jaunty life on the go. video on demand teams in line broadcasts and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question. dot com.

two weeks i may news from r c moscow freezes over thousands of forces leave it at boards and spend time in battle traffic jabs of the blues and rain paralyzes the capitals of danes. find a ledge to islamic extremists are arrested in denmark forcing the country's biggest ever terrorism plot sparking concern the news not doing enough to beat the threat. also two years on drugs a massive offensive against a doll say israel says it's easing the blockade but locals of feel their lives are only getting tougher. for more oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky is to spend

six more years behind bars after being convicted of investment on one evil drink. and a worldwide welcome for twenty and a bright star the year with fireworks of bestival to use around the globe. a very warm welcome this is all the live from moscow with me alice hit it was a week when moscow grounds to hold 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 when without however the days of the government had to act fast as artie's you get that in the garage over has been finding hours. turned into a lump of ice overnight the rain was freezing while pulling on the skin emergency

was. chris 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 hell want to 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 polis 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 or its premises. it's very hard for me here i have a broken leg and there are no facilities here it will be wrong crissy 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 and help sure many of our suffered no electricity blackouts but based have a delay spoke thousands of passengers who stormed past but control zones blocked log each areas and clashed with police. meanwhile outside was no better motorists were first clearing their cars from eyes and then spent hours in jams freezing up again at three thousand two hundred kilometers the queues be all records in the city and 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. as you promised that by six pm today electricity will be back on

it's six now serious but it's not enough to meet only the experience of 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 car is 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 crash of r r t. a russian a passenger jet which court fire and exploded in western siberia has claimed at least three lives and left over forty injured investigators now have the flight data recorders which it's hoped we were avail what caused the fire in the engine of

the planes take off in the city or so good more than one hundred twenty passengers and crew were evacuated from the jet before it blew up among those on board was a russian a pop group called nama who told us there was difficulty with a opening the emergency exits some passengers reportedly had to run through the flames to escape leaving them with severe four of the injured are now in a critical condition. well coming up in just a few minutes time shopaholics on the lead. invite in spend enough money on sunglasses i could probably save for college and things like. the americans still spending like there's no tomorrow despite a deep in debt home. and we travel to siberia where the severe weather calls for a strong breed of people with a take no anything from calls to kitchenware. this

week danish police forces what they call the most serious terror plot ever attempted in the country for suspects arrested on wednesday will stay in prison for several weeks on allegations of planning a gallon tank in copenhagen a fifth suspect was later released its all they were targeting the newspaper that printed a controversial call to the prophet muhammad with a bomb shaped. their publication in theory to the world wide police say the suspects intended to kill as many people as simple it's the latest in a series of arrests throughout the year which did nations on high alert over the spread of the terrorism and as you go to it's happening right under the noses. 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 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 very it's just a visible part of the iceberg it's huge there is a whole machine behind this redo on a rouge was born in belgium in a family of christians and converted to islam when 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 extreme arms acting in europe and the problem is people who 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 veil to from their attention by its privacy they will say you are not a good missed him because you don't know his fight 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 very. good missed him because you don't do nothing for your process in chechnya in palestine in iraq and so on which oppressed in auckland it begins in the families it begins in the industry and in the must this is one of the immigrant quarters of brussels. by muslims signs in arabic special. shops and cafes and of course 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 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 early to towards asylum or among the most to be left in the european union the flow of newcomers is likely to continue and many experts believe. it is need to hope muslims integrate into a multicultural society the extremism threat will remain no matter how many arrests or me you go to school of brussels. now the united states may have an eye watering debt right now at the till fall still ringing however it's the credit card you are rubbing their hands with glee as shocked as fullback increasingly plastic. chicken and meats one man is making it his mission to kill american 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 like of molly save for college and things like bad very few actually admit to an addiction is a dora does exactly what. that obviously the 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. so hundreds be urged to possess has taken over men to statistics see men and women compulsively shop equally in the us nowadays i'm actually excited about spencer runs your last couple of years have some i think a one hundred thousand dollars on clothes while these numbers are simply unimaginable for millions of americans only a few are putting up a very loud fight against consumerism. reverend billy says a credit card exorcism on the entire nation is what can cure america fifteen million americans are addicted to shopping but many more americans than fifteen million shop too much still shape his main life mission is to cheese so with. this shopping devil by putting on acts in churches and shopping malls around the country betrayed

across the purpose of the exaggerations is to make americans see their flaws use of this plastic. too much money can see. the 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 by normally except my credit card limit every mom could be calling for desperate measures like spells and exorcisms the things that glitter in the windows all that appeal to you since more often than not in the us legally the majority of people have too much month left at the end of the money the average american is said to generate over fifty tons of garbage by the time they are a senior with millions buzzing around new york stores this holiday season it's hard to tell who is doing it responsibly and who is completely out of control because of shopping not considered

a mental disorder there are dozens of there are people and clinics in the big apple for those who are willing to admit they have a problem an indication of no lessons learned even after the big crash of a recession and stacy true can see the aura. and all the way in alla next to our more on those who are struggling through the holiday season two million and black americans the countdown clock is still looking so when their employment benefits run out but with no job on the horizon set. on the timepiece that shines with love we report on how the prevalence of thoughts by wishful thinking on new year's falling. for more oil tycoon kosky is to stay behind bars until twenty seventeen he and his colleagues. found guilty this week and money laundering it and. a lengthy second trial for the past

as i do not go to school reports for days that's how long it took the judge to read the verdict six more years that's how long he feels that of course he will have to spend behind bars the forty seven year old is in the final stretch of an eight year prison term sentence 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 course can just partner but don't leave it if you were convicted of stealing two hundred eighteen million tons of oil worth twenty seven billion dollars from a subsidiary company out of course he was known as the very worst corporate governance abuse in russia 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 the meeting went on to dilute the investor and mine for american

called 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 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 loopholes and them at the cost he has maintained his innocence of the fraud charges ever since his. 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 compassion for people who. are behind the bars for a very long time he already eight years in prison and he has to spend many years more if the person can be smart he can be a ticket what he couldn't be sole support 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 goes carty let's go. well there have been protests across gaza with palestinians marking two years since israel began a devastating offensive on to the area israel launched

a massive air and ground strike for 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 huge number of civilian casualties israel blockaded gaza after it came under the control of hamas in two thousand and seven zero group it regards as a terrorist organization since then the aid has been rigorously restricted and rarely reaches its destination as paula sleep has been by the elves. 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 convoys with 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 sits sail from 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 only you 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. and 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 while just two hundred dollars for a rather simplistic alternative what can we do there's no fuel for vehicles spare parts inevitably result of this kind of transportation the donkey's this is one of the largest cattle markets in gaza and as the economy here plummets it too is struggling to survive. we have no animals and no barley today and even when we have barley people are always here to buy it's been four years since israel imposed siege on gaza to try and break a massive support and with no sign that life will get better any time soon most gazans have the eyes on the sea and their hope on the next for taylor police here

are two israel. well we've plenty lined up few online here's what you'll find it on t. dot com today as the state is the leaders say they've hit the jackpot by converting to the giro they can patch it all social fear in the struggling currency will lead them into decline. up the sky eyes celebrations for the new year with the international space station's crees message for all of us. from new zealand to moscow from sydney to seattle twenty eleven was ushered in with fireworks and celebrations by millions of people around the world am

i. i got off to a stunning start a new zealander spectators packed into all kinds harbor to enjoy the huge display then it moved further west to australia where celebrations went on for the bang is sydney's now traditional spectacular fireworks lit up the skyline and spectators got their money's worth for twelve when that show was the largest there since the display would soar in the new millennium revelers in japan welcome the new year by releasing a massive silver balloons carrying notes with their heads for the future for the people of taiwan the islands tallest skyscraper set as fire where examined the building every new k a quarter of a million people flocked to the riverside to watch the lungs of light up the midnight and across the atlantic new york celebration center dials always around the slow descent of a six ton crystal ball with thirty two thousand lights and early here in moscow at

least a half a million people took to the streets to watch fireworks and to listen to president and third is new year address. well something else which brings the world together but rarely gets the champagne corks popping is globalization while it can satisfy our hunger for cheap goods it means some communities see thousands of jobs shipped abroad where talk show host or a half in is people in new york is making the world smaller is really better. society is becoming more and more globalized is that a positive development or is it the beginning of the end this week let's talk about that i think it's really important that we grow together and that we also care about each other because we're for review for europe where we want to be taken care of here as well and on the same we do for you as well 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 there has been. again it depends on where your stance is i don't think it's a good thing i think in theory it should be good but i think in reality i don't think it is because i feel like the countries that need needs are going to join the globalization movement they're just being exploited for cheap labor. so it's not

like we're all becoming one happy global it's we're taking advantage of others. i would say by recent events it's ridiculous that people can post anything they want out there or not have not got repercussions from it but i guess they've got to figure out a way to control that don't they who are the very i don't know have you met them no i don't know them either but you trust them i don't trust anyone i'm a 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 and one pair. of australian water being described as floods of biblical proportions water is still rising an area twice the size so it's leading to more evacuations some two hundred thousand people are affected one town had its entire population taken to safety as

a result of what was the wettest spring on record in the state of queensland officials say the disaster is far from over in the recovery will cost billions of dollars. has been sworn in as brazil's but as devil woman president it grounds a long political career for the former marx's rebel he was held and tortured during the country's military dictatorship she has a tough act to follow though so much the incredible popularity of little subtle but he presided over nearly a decade of growth he says the inaugural address so-called the public has been wiped out in greater developments in education. jaycee's independence days been marred by angry protests over its dysfunctional presidential election on the slow really tactics following the deadly quake demonstrators blocked roads tires and piled rubbish on to the streets demanding the current president be arrested or run off to you later this month after the ballot was marred by violence claims

a fraud on the poor turned out. now we're off on a siberian expedition as we take in more of russia closer. or where in the southwest and on screen which was once the capital of siberia the area has then bills all seeing. prowess the people of all skin know how to make the most of the ice tea you had as they are there we're now in professional hockey team allen god but his home office bay this is not the only example of spike berry in strength. up. i. and almost goes wild the local hockey team album god puts another goal in the net they may look like other teams from around rush or in the world but they know

they're special i guess you. call yourself as in my list and since we were little we've practiced outside in the cold weather so we used the hot conditions and it's warm i know america so we have the toughest players. and it's not just seasoned on school players the fusion for the test of courage and strength comes young. and. i like the way they play hockey the pillow fights the strikes and the opportunity to become a stone right. ice hockey isn't the only happy and dev attracting attention here how about the water no turning a minibus. for those boys to be there in say period in winter with sleep or really it's pretty hard to. pulling minibuses is the only way this is why you have to show their strength they can also find many other ways to flex some siberian muscle. he regional gym in the team lifts ben.