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the grand imperial truly the tallest west coast you can a letter told me to say don't need to go. read this and the colonel was no joke as you treat. a recap of the story that shaped this week in winter frustration also succumbs to the cold weather blues that's bros and rain paralyzes the capital ahead of the holidays with thousands stranded on the roads and an airport. dreading the fear that terror attack in denmark makes europeans increasingly wary of the growth of islamic extremism. also russia's most famous forward tycoon will remain the country's most famous prisoner for another six years as an all school court finds him guilty of embezzling huge amounts of oil. after israel's military

offensive in gaza will report on how people there is still struggling to cope with life under siege which they say still hasn't even. hello and welcome to our seat twenty four hour news live from moscow follow with the latest news and review of the week's a balance so it was a week one winter clearly defeated moscow as freezing rain lashed showers bringing down power lines and causing travel chaos for some which meant starting the holiday season and shocking traffic jams well sleeping on the airport floor because you know groucho has a story. turned into a lump of ice overnight the rain was freezing while falling almost to emergency workers knocked it down like gloss. have your 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 holy day getaway 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 that the airport which was worst hit by bad weather conditions over the weekend when a snow storm disrupted polis 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 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 sure imagine ever suffered no electricity blackouts but based on how

to deal a split 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. because you promised the. six pm today electricity will be back on it's six now. but it's not tomatoes. it's because in the city five villages four found some 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 palate was back on and twenty eleven was already looking brighter if even the crash of r r t. the families of those who died after a russian passenger jet caught fire under 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 and they are helped understand what caused the fire in the engine of the tupelo was taxiing for takeoff from the city of sort of good rushes transport dog has recommended allies to temporarily suspend the flights of this

particular model of the team you won't have to for until the reasons of the incident on no more than one hundred twenty passengers and crew were evacuated from the job before it blew up i would miss those told journalists there was panic and chaos after black smoke filled the cabin while there were difficulties opening the merge and some passengers reportedly had to run through flames to escape leaving them with severe battles. you're watching our tears coming up this hour when shopping turns into really. drug. use. so we'll look at some desperate methods to confront consumerism and the rise of the country's financial troubles don't seem to have cured him or. it's credit card addiction. pulling minibuses isn't the only way these weightlifters show their strength they can also find many other ways to flex some siberian muscles so please join us he's close our team in the siberian city along to see

what some of russia's strongest people are capable of and where that part comes from. last wednesday danish police prevented what they called the most serious terror plot ever attempted in the country three man suspected of planning an attack in copenhagen have been charged by a danish court thought the man with a link to international terror networks were plotting a gun run bait in the office of the newspaper which printed cartoons of the prophet muhammad five years ago they're trying sparked outrage among muslims across the world officials say those arrested intended to kill many people as possible in the papers newsroom if the latest in a series of arrests trial for the year which have put here pay nations on high alert a with a spread of islamic radicalism. 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 the hardest candidates and financing terrorist organizations right from the portland 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 a ruse was born in belgium in a family of christians and converted to what he was. he says he did it on his own will because it simply provided the answers he couldn't find in other religions according to him islam teaches peace and tolerance but unfortunately due to generally poor knowledge about it it can be used to teach the exact of us. there are really extreme arms acting in europe and the problem is people who don't feel erotic and don't understand the muslim philosophy they end up in the arms of busy moms who come from saudi arabia egypt a former french intelligence officer claude when he can 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 veiled 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 life is not very. 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 the mosques this is one of the immigrant quarters of brussels mostly populated by muslims 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 on

a boy 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 asylum or among 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 on or the process. for my oil tycoon may have what are called his prison sentence and on thursday his. in town behind bars for fraud and tax evasion wants to end this here but hill now stay there until twenty seventeen after being found guilty of stealing massive amounts of oil from his lawyers appealed against the bad actor. reports. four days that's how long it took the judge to

be the verdict six more years that's how long we feel who will have to spend behind bars the forty seven year old is in the final stretch of an eight year prison term sentenced 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 of the bush king just partner. were convicted of stealing two hundred eighteen million tonnes of oil worth twenty seven billion dollars from a subsidiary company out of course he was known as the very worst corporate governance abuse in russia i myself was that you question how the meeting had a power of attorney from one of their minority investors to attend and was thrown out at gunpoint the meeting went on to dilute the investor in mind for the american people kind of mistake than to say 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 you close 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 in 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 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 cause those holes in them so the course he has maintained he's innocent 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 view him as a sort of a martyr figure we are all humans and feel compassion for people who. are behind the bars for a very long time he already eight years in prison and he has to spend many years more the president can be smart he can be a particular he could be sole support spoken but it doesn't mean that necessarily this is a synonym of non-guilt and that might be a case with that of course the prosecutors had asked for at least six more years on top of his current sentence they got what they wanted but we may not have heard the last trial of the decade if you goes carty you 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 length has about

a thousand kilometers with most of it being on chinese territory announced by china the joint project opens doors for russia to the rapidly growing energy market. israel has launched an air strike in northern and central gaza that's according to the israel defense force and hamas palestinian officials claimed 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 targeted a mass militants but their phones have drew worldwide condemnation and because of the huge number of civilian casualties israel located gaza after hamas which it believes is a terrorist group took control of the strip into thousand and seven since then aid has been resisted and restricted rather and rarely reaches its destination as policy here has been finding out that. 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 board a one hundred eighty people and medical supplies and a determined core to reach gaza on the second anniversary of the last israel gaza wall the convoy dubbed asia to garza solidarity caravan sit self in new delhi at the beginning of december it's trying to do what in a fertility failed to do may break the israeli blockade on the coastal strip that only you attempt to lift 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 human we do and. missions and the situation in the. moment but gazans complain life is still unbearable had better and 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 sell them they're 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 that what can we do you know fuel for vehicles spare parts and evidently you result that it's kind of transportation it was the 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. and you can read more details on this story and much more now when we go home and here's a quick preview a little bad right down. would tell you what it feels like to start the new year on the international space station when you can see the old planet celebrating beneath you. and if you will into your final want to go without any unexpected binds to snowball into home with some guidance.

it seems americans can stop spending despite the country's massive financial problems and the painful lessons of the financial crisis well left to rely on their credit cards shopaholics come to fight the urge to find a new style or a good bargain but there are some who are pushing up a very loud fight against robin to consumerism offseasons the suture kit i met one of them. truly. you should. stop. her. what 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. the. obvious way to 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 be urged to possess has taken over men to statistics eight men and women compulsively shop equally in the us nowadays i'm actually excited about spencer runs during the last couple of years i've seen i think

a one hundred thousand dollars on clothes while these numbers are simply unimaginable for millions of americans only a few are putting up a very loud fight against consumerism. reverend billy says a credit card exorcism on the entire nation is what can cure america fifteen million americans are addicted to shopping but many more americans than fifteen million shop too much stuff she has me life mission is to cheese so with. this shopping devil by putting on acts in churches and shopping malls around the country the credit crunch the purpose of the exaggerations is to make americans see their flaws yes. the splash trick you're spending too much money consumer consumer. it's a church but 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 glitter in the windows will tell 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 true can see. the start of the new year is a great time for wishful thinking and with unemployment high in the u.s. hopes for better days are high as well many blame the economists problems on globalization as american jobs are outsourced abroad and web talk show hosts the

way how often it has been finding out what people in new york think about the trend . society is becoming more and more globalized is that a positive development or is it the beginning of the end this week let's talk about that i think it's 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 too

many things are going to asia. ok yes for sure is that you can't control where the things are going to go and there's you have to compete with a lot more people that's right you know global economy could be good. carbon footprints and all there is beer. to get it depends on 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 or not have not get repercussions from it but i guess they've got to figure out a way to control that who are the very high 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. a quick look now at some of the other stories making news around the globe thousands of egyptians took to the streets in protest of the deadly new year's day bombing at least twenty one christian worshippers were killed and seventy hurt in this so sad a time outside a church in alexandria demonstrators accuse the government of failing to protect the country's religious minority that time 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 breach in biblical proportions the flood has so far play into one victim the response was washed off the road while another man remains missing that heavy rains have stopped rivers that still surging to new heights bring water to an area larger than france and germany combined the seats are abbreviated quins the stage is

expected to reach a level of nearly ten meters right by wednesday. pakistan the ruling coalition has lost its second largest party after the united national movement joined the opposition 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 the part of decision could result in a vote of no confidence the opposition lost as enough support. now because next wear off on a siberian expedition as we take a closer look at russia's most distant regions and i'll close up. and this time we travel to the southwest and almost crazy german area that is fast becoming the sporting capital of siberia locals like to say that growing up and

being fined tongue for a gives you a real backbone and judging by the region's olympic contributions and their professional ice hockey team they're suddenly tryphena bad taste on the bottom explode they think with all the thigh burial strong. and almost goes wild the local hockey team album 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 i guess you. know you're still missing my list and since we were little we've practiced outside in the cold weather so we're used to hard conditions it's room i know america so with the toughest players. and it's not just seasoned players and 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 still life. ice hockey isn't the only had to be an endeavor trying to get

attention here how about the water no turning a minibus. those boys even say period in winter with slippery roads it's pretty hard. pulling many buses is the only way this is what you have to show their strength they can also find many other ways to flex some siberian muscle. here is a local gym the team lifts bends and pulls anything they can lay their hands on the competitions across russia they also put on public shows to entertain the crowds and earn some extra money for the uk but day in day out it's about heaving that little bit. moan that i had to separate the sim it's different i just like it that's all i like wrestling against these pieces of equipment i like to achieve high results with the teeth the team only formed a few years ago so they haven't won a major titles yet but again the siberian spirit infuses them and they have

a strong sense of that special quality if you're one of us that would possibly comes as a historically people from siberia have been very strong and made great soldiers i think they greatly contributed to our victory in world war two conditions he a make people learn how to survive he thinks they might strong indeed in fact you could hardly describe these lot as being in survival mode. if it looks lift a ball movable these guys will try and muscle it around me to tire moving. me some join weights lifting. or perhaps even me. it's not a problem for the men with the muscles tom barton r.t. . and that was a recap of the main story is a shape.