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this is r.t. live from moscow a very warm welcome to you danish police are investigating what they're calling the most serious terror plot and for attempted in the country five suspected islamic militants have been arrested for allegedly planning a gun attack inside copenhagen the target was the office of the newspaper that printed the controversial cartoons of the prophet mohammed five years ago police say the suspects intended to break in and to kill as many people as possible the publication of the cartoon swan of which depicted the prophet mohammed with a bomb shaped turban invoked the fury of muslims all around the world and it's 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 as you go to this kind of reports it's happening right under the noses of the authorities. over

a year of investigations and a massive police raid in the end brought results twenty six people have been arrested in belgium germany and the netherlands belgium dutch moroccans and churchill's all are suspected of recruiting so-called jihad is candidates and financing terrorist organizations right from the heartland of europe police mission a success absolutely but is the battle over this is a race that it's just a visible part of the iceberg it's huge there is a whole machine behind this redo our rules he was born in belgium in a family of christians and converted to see what 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 feel erratic and don't understand the muslim philosophy or they end up in the arms of these in moms who come from saudi arabia. egypt a former french intelligence officer claude money care now heads a company advising governments and corporations on hell 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 wiil to from their attention by its privacy they will say you are not a good missed him because you don't practice five times the prior five times a day you are not a good muslim because you are drinking you are not a good muslim because your wife is not and you have to goodness him because you don't do nothing for your brother. in palestine in iraq and so on which oppressed and killed it begins in the families. in the streets and in the must this is one of the immigrant quarters of brussels. signs in arabic specialist shops and

cafes of course to believe one top european union official around a quarter of the local active working age population from eighteen to thirty is unemployed. this figure is even higher which makes it prime ground for recruitment . the lack of education and little work in many european muslim communities seem to have become the driving force behind the spread of extremist. towards the most view let in the european union the flow of newcomers is likely to continue and many experts believe. it is need to hope muslims integrate into a multicultural society the extremism threat will remain no matter how many arrests or me. or the brothel. down there is more ahead for you to come this hour here on r.t. including the days when the grass was greener here in the balkans nostalgic for the more prosperous past during the mid twentieth century. show of siberian

strength we travel to the russian city of on. square the tough climate produces a tough breed of people. the fourth day of reading the verdict in the second trial of former oil tycoon. is underway sentencing is expected on friday. and his business partner were found guilty of all embezzlement and money laundering both men are coming to the end of their previous jail term for tax evasion and fraud. as out of a is a cross developments for us here in moscow. ok with that of course he and his former colleagues left on a visit are still listening to their verdict and of course many already wondering why there are the verdict will be announced in full before the year two thousand and ten runs out of course it's already saying that the verdict could be read well into january of next year we know that there are fourteen files and hold all the

verdict itself around three hundred pages each and the other judge so far has read an hour oh it's just a little over a hundred pages a day so it may well take him more to read the entire verdict and of course the part that everybody's waiting for now exactly how much how long of a prison sentence will for that gets going to have a different seat is in the last part of the verdict because of that. or originally convicted in two thousand and five off tax evasion and fraud they were serving a nine year sentence which was later reduced to eight years and those eight years were almost up when prosecutors initiated a second trial this time charging the two men with a theft over over twenty billion dollars worth of oil of course the defense attorney claimed those. allegations and accusations were ridiculous because it was that very voile that occurred that and live as if have been found guilty of

stealing that they were actually charged with not paying taxes on in their first trial and that defense is part of the overall defense strategy that at the defense attorneys are planning to use in their appeal they've already said that they are planning to appeal this latest sentence and if it doesn't happen inside the country they are planning to take it arts outside russia and take it to the european court but so far of course we are the only thing that we do know is that for the second time code for that and what that may be different have been found guilty and the prosecution originally asked for fourteen. years of prison time in those that time would start from the time that the first trial began which was in two thousand and three so if the judge does agree with the prosecution's wishes and will give those two men fourteen years behind bars they will be released in twenty seventeen in this latest going to fiction and we already know that the united states has

expressed concern saying that this isn't a very good sign for russia and russia is the image in the west germany has also expressed concern stating that this is a step backward the guilty verdict in the post about what's the latest trial the russian foreign ministry of course saying that everything has been done according to the law by the law and that no one of the government has the right to interfere in russia's legal proceedings everything concerning the trials and tribulations of me. has been done in accordance with the law and by procedure. reporting now there is more reaction and analysis on that story. here's what else we're covering for you online today frosty frustration across moscow so when three snow brings the roads to a halt it's putting the new year holiday plans for thousands on the skids. and dozens of exotic animals die after a fire breaks out in a russian traveling suckers details waiting for you twenty four seventh's so you

don't call. the united states may be a nation deep in debt but you'd never know it with stores still ringing in the takings but it's the credit card farms who are making the killings with shoppers weighing heavy on the plastic. referent barely a man with a mission to break the american addiction to shopping. trip. stop. start.

her. hot 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 covers a twenty five things we do we 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 during the last couple of years i've seen 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 state shape is me life mission is to chase away the shopping devil by putting an act in churches and shopping malls around the country the credit card purpose of the exaggerations is to make americans see their flaws yes of this plastic you're spending too much money consumer consumers

it's a church but controls us it's a fundamentalist church like the roman catholic church in the fourteen hundreds these desperate times normally except my credit card limit every mom could be calling for desperate measures like spells and exorcisms the things that go later in the week does 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 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 and stacy tripping up artsy. well filmmaker told us

here at r.t. that only those able to afford luxury goods still have cash in the bank everybody else has to turn to the credit card. 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 then 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. to use coming to life in the heart of moscow where it's now just one in quarter past the hour now the balkans today synonymous with struggle and division spurred on by the devastating conflicts of the one nine hundred ninety s. for many the future is even less certain with a feeling of being pushed towards e.u. integration as alice had reports it's being met by a wave of hugo dos style just as many say they hanker for the stability and prosperity under the leadership of marshall tito. everyone in skimpy a new slow but he can't be is the plum peter watering hole for the locals nuts who are still make keen for a teased of you can astound. stepping inside the camp in yugoslavia really is like

taking a step back in time i mean food and alcohol available in the form of. 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 u.s. dollars or english pounds. but now he's channeling his love for all things yugoslavian into politics founding the fledgling alliance of tito's left forces policy. and 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 and factories were working now everything is imported. youngsters he may not remember life on the t.s.a. but they certainly know who he is. appalled by a macedonian based think tank revealed the most believe life was better in the former yugoslavia where they felt richer and freer the late.

eighty's which are considered progressive period of the. federation when the image about this period has never faded when there's always been kept as a positive results tallied with similar surveys carried out across the balkans bit of additional i remember how could i not remember what was good but now days things are miserable and 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 talking when the earth shaking when when everything is so uncertain and so on the only thing which reaches provides absolute certainty a fixed point you know a 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 their own countrymen certainly

towards joining the bloc membership might not only help solve their own pressing domestic problems of clan employment and economic stagnation macedonia's i am after a quest for four hundred eighty million euros his raise concerns that it will further in debt the country entire it to a europe in the throes of a financial crisis in the mountains surrounding belgrade misspell just for the past is alive and bush he does commitment to it is so strong he's built a movie lead to it dogs are allowed to say when i was a comrade i live like a mr know that i'm a mr i live like a big oh. so one governments in the former yugoslavia have their eyes firmly set on europe you can still hear remains for those keen to fly the flag for days gone by and as a bit arty in macedonia and central. ok time now to check out some other headlines

from around the world this hour the united nations peacekeepers in the ivory coast story accusing the country's a state media of inciting hatred against them the ongoing political unrest has also led the african nations newly appointed u.n. ambassador to warn the country may be on the brink of genocide president bush is still refusing to quit even though the world community recognizes his rival as the winner of the recent election both have been sworn in as president while thousands have fled into neighboring liberia fearing a civil war. the united states has revoked the venezuelan ambassador's visa it's in response to president chavez's rejection of america's choice of envoy to caracas larry palmer was blocked after the american diplomat accused chavez government of close ties to leftist colombian rebels the venezuelan leader also charlie into obama's administration to cut all diplomatic relations there are long

simmering tensions between washington and the socialist chavez who is a fierce u.s. critic. sudan's president bashir says the country will withdraw from peace talks with rebels if no agreement is reached by thursday militants in the western darfur region have been fighting against government troops since two thousand and three some three hundred thousand people have died and over two and a half million the flood as a result of the conflict. well time now to see a bit more of russia close up as we head off on a siberian expedition. this time we're in the southwest and which was once the capital of siberia today we focus on it sporting prowess now the people of all know how to make the most of the ice sprout as they are of that we're now and professional hockey team up on guard

but as tom barton explains it's not the only example of siberian strength. mom's going to surrounding region has always been a tough place to survive because tough weather conditions and it's required tough people to come and live here and it's that idea of strength from particularly off money must has found its way into the sporting and physical culture here as well and it's that feeling that i've been examining in march. i and almost goes wild 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 know they're special they're side they're. our you're still missing money's since we were little we've practiced outside in the cold weather so a used to hot conditions it's woman in north america so we're the toughest players . and it's not just seasoned on 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 still life. ice hockey isn't the only happy and dev attracting attention here how about a wider no turning a minibus. those voices even say bierria in winter with sleeper roads it's pretty hard. pulling many buses are the only way these weightlifters show their strength they can also find many other ways to flex some siberian muscle. he regional local gym 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. but day in day out it's about heaving that little bit more. moan that i had to swim it's different i just like it that's all

i like wrestling against these pieces of equipment i like to achieve high results with. the team only formed a few years ago so they haven't won any major titles yet but again the siberian spirit infuses them and they have a strong sense that special qualities. could be simply comes out and 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 here make people learn how to survive he thinks the money strong indeed in fact you could hardly describe these lot as being in survival mode. if it looks lift a ball or movable these guys will try and muscle it around me to tire moving. me some joined weights lifting. or perhaps even me.

it's not a problem for the men with the muscles tom watson r.t. . just a few minutes max keiser brings the financial world big shot down a run or two but before then we'll get up to date with the latest business news with your ear. hello and a very warm welcome to the business program and let's start with checking on the markets asian stocks are mixed this solve the nikkei over a percent by the dollar as we can get seven week low against the yen damping the outlook for japanese exporters their earnings hang saying it's trading flood to

positive with him best to stay on the sidelines in light trading ahead of the new year holiday. and here in russia the markets started the day on a negative note before the last day of this year's trading. gold is expected to continue its rally in twenty eleven as uncertain to the global financial system save have an agenda but of course. two thousand dollars per round sum by them tough two thousand and eleven is the most optimistic target on the market model seventeen hundred book not been surprise to many gold has risen the average here for the last decade and two thousand and ten and bits all records delivering a third to person to return find that says that really has been driven by a certain in the markets. and that's called a nation of of uncertain in the financial markets combination of low interest rates

as we're seeing in the us fear of inflation in the pipeline you get all these things are supported in the gold price if you look at gold production for mines that's been more or less range bound to about twenty five hundred tonnes a year and so you're not getting more supply from the mines while some analysts say such skyrocketing appreciation is the babo which is bound to burst obvious is strong fundamentals which will continue to drive the rally china's central bank holdings as a percentage of all holdings is two percent the global average just ten percent ok if it were to increase its its holdings but to ten percent just even to five percent the shock wave that would go through the gold markets you would easily see fifteen seventeen hundred dollar gold easily. russia has the world's second largest reserves but it's only ranked fifth and terms of production which gives the russian mind there are some of the best growth profiles in the industry and last month

how's that creative project plan is gold's talk will rise twenty percent in the next twelve months and says at least a ten percent topside on paula mantel that's how the political business are tame. that's all we have time for now get most or a small website r.t. dot com slash business. wealthy british style.

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