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at least three people have been killed and over forty injured as a russian passenger plane with over one hundred board catches fire while turks sing for takeoff in western siberia. as the world explodes into the over a million people turns the russian capital into a giant street party while the international space station literally flew into twenty eleven sending some cosmic cheers. plus a steady because of the latest member of the eurozone but the massive bailouts of existing members cause many in the country to question whether they should pay for this mistakes.

news from russia and iran the world this is all see was me you know that thanks for joining us at least three people have been killed and over forty injured after a regional russian airliner caught fire under exploded at an airport in the western siberian city of sort of court. later developments. 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 heading 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 and 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 limp to we were 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 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 there also are suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning but of course there are also burdens 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 versions investigators are still working at the scene right now trying to determine what exactly happened of course there was also two 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 to see for the plane that was carrying the polish president was one of the newest models there was not a factor to 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 of 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 the bong all around the world with russia marking its nine times this damages began and lots of us talk on the pacific coast eventually reaching the baltic sea craning ride millions parks the streets to welcome them twenty eleven with moscow traditionally at the center of the red but in the southern regions of russia the new year kicked off with a rather exotic charm like in the olympic city of sochi with only blossoming palm trees around and no snow across the globe new zealand became the first major country to say in the new year where thousands gather to watch a fireworks extravaganza while the new york almost a million people join us live running twenty eleven in times square but only if you were lucky enough to celebrate like no one else on board the international space station. barton sent his message and it. took 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 it's next to some here in mission control in moscow on a live linkup i asked them just how they feel about it hello my name's 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. this is our chance and ahead for you this hour playing with fire better gave her rather less love of seeing big. bang. tragic consequences. and the demise of india's golden supply planes out of all threatening the famous suffering crops and how local fun is as trying to preserve them in a few minutes time here. estonia has discarded its currency and adopted the euro instead they bought it state has become the seventeenth country to do so but while officials celebrate people fear the single currency will do more harm than good accent of work and i have reports.

chatting about the bad and the worst these 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 mark according to rena their definitions of hardship couldn't be more different he said i knew a fairish people had a chance to experience what life was like here in a stony or 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 it will be partially used to month in our lands lavish social programs and only three the arrangement will keep reach countries richer and their poor me worse poorer. to us tell me.

is this. because. sixty three percent of. you know. something one hundred twenty or even more when a story you join the european union in two thousand and four most of its residents saw their membership as their ticket to perspire itchy the country drastically cut social spending to feed the e.u. requirements a move that provoked little public discontent still means just tighten their belts and according to the 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 if you. could put a 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 line is eight hundred. jobless this morning and we'll get the new year and our policymakers are trying to portray this issue as a matter of solidarity in the european union some historians see it as a sign of discord in living standards and inequality in shouldering the hardship for the workers are at the store near you and you can always find more stories online at r.t. dot com like this trip pay down an old american school and turn it into a strip club find out who wants to swap textbooks for pole dancing. and also go on and treasure the time tureen is one of the symbols of the beast in russia so we're trying to down a key supply of this elaborate trisect. russians

are certainly big on new year's celebrations but it doesn't always and in happen is in moscow to learn twenty three people were injured overnight by the fireworks with hospitals facing a seasonal chore of treating burns a new year's eve. looks at the dangers to dishes of setting skies and light. two decades after consumer fireworks are first important they have become an essential part of the first tradition this holiday season russians will be setting off nearly a hundred million dollars worth of fireworks in their backyards and many of them will end up here in the. and zenit. 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 but. really aren't. the pavers at the popular moscow store. with their colorful packaging these chinese made imports are aimed at casual part technics enthusiastic prices are dirt cheap less than ten dollars for an entire display i buy a few for testing by professionals. and most of the do not comply with the russian legislation for example look at this parachute it's meant to go up st. it might seem trivial but if it flies off in the wrong direction in hits you. 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 much the firework induced fire in the lame forced my club just over a year ago which killed more than one hundred fifty people. well i've created a new worst warning slow death yet i'm enjoying a plethora of probably with some good quality if i were eager i'd never at the last go. and next hour of the moscow team will take you on a tour holiday hot spots in the russian capital has a quick profile. everyone the last guards who were filmed in somebody's incredible place is in it and let's take a look at some of our favorite. place to enjoy high rate strings in the capital is the city space lounge located inside. it boasts amazing views of the city

called so many of the venue is impressive and you can also try special tricks each month created by guess the bomb and the world mix of. international experience of cocktail making and introduce the famous. cheers. celebration in indian kashmir is complete without the rich smell of saffron but these days kashmiri farmers are struggling to preserve the spice in the world as heavy industry and poor ever again donnish their 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 their

yield half what it was a decade ago they blamed a dozen cement factories that have been set up nearby. these factories do not use pollution control devices you can see them spewing out twenty four hours a day we are working hard to keep our fields for to increase their heels but the government doesn't take any action against these cement plants. 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 beer grounds or saffron so briskly here on the streets or three know that it is virtually impossible for you and me to distinguish between these and the real thing this says don't get cell phones 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 goods are emerging now

refused to stock saffron. w. when one cannot be sure the quality or i should a stock it won't but it can guarantee whether it's genuine so there isn't much demand if the government is ready to do your thing to kate what is chilean suffering then i will stop it. but there are those who still swear by saffron houseboat on herbal she had done to her saffron every morning especially in winter . from to milk have been raised 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 low decline got and seeing

our t. bone bought. let's now take a brief look at some other stories making news around the world 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 as well leaving a mass when the blast went off that comes in the wake of repeated threats by al qaeda in iraq to attack egypt's christian popular. egyptian president hosni mubarak went on state television today now as the bombing and assure people that those guilty would be. rioting brought heavy damage to a british prison new year's day as inmates smashed windows and set fire to the facility calles began when prisoners starved tried and failed to make inmates take breath tests on the suspicion they had been drinking alcohol the ride broke out into an hour before midnight but two buildings at the facility were still ablaze at noon 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. has been sworn in as brazil's first ever female president her lection is the culmination of a long political career beginning as a marxist rebel during the country's long military dictatorship they'll be facing the help they faced were sustaining the political and financial momentum built up and eluded to silver the president called for the eradication of poverty and greater development of the educational system during the inaugural address. a park in moscow is offering a special holiday treat to children in the city a visit to father from the russian santa claus here in his granddaughter come to their mosque of residence for christmas and new year but as thomas described it some say the magic costs too much and want to end the fairy tale.

snow maiden are 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 a seasonal state of the art home in the outskirts of moscow as well i've lived there so this place is great importance for all parents and children they can feel their real fair to hear the moscow side kids can play around the new year's tree. to the main characters. and even send a letter to dead motorists through the village post office through it all the children here can become a part of his magical world. which is why you 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 rogue ram some of them 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 for nigeria 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 what are not to about father 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. john thomas archie moscow. and who want more magic in your life don't go away as in a few moments he will be talking not only for the frost but some fairy tale cultism grave is a russian where the. so stay with us. you

. might think you very much for this interview thank you very much for the invitation now more and more russian films take part in an international film festival so sexually mean that movies are becoming a full fledged business in russia was this the company came few years ago to the russian market 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 lot of distin 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 two years the amount of products that we need to produce in

russia for the russian audience tripled if you will create into the products that will sell in russia for the russian audience most of them in russia on the russian industrial enterprises for european what do russian companies need to catch up with a standard itself their western production companies i would say catching up maybe not exactly the right word. in russia there is a mate. in history of storytelling and for this new 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 this new company and tell them how we tell stories how the characters develop and always have the happy ending in all the movies that's really interesting to us actually of . a stable hollywood tradition here in russia or just a russian audience needs to be felt like

a very specific context that it's used to strongly believe that russian audience has a very distant taste definitely a lot of our big blockbusters work in russia and russian audience love. their love 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 field 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 its digital content what do you deal with it digital content digitalization is one of the very important strategies for us in russian more and more content is being.

used and distributed in digital form and one of the exciting tendencies 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 time to. for one thing they were confident to use this format to its full potential as we see right now some of the russian companies started producing three d. movies 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 is one of the sources of your income's piracy is

a huge problem in russia one of the annual losses for this name for your unit have to stay 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 but 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 a 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 aren't considerable in

numbers we don't really calculate that so we do calculate how much or growing and what we see especially recently that they 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 pirates market is decreasing how many foreign competition actually say that's very difficult to make because. they're citing corruption and bureaucracy his main stumbling points would you say that the unit or your unit of the global corporation speccing maybe same problems here all 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 haven't seen them more than two hundred people working here in this office so i believe if you really have a strategy of well thought of if you have a strong team.