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still living in a cage. this is. criticism of the west over the. trial with. international community should stay in. the form. of 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 but 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 trumpet them over british ill system of the russian federation . any of them exert pressure upon the royal are unacceptable. in his recent interview with the heads of the leading russian t.v. channel. the russian president has underscored but nobody has the right to fear with the powers of the poor the foreign ministry has also outlines exactly the crimes that about of course the and only we did have already been found guilty off are considered to be severe of fences in many western countries including the united states where people found guilty of these crimes and even fees

a life in prison but it would seem a little in this in every civilized country who decides whether a person is guilty or innocent not public opinion on law smita the verdict says that her course and level defied guilty so there should be no other opinion unless it's overruled by supremest or it's a whatever the west is saying russia is a legal state so there's no reason to suggest because the decision was carried out on depression the defense says that it does not agree with the verdict they're ready to appeal it in russia if they all 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 that we

call for that of course again his former associate plot to leave egypt will have to serve in jail they were found guilty on monday all for stealing oil from so-called daughter companies and also of 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 just a reminder you can see used to be one of the world's biggest private companies headed back then of course at the time russia's richest men and all of this makes of this trial in this case one of the most controversial in russia and for more on this here's this report by a colleague who died of a score. once russia's richest men he's now russia's most prominent prison it

coming to the end of it thank you for the biggest in. history the. need to get which charge to speak to one hundred. eighty seven to download from sixty the company in confusion that it has been announced you know t. . his supporters say he didn't break any laws for their crops q. was not to blame because he had a whole team of very experienced lawyers who are 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. state oil companies you can see the company grew from the state selloff in the one nine hundred ninety s. when government assets would be hived off in often chidi circumstances it soon

became russia's fastest growing producer but the falling to success had it outside to offer that he's associates were later found guilty of a number of it is horrible to hear the thieves place is in prison for the course he's 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 that has always insisted he's innocent of the full 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 and one of 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. qatar koskie 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 cut across he is persecuted for for nothing yes there is a very strong case i thing against him. is dividing i think that most of russia probably smaller recollecting if you're all of those people i call the course and that's why i don't think that i'm on russian broad public unlike liberals for whom he really is an icon he can find compassion. prosecutors had asked that of course he was forty seven at least six years and this current sentence. is it's the last several days and the sentencing has yet to come. over r.t.

and ask him. thousands of passengers stranded in moscow's main airports are growing increasingly frustrated bad weather over the weekend a temporary shutdown drama did over airport and the delay of some flights in the constellation of others left many struggling to get on to planes some travelers are unable to complete their journey has reportedly been staging protests and even fighting with some airport personnel. reports from damage yet over. this is one of most easiest tops looks like power is back on and flies are getting back on should you like the idea that the app which was worst 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 app or its premises now we can see

that information is getting back on the screens of the app or 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 for how long they've been waiting for their flights and whole long have you been waiting for the flight. i was due to leave for terms of even the twenty seventh they've promised a flight will depart today but i don't know yet there's no information on the screens with cooley office in television and they said the plane at two o'clock today. all the passengers have spent more than two days inside the airport complained they were not given hotel butts and there was not enough food and drinks so the press service of the apple says they regularly hand out lunch boxes and also provide stranded passengers with drinking water that's the situation adama denver

airport is gradually improving we've called in extra staff to help resolve the problems are 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 companies are inside and largely people complain on the lack of information on their flights are the hardest of all that he spoke karen's traveling with their kids many of them have been at the airport for whole and long hours close scuse me. how long have you been waiting for you apply where i'm going to we're recommitted says the twenty six 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. for consultation we then were talked to for yesterday which is council we're on a flight this morning which is counsel them are we being put onto the ten o'clock

flight which is obviously being delayed so honestly what 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 up moskos busiest tops three minutes of an airport which didn't have any electricity blackouts also faces had to delay suppose 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 law which areas and try to stage protests and system to meet the hot of the apples people mostly complain that they were denied hotel baths and they ended up sleeping on the floor so so far what payola taken rushes to law just add ports. well still ahead for you this hour our very own. mysterious.

if i was here three hundred years ago i may have. deserted from the army or a variety of other crimes the result was the same my fellow prisoners around me long and very cold walking into exile in siberia. a look at what else. coming up in our lives here. palestinians are marking two years since israel began a devastating offensive into gaza with protests across the strip israel launched massive ground strikes on hamas targets in two thousand and eight killing more than a thousand people that came in response to rocket attacks by palestinians the conflict drew worldwide condemnation and because of the high number of civilian casualties israel blockaded the strip after it came under the control of hamas in

two thousand and seven a group that it regards as a terrorist organization since then has been rigorously restricted and most rarely reaches its destination as. 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 an asian aid convoy with 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 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 the. moment but gazans complain life is still unbearable sought after 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 that we paid already equaled 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 you know fuel for verticals drano spare parts inevitably result that it's kind of transportation was the. donkey's this is one of the largest cattle markets in gaza and as the economy here plummets it to me is struggling to survive. we have no animals and no barley today and even when we have barley people are always here to buy it's been four years since israel imposed siege on gaza to try and break a massive support and with no sign that life will get better anytime soon most gazans have the eyes on the sea and their hope on the next. policy are truly israel . court has sentenced an israeli activist to three months in prison for a nonviolent antiwar protest jonathan polak took part in a bicycle ride demonstration against the blockade of gaza three years ago human

rights activists are calling the sentence and usually harsh choice of data from the popular struggle coordination committee says that the case highlights the poor state of democracy in israel. israel's engaged in a very serious military and diplomatic repression of any aspect of nonviolence mr pollock's sentencing is the latest attack on this in which israel is targeting its own citizens and i think it's quite a commentary on israeli society that the only israeli that has been jailed in relation to the gaza war is one that decided to nonviolently ride his bike through the streets of tel aviv the treatment of palestinians is significantly worse mr pollack addressed this in his sentencing argument in which he said that because he's an israeli jew he's going to jail for three months while nonviolent palestinian leaders go to jail for years and there are sometimes placed in administrative detention without being charged with a single crime and so we see that the quality of israeli democracy now for its own

citizens it is any serious decline and one might say in a crisis and this is just a logical extension to the type of violence and repression that we see against nonviolent activists in the palestinian territories. that was joseph dana from the popular popular struggle coordination committee well it's about seventeen minutes past the hour now here in moscow you are with r.t. let's do some other world news in break right now and a suspected u.s. missile strike has hit pakistan's northwestern tribal area near the afghan border killing nine officials say it hit vehicles carrying alleged members of a well known militant group two of the strikes in the north waziristan region on chews day killed eight the area is a stronghold for pakistani taliban and al qaeda carry out cross border attacks against u.s. led nato forces in afghanistan. three west african leaders have given an ultimatum to ivory coast's incumbent president step down or face removal by force level but

bo is unlikely to agree to make a way for us on the war who has been internationally recognized as the president elect shortly before he met the trio by government warned it would not tolerate any meddling in its affairs the standoff has turned violent since last month's election over one hundred seventy people have been killed. in bad weather is causing chaos in australia as northeastern states with the government declaring some towns that disaster zones severe floods have shut down around three hundred roads across queensland including two major highways to the state capital has been 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 and 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.

and this time russia close up here in the region in southwestern siberia it might be located more than two thousand kilometers away from wasco but it shares more with a capital then you might think tom barton uncovers the checkered past of the on screeching . 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're reacting the march into exile made by thousands and czarist russia. it's a game years to go there is some ways when cities in thirty years 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 you the clinking of their chains you can smell russian history here. you have guinea discovered 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 our history we will have no future. it's

a monument to one of the restructures cruelest chapters. here. one of the more noble traditions and always because military professionalism practiced here at the city's cadets college for nearly two hundred years. 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 it 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 arms. 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 as city served as the capital of anticommunist white russian leader admiral kolchak in the civil war from one thousand nine hundred to nine hundred nineteen last in residence he lived 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 our history to the rest of russia's particularly of exile where they were an apple or a criminal. 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 like my fellow prisoners around me i've got a long and very cold. walk ahead into exile in siberia. with

a still could it more about this place in history on its place in russia is alexander you tell all your life so just start with one wonders through basically how. developed as a city the history was because it's a pretty amazing because it was first established as a fortress to fight over the nomads but then during this regime it's used as a place for the political exile and you probably know that's the famous russian writer dostoyevsky was an exile 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 our culture shock 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 to all your life you obviously are quite

proud of the city yourself 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 they both state the purpose of the buildings and right now we have very rich aspects of you know social life and cultural life we have famous theorist comment on you know we have festivals going on there as well 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 rise from its beginnings off until it's modern day. right there now it's just twenty twenty five minutes past the hour here in moscow this is arts heat and hundreds of people in southern russia. thought they were about to welcome visitors

from another world several times that this month in the city of l.a. star there were mass sightings of a strange and u.f.o. in the shape of two concentric circles appearing in the sky but further investigation uncovered a much more down to earth explanation turned out just to be a spotlight set up outside a local shopping center although the republic of kalmykia is no stranger to all governments on the former governor claimed to have been abducted by aliens who he later made friends with. and time now for the business news with the eula. this is our series business update welcome to the program russia needs extraordinary measures to improve the country's investment climate that's according to president to be trim of that of this as 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 extra ordinary measures. the key to improving the investment climate in russia is dealing with bureaucracy that's according to your us law for mr violet from deutsche bank the main problem is. you know at various levels including your the regional level i think a bit more needs to be done in terms of structural adjustment in terms of sexual reforms interims of forming natural monopolies that is something that probably will take a bit more time that is more of a medium term issue for the government with the slow recovery in foreign investment russian banks have been helping business out they said they increase the volume of

lending to north financial enterprises by ten percent to 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 me and to prices. in russia the stock markets are closed in the black with the asking us up more than a quarter of a percent on demand six gaining just a notch. there's a little movement on the stock market and what it does happen mostly tied to the holiday season that says head of research at metropole mark stein. the main movers today where there are you know the presence the gifts the holiday gifts of the store if you look at the two top performers today they're my six stock exchange now one is now but to assume so that just shows that we're in the holiday season this is no joke this department stores the shares of the.