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machine on the dot com. three people have been killed and during the forty eight injured as a russian passenger plane with one hundred on board catches fire while taxiing for takeoff and western siberia. as the world explodes into the media over and minutes people turned the russian capsule into a giant street policy while the international space station literally flew into twenty eleven sending some cosmic cheers. plus a steady becomes the latest member of the eurozone but massive bailouts of existing members cause many in the country to question whether they should pay for others' mistakes.

and welcome to our c twenty four hour news life from moscow my name is you tell main story now at least three people have been killed and over forty injured as a regional russian airliner caught fire and explosion at an airport in the western siberia city of sort of good. as the latest developments for us. first of all the incident happened around one pm mosco time in so good the plane was seconds away from takeoff it was ready to take off for moscow when one of the engines has caught fire and what happened afterwards actually was tending and chaos on board among more than hundred passengers on board were members of one of russia's most famous pop groups and they have actually already spoken about what happened they were eyewitnesses of course they said that first black smoke filled the cabin sparks went flying everywhere people of course started panicking climbing literally over

the heads of one another in order to get out of the passenger's cabin we were able to escape through only one exit so everyone was crawling on doing their stairs but some fell down and limped away we're now having to write down our belongings that burned in the plane to claim compensation authorities were of course very quick to evacuate the people after the vacation of the passengers was complete one of the fuel tanks has exploded in the plane has burned down and now as i said more than hundred people on board at least three have been confirmed dead right now majority of hospitalized are suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning but of course they're also are suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning but of course there are also burns and all various sorts of other injuries at least four people are in very serious condition including a small child who is in on life support right now for we understand a criminal investigation has been launched into the case there have been several

versions of events of what could have happened one of the versions of what could have transpired in order for this horrific tragedy to happen on the first day of the new year is that something may have been caught into the engine off an airplane but that is just one of the probably many perversions investigators are still working at the scene right now trying to determine what exactly happened of course there was also to you on fifty. which was carrying a polish president kaczynski on board that plane crashed in april of last year but we have to distinguish between the various modifications of t. you want fifty four and the plane that was carrying the polish president was one of the newest models there was not a factored in mass until two thousand and six it was sticking out of mass production afterwards but still some of those types of planes to you want fifty four m. are still being produced so the plane that the polish president was on board it was a relatively new plane now this particular plane which weren't in so good earlier

today is one of the older versions that was in production from one thousand nine hundred five it was at least twenty some years old so obviously some technical difficulties could have been the cause of this incident. new year's celebrations went off with all around the world with russia knocking its nine times this to that is began and lots of us talk on the pacific coast eventually reaching the baltic sea to have kaliningrad millions pound the streets to welcome in twenty levon with moscow traditionally at the center of the revelry but in the southern region of russia they need with a rather exotic charm like in the olympic city of sochi with only blossoming palm trees around the no snow across the globe new zealand became the first major country to see in the new year where thousands gathered to watch a fireworks extravaganza while in new york almost a million people joyously running twenty eleven in times square but only a few were lucky enough to celebrate like no one else on board the international space station and barton sent his message into orbit. to talk about

a prime seat the crew they are in a sense a watching not just one square city or even the country celebrates its new year they get to watch the whole planet spin into its next. but here in mission control in moscow on a live link up i asked them just how they feel about it hello my name's tom barton from russia today television merry christmas and happy new year. down here what is your message. happy new year we wish everyone good health love happiness success in all their new beginnings and plenty of rewarding achievement in the upcoming year it was also a chance for others to send a cosmic congratulations father frost was here greeting the cosmonauts children and praising their orbiting relatives but as much as the kids wanted to see the joy

read man their warmest words were saved the loved ones in space. hello daddy i love you so much you are the best dad in the world happy new year. the crew that i assess are the only ones to spend new year in splendid isolation in moscow those participating in the simulated trip to mars and back over five hundred days have already been in their modules for seven months. we would like to hug everybody to shake hands even to kiss and people if they ask but it won't be soon because we have a year of hard work ahead. the i.s.o.'s crew is spending new year in about the most exotic location possible and they also have the unique advantage of being able to share the strikes of midnight repeatedly. we have a chance to celebrate the new year several times we send our wishes to different control centers we start in the east and finish with houston we can celebrate all

day but after the partying is over they'll still be watching over the planet. will remain in space for quite a while after the new year suffice to say that today's little chat provided a human touch to an otherwise very technical life. still ahead see this out playing with our team best to take some level of seeing the area with a bang it might lead to tragic consequences. and the demise of india's golden steiff find out what threatening the famous surfing trough and how local fun is that's troubling to preserve them in a few minutes time here on alt. hysteria has discarded its currency under dr the euro instead the baltic state has become the seventeenth country to do so but one official celebrate people fear the single currency will do more harm than good acts on the bike and i reports. chatting about the

bad and the worst this to france italy will sions apart irina and her native the store near here are learned but they have one concern on their minds how to make it in this tough economic times march according to rena definitions of hardship couldn't be more different you see when you if irish people had a chance to experience what life is like here in a stone i think there would have been no rallies in dublin they simply don't appreciate what they have if you are on welfare when dystonia you simply can't make ends meet the gap in living standards within the european union is huge but it may get even bigger is tony you now have to contribute eight hundred million euros to the e.u. solidarity fund that will be partially used to month in our lands lavish social programs and only three the arrangement will keep reach countries richer and their poorer members who are. what to us tell me to start.

is this. because. sixty three percent of. you know. something one hundred twenty or even more want to stone you join the european union in two thousand and four most of us residents saw the membership as their ticket to prosperity the country drastically cut social spending to feed the e.u. requirements a move that provoked little public discontent historians just tighten their belts and according to. country's finance minister they're ready to do it again this time to lead the irish continue wearing their cloth loose. to avoid obligation. to come to the club with your summary fear and inviting smile this group has become a poster child for stories inclusion into the euro zone but the reality of this

move is proving far less alluring the average unemployment benefit in our loan is eight hundred euro's that's what joblessness would get in the year and about policy makers are trying to bridge trade this issue as a matter of solidarity in the european union some a story in fear of the side of discord in living standards of inequality ensuring the hardship of the work of art the story. and you can always find more stories online at r.t. dot com. like stripping down an old american school and turning it into a strip club find out who wants to swap textbooks for paul darcy. and golden treasure turn dream is one of the symbols of the feast in russia we try to down a key supply of the celebrate tree citrus. russians

are certainly bigger new year's celebrations but it doesn't always and in happen is in moscow alone twenty three people were injured overnight by the fireworks with hospitals facing a seasonal chore of treating burns a new year's eve. had the dangerous tradition of setting skies alight. two decades after consumer for work through first important to russia they have become an essential part of the first of tradition. this holiday season russians will be setting off nearly one hundred million dollars worth of fireworks in their backyards and many of them will end up here in the burns unit. a huge problem is that many of these fireworks do not work as advertised for example a firework doesn't quite ignite when it's meant to people pick it up and then it

explodes burns damage blown off fingers we get it all here authorities say there isn't enough control over the quality of the fireworks which can be sold anywhere but anyone most don't find out they've bought a defective firework until it's too late. already aren't. the pavers at the popular moscow store. with their colorful packaging these chinese made imports are aimed at casual pirate technics enthusiastic prices are dirt cheap less than ten dollars for an entire display i buy a few for testing by professionals. most of the do not comply with the russian legislation for example look at this parachute it's meant to go up street. it might seem trivial but if it flies off in the wrong direction in his suit. authorities admit drug imports do get through but then says that it's up to people to at least

try to buy from licensed suppliers still although some of the injuries will be from misuse of defective fireworks hospitals in moscow alone expect to receive around one hundred patients these holidays but all hope to avoid large scale mishaps for most of firework induced fire in the lame course nightclub just over a year ago that killed more than one hundred fifty people. well i fear that the new worst warning slow death yeah i'm enjoying the death of virtual probably with some good quality if i were eager ordinary at the last go. and in about fifteen minutes time did not tell our team will take you on a holiday. also in the russian capital it has a quick ranking. on the last guards who were killed in somebody's incredible place is. let's take a look at some favorite. place to enjoy high rate strings in the capital is the city space announced. it boasts amazing q.

see how many of the venue is a person and you can also try special tricks each month created i guess. the world's. international experience of cocktail making and introduce the famous drink beer cheers. you know celebration indian kashmir is complete without the rich smell of suffering but these days families are struggling to preserve the cost spice in the world as heavy industry and poor ever again crops. saffron is a spice synonymous with meat costing four thousand u.s. dollars a kilogram this price being greedy and is used in medicine and south asian cuisine . but the saffron farmers in. unhappy lot with.

what it was a decade ago they blamed a dozen cement factories that have been set up nearby. these factories don't use pollution control devices you can see them spewing out twenty four hours a day we are working hard to keep our fields for term increase thirty year olds but the government doesn't take any action against the cement plant. the fall out is that every year sees less snow fall than the last affecting the crop many farmers see they're even thinking of selling their land the biggest problem is the adulteration of cheap big brands of saffron so briskly here on the streets of three no that and it is virtually impossible for you and me to distinguish between these and the real thing this is don't get stuck with the image and resulted in a drop in prices the availability of cheaper saffron from iran and spain has added to the problem with credibility at stake traders like girls are inward now refused

to stock saffron. w. when one cannot be sure the quality or i should talk it nobody can guarantee whether it's genuine so there isn't much demand if the government is ready to do a thing to kate what is suffering then i will stop it. but there are those who still swear by saffron houseboat or nerve bush she had done to her saffron every morning especially in winter. from to milk will have been roast issues because it's very good for one's health in this cold weather it helps reduce congestion in my back it also goes away that will bring some cheer to the saffron farmers who face a second year of plummeting prices the government had pledged eighty million dollars six months ago to improve facilities but the farmers are yet to see any action do they do this cash crop could well continue its slow decline got and

seeing our t. bone bought let's now take a brief look at other stories making news this hour at least twenty one people have been killed and nearly eighty wounded after a powerful car bomb exploded outside a church in alexandria the second largest city in egypt washable is where leaving a new year's minutes when the blast went off the tide comes in a wake of repeated threats by al qaeda in iraq to attack egypt's christian population which. president hosni mubarak went on state television to denounce the bombing and assure people that those guilty would be found. writing brought heavy damage to a british prison on new year's day as inmates smashed windows and set fire to the facility they calles began one prison staff tried and failed to make inmates take a breath test some of the suspicion they had been drinking alcohol the riot broke out an hour before midnight but two buildings at the facility was to a blaze at midday on new year's day lack of security had opened prisons in the u.k.

has long been controversial and debate recently intensified after five convicted killers were found to be wandering in and out of jail while serving their time. and has been sworn in as brazil's first ever female president action is the culmination of a long political career beginning as a marxist rebel during the country's long military dictatorship will be faced with sustaining the political and financial in the mentum built up under the outgoing president rousseff called for the eradication of poverty and greater development of the educational system during her inaugural address. a park in moscow is offering a special holiday treat to children in the city and visit to father frost the russian santa claus he and his granddaughter come to their mosque or residence for christmas and new year but as sean thomas discovered some say the magic costs too much and want to end their fairy tale. snow meeting or

true i glance at the russian new year spreading the joy throughout the holiday season while their official address is in the league they have seasonal state of the art home in the outskirts of moscow as well i believe that this place is of great importance for all of parents and children they can feel their real favorite to hear the moscow side kids can play around the new year's tree according to the main characters and even should all literature do. at motorola's through the village post office through it all the children here can become a part of his magical world. which is why we went to his bedroom and his dining hall and his guest room but aside from the fantasy of it all there was also a practical side to the village. helpers are part of a special college in terms programme from about the start it's all about the smile you know it's a joy to see a child smile we also learned how to make children believe our tale it is said that the land of the buildings in all of these decorations cost around thirty three and

a half million dollars but it's not just for show the organizers say it's so that the people here can know the true meaning of the new year. high hopes hopes that we will accomplish more next year than we did this year hopes that we do more and correct the mistakes other people make politicians for instance we magicians have to correct the mistakes they make but life in the village isn't one long fairy tale there are some grumblings the magic kingdom is costing too much and the money could have been better spent helping children directly despite that the city of moscow is pressing forward with plans to expand the project further in the coming years a move that is sure to continue to make the children who come here smile no matter what the new year as a holiday when children's wishes come true it's a very fun holiday children get presents which are not to bad for the frost has is that it was magical i really did not did when we joined hands in a circle inside the house and made our wishes and then bubbles fell on us. and

with the bubbles of faith that the new year will be brighter for all. sean thomas archie moscow. and if you want no magic in your life don't go away as in a few moments he will be talking not only of father frost but some fairy tale coatings enemy of his in russia where the days the chiefs. that's about.

my initial golf was kind of thank you very much for this interview thank you very much for the invitation now more and more russian films take part in the international film festival so sexually mean that movies are becoming a full fledged business in russia all this new company came few years ago to the russian my kids and since then the whole movie industry in russia picked up and now russian box office is one of the leading in the world for a little more so i think with a lot of comfort i can say that. this is the really important and very fast growing market in russia one of the most important trends which i would really like to

specify during the last few years the amount of products that we need to produce in russia for the russian audience but if you will create into products that will sell in russia for the russian audience most of them in russia on the russian industrial enterprises one european what do russian companies need to catch up with a standard itself western production companies i would say catching up maybe not exactly the right word. in russia there is amazing history of story telling and in russia the country would like to get inspiration from the russian stories and make movies based on the russian heritage and culture but use some of the heritage that we have in the world to the company and tell them so how we tell stories how the characters develop and we always have the happy ending in all the movies that's really interesting does actually solve. a stable hollywood tradition

here in russia or just a russian audience needs to be fed like a very specific. content that it's used to strongly believe that russian audience has very distant taste and definitely a lot of big blockbusters work in russia and the russian audience loves. a lot of alice in wonderland but at the same time there are a lot of stories that can be told specifically for the russian audience and we believe with our fairy tales that we started with masters we tapped into something that was not done in russia for a long time it's the quality family entertainment and family stories which we see can travel around the world because with master's prizes in various fields festivals around the world what we see i mean traditional russian stories can also travel just beyond the russian audience even though the book of masters was created for the russian audience specifically so what does this need to do with digital content what do you deal with it digital content digitalisation is one of the very

important strategies for us in russia more and more content is being. used and distributed in digital form and one of the exciting tendency is that we see is that more content that we create in russia now travel abroad for example mobile games. games and digital games after the success of avatar hollywood companies including this may have started to take advantage of the three d. format when you think there were companies will begin to use this format to its full potential as we see right now some of the russian companies started producing three d. release and we hope that in the near future there will be very successful examples of that most of the recent releases of war converged movies so now we're waiting for a really true three d. movie when it would be short as a three d. movie because the production process requires very different cameras equipment

production process that d.v.d.'s why are they so. arses of your incomes piracy is a huge problem in russia one of the. this name for your unit of dismay here in russia and how do you fight it how do you protect your intellectual property piracy is definitely a big issue for not only in russia in a lot of countries what we see recently that people tried to buy quality content and then used to buying d.v.d.'s in retail we also developed a lot of programs for various price points and we work with a lot of retail partners to make sure that we get a quality legal product to the audiences for very different price points and what we see our d.v.d. sales and brewery growing really really fast even though we know that now the market is changing and blu ray and digital distribution is really around the corner but still a lot of families buy d.v.d.'s they want to watch movies together they buy it for

their kids so would you say their losses in piracy are and aren't considerable in numbers we don't really calculate that so we do calculate how much revenue is that growing and what we see especially recently that the pirated market might be decreasing because we sell more and more d.v.d.'s again not only very expensive ones but for a mess audience and do we believe that the piracy market is decreasing so many foreign competition actually say that's very difficult to make business in russia and they're citing corruption and bureaucracy is the main stumbling points would you say that the unit or your unit of the local corporations facing the same problems here well this new company established. in two thousand and six and imagine at that time there was nobody and we were able to build a very strong business and we're leaders in a lot of segments that are important for us we have a team then more than two hundred people working in this office.