we made news from moscow for this is over thousands of falls asleep in airports and spends time with traffic jams as frozen rain power lines is the capital of the day some. five alleged islamic extremists were arrested in denmark forcing the country's biggest over terrorism laws and sparking concern the e.u. is not doing enough to beat the threat. also two years after months of offensive against gaza israel says it's easing the blockade but locals fear the lines are only getting tough. for old holdout of course he has to

spend six more years behind bars are being convicted of the bezel bands and money laundering. and a worldwide welcome for the twenty eleven of the right still for the new year with fireworks in festivities around the globe. a very warm welcome this is a lie from moscow i'm alice had that it was a week when moscow grounds to a halt as freezing rain crippled some paralyzed traffic for. thousands of stranded travelers have been stuck in the holidays stuck in. port others went without power for days and the government had to act fast as they could at showbiz been finding

out. turned into a lump of ice overnight the rain was freezing while pulling almost the emergency workers knocked it down like good last. 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 snowstorm disrupted power 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 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 that based how did you least 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 bursts alona 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.

if you promise that by six pm today electricity will be back on it's six now. yes but it's not enough to meet only. experience in the 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 the jurors saw the streets leave 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 great cheer of r r t. a russian passenger jet which caught fire and explosion 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 will reveal what caused the fire in the engine is the plane taxied for takeoff in the city of goods 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 non-a who told journalists that there was difficulty with putting in the emergency exit some passengers reportedly had to run through the flames to escape leaving them with severe burns one of the injured is now in a critical condition. and on the way a little later where in america to report on those struggling through the holiday season five million out of work americans countdown call could still taking twenty there are employment benefits run out but with no job on the horizon. the tiny piece that shines with luck we reported a crippling blow it by wishful thinking on new year's mind.

this week a danish police force with war they call the most serious terror plot. sapper attempted in the country for suspects arrested on wednesday will stay in prison for several weeks on allegations of plotting a gun attack in cape but hagen a fifth suspect was later released it's thought they were targeting the newspaper that painted a controversial call to news of the prophet muhammad with a bomb shaped target publication in theory worldwide police say the suspects intended to kill as many people as possible it's the latest in a series of arrests throughout the year which have put your pin nations on high alert over the spread of islamic radicalism and is it good cannot support this happening right under the noses all feel porous. 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 in the face that it's just a visible part of the iceberg it's huge there is a whole machine behind this redo on a ruse he was born in belgium in a family of christians and converted to islam when he was lame treat 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 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 money 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 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 and at auckland it begins in the families it begins in the industry and in the must this is one of the immigrant. signs in arabic special. shops and cafes kind of core 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 on a boy to 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 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 what is going off or the process. for more oil tycoon mikhail hold the core skills to stay behind until twenty seventeen and his colleagues that's all never there were found guilty this week of embezzling oil and money laundering and hands a lengthy second trial for the past as that in a report. 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'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. partner were convicted of stealing two hundred eighteen million tonnes 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 the minority investors to attend and was thrown out . gun violence meeting went on to dilute the investor mind 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. of his fortune through what was then one of the world's largest non-state oil companies you close it began from the states so off in the 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 what they're called skew was to blame because he had a whole team of very experienced lawyers who are used to tell him that. everything he did was within the law it was the blame of the laws that had as those loopholes and them 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 tend to view him as

a sort of a martyr figure we are all humans and we feel compassion for people who. are behind the bars for a very long time here already eight years in prison and he has to spend many years more the president can be smart he can be a particular it can be sold spoken but it doesn't mean that necessarily this is a synonym of non-guilt 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 of rush's trial of the decade it is a ghost party moscow. now it will be a novel holiday season on bleak belt tightening for millions of americans. struggling to land a job while wall street bankers want to jingle the way they are employed a force to fight for the basic welfare benefits of all c's law and mr reports 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 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 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 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 but they're struggling arguably the most to get by merry christmas you're fired they're 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 first up wall street thing. 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 bail them out so we're seeing is a transfer of wealth from in a way the needy to the greedy is unemployment soars last quarter american companies posted their largest corporate profits ever recorded in u.s. history and while the rich may be taking those earnings to the glitz of new york's fifth avenue for holiday shopping in the shadows or those struggling to see a little light at the end of the tunnel we've been cut off and we've been practically ignored by almost everyone that's out here the people in our government and the people 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 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 is 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. well there are still those who refuse to go without which is. if i didn't spend enough money on sunglasses i could probably save for college and things like bad the american still spending like there's no so morally just buying to dead home. now there have been the protests across the gulzar with palestinians marking it serious since israel began a devastating offensive on the area israel 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 gaza after it came under the control of hamas in two thousand and seven a group that regarded as a terrorist organization since their day there's been a rigorously restricted and rarely reaches its destination its policy 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 convoys with politicians and activists from eighteen countries is on its way to gaza i'm border one hundred eighty people food and medical supplies and are 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 tell if a will 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 a point each moment but gazans complain life is still unbearable a lot of israel has limited the number of trucks clothes and shoes coming into gaza and this causes problems with coordination in gaza. last month twenty two international organizations issued a report claiming the easing of the blockade has helped bring in materials only for the u.n. and international building projects ordinary goods they say are still not getting in our goods have already been detained in israel for three years but the fines that we've paid already equal the costs of the goods so even if we receive the goods back now we can sell them they're spoiled and those goods that are getting in

there too expensive for most people here. the goods that we receive are not of a high quality but we have to buy them because we don't have an alternative. cars have also become a luxury two thousand dollars for an engine well just two hundred dollars for a rather simplistic alternative that what can we do there's no fuel for vehicles spare parts inevitably result that it's kind of transportation to donkeys this is one of the largest cattle markets in gaza and as the economy here plummets it too is struggling to survive. we have no animals no barley today and even when we have barley people are always here to buy it's been four years since israel imposed siege on gaza to try and break 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. policy are to israel.

plenty lined up a few online here's where you'll find it also dot com today damien's leaders say they've hit the jackpot by converting to zero become top trends on social fearing the struggling currency will lead the decline. and check out 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 all should it with fireworks and celebrations by millions of people around the world in australia celebrations went off with

a bang is sydney's traditional spectacular fall i wake from this up the skyline as spectators that got their money's worth the twelve minute show with the largest person for display which store in the new millennium in seoul the city's mayor wearing traditional south korean dress stars the festivities by ringing a large bronze bell thirty three times hundreds of thousands of germans and tourists descended on to watch the fireworks out the landmark brandenburg gate in the you get a quarter of a million people flocked to the riverside toward london lights up at midnight and across the atlantic new york celebrations centered as always around the story the son of the six ton the school the with two thousand lights one of the biggest scouting is in brazil where he really is headed to get the battle between tori twenty minutes of buybacks music and the ceremony twelve bell the logo of the country's twenty sixteen olympics there in moscow at least two million people to.

to the streets to watch fireworks and also to listen to president that is the new year address. now in red square huge crowds of revelers rang in twenty eleven with the midnight chimes of the kremlin clock but as a bleak reports for many russians they herald more than just the coming of the 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 paid to entertain in 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'm 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 fractions 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 flowers to the crown in 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 clock in moscow this kremlin timepiece is also among the oldest in russia the current mechanism was installed in the late nineteenth century and it's still a measure of precision and while the chimes have more of the pendulum of russian history swinging many times according to historians the wish making tradition is relatively new. put it on top of this tradition could be traced back to soviet

times because never before had red square in the kremlin had such a sacred status because it wasn't well publicized back then it is because there was no place for superstition in communist ideology but people made their wishes anyway and here's why four years after synchronizing their hopes for the kremlin. chimes because santa's family has that own little new year miracle running around the house and helping with the festive first decoration at the little farm was what she's the wish i wrote in that piece of net can in the one i mean in many many other occasions but i know for a fact from my own experience in the experience of my friends here that on new year's eve you need to ask for something very dear to your heart and it will definitely come true or your boys. are at sea mosco. now are off on a siberian expedition as we take in more fresher clothes. a

regional hub for western siberia and else i mountains on skulls a continental climate with cold snowy winters and hot dry summers it's also the administrative center for the siberian cossacks and settled there in the sixteenth century it's a region that's home to its military skills through generations as tom boston discovered. the view from the end of a cossacks spear but not to worry the young cos a commie other end knows what he's doing he's part of a tough rural tradition which has lasted for centuries. much and i'm glad to see this started when we turn seventh and to trickle at the age of thirteen depending on chance abilities and as for me i was very good at do i do or say it's eleven as

well as that i can handle a spear and a saber that's got through all. the others have a demanding daily schedule and horse riding is the glamorous part the youngsters of 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 fosters a team spirit who feel this course exercise. a team spirit necessary for the cossacks noblest pursuit hunting on the sharp end the beloved fast russian dog that. bred to perfection over centuries and not for any ordinary prey. even though they were selected for their 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 larger prey will always more as for to be likely to rip in old times to get the chance of becoming an atom and it was considered prestigious to bring home a wall for tied up. the ring and 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 lambs 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. the idea was to create villages along the country's border so that people are bound to the land they are living on. the cossacks strong independent traditions were disliked by the communists they were suppressed and marginalized since the end of the soviet union they've been.