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the trial. for more on one of the most controversial trials in russia joining me. in just a few moments. struggling to cope with the flow. may be back on one of the busiest thousands of passengers are still stranded just. to clear the backlog.

those who survived say they are still living in a cage. twenty four seven. criticism from the west over the. trial has been met with. the international community should stay out of what is a domestic matter. is waiting to hear what i have to serve after being found guilty of embezzling 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 competence of the traditional system of the russian federation . any attempt to exert pressure upon the royal and the couple. in his recent interview with the heads of believing russian t.v. channels the russian president. on this tour but nobody has the right to interfere with the powers of the poor the foreign ministry has also outlined says that the crimes that about of course and only we did have 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 face life in

prison really want to live on this in a receiver lies contrary cool decides whether a person is guilty or innocent not public opinion on my smita of it it says that her koskie and levitt if i guilty so there should be no other opinion unless it's overruled by a 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 under pressure 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 off for stealing oil from so-called daughter companies and also of embezzling billions of u.s. dollars of course 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 go through. the judges reading as what the court considers to be the evidence against because the court of course. 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 can see used to be one of the world's biggest private oil companies headed back then of course at the time russia's richest men and all this makes this trial in this case one of the most controversial in russia and for more on this here's this report. once russia's richest man he's now

russia's most prominent prisoner coming to the end of it eighteen sentenced for the biggest tax fraud in the country's history he and his partner plan to give you a charge to stealing two hundred and eighteen of the phantom boil seven down the promise of secret company you can see here that it has been announced. khodorkovsky 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 shady 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 imprisoned holocaust 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. but that of course he 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's a strong upper edge on the part of many in the media and the russian liberal media and definitely in the west to to politicize it as much as possible there is no

question that. carter 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 they were accused of so in that sense i think very few people would fatha carter koskie is persecuted for for nothing yes there is a very strong case i thing against him keeping him is dividing i think that most of russia will probably smell a recollecting if you are all those people i call that of course and that's why i don't think that i want a russian broad public unlike liberals for whom. i come here to find compassion for the prosecutors had asked of her that he was forty seven served at least six years on top of this current sentence however the reading of the thing is expected to last several days and the sentencing has yet to come. r.t.

must go. thousands of passengers stranded in moscow's main airports are growing increasingly frustrated bad weather over the weekend that temporarily shut down doma airport and the delay of some flights and cancellation of others has left many struggling to get on to planes some travelers are unable to complete their journeys have reportedly been staging protests and even fighting with apple personnel. that in a culture of reports from dumb idea of a happy one. this is one of most easy is tops looks like power is back on and flies are getting back on should you like that the my idea the airport 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 people to flights were delayed and over eight thousand passengers were forced to sleep on the app ports premises well 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 god's people how long they've been waiting for their flights inside how long have you been waiting for a 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 and television and they said those an additional plane at two o'clock today. all the passengers have spent more than two days inside the airport complained they were not given hotel bats and that was not enough food and drinks so the press service of the airport says they regularly hand out lunch boxes and also provide stranded passengers with drinking water what's the situation adamah denver airport is gradually improving we've called in extra staff to help

resolve the problems we're handing out water as well as hot and cold meals we hope the situation will be completely resolved by tomorrow some of the person just 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 all the hardest of all these poor parents traveling with their kids many of them have been at the airport for a whole and long hours close queues made. how long have you been waiting for your flight right now and we're going with this is a 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. the consul to be there and that we're booked on to a flight yesterday which is council we're on a flight this morning which is counsel them are we going to go into the ten o'clock

flight which is obviously being delayed so want to get 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 on the up moskos b.z.'s top three minutes of an airport which didn't have any electricity blackouts also faces how to delay suppose some seven thousand passengers many of them have been kalash with the representatives of companies and with police they tried to still impossible to control zones they blocked a lot of each area some tried to stage protests insisting to meet they had of the apples people mostly complain that they were denied hotel baths and they ended up sleeping on the floors of so far whitetail were taken rushes to law just apple it's . reporting right well still ahead for you this hour here at r.t. i was very close up to one couple's mysterious past. which.

if i was his three hundred years ago i may have disappointed my local lord i may have deserted 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. report coming away a little bit later. palestinians are marking two years since israel. began a devastating offensive into gaza with protests now across the strip israel launched massive air and 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 because of the number of civilian casualties israel's blockade of the strip after it came under the control of hamas in two thousand and seven a group that it regards as

a terrorist organisation since then aid has been rigorously restricted 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 and 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 each 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 un 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 equal the costs of the goods so even if we receive the goods back now we can sell them their spoils 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 and evitable you resort to this kind of transportation. 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 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 baser anytime soon most gazans have the eyes on the sea and they have hope on the next. policy r.t. israel. it's now or quarter past midnight here in the russian capital you are with r.t. it's good if you join us today now let's get to some other news in brief that's our third suspect in the u.s. missile strike has hit pakistan's northwest 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 militants who carry out cross border attacks against 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 by go is unlikely to agree to make a way for the water has been internationally recognized as the president elect shortly before he met the trio backbones government warned it would not tolerate any meddling in its of fans the standoff has turned violent since last month's election over one hundred seventy people have been killed. bad weather is causing chaos in australia's northeastern states with the government a clearing some towns as disaster zones severe floods have shut down around three hundred roads across queensland including two major highways to the state capital

britain hundreds of people had to leave their homes after the dawson river reached a record level of almost fifteen meters 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. and this time russia. in southwestern siberia it might be located more than two thousand kilometers away from moscow but it is more the capital than you might think uncovers the so-called checkered past of the. on the march under guard these men and women are walking one of the longest one

probably the loneliest road in the world they're reacting the march into exile made by thousands and czarist russia turkey it succumbs years to go back some ways winterreise in say yes 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 reenact has now received as it has from all over the world to show them what it was like with the body it's scary to put the shackles on of course but it's interesting if we don't remember history will have no future. it's a monument to one of the wrist russia's coolest chapters.

one of the more noble traditions and also because 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 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 and 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 culture in the civil war from one thousand nine hundred to nine hundred ninety 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 amp's history to the rest of rushes particularly of exile where they were an admiral or a criminal. if i was here three hundred years ago i may have dissipated my local lot i may have deserted 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 tom watson artie cretin.

russia's deputy foreign minister has recently returned from a visit to the middle east next he tells us here about say that it's time for the world community to step up and get the peace process between israelis and palestinians back on track to stay with us.

on the luggage mr sultan of you recently visited syria and lebanon where you met the leaders of these two countries you also met how it must show in damascus you said that israel's settlement policy in the occupied arab lands was the main stumbling point to the resumption of palestinian israeli talks does russia have a clear vision of how to get out of this situation. that would destroy it in that. it's true that israel's settlement policy in the occupied out of blonds has become an obstacle to the resumption of direct palestinian israeli talks. i should say that the present situation has shown the need for the international community to step up its participation and assistance in the solution of the palestinian problem yet it has become obvious that the way this problem used to be solved until recently and the means in the methods that we have turned out to be insufficient that is why russia is calling for a more active international effort what does it all about it's about increasing our

collective contribution to the peace process. first and foremost it's necessary to increase the significance and raise the effectiveness of the international quartet of peace brokers that's exactly why we've called for the earliest convocation of a new ministerial meeting of the international court it with the aim of not only discussing the status quo but also for pondering jointly i'm profoundly on what we should do to prevent the peace process from entering a critical stage we should see how we can make the quartet are more effectively in what ways and to what means. so as to overcome the arising obstacles and prevent the settlement from being frustrated i think this meets the interests of all sides of israel and the palestinians in particular in the long run we are talking about the final settlement a settlement that would lead to the creation of an independent palestinian state

naturally the security of israel and all the other countries in the region should be provided but time is requiring this type of mobilization process if the aspirations of the palestinian people are to come true. that i think how effective and you have you have been the recent calls of the russian leadership on the international community to you know actually recognize a palestinian state within the boundaries of nine hundred sixty seven. but. first of all the main objection of the middle east settlement is to create an independent palestinian state within the boundaries of one nine hundred sixty seven with possible territorial swaps. this is a solution a formula which is accepted by the entire international community but the fact that calls for the recognition of such a state have recently become more active is on the one hand indicative that

a number of countries are dissatisfied with the current situation. on the other hand it underscores the inevitability of this ultimate goal of achieving peace and resuming the negotiating process. as you know shortly after the palestinians are names the creation of a palestinian state russia recognize the fact of this announcement and the palestinian state itself. the embassy of the state of palestine is located in moscow the russian embassy operates in the palestinian territories this makes it evident that russia and the palestinian side have a common view of the fight the palestinian people should have their own state which should be recognized by the international community. but he. is really trying minister netanyahu issued instructions to all israeli diplomatic missions to exert pressure on all countries that are planning to recognize the palestinian state do you think that this will further aggravate the situation the nation with the. you

know every state has a sovereign right to make its own decisions if a country to say is to recognize a palestinian state it's a reality that should be reckoned with. as far as i know president medvedev is planning to visit israel and the palestinian territories in the near future many think it's going to be a historic visit to the palestinian lands will the russian president make any proposals to the middle east region. but if they should visit definitely he will dimitri medvedev is forthcoming visit to palestine israel and jordan is a major political event. it will have great importance both for the region and for producing a positive impact on the current extremely complex situation in the middle east and certainly it will be important for our relations with palestine israel and jordan with one of the visits main goals is undoubtedly to contribute to the creation of

favorable conditions for the resumption of movement towards peace a comprehensive peace in the middle east and an atmosphere that would make this peace process irreversible. the second vital aspect of this visit will naturally consist in strengthening our bilateral relations. russia has formed and developed friendly relations with the palestinians the israelis and the jordanians cooperation in various fears is developing and we hope that the visit will give new impetus to this project. that mr sultan of is anything going to change in the middle east and russia's view. but 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 scrutinizing book of the problems and.