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made. easier by sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment. convicted of. six more. wary of the threat of islamic extremism with the recent arrests over a suspected attacker. along with other incidents. the problem is going to. come from consumerism in the us as the country's financial troubles. america's

credit. hello this is our. top story for oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky and his business partner have been sentenced to fourteen years in prison for oil and money laundering both men were coming to the end of their previous jail terms for tax evasion and fraud. reports tonight. four days that's how long it took the judge to be the verdict six more years that's how long we feel who will have to spend behind bars the forty seven year old is in the final stretch of an eight year prison term and sentence after being convicted for tax evasion. because he is here by sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment the

sentence will be served in the correctional colony of a medium security prison in this second trial of the bush king just partner. were convicted of stealing two hundred eighteen million tonnes of oil worth twenty seven billion dollars dollars from a subsidiary company out of course he was known as the very worst corporate governance abuse in russia and i myself was that you question how the meeting by i had a power of attorney from one of their minority investors to attend and was thrown out at gun point where a meeting went on to dilute the investor a man for the american cause kind of his state down to virtually nothing and the company voted to sell oil to an independent trade company for one dollar twenty five a barrel at a time when the international price was thirty dollars so that he made his fortune through what was then one of the world's largest non-state oil companies ucas it began from the states so off in the one nine hundred ninety s.

and became versus fast is going on a producer at that time in the business was risky and ucas was no exception to could have caused his associates were found guilty of a number of murders even so their supporters insist the two men are innocent khodorkovsky was not to blame because he had a whole team of very experienced lawyers hole used to tell him that. everything he did was within the law it was the blame of the laws that had those holes in them because he has mundine he's innocent of the fraud charges ever since his arrest in two thousand and three and the west's many believe he was singled. prosecution not so much for financial reasons as for his political ambitions so why do his supporters in russia tend to view him as a sort of a martyr figure we're all humans and compassion for people who who are who are behind the bars for a very long time here already eight years in prison and he has to spend many years

more for the present can be smart he can be a particular it can be sold spoken but it doesn't mean that necessarily this is a finish off non-guilt and that might be a case of course the prosecutors had asked for at least six more years on top of his current sentence they got what they wanted but it'll cost his lawyers say deal appeal meaning we may not have heard the last of russia's trial of the decade if you go. you know three men arrested for planning most serious going to have been charged over a terror plot earlier danish police released one of the five suspects and another one is to face hearings in sweden the suspects allegedly planned an attack on the office of a newspaper in copenhagen which printed cartoons of the prophet muhammad five years ago drawing sparked outrage among muslims across the world official said those arrested intended to kill as many people as possible in the papers newsroom it 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 piskun office. over a year of investigations and a massive police raid in the end brought results twenty six people have been arrested in belgium germany 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 whole of europe police mission a success absolutely but is the battle over this is that it's just a visible part of the iceberg it's huge there is a whole machine behind this we do want to. was born in belgium in a family of christians and converted to islam when he was lame treat he says he did it on his own will because it simply provided the answers he would 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 extremely moms acting in europe and the problem is people who don't feel erotic and don't understand the muslim philosophy they end up in the arms of busy moms who come from saudi arabia egypt a former french intelligence officer claude money now has a company advising governments and corporations or help 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 veiled from their attention by its privacy they will say you are not a good missed him because you don't practice five times the price five times a day you are not a good mystery because you are drinking you are not a good muslim because your wife is not there and you are not a good missed him because you don't do nothing for your brother. in palestine in iraq and so on which oppressed and are killed it begins in the families it begins. in the streets and in the mosque this is one of the immigrant quarters of brussels

populated by muslims 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 eighteen to thirty is unemployed officially this figure is even higher which makes it prime ground for recruitment. the lack of education about islam and little work in many european muslim communities seem to have become the driving force behind the spread of extremist. towards asylum or among the most relaxed in the european union the flow of newcomers is likely to continue. and many experts believe unless more effort is made to hope muslims integrate into a multicultural society the extremism threat will remain no matter how many arrests or me you go to school or the brothel. we spoke to danish journalist and writer hell admitted break she told us it's the politicians who got the situation get out

of control i think what has gone terribly wrong is simply that very many politicians underestimate the interests of radical preachers speaking in mosques all over europe or in campuses at universities or of course spreading the message it's on the internet and when you have radical preachers doing things and not sort of good fish and being aware of it then you have the situation that you have today all on tonight on your website r.t. dot com new parts of the chernobyl nuclear disaster cycle being opened up to two wrists now as authorities say it no longer poses a radioactive threat to get the latest on that story i also online from us wiki leaks was not the first to make secret diplomatic cables cryptome daughter all it wasn't proud publishing present my documents longer for told the website coordinator john young about online spying recall his interview with r.t. dot com.

with went all of these things knew full swing it spying presents the most russians right now but for many in the us shopping is an all season addiction which thrives despite the faltering economy it is honest and said that i met one man who's fighting what he believes has become a religion. you should. stop. her. what 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. the robbers 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 the urge 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 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 still shape his me life mission is to cheat so we. 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. this plastic. too much money consumer consumer. it's the church it controls us it's a fundamentalist church like the roman catholic church in the fourteen hundreds these desperate times by i'd normally except my credit card limit every month could

be calling for desperate measures like spells and exorcisms the things that 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 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 says if you're going up for it see me or. well despite the holiday shopping buzz it seems the us is story of huge financial problems to find out why should into the kaiser report. why the united states of

america is broke telling its only health right one well it turns out that one of the major reasons why the us is broke is you'll be shocked to hear this military spending. seven hundred billion dollars in two thousand and nine was spent on the military you have to actually double it if you are going to count the real costs of the military including the wars you know the war profiteering industry mimics wall street they are generated by fees not by free but by the dumb america is a great global empiria will be dumb they go into countries blow it up for the fees that they pay the military contractors and hardware providers of the software providers to go commit genocide in various countries for a fee. because

reports on are two hours. south korea has ramped up the rhetoric against its northern neighbor officially labeling it an enemy it comes as tensions in the region remain high following north korea's shelling of an island in response to war games on its border the united patrol fs a lecturer in korean studies at the university of sydney he told us that it's part of the south's new approach to relations with the north. from north korean side it's a very provocative hostile step from south korea which. is supplementing its. not just rhetoric but also military and logistical preparations for the invasion of north korea looks at that but for south koreans it's just a return to the original stance the hostile anticommunist very heavy handed and very sort of. relations with north korea no concessions no cooperation no talks to south korea expects north korea to change north korea does not want to

change north korea's prepared is doing everything possible to avoid this change because it simply cannot sustain any economic or political change so resides on that of four north korean nerd agreements a survival south korea is doing everything possible to destabilize the situation either militarily or using to provide the traditional usual for the sunshine policy south korea is a security ally of the united states and united states is presence in the region united states really wants to influence its control over the group unusual united states are stationed for this station in the southern part of the korean peninsula china's next door from the korean peninsula and of course if the united states loses control or influence over korea korean peninsula north korea if so unified korea becomes a new dependent state well the certain interests of the united states' national interests might be jeopardized. this is article of just a few moments would reveal the secrets of staying strong in siberia.

pulling minibuses isn't the only way these weightlifters show their strength it can also find many other ways to flex some time period. closer in the city of ormskirk to see what else people there are capable of and where their power comes from. their one of moscow's main airports most reportedly being fired for failing to deal with the chaos caused by flight delays earlier this week severe disruptions in several air hubs across the capital left thousands of people stranded freezing rain ruptured power cables leaving domodedovo without electricity for hours at another airport i stop runways meant that many planes couldn't take off for straight and passengers said they weren't given any information about their flights they also complained of a lack of food and water as well as the hotel beds they were promised flights are now getting back to normal but many people saw the holiday plans ruined. worldviews in brief the former president of israel has been convicted of rape and could go to

jail three judge panel labeled his defense says riddled with lies in its ruling but has not yet sentenced him women's rights groups have long complained that israeli authorities shrugged off sexual harassment and workplaces welcomed he was found guilty of raping an employee as tourism minister in the one nine hundred ninety s. and other sexual offenses were head of state between two thousand and two thousand and seven. days of torrential rains have left eastern australia facing its worst flooding in decades thousands of people have been evacuated from affected areas but many remote communities remain cut off by high waters the government's declared much of the northeast a disaster zone and deployed army helicopters to assist with rescue efforts we try to just a warning that even though the rains have eased off runoff from higher areas still the flooding. u.s. has revoked the visa or the venezuelan ambassador to washington it's in response to

president hugo chavez's rejection of america's choice of envoy to caracas after the diplomatic use charges of close ties with left is colombian rebels and made tensions between chavez and washington the venezuelan leader also challenged obama's administration to cut all diplomatic relations. with russia's new year holidays just around the corner the capital seen the grand opening of its biggest ever ice rink named gorki city after a ski resort that's enough space for more than a thousand people at a time the rink revives the tradition of skating at an historic sport loved by some of russia's most famous writers and artists have a better go to skate song to check it out for. new year in moscow really wouldn't be complete without a bit of ice skating so i've done the patriarch's pons historic place in the sense of the city's appalled by the summer and i spring by winter this is the first year they've actually opened an official ice rink it just forms that place in moscow to tell a story came here over a hundred years ago so who is ice skating and is

a famous place with muscovites. nichol bulldog called snowball a martial margarito for this year's a person actually made the fish watching this thing go to this this is like up around the place. this is not and they sitting marched across is that children. might seem like they're giving lessons. but i think the fourth probably leave it that video merry christmas is going to have you here. stiff to sort of head into that tree what we now time to take a look at some more of russia close up as we discover the hidden treasures of siberia. i was about to say on the map there were an almost one of the largest regions of

southwestern siberia people here are known for a considerable strength and true siberian spirit and that's exactly what makes the best hockey players in the country and also it turns out is not the only way they show some siberian muscle as tom button found out. i and almost goes wild the local hockey team album guard puts another goal in the net i they may look like other teams from around russia or in the world but they know they're special i guess i know you're still missing my list since we were little we've practiced outside in the cold weather so we're used to hot conditions it's women know america so we're the toughest players. and it's not just seasoned on school 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 stone like. ice hockey isn't the only have kilian and dev attracting attention

here how about a wider no turning a minibus. for those boys to be there in say period in winter with slippery roads it's pretty hard to. pulling many buses is 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 is a 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 and earn some extra money. but day in day out it's about heaving that little bit more. moon around to put 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 with. 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 its special quality. becomes and i think 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 they're mine 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 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 barton artie. have

to say doesn't ring comfortable now just on the ten minutes time marty explores how high tech business is born from the drawing board to the winning of a nobel prize as an art technology update program a bit later but before that it's business in a few moments. we'll . bring you the latest in science and technology from around. we've got the future covered. hello and welcome to the business program here on r.t. with me scholem's folly russia's investment climate has been one key issue this

week forty billion dollars of direct foreign investment came to the country this year that's roughly the same as in two thousand and nine that the government was seeking to attract more thought and the discussions turned to the possible impact of the whole of the sentencing on the investment climate in the country the leap from global insight says the cases long view to negatively influence the sentiments of potential new comers i think the reaction to the outcome of the court. different from those investors who are or who are already in russia and sort of know the rules of the game probably the reaction would be rather muted however the investors who are interested in in russia but yet have to venture into the country they would be more cautious. tone chicle the markets known u.s. stocks trading marginally lower as traders sift through the last bunch of economic data for the year the labor department has provided some polluted news reporting is

an issue filings for unemployment insurance fell last week. and over new york stock markets declined for the last full day of trading day of the year mauled by low volume as many traders are already taking the lead for the new year's holiday. and here in russia markets of close up with the r.t.s. and even day in positive territory erasing earlier losses rosneft was among the worst performers in the arts yes down more than hot percent. russia and germany have been among the false just growing stock markets this year both e.l.t.'s the my sex have grown by more than twelve percent so you severe all from deutsche bank russia explains the reasons for the gains. performance of the us market this year was more than it was from the person that increased the vote from fifteen twenty percent to the since the beginning of the surprise for the russian market could be in the fall that will the price of oil price was real to the storm and i were in the one hundred dollars per barrel what the us market. perform for world for more

the optimism i think is sort of weird for before the sun people expect that the crisis might approve somewhere expect double dip what. are some out of the market or lesser consumer prices in russia have risen eight point seven percent since the beginning of the year slightly higher than officials for cost first the lowest level of inflation in the country's history buckwheat and wheat prices rose all through the summer drought and potato and cabbage prices have jumped almost six the cent to the last week. the news in brief we now russia's international reserves declined what was two billion dollars in one week essential buying says the no a call to around four hundred seventy billion dollars which is still almost eight percent higher than in january international reserves comprised of foreign currencies gold and other assets. russia's consumer sector has seen fifteen billion dollars worth of merger and acquisition deals this year but almost

a newspaper says that's three times higher than in two thousand and nine most of the growth was driven by several big deals including pepsi co's purchase of russia's dairy producer down on the merger of the union milk and done on analyst say russian attracted to foreign investors as the country's enterprises are relatively cheap on through the crisis however they expect the value of russian stocks to grow significantly next year. russia has to start selling up to five hundred thousand tons of grain from his intervention fund on the market sales that we carried out on a weekly basis from january that's according to probably seventy repeated by selling off grain the government hopes to stabilize prices of white gel thirty percent of the crop. not sure update for this hour but you can always buy more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.