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mind your own business russia slams the international community for trying to interfere in the case of former oil tycoon. for more on one of the most controversial trials in russia. in just a few moments. moscow's airport says thousands of passengers remain in limbo. may be back on it want to be easy but thousands of passengers are still trying to get to the. people that took. two years israeli air. survivors say they're still living in a state of siege. in

broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is our t.v. certainly glad to have you with us russia lashed out at the west for criticism over the trial of former oil tycoon. moscow said the international community should stay out of what is essentially a domestic matter. is awaiting sentencing after being found guilty of embezzling billions of dollars you got a piece could off has been following the events. well washington has said that such a verdict will horn russia's image when it comes to human rights and 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 traditional 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 interfere with the powers of the poor the foreign ministry has also outlines is that the crimes that about of course 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 to live on this never a civilized country a cool decides whether a person is guilty or innocent not public opinion on my smita the verdict says that

her koskie 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 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 the skis 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. 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 is that we call 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 go through. the judges reading out what the court considers to be the evidence against because according to liberating 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. 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. which charged to

stealing two hundred and eighteen million tons of oil seven down from succeeding the company you can see here that it has been announced. the supporters say he didn't break any laws he 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 had a dark side to offer that his 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. for that course he has always insisted he's innocent of the fraud charges which put him behind bars and the 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 in 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 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 koskie is persecuted for for nothing yes there is a very strong case i think against him public opinion is divided 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'm on a russian broad public unlike liberals. really is that i come here and find compression the prosecutors had asked that her that who's forty seven served at least six years on top of this current sentence however the reading of the film verdict is expected to last several days and the sentencing has yet to come. marty must go. moscow's airports are slowly returning to normal service after days of

delays and cancellations thousands have been stranded after bad weather grounded hundreds of flights many travelers are unable to complete their journey and they were left without information on their flights having to sleep on terminal floors it catherine mcgrath has more. this is hell one of most these is tops looks like power is back on and flies are getting back on should you like that the my idea that 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 applets 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 whole 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 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 bats and there 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 was the situation adama denver airport is gradually improving we've called in extra staff to help resolve the problems were 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 for the hardest abilities for 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 simply a flight where are you going to we're going to 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. the council we then that we're booked onto a flight yesterday which is 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 i 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 i mean your point deals are very well with these problems as we're seeing across europe and on the up moskos b.'s 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 kalash with the representatives of companies and with police they tried to stall impossible to control zones they blocked log each areas and try to stage protests insisting to meet they had to be apples people mostly complained that they were denied hotel baths and they ended up sleeping on the floor so so far why payola taken rushes to law just add points. or to put in a culture of covering the airports for us now still ahead for you this hour our team uncovers a mysterious past of russians southern siberia. if i was his three hundred years ago i may have disappointed my local and i have deserted from the army for a variety of other crimes the result was the same what my fellow prisoners around me but i've got

a long and very cold walk ahead into exile in siberia more about this a treacherous walk on and history are close report coming your way in a few minutes. two years after israel's major affair. gaza which killed over a thousand people many palestinians and say they feel imprisoned back in two thousand and eight israel launched massive air and ground strikes on hamas targets in response to rocket attacks the conflict drew worldwide condemnation over the huge numbers of palestinian civilian casualties israel blockaded the strip after it came under the control of a mosque in two thousand and seven which it considers a terrorist organization now as artie's parsley or reports aid is restricted and rarely reaches its destination. 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 wall the convoy dubbed asia to gaza solidarity caravan six cell 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 so 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'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 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 vehicles spare parts and evitable you resort to this kind of transportation the donkey's 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 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 any time soon most gazans have the eyes on the sea and their hope on the next. policy are to israel. now onto other world news in brief this hour. a third of the suspected u.s. missile strike has hit pakistan's at northwestern tribal area near the afghan border killing nine people officials say it had vehicles carrying allegedly members of a well known militant group to other strikes in the north waziristan region on tuesday killed eight this 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's incumbent president step down or face removal

by force. is unlikely to agree need to make a way for. 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 and over one hundred seventy people have been killed. bad weather is causing chaos in australia as northeastern states with the government declaring some towns disaster zones severe floods have shut down around three hundred roads across queensland including two major highways to the state capital brisbane hundreds of people have had to leave their homes after the dawson river reached a record level of almost fifteen metres it's the worst flooding in the area in decades and damage is expected to exceed one billion u.s.

dollars. we now take you to one of russia's most far flung regions this time we're heading to south western siberia. two thousand kilometers or from moscow the region the main city which it shares the name briefly became russia's capital after the one nine hundred seventeen revolution it also held the imperial gold reserves but it's got a checkered reputation as tom barr discovers. 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 here is 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 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 reactors now receivers to us 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 will have no future. it's a monument to one of the restructures cruelest chapters. he. was. one of the more notable traditions and also his military

professionalism practiced tear 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 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 and it's strange to be away from home unusual but when you get used to it if you it's like home. military personalities are dotted throughout history the city served as the capital of anticommunist white russian leader admiral culture in the civil war from one thousand nine hundred to nine hundred nineteen lost and residents who live 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 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 admiral or a criminal. if i was here three hundred years ago i may have disappeared my local law 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 dunbarton r.t. on the screen. russia's deputy foreign minister has recently returned from a visit to the middle east next he tells r.t.

it's time for the world community to step up and get the peace process between israelis and palestinians back on track. of luggage mr silk son 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 where 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. with just that and. 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 that 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 or does it all a bad it's about increasing a 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 have called for the earliest convocation of a new ministerial meeting of the international cortex 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're 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 that time is required in this type of mobilization process if the aspirations of the palestinian people are to come true. that if.

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. 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 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 of 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 decides 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. definitely he will dimitri medvedev his 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. 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 encountered by the peace process and work together including the parties concerned i.e. israel and the arabs towards the solution of these problems with an aim of achieving our common goal which is.