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mikhail. is here by sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment of moscow court has announced the sentence for russia's most famous prisoner mikhail khodorkovsky tycoon convicted of money laundering an embezzlement this is spend six more years in prison. terror target europe's wary of the threat of islamic extremism with the recent arrests over suspected attack on a danish newspaper along with other incidents fueling fears the problem is escalating. drug. use. some desperate measures to confront consumerism in the u.s.

as the country's financial troubles seems with cute america's credit card picture. a very good evening from moscow if you just joined us one aims kevin zero in this is r.t. it's now eleven pm moscow time for oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky and his business partner have been sentenced to fourteen years in prison for oil embezzlement and money laundering both men were coming to the end of their previous jail terms for tax evasion and fraud. reports. four days that's how long it took the judge to be the verdict six more years that's how long we feel that there will have to spend behind bars the forty seven year old is in the final stretch of an eight year prison term and sentenced 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 part in a plot to leave if you 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 the meeting went on to dilute the investor in mind for the american people kind of his state than to say 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 for 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 often in one nine hundred ninety s. and became russia's fastest growing oil producer at that time in the business was risky in 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 who are 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 at the cost he has maintained his innocence of the fraud charges ever since his arrest in two thousand and three and the west's many believes forcing. 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 feel 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 person who 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 because his lawyers say they'll appeal meaning we may not have heard the last of russia's trial of the decade it is a ghost quality. three men arrested for planning denmark's most serious going to tack of being charged over a terror plot earlier danish police released one of the five suspects and another one has 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 the drawing sparked outrage among muslims across the world officials say 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 r.t.c. god has been off for ports. 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 churchills 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 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 plenty 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 extremely moms acting in europe and the problem is people who 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 when he can 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 veiled 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 mystery because you are drinking you are not a good muslim because your wife is not there and you are not to goodness him because you don't do nothing for your process in chechnya 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 must this is one of the immigrant quarters of brussels last week populated by muslims signs in arabic specialist shops and cafes kind of court 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 belgium's attitude towards asylum or among the most to be left in the european union the flow. newcomers is likely to continue and many experts believe unless more effort is made to hope muslims integrate into a multicultural society the extreme isn't a threat will remain no matter how many arrests are made you go is going off the brussels. terror share listen right

a helmet break says it's the politicians who let 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 breaking the message it's on the internet and when you have radical preachers doing things and not sort of fish and being aware of it then you have the situation that you have today but we've got to live here tonight and when you look website r.t. dot com where if you fancy this trip or not parts of the chernobyl nuclear disaster sites are being opened up to tourists authorities saying it no longer poses the radioactive threat that someone you'd like to visit or maybe not well let us know you can and you can then let us know what you think about all the stories on our website by hitting the comic but also wiki leaks was not the first to leak secret

diplomatic cables crypto dog who was publishing classified documents along with full at r.t. talked to websites co-founder john young about online spying what he thinks about it these days is interviewed at r.t. dot com. this is r.t. from moscow with the winter holiday season in full swing as buying presents that occupied most russians but for many in the united states shopping is an all season addiction which thrives despite the faltering economy. could have met one man who is fighting what he believes has become a religion. true. 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 that. work. for. the province 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 age men and women compulsively shop equally in the us nowadays i'm actually excited about expensive runs during the last couple of years i've spoke i think of 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 stuff shaping his mean life mission is to chase away. this shopping devil by putting on acts in churches and shopping malls around the country the credit crunch the purpose of the exaggerations is to make americans see their flaws

. this plastic you spend too much money consumer consumer. 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 accept my credit card limit every month could be calling for desperate measures like spells and exorcisms the things that the letter of the word does with our 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 true can i see your. well despite the holiday shopping buzz it seems the us is storing up huge financial problems for itself to find out why cheating to the kaiser report on this channel. eight the united states of america is broke telling me oh great 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 cost 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. or a born use notes and i have south korea's rant of the rhetoric against its northern neighbor officially leaving it an enemy it comes as tensions in the region remain high following north korea's shelling of an island in response to a war games on its border patrol selector in korean studies at the university of sydney he told us that is 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 the 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 of the hostile anticommunist very heavy handed and very sort of regional 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 for north korea nerd agreements or survival south korea's 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 and states really wants to influence its control over the group and you feel united states are staging for the station in the southern part of the korean peninsula china is 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 need to penn state certain interests of the united states' national interest might be jeopardized. coming up in a few minutes here on r t tonight we 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 siberian muscles analyses closeups even the city of all skills to see what else people there are capable of doing and where they get their power from. the head of one of moscow's main airports delmar dead of has reportedly been fired for failing to deal with the chaos caused by flight delays earlier this week severe disruptions at several hundreds of cross the capital f. thousands of people stranded freezing rain ruptured power cables leaving domodedovo without electricity for hours at another airport meantime iced up runways meant

that many planes couldn't take off for straight 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 there were promised flights are now getting back to normal but many people saw their holiday plans really. well news in brief the former president of israel moshe katsav been convicted of rape and could go to jail a three judge panel labeled his defense as quote riddled with lies in its ruling but has not yet sentenced him women's rights groups who've long complained that israeli authorities struggle of sexual harassment workplaces welcomed the verdict found guilty of raping an employee is tourism minister in the one nine hundred ninety s. another 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 water still the government's

declared much of the northeast a disaster zone and deployed army helicopters to assist with rescue efforts. with even though the rains have eased off runoff from higher areas could still reach the more flooding. u.s. has revoked the visa of the venezuelan ambassador to washington it is in response to president chavez's rejection of america's choice of envoy to caracas after the diplomatic use chair was of close ties with leftist colombian rebels amid tensions between chavez and washington the venezuelan leader also challenge the bombs of ministration to cut all diplomatic relations. with russia's new year holidays just around the corner the capital seen the ground opening of its biggest ever ice rink named gorki city after a ski resort of sochi there's enough space apparently for more than a thousand people at a time on said rink it revives the tradition of skating at an historic sport loved by some of russia's most famous writers and artists bennett got a skate song to check it out for us. new year in moscow really wouldn't be complete

without a bit of ice skating saw tons of patriotic songs historic place in the sense of the cities appalled by the song and i sing by winter this is the first year they've actually opened an official ice rink here. i i. i. play just forms of famous place in moscow tell a story saying here over a hundred years ago there is ice skating and it's a famous place with muscovites. they call bull dog because noble martial margarito for this year is the first that actually made an official i think in the sense of go to this this is not so up around the place. this is not unlike getting off the course is that children are going to stay saying i'm honestly not going to give you lessons. but i think the fourth leave in that video merry christmas is going to

have you here. was. a merry christmas to you too good now let's see a bit more of russia now close up as we discover the hidden treasures of siberia next. on the map to reveal where we go where in one of the largest regions in southwestern siberia people here are known if you didn't know for their considerable strength some true siberian spirit and that's exactly what makes them best hockey players in the country. also turns out that it's not the only way they show some siberian muscle tone bought in fact. i don't skills while the local hockey team from gun to put. another goal in the net they may look like other teams from around russia or in the world

but they know their special their side they're. just as in my list since we were little we've practiced outside in the cold weather so a used to hot conditions it's women 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 story like. ice hockey isn't the only have kilian endevor attracting attention here how about the why don't know turning a minibus. but those boys even say bierria in winter with sleeper erodes he's pretty hard. pulling minibuses are the only way these whitely have to show their strength they can also find many other ways to flex some siberian muscle.

here is in 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 but earn some extra money for your job but day in day out it's about heaving that little bit more. moon that says 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 any major titles yet but again the siberian spirit infuses them and they have a strong sense that special qualities should. become so 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 extremely strong indeed in fact you could hardly describe

these lot as being in survival mode. if your looks lift a ball or move all these guys will try and muscle it around me to tire moving. need some joined weights lifting. or perhaps even me. it's not a problem for the men with the muscles tom barton r.t. . another titan this time of the financial world takes to the screen of r.t. in about ten minutes time marks cocksure and co here then but it's business before that tonight. hello welcome to the business program here on r.t. with michel amos folly now 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 kirsch more forward and our discussion has turned the possible impact of the holocaust the sentencing on the investment climate in the country really to give again from global insight says the case is likely to negatively influence the sentiment of potential newcomers. 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. time check the markets now and here in russia they've closed after the r.t.s. ended we don't positive territory erasing losses rosneft was among the worst performers of the r.t.s. down more than half a percent. russia and germany have been among the false just growing stock markets

this year but in the my sex have grown by more than twelve percent so a severe off from deutsche bank russia explains the reasons for the gains. performance of the us market this year was are more than it was from and there you have this in the increase the load from fifteen twenty percent to the since the beginning of the year and the surprise for the russian market to be in before the oil price price was real to the storm now where we are in that one hundred dollars per barrel what the us market. perform so well before is a more the optimism i think is sort of weird for the for some people but the. crisis might approve and some were expecting double dip what this is going to some out of the market or license consumer prices in russia have risen eight point seven percent since the beginning of the year slightly higher than officials for cost but still the lowest level inflation in the country's history bulk wheat and wheat

prices for the summer drought and potato and cabbage places have jumped almost six percent in the last week. the reason briefly international reserves declined two billion dollars in one week the central bank says the now equal to around four hundred seventy which is still almost eight percent of them in january international reserves comprised of foreign currencies gold and other. brushes the consumer sector has seen fifteen billion dollars worth of merger and acquisition do this year but also newspaper says it's three times higher than in two thousand and knowing most of the growth was driven by several big deals including pepsi co's potions of russia's de reproducer and the merger of uni and done on analyst say russia is attractive to foreign investors as the country's enterprises are relatively cheap after the crisis however they expect the value of russian stocks to grow significantly next year. is to start selling up to five hundred thousand

tons of grain intervention fund on the market so it will be carried out in a weekly basis from january that's according to prime is that the appear to buy selling off grain the government hopes to stabilize prices off to a drought wiped out thirty percent of the crop. you can always buy more stories on our website slash business.