for the full story. the biggest issues get. face to face with the news makers. more than four hundred people remain stranded off russia's far east coast after a fleet of ships was imprisoned almost a week ago. and the rescue mission is underway in the big join us for the details in just a few moments. in the struggle to find employment in a land under siege as the economy hasn't picked up despite. being. the way. muslims claim they're struggling with daily

prejudice in the u.s. with more and more people falling victim to islamophobia. after nine eleven. with news from russia and around the world this is r.t. here in moscow more than four hundred people are 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 trap seaman. has more on the rescue mission. let's reversals that were stuck on the thirtieth of december in the bay of sun hiding have been waiting for help for a week now but the two ice breakers that were sent down for the rescue mission had to change their direction at some point and release another vessel that was stuck also coast and it was in more danger than the other three as it was being dragged

back to the coast by the icy waters now that mission has been completed and their ice breakers are heading to release some four hundred people that have been stuck in the bay of studying for a week now but of course the difficult weather conditions might still slow down the rescue mission miniature. conditions in the region remain the same that is very difficult question when does constantly blowing in the only spray come during the ebbing tide. even though the members over the crew are in no immediate danger of course they have spent a week there already and even though they still have water food in there and the supplies for two more months if they're not released in the immediate future for helicopters of the russia's emergencies ministry's on standby to evacuate the people if that is necessary and prime minister vladimir putin is personally

monitoring the situation he's promised to help the sailors and he has been in contact with captains of both the icebreakers and the vessels that are frozen in the bay of. the town in africa reporting that the people of gaza having to come up with more ways to earn a living they say the economy is still sluggish despite israeli's ing its blockade last summer and with many unemployed in the region finding work is no easy feat. reports. a group of girls a woman of breaking new ground literally. they've signed up to workers ditch diggers to help support their families that redman 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 the hands of the barely my family has no one to take care of us and we need money and that's why i'm forced to dig down the. three

hundred women have signed up they dig holes for water reservoirs on farms in gaza and the paid little more than fifteen dollars a day hard work for private construction game and better than my has been tested provide for two families are seen people if i don't do this work and 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. did i have a family of twelve to feed and there is no other way for me to meet go living besides using this route with a multitrack richer agree to sell ice cream. they survived by selling cigarettes sweets and mobile phones mahu other wider makes a living repairing watches. that with god's help i found i prayed for a woman with a non-handicapped who have trouble finding

a job in gaza. 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 allow 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 policia r.t. is. well coming up in just a few minutes we travel to denmark to visit a place unlike any other. welcome to the world's longest existing free society a free things get done for the people by the people our team isn't christian yet a country within a country. also still to come find out how. russian scientists push the boundaries of space travel closer to mars. but first for

militants have been killed in a counter terror operation in russia's southern republic of dagestan three security officers were injured the militants were ambushed as they attempted to flee special forces in the republic second largest city of unit when ordered to surrender they opened fire officials say all four were members of a wanted terrorist group the operation is set to continue the north caucasus region has been gripped by almost daily violence between authorities and extremist groups . many american muslims claim they're suffering from a wave of islamophobia they accuse authorities of failing to stamp out prejudice caused by the september the eleventh attacks saying it has made arab immigrants the number one bogeyman for the f.b.i. i. met some of them. when most american girls turned thirteen they celebrate with a party hello my name is late. and i was. nice.

but leila duca isn't like most the teenager spent her birthday speaking about her father her uncles and her frustration with her home countries they got arrested mostly because they're muslim and while they have beards so like 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 families 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 but it is playing those it out. the chairman of the memphis destroy all roads. like me all. not one know well not to look cool may indeed be you know sitting in the gym should he not 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 and charged them with planning to attack the board six army base for the six world albanian descent and they're suspected of being islamic fundamentalists in two thousand families one used in a case dubbed fixed by 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 an arabic phrase which means god is great prosecutors claims they were training for jihad but yet the weapons used by the ducal brothers were reportedly provided by a government paid informant as the pool of alleged f.b.i. entrapment cases grows deeper the youngest voices are speaking loudest against injustice under a president who promised better if he's in the present make a change in this world and stop praise and take out all the free innocent muslims in the jail for lady luck 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 . our team. started off with the hippie squats but now the self-proclaimed neighborhood in copenhagen known as christiania is a community where people live by their own rules no government no politics it's been free and available to all for forty years but no local danish authorities want to cash in. are you tired of pushing papers around ninety 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 thousand nine hundred eighty one when he pees in freethinkers squadron for military barracks their aim was to do decide from scratch where the only government would be the

residents themselves new home ownership no violence it's a co-op community forged by the fifteen hundred strong locals perfect for people like a filmmaker who has lived in christian yes 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 freely 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 he seems to be extremely

attractive to mose danes a recent newspaper poll found one hundred fifty thousand copenhagen residents would love to up sticks and settle down in this year old utopia. such a lot of fairy tale atmosphere here and we have also saying you shouldn't know what's around the next corner that should be some kind of surprise unfortunately the biggest surprise right now comes from the city authorities who want to string the acts of christina 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 than if they want to. to be possible to build something in the area of posting that's the crux of the problem residents pay their taxes to the street and to serious speed to christine yet 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 christine yet you can't sell it on because we don't want

speculation and interest and money in this place but that something company can city council wants to change by forcing residents i don't to buy out or move out even if we're living in this house which we've used many years to build up i'm ready to give it up if it has to be a fart's again it's the privatization ideas i don't want christie added to privatized for now the courts are deciding and although peaceful coexistence and tolerance are two of these communities cornerstones its residents refuse to bow to big brother without the proper fight it even. christine you copenhagen denmark. well sort of come for you here in just a few moments reduced to rubble the georgian capital sister oracle and stylish old town is being torn down to make way for modern buildings under a government renovation project. but first more than four thousand people are still without electricity in the moscow region due to power cuts which started just

before the new year emergency engineering teams have made a lot of progress but the efforts a hampered by snowy weather the outages began off to riff freezing rain brought down power lines destruction supply and todd districts across central russia on sunday authorities declared an emergency in the moscow region the icy initially left hundreds of thousands of people without energy many were forced to welcome in two thousand and eleven in darkness. when out of some other news this hour in a world update the. problems of being buried in the city amid tight security someone to say was gunned down by his own bodyguard on tuesday type. said he was angry with to see his opposition to the country's blasphemy law known for his legal views the governor was a senior member of the ruling pakistan people's party. the new congress has been sworn in in the u.s. it's now dominated by the republicans who seems control of the house of representatives in the midterm elections expected to repeal barack obama's health reforms and push for spending cuts the party has put up the opposition to the

president in the past month as it stalled the ratification of a key arms induction treaty with russia a democrat still hold the majority in the upper senate chamber. and severe flooding there has caused more damage to the northeastern part of the country water levels in the city of rockhampton are expected to peak as the river there is to reach its second highest level on record hundreds of houses have been evacuated roads and airports are closed and three 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. questions surrounding the effects of a mission to mars on humans may soon be answered as russian scientists turn to the original space explorers for help they even listed animals to aid humanity's quest for more distant from tears and. reports the rodents a 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 pine for work look for the truth of all animals sleep shorter lives than humans their metabolism is different so we can extrapolate data from animal experience to the conditions of man's flight into outer space. here the in tutor biomedical problems moscow these rodents are helping solve space riddles being in orbit can have big affects on our bodies and although man's been in space for decades there's still much that we need to know if we want to travel further away from politan earth. the purpose of all the previous flight two hundred the buying program was just published how the zero g. condition effects living organisms and to conduct experiments that can be carried out and 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 has yielded a galaxy s at. the tick of 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 cell come back and be examined to see how it changed. and they'll be as of all those pioneering animals that went before the bike like the first space traveler and stroke and belka who followed a few years later. we specialists in aerospace medicine and biology never forget that the rules began with animals as a matter of fact animals blazed the trail of mankind into space. 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 job or 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 r.t. moscow. lotty dot com has a lot more news of blogs and analysis in store for you that's our web site here's some of what's online few right now present a visit to israel through due to a strike by the country's foreign ministry official course could now be in danger in a dispute over pay also. stops. the

devil really does wear prada with millions of buying in the u.s. find out what price shopaholics really pay for their obsession. right now dot com. many buildings in the georgian capital tbilisi date back hundreds of years and the government has decided to renovate them but rather than restoring the historical old town authorities are tearing it down and putting up new modern structures. the locals are not happy with the changes. to the leases old town is undergoing some major changes a government backed construction project aims to revamp the aging architecture they call it the old town but others have called it a battle for the city's sold. the century these winding cobbled streets old houses and wooden balconies have delighted visitors and inhabitants but

there are signs of construction everywhere people are worried that it's destroying the town's historical charge. nor historians were here the people conducting the reconstruction works were simply told to make it look nice for the restoration project history to extremely controversial much of the housing here is in desperate need of repair but in many cases the government has simply rebuilt tearing down beautiful and often historical structures and putting in the place for replicas. you know they've just done work to the facade of everything has been done in a slim chance way. past the cash funding the project comes from the international community little accountability and poor building control has led to accusations that the money isn't being invested wisely many of the homes now stand empty and on completed a lot of. the authorities have just spent the structures of the higher seeds that

see inside. the houses house has been in his family for ninety years he tells us that it's not just the poor quality building work that's a problem in the modernization of many of the locals has sold to investors without them the town has lost the local spirit that made it so unique you can't feel it any more just a few. before this area was like a mountain with so many people. it's like a museum but despite the criticisms the government adamant they aren't going to stop. we want to do even more criticism it is not always acceptable but if it's a liberal swix up to meanwhile we're not going to stop the implementation. projects because. the project is attempting to turn to bill e.c. into a modern european style capital that is the only makes way to the new mini through

the town's historical heritage being with cheese to rubble served. georgia. well that's it for me for the moment i'll be back with an update of our main stories in about nine minutes from now on the meantime sharon is next with the business news. hello welcome to our business program i'm sure. could oil prices have hit two year highs in recent days as industrial production in the u.s. in europe picks up experts are optimistic about the oil price in two thousand and eleven but with many all majors diversifying their output with alternative energies like natural gas some why this could hurt overall oil revenues jorge much of global director of market ports plants in london explains the correlation over the long term there is competition among fuels and gas to some degree is already eating into the heating home market and will continue to do that i mean to some industrial

processes but in the short term any extra gas production is really not affecting oil prices in fact gas prices in some areas right now are what they were fifteen even twenty years ago but oil prices are two year highs way above trend so so far those two products are really not affecting one of their this is actually fairly good news for russia because that means that the revenue it gets from oil sales will remain robust. and the e.u. is preparing to liberalize its gas transportation networks pushing for more diversity in this gas market although this would allow gas pump to sell directly to the customer it could also increase unwanted 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 really price markets means that they really can't enter the market to continue but he's going to the market i think in this is in favor of gas probably because the other big fall off the supply of fuel and now they have also the chance to enter that into the market to go to the house some of the delay by the case to the cost. i think is a good development for europe this summer going to say so it's also good to trust in the customers to the gas gazprom is facing an increased competition in europe the tickling 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 i generally ject the fact that the share of gas revenues and the total structure total revenue structure of. oil and gas majors global made for us i think is increasing while the oil revenues share is decreasing actually the main competition for gazprom are in europe perhaps not from our willing his majors themselves he counts from cattaro and she producers for 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 and the fos growing markets of asia and india that tell you how clever business r.t. . and it was a marriage that everyone expected but the proposal never came the two main russian

bourses r.t.s. and my sex ended the year as separate entities the government has a unification plan ready but as i. reports the shareholder still have cold feet. combining the my six with the r.t.s. 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 was consolidation in russia over this that kind of working together without a partner for fear of having a drink or a change in achieving the end of giving liquidity to give and moving that forward it is a great and very important wall in my view infrastructure on very important and great for the market the ruble denominated my six was set up eighty years ago by russia's central bank as a state company for trading currency it's now also owned by state banks via t.v. and. in congress the dollars nominated r.t.s. is a private boys and 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 provisional members of the market is 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 doctor should 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 is worth 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 operate to us it is said to be mulling

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 that's your update for this hour but there's always more on our website. stay with us.