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more than four hundred people remain stranded on russia's far east coast after a fleet of ships got imprisoned almost a week ago. but the rescue mission is underway in the bay itself join us the details in just a moment it's. hard work for harder times ghassan struggle to find employment in a land under siege as the economy hasn't picked up despite israel is using it to block a. bigger mess and also because they're muslim and well they had periods

so make the f.b.i. to start an interesting up all the way and see if the same many american muslims are fighting a daily battle against prejudice as they say islamophobia is still going strong in the u.s. ten years after nine eleven. find out what the liberalization of gas transmission networks could mean for gas pumps i'll have more on that in about twenty minutes time. well why news live from the heart of moscow this is r.t. . more than four hundred people waiting to be released from the icy waters off the russian far east coast three vessels have been stranded for almost a week now as ice breakers are making their way to the trapped prisoners let's now get the latest on the situation from artie's natalia antonova cover. let's you know

tasha so understandably this type of rescue mission is certainly a battle against the elements but officials had said the mission would be over by now tell me why is it taking so long at this point. well first of all when initially three vessels got stuck in the bay of stuff into ice breakers were sent down for the rescue mission and the russian transport ministry has warned the sailors about the difficult weather conditions in the area nonetheless another ship sailed off the coast of south and got ice in the waters of the bay and that is because it was so close to the coast and was being dragged towards the coast it was in the most dangerous situation than the other three in a more dangerous situation than the other three so the two ice breakers had to change their initial direction of rescuing those three ships and rescue that fourth on that was stuck on their way there one of the the smaller of the two ice breakers got also trapped in the icy waters and had to be released before before they could

proceed with the rescue mission. so now other all of the three ships just have been released and another ship managed to find its way out on its own and the two icebreakers are heading towards towards their initial goal lead towards they in their initial rescue mission to release those three ships but of course the difficult weather conditions might still to slow down the missional but more. of. your meterological enjoys conditions in the region remain the same that is very difficult. when does constantly blowing the only spray come during the ebbing tide . well experts are saying that the strong cycle that is approaching the area might still bring some more heavy winds but the russian transport ministry insists that the rescue operation will continue even at night time if that is necessary

sometimes you talk about a strong cycle and possibly approaching the area we're talking about miles of ice deadly cold temperatures so are the people of us spend a week in extreme conditions at this point tell me how much danger could they be him. well the crew members are in no danger whatsoever because they are on the food water and energy supplies they have down there with them they could still spend another two months on those ships but of course that is not going to be the case because even if the rescue mission slowed slows down even more for helicopters of the russian emergencies ministry's on standby to evacuate all the people from the vessels also prime minister vladimir putin is monitoring the situation personally promised to help the sailors and he has been in contact with both captains of the icebreakers heading for the rescue and the captains of the vessel stuck in in the bay all right arteries and telling overcover they're reporting live from moscow thank you. for the people of gaza having to come up with

more ways to earn a living they say the economy is still sluggish despite israel easing its blockade last summer and with many unemployed in the region finding work is no easy feat. reports. a group of gaza women are breaking new ground literally. they've signed up to work as ditch diggers to help support their families that the work is very hard but life is even harder these women are the families breadwinners and with two out of three people unemployed in gaza the burden of responsibility on their shoulders is heavier than the shovels in their hands of the only my family has no one to take care of us and we need money and that's why i'm forced to dig ponds. three hundred women have signed up their dig holes for water reservoirs on farms in gaza and the pay little more than fifteen dollars

a day hard work for private construction game and better than my has been tested provide for two families seen people if i don't do this work then what will i be left with probably not very much which is often the fate of thousands of gazans left disabled from israeli operations they too have no choice but to work in order to survive. i have a family of twelve to feed and there is no other way for me to meet grooving besides using this route with them all to drift or to sell ice cream. they survived by selling cigarettes sweets and mobile phones madhu abu wider makes a living repairing watchers looking at them with a goat who both found his job i prayed for it i mean. even non-handicapped people have trouble finding a job in gaza today at the end of december it was two years since the last israel gaza war since then border controls in and out of gaza have been eased and more

goods allowed to pass through but many gazans complain it's done precious little to improve their lives in the next few months the number of trucks going into gaza is expected to reach four hundred four times what it was two years ago but gazans still cannot cross into israel and their economy remains idle. r.t. israel. coming up for you in just a few minutes time we travel to denmark to visit a place unlike any other. welcome to the world's longest existing free society where things get done for the people by the people of r t isn't christian yet a country within a country. find out how rodents are helping russian scientists push the boundaries of space travel close that on mars. well more than seven thousand people are still without electricity in the moscow region due to power cuts which started just before the new year in budget see engineering teams have made

a lot of progress but the efforts are being hampered by snowy and icy weather that outages began after a rare freezing rain brought down power lines disrupting supply in entire districts across central russia on sunday or thought it was declared an emergency in the moscow region the icy weather initially left hundreds of thousands of people without energy many were forced to welcome in two thousand and eleven in total and utter darkness while many american muslims claim they're suffering from a wave of islamophobia they accuse or thora to use of failing to stamp out prejudice caused by the september the eleventh attacks saying that it's made arab immigrants the number one bogeyman for the f.b.i. . went to meet some of them. when most american girls turned thirteen they celebrate with a party. and i am the daughter. but

lila duca isn't like most the teenager spent her birthday speaking about her father her uncles and her frustration with her home country they got arrested mostly because they're muslim and well they have beards so the f.b.i. just started twisting up all the words he was saying was words are all too familiar to some one hundred in attendance family friends and supporters of the countless muslims arrested and convicted through the use of f.b.i. paid informants a practice that many criticize as entrapment no i'm not that is playing music out of. the trunk of the memphis citizens destroy oh no i mean like me this whole ocean is. not one no no no it's not cool maybe people you know sitting in there jeanne shaheen up parveen son a pakistani american was convicted for plotting to bomb herald square a plot the f.b.i. admits was initiated by

a paid informant who is arrested charged them with planning to attack the four dates on the base for the six world albanian descent and they're suspected of being islamic fundamentalist in two thousand and seven leila's family made news in a case dubbed fort dix five her father and two uncles were arrested and convicted for conspiring to kill american soldiers at a new jersey army base in this home video footage the ducal brothers are firing guns in which they claim was target practice when they shoot the men say in arabic phrase which means god is great prosecutors claim they were training for jihad but yet the weapons used by the brothers were reportedly provided by a government paid informant as the pool of alleged f.b.i. entrapment cases grows deeper the youngest. forces are speaking loudest against injustice under a president who promised better goalies if he's only president try to make a change in this world and stop raising some take out all the free innocent muslims

in the jail for later that means growing older without a father. a. day. turning thirteen in the land of the free she's been forced to doubt more and more every day . r.t. new york. it started off as a hippie squat but now the sort of proclaimed neighborhood in copenhagen known as christiania is a community where people live by their own rules no government no politics it has been free and available to all for forty years but now local danish authorities want to cash in every nickel discovery ports. i get tired of pushing papers around nine to five are you sick of posting to the government telling you what to do well then welcome to. a country where things get done by the people for the people it began in one nine hundred seventy one when he pees in freethinkers squat in forming military barracks their aim was to do this is cited from scratch where the only

government would be the residents themselves no home ownership no violence it's a co-op community forged by the fifteen hundred strong locals perfect for people like filmmaker knows best who has lived in christina since it was founded if you have this ability to administer yourselves then you also got bigger responsibility for your surroundings and that is something which is lost in large cities today for new this is the most peaceful and welcoming place you could find in denmark possibly in all of europe we want to keep up some of the virtues of the village where people know each other and also dependents and feel a responsibility for each other so what's their secret to peaceful coexistence people actually take responsibility for the area themselves they don't expect. an authority or some sort of guy from the from the city to come and take care of things we would do it ourselves in fact christine you seems to be extremely

attractive to moes danes a recent newspaper poll found one hundred fifty thousand copenhagen residents would love to up sticks and settle down in this euro utopia. such a lot of fairy tale atmosphere here and we have also saying you shouldn't know what's around the next corner there should be some kind of surprise unfortunately the biggest surprise right now comes from the city authorities who want to spin the axis christine the land is owned by the state and the state and the state can't do anything about the land if they want to have more housing there if they want to. to be possible to build something and yeah for staying that's the crux of the problem residents pay their taxes to the state and a service fee to christian year but they do not own the houses they live in you're not allowed to make any money off your house and here the house is owned by christina and you live there and rented from christina and you can't sell it on

because we don't want to speculation and interest and money in this place but that's something copenhagen city council wants to change by forcing residents either to buy out or move out even if we live in this house which we've used many years to build up i'm ready to give it up if it has to be right again it's the privatization ideas i don't want christie added to privatize for now the courts are deciding and although peaceful coexistence and tolerance are two of these communities cornerstones its residents refused to bow to big brother without the proper fight he didn't go christine you copenhagen denmark.

killed in. southern republic. security officers were injured at the time the militants were. special forces in the republic's second largest city. officials say. terrorist group. the north caucasus region. between. the security. solomon taseer was gunned down by its own security guard on tuesday the attacker said he was angry with opposition to the country's blasphemy law no through liberal views the governor was a senior member of the ruling pakistan a people's party and. severe flooding in australia has caused more damage to the

northeastern part of the country water levels in the city of iraq come to are expected to peak as the river there is predicted to reach its second highest level on record hundreds of houses have been evacuated roads and airports are closed more than two hundred thousand people have been affected in an area larger than france and germany combined the floods have left at least ten people dead in queensland since november. and north korean media has shown footage of the country's leader kim jong il with is son kim jong un documentary shows them visiting different parts of north korea including factories and a power plant kim jong un is expected to succeed his father as the next leader of the communist state. and west african leaders say ivory coast's incumbent president . has agreed to further talks to end the country's post-election crisis he promised to lift the blockade around the headquarters of his rival worked out to be an

internationally recognized as the new president african leaders have threatened military action. does not step down. while questions surrounding the effects of a mission to mars only humans may soon be answered as russian scientists turn to the original space explorers for help they have enlisted animals to aid humanity's quest for more distant from tears as artie's tabatha now reports the rodents are set to break records. it's fifty years since the first human went to space it's counted as one of our greatest achievements but as some scientists point out we shouldn't forget the role of first space pioneers for working with the animals leave shorter lives than humans their metabolism is different so we can extrapolate data from animal experience to the conditions of man splayed into outer space. here with the into tutor of biomedical problems in moscow these rodents are hoping solve

space riddles being in orbit can have big effect on our bodies and although man has been space for decades there's still much that we need to know if we want to travel further away from planet earth. for the purpose of all the previous flights where the buy in program was just how the zero g. condition effects living organisms and to conduct experiments that can be carried out in humans but are possible on animals. the biome program starting in one nine hundred seventy over a dozen trips have taken animals into space to conduct unique research that when the animals were brought back researchers looked at their muscle mass and the effects of exposure to cosmic radiation and over time the research as you did a galaxy of rewards. according to foreign analysts about seventy percent of our knowledge about the effect of weightlessness on organisms comes from these experiments on board satellites now it's these mongolian journals time to go into

orbit they'll spend thirty days floating round earth after which they'll come back and be examined to see how they've changed. and they'll be the heirs of all those pioneering animals that went before them like like the first space traveler and stroke and belka who followed a few years later. least of all because we are specialists in aerospace medicine and biology never forget that it will begin with animals as a matter of fact animals blazed the trail for mankind into space was the previous journeys of animals into space have lasted a maximum of twelve days this one will last thirty and that longer period of experimentation it's hoped will tell us more about what the human crew of the mars mission might experience this mongolian jebel might not look like much of a cosmonaut nor is he the first animal in space but like the monkeys dogs and other

rodents that have gone before him he could help humans reach the stars tom watson our team let's go. time now for the business news with us. hello welcome to our business program i'm sure. the e.u. is preparing to liberalize its gas transportation networks pushing for more diversity in its gas market although this would allow russian gas giant gazprom to sell directly to the customer it could also increase unnecessary competition for the russian gas giant as global oil and gas majors increase gas production. reports . gazprom sales to your fell about twelve percent in two thousand and nine due to the financial downturn demand has somewhat recovered but at the same time the russian gas monopoly is now facing of a stiff a competition the european union favors diversity on the gas market and wants to

liberalize the transportation networks russia dislikes the idea but some experts believe there's little to fear with the price markets means to a real supplier came into the markets continue but he spoke to the market i think in this is in favor of gas probably because they are the big form of the supply for europe and now they have also the chance to add to that if they're to the market to go to the house some of the deliver their case to the customer. i think is a good development for europe this summer going to say so it's also because the trust in the customers to be gas gazprom is facing an increased competition in europe particularly from alternative sources of gas production energy majors such as shell which traditionally focused on oil production and now paying more attention to developing their gas businesses are going to reject the fact that the share of gas revenues and the total structure total revenue structure of. oil and gas majors global made for that pink is increasing while the oil revenues share is

decreasing actually the main competition for gazprom in europe crowd is not from are willing to as major see themselves accounts from qatar and she producers for more african gas producers gazprom is not unaware of the problems it faces in europe analysts believe it needs to be more flexible in its pricing in long term contracts something the company is reluctant to do for the moment instead it's focusing on diversifying its customer base in the foss growing markets of asia and india but then you have clover business r.t. . look at the markets in russia the markets are closed to. tenth of january for the russian new year holiday break european markets are trading down on the day with the flexi down more than two thirds of a percent royal dutch bank is down nearly two percent and b.h.p. down more than two and a half percent and in germany the dax is down more than one and

a half percent however a lot of phone is up nearly half percent as it signed a letter of intent to work together with the german utility company to build out germany's classifiable telecommunications network. and it was a marriage that everyone expected but the proposal never came the two main russian bourses r.t.s. and my sex end of the year as separate entities the government has unification plan ready but as i. reports the shareholders still have cold feet. combining the my six with the artists would result in an exchange with more than the sum of their parts that's the view of the my six president has become an enthusiastic cheerleader for was consolidation in russia over for that kind of working together without a partner for fear of having a drink or a change in achieving kind of giving the community forgive and moving that forward it is a great and very important role in my view infrastructure on very important and

great for the market the ruble denominated my six was set up eighteen years ago by russia central bank as a state company for trading currency it's now also owned by state banks v t v and the e in congress the dollars nominated r.t.s. is a private boys owned by both russian and foreign investors russian companies frequently trade on both bourses supporters of emergency the different strengths of each index would complement each other after years managed by the. additional members of the market as in all what they want of my six we have a very good financial basis very good support of the state but there are some reasons that this stock is sure she will not be in line of this among the top central banker says the my six wants to buy the r.t.s. in a friendly takeover with seven hundred fifty million dollars however alpha bank which owns almost ten percent of our geas is the boys his was up to two billion dollars. it's now a question for the shareholders to answer and they may have different interests and

intentions but i think there's no ideal model it all depends two thousand and eleven may see a third side joining the story europe's largest exchange i pray to us it is said to be moving a three way alliance with its counterparts in moscow analysts say that will help it competes with london and hong kong while russian companies would be given a chance to lease both in russia and germany getting access to greater capital is not directive proposition but one that might critically imply building ambitions of r.t.s. in my six. business r.t. . and russian companies enjoyed a successful rebound from the crisis in two thousand and ten as investors increasingly turn to emerging markets but a select group emerged as big winners and potential gainers in two thousand and eleven analysts expect all cynical shares to continue performing well as investors

largely ignored the shareholder conflicts troubling the metal producer surrogates to veer off from deutsche bank russia explains why but i think the prover of the question is really in the right so. i think global price will you increase because the boys used grew more and more in the industrial consumption and those sort of buy but maybe. that illusion of for corporate welfare bill for the day before they speak on the three of them this go on for enough for the press corps for many for me what if you go food made kind of a bit of reality. and that's your update for this hour but you could always find more business stories on our web site that's com slash business stay with us.