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the weak side may news from osteen freezes over thousands of full sleep in airports spend time in a wreck or something since frozen rain paralyzes the capital today it's. valuable alleged islamic extremists arrested in denmark forcing the country's biggest ever terrorism plot and sparking concern the news don't doing enough to beat the threat some. say two years after its amounts but then again gaza israel says is easing the blockade but locals feel their lives are only getting tough.

for more oil to hold out of course skiis to spend six more years behind bars to be convicted of a vessel but on money evil. and a worldwide welcome to twenty eleven the bright star of the new year with far away examples divisions and around the globe. a very room well this is our see life from moscow with me alice have it now was a week when moscow ground to hold as freezing rain crippled airports and paralyzed traffic for thousands of stranded travelers that meant starting the holidays stuck in jobs or sleeping at the airport all those went without power for days and the government had to act fast as they got job has been finding out. turned into a lump of ice over night. the rain was freezing while falling almost the 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 should you like the idea that the airport which was worst hit by bad weather conditions over the weekend when a snowstorm disrupted pa lines in the area as a result of that some one hundred people 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 airport is

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 bloke 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.

six now serious tomatoes are. experiencing thirty five villages for families and people still without power i have and i do 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 lead by the car is a bit high ranking officials sent to see a story 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 bright if even the gretsch of r r t. a russian passenger jet which called fire and exploded in western siberia has claimed at least three lies and that 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 groot more

than one hundred twenty passengers and crew were evacuated from the jet before it blew up among those on board was a russian pop group called normal we're told german this there was difficulty with opening the emergency exits some passengers are reportedly had to run through the flames to escape leaving them with. four of the injured are now in a critical condition. or coming up in just a few minutes shopaholics on the loose. if i didn't spend enough money on sunglasses i could probably save for college and things like that the americans still spending like there's no tomorrow despite a deepening debts hold. on we travel to siberia where the severe weather calls for a strong breed of people paper have taken on everything from cars to kitchen where . this week danish police forces board they called the most.

serious terror plot efforts have been in the country for suspects arrested on wednesday will stay in prison for several weeks all occasions upon a godless hack in copenhagen it's thought they were targeting the newspaper that printed controversial call of the prophet muhammad with a bomb shaped target that up acacia inferior to muslims worldwide police say the suspects intended to kill as many people as possible while later on this is released a fifth man he was arrested he remains a suspect it's the latest in a series of arrests are out there which have put european nations on high that over the spread of islamic radicalism and as you go to reports it's happening while the noses of the authorities. brought results twenty six people have been arrested in belgium germany and the netherlands belgium dutch moroccans and churchill's all are suspected of recruiting

so-called jihad is candidates and financing terrorist organizations right from the portland if you are 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 a ruse was born in belgium in a family of christians and converted to what he was lame t. 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 extremely moms acting in europe and the problem is people who don't feel erratic 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 now has a company advising governments and corporations. well 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 it's privacy. because you don't practice five times the price of five times a day you are not a good muslim because you are drinking you are not a good muslim because your wife is not and you have the goodness to him because you don't do nothing for your brothers. in palestine in iraq and so on which are oppressed and are killed it begins in the families. in the streets and in the must this is one of the immigrant quarters of brussels. signs in arabic specialist shops and cafes of course to believe in the portland top european union official around a quarter of the local active working age population from eighteen to thirty is unavoidable. 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 extremism. towards the most of you 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. or the process. the united states may have an eye watering debt trying now but the tells all still ringing however it's the credit card balance with. increasing all the plastic. one man he's making it his mission to cure americans shopping addiction. true. you should.

stop. her. what 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. problem is way to twenty five things we do daily need for a new dose of jackets sweaters and skirts she considers herself

a shopaholic how many pairs of shoes do you have to. show hundreds the urge to possess has taken over men to statistics say young men and women compulsively shop equally in the us nowadays i'm actually excited about spencer runs during the last couple of years i've 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 is me life mission is to cheese so with. this shopping devil by putting on an act in churches and shopping malls around the country the

credit crunch the purpose of the exaggerations is to make americans see their flaws use of the splash stick. too much money can see. a consumer. it's a church but controls us it's a fundamentalist church like the roman catholic church in the fourteen hundreds these desperate times normally accept my credit card limit every mom could be calling for desperate measures like spells and exorcisms the things that glitter in the windows will not 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 of no lessons learned even after the big crash of a recession and says you're going up. and on the way in our next hour more on the days he was dropping through the holiday season the. americans the countdown is still taking when they're on a limited benefits run out but with no job on the horizon. on the timing case but sometimes when we report on how the permanence clocks. ticking on the lights. for more oil psych you need. to stay behind bars until twenty seventeen he and his colleague were found guilty this week of embezzling oil money laundering it ends a lengthy second trial for the paris that evening a report. four days that's how long it took to 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 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 pushkin just partner but only because 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 their meeting went on through to the investor a man called american 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 or producer at the time in the 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 tell him that. everything he did was within the law it was the blame of the laws that had those holes in them so the cost he has maintained his innocence 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 to interview him as a sort of a martyr figure we are all humans and for all compression for people who. are behind the bars for a very long time here already eight years in prison and he has to spend twenty years or more for the press from going to be smart he can be articulate he could be salt spoken but it doesn't mean that necessarily because of non-guilt and that made because we're proud of course the prosecutors have asked bert 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 it is a go. go. well there have been protests across gaza with palestinians marking it two years since israel began a devastating offensive on to the area israel launched a massive air and ground strikes on hamas targets in two thousand and eight killing

more than a thousand people well israel says it was responding to palestinian rocket attacks but it drew worldwide condemnation because of the number of civilian casualties israel blockaded gaza after it came under the control of hamas in two thousand and seven over what guards as a terrorist organization since then aid has been rigorously restricted and rarely reaches its destination as paula slipped 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 board a 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 sit still for. new delhi at the beginning of december it's trying to do what an aid for teller 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. moment but gazans complain life is still unbearable. and that 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 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 you know 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 any time soon most gazans have the eyes on the sea and their hope on the next for police here. israel. now we have plenty lined up few online

his will find it all to you don't call me today the state is leaders say it's a jam fault like the euro they're going to have troops on the social feeling that this struggling car and c. would lead them into climbing. and check out the sky high celebrations for the new year with the international space station it's a cruise message for all of us called. from new zealand to moscow from sydney to seattle twenty eleven was ushered in with celebrations by millions of people around the world. i know they got off to a stunning start

a new zealand spectators that packed into this harbor to enjoy the huge display that image further west australia where celebrations went off with the padding is sydney's now traditional spectacular fall away listen up the sky light and spectators got the money's worth the twelve minute show was the largest that the display which threw in the new millennium revelers in japan welcoming yeah by releasing a massive silver believes carrying notes with their hopes for the future for the people of taiwan the island's tallest skyscraper. was seven below the building and in the u.k. a quarter of a million people flocked to the riverside to watch london that lights up at midnight across the atlantic new celebration said to the ways around the slow descent the six time crystal who was that easy thousand lights now earlier in moscow at least half a million people took to the streets to watch fireworks and also to listen to president medvedev is new year address. now something else which brings the world

together but rarely gets the champagne corks popping is globalization while they can satisfy our hunger for cheap goods it means some communities see thousands of jobs shipped abroad web talk show host laurie how often sells people in new york is making the world smaller it's 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 for 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 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 sure is that 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 that is bad. 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 and not have not get repercussions from it but i guess they've got to

figure out a way to control that too 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. some of the international stories making headlines today now and then love. morning as brazil's first devore woman president it's crowns a long political career for the former model since rebel he was held out tortured during the country's military dictatorship she has a tough that's a follow so much the incredible popularity of lula da silva who presided over the nearly a decade of growth says an all girl address school for poverty has been wiped out and grace's developments in the education. and oil pipeline from russia to

china began all crazy going to stay of twenty eleven it will pump around forty three thousand tons a day and replace the railway is the main means of transport fuel the pipeline is a joint project between the two countries biggest oil companies this helped to open china into becoming russian's gateway to the growing asian energy market. again now we're off on a siberian expedition as we take in more of prussia close up. well we're in the southwest and screecher was was once the capital of siberia the area has an be able sporting prowess the people of all skin know how to make the most of the ice to you as they are that right now the best off the team haven't god but it is a tumble a space don't be a worry for the siberian strike. and

don't skills wild the local hockey team album guard puts another goal in the net they may look like other teams from around russia or in the world but they know their special this is. just as in my list and 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 school players enthusiasm 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 story on the ice. ice hockey isn't the only have kilian and dev attracting attention here how about the water no turning a minibus. but those boys even say bierria in winter with sleepy roads it's pretty

hard to. pulling many buses is the only way these what you have to show their strength they can also find many other ways to flex some siberian muscle. jim 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 in some extra money they are that's it but day in day out it's about heaving that little bit more. monad to separate the sand it's different i just like it that's all i like wrestling against these pieces of equipment i like to achieve high results with the teeth 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 strong sense of that special quality you should want of us that would possibly come south and he's.