which brightened. from plans to. start on t.v. dot com. take a look at the main stories that shape the week moscow falls victim to the winds of the weather has frozen rain leads to massive blackouts and travel chaos paralyzing the russian capital for several days. europe's growing increasingly wary of the spread of islamic extremism and with the recent arrests over the ledge mass terror plot in denmark adding to the fear. russia's most famous prisoner mikhail khodorkovsky will retain this status for six more years as the court finds the former tyco guilty of massive oil embezzled. and 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 israeli insisting it's easy to economic growth ok. you're watching r t my name is kevin owen it's now midnight his third of january in the russian capital and first it was a week when moscow ground to a halt freezing rain brought down power lines paralyzed traffic in crippled airports for thousands of stranded travelers and starting the holiday stuck in traffic jams all sleeping on an airport floor others were left in the dark on new year's eve. turned into a lump of ice overnight the rain was freezing falling on emergency workers knocked it down like gloss. 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 holaday getaway this is how one of moskos easiest 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 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 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 reporters are very well with these problems as we're seeing across europe. russia second largest and help sure imagine ever suffered no that tricity 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. if you promise that by six pm today electricity will be back on it's six now. but let's not go to meet only. it's because 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 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 it feeling the pressure of r r t. the families of those who died after a russian passenger jet caught fire and exploded in western siberia will receive nearly seventy thousand dollars in compensation the instant claimed at least three lives and left over forty injured investigators have recovered the flight recorders of the plane it may help to understand more caused the fire in the engine of the tupelo as it was taxiing for takeoff in the city of sort of court more than one hundred twenty passengers or crew were evacuated from the jet before it blew up among those onboard was

a russian paul group called who told journalists that there was difficulty with opening the emergency 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. this is r.t. from moscow coming up this hour when shopping turns into a religion. you shall. we look at some desperate methods to come from consumers in the united states as the country's financial troubles don't seem to have cute america's credit card addiction plus. pulling minibuses is the only way these weightlifters show their strength they can also find many other ways to flex some siberian muscle join our. closer to the siberian city of the see what some russians 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 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 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 and he go to press can offer of course. 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 jihadist candidates and financing terrorist organizations right from the heartland of europe police mission

a success absolutely but is the battle over it's just a visible part of the iceberg it's huge there is a whole machine behind this redo a ruse was born in belgium in a family of christians and converted to islam when he was léontine 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 is lanty just 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 busy moms who come from saudi arabia or egypt a former french intelligence all. officer claude many 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 wiil to from their attention by its privacy they will say you are not a good mystery and because you don't practice five times the prior year 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 veiled 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 quietest in the streets in the most this is one of the immigrant quarters of brussels populated by muslims signs in arabic specialist shops and cafes teleport to believe we're in the 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 early two towards asylum on the most relaxed in the european union the flow of newcomers is likely to continue and many experts believe. it is need to hope muslims integrate into a multicultural society the extremism threat will remain no matter how many arrests or me you go to school of brussels. football 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 means he'll stay behind bars till twenty seventeen his lawyers appealed against the verdict there we're going to show reports. four days that's how long it took the judge to read 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. 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 the course can just partner. were convicted of stealing two hundred eighteen million tonnes of oil worth twenty seven billion u.s. 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 them minority investors to attend and was thrown out at gunpoint meeting went on to dilute the investor i'm an american called kind of his state than to actually nothing and the company voted to sell oil to an independent trade company for one dollar twenty five a barrel at a time when the international price was thirty dollars he made his fortune through what was then one of the world's largest non-state oil companies ucas it began from

the states so often in one nine hundred ninety s. and became russia's fastest growing only producer at the time in the business was risky. 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 dissolved 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. it's all down to the prosecution not so much for financial reasons as for his political ambitions so why do his supporters in russia to interview him as a sort of a martyr figure we're all humans for compassion for people who 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 sort of 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 quality let's go. a massive new oil pipeline from russia to china began operating on the first day of twenty eleven little pump around fifteen million tons a year and replaces the railway is the main means to transport fuel the pipelines length is about a thousand kilometers most of it on chinese territory it's a joint project between the two country's biggest oil companies and russia hoaxer will become its gateway to the growing asian energy market. could be a way next to an r.t.

of mechanism for miracles. of course to make new year's night but quite another for it to come true well in the hope that we speak to some russian families from france and tips on how to make it. which. protests have swept across garza this week because 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 huge number of civilian casualties israel blockaded gaza after her mass which she 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 sleep 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 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 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 till a 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 gaza 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 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'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 ports 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 and no barley today and even when we have

barley people aren't 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 return policy r.t. israel. this year the new year was weaker of the new year was that welcomed it with fireworks and celebrations all around the world. i. use even the spectators packed into war plans harbor do enjoy the huge display from the tower that move further west to australia or celebrations one of the big bang of sydney's now traditional spectacular damage lit up the skyline above the sydney harbor bridge it was a good show that revels in japan not missing out on the war they're welcome year by releasing a massive so. what's their hopes for the future taiwan the islands

of tall a skyscraper that was used as the centerpiece works envelop the building where in london never in the u.k. many people flocking to the london eye to see the beautiful side. think of crossing we should go to new york so stick with the center there's always a slow december but. then we got to moscow keeping up just about the main celebration took place the red square admits that snowstorm didn't dampen people spirits there are a great time seeing in twenty seven. well there's a pretty well fox and celebrations. both from the ground and up above the sort of above show with the international space station crew as of the most unique start to the new year find out so online for most of our feels like to see the whole planet celebrating you. know what i was spectacular it looks fall but it's close to pretty dangerous if you want to add some spark hold your life in safety just log on and learn how to choose the right products which don't go off with expected.

americans are hooked on shopping and spending despite the country's heavily indebted economy and painful lessons from the crisis left alone with credit cards it appears that shopaholics fall into addiction and uncontrollable search for hot styles and bargains but have no fear there are people out there who don't shy away from putting up a very loud fight against consumerism as we found out when it restarted service to see a child care about that. 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 like a dolly save for college and things like bad very few actually admit to an addiction is a dora does exactly what. that job is to a 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 see men and women compulsively shop equally in the us nowadays i'm actually excited about expensive runs during the last couple of years i've spent i think of 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 stuff is mean life mission is to chase away. a the shopping devil by putting on acts in churches and shopping malls around the country but credit crunch the purpose of the exaggerations is to make americans see their flaws yes of the splash trick you're spending 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 except my credit card limit every mom could be calling for desperate measures like spells and exorcisms i think later in the wake of all the 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 they see tripping up part see the or. siberian expedition next as we take in more of russia close up. and they're about to see on the map where in the southwestern region an area that is fast becoming the sporting capital of siberia locals there like to say there are growing up in the famed tundra and that gives you a real backbone well judging by the regions and limping contributions of the professional life something tape simply can't be argued with by looks of it but as tom and explains now it's not the only example of siberian strength. and 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 they're special they're siberia. just as the money's since we were little we've

practiced outside in the cold weather so we use the conditions it's room in north 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 the strikes and the opportunity to become a stone like ice hockey isn't the only her kilian and dev attracting attention here how about the why don't know turning a minibus. but those voices even say bierria in winter with slippery roads here 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 for competitions across russia they also put on public shows to entertain the crowds

and earn some extra money. but day in day out it's about heaving that little bit more. moon that is the same it's different i just like it that's all i like wrestling against these pieces of equipment i like to achieve high results. the team only formed a few years ago so they haven't won any major titles yet but again the siberian spirit infuses them and they have a strong sense that special qualities. simply comes as you know historically people from siberia have been very strong in my great soldiers i think they greatly contributed to our victory in world war two conditions here make people learn how to survive it's their money strong indeed in fact you could hardly describe these lot as being in survival mode. if it looks lift a bow 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. good job the didn't drop and now they start a new years always a good time for wishful thinking is now with unemployment still high in the united states hopes for a better life are high as well many of blame the problems on globalization which is driving jobs overseas well next night web talk shows are a half and this is been gauging opinion on the streets of new york all about the. society is becoming more and more globalized is that positives about men or is it the beginning of the end this week let's talk about that i think it's very

important that we grow together and that we also care about each other because we're for review for europe where we want to be taken care of here as well and on the same we do for you as well what do you think the effects of globalization are on our children oh i think it's a good thing i'm actually in education so i see it every day but it exposes our kids to different cultures and they're more understanding i think more tolerant just overall it helps more people to throughout the world so in some other places that may not necessarily have the opportunities that we have it presents them with some of the opportunities that we have so that's a positive pressure as it is but the negative it's taking things away from here you're too many things are going to asia. ok yeah dave for sure is that you can't control where the things are going to go and there's you you have to compete with a lot more people that's right you know global economy could be good. carbon footprints and all there is beer. to get at the present where your chances i don't

think it's a good thing i think in theory it should be good but i think in reality i don't think it is because i feel like the countries that need needs are going to join the globalization movement they're just being exploited for cheap labor. so it's not like we're all becoming one happy global it's we're taking advantage of others. i would say by recent events it's ridiculous that people can post anything they want out there and not have not get repercussions from it but i guess they've got to figure out a way to control that who are they i don't know have you met them no i don't know them either but you trust them i don't trust anyone i'm a new york i live in a paranoid world no matter what your feelings toward globalization might be the bottom line is it doesn't look like the trend is going to end anytime soon. in twenty minutes time tonight with details of six goals played between chelsea and aston villa but meantime was a recap of in store.