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recap of the story that changed this week when frustration also this constant in cold weather the use as frozen rain paralyzes the capital ahead of the holidays with thousands stranded on the roads and in airports. spreading the fear for a terror attack in denmark makes the europeans increasingly we're ial the growth of islamic extremism. also russia's most famous for tycoon will remain the country's most famous president for another six years as a law school course i have been guilty of abetting cleared him out of oil. and three years after israel's military offensive in gaza were important people there

are still struggling to cope with life under siege what they say still hasn't even . while it was a week one winter clearly defeated it more scars freezing rain lashed childhood the city bringing down power lines and causing travel chaos for some it meant starting the holiday season in shocking traffic jams or sleeping on the airport floor or he's if you know the story. turned into lump of ice overnight the rewards for easy. emergency workers knocked it down my glass. how do you guys snapped power lines and shut down the country's largest airport for almost two days bad enough at any time of year but horrendous. at the highs of the

holy day getaway this is how one of moskos 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 area as a result of that some one hundred 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 would 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 sure imagine ever suffered no electricity blackouts but based on how to deal a sport thousands of passengers who stormed control zones blocked 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 when 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 its six now. but it's not enough to meet only. 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 chorus of the high ranking official son to say sorry and just twenty minutes before midnight people were once again seeing the light relieved their party was back on and twenty eleven was already looking brighter exuding the crash 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 incident claimed at least three lives and left over forty injured investigators have recovered the plane's black box flight recorders they may help to understand what caused the fire in the engine of the tippit if that was taxiing for takeoff in the city of so good russia's transport watchdog has recommended an alliance to temporarily suspend their flights of this particular model of the team you won't have to for until the reasons of the incident are known more than one hundred twenty passengers and crew were evacuated

from the jet before it blew up eyewitnesses told journalists there was panic and chaos after black smoke filled the cabin there were difficulties opening the emergency exits some passengers reportedly had to run through the flames to escape leaving there with severe back. well you're watching r.t. and still ahead here this hour when shopping turns into when nature. you should. look at some desperate methods to confront consumerism in the us the country's financial troubles don't seem to have america's credit card addiction can. join ours he's closeout team in siberia and local clubs have tried to revive the noble spirit and traditions of their ancestors conquered this land. last wednesday in

danish police prevented on they call the most serious terror plot ever attended in the country three men suspected of planning an attack in copenhagen have been charged by a danish court and it's thought the man with links to international terror networks were plotting a gun page in the office of the newspaper which printed cartoons of the prophet mohammed five years ago drawing sparked outrage among muslims across the world i shall say those arrested intended to kill as many people as possible in the papers in israel if the latest in a series of arrests which have put here pay nations on high alert over the spread of islamist radical. over a year of investigations and a massive police raid in the broad results twenty six people have been arrested in belgium germany the netherlands belgium dutch moroccan. all are suspected of recruiting so-called jihad is gagnon its. terrorist organisations right from the

heart 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 on a ruse he was born in belgium of christians and converted to what he was. 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. 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. understand the muslim philosophy they end up in the arms of busy moms who come from saudi arabia or egypt a former french intelligence officer claude money care now has a company advising governments and corporations one hell 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 veil to from their attention by its privacy they will say you are not a good missed him because you don't practice five times the price five times a day you are not a good muslim because you are drinking you are not a good muslim because your wife is not and you are not a good mystery 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 the must this is one of the immigrant quarters of brussels lawfully populated by muslims signs in arabic specialist shops and cafes teleport to believe we are not one 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 about islam 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 new comers is likely to continue and many experts believe. it is need to help muslims integrate into a multicultural society the extremism threat will remain no matter how many arrests are made you go r t brussels. for my oil tycoon my head. what of course q had his prison sentence extend extended on thursday his current term 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 you because his lawyers appealed against the verdict. reports. four days that's how long it took the judge to read the verdict six more years that's how long 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 of the course king 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 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 meeting went on to dilute the investor a man for 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 that time in the business was risky a new kiss 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 label of the laws that had those loopholes and them so 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 singled out prosecution not so much for financial reasons as for his political ambitions so why do his supporters and rush out to interview him as a sort of a martyr figure we are all humans for all compression for people who whore who

are behind the bars for a very long time here already eight years in prison and he has to spend many years more. going to be smart you can be articulate. but it doesn't mean that this is early this is assuming. 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. let's 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 as the main means to transport fuel the pipelines the length of about a thousand kilometers with most of it being on a chinese territory financed by china the joint project opens doors for russia to the rapidly growing asian energy locket. and asked tribe in northern and central

gaza that 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 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 their phones have jury worldwide condemnation because of the huge number of civilian casualties israel's blockade of gaza after hamas which it believes is a terrorist group took control of this trip in two thousand and seven so then aid has been restricted and rarely reaches its destination as pulis here has been finding out. israelis insist the economic siege on gaza is easing but they can't deny the. order 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 dealing with their own conditions and the situation in the girls to each moment but gazans complain life is still unbearable that israel has limited the number of trucks clothes and shoes coming into gaza and this causes problems with coordination in gaza last month twenty two international organizations issued a report claiming the easing of the blockade has helped bring in materials only for the u.n. and international building projects ordinary goods they say are still not getting

in our goods have already been detained in israel for three years but the fines that we've paid already 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 while just two hundred dollars for a rather simplistic alternative but what can we do there's no fuel for vehicles no spare parts inevitably result that it's kind of transportation to donkeys this is one of the largest cattle markets in gaza and as the economy here plummets it too is struggling to survive. we have no animals 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. some other stories making headlines around the world thousands of the troops will stick to the streets in protest of the deadly new year's day bombing and at least twenty one christian worshippers were killed and seven to hurt in this so sort of time outside a church in alexandria demonstrators accuse the government of failing to protect the country's really just minority that type is the worst against injection of christians in a decade. about two hundred thousand australians are in the midst of a flood that's been described as a reaching biblical proportions if not has so far claimed one victim a woman whose car was washed off the road while another man remains missing though heavy rains have stopped rivers that still surging to new highs bring water to an area larger than france and germany combined the queensland state is expected to

reach a level of nearly ten meters by wednesday. in pakistan the ruling coalition has lost its second largest policy out of the united national movement joining the opposition of the party also with three 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 at the party's decision could result in a vote of no confidence if the opposition masters enough support. it seems americans can't stop spending despite the country's massive financial problems and the painful lessons of the financial crisis left to rely on their credit cards shopaholics can't fight the urge to find a new style or a good bargain but there are some who are putting up a very loud fight against iran but consumerism autism's the citric and i met one of them. true. you should. stop.

her. but styles and new must have items of the fashion world changes fast as the seasons but one thing that never goes out of style in the us is shopping america is the birthplace of modern consumerism nowhere else in the world do people buy more than here with officially more shopping malls in the us than high schools if i didn't spend enough money on sunglasses i could probably save for college and things like bad very few actually admit to an addiction is a dora does exactly what. that was waited twenty five things with a daily need for a new dose of jackets sweaters and skirts she considers herself a shopaholic how many pairs of shoes do you have. so hundreds the urge to possess

has taken over men to statistics age men and women compulsively shop equally in the us nowadays i'm actually excited about expensive runs your last couple of years have split 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 stuff is me life mission is to chase away. 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 of the

splash trick you're spending too much money consumer consumers. 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 mom could be calling for desperate measures like spells and exorcisms the things that the letter of the week does with our 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 true can see new york. this week the new year was welcomed with fireworks and celebrations all around the world. it was so the festivities began with a bang in new zealand as spectators packed into cones harbor to take in the here just play that it moved further west australia were celebrations continued with sydney's traditional spectacular fireworks lighting up the skyline revelers in japan welcomed the new year by releasing a mass of sober balloons carrying notes with the hopes for the future for the people of taiwan the island's taller tallest skyscraper was the centerpiece of that fireworks enveloped the building in the u.k. a quarter of a million people look to the riverside to watch london light up at midnight on the other side of that one take new york's festivities centered as always on the slow descent of a six ton crystal ball with thirty two thousand lights in moscow thousands of

people lining twenty leben with the midnight chimes of the kremlin clock approach where it has a ton of work or reports for many washers they hold water and just the coming of winning here. 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 entertaining the guests. but as the cramming clock started counting down the last seconds of the year everybody paused. their road which is a napkins burn them and soak 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. i can tell you what i have asked for because this way it won't come true let's wait and see if i am lucky with my wish you will know about it a symbol of russia's officialdom the kremlin charms are also an embodiment of people's most private hopes every year has the clock strikes midnight millions of russians

ask fortunes for favors for those few seconds even cynics start to believe in magic . you can call it the cinderella sack according to polls the man. georgio those who are scribed wish granting powers to the crown and chimes are women and some of the most popular in years wishes include finding your chill laugh 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. that of the fist tradition could be traced back to soviet times because never before had red square and the kremlin had such a sacred status it wasn't well publicized back then because there was no place for

superstition in communist ideology but people made their wishes anyway. and here's why four years after synchronizing their hopes for the kremlin chimes the descent the family has that own little new year miracle running around the house and helping with the festive first decoration. she's the wish i wrote in that piece of napkin in the one i mean 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 each ask for something very dear to your heart and it will definitely come true . are it see moscow. now where over the thigh barren expedition as it would take in more russia close up. so a regional hub for western siberia and the all time mountains almost continental climate

with cold snowy winters and whole dry summer is it's also the home of siberian calls out for help conquer the region of what is are three hundred years ago and as battle discovered there have been military traditions and a way of life very much for. 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 now. they started when we turned servant to trickle at the age of thirteen the chance abilities and as for me i was very good at do i do horses eleven as well as that i can handle a spear and a saber that's got through all. the others have a demanding daily schedule and horse riding is the glamorous part of the youngsters

the village built this gym themselves and the other training in it will have a lot to do to prove. selves hunters and horsemen training communally fosters a team spirit filled with 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. even though they were selected for their speed and anger because they must be able to get the better of a wolf. we've already 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 british disputes down to training dogs to catch hares. although he prefers the larger prey morris for to be likely to root in old times to get the chance of

becoming an atom and it was considered prestigious to bring home a wall of tied up. with the ring and after the day's outdoor training we caught up with our at a man at the evening meal where he tells us about 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 grants of land. the idea was to create villages along the country's border so that people are bound to the land they are living on. the cossacks strong independent traditions were disliked by the communists they were suppressed and marginalized since the end of the soviet union they've been trying to rebuild that self-sufficient way of life especially when it comes to resisting the bad habits of the city. it's no easy matter living in the country of course but on the other hand we're protected from the harm of the city from drugs.