which jerry clearly states. sorry curtis what you've got to wrap it up i very much appreciate you giving us your perspective telling us about your lifestyle but you know very quick last question if you were in trouble would you call the police to come help you i would call a police officer that's it for tonight's show thanks for tuning in and make sure you come back tomorrow we're going to look at some of the most heated and contentious debates that swept across america over the past year you will not want to miss that now in the meantime don't forget to become a fan of the alona show on facebook and follow us on twitter and if you missed any of tonight's show or any other nights you can always catch it all the you tube dot com slash the alone a show or you post the interview as well so show in its entirety coming up next is the news with the latest headlines from the u.s. at around the world. it can hit dr swines policeman swines minister's wife i just.

if you didn't find me if i could just live through the night that i would get my kids out of here because i knew that it was going to happen was that he was going to kill me many victims don't understand that domestic violence includes verbal abuse psychological abuse physical abuse and sexual abuse at least four million women are affected by abuse every year those around the two options that i saw at that moment either i'm going to kill him i'm in jail or he's going to kill it.

five are arrested in denmark in what's said to be the country's biggest ever terrorism attempt fueling concerns of islamic extremism spreading across europe. the drug. use. was. storing up trouble the economic crisis proves no barrier to america's credit card addiction that shoppers continue to swipe their way through recession. and from our ice hockey to bust terri teammate's a siberian strongman as we travel to where the tough climate makes tough people.

you know you're watching r t welcome to the program danish police are investigating what they call the most serious terror plot ever attempted in the country five suspected is the most militants have been arrested for allegedly planning a gun attack in copenhagen their target was the office of the newspaper that printed the controversial cartoons of the prophet muhammad five years ago police say the suspects intended to break in and kill as many people as possible the publication of the cartoons one of which depicting the prophet muhammad with a bomb shaped turban invoke the fury of muslims around the world is the latest in a series of arrests throughout the year which have put european nations on high alert over the spread of islamic radicalism and those who go to school for ports it's happening right on the authorities news's. over a year of investigations and a massive police raid and brought results twenty six people have been arrested.

germany and the netherlands belgium dutch moroccans and chechens all are suspected of recruiting so-called jihadist candidates and financing terrorist organizations right from the heartland of europe police mission a success absolutely but is the battle over this is it's just a visible part of the iceberg it's huge there is a whole machine behind this redo on a ruse was born in belgium in a family of christians and converted to islam when he was lame t. he says he did it on his own will because it simply provided the answers he couldn't find in other religions according to him islam teaches peace and tolerance but unfortunately due to generally poor knowledge about it it can be used to teach the exact opposite. there are really extreme arms acting in europe and the problem is people who don't. understand the muslim philosophy they end up in the arms of these in moms who come from saudi arabia egypt

a former french intelligence officer claude money now has a company advising governments and corporations on health to deal with terrorism and extremism related threats based in brussels he claims the spread of islamic extremism is happening right in front of the authorities veil to from their attention by its privacy they will say you are not a good mistake because you don't practice five times the price five times a day you are not a good missed him because you are drinking you are not a good muslim because your wife is not there and you hope to goodness him because you don't do nothing for you. in palestine in iraq and so on which oppress ten o'clock and it begins in the families it begins. into streets and in the must this is one of the immigrant quarters of brussels. signs in arabic specialist shops and cafes kind of core to believe we are in the portland top european union official around a quarter of the local active working age population from eighty. this figure is

even higher which makes it. for recruitment the lack of education. work in many european muslim communities seem to have become the driving force behind the spread of extremist. in the european union the flow of newcomers is likely to continue and many experts believe. muslims integrate into a multicultural society the extremism threat will remain no matter how many arrests or meet. the brussels. more ahead this hour including developments from outside of a house courtroom. it's the fourth consecutive day of reading. the latest verdict i'm catching details outside the court in just a few moments. when the grass was greener why people in the balkans are getting

more prosperous. in the mid twentieth century. united states may be a nation deep in debt but you never guess with store still takings but it's the credit card making a killing with shoppers weighing heavy on the plastic. that's reverend billy with a mission to break addiction to shopping. truth. stops. her. heart styles and new must have items of the fashion world changes fast as the seasons but one thing that never goes out of style in the us is

shopping america is the birthplace of modern consumerism nowhere else in the world do people buy more than here with officially more shopping malls in the us than high schools if i didn't spend enough money on sunglasses i could probably save for college and things like bad very few actually admit to an addiction is a dora does exactly what. that was waited twenty five things with a daily need for a new dose of jackets sweaters and skirts she considers herself a shopaholic how many pairs of shoes do you have. so hundreds be urged to possess has taken over men to statistics see men and women compulsively shop equally in the us nowadays i'm actually excited about spencer runs your last couple of years have spoke i think a one hundred thousand dollars on clothes while these numbers are simply

unimaginable for millions of americans only a few are putting up a very loud fight against consumerism. reverend billy says a credit card exorcism on the entire nation is what can cure america fifteen million americans are addicted to shopping but many more americans than fifteen million shop too much still shape his mean life mission is to chase away. the shopping devil by putting an act in churches and shopping malls around the country the credit crunch the purpose of the exaggerations is to make americans see their flaws yes. the splash took. too much money consumer consumer. it's a church it controls us it's a fundamentalist church like the roman catholic church in the fourteen hundreds these desperate times normally exit my credit card limit every mom could be calling

for desperate measures like spells and exorcisms sniffing the glitter in the windows all that appeal to you since more often than not in the us legally the majority of people have too much month left at the end of the money the average american is said to generate over fifty tons of garbage by the time they are a senior with millions buzzing around new york stores this holiday season and it's hard to tell who is doing it responsibly and who is completely out of control because of shopping not considered a mental disorder there are dozens of there are people and clinics in the big apple for those who are willing to admit they have a problem an indication of no lessons learned even after the big crash of a recession. we were. told r.t. able to afford luxury goods still have cash in the bank or the else has to turn to credit. media has been you know suggesting this is been a great christmas you know cause you know the amount of money span has gone way up

but actually when you break it down you see that the biggest items that have been sold are luxury items which are going to people who can afford them because of the distribution of wealth in our country where the rich have the money to spend and the poor don't secondly a lot of people who have gone into bankruptcy no longer have debts so they now have more money to spend and the second thing is people aren't paying on their mortgages so they apply that money to buying and shopping but you know at the end of the day it catches everyone in a big net and they're trapped in this whole situation which is getting worse for most americans and unfortunately you know our media which is part of the you know hype for consumerism isn't also doing a very good job of explaining all this to people warning them about what they're getting into and as a result people find themselves spending more spending more money that they then

they have an ending up with bills they can't afford to pay. and the banks appear to have money to burn they turn backs kinds of books so why one major u.s. spank is using its dollars to buy its way out of online then calling. now a new bank in the news major financial terror is tearing up the global economy for a few quick books bank of america stacy herbert tell me more yes max kaiser bank of america is in the news the first headline i have to read is just his sterile they're planning on major chaos coming major anger from the peasants coming regarding their shenanigans because the first head irene's wow bank of america bought sucks and blows u r l's for like everyone at the company so apparently bank of america's bought four hundred thirty nine you or else including things like brian moynihan sucks dot com who is the c.e.o.

and then they went out of their way and paul sorts of u.r.l.'s for other executives cafferty sucks com and she's just the global technology an operations executive they bought sallie krawcheck blows dot com they also bought more than a hand below is that common so they've all hundreds of these for all these executives and. so let me get this straight the bank of america to avoid a public relations problem went out and bought broad morning sucks. you know bank of america brian moynihan sachs brian moynihan bluenose dot com to avoid a public relations problem. the judge in the second trial the former oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky he's due to start a fourth day of reading the verdict and sentence is to be announced on friday but

of course and his business partner were found. or the investment and money. coming to the end of the previous attacks of patients. he's covered over as a cost of. the war is it taking so long to deliver the verdict length of sentence could be in store. carry on the first part of your question is pretty simple it's straightforward math there are fourteen files in the verdict itself all of which have to be read and they're around three hundred pages each file so this is why it's taking the judge days to read this verdict in the biggest question here in the courthouse is whether the judge will actually be able to finish it before the new year or whether the reading of the verdict will actually continue all the way into january twentieth eleven now the president does show that it could well be teemu into january but that he's the last sentence because of course they still feel his

second there's been a tip over to leaks to be read so everyone is waiting here just to see exactly how long this verdict will take a judge to be read and of course wondering exactly how big of a prison sentence the judge will give them prosecutors as well as people fourteen years for both he and his former colleagues. that. the term however wouldn't start for now it would start well when the original trial began in two thousand and three and if the judge does ground the prosecution's wishes and give the two men those fourteen years they will be out of prison in twenty seventeen however many believe that the sentence could be shorter than what the prosecution originally asked for we know that one of the charges has been dropped that charge was to do with theft of stocks from a daughter company of russia's once biggest oil giant biggest oil company and

that charge was dropped because the statute of limitations ran out so we don't know . exactly how long the sentence would be but it's definitely a question of the day here in the in the heart of the capital just outside the courthouse. western nations have been voicing their concerns. that tell us more about the international reaction. trial the news first trial was very widely publicized. both here in russia and outside international media have always followed his case very closely many of course claiming that the case is a political one and that he remains in prison because of political reasons and not legal ones and not of course as something that his defense has also been using in their attempts to wade into that puts these trials specifically in this last case they've said that. he's been charged with stealing of billions of dollars worth of

oil the oil that he had poured into the prosecution was guilty of not paying taxes for in his first trial so a lot of attention and of course this latest guilty verdict has forced some international powers to voice their concerns specifically the united states saying that this reflects badly on both of them with these images in the west germany also saying that this is a step backward and not a step forward for russia russian prosecutors of course always maintained that this case was done by the book and according to the letter of the law the russian foreign ministry saying yesterday that this basically was a russia's internal business russia's legislature and therefore how it conducts his trials is pretty purely russia's business and that all the concerns that have been voiced by international powers are nothing more than an attempt to politicize a case that is strictly legal and has been so from the beginning. is so you say the

latest verdict that this is. this second trial of course reminds us why the already behind dogs. may be different see nine your senses in two thousand and five for tax fraud and embezzlement that sentence was later reduced to eight years and it would have been running out very shortly should the prosecution not have brought up new charges against them and those michigan friends are the best over twenty billion dollars worth of oil originally it was something like three hundred billion tons of oil that number was also later reduced but of course the two men are already serving prison sentences in. different prisons in russia they were brought to moscow for these latest hearings and have been here ever since as the judge reads the verdict of course now the biggest question is how long that puts their next prison sentence will be we

know that the lawyers already planning to appeal this case their previous appeals of course have not been successful but the defense attorneys for. both say that they are prepared to take bettors outside the country and take it up with the european court if need comes. ok all to. thank you for that. well there's more reaction and analysis on that story at all right here is what else we're covering a few online today frosty crust ration across moscow so wintry snobberies airports a range to it all the time of year holiday plans for thousands on the skids. with dozens of exotic animals die after a great sound from traveling circus details about our time dot com.

if. you. we today are synonymous with struggling to vision spurred on by the devastating conflicts of one nine hundred ninety s. for many the future is even less than the feeling of being pushed towards integration as others have it reports it's being met by a wave of. as many say they hunker the stability and prosperity. of. everyone in stumpy a noose around his cafe is a popular watering hole for locals and tourists alike keen for a taste of you can a stone. stepping inside the camp and you can be a really it's like taking a step back in time i mean a food and alcohol available in the former yugoslavia. in a french wines or with the menu and you can pay for your meal in local currency we

were told on no account will they accept us dollars all in less pounds. but now he's channeling his love for all things you get sloppy in into politics founding the fledgling alliance of teachers left forces policy. when you say tito you think socialism peace brotherhood and unity it just says it all life was better then it was cheaper to live it was safe we could travel more people had jobs in factories were working now everything was imported. youngsters he may not remember life on the t.s.a. but they certainly know who he was appalled by a macedonian based think tank revealed the most believed life was better in the former yugoslavia where they felt richer and freer the weight. which are considered progressive period of the. federation when the image about this period has never faded there's always been kept as

a positive results tallied with similar surveys carried out across the balkans. i remember her. good or not remember it was good but now days things are miserable in all the republics. there's no need to ask if life was better then you could live off your monthly salary and still save something now it lasts just three days. but is it just fear to came when the earth shakes and shaking when everything is so uncertain and so on the only thing which which is provides absolute certainty a fixed point you know comedian point it's the past the recent wave of crises to hit the euro zone has raised concerns among some here in macedonia that as their own countrymen steadily towards joining the bloc membership might not today help solve their own person domestic problems of color and employment and economic stagnation macedonia's i'm after quest for four hundred eighty million

euros his raise concerns that it will further in debt the country and tie it to a europe in the throes of a financial crisis in the mountains surrounding belgrade must still cheer for the past is a life and buggy down its commitment to it is so strong he's built a movie lead to his dogs or be allowed to say when i was a comrade i lived like a mr know that's all mr i live like a big boy so well governments in the former yugoslavia have their eyes firmly set on europe uga still remains for those keen to fly the flag for days gone by honestly bits asci and macedonia and suddenly. the headlines out. that of. the ivory coast are accusing the country's state media of inciting hatred against them the ongoing political unrest is also that the african nations appointed no past one the country on the brink of genocide and

still refusing to quit the well community recognizes his rival. as the winner on the selection both have been sworn in as president thousands of people have fled into neighboring liberia fearing civil war. sudan's president bashir says the country will withdraw from peace talks with the rebels if no agreement to reach by thursday attempts last in the darfur region cutting fighting against government troops since two thousand and three some three hundred thousand people died going over to the whole flight path as a result of the conflict. but time now to see more russia close up as we head on a siberian expedition.

yes where in the southwest and screecher in them which was once the capital siberia today we focus on it sporting prowess the people of all sky know how to make the most of the ice proud as they are of their down professional hockey team. tom potter explained it's not the only example of some of the unspent. almost on the surrounding region has always been a tough place to survive because tough weather conditions and it's required to tough people to come and live here and it's not idea of strength from particularly off money knows it's found its way into the sporting i'm physical culture here as well and it's that feeling that i've been examining him out of. i. don't skills while the local hockey team album god puts another goal in the net they may look like other teams from around russia or in the world but they knew their special that's you. know you're still missing my list since we were little we

practiced outside in the cold weather so we used conditions it's room i know the america so we have the toughest players. and it's not just seasoned almost players enthusiasm for the test of courage and strength comes young. and. i like the way they play hockey the pillow fights the strikes and the opportunity to become a star like that. ice hockey isn't the only have kilian and dev attracting attention here how about the why don't know towing a minibus. have those boys even save bierria in winter with slippery roads it's pretty hard. pulling many buses are the only way this is what you have to show their strength they can also find many other ways to flex some siberian muscle. here originally jim in the team lifts bends and pulls anything they can lay their hands on for competitions across russia they also put on public shows to entertain

the crowds but earn some extra money for the uk but day in day out it's about heaving that little bit. moan that i had to separate the same it's different i just like it that's all i like wrestling against these pieces of equipment i like to achieve high results. the team only formed a few years ago so they haven't won a major titles yet but again the siberian spirit infuses them and they have a strong sense of that special quality sure that of disability comes as a historically people from siberia have been very strong and made great soldiers i think they greatly contributed to our victory in world war two conditions he a make people learn how to survive because he thinks they might strong indeed in fact you could hardly describe these lot as being in survival mode. if it looks lift a bow or movable these guys will try and muscle it around need

a tire moving. need some joined weights lifting. well perhaps even me. it's not a problem for the men with the muscles. today's major business news now with you. now watching r t time for the business update and let's start with checking on the markets asian stocks a lot on thursday the neck a loss of a percent way by the dollars we're getting to it seven week low against again down think the outlook for japanese exporters earnings saying it's trading flat to negative but the best just staying on the sidelines in light trading ahead of the new year holiday. and here in russia the markets closed mixed on wednesday with the

r.t.s. finishing the day marginally in the red while the my six. percent. all gold is expected to continue its rally in twenty eleven as uncertainty of the global financial system it's saved have been haven eller gentle but of course. two thousand dollars per round sum by them tough two thousand and eleven is the most optimistic target on the market some two hundred prize to many gold has risen every year for the last decade in two thousand and ten records delivering a. return find that really has been driven by a certain in the markets. and that's called a nation of of uncertainty in the financial markets combination of low interest rates as we're seeing in the u.s. fear of inflation and.