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more than four hundred people remain stranded. after a fleet of ships was imprisoned a week ago. we were able to contact. details in just a few moments. muslims

claim they're struggling with daily prejudice in the u.s. with more and more people falling victim to islamophobia. with news from russia and around the world this is. good to have you with us this 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 a week now as ice breakers are making their way to the trap seaman. has more now on the rescue mission. this is definitely a difficult situation we're talking about over four hundred people they 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 plus

a major rescue operation is underway and the crews of these vessels do seem to be in in good will and 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 bated breath it's captain doesn't advise us to try and break free of the icehouse else he said we should wait for their arrival it's expected to be here tomorrow don't we celebrated the new year here on the ship everything was fine it's just sad we didn't have any work where it see to do our job but people we had an amateur concert for the new year as soon as the icebreaker frees us to get back to work we miss it already but i worry about us we have food and water it's warm we have t.v. and radio we're also able to contact one of the crew members from one of the ferry vessels the dock there and he said that they're already able to see the icebreaker

approaching the big question is how much time is it going to take for this ship to to get to them it was a huge storm on december thirtieth initially when these vessels became stranded in the icy waters now our weather forecasts say that another storm is actually approaching so this may 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 out and were also able to contact one of the coordinators off the rescue operation as you know it is hard to predict how rapidly the ice breakers will breach the three try. vessels there's a vast accumulation of ice in the region which in places is almost eight meters thick the ice is being formed as the emma river is throwing out large amounts of fresh water that's freezing the vessels are in constant motion so as not to let the ice form around the holes the situation is being worsened by the gale force winds.

you can imagine the of the ice which is eight meters deep what the weather conditions have to be to create that but of course the rescue operation is continuing world be monitoring the situation and we'll report on the story as it continues. the people of gaza are having to come up with more ways to earn a living they say the economy is still sluggish despite israel's is in its blockade last summer and with many unemployed in the region finding work is no easy feat. this report. a group of gaza women are breaking new ground literally they've signed up to workers ditch diggers to help support their families that it then the work is very hard but life is even higher than these women of a family's 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 news that my family has no one to take care of us and we need money

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. my husband has to 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 me go live in besides using this router with a multitude of future it or to sell ice cream. they survived by selling cigarettes sweets and mobile phones madhu abu wider makes a living repairing watcher's. with got 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 pointlessly or r.t. israel. well coming up in just a few minutes free here on 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 our t.v. isn't christian yet a country within a country. is

a little later find out how rodents are helping russian scientists push the boundaries of space travel closer to mars. their story still to come but first many american muslims claim they're suffering from a wave of islamophobia cuse authorities are 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. . met some of them. when most american girls turned thirteen they celebrate with a party. and i am the daughter you don't need. but what you would do 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 like the f.b.i. just started it 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 because they can use it now that. the chairman of the memphis says destroy oh no i mean like me this whole notion is like saying. no 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 hundred 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 whole 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 using the present to make a change in this world the star prays and so take out all the free innocent muslims in the jail for leave 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 to me. in the u.s. the new congress has been sworn in more states have gone to the republicans who

seize control of the house of representatives in november's midterm elections they're aiming to derail barack obama's health reform and push for spending cuts party has put up hefty opposition to the president in the past months as it stalled the medication of a key arms reduction treaty with russia the experts believe the new congress could now try to scupper start treaty. there is. a function of republicans of power in the house of representatives is going to complicate life for the administration there's no doubt the new congress is going to try to do. a number of. laws and the policies of the administration one of them of course was going to be on the effort to basically change health care law. to change the whole start agreement but i think it's going to be very difficult for them to do so primarily because you still have the senate and the senate although

there are fewer democrats the democrats continue to roll the majority there and even if. that's unlikely both the senate and the house agree to take such stands to do the president's plans i think we the president still has the veto authority so that's going to make it next to impossible to bring to change. lol. com has a lot more news blogs and analysis in store for you and here's some of what's online right now. to israel fall through due to a strike by the country's foreign ministry official could now be in danger in a dispute over pay also. truck stops. really does well with millions addicted to buying in the u.s. find out what price shopaholics really pay for their obsession. dot com.

it started off as a hippie squad but now the self-proclaimed neighborhood in copenhagen known as christiania is a community where people live by their own rules their government their politics it's been free and available to all for forty years but no local danish authorities want to cash in their. reports. 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 isn't free thinkers it's quite informing military barracks their aim was to build a society 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 midst who has lived in christian year 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 christina 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 euro utopia that is 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 string the acts of christian mia 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 in the area first thing that's the crux of the problem residents pay their taxes to the state and to 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 a fight against the privatization of ideas i don't want christianity to be privatized 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 a proper fight he didn't go christine you copenhagen denmark. on some other world news this hour in our world update the white house press secretary robert gibbs has announced he will step down by the end of february he plans to set up his own consulting business idea of an outside political adviser to the president is likely to assist barack obama in his reelection campaign gibbs first started working with the president six years ago during the leader's bid to become a senator a new press secretary is likely to be named in the coming two weeks. severe flooding in australia 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 predicted to reach its second highest level in record hundreds of houses have been evacuated roads and airports are closed over 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 never. fighters in the netherlands are battling a massive blaze of a chemical plant near the city of rotterdam a state of emergency has been declared and people who live near the area a big want to keep their windows and doors closed say four hundred liters of toxic chemicals are inside the building. pools the fire. questions surrounding the effects of a mission to mars on humans may soon be as russian scientists turn to the original space explorers for help even this today to eight humanity's quest for more distant from tears and tease tom bought reports that 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 for the thrill of animals live 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 to 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 planet earth . for the purpose of all the previous flights when you're the buying program was just 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 researches looked at their muscle mass and the effects of exposure to cosmic radiation and over time the researches ilda the galaxy for wars and then. according to foreign analysts about seventy percent of them 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 they changed. and they'll be the heirs of all those pioneering animals that went before the bike like the first space traveler and stroll current belka who followed a few years later. we specialists in aerospace medicine and biology. begin with animals as a matter of fact animals blazed the trail for 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 fix the stars tom watson r.t. let's go. well i'll be back with a look at the headlines in about ten minutes from now but first though the u.s. says washington will pull all of its troops out of afghanistan by twenty fourteen quote come hell or highwater when r.t. sat down with the afghan foreign minister to find out of the country will be ready to stand on its own two feet by that that's our interview next for you here on r.t. .

afghan foreign minister thank you very much for being with us today my pleasure this is foreign minister when. soviet forces withdrew from afghanistan you have been publishing a resistance journal for eighteen years what did you and your compatriots expect for your country's future back then as usual afghanistan wanted to be free

independent and sovereign country to be friendly with its neighbors good region and have his own destinies that are on her and the something that you wanted and that's something that afghans always will how would you describe the state of your nation as of today afghan people have been at war for the last of to two years since nine eleven two cards and one when international community came to afghanistan to liberate afghanistan from different of the taliban. afghanistan is facing tremendous challenges to rebuild itself. because for thirty years for a country which solidly was a poor country has been completely destroyed so the challenge is hard rebuilding the country giving the normal life toward people are our children go to school to have a health care target you cation. that is what you're trying to do now

or friends british defense chief general sir david richards said that nato should prepare for another thirty forty years to stay in afghanistan which makes and mockery of their plans transition in two thousand and fourteen why do you think need to change that strategy and do you think that strategy defeating the tribal opposition was right in the first place number one it's not a tribal position it is a fight against terrorism and extremism and the tribal chief in the tribal people of the first victim of the terrorism which are being killed if you get a. date of two thousand and fourteen afghan proposal president karzai is the first inaugural speech in the second term signal afghanistan should take the responsibility of its own security starting by two thousand and eleven and if an issue. by two thousand and fourteen that's been proposed an adopted in london and kabul conference by international community and had to be concretized and had the summit in lisbon that's

a real things that afghanistan should be in the hands of afghans and the security of afghanistan is the responsibility of the afghans so starting by two thousand and eleven and finishing by two thousand and fourteen the afghan national security forces will be in charge of security of afghanistan and the remaining force of international community need to another's will be supporting force not a fighting force as of today over two and a half million russians are addicted to afghan heroin this is where mr why has your administration and your allies failed to tackle the poppy production first of all the poppy production in afghanistan have to result of thirty years of war and lawlessness and despair of the afghan people who do new tomorrow he's going to be a life or not you know security for their future. secondly when you came to our back to afghanistan in two thousand and eleven to two thousand and one two thousand and two don't have any institution to fight it no police no judicial system no army

and in that will take time before you can put. in place but the fight there gives not quite dick is also one of the priority after afghanistan because afghanistan will be first for a sufferer first before they are there will suffer from it and you are not taking the benefit of that because the money produced by the traffickers will go outside afghanistan and not stay in afghanistan thirty years forces have been accused of building black prisons in your countries where their citizens have been illegally detained and tortured or curb the widely documented tate's military excesses against your countrymen and your sure president has been an issue an issue that has created tension between united states and afghanistan there are two or three issues that has created tension because the issue of detainees the issue of civilian casualties division did issue of the night raids in the house did he shoot has been discussed the very frank and friendly manner i think

we are in the right part to solve soon in the beginning of two thousand and twelve afghanistan will be charged off between us all over afghanistan at the beginning of this of this. taking charge of fifty niece and we are working with our lives to reduce that minimum then we need the syrian card with you but also issues of ninety eight that should be done by afghan national security forces more and more afghan forces will be in charge of to come but less than this would be this kind of problems actions have taken place since ten meter led invasion both sat fraudulent with the rigging with results published only two months after the poll what do you say to those who claim when you and your allies are planning. an unsustainable political system afghanistan a democratic system afghanistan after thirty years of war and lawlessness and no government practically were different kind of government has now system to

democratic process is taking root as you know you cannot make democracy in one day in your country especially in a country that had been a war for fifty years so i think that there are probably going to be problems and i think the problem on election is not only in a specific when afghanistan a lot of countries even more developed countries have had has had problem in their direction but the process is going on and people. believing in democracy that's the reason people are complaining millions of people anybody difficult condition of security when to vote a lot of women for the first time in afghanistan or will know in the election to be men a lot of priests there are good news with afghanistan but afghanistan cannot be switzerland or sweden in nine years mr foreign minister thank you very much for this interview and i wish you and your people every success in achieving peace and democracy in

your country. issues that so much is going to make a lot of people very very likely is it the most important international body or just functional. united nations often.