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now we cover the story of the trade this week when to frustration the most scoops the comes to the cold weather blues as frozen rain part lies is the cover so ahead of the holidays with thousands stranded on the roads and an airport. ready to fear for a terror attack in denmark make fewer patients increasingly wary of the growth of atlantic exchange. also russia's most famous forward tycoon will remain the country's most famous prisoner for another six years as a moscow port i have been killed battling abandoning huge amounts of oil. and two years after israel's military offensive in gaza report and how people that

are still struggling to cope with life under siege but they say still absolutely. welcome to ask the twenty four hour news life from moscow and you know the latest news and a review of the week's events so it was a week when winter clearly defeated moscow as freezing rain lashed out of the city bringing down power lines and causing travel chaos for some it meant starting the holiday season and shocking traffic jams all sleeping on the airport floor because you can aggression the story. turned into a lump of ice overnight the rewards for easy while pulling on the skin emergency workers knocked it down like glass. have your 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. a get away this is how one of most goes easiest hops looks like power is back on and flies are getting back on should you like that the my idea the airport which was worst hit by bad weather conditions over the weekend when a snow storm disrupted pa lines in the air as a result of that some one hundred fifty 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 it's all bureaucracy and no one's helping there's no service want to get what you think about how the airport has been dealing with the problem. actually not very well but i don't think any reporters are very well with these problems as we're seeing across europe. russia second largest and hampshire imagine ever suffered no the tricity blackouts but

based cavity lace put thousands of passengers who stormed the control zones blocked log 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 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. but it's not tomatoes. it's because of the thirty five villages four thousand people still without power i have and i do 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 corners of the high ranking official center saying sorry and just twenty minutes before midnight people were once again seeing the light relieved their part of was back on and twenty eleven was already looking brighter it's in the crash of r r t. the families of those who died after a russian passenger jet caught fire and exploded in western siberia well received nearly seventy thousand dollars in compensation the incident claimed at least three lies and left over forty injured investigators have recovered the plane's black box flight recorders they may hope to understand what caused the fire in the engine of the to believe as it was taxiing for takeoff in the face of some gold rushes transport watchdog has recommended allies to temporarily suspend their flights on

this particular model of the t.v. one fifty four until the reasons of the incident are no more than one hundred twenty passengers and crew were evacuated from the jet before it blew up i would miss install journalist there was panic and chaos after black smoke filled the cabin while there were difficulties opening the emergency exits some passengers reportedly had to run through the flames to escape leaving them with severe battle . here with our see us and ahead for you this hour when shopping turns into every major. drug. use. i'm desperate to confront consumers and if you have to go travel don't seem to have here at america's credit card addiction. join archies close up team in siberia and meet a local contacts who's tried to revive the you know there is an traditions of their ancestors called good. last wednesday danish

police prevented what they called the most serious terror plot ever attempted in the country three men suspected of planning an attack in copenhagen have been charged by a danish court and i saw a man with links to international terror networks were plotting a gun ban page and the office of the newspaper which printed cartoons of the prophet muhammad five years ago the drawing sparked outrage at all among muslims across the world officials say those arrested intended to kill as many people as possible in the papers and that's the latest in a series of arrests throughout the year which have put european nations on high alert over the spread of islamic radicalism this kind of has. 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 portland of view of its mission a success absolutely but is the battle over this is that it's just a visible part of the iceberg it's huge there is a whole machine behind this really want to lose it was born in belgium in a family of cushions and converted. he says he did it on his own will because it simply provided the. other religions according to him peace and tolerance but unfortunately due to generate new knowledge about it it can be used to teach the eggs. so. there are really extremely moms acting in europe and the problem is people who don't. understand the muslim philosophy they end up in the arms of busy moms who come from saudi arabia egypt a former french intelligence officer claude money now has a company advising governments and corporations or help to deal with terrorism and extremism really. based in brussels he claims the spread of islamic extremism is

happening right in front of the authorities vielka from their attention 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 and you are not a good missed him because you don't do nothing for your brothers. in palestine in iraq and so on which are oppressed and are killed it begins in the family it begins . in the streets and in the must this is one of the immigrant quarters of brussels populated by muslim signs in arabic specialist shops and cafes and of course 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 an envoy to officially this figure is even higher which makes it prime ground for recruitment. the lack of education about

a little work in many european muslim communities seem to have become the driving force behind the spread of extremist. towards 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 what is going off or the process. from oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky had his prison sentence extended on thursday his current time behind bars for fraud and tax evasion was to end this year but who now stay there until twenty seventeen after being found guilty of stealing massive amounts of oil from his lawyers appealed against the verdict. a report. four days that's how long it took the judge to read the verdict six more years that's how long we feel who then of course will have to spend behind bars the forty seven year old is in the final stretch of

an eight year prison term and sentence after being convicted for tax evasion. because. if you're by sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment the sentence will be served in the correctional colony of a medium security prison in this second trial could the king his partner were convicted of stealing two hundred eighteen million tons 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 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 a man for american called kind of his state down to virtually 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 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 it could have cost 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 at 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 polls. prosecution not so much for financial reasons as for his political ambitions so why do his supporters rush out to introduce 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 person going to be smart he can be a particular it. doesn't mean that this is early this is a city. that might be a case before 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 trial of the decade if you go. lets go the first oil pipeline from russia to china began operating on the first day of the new year it's capable of delivering around fifteen million tons annually and replaces the railway lamely used to transport you hold the pipelines length about a sad one thousand kilometers with most of it being on chinese territory financed by china the joint project opens doors for russia to the rapidly growing asian

energy market. israel has launched an airstrike in northern and central gaza that's according to the israel defense force and hamas palestinian officials claim two people were injured meanwhile protests have 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 targeting hamas militants but the offensive jury was wide condemnation because of the huge number of civilian casualties israel blockaded gaza after hamas that he believes is a terrorist group took control of the trip in two thousand and seven says that in the eight has been restricted and really really really reaches its destination of course here has been finding out. israelis insist their economic siege on gaza is easing but they can't. deny the border and international condemnation is heating up an 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 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 sought after 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 and evitable you resort to this kind of transportation to donkeys this is one of the largest cattle markets in gaza and has the economy here. it's 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. now look now at some of the stories making headlines around the globe sounds of egyptian streets in protest of the deadly new year's day bombing at least twenty one question a question those were killed and seventeen in the suicide of time outside a church in alexandria demonstrators accuse the government of failing to protect the country's really just minority that time is the worst against egyptian christians in. about two thousand two hundred thousand trillions are in the midst of a flood that's been described as reaching biblical proportions the flood has so far claimed one victim of the one who's kind of washed off the road while another lot of the rains missing go heavy rains have stalled rivers are still searching to

heights bring water to an area larger than france and germany combined that they throw everybody in queensland state is expected to reach a level of nearly ten meters by wednesday. in pakistan due to the coalition has lost its second largest party for the united national movement joining the opposition the party also treat two ministers from the cabinet after the government's decision to raise fuel prices although the prime minister denied the government was in any danger the part of the session could result in a vote of no confidence the opposition lost as in no support. it seems americans can stop spending despite the country's massive financial problems on that painful lessons of the financial crisis left to rely on their credit cards shopaholics confines of the edge to find a new style of good bargain but there is putting up a very loud fight against rather than consumerism offseasons the situation i'm not one of them.

you should. stop. her. 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. i was waiting 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. two hundred 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 expensive runs during the last couple of years i've spent i think of a one hundred thousand dollars a well 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 stock shape is me life mission is to chase away. the shopping devil by putting on an act 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 except my credit card limit every mom could be calling for desperate measures like spells and exorcisms the things that glitter in the windows will 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 or an indication of no lessons learned even after the big crash of a recession once they see truth in our part see. this week the new year was welcomed with fireworks and celebrations all around the world. it was where the facilities began with a bang in new zealand as spectators passing to oakland's harbor to take in the huge display and that it moved further west australia with celebrations continued with see this traditional spectacular fireworks lighting up the skyline well as in japan welcomed the new year by releasing a massive silver balloons carrying nerds with their hopes for the future for the people of taiwan the island's tallest skyscraper was the centerpiece of the fireworks envelops the building ok a quarter of a million people flocked to the riverside to watch landers light up a midnight at midnight and on the other side of atlantico new york's most of it is

centered as always on the slow descent of a six ton crystal ball with thirty two thousand lights and most of thousands of people lining twenty eleven with the midnight child of the crown and clock at the red square but as acts on a boycott reports for many russians they hold more than just the coming of when you hear. it was a hectic new year's eve four years ago because some family was marking their six years together with all of finishing the cooking and p.t.a. entertaining the guests. but as the cramming clock started counting down last seconds of the year everybody paused. they rode out which is a napkins bring them and soak 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 with you i can tell you what i have asked for because this way it won't come true let's wait and see if i'm lucky with my wish you will know

about it a symbol of russia's officialdom the kremlin chimes are also an embodiment of people's most private hopes every year has the clock strikes midnight millions of fractions ask fortunes for favors for those few seconds even cynics start. 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 in chimes are women and some of the most popular new year's wishes include finding your chil love getting married and having a baby. to 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. remember that this tradition could be traced back to soviet times because never before had red square in the kremlin had such a sacred status because it wasn't well publicized back then it is because there was no place for superstition in communist ideology but people made their wishes anyway and here's why four years after synchronizing their hopes for the kremlin chimes the consent of family has that own little new year a miracle running around the house and helping with the festive first decoration at the little somer was she's the wish i wrote on that piece of net can read it will and the one i mean in many many other occasions nor with what i know for a fact from my own experience in the experience of my friends that on new year's eve need to ask for something that they read dear to your heart and it will definitely come true for all your old. artsy moscow. right now where often a thigh baron expedition as we're taking more of russia close up.

every general western siberia and the all time mountains almost has a continental climate with cold snow winters and cold dry summers it's also the home of siberian cause tax to help conquer the region for these are three hundred years ago and barton discovered they have kept their military traditions and way of life very much in. the view from the end of a cossacks spear but not to worry the young cossack on the other end knows what he's doing he's part of a tough rural tradition which has lasted for centuries. much and i'm glad to see me they start teaching us riding on which one servant to trickle i think of thirteen the billion chance abilities and as for me i was very good do i do worse it's

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 the village built this gym themselves another training in it will have a lot to do to prove themselves as hunters and horsemen training communally fosters a team spirit to fill in this cos exercise. a team spirit necessary for the cossacks noblest pursuit hunting on the sharp end the beloved fast russian dog but bred to perfection over centuries and not for any ordinary prey. but they were selected for their speed and anger because they must be able to get the better of a wolf welcome with gauri is master not just of his hounds but of this whole course village he's called the atom out and he has to show skill in leadership from

solving but it's just down to training dogs to catch hares. though he prefers the larger prey was more restrictive bit like living in old times to get the chance of becoming an atom and it was considered prestigious to bring home a wolf tied up. the three and or walk after the day's outdoor training we caught up with our at a man at the evening meal and he tells us about the history the cossacks originally came from lamb's far to the west of here but they proved a useful militia force conquering and securing siberia for the czars in return for grams 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.