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news that shape the week moscow falls victim to the women of the weather is frozen rain leads to massive blackout travel chaos paralyzing the russian capital several day. europe's growing increasingly wherry of the spread of the extremism of the recent unrest in a major major terrible thing to. russia's most famous president mikhail khodorkovsky will retain his status for the next six more years as the court finds the former tyco guilty must an all in president. also in the program two years after israel's military offensive on gaza we're appalled at how people there are

still struggling to get their lives back to normal despite israel insisting is easing the economic blockade. on the world wide welcome for twenty eleven a quick trip around the globe to enjoy the highlights of the new year festivities. it's eleven pm sunday evening here in moscow welcome my name is kevin owen and this is our news review of the past seven days and it was a week when moscow ground to a halt freezing rain ruptured power lines paralyzed traffic and crippled airports for thousands of stranded travelers a man being starting the holiday stuck in traffic jams or sleeping on the airport floor others were left in the dark on new year's eve parties a country approach over upset all. turned into a lump of ice overnight the rain was freezing while falling almost to emergency

workers knocked it down like gloss. heavy eyes snapped power lines and shut down the country's largest airport for almost two days but enough at any time of year but horrendous at the height of the holaday get away this is hell want to moscow's busiest tops looks like power is back on and flies are getting back on sched you like that the my idea that the airport which was worst hit by bad weather conditions over the weekend when a snow storm disrupted pa lines in the area as a result of that some one hundred people to flights were delayed and over eight thousand passengers were forced to sleep on the 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 any report deals very well

with these problems as we're seeing across europe. russia second largest sure imagine ever suffered no electricity blackouts but faced how to deal a sport 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 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 some years but it's not enough to meet

a losing. its thirty five villages for families and people still without power i have an idea if 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 chorus of the high ranking official sent to say 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 crash of r r t most. investigators affirm the flight recorders of the russian passenger jet which called fire and exploded in western siberia the instant claimed at least three lives and 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 good more than

one hundred twenty passengers and crew were evacuated from the jet before it blew up among those onboard was a russian pop group called who told journalists there was difficulty with opening reemergence the exits some passengers reportedly had to run through the flames to escape leaving them with severe burns one of the injured in a critical condition tonight. this is the arctic news channel still ahead when shopping turns into a religion. you should. look at some desperate methods to confront consumerism in the united states as the country's financial troubles don't seem to bring people to. his credit card addiction that's coming up. join our team closer to even siberia or meet local cossacks who strive to revive the noble spirit and traditions of the ancestors who conquered this land. 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 and allegations of planning a gun attack in copenhagen and thought the man with links to international terror networks were plotting a rampage in the office of a 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 is the latest in a series of arrests throughout the year which would put european nations on high alert over the spread of islamic radicalism r.t.c. corpus cannot. 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 churchill's all are suspected of recruiting so-called jihad is candidates and financing terrorist organizations right from the heart won't 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 redo on a rouge was born in belgium in a family of christians and converted to islam when he was lame t.v. 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 know erratic and don't understand the muslim philosophy they end up in the arms of bees in my. arms 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 missed him 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 life is not veiled and you are not a good missed him because you don't do nothing for your brother. in palestine in iraq and so on which oppressed and are killed it begins in the families it begins. in the streets and in damascus this is one of the immigrant quarters of brussels populated by muslim signs in arabic specialist shops and cafes kind of core 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 officially this figure is even higher which makes it prime ground for recruitment. the lack of education and little work in many european muslim

communities seem to have become the driving force behind the spread of extremist belgium's 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. r t brussels. ski 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 means he'll stay behind bars now until twenty seventeen his lawyers appealed against the verdict in english there are reports. four days that's how long it took to judge to be the verdict six more years that's how long we feel that our course will have to spend behind bars the forty seven year old is in the final stretch of an eight year prison term and sentenced after

being convicted for tax evasion. because he is here by sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment for the sentence will be served in the correctional colony of a medium security prison in this second trial the bush king just partner but only because if you were convicted of stealing two hundred eighteen million tons of oil worth twenty seven billion dollars from a subsidiary company out of course he was known as the very worst corporate governance abuse in russia and i myself was that you question how the meeting by i had a power of attorney from one of their minority investors to attend and was thrown out at gun point where a meeting went on to dilute the investor in mind for american 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 so 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 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 more 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 that was the blame of the laws that had caused 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 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 do him as a sort of a martyr figure we're all humans and feel 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 for the press from getting too smart he can be a particular he could be source for spoken but it doesn't mean that necessarily because of the finish of non-guilt and that might be a case 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 us this trial of the decade it integrals carty let's go. massive new oil pipeline from russia to china began operating on the first day of twenty eleven it's set to pump around fifteen million tons a year over places the roadway is the main means to transport fuel the pipelines length is about a thousand kilometers with most of it being on chinese territory it's a joint project between the two country's biggest oil companies and russia is hoping it'll become a gateway to the growing asian energy market. protests have swept across gars of

this week is it 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 targeted hamas militants but the offensive to worldwide condemnation because of the huge number of civilian casualties israel blockaded gaza after bass which it believes is a terrorist group took control of the strip in two thousand and seven since then they've been restricted and rarely reaches its destination as artie's poor sleep found that. israelis insist their economic siege on cancer is easing but they can't deny the border and international condemnation is heating up and asian aid convoy but 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 goes to each moment but gazans complain life is still unbearable so 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't sell them they're spoiled and those goods that are getting in there are 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 and evitable you resort to this kind of transportation to donkeys this is one of the largest cattle markets in gaza and as the economy here plummets it too is struggling to survive. we have no animals and no barley today and even when we have barley people are always here to buy it's been four years since israel imposed siege on gaza to try and break a massive support and with no sign that life will get better any time soon most gazans have the eyes on the sea and their hope on the next. policy are to israel.

this week the new year was welcomed in with fireworks and celebrations all around the world. i would say girl to a starting start there in new zealand the spectators packed into warplanes harbor to enjoy the huge display from the tower then it moved further west to strayer was deliberations one hour for the bangor city's no traditional spectacular fireworks lit up the skyline above the beautiful bridge it was a good show for them and revels in japan welcoming the new year by releasing a massive silver balloons carry notes with their hopes for the future taiwan is celebrating a replay spectacular style the island's tallest skyscraper with the same file works a bell of the building that's the same from the u.k. a quarter of a million people flocking to london are riverside to watch light up at midnight and across the atlantic new york festivity center is always around that slow descent of the six ton crystal ball with thirty two. of them are in moscow as you're about to

see big snowstorm but people having fun nonetheless thousands of people running in twenty eleven with the midnight chimes of the kremlin clock. as example holds for many russians they hold more than just the coming of a new. it was a hectic new year's eve four years ago because some family was marking their six years together with all the finishing the cooking and p.t.a. entertaining the guests. but as the cramming clock started counting down the last seconds of the year everybody paused. they rode out wishes and napkins burned them and sold the ashes in the champagne according to the time honored to russian ritual drinking it should grand even the most on a team that will wish all of. them 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 like you with my wish you

will know about it a symbol of precious officialdom the crowning chimes are also an embodiment of people's. most private hopes every year has the cloak strikes midnight millions of russians ask fortune for favors for those few seconds even cynics start to believe in magic. you can call it the cinderella fact according to polls the majority of those who are scribed wish granting powers to the crown and chimes are women and some of the most popular new year's wishes include finding your children are getting married and having a baby. the largest cloak in moscow these kremlin timepiece is also among the oldest in russia the current mechanism was installed in the late nineteenth century and it's still a measure of precision and while the chimes have more of the pendulum of russian history swinging many times according to historians the wish making tradition is relatively new. put it over the face tradition could be traced back to soviet times

because never before had red square and the kremlin had such a secret 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 kremlin chimes the descent of family has their own little new year a miracle running around the house and helping with the festive furs decoration at the will of the family as well 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. artsy mosco. well for safety there would be lighting candles on board the international space station i guess but a party nonetheless did take place in orbit international space station crew are

a unique start to the new year. what it feels like to see the whole planet celebrate you. know it looks fireworks can always be dangerous of course you've got to take care so if you want sparkles you live to learn how to choose the right fireworks with don't go off with any unexpected bag. on our travels no a siberian expedition to be precise as we take it war of russia close up. as ever the map show guidice it's the regional hub for western siberia and the old

time mountains where we're heading is called it's got a continental climate with cold snowy winters try some moscow it's also the home of siberian cossacks who conquered the region for the three hundred years ago and that is tom barton found there they've kept their military tradition. the view from the end of a cossacks spear but not to worry the young corsican the other end knows what he's doing he's part of a tough rural tradition which has lasted for centuries. let's now see media they start teaching us riding when we turn servant and to trick ride at the age of thirteen depending on chance abilities that's for me i was very good at do i do horse at eleven as well as i can handle a spear and a saber let's go through all our tom 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 in it will have

a lot to do to prove themselves as hunters and horsemen the training communally fosters a team spirit crucial in this cossacks society. 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. but they were selected for this speed in anger because they must be able to get the better of a wolf. raghuram is master not just of his hounds but of this whole course village he's called the atom and. he has to show skill in leadership from solving village disputes down to training dogs to catch hares. although he prefers the larger prey was more restrictive like living in old times to get the chance of becoming an

atom and it was considered prestigious to bring home the wolf tied up. with the ring you know 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 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'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 their 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. next despite a heavily indebted economy and painful lessons from the crisis as he was many americans are still hooked on shopping left alone with credit card shopaholics fall into addiction and uncontrollable search for hot stars and bargains but there are people who don't shy away from putting up a very loud fight against consumerism either as our very own analysis here. at the misfortune to find out. truth. you should. stop. her. heart 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 dora does exactly what. the. problems we had twenty five things we do we 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 see 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 spent 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 me life mission is to cheese so with. the shopping devil by putting on acts in churches and shopping malls around the country the credit crunch the purpose of the exaggerations is to make americans see their flaws yes abused the splash trick you're spending too much money consumer consumer. it's the church it controls us it's a fundamentalist church like the roman catholic church in the fourteen hundreds these desperate times normally exit my credit card limit every mom could be calling

for desperate measures like spells and exorcisms the things that glitter in the windows will 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 artsy. you're watching out of season news review the week this sunday night the second of january coming to live from moscow. that was headlines very shortly.