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the week's main news from r.t. moscow freezes over thousands of forced to sleep in app also and spend time in record traffic jams as a frozen brain paralyzes the capital for days. of alleged islamic extremists are arrested in denmark fourteen the country's biggest ever terrorism plot and sparking concern the use not doing enough to believe the threat. also two days after its massive offensive against gaza israel says it's easing the blockade but locals feel their lives are only getting top. former oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky to spend six more years behind bars after being convicted of a better land and mud in

a dream. and the world wide welcome for twenty eleven points time for the new day with fireworks and festivities around the globe. welcome to r.t. twenty four hour news life from moscow my name is your leadership of our i'm here with the latest news and a review of the week's events so it was a week when moscow ground to hold as freezing rain crippled airports 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 you can see you know that show has been finding out. too. turned into a lump of ice overnight the rain was freezing while falling almost emergency

workers knocked it down like gloss. have your eyes snapped power lines and shut down the country's largest airport for almost two days but enough at any time of year but horrendous at the height of the holy day getaway this is how 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 what a snowstorm disrupted polis in the area as a result of that some a hundred feet to flights were delayed and over eight thousand passengers were forced to sleep on the app or its premises. it's very hard for me here i have a broken leg and there are no facilities here to bureaucracy 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 reporters 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 blog 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 even 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 six now seriously but it's not going to meet those a. good experience in the

thirty five villages four thousand people still without power might have an idea you go to these villages to celebrate the new year together with these people. and the first time in six days or so the streets leading by the car is of the high ranking official santa saying sorry and just twenty minutes before midnight people were once again seeing the light relieved their palm was back on and twenty eleven was already looking brighter it's in the crash of r r t most. a russian passenger jet which caught fire and exploded in western siberia has claimed at least three lives and left over forty injured investigators are still looking for what caused the fire in the engine as the plane was taxiing for tax for takeoff in the city of sort of gold one hundred twenty passengers and crew were evacuated from the child before it blew up among those aboard it was

a russian pop group called anough who told journalists there was difficulty with opening their mansions the exits some passengers reportedly had to run through the flames to escape meaning that with severe bans the injured are now in a critical condition. on the way later we are in america to report on struggling through the holiday season for two million out of work americans the countdown clock is still ticking to welcome back unemployment benefits run out but with no job on the lights and. the timepiece that china with a lot clearer portrait how the krugman clocks powered by wishful thinking on again . this week danish police assaulted what they called the most serious terror plot ever attempted in the country four suspects arrested on wednesday will stay in prison for several weeks on occasions of planning a gun attack in copenhagen thought they were targeting the nice paper that printed controversial cartoons of the prophet mohammad with

a bomb shaped turban that publication and to raise and muslims worldwide police say the suspects intended to kill as many people as possible later thursday officers released a fifth my man was arrested but he remains a suspect if the latest in a series of arrests to get which have put european nations on high alert over the spread of islamic radicalism and as you go now reports it's happening right under the noses of the authorities. 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 moroccan churchills all are suspected of recruiting so-called jihad is to gain units and financing terrorist organizations right from the portland. police mission a success absolutely but is the battle over this in a race that it's just a visible part of the iceberg it's huge there is a whole machine behind this redo

a rouge he was born in belgium in a family of christians and converted to. he says he did it on his own will because it simply provided the. other religions according to him. but unfortunately due to generally poor knowledge about it it can be used to teach the exact opposite. there are really extremely moms acting in europe and the problem is people who don't feel erotic and don't understand the muslim philosophy or they end up in the arms of busy moms who come from saudi arabia egypt a former french intelligence officer claude money care now has a company advising governments and corporations or 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 vielka 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 muslim because you are drinking you are not a good muslim because your life is not and you are not a good mystery because you don't do nothing for your brother. in palestine in iraq and so on which oppressed and are killed it begins in the families it begins. in the streets and in the must this is one of the immigrant quarters of brussels populated by muslims signs in arabic specialist shops and cafes kind of core to believe we are in the portland top european union official around a quarter of the local active working age population from eighteen to thirty is unemployed officially this figure is even higher which makes it prime ground for recruitment. the lack of education about a little work in many european muslim communities seem to have become the driving force behind the spread of extremist. towards asylum or among the most to be left in the european union the flow of newcomers is likely to continue and many experts

believe. it is need to help muslims integrate into a multicultural society the extremism threat will remain no matter how many arrests are made you want this kind of r t brussels. to stay behind bars until twenty seventeen he and his colleague were found guilty this week of embezzling oil and money laundering it ends a lengthy second trial for the. reports. four days that's how long it took the judge to be the verdict six more years that's how long we feel her there of course 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 the bush can just partner. were

convicted of stealing two hundred eighteen million tonnes of oil worth twenty seven billion dollars dollars from a subsidiary company out of course he was known as the very worst corporate governance abuser in russia and i myself was that you question how the meeting where i had a power of attorney from one of their minority investors to attend and was thrown out at gun point where a meeting went on through to the investor a man called american kind of his state than to actually nothing and the company voted to sell oil to an independent trade company for one dollar twenty five a barrel at a time when the international price was thirty dollars so that he made his fortune through what was then one of the world's largest non-state oil companies ucas it began from the states so often in one nine hundred ninety s. and became russia's fastest growing only producer at that time in the business was risky he knew this 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 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 books holes in them so the cost he has maintained he's innocent of the fraud charges ever since his arrest in two thousand and three many in the west 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 in russia tend to view him as a sort of a martyr figure we are all humans and we feel compassion for people who. are behind the bars for a very long time here already eight years in prison and he has to spend many years more the president can be smart he can be a ticket what he could be sold for couldn't but it doesn't mean that necessarily

this is a synonym of 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 trial of the decade if you know goes carty let's go. it will be in the holiday season of bleak belt tightening for millions of americans struggling to land a job while wall street by. the way the unemployed a force to fight for their basic welfare benefits as lower and lower listed reports the clock's ticking for the hardest hit. in the u.s. to the season for holiday cheer charity and this year first millions of jobless americans despair now why did i work all of those christmases why did i give up that time with my family if now i have nothing and all of the work that i've done in my life for no reason for teresa this used to be her busy season at work but she

was laid off from her job in the gas and heating business more than two years ago and has been unable to find any steady work since i look for work every single day i feel applications u.s. lawmakers reached a deal this month to extend unemployment benefits for millions of unemployed americans we're all going to have the best holidays we can but lost in that story are millions of jobless americans like teresa who don't even qualify for this help any more benefits expire ninety nine weeks but a job doesn't magically appear by their own accounts and activists buying on their behalf these americans no longer count in this economy left out in the cold and out of the statistical surveys when for many for example their phones are cut off they are not counted and no one can say that they are they're struggling arguably the most to get by merry christmas you're fired their people like sixty one year old

gabrielle a laid off veterinary nurse like a record one in seven americans to eat she now relies on a government program that helps pay for food known as food stamps meanwhile no work is on the horizon it's very hard i mean. the truth on matters are really nothing out there despite the. tough financial situation so many are facing these will be happy holidays first of all st thanks for one the lavish christmas decor is just the tip of the iceberg big banks like this one are expected to post their second highest near profitability ever recorded second only to last year and still the average beggar bonus may come out higher that means the average year end bonus would exceed last year's of more than one hundred twenty four thousand dollars a person but if banks are in this money what's so wrong with that many of the banks that are doing well are only doing well because the public bail them out so we're seeing is a transfer of wealth from in

a way the needy to the greedy is unemployment soars last quarter american companies posted their largest corporate profits ever recorded in u.s. history and while the rich may be taking those earnings to the glitz of new york's fifth avenue for holiday shopping in the shadows or those struggling to see a little light at the end of the tunnel we've been cut off and we've been practically ignored by almost everyone that's out here the people in our government and the people and we're in the media they're looking for any hope despite a system they see as sympathetic to business and banks but stacked against them we're really living in a society where we don't count this is really marie antoinette. at the balls while the french people starved and that's not different and they're fighting in that society to have holidays that count as anything resembling happy there's a sense of joy that's supposed to be here and it's not here lauren lyster r.t.

new york paris but there is still bows who refuse to go without as we head know next hour. if i didn't spend enough money on sunglasses i could probably save for college and things like bat that mark and still spending like there's no tomorrow. despite the deepening debt hole. there have been protests across gaza with palestinians marking two years since israel began a devastating offensive on to the area israel launched massive air and ground strikes on 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 is are all blockaded gaza after it came under the control of her mouth in two thousand and seven a group it regarded as a terrorist organization. has been rigorously restricted and rarely reaches a destination as forcefully as finding out. israelis inserts their economic siege

on gaza is easing but they can't deny the border and international condemnation is heating up and asian aid convoy but politicians and activists from eighteen countries is on its way to gaza on 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 wall the convoy dubbed asia to gaza solidarity caravan sit self in new delhi at the beginning of december it's trying to do what an aid flotilla 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. 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 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 that what can we do there's no fuel for vehicles spare parts inevitably result that it's kind of transportation to donkeys 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 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 the massive support and with no sign that life will get better anytime soon most gazans have the eyes on the sea and their hope on the next. policy are to israel. plenty lined up for you online and here's what you can find out on today as the state is leaders say they will hit the jackpot by converting to the euro compact or its own social varying this troubling currency will lead them into decline. and it's kind of celebrations for the new year would be international space station crews a message for all of us back.

from new zealand to moscow from sydney to seattle twenty eleven has been all should end with fireworks and celebrations by millions of people around the world in australia as celebrations when told with the buying a state needs now traditional spectacular fireworks that have this kind of line spectators got their money's worth the twelve that it was the largest that is the display which still in the new millennium in seoul the city's mayor wearing traditional south korean dress started the festivities by ringing a large bronze bell thirty three times hundreds of thousands of germans and tourists descended on berlin to watch the fireworks had been lun-lun brandenburg gate in the u.k. a quarter of a million people flocked to the. london lighting up at midnight and across that line to new york celebrations centered as always around this slow descent of

a six ton crystal ball with two thousand lights one of the biggest gathering gatherings in brazil what two million had it all i could talk about the beach to enjoy twenty minutes of fireworks music i understand the need to unveil the longer it would take the country's twenty sixteen olympics in moscow at least often and people took to the streets to watch fireworks and also to listen to president medvedev new year at tracks. in red square huge crowds of revelers running twenty eleven with the midnight chimes of the crowd unclog but as the boyko now reports for many welshman's they heralded more than the coming of the new year. it was a hectic new year's eve four years ago because some to family was marking their six year together with all of finishing the cooking and paid to entertain in the guests . but as the cramming clock started counting down the last seconds of the year everybody pours. their road our wishes and napkins burn them and soak the ashes in

the champagne according to the time honored to russian ritual drinking it should a grand even the most on a team that will wish on the hour. i can tell you what i have asked for because this way it won't come true let's wait and see if i am lucky with my wish you will know about it a symbol of russia's officialdom the kremlin chimes are also an embodiment of people's most private hopes every year has the clock strikes midnight millions of russians ask fortunes for favors for those few seconds even cynics start to believe in magic. you can call it the cinderella fact according to polls the majority of those who are scribed wish granting powers to the kremlin chimes are women and some of the most popular in years wishes include finding your chill laugh getting married and having a baby. the largest clock in moscow this kremlin timepiece is also among the

oldest in russia the current mechanism was installed in the late nineteenth century and it's still a measure of precision and while the chimes have more of the pendulum of russian history swinging many times according to historians the wish making tradition is relatively new. put on top of his tradition could be traced back to soviet times because never before had red square and the kremlin had such a sacred status it wasn't well publicized back then because there was no place for superstition in communist ideology but people made their wishes anyway and here's why four years after synchronizing their hopes for the kremlin. chimes because some good family has that own little new year miracle running around the house and helping with the festive furs dick ration the little summer will she's the wish i wrote on that piece of napkin in the one i mean in many many other occasions but i know for a fact from my own experience in the experience of my friends that on new year's

eve each ask for something very dear to your heart and it will definitely come true or you. aren't see. let's not check some other international stories making headlines today one person has died and he's in australia in the water being described as clouds of biblical proportions water is still rising in an area twice the size of texas leading to more evacuations some two hundred thousand people are affected one town and its entire population taken to safety as a result of water was the wettest spring on record in the state of queensland officials say the disaster is far from over and the recovery will cost billions of dollars. paid independence day has been marked by angry protests over its dysfunctional presidential election and the slow relief efforts following the deadly earthquake demonstrators blocked rose tires and piled rubbish on to the streets demanding the current president be arrested around obs do later this month

after november's ballot was marred by violence claims of fraud and a poor turnout. right now are all for a siberian expedition and would take in more russia closer. a regional hub for western siberia and the altai mountains almost has a continental climate with cold snow winters and whole dry summers it's also the administrative center for this siberian course tax settled back in the sixteenth century if the region that own military skill through generations as tom barton discovered. excepting soviet times has always been on the frontier of russia it required people to come here and build it from scratch and then to defend that from both people with the cossacks and it's their strong and self-sufficient local

culture that i'm examining in my report. the view from the end of a cossacks spear but not to worry the young calm the other end knows what he's doing he's part of a tough rural tradition which has lasted for centuries. much now similarly if they start teaching us riding on which in seventh to trickle at the age of thirteen the brilliant chance abilities are not for me i was a very good do i do worse it's eleven as well as i can handle a spear and a saber progress that's got through all our tom and the others have a demanding daily schedule and horse riding is the glamorous part the youngsters in the village built this gym themselves another training in it will have a lot to do to prove themselves as hunters and horsemen in the training communally fosters a team spirit in this cossacks society. a team

spirit necessary for the cossacks noblest pursuit hunting on the sharp end the beloved fast russian dog the bars only bred to perfection over centuries and not for any ordinary prey. but they were selected for their speed and anger because they must be able to get the better of a wall of. the gory is must to not just have his hounds but at this whole cost village he's pulled the atom out and he has to show skill in leadership from solving british disputes down to training dogs to catch hares. though he prefers the larger prey was more restrictive be a thought in the room in old times to get the chance of becoming an atom and it was considered prestigious to bring home a wall of tied up. with the ring and or after the day's outdoor training we caught up with our at a man at the evening.