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we said main news from moscow freezes over thousands of calls to sleep in airports and spends time in brand called traffic jams and froze in the rain paralyzes the capital for the day. five villages islamic extremists were arrested in denmark forcing the country's biggest ever terrorism law and sparking concern the e.u. is not doing enough to beat the threats. sixty years after its offensive against the girls say israel says it's easing the blockade but locals feel their lives are only getting tougher. for more oil tycoon mikhail for that of course he has to

spend six more years behind bars to be the best moment and money will bring. the world wide welcome twenty that are bright star of the year with the festivities around the globe. a very warm welcome gee this is r.t. live from moscow with me analysts have it now was a week when moscow ground to a halt 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 were without power for days and the government. has been finding out. turned into

a lump of ice overnight the rain was freezing while falling almost emergency workers knocked it down like gloss. heavy 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 highs of the holy day getaway this is how one of moscow's busiest hops looks like power is back on and flies are getting back on shad you like that the my idea that the airport which was worst hit by bad weather conditions over the weekend what a snowstorm disrupted pa lines in the area as a result of that some one hundred fifty flights were delayed and over eight thousand passengers were forced to sleep on the app ports 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 your port deal very well with these problems as we're seeing across europe. russia second largest sure meant he suffered no electricity blackouts but based have a delays put thousands of passengers who stormed the control zones blocked luggage 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

its six now some of us but it's not going to meet only. thirty five villages for families and people still without power i have and i do you go to these villages and celebrate the new year together with these people. and the first time in six days villagers saw the streets leading by the chorus of the high ranking official some to say sorry and just twenty minutes before midnight people were once again seeing the light relieved that polly was back on and twenty eleven was already looking brighter if even the grouch of r r t. 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 takeoff in the city of more than one hundred twenty passengers and crew were evacuated from the jets before they were up among those on board was a russian pop group nona told journalists there was difficulty with a plane the emergency exit some passengers reportedly had to run through the flames to escape leaving them with severe burns four of the injured are now in a critical condition. on the way a little later with in america to report on those struggling through the holiday season two million hours of work americans the countdown to ticking to when they're on employment benefits run out but with no job on the rise or. the time that chimes that we've lost we report on how the prevalence plugs powered by wishful thinking on the nights. this week

danish police waters and what they call 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 godless attack in copenhagen it's thought they were targeting the newspaper that printed controversial cartoons the prophet muhammad with a bomb shaped turban publication of period it was the worldwide police say the suspects intended to kill as many people as possible. this is really a fifth man who was arrested but he remains a suspect it's the latest in a series of arrests throughout the year which have put european nations on high alert over the spread of islamic radicalism and as you go to pick an awful lot it's outplaying right under the noses of the all forty. 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 jihadist candidates and financing terrorist organizations right from the heartland of europe 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 it was born in belgium in a family of christians and converted to islam when he was léontine he says he did it on his own will because it simply provided the answers he couldn't find in other religions according to him islam teaches peace and tolerance but unfortunately due to generally poor knowledge about it it can be used to teach the exact opposite. there are really extreme arms acting in europe and the problem is people who don't feel erotic 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 on 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 veiled from their attention by its privacy they will say you are not a good missed him because you don't practice five times the price five times a day you are not a good misting because you are drinking you are not a good muslim because your life is not very. good missed him because you don't do nothing for you. in palestine in iraq and so on which oppressed and killed it begins in the families it begins to quiet us into streets and in the must this is one of the immigrant quarters of brussels. signs in arabic. specialist shops and cafes teleport to believe we're in the portland top 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 a little work in many european muslim communities seem to have become the driving force behind the spread of extremist belgium's towards asylum on 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 you've got this kind of brussels. for more oil to. stay behind bars until twenty seventeen he and his colleagues were found guilty this week of the oil and money laundering it ends a lengthy second trial for the pan. reports. four days that's how long it took the judge to read the verdict six more years that's how long he will have to spend

behind bars the forty seven year old is in the final stretch of an eight year prison term and sentence after being convicted for tax evasion. because. if you buy sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment the sentence will be served in the correctional colony of a medium security prison in this second trial just partner 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 had a power of attorney from one of the minority investors to attend. gun violence meeting went on to dilute the investor and mindful of american called kind of his state down 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 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 a new kiss 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. to blame because he had a whole team of very experienced lawyers who used to tell him that. everything he did was within the law it was the blame of the laws that had dissolved loopholes and them for 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 the singled out 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 press from getting too smart he can be a ticket what he can be sold for spoken but it doesn't mean that necessarily this is a synonym of guilty and that might be the case with 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 last go. it will be another holiday season all of a bleak belt tightening for millions of american. is struggling a job while wall street bankers while it's jingle all the way they all employ the fools to find for the basic welfare benefits is. to report the clock's ticking for

the hardest hit. in the u.s. to the season for holiday cheer charity and this year for some of 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 kobo 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 like 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 at 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 but 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 of matters are really nothing out there despite the tough financial situation so many are facing these will be happy holidays first. wall street thinks 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 earn this money what's so wrong with that many of the banks that are doing well are only doing well because the public bailed 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 barges 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 you know we're in the media they're looking for any hope despite a system they see is sympathetic to business and banks but stacked against them and

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 very. well there are still those who refuse to go with the houses we hear and. if i didn't spend enough money on sunglasses i could probably save for college and things like. the american still spending like there's no tomorrow i just fight a deepening debts home. now there have been protests across the goals that with palestinians two years since israel began a devastating offensive on to the area its all launched

a massive air 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 israel blockaded gulzar came under the control of hamas in two thousand and seven big regard to look terrorist organization since then ages been rigorously restricted and rarely reaches its destination as pool this has been finding 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 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 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 tele 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 each moment but gazans complain life is still unbearable sought after 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 un 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 paid already equal the costs of the goods so even if we receive the

goods back now we can sell them their spoils 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 you don't have an alternative. cars have also become a luxury two thousand dollars for an engine while just two hundred dollars for a rather simplistic alternative what can we do there's no fuel for vehicles spare parts inevitably result that it's kind of transportation the 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 and no barley today and even when we have barley people aren't 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 any time soon most gazans have the eyes on the sea and their hope on the

next. policy r.t. israel. we have plenty lined up for you on line here is what you'll find at all dot com today the state is it leaders say they hit the jackpot by converting to the giro they can patch or it's also sure fearing the struggling currency or lead them into decline. and check out the skylight celebrations for the new get with the international space station crews message for all of us. from new zealand to moscow from sydney to seattle twenty eleven's production with fireworks and celebrations by millions of people around the world in australia

celebrations went off with a bang in sydney is down to traditional spectacular fireworks lists up the skyline and spectators got their money's worth the twelve minute show was the largest there since the display which store in the new year in seoul the city's mayor wearing a traditional south korean dress till the festivities by ringing a large bronze bell thirty three times hundreds of thousands of germans and tourists. to watch the fireworks at the london the landmark brandenburg gate and in the u.k. a quarter of a million people flocked to the riverside to watch london light up at midnight and across the atlantic new york celebrations that did i have always around the slow descent of the six tons of crystal ball with thirty two thousand lines and one of the biggest gatherings was a brazil where two million headed for cocoa beach do enjoy twenty minutes of fireworks music can a ceremony to unveil the logo for the ganges twenty sixteen olympics and earlier in

moscow release happened many people took to the streets to watch fireworks and also to listen to president with their new year address. in red square huge crowds of revelers arriving in twenty eleven with the midnight chimes of the kremlin clock but there's a van a boy who reports for many russians more than just the coming of a deer. it was a hectic new year's eve four years ago because some family was marking their six years together with all the finishing the cooking and peter into chaining the guests. but as the cramming clock started counting down the last seconds of the year everybody paused. rudo wishes and napkins burned them and soaked the ashes in the champagne according to the time. russian ritual drinking it should a grand even the most unattainable wish on the hour ok 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 charms are also an embodiment of people's most private hopes every year has the cloak strikes midnight millions of russians ask fortune 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 ascribed wish granting powers to the crown in chimes are women and some of the most popular new year's wishes include finding your chill live getting married and having a baby. the largest cloak in moscow these 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 it 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 the descent of family has that own little new year a miracle running around the house and helping with the festive first decoration at the will of the family is what she's the wish i wrote on that piece of net can in the one i meet and 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 you need to ask for something very dear to your heart and it will definitely come true. artsy mosco. now we're off on a five beery an expedition now as we take in more of russia clegg stop. but

a regional hub for western siberia and the alfheim out in it's own has a continental climate with cold snowy winters and hot dry summers it's also the administrative center of the siberian cossacks is settled there in the sixteenth century it's a region that's helping the military skills through generations as tomba discover. the view from the end of a cossacks beer but not to worry the young cossack on the other end knows what he's doing he's part of a tough rural tradition which has lasted for centuries. they start teaching us riding on which one servant to trickle at the age of thirteen the

billion chance abilities are not for me i was a very good do i do horse at eleven as well as i can handle a spear and a saber let's go through all our tom and the others have a demanding daily schedule and horse riding is the glamorous part of 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 training communally potters a team spirit crucial 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 bred to perfection over centuries and not for any ordinary prey. even though they were selected for this speed and anger because they must be able to get the better of a wolf. with gauri is master not just of his hounds but of this whole course

village he's called the atom out and he has to show skill in leadership from solving village disputes down to training dogs to catch hares. though he prefers the lark. when i was morris for to be likely to root 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 in a war after the day's outdoor training we caught up with our at a man at the evening meal and he tells us about the history the cossacks originally came from lamb's far to the west of here but they proved a useful militia force conquering and securing siberia for the czars in return for grants of land. here before and the idea was to create villages along the country's border so that people are bound to the land they're living on. the cossacks strong independent traditions were disliked by the communists they were so.