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our recap of the stories that state this week. victims of the whims of weather was frozen rain leads to mt towns on travel power lies in the russian capital several day. europe's growing increasingly wary of the spread of examine the stream is it with the recent arrests lead to mass terror plots and dead i'll take to the fear. russia's most famous prisoner because the whole speech will retain state users from the woodlands but six more years as the cold war defines the bullets like you guilty of mass avoided. all sixteen is all to israel's military presence

of all dogs will be reported on how people there are still struggling to get their lives back to normal despite his red insisting it's easing the economic blockade. and a worldwide welcome for twenty eight week trip around the globe for the highlights of the new vehicles didn't see. a very warm welcome this is live from moscow i'm alice had it it was a week when moscow grounds you all holds freezing rain ruptured power lines power lies traffic on the crippled airports tunnels and stranded travelers. in the holiday stuck in germs or sleeping on the floor all those were left in the dark.

about two of our reports. turned into a lump of ice overnight the rain was freezing while falling almost scope emergency workers knocked it down like glass. how the 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 hell want to moscow's busiest hops 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 a hundred and fifty flights were delayed and over eight thousand passengers were forced to sleep on the airport's 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 a problem. that you know very well but i don't think i mean your point here is very well with these problems as we're seeing across europe. russia second largest sure imagine ever suffered no electricity blackouts but based have a delays put thousands of passengers who stormed past but control zones blocked luggage areas and clashed with police. meanwhile outside was no better motorists were first clearing their cars from eyes and then spent hours in jams freezing up again at three thousand two hundred kilometers the queues be all records in the city and even one straight line would stretch all the way to burst solona i've been stuck in traffic for five hours. with clocks fast approaching the new year the prime minister was pushing the local authorities to

work harder. as you promised that by six pm today electricity will be back on it's six now. yes but that's not enough to meet only. experience in the thirty five villages for families and people still without power i have an idea 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 lead up by the chorus of the high ranking official some to say sorry and just twenty minutes before midnight people were once again seeing the light relieved that polly was back on and twenty eleven was already looking brighter if even the grouch of r r t moscow. investigators have found the flight recorders of the russian passenger dead which court fire unexploded in western siberia the incident claimed at least three lies

are left over forty injured investigators are looking for what caused the fire in the engine as the plane was taxiing for takeoff in the city of sort of goods more than one hundred twenty passengers and crew were evacuated from the jet or for among those on board was a russian a pop group called not told journalists there was difficult with opening at the emergency exits some passengers reportedly had to run through the flames to escape leaving them with severe burns one of the injured is in a critical condition. you're with r.t. still ahead for you this hour when shopping it turns into a religion. drug. use. desperate measure the circumference of consumerism in the u.s. . the country's financial troubles don't seem to have cured america's credit card addiction. or in our genes close up to even siberia and me.

trying to provide them a third time titian's i'm assessing congress. this week danish police prevented what they called the most serious terror plot ever attempted in the country four suspects arrested on wednesday will say imprisoned for several weeks on allegations of planning a gala time in copenhagen it's thought the men with. terror networks can also go rampage in the office of the newspaper which printed cartoons of the prophet mohammed five years ago the drawings sparked outrage among muslims across the world . arrested intended to kill as many people as possible in the paper's newsroom. in a series of arrests throughout european nations on high alert over the spread of the radicalism. 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 moroccan churchills all are suspected of recruiting so-called the hardest candidates and financing terrorist organizations right from the whole of europe police mission a success absolutely but is the battle over this is just a visible part of the iceberg it's huge there is a whole machine behind this we do 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. other religions according to him islam teaches peace and tolerance but unfortunately due to generally poor knowledge about it it can be used to do. the exact opposite. there are really extreme arms acting

in europe and the problem is people who don't know erratic and don't understand the muslim philosophy they end up in the arms of busy moms who come from saudi arabia or egypt a former french intelligence officer claude money care now has a company advising governments and corporations or 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 practice 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 are not to goodness him because you don't do nothing for your process 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 court 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 but officially 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 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 unless more effort is made to help muslims integrate into a multicultural society the extremism threat will remain no matter how many arrests are made you go to school r t brussels. for more oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky had his prison term extended. on thursday his current sentence for fraud in times of asian would have ended this year but

a new sentence for stealing oil means he'll stay behind bars on till twenty seventeen his lawyers appealed against the verdict reports. four days that's how long it took the judge to read 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 sentence after being convicted for tax evasion. because he is here 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 close kin just partner but only because of 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 abuser in russia and 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 their meeting went on to dilute the investor i'm an american called kind of his state down to actually nothing and the company voted to sell oil to an independent trade company for one dollar twenty five a barrel at a time when the international price was thirty dollars for that he made 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 only producer at that 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

loopholes and them for 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 for all compassion for people who who are behind the bars for a very long time he already eight years in prison and he has to spend many years more the press from getting too smart he can be articulate he could be salt spoken but it doesn't mean that necessarily this is a synonym of non-guilt and that might be the case with the prosecutors had asked for at least six more years on top of his current sentence they got what they wanted but we may not have heard the last of rush's trial of the decade it in. moscow. a massive new oil pipeline from russia has just only never gone on the

first day of twenty eleven it will bomb around fifteen million tons a year and replaces the rel way is the main means to try or fuel the pipelines like there's about a thousand kilometers of most of it being on sunny's territory it's a joint project between the two countries biggest oil companies and russia hopes it will become its gateway to the growing asian energy market. protests have swept across gaza this week is it marred two years since the military offensive by israel the three week war left more than a thousand palestinians dead many of them civilians well israel said it was responding to palestinian rocket attacks and this hamas missiles would be offensive to worldwide condemnation because of the huge numbers that the game has all season israel blockaded gaza there are the hamas which it believes is a terrorist group took control of the strip in two thousand and seven since then

aid has been restricted and rarely reaches its destination is it is been fired there. is really isn't 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 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 sit self in 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 to lift 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 that goes to

each moment but gazans complain life is still unbearable 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 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 equaled the costs of the goods so even if we receive the goods back now we can't 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 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 the massive support and with no sign that life will get better any time soon most gazans have the eyes on the sea and their hope on the next. policy are to israel. and there's a little hope for some four million american women as we turn our attention to the problem of domestic abuse in the country in around fifteen minutes time we'll be bringing you a revealing story of what many believe has become a national epidemic. it can hear dr swines policeman's wives

ministers wires and i just prayed that if you didn't find me if i could just live through the night that i would get my kids out of here because i knew that what was going to happen was that he was going to kill me many victims don't understand that domestic violence includes verbal abuse psychological abuse physical abuse and sexual abuse at least four million women are affected by abuse every year those are my only two options that i saw at that moment either i'm going to kill him i'm in jail or he's going it killie. elvis we have a new year was welcome with fireworks and celebrations all around. i was up the arsenal through and through lazing as stocks in new zealand the

spectators packed into all of us who enjoyed the huge display that it moved further west all straight west celebrations went off with a bang is sydney's now traditional spectacular five way up the skyline travelers in japan welcomed the new year by releasing a massive silver billions carrying notes with their heads to the future for the beaver of taiwan the island's tallest skyscraper the centerpiece is. the building in the u.k. a quarter of a million people flocked to the riverside to watch london life help at midnight across the atlantic new york festivities and it as always around the slaying the scent of a six atomic crystal ball with as you thousand lights a mosque a thousands of people ryan twenty eleven with the midnight signs the kremlin called but i was on the boyhood's for many russians they have a mole in just 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 paid to entertain in the guests . but as the cramming clock started counting down the last seconds of the year everybody poorest. they rode out wishes and napkins burned them and so did the ashes in the champagne according to the time honored 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 chimes are also an embodiment of people's most private hopes every year has the clock 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 chill live getting married and having a baby. the largest cloak in moscow these kremlin timepiece is also among the oldest in russia the current mechanism was installed in the late nineteenth century and it's still a measure of precision and while the chimes have more of the pendulum of russian history swinging many times according to historians the wish making tradition is relatively new. put on top of his tradition could be traced back to soviet times because never before had red square and the kremlin had such a sacred status it wasn't well publicized back then because there was no place for superstition in communist ideology but people made their wishes anyway and here's why four years after synchronizing their hopes for the crown in china. because santa family has that own little new year

a miracle running around the house and helping with the festive first decoration at the lip of our muslim she's the wish i wrote on that piece of napkin in the one i made in 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. art see mosco next we're off on a siberian expedition as we take in more of russia close cell. a regional hub for western siberia and the el time elton's only a continental climate with cold snowy winters a hot dry summers it's also the home of siberian culture to call god the region for

the three hundred years ago and his tongue discovered they've kept the military tradition. 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 now. they started when we turned servant to trick ride at the age of thirteen depending on chance abilities and 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 that's got the old after arm and the others have a demanding daily schedule and horse riding is the glamorous part of the youngsters in the village built this gym themselves and now the training it will have a lot to do to prove themselves as hunters and horsemen of the training communally fosters 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 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 cost 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 us for to be thought into it in old times to get the chance of becoming an atom and it was considered prestigious to bring home a wolf tied up. in 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 their history the cossacks originally came from lands 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're 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 trying to rebuild that self-sufficient way of life especially when it comes to resisting the bad habits of the city. it's no easy matter living in the country of course but on the other hand we're protected from the harm of the city from drugs alcohol smoking. but tonight at least the elders of the village were allowing themselves a few liberties tom barton party. now americans are hooked on

shopping in spending despite become trees heavily indebted economy and painful lessons from the crisis left alone with credit card shopaholics fall into addiction in the long controllable search for hot styles and bargains but there are people who don't shy away from putting up a very loud fights against consumerism. and i'm not one of them. true. you should. stop. her. but 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. the. robbers waited twenty five things with a 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 the urge to possess has taken over men to statistics say you men and women compulsively shop equally in the us nowadays i'm actually excited about spencer runs you were in the last couple of years have 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 his mean life mission is to chase away. a the shopping devil by putting 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 yes of this plastic here spend too much money consumer consumer. it's the church that controls us it's a fundamentalist church it's like the roman catholic church in the fourteen hundreds these desperate times by i'd normally except my credit card limit every month could be calling for desperate measures like spells and exorcisms nothing to do.