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. we made news from moscow for you thousands of people will sleep in their pools and spend time in red traffic jams as frozen rain power lines of the capital for the day. village islamic extremists were arrested in the lot in the country's biggest ever terrorism laws and sparking concern the human is not doing enough to beat the threats. also you see

a massive offensive against gaza israel says it's easing the blockade but locals fear that lives are only getting itself. to spend six more years behind bars to being victims of the beslan a money laundering. and a worldwide welcome for twenty left in the right start for the new year with fireworks and festivities around the globe. a very welcome c. this is r.t. life from moscow with me alice have it now it was a week when the moscow ground to a halt as freezing rain crippled airports and paralyzed traffic for thousands of stranded travelers a man starting the holiday stuck in jams or sleeping at the airport all this while

without power for days and the government to have to act fast. giove 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 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 when a snow storm 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 honestly what do you think about how the airport has been dealing with the problem. actually not very well but i don't think i mean your 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 bloke 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 if in 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. because you promised that by six pm today electricity will be back on it six now seriously but it's not going to meet only. expected from thirty five villages for families and people still without power i have an idea of 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 leave by the car is of the high ranking official sent to say sorry and just twenty minutes before midnight people were once again seeing the light relieved their polly was back on and twenty eleven was already looking brighter if even the crash of r r t. a russian passenger jet which caught fire on exploded in western siberia has

claimed at least three lives and left over forty injured and best gauge is also looking for what caused the fire in the engine as the plane it was taxiing for takeoff in the city of. more than one hundred twenty passengers and crew were evacuated from the jet before it blew all among those on board was a russian pop group called nano we're told journalists there was difficulty with opening the emergency exits some both engines reportedly had to run through the flames to escape leaving them with severe burns and four of the injured on now in a critical condition. on the way a little later where in america struggling through the holiday season two million ounce americans the countdown clock still taking when on employment benefits run out but with no job on the horizon. the time chimes with we report on how the kremlin plugs powered by wishful thinking on new year's night

. this week a danish police force here is 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 somali geishas the planning a gallon tank in copenhagen it's thought they were targeting the newspaper that printed controversial cartoons of the prophet mohammad with a bomb shaped turban publication theory is that worldwide police say the suspects intended to kill as many people as possible they say officers released a fifth man he was arrested but he remains a suspect it's the latest in a series of arrests you out the year which have put your opinions on high alert over the spread of islamic radicalism and his record has gone off report it's happening right under the noses of the overseas. over a year of investigations and a massive police raid in the year and brought results twenty six people have been

arrested in belgium germany. dutch moroccan churchills all are suspected of recruiting so-called jihad is candidates and financing terrorist organizations right from the court won't of europe police mission a success absolutely but is the battle over this is that it's just a visible part of the iceberg it's huge there is a whole machine behind this redo a rouge was born in belgium in a family of christians and converted to what he was. he says he did it on his own will because it's. 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 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 when he can now has a company advising governments and corporations on 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 veiled from their attention by its privacy they will say you are not a good missed him because you don't know his 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 hope to goodness 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 it begins in the us in the streets and in the mosques this is one of the immigrant quarters of brussels mostly populated by muslims signs in arabic specialist shops and cafes kind of hard 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 unofficial 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 extremist belgium's attitude towards asylum on 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 through. it will remain you are going to help me nearest or me you go to school of brussels. for more oil it's like you. call skiis to stay behind bars until twenty seventeen he and his colleague platon lebedev were found guilty this week of embezzling oil and money laundering it turns a lengthy second trial for the pair as that in

a going to score reports. four days that's how long it took the judge to 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. 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 of the bush king 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 abuser in russia i myself was that you question how the meeting where i had a power of attorney from one of them minority investors to attend and was thrown out at gunpoint meeting went on to dilute the investor a man for the american called kind of his state than 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 only 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 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 and 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

opinions. people doubt 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 are all humans and for all compression for people who. are behind the bars for a very long time he already eight years in prison and he has to spend twenty years or more for the press from getting too smart he can be a ticket worked. for couldn't but it doesn't mean that this is certainly versus a sit in. and that might be a case where 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 it is. moscow. now the holiday season of bleak belt tightening for millions of americans struggling to land a job while wall street bank is one of the old the way the unemployed are forced to

fight for the basic welfare benefits. to reports the clock's ticking for the hardest hit. in the u.s. tis the season for holiday cheer charity and this year for 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 holiday this week but lost in that story are millions of jobless americans like teresa who. don't even qualify for this help

anymore 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 there struggling arguably the most to get by merry christmas you're fired there are 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 no news 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 for some wall street banks 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 here's. refuse to go without his win here in our hour next. if i didn't spend enough money on sunglasses i go colly save for college and things like that. the americans still spending like there's no tomorrow despite a deepening debt. now there have been the protests across the gulzar with

palestinians marking two years since israel began a devastating offensive on to the area and israel more 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 drew world wide condemnation because of the huge number of civilian casualties israel blockaded girls after it came under the control of hamas in two thousand and seven a group it regards as a terrorist organization since then aid has been rigorously restricted and rarely has its destination as full a slip has been finding out. israelis and so spin 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 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 aid for turner 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 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'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 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 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 for taylor policy are to israel. well we've plenty lundahl few online as well and here's what you'll find it on t.v. dot com today as the state is leaders say they've hit the jackpot by converting to the bureau my compadre its social theory the struggling currency will lead them to climb. out of the sky high celebrations for the new year with the international space station crews message for all of us.

from new zealand to moscow from sydney to seattle twenty eleven has been ushered in with fireworks and liberations by millions of people around the world in australia celebrations went off with a bang is sydney's now traditional spectacular fireworks at little the sky the spectators go by money's worth the twelve minute show was the largest that since the display would still win the new millennium in seoul the city's a male wearing traditional south korean dress so most of the festivities by winning a large bronze bells three times hundreds of thousands of germans and tourists descended on but into watch the fireworks of the. brandenburg gate in the u.k. a quarter of a million people flocked to the riverside to watch london lights up at midnight across the atlantic new york celebrations and as always around the snow just under the six tall crystal with thirty two thousand lights and one of the biggest

gatherings was in brazil where the two million had the group of people about of the drugs you enjoyed twenty minutes upon the way he did on the ceremony while building located to the country's twenty sixteen olympics and earlier here in moscow at least half a million people took to the streets to watch follow words to say to listen to president did that as new year address. al in red square huge crowds of revelers that rang in at twenty seven with the midnight signs of the kremlin called but i was on a boy who reports for many russians they herald more of the coming of a new year. it was a hectic new year's eve four years ago because some family was marking their six year together with all of finishing the cooking and p.t.a. entertaining the guests. but as the cramming clock started counting down the last seconds of the year everybody paused. they rode out wishes and napkins burned them and sold 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 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 are scribed wish granting powers to the kremlin chimes are women and some of the most popular new year's wishes include finding your children are 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 on thought that this tradition could be traced back to soviet times because never before had red square and the kremlin had such a secret street. 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 little farm wasn't she's the wish i wrote in 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 or. artsy mosco and now we're off on a siberian expedition as we take in more close up. a regional hub for western siberia and the alzheimer only has a continental climate with cold snowy winters the hot dry summers it's also a ministry center for the siberian sun in the sixteenth century it's a region that military skills through generations discovered. the view from the end of a cossacks spear but not to worry the young corsican the other end knows what he's doing he's part of

a tough cruel tradition which has lasted for centuries you. see media they started when we turned servant to trickle at the age of thirteen the brilliant chance abilities are now as for me i was a very good do i do horse at eleven as well as i can handle a spear and a saber paragraph that's got the old ottoman 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 in the training communally potters 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 bar's only bred to perfection over centuries and not for any ordinary prey. but they were selected for

this speed and anger because they must be able to get the better of a wolf will cope with glory is master not just of his hounds but of this whole course village he's called the. that amount and he has to show skill and leadership from solving but it's just down to training dogs to catch hares. all though he prefers the larger prey morris for to be like him 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 where he tells us about the history of 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 grams of land. and the idea was to create villages along the country's