with me kevin owen apparently said it was the ninth of december just now it is of course january this is r t moscow and these are all top stories harsh weather possessions to rescue the last of the five vessels to me i saw questions coast for over a week. in on the stories that helped shape the week of math deaths of birds and fish around the globe spark conspiracy and apocalyptic theories some say science is struggling to come up with the answer. and europe's asylum policy is under fire last year's says string of terror links arrests accusations that lacks checks are to blame for the spread of an extreme threat. leading french a story you predicted the soviet union's breakup says europe will struggle to keep its place in the international arena without russia's help next tonight she tells r t why russia is so misunderstood in the west. everyone got out of the local stock truck history and humanities permanent secretary of the french science academy and the woman who predicted the breakup of the soviet union in nineteen seventy eight in her book pickle laps of an empire is here with u

kevin owen and you are watching r t's news review of the week this sunday evening the second of january coming to life from moscow. just. bringing you the latest in science technology from the realms. covered. hello this is our tease moves within the week top stories moscow falls victim to the winners of the weather has frozen rain leads to massive blackouts and travel chaos paralyzing the russian capital for several days. europe's growing increasingly wary of the spread of islamic extremism with the recent arrests over. denmark adding to the fear. russia's most famous president mikhail khodorkovsky will retain the status for six more years as the court finds the guilty of. two years for israel's military offensive on gaza people are still struggling to get their lives back to normal despite his really insisting it's easing the economic blockade. on the world wide welcome for twenty in less than a quick trip around the globe to enjoy the highlights of the festivities. next to all disney executive tells us about the entertainment business is booming right now here in russia. right now sh

this is a welcome you're watching a news review of the week with me kevin owen and first russia is promising to stage a tournament like no other when it hosts the world cup in twenty eighteen the assurance came as the fee for president officially handed over the world's biggest sporting event to the country's successful team. reports from some papers with a ceremony took place a bit. it's all official now they signed today a specially a three headed contract between the russian football union and the russian government well essentially that means is the first say that they will guarantee that the world cup will be held in russia in twenty eighteen the russian government say that they will provide the russian football union with all of the required help that they need to be able to put it on and their football union say that they will put it on no this comes after we heard just a couple of months ago that they would be given the chance to host the tournament in twenty eighty as you say the first time she's ever hosted it the first time it will ever be hosted in eastern europe now before the s

with me kevin owen in just a few moments the red hot red light debate is arguing your proposed ban on sex is in the back pages of newspapers but how will it affect the world's oldest profession what we're trying to gauge that head tonight. do we hear a new russian agent or superstar of the guys who xander eventually appears to be the latest spy to go out in the cold put all is not what it seems will split the secrets later. a year after the ravaging earthquake life for haiti is rocked by a cholera political turmoil and painfully slow reconstruction but for thousands who found refuge in the united states the future is no brighter because many haitian immigrants are facing deportation back to the island when a port i spoke to one family that risks being divided. see alaska for most american women can relate to gin a montra built. a working wife and busy mother home with the kids while dad is at work we lay back we work so we can provide the best for our children but also those crime or family or family that care we make plans for the future if the u.s. government gets its way. just cya

this is r t it's eleven pm here in moscow when i'm kevin owen and first this hour the portuguese finance minister says lisbon will not ask for a bailout to resolve its economic problems media reports in the country is being pressured to apply for a one hundred billion dollars rescue package i spoke to financial advisor marco petro pauli he says without a bailout he says a bailout rather wouldn't solve the fundamental flaws in the concept of the euro zone this is our chat. this is not in any kind a way a final solution for the european debt crisis it is just buying time for these countries so that hopefully they will be able to get in control of their fiscal situation and the markets will start to to believe in them again that they're able to service their debt moving forward in reality what's happening is burdening this country with these countries a lot more debt to service and the jury is still out on whether they can actually turn their fiscal position around over the next few years you can't save all the banks and save all the countries because at some point someone's got to file or

it's no midnight here in moscow my name is kevin owen and our top story for you a woman who is voted norwegian of the year is being deported from the scandinavian country as an illegal immigrant born in the russian region of north korea really came to norway and really teens and published a book revealing corruption in its immigration system after that the order came for her to be kicked out his lawyer and reports. this is a girl who is now known as maria amélie but her original name was muddiness alarm of a she was born in cars the capital of north her family felt when she was quite a young girl that they had to leave russia arrived in norway around about two thousand and two where they applied for asylum but their application was refused the family decided that they would prefer to stay as illegal immigrants but what seems to have happened is that she learnt to speak norwegian which is not a very easy language within a period of weeks and she was going to school here and she eventually gained most of his degree and then she wrote a book which she has now had published which publish

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it's nine pm sunday evening here in moscow welcome if you just joined us my name's kevin owen with news review of the past seven days at r.t. and it was a week where moscow ground or hold freezing rain ruptured power lines paralyzed traffic in crippled airports for thousands of stranded travelers and start in the holidays stuck in traffic jams all sleeping on the airport floor others were left in the dark on new year's eve is a country which overruns and. turned into a lump of ice overnight the rain was freezing while pulling almost emergency workers knocked it down like gloss. heavy eyes snapped power lines and shut down the country's largest airports for almost two days but enough at any time of year but horrendous at the highs of the holy day getaway this is how one of moskos easiest hops looks like power is back on and flies are getting back on should you like the idea that the airport which was worst hit by bad weather conditions over the weekend when a snow storm disrupted pa lines in the area as a result of that some one hundred fifty flights were delayed and over eight thousand

moscow now you're most welcome if you just joined us shortening our news review of the week with me kevin owen and first extreme weather is hampering efforts still to rescue two ships stranded for over a week in freezing waters off russia's far east coast a second ice breaker is no less than ten miles away from the first one which was unable to free the vessels by itself more than three hundred people are on board the two stranded boats sarah firth is following the rescue mission. the smart time john they're continuing to play out today and you've really got a feel for the full days remaining t. shirts the eleventh day now hopefully the end possibly now in sight the ice break across in. that position not just to recap what's been happening even the polls week we saw these three original ships calling for rescue in december thirtieth that at the beginning of this week another two ships go stuck in the ice we've seen two ice breakers the admiral macros and the gazan working very hard in extremely tough conditions to free up the shirts like now manage to get three of them to safety the last of wh

it's nine pm wednesday night welcome my name is kevin owen and our top story the polish prime minister donald tusk told his country's parliament that political games should not affect the pursuit for the truth in the investigation into the plane crash that killed the former president this comes as the country's parliament's evaluating the final report into the tragedy. as more from moscow. there's been a lot of reaction of course to the investigation into the presidential plane crash that happened in april last year just outside the russian city of smiley and scott a lot of outrage was initially heard from poland but today's address by the polish prime minister actually comes as the voice of reason the polish prime minister. mentioning to his call we that it is unwise to try and politicize this tragedy that the quest for truth couldn't be more with political mind games in sight and that opposition members should keep that in mind when they sensationalize the investigation because he made it clear that politicizing this tragedy is not in the headlines benefit. the truth to be complete a

around the world six in the evening in london three in the afternoon and one is there is welcome i'm kevin owen with this hour's roundup of the top news stories and first the immediate cause of the polish presidential plane crash last april was the crew's refusal to learn there's an alternative airfield the investigative committee has presented its final report on the accident which killed the late polish lead aleck itchin ski and ninety five others he's innocent as the details. for the first time the last seconds are heard before polish president lech kaczynski his plane crashed near smolensk turn on one board. in the crew and nord warnings from the aircraft's automated system to the whole lap and advice from the air traffic controllers to land at an airport plus or inexperience in flying and bad weather the interstate aviation committee highlighted what they found to be the main causes behind the tragedy in their final report it was no slam on your earlier to make a timely decision to land at the reserve airports based on multiple recommendations about poor weather conditions at similar airpo

hello this is r t it's eight pm monday the tenth of january money was kevin owen and our top story tonight trapped by ice for almost two weeks now a refrigerator vessel stuck in frozen waters off russia's far east is being towed by two ice breakers tonight several other ships have been rescued from the same situation over the past few days that now leaves just one more with over three hundred crew aboard as the last to be freed sarah first following the operation. two icebreakers still working hard to free these remaining two ships that has been incredibly tough. i think the president of the macro not to say that at the remaining t.v.'s the refrigerator said and they voted to get that trying out to get it through the thin ice area but it's been tough going they've had to bow to this incredibly thick ice and the plan is to that end i will say full to the a pool it's a gate back and get the launch of the ship which is the supply vessel that is so that was going to be much trickier but to get out of the ice again and really need to combine the efforts of bases the minute a press conference to

try to let you know how they go on watching our team this monday duma tenth of january with me kevin owen as promised that he did a bit with people or else cross talk team and panel coming up in a few minutes after the business next from moscow. where we are watching business r.t. it's good to have your company twenty eleven may become a revolutionary year for russia's finances the ambitious privatization program that starts this year promises to become the largest since the post soviet selloff in the ninety's and it's going hand in hand with plans to make moscow an international financial hub takes up the story. at the start of last year russia was the owner of thirty five hundred seventeen federal state units for enterprises and a shareholder of twenty nine hundred fifty joint stock companies if the goal is to sell off state property within the next three years goes to plan the russian government will release one hundred fourteen state enterprises and another eight hundred nine stock companies into private hands including to stakes in ten largest firms the expected proceeds from the sal

this is r t it's one of the mirror moscow world kevin owen with a top story for you today and europe has been hit with a dramatic wave of arrests linked to chechen terrorism with the e.u. and russia fighting a common enemy these detentions of put the unions background checks on asylum seekers and to question the result can offer reports next from austria it's feared authorities are letting terrorists walk straight in through the door. like many others small you would be and downs in southern austria seems quiet and peaceful while never judge a book by its cover one of its residents is now under arrest suspected of being the brain behind. we couldn't extremists in plotting attacks in the heart of the european union and the ethnic chechen was detained at the airport in vienna as he returned from a pilgrimage to mecca news about the incident went around the world streams really none of the locals seem to know much about it. we didn't hear anything about it i'm afraid i wasn't. i know nothing about it and i don't care some didn't want to be filmed at all but was it really because of a la

news channel i'm kevin owen and these are all top stories tonight award winning writer who shed light on corruption in norway's immigration system is facing deportation meanwhile those on the un terror list are being given asylum in this country country. fresh files from wiki leaks show russia's opposition turns to the u.s. for help but frequently gets the cold shoulder from washington. and chinese american leaders agree the two superpowers still differ and sensitive issues beijing's growing influence in the u.s. is making people there look east. the inquiry into why the u.k. went to war in iraq will not draw on the private correspondence between former prime minister tony blair and former american president george w. bush the letters were thought to be able to shed light on exactly why the u.k. got involved with the invasion one of the politicians whose party was in power at the time now gives his insight an interview he gave to us today. today i'm in london with jeremy corbin he's a member of parliament with the labor party and also an antiwar campaigner we are here as tony blair ap

coming to you live from moscow welcome if you're just joy this is now eight pm here my name is kevin owen and our top story tonight russia is promising to support afghanistan after western forces withdraw from the troubled region in three years prison with various pledge came of talks with ahmed karzai here in moscow the leaders also promise to clamp down on the vast flow of afghan drugs from which russia suffers the most and this is now is the details of this high level meeting. on the first official visit of an afghan leader to moscow in two decades russia promises to lend a hand after western forces leave the war torn country. russia would like to see afghanistan as an independent and prosperous state with an effective government that's able to provide the development of afghanistan for decades to come. u.s. led coalition forces have been in the country since two thousand and one and are planning to withdraw combat forces in three years leaving afghanistan on its own russia has been watching us operations very closely from a far more providing necessary transit routes for supplies and

after a blunder of our top stories in just a few moments in our news review of the week with me kevin owen here are live from moscow.