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u.s. with people falling victim. when he's from russia and around the world this is all t. here in moscow good to have you with us this morning 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 trapped fisherman when it's good. more news from going off and people joins us now live kilometers of ice and deadly cold temperatures these people who spend a week in these extreme conditions you go to how much danger though are they in. well this is definitely a difficult situation we're talking about over four hundred people if you see these

spent around a week now in the icy waters in the russian far east but. we know that they do have enough supplies to last them for several months so we shouldn't worry about food or water shortages a major rescue operation is underway and the crews of these vessels do seem to be in in good shape or able to contact the captain of one of the stranded vessels and here's what he had to say. the icebreaker is getting through to us the situation on the ship is normal people are waiting for the icebreaker with. its captain doesn't advise us to try to break free of the ice and snow he said we should wait for their arrival it's expected to be here tomorrow we celebrated the new year here on the ship everything's fine it's just sad we didn't have any work to do and people to come we had an amateur concert for the new

year as soon as the icebreaker frees us to get back to work. or don't worry about us we have food and water it's warm we have to be. this was the captain off one of the stranded vessel saying that everything is ok that they actually had to greet the new year on board these vessels while stuck in the icy waters but still saying you still says that everything is fine they have heat they had food and water and you're also able to contact one of the crew members from one other vessels that one of the three vessels you dock there and he said that they're already able to see the icebreaker approaching the big question is how much. time is again is going to take for the ship to get to them. of course is what many are asking i mean this time a rescue mission is certainly a battle against time in the weather now but why is it still taking so long. while this is because of the water mainly it was a huge storm on december thirtieth initially when these vessels became stuck and

stranded in the icy waters now our weather forecasts say that another storm is actually approaching. me hamper the rescue efforts but still the rescue is continuing it's been going on for several days now two ice breakers are trying to get these ships were also able to contact one of the chord in the ears off the rescue operation and here's what he had to say. it's hard to predict how rapidly the break his will breach the three trapped vessels there's a vast accumulation of bush in the region which in places is almost eight me just think a different form just the m a river a stirring out large amounts of fresh water that's freezing the vessels are in constant motion so as not to let the ice fall of around. the situation is being worsened by the. so you can imagine the of

the ice which is eight meters deep water two weather conditions have to be to create that but of course the rescue operation is continuing we will be monitoring the situation and we'll report on the story as it continues ok thanks very much hear more from you later then we're going to as you say that thanks very much indeed for joining us that. other news now the people of gaza having to come up with more ways to a living they say the economy is still sluggish despite israel easing its blockade last summer with many unemployed in the region finding work is no easy feat. as this report. a group of girls a woman up breaking new. ground literally. they've signed up to workers ditch diggers to help support the families that i've learned the work is very hard and with life is even harder these women are they 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 but that only my family has no one to take care of us and we need money that's why i'm forced to dig. 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 money has been test to provide for two families thirteen 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 make go of it besides using this route with a multitrack trigger it just so i scream. they survived by selling cigarettes sweets and mobile phones mahu up a wider makes

a living repairing watches look at them with god's help i found this job i prayed for it i mean. the non-handicapped trouble i'm going to drop in. 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 policia r.t. israel. or coming up in just a few minutes from here in r.t. 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 for our team is a christian yet

a country within a country. and also find out how rodents are helping russian scientists push the boundaries of space travel closer to mars. the first four militants have been killed in a counter terror operation in russia's southern republic of dagestan three security officers were injured the militants who ran bush as they attempted to flee special forces in the republic's second largest city of unity when ordered to surrender they opened fire officials say all four were members of a wanted terrorist group is set to continue and of course his region's 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 eleventh attacks saying it has made arab immigrants the number one target for the f.b.i. what is more important i met some of them. when most american girls turned thirteen they celebrate with

a party her label and i am the daughter. but they would do isn't like most the teenagers spent her birthday speaking about her father her uncles and her frustration with her home country they got arrested also because they're muslim and while they had beards so make the f.b.i. just twisting up all the ways people saying he 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 but it was a killing. us. the chairman of the memphis destroy all roads to me like me all. not one no not to look cool maybe people you know sitting in the jeanne shaheen a 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 police arrested and charged them with planning to attack the four dicks on the base for the six world albanian descent and they're suspected of being islamic fundamentalist in two thousand and seven. news in a case dubbed six five her father and two uncles were arrested and convicted for conspiring to kill american soldiers at a new jersey army base in this whole video footage the duke of 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 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 joe that means growing older without a father. turning thirteen in the land of the free she's been forced to doubt more and more every day . are. just a reminder that. news blogs and analysis is in store for. president as it is visit to israel through due to a strike by the country's foreign ministry official could now be in danger in a dispute. with millions in the u.s. . really paid for their obsession.

it all started off as a hippie squats but now the self-proclaimed neighborhood in copenhagen known as christiania is a community where people live by that own rules no government no politics it's been free and available to all for forty years but non-local danish authorities want to cash in. as more. i am 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 thousand nine hundred eighty one when he pees in freethinkers squat in forming military barracks their aim was to do this is site 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 no specific who has lived in christian yet says 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 news 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 he seems to be extremely attractive to most 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 and then is owned by the state and the state and the state can 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 costing 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 christina and you can't sell it on because we don't want speculation and interest and money in this place but that's something company you can city council wants to change by forcing residents either to buy out or move out

even if we're living in this house which we use really used to build up i'm ready to give it up if it has to be a hearts against 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 a proper fight it is. christine you copenhagen denmark. when our time to cover some of the world news this hour the governor pakistan's problems are prepared in a city of lahore amid tightened security someone to see it was gunned down by his own bodyguard on tuesday the attackers said resignedly what to see as opposition to the country's blasphemy law into his little piece the government was a senior member of the ruling pakistan people's party. the new congress has been sworn in in the u.s. more seats republicans who seize control of the house of representatives in

november midterm elections are in or to derail barack obama's health reform push for spending accounts put up by the opposition to the president in the past month as it stalled the ratification of a key alms reduction treaty with russia the democrats still hold the majority in the senate chamber. to australia now and severe flooding there is cause more damage to the northeastern part of the country and water levels in the city of rockhampton are expected to peak. 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 three hundred thousand people have been affected in an area larger than france and germany combined to get 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've been listed animals to aid humanity's quest for more distant from tears and as. 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 pioneers for working with the animals sleep 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 in tutor of biomedical problems 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 punit earth what. the purpose of all the previous flights and you're the buying program was just evolution 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 researches ilda the galaxy s. and then. to go 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 the 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 specialised in aerospace medicine

and biology but never forget that the rules again with animals as a matter of fact the animals the trail of mankind up into space mission alice 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 a monkey's dogs and other rodents that have gone before him he could help humans weeks the stars tom watson artie bosco. 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 tell authorities are tearing it down and putting up new modern structures with r.t. sara first found out the locals are not happy with the changes. to police his old

town is undergoing some major changes a government backed construction project aims to revamp the aging architecture they call it new life for the old town but others have called it a battle for the city's. first century these winding cobbled streets old houses and wooden balconies have delighted visitors and inhabitants but there are signs of construction are everywhere people are worried that it's destroying the town's historical. neither architects nor historians work here the people conducting the reconstruction works were simply told to make it. the restoration project it leaves extremely controversial but should 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. others house has been in his family for ninety two years he tells us that it's not just the poor quality building work that's a problem in the nice asian boom many of the locals have sold to investors without them the town has lost the local spirit that made it so unique you can feel it anymore. before this area was like

a man. with so many people you know it's like a museum but despite the criticisms the government adamant they aren't going to stop. we want to do it in me criticism is not always acceptable but if it's a liberal except meanwhile we're not going to stop the implementation of our projects because of. the project is attempting to turn to bill e.c. into a modern european style capital that is the old makes way to the new many feel that the town's historical heritage is being with cheese to rubble so if r.t. georgia. will be back with a look at our main news stories in about thirty minutes from now in the meantime sharona joins us with the business news they with us here on r.t. . hello welcome to our business program i'm sure. you could oil prices have hit two year highs in recent days as industrial production in the u.s.

and europe picks up exports 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 pick a global director of market ports plots 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 on into 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 the trend so so far those two products are really not affecting one another 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 from one diversity in this gas market although this would allow gas palm 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 now to 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 to a real supply of came into the market it's going to be but he's going to do nothing i think in this is in favor of gas probably because they are the big one of the

supply of fuel and now they have also the chance to add to that if they're to the market to go to the car some of the three but it gets to the cost. i think is a good development for europe this summer going to say soon it's also called the trust in the customers to be gas gas from 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 can originate the fact that the share of gas revenues and the total structure total revenue structure of. oil and gas majors gold mine for that is increasing while the oil revenues share is decreasing actually the main competition for gazprom in europe robs not from our willing kids majors themselves accounts 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 in the fossil 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 end of the year as separate entities the government has a unification plan ready but as excited and co reports the shareholder still have cold feet combining to 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 enthusiastic cheerleader if was consolidation in russia over this. kind of working together with our partner mark yes seventy

during the change in achieving kind of giving the community together and moving that forward. is a great and very important goal in my view infrastructure all in very important and great for the market the ruble denominated my six was set up eighty years ago by russia central bank as a state company for trading currency it's now also owned by state banks and. in congress the dollars nominated r.g.s. is a private boys owned by both russian and foreign investors russian companies frequently trade on both bourses supporters of images see the different strengths of each index would compliment each other after years managed. provisional notices of mark . what they want of my sex with good financial basis very good support of the state but those are summaries you just took issues will not be in line with this the top central banker says the my six wants to.