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in a quick trip around the globe. ten pm sunday. if you just joined. the top stories that the past week. and it was. hold for you. rain brought down power lines paralyzed traffic and crippled airports for thousands of stranded travelers starting all the day stuck in traffic jams all sleeping on the airport floor others were left in the dark on new year's eve catarina groucho overruns it all. turned into lump of ice overnight the rain was freezing while pulling almost emergency workers knocked it

down like gloss. heavy eyes snapped power lines and shut down the country's largest airports 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 what a snowstorm disrupted pa lines in the area as a result of that some one hundred feet 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 be recruiting 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. suffered no literally blackouts but based on how to deal a sport thousands of passengers who stormed the control zones blokes who logged 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 even one straight line would stretch all the way to burst solona i've been stuck in traffic for five hours. with cloaks fost approaching the new year the prime minister was pushing the local authorities to work harder. because you promised. by six pm today electricity will be back on so it's six now some of us but it's not enough to meet

a losing. thirty five villages for families and people still without power i have an idea that you go to these villages and celebrate the new year together with these people. and the first time in six days villagers saw their streets lead up by the car is of the high ranking official sent to see sorry and just twenty minutes before midnight people were once again seeing the light relieved their power was back on and twenty eleven was already looking brighter if even the church of r r t. the families of those who died after a russian passenger jet caught fire in exploded in western siberia will receive only seventy thousand dollars in compensation the innocent claimed at least three lives and left over forty injured investigators have recovered the flight recorders of the plane now it may help to understand what caused the fire in the engine of

the topalov as it was taxiing for takeoff in the city of sort of court more than one hundred twenty passengers and crew were evacuated from the jet before it blew up among those on board was a russian pop group called who told journalists there was difficulty with opening the emergency exits some passengers reportedly had to run through the flames to escape leaving with severe burns one of the injured in a critical condition tonight. here with r.t. coming up this hour when shopping turns into a religion. you should. look at some desperate methods to confront consumerism in the united states or the country's financial troubles don't seem to america's credit card dipshit. pulling minibuses is the only way these weightlifters show their strength and also for. many other ways to flex some sign period join our teams close a team in the siberian city of homs to see what some of russia's strongest people

are capable of and where their power comes from. this week danish police prevented what they called the most serious terror plot ever attempted in the country four suspects arrested on wednesday will stay in prison for several weeks on allegations of planning a gun attack in copenhagen it's thought the man with links to international terror networks were plotting a gun rampage in the office of the newspaper which printed cartoons of the prophet muhammad five years ago the drawing sparked outrage among muslims across the world officials say those arrested intended to kill as many people as possible in the papers newsroom it is the latest in a series of arrests throughout the year which have put european nations on high alert over the spread of islamic radicalism. cannot reports. 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 churchills

all are suspected of recruiting so-called jihad is candidates and financing terrorist organizations right from the horror of europe police mission a success absolutely but is the battle over this is it's just a visible part of the iceberg it's huge there is a whole machine behind this redo on a ruse 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 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 erotic 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 care 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 vielka from their attention by its privacy they will say you are not a good mystery because you don't practice five times the prior five times a day you are not a good muslim because you are drinking you are not a good muslim because your wife is not there and you are not a good mystery because you don't do nothing for your brother. 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 in the must this is one of the immigrant quarters of brussels populated by muslims signs in arabic specialist shops and cafes kind of court to believe we are in the port one 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 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 on 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 it's going to brussels. for oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky had his prison term extended on thursday his current sentence for fraud and tax evasion would have ended this year but a new sentence for stealing oil we'll stay behind bars now until twenty seven there's lawyers appealed against the verdict. reports. four days that's how long it took the judge to be the verdict six more years that's how long the hill

who 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 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 posting just 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 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 of gun violence their meeting went on to dilute the investor a man called 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 for that 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 versus fastest growing or a producer at the time in the business was risky and ucas was no exception to could have caused his associates were found guilty of a number of murders even so their supporters insist the two men are innocent khodorkovsky was not to blame because he had a whole team of very experienced lawyers who are used to tell him that. everything he did was within the law it was the blame of the laws that had those holes in them 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 opinion. the simple down 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 for compassion for people who who are 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 press from getting too smart he can be a particular he can be source for spoken but it doesn't mean that necessarily this is a figure 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 this trial of the decade it integrals carty. the massive new oil pipeline from russia to china began operating on the first day of twenty eleven said to pump around fifty million tons a year and replaces the railway as the main means to transport fuel the five lines length is about a thousand kilometers was most of it on chinese territory it's

a joint project between the two country's biggest oil companies and russia's hoping it will become its gateway to the growing asian energy market. could be a way next to iran r t a mechanism for miracles maybe it's one thing to make a wish on new year's night but quite another of course would come true well in the best spirit of the season we speak russian families and tips on how to try to make it happen at least. protesters swept across gaza this week as it marks two years since a military offensive by israel the three week war left more than a thousand palestinians dead many of them civilians israel said it was responding to palestinian rocket attacks and targeted hamas militants but the offensive drew worldwide condemnation because of the civilian casualties israel blockaded gaza after how mass which it believes is a terrorist group took control of the strip in two thousand and seven since then aids been restricted and rarely reaches its destination as artie's paula discovered . israelis insist their economic siege on gaza is easing but they can't deny

the border and international condemnation is heating up and asian aid convoy 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 a determined core to reach gaza on the second anniversary of the last israel gaza war the convoy dubbed asia to gaza solidarity caravan sit 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 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 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 paid already equal the costs of the goods so even if we receive the goods back now we can sell them their spoiled and those goods that are getting in there too expensive for most people here. the goods that we receive are not of a high quality but we have to buy them because we don't have an alternative. cars have also become a luxury two thousand dollars for an engine well just two hundred dollars for a rather simplistic alternative what can we do there's no fuel for vehicles spare parts inevitably result that it's 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. policy r.t. israel. this week the new year was welcomed in with fireworks and celebrations all around the world. i got off to a stunning start a new zealand spectators packed into all clubs harbor to enjoy the huge display there then it moved further west to a stray were celebrations went off with a bang is sydney's and additional spectacular fireworks lit up the skyline above the bridge and revelers in japan didn't miss the event they will continue to receive these massive silver balloons carrying no hopes for the future. so i want

to put on a good show the island's tallest skyscraper was the centerpiece there as fireworks developed. and in the u.k. the london eye a lot of people going there to see a quarter million in fact for the riverside to watch london light up. across the atlantic new york's this to fifty cent it is always around that slow descent of the six. thirty two thousand by. the snowy moscow you're about to see in a second the snowstorm and further we are the main celebration taking place on red square with thousands gather to watch the fireworks still look spectacular a little bit didn't bother but a good night. and plenty of fireworks and celebrations in fact if you don't see dog home tonight both all in the ground i'm above it above it first of all that the international space station crew most of the arguably most unique start of year maybe find out what it feels like to see the whole planet celebrating beneath you

on our web site tonight r.t. dot com until those fireworks the weather how spectacular it all looks it can also be pretty dangerous as well of course if you want to add some sparkle to life just log on and learn how to choose the right work so they don't go off with an expected back. americans are hooked on shopping. spending despite the country's heavily indebted economy and painful lessons from the crisis it say was left alone with credit card shopaholics fall into addiction in and controllable search for hot stars and bargains but there are people who don't show away from putting up a very loud fight against consumerism as we found out in the week.

true. you should. stop. 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 i could probably save for college and things like bad very few actually admit to an addiction is a dura does exactly what. the. province weighed 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 the urge to possess has taken over men to statistics age men and women compulsively shop equally in the us nowadays i'm actually excited about spencer runs during the last couple of years i've seen i think a one hundred thousand dollars on clothes while these numbers are simply unimaginable for millions of americans only a few are putting up a very loud fight against consumerism. reverend billy says a credit card exorcism on the entire nation is what can she work america fifteen million americans are addicted to shopping but many more americans than fifteen million shop too much still shape is me life mission is to cheese so with. this shopping devil by putting on acts in churches and shopping malls around the country

the credit card purpose of the exaggerations is to make americans see their flaws yes. the splash took. too much money consumer consumer. it's a church it controls us it's a fundamentalist church like the roman catholic church in the fourteen hundreds these desperate times normally accept my credit card limit every month could be calling for desperate measures like spells and exorcisms the things that go later in the week does 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 and it's hard to tell who is doing it responsibly and who is completely out of control because of shopping not considered a mental disorder there are dozens of there are people and clinics in the big apple

for those who are willing to admit they have a problem and indication of no lessons learned even after the big crash of a recession. artsy. so with a tad less noisy now we're off on a siberian expedition as we take kids more of russia close up. that the map reveals the detail in southwestern album screen general area is fast becoming the sporting capital of siberia locals like to say that growing up in the famed tundra gives you a real back well judging by the legions of limping contributions and professional ice hockey teams certainly seem to be so happy but as our teams tom barton explains next it's not the only example of side spring. i found on skills wild the local hockey team album god puts another

goal in the net they may look like other teams from around russia or in the world but they know their special i their side they're. just missing monies and since we were little we've practiced outside in the cold weather so we use the conditions it's room i know america so we're the toughest players. and it's not just seasoned players enthusiasm for the test of courage and strength comes young. and. i like the way they play hockey the pull of joints the strikes and the opportunity to become a still life. i saw he isn't the only had chile and dev attracting attention here how about a wider no turning a minibus. but those voices even say bierria in winter with slippery roads it's pretty hard. pulling many buses are the only way this way they have to show their strength they can also find many other ways to flex some siberian muscle.

here is a local gym the team lifts bends and pulls anything they can lay their hands on the competitions across russia they also put on public shows to entertain the crowds but earn some extra money. but day in day out it's about heaving that little bit more. monad to separate the swim it's different i just like it that's all i like wrestling against these pieces of equipment i like to achieve high results with. the team only formed a few years ago so they haven't won a major titles yet but again the siberian spirit infuses them and they have a strong sense of that special quality. simply comes as you know historically people from siberia have been very strong and made great soldiers i think they greatly contributed to our victory in world war two conditions here might people

learn how to survive he thinks they might need strong indeed in fact you could hardly describe these lot as being in survival mode. if it looks lift a ball or move all these guys will try and muscle it around me to tire moving. me some joined weights lifting. or perhaps even me. it's not a problem for the men with the muscles tom watson r.t. bomb scare. the site of the new year is always a good time for wishful thinking is needed and with unemployment still high in the united states hopes for a better life high as well when you play in the problems on globalization which is driving jobs overseas web talk show host how often this is the gauging opinion on the streets of new york all about that.

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 from you from europe we want to be taken care of here as well and on the same you do for us what do you think the effects of globalization are on our children oh i think it's a good thing i'm actually in education so i see it every day but it exposes our kids to different cultures and they're more understanding i think more tolerant just 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 etc but the negative it's taking things away from here too many things are going to asia. ok yeah sure is that you can't control where the things are going to go and there's you have to compete with

a lot more people that's right you know global economy could be good. carbon footprints and all that is bad. again it depends on where your stance is i don't think it's a good thing i think in theory it should be good but i think in reality i don't think it is because i feel like the countries that need need to kind of join the globalization movement are just being exploited for cheap labor. so it's not like we're all becoming one happy globe 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 get repercussions from it but i guess they've got to figure out a way to control that too don't they who are the vague i don't know how you met them no i don't know them either but you trust them i don't trust anyone i'm in new york i live in a paranoid world no matter what your feelings toward globalization might be the bottom line is it doesn't look like the trend is going to end anytime soon.