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seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. that weeks made news from our team morse code freezes about thousands of forced to sleep in airports and spent times in break or traffic jams as frozen rain kyra lies in the capital for day. five alleged islamic extremists terrorists in denmark take the country's biggest ever terrorist plot sparking concern the news not doing enough to beat the threat. also two years after its massive offensive against gaza israel says it easing the located but locals feel their lives are only getting tougher. for more oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky is just six more years behind

bars after being convicted of embezzle and and money laundering. and a world wide welcome for twenty eleven embroidered start of the new year with fireworks and festivities around the globe. hello and welcome to r.t. twenty four hour news live from moscow. with the latest news on the review of the week's events it was a week when moscow ground toehold as freezing rain crippled as ports and paralyzed traffic for thousands of stranded travelers it meant starting the holidays stuck in jams all sleeping at the airport others went without power for days and the government had to act fast as. has been finding out. turned into a lump of ice overnight the rain was freezing while pulling almost the emergency

workers knocked down my glass. how do you guys snapped power lines and shut down the country's largest airports for almost two days but enough at any time of year but horrendous. at the highs of the holy day getaway this is hell one of moskos easiest tops looks like power is back on and flies are getting back on should you like that the my idea that the airport which was worst hit by bad weather conditions over the weekend when a snow storm disrupted pala lines in the area as a result of that some one hundred feet to flights were delayed and over eight thousand passengers were forced to sleep on the apple its premises. it's very hard for me here i have a broken leg and there are no facilities here it'll be rechristened and no one's helping there's no service want to get what you think about how the airport has been dealing with the problem. actually not very well but i don't think any or port

deals are very well with these problems as we're seeing across europe. russia second largest sure imagine ever suffered no electricity blackouts but based on how to deal a sport thousands of passengers who stormed the control zones blocked log each areas and clashed with police. meanwhile outside was no better motorists were first clearing their cars from eyes and then spent hours in jams freezing up again at three thousand two hundred kilometers the queues be all records in the city and when one straight line would stretch all the way to burst solona i've been stuck in traffic for five hours. with clocks fast approaching the new year the prime minister was pushing the local authorities to work harder. as you promised that by six pm today electricity will be back on it's six now saying yes but it's not up to me to lose

a. good experience in the thirty five villages for families and people still without power i have and i do you go to these villages that we can celebrate the new year together with these people. and the first time in six days. the streets but the car is of the high ranking official santa c sorry and just twenty minutes before midnight people were once again seeing the light relieved the apollo was back on and twenty eleven was already looking brighter it's in the church of r r t. a russian passenger jet which caught fire and exploded in western siberia has claimed at least three lies and left over forty injured investigators are still looking for what caused the fire in the engine as the plane was taxiing for takeoff in the city of sort of court more than one hundred twenty passengers and crew were evacuated

from the jet before it blew up among those onboard was a russian pop group called nine hour who told journalists there was difficulty with opening the emergency exits some passengers reportedly had to run through the flames to escape leaving them with severe burns for the injured in a critical condition. coming your way later whether making the world small is really a good thing. it's ridiculous that people can post anything they want out there and not have not get repercussions for a bit but i guess they've got to figure out a way to control that who are they i don't know you know i don't know them either but you trust them i don't trust anyone new york a little paranoid world so some green fears for globalization as the resident people in new york also. the guardian people have too much more influence at the end of the money. so shopaholics on the loose as they can on the tough times fail to hinder americans shopping spree. this week danish police

through water to a bay called the most serious terror plot ever attempted in the country four suspects arrested on wednesday will stay in prison for several weeks on allegations of planning a gun attack in copenhagen is false they were targeting the the newspaper. printed controversial cartoons of the prophet muhammad with a bomb shaped turban publication you rated muslims worldwide police say the suspects intended to kill as many people as possible in a later thursday official offices released at fifteen my man was arrested but he remains a suspect if the latest in a series of arrests throughout the get which have put european nations on high alert over the spread of islamic radicalism and as you go north now reports it's happening right under the noses of the all story. over a year of investigations and a massive police raid in the end brought results twenty six people have been arrested in belgium germany and the netherlands belgium dutch moroccans and

chechens all are suspected of recruiting so-called jihad is candidates and financing terrorist organizations right from the portland if you were a police mission a success absolutely but is the battle over this is a race that it's just a visible part of the iceberg it's huge there is a whole machine behind this redo our rules he was born in belgium in a family of christians and converted to islam when he was lente 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 extreme arms acting in europe and the problem is people who don't feel erratic 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 one hell to deal with terrorism and extremism related threats based in brussels he claims the spread of islamic extremism is happening right in front of the authorities veil to from their attention by its privacy they will say you are not a good missed him because you don't fight times the price five times a day you are not a good miss him because you are drinking you are not a good muslim because your life is not very. good missed him because you are. in palestine in iraq and so on which oppressed and killed it begins in the families . and in the mosque this is one of the immigrant. signs in arabic special. shops and cafes teleport to believe we're in the portland of the european union official around a quarter of the local active working age population from eighteen to thirty is unemployed but on 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 extremism. towards asylum or among the most to be left in the european union the flow of newcomers is likely to continue and many experts believe. it is need to hope muslims integrate into a multicultural society the extremism threat will remain no matter how many arrests or me what was going off or the process. and date is journalist tell america brix blames politicians who shifts as are letting the situation get out of control i think what has gone wrong is simply that very many politicians underestimate the influence 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 this and not sort of petitions being aware of it then you have the situation that you have today. former oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky used to stay behind bars until twenty seventeen he and his colleague plus on lebanon were found guilty this week of embezzling all and money laundering it's a lengthy second trial where the pan. reports. 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 sentenced after being convicted for tax evasion. because. if you're by sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment the sentence will be served in the correctional colony of a medium security prison in this second trial for the post you just partner but

don't leave it if you were convicted of stealing two hundred eighteen million tons of oil worth twenty seven billion dollars from a subsidiary company out of course he was known as the very worst corporate governance abuse in russia i myself was that you question how the meeting where i had a power of attorney from one of their minority investors to attend them was thrown out at gunpoint meeting went on through to the investor a man called american kind of his state down 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 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 any 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 who are used to to. well him got. everything he did was within the law it was the bloom of the laws that had those loopholes and then the course he has maintained he's innocent of the fraud charges ever since his arrest in two thousand and three million the worst were of the opinion that singled out the prosecution not so much for financial reasons as for his political ambitions so why do his supporters and rush out to interview him as a sort of a martyr figure we're all humans and for 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 press from getting too smart he can be a particular he could be sold for couldn't but it doesn't mean that necessarily this is a synonym of not guilty and that might be

a case with that of course the prosecutors had asked for at least six more years on top of his current sentence they got what they wanted but we may not have heard the last of russia's trial of the decade it in a. moscow. the united states may have a ny watering data right now but the tails are still ringing however it's the credit card rubbing their hands with glee as shoppers fall back increasingly on the plastic as the citric and i meet one man who's making it his mission to kill americans shopping addiction. truth. you should. stop. her. heart 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 be urged to possess has taken over men to statistics age men and women compulsively shop equally in the us nowadays i'm actually excited about spencer runs during the 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 main life mission is to cheese so well. the shopping devil by putting an ad in churches and shopping malls around the country the credit crunch the purpose of the exaggerations is to make americans see their flaws yes. the splash trick. too much money can. consume. it's a church but controls us it's a fundamentalist church like the roman catholic church in the fourteen hundreds

these desperate times by normally except my credit card limit. could be calling for desperate measures like spells and exorcisms the things that get in the way does all that appeal to you since more often than not in the us legally the majority of people have too much month left at the end of the money the average american is said to generate over fifty tons of garbage by the time they are a senior with millions buzzing around new york stores this holiday season it's hard to tell who is doing it responsibly and who is completely out of control because of shopping not considered a mental disorder there are dozens of there are people and clinics in the big apple for those who are willing to admit they have a problem and indication no lessons learned even after the big crash of a recession. and on the way next hour. struggling through the holiday season. million out of work americans the countdown

clock is still ticking to when the unemployment benefits run out but with no job on the horizon. the timepiece that chimes with luck were caught on the ground the clock is powered by wishful thinking on new year's night. have been protests across gaza with palestinians marking two years since israel began a devastating offensive on to the area israel launched massive and ground strikes and hamas targets in two thousand and eight killing more than a thousand people israel says it was responding to palestinian rocket attacks. but it drew worldwide condemnation because of the huge number of civilian casualties israel's blockade of gaza after they came under the control of hamas in two thousand and seven a group it regards as a terrorist organization says that aid has been rigorously restricted and rarely reaches its destination as our porous here has been pointing out. israelis insist their economic siege on gaza is easing but they can't deny the border and

international condemnation is heating up and asian aid convoy with politicians and activists from eighteen countries is on its way to gaza i'm border one hundred eighty people food and medical supplies and a determined core to reach gaza on the second anniversary of the last israel gaza war the convoy dubbed asia to gaza solidarity caravan sits sail from new delhi at the beginning of december it's trying to do what an aide for till a failed to do in may break the israeli blockade on the coastal strip that earlier attempt left nine activists did since then israel insists things have gotten better there is a humanitarian analysis that we are making on a daily basis which allow us to see a broad picture about the humanitarian conditions and the situation in the goes to each moment but gazans complain life is still unbearable so much of israel has limited the number of trucks clothes and shoes coming into gaza and this causes problems with coordination in gaza. last month twenty two international

organizations issued a report claiming the easing of the blockade has helped bring in materials only for the u.n. and international building projects ordinary goods they say are still not getting in our goods have already been detained in israel for three years but the fines that we've paid already equal the costs of the goods so even if we receive the goods back now we can't sell them they're spoiled and those goods that are getting in there too expensive for most people here. the goods that we receive are not of a high quality but we have to buy them because we don't have an alternative. cars have also become a luxury two thousand dollars for an engine well just two hundred dollars for a rather simplistic alternative what can we do there's no fuel for vehicles drano spare parts inevitably result that it's kind of transportation the donkey's this is one of the largest cattle markets in gaza and as the economy here plummets it too

is struggling to survive. we have no animals and no barley today and even when we have barley people are always here to buy it's been four years since israel imposed siege on gaza to try and break a massive support and with no sign that life will get better any time soon most gazans have the eyes on the sea and their hope on the next little or policy are to israel. i'm got plenty lined up for you on line and here's what we can find on t. the home today and still it is leaders say they hit the jackpot by converting to the euro they come patricks on social theory in this struggling currency will lead them into decline. and check out the sky high celebrations for the new year with the international space station crews a message for all of us by phone. from

new zealand to moscow from seed need to seattle twenty eleven was ushered in with fireworks and celebrations by millions of people around the world. i. i it got off to a stunning start in new zealand ask taters parks into all clones harbor to enjoy the huge display that it moved further west australia but celebrations went off with a bang and c.v. now a traditional spectacular fireworks lit up this kind of line spectators got their money's worth the twelve minute show was the largest there since the display which saw in the new millennium revelers in japan welcomed by releasing a massive silver balloons carry notes with their hopes for the future in the u.k. a quarter of a million people flocked to the riverside to watch london midnight across the

atlantic new york celebrations centered as always around this slow december the sixth time crystal ball with thirty two thousand lights early last year at least half a million people took to the streets to watch fireworks and also to listen to president about it's a trip. to something else which brings the world together but rarely gets the champagne corks popping is globalization and while it can satisfy our hunger for cheap goods it means some communities see thousands of jobs shipped abroad and where talk show host laurie hoffman is to ask people in new york if making the world small is really better. society is becoming more and more globalized is that a positive development or is it the beginning of the end this week let's talk about that i think it's really important that we grow together and that we also care about each other because we're full review for europe where we want to be taken

care of here as well and on the same you do for us what do you think the effects of globalization are on our children oh i think it's a good thing i'm actually in education so i see it every day but it exposes our kids to different cultures and they're more understanding i think more tolerant just overall it helps more people to throughout the world so in some other places that may not necessarily have the opportunities that we have it presents them with some of the opportunities that we have so that's a positive pressure as it is but the negative it's taking things away from here too many things are going to asia. ok yeah it's serious though you can't control where the things are going to go and there's you have to compete with a lot more people that's right you know global economy could be good. carbon footprints and all there has been. again it depends on where your stance is i don't think it's a good thing i think in theory it should be good but i think in reality i don't think it is because i feel like the countries that need needs are going to join the

globalization movement they're just being exploited for cheap labor. so it's not like we're all becoming one happy global it's we're taking advantage of others. i would say by recent events it's ridiculous that people can post anything they want out there or not have not get repercussions from it but i guess they've got to figure out a way to control that don't they who are the very i don't know have you met them no i don't know them either but you trust them i don't trust anyone i'm in new york i live in a paranoid world no matter what your feelings toward globalization might be the bottom line is it doesn't look like the trend is going to end anytime soon. where all for a siberian expedition now as we take in more russia close up. and

we are in the southwest and all this creature which was once the capital of siberia the area has and it of all sporting prowess the people of all know how to make the most of the arts too proud as they are of their renowned professional hockey team of on guard but is on face time boston explains it's not the only example outside the us trying. to understanding region has always been a tough place to survive it has tough weather conditions and it's required tough people to come and live here and it's that idea of strength and particularly of money knows it's found its way into the sporting and physical culture here as well and it's that feeling that i've been examining it better. than i i and almost goes wild the local hockey team album god puts another goal in the net they may look like other teams from around rush or in the world but they know they're special i guess you. know you're still missing in my list since we were little we've

practiced outside in the cold weather so we're used to our conditions it's room i know america so we're the toughest players. and it's not just seasoned arms players using asm for the test of courage and strength comes young. and. i like the way they play hockey the pull of the strikes and the opportunity to become the still guys. ice hockey isn't the only had to be an endeavor trapped in the tension here how about a wider no turning a minibus. for those who see the release a period in winter with slippery roads it's pretty hard. pulling many buses is the only way this is why you have to show their strength they can also find many other ways to flex some siberian muscle. he regional local gym the team lifts bends and pulls anything they can lay their hands on the competitions across russia they also put on public shows to entertain the crowds

and some extra money for the uk that's out the day in day out it's about heaving that little bit. monad to sell for 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 i got the goods to. 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 stronger sense of that special quality should one of the i stand could possibly come south and historically people from siberia have been very strong and my great soldiers were i think they greatly contributed to our victory in world war two conditions he a make people learn how to survive because he thinks they might have strong indeed in fact you could hardly describe these lot as being in survival mode. if it looks .