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they had. the way. america. the prejudice is more and more of the compadres fall victim to islamophobia as nine eleven still forms people's minds. with news from russia and around the world this is r.t. here in moscow good to have you with us 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 and making their way to the trap seamen but as you go to skin of has more now on the rescue mission. this is definitely a difficult situation or 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 ice ourselves 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 you 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 how 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 to 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 water two weather conditions have to be to create that but of course the rescue operation is going to be monitoring the situation and will 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 using its blockade last summer and with many unemployed in the region finding work is no easy feat as paula smear reports. 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 and they hands of the they know 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 eighteen 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. i have a family of twelve to feed and there is no other way for me to me go even besides using this router with a moderate refrigerator to sell ice cream. they survived by selling cigarettes sweets and mobile phones mahu abu wider makes

a living repairing watcher's. with got both found the job i prayed for it i mean. the 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. well coming up in just a few minutes for you here on r.t. we travel to denmark to visit the place unlike any other. welcome to the world's longest existing free society where things get done for the people by the people

our teeth isn't christian yet a country within a country. that story still to come first 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. artie's marina portnoy 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 the guy arrested mostly because they're muslim and while they have beards so like the f.b.i. to 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 many criticize as entrapment no i'm not that is playing using out. the tremolo never to since they destroy oh no i mean like me this lotion is like. not one no no no it's not cool maybe people 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 charged them with planning to attack the four dicks on the base for the six world albanian to send their 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 an 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 at least if he's any president make a change in this world and stop please take out all the free innocent muslims in the jail for a lady 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 . r t v r. and staying with the states the one hundred twelfth u.s.

congress has been sworn in led by new speaker of the house john boehner is now a republican majority and they're determined to do read as many of president obama's plans as they can while live now to washington. benedict is the executive director of the libertarian national committee about what the new republican majority means thanks very much indeed for joining us so why is the the republican party now controls the house and they're promising change from obama's so-called big government what can we expect from them. well as a libertarian i would like to see vastly reduced spending and taxes but i don't think republicans are going to deliver that they sometimes talk about it but if you look at what the worst policies that congress has delivered most of them have been bipartisan for many years the bailouts of the banks the invasions afghanistan and iraq the deficit spending even

a lot of the health care programs have been supported by both republicans and democrats so to me i'm not expecting much positive not not the kind of positive change i would like to see i don't think that's going to happen with republicans in power where you yourself are saying you'd like to see a massive cut in spending but is there really a credible credible alternative is to i mean is there really an alternative solution. well the alternative is to get serious about cutting military spending to get serious about cutting entitlements like medicare and social security there was a bipartisan commission that looked at that and made recommendations that would actually cut spending but i don't think that republicans have the courage to implement those things they talk about it. many years ago back in one thousand nine hundred four i was a republican myself i was excel you know excited about newt gingrich and the contract with america and all the republicans that were swept into power and as

soon as they got into power they started raining again on their promises to cut government they started letting people down and that's why i left the republican party and joined the libertarian party could we talk about something that's relevant to russia and that of course is the new start treaty the nuclear arms reduction treaty that has been put forward and obviously there's a chance that could be ratified but obviously the republican majority in congress and else saying that they might possibly put that in jeopardy do you think they really could do that the railways. they might be able to they might just be make a noise to try and get favors for some other legislation they support i do think the united states is spending itself into oblivion we're going broke or doing way too much spending on millet on the military and so i would like to have peaceful relations with russia and all the other countries of the world so you know i'm not

i can't say i endorse this treaty exactly but if it if it results in peace throughout the world and less military spending by the united states and by russia i think i'd be a great thing but all these issues concerning health care about the start treaty about spending short of the republicans have got their hands tied up in it because there is no nevertheless a slim majority in the senate and a bamma still has the power to veto it so basically there's not much libertarians or republicans can do about these policies is that. well you know we may have gridlock and to me if congress stopped doing anything that would be the second best thing that could happen the best thing would be that they start cutting government when one party's in control whether it's democrats or republicans throughout history they have proven to grow government and grow government even if they may talk about something differently so i would be pleased

with gridlock and it's the better alternative then growing government certainly without libertarians in power you know there's only one good congressman that's congressman ron paul who understands the proper role of government libertarians agree with ron paul on most things certainly be nice to see more people like him in there but until that happens and until the american people remember what freedom means or remembers what the proper role of government is no i don't expect a lot of positive progress when you have those mid-term elections preparations now underway for the next u.s. presidential election that will start those preparations will start next will this year of course while campaigning that get in the way of the government getting anything done on the scale that we've seen at the end of twenty ten i think so i think that republicans will pretend they're trying to cut taxes or cut government and claim that democrats are being a roadblock to it and your only solution is to vote for more republicans democrats

have used the same tactics when it comes to various programs if you don't elect more democrats you know the republicans will stop a so yes they will be playing politics and. the role of libertarians to stand up in other third parties to say look republicans and democrats are both being hypocritical if you really want change in america you've got to look outside the two main parties just finally before you leave us talking and looking ahead to that next us presidential election what are your predictions full of alma's future. i think obama has a good chance of getting reelected but it you know it's too soon to tell it depends on who the republicans put up from a selfish point of view of wanting to grow the libertarian party there's a lot of republicans who are front runners lie. that i'd like to

see when mitt romney if he wins the nomination will be pointing out constantly how he helped implement a huge health care plan when he was governor so lots of republicans that libertarians would like to attack although you know what's best for america i'd like to see republicans democrats and libertarians all fighting for smaller government very interesting to hear what you have to say with benedict from the libertarian party in washington thanks so much for joining us here not. ok thank you. that's a web site has a lot more news blogs and analysis in store for you can call see that interview once again all online what else is that let's have a quick look couple of other stories present it is a visit to israel pulls through to a strike by the country's foreign ministry more official talks could now be in danger in a dispute over they also. try to stop . the devil really does wear prada with millions addicted to

buying in the u.s. find out what price shopaholics really pay for their obsession on l.t. dot com. started off as a hippie squad but now the self-proclaimed neighborhood in copenhagen known as christiania is a community where people live by the rules no government no politics it's been free and available to all for forty years but now local danish authorities want to cash in. has more. i am 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 nine hundred seventy one when he pees in freethinkers squat in forming 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 mist 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 that should be some kind of surprise unfortunately the biggest surprise right now comes from the city authorities who want to spring the acts of christine 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 and yeah for staying that's the crux of the problem residents pay their taxes to the state and disservice 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 heights 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 this community's cornerstones its residents refuse to bow to big brother without the proper fight it even goes carty christine you copenhagen denmark. without some other world news the white house press secretary robert gibbs has announced he'll step down by the end of february he plans to set up his own consulting business and become an outside political advisor to the president he's 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 and you 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 because 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 . is in the netherlands are battling a massive blaze at a chemical plant near the city of rotterdam a state of emergency has been declared and people who live near the area big want to keep their windows and doors closed for media say four hundred thousand liters of toxic chemicals are inside the building it's not yet know what caused the fire. we'll be back with headlines for 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 forty quote come hell or high water he sat down with the afghan foreign minister to find out if the country will be ready to stand on its own two feet by them that's our interview next 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 air 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 put in the woods as neighbors region and have his own destinies that are on her and something that you wanted and something that the afghans will rule out how would you describe to state of your nation as of today afghan people have been out war for the last five 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 fierce internment. this challenge is to rebuild itself. because for thirty years for the 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 how our children go to school to have

a health care target you cation. that is what you're trying to do now or prince british defense chief general sir david richards said that nature 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 it's afghan proposal president karzai is the first inaugural speech in the second term sit 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 it's been concretized and had that 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. and the remaining force of international community need to or not there will be supporting force not 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 he came to our back to afghanistan in two thousand and eleven to two thousand and one two thousand to

do we don't have any institution to fight it no police no judicial system no army and in that will take time forty can put. in place but the fight that gives not quite pick is also one of the priority after afghanistan because afghanistan will be a first for that suffer 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 so his forces have been accused of building black prisons in your countries where their citizens have been illegally detained and tortured. her the wetly document tate's military excesses against your countrymen and he sure president has been an issue an issue that has created tension between united states and afghanistan there are two issues that has created tension because the issue of detainees the shoe of civilian casualties. the issue of the nitrates in the house this issue's has been discussed 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 it's all about afghanistan at the beginning of this this. taking charge of tunis and we are working with our lives to reduce the minimum of any need in the syrian casualty 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 describing the problems actions had to. place instead meter led invasion both set fraudulent with the rigging with results published only two months after the poll what do you say to those who claim they knew only your allies are planning an unsustainable political system of going to some of the democrat.