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a state of siege. from our studio. six o'clock on your wednesday morning i'm sean thomas you're watching our. 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 a domestic matter is awaiting sentencing after being found guilty of embezzling billions of dollars. has been following. 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 what 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 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 is also flying today that the crimes that were about of course the and only different 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 even fees a life in prison or 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 under pressure the defense says that it does not agree with the verdict they are 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 was that of course again his former associate plot to leave egypt will have to serve in jail

they were found guilty on monday of 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 judge's reading as what the court considers to be the evidence against because according. 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 a sentence for the biggest tax fraud in the country's history he and his partner to give you a charge to stealing two hundred and eighteen million tons of oil seven down from a subsidiary company you can see that it has been announced guilty. supporters say he didn't break any laws. or was not to blame because he had a whole team of very experienced lawyers who used to tell him that. everything he did was within the law it was the blame of the laws that had dissolved loopholes and them. rose to great wealth thanks to one of the world's largest. non-state oil companies 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 had

a dark side to offer that of ski's associates were later found guilty of a number of murders. the fees place is in prison cost is accused of stealing tax evasion and fraud with the new charges he faces it's about stealing hundreds of billions his company security chief is in prison for murder. and there has always insisted he is 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 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're accused of so in that sense i think very few people would fatha carter cautiously 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 it's relevant 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 really is an icon he can find compression the prosecutors had asked that had that of course he was forty seven served at least six years on top of his current sentence however the reading of the field verdict is expected to last several days and the sentencing has yet to

come. r.t. moscow 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 unable to complete their journey were left without information on their flight and had to sleep on terminal floors katherina has more. this is hell one of the most easy 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 airport premises well now we can see that information is getting back on the screens all 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 turned away from the twenty seventh they've promised the flight will depart today but i don't know yet there's no information on the screens we've called the office and television and they said those 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 though the press service of the airport says they regularly lunchboxes and also provide stranded passengers with drinking water 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 of all it is 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 for your flight where i'm going were we 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 consul to be there and 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 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 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 tried to stage protests and system 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 whitetail were taken rushes to law just add ports are. reporting for us there still ahead for you this hour our teams close obtain one covers and the mysterious past of russia's southern siberia. if i was his three hundred years ago i may have disappointed my local and i have does this is from the army for

a variety of other crimes the result was the same what my fellow prisoners around me go to long and very cold walk ahead into exile in siberia more about this treacherous walk and mystery that are close up reports coming your way in just a few minutes. two years after israel's major offensive on. gaza which killed over one thousand people many palestinians 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 district after it came under the control of a mass in two thousand and seven which it considers a terrorist organization now as artie's policy 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 convoy with politicians and activists from eighteen countries is on its way to gaza on border one hundred eighty people food and medical supplies and are determined corps to reach gaza on the second anniversary of the last israel gaza wall the convoy dubbed asia to gaza solidarity caravan sits 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 only you attempt to lift 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. 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 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 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 better any time soon most gazans have the eyes on the sea and their hope on the next. police here are two israel. military transport plane has crashed in central russia the twenty two came down tula region south of moscow all eleven people on board are believed dead or problem an area better gauge and says the crash may have been caused by engine failure emergency services are at the scene of the crash. now to other world news in brief this hour a third suspected u.s. missile strike has hit pakistan's northwestern tribal area near the afghan border

killing nine people officials say it had vehicles carrying alleged members of a well known militant group to other strikes in the north waziristan region on tuesday killed eight the area is a stronghold for pakistani 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 to make a way for all of. whose 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 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 had to leave their homes after the dawson river reached a record level of almost fifteen metres it's the worst flooding in decades and damage is expected to exceed one billion u.s. dollars. we take you now to one of russia's most far flung regions this time we're headed to south western siberia. two thousand kilometers from moscow lies the obstacle region the main city which shares the name of briefly became russia's capital after the one nine hundred seventeen revolution that also helped the imperial gold reserves but it's got a checkered reputation as tom barton 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 reenacting the march into exile made by thousands and czarist russia circle it succumbs years to go there is 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 these bodies it's scary to put the shackles on of

course but it's interesting if we don't remember history we will have no future. it's a monument to one of the restructures cruelest chapters. yet it was. one of the more notable traditions and also because military professionalism practiced here at the city's cadets college for nearly two hundred years the. year 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 officer. as to protect the territory before that it was a cossack 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 and alms. giving

a book it's strange to be away from home unusual but when you get used to it if you 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 last and residents who live here though the study of the man like the maintenance of this building has remained a taboo right up until the present day or we still receive hate mail saying that he hanged a lot of people and was famous for severe punishment it's all true but it was at a time of civil war both sides were monstrously cruel. it is sadly the theme of cruelty which links so much of our history to the rest of russia's particularly of exile where they were an apple or. if i was here three hundred years ago i may have dissipated 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 dunbarton r.t. on the screen and. 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.

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 when 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 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 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 if you how effective and you have you have been the recent calls of the russian leadership on the international community to unilaterally 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 thought 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. israeli prime

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 not truly 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 object.