snow storm disrupted pala lines in the area as a result of that some one hundred fifty flights were delayed and over eight thousand passengers were forced to sleep on the apple its premises well now we can see that information is getting back on the screens all of the apple before people

had been complaining that they were receiving no updates on the flights whatsoever and even muscovites had to spend hours and hours here inside the airport having no information on whether to leave home on keep waiting for their flights well that's gossipy but how long they've been waiting for their flights inside is into a whole long have you been waiting for a flight. i was due to leave for terms of even the twenty seventh they promised a flight will depart today but i don't know yet there's no information on the screens coolie office in television and they said the plane at two o'clock today just says all the passengers have spent more than two days inside the airport complained they were not given hotel butts and that was not enough food and drinks the press service of the apple says they regularly handle lunch boxes and also but stranded passengers with drinking water what's the situation adama denver airport is gradually improving and we've called in extra staff to help resolve the problems

for handing out water as well as hot and cold meals we hope the situation will be completely resolved by tomorrow some of the passengers even kalash with the representatives of companies and complain that the airport is full of passengers but no representative so airline companies are inside and largely people complain about the lack of information on their flights for the hardest already spoke parents traveling with their kids many of them have been at the airports for whole and long hours close queues made. how long have you been waiting for your flight and where are you going to we're going with this is the twenty sixth boxing day and we're going to northern ireland to belfast to buy a heathrow so we have so we were at the airport when their electricity went off. were cancelled we were booked on to a flight yesterday which was council we're on a flight this morning which is counsel them are we being put onto the can a clock flight which is obviously being delayed so honestly what do you think about

how the airport has been dealing with the problem. actually not very well but i don't think any your port deals are very well with these problems as we're seeing across europe and other local schools bs is top stream it's about airport which didn't have any electricity blackouts also faces how to do some seven thousand passengers many of them have been clashing with the representatives up and companies and with police they tried to stall impossible to control zones they've blocked a lot of beach areas and trying to stage a protest insisting to meet the absolute people mostly complain that they were denied hotel baths and they ended up sleeping on the floors and still part whitetail were taken rushes to la just add ports. are putting that where you are with all it's he and still ahead for you this hour our very own uncovers the mysterious past of. reach.

if i was his three hundred years ago i may have dissipated my local law i may have diseases from the army for 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 and more about this treacherous walk as well as a look at what else the region has to offer that's coming up in our close up report just a little bit later. palestinians are marking two. years since israel began a devastating offensive into gaza with protests across the strip israel launched a massive ground strikes on hamas targets in two thousand and eight killing more than one thousand people but came in response to rocket attacks by palestinians the conflict drew worldwide condemnation because of the huge number of civilian casualties israel blockaded the strip after it came out of the control of hamas in two thousand and seven i grouped it regards as

a terrorist organization since there are a it has been rigorously restricted and most rarely reaches its destination as artie's policy has been finding out. israelis insist their economic siege on gaza is easing but they can't deny the border and international condemnation is heating up and asian aid convoys with politicians and activists from eighteen countries is on its way to gaza on 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 flotilla 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 that goes to

each moment but gazans complain life is still unbearable. and israel has limited the number of trucks clothes and shoes coming in to go 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 good. have already been detained in israel for three years but the fines that we've paid already equal the costs of the goods so even if we receive the goods back now we can't sell them they're 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 drano spare parts and evidently result that it's kind of transportation to 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 no barley today and even when we have barley people aren't always here to buy it's been four years since israel imposed siege on gaza to try and break the massive 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. policy are to israel. while matilda read about him from the international committee of the red cross works in gaza she says the palestinians are completely a dependent nothing will change until israel lifts the blockade. i think one of the main problems is the lack of perspective of course there's more than thirty five

percent unemployment in go as. the population of under eighteen year olds is about fifty percent and obviously when you put the two together the lack of perspective is something that is really worrying a lot of people are wondering how life is going to improve what the future is going to look like because of course it doesn't seem like things are particularly improving at the moment even though there has been a slight lifting of the blockade there's been no tangible relief to the population so we can't really say that things are getting facts are unfortunately again we're trying to address these needs by supplying a pipeline for medical spare parts through local hospitals we're working with the emergency departments with the palestinian red crescent society and with the ministry of health locally. but of course again. the basically the population of gaza is to see the aid dependent and as long as this stays the case the situation

will not improve. that was matilda read about in giving us her view of the events on the ground in gaza and she works for the international committee of the red cross well r.t. is coming to you live from the heart of the russian capital it's now about seventeen minutes past the hour let's get to some other world news in britain now and a suspected u.s. missile strike has hit pakistan's northwest in tribal area near the afghan border killing nine officials say it hit vehicles carrying alleged members of a well known militant group two other strikes in the north waziristan region on tuesday killed eight the area is a stronghold for pakistani taliban and al qaeda carry out cross border attacks against the u.s. led nato forces in afghanistan. three west african leaders have given an ultimatum to ivory coast incumbent president step down or face removal by force. is unlikely to agree to make way for network tara who's been internationally

recognized as the president elect shortly before he met the trio government warned it would not tolerate any meddling in its affairs the standoff has turned violent since last month's election with over one hundred seventy people killed. and bad weather is causing chaos in australia as northeastern states with the government declaring some towns disaster zones severe floods shut down around three hundred roads across queensland including two major highways to the state capital brisbane hundreds of people had to leave their homes after the dawson river reached a record level of almost fifteen metres it is the worst flooding in the area in decades damage is expected to exceed one billion u.s. dollars. well time now to explore another lesser known part of the biggest country in the world.

this time the russian close up team are in the region in southwestern siberia they might be located more than two thousand kilometers away from moscow but it shares more with the capital than you might think tom uncovers the checkered past of the arms creature. 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 tradition that the city has a military academy established here two hundred years ago which provided very famous officers and generals for the russian and the red armies 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 of czarist russia. it's

a game years to go there is some ways winterreise in thirty years a lot of people died on the way this group in the western siberian region of omsk discovered their 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. you have going to discover that he's descended from some of these exiles and decided to build a museum telling a story he and his reactors now receive visitors from all over the world to show them what it was like when the body 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.

yet. one of the more noble traditions and also his military professionalism practiced here at the city's cadets college for nearly two hundred years. in. what was an officer school now gives boys a general education but with the military emphasis. here they created siberia's first cadet corps to prepare officers to protect the territory before that was a course like 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 omsk. book it's strange to be away from home unusual but when you get used to it who feels like home. military personalities are dotted throughout history this is he served as the capital of anticommunist white russian leader admiral kolchak in the civil war from one

thousand nine hundred to nine hundred ninety whilst in residence he lived here though the study of the man like the maintenance of this building has remained to boo 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 a time of civil war both sides were monstrously cruel. it is sadly the theme of cruelty which links so much of our history to the rest of russia's particularly of exile where they were an admiral. 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 tom watson artie on the street and. now hundreds of people in southern russia thought they were about

welcome visitors from another world several times that this month in the city of l.a. star there were mass sightings of a strange u.f.o. in the shape of two concentric circles appearing in the sky but a further investigation uncovered a much more down to earth explanation turned out to be just a spotlight set up outside a local shopping center although the republic of color mickey is no stranger to all goings on the former governor claims to have been abducted by aliens in the past we later became friends with. art and in a few moments ago he is here with a business. great for the full stop we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. would

be so much brighter if you move the sound from this to pressure. on time t.v. dot com. this is also his business update welcome to the program russia needs extraordinary measures to improve the country's investment climate that's according to present to be trim of that of that says it's recovering slower than expected at around three percent. the investment climate in russia is bad and that's what the government should work on next year yes we've managed to overcome the consequences of the crisis but the investment climate is still very difficult in our country there are

several reasons for that we've done and are doing a lot but apparently we need extraordinary measures and the key to improving the best in climate in russia is dealing with bureaucracy that's according to your us law first of all it from deutsche of the main problem is red tape excessive bureaucracy. you know at thirty years levels including at the regional level i think a bit more needs to be done in terms of structural adjustment in terms of sexual reforms in terms of forming natural monopolies that is something that probably will take a bit more time. that is more the medium term issue for the government with the slow recovery in foreign investment russian buying so have been helping business out they said they increase the volume of lending to north financial enterprises by ten percent around thirty six billion dollars the average interest rate for long term loans has declined to around eleven percent while

a few months ago it was around fourteen but russia's prime minister vladimir putin says that level needs to fall further to support new enterprises. in russia the stock markets are closed in the black with the more than a quarter of a percent on the minus six gaining just a notch. little movement on the stock market and what it does happen it's mostly tight to the holiday season that says head of research at metropole mark stein the main mortuary where they're you know the president's gifts their holiday gifts at the store if you look at the top performers today they're my stock exchange number one is number to assume so that just shows that we're in the holiday season is no joke this department stores the shares of these two companies were top performers today on my six there's very low volume today and we just basically in going sideways in the market there have been additional interest today

in there and utilities sector as is because in toronto it's been disclosed in details of it just so sherry the government is having another go at improving russia's no tourists rose this time by increasing spending that's according to the head of russia's federal road. to the ship goods of. next year from the federal budget a total of around three billion dollars will be allocated for all the roads in the country that's an increase of over twenty percent from two thousand and ten which that's why we plan to increase the level and volume of road maintenance. and that it was a business update this hour joining us for more in about fifteen minutes time. thank. you or.